Goddess Development Plan

After wrapping up the news articles she had confirmed for release, Chu Lian had just one last detail to handle before Bunbunmaru Newspaper's launch the following day. Gazing at the screen full of news items, with all the smears against certain companies and the gossip cleverly mixed with truth and fiction, she added a final message:

"Bunbunmaru Newspaper pursues the freshest, most just, and most eye-catching content. If you have good stories, news, materials, or photos, you are welcome to submit them to us. We will select the ones most suitable for our newspaper to publish."

"Each accepted story, image, news item, or piece of material will earn the contributor a reward between 500 and 5,000 yuan. Rewards will be sent out with the next newspaper issue."

"So don't hold back—send us the information you know! If it's interesting, if it's real, if it grabs attention, then it's exactly what our paper needs!"

"Submission method: Seal your material in an envelope, and in the recipient's address section, simply write 'Sucheng, Bunbunmaru Newspaper, Aya Shameimaru.' Once it's mailed, we will have someone collect it. Whether sent by courier or post, it's all fine! Just remember to include your name and contact info, or your reward might be delayed. (Wink)"

"Lastly, don't worry about retaliation or your information being leaked. Our newspaper's delivery and collection methods are highly secretive. It's not something easily discovered."

Of course, Bunbunmaru Newspaper wasn't limited to just publishing articles. It also had several other quite practical features. For instance, it could receive letters containing specific keywords, automatically screen useful information, and even erase its own presence from non-designated individuals' perception.

However, each of these features required varying amounts of Integrity Points. For example, receiving one letter with designated keywords would cost 1 Integrity Point. The ability to conceal the newspaper from unauthorized eyes required 10,000 Integrity Points per activation, a special function meant for transmitting sensitive information.

Originally, Chu Lian envisioned the Bunbunmaru Newspaper to be a passion project limited by her personal ability—publishing one issue per week would already be a stretch. The word "daily" in its name was more symbolic than literal. Until she had a full team, it would remain largely decorative.

But just now, she had a realization. If her individual efficiency was low, then gathering materials submitted by others could speed up the process significantly, right? Of course, that was just a theory. Whether it would work needed testing. And even if it did, truly succeeding would take a long time to realize.

After all, she couldn't expect everyone to understand just how "fair," "objective," "truthful," and "reliable" Bunbunmaru Newspaper really was. Most submissions might be 99% useless, and the remaining 1% might take more time to process than writing the content herself. It was a lot of effort with little reward—but it was something that had to be tried. If her idea did succeed, then the day Bunbunmaru truly became a real daily newspaper wouldn't be far off.

The only thing troubling her now was her dwindling Integrity Points. As the paper's reputation grew, circulation expanded, and submissions increased, her Integrity Points would inevitably become strained. So selling integrity to buy integrity—that strategy couldn't stop! Not only must she sell, she must sell in large quantities…

Of course, no matter how difficult it became, giving up on Bunbunmaru Newspaper was not an option. It was her trump card, one that no one else knew about, and no one could find or restrict. Once Bunbunmaru became famous, the support she could gather would grow as well. Eventually, even a single article in the paper could draw everyone's attention to her cause.

What's more, the most valuable feature of Bunbunmaru Newspaper's distribution function was its ability to ignore space and time. By spending just 10,000 Integrity Points, a newspaper could be published in any region using its most dominant language. Though the system did impose a limitation: she could only publish in places she had physically visited, and for which the system had recorded coordinates.

But she understood that this wasn't so much a restriction as a necessary condition. After all, the system couldn't possibly publish a newspaper in a place without specific coordinates.

Fortunately, when she first arrived in this world, her parents had taken her traveling across Huaxia, and to neighboring places like Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The trip lasted over a month, aimed at helping her recover from the grief of losing loved ones. As a result, she had plenty of locations saved.

Even though she hadn't paid much attention to the scenery at the time, the autonomous system had silently recorded coordinates for all those locations—giving her the requirements needed to activate Bunbunmaru Newspaper.

Setting aside the other features, just this one—"ignoring space and time to publish newspapers anywhere in their local language for 10,000 Integrity Points"—was by far the most valuable. It was also what she treasured most.

Imagine the implications: if someone possessed a medium of communication that couldn't be blocked by any means, and which could publish virtually anything except what violated laws or crossed social red lines—a newspaper that could reach any hand in the world, no matter the country or region—how powerful would that be? No one could even begin to quantify it.

So, with such a powerful medium at her disposal, how could she not develop it properly? Especially when she was literally selling her integrity for it? Even if integrity seemed cheap, each point was worth 1 yuan!

Oops… seems like she'd accidentally said something outrageous again.

Aside from that, she had another crazy idea. But whether it was even feasible remained to be seen. Now wasn't the time.

"If things really turn out the way I expect, then Bunbunmaru Newspaper might just be the most valuable use of Integrity Points. It may take a long time to grow its capabilities, but who knows? It could evolve into something truly powerful." Staring hard at the newspaper printer, Chu Lian knew: Bunbunmaru Newspaper might just be the trump card she could never afford to reveal.

"So, Aya Shameimaru, even if you never did anything decent, I have to give you credit for your pursuit of 'truth.' Without your contributions, I wouldn't have obtained this system-modified tool with such massive potential. Ohohohoho..." She raised her brow and mentally thanked Gensokyo's most shameless girl.

"Alright, that's enough content for the first issue. If I get some helpers in the future, I can expand the page count. For now, let's upload everything into the Bunbunmaru Newspaper printer and wait for the right time to publish."

After transferring the Word doc into the printer, she packed it up and stored it in the system space. Then she stretched and checked the time.

"It's already past one in the afternoon? Looks like I completely lost track of time while working. But writing this much in just over two hours—that's definitely progress. After all, gossip doesn't need to be polished—it just needs to look and feel like gossip." The bedside clock read 1:37. Chu Lian realized it was time to eat.

"No matter how not hungry I feel, I still have to eat." That was something Ayase had told her. At her age, not keeping up with nutrition could easily lead to developmental problems. "Even if the system can correct it, it's best not to rely on that. Staying healthy is best done on your own." She never really understood why Ayase insisted, but she obeyed anyway.

Because she really didn't want to become a rare commodity! Flat-chestedness—how awful!