You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 320: This Toy Company is Too Weird! Milk Candy Leads the Project for a New FPS Game? (2 in 1)

Xia Shangyu suddenly felt guilty and ashamed.

She thought:
He clearly received such good benefits from the company, but when he was looking for a target last time, he was still so bad. He just went to rescue someone just because he saw some gossip in the circle of friends. It is really wrong!

Although Mao Wuyong did achieve results in the end, Mr. Lu questioned his work process, which was totally correct!
She said seriously:

"Mr. Lu, I know I was wrong."

Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and thought:
I've given you all these great benefits, what's the point? Isn't it just to let you completely relax and mess up?

Moreover, I told you last time that I wanted you to find a mediocre team as much as possible, but you actually discovered a high-potential enterprise like Mao Wuyong, which is one in a million. This is really not right!
He softened his tone and said:

"Sister Xia, it's good that you know there is a problem. This time, my request is still the same.
I don't care what products the toy company you choose makes or what target users it targets.
None of this matters!
I don't care! Got it?

Sister Xia, you can choose whichever one you like.

I have only one request:
The corporate culture and working atmosphere of this company must be lazy!

To put it bluntly, I want a team that is half-dead and just muddles through with investors' money.

This time, I have high hopes for you, please don't let me down!"

……

After sitting back at his workstation, Xia Shangyu fell into deep thought.

Last time, Mr. Lu also made the same request to the candidate companies, and Mr. Mao Wuyong did make achievements.

In other words, President Lu actually has no objection to the company she chose, but just hopes that she will pay more attention to the process?
Xia Shangyu held her chin up and thought for a few minutes, then a thought suddenly occurred to her mind -

and many more!

It’s not that simple!
This should be a new test for Mr. Lu, the old master of the art!

The so-called "mediocre and bad team" is just an appearance. Mr. Lu said this in the hope of eliminating those companies that only do superficial things. He is more concerned about the unique potential characteristics of a company.

Moreover, Mr. Lu's purpose in talking to me this time was very clear:
Since you, Xia Shangyu, were able to pick such a good acquisition target last time even though you were being perfunctory in selecting people, wouldn't you be able to pick a better one if you were serious about it?
After figuring this out, she breathed a sigh of relief.

If you think about it carefully, Mr. Lu cares so much about your own growth, gives you full freedom, and never asks about the specific process. Where can you find such a great boss?

Her eyes were slightly moist.

This time I will definitely pick out a dark horse that is no less than useless technology, and will never let Mr. Lu down!

Xia Shangyu is grateful for your advice and is determined to find a company that satisfies her. She is in high spirits and has +55 Leisure Points.

Seeing the system prompt, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

It was worth all my effort, this girl finally got it!

……

In the next few days, Xia Shangyu mobilized his connections and spread the news that Taoyuan Township was interested in acquiring a toy company.

For a time, the entire Chinese toy industry was in turmoil!
Previously, the turnaround of Dark Horse Animation and No Use of Technology was noticed by everyone. If they could be noticed by Taoyuan Township, then wealth and glory would be just around the corner!

However, what is surprising to everyone is that news from various channels is saying that Taoyuan Township hopes to acquire a "mediocre and slacking team."

After confirming that Xia Shangyu did not miss a single "no", the entrepreneurs were confused again.

What the hell? You don’t want the good ones, you only buy the bad ones, right?

But no matter what, this news has indeed given some half-dead companies a glimmer of hope.

In the spirit of "we'll find out whether there is grass or not", a large number of companies applied to register.

Information about various candidates flew to Jianghai City like snowflakes, and was finally delivered to Xia Shangyu's mailbox after being summarized through the personal network.

On Friday night, Xia Shangyu opened her laptop while drinking coffee and began browsing candidate information:

Zhoufu Dream Bubble Toys Co., Ltd.

Featured product: A dream bubble machine that blows bubbles with soapy water
Team Characteristics: The team is generally quite laid-back, often organizing bubble-blowing competitions after lunch. Employees' obsession with bubble-blowing often leads to delayed deliveries, resulting in the company facing hefty fines for breach of contract.

Xia Shangyu complained: "Good boy, you guys really love blowing bubbles."

Xuchang Chidaren Toys Co., Ltd.

