Chapter 37 Settlement Day

April 30th, settlement day.

In Pei Qian's vision, the system light screen automatically appeared.

[Wealth Conversion System]

[Host: Pei Qian]

[Surplus Conversion Ratio 100:1, Loss Conversion Ratio 1:1]

[Settlement in progress...]

[System Funds: 4.91 million (↑3.91 million)]

[Personal Assets: 44896.2]

[Special Task for this Cycle: The company owns at least one physical store, located in a busy urban area or near a university. (Completed)]

[Special Task Completion Reward: An additional 10% increase to the original conversion amount.]

[Settling...]

[Performing wealth conversion...]

[System Funds: 4.91 million]

[Personal Assets: 87953.06 (↑39142.6 x 110%)]

"I didn't expect to convert nearly forty thousand yuan just from profits..."

Pei Qian felt a little confused about this world.

In the week before the settlement, the article about Tengda Games caused it to trend, and the heated discussions among netizens attracted a large number of casual fans to Tengda Games.

As a result, all of Tengda's games experienced a surge in sales, and even the viewership of *Pei Zong's Daily Life* skyrocketed!

And as a result, the final actual system funds exceeded Pei Qian's previous expectations by more than 2.1 million!

This also allowed Pei Qian to control more than eighty thousand in personal assets, reaching a historical high.

The system light screen continued to refresh.

[Next Settlement Time: 60 days]

[System funds will be replenished soon, target amount: 5 million]

[87482 system funds being replenished...]

[System funds have been replenished.]

[System Funds: 5 million]

[Personal Assets: 87953.06]

Pei Qian was still waiting, but the light screen displayed this and then disappeared automatically after a few seconds.

"This time there is no special task, and the cycle is much shorter..."

"Doesn't that mean there's even more pressure?!"

Pei Qian was originally waiting for the system to issue a new special task, but these tasks seemed to be randomly refreshed, and there wasn't one this time.

The settlement time was no longer three months, but two.

The initial system funds had increased from 1 million to 5 million. Since Pei Qian had already profited 4.91 million, the actual system funds replenished were only more than 80,000, which made Pei Qian feel a little heartache.

If he could have successfully lost the 1 million in the last cycle, he could have converted 1 million into personal assets, and the system would have automatically replenished it to 5 million.

Calculating like this, it was like losing a hundred million!

Pei Qian felt a little sad, but he quickly calmed down.

The last cycle was already a state of "do your best and leave the rest to fate," because it was too late when he discovered the profit trend.

With less than a month before the settlement, Pei Qian couldn't invest money in other products, because there couldn't be any unreleased products before the settlement, otherwise the settlement would be delayed, which would be even more of a loss.

Judging from the results this time, converting nearly forty thousand into personal assets didn't seem too bad.

At least Pei Qian was now equivalent to a white-collar worker with a monthly income of thirteen thousand...

"Only two months, it's so much pressure to lose all this money."

"According to the original plan, self-developed games are suspended. Let Lu Mingliang and the others update the old games first. As for the internet cafe, be sure to open more chain stores."

"Well, I have to think of other ways."

"Time is tight, and the task is heavy."

Although there were only 5 million in system funds on the surface, Pei Qian had to include all the current profitable projects if he wanted to successfully lose money.

*Ghost General* earned a net profit of 600,000 per month, *Fortress at Sea* earned a net profit of 3.5 million per month, and *Game Producer* earned a net profit of about 1.7 million per month.

These were the numbers after the interview came out.

Although *Game Producer* was a new game, its audience was not as wide as *Fortress at Sea*, and its replayability was not high. In addition, many people chose to watch playthroughs, so it mainly had a good reputation, but its profitability could not be compared with *Fortress at Sea*.

Pei Qian currently only had one loss item, which was Touching Fish Internet Cafe, which only lost 300,000 per month.

Including the company's rent, employee salaries, and benefits, the total expenses were only about one million per month.

Calculating like this, it was a drop in the bucket!

If Pei Qian did nothing, then the monthly net income would be around 4.5 million.

Of course, these were rough estimates. The sales of these three games fluctuated every month, and the company's specific expenses were not so accurate, but overall, they were not far off.

In two months, Pei Qian had to lose 4.5 million x 2 + 5 million = 14 million.

"14 million, opening a Touching Fish Internet Cafe costs about 3 million, this money is enough to open four more branches."

"Then five internet cafes will lose money together. In addition to the initial investment, there will be a net loss of 1.5 million per month. Perfect!"

"Wait, that's not right."

"This time, we must make a new version for the players. No matter how we charge for it, there will definitely be extra income."

"Opening three more internet cafes is probably not enough, I have to think of other ways."

