Survival or Extinction

Shenma Technology Company was founded and successfully operated by Ning Yifan alone!

Currently, the Phantom Projector has a daily production capacity of 20,000 units. All of this was created by Ning Yifan single-handedly!

As Jiang Xuwei left the Shenma Technology Company factory, the news he brought back spread to various home appliance companies, truly astonishing and making it hard to believe for many who received it.

Fully automated production technology isn't non-existent; currently, various large companies possess corresponding technologies to varying degrees. The technical knowledge involved covers all aspects, including electrical automation, electromechanical control, automatic detection, control systems, motion control systems, and so on. It typically requires a massive team of specialized professionals to build.

But now, someone is telling you that for work requiring such extensive technical reserves, one person has built an automated factory all by himself.

What's more, he assembled and manufactured products that major companies couldn't develop using existing materials. These products are selling like hotcakes, the company is running smoothly, and production capacity is booming as if it were free, reaching 20,000 units daily, utterly crushing many major companies that have been researching televisions for decades!

Can you believe it?!

However, the facts are right before their eyes. Everyone has to believe it, whether they want to or not. Regarding the internal situation of Shenma Technology Company captured by Jiang Xuwei, numerous companies invited their own engineers to meticulously examine it.

The authenticity is beyond doubt. Coupled with the information Jiang Xuwei gathered about Shenma Technology Company during his investigation, from the express delivery driver's description of pickup and delivery scenes to confirmations from neighbors, the rental house was never seen with anyone other than Ning Yifan, confirming that Shenma Technology Company consisted solely of Ning Yifan!

There's no so-called technical research and development team; the Phantom Projector was entirely manufactured by Ning Yifan himself!

Such news truly shook many engineers profoundly!

After viewing all the video and image materials, along with Shenma Technology Company's related documents, numerous engineers suffered severe blows and even began to question their lives.

"Who am I, where am I? The televisions and projectors I've researched for decades can't compare to a young graduate who hasn't been out of school for long!"

"What kind of genius is this? It's practically a god descended to earth!"

"Is this the difference between a genius and an ordinary person? The progress of technology, indeed, often only requires that small group of true geniuses; everyone else are just tools."

"I'd believe it if you said it was alien technology!"

"I've never seen anyone so monstrous. Yes, monstrous. The knowledge he possesses at such a young age already surpasses us old folks, and he's doing it alone, completely dominating us all!"

"How did he do it? Manufacturing a factory by himself and achieving fully automated production. As expected, I'm just a mortal. How can mortals comprehend the power of a god? This Ning Yifan isn't human!"

"Is this the Iron Man of the skyscraper?"

"I only saw a glimpse of the assembly line production process in the video, but it offers no help in cracking the Phantom Projector."

The exclamations of the technical engineers, besides informing the executives who consulted them about how formidable Shenma Technology Company's Ning Yifan was, had no other effect.

The problem remained: how to deal with the increasingly powerful Shenma Technology Company and the Phantom Projector, and how to prevent their own companies from going bankrupt.

Things were becoming increasingly difficult!

Ning Yifan of Shenma Technology Company neither accepted requests for financing or acquisition, nor could his phone even be reached nowadays. The factory's operation didn't require workers; they were completely shutting themselves off to produce products!

If Shenma Technology Company hadn't grown to this point yet, major companies could have jointly used their connections to cut off the supply of some components for the Phantom Projector, preventing Shenma Technology Company from manufacturing it.

But now, Shenma Technology Company could already manufacture most of the Phantom Projector's components itself.

For components that couldn't be manufactured in-house, Shenma Technology Company could still procure them. The home appliance and television companies couldn't stop them. These were major companies in the chip manufacturing industry; how could they listen to these home appliance companies and halt component supply to Shenma Technology Company? Moreover, there wasn't just one chip company; if Snapdragon was unavailable, there was Dimensity.

Recently, many companies in the home appliance industry had tried to reverse-engineer the Phantom Projector for imitation production but failed. Technical engineers worked day and night but couldn't crack the driver program.

They even organized engineer exchange meetings to collaboratively research the Phantom Projector, hired computer experts at high prices to crack it, but still made no progress.

Were they just going to watch their companies gradually head towards death?

Some companies that didn't primarily focus on televisions had given up struggling and began shifting their production focus, reducing or even completely shutting down their television production lines, preparing to sell off existing products and concentrate on other goods.

As for companies whose main product was televisions, they couldn't abandon television production, as that would mean immediate bankruptcy. Holding onto a one-in-ten-thousand hope, they continued to find solutions.

Among them were major companies like Changhong Company, Skyworth, TCL Company, and Hisense Company, all unwilling to give up on televisions.

Although these companies had considered and acted upon developing other home appliance products in recent years, achieving some success, televisions still accounted for over sixty percent of their profit sources. Losing the profits from televisions would mean bankruptcy in minutes!

In recent days, the senior management and board members of these major companies were as anxious as ants on a hot pan due to the cliff-like drop in television sales.

The idea of poaching Shenma Technology Company's technical employees had completely fallen through. The last hope now rested on Ning Yifan, Shenma Technology Company's sole owner.

Calls went unanswered.

Text messages received no reply.

Searching for his WeChat account via his phone number and adding him as a friend yielded no response.

They even went to his door, but couldn't find the man himself!

Even waiting at the entrance of Shenma Technology Company for a whole day wouldn't guarantee seeing Ning Yifan even a few times.

And each time they met, after exchanging only a few words and stating their identities and intentions, he would disappear in a flash, impossible to catch. His speed was almost that of an Olympic athlete, leaving the sales representatives who came to negotiate in despair. They were there to negotiate, not to stake out a place and race!

Numerous companies wanted to speak with Ning Yifan but had no way to do so.

After a series of futile last-ditch struggles, they could only band together for warmth, making one final, desperate gamble.

A meeting among several major companies to devise a strategy was about to be convened.