The flagship product: "Prank Toy - Late Alarm Clock". If you give this alarm clock to a friend as a gift, no matter how accurately the other person sets the time, the alarm clock will deliberately delay the time the next morning, causing your friend to be late for work or school.

Team characteristics: Within the company, team members often use their own products to play pranks on each other. Because their own products are almost indistinguishable from normal alarm clocks in appearance, many people's homes and employee dormitories are also filled with prank alarm clocks, resulting in people on the team always being late, and the business operations are difficult.

After being late in the morning, they often yell in frustration, “Boss, I can’t tell the difference!”

"..."

Xia Shangyu rubbed her eyebrows.

My goodness, in a place where this kind of alarm clock is popular, the incidence of fights between friends must be very high.

「Guangdong Pink Story Toys Development Co., Ltd.」

Main products: Electric toys and dolls
Team Characteristics: Company members often secretly try out the company's products during work hours. Many people have been rushed to the hospital due to acute dehydration and malnutrition, but this trend of trying out products has not been curbed, causing the company's operations to fall into difficulties and become half-dead (referring to employees).

"WTF?"

Xia Shangyu's head was full of question marks.

The previous candidates all described in detail the selling points of their products. For this company, generally speaking, they are dolls and electronic toys.

And specifically in brackets they note that the half-dead are employees? What the hell is this!
At the bottom of the email, there was a link to the company's corporate WeChat account. In the spirit of being responsible for her work, Xia Shangyu decided to find out what products they were selling.

She opened the chat window and explained her purpose, but to her surprise, the head of the other company replied immediately.

Pink Story: "Ms. Xia, we're honored that you're interested in us. Is there anything you'd like to know? If you want to buy something from us, that's fine. We'll give you a 50% discount, hehe..."

Xia Shangyu: "What kind of toys do you sell? Can you explain in detail?"

Pink Story: "We sell toys that both boys and girls like to play with..."

Xia Shangyu was stunned. Isn't this nonsense?
Pink Story:

"Well, you are a girl after all, I shouldn't be too explicit.
Let me start by asking you a question:
Everyone says that boys like to play with electronic toys when they are young, and girls like to play with dolls.

But when they grow up, boys like to play with dolls and girls like to play with electronic toys.

Do you know why?

After the other party finished speaking, he also sent a disgusting soybean emoticon of a person picking his nose.

Xia Shangyu thought for a moment, then understood immediately, and her pretty face turned red.

"goodbye!"

She quickly closed the chat box.

After taking a few sips of coffee, she calmed down and sighed to herself:
Strange, has my physical condition become strange recently?

Why does it seem easier to find these abstract and weird companies?

Could it be that I have awakened some incredible talent that I don’t even know about?
At the same time, Xia Shangyu started to murmur again:
Hey, to be honest, why do I feel like I've seen the name Pink Story somewhere before?
Hiss... strange, where have I seen this before?

She muttered to herself as she opened her phone and looked through the chat history.

After searching for a while, I found it!
She clicked on the conversation record with Liu Lan. This was a conversation that took place one day when she was still working at Liu Group.

Liu Lan: "Xiao Xia, I have a meeting later. Can you help me pick up the express from the front desk?"

Xiao Xia: "Okay..."

5 minute later.

Xiao Xia: "Picture.jpg, Chairman, look, is this the 'Pink Story'? It also says: High-Voltage Electric Motor Triple Impact Model?"

Liu Lan: “…”

Liu Lan: "What a jerk of a merchant! We promised confidentiality on delivery."

Xiao Xia: "What is this?"

Liu Lan: "It's nothing, just a fascia gun, to relieve muscle fatigue. Put it in my car later, don't let the secretary see it."

……

After turning off the phone, Xia Shangyu fell into a brief silence.

"It's not easy for Sister Liu to wait for this stinky man Pei Yu for so many years."

She pulled herself together and continued browsing the candidates.

The candidate companies that followed all looked pretty similar.

This kind of company, which is obviously just trying to get by and do nothing, is definitely not what President Lu really wants!

What Mr. Lu wants is a team like Mr. Mao Wuyong, who may appear bad on the surface but has a maverick spirit in his heart!

They must be idealists!
They must be lone warriors!
They must be Don Quixote!
Xia Shangyu continued to stay up late to search with dark circles under her eyes.

