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Chapter 191: Su Yang's Condemnation Conference By The Little Monsters
Deeny accompanied Su Yang to the living room. She tiptoed and whispered in his ears, "Master, I'll forever be by your side." She stuck her tongue out playfully before she hopped to the little stand at the corner.
The flying rabbit flew above her head for a moment before landing in her arms.
Su Yang looked around. Deeny, Pool, Sanque, and Little Lady Knife filled the stools at two sides. They were obviously there to make up the numbers.
In the center was Little Hus, the monster bean's representative and…Gru?
'Is Gru one of the leaders?'
Before Su Yang could express his surprise, Little Hus stood on the stool and shouted, "Take Su Yang down! Give us back our justice! Su Yang, take a seat and be ready to accept your condemnation!"
Su Yang cleared his throat and sat on the couch. Then, the 'condemnation conference' officially started.
Since Su Yang was being cooperative, Little Hus stepped out and started the whole rant.
"Su Yang! You've been extremely shameless lately! You've already given us the things, yet you are shameless enough to take them back! Are you still human? Aside from my book, you even robbed Gru of his table! Can you be more inhuman?!"
Before he could finish, Gru stood up with a little table. Su Yang had spent 30 yuan on Taobao for the replacement table.
Gru looked sad with the table in its hands. "Gru, Gru! Gru Gru!" It even shed tears!
'What? They are both tables, so what's the difference? And…Gru, even though you got a second point, I still don't know what you are talking about."
After Gru was done, the little monster bean's representative stood up boldly and cleared its throat, ready to condemn Su Yang for his acts.
Su Yang saw the number on its scarf: No. 17. 'You again? No. 17! You!'
No. 17 used its body language to condemn whatever Su Yang had done. Even though no one understood what it said, it conveyed its message with its strong body language.
It even performed a monodrama, playing both itself and Su Yang. It showed how Su Yang violently caught it and buried it alive in the soil. It then crawled out with all its effort just to be kicked away by Su Yang.
The way it portrayed the fall was Oscar-worthy.
'My, my, look at you. Are you the new best actor of the year?'
Su Yang believed he could add No. 17 to the 'Monster Family' series soon.
After that, the little monster bean went back to its seat.
Little Hus looked around, but no one else wanted to stand up. He barked at the others, "Hurry up! Go up and tell everyone your stories!"
Pool smiled gently, his thin long eyes a sign of how happy he was. He shook his head and said, "I have nothing against Lord Su Yang."
Sanque was in the pot, playing dead with its eyes closed.
Little Lady Knife was enthusiastic though. She 'looked' around and asked, "Brother Hus, what are you guys doing? Why are you guys bullying Brother Su Yang?"
Deeny showed a flattering smile and said, "Master, I'm just here to fill the numbers. I have nothing against you either."
Little Hus glared at her. "You useless suckup!"
Deeny grimaced at him.
Since no one had anything else to say, Su Yang cleared his throat and decided to step in. "Well, if you guys are finished, I have something to say as well." He stood up and carried the sobbing Gru into his arms as he consoled, "Gru, come on, cheer up."
Gru cried out loud upon hearing Su Yang's words. It seemed like losing the little table really hurt his heart.
Su Yang sighed. He stroked Gru's head and said, "I'm sorry, okay? It was urgent back then, and I'm sorry I didn't tell you about it. Besides, didn't I buy you a new one?"
Gru looked up at Su Yang with its big teary eyes. "Gru, Gru…"
Su Yang looked at Sanque who said, "He says he wanted the first little table because it was the first present you gave it."
Su Yang caressed Gru's head and said, "Gru, we will be together for a long time, and you will get more than one present. I'll buy you a set of clothes next week. How about that?"
Gru listened and thought for a while. He nodded firmly and finally smiled.
Su Yang smiled as he caressed Gru's head. He then put the little guy down. Then, he looked at Little Hus and No. 17 with a grin.
"Little Hus, I gave the rabbit and the table to Deeny and Gru but…I don't think I gave you the book, did I? You stole the book from me!"
The husky on the bolster was shocked. "Is that so?!"
The grin on Su Yang's face grew wider.
Five minutes later, he pressed the start button of the washing machine, and Little Hus and No. 17 were crying and screaming in the spinning cylinder.
"Su Yang! You devil!" Little Hus screamed with all his might.
Su Yang did not bother to explain to No. 17 because monster beans had no human rights!
After he came out from the bathroom, Su Yang saw the rest of the little monster beans tearing down the banner and the pictures on the wall, and rearranging the couch and stools.
They worked hard to clean up the place, and the house would always be clean with them around, but there was also a downside to it. They would have to clean the remains of their friends every once in a while.
'Hmm, speaking of monster beans, No. 17 doesn't seem to explode even when he's angry, and I feel like he's been living a carefree life. His personality seems different from the other beans as well. Did something change?'
The thought merely flashed across Su Yang's mind. He then headed upstairs to Deeny's room.
Deeny was humming a melody in her room while playing dress-up with the winged rabbit. She tied a bow on the rabbit's ear and drew some floral patterns on the rabbit's wings with a glittery eyeshadow.
Curious, Su Yang asked, "Where did you get the makeup?"
Only then did Deeny notice Su Yang's presence. She said with a smile, "I bought them. Master, you are always not around, so whenever I need something, I'll order it online and have them sent to Pool's shop. He will then bring the things back to me at night."
Su Yang nodded. 'Hmm, that's convenient.'
She added two more strokes on the wing before she suddenly realized something and picked the rabbit up in her hands. Terrified, she looked at Su Yang and said, "Master! Are you here to take my rabbit away?!" Her eyes started to tear up all of a sudden.
'Wait, what? Am I a villain in this house? Is that what they think of me?'
He cleared his throat and said, "No, why would I take your rabbit from you?"
Deeny was on the brink of breaking down in tears. "Maybe…maybe you need a rabbit for your next prescription."
"No! Don't worry! I won't use your rabbit!" Su Yang had to cheer her up for a full five minutes to convince her that he would not 'sacrifice' the rabbit. However, as he cheered Deeny up, he was also thinking about the question.
'Deeny is right. I don't have any other 1 items anymore. If I don't sacrifice the 1 rabbit next week, what am I supposed to offer?'
'Hmm…I don't think it's a good idea to go back on my words.'
After that, Su Yang said, "How's the trailer of our 'Monster Family' series? Didn't you post it yesterday? I don't think I've heard anything about it from you."
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Chapter 192: The Girl Must Be Pretty
With a smile on her face, Deeny said, "It's okay."
Su Yang waved at her and she tacitly brought up a panel in front of him.
He looked at the panel showing Deeny's TikTok account. 'Urara SuDeeny: 1.03 million fans.'
'Wow, look at the spike in these few days!'
However, the number of followers in TikTok could not be taken as a solid reference. No matter how many followers an account had, the newer videos were suggested one by one, and even though the number of followers had a certain level of effect, it was the content of the video that determined its popularity.
Su Yang scrolled down. The first video on the page was the trailer that Deeny had posted yesterday. The video had garnered 560K views.
'Wow, that's really a lot!'
Su Yang tapped on the video and saw more than 10K likes on the video. He habitually tapped on the comment section to check the viewers' responses. The comments that he saw were within expectation as most of the viewers accepted this genre of video.
Some even praised the video for its creativity and imagination.
[Holy sh*t! What is that? Something just ran past behind you!]
[What the hell? Is there a monster in your house?]
[What's that? Is that a tiny ent? There are leaves around it!]
Some were talking about the authenticity of the video.
[This is CGI, isn't it?]
[The one above me is an idiot. What could it be if not CGI? Don't you know ever since our country is established, monsters aren't allowed to take form!]
Some however discovered the 'truth'.
[You might have noticed that it's impossible to Photoshop a video, so this must be real!]
[Deeny must be a monster. This is real! Your argument is invalid!]
[Please, God, give me a female monster that can suck humans.]
Su Yang giggled. 'I think this guy is having a hard time taking a sh*t!'
Other than that, the rest of the comments praised Gru for his cuteness.
[Wow! The little ent is so cute! Where do I buy this?]
[Will there be a second episode? I want to see more of the ent!]
[How cute! The eyes are so googly!]
In short, the general response was great. At least, Su Yang viewed the video as a success. After all, it was just the first day and short videos on TikTok took time to gain popularity.
