Chapter 344 The storm is coming
Li Yan was a little speechless when she saw several teammates in front of her making exaggerated expressions.
They were now crowded in Li Yan's hotel room - all sitting on the bed.
He greeted me in the corridor without saying anything, and he still didn't say anything after he entered the house.
I have so many questions.
What did Li Yan do? Did she really do it alone? What will she do next? How will she deal with others’ plagiarism? What did she talk about with the big guys? And so on…
They had clearly agreed that they would interrogate Li Yan severely when they saw him, but when he really came back, his teammates wouldn't say a word.
"Didn't you go to dinner with the leaders? Didn't you discuss cooperation?" Chen Fan finally found the entry point.
"Talk."
So casually? Or did the conversation go unsatisfactory or even end unhappily?
"Has the cooperation been finalized so quickly?" The other three people asked Chen Fan in a hurry.
"No, I'm overthinking it." Li Yan lay on the bed tiredly, with two people on each side. "This matter is troublesome. Whether it is the government or large enterprises, they probably want to take me in. I am only representing myself now - a minor. Where will the investment come from? How should the cooperative resources be integrated? How should we deal with large companies with more resources to realize my ideas in advance? How can we seek the most cutting-edge software and hardware technologies... There are many problems."
"So you knew everything..." He Zixiang sighed.
"Of course I know. I also know the key to solving all these problems."
"What?"
"Sense of urgency." Li Yan said.
No one understood.
"With your personality, since you already know everything, there is no way you didn't make any preparations, right?" Lai Yining was very curious.
"Haven't I been preparing for this?"
"For example, the cooperation and exchange at noon?..." Chen Fan asked.
"correct."
"Why don't you chat for a while?"
Li Yan smiled and said, "Give them some space. Distance creates beauty. They may have already started to attack themselves."
The four of them looked at each other, their eyes conveying the same meaning:
Li Yan’s level is too high now, and they can’t understand him.
"What will you do next? Is there anything we can help you with?" Deng Yudi asked.
"Yes, come back to New Taipei City and play games with me. We need to relax. We have been tense for too long and need to recuperate."
"This... is this the preparation you mentioned?" Chen Fan was shocked.
"Yes."
“……”The four of them were silent.
"Wait two more days. In two days, it will be time for today's small press conference to take effect." Li Yan closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep.
The four people quietly left the room, leaving Li Yan to rest inside.
None of them asked any questions.
There must be a reason why Li Yan did this.
They believe it firmly.
"God Yan, I'm very curious," Lai Yining chose to ask something else, "All these things you showed today...were they all made by you?"
"Ah."
All four of them were stunned.
"...Since you ask that, the default answer is that I was the only one who did it. Why are you so surprised again?"
"I'm afraid that asking you whether you will be dissatisfied with finding a team to work with." He Zixiang replied.
Li Yan rolled her eyes. "Don't say that. I'm not the leader."
If you are not a leader, who is? The leaders are all around you! Deng Yudi almost blurted out.
But... he thought again, it seems that there is no leader who can handle everything by himself.
"You've done so many optimizations in just one month?" Chen Fan is still very good at grasping the key points.
"Optimization is a mechanical and repetitive operation. If you do it too much, it will become a mechanical and repetitive operation. Just do one well and copy the others."
“This workload is not right!”
"Just think fast enough."
"Fast enough, your output needs to keep up."
"Then just be quick enough."
"There's not enough time, and how can I keep up with the energy?"
“That’s the power of the Almighty.”
An answer that no one expected.
"The appearance of this machine..."
"I made some requests to the product department."
Deng Yudi couldn't sit still any longer. "No way. The semi-finished product they gave you is totally different from the one you have now. Did you cast a spell on them? Can you make them suddenly enlightened?"
Li Yan took out a wooden mobile phone model from her bag, which was basically a one-to-one replica of the final product.
"...using wooden models to guide the design of smartphones...what a joke."
"That's not all. We also gave them the computer model and even the dimensions."
"Damn it, you might as well just say you'll go to the workshop and make this thing."
"If I didn't have time, I would really like to try it."
"..." Lai Yining poked Deng Yudi, "Brother Di, why don't you stop asking. I'm afraid our faith will be broken."
"What about animation?" He Zixiang asked anyway.
“I drew it myself.”
These people knew nothing about art, so they just exclaimed in amazement.
This made Li Yan very uncomfortable. Damn, this stupid animation took a lot of effort!
After the phone was basically made, Li Yan had been thinking about how to wow everyone at the press conference. After coming up with the idea of going from animation to reality, she was a little anxious for a while because making animation would take too much time.
