Star Operating System

Huo County

Future Technology headquarters.

Li Zhou wore flip-flops, with his legs propped up on the desk.

Paired with a cup of hot tea, he could not have been more comfortable. If he had two pretty little secretaries standing beside him, life would be as carefree as an immortal's.

Li Zhou decided that when he had the time, he would make a trip to the capital and recruit two exceptionally capable secretaries from a university.

But that would have to wait. Looking at the three ultra-HD curved monitors on the large desk before him gave Li Zhou a headache.

The three screens were filled with code written by the company's IT department under Li Zhou's overall planning. To be honest, Li Zhou was extremely dissatisfied with their code. Still, once all the code was merged together, it could barely run.

But what Li Zhou wanted was a high-speed train. Fine, they had failed to meet his expectations and only built him a car instead. But what was with the wheels? It was supposed to have four car tires, so why were the two rear wheels such uniquely styled bicycle tires?

That left Li Zhou completely baffled. Since when could bicycle tires be used as car tires?

Even more outrageous, the shabby little car could still reach a speed of a hundred kilometers per hour.

To train the company's IT department, Li Zhou had insisted on handing the development of the operating system he had named Star to them. Fortunately, all the features had been completed and it worked normally, but the more he looked at it, the more displeased he became.

Li Zhou did not even dare alter this garbage code casually. One wrong character, and the "car" might fall apart on the spot.

That really was not impossible.

Li Zhou stared at the code for a long time. If he were going to optimize it himself, he might as well tear down the existing framework and rebuild the code from scratch. That might even be faster.

Li Zhou let out a heavy, helpless sigh.

"Ugh!"

"Weixi, have Ming Qiong from the IT department come to my office."

"Seriously, I thought they could all stand on their own now. With logic code like this, wouldn't outsiders laugh themselves to death if they saw it? What good would that do us?"

"Understood, Boss. Weixi has notified Ming Qiong of the IT department."

At the same time, Ming Qiong, who was sitting at her computer writing code, heard the office speaker.

"Ms. Ming Qiong, Chairman Li Zhou would like you to come to his office immediately."

Ming Qiong, who had been typing away at her code, froze for a moment before nodding.

"Alright, I understand."

No one found the exchange between Weixi and Ming Qiong strange. After the past few days, everyone had grown used to Weixi's presence.

Not to mention that Weixi's presence had made things much more convenient for everyone.

They no longer had to carry an access card around every day, worrying that they might lose it.

Nor did they have to go through the tedious process of clocking in every day. Now, as long as they arrived at the company, facial recognition automatically logged them in and out whenever they passed through the company doors.

After taking the elevator down to the rarely visited B10 level, Ming Qiong nervously knocked on the chairman's office door.

Knock, knock, knock.

Hearing the knock, Zhou Song opened the door and looked down to see a petite girl—Ming Qiong.

Zhou Song nodded at Ming Qiong, let her enter, then casually shut the door behind her.

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Unlike the aboveground main building, whose offices used transparent tempered glass, all the offices on B10 were reinforced concrete structures with soundproofing.

Seeing Zhou Song casually close the door, Ming Qiong did not know why, but her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"Chairman, you wanted to see me?"

Li Zhou glanced at Ming Qiong and silently lowered his little feet from the desk.

"Mm. Come take a look."

Under the watchful gazes of Zhou Song and the others, Ming Qiong walked uneasily behind Li Zhou and looked at the three large screens on his desk.

The instant she saw the screens full of Han Language code, Ming Qiong grew even more nervous.

Could there be something wrong with the code everyone wrote? But everyone could only see their own section, so it was hard to say whether there were any problems.

Li Zhou raised an eyebrow. "Take a look at this code. How well do you think it was written?"

Ming Qiong stared at the computer screens for a long time but could not find any mistakes.

"Chairman, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this code, does there?" Ming Qiong's tone was uncertain.

After all, if there were no problems, the chairman would not have suddenly called for her.

"Heh. There are no obvious mistakes."

"Then...?"

Li Zhou spun his chair around and turned to face Ming Qiong.

"Does your family car use bicycle tires? And is its steering wheel tractor-style?"

"Anyone who knows would think you were building a car. Anyone who doesn't would think you were building some bizarre mishmash. Are the standards in your IT department really this low? Since when has a big company considered code correct just because it runs?

Can a person run as fast as a car?"

The more Li Zhou spoke, the more fired up he became, lecturing Ming Qiong for a full ten minutes.

Ming Qiong stood there with her face red and her head lowered, not daring to make a sound.

After talking for ten minutes, Li Zhou felt as though his throat was starting to smoke.

Li Zhou picked up his teacup, took a sip of cold tea, and fell silent for a moment.

"I'll find a university professor to give you people a lesson. They'll teach you what software engineering is and how to optimize code. Listen carefully and learn properly. Once you're done, if you submit this kind of garbage code again, pack up and get out."

Ming Qiong did not dare raise her head to meet the chairman's eyes. She merely nodded again and again, like a chick pecking at grain.

"Alright, go back. Hold a meeting within your department and reflect on yourselves."

Ming Qiong did not know how she had made it out of the chairman's office. With the chairman's words still echoing through her head, she walked right past the elevator doors without noticing.

"Ms. Ming Qiong, the area ahead is beyond your access authorization. Please stop immediately."

Hearing Weixi's warning, Ming Qiong blanked out. Only then did she realize she had absentmindedly walked past the elevator doors.

In the office, Li Zhou watched Ming Qiong leave in a daze, swaying unsteadily, and began to wonder whether he had been too harsh.

Li Zhou shook his head. If she could be crushed that easily, she should step down sooner rather than later. It would be better for both her and the company.

"Weixi, optimize the Star Operating System and conduct comprehensive testing."

"Understood, Boss. Weixi has begun optimizing and testing the Star Operating System. Estimated time required: three minutes."

While waiting, Li Zhou went to the bathroom. He did not know why, but whenever it rained, he always felt like he had to pee more.

When Li Zhou returned from the bathroom, he found that Weixi had already optimized all the Star Operating System's code.

"Weixi, compile and package the Star Operating System, then distribute it to the IT department and Xiong Kexuan."

"Star Operating System compilation and packaging complete..."

"Star Operating System has been distributed to the IT department and the chief executive officer, Xiong Kexuan."

The instant Weixi completed the distribution, notification alerts sounded in the internal work software of everyone in the IT department and Xiong Kexuan.

"Ding~~~"