Chapter 372: Speak with Results

Chen Fan walked into Li Yan's office and sat on the sofa, feeling a little uncomfortable for a moment.

"Chen Fan," Li Yan lay down on the chair, closed his eyes and rested, "Is there anything you want to do in this project?"

"...It depends on what I can do."

"Now that the kernel's core module is basically done, the next step is to ask Mr. Huang to get some help from his side to write the driver code. This thing is closely related to the functions we want to achieve later. I have made all the reservations I should make. How about you join me in project management?"

Chen Fan originally wanted to say that this level of project management was as difficult as an insurmountable chasm, but when he thought that the person opposite him was Li Yan, he couldn't say it.

"Okay, I'll try my best."

"Don't be so reserved," Li Yan had her eyes closed, but she seemed to see Chen Fan, who was stiff all over, "You are number 2, this is just like your home."

"Well," Chen Fan smiled, "Li Yan, it seems like you're busy every National Day."

"I'm afraid I've never been idle in my life." Li Yan also laughed.

Strictly speaking, I have not been idle since my rebirth.

"I remember that on National Day in 08, we had only known each other for a month, and you had just started using computers." Chen Fan unconsciously began to reminisce about the past, "It's only been two years, it's incredible..."

Li Yan smiled and said, "Then you can be considered as introducing me to the world."

"I vaguely remember that at first you were just making a web page? It was a simple thing, I didn't take it seriously. When you came back from vacation, you made a complicated version of lightning, and it even had a z-axis...

"I was thinking at the time that your talent was a bit exaggerated and should not be buried. Later, I took the initiative to tell the teacher about your computer level. At that time, you were considered a celebrity in the school, and Teacher Dong decided to give you a chance.

"To be honest, when you passed the preliminary exam and went to the provincial competition with me, I felt very complicated. I was happy but also sad."

Chen Fan said he was so absorbed in it that his eyes began to become distracted.

"I'm happy that you're really good, I wasn't wrong; but I'm sad that you're suddenly on the same starting line as me. Later, you participated in the national high school competition and even won first place. I watched with my own eyes as the gap between us widened, to the point where I couldn't catch up.

“Then you can even look at Klotkovic, who is considered a god of war in our eyes, on an equal footing. No, as someone who specializes in the Letters Olympiad, you caught up with him in more than a year. You actually won.

"It's only been a short time since we last worked on the first draft of the mobile phone system, and now I can't keep up with your progress at all. The names I discussed with you were all things I didn't even dare to think of before.

"You know I'm always nervous when I take Mr. Meng Changge's class. I always feel like I'm just a little kid who knows nothing to him. But when he mentioned your name, he got a little nervous...

"Why did you evolve again?"

Li Yan walked silently to Chen Fan and gently pressed his shoulder.

Chen Fan was crying so hard that he was in a state of panic.

Just don't let your faith be broken. Li Yan had no intention of comforting him. His current level was completely different from Chen Fan's.

If Li Yan is called a genius, then Chen Fan can only be an ordinary person.

Nothing extraordinary.

This is the shadow that the people on the top of the mountain cast on others while enjoying the sunlight.

Fortunately, this was not the first or second time that Chen Fan had suffered such a blow. He was still rational and could be grateful to Li Yan for bringing him to where he is today.

"The view on the top of the mountain is waiting for you to help us see it."

Little Chen Fan is quite artistic.

Teenagers are indeed very good at repairing their emotions. Chen Fan was still immersed in his emotions and wiping away tears in the last second, and he was able to say artistic blessings in the next second. In the next second, he was relieved and started asking some strange questions:

"No, don't tell me you still have time to keep exercising?"

"Ah? I really don't have that." Li Yan shrugged.

Chen Fan narrowed his eyes, "Then why are you still so strong?"

Look at the muscle lines in his arms. Didn’t this guy fail to develop during puberty?
But he's already 185cm tall and still hasn't grown much.

Li Yan could only make the excuse that she still exercises every night. Who would dare to say, “My physical condition will not deteriorate because I have a system”?
However, it is still unknown whether the lack of physical skills can fight against aging.

Maybe it grows old while maintaining strong physical functions, until one day it collapses because it can no longer hold on.

This is not what he should be thinking about right now.

Until then, let Father Time see the power of biological science.

National Day is over and the gods have returned.

Liu Liwei finally appeared in front of his colleagues with a bunch of information and plans.

