Chapter 14 Unexpected Turn of Events

Pei Qian roughly sorted out the current situation:

The feedback on the DLCs for several games was good. Although there were some complaints about "Fortress at Sea," they had already rushed out a patch in the past two days and established an account credit system, allocating new epic weapons in batches according to different credit levels.

Five hundred new epic weapons were released each month, and players' credit ratings were divided into three levels.

The evaluation criteria for the levels were multi-dimensional. In short, the players’ activity and contribution to the game were quantified into a specific credit value, and then the players were divided into three levels.

The epic weapons released each month would be available in three batches.

Level 3 players would make the first batch of purchases, limited to 100; Level 2 players would make the second batch of purchases, also limited to 100; Level 1 players would purchase the remaining 300 in the final batch.

Even players of the same level would have very subtle differences in their chances of getting the weapon during the purchase. Each increase in the credit value would slightly increase the probability of a successful purchase.

The ratio of players in the three levels was roughly 1:2:10. The higher the level, the higher the probability of buying a weapon.

For new players with very low credit levels, it wasn't completely impossible to get one, but the weight would be much lower.

In addition, there were Level 0 accounts in the game. For example, scalpers only created accounts to snatch weapons and didn't play the game at all, so they weren't qualified to buy at all.

After the introduction of this credit system, the influence of scalpers was greatly reduced.

It was impossible to completely eliminate the phenomenon of reselling accounts. Many players would even sell their Level 2 and Level 3 accounts at high prices, but it was no longer possible for scalpers to think about making a fortune by relying solely on their speed.

The value of accounts on the trading platform would fluctuate, but it would definitely gradually stabilize.

Players' reactions were very good. Although many people were still dissatisfied with the limited quantity, the voice of dissatisfaction had been reduced a lot.

After all, given that the limited purchase could not be changed, this method of purchase was at least relatively fair.

Shang Yang Games was still steadily losing money.

Ye Zhizhou and the others had completed the task that Pei Qian had requested. Although the side effect was that the game's reputation was reversed, without the recharge of whales, the game's income plummeted and it would not be possible to generate profits in the short term.

On the Mou Yu Internet Cafe side, although the model of giving singers a cut of the profits had increased the sales of alcohol, it was still not enough to cover operating costs, and the five Mou Yu Internet Cafes were losing money together.

Fei Huang Workshop was basically a complete loss. All the money earned was poured into it, and they still owed some money, which Tengda had to cover.

Mou Yu Takeaway was also very deserted at the moment. It was basically still focused on delivering work meals to Tengda employees. Due to the small number of orders, the chefs and delivery staff were basically idle and were constantly losing money.

So many loss-making projects had only barely offset the profits of a few games.

Although this cycle was only two months, it was a bit thrilling for Pei Qian.

First, the appearance of Chen Lei almost turned Mou Yu Internet Cafe from a loss to a profit, but fortunately, Pei Qian discovered and stopped the loss in time.

Lin Wan saved Tengda a large amount of rent, giving Pei Qian a heavy blow, but fortunately, this loss was still within an acceptable range.

And he caught the mole, preventing even more serious situations in the future.

Pei Qian took out his notebook and seriously scribbled on it, constantly calculating.

Although the system funds currently showed a loss, on the 28th, which was the last Monday before the settlement, a sum of money would be credited from several games.

Pei Qian was currently unable to accurately estimate how much this money would be. After all, no one could say for sure what would happen during this week.

He would roughly estimate a value based on the data in the game's back-end, maximize the expenses as much as possible, and strive to create losses.

Although the situation was still not too optimistic, it was not entirely hopeless.

…

In another corner of the internet cafe.

Li Shi watched Pei Qian while drinking coffee.

"Mou Yu Internet Cafe is actually Tengda's property, and the boss is so young."

"I really didn't expect it."

As a regular customer of Mou Yu Internet Cafe, Li Shi often came to Mou Yu Internet Cafe. He had occasionally seen Pei Qian before, but he didn't realize that this young man was the boss behind the internet cafe.

