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Chapter 373 - 251 APP Goes Live_1

Chapter 373: Chapter 251 APP Goes Live_1

August 13, Wednesday morning at eight.

After finishing the approval tasks, the three pet store employees start bustling with preparations for the grand reopening of the store.

And perhaps exemplifying when it rains, it pours,

at ten in the morning, Mu You just logged into the class with his game character to start learning magic spells when his satellite phone suddenly rang. It was that customer service agent from before, telling him the initial version of the APP was ready and that they needed to gather some users to register and test for bugs.

The efficiency made Mu You want to give ten thumbs up to the network department on the other side. He immediately asked her to send the files over.

The software was named ’Wonder Pets Store,’ and its icon was their shop’s signature logo.

Upon opening the installed app, the home page featured the storefront, where various pets and pet products—images, videos, and descriptions—could be showcased.

Besides the individual pages and those for booking tickets and topping up, there was also a dedicated forum interface where users could freely communicate.

Mu You quickly browsed through it. The features weren’t numerous, there were no superfluous frills, but it met all the basic needs of everyday use. He quite liked this simple style.

Pleased, Mu You nodded and went back to his backpack space, where he caught a few Bulbasaur Seeds and prepared several kinds of pollen.

After setting up the camera, he shot some footage of the Bulbasaur Seeds.

Feeding them the pollen, the seed pods on the backs of the frogs instantly began to bloom at a visible rate, sprouting corresponding mini-flowers. When fed a different kind of pollen, they would change to the corresponding flowers after a while.

Once the Bulbasaur Seeds were fed three types of pollen, they would then change to different flower forms depending on their preferences and mood.

Mu You recorded this magical scene in its entirety, then edited it on the spot into a video over three minutes long, titled "How to Train a Bulbasaur Seed." At the video’s end, he included news of the shop’s upcoming opening and the APP’s QR code link.

After completing the production, Mu You uploaded the video to Bilibili.

At this point, the previous Chocobo racing video had reached a staggering five million views, but its actual spread was far greater, as countless pirated copies circulated on other platforms—it was ’viral’ in layman’s terms.

With the viral effect of the Chocobo video, his account’s followers had also skyrocketed, surpassing a million in just two days.

Mu You received numerous messages from video editors in his backend, urging him to post more and hoping to sign an exclusive contract with him. Additionally, there were plenty of advertisers seeking to have him endorse their products, with the highest bidder offering 300,000, hoping he would promote their pet product brand in his next video.

Mu You ignored the advertisement inquiries entirely. For one thing, he had no time to shoot an advertisement, and for another, he wasn’t going to promote something he’d never used.

He expected the video upload to take some time for review.

Unexpectedly, less than five minutes after he uploaded it, he received a message in his backend informing him that his video had passed the review.

It seemed his account had been marked for special attention; any new video would be reviewed at lightning speed.

Mu You clicked to view his video.

Just within the couple of minutes since its release, it had already amassed over a thousand plays, and the comments and bullet screens were rapidly increasing.

"???"

"My god, is that really a Bulbasaur Seed?"

"Awesome, uploader!"

"Here comes the garlic-headed turtle again!"

"Where did the uploader get the Sprite Ball from?"

"Damn, I almost thought it was a figurine when it wasn’t moving!"

"Am I dreaming, or have we entered the era of the metaverse already, where we’re all in a virtual world?"

"It seems the second and third dimensions are beginning to merge!"

"It can also bloom? That’s way too magical!"

"Calling Squirtle."

"Holy shit, can some big shot explain what the heck this is?"

"Big shot here, this is called a ’Flowering Frog,’ a highly poisonous frog species from the Star Spirit World."

"Are you sure it’s highly poisonous? I saw the uploader grab it with bare hands and nothing happened,"

"Yeah, and where did that ’Flowering Frog’ get the pocket on its belly?"

"If you’re so clever, why don’t you tell us what it is?"

