Yang Sang, please, I’m counting on you!

Su Yongzhi is currently following a grassroots approach, cultivating a persona as a "playful old man," yet the proposals he puts forward are quite serious. The social feedback is that Councilor Su is a fun-loving yet earnest old comrade.

"Creative Ability" is about to host its first "Cosplay Hero Convention," co-organized and supervised by the Jianye City cultural departments. They have also run promotional activities in Wa-nu (Japan) and Korea, branding it as a "Hero Festival." Whether outsiders show up or not is beside the point; the goal is simply to stir up some excitement in Jianye.

They are giving away trinkets, keychains, and eggs. The elderly residents of Canglong District have long wanted to cosplay as "Power Red." They are certainly powerful when fighting for free eggs, punching young people in the nose until they bleed—and the blood is quite red, too.

Powerful, and quite red.

The old man now has a dedicated team of makeup artists, leagues above the setup enjoyed by "Wang Tianxian." Currently, Boss Li is busy preparing for "Doomsday Guardian." He and his wife drew the character design sketches themselves, while the designers at "Creative Ability" are effectively on vacation, having never experienced such a wonderful work-life balance.

If they had known it would be like this, they would have joined sooner!

The accounting staff finds their boss truly absurd. With hundreds of millions sitting in the bank, why is he still working so hard? They love him for it, though it's a shame he’s not into men.

"Director Chen, do we not need to provide design proposals for 'Doomsday Guardian'?"

"No, no, you guys just keep playing games. The boss will send over the proposals in a few days."

"Director Chen, what is the boss doing?"

"The boss is working overtime."

"..."

The artists, designers, modelers, and draftsmen, looking at the games still running on their computers, posed a soul-searching question: "We’re at work playing games while the boss is working overtime. Isn't that... a bit wrong?"

"It does seem a bit conscienceless."

"Cut the crap! It’s a team fight!"

"Watch your positioning! Watch your positioning! Watch your positioning! ADC, ADC! ADC, damn it..."

The office is filled with a lively atmosphere, while Boss Li, just as Chen Pi said, is working overtime. Li Jie, whose need for sleep is decreasing, can only pass the time by working. He can draw for twenty-four hours straight without his eyes even getting dry; he feels like an iron beast. This is only his first enhancement. If he enhances again, he’ll practically be a perpetual motion machine.

The script, shooting outline, and character designs for "Doomsday Guardian" were easy, finished in a couple of hours. The key is prop design; once modeled, it's 3D printed, then the rough mold is handed to the prop team for finishing, followed by molding and mass production. No adjustments are needed—it's solid.

Everyone on the technical side of the company views their boss with a mix of immense admiration and resentment, because the models the boss provides are so complete that no second or third iterations are required. After a brainstorming session, the workers reached a collective conclusion: the boss is a beast.

The special effects team is even more speechless than the prop team. They can accept that the boss is better at explosives than they are, but they can't accept that his SFX schemes are even more bizarre than theirs. Green screens, wire-work, stunt doubles, segmented filming? Forget all that—just watch the VCR!

The boss jumps off a building!

Thud, lands, he's fine!

The boss rides a motorcycle under a semi-truck!

Whoosh!

A sliding tackle, and he’s still fine!

The boss is going to use flying knives to hit eight incoming small explosive charges!

Cling-cling-cling-cling!

The boss is god-tier!

Now, the SFX team just guards their computers and ignores everything else. If anyone asks about the "Creative Ability" effects team, they send a representative who always says: "What special effects? Who uses off-the-shelf computer effects these days? Our company uses real-life footage..."

But in all honesty, because the boss performs the stunts himself, the raw material for the effects team is top-tier. A stock library like this is actually quite valuable. At the very least, Ding Wei still needs wire-work, stunt doubles, and segmented filming...

Wei-ge says that he’s not much of a "Wei-ge" at all; he’s just a useless "Erlang Shen," and the real skills are all down to the "Howling Celestial Dog."

The entirety of "Creative Ability" functions with order and vitality, despite being bizarre, absurd, counter-intuitive, and illogical. To peripheral departments like marketing, the core team feels like a divine existence.