Nevertheless, he had to strike while the iron was hot! Su Yang said, "The second trailer will feature Pool. I'll leave the script in your hands. Take some footage tonight and we will leave tomorrow morning to the milk tea shop for the rest of the shoot.
"If the second video is also a success, 'Monster Family' will slowly gain exposure, and Pool's milk tea shop can also ride on the success.."
Deeny saluted and said happily, "Roger, Master!"
Su Yang patted her head. 'My dear, you are really cute.'
He actually had plans for this. He planned to release two trailers to create a hype before officially releasing the 'Monster Family' short video series. He had decided to make 'Monster Family' his unique IP, and every little monster could accumulate their own fans. By then, he would be able to divert the fans into the new social media app.
'Characters from popular movies like "Transformers" or the new animated movie "Nezha" can share their daily lives on the app. The thought about it is exciting enough, and it will surely attract a lot of attention.
'By then, all three of my projects, Deeny's "Monster Family" series, Pool's milk tea shop, and my own "Find Me" will be fully operational.
'The Gold Mission to change10,000 people's lives, the Silver Mission to earn a million, and the Random Mission to help Deeny complete the series will be easily achievable by then!'
With that in mind, Su Yang asked, "What about the downloads and the user registrations from the past two days?"
When Deeny raised her hand, the panel in front of him turned into the statistics of both his apps.
"The part-time app has a stable number of around 550 active users daily and can reach 700 on weekends. It's steadily growing. 'Find Me' is the fastest growing app. In the past two days, it has received 250K downloads, and the number of users that have stayed active until the second day is decent as well. Our active users tally to around 80K per day."
Su Yang nodded. According to the data, the part-time app could earn him 100,000 yuan per week, meaning around 80,000 net profit excluding the costs. So, it would be around 300,000 yuan plus per month.
'The part-time job app is a real cash cow! Everything is progressing smoothly! I have a feeling that I'm getting closer to that million! What will the Silver Point be?'
The next morning, Su Yang 'honorably' skipped class. Since there was less of a line in the morning, he brought Deeny there for a video shoot.
Su Yang's idea for the second video was also simple:
Deeny would be thirsty after a whole day of walking and she would buy a cup of milk tea at the shop. Then, she would realize something strange about the shop because she saw monsters preparing her milk tea.
She would see an eight-handed hunk moving barrels of milk with and a bunch of moving beans pouring the milk tea into plastic cups. The only waiter in the shop would take the cup of milk tea from the beans and serve it to the customer.
At the end of the video, there would be a close-up of the shop's signage and address.
The only problem was that Deeny could not come to the real world, so Su Yang would have to somehow make it work with CGI.
Fortunately, Su Yang was an 'experienced' video editor, so after he laid out all the green screens and got enough footage for reference, it was easily achievable.
Pool and Sanque gave their hearts and souls to the video because "Try Everything Milk Tea" was their blood and sweat, and they treated it as their own business. Therefore, after they learned that it was one way to promote the shop, they were passionate to help.
Aside from following every order from Su Yang, Sanque even squeezed out an ugly smile on its ugly face.
'Yeah…This isn't easy for either him or me…'
After shooting for a whole morning, Su Yang went back to class. Right after he stepped into the lecture hall, he found several of Deeny's fans among his classmates. He saw them talking about Gru's video.
"That little ent is so cute!"
"Yeah, it's cute, right? As I said, Deeny is really some spirit or monster!"
"You must be high on novels. It's CGI! Computer graphics! Get it?"
Su Yang took his book out while eavesdropping on the conversation.
Right when he was at the juicy bits, a melodious voice sounded in his ears, "Mr. President, which girl are you thinking about?"
Su Yang looked up. It was Chu Xia. He rolled his eyes at her and said, "I'm thinking about a girl with the family name Chu."
The bold and outgoing Chu Xia suddenly blushed at his words, but she quickly answered, "There are tons of girls with the family name Chu out there, so who knows who are you talking about?"
Su Yang feigned agreement by nodding. "I guess you are right. The girl I'm thinking is Chu Qiu."
Chu Xia grunted, "Hmph! She sure must be pretty!"
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Chapter 193: Monster Family Second Trailer Online
Su Yang looked at Chu Xia. "I guess she's okay. I only know she comes from a wealthy background because she has an 'airport'."
Chu Xia was stunned. She looked down and saw…her beautiful shoes. She angrily stomped her feet. 'This b*stard! I can't do this anymore!'
She pouted and went back to her seat. She thought she did not care about her size, but she muttered ceaselessly as she walked back, "I don't understand why boys like them big! They are so heavy! It's like carrying two water balloons walking around! Smaller is better. At least…at least…I won't show the shape of my body! People will focus on my dress instead!"
Chu Xia looked down again. 'Argggh!'
The grumpy Chu Xia sat down in her seat, took her phone out, and put on her earphones. She tapped on TikTok to ease her mood.
Just as she was scrolling, she scrolled to a cute girl's video. The girl seemed to be a rising TikToker and she was telling a joke to the camera.
Chu Xia listened to the joke but quickly got bored. Just when she was about to swipe away, a black shadow zoomed behind the cute girl.
Chu Xia shuddered. 'What is that?!'
The girl in the video seemed to have noticed the situation as well. She lifted up the camera and searched the whole house and finally located the black shadow in a storeroom.
The girl carefully stuck the phone over the seam of the door. It was dark at first, and rock music could be heard with the black shadow dancing to it.
Chu Xia glued her eyes to the screen, afraid that she would miss the slightest detail. As the video got brighter, a little ent, warped in branches, was dancing to the rock music under the moon.
Chu Xia's jaw dropped. A single thought popped up in her mind: 'This is CGI, right? It's fake, right? But it looks so real!'
At the end of the video, the little ent moonwalked and turned around, showing its big head and big googly eyes that took up half of its face.
'It's so cute!'
The little ent seemed to notice someone was taking a video of it dancing, so it tilted its head and 'Gru-ed'.
Then, the video ended abruptly.
Chu Xia's girlish heart exploded when the little thing 'Gru-ed'.
'IT'S SO CUTE! What's that?!'
Chu Xia tapped on the account and saw the name Urara SuDeeny. The video that she just watched was the latest, and the account had not posted any new videos for two days.
'Aaaargh?'
Her curiosity was torturing her badly. 'Why hasn't she updated anything?! What is that? Is that an ent from the legends? I mean, if it's not some tree spirit, what could it be? What happened to the girl?'
It was the first time Chu Xia got frustrated because of a cliffhanger. She watched the video two more times and gave it a like and followed the account. It was then that she noticed the video had received over 400,000 likes and was still going.
'This is going to be the next big thing!'
With that in mind, Chu Xia downloaded the video and sent it to Su Yang.
'Hmph! Since the cliffhanger got me good, I'll make you anxious as well!'
Su Yang was 'studying' in his seat before he heard Deeny's voice in his ears. "Master, Ms. Chu Xia has sent you a message via WeChat."
'Hmph? Is it me or does Deeny address Chu Xia differently?'
Chu Xia took his phone out and tapped on WeChat and saw the video Chu Xia sent him. He tapped on it without much concern. Since he had the bone conduction earphone, he was not afraid that the sound would leak out.
He realized that the video was the one he made with Deeny.
'What's wrong now, girl? Are you my fan now?'
Su Yang glanced at Chu Xia and noticed that she was also looking at him. The girl then turned around giggling. She was so delighted.
'Ha! You made fun of my chest size. Now, you will have to suffer from the cliffhanger!'
…
After class, Su Yang tidied up and went home to continue the video-editing. The edits this time around would be a little more difficult. Since the green screen was used, he had to merge the footage with the one Deeny shot last night.
Deeny's footage showed her buying a milk tea to quench her thirst. With a dozen little monster beans helping her out, the shooting went well. Deeny's acting would be the key to the video. Thankfully, she had done her homework, so her acting was decent.
Su Yang edited the footage together, then added subtitles and effects. He had to do extra work since there were other little monsters making their appearance.
The effects were added to give the little monsters a grand entrance, and at the same time, cover their tracks. If some professional creators noticed the video and realized that it did not have any effects, it would lead to more misunderstanding, and ultimately, problems.
After Su Yang completed the video, he sent the file to Deeny and told her to post it that night.