After letting everyone pack up and prepare for half an hour, Li Yan called everyone together for a meeting.

The theme of the meeting was to arrange the next steps.

"The next step?" Cao Haibin, who had been running outside during the National Day holiday, wondered. Did they have a previous step that had already been completed?

The first task is to provide comments on the core module code of the current "Luoshen Kernel".

"This... has been done? Has Professor Mai made any effort?" Cao Haibin was shocked.

The other members of the Xin'an Gang already knew that this was Li Yan's achievement. It can only be said that Kuang Ren usually offends people, and it is quite embarrassing to have no friends in a team.

"Mr. Li did it."

Cao Haibin doesn't understand some overly detailed things. He is a result-oriented person, so it is impossible for him to give an evaluation like Mai Wen's "elegance".

But having results was enough, he just raised his thumb and gave Li Yan a big "awesome" .

The people with the strongest technical skills here are Sun Miao and Shang Jie. If they have no objections, naturally no one else will have any objections.

They had been shocked by this thing for a week and had no other choice but to show it to Professor Mai.

"I have asked someone to send the hard drive to Professor Mai, so there is no need to worry."

The next step is to start writing the driver code, which is a huge project. This is definitely not enough for Future Technology with just a few people.

Chuangzuo will have a team of a hundred people, but the speed will definitely not be fast enough. The key lies in how Professor Mai and even Academician Ni view the interim results submitted by Li Yan and whether they are willing to go all out.

The resources that the academician team can leverage are extraordinary. Obviously, they have not really exerted their efforts so far, and are just relying on the small number of people in the Cursor Laboratory to do small things.

If I have to say anything, it's probably just studying the feasibility of the project.

When it comes to large amounts of work, the difficulty often lies in the head.

A problem that can be solved by gathering people is not a problem. This thing requires more than just gathering people.

Li Yan assigned division of labor to everyone. Everyone was responsible for their own small area and was directly responsible to Li Yan.

He will be the terminal of this huge project.

Cao Haibin couldn't help but speak: "Mr. Li, from my personal experience, it is not a good thing to spread this work too wide. The wider it is, the higher the cost of coordination and communication. This is not a job that can be completed by everyone writing a piece of code and then piecing it together. And maybe you lack project management experience. Managing people is not like writing code. People will have their own understanding, and different people have different senses of responsibility..."

In fact, what he said made sense, and the others nodded frequently as they listened.

"We have a cooperative relationship with the Chuang Clan and Professor Mai's team. We are the team leaders, but we don't have much power. We definitely want to do everything perfectly, but they don't. They get paid to do the job, and they consider it done as long as they get the job done."

Speaking of being committed, Cao Haibin even stood up and prepared to walk to Li Yan's side.

"Sit back." Li Yan said with a smile.

Cao Haibin then sat down again. "Besides, if you start all at once, the investment will be quite large. Unless you have reached some other cooperation terms with Chuangzu or Professor Mai's team, then just ignore what I said. But I will still share my experience with you all."

"I know that after spreading it out, what will be collected will be a mountain of shit." Li Yan nodded, "But if we don't spread it out, the speed won't increase. Choose the lesser of two evils. This kernel is completely for the Hetu system. As long as the kernel design is completed, the first draft of the system will be just around the corner." "That will bring a lot of modification work that will become more difficult. By then..."

"I come."

If you say this, what else can others say?
Cao Haibin immediately shut up and told the boss to solve the problem himself. If his subordinates were still complaining, they could just pack up and go home.

It is obvious that the project has achieved some phased results, and a startup team should be filled with joy and excitement.

But today's future technology seems a bit twisted.

The level of participation was really not enough. The boss handled the matter by himself, and even words like “at least we laid the foundation” could not comfort himself.

Fortunately, the next step of work is a little different. No matter how awesome Li Yan is, the workload is definitely not something that can be handled by one person alone.

The time to prove their worth has come, and those brothers in the Xin'an Gang who have no work experience are nervous but eager to try.

Li Yan also announced that he would screen based on the quality and quantity of code submissions, but he did not say what he would screen for or what rewards or punishments there would be.

This was enough to set everyone at the conference table on a mental battle.

Li Yan doesn't seem to take the term "start-up team" very seriously. After all, the ability he has demonstrated so far is above everyone else, and even the initial results can be said to be his achievement alone - at this level of product development, writing some basic code that anyone can write cannot be considered a very valuable job.

And no one, including Sun Miao, actually got shares.

