Chapter Twenty-Six: Prometheus

In the wave of applause, Zhang Zhicheng stepped off the podium. This is the second time he has given a speech in Panwang Daguan, and the last applause was a praise and affirmation of the salesman, but this applause is the admiration and envy of the successful.

After the efforts of the second half of September, as well as the efforts of the October holiday, the installed capacity of Mengzhen Magic Mirror has exceeded the 10 million mark. This rocket-like growth rate makes any company that makes APP envious and jealous, Mengzhen Magic Mirror is not free, and every installed capacity is real income.

According to the speculation of the industry and the media, by the end of the year, the installed capacity of Mengzhen Magic Mirror will easily exceed 30 million, and in the further future, maybe Mengzhen Magic Mirror will be popularized to every mobile phone.

However, the installed capacity is no longer the data that Zhang Zhicheng is most concerned about, and Mengzhen Magic Mirror is not only entertainment, but also a change in business and social networking. When 3D scanning can be easily realized with mobile phones, whether it is advertising, or shopping guides, and various social apps, not introducing 3D means the loss of competitiveness, today he is talking about the interconnection of the dream magic mirror and various APPs. Compared with the income of Mengzhen Magic Mirror spreading to the entire mobile Internet, the income from installed capacity is just a drizzle.

"Well spoken, sincerely! Others say that the dream can really enter the 10 billion club in 2020, and I think it will come true next year. ”

"Cheng Huang always said auspiciously, with the support of Chihiro, this matter is so decided, haha......"

Mr. Huang of Qianxun Company greeted him, and Zhang Zhicheng threw away a bunch of media and hid in the corner with him to greet him.

After a few polite words, Mr. Huang said: "Half of the success of the magic mirror depends on those hackers, right?" Now even Mao Zi's hackers have formed a group, but there is still no progress, and the whole world knows about it. ”

He seemed to think of something inadvertently: "When you released the magic mirror here a month ago, you also invited beautiful scientists from the research institute of Yan University to help, I heard that ...... Something happened to that institute? ”

"Yes, their leader had a car accident," Zhang Zhicheng said, "but it's okay, it doesn't have any impact on Mengzhen's side." ”

Mr. Huang smiled: "This is a good opportunity, whether it is recruiting talents or getting the anti-cracking technology, it should be easy." ”

Zhang Zhicheng's eyes jumped, and he said with a smile: "Lao Huang, you are well-informed enough, you have a plan, but you are friends with others, and you can't do things too much." ”

Mr. Huang patted his arm: "The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and it is unacceptable to be emotional." ”

Zhang Zhicheng pondered for half a second, and said seriously: "Thank you Mr. Huang for the reminder." ”

The assistant came over, and Mr. Huang looked at this young and beautiful beauty, smiled at Zhang Zhi sincerely, and shook hands with him to say goodbye.

"Tell the legal department that you don't need to look for the loopholes in Xia Ming's agreement", seeing Mr. Huang leave, Zhang Zhicheng explained to the assistant: "Then send the money over, immediately!" ”

"Why? Didn't something happen to Xia Ming's research institute? Even if we can't dig him, the legal counsel said that it will not be difficult to get the technology into our hands", the assistant was puzzled.

Zhang Zhicheng looked at the assistant dissatisfied, and said coldly: "I changed my mind." ”

In fact, it's not just a simple emotional ......, Zhang Zhicheng thought to himself, Mr. Huang instigated himself, didn't he hold the praying mantis to catch cicadas, and Huang Que was behind? Put pressure on Xia Ming, and then he can cut off his beard? It was he who saw Xia Ming's anti-cracking technology with him, and he knew the value of this technology best outside of himself.

However, the most important thing is feelings. When Mr. Huang said that "the battlefield is like a shopping mall", that face made him extremely disgusted, and it also made him suddenly realize that what he was doing and planning to do was not exactly the same face?

Maybe when Mengzhen stepped into the 10 billion club, he had to hang that face all day long, but there must be some place to let go of his purity and innocence.

Xia Ming, I hope you can be worthy of my innocence.

"Don't blow it, it's not black, Prometheus is really a black technology......"

In the office on the second floor of the research institute, Xia Ming was typing out this line, and the text message reminded him that he had received 1.3 million, and he was a little puzzled, Zhang Zhicheng was a vegetarian?

It's okay, Zhang Zhicheng can be crossed out of the blacklist for the time being......

Xia Ming breathed a sigh of relief, with this money, things would be easy.

It's been almost two weeks since the accident, and it's been a bit of a tough two-week one.