Deeny also updated him about the number of views and likes the previous video received. The first video rose in popularity, and it had received more than 500,000 likes and more than 3 million views.
That video alone brought Deeny more or less 100,000 new fans. Su Yang was a little shocked by the numbers. He did not realize that a single TikTok video could spread so wide.
However, it was good news as it proved that his way of bringing in the newer members of the 'Monster Family' with traffic was workable.
'Next, the second video with the milk tea shop. Let's see how it does this time…'
Su Yang stopped by Pool's milk tea shop on the way back. After the weekend and the initial discovery hype, the milk tea shop's popularity started to cool down.
The sales dropped from 500 cups per weekend to 100 cups a day.
Su Yang believed that if this second video received good feedback, Pool's milk tea shop would see a surge of customers again, and the income would surely multiply, hence contributing to his Silver Mission!
On the next morning, which was a Thursday, Su Yang only had one class in the morning: Old Zhou's Modern History Essentials.
A quick thought later, he decided to go to class since everything was on track at the moment.
Wang Dong, Chen Xiaoyun, and Liu Xin were taking care of the part-time job apps under the new Qidian E-Commerce whereas Liu Zi Jun was in charge of "Find Me".
Pool was taking care of the milk tea shop, and Deeny was taking care of the video part.
As the owner of everything, Su Yang could finally catch a breath of relief.
He arrived at the lecture hall and took Deeny out. He opened her and put her on the table, scrolling Weibo as he waited for the class to start.
He was not exactly interested in Weibo now, but "Find Me"'s future goal was to replace Weibo, so he must understand his competitor well enough.
A few scrolls later, he noticed someone sit down beside him. He turned around and saw Li Runze, Mr. Smart Guy. He greeted, "Oh! What a coincidence!"
Li Runze still seemed frigid. "It's not a coincidence. This is your lecture, and the reason I am in your class is to talk to you."
"Huh? Talk to me? What can I do for you?" Su Yang was confused.
Li Runze did not answer. When he noticed Deeny in Su Yang's hands, his eyes started to shine. "What brand of tablet are you using?"
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Chapter 194: Try Everything Milk Tea Has Gone Viral!
Before Su Yang could say anything, Li Runze said, "It's so slim! Is it even 3 mm thick? Where's the battery? What about the camera? Is the touch screen adaptive?"
Su Yang held Deeny tightly in his hand, feeling nervous. 'Uh…what should I say?'
If it had been Qu Xiaomeng or Qu Xuan, Su Yang would have been confident enough to bluff his way through. He could even escape unscathed from Chu Xia because he could make her believe such technology existed.
However, the person who asked the questions was none other than Li Runze, Mr. Smart Guy.
'He's not someone who will fall for my bluff…If I'm not careful, he will notice something and he will surely fire a barrage of questions to shatter my lies…I'll be in deep sh*t then…'
Although Su Yang did not answer, Li Runze did not say a word either. However, the atmosphere suddenly turned awkward.
After being tortured by the awkwardness for a while, Su Yang conceded. He tried his best to rearrange his words and said, "A friend gave it to me to test. It's his company's prototype. I don't know anything about it either."
Li Runze said, "Can you give me your friend's contact? I want to find out more. If I can get an internship there, that will be great."
A little pause later, he continued, "I have a feeling that your friend's company is working with state-of-the-art technology and it might be ahead of the current technology level by 30 years."
What else could Su Yang say? He blinked and said awkwardly, "Okay, I'll talk to him."
Li Runze nodded. "Thanks."
Su Yang heaved a sigh of relief. He quickly put Deeny back into his pocket.
'Geez, Li Runze really makes me nervous. He might have already seen through something at first glance.
'Speaking of which, Deeny might be a phone with human-level intellect but she's still physically a phone. If she's torn apart and studied, some of the super-advanced technology that isn't part of her mind might be replicated. Then, the world might really see a 30-year boost in the smartphone industry.'
However, the thought of tearing Deeny apart pulled Su Yang back to reality.
'No way! She's my cutest pet! I'll never let anyone tear her apart!'
At the thought of it, Li Runze took his phone out and showed Su Yang something. "Have a look at this."
Curious, Su Yang took the phone and saw a familiar video playing: it was the new 'Monster Family' video that Deeny posted last night.
'Huh? Is the video that popular? It's not even 24 hours, and even Li Runze has noticed it? But…what is he trying to do by showing me this?'
Su Yang looked at Li Runze who said with a blank look, "Do you want to grab a cup of milk tea in the afternoon?"
'What the heck? Why does that sound so strange? Two guys drinking milk tea together? Shouldn't guys drink Coke or Redbull instead of milk tea?!'
Su Yang shook his head. "Sorry, I'll have to take a raincheck. My treat next time."
Li Runze nodded.
Su Yang then curiously asked, "Are you on TikTok?"
Li Runze nodded. "Sometimes. Just to relax."
'Wow, Even Mr. Smart Guy feels tired at times?'
Su Yang believed that Li Runze really concealed himself well. He looked like some arrogant straight-A student from the outside, but on the inside, he spent his time on Tiktok and BiliBili.
Su Yang would not be surprised if he met Li Runze in Mobile Legend one day.
'He might be Mr. Smart Guy on the outside, but he's an otaku inside!'
The two of them chatted for a while before Li Runze looked at the time and decided to leave. Before he left, he even reminded Su Yang to ask his friend about the company internship and the next milk tea 'date'.
'Geez. He's really a simple guy. I simply said take a raincheck and he thought it was a promise…'
Fortunately, Su Yang found such a guy interesting. At least, Li Runze was simple and honest.
A while later, class started with the bell and Old Zhou stepping into the lecture hall.
Old Zhou had combed his hair forward today, covering half of his bald head. He was also wearing a fitting suit that made him look fashionable.
Su Yang looked at his own T-shirt and short pants. He somehow felt sad about his outfit.
'I look like a 40-year-old man more than Old Zhou does!'
Old Zhou delivered the lecture animatedly today. As he spoke, he wrote all the notes on the board and looked extra energetic when he moved. He looked like someone who had just experienced something happy.
During the break, Old Zhou took a sip of water from his Thermos flask and saw Su Yang when he looked up. He said, "Su Yang, did you bring your book today?"
Su Yang was shocked. 'Sh*t! He remembered?'
He said nervously, "Yes, sir."
"Let me have a look," said Old Zhou.
'What? Must you be so strict, Old Zhou?!'
Even though Su Yang knew being strict was one of the ways the lecturer cared for his student, he did not like it at all.
"Okay, Mr. Zhou," said Su Yang. He took his phone out and quickly typed a message to Deeny: [Deeny! Transfer the book out!]
Right after he pressed send, the camera fired out a green beam and the Modern History Essentials of Huaxia, which was the [Negative Condition Book] in cover, appeared on the table.
'This will have to do for now.'
He walked to the podium with the book in his hand.
Old Zhou nodded when he saw the book in Su Yang's hand. "Not bad. You finally remembered to bring your textbook."
Su Yang smiled. "Of course, sir, I bear your words in my heart."
Old Zhou accepted the flattery honorably. He smiled and drank some water before he said, "Show it to me. I want to see the notes that you've taken."
'What? What's there to see?! This is the Negative Condition Book, sir! Are you sure you want to see it!?'
Su Yang did not hand the book over as he said, "Mr. Zhou, but I didn't write the notes down in the textbook.'
"Oh? Okay, fine. Just pay attention in class," said Old Zhou. He had just smoothly avoided being sick without even knowing it.
Su Yang heaved a sigh of relief after he went back to his seat. 'Phew! That was close.'
At the thought of that, a familiar voice sounded in his ears, "Mr. President, are you free this afternoon?"
Su Yang looked up and turned around to the origin of the voice. His eyes were almost blinded by the bright presence of…Qu Xuan.
As though he had installed some man-made sun on himself, the brightness made him look handsome at all times. "If you are free, do you want to have a cup of milk tea together?"
'What? What is wrong with people today? Why is everyone asking me out for milk tea?!'
Qu Xuan said, "There's a milk tea shop named 'Try Everything' outside the east gate of the campus. It went viral online and gained overnight popularity, so a lot of people are queuing up for a cup.
"There's also a saying that has been circulating around lately: if you aren't queueing up for 'Try Everything Milk Tea' together, you aren't my friend. So…I want to invite you to go together."
