Squeak, squeak, the early morning sea breeze blew every antique wooden door in the villa, Song Ya was woken up by this tooth-sour sound, kissed the face of Mariah Carey, who was still smiling on the corner of her mouth, and put on her clothes and got up.

"Is this going to be repaired?"

Linda and Mariah Carey's female assistant was making coffee at the bar by the open kitchen, Hayden was reading a newspaper while the seaside patio door was opened, and the white floor-to-ceiling curtains were blowing in the wind like big balloons.

"Look, it's starting to rust."

Song Ya pointed to some wrought iron structures in the room, "There are also doors, always ringing, like a woman's cry." ”

"Look at you, if you like these old works of art, they all need to be maintained all year round."

Hayden folded the newspaper and handed it over.

'Federal Trade Commission Launches Antitrust Investigation into Major Record Companies......'

The news was a photo of Daniel surrounded by his attaché, pushing aside the reporters, which should have happened before he came to the celebratory dinner last night.

"This guy ......" Song Ya casually threw the newspaper into the trash, "can we help him in any way?" ”

Although he is angry with Daniel now, he has no other choice but to continue to support him.

"Don't, just wait, this kind of lawsuit will be fought for a long, long time, after all, the outside world thinks that the FTC's claim to seek billions of fines is too aggressive. Donovan and I just spoke on the phone, except for Polygram's five major record companies, will take it seriously, according to the current situation in the record industry, even if it is shared, everyone will not be able to pay this money. Of course, Daniel's side is under the most pressure, and no one knows how the management of the book will react. ”

"We can't afford to use our energy for them, and our political relationships don't look good enough on this kind of thing," Hayden said. ”

"Hmm."

Song Ya took the coffee from Linda's hand, "By the way, who did you say yesterday that the previous owner of this house was?" ”

"The Maxwell family, the former owners of the Mirror Group, is the British media tycoon who owed hundreds of millions of pounds in debt and then died at sea in 91."

"His two sons, who inherited the Mirror Group, are going to court this year, and they are in a hurry to make a move, and this is one of them's holiday home, which has not been maintained since '92 and is only regularly tended by a gardener," Hayden said. ”

"Oh, I know, that legendary old Jewish man named Robert? Rumors outside that he is a multi-faceted spy......"

Song Ya came to be interested, and carefully revisited here, because the house was built on a cliff, the main building is not large, with an area of more than 3,000 square feet, and only four bedrooms, but every piece of furniture and furnishings is old and exquisite, and many Hayden don't know how many years, where the artworks came from, just like those Asan's wood carvings that were robbed by the British and bought thousands of miles away from the United States, but they are generally lacking in maintenance, and the paint on them is mottled.

"Do you want someone to fix it? Do you want to repair the old as the old one, or do you want to replace it all? Hayden followed behind him and said, "Actually, it's cheaper to get a new one, and you need to hire more people if you keep it as it is." ”

"I'll talk to Mimi first."

Song Ya didn't make up his mind, he liked the decoration style here, but it would definitely cost money to repair, he played with the fossils of wood and rattan dug up from the Amazon basin, which were now made into shelves, with a beautiful milky white color like ivory, "I'm going back to Chicago today, and I'll go to New York to concentrate on preparing for the wedding after the exam week, here...... Put it there for now, after all, neither she nor I will live forever. ”

"She will definitely join the group in the second half of the year to shoot Xingmeng tears." Hayden reminded: "She was serious about her first electrocution. ”

"I know, we'll talk about it after the wedding."

"Jimmy." Linda handed over the phone.

"Uh, boss, you're in Los Angeles too?" Jimmy's voice came from the other end, and his tone was cringe.

"Yes, what's wrong?" Song Ya asked.

"I have something to report to you...... Can we meet? ”

"Okay, here you go." Song Ya gave the phone to Linda.

"Jimmy, where are you? Okay, get on California Boulevard, we're in ...... Yes, not far from Ponit dume State Beach......"

