Chapter 1340 The New Landscape of Sloth Apartments

Pei Qian instantly lost his composure at the mere thought of Tian Mo.

This was practically a perfect match in every way!

Most importantly, Tian Mo's surname was Tian, and he was the only one with that surname among the department heads.

When Pei Qian was internally searching for department heads with the surname Tian, he had already placed Tian Mo on the highly suspicious list, but at the time, he felt that Tian Mo's personality differed too much from the Tian Gongzi character profile, so he temporarily dismissed the idea.

However, with the appearance of the second video, and as the image of Tian Gongzi gradually solidified, Tian Mo's suspicion grew stronger and stronger.

Pei Qian almost immediately made plans for the third round of the "suffering trip" list.

But then, he thought again and felt that there were still some doubts.

First of all, Tian Gongzi's first video was about Chao Lu Game Platform, and he seemed to have some understanding of the game industry.

There were only two explanations for this: either Tian Gongzi himself had extensive gaming experience, or he was very clever and had a deep understanding of various industries.

However, as far as Pei Qian knew, Tian Mo didn't have much gaming experience before coming to Tengda, and his understanding of this area wasn't deep either, as evidenced by his struggles playing games at the experience store.

Someone who couldn't even get out of the novice village in *Turning Back is the Shore* after several days didn't seem like the former.

And judging from Tian Mo's past struggles to find a job, he didn't seem like the latter either.

Secondly, Tian Gongzi's video editing skills were excellent, which couldn't be learned overnight.

Tian Mo didn't seem to excel in this area either.

Unless…

During his time at Tengda, Tian Mo suddenly gained an understanding of the game industry and found a partner with excellent video production skills to create the "Tian Gongzi" account together?

Could this video production partner also be hiding within Tengda?

If the Tian Gongzi incident wasn't the work of one person but a group effort, then they needed to be even more vigilant.

Sending Tian Mo on a suffering trip now was simple, but it would also alert his accomplices.

What if they hid even deeper?

So, after much thought, Pei Qian felt that this matter still needed to be carefully considered.

However, from now on, he had to keep a close eye on Tian Mo regarding the Tian Gongzi matter, and maybe he could follow the clues and uproot the forces behind him!

Setting aside the Tian Gongzi matter for the time being, Pei Qian continued to consider Zhujia Group and Sloth Apartments.

"I didn't expect this incident to blow up so much. When I initially decided to make *Property Agent Simulator*, I never even thought it would involve Zhujia Group..."

"It seems that everyone has been 'suffering under Zhujia Group for a long time.'"

"I originally thought that after the 'Formaldehyde Room' incident last time, large companies, including Zhujia Group, would restrain themselves and make some changes, but now it seems that I was just wishful thinking."

"Relying on capital to develop a benevolent heart is like waiting for the sun to rise in the west and set in the east."

"I really didn't expect that so many people would be calling for Sloth Apartments."

"But Sloth Apartments is still expanding too slowly. Buying one building at a time, it would be difficult to open them all over the country even by the time I become the richest man by losing money."

After thinking for a moment, Pei Qian called Liang Qingfan and asked him to come over.

By the time Liang Qingfan arrived, Pei Qian had roughly organized his thoughts.

"The next stage of development for Sloth Apartments needs to be slightly adjusted."

"While ensuring quality, we need to expand to other cities like Mofish Internet Cafe, Mofish Takeout, and Nifeng Logistics. We shouldn't be limited to just buying buildings. We can also sign long-term lease agreements with real estate developers or ordinary landlords and convert them into Sloth Apartments."

"In terms of price, as long as we can theoretically maintain the lowest possible profit, that's fine. In the short term, we should focus on expanding the scale and not worry too much about making money."

After considering it, Pei Qian felt that it was no longer meaningful for Sloth Apartments to continue in its current state.

Although buying buildings could burn money, couldn't buying buildings and then doing other businesses also lose money?

And after several comparisons with its competitors, Sloth Apartments had clearly become the most conscientious choice in the rental market, with a high level of attention and awareness, far exceeding its current actual scale.

Renters in cities other than Jingzhou were eagerly awaiting its arrival.

Pei Qian could understand this feeling very well.

In that case, why not change the Sloth Apartments model, break the limitation of only being able to expand by buying buildings, and use long-term leases instead?

Of course, compared to buying, long-term leases also had their drawbacks.

For example, it was easy to get into disputes with the original owners. What if they just wanted to freeload off the reputation and renovations of Sloth Apartments and broke the contract before it even started operating?

This was not impossible.

If it had been before, Pei Qian might have been a little troubled by this problem, but not now, because Liang Qingfan had already explored a set of solutions when signing long-term lease agreements with merchants in the Snack Market.

That was to propose more demanding conditions!

Compared to landlords, tenants were definitely the weaker party.

But compared to landlords and even those real estate developers, Tengda was not the weaker party.

Tengda could step in, offer relatively generous rents, sign long-term contracts, then uniformly renovate these houses, and finally rent them out at prices higher than the market price.

