The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

Xiang Hong took Wu Xuechun to FREE's technology research and development center.

These days, Mr. Xiang's concern for research and development is well known to everyone. After all, he can be seen almost every time in the project cooperation meeting between FREE and Jiangcheng University.Even so, his arrival still caused a lot of chaos in the research and development department, especially some front-line employees. It was the first time for them to meet the new president of the rumor center.

Since Xiang Hong didn't greet anyone, even the director of the R&D department was caught off guard, hurriedly ended a departmental meeting, and rushed from the 37th floor to the eleventh floor, and it was too late to catch his breath when he saw Xiang Hong.

The R&D center of FREE is from the fifth floor to the eleventh floor. The architectural pattern is different from other floors. The top three floors are completely connected, presenting a double-layer duplex structure, which is used as a laboratory for the latest technology.This laboratory is known as the most mysterious place in FREE. The security level is not much lower than that of the high-level office on the top floor. Only very few personnel have access authority.

Xiang Hong was standing on the second floor of the laboratory at this time, looking at the busy technicians below through the completely transparent wall and floor in front of him.

The lab below is full of holographic projections of various types, including spatial modeling and biological modeling.Those translucent models are layered together in the field of vision, like countless colorful soap bubbles, which look like a dream, but the number is too large, but it makes people feel a sense of suffocation from the bottom of their hearts.Xiang Hong watched a black mechanical arm rise in front of him, passing through the body of a lifelike female creature.The model didn't move, her facial features were beautiful and her expression was indifferent, but she only had half of her body.The bottom of her chest is empty, there is only a thick light white data frame, and there is no time to fill in more detailed parameters.But even knowing this, Xiang Hong still couldn't help feeling that she had been pierced by that mechanical arm, and frowned involuntarily.

"Mr. Xiang," the head of the R&D department stood beside him, "What do you want me to do?"

Xiang Hong turned around.

The person in charge of the R&D department is Huang Xinzhi, a 35-year-old woman.She is petite, with a baby face and a high ponytail. If Xiang Hong hadn't met her a few times at senior officials' meetings, he would definitely have taken her as a new intern.

"It's something to do." Xiang Hong nodded, "You know Plan C, right?"

Huang Xinzhi's expression didn't change. It was obvious that she had expected Xiang Hong's intentions, and the answer was smooth: "Although Plan C is a research and development plan, it is not under my control. Mr. Wu directly transferred some people from the R&D department, and I was not included. Each of them has signed a confidentiality agreement, even if I ask for the information, they will not give it to me. But you are the president, Mr. Xiang, if you ask, it may be different. "

The ball was kicked so freely, Xiang Hong cursed secretly in his heart, and he was one of the best again.

If he could bypass Wu Zheng and get the project materials directly, there would be no need to come here in person, and spend so much effort to dig Qian Yida.Wu Zheng's old fox was really airtight when he did things. Judging from the few words Qian Yida revealed, this ostensibly left and right hand couldn't see the overall situation of the project.Presumably, even if he found those project personnel working for Wu Zheng one by one, and tried his best to intimidate and lure him, he couldn't pry more useful information from them.

To hide a secret, the safest place is in your own head.As for the others, just treat them as hands, feet, or parts that are easy to move.Parts don't need to think, they just need to run quietly and obediently, what they see and hear is like a blind man feeling an elephant.The real image of the elephant is only in the eyes of the one who gives the orders.

Xiang Hong didn't understand this set of principles.Even after he thought about it, he still learned the art of controlling people from the Tianlong Gang. Compared with Wu Zheng, he is indeed a rookie.

"It's okay, I'm not here to ask about Plan C." He didn't want to show his frustration to his subordinates, waved his hand, pulled a chair, put it in front of him, "Sit."

Only now did Huang Xinzhi show a trace of uneasiness.She had no way to refuse Xiang Hong, so she could only sit down obediently.

Xiang Hong walked around behind her, and looked down at the bizarre laboratory with her.