Su Yang said, "No, thank you. I don't like milk tea."
Qu Xuan shrugged. "Okay, I don't like milk tea either." He then whispered, "But I feel like I don't have friends since I can't get anyone to go line up with me."
'Now, I see what's happening.'
At the thought of it, Qu Xuan simply grabbed the [Negative Condition Book] that Su Yang had placed on his table, "Oh, you guys are studying this too? Isn't it boring?"
Su Yang tried to stop him. "No! Don't open it!"
However, he was too late. Right after Qu Xuan uttered the first word, the book was already opened. Qu Xuan looked at Su Yang with a confused look. "What's wrong?"
'Oh, whatever!'
Su Yang awkwardly smiled. "N-nothing. It's a new book, so I haven't written anything about it. It's a little embarrassing."
'Since you've already opened it, there's no saving you anymore.'
Qu Xuan nodded with a grunt. He flipped through the book, closed it, and put it back on the table, "Okay, Mr. President. I'll be leaving now. There's still training today, Sigh. It's so troublesome."
Su Yang smiled, "You will be free from the trouble very soon."
Qu Xuan shot him a confused look.
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Chapter 195: Mr. President, I Want To Drink Milk Tea!
After Qu Xuan left, Su Yang kept the [Negative Condition Book] away into the table drawer.
'Spreading sickness with a single flip…This thing is scary.'
'Besides, I have so many friends around me. What if they get the book and open it? I won't be able to stop them in time. I don't care about Qu Xuan, but if Chu Xia gets the book…She might really fall ill with that slim body of hers.'
Su Yang was not overly worried about Qu Xuan though because he realized he could not do anything either.
Sanque was working in the milk tea shop and he himself had run out of ginseng roots.
Fortunately, the sickness from the book were all mild conditions, and Qu Xuan, as an athlete, should be able to get through it.
Despite thinking so, Su Yang still texted Qu Xuan on the way back from the campus.
[I heard you were sick.]
Qu Xuan replied right away: [Did you hear it from my sis? I'm fine. I'm just having diarrhea. Maybe it's something that I ate, but it's totally okay because I don't have to attend training. I had some pills already, I'm feeling better.]
Su Yang heaved a sigh of relief.
'But…why did he assume Qu Xiaomeng told me about his condition? I'm not that close with her either.'
On the way back, Su Yang took a detour to the milk tea shop. He realized that the business was great, explosive, in fact. The line was longer than last weekend and people were still coming. On top of that, most of them were queuing with their friends, either in pairs or groups, chatting with each other happily.
Some of them even took pictures and video, probably to check in on the spot. After all, TikTok-worthy shops were a trend nowadays.
Pool attentively served every customer that walked in and he smiled so brightly that his eyes curved up into two thin lines.
Since the milk teas served in "Try Everything" were ready-made, Pool just had to bring the cups to the customer, and serving was quick. The line outside might be long, but the customers barely waited.
Quick serving time was one of the reasons the milk tea shop was so well-received.
Su Yang did not disturb Pool, and he jogged all the way home.
Back home, after he jumped into the virtual space, he saw Deeny kneeling on the couch, typing on the holographic panel with an excited expression.
Curious, Su Yang asked, "What are you doing?"
Deeny shot a glance at Su Yang and returned to her typing. "Master, I'm posting something on 'Find Me' and the part-time app."
Su Yang was more confused than ever. "What post?"
Deeny happily explained, "I'm posting the advertisement. The 'Monster Family' trailer with Pool was well-received. That's why he has a long line outside his shop today, but some were scared away by the long line, so I posted a tagline as an advertisement: You either queue up with me to 'Try Everything', or you aren't my true friend!"
"How is it, Master? It's great, isn't it? I've posted it on the campus forum and the part-time app's front page and pinned it at the top. Pool's shop is even more popular than ever."
'Hoho, so you are the one behind all this. My goodness. But why does all this feel so familiar?'
At the thought of it, the notification ringtone chimed throughout the villa. It was from WeChat and Su Yang received two messages at once. He summoned a panel and realized that the messages were from Li Xianhe and Xu Kuncai, the strange duo.
He tapped on Xu Kuncai's message.
[My idol! There's a popular milk tea shop outside the campus east gate, do you want to get in line with me? We can sing along the road after getting a cup!]
Su Yang replied: [No, thank you.]
He then tapped on Li Xianhe's message. [Hi, Su Yang, my friend. I heard there is a popular milk tea shop around your campus. Do you want to grab some together?]
Su Yang was speechless after reading both the messages.
'You two are really fated to be together.'
Su Yang held back his urge to prank them by calling them out and lining them all up together.
However, he simply replied: [Sorry. I'm busy.]
He had 'befriended' the two of them because he did not have a choice before this, but now, he decided to take the wiser choice, or at least, to him.
Su Yang realized that a lot of people were asking him out for milk tea, so after a quick thought, he posted a status on his Friend Circle.
[Stop asking me out for milk tea. I'm not interested.]
A moment later, he received a comment from Chu Xia on his post. [Mr. President, I want to have milk tea with you!]
'Geez, this girl is really vexing at times!'
Su Yang replied with a smiley emoji, the same one that looked helpless and plain.
[Dream on.]
After posting the comment, Su Yang somehow branded his little matter into his mind for whatever reason. Then, he gave Li Zijun a call and talked to her about the promotion for "Find Me".
Li Zijun said she rode on the hype created by Han Yi's post a few days ago and flew to Beijing to find more contacts. She was trying her best to contact celebrities on different levels. Since she had some existing connections to the entertainment industry, she already managed to get in touch with a dozen of them.
She was also planning a 100-day event for the app. "Find Me" would welcome a new celebrity every day, and the celebrity would have to record a celebratory video for the app.
Both the celebrity and "Find Me" would then work together on a mutual promotion plan. If the event was successful, "Find Me" would see at least three months of stable popularity and the downloads might reach 5 million.
After all, once the exposure reached a certain level, the download rate would certainly surge. That would be the function of the advertisement.
Su Yang agreed and put her in charge of the whole project. After all, she managed to siphon attention from Han Yi's posting from two days ago to "Find Me", and she had blessed the app with a huge amount of traffic.
He believed Li Zijun. With her capabilities, she would get it done.
After talking to Li Zijun, he decided to write the script for the third and last trailer of the 'Monster Family' Series.
This time, the subject would be Little Hus and Little Lady Knife, and the story would be about them in the house. Unlike the previous trailers, Su Yang would be the person in the video, or more specifically, Iron Man.
The decision to star in the third trailer was to prevent Deeny from delaying the video.
Strike the iron while it was hot! After the third trailer, Su Yang decided to officially start with the first episode. He believed that with the three trailers garnering attention, 'Monster Family' would surely receive an explosive reception.
On the second day after a quiet night, Su Yang headed to class after breakfast.
On the way to campus, he suddenly remembered that Chu Xia wanted to try the milk tea, and for whatever reason, he put some serious consideration into the thought.
'Should I buy her a cup? She did ask for it after all…'
Before his mind could come up with a decision, his body automatically took a detour to "Try Everything".
It was still early at "Try Everything", so the line was shorter than usual. Su Yang went to the back of the line and waited for his turn.
Pool was shocked when he saw Su Yang queuing up to buy the milk tea. "Lord Su Yang?!"
Somehow, Su Yang felt embarrassed. He said, "I want two cups."
"What flavor do you want?" asked Pool.
"Anything is fine…Uh…Something a girl would like," Su Yang said after a slight pause.
Pool's smile was as bright as ever. 10 seconds later, two cups of ready-to-go milk tea were delivered to Su Yang.
Su Yang took Deeny out and scanned the QR code to pay, but Pool said, "You don't need to pay."
Su Yang waved his hand and said, "It's fine. I'm buying it for someone else."
He paid via Alipay and brought the milk tea to campus.
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Chapter 196: Special Item: Brick That Doesn't Follow Orders
Su Yang arrived at the lecture hall with the milk tea.
Chu Xia, the role model of all students, was already in the lecture hall. She was sitting beside the window, writing and drawing in her notebook.
Su Yang walked over and placed a cup of milk tea on her table. Chu Xia looked up and saw him. Slightly shocked, she said in a soft voice, "You…bought this for me?"
Su Yang rolled his eyes at her. "What else? Should I rob the shop instead?"
