Supercomputer Upgrade (1/3)

Supercomputer Upgrade (1/3)

In the supercomputer room, time passed second by second. Before long, Gu Xiaoxiao and all the operations staff confirmed that the supercomputer upgrade could begin.

Toni also nodded at Chen Mengchuan. "Mengchuan, Achen's upgrade is ready as well."

Chen Mengchuan took a deep breath and said to Achen, "See you in a while, Achen."

"Okay, Father," Achen answered obediently.

"Begin," Chen Mengchuan ordered.

Upon hearing him, Gu Xiaoxiao immediately notified Tianzhi Electronics Factory. They first disconnected the external network, then severed the internal network cables. The entire Tianzhi Electronics Factory officially ceased operations. The workers began their break, while supervisors in every workshop immediately halted all work.

After the data feedback checked out, Gu Xiaoxiao disconnected Tenzhi Technology from the external network entirely.

Toni and the core technicians under his team then shut Achen down step by step.

Once everything was complete, Gu Xiaoxiao called out, "Shut down the supercomputer."

More than a dozen operations staff began the shutdown procedure one by one. Ten minutes later, after Gu Xiaoxiao confirmed that the supercomputer had been fully shut down, she spoke again. "Cut the power to all supercomputer connections!"

Click~ Click~ Click~ Click~ As one circuit breaker after another was switched off in the supercomputer room, the cooling fans began to stop, and their noise gradually faded.

"Get to work!" At Gu Xiaoxiao's command, all the operations staff on the supercomputer team rapidly connected the new hardware into the supercomputer system. Computing nodes and storage nodes were added one after another.

"Brother Chuan, the supercomputer upgrade will take several hours. You should get back to your work first. I'll notify you when it's nearly done," Gu Xiaoxiao said.

Chen Mengchuan nodded, and the group left the supercomputer room.

The five of them entered Chen Mengchuan's office. Sun Zhongyong took the host's seat and began boiling water to make tea.

"Wanyu, how have sales been progressing lately?" Chen Mengchuan asked.

Over the past few days, all of them had been occupied with upgrading the supercomputer and Achen, paying no attention at all to current sales.

Zhao Wanyu took out her phone, swiped through it a few times, checked the data, and answered with a smile, "Our cumulative production and sales of Dawn 1.0 currently stand at 33.97 million sets, with cumulative sales revenue of 14.43 billion Huaxia Yuan. One hundred and fifty production lines are currently manufacturing Dawn 1.0."

"That much?" Chen Mengchuan was somewhat astonished.

Zhao Wanyu continued with a smile, "That's only Dawn 1.0's sales. We haven't even mentioned the Leaping 1.0 adapters yet. We currently have a total of 163 production lines manufacturing 27 specifications of Leaping 1.0 adapters. We've cumulatively produced and sold 16.8 million sets. The average price per Leaping 1.0 adapter is around 137 Huaxia Yuan, for cumulative sales revenue of 2.3 billion Huaxia Yuan."

"Overall, Tianzhi has generated total revenue of 16.7 billion Huaxia Yuan since its establishment, and all of that revenue was earned in just the past month and a half." Zhao Wanyu wore a brilliant smile.

Chen Mengchuan was briefly dazed. Only three and a half months had passed since he woke from that strange dream, yet he already owned a company with revenue exceeding ten billion.

"Mengchuan, do you remember how long Tianzhi has been established?" Sun Zhongyong asked as he finished brewing the tea and handed cups to the other four one by one.

Chen Mengchuan picked up his teacup and shook his head. "I've been too busy lately. I don't remember."

"Hahaha, I'm not criticizing you, Mengchuan, but you, Toni, and Brother Xu really need to find time to rest properly. Look at Brother Xu, he's gotten noticeably thinner," Sun Zhongyong said with a laugh.

"As of today, Tianzhi has been established for exactly three months and ten days. Even now, it still feels like another lifetime," Sun Zhongyong said with deep emotion.

After finishing her tea, Zhao Wanyu set down her cup and asked with a smile, "Brother Sun, we've asked you several times, but you never told us. How exactly did you and Brother Chuan meet?"

Xu Shuwei and Toni also sipped their tea and looked at Sun Zhongyong with smiles.

"You don't know this, but I used to be too embarrassed to talk about it. At first, I admired Mengchuan's character. Later, I came to admire his abilities," Sun Zhongyong said.

"Tell us already, Brother Sun," Zhao Wanyu urged.

Sun Zhongyong chuckled as he refilled the teapot, poured the tea into the serving pitcher, and then filled everyone's cups before slowly beginning. "There's a river in Jiangmu Ancient Town called the Luoyin River. I don't know who gave it such an awful name, but it's damned eerie. Every year, quite a few people drown there. Since we were little, we'd heard stories about the Luoyin River's water ghosts dragging people down so they could be reincarnated. Last autumn, my nephew Weijie fell into that river. Back then, both banks were full of damn spectators, but no one dared go into the water to save him."

Sun Zhongyong pointed at Chen Mengchuan. "Then Mengchuan jumped straight into the river from the bridge and pulled Weijie out. He nearly drowned himself and even sank all the way to the riverbed."

Everyone's hearts skipped a beat at that. Zhao Wanyu's face even changed color.

"Luckily, a boat arrived in time. They fished him out only after hooking around for several minutes. He was nearly out of breath, and after being sent to the hospital, he remained unconscious until the next day. In Jiangmu Ancient Town, that was an incredible feat. Even now, if you ask about Chen Mengchuan, some people might not know him. But if you ask about the Chen kid who saved someone from the Luoyin River, everyone knows exactly who you mean. Not a single person doesn't know," Sun Zhongyong said excitedly.

"Later, Mengchuan wanted to rent a supercomputer and came to me. I introduced him to Xiaoxiao, and after he sweet-talked me for a while, I invested 100 million and registered Tenzhi Technology. And him? He completely became a hands-off boss and disappeared who knew where. He only sent me the paperwork when the company was being registered, then vanished off the face of the earth. I had no idea where he went. More than a week later, he returned to Su City. After that, Brother Xu and Toni were sweet-talked into joining by him too, then Wanyu came along," Sun Zhongyong said with a smile.

Chen Mengchuan raised his teacup again and took a sip, then laughed and cursed, "I don't remember sweet-talking you back then. I wonder who called me in the middle of the night and said he wanted to give me 15 million US Dollars."

"Hahahaha, I was bewitched by your honeyed words at the time and lost my head for a moment," Sun Zhongyong laughed loudly.

"Fine, fine, you lost your head for a moment. How about this? You put in 15 million US Dollars back then. I'll give you 150 million US Dollars now, and you sell those five percent shares back to me," Chen Mengchuan said with a laughing curse.

"No, no. My five percent stake is worth at least 2.5 billion US Dollars already. You want to buy it for 150 million US Dollars? Nice dream," Sun Zhongyong refused flatly.

Xu Shuwei was also laughing hard. "Mm, then what about Wanyu? How did you and Mengchuan meet? Back then, Wang Fanghua said Chen Mengchuan had been brought by you. When I looked at his résumé, I saw that he was Chen Mengchuan, the one who had taken over my Xuanyuan Project. I never expected that after interviewing him for half the day, he was actually there to sweet-talk me into changing jobs. Hahaha..."

The first chapter of the third update!