Chapter 321 Journey

"Give everyone a mission statement."

Li Yan changed the name of the group "Four Kings Leading Three" to "Hetu System Development Team" and suddenly posted this sentence in it.

The teammates all showed expressions of expectation and fear.

“First, we need to develop a prototype of a mobile phone system with high interactivity and high freedom. Second, we need to develop a prototype of an ultra-high compression algorithm.”

"Great!"

"very excited!"

"We are playing a big game of chess!"

Everyone responded very positively.

"How long will it take?" Deng Yudi asked a key question.

"Two months."

For a full half minute, no one in the group responded.

This is too outrageous. If anyone said this, I’m afraid the three Huada reserve geniuses in the group would be ready to laugh.

Mobile phone system? This thing is the result of dozens or even hundreds of geniuses from top foreign technology companies.

All over the world, this thing is considered a "trial period".

At present, Nokia's dominance is somewhat shaky. They are a system; the Pineapple phone developed by Pineapple Company is also a system, which means it is ahead of the times; the open source system Robert developed by the technology giant has also been optimized by various experts, and it has the potential to set off a huge wave...

Chuangzu is currently the best in the country, and Li Yan himself said that he would rely on their basic achievements.

But they just used the Win system transplant, and did not develop a system of their own.

It's such a difficult thing, and we can't expect a few students who are still working on elementary problems to do it...

Another two months?

But the person who proposed it was Li Yan. This guy has achieved so many incredible things. Those who don't believe in him will always end up being slapped in the face.

The kind that makes a crisp sound and leaves a mark.

But this time, it’s not that everyone doesn’t believe him, it’s that everyone doesn’t believe themselves.

"God Yan, are you serious?" He Zixiang typed very seriously.

"Seriously, but you may have misunderstood."

This literal meaning is hard to misunderstand, right? But everyone kept silent and waited for Li Yan to explain.

"I certainly don't think we can come up with a system that can be used officially, nor do I think we can come up with an ultra-high compression algorithm that can be used in many scenarios."

What’s the use of that?
"To put it bluntly, I hope everyone can at least make a shell that can be displayed on a mobile phone prototype. It can be used to express the concepts of 'high interactivity' and 'high customization freedom'."

The three people on the other side of the screen frowned.

Then I saw several documents sent to the group, which was a concept book written by Li Yan.

It describes in detail all the functions required by this "Hetu System", with an emphasis on the mutual interaction between software across usage levels - for example, you can open the music on the desktop, press and hold a song you like and drag it to "My Favorites", and this favorite can also be a store in the food delivery app, or even a dish.

Or you can directly extract them from the software and put them on the desktop, so that they can be quickly launched from the desktop.

It can be said to be a gesture operating system under specific requirements.

It might not have been a big deal in the year before Li Yan's rebirth, but now that smartphones are still rare, this thing is just a few "very imaginative" articles for Deng Yudi and others.

However, Li Yan also attached possible implementation ideas under each function, but a quick glance would tell you that there would be many problems to be dealt with by then - and it is not known whether they can be solved.

As for the ultra-high compression algorithm, Li Yan hopes that this thing can be bound to the system and become the basic algorithm for loading and transmitting videos and pictures of this system.

In the final analysis, it means sacrificing a certain degree of clarity of videos and pictures on small screens in exchange for the early popularity of video and picture media in the era of low Internet speed and low traffic.

Clearer versions of the images and videos can still be downloaded, at the customer's discretion.

"Sacrifice a certain degree of clarity" for compression... This is easy to say, but there are more problems in the actual operation.

How much of a sacrifice in clarity is acceptable? Or is it okay for the video motion to become slightly jerky?
His eyes darkened.

There is another key issue. Building a system also faces a huge difficulty - ecology.

Boss Huang has been lobbying for a special version of QQ's Windows system for mobile phones, and he was even lobbying with Chuangzu's already almost-complete W8.

Various mobile phone software need to adapt to Hetu...this thing may be more difficult than making the system itself.

"Shen Yan, are you planning to make a real mobile phone?" Lai Yining asked.

"Concept machine."

"Even if it's a concept machine, where do we get the conditions?" He Zixiang asked.

"I'll take care of it."

"But I still don't quite understand. No offense. What's the use of just making a shell for these two things to display?" Deng Yudi continued to ask.

I guess this is everyone's reaction.