Even though he replied in a lousy tone, Chu Xia giggled and said sweetly, "Thank you, Mr. President!"
Su Yang waved at her. "It's nothing."
As Chu Xia smiled brightly at his tsundere side, her eyes curled into two thin lines and she said, "Mr. President, I thought you don't like people asking you out for milk tea."
Su Yang looked at her. He felt like the girl was poking his weak spots. He rolled his eyes at her again and said, "Yes, I don't want others asking me out for milk tea but…you are different."
Chu Xia's heart skipped a beat when she heard his words, and her fair cheeks instantly flushed, making her look even more charming. "I-Is that so?"
Su Yang said, "Yeah. You are rich anyway, so you should be able to afford supplements. Drink more milk tea. It will help you grow…"
He took a big turn just to make fun of Chu Xia, but she did not even know what he was talking about at first. She was stunned on the spot for more than 10 seconds before she finally realized she was being ridiculed.
However, Su Yang had already escaped the lecture hall. Chu Xia stomped her feet angrily and chased after him. "Su Yang! Don't you dare run from me!"
Anyway, one's youth should always be filled with fun and laughter.
Su Yang had the fewest classes on Friday. He quickly returned home after the last class because he had something important to do: exchange for Random Points from the system shop!
In the past week, he managed to accumulate up to 1,531 Point Coins.
'That's worth three Random Points! And I can buy them all!'
If Su Yang wanted to be stupid, he could also buy 15 [Protection Charms, but of course, he was still sane, so he spent all the Point Coins on Random Points. With that, he emptied the Random Points for the week.
'This is the first time I've felt this way! This feels…great! I emptied the Random Points! Hahaha! I'm awesome!'
The Point Coins that he had earned in the past week were just for a few seconds of pleasure.
After buying Random Points, Su Yang started to think about what to add.
'The brick is useful. I must add a second point to it. Out of all the little monsters, only Pool didn't get the second point, so one point for him. As for one more point left…I should save it for a rainy day. Great! It's all done, everything is settled, which is faster than I thought…'
Pool was working, so Su Yang decided to add the point to the brick first.
He went to his bedroom and took the lucky brick out from the drawer beside his bed. The brick had followed him for three months and done him countless meritorious deeds.
Since he had used the brick recently, the glow on it had faded and it looked no different than a normal brick.
If he threw the brick into a construction site, he might never find it again, but he would never throw it away because it was one of his treasures.
Su Yang took the leftover [Protection Charm] and wrapped it around the brick. The charm then slowly faded and fused into the brick. Two seconds later, the brick glowed red and somehow matched its maroon color.
After sticking the charm on it, Su Yang called up the system and everything in the room had a translucent ] above them.
Su Yang tapped on the ] on the brick, and a window popped up right away.
[Add a second point? Second point-addition will have an increased rate of failure. If you fail, the item will be destroyed.]
Su Yang tapped [Yes.].
The brick in his hand shone brightly and it started to emit a cracking noise as if it was breaking to pieces. As the cracks grew louder, the brick transformed into a ball of light and floated up from Su Yang's hand.
Su Yang had never added a second point to a special item, so his eyes were glued to the ball of light in the air and his heart was pounding.
'Is it going to be fine? What will it become?'
A while later, after the transformation ended, and the brick fell back onto Su Yang's hand, almost breaking his wrist.
The brick did not look any different as though it was still a normal brick from the street.
If the brick were a living being, Su Yang would have believed the brick would be the most handsome of its kind because even after adding a second point to it, the brick did not change physically. It was a sign of having confidence in its looks.
'If this isn't confidence, I don't know what is…Hehe.'
Su Yang waited patiently for the brick's new description to pop up. A while later, a new description window popped up.
[Brick 2: New special ability acquired. No conflict detected. New ability can coexist. Appraise?]
Su Yang got something useful from this particular notification.
Firstly, it was possible for the special item to acquire a second special ability with the second point.
Secondly, the new ability might be conflicted with the existing ability and might not coexist if the abilities countered each other.
Su Yang taped on [Appraise, and two seconds later, a new window popped up,
[Brick That Doesn't Follow Orders]
[Ability: Announce the part that you want to hit and throw the brick. You will hit the target but not the part you mentioned.]
[Limit 1: Target must be within 100 meters and visible.]
[Limit 2: No matter which part you hit, you cannot harm or kill the target.]
[Remark: Pointing is also an art.]
'What? Is this brick for real? But why do I feel like this brick's new ability suits me? Why? I'm a straight and honest person!'
With that in mind, Su Yang tossed the brick and tested its weight. It felt just nice. He put the brick back to the drawer and went downstairs.
It was then that Pool and Sanque came back from the milk tea shop.
Su Yang smiled and said, "Another busy day, I see." He added, "Pool, I've got another Random Point, so I can give you your second point tonight."
Pool did not answer.
Su Yang noticed the heavy expression on everyone's face. It seemed like they had run into some problems today. He asked, "What's wrong?"
Pool bitterly smiled and said, "Lord Su Yang, before we closed shop today, the landlord came to us."
"What for?"
Pool looked helpless. "He saw the video on TikTok and went to check on us for a whole day. He said our business is great, so he wants to increase the rent."
"Increase the rent?" Su Yang unconsciously raised his volume. "We've only been operating for half a month and the landlord wants to raise the rent? Is he out of his mind?"
Pool put his hands out and shrugged, "We thought so ourselves, but the landlord said that if we don't agree to the increased rent, he will report you for hiring child labor and me for not having a health certificate."
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Chapter 197: A Way To Test The Little Monsters' Health
The problem with the milk tea shop gave Su Yang a headache. Pool remained an unregistered citizen and did not have a health certificate while his youthful appearance really looked like he was underaged.
If the landlord really lodged a report, the milk tea shop might be forced to shut down.
If it had been a normal milk tea shop, Su Yang would not have minded because he could simply solve the problem by hiring someone to take care of the place, but "Try Everything" was not a normal milk tea shop.
In order to cut costs, the little monsters ran the shop by themselves and they got the milk tea from the [Master Sommelier Faucet, so no outsiders were allowed in the back.
Pool and Sanque noticed the gloomy looked on Su Yang's face. They exchanged a gaze before they sighed and kept quiet. The living room suddenly plunged into silence.
A long while later, Su Yang said, "I'll go talk to the landlord tomorrow and find out what he wants. If his demands aren't too harsh, I can bluff him with my [Verbal Canon] ability, so it shouldn't be a problem.
"As for your registration and ID card, I think I'll have to move them up the schedule. After you get the IDs and stuff, you will need to go perform a health inspection for the health certificate."
"Lord Su Yang, I'm not human. Will I even get through the health inspection?" Pool replied in a worried tone.
Pool's words caught Su Yang by surprise. He never really thought about the problem because Pool looked so human and he assumed that Pool was a real human from the start.
'Now that he's mentioned it, that might happen…'
With that in mind, Su Yang said, "Okay, why don't you give me a vial of your blood? I'll ask a friend to test it first."
He then told Deeny, "Deeny, I need you and the others to give me a vial of your blood too. I'll send them for testing together so that I can have a reference."
"Okay, Master," said Deeny.
As for the blood drawing tools, they had the sticky notes which had become the almighty tool in the house.
No wok for cooking? Sticky note.
No oven for egg tart? Sticky note.
Want to watch a 3D movie? Sticky note.
The sticky notes were able to solve almost everything.
Soon, several vials of blood were placed before Su Yang. Deeny attentively labeled them one by one: Su Ci, Su Di, Su Ji, and Janet.
'Janet? What the hell?'
Su Yang looked at Deeny who stuck her tongue out awkwardly. "Little Hus doesn't have blood, so he told his wife to take his place."
"Nonsense! They haven't even started dating and that doggy b*stard is calling that shark his wife? Did he ask my permission as a parent? Does that shark want to swim into my house without my permission? NO WAY!"
Deeny was speechless. 'Master, I think you are missing the point here…'
Su Yang sent a message to Li Runze: [Do you know any reliable friends from the Faculty of Medical Science?]
Li Runze answered: [No.]
'Okay…simple and easy.'
Su Yang then asked around in his chat group filled with straight-A students, and surprisingly, no one had any connections to the Faculty of Medical Science.
'Hmm. Strange, aren't there any straight-A students from that faculty? What now? Do I have to catch the students from the Faculty of Medical Science and question them one by one to find out who is a straight-A student?'
