Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

“Can you see it?”

“See what?”

“The bridge…” He Changwen gestured with his hands as he said, “The bridge Academician Lu talked about.”

Han Mengqi placed her index finger on her chin and thought about it for a while. She then said, “I’m not sure if the thing I see is the same thing Professor Lu is talking about… But I think they’re similar.”

He Changwen thought Han Mengqi would be just as confused as him, so he was shocked when he heard her answer.

“The f*ck, you… can actually understand what he’s talking about?”

Han Mengqi wasn’t sure why He Changwen was so excited, but she nodded and spoke with a weird expression.

“Yeah… I can understand a bit, but it’s probably because of the research project I worked on a while ago.”

He Changwen: “… What research project?”

Han Mengqi: “The problem of transcendence odd positive integer numbers on the Riemann zeta function.”

He Changwen: “…”

Han Mengqi saw him suddenly become quiet, so she paused for a second before asking, “Is there a problem?”

“Nothing.” He Changwen shook his head and began to doubt his life. He said, “My research project was similar.”

…

On the other hand…

Inside a conference room at the Star Sky Technology headquarters, a man in a suit handed over a document with a smile on his face.

“Per your request, we have revised the original proposal. I believe this meeting will be more pleasant than the last one.”

Even though he was the CEO of Penguin, he did not look down or underestimate the young businesswoman standing in front of him.

Chen Yushan took the document and scanned through the content, and a slight smirk appeared on her face.

Ma Teng, who was sitting across from her, was watching her facial expressions closely when she spoke.

“A few items need to be changed.”

Ma Teng had a dignified look on his face, but he spoke in a relaxed tone.

“Go ahead.”

“Delete all the exclusive agreements. Our virtual reality system is not a platform solely for Penguin games. Also, I want your company to cooperate with us in collecting user data while adopting our virtual reality technologies, this is to improve the virtual reality system.”

Even though Ma Teng was a little disappointed that they were unable to reach an exclusivity agreement, he was glad he did not offend the Star Sky Technology CEO.

The technology was in its early stages, the game itself did not matter at all. Any game that provided an immersive virtual reality experience would be well received by the public.

Forget about collecting user data, if Star Sky Technology wanted a Penguin board of director’s seat, Penguin would consider it seriously.

However, it seemed like Star Sky Technology did not care to control Penguin.

As for collecting user data…

For an Internet company like them, that was a piece of cake.

How could anyone target advertisements without collecting user data? How could they provide a better service to their users?

Ma Teng nodded and smiled.

“If that’s all, then we agree with your proposal.”

Chen Yushan smiled and nodded.

“Then I wish us a successful cooperation.”

The negotiation went smoothly. The two parties were able to reach an agreement on the spot.

They would sign the specific contract in a few days after it had been re-written.

Ma Teng stood up from the conference table and smiled. He shook CEO Chen’s hand as he said, “I’ve heard stories about you, looks like I finally have the honor to meet you in person.”

“Oh, you’re too kind.”

“I’ve met many corporate executives, and few of them can achieve your success at such a young age.” Ma Teng smiled and said, “Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to meet the other genius figure in your company.”

Chen Yushan smiled and said, “Are you talking about Academician Lu?”

“Yeah…” Ma Teng nodded and said, “I heard he came back from Beijing, I wonder if I have the chance to meet him?”

Chen Yushan: “I’ll forward your message to him, but don’t get your hopes up.”

Ma Teng said, “Is he busy?”

“Yeah…” Chen Yushan nodded and said, “But more importantly, he’s not interested in business activities, unless you have something interesting to talk about.”

After Ma Teng left the building, Chen Yushan went back to her office and called Lu Zhou.

When the phone call connected, Chen Yushan had a smug smile on her face.

“It’s me, you busy?”

The other end of the line sounded noisy, like he was at a cafeteria.

Chen Yushan could infer that he was probably eating.

Chen Yushan could even guess what he was eating.

“Not yet, but in a few days I will be.”

Chen Yushan: “Then I won’t bother you with the product launch, as well as CEO Ma’s invitation.”

“CEO Ma?”

Chen Yushan: “The CEO of Penguin, he’s interested in talking with you.”

Lu Zhou, who was eating his barbecued meat on rice, shook his head and said, “Why would he be interested?”

“You’re too humble, there are many people that think you’re interesting,” Chen Yushan said. She cleared her throat and began to talk about business, “Ten minutes ago, we reached an agreement with Penguin. According to the contract, they will assist us in collecting user data, as well as allowing us to modify their video games and other products…”

Chen Yushan spent around five minutes talking about the negotiations with Penguin that happened over the past two days.

Lu Zhou quietly listened to Chen Yushan. He nodded and spoke.

“Nicely done.”

Chen Yushan smiled proudly and said, “Of course, I know.”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, “We can use this as a template to negotiate with other Internet companies. Also, there’s something I need you to do.”

Chen Yushan: “What?”

Lu Zhou: “We need to build a supercomputer center.”

Supercomputer center?

When Chen Yushan heard this, she paused for a second.

“… Doesn’t the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study already have a supercomputer?”

Lu Zhou shook his head and said, “That’s for experimental use, it’s way too small. I need a commercial supercomputing center that uses massively parallel computing technology to process virtual reality network-related data. Now that we are working with other companies and commercializing our technology, it’s not like we can keep using the institute’s computer, right? It’s not appropriate, and it will use up research resources.”

“I get it.” Chen Yushan nodded and said, “So we need more computing power?”

Lu Zhou nodded.

“Yeah.

“Also, this is to future-proof our system.”

Compared with the planar network-based traditional electronic devices, the virtual reality system improved the way people interact over the Internet. It also exponentially increased the data and computation usage.

Lu Zhou had talked about this problem with Professor Lumiere, and they both agreed that they would not be able to sustain the continued expansion of the virtual reality network.

For the time being, they could use commercial servers, but they would have to upgrade to supercomputers within two years.

And in ten years, perhaps only the legendary quantum computer, capable of parallel processing and multi-threading, would be able to handle the calculations.

While it would be impossible for personal computers to handle this task.

Everyone would need an enterprise-level server, limiting the availability of this technology.

After Lu Zhou discussed with Lumiere, they decided the best method was to use a cloud computing system to handle the calculations, while the user only needed to receive the calculated data.

Thus, the only things the user needed to connect to the virtual reality network were a helmet and the Internet.

In fact, this arrangement wasn’t limited to virtual reality networks, but also the future of planar networks.

With more and more complex software, came more and more computation demands. The only way to improve personal devices would be to abandon the CPU or even hard drive and have everything done in the cloud.

Therefore, whoever provided the cloud computing services would have control over the entire virtual reality network.

That was more reliable and robust than having patents.

Whether it was for the next fifty or a hundred years, as long as Star Sky Technology had control over the cloud computing centers, they would forever be in control over the virtual reality network…