"How would I know..."

"Let me take a stab at it, I work at the Science Academy. This is a new species that was just registered yesterday, and its name is ’Bulbasaur Seed’..."

"Give me a break, the guy in front is totally faking it. I can tell it’s a fake at first glance!"

...

As expected, the video once again instantly sparked the public’s curiosity, with countless bullet-comments and reviews rapidly emerging.

If the Chocobo video brought novelty last time, this time the Bulbasaur Seed gave off a more magical vibe.

Beings that only existed in comic stories were actually appearing in the real world!

But beyond the magical creatures in the video, what really captured the netizens’ attention was the grand opening announcement at the end of the video, as well as the QR code for the APP.

Mu You had been monitoring the APP’s backend since the video’s release and saw the number of people online and registered users skyrocket from zero.

Just an hour later, the number of registered users had already surpassed fifty thousand, with over ten thousand active users online.

Meanwhile, the software forum started to see a significant amount of interaction. An APP that was once deserted seemed to instantly come to life, infused with a spirit.

Of course, with the increase in users came an influx of various big and small bugs. The customer service immediately pinned a bug reporting thread in the forum and announced that the first batch of users who helped with testing the bugs would receive a commemorative avatar frame when the software officially launched.

In no time, a myriad of bug reports rushed toward the software developers, who immediately began fixing them intensively.

In this area, Mu You was unable to help and effectively became a hands-off manager, continuing to deal with the store’s business.

In the game, after completing today’s three lessons and including the overnight tutoring with Jing Moniang, Mu You had learned two of this week’s magic spells, with only the Electric Arc Sword remaining at the final 10% progress. With another session with Jane tomorrow, he could wrap it up.

In between, Mu You spent most of his time making cards, as it was the evening for the new secret technique meeting.

Besides, the pet supplies and construction materials he ordered online last week had been arriving gradually. Mu You used the Levitation Spell to move all of them into his backpack, waiting for everything to arrive before starting construction.

At three in the afternoon, the Goblins brought good news: the first laborer robot was successfully produced!

Mu You immediately went to take a look at the Goblins’ creation.

The new robot was only about one meter tall, with a somewhat crude design resembling a puppet with a pointy nose and hat. Despite its appearance, its functionality was impressive, easily handling tasks such as scooping poop, feeding animals, cleaning the area, and moving heavy objects.

According to the Goblins, the laborer robot operated on Demon Crystals. The more complex the programmed tasks, the more functions it could perform and the faster it would consume the Demon Crystals.

Based on the normal workload of a pet store, one Demon Crystal would last about two months.

Two months per crystal was a rate of consumption Mu You could accept.

Because such robots didn’t need to be numerous—a mere four or five could keep the entire Wonder Pets Store in perfect order—a year’s consumption would be twenty to thirty crystals at most, which roughly equated to up to two hundred thousand in cash. Cheaper than hiring labor, not to mention the absolute safety and tireless durability of the robots.

"Not bad at all!"

Mu You was quite pleased with the new robot, heaping praise on the Goblins and sweetening the deal further, before assigning the first robot to continue the diligent production of more robots.

Come nighttime, from eight to ten o’clock, Mu You once again went on a rampage in the Duel Field, defeating many young players.

It was a lucky day; whether it was due to the new magic he had acquired or not, he faced two veterans over level 12, each battle hard-fought and narrowly won. In total, he ended three five-win streaks and one nine-win streak.

At the end of the day, 24 wins out of 24 battles, earning him 56 badges in a single night.

However, his streak of 27 consecutive wins was attracting a lot of attention.

Especially in today’s last few battles, Mu You could feel the difficulty in dueling rapidly increasing. Clearly, someone was figuring out methods to counter him.

That was something Mu You couldn’t stop.

After Duel Field ended, time ticked towards ten at night.

Mu You quickly made a few more cards, prepared some items for the upcoming secret technique meeting, and silently waited for the dawn.