Just when she was about to despair, she finally found an interesting team:

Xingjia Xiaohutuxian Toys Factory

Main product: Electric toy guns (including water gun version and BB bullet version)
Team characteristics:

This is a team with an extremely casual outlook on life, a muddled work ethic without a clear goal, and erratic project progress. Yet, they were once idealists, and their resignedness was a protest against the world.

They once vowed to one day change the toy industry and reshape the childhood of children all over the world!
But now, they just want to clear out their inventory and pay their employees' overdue wages.

They lament the unfairness of their fate while waiting for the bankruptcy liquidation process to begin."

Xia Shangyu's eyes lit up:
"Wow! That's a pretty ambitious ideal, but they're even worse off than Mao Wuyong. They're almost bankrupt. Boss Lu seems to be half-dead, isn't he?"

But the introduction was so impressive that she searched online for the company's products.

The first one is called "Confused Water Gun", which is a water gun toy driven by a built-in motor.

However, just like its name, this water gun is extremely confusing to use.

Below the product introduction, there is a news link from "1818 Golden Eye", which contains parents' complaints about quality issues with this brand.

The program introduced that after children buy toys, they have no way of predicting the power and trajectory of the next shot.

Parents:

"My child's gun is so weak and ineffective that it's not fun to play with it.

I found it troublesome to return it, so I thought of using it as a watering can for watering the flowers. I didn't expect that once I picked it up, this water gun would spray high-pressure water jets crazily, killing all the flowers I grew.

Give it to the child to play with again, and it will go back to the old ways.”

The program also introduced another "Random Pistol Toy" from the same manufacturer, which had the same problem.

The cooldown time of shooting and the number of BBs shot are all up to chance.

No one knows what effect the next bullet will have!
The risk of accidental injury is greatly increased.

……

After turning off the news, Xia Shangyu complained helplessly:

"Wow, you guys are planning to reshape the childhoods of children all over the world with your bizarre product designs?

I think you are just adding to the trauma of your childhood!
No wonder they went bankrupt.”

But when she thought about it carefully, she felt that this company was the only one that could be considered relatively human among a bunch of weird ones, as at least it still had some ideals left.

What's more, I heard that Mr. Lu is going to make a shooting game as his next flagship game.
For VR shooting games, gun-shaped external controllers are of paramount importance. Maybe this company is unexpectedly good?

Xia Shangyu wrote down the information about Xiaohutuxian Company and decided to take some time to go for an on-site inspection.

……

The next day, Taoyuan Township Villa.

Today is the day when Milk Candy from the Sugar Sisters is refreshed for a limited time.

After the afternoon tea development encouragement activity ended, Lu Yu called Niu Naitang to the conference room for a meeting.

In the conference room, Milk Candy stood awkwardly behind Lu Yu.

She is still wearing the classic skin - cat girl white silk maid outfit,

Because the encouragement activity had just been completed, the white baking cream kept dripping onto the floor along the white stockings.

Lu Yu looked out the window and said slowly:

"Xiaoxuan, how do you feel about the recent women's clothing events?"

Milk Candy said timidly:

"I am grateful for Mr. Lu's guidance. Since I started wearing women's clothing, I feel that I can be more relaxed at work and my team members can get along better.

Therefore, the project "Free Mouth Cannon Life" is operating very stably.

I am very happy that I have achieved such success as a producer for the first time in my career."

When Lu Yu mentioned "The Life of Free and Easy Talking", his face trembled with pain.

There is no doubt that this game is still one of the pillars of the Taoyuan Fantasy World platform.

He never expected that the producer, whom he initially thought was the most mediocre and unreliable, would stab him in the back so viciously!
Due to the continuous growth of users, the workload of project team members is too saturated, and the warning of the "reduced efficiency and increased cost system" is triggered frequently, resulting in a lot of points being deducted.

Therefore, in this cycle, Lu Yu has to expand the enrollment of Mo Xiaoxuan's free studio group to clean up the mess of these little curlers.

However, since the enrollment has been expanded,

Lu Yu thought that he might as well hand over the development task of the flagship game of this cycle to them.

The reason is very simple. In a sense, "Zizai Mouth Cannon Life" can also be regarded as a TPS (third-person shooter) game. It is a new shooting project developed by Zizai Studio, and many previous technologies and resources can be used.

