Generation 2 and Youth Edition

Five-year TV game rights for Yu-Gi-Oh!, for a total price of ten million Daxia Coins.

The game could only be used on TVs or projectors and could not be transferred. Shenma Technology Company would operate it independently, and Konami Company would have no right to a share of the profits.

After two days of negotiations, Ning Yifan finally secured the rights to Yu-Gi-Oh! The two parties signed a contract, granting Shenma Technology Company the right to develop Yu-Gi-Oh! games over the next five years and to include an officially licensed Yu-Gi-Oh! game in its Phantom Projector products.

After both sides confirmed the contract was in order, they signed it, making it effective. Ning Yifan immediately transferred ten million Daxia Coins, bringing this leg of the journey to a formal end.

With the contract signed, there was no reason for Ning Yifan to stay any longer. He immediately took the next available flight back to Daxia Country.

Returning to the company after more than half a month away, Ning Yifan set down his luggage and went to the factory. He took a look around and confirmed that everything was running smoothly.

Inside the factory, automated vehicles controlled by the program kept moving completed Phantom Projectors to their assigned warehouse locations. Then they loaded raw materials and equipment parts and returned to the second-floor production area to supply the assembly lines.

During the half month Ning Yifan was away, the factory had kept running normally, producing Phantom Projectors every day. Over that period, Shenma Technology Company's flagship stores on Taobao and JD.com had sold more than thirty thousand units in total.

Ning Yifan no longer felt like calculating exactly how much money he'd earned or how much he'd spent on raw materials.

Half a month had passed. Aside from the ten million he'd spent on the license, the company's accounts now held more than eighty-seven million.

Taxes would come to around ten million, leaving more than seventy million.

Ning Yifan planned to keep twenty million on hand to buy parts for Phantom Projector production and spend the rest on new equipment for the third floor.

"Once I've finished buying this batch, there'll hardly be anything left to buy besides a few large machines. From then on, I'll have to build whatever I need myself."

Making money wasn't tiring, so Ning Yifan was naturally willing to spend it.

In just half a day, he bought all the tools and equipment he'd had his eye on. Once they'd all arrived, the third-floor space in the factory was almost completely filled.

With all this equipment, Ning Yifan would be able to manufacture any technological product he needed himself, from something as large as an airplane to something as small as a bicycle for his own use.

With the equipment purchased, it was time to upgrade the products.

Ning Yifan had already planned the upgrade. He'd ordered the parts he couldn't make himself online and only needed to wait for them to arrive.

The factory could produce the remaining parts itself, and those would be completed over the next few days.

The Phantom Projector Generation 2 wouldn't change much in terms of projection. The main upgrades were the addition of a TV system and the hardware needed to run it, so the modifications were relatively simple.

After returning to the factory, Ning Yifan went back to his regular routine. Over three days, he completed the production-line modifications for the Phantom Projector Generation 2 and the Youth Edition.

At last, the second floor of the Shenma Technology factory had more than just a single production line tucked into a small corner.

Three production lines, made up of more than a hundred robotic arms, occupied a somewhat larger area on the second floor—about one-fifth of the entire space.

As long as there were enough materials, the three lines could produce tens of thousands of Phantom Projectors a day.

Over those three days of modifying the production lines, the factory received a steady stream of equipment Ning Yifan had purchased, along with parts for the Phantom Projector.

Another day passed, and finished units of all three Phantom Projector models were lined up in the factory warehouse.

Ning Yifan listed the Phantom Projector Generation 2 and Youth Edition in Shenma Technology Company's official flagship stores on JD.com and Taobao.

The Phantom Projector Generation 2 came with a Snapdragon 855 processor, 8 GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, and a TV system Ning Yifan had written himself. It was priced at 5,999.

The Youth Edition had much lower specs. It could only project in 4K high definition, with a 75 Hz refresh rate, 100% RGB color gamut, and a 200-inch projection.

Although it used the same TV playback system as the Phantom Projector Generation 2, its hardware was much weaker. It had only 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, and used a MediaTek processor. Its price was much lower, at just 1,999.

For buyers who wanted a Phantom Projector but were hesitant because money was tight, the Youth Edition was good news.

And at a price of 1,999, the Phantom Projector Youth Edition was undoubtedly a top-tier product that beat the competition in value for money.

Once both projectors had been manufactured, Ning Yifan put them on the shelves and began selling them.

While Ning Yifan was away on his trip, discussion of the Phantom Projector had continued to grow online.

The explosive increase in production meant more people could buy one. Almost everyone who tried it found it impossible to go back to the era of small screens.

By now, the Phantom Projector had become something of an online sensation. Unlike most viral products, which were all hype and no substance, the Phantom Projector genuinely delivered on its technology, so there were hardly any negative reviews.

The tech community in particular couldn't praise it enough. People recommended the Phantom Projector as a replacement for TVs and monitors alike. They weren't paid to promote it, but were still doing the work of selling it. They had no choice: to avoid their reputations tanking, they had to recommend the Phantom Projector. Besides, people who tried it would thank those who'd recommended it.

The new Phantom Projector models were quickly discovered and attracted plenty of attention.

Some buyers placed their orders without hesitation, but they were in the minority. Most people waited and watched, deciding whether to buy only after seeing how the earlier buyers liked them.

As a result, the Phantom Projector Generation 2 and Youth Edition didn't match the original Phantom Projector's sales right away.

Posts about the Phantom Projector Generation 2 soon appeared online and quickly caught people's attention.

"The Phantom Projector is a projector that suddenly became hugely popular over the past two months. I'm sure most people have heard of it.

"From Shenma Technology Company's founding, when it had only two hundred units, to sales of tens of thousands a month, it took the Phantom Projector just two months to top the projector sales charts.

"Its performance is every bit as good as a TV's, and even surpasses one in many ways. That's led more and more people to replace their home TVs with Phantom Projectors.

"This hugely popular product offers incredible value for money, and today it suddenly announced a new model.

"According to the information in its official Taobao and JD.com flagship stores, most of the new model's specs are similar to the old one. The main upgrade is the TV playback system.

"Judging by the specs the company has released, it should be powerful. But system performance depends largely on software. If it isn't well optimized, even powerful hardware won't help, and the user experience could be terrible.

"Is the Phantom Projector Generation 2 worth the extra thousand? I think it's best to wait and see. Maybe Shenma Technology Company will surprise us again. Or maybe this is a failed experiment. Time will tell.

"Whether it's good or bad, we'll know in ten days or half a month.

"As for the Youth Edition, it's an incredibly good-value product. You can get one for just two thousand.

"If its performance really is as advertised, time will prove that too."

"I saw the news about the new projector, too. I've been following this product for a while. For the Youth Edition, I'd like to ask if any big shot could try it out first. Two thousand yuan isn't a small amount for a poor family like mine. It'd hurt to find out it's no good."

"The Generation 2 looks pretty good. I'm going to buy one and give it a try. Anyone interested can follow me. Once it arrives, I'll post an unboxing and review video."

"Everyone's talking about the Phantom Projector, but am I the only one who noticed that an officially licensed Yu-Gi-Oh! game will also be included in the Phantom Projector Generation 2?"

"Anyone want to play cards?"

"5,999 for a toy to play cards with? You must be crazy. If all you want is to play cards, a PC would be more suitable."

"How smooth is it, though? What's the frame rate like? Hurry up and review it, you big shots."

On the first day after the Phantom Projector Generation 2 and Youth Edition were released, they sold more than six hundred units.

Compared with the first-generation Phantom Projector, six hundred units wasn't many. Most buyers were just testing the waters.