The package has assigned me way too many objects.

—BG Media Technology Company

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Weekends are for rest, but many companies still leave some people on duty to receive customer information at any time. However, the workload is much lighter than on weekdays, and they can even watch TV shows while on pay.

Chu Yinan walked into BG Media Technology Company, glanced around at the surroundings, and then walked towards the receptionist. To be honest, on his way upstairs, he had wondered if Miss Fei would greet him at the door, but he was clearly overthinking it.

"Hello, is Ms. Fei here?"

The receptionist paused the variety show she was watching and gave the young man a quick look. He was neatly dressed, had well-defined features, and was handsome yet had a touch of boyishness. He looked like a young man who had just entered the workforce, the kind of person who was easy to like.

However, the wooden cane in his hand and the latte he was carrying puzzled the receptionist for a while.

"Miss Fei, are you here to see Miss Feisla? What is your relationship to her?"

"I am an AI-hired employee, assisting with some service terminal issues." Chu Yinan took out his Turing Tower employee authentication electronic ID, which Fu Xi and the others had temporarily prepared for him.

Although the receptionist had never seen such an electronic certificate before, she checked with her own terminal service and found that Turing Tower did indeed verify the young man in the suit's identity, so she decided to believe it for the time being.

"The minister just returned. Miss Fissla went to his office, which is at the end of the corridor, turn left at the office area. The minister's office is there."

"OK, thanks."

Chu Yinan followed the directions given by the receptionist and, leaning on his cane, arrived near the minister's office.

The only separation between this leader's office and the public office area is a glass wall. Normally, the blinds in the minister's office would be drawn to protect privacy. However, perhaps because it's the weekend, the blinds were not drawn.

Chu Yinan was able to see inside the office that the pot-bellied middle-aged man was talking to a beautifully dressed female employee.

Although it wasn't very clear, it wasn't to the point that the conversation was completely inaudible.

"You rushed through the Morishiro Chika project. It was a high-quality project, and I gave you such good resources to use as a stepping stone for promotion. How could you handle it so carelessly?"

“Minister, I just wanted to keep that little nun. If she stayed, Morishiro Chika’s project could continue to be profitable. I didn’t expect that brat to be so stubborn. Besides, my subsequent decision was to maximize the benefits.”

"You've maximized profits, but what about the fan base that the Morishiro Chika project has built up? You could have had the nun's voice actress create a farewell party, sell farewell merchandise, and then direct the fans to other AI streamers in the company. That way, the subsequent revenue wouldn't look so bad. Now you've gone too far. You've made money selling the character, but what about next month? What about the short-term public opinion and reputation?"

"Minister, I just..."

"Alright, get on this and find a way to salvage the data as soon as possible!"

Chu Yinan silently retreated to the corridor, waiting for Miss Fei to leave the minister's office.

Chapter 18 Unwise Choices

"Miss Fei, here's your coffee." Chu Yinan called out to the woman walking past him.

This working woman was wearing a light orange business suit. She had a fairly average figure, but her outfit deliberately emphasized her feminine sexiness. Her makeup was generally alluring, and her white undershirt was low-cut and revealing, with the edge of her sexy lingerie intentionally showing.

Her buttocks appear perky, but it's actually the result of her hunching over and sticking her buttocks out. You can actually tell how bony she is just by looking at the silhouette of her skirt.

He was a mean-spirited and cynical woman, quite a snob—that was the message his buttocks were telling him.

As Chu Yinan sized up the other person, he was also being sized up by the other person. Fissla gave Chu Yinan a cursory glance, but lost interest after her gaze fell on his wooden cane.

Although he was good-looking, his expression was stiff and forced, and his eyes were unfocused. He seemed like a gloomy, reclusive guy. Moreover, he appeared to have a disability in his legs, so the AI ​​gave him this relief job to earn a living.

Even though they were assigned to each other just to fix a bug, the thought of her blind date being this kind of guy made Fissla inexplicably unhappy.

"Are you someone dispatched by AI? I thought it would be a drone that came. As long as we're together, it'll be our first meeting, right?"

Yes, are you currently on working hours?

“Sort of, but it doesn’t matter. There’s a self-service office floor downstairs. Let’s go down there. I’ll do my own thing, and you can stay here and wait for the mission to end, okay?” Fisla said impatiently, as if she were ordering around a waiter in a restaurant.

