Chapter 38

Chapter 1: Voice Acting Work

In the QQ chat on her mobile phone, Yuan Xiaoling was getting more and more hyped up, as if she had broken every path with tofu. Bai Ling didn’t even dare to look. But after all that boasting, the system still hadn’t marked the task as complete. “Isn’t this already considered provocation?” she asked the air. [Ding dong, dear host, if you could also pull Bai Ling into this QQ group, it would count.] If the person herself can’t see it, then it’s just gossip behind their back. “Uh, never mind then, I’m not dumb.” She shut off her phone, dove into her blanket, and went to sleep! The light in the study was still on; Bai Ling was still reviewing documents. But there was too much useless information in the documents. If it weren’t for her overwhelming Spiritual Power, she probably wouldn’t have been able to continue reading for long. Yet even so, she couldn’t find any issues in the documents. Yunhai Company’s early history was a textbook case of a factory’s rise. Thanks to Tianhai City’s uneven development—half by the mountain being relatively backward, while the other half by the sea was very prosperous. Plus, twenty years ago, the highway connecting both halves opened, bringing Yunhai Company its biggest opportunity. By building the factory in the middle region, they recruited cheap labor from the mountains and sold their products at higher market prices in the coastal areas. Later, due to insufficient product profits and declining factory benefits, they began seeking transformation and now wanted to enter the gaming industry but were still in the production phase. It was late at night, and Bai Ling had almost gone through all the documents without finding anything. Feeling a bit frustrated and unable to sleep, she decided to start over from the beginning. In the year XX04, Yunhai Company officially established its assembly line factory and built roads to several villages in the mountains. In July of the same year, they recruited a large number of workers from these villages. Over the next ten years, Yunhai Company experienced rapid growth, with time, location, and people all working in their favor, meaning almost nothing could hinder them. There were minor frictions here and there, but they were quickly resolved. Such as quality control checks, worker treatment, and some labor disputes… Labor disputes? Bai Ling suddenly had an epiphany, feeling like she had heard those words somewhere before. She delved into her deepest memories, crossing over ten years of her past life, tracing the trajectory of time, passing through the budding era of spiritual energy, with childhood sea breezes blowing memories into her mind. It was an ordinary day, a young girl on vacation at home, pulling her father who was about to go to work, asking why he was so busy. Her father said that recently he had a new idea, planning to establish a foundation to help disadvantaged groups sue. However, later when the girl asked again, her father disappointingly said that the foundation wasn’t established. Still, it wasn’t entirely fruitless; he sponsored a group of workers with some funds, allowing them to file a lawsuit for labor disputes. And the defendant in the lawsuit was —— Yunhai Factory. …………… “Mmmmm~” Lifting her little hand, gently knocking to wake her sleeping spirit, Yuan Xiaoling slowly opened her beautiful water-blue eyes. A dry sleep is just this exquisite, full of satisfaction, waking up feeling like everything is doable. Isn’t it just a weekly task, with six days left? Solutions are definitely more abundant than problems. For example, she just thought of one—while Bai Ling hasn’t fully woken up yet, with low blood sugar making her hearing unclear, secretly provoke her, then upon hearing the system prompt that the task is completed, immediately say, “Bro, I was just joking around!” Thinking and doing simultaneously, Yuan Xiaoling turned her head— “Scary! How… did you get up?” Looking over, Bai Ling was already sitting by the bed, without a trace of fatigue, as if she had been up for a long time and even eaten breakfast and jogged. “I’m going somewhere today,” she said. “…Oh.” Yuan Xiaoling didn’t understand the implication of her words right away or, more accurately, didn’t know what the key point was. Wait a second, could it be—“Are you going alone?” “You’re too conspicuous,” Bai Ling glanced disdainfully at her Dabeitù, “Going to such places draws too much attention, troublesome.” Yuan Xiaoling rolled her eyes, thinking how come you didn’t complain when you were eating it. “If you’re going alone, what about me?” she asked. “Do whatever you want, why ask me?” “…Aren’t you worried I’ll run away?” Hearing this, Bai Ling gave a rather strange smile: “You can try.” Yuan Xiaoling quietly retreated: “…Never mind then.” She remembered the first day she was captured, trying to escape, and the torment inflicted on her body by the mental lock. Ningning didn’t want to perform the dragon king water spray act again. In fact, this time there was nothing; the previous mental lock had expired, and Bai Ling hadn’t renewed it. Sitting on the bed pondering, since there was nothing to do today, she might as well intern at Tianhai Tower and gather some intelligence. In the afternoon, after lunch, Bai Ling left first. Yuan Xiaoling tidied up her gear, changed into a coffee-brown short skirt, and headed toward Tianhai Tower. The weather was gradually heating up, and Yuan Xiaoling didn’t wear socks, her straight and slender legs gleaming white under the sunlight. It could only be said that Bai Ling’s concerns were not unfounded; Yuan Xiaoling was indeed too eye-catching. She had already arrived at Guihua Village in the eastern suburbs of Tianhai City, searching for someone who once worked at Yunhai Factory. The time gap was too vast, and she could only find this one person. But for her, as long as the person was still in the village, it wasn’t difficult. On this side, Yuan Xiaoling was also progressing smoothly, feeling quite smooth. The supervisor and staff of Yunhai Game Company were still the same bunch. As soon as she arrived, they all kept their eyes on her. Truly strange, aren’t they supposed to be working? “Student Yuan Xiaoling, you’ve finally come,” the supervisor hurriedly welcomed her, “We’ve been waiting for you like stars and moons.” “What,” Yuan Xiaoling blinked her eyes, “Can’t work without me?” The supervisor was momentarily caught off guard, his expression slightly awkward, “Uh, mainly everyone is looking forward to the effect of your voice acting for this character. And having such a beautiful lady around will certainly boost everyone’s work enthusiasm.” Yuan Xiaoling sniffed lightly, “Hope your heightened enthusiasm is only for work, let’s go, where’s the script?” Taking the script to the recording booth, the supervisor and a few others didn’t rush in immediately but exchanged glances. Not really, how is this blonde big-chested gal so arrogant, acting fearless, unlike last time. They remembered that last time Yuan Xiaoling came, she stood quietly beside the White-haired Maiden, appearing like an easy-to-bully soft sister. Why is she less timid today coming alone? “It doesn’t matter, just bluffing,” the supervisor whispered, “Do what we planned regardless; she’s alone anyway.” Inside the recording booth, Yuan Xiaoling had already skimmed through the voice-over text and tried reading it aloud. What kind of Minnow Commander can’t even beat a XXX, is today’s stamina used up already, Minnow Minnow… “Your script is quite interesting, though it’s a double-edged sword,” Yuan Xiaoling said to the supervisor and a few others who had just walked over, “It requires artistic skill, at least drawn to my level… you get it, right?”