Holly handed Tommy a small California beef burger sitting on a bench on the side of the street, then sat down next to him and looked at the white-tailed deer by the lake in the distance:

"Sad?"

Tommy nodded, opened the wrapper, and took a bite of the burger: "There are some." ”

"You rarely have a moment of depression like this." Holly also opened the burger in her hand, took a bite, and looked sideways at Tommy: "Sometimes, I even suspect that you are a robot researched by those weirdos in the computer science department, and you have no emotion, and when Reni talked to me about it, she didn't say that you would be sad too, but only said that she persuaded her to say that it didn't matter, and that she would contact her when this matter passed." ”

"Renee?" Tommy heard Holly's words, came back from his thoughts, swallowed the food in his mouth and asked, "What's wrong with Renee?" ”

Holly looked at Tommy in surprise: "Look at this bastard, what's wrong with Renee?" Isn't Reni persuaded by her parents to temporarily separate from you because you are in a lawsuit, so as not to get into trouble, and you cause her to be troubled by the investigator of the opposing lawyer? Now you're asking me what's wrong with Renee? ”

"Looks like we weren't on the same channel just now, Renee...... Yes, Renee and I are separated for the time being, but I'm not sad, there are so many blondes in BDP anyway. Tommy bit down on the burger and said:

"But if there really isn't anyone else, are you willing to pay to patronize me?"

Holly rolled her eyes speechlessly: "You didn't feel sad about the breakup, so why did you put on an expression of reminiscing about the old love under the sunset?" ”

"Bob's TV direct selling company is suspected of selling some inferior products, which need to be temporarily supervised, and only approved products can continue to appear in live advertising, guess which ones have not been approved for the time being?" Tommy said in a muffled voice as he bit into the burger.

Holly thought for a moment: "Whatever there are, including our OSS?" ”

Tommy nodded: "That's right, there are only two products that have not passed the review for the time being, one is our OSS, the reason is that most consumers are worried that most consumers will not be able to verify the quality of the product because they don't have a computer, so they will select qualified software auditors for verification, and then allow it to be sold after confirming that it is correct, and the other is a spiritual drink developed by a fundamentalist church company, which is said to increase spiritual power and feel the existence of God when you drink it." ”

"That is, you are not sad at all that your girlfriend broke up with you, and you are sad mainly because you can't continue to sell software to make money." Holly sighed, "Reni is still worried that you will be upset. ”

"Superficial, Holly, I taught you never to talk to people in too superficial words, I don't care how much money I make, okay? I'm sad that Lotus is using its connections to cut off access to knowledge for ordinary people in Florida, and I'm sorry for not being sad that I'm making too little money, and we're still advertising. Tommy ate the burger in a few bites, then wiped his mouth directly with wrapping paper and handed it to Holly:

"Remember to throw it away after eating."

Holly sighed: "You just said that OSS was taken off the shelves, and then you said that ads were placed?" What to sell? Without software, the only thing Actor could sell was Jason's Cowherd service. ”

"It's not a conflict, our ads don't sell software, but instead they directly solicit donations, so Bob continues to promote conspiracy theories, telling everyone that some people have already taken action against Actor, and Actor has encountered a lot of resistance, and now they can't sell software, so the family in Florida can only donate money to support us now, but I'm afraid the donation won't be too much." Tommy said with some sadness:

"It's like when you were a kid helping your parents do housework and earn some extra money, you always got paid in full, but if you didn't contribute, you just reached out to them and asked for money, and you obviously didn't get much money."

Holly looked at Tommy in surprise: "Tommy, OSS has sold more than 40,000 sets in Florida, and even if the tax is deducted from the company's account, there should be nearly one million funds, and then you actually let those people take out the money to support you?" ”

"I can't live up to everyone's enthusiasm, counting the money Jason made in Mississippi, there is currently about 1.3 million, and I am preparing to hand it over to you." Tommy looked at Holly:

"In addition to the necessary expenses and investigator fees, the remaining funds should be put into contact Compaq or Commodore as low as possible, purchase a batch of cheap computers, with the same amount of software, and wait for the signal to appear, and put it all into the universities in Massachusetts that have SSD chapters."

"What is a signal?" Holly frowned, "You didn't say that before. ”

Tommy shook his head rightfully: "I don't know, maybe the other party withdrew the lawsuit?" Maybe it's the infighting on the other side, maybe we got some key testimony? The signal is not fixed, I can only judge according to the situation, and I am not a real robot, how can I guess what the signal is. ”

"I was going to talk to you about Renee, and then you talked about work." Holly ate her share of burger, looked at the distant sunset, and said, "Renee, she doesn't know what you're up to, and although you spend time with her every weekend, she doesn't know what you do, and you don't seem to want to talk to her about it." ”

"Reni is a good girl, her parents made the right choice, why should they involve their daughter in such unnecessary trouble?" Tommy said indifferently:

"So, do you feel like you're actually more important to me than she is now? If I had pursued you to be my girlfriend, the situation would have been completely different, and the scene would never have been as peaceful as it is now. ”

Dididi~Dididi~ Tommy's pager rang, he picked it up and looked at it, then got up and walked towards the nearby phone booth: "Thank you for your comfort, although the comfort is wrong, but I am relieved, but now I don't have time to be sad because of Reni, Susan called me." ”

"Susan?" Tommy walked to the nearest phone booth and dialed Susan's caller number: "What's wrong?" ”

"There's a senior lady named Dorothy who still has some impression of Jim Manz you said." Susan spoke.

