Free Web NovelChapter 141: Chapter 113: The System’s Great Transformation
For this, Zong Xinyao had even gotten special permission from Su Chen to temporarily transfer personnel from Yunmengze Capital to assist. They would be transferred back once Vast Sea Group was on the right track.
Su Chen stretched and prepared to head back to his bedroom to study the system’s rewards.
While eating earlier, a question had occurred to him. It was already December, and he wasn’t sure if the system’s blind box shop had refreshed or if it would only happen next month.
The question gnawed at him, making him itch with curiosity.
Back in his bedroom, Su Chen made a point of locking the door from the inside. Although Jiang Hui and the others wouldn’t just enter his room without permission, he was just being cautious.
He skillfully summoned the system panel. When he saw a blind box gift pack hanging in the shop, his eyes lit up...
But when he saw the price listed below the gift pack, he enthusiastically cursed the system’s mother!
"999,999,999!"
A full string of nine nines—nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine!
’Wasn’t this aimed directly at my spending limit for the month, leaving me with just a single dollar? Why not just be direct and make it an even billion!’
If this wasn’t blatant mockery, what was?
After cursing the system’s mother for two minutes, Su Chen gritted his teeth and bought the blind box gift pack anyway.
The reason was simple: Su Chen wasn’t short on cash. He still had 500 million in his bank account, with another 50-plus million arriving tomorrow. It was more than enough... well, fine!
He didn’t rush to open the gift pack. Instead, he started examining the items the system had previously rewarded him. He had seen some mind-blowing things while he was unconscious.
10nm to 3nm chip technology. After the country’s "chip scam" debacle, the entire chip industry had stagnated for thirteen years. Only in the last two or three years had the industry slowly begun to show signs of development.
Many large domestic enterprises had set their sights on the chip industry, but they were ultimately a dozen years too late. Their technology couldn’t compare to what was available abroad.
While we were still figuring out how to manufacture 18nm chips, foreign countries were already mass-producing 5nm chips. The gap wasn’t just the difference between 18 and 5; they were on completely different levels.
He looked at the chip technology in his system inventory, which had been conveniently divided into four parts: 10nm, 8nm, 5nm, and 3nm. ’The system is surprisingly considerate,’ he thought. If it had all been one big chunk, Su Chen wouldn’t have known how to even begin to use it.
He casually pulled one of the documents out of his system inventory, briefly skimmed it, and then put it back.
It was no use. Su Chen could understand all the individual words, but when they were strung together, he didn’t have a clue.
’I’ll have to take this one step at a time. If you take too big a step, you’ll pull something,’ Su Chen mused. An idea was already forming in his mind: he would have Pei Rang acquire a research institute and study this slowly.
As for handing it over... Su Chen wasn’t that stupid. Setting aside the matter of profit, he couldn’t even begin to explain where he had gotten this stuff from.
Instead of doing that, it would be better to research it himself, start his own chip company, and use the profits to fund research into even more advanced technology. It was a perfect, self-contained plan.
Su Chen couldn’t help but praise himself inwardly, ’You’re a genius!’
’IPS Security Company?’ Su Chen was a little surprised as he looked at the last reward the system had given him.
Besides the company’s share transfer agreement, the only other thing in the system inventory was a black brick phone.
Su Chen took out the black brick phone. It looked similar to the old ’Big Brother’ cell phones, only quite a bit smaller.
"System, what the hell is this thing?" Su Chen asked, tossing the brick phone up and down in his hand.
A message instantly flooded his mind: "The Boss’s Hotline!"
’How do you use this thing?’ Looking at the few buttons on it, Su Chen randomly pressed a couple.
The brick phone’s screen lit up, displaying the icon for an outgoing call.
Seeing this, Su Chen panicked a little. Just as he was about to hang up, the call connected.
"BOSS, do you have any instructions?"
Hearing the inquiry on the other end, Su Chen composed himself and replied directly, "It’s nothing. I was just checking if the phone worked!"
With that, Su Chen hung up.
Meanwhile, in an office on the top floor of a certain campus across the ocean, a middle-aged man stared at the disconnected call, his face a mask of confusion. He muttered to himself, "The Boss’s Hotline, which has never rung before, finally rings... just to test if the phone works?"
"The boss must really be bored!" Shaking his head, he stood up from his chair and walked to the window to look outside.
The entire campus was massive, spanning several kilometers at least. It consisted of more than twenty buildings and dozens of training grounds.
As far as the eye could see, there were elite personnel undergoing training.
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Su Chen looked up information about IPS Security Company online, but there was very little available. No details revealed the company’s scale, only that it was ranked among the top ten security firms in the world.
"Tsk, tsk. I didn’t expect it to have such a background." Su Chen hadn’t realized the security company was so formidable.
After fiddling with the brick phone for a moment, he returned it to the system inventory.
The thing was just too big and inconvenient to carry around.
Having reviewed the system’s rewards, Su Chen turned his attention to the blind box gift pack he had just spent a billion on.
’I’m not that unlucky, am I?’
Just as he was about to open it, a thought popped into his head.
’I should take a shower and wash off this bad luck!’ Su Chen really didn’t want to end up with something useless.
Su Chen gave himself a thorough wash, even scrubbing between his toes.
’If I still get crap luck after this, I’m not buying one next month!’
Su Chen changed into a fresh set of clothes, sat upright on the edge of his bed, and summoned the system.
"System, open the blind box gift pack!"
DING! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained Ultra-High-End CNC Machine Tool Manufacturing Technology!
Hearing the message in his mind, Su Chen’s brow furrowed instantly. Although he had never seen a CNC machine tool, he had a tiny bit of knowledge about them.
CNC machine tools were known as the "mother machines of industry," the very "heart" of modern manufacturing. Whoever controlled the latest CNC machine tool technology effectively controlled the lifeblood of industrial development.
For Su Chen, this CNC machine tool manufacturing technology, just like the nanometer-scale chip tech, was a hot potato!
’Looks like I’ll have to take this one step at a time. The system seems to want me to become a jack-of-all-trades!’ Su Chen sighed. A rough plan had already formed in his mind.
He would research it himself and produce it himself. Then, based on the progress of his chip R&D, he would develop his own lithography machine and completely crush ASML!
Su Chen was already daydreaming... picturing the looks on everyone’s faces in a couple of years when he unveiled these two game-changers.