"Okay," Chu Yinan replied with a forced smile.

Fissla returned to her desk, picked up her work laptop, and led the way for Chu Yinan.

It's rare to see a young man walking with a cane. As Fiss walked, she couldn't help but glance at Chu Yinan a few more times. Although he was disabled, he was very strong. His shoulders were broader and more solid than any of the men she had seen in the company. He didn't walk fast, but his back was straight. After looking at him for a while, she could feel his inexplicable charisma.

But Fissla quickly dismissed the thought. How could I possibly find a lame man intimidating? I guess I was really out of my mind today.

The self-service office floor is similar to a rental study room, where you can pay a certain amount of money to use a desk for a limited time to do your work.

The woman chose a seat by the window and looked out at the view, as if she were in her own private office.

"What's your name?" After turning her gaze away from the window, Fissla didn't get into work mode but instead touched up her makeup and applied lipstick.

"Chu... Yibei, what's wrong?" Chu Yinan made up a name.

"Are you an employee of AI?"

"Yes."

Sure enough... it's definitely the kind of job that provides financial assistance, and it's for people who don't have much money, otherwise they wouldn't be doing this kind of work despite their physical limitations.

In a way, he probably benefited from this. He doesn't usually have many opportunities to meet women, but through his work, he was able to get a temporary, nominal blind date.

How pitiful.

Fissla shook her head, opened a blank document in her notebook, and pondered a solution. With her mind blank, she asked again, "Will your work only be finished after you've helped everyone end their arranged marriages?"

"Yes, if Miss Fei is willing to cooperate, it shouldn't take long to finish. You can also claim and use the rewards from the matchmaking incentive program, and they won't be taken back after the match is terminated," Chu Yinan replied like a question-and-answer robot.

"Boring."

Once you enter society, you can only climb the ladder and reach a different world by constantly finding stepping stones. This requires utilizing all available resources. Sometimes, if you don't want to work overtime, you can show off your benefits to a male colleague and get him to obediently help you with your work, all under the guise of "colleague assistance."

This shut-in youth didn't even meet the minimum requirement for utilization; he's probably only good at running errands.

After about ten minutes of silence, Chu Yinan finally couldn't contain himself and asked, "Is Morishiro Chika a project of Ms. Fei's company? I've seen some heated discussions about it outside the island."

"What? You, a resident of an artificial island, would be a fan of that kind of AI idol?" Fissla was annoyed; she got irritated just hearing the name.

"I don't follow celebrities, I'm just curious. And I think the follow-up was a bit too much. Making a girl who is not yet an adult dub an adult work and taking an AI anchor with a pure image to work in adult films is not good in any way."

The working woman's face darkened instantly. She frowned and stared at the man in front of her without any politeness. She was already annoyed by the online criticism of stupid, nerdy men, and now this guy dared to lecture her.

"What's wrong with this project? I made the decision, and the methods used were all legal and without coercion; everything was a legitimate business practice. My superiors put pressure on me to meet performance targets, so I had no choice but to do it this way. Did they expect me to risk losing my job doing something so thankless?"

Stop pretending to be a moral saint. You can't understand the hardships people face in society. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's okay. Have you found a formal job yet?

Chu Yinan stared at her intently: 'The law represents the social baseline below the average level of morality, or rather, the minimum standard of morality. You keep saying that what you've done isn't illegal; are you implying that your behavior doesn't even meet the average moral standard?'

"What are you trying to achieve by saying this? Does that mean that obeying the law is shameful now?" Fissla did not avoid the lame man's gaze, but her tone turned cold, and she suppressed her earlier anger.

“It’s not shameful to abide by the law, but it’s not something to brag about when you’re pushing the boundaries of what’s right. I hope you can give the voice actor and the fans of that character a sincere apology, even if it’s just in the form of an electronic announcement.”

"Then I can only tell you, impossible! Does a person need to feel ashamed and apologize for her conscientious and law-abiding work? You're kidding me, you little brat who hasn't experienced the harsh realities of life!" Fissla pointed to the door and said coldly, "Now, disappear from my sight. Your job has failed. Starve to death!"

Chu Yinan said nothing, got up and walked towards the door. He would not regret his actions, even if it might prevent him from completing the matchmaking task.

He bumped into the receptionist at the door. She must have been eavesdropping on Fissla and Chu Yinan's argument. She smiled awkwardly and was about to turn and leave when a man walking out of the hallway called out to her.

