"Damn it!"

San Jose, 3DFX didn't know when it upgraded the headquarters ban, Song Ya and Tony, Silencer, and Mawota were safely blocked out by the unfamiliar white man, "A bunch of liars! ”

"Is there anything I can do to help you, sir?"

The security guards turned sideways vigilantly and pressed their hands to their waists.

"Get out of the way! I'm the one who pays you! ”

Song Ya yelled at them.

"Sorry, you need to register and apply for a visitor ID card to enter." Said a man who looked like a security chief.

"Don't be impulsive, Tony."

Old Mike grabbed Tony's back collar as he was trying to break in, "Don't you know him?" Pointing at Song Ya and asking the other party.

"Recognized, but ...... Sorry, we're just doing what we do. ”

The head of security was also struggling.

"Boss......" At this time, Dr. Mei came down to pick up people, "Let's register first, it will be fine soon." He held some temporary visitor cards in his hand, and after calling at the front desk to confirm and register them one by one, he led several people into the elevator.

"Don't do it later, boss."

Jimmy saw some security guards panting up the stairs and followed, "I've heard stories of some company managers deliberately framing investors and putting them in prison. ”

“M-Fxxk……”

Song Ya easily pushed open the office door that blocked the three guys last time, "What about people?" Where are you hiding!? ”

"It's all in the conference room." "There were ......other people in the meeting," Dr. May said.

"What, learn to be obedient? Prepared? ”

The office area of 3DFX is not large, Song Ya walked quickly to the conference room, "You three ......" pushed open the door, and it was crowded with white technographers in plaid shirts, all of whom turned their heads to look at him, making him a little blind for a while.

"BY THE WAY, OUR INVESTOR, MR. APLUS, IS HERE TODAY, EVERYONE KNOWS EACH OTHER, RIGHT?"

Rose Smith, one of the trio of liars and the current manager of the company, hurriedly greeted Song Ya, clasped his hands together and made a gesture of begging for you, and kept making a look, "Let me introduce you?" ”

"You guys wait outside."

Song Ya decided not to embarrass them in front of so many people for the time being, and turned back to Tony and the others to give an order.

"This is John Carmack, the founder of ID Software, the creator of the 3D shooter DOOM (DOOM), and the developers of the 3D game project team from EA, Eidos, and Interactive Light, who are also developing new 3D shooters on the arcade platform."

Ross Smith enthusiastically introduced Song Ya one by one, "We are already cooperating. ”

"Hello, hello ......"

Song Ya had no choice but to hold back his anger and shake hands with the technads who were staring at him curiously, "John, I've heard of you, Mark Anderson said you are a genius programmer." ”

The only person he knew was John Carmack, a white man with a young face like a high school student, who seemed to be named one of the most influential programmers in the world by a magazine, and who was only a few years older than himself? He is best known for his efforts to melt a school window at the age of 14 with homemade thermite to steal a new Apple computer with his accomplices, and was soon arrested and sentenced to a year in prison.

"I know him, he's strong, but I don't really like him......" John Carmack spoke very bluntly.

"Why?" Song Ya asked.

"Long live open source!" There are programmers shouting from behind.

"Oh, I see." Song Ya remembers that this guy seems to be a staunch supporter of open source software, and he just made the source code of his 3D engine public.

It's no surprise that he was able to fall in love with the three crooks at 3DFX, as 3DFX also donated its Glide API for free for game developers to use.

Hehe, it's all Lao Tzu's money......

"I don't know much about code or anything." After fainting at Netscape HQ, he now refuses to talk about code.

"We've had a great collaboration with John and the rest of us, so that when the 3DFX graphics acceleration card is available, there will be a lot of high-quality 3D games coming out at the same time......"

Ross Smith introduced to the investors who contributed the money, "You can first see the demo effect of APLUS. ”

Since the hardware chips had not yet been manufactured, the three crooks were still using the old trick of running the software on an SGI graphics workstation in the conference room.

The huge SGI logo on the workstation host fell into Song Ya's eyes, which immediately evoked his unpleasant memories of being deceived, which was very eye-catching.

"Or might you try it?"

One of the trio noticed the focus of his gaze and quickly pushed the keyboard and mouse over to distract him.

"I don't play much......"

"It's very simple, use the mouse with your right hand and put your left hand on the up, down, left and right buttons."

