Ark Simulator, don't I have no physical form?

But when Ren Dong whispered Su Rui's name in her mind, she found that he did not respond.

'Suri? Are you awake right now?'

There was no response. Ren Dong glanced at the still somewhat foggy sky outside the window and wondered, "Could it be that Su Rui's system also needs sleep?"

In that case, it really feels like a navigator hiding in the back providing support to the pilot, except that this navigator lives in her mind.

Honeysuckle got up, dressed, and prepared breakfast in a daze, her mind still preoccupied with Suri's racial issues, afraid that she might accidentally forget about it.

Fortunately, Suri didn't keep her waiting too long. As Ren Dong was enjoying her simple breakfast, Suri's voice rang in her mind.

He yawned first, then greeted me: "Good morning! What are your plans for today?"

'Someone will be responsible for telling me what needs to be done today.'

"Speaking of which, don't you guys get any holidays? You're so busy every day?"

"Of course not. In most cases, we just need to maintain the existing order; there's not much else to deal with."

"So you mean you spend most of your time doing nothing?"

'I still need to train. My assassin skills need to be maintained; my body will rust if I don't exercise for too long.'

As Ren Dong casually remarked, she heard a knock on the door: "Come in."

Honeysuckle's furry ears perked up as she looked toward the door. Then, realizing she had locked the door, she got up to open it and saw a Rupert woman holding some documents standing in the doorway.

“Ms. Honeysuckle, this is what we need to be responsible for today.”

"Okay, come in first... no, come to my office later. Have you had breakfast yet?"

"I've already eaten, thank you for your concern."

The female assistant smiled and answered Ren Dong. Ren Dong didn't keep her waiting too long. She quickly finished her breakfast, then cleaned up the dishes. She then came to the female assistant and nodded to her: "Let's go."

As Honeysuckle and her female assistant headed to the office, Suri still had some doubts:

"Aren't you an assassin? How come you have an office?"

'I'm not just an assassin anymore, or rather, every member of the family can be an assassin, or a manager in charge of family affairs.'

"This only applies to you or Little Venice; other people probably don't qualify."

You're right.

Upon arriving at the office, Ren Dong began reading the documents on her desk with the help of her assistant.

Suri was also reading it and offered many suggestions:

"Is that old Venetian man in charge of assigning tasks? If that's the case, he seems to really value you. A lot of these tasks must be related to your family's business, right?"

'On the contrary, I don't want it to be like this.'

Ren Dong shook his head, ignoring the female assistant's somewhat puzzled gaze, and continued to respond to Su Rui while processing the documents.

"Why? Isn't this a good thing? With the power of an entire family, there are so many more things we can do. For example, we can manufacture a large number of explosives, and then..."

'And then blow the whole city to smithereens?'

"How did you know? You understand me so well!"

Su Rui's surprised voice echoed in his mind, but Ren Dong simply remained unresponsive, continuing to read the document in his hands:

"I have other plans and don't intend to take over the family entirely. Perhaps after some time, I'll step back from the family and pursue the life I want."

The thought that Su Rui was a divine being from the Eastern Kingdom made Ren Dong realize that she would never be able to maintain her family's status while marrying him. Although the Syracuse family did not have a particularly strict attitude towards intermarriage.

However, someone like Honeysuckle was practically an outsider to begin with... Although Mr. Venice did indeed treat her like a daughter, she still needed to make many sacrifices to take control of the family, such as marriage.

Having already made up her mind, Ren Dong didn't try to correct Su Rui's personality anymore. How difficult it is to change a person! Just let her adapt gradually.

However, she remembered something she had forgotten. As she flipped through the price inquiry pad in her hand, she asked herself:

'By the way, Suri, do you remember what your race is? Or rather, do you have a race?'

"Of course I do, I'm human."

'What a coincidence, I'm human too. I was asking about a specific race.'

Honeysuckle couldn't help but smile, continuing to ponder the question in her mind.

"No, you are not human."

Suri countered, "By my definition, you are actually a demi-human, or a fox-human, while I am the only true human."

'...So what kind of person are you?'

Ren Dong was slightly bothered by Su Rui's somewhat arrogant comments, but having become familiar with Su Rui's personality, she didn't argue with her about it and instead continued to press for answers.

"Let me think, to put it simply, they are individuals without tails and ears, and whose physical abilities are relatively weaker than those of the Terrans. However, our average level in terms of thinking and other aspects is higher."

'Could you show me? Like how you remember yourself.'

Honeysuckle smiled as she tried to elicit Su Rui's appearance. The system's materialization progress was roughly what Su Rui would look like after materialization. Although the racial characteristics were different, the appearance and figure should be the same.

In other words, she could bypass the system's physicalization process and directly guess what Su Rui looked like.

"Wait a minute, let me try to model it."

Afterwards, Suri fell silent, clearly preparing to present her image. The soon-to-be-successful Ren Dong couldn't help but feel pleased, a smile playing on her lips as she continued looking at the documents in her hands.

Only the clueless assistant looked at Ren Dong's occasional nods, shakes, or smiles with a bewildered expression; her new boss seemed rather strange.

Soon, Su Rui returned: "It's all done. Let me show you how it looks!"

Then, a 3D modeled humanoid figure appeared in front of Honeysuckle, but this model was almost identical to the blurry and unrecognizable model in the system's physicalization progress that Honeysuckle could see because the progress was too low.

Just as Ren Dong was feeling puzzled, she saw a notification from the higher-level system:

[An attempt to violate the rules has been detected. Any attempt to bypass system processes before the simulated system is materialized is prohibited.]

