Seeing these comments, Pei Qian was utterly devastated.

He’d been completely duped!

Wasn’t it agreed that they’d produce at most one episode per month?

Good grief, they were releasing one episode per day! What was this, laying eggs?

Even the old sows on a production team couldn’t produce this fast!

Everyone at Fei Huang Studio, without exception, was a traitor! This Wu Chuan had seemed like such an honest fellow with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, but the moment he became project manager, he immediately revealed his true colors!

This needed to be dealt with, absolutely needed to be dealt with!

The next Suffering Travel program roster had just gained another participant who needed special attention.

“But come to think of it… I should have asked more questions at the time,” Pei Qian thought.

“When I heard they’d only made one episode and it was just ten minutes long, I automatically assumed that was how long it took to produce one episode. Wu Chuan also just made some excuse about the models being difficult to create.”

“If I had asked how long an entire season would take, things might have been different…”

“No, no, how can I blame myself? The problem clearly lies with these crafty subordinates!”

“Anyway, Suffering Travel must be arranged!”

Pei Qian silently took out his notebook and added “Wu Chuan” after “Tian Mo’s” name.

After adding it, Pei Qian couldn’t help but lament that he was catching more and more traitors!

He had originally thought that after two rounds of Suffering Travel, he would have taken care of most department heads, and subsequent rounds could include more outside enemies like Qiao Laoshi and Ruan Guangjian.

But he never expected that the traitors would keep coming in waves—there was simply no end to them! In fact, there seemed to be more and more!

This made Pei Qian wonder just how many traitors were in Tenda Group.

At the same time, it made him more urgently hope that the Suffering Travel program could expand quickly.

If they could accommodate hundreds of people in one session, the efficiency would be much higher, and many supervisors could attend multiple times!

Though there were no explicit rules currently, department heads could only attend once.

This was because it was about fairness—core employees hadn’t even gone once, yet managers had already gone twice? That would be difficult to justify.

So expansion was necessary!

Of course, expansion would also bring a serious consequence: they would have to accept all those people who had registered online.

It probably wouldn’t turn a loss into profit in the short term, but with such a large group of outsiders paying registration fees, it would definitely bring a significant influx of money to the Suffering Travel program.

However… with more people, expenses would also increase, so it was hard to say whether it would result in a loss or profit.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Pei Qian felt that he shouldn’t abandon eating just because of choking once.

He couldn’t give up on making employees suffer just because there was a risk of making money. That was absolutely unacceptable!

As a last resort, if one day the Suffering Travel program actually started making money, they would continue to expand its scale.

Everyone likes suffering? No problem, I’ll grant your wish!

We’ll see who gives up first—me unable to bear making more money, or you unable to bear more suffering.

Pei Qian felt that he wouldn’t lose either way.

His ability to endure making money had grown quite strong, but these people’s ability to endure suffering was questionable.

In any case, the Inspiration Class was now a failure.

Originally, the Inspiration Class had almost succeeded. Many authors had been contemplating quitting, and their works weren’t well-received by mainstream readers on Final Point Chinese Web, with generally mediocre responses.

Pei Qian’s intention had been to give the authors a little hope by adapting their works. On one hand, this would keep them in the Inspiration Class continuing to be unproductive; on the other hand, it would utilize these works’ failure experiences to lose money in a different art form.

But incredibly, they all made money!

It was ridiculous.

It made Pei Qian doubt himself. How could he randomly pick three books and, against all odds, have all of them make money?

If each book had a 50% probability of making money when adapted, that meant he had somehow hit the 12.5% probability with a random selection?

This was just too unlucky!

“Forget it, forget it. The Inspiration Class is beyond saving for now.”

“We’ll have to wait until this phase passes. If new adapted works can fail a few times in the future, then there might be a possibility of salvaging the Inspiration Class.”

“Let’s look at the situation with the gaming department.”

“‘Ghost General 2’ hasn’t finished development yet. According to the previous plan, it should go online at the end of this month or the beginning of next month. Meng Chang should have already gone there to arrange the promotion plan.”

“As for ‘Safe and Civilized Driving’… it should be released this week, right? How come I’ve only seen the peripheral hardware launch conference but no promotion related to the game?”

Pei Qian remembered that Ou Tu Technology held their peripheral hardware conference last Thursday, and a whole week had passed since then, but there hadn’t been much activity regarding “Safe and Civilized Driving.”

This led many players to think that there wouldn’t be a companion game in the short term, so not many people bought these peripherals.

Of course, this so-called “not many” depends on what you’re comparing it to.

Compared to general steering wheel peripherals, sales were quite good. After all, this direct drive steering wheel had an excellent price-performance ratio compared to domestic brands, so many driving game enthusiasts chose to purchase it.