Song Ya saw that the monitor on the conference table was a picture of the character holding the gun from the first perspective, holding the mouse with his right hand under the guidance of the other party, and holding the four keys with his left fingers.

The picture began to move under his control, a polygon monster rushed over, he subconsciously moved the mouse to adjust the crosshair, and then pressed the left mouse button, the game character fired, and the opponent was successfully 'killed'.

"Wow, yes APLUS, you've played DOOM before." Ross Smith laughed.

"No, I prefer to play civilized...... This one...... It's a little awkward to move......"

Song Ya was so focused on the operation that he couldn't even speak, because the up, down, left and right keys on the keyboard were too close to the mouse, so that the left and right hands had to come together, and it was uncomfortable to change the posture.

"You can set your own keys, and you can use whatever you like." John Carmack helped bring up the settings menu.

After a two-second pause on the keyboard, he naturally replaced the four keys with WASD, "It's much better." He started playing again.

This should be a demo demo, the scene is very small, and he quickly got bored after brushing a dozen monsters, throwing away the keyboard and mouse, "It feels pretty good......

It's really not bad, there is still an inexplicable sense of familiarity after changing the keyboard settings, he looked at the eyes of everyone in the conference room softened, he was too familiar with this 'familiarity', after summing up, he knew that this generally meant that the other self before the crossing had a relevant impression, or a deep impression.

For example, the involuntary laughter when I first met Mariah Carey, such as hearing the name of the programming language JavaScript, and so on......

"When the ES version (engineering sample) of our 3D acceleration chip is produced, there will be no need to demonstrate it on this host."

The liar's ability to read words and emotions is strong, Ross Smith saw that the hip-hop singer's expression in front of him was no longer so angry, and immediately led the topic in the direction of asking for money, "Just use an ordinary home computer host." ”

"So when will this ES version be produced?" Song Ya asked.

"October, October will do."

Ross Smith replied, "But now the company has ...... money APLUS, COME TO MY OFFICE AND TALK. ”

Song Ya sighed, got up and went out together, "Tony, forget it, you guys go downstairs and wait for me." ”

Sit down in the other party's office, "What do other investors say?" He asked Dr. May, the overseer he was stationed here.

"Everybody is reluctant to do a second round of funding." Dr. May replied.

I'm scared of being deceived......

"Let's open the call for Series A venture capitalists."

Song Ya rubbed her eyebrows and replied helplessly.

"Time ......," Ross Smith seemed to be preparing to stare at a man's pit.

"You set a timeline if there is still a gap in venture capital funds before the last minute...... I'll see the situation again. ”

Song Ya stood up, directly grabbed the other party's collar, and slipped his legs off the ground, and the two looked at each other at eye level, "If you lie to me again, again, what will I do, you know." He had a fierce look in his eyes and a stern threat.

"I UNDERSTAND, I UNDERSTAND, PLEASE REST ASSURED MR. APLUS."

"Hmm."

Song Ya put him down satisfied, "Jimmy, Mike, let's go." ”

As soon as I went downstairs to meet Tony and the others, the mobile phone in Old Mike's arms rang, but Linda didn't follow, "It's a landline, it's from New York." Old Mike said as he looked at the unfamiliar caller number.

"Who's looking for me?"

Song Ya connected.

"APLUS, YOU'RE NOT IN NEW YORK?" It was the voice of Doug, the chief of staff in the Underwood whip's office.

"No, I'm here in San Jose." Song Ya replied.

"Would it be convenient to meet in New York? I'd like to talk to you about this. Doug said.

"What's the matter?"

"It's about an African-American congressman." Doug replied.

Then there was only Rangel, Song Ya immediately reacted that Underwood's fox wanted to meddle in his business again, "Fxxkyou, Doug, why did you show up as soon as I made a big move?" But this time you're late, and I've already decided not to invest in the inner city broadcaster, so there's no need to see this side at all, that's all. ”

"APLUS, we are resisting the Elephants' boycott of next year's federal budget in Congress, and the telecommunications bill needs to be passed by the House of Representatives, so we can't do without the support of the African American caucus at this time." Doug was afraid that he would hang up the phone, so he talked a little too much.

"What does it have to do with me?"

"Come on, come to New York, let's talk first, and we can always come up with a plan that everyone can accept, right?" Doug said.