However, the members of the core team say that playing games all day is just too much fun. Fortunately, "Creative Ability" also has a project planning team. Aside from Li Jie's own filming projects, the other projects keep them busy enough to ensure the core team's skills don't go to waste.

Currently, they have approved the animated series "Masked Gourd Hero," a long-form project of 101 episodes, produced in multiple languages simultaneously with no set production cycle. There is also the cultivation of new talent—they need to be able to sing, dance, rap, or play basketball—and they are pushing for new works within the "Masked Gourd Hero" universe, such as "Masked Ginseng Hero" and "Masked Piggy Hero." In short, the "Masked" series.

After a brainstorming session, the writing team introduced the concept of the "Masked Factor," from which various superpowers are derived. Boss Li has no objections; he’s happy as long as it isn't offensive to children, as that keeps the Reputation Points flowing.

Recently, because his drawing skills have improved, monsters like "Baltan," "Gatanothor," and "Gomora" have been recreated from Boss Li’s memories. Damn it, he finally has a feeling of being back in his pre-transmigration days.

"Creative Ability" now has an extremely rich "Monster Library" and never worries about content. When they can't get props ready for new material, they just add a few things to an old villain, label it "Super," and bluff their way through another episode. "Super Gomora," "God-tier Gomora"... filling two episodes is a breeze.

Unfortunately, this damn system is broken—everything rises except his acting and singing skills. Li Jie has thought about methods, such as controlling his muscles to improve the effect, but nothing beats the pleasure of exploiting the system for free. He just enjoys the thrill of "shearing the sheep."

"I can't take it, meow~~ I'm going to break, meow~~"

Gan Xingnu feels like she’s going to die. Working one day and resting the next, even walking makes her feel like she has golf balls stuck inside her. This line of work... is not easy at all, meow! Fortunately, there's a lot of "stamina," and if she gets pregnant, she’ll be free, meow!

After covering Gan Xingnu with a blanket, Li Jie takes a shower, and then... overtime! Overtime! Overtime!

"Doomsday Guardian" has many "new toys," like fly-by-wire systems and flight control systems, which are quite impressive "talents." Boss Li feels he is becoming more and more like "Tony Stark."

"Does Master want to eat something? I can make something after I shower, meow~~"

As Gan Xingnu wipes herself down, she looks like a white cat licking its paws. The image is too explosive, and Boss Li pulls out his phone to snap a picture for posterity.

"You rest, don't worry about me."

"Okay, meow~~"

The increasingly immersed "little white cat" even considers walking on all fours, but after Li Jie reminds her that she is actually a human, she realizes and learns to walk upright again.

"Crazy."

He continues coding, designing the circuit for a controller to prepare for a high-efficiency getaway later. It's a pity that the awesome "hydrogen battery" from "Doomsday Guardian" can't be made, and the plot also features a 200-megawatt small nuclear fusion power source—that thing... is impossible to make. The damn system seems powerless here too.

However, the encapsulation and processing of "metallic hydrogen" are quite interesting, involving a heap of supramolecular materials and control systems. If he can succeed, the damn system can just go away. With an energy density six times that of current common batteries, it’s definitely a good thing. Before "controllable nuclear fusion" is born, it’s a versatile tool for both civil and military use.

It’s fifty times more powerful than TNT when it explodes—impressive. Satisfying.

He can't make a "metallic hydrogen battery," but he can make a "metallic hydrogen bomb," which is also fine. In the future, besides "Creative Ability," setting up "Stark Industries"—bah, "Hairy Crab Industries"—is not out of the question. Given the reactive armor, individual exoskeletons, and some of the "black tech" mentioned by Han Zitong currently on the market, Boss Li feels it would be good to get "Hairy Crab Industries" up and running early.

The only downside is that they aren't issuing new "military production licenses," so he can only acquire them.

So... I’m sorry, Yang-san! I really need a "metallic hydrogen bomb!"

Actually, there is a way to bypass the Supreme Council's regulations, such as investing in a military experimental base in the Wa-nu (Chinese-managed zone). However, there is a capital threshold... three billion. That’s just about the price of the land next to "Little Red Star" plus another three hundred million. After all, for a military experimental base, a single 50,000-ton forging press alone costs 800 million to a billion, not including supporting equipment; adding a 10,000-ton hydraulic press would cost another 100 to 200 million.

