Peng Qianqian didn't even know how he walked out of the building.

He felt like he was floating.

Six billion!

As the main developer of commercial residential projects, Pengcheng Real Estate rarely dealt with such massive land plots—not even his father handled deals this enormous!

For such a colossal piece of land, the price alone was astronomical.

Add in infrastructure construction, equipment procurement, and other costs,

and completing the entire project could easily multiply the investment three to five times!

Meaning this thing could easily become a twenty to thirty billion project!

Even for Pengcheng Real Estate, this would be considered a "large-scale" project!

"...Wait, Sister Miao, our project... this startup capital..."

After exiting the office building,

Peng Qianqian couldn't help but speak up:

"We don't have that much money! Forget construction—we can't even afford the land purchase..."

Jinpeng Real Estate definitely couldn't cover these costs.

As for asking his own father for help, Peng Qianqian didn't believe his dad would approve such a massive sum either.

Shen Miaomiao had anticipated this and chuckled lightly:

"Oh dear, look at you sweating buckets. Don't worry, your Sister Miao has money."

Without hiding anything, Shen Miaomiao explained the origins of the huge funds they currently held.

Of course, she omitted the parts about Neon's underground organizations that couldn't be openly discussed.

In short, one sentence summarized it all—Golden Wind would cover all investments for this project, from land acquisition to construction.

Money wasn't something he needed to worry about, and Pengcheng Real Estate didn't need to get involved either.

Naturally!

Since Golden Wind was providing the vast majority of the investment capital,

they would naturally take a larger share when it came to final profit distribution.

Some confused friends might wonder at this point—

Why would Golden Wind, with all their financial resources, share part of the project profits with Pengcheng Real Estate and let the joint venture Jinpeng Real Estate develop it?

That's because this project was simply too massive.

Never mind that Golden Wind didn't have real estate construction qualifications.

Even if they did, they couldn't match Pengcheng Real Estate's extensive connections in the local real estate scene.

A project this size couldn't be solved by just hiring a contractor and a couple of construction teams.

First, they needed to reach a cooperation agreement with Binjiang Municipal Government, then organize bidding for various aspects including design, construction, supervision, and building services to complete the project together.

Such a massive project basically wouldn't hire—or to some extent, wasn't allowed to hire—small and medium-sized private construction groups for the work.

Therefore, this project couldn't proceed without Pengcheng Real Estate.

Because they had ample experience and broad connections.

Plus, from the earlier conversation, Shen Miaomiao could easily tell that the Party Secretary favored Pengcheng Real Estate.

Their families had good relationships to begin with, Pengcheng Real Estate was undoubtedly Binjiang's real estate leader, and with the municipal government's hints and preference.

Both publicly and privately, this project needed Pengcheng Real Estate's support and had to be developed by the joint venture Jinpeng Real Estate.

"Oh—I see—"

Hearing Shen Miaomiao's explanation, Peng Qianqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Golden Wind provided the money, their Pengcheng provided the effort.

Okay, okay, that made things much easier to handle.

Moreover, the municipal government would issue a key development notice for this project later.

With this imperial sword of authority, it would be easier for him to request personnel and leverage connections from his father.

"But..."

After thinking for a moment, Peng Qianqian ultimately couldn't help scratching his head:

"Sister Miao, shouldn't we try a smaller piece of land first? Suddenly taking on such a huge plot, what if we lose money..."

Although according to Shen Miaomiao's description, the three billion dollars in Golden Wind's hands might as well have been blown in by the wind,

Peng Qianqian was an honest kid who ultimately felt such aggressive massive investment was unstable.

But how could he know.

His Sister Miao's core requirement for this project was one word—loss!

If it doesn't lose money, we're not investing!

Shen Miaomiao chuckled and patted the chubby young man's shoulder:

"Young comrade, you need to unleash your potential to achieve great things! Don't be timid and hesitant,"

"The bigger the project, the bigger the risk, but the greater the profits too,"

"Haven't you heard what Brother Qiang said—"

......