With no options left, Su Yang posted on his Friend Circle: [Does anyone have any connections to the Faculty of Medical Science?]
Biology and chemistry students could actually test the blood, but he believed that the students from the medical science could do a better job.
After all, medical science students studied the human body, and even if they found out the blood was not from humans, Su Yang could simply brush them off by saying the blood belonged to his dog or whatever.
However, students from biology might start to research what kind of blood they were testing.
A while later, a surprising person commented on Su Yang's status: [Mr. Su Yang, I'm a student from the Faculty of Medical Science.]
The person who commented was none other than Li Xianhe.
Su Yang was shocked.
'What? He's studying medical science?!'
Su Yang was stunned for quite a while before he remembered Li Xianhe had told him that he was from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
The Faculty of Medical Science of Shanghai Jiaotong University was near Shanghai University, and Li Xianhe had come to Su Yang's campus because of the campus singing competition, which had been co-hosted by Shanghai University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and East China University of Science and Technology.
'Now, I see.' Although Su Yang learned what Li Xianhe's major was, he felt strange.
'A bearded 190 cm tall hunk that looks like a mobster studies medical science…Hmm, I guess it's acceptable after knowing his true nature off-stage. He is the embodiment of conflict after all. *And he even signed a recording company and is preparing for his major debut? Unimaginable…*Anyhow, since I have someone that I know, things will be easier.'
Su Yang replied: [Mr. Li, do you have any friends that can run tests?]
[What tests?]
Su Yang answered: [Blood tests and all sorts of stuff.]
Li Xianhe typed: [Oh, I see. Normal blood tests? But our faculty doesn't have the machine.]
'Hmm? Machine?' Su Yang's eyes gleamed.
[Machine? Do you mean the test is fully automated and the machine will show the results directly?]
After a while Li Xianhe's reply came in: [Yes, it's fully automated. The machine is called a fully-automated flow cytometry machine a.k.a. a blood analyzer.]
As though Su Yang hit the jackpot, he replied happily: [THANKS!]
After he got the name of the machine, Su Yang told Deeny to do some research about the machine and how to use it. He also told her to research other health equipment and see what their names were and how to use them.
Su Yang decided to run the blood test at home!
Even if he passed the blood to someone that he trusted for testing outside, it was not safe. He would have to do it himself to prevent leaking his secret.
As long as Pool's vitals were similar to a human being, the health certificate should not be a problem, and after Su Yang fixed Pool's registration, everything would be fine.
Su Yang temporarily discarded the worries about the health certificate. He walked to the swimming pool and saw Pool sitting beside it with his legs soaking in the water. Janet was swimming in the water, but she did not seem to attack him.
Pool was not worried either. He gazed into the void and was spacing out.
Su Yang walked over and sat down like Pool. Just when he decided to put his legs in the water, he hesitated because he thought that he should not waste Sanque's arm like this, so he sat with his legs crossed.
Janet stared at him for a while before swimming away.
There were many other aquatic creatures in the swimming pool since Su Yang's last visit. There were seahorses, squids, corals, and sea turtles but no fishes.
'Maybe Janet ate all the fishes.'
Su Yang looked at Pool. "Still worrying?"
Pool squeezed a smile on his face, "Yes, Lord Su Yang."
Su Yang said, "It's going to be fine. I'll deal with it. Take it easy." He tapped Pool's shoulder and added, "We are entrepreneurs, so it's normal for us to go through a roller coaster ride as we will run into problems."
Pool nodded. "But I have never run into problems before."
Su Yang smiled. It was normal for Pool not to have run into problems before this because he was practically only a month plus old.
Su Yang said, "Stop overthinking. Even if the sky falls down, I'll be there to help. I'm the biggest shareholder after all."
Pool then showed him a sincere smile because what Su Yang said was the truth.
After that, Su Yang said, "Come on. I'll add a second point to you. Everyone else has already got their second point. You are the only one left."
Pool nodded and finally cheered up.
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Chapter 198: Special Ability: The Playful Swimming Pool
Su Yang opened the system shop and saw the Point Coins at the upper left corner of the window increasing. He only had 31 Point Coins left in the afternoon after spending on the Random Points, and after a few hours, he had already accumulated 99 Point Coins.
Su Yang looked at Pool while waiting for the last Point Coins to fill up while Pool looked back at him with a confused gaze.
Five seconds later, the number of Point Coins increased to 100.
Su Yang bought a [Protection Charm] without a second thought, emptying his Point Coins with the purchase, and the number of [Protection Charms] decreased by one, so only 20 were left.
Su Yang held the charm in hand and said to Pool, "Okay, here we go."
Pool nodded. He then jumped into the swimming pool and disappeared into the water. The seahorses, squid, and even Janet did not seem to notice the splash as they were still swimming around mindlessly.
After Pool merged with the water, Su Yang stuck the [Protection Charm] to the side of the swimming pool.
When the charm disappeared and fused with the water, the swimming pool glowed in an auspicious red.
It was not Su Yang's first time, and he was quite familiar with the process, to be honest. Without being surprised, he opened the system and everything in the swimming pool had a translucent ] sign above them, including Janet, the seahorse family, and the squid.
Janet's ] sign was as big as a basketball, and it was moving along as she swam.
Su Yang looked at the swimming pool and tapped on the translucent ] sign at the corner. The water in the swimming pool shone brightly, and every aquatic creature in the water, including the water itself, stopped as if time was frozen.
A dazzling shine blanketed the surface of the water.
The swimming pool got brighter and brighter, becoming blinding in fact. Su Yang had to look away and covered his eyes with his hand.
After more than 10 seconds, when Su Yang felt the blinding light had faded, he slowly opened his eyes.
The swimming pool became bigger and deeper but…the aquatic creatures were all gone.
'Sh*t! Where are Janet and the seahorse family? Will Little Hus kill me?'
At the thought of that, a young man who was 175 cm tall appeared above the water in a flash. He appeared in traditional Chinese attire with a jade-buckled belt around his waist. He resembled a gentleman of the olden days, except for his thin long eyes, which did not suit his proud and prestigious bearing.
He put his hands together and bowed at Su Yang. "Lord Su Yang."
Surprised, Su Yang said, "Pool?"
Pool nodded. "Yes."
Su Yang's jaw fell on the floor. "Did you…grow up?"
Pool scratched his head and all of a sudden, his body reverted back to his teenage appearance. He said gently, "I think I've gotten a second form.
'A second form? Like Sanque?'
Su Yang was confused by this 'second form'. It was then that a description window popped up from Pool.
[Swimming Pool 2: Life Evolution happened again. Special ability acquired.]
'Huh? Life Evolution again? And Pool got a new special ability?'
Su Yang suddenly felt extremely jealous. He was as jealous as a cat.
Gru had gotten two points but not even a special ability, so it could not even talk. Little Hus got two points and all it did to him was increase its size.
However, not only did Pool get Life Evolution on his first point, but he even got a special ability, and with his second point, Life Evolution happened again and he got yet another special ability.
It was like someone who had bought lottery tickets for many years but could not even win a consolation prize whereas Pool won the jackpot the first time, and bought a ticket for a second time because he could not believe his luck and still won the second jackpot.
'Bullsh*t! This is total crap! Pool is the protagonist of this novel!'
With that thought in mind, Su Yang tapped on the special ability.
[Special ability: The Playful Swimming Pool]
[Ability: The swimming pool can be divided into 11 parts to keep all kinds of aquatic creatures on this earth. The environment in the separate spaces will change to match the creatures living inside.]
[Remark: Mommy no longer has to worry about me living with a shark—baby seahorse.]
'This ability doesn't make sense…Why would I keep aquatic creatures in the swimming pool?'
Su Yang looked at Pool. "Where are Janet and the others?"
Pool swung his hand at the wall and 10 doors appeared on it. The first six doors had different icons on them, which were a shark, a seahorse, a sand-burrowing crab, a squid, a coral, and a turtle respectively.
'One door for every creature.'
Su Yang opened the first one and saw a room exactly like the swimming pool. Even the decorations were the same. He turned around to face the original swimming pool and found himself standing in the center of a symmetrical space. It felt strange.
He walked in and realized that even though everything looked the same, the swimming pool was different.