"Let me tell you a little story. When China was developing nuclear submarines, Chief Designer Huang and a group of people basically completed the design drawings, but they were not sure. As a result, a model manufacturer in the United States made a model of its own nuclear submarine, and the Chinese bought it back to China. When Mr. Huang saw that the hull layout of the Americans was very similar to what we had figured out ourselves, he knew that we were on the right track, which greatly strengthened his confidence."

Everyone seems to understand.

Li Yan continued to send texts: "The greatest difficulty in making an atomic bomb is knowing that it can definitely be made."

"The biggest difficulty in building a superluminal spacecraft is to make it clear that it is feasible."

No one understood.

"The most difficult part of all innovations is to convince everyone that it is feasible. In other words, it is important to know whether it can be manufactured. A commercial-grade finished product is of course the best, but if the idea is advanced, a concept that is sufficient for demonstration is also good."

"Friends, we are going to take the road of the future. The system only needs to demonstrate our core demands. Now we can rely on the early foundation of Robert or Chuangzu. After we have enough helpers, we can naturally consider self-development. The same is true for algorithms and mobile phone software."

"Enough helpers?" Lai Yining understood what was going on.

"I will try to get manufacturers from other regions to participate in the Linjiang Province Developer Conference in early June."

Damn, you can even say such things.

The key is that everyone still feels they can trust it.

He Zixiang shook his head repeatedly in front of the screen. How many things did Li Yan do in private?

"You mean, you want everyone to know first that the phone can be made into the shape of the one in your hand?" Deng Yudi asked.

"That's the logic. Plant the seeds for everyone so that they can be watered later."

"And if we want to win the support of various companies in terms of ecosystem, we must be ahead of everyone else!" Lai Yining was a little excited, "Just like Chuangzu launched the W8. If it can dominate the smartphone market, all kinds of software will definitely adapt to its system."

"It's a pity that he is now in prison. The Pineapple Company was too cruel." He Zixiang said.

"Do you think it was plagiarized?" Deng Yudi changed the subject.

This topic is obviously easier to understand than what Li Yan talked about - mainly because it is stress-free.

So everyone was chatting happily.

Dozens of messages popped up all of a sudden.

"The smoothness and innovation of the Pineapple phone system are second to none. The reason why it has not been widely used and has not captured the market is that it has only its own system and the software ecosystem has not yet been established."

Li Yan brought the topic back.

"Yes, and the current mobile phone software... doesn't seem to be rich enough." Lai Yining immediately followed up. "That's right, people still don't have a clear idea of ​​how smart phones can change their lives. Mobile phones are still only used to make calls, log in to QQ, play mobile games, and occasionally browse the web - which is restricted by the network." Li Yan typed quickly, "This is where we can make a big splash."

His writing speed was so fast that others would always be preparing to respond to his previous sentence, but a new sentence would appear halfway through, so they would have to delete it and start over.

"Wait wait, Yan Shen, from what you said... you wouldn't have messed up the mobile phone software as well, right?" Lai Yining's thinking was still quick.

“We can’t say we’ve figured it out, but at least we have the foundation.”

"Are you hungry? Including the order delivery algorithm you told us about last time?" Deng Yudi finally reacted.

"Yes. They will be part of the display as well."

"Fuck...you are playing a big game, Yan Shen." He Zixiang typed for a long time and finally sighed.

However, Lai Yining, who has more experience in compression algorithms, made some comments:

"I have nothing to say about the system. Just work hard. But Yan Shen, you said before that space will not be valuable in the future. Several Gs of space will not be valuable. It is not cost-effective to spend time researching compression algorithms. This view is a consensus among everyone. Besides, now we have 3G network. Everyone also believes that the upgrade of infrastructure, the increase of network speed and the increase of traffic are inevitable in the future.

Wouldn't this ultra-high compression algorithm be useless by then?"

“It’s hard to say whether it’s useless or not. It still makes sense to reduce traffic and increase loading speed in some unnecessary places before the Internet speed explodes.” Li Yan replied immediately.

Then he said something that made everyone silent for a long time:
"If it's useless, then it's useless. As long as it can bring forward the era of pictures and even the era of videos, then it has accomplished its mission."

Perhaps in the eyes of Yan Shen, some remarkable achievements...are really nothing.

Chen Fan did not participate in this discussion.

Because this kid is still attending classes, in fact, as a student selected into the Excellence Class, he can also put forward the request of "self-study" like Li Yan.

For example, there are three high school students in the group. Because they were admitted to the university through recommendation, as long as they are in school, the teachers don’t care whether they attend classes or not. Even if they spend most of their time in the computer room, no one cares.