【The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish! As of the day before Cologne Gamescom opens, CloudPower Game Group's market value has increased 8.75% year-on-year...】

【As Cologne Gamescom approaches, offline live stream reservations have exceeded 50 million, setting a new historical record...】

【286,000 square meters, nearly 700 game developers worldwide, over 1,200 exhibition booths, more than 300,000 visitors! This Cologne event will set records for booth numbers, exhibitor attendance, and participating companies...】

【Over forty global gaming media outlets have given "worth anticipating" ratings—just how captivating is The Lord of the Rings licensed IP's charm...】

...

As Cologne Gamescom's opening drew closer!

Reports from various gaming media outlets became increasingly frequent!

Among them, as the top executive under gaming capital giant Vivendi that could now be called cross-continental!

CloudPower naturally received the most attention among all gaming companies.

Moreover!

Just as Konik had previously arranged!

To shine brilliantly at Cologne Gamescom and completely dominate the marketing resource share, they sacrificed marketing resources for their other games during the early promotion phase, pushing The Lord of the Rings: Gollum's marketing everywhere!

From Neon to the United States, from Eastern Europe to Western Europe.

You could see CloudPower's Gollum promotional posters in almost every globally famous city.

A gaunt-limbed, sparse-haired, dark-faced figure with cunning eyes occupying one-third of his face appeared on various promotional placements.

Furthermore, promotions for Gollum were as ubiquitous as air in almost every gaming forum and social platform you knew.

Although to this day, CloudPower hadn't released any promotional videos for Gollum,

from various media reports, players could easily understand the game's core gameplay and design philosophy.

In this game, you would play as the little monster Gollum who appears throughout The Lord of the Rings storyline, using your size advantage with various agile jumps and stealth to explore a completely new story never seen in the main Lord of the Rings works.

The timeline occurs after The Battle of the Five Armies, specifically from when Gollum lost the Ring to when Gandalf learned of the Ring's existence in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and went with Aragorn to find Gollum.

In terms of overall gameplay, the extensive platforming inevitably reminded people of the frequently surprising platforming gameplay in It Takes Two.

This time, CloudPower ingeniously integrated stealth assassination elements into the game.

Plus, CloudPower claimed the total game development investment reached 500 million dollars.

Major IP! Massive investment! New gameplay!

All these elements combined sent a very clear signal to all media and players—

This time, we're going all out!

Instantly!

Almost half the gaming community's discussions about Cologne Gamescom focused on The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

By comparison!

My World, which had previously amazed players with one promotional video, seemed somewhat lacking in staying power.

Some said Golden Wind failed to keep up with CloudPower's marketing pace this time, continuously losing marketing market share and ultimately losing marketing voice.

Others said Golden Wind never intended large-scale marketing this time, instead planning to rely on the groundbreaking new "sandbox game" gameplay to win this Cologne battle completely with minimal costs.

But regardless!

My World's marketing was indeed left far behind by The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

To the extent that based on current market conditions, almost eight out of every ten Cologne Gamescom reports mentioned The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

While My World was typically only mentioned by media when discussing the "gaming industry's first world war."

Under such circumstances!

"Gathering gaming news, focusing on what players love, hello everyone, I'm Tian Tian, reporter for Daily Gaming News!"

February 25th!

Saturday!

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany—the huge semi-arc-shaped pure white building was already packed with crowds!

Annually, about 75 trade exhibitions and over 2,000 international conferences are held here.

The total exhibition area of 284,000 square meters is divided into nine major zoned areas.

This is the Cologne International Exhibition Centre.

Cologne Gamescom, one of the world's four major gaming exhibitions, would open here today!

Today was opening day, but more importantly—battle commencement day!

"Welcome everyone to our special live broadcast today,"

Tian Tian greeted the camera while standing before the crowded convention center:

"As you can see, we've arrived at Cologne Convention Center in Germany,"

"Today, the Cologne Gamescom with the most attendees, largest venue area, and most participating companies in history will be held here..."

Checking the time,

Tian Tian looked up and said:

"There are five minutes until opening,"

"So let's use this time to interview some visitors here and hear their opinions on which games they're most looking forward to at this Cologne Gamescom..."

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by lotustale.com