【Next Settlement Time: 7 Months Later】

【System Funds to be Replenished, Target Amount: 60 Million】

【Replenishing System Funds 53.28 Million…】

【System Funds Replenishment Complete】

【System Funds: 60 Million + 32.03 Million】

【Fixed Assets: 320.28 Million】

【Infrastructure Projects: None】

【Personal Assets: 2.725 Million】

【Permanent Reward Details:】

【An additional 10% increase on the original conversion amount.】

【50% of the initial system funds for the current cycle can be used for charitable activities.】

【Reaching a wealth conversion value of 800,000 or more in each cycle will grant a mysterious reward with *significant impact*.】

【A certain amount of personal assets can be used to increase the profit concession for a specific industry at a ratio of 1:100. This can be used once per cycle, and the personal assets consumed cannot exceed 100,000.】

【Current Uncompleted Project: Thrill Hotel Roller Coaster Project, must be officially opened to the public in the next cycle.】

The system listed all the currently effective permanent rewards. There were also some one-time rewards, such as reducing a certain amount of system funds upon completing a learning task, random technological breakthroughs, and other rewards that had already been used and were not listed here.

Having completed the settlement again, Pei Qian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Mainly, he felt mentally relaxed.

As for his physical condition, Pei Qian slept until he woke up naturally every day and always ate Take-Out Delivery, so his nutrition was relatively balanced. He felt great and had a good appetite.

However, Pei Qian couldn't start resting immediately. To ensure the smooth completion of various projects before the next cycle's settlement, he still had to assign tasks to each department first.

After that, Pei Qian would have one or two months of worry-free rest time.

Pei Qian sighed, time really flew by.

In the blink of an eye, this was already the system's tenth settlement.

Pei Qian felt that his growth and progress were quite obvious. From being completely helpless when it came to losing money at the beginning of the settlement to now being able to consistently complete losses and receive special rewards.

Clearly, as Tenda Games continued to develop and grow, the system would also make certain adjustments to the rules.

He just didn't know when the next system update would be.

Pei Qian felt that he had to seize the time to get as much as possible while the system hadn't been updated yet.

Otherwise, according to the system's nature, if it carried out another system upgrade based on the Matthew effect in the future, Pei Qian might not be able to handle it.

Pei Qian's specific management model for Tenda Games was also completely different from what it was at the beginning.

At the beginning, Pei Qian just wanted to lose money and didn't have any specific plans. If one industry made money, he would start a new industry on a whim.

As a result, the various departments inexplicably linked up.

Now, Tenda Games had too many departments, and Pei Qian himself couldn't manage them all. Most of the time, he left some departments he couldn't take care of in a state of free-range management.

Now, Pei Qian's policy was to focus on the big picture and let go of the small details.

Previously, he always wanted to court death and turn profitable industries into loss-making ones, but he found that the effect was not good. Not only did they not lose money, but they made even more.

Therefore, for those industries that were already profitable, Pei Qian felt that if he didn't have any particularly good ideas, he shouldn't touch them.

It was better to let them slowly make money than to suddenly become popular after his guidance.

He should focus on new industries with a higher chance of losses, and strive to lose all the money earned by other industries in one fell swoop, which would be more practical.

In addition, Pei Qian didn't bother to manage some industries related to people's livelihood, such as Sloth Apartments and Take-Out Delivery. It would be good if they lost money, and they wouldn't make much money if they made money. He just regarded it as a contribution to society while losing money.

There were still many things to do this cycle. Pei Qian had even found a small notebook to write them down, for fear that he would forget.

"Where should I start?"

"Hmm… let's start with the games department."

Pei Qian took out his notebook and flipped through it. Currently, Tenda Games actually had three games departments, namely the original Tenda Games department, Shang Yang Games, and Delayed Flight Studio.

Tenda Games had already finalized the development of *Eternal Reincarnation*, and Delayed Flight Studio had also decided to make *Property Agent Simulator*.

The only thing that hadn't been determined was what Shang Yang Games should do.

"This time, we must make a project with a very, very low chance of success!"

While flipping through the types of games that Tenda Games had already made, Pei Qian pondered what kind of new project he should arrange for Shang Yang Games.

…

…

August 1st, Wednesday.

In the meeting room of Shang Yang Games, Pei Qian was preparing to lead everyone in a brainstorming session.

Because he had racked his brains for a long time yesterday, but he couldn't think of any good ideas.

It could only be said that one person's wisdom was ultimately limited.