But it was obvious that Chen Fan had not yet adapted to this willful new identity, even though he was studying Mathematical Olympiad content on his own in class...

So when he returned to the dormitory and turned on his computer, he was dumbfounded.

"What big thing are you guys plotting behind my back?"

Li Yan, who was editing the finale, smiled and said, "You were plotting loudly in the group, right?"

Chen Fan was reading through hundreds of messages. He was shocked at the beginning, became more and more frightened as he read, gradually calmed down, and finally let out a long sigh.

Not a sigh.

"What, are you excited?"

"Hurry up and write your novel. Didn't you say it has an ending?"

"Why are readers asking for updates offline?" Li Yan was a little surprised.

"Didn't you say I had to finish writing quickly and start a new journey? I'm so fucking excited!"

“It will be finished in the next two days.”

"Wait a minute," Chen Fan opened the Qiyuan Chinese website again and found "Nangong Boy", "It's still a while before it's finished, right? How many words did you finish writing?"

"270 million words, no more, no less."

Chen Fan didn't understand what this sentence meant, but his eyes widened, "You bastard author, you only have 243 million words now, and your manuscripts... you have 30 in savings??"

"Recently, I have updated 10,000 words a day, and it only takes a month."

Kaiyuan also complained about him, saying that he had never seen anyone in a hurry to finish a book with explosive performance.

Li Yan asked him why, and he hesitated again.

Finally, I would like to say that because I can maintain activity during the book update period and continue to be recommended, my income will be long-term.

And because the subscriptions in the later period will not be as explosive as in the early period, the explosive updates will not necessarily bring in many new readers. It will take until the end to see tens of thousands of readers a day. It is better to just keep going at four to five thousand a day now.

Now that it’s finished, there’s no chance for me to recommend it. At best, I can just buy it for a while. The future depends on the influence of this book.

Li Yan only replied with two sentences:

“I am confident in the impact.”

“Whether to promote it after it’s finished depends on whether Origin wants to make money.”

Kaiyuan frowned for a long time at that time.

He didn't expect that what Li Yan told him at the beginning that the plot would continue to explode before the end was actually true. With the explosive plot and the blessing of the explosive updates, the origin of this book has been a hot topic on hot searches.

It has always been stuck in the top few places on various lists, which is a complete display of its godliness.

Moreover, the discussion on the plot of this book is so heated that it can be described as crazy. The comment section is exploding every day. Kaiyuan once thought that Li Yan had finally come to his senses and would check the data, but it turned out that they were all real readers.

There were two big readers who waited until the end before getting into the game. They were so engrossed that they said, "I'll go straight to the Golden Alliance when you finish it."

Shenxu also replied to them, "Why not give them more silver?"

It’s not lively.

"It's also a big thing to be done." Li Yan still felt a little emotional. After all, it has been more than a year. Before his rebirth, he could only write a novel of more than 100,000 words at most. Now that the second year of junior high school is almost over, he has written more than 2 million words...

A milestone.

Life is all about setting milestones.

Each piece is bigger and more ferocious than the last.

"I remember you said you would go to Qiyuan to attend the annual meeting at the end of the month?" Li Ruofei, who had just finished taking a shower, heard the conversation between Chen Fan and Li Yan and suddenly asked.

"Correct."

"Isn't that just the end?"

"Correct."

"You didn't do this on purpose..."

"Correct."

"What's the purpose of this?" Li Ruofei was a little confused.

"For fame." Li Yan replied, "I need some fame now... to prove myself and shock others."

"You're not good enough yet?..." Li Ruofei thought of Li Yan's Weibo account, which was very popular.

"Not enough. It's meaningless to just be a god among students." Li Yan said as he edited the article. Multitasking is commonplace for him. "I need to give people the feeling that 'Li Yan can do anything.'"

"You can really do anything." Chen Fan added.

Since learning that he was selected for the Excellence Class, Chen Fan has become more active and interacted more with Li Yan.

"Li Yan, do you think I should ask the teacher to skip classes? The five of us in the group don't have to take major exams, so we have enough personal time before the next semester. I was very excited when I read what you said in the group, but time is so tight, we can't just rely on spare time, right?" he asked again.

"It doesn't matter for now. Wait a minute."

"what?"

Li Yan stretched and said, "I'll go find Boss Huang after I finish the novel."

"Looking for him?"

"Talk about cooperation."

(End of this chapter)