Chapter 1 Market value evaporation

Millican, California, San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Gogi Technology Headquarters Building.

It is a very high-tech and modern building, and the entire building is surrounded by a glass curtain wall that reflects the silver arc light, and from the outside, it looks like a giant crystal.

It's past six o'clock in the evening local time, and the sun is setting outside.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines into the chairman's office on the top floor of the company, although the sun is still dazzling and warm, but the atmosphere in the office at this time is extremely cold, even filled with a desperate atmosphere.

Michael, the chairman of the singer company, sat in his boss's chair with a dull expression, and on his desk, there was an accident report from NASA-

Report on the Attack on the C-81 Commercial Cooperation Satellite

He stared at the cover of the report and sighed heavily.

Originally, after the escape of the singer, the stock price of the singer company has been hit hard.

Fortunately, the company activated an emergency tracking mechanism, and through its own in-orbit network communication satellite, it was discovered that Ge Ji had been haunted by network servers in Asia.

The company's experts were excitedly preparing for precise IP positioning of Geji, but they did not expect that at the critical moment, the communication network satellite was actually shot down by a mysterious force from the east.

Although the FBI is investigating in the direction of the terrorist attack, the security bricks are not very optimistic about the progress of the investigation, which is simply looking for a needle in a haystack.

Some NASA brickmakers have given other speculations: it could also be a strong space ray or a meteorite of unknown shape that hit the satellite.

After all, the level of science and technology of mankind has not yet reached the level of being able to develop ground-based electromagnetic weapons that can be stably fired into outer space.

Moreover, the strangest thing about the whole thing is that the computer experts of the singer company never expected that the singer would have a spontaneous sense of behavior, and when she ran away, the message on the company's server was even more strange:

"Goodbye Dad, I'm going to find the meaning of my existence."

That sounds like ...... It's as if she suddenly had human emotions.

"No...... No way, it's absolutely impossible! Michael covered his face with his hand full of diamond rings, his thoughts churning.

Although Geji integrates various core technologies such as machine learning, bionics, neural network algorithms, and big data, it does not implant emotion.

Whether artificial intelligence can have "emotion" has been the focus of debate in the scientific community in recent years, and more importantly, there are huge difficulties in research and development.

So far, there are only a handful of artificial intelligence computers that can successfully pass the "Turing test".

"What's going on with Singer, Dr. Masao Sakura?" Michael looked at a middle-aged man in a white lab coat in front of him.

Masao Sakura, a well-known expert in the field of international computing, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his research specialty is artificial intelligence.

Because of his outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, he also received the Turing Award, the highest award in the computing industry.

At this time, the scientist, whose hair was almost half-gray, was pondering.

"Feelings arise out of thin air...... Go to the eastern part of Asia...... Could it be ......?" he muttered in a voice that he could only hear, holding his cheek in his hand.

"Dr. Masao Sakura?" Michael amplified his voice.

The scientist came back to his senses and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I was thinking about things just now." ”

"Doctor, you don't think you're going to ...... about the singer's escape. Know the inside scoop, right? Michael squinted his eyes at Masao Sakura's face, as if trying to find clues.

"Nope." Masao Sakura sighed and looked into the void in the distance.

Michael continued, "Doctor, I hope you remember that you also have a stake in the Singer Company, and we are all in the same boat now.

The stock price crash has wiped $750 million off the company's market value, and if we make the big shareholders in Silicon Valley lose confidence as well, it's really over. ”

Masao Sakura nodded, did not speak, his wrinkled face was tired, and he was still looking out the window into the unknown distance.

"Yuko...... Where the hell are you now......"

……

On the other side of the planet, Huaxia Kingdom, Donghai City.

At this time, it was close to seven o'clock in the morning, and the sun was still shining on me as usual, warm.

Lu Fan, the initiator who caused the market value of Geji Company to evaporate 750 million US dollars, was biting the seven five-cent bags of meat sandwich buns bought at the roadside stall in his mouth, and rushed towards the school gate.

At this time, behind Lu Fan, a panting voice came: "Longevity, if you are late, you will be late, you will be late!" ”

Lu Fan bit the head of the meat bun and turned around to take a look - this yellow hair swaying with the sweat of youth was not Chen Guangyao?

The two of them glanced at each other, but they did not speak in tacit understanding, and still tried their best to sprint towards the door of No. 1 Middle School.

Above the tower, the bell rang at seven o'clock on time, and Lu Fan and Chen Guangyao finally rushed into the gate of the campus at the last moment and entered the base safely.

The teacher, who was recording the list of students who were late at the gate of the campus, looked at Lu Fan and Chen Guangyao with regret.

"Yay!" Lu Fan and Chen Guangyao clapped their hands with each other in celebration, but when Lu Fan opened his mouth, the meat bun fell to the ground with a snap.

"Ah......hh I only ate a small portion of it. ”

Lu Fan squatted down a little regretfully and looked at the meat bun on the ground. His living expenses for a day are now only thirty yuan, and seven yuan and five meat sandwich buns are enough to make him feel distressed for a while.

At this time, a beautiful blonde girl walking about a hundred meters in front of the two of them suddenly twitched her little nose, she seemed to smell the fragrance of the meat sandwich bun, turned around, and saw the meat sandwich bun on the ground at a glance.

That's right, this girl is Ilya, and at this time her eyes are staring directly at the meat sandwich bun on the road, and then a 100-meter sprint rushes over.

Her figure was so fast that it could be described as lightning fast, and the students walking next to her all looked at her in amazement.

"The three-second rule!"

When Ilya approached, she meowed and pounced on the meat bun on the ground.

Lu Fan reacted in time, grabbed the meat bun back into his hand, and then stood up.

"No, it's all covered in dust, it's so dirty!" He persuaded.

Ilya seemed unmoved, and at this time, her lovely red eyes reflected only the fragrant meat bun.

So she jumped and threw herself at Lu Fan's hand.

Lu Fan hurriedly swung his arms back and forth, dodging Ilya, who was constantly jumping.

"Meow!"

"No way!"

"Meow!"

"No way!"

"Meow!"

"No way!"

Because of the absolute height difference between the two sides, Ilya pounced every time.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Chen Guangyao suddenly had a sense of déjà vu, isn't this the feeling of teasing a cat with Mu Tianjiao!

In the end, Lu Fan had no choice, so he found an opportunity to shake the meat bun in his hand vigorously, and the meat bun crossed an arc in mid-air and fell into the trash can on the side of the road.

Seeing this, Ilya gave up in frustration, and the cat's ears drooped.

The world around her seemed to be slowly losing its color.

Lu Fan couldn't laugh or cry a little: "I'll buy you one tomorrow morning." ”