Chapter 118 Friday, November 12th

November 9th, Tuesday.

Last week, Pei Qian was busy with quite a few things.

At Fei Huang Workshop, Zhu Xiaoce and Huang Sibo were still working on pre-production based on Pei Qian's script.

Zhu Xiaoce had to expand the script to the length required for a movie, and also had to urgently recruit some staff. After the script and storyboards were done, they would probably have to discuss the script, select actors, scout locations, and so on. There was still a lot to do.

At Shang Yang Games, everyone was still frantically playing horror games, searching for materials and inspiration. However, Pei Qian estimated that with Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin's work efficiency, the rough design drafts should be out in the next few days.

The investment company didn't have that much to prepare. With He Desheng's help, Dream Chasing Capital should be able to get on the right track soon.

The detailed recruitment rules for the human resources department were also being formulated. The overall process had been determined, but the specific written and interview questions still needed to be finalized, including reception arrangements during the recruitment process, cooperation between departments, measures to prevent leaks, and so on. They still needed to prepare carefully.

As for the mobile phone department, Chang You had already contacted his brothers at Hongcheng Technology. When the time came, they would find a similar office building in Jingzhou, and they could start formal research and development.

After that, it was time to transfer the money.

Yesterday, Pei Qian had already transferred twenty million to Dream Chasing Capital.

November 1st and 8th were Mondays, also the days when the game revenue shares were credited.

When the system funds were replenished to 10 million on October 31st, it didn't mean that Pei Qian only had ten million to spend.

*Ghost General*, *Fortress at Sea*, *Game Producer*, *Turn Back Shore* (including the overseas version), *Raging Blood Song* mobile game... This whole bunch of games was still constantly generating income.

Taking the *Raging Blood Song* mobile game as an example, the net monthly income was four to five million, so two weeks of income was two million.

*Ghost General* and *Game Producer* had similar follow-up income, and *Turn Back Shore* was currently at its sales peak. The domestic and overseas versions combined had a two-week income of as much as seven to eight million.

*Fortress at Sea* had even more stable revenue than *Turn Back Shore*.

In addition, there were also businesses such as Lazy Bones Internet Cafe and ROF that were negatively impacted by the sudden spending, which were also profitable this month.

Not to mention the steady Ming Yun Private Kitchen and the newly emerging Qidian Chinese Website.

Adding all of these up, even after deducting the expenses of the money-burning industry like Upwind Logistics, it was possible to earn more than ten million in two weeks.

One month's worth of money was almost thirty million.

This settlement cycle was five months. During these five months, the income of these games would fluctuate, and the income of several single-player games would definitely decline, but the vitality of online games like *Raging Blood Song* and *Fortress at Sea* was too tenacious. They were the main source of income.

Therefore, Pei Qian's goal was not to spend ten million in five months, but to spend 150 million in five months.

Moreover, this was only the amount of money that was currently determined to be earned.

What if a project exploded before the settlement? He had to make allowances in advance.

Even if the system stipulated that charity could be done with 50% of the initial system funds, that was only five million.

So, Pei Qian had to spend it hard.

Pei Qian roughly divided the money among the current businesses and decided to first give Dream Chasing Capital twenty million for Lao Ma to practice.

The main consideration was that Ma Yang was currently in a state of fearless ignorance, which was a good time to squander money.

If he gave Ma Yang too little money at the beginning, even if he lost, he would only lose one or two million.

What if Ma Yang learned a lesson from these failures, and then invested in successful projects when he was given more money later? Wouldn't that be the end of him?

Therefore, Pei Qian was considering giving Lao Ma twenty million directly from the start, so that he could spend it hard!

As the saying goes, a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. As long as the initial losses were large enough, there was no need to worry about Lao Ma's intelligence growing too fast in the future.

As for the other businesses, their budgets had to be fully utilized in order to share Pei Zong's worries.

Shang Yang Games, the money for developing horror games had to be at least twenty million;

Tengda Games, although Pei Qian hadn't thought about what kind of game to make specifically, since it was the company's leading department, with great power came great responsibility, and spending fifty million was not too much;

Fei Huang Workshop was making a movie. Although there wasn't much content to film, and it was a low-budget movie, spending more money on special effects and spending thirty million was reasonable;

As for the mobile phone department, although there were no plans to mass-produce too many high-end phones, an initial investment of twenty million as a token was necessary. If it was discovered that the phones couldn't be sold, then he would have to quickly continue to invest money and continue mass-producing them.

If he really couldn't spend all the money in the end, he would find a department that hadn't yet produced any results and add investment, dragging it on until the next cycle.

Of course, there was also the five million charitable fund, which could also be used as a means of emergency spending at the end.

Anyway, Pei Qian calculated it over and over, and the situation wasn't optimistic, but it was still manageable.

These were all estimates on the high side. If everything went smoothly, he would definitely be able to push the system funds down to 10 million before the settlement.

