Chapter 94 September 21st

Early in the morning of the 21st of September, Pei Qian took a car to Universe Shopping Street, Jingzhou City’s largest mall.

Pei Qian had been to this place many times. He first came here to buy a suit, and later, when organizing employees to spend money on the fly, he often came here to shop.

However, those times Pei Qian came as a consumer, just buying, buying, buying. This time, however, he was here as the owner of Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe, and the nature of the visit was completely different.

Of course, before deciding to open Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe here, Pei Qian had done some homework. First, he made sure that the mall really had nothing to do with Shenhua Real Estate.

Pei Qian didn't want his internet cafe to be halfway through its operations when some CEO Lin would call and have the rent reduced.

It wasn't a matter of more or less money, but such things would seriously interfere with CEO Pei's plans.

CEO Pei was not a person who liked changes in plans. After all, earning a million was worlds apart from losing a million for him.

Even the slightest mishap could bring CEO Pei to tears.

This time, Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan had set their sights on a space of about 800 square meters on the third floor of Universe Shopping Street, and Pei Qian was also quite satisfied with the location.

If it were on the ground floor, people strolling through the mall would pass by, and the foot traffic would be too heavy.

Moreover, the merchants on the ground floor were quite rich, and it might not be easy to pay them to move out; it would be hard to find an empty spot.

And if it were on the top floor, because there was a movie theater and some milk tea shops, it couldn't be ruled out that some young people might play at the internet cafe for a while before or after watching a movie.

Therefore, in Pei Qian's view, the third-floor location was quite good.

Apart from Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe, this floor mainly had various clothing brands, mostly high-end foreign brands. The only food and beverage brands were a high-end coffee shop and a milk tea shop next to it.

Overall, this floor was relatively quiet, and most of the people who came to this floor were enthusiastic shoppers, so they probably wouldn't inexplicably run to the internet cafe to surf the web.

The location selected for Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe was in the southeast corner of this floor, a relatively independent area.

It used to be a foreign clothing brand, but because of poor management, the space was being transferred.

The original clothing and merchandise had all been cleared out in a clearance sale, and the entire area seemed empty, with only shelves remaining. They would all be moved out soon.

The decoration was not bad and tended toward a more low-key and simple style, which coincided with Pei Qian's ideas.

Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan were already waiting here.

They could clearly feel that CEO Pei attached great importance to this Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe 2.0!

When looking for a location a few days ago, CEO Pei repeatedly urged them. Last night, CEO Pei even called to urge them, which was very rare.

In fact, Pei Qian did indeed attach great importance to it.

He was anxious!

He had to spend all the extra money in his hands as soon as possible, and he didn't have much time left.

Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan took Pei Qian for a tour.

"What do you think, Brother Qian? Is this place okay? The main thing is that the shops in Universe Shopping Street are quite scarce, and it's not easy to find one. So, although this location is average, we can only make do with it," Ma Yang said.

"The location is pretty good. I'm very satisfied. It's here!" Pei Qian decided immediately.

Ma Yang was very happy. "Okay! Then we can start the renovation. Should we go with the same style as the previous Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe?"

Pei Qian thought for a moment, "There's no need to strictly follow the previous style of Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe."

"After all, this is Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe 2.0. Our slogan is 'Return to the Essence of Internet Cafes.' As long as we retain the feeling of Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe, there's no need to be strictly consistent with the previous one."

"The best thing is to be fast, understand?"

Although the renovation could cost a sum of money, Pei Qian was most worried about time now.

If something went wrong during the renovation, causing the opening to be delayed, it would obviously outweigh the benefits for Pei Qian.

After all, he had to spend money quickly in this cycle, and opening only one Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe was not enough. He had to open several more.

Assuming this internet cafe took two weeks to renovate and another week to observe the situation after opening, there would be no time to open other internet cafes before the settlement.

Therefore, Pei Qian decided to keep everything simple, just do the renovation casually, quickly pull in tables, chairs, and computers, and strive to get everything done within a week, and then observe for another week.

As long as the loss situation met expectations, two weeks later, he would directly invest money in other large shopping malls to open three or four more Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe 2.0s. This would ensure that he could spend the money on a rush basis in the week before the settlement.

Although they didn't understand why Pei Qian was so anxious, Ma Yang had long been accustomed to not asking too many questions.

Zhang Yuan was the same. He ordered a batch of computer parts according to the previous configuration of Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe and assembled them.

Of course, as the Jingzhou regional manager of Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe, he definitely couldn't assemble these hundred or so computers himself. Now he could order many of his subordinates to do these things.

After arranging the affairs of Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe, Pei Qian took a car back to Tengda.

