Chapter 95 Monday

September 3rd, Monday.

Pei Qian had a carefree weekend, playing games at home for two days straight, losing himself in them.

It was the weekend, the entire Tengda was on vacation, so Pei Qian, as the boss, naturally had to take a good rest.

What? Some industries might have problems on the weekend?

So what?

All departments were off work on the weekend, even if he knew, he would be powerless to do anything about it, and it would only add to his worries, making it impossible for him to enjoy his weekend.

Therefore, he should disconnect from the internet on weekends and rest well, not thinking about company matters at all.

If anything major happened, it could be dealt with on Monday.

Pei Qian felt that he had already arranged the system to his satisfaction, able to reap a lot of benefits every settlement period, so why bother being so anxious?

Today was Monday, and Pei Qian, as usual, had lunch at home and then leisurely arrived at the company, ready to go through the motions.

First, he would look at the reports sent by the various departments, then snuggle up in a small blanket to watch a drama, and then he could get off work when the time came.

He would come again next time... probably on Friday.

Of course, this did not mean that President Pei's work was easy.

He didn't have to be on duty, but it was mentally taxing!

If a problem arose in a certain department on a normal day, he would have to personally go over there, rack his brains to plan the future development path for each department, thinking about how to lose money, and he also had to be constantly vigilant and observe all kinds of dangerous information... this took a lot of brain cells!

If he didn't rest more and sleep well, how could he recover?

He first got a cup of coffee, and then checked the work reports of various departments while drinking it.

Overall, everything was going smoothly.

According to the reports from these departments, there were only two things worth paying attention to.

The first was on the SF Logistics side, where the air transport business had gradually gotten on track. However, there were relatively many restrictions on sending packages, so most of these flights were not fully loaded most of the time. In addition, the prices were not set very high, so the air transport business was currently in a state of loss.

Not only that, in order to better cooperate with the air transport business and improve coverage, Lu Mingliang was still continuing to build SF Express Stations in important locations around the imperial capital, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, further improving SF Logistics' coverage in the three core areas outside the Huan Jingzhou area.

Therefore, during the period when the air transport business was launched, the losses actually increased further.

Pei Qian was very satisfied with this. As expected, Lu Mingliang was still very reliable and worry-free!

The second thing was about the development progress of *Eternal Reincarnation*.

Pei Qian didn't expect that when Xiao Tang went to the game platform and took Li Yada away, there would be an unexpected surprise.

Because when Hu Xianbin left, he handed over the work of *Eternal Reincarnation* to Li Yada, and when Li Yada left, she handed over this work to Yu Fei, the original author of the novel.

How did they come up with such a brilliant idea of finding someone who didn't understand games at all to be the main designer?

It was simply amazing!

Therefore, when Li Yada called to ask for instructions, Pei Qian agreed without saying a word, and even wished that Yu Fei, the temporary chief planner, could continue to do it forever.

But even so, the development progress of *Eternal Reincarnation* was still faster than imagined.

According to the current speed, it was likely that it would be officially launched and meet the players by the end of this month.

*Eternal Reincarnation* was just a DLC, which heavily used the scenes and monsters in *Islands of Salvation*, but made some adjustments to the details.

In the plot of *Islands of Salvation*, the protagonist was just an ordinary person, who fought his way into the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Avici Hell in a disheveled state, the process was extremely difficult.

In the plot of *Eternal Reincarnation*, the protagonist was a Martial God, who relied on his superb skills to enter the Avici Hell and become the first Jailer.

*Eternal Reincarnation* was equivalent to a prequel story, the scene was the same as *Islands of Salvation*, but the world of the prequel would look more orderly, the protagonist was the destroyer of this order; while the main story of *Islands of Salvation* would look more gloomy, chaotic, and desperate, the protagonist was a struggling seeker.

And this led to a result that all art resources could be highly reused.

For example, the scenes in the original work could be slightly changed, the style changed, and the route adjusted, and then they could be used for the prequel.

The monsters in the original work could be changed by changing the textures, adding a few new skills and new actions, and then they could become monsters or NPCs in the prequel.

If it were placed in other games, then this behavior could be summarized in two words: reskin.

In fact, many games have this phenomenon. First, they fight a green-skinned goblin, and then a red-skinned goblin comes out, but the red-skinned goblin's skills are much more powerful.

After all, the game capacity is limited and the resources are limited. It would be a waste to use a monster only once. It doesn't hurt to use it a few more times. As long as it is done well and doesn't make the players feel too repetitive, it will be fine.

Game design, can that be called laziness? That's called project resource management.

And the degree of resource reuse in the *Eternal Reincarnation* DLC was obviously extremely high, the actual development time was basically all in the combat system.

In addition, Hu Xianbin and others had already spent two months "accumulating inspiration" and "preliminary planning" before the official development. All the content had been finalized and everyone knew their work content, so the development was even smoother.

Pei Qian thought that since the development was so fast, it was about time to arrange the preliminary publicity work.