Pei Qian's goal wasn't high. He would lose four to five million, convert forty to fifty thousand for himself, and get a system reward in passing. With a monthly income of 100,000 over these five months, it wouldn't be a waste of time.

Of course, this money wouldn't be earned all at once. There would be a sum of money coming in every week, so he still had to arrange the order in which each project would spend money and continue to invest money. It was impossible to spend all the money at once.

Pei Qian was calculating when someone knocked on the door.

He looked up and saw that it was Li Yada.

"Pei… Pei Zong."

"Um, shouldn't we be preparing to develop a new game?"

"Or, release a DLC for *Turn Back Shore*?"

"Everyone is... a little idle."

They were taking the initiative to ask for tasks?

Pei Qian was quite dissatisfied with this proactive attitude.

However, he couldn't say much, so he could only pretend to be profound and say, "Don't worry, let everyone recharge their batteries. After a while, there will be very important tasks to be assigned to everyone."

Pei Qian himself hadn't thought about what kind of task to assign to Tengda's game department.

The chances of success for those conventional games were too high. Pei Qian really couldn't muster any interest.

He absolutely couldn't throw in fifty million and smash out another money-making machine. That would be completely contrary to Pei Zong's initial goal.

Li Yada nodded: "Ah, okay. Then Pei Zong, call me anytime when you have a task."

After Li Yada went out, Pei Qian collapsed weakly in his seat.

Being a boss is so hard!

He had to rack his brains every day to arrange work for these employees. If he let them be idle for two days, they would come to his door themselves.

It was really tough!

"Ding ding."

A message was received on the phone.

Pei Qian picked up his phone and saw that it was sent by Chang You.

"Pei Zong, the team is almost assembled. This week, I'll arrange for someone to finalize the work location. We can start officially next week."

"Also, our designer here received the moving fee and was very excited. He rushed out the Otto Technologies logo overnight. Please take a look."

There were also pictures below.

Pei Qian clicked on it and found that it was a very interesting logo.

At first glance, the outside was a shape similar to a rectangle, and the inside were two circles stacked in a complex way.

The rectangle and circle overlapped in a special way. One of the long sides of the rectangle twisted and turned into the edge of the circle. It could be vaguely seen that this was a change of two capital "T"s.

In other words, this graphic was the product of changes and combinations of the four letters of "otto."

At first glance, it looked a bit like a rectangular eye, but the eye socket contained double pupils.

Looking closely, it also looked a bit like a Möbius strip.

In addition, the way the two circles in the middle overlapped was a bit like the symbol for "infinity" in numbers.

This logo was relatively simple and looked quite classy against a solid color background, quite postmodern.

Pei Qian couldn't help but sigh, this was a talent.

They could make such a high-end logo for such an earthy brand name like Otto?

When this logo was printed on the back of the phone, it might really be able to fool people.

Moreover, this wasn't the only logo.

The second logo used two "ten" and two "○" to form a shape similar to a gamepad. "Ten" was in the upper left and lower right respectively, and "○" was in the lower left and upper right respectively. The layout was similar to a gamepad, and the two ○ were like the two joysticks of the gamepad.

This logo was no longer solid color, the shape became more complicated, and the colors were used very boldly, which made it easy to associate with game elements.

The third logo was the most conventional, a row of Otto's capital letters, round and upright. It looked passable and conformed to the consistent style of technology companies.

This designer came up with three options, respectively:

Abstract;

Game-like;

Letter-based.

He was probably planning to let Pei Zong decide on one.

Pei Qian looked at it, and it seemed that all of them were not bad, so he replied: "All of them are good. Let's keep them for now. It won't be too late to decide which plan to use after the phone design is complete."

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November 12th, Friday.

Pei Qian planned to go to Dream Chasing Capital to find Ma Yang.

He originally wanted to go yesterday, but it happened to be Double Eleven, and Pei Qian bought some miscellaneous things online, which delayed him.

The express delivery hadn't arrived today, so he could just go to Lao Ma's side to take a look.

The twenty million that he gave to Dream Chasing Capital had already been transferred on Monday, and it had been five days. The money should have been spent a little.

However, Pei Qian estimated that according to Ma Yang's habits, he should still be struggling, and he had spent at most two or three million so far.

Although Pei Qian had repeatedly emphasized to Lao Ma that he should take action when he should, and never hesitate.

But no matter what... that was twenty million.

Pei Qian was just afraid that Ma Yang would be reluctant to spend money, so he wanted to see the situation of Dream Chasing Capital and give Lao Ma some ideological work by the way.

Dream Chasing Capital had already rented an office location, about fifteen minutes away from Tengda by car, also in a high-end office building.

Pei Qian came to Dream Chasing Capital's office location according to the address and quietly walked in.

The floor was covered with thick carpets, so Pei Qian didn't make any sound when he stepped on it.

The huge company was currently empty, but he could hear someone shouting inside, filling the entire company with echoes.

"Quick, you can attack, you can attack!"

"Kill this squishy one first!"

"Save me!"

"Bodyguards! Bodyguards! Protect President Ma!"