Chapter 709: "Hey, Kid, Trying to Pick Up Girls?

After about twenty minutes, the once lush osmanthus tree turned into a bald brain. If Zero hadn’t known that the bigger the tree, the more it needs to be pruned to survive, Zero would have said something.

"Zero, we’ve pruned it, we can plant the tree now."

Gazing at the shifty-eyed landscaping supervisor, who didn’t look like a good person, Zero silently pulled out the employee badge that hadn’t been used in a while.

"Didn’t you read the announcement? Don’t you know I’m the chief manager?"

The landscaping supervisor was stunned for a moment, then quickly changed his tune: "Chief Manager, we’ve pruned the osmanthus tree. Please go ahead and use the excavator to plant it."

"That’s more like it." Zero nodded in satisfaction and climbed into the excavator’s cab.

Behind him, the landscaping supervisor wiped the sweat off his forehead, unsure if it was from the hard work or the cold sweat from being scared earlier.

These days, artificial intelligence is harder to please than humans, truly a wonder.

Beep~Beep~Beep~

Zero honked the horn three times. Other than the truck driver who hooked the rope onto the excavator’s claws, everyone else moved ten meters away.

Firstly, no one trusted Zero’s skills, and secondly, the rope didn’t look very sturdy.

The fact proved these people were overthinking it. Under Zero’s operation, the osmanthus tree was steadily hoisted into the pit, and after quickly filling it with soil, Zero drove the excavator away.

The excavator still had to be returned to its original place, as this giant toy still belonged to Candy Technology.

After parking the excavator and hopping back, Zero saw the landscaping people watering the tree and nodded.

"Now that’s more like it."

Taking out the phone, Zero snapped pictures of the bare osmanthus tree.

After selecting and beautifying the best-looking photo, Zero sent it to the boss.

"Keep an eye on this tree more this month; we can’t let it die."

"No problem, you can rest assured!"

Reassured, Zero slightly shook her head and turned to leave.

No one noticed that around Dormitory Building No. 1, three high-definition cameras were currently fine-tuning their surveillance direction, with the focal point being the newly planted osmanthus tree.

Should any adverse signs appear on the osmanthus tree, the alert program set by Zero would automatically report the data to her.

In the office, Mo Jingchun, idle and bored, saw the photo sent by Zero and chuckled lightly.

"With this photo, I’d believe it was photoshopped."

Shaking his head, Mo Jingchun directly deleted the photo; keeping it would only take up memory, what’s the use?

A few minutes later, Zero walked in with her own background music.

"Boss, it’s done."

"Mmm."

Mo Jingchun acknowledged without further comment; it was just a minor issue with a tree, there was no need to pay too much attention. If Zero hadn’t been the one mutilating the vegetation, Mo Jingchun wouldn’t even have bothered if he saw an extra pit there.

With so many employees at Candy Technology each performing their duties, if even such small issues required the boss’s attention, Candy Technology might as well declare bankruptcy and dissolve.

Watching the leisurely Zero, Mo Jingchun spoke up: "Are the industrial robots prepared for the exhibition?"

"Nope."

"Then why aren’t you in the lab, playing with your phone here."

"Uh... Boss, does it make a difference? Doesn’t it all end up being the same wherever I am? After all, all I need to do is give White the orders and it’s done, I’m not the one doing the work."

Momentarily at a loss for words, Mo Jingchun thought for a moment and said: "Since you have nothing to do, from now on, check around the office areas each morning and afternoon at random times, give them a little scare when you’re free."

"I’ve noticed we’ve been treating them too well. Some people have started slacking off and are not proactive at work."

"We can do that!" Zero excitedly rubbed her little hands.

It’s just a pity that Little Grey refused to follow her along.

"Boss, I’ll surprise them now."

"I know exactly who is slacking off, their performance is abysmal."

Patted her chest, Zero eagerly rushed out.

Because from the surveillance, Zero had already spotted several entrenched slackers performing poorly.

On the 13th floor, the elevator opened silently, and the cleaning lady who was tidying up the 13th-floor elevator lobby was startled by Zero’s sudden appearance.

After Zero moved past, the cleaning lady curiously pressed the elevator button, wondering why there was no elevator arrival chime earlier.

Ding~

The elevator doors opened in response, and now, the cleaning lady was even more perplexed.

"The elevator isn’t broken, weird."

Shaking her head, the cleaning lady continued mopping the floor.

R1306, the office area of the Vermilion Bird Team, Agile Development Group.

In the fifteen-person team, two people were chatting and laughing about topics while the others were busy coding.

Next door in R1305, Li Xuanyu, who had become the team leader and served as a core technical algorithm engineer, saw Zero bouncing silently, about to call out, saw Zero make a "shh" gesture.

Seeing this, Li Xuanyu watched Zero enter Room 1306.

Seemingly realizing something, Li Xuanyu said to her team, "Be careful today, finish your current work before chatting."

After speaking, seeing the curious eyes of her team, Li Xuanyu stood up and walked out.

R1306

Still oblivious to the newly added "person" in the office area.

Li Xuanyu just reached the door of R1305, saw Zero standing behind the two employees engaged in excited conversation, and teasingly said, "Yo, boys flirting, huh?"

Unable to hold back, Li Xuanyu burst into laughter, thinking how funny Zero was.

Unlike Li Xuanyu, the two individuals were startled.

Turning around to see it was Zero, they were scared again.

Zero frowned, "Am I that scary?"

"No..."

"Then why did you shiver just now?"

Glancing at the employee badge of the "boy," Zero glanced at the Vermilion Bird Team leader, then said:

"Peng Zijing, employee number 010683, performance evaluation in the sixties for three consecutive months, unfinished work during work hours, yet you still have time to flirt!"

Zero looked at Peng Zijing with eyes expressing bewilderment, "I’m just curious, don’t you know the rules of Candy Technology? Aren’t you worried about getting fired?"

"Don’t you seriously think that Candy Technology only dismisses employees when their performance evaluation falls below sixty?"

Tapping into popular online phrases, Zero teased: "No way, no way."

In the next moment, Zero suddenly put on a serious face, "Peng Zijing, you’ve been on my observation list since last month."

Saying so, Zero looked a bit oddly at Peng Zijing, pointing to Yan Zimei sitting next to him, and said, "Yan Zimei, with performance evaluations of over eighty-five for two consecutive years, including twice achieving over ninety with excellent performance."

"So... what’s on your mind?"