One of a Kind

The department head's expression showed a hint of disappointment, but he still asked, "Which disciplines were invited this time?"

"Several disciplines under engineering, architecture, geology, and also some related to heat dissipation, construction, and so on."

Zhang Dong listed the professional requirements for the 26 teachers invited this time.

Unexpectedly, the department head's eyes lit up. "Engineering heat dissipation? I can do that."

Zhang Dong was surprised. "Director, you... you also understand engineering heat dissipation?"

The department head looked a little shy. "Over the years, I've self-studied and passed the exams for an engineering heat dissipation certificate. In my spare time, I do some freelance work to earn some extra money... you know."

Zhang Dong understood.

This was quite common in schools.

"Alright then, I can submit your name. However, the website still needs to review it. Everything depends on the quality of the course; I can't help with that."

"No problem, no problem. Having the opportunity is enough."

The department head enthusiastically saw Zhang Dong out of the office.

Along the way, whether they knew him or not, whether they were familiar or not, almost all the teachers greeted Zhang Dong warmly.

"Sigh..."

At this moment, Zhang Dong didn't know how he should feel.

In just one day, the list of 26 teachers was submitted to Han Yang. Han Yang immediately arranged for them to start teaching in batches and conducted evaluations.

Han Yang was quite satisfied with the evaluation results. He could see that some of the teachers in this batch weren't highly specialized, but they were perfectly capable of handling the current teaching tasks.

"This Zhang Dong is quite reliable; he didn't just send me unqualified people."

This was a small test Han Yang had given Zhang Dong.

If Zhang Dong could complete this task well, Han Yang would give him more things to do in the future.

After all, with Han Yang's increased computing power, Zhi Xue Web might need to invite tens of thousands of teachers in the future.

But if Zhang Dong didn't pass this test, then he would be replaced without hesitation.

Thus, a total of 46 teachers began producing courses at a rate of one lesson per day.

With the lectures from these 26 teachers, plus my own self-study, and the temporary problem-solving in the form of consultants, my knowledge reserve for building an underground base should be sufficient.

Han Yang thought to himself.

However... the accelerated learning progress also consumed more of Han Yang's computing power.

Han Yang had to once again reduce the computing power allocated to the power leveling business. The average daily income hit a new low, dropping below 60,000, to only around 55,000.

Correspondingly, course procurement costs rose sharply, climbing to an average daily expenditure of 18,400 yuan.

Fuxing Mall was currently barely breaking even; it was good enough that he didn't have to subsidize it with his own money.

Fuxing Mall's business had been booming during this period. Every store was always packed with people. This originally generated some profit, but Han Yang invested all of it to maintain his relationship with Cheng Hong and other government officials.

As a result, Han Yang was currently earning about 36,000 yuan per day. At this moment, Han Yang had accumulated about 7 million yuan.

This money isn't enough. After increasing my computing power, I not only need to build an underground base but also expand the scale of Fuxing Mall.

The scale of Fuxing Mall had to be expanded to provide sufficient cover for the existence of the underground base. This was something that had to be done.

This gave Han Yang a slight headache.

However, neither the underground base nor the mall expansion can be completed in a short time. This money is at least enough to start the project. By then, I'll probably have to earn and spend at the same time.

He had worked hard for so long, and yet he still had to earn and spend as he went. This made Han Yang smile wryly again.

Time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, another half a month went by. In the research lab of the Revival Base, Han Yang manipulated the robot, carefully connecting the last cable.

After three major revisions and five restarts, solving over three hundred inexplicable small problems that popped up, and consuming over six hundred circuit boards, millions of transistors, and tens of thousands of cables—most of which were discarded due to modifications—the manufacturing of the brand new generation of CPU was finally completed.

Looking at the large pile of circuit boards, cables, and transistors in front of him, Han Yang's expression was somewhat complex.

This brand new generation of CPU integrated a total of 160,000 transistors, 4,216 cables, and over 40 circuit boards, incorporating many new technologies and architectures.

Its frequency achieved a breakthrough to the MHZ level, reaching 5.5 MHZ, which means it could perform approximately 5.7 million floating-point operations per second. The overall computing power was directly 10 times higher than the previous generation CPU.

Although a CPU of this level was only roughly equivalent to the lowest-performing industrial-grade chips used in the current human world, one important point was that even the worst industrial-grade chips were produced in chip factories using photolithography technology.

And this large pile of things in front of him was hand-assembled by Han Yang.

This meant that Han Yang's handmade products had for the first time caught up with the tail end of industrial-grade CPUs.

This thing, I'm afraid, is probably unique in the entire human civilization, no, even including the Ita Civilization.

The reason was simple: with a mature industrial system that could easily manufacture chips with such performance, who would be so bored as to assemble them by hand?

Only someone like Han Yang, who temporarily couldn't afford a chip production line, would do this. Moreover, Han Yang wouldn't manufacture this thing again in the future.

After building the underground base, he planned to purchase a chip production line to research and manufacture new chips.

"Then... let's start the test."

Pressing the start button and connecting the power, a simple display screen immediately showed some black and white images that looked like old cartoons.

With its performance, it could only support this much.

Han Yang, however, was quite satisfied.

"Test passed. Then, merge!"

With a command issued, the next moment, the large pile of items in front of him instantly vanished. At the same time, Han Yang also felt a surge of computing power far greater than before.

The power leveling business, learning tasks, and other operations that previously occupied up to 98% of the computing power suddenly shrank to only 9.8% at this moment.

I can proceed with the next step of the plan.

Han Yang thought to himself.

At this moment, in another city, at the headquarters of Hero Mechanical and Electrical Group, in the General Manager's office.

Sun Xiaoying looked grimly at the two owners of the Universe War Game Studio in front of him.

"General Manager Sun, we've investigated thoroughly. The one who provided support to Lü Yangsheng of the Tianmu Gang was that Revival Game Studio. We've also allied with five larger studios in the industry during this time, forming an alliance."

"Then let's start a price war! Crush that Revival Studio for me!"