CHAPTER XXI
As soon as Lin Junnan left Shenzhen for Beijing, Sun Kai immediately informed Qianqian that she would allocate 80,000 yuan in cash to Xu Youhua from the "Explorer" project funds, saying that this was an additional cost for art outsourcing. Sissi didn't ask much, she didn't have any doubts about Sun Kai in her heart at all.
After withdrawing cash from the bank, Sissi met Zheng Qi at the elevator. Zheng Qi saw that her satchel was bulging, and asked casually half-jokingly: "So much money in the bag?" Unexpectedly, his question made Sissi nervous, she instinctively looked at the zipper of the satchel, which made Zheng Qi feel funny.
"Is it really money?!"
"Thief's Eye!" Sissi whispered.
"Why do you withdraw so much cash? How easy it is to transfer an account? How unsafe is this!"
"Mr. Sun said that he wanted to withdraw cash, but it wasn't that the project had to catch up!"
Zheng Qi was stunned in his heart: The satchel was bulging like this, and it was estimated that it contained at least several piles of money! When he was in charge of the project, he had never used so much cash! But he thought about it instead, since she was Lin Junnan's wife, it was supposed that she should be responsible for Lin Junnan. So, he didn't ask anything more.
In fact, Xu Youhua has long been planning to use Lezhi's "Explorer" to directly rebuild it into a 3D mobile game. The day after the funds were received, he demonstrated the 3D version of the "Explorer" demo to Sun Kai. The place where the two met was still in the coffee house downstairs of the company.
"So fast?!It's so fast!" Sun Kai was surprised.
"I just want you to see what my friend is capable of!" Xu Youhua said proudly, "Don't underestimate this demo, it means that we have taken the most important step towards success!"
"When will the beta be available?"
"It's hard to say. Maybe two or three months, maybe longer, depending on what the operator wants from this game. But now I have too much work on Lezhi's side, and I don't have time to coordinate them......"
"Are you referring to your friends?"
"Of course I mean them, they're really our own team!"
"We need to set up our team immediately and get the project off the ground as soon as possible!" Sun Kai thought about it.
"Don't be in a hurry!" Xu Youhua waved his hand and said, "Isn't our current mode of operation very good? After the project is formed, find an angel to make a good price, and then the official creation of the company will be a matter of course!"
"Lezhi is a small company after all, and it doesn't have much money, so I don't feel solid when I use Lezhi's money like this!"
Xu Youhua slapped his mobile phone in front of Sun Kai: "Mr. Sun, now that this demo has been placed in front of you, maybe it will soon become a trump card for you to become an elite in the IT industry." If I had the qualifications to be the boss, I wouldn't let it go......"
At this time, Sun Kai's phone rang, it was Lin Junnan calling, asking him to rush back to the company immediately.
Sun Kai hurriedly left the coffee house, beating a drum in his heart along the way: Lin Junnan came back from Beijing so soon? Why did he call me? Could it be that he found out the 80,000 yuan I asked Qian Qian to withdraw?
When Sun Kai arrived at the company's conference room, Lin Junnan, Zheng Qi, Lu Jianfeng and Qian Qian were all sitting at the conference table, and everyone was obviously waiting for him. It can be seen that Lin Junnan has not returned home yet, and the travel bag he carried on a business trip is resting on the ground on the side. Sun Kai said hello to Lin Junnan and found a seat to sit down.
"Let's have a short meeting. Lin Junnan said straight to the point, "There is something that everyone needs to prepare in advance. This time, I went to Beijing to negotiate the company's Series A financing, which was better than I expected. Grandi Capital has basically agreed to increase its capital to Lezhi by 10 million, accounting for 30% of the shares. It is important to note that Grandi's stake does not include all proceeds from the Explorer project. In other words, the money earned by 'Explorers' belongs only to our current team and angel investors. ”
"This is very good!" Zheng Qi exclaimed, "Not only did you strip out the 'Explorer' game, but also invested 10 million yuan in it, Lin Junnan, you are a cow! It seems that you really deserve to be the leading brother of Lezhi!"
"However, we still have a lot of work to do. Lin Junnan continued, "At present, the focus is on two major tasks: first, the revision of the 'Explorer' must be completed by the end of the month, and all related expenses must be settled before October 30, and Sun Kai will be responsible for it, and Sissi is responsible for formulating the company's financial statements after the divestment of the 'Explorer'." Second, Zheng Qi is responsible for making at least two BP and Demo of new projects before the 28th, as for what project to choose, we will find another time to discuss. ”
Sun Kai told Lin Junnan that he would do his best to complete the revision of the "Explorer" by the end of the month, but due to the tight time, the amount of outsourcing tasks has increased significantly, and a lot of additional expenses are required. Lin Junnan's answer is: The fee will be under the full control of you, Sun Kai, but after the account is settled at the end of the month, the payment of the fee will also be terminated.
"Brother Lin," Zheng Qi couldn't help but interject, "I don't think it's appropriate. It should be that the expenses within the budget can be controlled by Sun Kai, if the budget is larger, it should be approved by you personally!"
Lin Junnan waved his hand decisively: "No need." Time is of the essence and I want efficiency and results. ”
The sudden change caught Sun Kai a little off guard. He hasn't seriously figured out how to use the existing resources to speed up the progress of his 3D mobile game project, but Lin Junnan has already set him a deadline for the "Explorer" project, and the deadline for his use of R&D funds will be terminated at that time. That damn deadline is only half a month away!