Linda instructs Jimmy to drive the car to the villa as well.

"What's wrong? Jimmy. Song Ya knew there was bad news as soon as he looked at his trembling face.

"Uh......"

Jimmy stood in the center of the living room, his hands hanging at his sides, glancing at Linda and Hayden.

"Tell me, do you have any other secrets that you can't let others know?" Song Ya was silent, "Say it quickly." ”

"Well, there seems to be something wrong with 3DFX......," Jimmy said.

"What's the problem? If you have something, you can talk about it all at once. "3DFX Song Ya invested five million dollars before he finally got ...... No, 20 percent of the shares.

"They simply won't be able to produce usable chips this year...... Jimmy replied.

“WTF？”

Songya black question mark, "You...... You wait, they won't be able to produce usable chips this year? What is the meaning? Last year, I saw a demonstration of his chip at the computer show. ”

"What demo of the battle game?"

"yes......"

Song Ya still remembers the 3D graphics technology that exceeded the level of the whole audience, and all the peers present at that time had black faces.

"That demo is fake." Jimmy said.

"Fake? No way, I've seen it with my own eyes......"

"It's fake, boss...... At that time, they only had one piece of software, which was called graphics engine technology, and it was the kind of effect that only ran on SGI's professional graphics workstations. Jimmy replied.

Song Ya opened her mouth and was stunned for a long time, "No, no, it's still impossible, the SGI graphics workstation is very large, I didn't see any ...... at the time"

"They hid the SGI graphics workstation right under the presentation table, directly connected to the monitor on the stage......

“……”

Really fooled? Song Ya remembered the warning of the innovative Boss Hu at that time, saying that the level of the guys in 3DFX would never exceed the industry too much, and the people from NV Company and Dimeng Company had been shouting, 'This is impossible', so ......

"How do you know about this?" He still wanted to struggle one last time.

"The three founders of 3DFX revealed themselves, and they triumphantly boasted to the tech media that they had gotten tens of millions in venture capital by this trick, and that they had gotten five million ...... from you alone," Jimmy said.

"Oh! M-FXXK！ ”

Finally confirmed and affirmed that he had been deceived by those three second-rate liars, Song Ya was so angry that he threw the coffee cup in his hand to the ground, why did he have bad news as soon as he entered March? It's no wonder that Jim Clark, the former founder of SGI, once led the boss of the three guys at 3DFX, and didn't put any money into it himself.

"Honey, what's wrong?"

Mariah Carey and the female assistant came out of the bedroom, looked at the broken porcelain pieces all over the floor, and walked up to him worriedly.

"Nothing...... I was a little excited. Linda, clean up this place. ”

Song Ya comforted her.

"I don't understand the IT industry, but can I sue those guys?" Hayden asked.

"At that time, you don't know, investors are rushing to invest, I ...... There are no binding clauses in the investment agreement we signed, otherwise they would not have signed ......"

Jimmy was like a child who had done something wrong, his head lowered, his hands unconsciously pinching each other, "My bad, boss, you said before to give me one last chance, I messed up, so ......"

"You idiot!"

Song Ya also knew that he was not to blame, it was still that problem, it was the ability to deceive people within the scope of the law, so the three founders of 3DFX would now generously take out the 'little tricks' as a talking point and brag about it, and blamed themselves for forcing Jimmy to get this investment as soon as possible after seeing the demo demonstration effect, and he didn't even care about the reaction of the innovative Mr. Hu and other industry insiders on the scene at that time, and secretly laughed at them in his heart for being jealous of their peers, and now his face was beaten! "But I don't blame you this time." ”

"What do we do now?" Jimmy asked.

"Let's go to San Jose."

Song Ya forced herself to calm down and thought about it carefully, "Linda, call Tony and the silencer too, since those scammers at 3DFX took so much money from me, they have to make the product for me anyway, otherwise...... Otherwise I wouldn't have made them feel better! ”