Livestreaming Metaphysics, Munching on Gossip Online

[Check out my upcoming novel, Making Games in the Interstellar Era. OvO] The metaphysics master Ke Xue, who failed her tribulation in her previous life, transmigrates into the modern world. She starts livestreaming fortune-telling to build up enough good karma. Only, something's not right with the people asking for readings! Caller 1 says nervously, "Every night around midnight, I hear my neighbors chopping meat, but I've never seen any bones in their trash. I heard he has a girlfriend, too, but I've never seen her..." "Is his house haunted?" Viewers: [Could it be that he's not haunted, but disposing of a body?] Ke Xue makes a quick calculation: Your neighbor chops tofu at night so the people in your building won't think he can't afford pork ribs. #What you think is a serial dismemberer is actually a guy who sets a midnight alarm to chop tofu so all the neighbors know he can afford pork ribs!# Caller 2: "Streamer, lately I keep hearing faint footsteps in my house, but when I go out to check, they've disappeared." Ke Xue: "Next time, make sure your son finishes his homework before bed instead of staying up late to do it." Caller 2 sighs in relief. "Good, it's not haunted." Ke Xue: "You're celebrating too soon. The ghost told me about it." Ke Xue adds, "Turn around right now. The ghost is behind you." Caller 2: "!" Caller 2 starts crying. "Streamer, do you offer ghost-banishing services?" Ke Xue: "Good news: You know this ghost. It's your mom." "She asked me to remind you to check your child's homework every day. She's already ditched her gal pals' square-dancing sessions three times to look after the kid. If she skips again, they'll kick her out of the group." #Caller 2's late mother: Fellow house ghosts, you know how it is. You die, and you're still stuck helping raise your grandkid!# Metaphysics livestreaming and everyday gossip, not scary. This story is entirely fictional and has nothing to do with reality. Don't apply it to real life. Please don't believe in superstition. Believe in science. [Coming soon: Making Games in the Interstellar Era] Game player Su You transmigrates to the interstellar era and faces hellish difficulty from the start. Her parents' mecha company is on the verge of bankruptcy due to malicious competition. Her second younger brother is ordered to leave school for playing too many games, and her little sister has developed psychological problems from being bullied and only wants to stay in the kitchen. Su You: What do we do? Our family's finished, isn't it? Looking at her family of elderly, young, sick, and disabled, Su You, a master game designer, says: There's no problem a game can't solve! #Mecha, Mecha# A brand-new mecha game. A bottomless pool of mechas and seven slots. Match three identical mechas in the slots to clear them. Fill up all the slots and the game is over. The easy mode of the first level can be cleared with your eyes closed. Beat the hard mode of the second level and you'll make the planetary leaderboard. Simple gameplay, addictive music, and competition for rankings between players on different planets make it impossible to put down. At first, players scoff: What is this brain-dead game? Is it for kindergarteners? Later: Do you know how deep this mecha pool is? There's a whole stack of mechas hidden under every one you move! But for the sake of their planetary rankings, players have no choice but to keep going. Want to revive? Watch an ad first! Want to undo a move? Watch an ad! After beating the game, everyone remembers one thing: Buy mechas at the Su family's store! #Combine an SSS-Rank Mecha# To help her younger brother study for his upcoming mecha-parts exam, Su You pours her heart into designing a game about combining parts to make mechas. Mecha parts and components drop randomly from above. Parts can be combined into components, and components can be combined into mechas. Everyone gears up to take on the game: If we can't own an SSS-rank mecha in real life, surely we can get one in a game? Half an hour later: I've already combined two mecha arms! Three hours later: I only need one high-torque joint to finish combining it! Students playing the game: Knowledge has wormed its way into my brain by the most underhanded means. #Little Sister's Pizza Shop# Players run a pizza shop and have to make pizzas to order. Before opening the game, players think: It's just a casual management game. Easy. But then... Customer: Where's the cheese? I can't even see any with a magnifying glass! -8.60 Customer: Is that really all the sausage? -11.80 Customer: You didn't put enough tomato sauce on it! -5.30 Player 1, near tears: At first I got bad reviews for using too little cheese, so I kept adding more and bankrupted the shop! Player 2: What's the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan? And what does lactose intolerant mean?! Player 3: They tell me to my face that my cooking is great, then leave and give me a bad review. What kind of customer is that? Player 4: Am I the only one who thinks these pizzas look delicious? The real-life version of Little Sister's Pizza Shop has pizza and cola. Take them, no need to thank me. Before arriving at the shop, players think: This time I'll be the customer. I've already prepared a reason to leave a bad review! After entering: This is delicious~ Can I apply to make my own pizza? Theme: Science is the primary productive force.