After the meeting, Sun Kai told Xu Youhua about Lin Junnan's plan requirements and asked him if he could come up with a beta version of the 3D project within half a month. Xu Youhua said that it could not be done anyway, and he could not rush to progress on two projects at the same time.
Xu Youhua saw the entanglement in Sun Kai's heart, so he had the courage to drum it up and said: "Mr. Sun, in fact, this is not an opportunity! Now that the 'explorer' has been formed, what we have done is only to modify it according to the requirements of the operator, and we can only do it where it is." I think that since Lin Junnan has stripped 'Explorer' out of the Series A financing, then his focus will definitely be on the new project arranged for Zheng Qi, because only the new project is the capital that he asks for from investors. So, we can use the cover of the 'Explorer' project to make a surprise attack to complete the demo of the 3D game. When someone from Beijing comes to investigate, you can find an opportunity to show them our own demo and try to transfer their interest to us!"
"In this way," Sun Kai pondered Xu Youhua's intentions, "we will have to part ways with Lin Junnan!"
"If we can get Grandi to invest in us, then why not set up our own doors at this time?!"
Sun Kai thought for a moment and said, "No matter what, you have to hurry!"
Sissi sensed that Sun Kai seemed to have undergone some changes in his mood recently, and his behavior seemed mysterious and strange. On this day, when she came back from going out to run errands, she saw Sun Kai and Xu Youhua hurriedly entering the coffee house downstairs of the company, so she followed in. In the dim light, she saw Xu Youhua introducing something to Sun Kai with her mobile phone, so she stepped forward to take a look.
When Xu Youhua saw her coming, he looked panicked, and quickly put his mobile phone in his pocket, and Sun Kai's expression also looked very unnatural. Sissi didn't ask, but she was suspicious in her heart: Looking at the appearance of these two people, why do they look sneaky?!
The next day, Sissi found an opportunity to ask Sun Kai if he was working on a new project with Xu Youhua, and Sun Kai prevaricated and said that he was still discussing the modification plan of the "Explorer". Although Sissi didn't know much about the company's projects, her intuition told her that Sun Kai wasn't telling the truth. However, although she had doubts about Sun Kai, she did not tell Lin Junnan about it.
A few days later, Sissi saw Sun Kai answer a phone call and hurried out with her handbag. She suddenly remembered that she didn't seem to see Xu Youhua all morning. "Could it be that these two are doing something famous?" Driven by curiosity, she decided to quietly follow her. So she put on big sunglasses and found a mask to wear - fortunately, it was fashionable to wear a mask outdoors, so it didn't look weird.
Like a private detective, she quietly followed Sun Kai and entered another elevator, and when she went downstairs, she just saw Sun Kai walking out of the hall, she snickered and followed out, Sun Kai didn't even know.
As expected, Sun Kai really got into that coffee house again!
Qian Qian followed up to take a look, Xu Youhua was really sitting inside, he was playing with his mobile phone, Sun Kai walked over and sat down opposite him. Neither of them noticed Sissi not far away.
"Ah Bin hasn't arrived yet?" Sun Kai asked.
"Just called, it should be almost there. Xu Youhua replied.
Sissi found a seat and sat down, staring at them. Suddenly, a thought popped into her head that she had never thought before: these two big boys shouldn't be in that kind of relationship...... Her heart immediately fluttered, and her face was hot, as if she was doing something unseemly, for fear of being discovered by them.
After a few more minutes, a young man in a black short-sleeved T-shirt walked into the coffee house. Qian Qian saw him go straight to Xu Youhua and sit down, took out a large-screen mobile phone from his pocket, and clicked on it, and the mobile phone screen immediately flashed.
Sun Kai took the phone and watched it with interest.
"Ah Bin stayed up all night, and this demo should satisfy people from Beijing!" Mr. Xu said.
Qian Qian heard Xu Youhua's words clearly, and at the same time saw Sun Kai take the mobile phone from the young man named Ah Bin and look at it in front of her. She thought to herself, maybe they were really modifying the "Explorer"? But then she wondered: No, the "Explorer" was already in open beta, why did Xu Youhua still call it "Demo"?!
She got up and leaned in.
Sun Kai and the others all focused their attention on the 3D mobile game demo, and they didn't see that Sissi had come to them at all.
Sissi stood beside them for several seconds, until Sun Kai seemed to sense that something was wrong, and then he suddenly looked up and spotted her.
"Sissi?!" Sun Kai exclaimed in a low voice, his voice changing.
"What are you looking at?" asked Sissi, reaching out and snatching the phone from Sun Kai's hand, "Huh, is this an 'explorer'?"
"This is a game in development. Xu Youhua saw that Sun Kai was still stunned, so he preemptively replied, "This is what Mr. Sun took a few of us to do in our spare time." How's it going? Feels fresh, right?"
"Well, what kind of game is this?" said Sissi in amazement.
Sun Kai got up and snatched the phone back from her hand, then dragged her casually and let her sit beside him. "Sissi, please do something. Please don't tell anyone what you saw today, okay?"
"Is this going to be a secret?!" Sissi smiled playfully.
"yes. It's still in the experimental stage, and I don't want to be too public. Besides, I'm afraid that the handsome man will misunderstand!"
"Wouldn't it?!How could he have misunderstood?"
"Promise me, okay?" Sun Kai pleaded.
"Okay! I promise you. ”
"That'...... Sissi, we're short on time, if you want to have nothing to do, please go back first, okay?"
Sissi could hear that Sun Kai was giving an eviction order, and she reluctantly got up and left the coffee house. On the way back to the company, she felt empty in her heart.