Chapter 277: Ugly NPC

The game is more than half finished, but Ji Tianlin doesn't really want to launch it—not because of lack of funds, but because a survey showed the Desktop Assistant has too few users. If the game launches and flops, that would be so embarrassing.

The planning team at Ji Tianlin Company suggested hiring a celebrity as spokesperson, but Ji Tianlin rejected it. He thought of Su Yu, who overthinks at home, and brought her to the company to play the Desktop Assistant and the game the company made.

With a game, Su Yu can calm down a bit, instead of constantly calling her mother every hour.

The technicians in the tech department both love and hate Su Yu! They love that she is not only cute and polite, and on her first visit she even gave everyone at the company a specially delicious afternoon tea!

What they hate is that she seems to have a bug‑finding hand; each time she finds a bug, everyone has to spend half a day fixing it!

Under Su Yu's and Wulongcha's joint bug‑hunting, the Desktop Assistant app officially launched.

Ji Tianlin discussed with Su Yu and decided to split the celebrity endorsement money between her and her two little companions, so the three kids could do a live stream together.

Su Yu agreed!

Tang Can and Liang Yan also agreed. Their parents have no objection. They plan for Liang Yan and Tang Can to inherit the family business, and appearing early on public platforms can gather fans and build a positive corporate image; now is the age of traffic!

The three kids cannot live stream, but Ji Yan can.

Ji Yan takes her phone and live streams her daughter's day at her father's company.

Ji Tianlin is proud, "She's so lively here!"

Unlike at the Su Clan, where she's locked in the office every day. According to Ji Tianlin, this child is born to inherit his business!

Since she adapts so well to the atmosphere here, why not make her the Su Clan heir, change her surname to Ji, and have her take over his family's assets?

Ji Yan finds it hard to tell her old father that Su Yi has been swearing a lot lately. Whatever Su Yu learns online, she asks Su Yi weird questions, and Su Yi gets worn out by Su Yu's daily interrogations.

Su Yi strongly urges Su Xi to take Su Yu back to the Su Clan for proper study! She runs to the Ji family daily claiming it's a test game, but actually it's a ruse to steal phones and computers!

The live stream just opened, and hearing that caused a ruckus!

Everyone wants to see how lively Su Yu is!

"Dad, what's this?"

Ji Yan looks at the white flower‑like spots on the face and can't believe her eyes—this is her cute daughter? Luckily Tang Can and Liang Yan are normal, otherwise the adults from both families might explode!

"Mom!"

Su Yu rushes over, stops in front of Ji Yan, and flashes a sweet smile.

"Sweetie, what did you do?"

Ji Yan hands the phone to Ji Tianlin, who pulls out a handkerchief for Su Yu to wipe her face.

"Auntie, I know, little Yu sister took us to watch the pastry making!"

Liang Yan also wants to play, but Su Yu refuses, fearing she'll mishandle it and get covered in powder. This isn't the Su Clan; there's no spare clothes for Liang Yan nor a shower room.

"Yes, yes, the uncles and aunties here say they'll definitely work overtime today; they need to eat a lot to have the energy for overtime!"

Tang Can is still seeing these uncles and aunties work for the first time. Whether it's parents or aunties, they rarely take her to see where employees work. She's actually quite interested.

"Be careful next time you make pastries; don't get it in your eyes, it'll hurt!"

"Mm‑mm!"

Su Yu takes Ji Yan's hand toward the tech department, "Mom, there's a small room here just for us to play games, I'm here every day playing games."

Playing games can be tiring too!

Ji Tianlin's side is filled with loyal core staff; Su Yu, bored each day, roams the company and watches others work. The snacks here are homemade by staff, clean and hygienic; Su Yu joins in making them but doesn't dare eat. The first time she ate, she was scolded by Su Xi at home.

It's called a small room, but it's actually about twenty square meters.

Su Yu, Tang Can and Liang Yan launch the Desktop APP on the simulator, and the APP assistant appears on the phone.

Su Yu, at her own pace, tells Liang Yan and Tang Can how to play.

"Press here and the doll appears; press here and it goes back. When they appear they have many sounds; we pick the ones we like!"

Su Yu taps the virtual figure's head, "Look here, you have to name it, otherwise it will auto‑generate a number that sounds terrible!"

Su Yu casually writes "Nini", confirms, "Next we choose the voice!"

Su Yu selects a child's voice, "Nini, give me the weather report for today!"

"Sure, Nini reporting for you…"

From a 24‑hour forecast to today's travel cautions, the child's voice adds a few filler words but the content is fine.

Su Yu gives a full demonstration of the Desktop APP; Tang Can and Liang Yan are disinterested, they have no interest in it, and aside from contacting Su Yu they rarely use phones!

"Huo Huo, do you like the next game?"

The 3D little figure that was bouncing on the desktop not only appears on the phone but also projects a virtual image in reality.

Liang Yan's eyes flash "Swish"!

"Can this doll materialize?"

"You can only look, not hold!"

"Oh!"

Liang Yan is a bit disappointed! The doll is really big and cute, and moves around, better than her static dolls. If it can't be held, she'd rather have her own doll.

"But it can change clothes!"

Liang Yan immediately leans over to change the doll's clothes!

"Wow, there are so many!"

The doll has many outfits, with auto‑dress mode, themed dress mode, and free‑mix mode, satisfying Liang Yan's styling cravings!

Liang Yan happily manipulates it on the simulator!

Tang Can glances at it, not very interested.

"Besides changing clothes, it has many scenes, basically recreations of real‑life settings. In the game it's like moving it around to view scenery!"

Tang Can is quite interested in foreign scenery. Her parents often travel abroad. They say foreign places are dangerous, but Tang Can doesn't really know.

"Looks pretty good!"

"Bang!"

Su Yu's little figure got its head blown up; she skillfully used stamina to buy another chance, kept browsing, but detoured around the previous spot.

Tang Can was puzzled, "Why did your Ni Ni die?"

This is a danger-level simulation based on disclosed overseas data; bad luck triggers a death ending. The security here is actually not bad, but if you switched to another city, the NPCs you encounter would be like zombies—really scary!

Su Yu tapped another spot on her phone.

"Without enough stamina, I choose to play domestically; aside from the danger zones, nowhere else causes death, and you can view the full map."

Tang Can remembered that city's name and went to look for it herself.

Their app tokens were full; Tang Can unlocked that map and saw an ugly NPC.

"Is it really that ugly?"

Thanks for the votes, cuties~