Jin was sitting right beside his tall and mighty Panda Tian Gong Statue, wanting nothing more than to just close his eyes and go back to sleep. Unfortunately, the System informed Jin that he had to move to the Arcade Dungeon Instance on the Third Level of the Tiangong Tree Mall and instruct Yong De, the owner of the Arcade Dungeon Instance on several things.

He stood up sluggishly before inserting some chi on his legs and used his Green Panda Wind to jump to the third floor. Without opening his Pandemonium app, Jin merely scanned his phone over the statue of a Panda sitting down and holding an arcade joystick controller.

There he found the anguished face of Yong De and He Rong.

He had asked the two to collaborate together for this new joint dungeon instance. This usually wouldn't be a problem, however, Yong De and He Rong had some history with each other, and it wasn't exactly the pleasant kind.

Apparently, Yong De had asked He Rong to sponsor some of the card tournaments when he first started out which the latter agreed to unilaterally. However, Yong De's ambition had gotten the better of him, and he had promoted the gaming card tournaments a little too widely and fiercely.

The participation had been tremendously successful, but because Yong De's predicted budget for He Rong's sponsoring had been severely underestimated, he inevitably caused He Rong to be unable to pay for his shop's rent for three months.

He Rong was forced to wit's end when the landlord's management team had insisted on him paying up or else they would demand the immediate closure of the store. Upon learning of his plight, Si Fang managed to get into contact with Grandma Yuan begging her for leniency towards He Rong especially since he had always been consistent with his payment.

Grandma Yuan, who always left the management team to their own devices, had been unaware about the situation He Rong was in and had graciously allowed him an extended period to pay his rent.

On the other hand, Yong De knew about He Rong's plight but had not helped out much because he too had underestimated the prizes he gave out, causing him to pay the rent by living on just the basic necessities.

While the Arcade owner had improved since then in terms of managing his business, He Rong had not been very happy to team up with him when Jin asked him to. The Toyz Connection store owner no doubt had prefered to do literally anything else, but Jin asked him to give the partnership another shot.

"I roughly looked through the records you guys have given me and thanks for that by the way. He Rong, I see that your card sales have been doing rather well in the months whenever Yong De conducted these mini tournaments." Jin had pointed out as a matter of fact, and He Rong had his mouth tight for a moment.

"I believe Yong De has been trying to make up to you and was too afraid to offend you too. But you need to make an effort to understand what he does too. I think both of you owe each other an apology and with this new shop instance, you can start things anew." Jin had said during the brainstorming session when he asked the cooperation between those two.

Jin perceived that He Rong would not have the guts to do anything daring, and that made him rather conservative and calculative with his accounts. That was how he managed to keep a vast array of hobby related goods while maintaining his accounts well.

Yong De, on the other hand, was the opposite. He enjoyed being an entrepreneur and always wanted to bring in the latest fad since he yearned for both kids and adults to have fun.

But because most of these new arcade machines were licensed by the Japanese, importing them cost a fortune which had always put his accounts near red. That was why Jin had a hunch that if these two joined forces, they could become an unformidable duo against the tides of business obstacles.

Yong De had been more than happy to bury the hatchet by joining such a partnership. He Rong had been still reluctant but agreed to give it a try. If things did not work well, the dungeon supplier promised that he would create a brand new shop instance for both of them at no cost at all.

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As Jin entered the brand new Arcade store instance, he could already see the two owners arguing on what needed to be done. Contrary to most arcade centres where the place was either very flashy with lights and poor decoration or the opposite being mostly dark and dull, Jin had chosen a simplistic modern view for it.

His concept took inspiration from Zamzung or Huawee store outlets with lots of space providing the items in stock the opportunity to present themselves.

He Rong's toy models (or what's left of the undamaged stocks) were placed in a gallery kind of exhibition. Should the customers for something in particular, they could use the virtual hologram which Jin had installed to choose what kind of robots or toy models they wanted to buy.

The virtual hologram module was an extension of the pilot's modification workshop console which Niu Lang's Supa Robot Wars mini game offered, and Jin had used it here after scanning all the models available in He Rong's stock. New stocks needed to be scanned once, and the System would take care of the logistic matters.

Usually, one would not necessarily have a good idea on how the product looked like before it was assembled, and the advertising on the packaging could only make them imagine. However, imagine no further since the virtual hologram not only showed the toy model but also the history or background of the toy based on internet sources and Wikipedia.

"Humans become slaves to what they see." One of his professor's quote during architectural design had made Jin remembered and slighty understood the vague and complex concept of aesthetics. Since then, he applied to his understanding superficially and in depth whenever possible. Hence, the creation of this virtual hologram was one of the ideas.

He Rong was surprised that they could do that and he believed that these virtual holograms would definitely make window shopping a blast for the hobbyists. Not only that, but Jin also began to sell some of his models to He Rong and of a high price too since most of the models were currently redeemable from the Goblin Raid event.

Jin purposely asked He Rong to price it high so that it would be fair for those who worked hard to get the various toy models Jin had created previously. As for the newest XXXXL Panda plushies? Those would be under Yong De's speciality.

Aside from placing the three mini games instance entrances (the WunderPanda Park Entrances are still valid, these were just additional entrances) and the sales of Spinning Tops, Digital Pet playing card packs, Jin had placed a giant UFO machine that featured these oversized plushies.

How big was that UFO machine? The cage size was as big as a large cinematic screen, and the plushies were not limited to Pandas.

Mmhm. Pandas. Red Pandas. Penguins and a limited number of 1st edition Foxes and Snake plushies.

Yong De could not get the meaning behind these plushies and thought that Jin was merely exaggerating especially when the price to get these plushies was equivalent to getting a Panda Burger Set Meal (which cost roughly 15-16 Yuan.) Jin could only smirk and told him to leave it there for it to do its magic.

Other than that, Jin had revamped the fighting arcade games in one particular corner and equipped them with wide screens and a default arcade joystick controller. Should the gamers have their own personal controllers, there were terminals for them to attach the controllers as well.

As for the other arcade games, Jin had placed them neatly and replaced them with more modern controllers so they could be more responsive. (For example, the gun controllers were replaced with ones that could vibrate whenever reloading and the response time was better.)

The seats on the racing arcade games were also upgraded to quality leather ones, and it was very comfortable to sit in. The grips on the stick and wheels were better than the worn ones which Yong De had. But that was not all for the arcade games as Jin was planning to make this arcade instance one of the best instances he ever