In room No. 1, the swimming pool had turned into a bottomless sea with no borders in sight as if the entire room was built on the sea. Janet was swimming freely like the apex predator of the sea.
Su Yang walked out of the first room and went into the second.
The second room looked exactly the same, but instead of a bottomless sea, the swimming pool became a beach with shallow waters where the sand-burrowing crabs were crawling around freely.
'The swimming pools really change for the different creatures.'
Su Yang did not check on the other swimming pools. He returned to the original swimming pool and saw at Pool in his teenage form. He asked, "How long can you maintain your adult form?"
A quick thought later, Pool said, "A full day should be okay."
Su Yang nodded. "Then, I think you can go to work in that form. At least, you won't make it look like child labor."
Pool gently said, "Very well, Lord Su Yang."
Su Yang was in deep thoughts as he sized Pool up.
'If Pool can transform, he can at least look like an adult. All that's left is to wait for Deeny to learn all the machine operations and test everyone's blood. If they are similar to human's vitals, they can pass the health check and Pool can register himself as a real citizen of the country.'
It did not take Deeny long to finish learning. On the afternoon of the next day, she went to Su Yang and told him that all the machines transformed by the sticky notes were ready to be used.
The health checkup consisted of a blood test, a urine test, and a simple X-ray.
Deeny was in charge of everything, and after Pool and Sanque came back from work, every little monster went through the health checkup.
The test results surprised Su Yang though. Deeny and Pool were basically similar to humans except for one thing…
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Chapter 199: Problems About The Milk Tea Shop Comes One After Another
Since the little monsters never ate or drank, they did not have excrement. They would never get through the urine or feces test.
When Deeny told Su Yang about the test results with a blushing face, it reminded him of the comments he saw on TikTok, one of which was [I can't imagine a cute girl like you going to the toilet. It breaks my heart.]
'Great. You people might want to know that your cute little Deeny really doesn't need to go to the toilet.'
Other than Deeny and Pool, the other little monsters also went through the health checkup but their vitals were drastically different from normal humans.
Little Hus did not even have blood, let alone excrement. When he went through the X-ray machine, the machine did not even detect anything from his body. He was the first one to be disqualified.
Sanque and Gru were more or less the same. Their bodies were basically plants, so they were not even close to an animal.
Even Little Lady Knife, who gained a humanoid body with the second point, shared no similarities with a human body. The X-ray result showed that the blades that she had as limbs were actually connected to her bones. Aside from that, the blood test results were drastically different from that of a human being's either.
Su Yang did not know what caused her vitals to be this different. Maybe it was because of her Life Evolution or something else entirely.
After the tests, he heaved a sigh of relief because Pool should be able to get his health certificate.
'What about the urine and feces test? I guess I'll have to step in! The health checkup isn't all that strict either. No one will wait in front of the toilet anyway! If he can pass the X-ray and the blood test, it should be fine.'
With that in mind, Su Yang gave his father a call and said that he had a friend who was an unregistered citizen, so he wanted his father to ask around the village to see whether he could be registered in their village.
His father asked with a slightly worried tone, "Is your friend…clean? I mean it's safe, right?"
Su Yang smiled and said, "Don't worry, Dad. He lost his family when he's young and has been begging in the city since then. He's got a job recently, so he needs the credentials. He's a nice guy."
His father remained suspicious, but he agreed to ask the village chief for help.
Su Yang knew his father well. Since his father said he would help, he would do it.
After the phone call, Pool came to Su Yang with a long face. "Lord Su Yang, the landlord came again tonight."
"Did he recognize you?" Su Yang asked.
Pool shook his head. "He's suspicious, but I said the younger one is my brother, so he let me off."
"Is it about the rent again?" asked Su Yang.
Pool nodded. "He was fiercer than the last visit. He said if we don't agree to the increased rent, he will get his lawyer to sue us!"
Su Yang frowned. "Sue us? For what?"
"He said the rent we asked for is below the market price, and he said he was deceived into signing the agreement, so it is invalid. He will seek legal help to invalidate the agreement."
Some thoughts later, Su Yang said, "Okay, I'll take care of it. I'll go talk to the landlord tomorrow."
…
The next day, Su Yang called the landlord and asked him out for a meeting. The landlord agreed. The two of them met up at a coffee shop near the campus.
Su Yang arrived at the coffee shop early and ordered a cup of coffee while waiting for the landlord.
Half an hour later, the landlord finally showed up.
The landlord was a man in his 50s who spoke in an authentic Shanghainese accent. As for whether or not he was a local Shanghainese, no one knew because most of the outsiders could speak better Shanghai dialect than the locals.
The landlord grinned when he saw Su Yang. "Su! There you are. I've been trying to get to you in the past few days, but you are a busy man."
Su Yang answered in a neutral tone, "Uncle Fang, you have my contact number. You could've just given me a call if you wanted to."
Surprised, the landlord apped his forehead and said, "Oh my goodness. I'm getting old. My brain is not functioning as well. I don't even remember I have your contact."
Su Yang smiled but did not reply to the question. He said, "Uncle Fang, we are all adults here, so let's be honest. What do you want with our shop?"
The landlord suddenly looked embarrassed. "My, my, it's not about what I want. It's about what I feel. I have a feeling that the rent you are paying is a little too low."
Su Yang took the agreement out and said, "I have the agreement here and your signature is on it. I don't think it's appropriate for you to violate the agreement like this."
The landlord replied with slight hesitance, "Su, I might have signed a black-and-white with you, but the rent is half of the current market price and I might not have been in a clear state of mind then. I think the law allows us to negotiate further."
Su Yang frowned. He did use the [Elementary Verbal Canon] to persuade the landlord during the initial negotiation and the landlord had fallen for it, thus the 10% discount on the rent. However, the claims about the current rent being half of the current market price or the landlord not being in a clear state of mind was pure nonsense.
'I remember that the landlord almost knelt down and worshipped me as God! If I hadn't stopped him then, he might have been my lackey now!'
Su Yang tapped his fingers on the arm of the couch. A while later, he asked, "Uncle Fang, how much rent are you asking for now?"
The landlord smiled. "I'm not asking for much. Just the market price will be fine. I'm currently taking 6,000 yuan per month from you, so if you can pay up to 12,000 per month, we will be good."
"12K?! Are you out of your mind, Uncle Fang? Is your spot worth that much? Are you kidding me?" Su Yang was shocked.
The landlord grinned. "Of course. My location is right outside the east gate, so it packs a ton of commercial value!"
"Besides…the feng shui there is good for business," whispered the landlord, "You guys have moved in for two weeks and your business has skyrocketed! It's an auspicious spot! Am I right?"
'Auspicious, my a*s! I did all the advertising myself!'
The landlord leaned back on the couch since Su Yang was not moved by his words. He said with a bland tone, "There are many other milk tea shops eyeing my location, and they are willing to pay triple the price. Please don't get it wrong."
Su Yang's heart was filled with disgust when he saw the landlord's face. 'This kind of blood-sucking landlord that preys on common citizens and small businesses is the worst kind! When business is good, you raise the rent. When people get a salary increase, you raise the rent…B*stard!'
Su Yang remembered seeing a post online saying that when working in Shanghai, a third of the salary earned had to go to rent and the rise of rent would follow!
However, Su Yang's businesses were still in the growing stage. The 'Monster Family' series and the milk tea shop had only just started, and Su Yang had a ton of matters to attend to, so he did not have time to argue with the landlord.
'Fine! I'll accept the raise if it's not too bad! Just you wait, you old b*stard! In two months, I'll buy a shop there and you will cry in your 'auspicious' shop!'
Su Yang activated the [Verbal Canon] and started negotiating.
In the end, his silver tongue managed to lower the landlord's 12,000 yuan to only 8,000 yuan, which was a 2,000 yuan increment to the previous 6,000 yuan rent.
Su Yang realized that one's will was the determining factor of [Verbal Canon]. He was able to persuade the landlord to give a 10% discount the last time, but this time around, even after he activated [Intermediate Verbal Canon] and negotiated for two minutes, he could barely move the landlord.
The landlord fixed the rent at 8,000 yuan and showed no signs of compromising.
'Fine! 8,000 it is!' Su Yang accepted his fate.
After they signed an additional agreement, Su Yang stormed out of the coffee shop. He was fed up with the landlord's disgusting smirk.