Tommy asked, "Where are you and that chick?" ”

"San Francisco."

"Very good, find a hotel, open a room and wait for me, I'll have a long enough conversation with her." Tommy hung up the phone and looked at Holly as he walked by, "I think the signal is about to appear." ”

……

"Tommy Hawk." Jim looked at the picture of Tommy in the "Stanford Daily" in his hand: "Before the age of seventeen, he was a happy country boy, his grades were not worth mentioning, since he was seventeen, because his mother died, his sister was taken away, this guy who would have graduated from high school, he was forced to be an ordinary worker by this son of a bitch society, his academic performance continued to improve, he did anything to get his resume, he became a co-producer of Nickelodeon, held a Caribbean summer camp, and made a lot of money for high school and himself, And got an admission letter from Stanford. ”

"My father used to be a worker, unemployed, first as a shipbreaking worker, and then opened a small shipbreaking yard by himself, my brother is an auto mechanic, and my sister is in elementary school, how did that guy learn these methods? Equal rights in science and technology, equal rights for women......"

As he spoke, he picked up the remote control and pressed the play button, and the advertising video on the TV immediately began to play again, in which Tommy Hawk threw his blazer into the crowd, shouting incendiary words.

Robert pointed to Tommy Hawk on the TV and said, "They sold 43,000 units in Florida in just over two months, what is that sales in the software industry?" ”

"At the level of garbage, Lotus sold 60,000 units in a single month last month." Jim gave a statistic.

Robert shrugged: "In other words, they made nearly a million, and before the plagiarism lawsuit was resolved, they made so much money on this suspected plagiarism software, which is enough for the court to make a downward impression." ”

"Isn't there anything worth digging up for his father? The impression points lost by plagiarizing and making money are easily made up for by the two gimmicks he throws out. Jim asked, staring at Tommy in the picture.

Robert shook his head: "No, the poor at the bottom, the more this kind of person digs, the more dissatisfied the court and the jury will only be with us, feeling that we are oppressing each other unequally, and what is dug up has little impact on this case, alcoholism, gun-wielding has no direct connection with the plagiarism software of his company, his father can't even tell the difference between a computer and a game console, and the other party arranged a professional lawyer to help his father and relatives do guidance, they all know how to deal with this kind of court investigation, not to mention that the local people are fierce, Renard's car was stolen four times in two days there. ”

"You have to keep this little guy named Tommy Hawke in a tight grip so that he really stops and doesn't have time to put on all sorts of protective clothing for the Actor company, do you have any suggestions?" Jim asked as he looked at Robert.

Robert shrugged: "Based on the experience of previous cases, if there is really no other way, some employers will arrange some accidents to send him to the hospital for a while, but Jim, that kind of is when a rich man is entangled in a criminal case......"

"No, no, no, I'm not going to do that stupid thing that gets me into trouble." Jim interrupted Robert: "Find out what he did after he earned all that money, equal rights in science and technology, equal rights for women, and bring knowledge to poor ghosts like Prometheus...... If this guy donates all the money in addition to taking it out to fight the lawsuit, I think the best option is to contact privately and settle and withdraw the lawsuit. ”

"It's a bit of a dangerous feeling, obviously all the software companies are eyeing Lotus, but only this Actor company jumped out to get us in trouble, some of it was like bait, I always felt that there were other companies behind it, but the investigation showed that these guys from Actor Company had no contact with those big software companies at all."

"Ringing ring~" The phone on the table rang, and Jim picked up the phone: "I'm Jim, I'm ......"

Seeing that Jim didn't finish speaking, he was stunned on the spot with a surprised expression, and Robert asked with some surprise, "What happened?" ”

After a long time, Jim hung up the phone and looked at Robert: "National Review magazine, my old colleague called, and he came to the door with a permit to routinely ask about me and the article......"

"Are you worried?" Robert asked, puzzled, "Worried about a college student?" ”

Jim looked at Robert and said as a matter of course, "Of course I'm afraid, the other party has nothing, understand?" With Lotus behind me, we may look like the same assholes, but the weight we are carrying at the moment is completely different. ”

"So what are you thinking about?"

"Try the first formal contact between the two parties to see if there is a possibility of settlement and withdrawal of the lawsuit." Jim said seriously: "At least let me understand how much appetite the other person has, how much money he wants." ”

Let's watch three more tomorrow, and two more today...... I looked for a chapter first, and then a movie was at most two hours, so I could watch it if I wanted to, and how could I have five or six thousand words when I came back from twelve to three o'clock, and I walked in at ten o'clock, and walked out a little more, and the three-hour movie lasted almost two o'clock when I got home......

Only 3,000 words rushed out~ I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll make up for the one that I said tomorrow

But The Wandering Earth 2 is really great ~~ Recommended~

(End of chapter)