As the influence of the project expands, will Li Yan decisively carry out personnel replacement?
This made the employees who have not yet become veterans feel sympathetic.

But to say that he really doesn't care, he let everyone serve as management in the subsequent work and entrusted important tasks to Sun Miao, Shang Jie and Cao Haibin.

I don't understand.

When he realized this, Sun Miao looked at Li Yan deeply again. He was so stupid that he couldn't see through the thoughts of a minor.

I heard that this young boss of ours has some unclear dealings with the eldest daughter of Yili Group, and has even met Wei Yili.

"Following... following the right person?" Sun Miao was surprised by this thought.

Li Yan felt very happy looking at everyone's reactions. It seemed that it was not that difficult to establish her authority.

Just be the coolest one. “I don’t need you that much” is a great way to establish your authority.

Over at the Cursor Laboratory, Li Yan's achievements silenced Mai Wen's entire team.

At the beginning, they were still engaged in a heated discussion. After discussing for a while, they found that everyone started to praise Li Yan from different angles, and they were almost praising her to death, so they quickly shut up.

Some people tried to find faults, but after looking at it for a while, they found that the faults were nothing more than nonsense like "the system can be faster" and "the efficiency can be higher". After that, they could not come up with any ideas or solutions, which was tantamount to making a fool of themselves.

Just like Mai Wen said, these thousands of lines of code are so elegant.

It is so elegant that nothing can be missing, and it is so simple that it has a sense of beauty.

In the eyes of these experts, it is nothing less than a work of art.

"Has it been tested?" Mai Wen asked.

"Yes, no problem."

"Let's adjourn."

After everyone left, Mai Wen began to ponder in the quiet conference room.

A very simple question: Based on the current results, can he do it?

Mai Wen didn't want to admit that he couldn't do it, and his first reaction was, "The kernel of the computer system and the mobile phone operating system I develop are different," and then he immediately smiled bitterly.

Before they even started to face up to the problem, they started to make up for it instead? And the reason is so funny.

"Damn it." Mai Wen walked to the balcony and lit a cigarette. "Is Li Yan better than me?"

He found it incredible. No matter from which angle, it was impossible for Li Yan to have more experience or deeper knowledge than him.

At least that was the state Li Yan displayed at the previous press conference and at the beginning of the project.

It was even harder to accept that this young man's level seemed to have suddenly improved.

But the world has always been like this. There will always be a few unreasonable geniuses who forge ahead and carve out a path that no one has ever walked before.

Mai Wen called Academician Ni Guanglan and asked, "Teacher, are you busy now?"

"Just say what you have to say."

"Where are you tomorrow? Are you free?"

"Jiangnan Wudu, if you want to discuss Li Yan's achievements, you don't have to make a special trip."

"Have you seen it?"

"Looked."

Mai Wen felt a sense of tension that he hadn't felt for a long time. "How do you...feel?"

"amazing."

Mai Wen was silent.

"Feel uncomfortable?"

"A little bit, Sensei."

“Other people’s achievements are not a reason to belittle yourself.”

Mai Wen certainly understood the truth, so he just smiled and said, "Teacher, he also asked me something."

"Help me."

"The next step is to increase manpower. Should we suspend the current work on the cursor experiment?"

"He just wants people for cursor experiments? What can twenty people do?"

"He wants at least sixty people."

"Full cooperation."

"Look for Linjiang Research Institute and Linda Digital Research Institute. They should be able to meet your needs."

"It's all right. Come to me if you need anything." After Academician Ni said this, Mai Wen had nothing to worry about anymore.

"Teacher, I want to ask..."

"After the kernel is successfully developed, it will be signed with the name of Cursor Lab. He confirmed this to me at the press conference." Academician Ni said slowly, "Mai Wen, be more pure."

"Okay, I'll follow your instructions."

"Can you also help me find out, or participate in person, to see how Li Yan runs such a big project."

"Ok."

After hanging up the phone, Mai Wen took a long puff of cigarette and didn't exhale for a long time.

Academician Ni used to be the chief engineer at Lianxiang. As a leader, he had led the research and development of three or four domestic systems and was well aware of the difficulties and obstacles involved.

Mai Wen exhaled a long puff of smoke, returned to the conference room, and searched the keyword "Li Yan" on the computer. He looked at the various achievements of this almighty god of war with great interest, and said to himself:
"Lao Meng, Lao Meng, what does it feel like to be his teacher?"

(End of this chapter)