But most people were buying individual items rather than the complete package.

This “not many” was mainly in comparison to Tenda’s inventory.

Ou Tu Technology had built “excessive inventory” into its DNA from its inception. Whether it was mobile phones, fully automatic smart arguing machines, or smart fitness clothes drying racks, they always filled their warehouses before official release. If the warehouses weren’t enough, they continued to rent more—the more inventory, the better.

This driving package was the same. The more expensive G-force seats and other bulky components had slightly smaller inventory, while steering wheels and basic package accessories were stocked to the maximum.

Relying solely on driving enthusiasts to clear Tenda’s inventory seemed a bit like trying to move a mountain.

Of course, many people guessed that Tenda would likely release a companion game, which was a very natural association.

Even the smart fitness clothes drying rack had a game, not to mention these peripherals that clearly served driving games?

Some people even inferred from the name “Safe and Civilized Driving Simulator” that Tenda’s new game would most likely be related to “Safe and Civilized Driving.”

However, most people didn’t have high expectations and were still watching and waiting, because this wasn’t mentioned at the press conference.

Everyone thought that even if a game was coming, it wouldn’t be within a week or two—at least more than a month, right?

Otherwise, why not mention it while introducing the peripherals?

Pei Qian also found it puzzling. Yes, why not mention it while introducing the peripherals?

He thought for a long time and finally came up with a relatively reasonable explanation.

It was because Meng Chang had completely abandoned the promotion work for “Safe and Civilized Driving” this time!

This resulted in Shangyang Games and Ou Tu Technology having to be responsible for their own promotions.

Ye Zhizhou didn’t have much experience in charge of promotional work and would definitely be caught up in indecision over the promotion plan, while Ou Tu Technology only knew how to promote the products they were responsible for.

As a result, without coordinated planning, the two sides’ promotions were misaligned!

They were off by a week, leading to low initial interest and an obvious wait-and-see attitude from consumers.

Yes, this had to be the only reasonable explanation!

Thinking of this, Pei Qian couldn’t help but smile slightly.

It seemed that giving the allocation of promotional resources to Meng Chang was indeed the right choice!

Because Meng Chang only cared about his own commission, he would focus his energy only on the few projects he was responsible for. Although other projects could get some funding, without dedicated plans, the promotional effect would definitely be greatly reduced.

“However, no matter how slow Ye Zhizhou is or how little he understands about promotion, the promotional plan should come out within these two days.”

“I still can’t be too careless and need to keep monitoring.”

Pei Qian made a mental note to silently follow Shangyang Games’ official account on the official gaming platform, waiting for promotional materials for “Safe and Civilized Driving” to appear.

…

Meanwhile, at the GOG project team.

Eric and Zhao Xuming were busy with their work.

After the GOG Global Invitational ended, subsequent operational activities were launched in all regional servers. Online user numbers, sales, and other data were all rising comprehensively, so the GOG project team naturally entered a state of “easy winning.”

Because the busiest period of the year had passed, and players were also tired, it wasn’t suitable to continue making big moves now as they wouldn’t be very effective.

Of course, after receiving trophies from Mr. Pei, both Eric and Zhao Xuming were greatly encouraged with high work enthusiasm, but their work was still focused on routine operational activities, diligently completing the follow-up work and planning future overall strategies.

As for the short term, they had no plans for any major moves.

At this time, there was a knock on the door from outside.

Zhao Xuming looked up and saw it was Zhang Nan, the head of the development team.

“What’s up?” Zhao Xuming noticed Zhang Nan’s expression was a bit strange—happy but also deeply puzzled.

Zhang Nan said, “Mr. Pei just sent me a message saying that the 10 million yuan concession fund has been approved for the GOG project team!”

Zhao Xuming was also confused: “Huh?”

“That’s not right, we didn’t even write an application report, did we?”

Zhang Nan nodded: “Exactly, I’m also very puzzled, but Mr. Pei’s message was very clear. This money is for us, and he doesn’t have any requirements for us either, just that we need to spend it before next month.”

Zhao Xuming and Eric looked at each other, both falling into deep thought.

“No requirements, just spend it before next month…”

Anyone who had been a manager at Tenda would know that so-called “no requirements from Mr. Pei” only meant that Mr. Pei had no verbal requirements.

But no one would think that Mr. Pei truly had no requirements.

Mr. Pei’s requirements were obviously hidden and needed to be uncovered by the managers themselves!

And this time, the GOG project team hadn’t even written an application report, yet Mr. Pei still gave them this unique and valuable concession fund. This seemingly bizarre action itself indicated that Mr. Pei must have deeper intentions!