On the way, Pei Qian used his mobile phone browser to open the TPDB website and took a look at the players' evaluations of *Blood Song: Power Enhanced Edition*.

Before the mobile version was launched, the game's overall score was 7.2, the consumer score was 9.1, and the online score was 4.2.

After the mobile version was launched, the game's online score and overall score showed an upward trend.

Later, after the official platform gave a recommendation, these two scores rose again.

Now, the overall score had risen to 8.4, and the online score had also risen to 7.2. Among them, there were some evaluations that made Pei Qian feel very painful.

"A good game delayed by brainwashing ads!"

"A maverick national war web game. I gave it 1 point without thinking before, but now I'm changing it back."

"It's really interesting. It changed my stereotype of web games. I have to say that the designer of this game has something."

Alas, heartbreaking.

Now the game score was rising. For Pei Qian, the good news was that he could give more bonuses to Shang Yang Games, but the bad news was that, looking at the score and the reputation, the game would probably make a lot of money in the near future.

On the mobile side, the Shenhua app store was fully recommending it.

On the micro-client, the official platform also gave a recommendation, and a large number of new players poured in.

The originally estimated monthly income of four or five million was estimated to soon rise to six or seven million or even more.

This really made Pei Qian's mood very complicated...

Pei Qian didn't quite understand why the good Shang Yang Games had become like this.

Didn't he just change to Old Liu???

Could it be that Old Liu was the talent he really needed?

Unfortunately, Old Liu ran too fast last time. Pei Qian hadn't had time to talk to the boss of Shang Yang Games about the acquisition before Old Liu had already slipped away.

In short, now Pei Qian could only pin his hopes on these physical stores and *Repent and be Saved*.

According to the current research and development progress, *Repent and be Saved* should be launched around October 1st. Pei Qian didn't dare to relax at all, after all, his little heart couldn't bear more severe blows.

Recently, there was another bad news, that Qiao Laoshi had cleared the second playthrough of *Repent and be Saved*.

It could only be said that after clearing the first playthrough, Qiao Laoshi had basically figured out the gameplay of this game, so the time to clear the second playthrough had been greatly accelerated.

This time, Pei Qian could only let Qiao Laoshi go.

Because there wasn't much time left before the launch, if he increased the difficulty of the game again, Pei Qian himself might not be able to clear it.

Pei Qian had finally cleared this game with "Salvation" and didn't want to suffer this again.

Moreover, Qiao Laoshi was, after all, a very patient player with decent skills. He had been playing the game eight hours a day during this period, so clearing it was normal.

Normal players shouldn't be as hardcore as him.

Therefore, even if Qiao Laoshi cleared it, it wouldn't affect the game's dissuasive effect on other players.

In other words, even Qiao Laoshi had suffered such great difficulties and setbacks in this game, then the probability of ordinary players surviving in this game was even lower.

But then again, now Pei Qian didn't dare to be so confident. He didn't even ask for *Repent and be Saved* to lose all its capital. He just wanted to earn less.

Earn less, and then open a few Upwind Leisure Internet Cafes and a batch of Against the Wind Couriers on a rush basis, and spend all the money. That would be a godsend.

While browsing, Pei Qian was thinking that he could consider developing a mobile version of TPDB in a while, after all, it was a bit inconvenient to always use a mobile phone browser to view it.

When closing the TPDB website on his mobile phone browser, Pei Qian discovered another thing.

That was that many netizens followed the TPDB website and found some other industries of Tengda.

The TPDB website was accessible to anyone, and it would also extract players' ratings from some other media and websites.

Some players entered this website and also saw some unpopular industries, such as Zhongdian Chinese Network.

The full name of this website was "Tengda Project Database," which implied that all the industries on this website were related to Tengda.

Therefore, many users were also amazed in the comments, such as being surprised that Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe and Ming Yun Private Kitchen were also related to Tengda.

But this kind of comment didn't become mainstream, and didn't cause any repercussions.

Because the scale of the TPDB website was still too small, most people wouldn't come to see the ratings on it.

Ming Yun Private Kitchen, Upwind Leisure Internet Cafe, and Against the Wind Logistics were also only limited to the Jingzhou area, and hadn't expanded to other regions, so the impact was also very limited.

It was a normal operation for a company like Tengda to invest some money to engage in side businesses. There was nothing to be surprised about.

Turning off the mobile phone browser, Pei Qian prepared to go back to rest well and wait for *Repent and be Saved* to be officially launched on October 1st.

After that, there would probably be another fierce battle.

However, just as he put down his phone and prepared to take a nap, he received a message.

It was from Lin Chang.

He had arrived in Jingzhou and wanted to meet Pei Qian to chat.