After Chu Yinan closed the door to the self-service office, he was about to leave when he heard the IT guy ask the receptionist, "Xiao Tian, ​​where is my girlfriend? I heard from someone that she came to the office downstairs?"

"Uh... Miss Fissla is in the self-service office, and she might not be in a good mood right now." As she spoke, the receptionist glanced at Chu Yinan and lowered her voice.

But Chu Yinan still heard it. He stopped and turned around.

Fissla's boyfriend?

Chapter 19 Irrational Decision Making

As far as I can remember, when I called Fisla during my lunch break last time, I heard a man's voice asking something like, "Is it your boyfriend calling?" in a teasing tone. Plus, Fisla herself said she was resting at the time.

Or perhaps we should remind this guy to check his head and see if he's wearing an extra fleece-lined hat out of nowhere.

As Chu Yinan was about to go over, Fissla opened the self-service office door, gave him a hostile look, threw the latte he had just brought into the trash can by the door, and then said to her boyfriend:

"What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you I had to work overtime?"

My boyfriend was very enthusiastic: "I came to visit you. You were on a business trip with your boss the past few days and only got back yesterday. It's almost noon now, let's go out for lunch together, Fissla!"

Business trip? Chu Yinan gave him a sympathetic look.

However, there was no chance to get close now, so he had no choice but to leave first.

While waiting for the elevator, he noticed an elderly woman with white hair struggling to carry a large box down the stairs in the emergency exit.

The elevator was about to arrive. Chu Yinan ran into the hallway, put his cane aside, and helped take the old woman's suitcase, saying, "Grandma, the elevator is almost here. Take it downstairs. This is the fifth or sixth floor."

The old woman looked at his cane and nimble legs with a puzzled expression, then shook her head and thanked him, "No need, it's closing time for the office buildings upstairs, there are so many people coming and going, I wouldn't be able to squeeze in. I'll just take the stairs, your legs..."

"Oh, this is just a prop. My leg is fine. Let me help you carry it down. Could you please hold my crutches for me?"

"Thank you then."

On the way down the stairs, Chu Yinan asked curiously, "Grandma, why do you need to use manpower to move such a heavy box? Where are you moving it to?"

“Every company has some discarded but important documents that need to be taken to the shredding room on the first floor for unified disposal. They don’t trust robots to move them, so they hire people to do it. I was dispatched from outside the island, and this is one of the few jobs I can find at my age.”

[Kirin: This branch office of BG (Business Group) uses AI assistance to a very low degree, relying on an internal management system from outside the island.]

A company with its own management system? Doesn't that mean they have to spend a lot of money regularly on updates and maintenance? That's definitely a big company.

Upon arriving at the shredder, Chu Yinan went all the way and helped carry the shredded paper inside.

And that's how he got to see what the so-called important documents inside were—financial statements.

Chu Yinan lacked the professional knowledge to explain the specific process, but in this day and age, many office procedures require a paper document.

As the shredding work was nearing completion, Chu Yinan discovered something interesting in the forms tucked away at the bottom of a drawer:

"This is... the financial statement for the Morishiro Chika project team? Is this donation to the monastery? Marissa's monthly salary is as much as 20.8 universal coins, but why are the accounts different for the first and second half of the year?"

Marissa's job included room and board, so the company directly transferred the money to the convent. The money basically never passed through her hands, let alone went into her pocket.

[Fu Xi: You're focusing on the wrong thing. Didn't you notice that the salary expenses show both "Glory Island Our Lady of the Monastery" and "Marisa"? There should only be one salary, but an extra identity has been created out of nowhere. I've just compiled all the evidence I could for you; here, take it.]

Does this mean someone used a blank account to transfer a portion of the money?

Chu Yinan turned to the old woman and said, "Grandma, my sister used to work here. It seems she was mistreated when it came to receiving her wages. Could I...?"

He wanted to say that he wouldn't take the document with him, but would call officials to verify it, but the old woman ignored Chu Yinan, acting as if she hadn't seen anything, and turned to leave, muttering to herself.

"The files are finally shredded. It's really tough on my old bones."

Chu Yinan watched her mother-in-law's departing figure with gratitude, and then called Marissa.

"Hey, Marissa, about the job you mentioned earlier, did you receive any salary?"