He was about to talk about how he made full use of various computer software to produce the effect of 1+1 greater than 2, but no one asked any further questions and he was left speechless!
Forget it, they won’t understand even if I tell them. I’ll just chat with Cao Xinshuo later to scare him.
As he was thinking, Chen Fan suddenly said out of nowhere: "Yan Sheng."
"How can he become a saint?" Li Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Calling God is too vulgar."
"No, no, no, no, you have to be a saint to be called a saint." Li Yan waved her hand, "Just call me by my name from now on."
"I have already started to imagine Yan Shen's future life..." Lai Yining's eyes were blank.
"Damn, how many sisters and friends like you." Deng Yudi clapped his hands. This guy is actually more introverted than imagined.
Just as everyone expected, Li Yan's stunning performance at the Developer Conference became a hot topic that major media outlets rushed to report.
Various angles and details, whether official reports or private Weibo, are all written very carefully and comprehensively. It feels like the writer put himself in Li Yan's shoes during the writing process.
Especially the media in Linjiang. Although they didn't make this news as the headline, everyone felt as if they had been abandoned by this matter. Even the literary and art weekly had to write a few words about it in the "News Flash" column that no one paid attention to - perhaps it was because Li Yan was also a great talent.
Even in the six minutes of Linjiang Province News Broadcast's report on the Developer Conference, three minutes were devoted to Li Yan.
It’s longer than the time of Zuo Yuming and Academician Ni combined.
When the announcer pronounced the words "genius boy Li Yan" in a clear and melodious voice, all of Li Yan's roommates had a brain orgasm - they even waited in front of the TV in the cafeteria to watch the news. Li Chun and Chen Fengling even recorded the broadcast and listened to it repeatedly.
Everyone is very excited.
Except for himself.
If he logged into Weibo, he would find that the number of times he was tagged was increasing rapidly.
But he didn't, so he couldn't see any of the cheers, worship, or questioning.
Li Yan, the king who has always been high-profile in the eyes of fans, chose to remain silent at this time.
This has led to a lot of questioning voices on the Internet, but these voices have not formed a force. They are all very restrained and will just run away after a small wave of rhythm, and will never confront head-on.
Brother Zhenshi’s fate is there, and Li Yan’s performance in the subsequent question-and-answer session was too hardcore. In addition, Linjiang Province and Academician Ni have both taken the stage. If their competitors hadn’t paid them, they would not be willing to come up and lead the pace.
There are always some people who are willing to make money on their knees, there's nothing you can do about it.
Everyone is wondering what Li Yan is doing, is she negotiating cooperation with major companies or continuing her own research?
He is playing games.
With Chen Fan and my roommates.
This made them feel a little flattered, but unfortunately they couldn't get any details out of Li Yan.
He only said one sentence: "I played games these two days."
"What about the day after tomorrow?" Chen Fan asked.
Li Yan just shrugged, "I don't know, maybe some things will change."
"This guy is starting to act like a riddler!" Lin Heng bared his teeth and clawed, "Beat him, Chen Feifan! If we can't beat him in other things, how can we beat him in games?"
It's really incomparable.
Although Li Yan didn't play games much, with his thinking speed and body control already at 60%, improving the game values was as easy as drinking water with just a touch of the controller and keyboard.
A 55-point fourth-level skill "game". Basically, you can play anything by just reading the tutorial. You can get started with one move and use the second move to achieve dimensionality reduction.
All the roommates who had shouted at the beginning, "Don't let me win, I want to see you give it your all," were silenced.
When Chen Fan performed a set of King of Fighters combos, but was defeated by Li Yan with a simple jab, the King of Fighters move list that he knew by heart was no longer his pride.
Li Yan could even say: "You are the ones who asked me to give it my all."
Damn it, he's showing off again.
But Li Yan didn't say anything. He won the game easily, but he didn't look excited at all - this was too normal. It would be a miracle for him to be excited about beating his roommate in the game.
Then why did Li Yan take the initiative to suggest playing games?
The sensitive Li Ruofei then discovered that Li Yan was actually a little absent-minded.
It is rare for him to be "unfocused".
The matter of registering a company in the name of Li Chun was also progressing in an orderly manner. Few people knew about this. Li Yan did not say much, but from the fact that he was able to register the company by directly sending Li Chun's information to Wang Peihua - Director Wang became a liaison officer - it was clear that the leaders had taken Li Yan's words at the dinner table to heart.
Li Chun was worried on the phone whether registering a company would "lose money", but Li Yan stopped him with a sentence "You don't have the money to lose even if you want to lose now."
He is now at a far different level from his parents, and the world he sees is completely different.
