In April, Patrick, rumored to have been bombed by a rival company, reappeared in the Muggle public eye.
He said nothing about his recent disappearance, making the matter even more mysterious.
Regardless, the CEO's return immediately set Umbrella Corporation running at full capacity again, and Blue Queen Computers began shipping worldwide.
Blue Queen came in three tiers, ranging from four thousand to ten thousand dollars.
In just one month, Blue Queen's preorders reached an astonishing one million units, bringing Umbrella £4.4 billion in cash flow and recovering the initial research and development costs in a single month.
Looking at the financial figures on the wall and listening to his assistant's voice rise two octaves with barely contained excitement, Patrick realized that he was not as thrilled as he had imagined he would be.
Yes, he had gotten what he wanted.
He had brought the greatest product in personal consumer technology to the world.
And he believed that no product capable of surpassing Blue Queen would appear within the next two or three years.
He had helped Murphy usher in an era in this world—an era belonging to Blue Queen and Umbrella.
Yet compared to Murphy's grand ambition, what did that amount to?
After their conversation at the research institute, he had fully understood Murphy's goals and aspirations.
When Murphy spoke of "changing the world," it was not merely a slogan, nor did it simply refer to the sort of change Patrick had once understood, the kind claimed by giants like Apple and Microsoft.
No. What Murphy intended to do was far deeper and far more far-reaching—something comparable to the invention of the steam engine, something that would utterly transform human society into something entirely different.
Compared to such a grand vision, his current achievements truly were not worth mentioning.
And