Just those two machines eat up over a billion—the "Gourd Hero" merchandise will have to sell for years! He’ll have to work hard and produce a 3A "Gourd Hero" game, selling twenty or thirty million copies just to cover the costs.

But hiring a chief designer, construction engineer, founder, forger, subsystem chief designer, project management director... that also costs a lot of money. After a quick calculation, acquisition is easier.

Yang-san! Please!

Boss Li makes up his mind: he must continue to powerfully and forcefully send his regards to Young Master Yang and his whole family. Thinking of "regards" reminds him of Young Master Yang's "fiancée-to-be," Ms. Ji Shengnan. She’s just arrived in Guangling, and he wonders if her 200-yuan-a-day food budget is enough for her to eat.

"Oh~~ What is this? It’s actually quite delicious."

"Miss Wang, this is just a standard 'palm treasure'..."

It is Mama Tu who came to manage the food for the real "Wang Tianxian." Originally, Mama Tu supervised the cafeteria at the "Shake-a-Shake Handicraft Factory," and with her three nephews working as security guards, she had to act as a buffer to keep them from getting too arrogant.

But now that "Wang Tianxian" has come to Guangling, "Daye Film and Television" is just an empty shell. Aside from two girls at the front desk playing on their phones all day, even the accountants don't come to work. Why would they? There’s no work to do. Everyone is just collecting the company's "minimum subsistence" while looking for new jobs. They were just about to jump ship when they heard the company had been sold to "Creative Ability."

This is like dew after a long drought! Back when Director Yang was in charge, he spent every day either badmouthing that country bumpkin Li or complaining about how Boss Li dared to put on airs. Now, Boss Li *is* putting on airs—and he’s doing it right on top of "Daye Film and Television."

Awesome!!

That bastard Director Yang only knew how to paint pictures of future success; he didn't increase salaries or bonuses by a single cent. He deserved to be a "naked man in the sky" and deserved to have his legs broken. It’s just a shame no one knows who broke them; if they did, they’d definitely light a cyber-incense stick for them.

When they heard "Wang Tianxian" had signed with "Daye Film and Television," the entire staff stood up and started working overtime voluntarily! Even though there wasn't a cent to be made, and coming to the office just meant using the free purified water and Wi-Fi, there was hope. Good days were definitely ahead.

Mama Tu was working under these conditions, helping her son out with a part-time job. When it comes to fancy dishes, Mama Tu isn't as good as Mama Niu, or even Mama Hu and Mama She, but when it comes to snacks, she’s a master. For years, one of the hit products at the "Little Red Star" charity sale, besides the merchandise of Li Jie's old musical works, was the food—it sold even better than handicrafts like origami.

Today, she made some barbecue and fried skewers for "Wang Tianxian." She had already asked her eldest son if the big star had any dietary restrictions since she sings and dances. Li Jie told her there were no current events, so just make whatever; don't worry about this or that. Since her eldest son is the boss, Mama Tu has plenty of confidence. She’s a worker, the star is a worker—what she eats, the star eats. Reasonable.

So, while she was munching on fried chicken strips, radish balls, fried potatoes, and grilled gluten, she asked the three members of "Wang Tianxian's" team if they wanted some.

Yes! Because "Wang Tianxian" asked Mama Tu: "Auntie Tu, won't these fried things be too oily? Is the calorie count high?"

"Not high, it's all olive oil, and I added CLA. My son eats this all the time, and his physique management is great."

When Mama Tu replied, she slapped a photo of her son’s torso onto the table. Ironclad proof! It’s all muscle! The definition, the shape, the posture, the separation... one look and you’d be drooling.

In a story that starts with "I'll just taste one," continues with "I'll eat one more," and ends with "I really can't eat any more," the real "Wang Tianxian" earned Mama Tu's favor. This big star can really eat... Eating is a blessing, and she has a healthy mindset. As for whether her body is healthy... it’s a "fat-reducing barbecue combo," need he ask?

Meanwhile, "Wang Tianxian's" little assistant, Jin Momo, thinking there was no business for a while, joined her "sister" in gorging themselves, and she has already learned to hold skewers with her left hand. Could she not know if it’s healthy after eating it? It’s definitely healthy.