Fortunately, Meng Chang's reverse publicity skills had been greatly improved, and the *Eternal Reincarnation* project could be safely handed over to him.

This time, Pei Qian didn't have to worry too much, after all, the *Eternal Reincarnation* project was never intended to lose money from the beginning.

With the success of *Islands of Salvation* first, no matter how bad *Eternal Reincarnation* was, this DLC was estimated to sell a lot.

In fact, it mainly had two purposes. One was to put the DLC in front of the main story, and you could only buy the main story after buying the DLC, so that the sales of *Islands of Salvation* could be greatly reduced, so as to reach the system's free threshold and prevent *Islands of Salvation* from continuing to make money. The second was to use the illusory thing of copyright adaptation to retain the authors of the Inspiration Class and prevent them from going back to write those profitable books.

Therefore, even if Meng Chang's plan failed this time, and *Eternal Reincarnation* became a small hit, as long as it wasn't too popular, it would be completely acceptable.

Meng Chang's mentality should have stabilized after receiving last month's commission. This time, whether he succeeded or failed, Meng Chang shouldn't run away.

In short, this month's work seemed to be relatively easy, and the overall situation was relatively optimistic.

As for the Dawn Games Platform... because it was not a subordinate department of Tengda on the surface, it would not send work reports here for the time being.

Pei Qian planned to call and ask about the situation there later.

...

As he was thinking, there was a knock on the door outside.

Pei Qian looked up and saw He Desheng from Dream Chasing Capital.

"Huh? What's the matter?"

Pei Qian was a little surprised, because He Desheng hadn't come for a while.

Logically speaking, Dream Chasing Capital could now operate completely independently. He Desheng only needed to screen the projects in the queue according to the corresponding rules. The profit and loss depended entirely on fate, and he didn't need to ask for instructions.

He Desheng obviously knew this very well and said, "President Pei, there's nothing major going on with Dream Chasing Capital. The main reason I came this time is that I feel that I haven't reported my work for a long time, and I also want to submit an investment application."

Pei Qian nodded, "Okay."

He hadn't paid much attention to Dream Chasing Capital for a while, so it was good to listen.

He Desheng first briefly reported the current work situation, focusing on the recent projects that had made more money.

In particular, he emphasized that several projects had been failing all the time, but Dream Chasing Capital had been investing money in them, and finally succeeded in turning losses into profits and making a lot of money.

In addition, he also focused on the Star Bird Fitness project. Currently, Star Bird Fitness was rapidly spreading to Jingzhou and even the surrounding areas, and its valuation was growing rapidly.

Of course, some projects had also suffered significant losses, but the funds that Dream Chasing Capital had earned from other projects were enough to make up for these losses, and they were still continuing to invest.

In addition, Dream Chasing Capital's behavior of investing in times of crisis and withdrawing after turning the crisis into safety had also won the friendship of many companies and earned a good reputation for Tengda Group. Many companies were proud to be able to cooperate with Tengda.

Pei Qian listened and sighed silently.

Oh, it would be great if Dream Chasing Capital lost more money than it made!

"Okay, I understand pretty much."

As soon as Pei Qian heard that Dream Chasing Capital was still making money, he completely lost interest in these contents and didn't want to listen anymore.

He Desheng nodded, he didn't intend to say too much anyway.

After all, these things were all within President Pei's plan. A simple mention would be enough. Saying too much would be wasting President Pei's precious time.

"Also, President Pei, I want to apply for additional investment in a project."

Pei Qian was not very interested and asked casually, "Oh, what project?"

Although He Desheng was now the person in charge of Dream Chasing Capital, because of the company's special regulations, he could only screen and could not actively invest.

In other words, other companies must submit their investment plans and wait in line before He Desheng could decide whether to invest money or not.

This led to a problem. For example, Star Bird Fitness had submitted its investment plan a long time ago, but it had not been queued up, or some companies had not submitted investment plans at all. He Desheng could not invest.

To invest, he must first obtain President Pei's consent.

And if additional investment was made in these projects that had already been invested in outside of the rules, President Pei's consent must also be obtained.

This time, he must have taken a fancy to a project, so he came to ask for President Pei's opinion.

It was precisely for this reason that Pei Qian was not interested.

The projects that He Desheng took a fancy to must be projects that would make money! Most likely, he couldn't add more investment.

However, it was obviously not appropriate to refuse directly without even asking.

Therefore, he should still listen casually, just go through the motions, and then find a reason to deny him.

He Desheng said, "President Pei, I want to add more investment to the Dawn Games Platform!"

"From the current situation, your early layout arrangements for the Dawn Games Platform have been very successful, and the exploration of the platform model has also been verified!"

"Now, the soul-searching questions for players have worked, and a large number of players and game manufacturers have joined, which also proves that the platform model is highly compatible with the Tengda model!"

"Next, we should further increase investment to make it grow rapidly!"

Pei Qian was stunned, and a question mark slowly floated above his head.

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