Pei Qian thought for three minutes, but he had no clue.

"Forget it, let's open the Touching Fish Internet Cafe first, and then slowly consider how to continue losing money."

...

...

The atmosphere in the office area was very good.

Some people were playing games, some were yawning, and some were eating snacks and watching dramas, or browsing travel plans online.

Pei Qian had always completely ignored everyone playing games during work hours, and even tacitly approved it on the surface and strongly supported it in his heart.

It was just that everyone still went all out and worked hard when they were working, which made Pei Qian a little uncomfortable.

Tomorrow was the May Day holiday. Tengda had always given more holidays than the statutory holidays, and would never give less. It also happened that the development plan had come to an end, so many people had plans to go out during the May Day holiday, either to go home or to go out and play.

Pei Qian called everyone to the conference room to arrange the work plan after the holiday.

Soon, everyone arrived.

If it were other bosses, they should first give their employees a good pep talk, boast about the achievements of *Game Producer*, praise everyone's efforts, and then encourage everyone to continue to work hard and create more achievements in the new project.

But Pei Qian didn't mention these, because the trauma to his soul had not completely healed.

Everyone wouldn't find it strange, after all, President Pei was not someone who rested on his past achievements!

Pei Qian thought for a while and decided to start with the last-place elimination system.

"First of all, let's talk briefly about the Best Employee selection."

"In the future, the Best Employee selection will be fixed twice a year, on February 1st and August 1st respectively. The first place for Best Employee can get a million-yuan dream fund, and the second place can get a month of paid leave."

After the last Best Employee selection, Pei Qian didn't consider when the next selection would be. Originally, he planned to have as many as possible.

The reason why it was fixed to twice a year this time was mainly because Pei Qian found that this last-place elimination system didn't seem to be that effective...

Moreover, Lu Mingliang was doing a good job in the position of lead planner, and Pei Qian was quite satisfied with him and didn't want him to leave.

Now Pei Qian could be said to be extremely cautious when dealing with similar personnel transfers, for fear of accidentally discovering another treasure boy!

But this Best Employee selection couldn't be canceled, so Pei Qian finally decided to have it twice a year.

Everyone had no objection to this.

In fact, even if they selected the Best Employee this time, everyone couldn't think of any particularly good candidates, and most of them would vote for Lu Mingliang.

But strictly speaking, Lu Mingliang was not worthy of this award, after all, President Pei had personally taken care of the entire game from research and development to promotion.

Even Lu Mingliang himself felt that he was just a passerby.

In addition, this selection hadn't been set for a specific period of time, so everyone accepted it happily.

There were still 3 months until August 1st, and many people were gearing up and eager to try!

Even if they couldn't get the Best Employee award and the 1 million dream fund, getting second place and getting a month of paid leave would be great!

Only Bao Xu shivered, wanting to ask President Pei if he could voluntarily give up.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Pei Qian continued: "Then there's the work plan for the next two months."

"Considering that the players of several old games have strongly requested updates, I decided to suspend the development of new games. In these two months, we will update several old games to satisfy the players' demands."

"The general plan is like this."

"*Lonely Desert Road* will develop an endless mode, multiplayer online function, and a new map, which will be sold as DLC for 1 yuan."

"*Ghost General* will update a new set of military generals, priced at 5 yuan."

"*Fortress at Sea* will update a new epic weapon, still priced at 888, but this weapon will be limited to 500 pieces per month."

"*Game Producer* will release a new voice pack and scene style, priced at 5 yuan."

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other.

They didn't hear wrong, it was so cheap?!

Could this...recover the cost?

Not to mention anything else, the original paintings for *Ghost General* and *Game Producer* were personally done by Grandmaster Ruan Guangjian. Even if President Pei had a close relationship with the grandmaster, he still had to settle the accounts clearly!

*Fortress at Sea* was even more outrageous. The new epic weapon was actually limited to 500 pieces per month?

The current active users of *Fortress at Sea* were nearly four to five hundred thousand. So many people, and only 500 pieces were sold? Only earning 200,000 a month?

The expressions on everyone's faces changed from shock to confusion, and then to reverence.

Sure enough, only President Pei could have such courage!

Pei Qian still looked calm as he was watched by the reverent gazes of everyone.

There was no way, the 5 yuan DLC for *Ghost General* and *Game Producer* was already the lowest price allowed by the system...

And *Fortress at Sea* couldn't use the DLC method to make a profit, so it could only continue to sell epic weapons.

The epic weapon was priced at 888, and this couldn't be changed. The system didn't allow it. So Pei Qian had to find another way and created a limited edition sale.

In this way, even the best gun would only sell 500 pieces a month. Wouldn't this control the revenue?