Phantom Immortal Technology and Strange Fox Company signed their contract the next day.
The detailed terms were confidential, but the general outline could be made public. Strange Fox Company needed that publicly available information, too.
Thanks to Strange Fox Company's efforts, major newspapers and media outlets reported on the partnership that later generations would call a turning point in the history of information technology.
Without a doubt, the partnership baffled countless people. They simply could not see how Phantom Immortal Technology and Strange Fox Company could possibly cooperate in cybersecurity.
It was like Taobao and Tencent announcing a partnership in payment services. It sounded implausible, and people instinctively assumed there could only be competition between them, never cooperation.
Yet when people learned that the partnership merely involved Phantom Immortal Technology authorizing Strange Fox Company to develop and operate enterprise-level cybersecurity modules based on Dragon Scale Security Software, an uproar erupted.
Did this authorization mean Phantom Immortal Technology intended to abandon that market? Or was it deliberately licensing the technology the way Intel had licensed x86 to AMD to avoid antitrust investigations?
But what damned monopoly did Phantom Immortal Technology have in cybersecurity? There were at least eight hundred companies working in cybersecurity worldwide, if not a thousand. Even a gaming company could put together something like a security toolbox.
Regardless of Phantom Immortal Technology's motives—or whether it really was being foolish—this wave of publicity sent Strange Fox Company's reputation soaring. Its market capitalization would almost certainly skyrocket after it went public.
Countless investors had their eyes on Strange Fox Company, waiting for the moment it went public.
Of course, some people were also curious about what price Strange Fox Company had paid to obtain this license from Phantom Immortal Technology.
Nobody believed in a free lunch. There had to be