Professor Xu became a vegetative state, and the survival of the institute became a problem. Although Tang Xiaotang tried to keep the research institute with Yan Da, her age and qualifications were too young to take charge of a research institute on her own. Others are neither familiar with this field nor have the courage to take on this hot potato. coincided with the October holiday, and Yan University had not had time to make a conclusion, but by the end of this month, most of the institutes would not be able to keep it.

Everyone saw such a prospect, so the institute fell into a situation of internal and external difficulties. He Xinghui and Hu Jun's two assistants are looking for their own ways, and the cooperative units that have been negotiated before have also withdrawn their investments, as for the Ellilo company, taking advantage of the opportunity that Professor Xu lost his rights as a natural person and Tang Xiaotang lost his voting rights, he cleanly cut off the projects supporting the institute.

The only fortunate thing is that Lin Cheng did not flinch, and his willingness to persist was stronger than Tang Xiaotang.

In other words, there are only three of them left in the institute now, and they are running out of ammunition and food.

What to do next, the three of them discussed for a long time and made two plans.

The first is a guarantee plan, which converts the institute into a private research institute and continues to stick to it in Yandu.

This is the worst-case scenario, and the consequences of breaking away from Yanda are extremely serious. Although on the surface, when Professor Xu was there, Yan University only provided a venue for the institute, but with the support of Yan University, there was no shortage of talents and resources, and the cooperation with other units was also smooth, and the academic results obtained were also easily valued.

Once you leave Yan University, it is actually equivalent to leaving the formal academic circle and becoming a civil science group that the entire scientific research system looks down on. Even if there are earth-shattering achievements, they will be questioned and suppressed in various ways.

The second plan is to strive to keep the institute at Yan University, and to realize this plan, it is necessary to come up with eye-catching academic results as soon as possible, and to this end, it is necessary to adjust the research direction on the bright side, so that Yan University can realize the value of the institute.

After the discussion, the three of them decided to turn their direction to biocomputers, and came up with a paper such as "Quaternary Shell for Quantum Computing to Detect Neural Quantum Effects", creating a new field of biocomputers, which was enough to keep the institute. Although the institute had to drop the name of "artificial intelligence" and change it to something like "Institute of Neural Quantum Computing", with this hat, it can continue to advance Professor Xu's research.

However, such a paper cannot be produced in black and white, and there must be test data and reports. In the previous test, because of the wrong direction and Hou Yunting's destruction, the data and reports could not be used. To realize this plan, Qianyan must be allowed to run at least one more time.

Here's the problem, without Ellillo's artificial synapses and the starter, Qianyan can't move. Of course, Xia Ming also thought about not needing a starter, no need to supplement artificial nerve synapses, and start it by himself, but the result didn't make sense logically.

Tang Xiaotang had to go to the United States, on the one hand, to seek alternatives to artificial synapses and enlighteners, and on the other hand, to find acquaintances in the academic community to intercede with Yan Da, at least to delay the abolition of the institute.

Xia Ming's job is to find money, whether it is a new artificial synapse or a new starter, it needs money.

Tang Xiaotang is rich, after all, he is a shareholder of Ellio, and he will sell tens of millions of dollars to say the least, but the matter of share changes cannot be done in a short period of time, not to mention that Ellio is controlled by Yang Yuanchang.

If you let go of your hands and feet, reckless of the consequences, it will be easy to find money, but there is another part of the hardships of the past two weeks, that is, he has been targeted by the police.

The matter of Hou Yunting and Deng Jian, the murderer could not be found, so it could only be hastily determined as an accident, but the police traced the unusual relationship between Ellio and the research institute by Deng Jian, and smelled the smell of a transnational case.

Driven by "making a big case", the police's surveillance of Xia Ming in the past two weeks has been pervasive, although for Xia Ming, these surveillance are completely in the spotlight, but he also has to stop the idea of looking for money from abnormal channels.

To make money from normal channels in a short period of time, Xia Ming can only focus on Prometheus.

The commercial version of Prometheus was released a week ago, and the basic version is all about saving power. According to Li Diluo's request, Xia Ming and Lin Cheng also developed two DLCs, one is power consumption analysis, and the other is whitelist management, after all, the basic version is indiscriminate, and all non-essential CPU responses are prohibited, which makes some apps that must be resident in the background unable to respond in real time.

The basic version is priced at 19 yuan,DLC6 yuan each,As long as 31 yuan,It can greatly improve the power consumption of the mobile phone,And the management of the mobile phone is really in your own hands,The operation is very simple,There is no need to consider the security problem after ROOT,This is definitely an artifact-level APP for Android players。

In the first three days of sales, the installed base exceeded 10,000, and the growth rate after that was like the collection and recommendation of a servant street network writer, which rose by a few a few every day.