"Look below, how lively and magnificent it is. Who would have imagined seeing these things ten years ago? Not to mention touching them with your hands." The long-haired bird of the fireball, "FREE is able to reach today, all thanks to you. You are the brains of FREE, the real creators, and the people who change the world."

Huang Xinzhi looked at the models with his fingers, with a little touch in his eyes, and said sincerely: "Mr. Xiang, this is the opportunity you gave us. Without the support of the company, we will have an idea. It’s all impossible.”

Xiang Hong smiled, and patted the back of his chair: "Well said. This is the prosperity we created together. It is precisely because of the determination to move forward and the genius brain that it is these that make FREE stand on the edge of technological change. At the forefront, we can continue to sail with all mankind in the future.”

Huang Xinzhi's eyes were not only touched, but moved.

She used to think that this young president was just a second-generation ancestor who lay down, ate and drank, respected on the surface, but slandered in private.Who knew that the president would suddenly come to her and say such heartfelt words, even though she knew that the other party might just say something nice to coax her, she still couldn't help but feel a sense of identification with him.

In the eyes of those engaged in technology, those who respect technology are all comrades-in-arms, not to mention that the person in front of her is still in a high position and is the boss who uses money to support her research.

Xiang Hong didn't miss the change in the R&D director's expression.As long as he thinks about it, it's not like he can't learn Wu Zheng's way of winning people's hearts.He bent down slightly, and said to Huang Xinzhi: "Besides brain-computer access, you have always wanted to do research on mechanical exoskeletons, right?"

Huang Xinzhi became short of breath: "Mr. Xiang, have you seen my report?"

Brain-computer access and mechanical exoskeleton have been at the forefront of the combined application of neuroscience and hardware technology for many years. One focuses on the informational expression of human consciousness, and the other hopes to link human consciousness with mechanical control, which is equivalent to reading and Writing in two directions, both originate from the same source and diverge.As a leader in the industry, FREE has been at the forefront of brain-computer access research and development for many years. However, since the company's main profit comes from fully immersive brain-computer access games, it does not have much involvement in brain-control technology.

After Xiang Hong took over FREE, he looked like he was just doing nothing, but in fact he had done enough homework.He understands the brilliance of FREE step by step, and has seriously thought about the future direction of FREE.

If we continue to go deeper into the brain-computer connection, the degree of virtualization will definitely become higher and higher. DELTA has achieved the temporary separation of consciousness, so what is the next step?Technological breakthroughs are not a monotonically increasing curve. If we move forward, we will hit a singularity. FREE can do this step, and should it do it?Or, should we take a step horizontally, add some reality to the virtual, and leave a little retreat for FREE, and take advantage of the trend to open up the future?

It was at this time that Xiang Hong noticed Huang Xinzhi.Coming to her this time was not just to win people's hearts.

"I think your idea is very good," he said patiently, "I've thought about it seriously, it's time for FREE to make some changes."

Huang Xinzhi was so excited that she wanted to stand up, but she calmed down again in an instant, bit her lip, and said, "But Mr. Wu disagrees."

"He is him, and I am me." Xiang Hong shrugged, a light flashed in his eyes, "We are talking about the future."

The lips of the R&D director of FREE trembled slightly, and there was a sea of ​​waves in his eyes.

She can see it, she can see the power in this young man's body, maybe it is still dormant and immature, but under his iron-hard will, this power will eventually break through the shackles, break through the dark clouds, Become a sharp sword that opens up the world!

Smart people don't take sides in times of uncertainty, but she wasn't one of those "smart" people.As a researcher, she must still retain the innocence of not being for herself or for the present.

It was precisely this innocence that made her smell the same kind of breath in their president.

"Mr. Xiang, I may be soft-spoken and I can't help you, but I will help you as long as I can." Huang Xinzhi said in a low voice, her fist on her knee was shaking.