But after some investigation these past few days, Li Shi had already learned about the relationship between Mou Yu Internet Cafe and Tengda, and also confirmed from Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan's attitudes towards Pei Qian that this was the mysterious Tengda boss.

Li Shi was originally a little worried that Pei Qian might be a rich second generation or have a special background, but after a little investigation, he did not find any such traces.

Li Shi inferred from the information he currently had that Pei Qian should have started with games and had so much money that he didn't know where to spend it, so he became somewhat inflated and rashly entered the internet cafe field.

In this way, Li Shi was even more confident.

Young people were easier to fool.

This President Pei might be professional in making games, a master at it, but he might not necessarily be good at running a real business.

And at this time, this President Pei was holding a notebook and scribbling in a very unprofessional manner.

What was he doing?

Hmm, he was probably calculating the profit and loss of the internet cafe.

Judging from his solemn expression, he was obviously very dissatisfied with the continuous losses of the internet cafe and had not come up with a good solution.

Maybe he could try to talk to him about cooperation in advance?

Li Shi took another sip of coffee. There had been some changes to his previous plan.

He had long intended to invest in Mou Yu Internet Cafe, but he was worried that the boss behind the internet cafe would not accept it, so he wanted to wait for the internet cafe to lose more money.

Originally, Li Shi thought that this process might take several weeks or a month or two, but now it seemed that it wouldn't take that long.

Since this boss was already in trouble, then maybe he could try to make a move now.

If he kept waiting, he might miss a good opportunity.

What if this boss got hot-headed and sold the internet cafe to someone else? Wouldn't that be a huge loss?

Thinking of this, Li Shi tidied up his collar slightly, got up and left, and made a phone call outside.

As the boss of an investment company, Li Shi couldn't go directly to Pei Qian himself, as that would seem too hasty and frivolous.

It would be more reasonable to have his subordinates make a business contact directly, express the intention to invest in Mou Yu Internet Cafe, and then have a formal meeting on a formal occasion.

In fact, most of Li Shi's investment projects came to him.

Various company founders would come to Li Shi with detailed information, begging him to invest in their projects, and Li Shi would quickly browse through them, filtering out most of them and only leaving a small portion that he was truly satisfied with.

Mou Yu Internet Cafe was an unexpected situation.

Li Shi silently lit a cigarette outside the Mou Yu Internet Cafe, waiting for good news from his subordinates.

…

Pei Qian looked at the scribbles in his notebook, roughly calculated, and felt that there was still a good chance of creating a loss of two to three hundred thousand.

The premise was that there must be no unexpected incidents.

If there was another unexpected influx of funds, it would be very stiff.

After calculating, Pei Qian breathed a slight sigh of relief. He had not been busy for nothing during this period of time. He saw the light of victory!

Just as he relaxed, his phone rang.

Pei Qian looked at it. It was Assistant Xin calling.

"President Pei, Fuhui Capital has contacted us, saying that they hope to invest..."

Pei Qian: "Reject."

Assistant Xin: "It's not investing in Tengda, it's investing in Mou Yu Internet Cafe, and Fuhui Capital is considered a pretty good venture capital company..."

Pei Qian: "Reject."

Assistant Xin: "Okay."

Pei Qian hung up the phone cleanly.

Investing in Mou Yu Internet Cafe?

Don't be ridiculous, I only have this one stable loss-making industry, and you're giving me more money? Are you trying to mess with me?

Seriously, who is messing with me at this crucial moment of settlement!

…

At the entrance of the internet cafe, Li Shi leisurely smoked a cigarette, waiting for news from his subordinates.

According to the general script, the other party would definitely agree happily, and the two parties would agree on a time to meet. At the negotiating table, Li Shi would quickly persuade the other party to accept the investment with his rich investment experience...

Before he finished smoking, his phone rang.

"President Li, the other party refused."

Li Shi was stunned and didn't even know what to say for a moment.

They weren't even willing to give him a chance to meet?

They rejected him so simply?

He hadn't even finished this cigarette!

That's not right, this wasn't how the script was supposed to go!