Tang Yishu returned to her workstation and let out a soft sigh.

Li Yada’s heart sank, thinking, could my worst suspicions be true?

“What’s wrong? Does this company’s game have a lot of bugs too?”

Tang Yishu nodded: “Yes, I found 12 bugs in half an hour.”

Li Yada: “…”

Good grief, they had scheduled two companies today, and both companies were turned away because of bugs.

This was a bit ridiculous.

Logically, these companies would certainly bring stable versions of their games, even omitting new features with more bugs.

Yet under these circumstances, there were still so many bugs? This was really difficult to understand.

But at this point, there was no use saying anything else.

Li Yada comforted her: “It’s okay, our colleagues in the business department are still contacting other game companies, and Meng Chang will soon launch promotional activities, so more companies will come to discuss cooperation with us.”

“These two companies were both small companies after all, so maybe they weren’t as diligent in their work. It’s not surprising that they have more bugs. Things will definitely get better in the future.”

Tang Yishu silently nodded.

……

In the afternoon, Li Yada sat at her workstation, feeling somewhat bored.

The company’s early work was mainly developing the gaming platform program and contacting various game companies, which other people were responsible for, so Li Yada had little to do.

Originally, if the negotiations with these two companies today had been successful, they might have been able to discuss subsequent cooperation further, but unexpectedly, they were turned away at the first step because of bugs…

It was quite unexpected.

After Meng Chang’s promotional activities were rolled out, there should be more companies coming to negotiate cooperation, but that would take at least two or three days.

She was aimlessly killing time at her workstation when she suddenly saw a familiar figure walk in from outside.

“Hmm? Why does that person look familiar?”

Li Yada nudged Tang Yishu: “Look, isn’t that Yan Qi who came this morning?”

Tang Yishu turned to look: “Oh, it is! Why is he back?”

“Could it be that he’s already fixed the bugs?”

Li Yada immediately shook her head: “How is that possible? It can’t be that fast! Maybe he has something else to discuss. You should go check.”

Tang Yishu nodded, rose from her workstation, and went to greet him.

“Mr. Yan, is there something I can help with?”

Yan Qi said with some embarrassment: “Director Tang, this… well…”

“How should I put this? It’s a bit embarrassing.”

“After I returned to the company, I immediately handed these bugs to our developers to look at and told them to fix them right away.”

“But…”

“They spent the entire afternoon searching but could only reproduce two of the bugs, which they quickly fixed. But… the remaining ten bugs couldn’t be reproduced at all, let alone fixed.”

“So I suspected that maybe I gave you the wrong version to try earlier, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the stable version.”

“I ran through it several times myself and didn’t encounter any serious bugs. So… could you spare a few minutes to take another look?”

Yan Qi felt very embarrassed.

Going to negotiate with a distribution channel and failing to reach an agreement because of bugs would make anyone angry. So Yan Qi had returned and vented his frustration at the developers, saying they weren’t doing their jobs properly and demanding they fix the bugs immediately.

As a result, both the testers and developers skipped their afternoon naps and barely ate lunch, checking the game repeatedly several times.

However, they couldn’t reproduce these bugs!

Reproduction means performing the same operations that triggered the bug to trigger it again, so they could find exactly what went wrong in the program and fix it accordingly.

But if they couldn’t even reproduce the bug, how could they fix it?

Forget about fixing it—after several failed attempts to reproduce the bugs, everyone even began to doubt whether these bugs really existed.

Even Yan Qi began to doubt himself.

Had he brought the wrong version? Had he mistakenly brought the development version instead of the stable version, which was why there were so many bugs?

Thinking about how everyone had barely eaten lunch because of him, Yan Qi felt very guilty.

So he uninstalled the original game program and reinstalled it, hoping it would perform normally in front of Director Tang this time.

If it was really because he had mixed up the game versions that there were so many bugs, then he should quickly let Director Tang play it again. If there were no bugs, they could sign the agreement!

Tang Yishu was silent for a moment but still took the phone: “Alright, let’s go to the reception room.”

……

Half an hour later.

Tang Yishu handed the phone back to Yan Qi.

The two looked at each other speechlessly.

After running the game for another half hour, she had found fourteen bugs this time.

That was two more than last time!

What’s more, Yan Qi had witnessed it all this time. Every time a bug was triggered, his heart involuntarily trembled.

By the time all fourteen bugs were triggered, Yan Qi’s expression showed that he was clearly questioning his existence, even wondering if he was dreaming or if he had fallen under some illusion.

What was going on!

Before coming, he had repeatedly confirmed three or four times that the phone definitely had the stable version with very few bugs installed!

But how were there even more bugs than before?

Yan Qi even suspected that it was fortunate they only played for half an hour.

If they had played a little longer, the number of bugs might have doubled again!

“Director Tang, this… I…”

“I’m really sorry!”

Yan Qi felt extremely awkward, almost wishing he could find a crack in the ground to disappear into.

It wasn’t just about making a wasted trip; the key was that he had embarrassed himself in front of Director Tang again.

What an unreliable impression he must have left on Director Tang!

Fortunately, Director Tang seemed magnanimous and easygoing, showing no signs of anger at all.

