Chapter 70 - Pay Raise for All Employees! (1/2)

29th January, Friday…

From the 18th, the profits that Ocean Stronghold generated were entered into the accounts. On average, it made four to five hundred thousand yuan per week!

There were still two more days to go before the accounts were to be closed.

During this period, Pei Qian continued to spend as much money as he could.

He expanded the bandwidths of the servers for Ghost General and Ocean Stronghold. The highest specifications were chosen for each of those games.

On top of that, Pei Qian also bought the most expensive Customer Service Team, which offered the best service and best at Tai Chi[1]. Although Pei Qian still did not need to pay that much money each month, at least he could increase the company’s spending.

Even so, Pei Qian felt helpless!

Pei Qian felt completely suicidal.

He could not finish spending the seventy to eighty thousand yuan left in the System Funds.

Over these two weeks, no matter how hard Pei Qian tried to spend the money, the System Funds still exceeded a million yuan!

There was some good news: as the number of new players kept decreasing, Ghost General’s income finally fell drastically after three months. This week, it only made about two hundred thousand yuan.

The bad news was that Ocean Stronghold was starting to make a profit. This week alone, it made more than four hundred thousand yuan!

There was even worse news: this could just be the beginning.

Ocean Stronghold was not the same as Ghost General; both of these games were vastly different!

Ghost General was only popular among the people who played mobile games. What’s more, because it was priced so low, the most people could spend was thirty yuan on the permanent card. That was why the income did not last long.

Ocean Stronghold was different.

As a successful FPS game, Ocean Stronghold now attracts the largest group of gamers: those on game clients!

What’s more, it was free-of-charge and extremely easy to share with others.

The in-game price of the Red Kilin was also extremely high. Although not many players bought the weapon—as long as one person bought it, it would match the amount of money spent by 88 ordinary players of Ghost General.

The income that Ocean Stronghold would generate would probably only increase.

Pei Qian had thought about updating Ghost General and Ocean Stronghold and then spending a load of money to buy a bunch of art resources for the games. This would allow him to get rid of more money.

However, if he updated the games, he needed to introduce new paywalls as well. That was the System’s rules.

Furthermore, in the week before settling the accounts, there could not be any unannounced products. Otherwise, the settlement date would be postponed.

Thus, if he wanted to update the games or do anything similar, he had to wait until the following week.

The System permitted other types of expenses such as for celebrations or bonuses. However, there was a limit. He could only spend a reasonable amount on these things!

In other words, was it possible to achieve a loss within two days?

It’ll be extremely difficult!

Still, Pei Qian did not lose all hope.

He had already thought about it before. Now, he only had two choices:

First, he could stop spending System Funds and wait for the accounts to be closed.

The benefit of this was that he could transfer about six thousand yuan into his Personal Wealth.

However, the drawback was that the target quota to hit before the System Funds would provide supplementary funds was about a million yuan or so. Now, there was already that much money in the System Funds. That meant… there would be no need for the System to provide supplementary funds. This would result in the same outcome as the previous time the accounts were settled.

The second choice was to continue spending System Funds as much as possible without affecting the settlement date.

The benefit of this was that no matter how much Pei Qian spent, the System Funds would definitely provide System Funds. That was comforting.

The drawback was that it could result in a reduction of Pei Qian’s Personal Wealth. Five thousand could reduce to three thousand or two thousand yuan.

However, if he could spend to the point that he had less than 494,000 yuan left remaining, he would be able to make more profit than he was making now!

After spending a long time thinking about this, Pei Qian finally figured it out.

He had to continue spending!

As for how he would do so…