Chapter 60: Chapter 60: Acquisition and Upgrade

Kunpeng Network Game Company Limited.

Li Yuanming had just received a call from a headhunter. The moment he heard a potential buyer was on their way, he immediately had someone organize the company’s files. In truth, there wasn’t much to prepare; it was just the same material they used to pitch to venture capitalists for funding.

But unlike before, this time Li Yuanming was preparing to sell his life’s work.

Sitting in his office, Li Yuanming looked around at the familiar environment. He closed his eyes, thinking of all the trials and tribulations he had experienced here over the years, and sighed. He had no other choice. His funds were no longer sufficient to support the development of a new project.

The buyer was due to arrive in a few minutes. Wanting to show his respect, Li Yuanming stood up, intending to greet them personally at the company entrance.

A short while later, Li Yuanming saw the headhunter, whom he had met once before, approaching from the elevators with a fashionably dressed young man. Li Yuanming felt a pang of disappointment, but he quickly composed himself and put on a welcoming smile.

"President Li, this is President Wu. He’s young, accomplished, and has substantial resources," the headhunter said, taking the lead with the introduction, which served to reassure Li Yuanming.

"President Wu, welcome! This way, please!" Li Yuanming said, gesturing for them to follow.

Kunpeng Network Game Company Limited’s office was only about 300 square meters, but it housed more than fifty employees, so it looked rather crowded at a glance.

The employees working at their computers watched curiously as their boss gave two visitors a tour of the company. The one leading the way was almost unreasonably young.

Many of them assumed President Li had found another investor to tour the office and was preparing for another round of financing.

Aside from a few who knew the real situation, most were just watching for the spectacle.

The company wasn’t large, so Wu Yun finished the tour quickly and followed Li Yuanming to his office.

Li Yuanming took out the prepared documents and handed them to Wu Yun. The office immediately fell silent, the only sound being the rustle of pages as Wu Yun flipped through them.

Wu Yun glanced through them. The content was similar to what the headhunter, Manager Zhang, had given him, just presented from a different angle and in greater detail.

Wu Yun wasn’t interested in what projects the company was currently developing. He just wanted a mature PC game development team. If they were short on staff, he could poach more with high salaries. This was the only way to quickly roll out his plans for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

Wu Yun closed the file in his hands and asked, "President Li, I only have one question. If I acquire your company, how many people will leave? Do you have an estimate?"

Li Yuanming understood Wu Yun’s concern—that he might take the money, poach a group of employees, and start a new company. He smiled and said, "President Wu, I’m not planning to stay in the gaming industry. I’m thinking of investing in the real economy. So you can rest assured, as long as you don’t lay anyone off, basically no one will leave."

Wu Yun nodded. "Then there’s no problem! As long as the audit goes through and we can change the legal representative, my funds are ready at any time."

Hearing this, Li Yuanming’s anxious heart was finally put at ease. He wasn’t worried about failing an external audit.

The three chatted in the office for a few more minutes, agreeing to conduct the financial audit the next day. Afterward, Wu Yun and Manager Zhang left Kunpeng Network Game Company Limited together.

In the elevator, Wu Yun said to Manager Zhang, "Manager Zhang, I’ll need to trouble you to find two more people for me, a general manager for the company and a creative director for games. The standards should be the highest in the industry!"

Upon hearing this, Manager Zhang immediately took out his phone and noted Wu Yun’s requirements in his memos. The customer is king, and he would certainly do his best to satisfy any request. He’d check their resource database for suitable talent once he got back to his office.

"Oh, right! If the acquisition of that other studio goes through later, find me two more people for the same positions, same standards." ’Mobile phones haven’t fully penetrated every industry yet,’ Wu Yun thought. ’People can still survive without them. But in a few years, the money-making potential of mobile games will be just as strong as PC games!’

The office of Galaxy Game Studio wasn’t far. Soon, the two of them entered a very old office building.

In reality, Galaxy Game Studio was in much better shape than Kunpeng Games. At the very least, it was still profitable. However, the owner was facing a special situation and was in desperate need of cash, forcing him to sell the entire package. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Wu Yun couldn’t be bothered to haggle and directly agreed to Galaxy Game Studio’s asking price of five million.

For the next week, Wu Yun was busy running back and forth for the two companies.

After transferring the funds for the acquisitions, Wu Yun’s account first decreased by 15 million. Then, he successfully received a fivefold rebate, instantly maxing out his monthly rebate limit.

His account balance first showed an expenditure of 15 million, then a deposit of 32.4 million, leaving him with a balance of 40.39 million. If it weren’t for the system’s existence and the fact that Wu Yun had a plausible explanation for his source of funds, his card would have been frozen long ago.

Wu Yun checked his experience points. He was just over 22 million EXP away from reaching Level 6. It looked like an upgrade was just around the corner!

First, Kunpeng Network Game Company Limited underwent a change in its legal representative. Then, Wu Yun upgraded Galaxy Game Studio into Rongcheng Xinghe Network Co., Ltd.

To facilitate Management, Wu Yun also rented two fully furnished offices in a newly built tech park nearby, a move that received unanimous approval from all employees.

For this, Wu Yun injected another 15 million into each of the two companies, with all expenses being paid through the company accounts.

The thirty-million expenditure finally allowed Wu Yun’s system to successfully upgrade to Level 6 (7.05 million / 1 billion).

The Level 6 system generated 31.25 yuan per second while idle, which amounted to 2.7 million yuan a day and 81 million yuan a month. He could also withdraw up to three months’ worth of his allowance in advance.

His spending rebate privilege was upgraded to an advanced rebate of 1 to 8 times the amount spent, with the cap being three times his monthly allowance.

However, upon reaching Level 6, the system patched a bug. Previously, even if he had used up his rebate limit before leveling up, he could continue to use the remaining new limit after the upgrade.

Now that this bug was fixed, Wu Yun would have to wait until the next month to either collect his allowance or receive rebates.

Looking at the mere ten-million-plus remaining in his balance, Wu Yun couldn’t help but lament how quickly the money had been spent.

As a routine reward for reaching Level 6, the system gave Wu Yun a lottery draw chance.

On the same day he upgraded, Wu Yun used the lottery draw. The result left him both excited and slightly disappointed. He won a coupon for a 90% discount on a villa purchase and a discount on renovations, but the frustrating part was that it was limited to properties under 40 million.

When using the discount coupon to buy the villa, the EXP gained would still be calculated based on the villa’s actual price.

Wu Yun marveled at how good his luck was with every lottery draw. He either won Skills or high-value items.

The discount coupon had no expiration date. Wu Yun planned to go look at villas in Rongcheng after he had sorted everything out. In the past, he had only ever heard about how luxurious some of them were.

The thought of soon owning his own villa sent a thrill of excitement through Wu Yun. But then he sighed, ’Why is there a 40 million limit? If there were no limit, I’d dare to buy one of those legendary mansions in Modu.’ It just went to show that human greed is truly limitless.

Sometimes, a person’s luck all comes at once, with good things happening one after another. Just after he had settled the relocation of the two companies, Wu Yun received a call from the headhunter.