So he told his father: "Just prepare to be the big boss and don't worry about anything else."
Then Li Chun asked a very interesting question: "Do I need to go to the company for meetings or something?"
"It depends on your mood."
Li Chun was a little excited and didn't sleep well. He was two hours late for selling vegetables at the stall the next day.
However, everyone in Lincheng knows that he is Li Yan's father, and old customers dare not complain. However, many people come to buy a few vegetables every day, thinking that they can earn Li Yan's favor in this way.
Some even bought vegetables with rotten leaves, thinking that they were helping Li Yan's family...
They always feel that Li Chun and Chen Fengling are still selling vegetables for the joy of life.
In fact, they just couldn't adapt to the sudden changes in their lives and hid in their familiar circle.
But Li Chun could sense the changes. Ever since Li Yan won first place in the Qingxin Olympic National Championship, Lin Cheng had spared no effort in promoting him. Parents gain status through their children, and the couple had already enjoyed the fame, bonuses and privileges brought by Li Yan.
But to go from being a vegetable vendor to being a boss in the provincial capital, it's really...
So cool.
On the evening of June 6, Li Yan ran slowly in circles on the playground.
After running for about ten laps, he slowly started taking a walk, and finally sat in the middle of the playground, looking at the starry sky.
My phone vibrated. It was a message from Wei Yunzhi:
"What are you doing?"
"After running, I sit in the playground, play with my phone, and chat with you."
"Are you nervous?"
This sudden sentence went straight into Li Yan's heart.
"how you said that?"
"You didn't post on Weibo, you were avoiding some questions, and you told me 'just wait' on the weekend, so I guessed it. Or maybe you're just worried about something."
Li Yan did not explain anything. No matter how awesome and powerful he was before, his influence was ultimately limited to himself. He had changed a lot, and his current life could only exist in his dreams before his rebirth.
But changing the world...is often just a slogan.
This slogan is suddenly going to come true.
It's impossible to say that I'm not nervous or that I have no thoughts.
He knew that on June 2010, 6 (US time), Pineapple Company's boss Joe would release a mobile phone that would shock the entire digital world and become the benchmark for future smartphone design.
But before that, he completed the release of a more advanced concept machine.
He knew how difficult it was to realize his goal of "leading the development of the Jiaolong mobile phone", so he needed to strive for a stronger technical team, stronger government endorsement, and stronger personal influence.
Ambition will grow as things progress. Now that the Jiaolong mobile phone concept phone has been developed, the Linjiang government is willing to endorse it, and Academician Ni’s team is willing to assist. Wouldn’t it be a pity if this phone cannot seize the current market blue ocean?
He neither has the energy nor the time to dwell on the overt and covert business struggles. If he wants to create an atmosphere where everyone is looking forward to him making a mobile phone, he needs a drastic measure.
It was Joe's press conference that influenced the whole world.
The greater the influence of the Pineapple 4 mobile phone, the more valuable Li Yan’s concept launch conference, which was supposed to stay in Linjiang Province, will be.
But it's hard to say about the butterfly effect. Who knows if Li Yan's press conference will somehow affect Pineapple Joe's thinking...
If the release was delayed by a month or so, Li Yan would have a much harder time.
At that time, issues such as investment, government leadership, and change to research projects were enough to give him a hard time.
Even if Pineapple Joe holds the press conference on time, will everyone be stimulated by the advanced nature of "foreign mobile phones" as Li Yan thought, and thus have a strong sense of urgency, and pin their hopes on Li Yan's Jiaolong mobile phone, so that Li Yan will be deified in a short period of time, obtain a lot of resources and become a "leader"...
There are two opinions.
"I still like the feeling of having everything under control." Li Yan sent a message to Wei Yunzhi.
“That might be boring.”
"The high school entrance exam is coming up soon, aren't you going to review on Monday night?" Li Yan dodged this question.
"You've learned a lot, but sometimes you should relax, just like you did tonight."
Li Yan smiled and said, "It's not bad to waste two days occasionally."
"Since they are all good, it's not a waste."
Li Yan wanted to reply with something, but after thinking for a long time, she felt that it would be best if the conversation stayed here, so she simply said, "Go to bed early."
Wei Yunzhi replied good night and went offline.
Li Yan felt a lot more at peace and walked slowly back to the dormitory. She didn't plan to wait any longer but to have a good sleep.
At one o'clock in the morning on June 2010, 6, Mr. Joe, the boss of Pineapple Company, far away on the other side of the ocean, demonstrated a mobile phone called "Pineapple 8" at a press conference.
The number of “@my people” and private messages on Li Yan’s Weibo is exploding at an alarming rate.
(End of this chapter)