Maybe he could come up with a good idea by brainstorming with everyone today?

Ye Zhizhou, Wang Xiaobin, and other core members had also arrived. Everyone was clearly very excited about the new game.

Tenda Games had already decided to make *Eternal Reincarnation*. Although it was only DLC for *Return to the Shore*, anyone who knew a little about the game's mechanics would know that it was far more than just a DLC.

It was just slightly smaller in size, but in fact, the game mechanics had been completely overhauled. It would be no problem to call it a sequel to *Return to the Shore*.

Shang Yang Games and Tenda Games had always been competing with each other. Now that Tenda Games was going to make a very good game, Shang Yang Games certainly couldn't fall behind!

With Boss Pei in charge, this was definitely another classic work, no doubt about it.

However, this new project was a little different in the project establishment stage.

In the past, Boss Pei would point out a few directions for everyone. Although these directions seemed a little vague, they were all riddles given by Boss Pei. In fact, Boss Pei had already thought about the ultimate form of the game.

Everyone just had to work hard to restore the complete form of the game in Boss Pei's mind according to the clues given by Boss Pei, and that would be considered completing the task.

But this time was a little different. Boss Pei didn't seem to have a very specific idea, but instead wanted everyone to brainstorm and jointly determine the general direction of the game.

Obviously, this would further increase the proportion of everyone's ideas in the game design plan.

Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin were both guessing whether this was because Shang Yang Games had already produced many successful games, and the design and production level of the entire studio had improved, so Boss Pei was consciously guiding everyone to advance to a higher difficulty?

Was Boss Pei trying to reduce Shang Yang Games' dependence on his ideas and try to allow Shang Yang Games to continue to produce many popular and excellent works even without his ideas?

It should be like this.

Therefore, everyone also perked up and hoped that they could keep up with Boss Pei's thinking.

Looking around at the people around the conference table, Pei Qian inexplicably felt that the atmosphere was a little subtle.

What was wrong with these people's expressions as if they had been injected with chicken blood!

It was just a new project, was there any need to be so excited?

Whatever, let them be excited.

Remember your current expectant expressions, because in a few minutes, they will turn into confusion!

With everyone almost here, Pei Qian decided to officially begin.

"Today's meeting is a brainstorming session to decide what our next new game will be. Everyone can speak freely, and everyone will have the opportunity to speak."

"Even if you think your idea is not mature, it doesn't matter. Don't be embarrassed. Many excellent designs are born from these seemingly unreliable ideas."

"First…"

"Let's think about what type of game we should make."

Obviously, the first step was to determine the type of game.

Although it was a random shot, and he was aiming to lose money, the type of game still had to be clarified. If the type of game was not clear, Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin would have a lot of room for imagination, and the final product of the game was likely to be too different from what Pei Qian had expected.

For other game companies, this often meant project failure and losing money, but for Tenda, it mostly meant making a fortune.

Therefore, Pei Qian had to eliminate these uncertainties as much as possible.

Everyone looked at each other and quickly raised their hands to speak.

"I think action games are good!"

"DoubtVR glasses are selling well, and *Fitness Battle VR Edition* is also very popular. Why not take this opportunity to develop a VR game masterpiece?"

"I think we can make an FPS game, preferably dual-platform."

"Can we consider an MMORPG?"

Everyone was talking at once, saying all sorts of things.

Although everyone present was a designer, different designers had different game preferences. In this unrestricted situation, everyone's speeches were obviously influenced by their own game preferences.

They said whatever came to mind.

Pei Qian listened silently, and his already chaotic thoughts became even more chaotic.

This kind of discussion wouldn't work!

Because everyone present was a core member of Shang Yang Games, and they had been engaged in game development for so long, their business skills were very solid. Although the proposals they put forward were influenced by personal preferences, they were basically reliable proposals.

Even if some of them seemed to have a chance of failure, such as making a relatively retro time-charge MMORPG game, but if you think about it carefully, the chance of failure was still not high enough.

Even if this kind of game was made step by step, most people would still buy it.

Therefore, he had to find a way to guide everyone back to the correct way of discussion.

Pei Qian lightly tapped the table: "Everyone, please wait a moment."

"Everyone has their own ideas, which is a good thing, but it's difficult to form a unified opinion with this kind of discussion."

"How about this, I'll give everyone a simple direction."

"Which type of game do you think our company has done relatively little of and has a relatively weak foundation in?"

"Preferably a single-player game."

The reason for adding the last sentence was mainly for the sake of stability.