After more than an hour, Ye Zhizhou looked at his notebook filled with several pages of suggestions and the various scene concept arts that Ruan Guangjian had sent him, momentarily speechless.

Ye Zhizhou looked at the spirited Ruan Guangjian: “Master, are you sure you’re afraid of horror themes?”

Ruan Guangjian nodded: “Yes, I’m very afraid.”

Ye Zhizhou was at a loss for words: “Then what’s with all these horror-themed concept arts you’ve collected?”

Ruan Guangjian: “Work requirements.”

Ye Zhizhou asked again: “Then why do you know so many frightening little details and have such a precise grasp of this kind of horror psychology?”

Ruan Guangjian: “I’ve watched many horror movies and been scared many times, so naturally I remember these things.”

Ye Zhizhou became even more confused: “Wait, being timid but also having watched many horror movies, isn’t that contradictory?”

Ruan Guangjian shook his head: “It’s not contradictory. I am indeed timid, but that doesn’t prevent me from watching horror movies.”

“It’s like someone without a sense of humor who never laughs but often watches comedy films. Is that contradictory?”

Ye Zhizhou: “…”

No problem, perfectly reasonable!

Ye Zhizhou sighed inwardly, thinking that every true master must have some strange quirks unknown to others…

Ye Zhizhou didn’t dwell on this much. So what if Master Ruan claimed to be very timid but was very enthusiastic about horror themes? This was a good thing!

There was no need to fixate on this.

The urgent matter now was to quickly compile all the suggestions Ruan Guangjian had made into a document and add them to the development plan for the next version.

With this in mind, Ye Zhizhou opened his computer and hurriedly formed Ruan Guangjian’s modification suggestions into a document, adding it to the development plan for the upcoming next version.

With only about two months left until the game’s scheduled release date, and a seven-day Spring Festival holiday in between, development time was quite tight.

Mr. Pei had repeatedly emphasized that there should be no overtime work, and hoping to work even one extra hour during the Spring Festival was a luxury. They could only make the most of the current time to rush the work.

Meanwhile, Ruan Guangjian found the art resource documents for “BE QUIET” and began proposing modifications according to his ideas.

His biggest advantage in proposing modifications was:

If others couldn’t accurately understand the original image modifications through text, Ruan Guangjian could draw it out directly.

If others felt it was too difficult and didn’t want to make changes, subtly expressing a “if you think you can do better, you do it” attitude, then Ruan Guangjian would do it himself.

Watching Ruan Guangjian work seriously, Ye Zhizhou couldn’t help but feel impressed.

A master is a master.

With just casual pointers, he could elevate the game’s quality to another level.

And this kind of touch-turning-stone-into-gold skill had only been seen with Mr. Pei before!

Of course, Mr. Pei’s level was still a bit higher.

Because Master Ruan still needed to implement some specific modification measures to achieve such an effect, while Mr. Pei often only needed a sentence, or even a simple word.

“No wonder they say Mr. Pei and Master Ruan are the perfect partners. Collaboration between masters is often this telepathic.”

Ye Zhizhou sincerely admired this and continued organizing the new version development document.

……

……

In the afternoon, at Dream Realization Venture Capital.

He Desheng looked at the effect diagram in his hand, then looked at Zhang Wang sitting across from him.

“You… call this thing a phone booth?”

Zhang Wang smiled somewhat embarrassedly: “Mr. Pei gave such a high budget that as I kept modifying it, I realized I had strayed a bit from the theme.”

“But rest assured, Mr. Pei didn’t specify what the shared phone booth should look like.”

“I just made it a bit larger in size and added a few things, but the essence of a shared phone booth hasn’t changed.”

He Desheng, looked carefully at the disassembly diagram behind it: “You designed the entire phone booth? Your efficiency is rather high…”

Zhang Wang humbly said: “Actually, I just casually modified some things I made when I had nothing to do before. It wasn’t much trouble.”

“I have a workshop in my hometown in a nearby county. This is just a preliminary prototype, it can be made in a few hours.”

After a long silence, He Desheng squeezed out two words: “Impressive.”

What he held in his hand were the physical images and disassembly diagrams of the “shared phone booth.”

It was different from what was discussed earlier. After all, since Mr. Pei had increased the budget, the design of the phone booth naturally had to be adjusted accordingly.

Standing at 2.2 meters tall and occupying about 2 square meters, it was significantly larger than those phone booths in memory, with enough space for two people to sit comfortably.

Looking at the disassembly diagram, this shared phone booth was indeed easy to install and dismantle. None of the frames were welded together. One only needed to remove the surrounding tempered glass panels, then dismantle all the frames in sequence, and it could be moved away relatively easily.

The key parts of the assembly could be locked.

Of course, this was just a sample that Zhang Wang had put together in his “workshop.” If it were to be manufactured by a factory, various aspects such as materials, strength, cost, and details would need to be reconsidered.

But at least there was already a sample, just not transported over yet.