Unlike Zhujia Group's "Safe Housing" business, "Safe Housing" actually pursued more profit, so it tried to save costs on decoration materials and furniture.

However, Sloth Apartments would strictly suppress profits to the lowest limit allowed by the system. Even if the price was much higher than the houses rented out on the market, the tenants would eventually understand that it was all worth it.

Of course, most landlords and real estate developers would definitely not agree to such harsh conditions.

But that was okay, because Tengda wasn't trying to seize market share and expand, so there was no reason to compromise in this regard.

Now, the Sloth Apartments brand was already famous enough, and they didn't have to worry about not finding partners.

Moreover, no matter how harsh the long-term lease conditions were, it was always much more convenient than buying buildings.

Liang Qingfan immediately nodded, "Understood! I'll arrange for people to seriously push this matter forward!"

In Liang Qingfan's view, Boss Pei was finally showing his true colors.

Sloth Apartments had been cultivating and accumulating in Jingzhou for so long, and now it was finally going to enter other cities in such a high-profile manner!

The online discussion about rental models this time had caused Zhujia Group's stock price to plummet, and the biggest beneficiary of this public opinion storm was undoubtedly Chihang Studio's *Property Agent Simulator* and Sloth Apartments, the only conscientious brand in the domestic rental industry.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to enter other cities was undoubtedly a godsend!

It seemed that all of this had been arranged by Boss Pei. Boss Pei's plan was truly brilliant.

On the one hand, he was patient and didn't get carried away by victory when Sloth Apartments achieved initial success, but accurately judged that Zhujia Group had not yet been seriously injured and needed to continue to accumulate strength.

On the other hand, he dared to make decisions and made such a bold expansion plan at the first moment of this storm!

Liang Qingfan also felt a sense of excitement.

He had been unhappy with Zhujia Group for a long time!

This time, Sloth Apartments' entry into other major cities was equivalent to a full-scale declaration of war against Zhujia Group, which would definitely trigger their fierce counterattack.

But so what?

Had Tengda ever feared anyone?

Had they heard of the Dayak Group? What if it was a multinational corporation? Wasn't it still dealt with by Boss Pei?

No matter how strong the capital in your hands was, it couldn't be greater than the people on this land!

Compared to the Dayak Group, what was Zhujia Group?

This kind of company that could only bully people at home, squeeze renters' blood and sweat in China, and then go public on the US stock market, looked like a behemoth, but in Boss Pei's eyes, it was probably just a paper tiger, not even worth him personally dealing with.

Liang Qingfan happily accepted this task and turned to leave.

…

At the same time, Chihang Studio.

Lin Wan, Cai Jiadong, and other core members were holding a meeting.

"Everyone can take a look at this plan. Many players have put forward some suggestions and ideas. After reading them, I suddenly had an inspiration and simply made this plan."

"What do you all think about the feasibility of this plan?"

Cai Jiadong carefully looked through the plan in front of him. As expected, this plan completely overturned the previously planned new version.

Originally, the new version was just intended to make minor adjustments to the game content, but this plan outlined a major change in terms of functionality.

The cause of the matter was that many players had moved their real-life apartment layouts into the *Property Agent Simulator* game. After all, this was a simulation management game, and the game mechanism itself could do it.

But it was quite unpleasant to make such a satisfactory design and not be able to share it with other players.

Therefore, many people were asking for mods or design drawings online.

Since players had this need, why not create an official function to satisfy them?

Lin Wan even thought of a deeper level. Since excellent room layout designs could be screened through player likes, and there were even a large number of real-life apartment layouts, could they go one step further and use this game to provide players with a platform for contact and communication?

Everyone knew that most of the housing resources on the market now were controlled by large agency companies.

The way of controlling it was very simple, which was the human flesh harassment.

Landlords had to leave their phone numbers when listing houses online, and agents searched for new listings every day. When they found them, they kept calling landlords, hoping to rent the houses to them.

This was the daily work of the agents.

The landlords received too many harassing calls and couldn't receive many calls from real tenants at all, which even seriously affected their daily work and life.

After all, there were only a few headstrong landlords who could insist on not renting to agency companies, and most landlords eventually compromised.

But no matter what, the desire of landlords and tenants to skip the intermediary company as an intermediary had always existed.

This could be seen from the posts on many forums and groups that voluntarily contacted for renting houses.

But it was still too difficult and inconvenient to find houses on these forums.

What if the *Property Agent Simulator* game could be built into a platform that excluded intermediaries and allowed landlords and tenants to contact each other directly?

Not only would it exclude the interference of agency companies, but it would also allow tenants to directly see all the details of the house in the game, saving a lot of trouble.

Of course, it was not easy to do this, because the intermediaries could pretend to be landlords and tenants to mix in, and it was also necessary to mediate once conflicts arose between landlords and tenants.

If this matter was to be done, it was not as simple as developing a new version, but equivalent to creating a new industry from scratch.

It was difficult with the current manpower and financial resources of Chihang Studio.

So, at the end of the plan, Lin Wan wrote down two expected partners, hoping to complete this model together.

These two partners were Shenhua Real Estate and Sloth Apartments.