In this way, the workload can be reduced and the risk of point deductions will be reduced.

And, most importantly—

In this project team, there is someone called "Milk Candy".

Lu Yu curled his lips and said with a smile:

"Xiaoxuan, I need you and the studio members to work together to make a new FPS game."

When Mo Xiaoxuan heard that President Lu had given him the task of developing the next generation flagship game, his expression suddenly became serious.

Lu Yu:

"But I have a requirement: this shooting game must be close to our daily lives and cannot be too sci-fi or too magical.

For example, your Titan mecha, future wars, and interstellar travel are all bullshit."

Lu Yu's words directly blocked Mo Xiaoxuan's possibility of producing a science fiction masterpiece.

Because the more such a game is, the better the visual presentation of the world view, the easier it is to create exciting scenes, and the possibility of making a hit is greatly increased!
Lu Yu changed the subject:
"But the game's production budget cannot be less than 3 million!"

After hearing this, Mo Xiaoxuan was stunned.

We are not allowed to produce high-tech wars, but we have to spend a huge budget. How can we do this?
"Mr. Lu, if we're not making a sci-fi game, I don't think the budget would be necessary to be so high."

Lu Yu:

"First of all, non-sci-fi shooting games can also be loaded with stuff,

If you really don't have anywhere to stockpile materials, you can spend your budget on food, drink, and entertainment... Oh no, I mean, going out to collect materials.

Besides, the studio has been operating for such a long time, isn’t it time to upgrade the employees’ gaming equipment, ergonomic chairs, and headphones?
If there is really no way to upgrade, adding some new figures to the desk will make you feel better, right?
In short, as long as it makes the employees happy, you can spend it."

Lu Yu smiled slightly.

His true intentions were finally revealed!
His real purpose is to spend the development budget on the enjoyment of his employees!
The surprise mission of this cycle requires him to spend no less than 3 million on new projects.

This arrangement not only met the system's task requirements, but also expanded the points income channel.

Because the money was spent in the name of project development budget, the system cannot say that he was slacking off!

The plan goes through!
"..."

Mo Xiaoxuan was even more confused.

In other companies, producers always said "spend money wisely".
At that time, the project team had to go through layers of approval to apply for some midnight snack budget, and the company was so stingy that they wanted to spend every penny carefully!
Therefore, what Mr. Lu said is really too magical!
But soon, he heard even more magical words——

"Also, I hope you, as Milk Candy, will serve as the project producer and participate in the entire game development process!"

"Eh??????"

Mo Xiaoxuan, dressed as a candy candy, covered her cherry lips with her fair hands in surprise, staring at the boss with her beautiful eyes.

Seeing this scene, Lu Yu thought to himself:
Haha, she is simply a natural girl, and her talent in cross-dressing is getting stronger and stronger!

Lu Yu continued:
"You don't have to worry about your identity being exposed. I will publicly announce that you, in your male form, will go out to develop and collect materials. As your younger sister, Naitang will naturally take over as your brother's acting producer.

I would tell the company employees that as a younger sister, you have learned a lot of development skills from your brother, and your brother will also give you remote development instructions at any time. "

Mo Xiaoxuan: "But... why do you have to go to this extent?"

Lu Yu, with his back to him, had a smile on his face.

Of course, it was to allow Nai Naitang to interfere with the development work of the LSPs in the project team!

Who would still have the heart to work when there is food grade white silk cream ice cream in front of them every day?

As long as their energy is completely distracted, they won’t be able to roll up!

Of course, Lu Yu couldn't say it directly, so he said earnestly:

"All of this is to continue training you, Xiaoxuan.

Think about it, the reason why you can gain a foothold in the project team and develop a good life is all because of the courage given to you by women's clothing!
Now, you need to continue to develop this courage and practice it more.
Then...your talent as a producer will surely be improved!"

The other person's beautiful eyes sparkled, filled with emotion, and she sighed in a lovely voice:

"I see, I see. Don't worry, Mr. Lu. I will definitely work harder!"

Lu Yu was shocked.

Wow, this natural and cute look is hard to imagine. I wonder how fascinated those LSPs will be by it.

He continued in a deep voice, "Then tell me about your project ideas."

(End of this chapter)