Inside the phone booth in the physical image, there were other items with detailed explanations.

For instance, there was a counter inside with a small coffee beverage machine, a jukebox, a three-port charger, wireless WiFi, a bookshelf, and a capsule toy machine on the desktop, with two folding chairs beside it.

The inside of the phone booth also had a small scrolling display screen, whose content could be clearly seen from outside through the glass.

Of course, as a shared phone booth, a telephone was indispensable.

In the upper right position of the phone booth was a beautiful vintage telephone with a rotary dial and gold-black color scheme, looking quite stylish.

This phone’s nostalgic value outweighed its practical value.

More surprisingly, there was something under the desktop.

He Desheng, was somewhat puzzled: “AED? What is that?”

Zhang Wang replied: “Automated External Defibrillator, it’s a medical device.”

He Desheng was somewhat confused: “That should be quite expensive, right? And isn’t it a bit odd to place this in a phone booth?”

Zhang Wang smiled: “It’s alright, less than 20,000 yuan. It won’t seem out of place because there are other medical devices too, like a scale that can measure body fat, and a blood pressure monitor.”

He Desheng: “…Is there enough money?”

Zhang Wang nodded: “Yes, enough!”

“Originally, I planned to make a traditional phone booth, which would cost about 5,000 yuan, but since Mr. Pei increased the price, of course, it had to be upgraded!”

“With the current size and materials, each costs just over 10,000 yuan, plus various other equipment inside besides the AED and installation costs, it’s about 18,000.”

“The monthly rent for the site is about 500 to 1,000 yuan, so calculating this way, the initial investment is 40,000 yuan, which is enough!”

“Mr. Pei gave 500,000 yuan. I’ve calculated that investing in ten shared phone booths, and then using the remaining 100,000 yuan and regular income for subsequent maintenance costs would work.”

He Desheng, suddenly realized an issue: “Wait, monthly rent for the site is 500 to 1,000? That’s so high?”

Zhang Wang nodded: “Of course. I’ve asked several large shopping malls in Jingzhou, all of which have such reserved spaces. The cheaper ones are 500, and even in more expensive places like Huanyu Tiangjie, about 1,000 would secure it, because it only occupies just over 2 square meters.”

He Desheng blinked, looking slightly confused: “Aren’t they set up on the roadside?”

Zhang Wang laughed: “Set up on the roadside? With cars coming and going on the roadside, who would use them?”

“With just ten or twenty booths in total, they must be placed in shopping malls with high foot traffic.”

He Desheng was speechless.

How did it feel like Zhang Wang was looking down on his intelligence?

This script seemed a bit off!

He Desheng flipped through a few more pages: “Why is the ‘Cultural Connotation’ section empty?”

Zhang Wang said: “I haven’t thought about this yet, mainly because there’s no budget left.”

“I originally planned to reserve a separate side on this phone booth and find an artist to paint a postmodern picture as a decoration. Each phone booth would have a unique theme, the kind where people could take photos to commemorate.”

“Then design different stamp seals for each phone booth, so visitors could stamp as a souvenir.”

“But, I accidentally set the budget too high and didn’t have money to hire artists…”

He Desheng, thought for a moment: “If you remove those ten AEDs, wouldn’t you have 200,000 yuan?”

Zhang Wang shook his head vigorously: “That’s not possible! The AED is a must and cannot be removed. It’s the heart and soul of the shared phone booth!”

He Desheng: “…”

He didn’t understand Zhang Wang’s thought process, but considering this was Zhang Wang’s project, Zhang Wang’s considerations should naturally take precedence.

Thinking carefully, he suddenly felt that this project seemed to have become less absurd.

At the beginning, when He Desheng first heard about the phone booth, he instinctively assumed that the phone booths would be placed on main streets.

And given Zhang Wang’s intelligence, He Desheng had no doubt he would do just that.

However, Zhang Wang had never planned to put these things on main streets!

Come to think of it, phone booths were on main streets in the past because everyone had such urgent needs, and it was convenient to make calls from the roadside. But now everyone has mobile phones, this need has long disappeared.

Since the current shared phone booth is just a cultural symbol, while also serving some other functions, it needs to be placed in areas with high foot traffic.

He Desheng, couldn’t help but wonder inwardly: “Strange, it suddenly looks like a normal project.”

“A person with a normal brain, how did they write such an unreliable plan…”

“Could it be that Mr. Pei had already seen that this project was very reliable, with the potential for success, so he immediately decided to invest money?”

“Hmm… this possibility is very high!”

He Desheng, nodded and said: “Alright, I’ll arrange for someone to contact manufacturers to produce them as soon as possible. I’ll also keep an eye out for artists for you.”

“If there’s anything else you need help with, feel free to ask.”

Although Zhang Wang was the initiator of this project, he was just one person and wasn’t familiar with various matters.

Since this was a project that Dream Realization Venture Capital was investing in, and He Desheng and his team had no other work, it was only natural to lend a hand.