Su Yang was still grumpy after he went home. It was then that he received a call from Wang Dong. "Mr. Su, Junqing is pressuring me to arrange a meeting with you. I can barely hold them off for any longer."
"Why can't you? Just tell them I'm not meeting them and not negotiating about anything! We aren't even taking jobs from them anymore, so just ignore them!" Su Yang bellowed.
After he hung up the phone, he went to the bathroom for a shower to calm his grumpiness. He lost almost 10,000 over the negotiation which impacted his mood. He had the urge to break into the landlord's house at night to smash his face with the brick.
On the next day, which was a Sunday, something worse came.
At night, when Pool came back from work, he looked at Su Yang with a depressed gaze and said, "Lord Su Yang, the landlord came by again and said he wants another raise! This time, he even started to disturb our customers and sent them away. Thankfully, it was near closing time. Otherwise, we might not have been able to do business."
Su Yang frowned hard. "He did that? I thought I talked to him yesterday afternoon!"
Then, his ringtone echoed throughout the living room. Su Yang summoned the panel and noticed that the call was from the agent that had helped him register his companies.
He answered the phone and the agent said, "Mr. Su, someone from the SAMR (State Administration for Market Regulation) is dropping by tomorrow for an inspection. I got the notice today and I almost forget to inform you."
'What the f*ck? Is he calling me on a Sunday night to tell me about an inspection tomorrow morning? What is going on?! What's with the problems popping up one after another?!'
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Chapter 200: A Hint From The Inspector
Su Yang held his rage down and bellowed, "Why would the SAMR contact you first and not me? And why are you telling me this now?!"
The agent answered in a lazy tone, "Mr. Su, we don't work on the weekends, so missing out on the notice is normal. And as for why the SAMR contacted us, maybe because I wrote my information on the form instead of yours. Anyway, now that I've delivered the message, remember to attend the inspection tomorrow."
The agent then hung up the phone.
Su Yang's face was as gloomy as the dark clouds in the sky. He looked at the panel in front of him and heaved strongly.
'Calm down. Calm down. I'll do this step by step.'
Su Yang called Deeny over and started an emergency meeting with Pool and Sanque.
These three little monsters had Intermediate Intellect and could work like young adults. Now that problems had arrived at their doorstep, it was time for them to figure out something to help solve the problems.
Su Yang briefed them about the situation before he leaned back on the couch and said, "What do you guys think?"
Pool glanced and Sanque before responding, "Sanque and I are inexperienced in handling situations like this. The inspection is important to the shop, so if we cannot pass the inspection, the milk tea shop might have to close down, so…"
He looked at Su Yang. "Lord Su Yang, you might have to take my place tomorrow."
Su Yang nodded stiffly with his morose look. He hated this kind of bland and trivial jobs, but for the sake of Pool and Sanque, for the milk tea shop, and for the Silver Mission, he had to take up the responsibility that he hated. He was the only one with the health certificate after all.
"I'll take your place for the day, but what about the milk tea? The inspector will surely check on the process of making it," he said.
Pool and Sanque exchanged gazes as they could not come up with a solution alone.
After a while, Deeny said, "Master, I have knowledge in mechanical engineering as well. Why don't I design and draft an automated filling system, and we can build it using the sticky note?"
Su Yang thought for a while and said, "Workable but it won't be enough. Even if you have a fully automated filling system, the milk tea cannot come from the faucet alone. We must have storage for the milk tea."
He looked at Pool and said, "Let's work together. Deeny will design the filling system and we will go to a nearby beer factory or bar to see whether we can get our hands on some clean barrels. We will have to move the barrels to the shop tonight and fill them up with milk tea."
Pool nodded and added, "We are providing three flavors of milk tea and can sell around 400 to 700 cups a day. One cup of milk tea is 500 ml, which means we will need at least three 100 liter barrels."
Su Yang shook his head. "We don't need that many in that size. The inspection will certainly affect our business, so all we need to do is fool the inspector until the end of the inspection. If we can get a bigger barrel, we will go for the bigger barrel, probably more than 100 liters. If we can't get that, just buy the smaller ones for now."
"I understand, Lord Su Yang," said Pool.
The three of them split up and tried their best to do whatever they could to prepare for the inspection.
Su Yang and Pool almost covered the entire Baoshan District to get three clean wine barrels. The two of them moved the barrels to the shop and filled them up with the different flavors of milk tea using the faucet.
At the same time, Deeny came up with the draft for the automated filling system. Su Yang memorized the draft and brought it to life using the sticky note.
However, since it was just an initial draft, the size was smaller than expected, thus Su Yang told Deeny to readjust the measurements.
The few of them had to work until midnight to get all the preparations done.
Su Yang then went to bed with a heavy heart after everything was done.
The next morning, Su Yang woke up early, washed up, and prepared to go to work at the milk tea shop. Although he was tired, the milk tea shop usually opened early, so as the one in charge of the day, he had to wake up early to prepare.
After he arrived at the shop, Su Yang put Deeny inside the kitchen and let her take charge of everything while he stood outside to deal with the customers.
It was Su Yang's first time working as a waiter cum cashier. He finally knew how tiring it was because he had to take orders, accept payment, serve milk tea, and prepare the milk tea for takeaway. The work was tiring and repetitive, so he worked like a mindless robot.
Su Yang was impressed by how Pool had gotten by in the past few days.
'Is it because of his love for the milk tea shop?'
After working for the whole morning, the inspector from the State Administration for Market Regulation finally arrived. The inspector was a middle-aged woman with freckles on her face and she did not look friendly.
When she arrived at the entrance, she knocked on the glass window and said, "Inspector from SAMR. I'm here to inspect your shop."
Su Yang apologized to the customers and told them to come back later.
The customers sighed in disappointment because they had been waiting in line. Su Yang had to bring out some discount cards for the customers to calm them down. Each customer with the card could get a 20% off on their next purchase.
However, Su Yang giving away the discount cards to the customers slightly crossed the middle-aged woman.
After he dealt with the customers, he walked up to her. The grumpy woman complained, "I'm here for the inspection and you served your customers instead of talking to me?"
Su Yang smiled. "Business is hard nowadays."
The woman grunted coldly, "You are the person-in-charge, aren't you? I want to have a look inside the shop."
"Right this way." He opened the door and led her into the shop.
She checked the surroundings carefully and even put her hands on the counter before asking, "Where's your health certificate?"
"It's on display at the window," Su Yang said.
The woman walked over to the window and checked the health certificate. She then looked at Su Yang and nodded. She sized up the walls and the decorations before she asked, "Is there only one health certificate? What about the other employees?"
"I'm the only one working here."
She frowned. "I want to have a look inside."
Deeny had been monitoring the situation from inside the kitchen, so she already knew about the inspector's arrival through the bone conduction earphone. She already had everything prepared.
Su Yang opened the door and showed the woman how the milk teas were made.
The first thing she saw was a silver machine that was separated into three parts.
The first part had three different pipes connected to three different barrels. The second part was where the cups were loaded and sealed. The third part was a belt that delivered the sealed milk tea to the front counter.
Surprised, she asked, "What's this?"
Su Yang said with a smile, "This is our fully automated filling machine. We only sell three flavors here. When I key in the orders at the front, the pipe connected to that particular flavor will open and the cup will be filled. When the cup is full, the machine will automatically stop.
"It will then seal the cup and be delivered to the front via the belt, and a freshly sealed milk tea is ready to be served."
He even pressed a button in front and demonstrated the process to the woman. The second pipe opened and filled the cup. After the cup was filled, it was sealed with a layer of plastic before being delivered to the front.
The whole process only took less than 10 seconds, which stunned the woman.
After that awe-inspiring scene, she regained her senses and sized Su Yang up with an astonished gaze. "Not bad. It's smart."
When she walked back out to the front, Su Yang quickly closed the door to the kitchen and sent her out of the shop.
Right after the woman stepped out of the shop, she paused for a moment and said without turning around, "The safety of food and beverage is something we at the SAMR take very seriously. I think we will pay frequent visits to your shop in the future, so you'd better be prepared."
She then walked away without even looking at him.
'Frequent visits? What is she trying to say? Why would the SAMR pay frequent visits to a shop? What about my business? Is this the handiwork of that damned landlord?' Su Yang's eyes were burning with rage. 'Do you really think I will just sit back and do nothing?'
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