The conclusion of the analysis is that this amount has circled the core users of the Q group, card bar and Android technology forum, these people are fan-oriented, and they care most about the function, and money is secondary. However, outside of the core users, Prometheus not only lacks promotion efforts, but also runs counter to the existing free trend. What's more, the vast majority of people don't care about the power consumption of mobile phones and the management of mobile phones, so the future of Prometheus is not very bright.

"The three things I hate the most in my life: women lied to me, my father scolded me, and I spent money to buy a mobile phone and was played with as a fool!"

Li Diluo is not convinced by this conclusion, he believes that the APP on Android phones is full of all kinds of deception and strong forks, Android phones are completely a concentration camp of liars and robbers, there will always be people who will be dissatisfied with this, there will always be people who are unwilling to be wantonly fished, this is the prospect of Prometheus. He's been planning to make a big news, and he's busy all day long.

But this world is like this, no matter what you want to do, you have to have money first. Li Diluo's first plan, that is, the minimum commercial promotion, was shelved because of lack of money.

Originally, Xia Ming had this money, and Zhang Zhicheng still owed him 300,000 yuan for the development of anti-cracking programs, as well as 3 million for half a year's exclusive external authorization. According to the agreement, 1.3 million can now be obtained.

But something was wrong at first, Zhang Zhicheng not only did everything possible to prevaricate, but also tried his best to recruit him, which was completely an ugly face of taking advantage of the fire to rob. Xia Ming was even thinking about when the other party would send him a lawyer's letter, stating that the anti-cracking technology did not belong to him but to Mengzhen Company.

Xia Ming sighed deeply about this, he was really the enemy of the whole world, wasn't Zhang Zhicheng a member of the "us" in Yang Yuanchang's mouth?

It's easy to deal with Zhang Zhicheng, but Xia Ming has no time or energy. Now he has to trace Yang Yuanchang's background through the Internet every day, find time to study physics, and think about how to connect directly to the Internet. After Tang Xiaotang left, he and Lin Cheng still had to maintain the institute in person, and some theoretical preparations must be made in advance for future papers.

Now that he received this money, things will be easy to do, and Xia Ming didn't have time to figure out why Zhang Zhicheng changed his mind, he sent a message to Li Diluo.

[I need a promotion plan with a limit of 1 million, can I get it done today?] 】

It took a while for Li Diluo to respond.

【O。 O! Naruko, what are you crazy about? We haven't made a million yet! 】

Xia Ming smiled, he didn't want to put pressure on Li Diluo, he didn't tell Li Diluo about the situation on the research institute, he just said that he was more idle now, and he wanted to make Prometheus bigger with Li Diluo.

[What is a million?] By the end of this month, if you don't earn 3 million, you'll come and see you! 】

【QAQ~ooooo! Don't worry, I won't cut both heads to you! 】

[Get out!] Get me the plan today! 】

[I'm not good at this!] And I can't get away from running the Comic Show today, why don't you let Xiao Huan go to you? She is a professional. 】

Li Diluo really has an idea, running a comic book exhibition to promote Prometheus, and so on...... Xiao Huan?

Xia Ming only remembered this person, when he fainted at the gate of Yan University before, it was this girl who sent him to the hospital, and then he was too busy and never mentioned it again.

[Xiao Huan is your girlfriend? 】

[Which one can afford to climb, he is a top student of the School of Communication of the National University of China. Originally, I wanted to interview you to make a big news, but seeing that you are so busy, I have been helping you block it, and by the way, I kidnapped her into the company to do part-time promotion. 】

[Why don't you become a girlfriend by the way? ] 】

[She's not my cup of tea, I'll know when I see it.] It's not beautiful, it's definitely at the school flower level, boss, you should find a girlfriend too. 】

chatted and chatted about the topic, Xia Ming didn't have the heart to talk about life with a failed guy like Li Diluo, so he replied "let her come right away" and ignored it.

Girlfriend? Do you think I don't? I'm just afraid of scaring you, so I haven't introduced you to it.

Xia Ming secretly thought to himself, and then thought of Tang Xiaotang going to the United States alone, and couldn't help but worry.

When Tang Xiaotang made this decision before, Xia Ming still wanted to dissuade her, he didn't want to receive any more emails. Tang Xiaotang said that now that the research has stopped, there is no need for Yang Yuanchang to attack her again, and she is not unattended there, so there should be no problem in terms of safety. The point is, without going to the United States, the preparations cannot be carried out.

Xia Ming was convinced, but he couldn't let go of the apprehension in his heart. Looking at the title I just typed on the screen, I felt that the taste was wrong, so I deleted it all and typed the next line again.

"Friend, have you heard of Prometheus?"