Chapter 1498 Spending the Last Bit of Money Right on the Deadline

The moment he said this, everyone was stunned.

"A special recruitment??"

"Tengda? Are you sure it's Tengda?"

"Was it Tengda's HR department that called? What exactly did they say? Will there be any follow-up interviews?"

Before Brother Wei could answer, Old Zhou's phone rang as well.

Everyone held their breath and stared at Old Zhou.

Could this be another call from Tengda?

Old Zhou shakily answered the phone, uttering a few "uh-huhs" and "ahs," barely able to speak properly.

After a long while, he hung up and looked at everyone.

"Damn it, Old Zhou, was that Tengda or not? Just tell us! Don't keep us in suspense!" The onlookers were instantly restless.

Old Zhou swallowed, trying to compose the shocked expression on his face: "It was Tengda, I've been specially recruited too!"

The whole place erupted in an uproar!

"Holy crap, what's going on? It hasn't even been two days since the written test! Logically, they should still be grading the papers, right?"

"This is way too efficient! What's going on? Could it be a scam call?"

Brother Wei quickly explained: "The number displayed was the official number for Upwind Logistics, and the call wasn't from Tengda Group's HR department, but from General Manager Lü of Upwind Logistics!"

"General Manager Lü briefly explained that this special recruitment isn't the same process as Tengda's special recruitment exam. It's not the same thing."

"Tengda's special recruitment exam is where all departments provide positions to specifically recruit those three types of people."

"But this is General Manager Lü's Upwind Logistics department specifically poaching people. They can designate people from Sheng Yun Group and there are no restrictions on the conditions!"

"Before poaching people, General Manager Lü screened all the applicants for this exam and screened mine and Old Zhou's resumes based on our previous work experience. He was very satisfied with our backgrounds, so he reserved spots for us and asked us to go to Jingzhou again when we have time to chat in person."

"Although he didn't say it definitively, judging from General Manager Lü's tone, they're looking for a lot of people this time, and he greatly appreciates my resigning in anger, so it's probably a sure thing!"

Everyone suddenly understood, so that's what was going on!

It was quite a twist, with a full dramatic effect.

Brother Wei and Old Zhou were still anxiously waiting for the results of the written test, but General Manager Lü happened to have a batch of targeted recruitment slots, so he screened the applicants' resumes and directly picked them out!

"Congratulations, Brother Wei! This is great news!"

"Damn, I'm so envious I'm starting to get sour. If I'd known there was such a good thing, I would have overcome all obstacles and signed up no matter what!"

"Me too, I didn't think I'd pass, so I didn't take the exam. What a huge loss!"

"Stop joking, aren't you not even qualified to participate?"

"Why not? I'll propose to my girlfriend a week in advance, get a marriage certificate, and set a fertility plan. Wouldn't that qualify me?"

"Hey, wait, Brother Wei, you just said that General Manager Lü has specific recruitment quotas and can poach people from Sheng Yun Group without any conditions??"

"Doesn't that mean we have a chance too?"

"Holy crap, Brother Wei, Old Zhou, take us with you! We want to go to Tengda too!"

Everyone was originally wearing expressions of jealousy.

But they suddenly realized there was a magical thing called "internal referral," and they immediately perked up!

In fact, in Tengda's original recruitment process, internal referrals were very rare. Only some special departments had this authority with President Pei's permission. It was precisely because Tengda's recruitment had always strictly followed the principle of "must pass the exam to enter" that some people regarded Tengda's recruitment exam as one of the most difficult exams.

But this time was different. General Manager Lü had quotas and could make internal referrals!

This was a big deal.

Brother Wei pounded his chest: "No problem, I'll mention it to General Manager Lü when I see him!"

"Although doing this seems a little inappropriate, I believe General Manager Lü is a broad-minded person, a person with great ambitions. Even if he can't take all of us in, taking some of us would be good!"

In fact, Brother Wei knew very well that it was a little inappropriate to think about bringing his brothers in before even starting the job.

If it were a petty boss, they might think, are you already thinking about forming cliques?

But Brother Wei thought that, first, the opportunity to enter Tengda was too precious, and these brothers all wanted this opportunity, so they had to try; second, General Manager Lü should be like President Pei, tolerant and confident enough to take in these people.

As the leader of this group, he naturally had to try!

Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone went to Upwind Logistics to start a magnificent career together?

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February 28th, Thursday.

Pei Qian was in the office, briefly looking at the news in the gaming section.

Sure enough, various gaming media outlets had already broken the news that "Tengda is about to acquire Finger Corporation, insider information reveals the price is one billion US dollars," and it quickly occupied the front page headlines of various media outlets.