Volume 1: 12 Violence is bad

In the end, all she could see was that Su Rui looked like a boy, and Ren Dong couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. But Su Rui was still smugly asking in her mind:

"How about it? Were you shocked by my handsomeness?"

'Yes, he's definitely more handsome than I've ever seen.'

Ren Dong forced a smile as she responded to Su Rui, hoping that Su Rui wouldn't notice her weakness.

It seems that Suri did indeed create her own avatar, but the higher-level system discovered that Ren Dong was trying to cheat and directly restricted her.

It'll be mine sooner or later anyway, so let me see what happens?

Honeysuckle felt somewhat helpless, but she could only accept reality and continue looking at the documents in her hands.

With Su Rui's help, the processing of those documents was quite fast. In less than half an hour, the work that the assistant thought would take a whole day to complete was finished.

"I didn't expect you to be so good at handling these kinds of tasks."

The assistant couldn't help but cover her mouth as she looked at Ren Dong, who was already getting ready to leave, and expressed surprise at her efficiency.

"Well, it's just a few unique little tricks."

Ren Dong nodded, glanced at the last document in her hand, and although she could assign it to her subordinates, she decided to work with Su Rui.

Honeysuckle wanted to verify some things: whether the progress of the system's materialization was driven by Su Rui's opinion of her, or by the quantity and quality of the tasks she completed with Su Rui.

"What's that in your hand...?"

The assistant was puzzled when she saw the document with the commission in Ren Dong's hand. She had glanced at the commission that Ren Dong had deliberately put aside and thought that Ren Dong planned to assign it to her subordinates later.

"Get the car ready; I'm going to handle this myself later."

Ren Dong glanced at her assistant, packed up the document, and then went to her room.

Su Rui's curious voice rang out: "Could it be an assassination mission?"

Before Ren Dong could answer, Su Rui, who had already completed the scan and seen the task, placed the prompt in Ren Dong's field of vision and pouted in annoyance:

"So, isn't this just a trivial matter? Are you really going to handle this yourself?"

It was just that the shop of a small merchant who was affiliated with a Venetian family had been vandalized, and the other party wanted to teach those thugs a lesson so that they would not dare to cause trouble again.

'I have a few things I want to confirm, it's really not a big deal.'

Honeysuckle nodded, but Suri still found something that could attract his attention:

"The shop owner wants those thugs to stop bothering him, right?"

'There's no need to kill those thugs; the Venetian family still has its pride.'

"What if we cut off their limbs?"

"That won't work either." Ren Dong's lips twitched, feeling that Su Rui was even more cold-blooded than she, the assassin.

"Or, I have another idea..."

"Severe physical harm is not permitted. Those petty thugs are actually children from certain families, just temporarily neglecting their duties. Their parents may also be affiliated with the Venetian family, and arbitrary punishment would damage the family's reputation."

"They're really being overly cautious. Such a large family is actually concerned about these trivial matters."

Su Rui snorted coldly and didn't say anything more, while Ren Dong was also somewhat helpless.

In Suri's eyes, it seems there is only one way to solve a problem. In reality, even when the Mafia uses violence, they usually try to do so discreetly, since there are laws nowadays.

From the beginning, everyone knew that the shop owner would seek help from the Venetian family. So, if these thugs really got into trouble, the Venetian family would naturally be implicated as well.

Perhaps I should teach Suri more about this world; at the very least, this attitude towards games is unacceptable.

Honeysuckle pondered for a moment, then heard Su Rui's voice again:

"Hey~ I've got another great idea!"

'I can listen, but you must promise it won't be too gory or violent.'

Honeysuckle felt somewhat helpless, but still decided to listen to Suri's advice.

"Of course I know that since we can't kill them physically, we can kill them socially."

'Do you have any good ideas?'

Although Suri used unfamiliar words, Honeysuckle could still roughly understand their meaning.

Honeysuckle twitched her furry ears and had a feeling that Suri's suggestion would be quite useful this time.

“I have already found out the identities of those petty thugs who did bad things, including all sorts of bad things they did.”

As Su Rui spoke, she directly placed this information in Ren Dong's field of vision: "You should have something like a USB drive with you, right? I mean, a medium for transmitting electronic information."

'Can I use my phone?'

"That works too. In short, we can attract them with some information that they might be interested in, and then call their parents over and show them what they have done."

Then tell them and their parents that if they commit any further offenses, all their bad deeds will be sent directly to the newspapers for publication, one by one.

'You want their parents to help discipline them? That's a good idea, but these kids' parents…'

Honeysuckle still had some concerns, but Suri had already highlighted the information in bright yellow:

"I've investigated, and their parents are also within the sphere of influence of the Venetian family. They're just too busy with work to take care of their children."

Besides, these petty thugs probably have some sense of shame; they'll definitely behave themselves after being warned, unless they want to be looked down upon by their neighbors.

'Great idea, where do we go now?'

"Go print out the documents from western Zhejiang first. When you go to the print shop later, pretend to use your phone to transfer the information. I'll directly operate the printer to print these documents. Just make sure those people don't notice what I'm doing."

"I understand, there's a print shop right next to the shop that got vandalized."

Honeysuckle nodded, then asked curiously, "Since you can just warn those thugs directly, why call them 'parents'?"

"Because in this situation, their parents would usually give them a good scolding when they got home, and that's what I want to see."

After Suri revealed her plan, she immediately became wary: "You don't actually want to avoid this, do you? No, if you don't agree, I won't help you."

"Don't worry, I agree to this plan."

Ren Dong smiled. It was good that the thug had been taught a lesson. She just hoped that Su Rui wouldn't be so violent.

Volume 1: Chapter 13 Calling the Parents

So, what method should we use to attract those thugs?