Xiang Hong suddenly read the determination on her face, and he couldn't help being surprised, the effect was much better than he expected.He still doesn't know how he moved the other party, but he continued according to the plan: "I hope you can help me find someone."

This is why he came here to find Huang Xinzhi.

When he heard Qian Yida say that he was asked to go to Pu Yiyang to ask about Plan C, a lot of doubts arose in his heart.He had been familiar with the research project that Wu Zheng cooperated with Jiangcheng University from a long time ago, and he came to the conclusion that it was a purse project to fool people. The win-win cooperation of Rotten Street.Meetings are held again and again, and the people in the project team can't say that they are not dedicated, but to put it bluntly, these algorithm optimization tasks can be done by any newcomer in the company's R&D department.

Because the project itself was overdone, Xiang Hong judged at the beginning that Wu Zheng's so-called Plan C might be a cover, just to find a reason to pay out of the company.But seeing Wu Zheng and Qian Yida now, and Huang Xinzhi's secretive appearance, he realized that his previous judgment was all wrong. Plan C is not a cover, not only is it not, but it also involves so much that Wu Zheng wants to cooperate with Jiang University on top of the true face of this plan, and create another layer of paint to fool him.

What kind of role did Pu Yiyang, who worked so hard on the painted skin project, do so much?

Since entering the project, due to various personal reasons, he has paid far more attention to that guy than to other project team members.Because of this, he can more firmly believe that Pu Yiyang, a small research assistant, has never even scratched the surface of Project C, let alone know the real eyebrows under that layer of painting.

Just when he couldn't figure it out, so he went over and over again in his mind the plan that Pu Yiyang gave him, and the subsequent progress report, a cluster of sparks lit up in his mind.

The underlying algorithm known as the cornerstone of FREE, the core algorithm that was handed over to Pu Yiyang for algorithm optimization.This algorithm is ubiquitous in FREE products, and it has a code name.

It's called the PU formula.

PU...could it be, Pu?

This formula was born ten years ago. At that time, Pu Yiyang was a middle school student with no hair on his mouth. Even if he was very smart, he would never be able to create this kind of formula that would shock the world and make FREE in the next ten years. A powerful formula that dominates.

The answer is likely to be another one.

As the head of FREE's current R&D department, Huang Xinzhi is also very familiar with the PU formula, but she has only worked at FREE for five years, so she is not so familiar with the personnel situation of FREE in the early days.

Hearing Xiang Hong's purpose, she was a little surprised, but she immediately mobilized all her own resources, plus Xiang Hong's highest level of authority, together with Wu Xuechun, to find out the past and present of this cornerstone formula.

In the information age, it is not so troublesome to look through old paper piles, but it still took them more than half an hour.

"I didn't expect this person's information to be so difficult to find. He is obviously the founder of the cornerstone algorithm." Huang Xinzhi was sweating on her forehead, and she returned to Xiang Hong with a transparent data strip. "The records in the database It’s long gone, I found it from the records registered in the relevant departments when FREE was established. At that time, there were very few technicians, and looking at the background, this was the only one who could come up with this algorithm.”

Xiang Hong took the data strip and weighed it: "Relevant department registration records? Can we get it so quickly?"

Huang Xinzhi smiled, and put her hands back into the pockets of her hakama: "Don't ask Mr. Xiang about this, I have my channel."

It doesn't seem to be the right way.

Xiang Hong looked at him as the head of the R&D department with admiration, and no longer wondered why she surrendered so quickly. With this lady's handling skills and efficiency, let alone staying in FREE, she can get a bowl of rice in the Tianlong Gang eat.

He plugged the data strip into the computer.

A file was immediately projected into the air, looking at the head portrait on top of the file, Xiang Hong opened his eyes wide.

Messy black hair, narrow and pointed chin, eyes that are naturally drooping so that they look listless, and the corners of the mouth are always slightly raised.

If it wasn't for his age, he almost thought he saw Pu Yiyang without glasses.