Definitely big news!

Because if this news was true, it would mean that Tengda had completed the great task of almost unifying the global MOBA market. This was a money tree, a pure one!

Currently, GoG and IoI combined account for more than 90% of the global MOBA game time. Once merged, it would mean Tengda's ultimate victory.

Of course, the netizens' reactions to this news varied.

Some netizens felt that Tengda's move was quite bold. Buying Finger Corporation could completely monopolize the MOBA game market. In the future, it would be a monopoly, the money would stay within the family, and the prospects were great.

But some netizens also believed that one billion US dollars was not a small amount for Tengda. Was it meaningful to buy Finger Corporation? Even if they didn't buy it, it was only a matter of time before GoG wanted to eliminate IoI and monopolize the MOBA game market. Why waste this money and benefit the Dayak Group?

And abroad, players were both optimistic and pessimistic.

Pessimistic players felt that Tengda had completed the unification of the MOBA game market. In the future, GoG would no longer have competitors, and it would definitely not be as conscientious as it is now, and would inevitably start making money like crazy; and IoI was not even treated like a stepchild this time, but directly became a castaway in the hands of the enemy, and it was estimated that it would soon be completely ruined.

Optimistic players felt that maybe Tengda would raise gu, letting GoG and IoI continue to fight each other and expand the MOBA game market? Even if Tengda treated IoI as a dry son, not as well as GoG, its biological son, it would still be better than Dayak Group, the pit dad. At least, Tengda is a game company and has basic respect for games.

Players said all sorts of things, some felt it was worth it, some felt it wasn't, but no matter what, everyone paid close attention to this matter.

According to the report sent by the negotiation team, the last step of the negotiation had a little twist.

Charles, the current CEO of Finger Corporation, originally had a beautiful idea. He wanted to win over capital to take over Finger Corporation himself, so he made so many troubles and lowered Finger Corporation's stock price in various ways.

Everyone thought he was an idiot, but in fact, everyone was on the first floor, and he was on the second floor.

However, Charles didn't expect Tengda Group to suddenly appear!

This couldn't be blamed on him, Tengda really didn't have a strong and sufficient motive to acquire Finger Corporation.

But they just happened to acquire it!

As a shareholder, Charles quickly received the news. He was obviously very unwilling, but the problem was that he couldn't change all of this even after tossing around.

First of all, Charles's expected price was around 800 million dollars. He did try to increase the price, but after Tengda increased it to about one billion dollars, he backed down because it was too much beyond his expectations.

Secondly, Charles's series of operations had somewhat strained his relationship with Dayak Group. Under the "mediation" of Tengda's negotiating delegation and Eric, Dayak Group's impression of Charles had plummeted. They knew that he wanted to lower the stock price in this way, so there was a serious disagreement.

Dayak Group controlled 80% of Finger Corporation's shares and had complete power of life and death. Charles was just a small shareholder. He could deceive his superiors and subordinates, but once Dayak Group made up its mind, he couldn't change anything.

The only way was to outbid Tengda in the bidding, but Charles didn't have the courage and determination, because he also felt it was stupid to bid up the price with Tengda.

He originally wanted to bottom out and pick up a bargain. Charles himself was not very optimistic about the future of IoI. He felt it was profitable to bottom out at a low price, but if the price was too high, and he had to introduce more other capital, it would not only be difficult to convince the other party, but also easy to become a puppet, so the deal was not worth it.

Therefore, Charles finally gave up, but at the same time, he also held the shares in his hand even tighter.

Because he initially judged that Tengda's acquisition of Finger Corporation should be good news for Finger Corporation in the short term.

Charles had been tossing around for a long time, lowering Finger Corporation's stock price. Wouldn't it skyrocket now?

Holding these shares and selling them at the highest point, he could earn as much as possible.

In short, the acquisition of Finger Corporation was basically settled under the professional operation of this four-person team and President Pei's strong support.

Pei Qian seized the time to transfer all the remaining money on his account as a deposit, first clearing out the system funds!

He would continue to make money in the future, but it didn't matter, he just needed to lower the system funds as much as possible at the moment of settlement.

In addition, the news about Upwind Logistics and Sheng Yun Group was still occupying the hot spots, and there were many other departments to deal with...

But Pei Qian couldn't care about so much for the time being. He was only concerned about one thing now, which was settlement!

It wasn't until the system light curtain appeared in front of Pei Qian that he breathed a sigh of relief.

Okay, this cycle has been passed safely, strive to lose a big one!