But Yan Qi still felt like an idiot.

Tang Yishu lowered her head and said: “It’s okay, maybe… I have a special constitution…”

Yan Qi couldn’t help but laugh: “Director Tang, you’re too humorous. What does this have to do with constitution?”

“Even at a time like this, you’re still trying to comfort me, making me feel even more ashamed.”

“Anyway, I’m really sorry! I’ll go back and have them fix it right away!”

Yan Qi apologized profusely again, then took his phone and left.

……

After leaving the Morning Dew Gaming Platform building, Yan Qi still couldn’t understand what was going on.

“So that means the first time I brought the stable version too?”

“I didn’t wrongly accuse the developers and testers?”

“But… we really couldn’t reproduce the bugs!”

Yan Qi simply sat down on a step at the entrance of the office building, took out his phone, created a new account, and played the game again.

Half an hour passed.

“Strange, no bugs!”

“How come I don’t encounter any bugs when I play, but Director Tang encounters nothing but bugs?”

“This makes no sense at all!”

Yan Qi walked around the bottom of the office building several times. He was confused.

He didn’t know whether he should return to his own company or go back upstairs to find Director Tang again.

If he went back to his company, what if these bugs still couldn’t be reproduced?

But if he went back to find Director Tang… he couldn’t possibly have her find another dozen or so bugs, could he?

Even with Director Tang’s good temperament, she would likely get angry at that point.

As the saying goes, twice is coincidence, but there’s no such thing as three or four times.

Making three trips would be pushing it too far.

But Yan Qi tried again and truly couldn’t find any bugs!

After wandering around the bottom of the building for ten minutes, Yan Qi finally mustered his courage and returned.

After taking the elevator to the floor where Morning Dew Gaming Platform was located, Yan Qi was smarter this time. Instead of going in directly, he secretly ran the game again in a spot near the door where no one could see him.

Then, Yan Qi’s eyes gradually widened, and an incredible expression appeared on his face.

Finally, the bug was reproduced!

The bug that couldn’t be reproduced no matter how hard they tried before now reappeared, appearing so naturally that it seemed like it had been there all along.

It seemed that it wasn’t Director Tang’s problem, but the problem with this place?

Yan Qi fell silent.

This idea was too mystical, somewhat challenging his worldview.

But the facts were right in front of him, and bugs don’t lie…

He quietly closed the game process and then called the development team leader and testing team leader at his company.

“Both of you, come to the address I’m sending you, right now!”

“And bring your laptops.”

……

At five o’clock in the evening.

Li Yada yawned and was about to get up to go to the bathroom.

If she were at Tenda, she would already be able to leave work at this time.

But to better conceal their identity, Morning Dew Gaming Platform couldn’t follow the same schedule as Tenda, so the end of the workday was pushed back a bit, to between 6 and 7 p.m.

Although this working hours arrangement still seemed somewhat out of place among game companies, at least it wasn’t so obvious.

However, just as she reached the door, she heard people talking in the corridor outside.

“It’s really true! Finding bugs here for two hours is more productive than finding bugs at the company for two days!”

“Oh, this bug appeared once a week ago, but it never reproduced after that. Finally, it’s appeared again!”

“No need to rush to fix it now, just note down the cause of the bug first, and we’ll fix it later when we’re back.”

“I know, I’m recording it now.”

Li Yada was curious. She went to the door and saw three people sitting on the sofa in the public area outside. One of them was Yan Qi, and the other two were each holding a laptop, completely focused on… working?

Li Yada was baffled.

What was going on?

She went to the bathroom, and when she came back, Yan Qi and the other two were still there, showing no signs of leaving.

Li Yada quietly returned to her workstation and then whispered to Tang Yishu: “Xiao Tang, what did you say to that Mr. Yan? Did you upset him?”

Tang Yishu was surprised: “What’s wrong? I didn’t say anything.”

Li Yada: “Then why is he at our company’s door right now, with two employees fixing bugs?”

Tang Yishu: “Huh?”

Oh no, this Mr. Yan—could it be that he’d lost his mind?

Finding too many bugs had broken his mental state? So he ordered his employees to come and fix the bugs on the spot, not allowing them to go home until they were fixed?

Tang Yishu, like Li Yada, instantly had some rather outlandish thoughts.

She hurriedly stood up and went outside to take a look.

Indeed, Yan Qi seemed to be directing the other two people to fix bugs!

Tang Yishu asked: “Mr… Mr. Yan, what are you doing?”

Yan Qi, who had been seriously looking for bugs on his phone, turned his head and saw Tang Yishu, then quickly stood up.

“Director Tang, I’ve discovered that your office building is a feng shui treasure spot!”

“As soon as I come to this place, all the hidden bugs come out. Isn’t that amazing?”

“Testing bugs in this place is incredibly efficient! The bugs found in two hours of testing here exceed what we would find in two days at the company!”

“I just asked the property management of the building, and there are still a few workstations vacant on this floor. I plan to bring our entire testing team over to test right here! We’ll keep testing until there are no more bugs!”

“Although I believe in materialism, sometimes… these mystical things really do exist!”