The game was a huge success, money rolled in like a tidal wave, the company made a lot of money, each of them started to have a net worth of hundreds of millions, and they were completely wealthy.
Logically speaking, the next step should be to go all out on the road of making games. After all, I have proven myself that whether I continue to operate old games or develop new games, I can get a large number of investors. favor.
But the founders of Faibasi chose not to take the ordinary path. When they had money, the first thing they did was various acquisitions and recruitments, which expanded the company's size several times in a short period of time. times, and then continue to engage in artificial intelligence.
Uh.
How should I put it? Now it seems that this decision was correct, because later projects did require a large number of coders, but the evaluation at the time was that they were bloated and demented. , Trade hastily expanded its operations and made itself bloated, instead of proceeding step by step.
But it didn’t take long for Faybas to launch a package of network security protection for enterprise users, with the project codename E-90.
From then on, Faibas walked on two legs.
One is a game that makes a lot of money. It has always been in an absolute leading position in this field. In the past few years, it has produced many hit games and has become a 'true god' in the gaming industry; the other is network security. Its intelligent technology and customized services have won praise from the industry. Although it is a new star, it occupies more than two-fifths of the market share.
In addition to these, in the past few years, it has entered many fields such as biology, aerospace, energy, materials, etc. through acquisitions, investments, share exchanges, etc., and has achieved good profits, and has also promoted the legal The market value of Ibas is rising all the time.
From the perspective of development history, the founders of Faibasi are all very talented, thoughtful, and capable people. To say they are geniuses is an understatement. Yes, and it’s comprehensive.
Not only has he made great achievements in scientific research, but he is also very effective in running businesses. Instead of the popular stereotype of academic masters and nerds, he is actually a generalist.
Having developed such a large enterprise, it is also flourishing in many fields. Business is booming, and scientific research is not lagging behind. It has won many awards in the field of artificial intelligence and has become a leader in artificial intelligence. Leading figure.
“It looks amazing.”
After reading this information, Maya admired the founders of this company even more.
The Internet is not disconnected at home, and it is not the first day online. She naturally knows about this rapidly rising company and holds a lot of its stocks. Although she is a small retail investor, But it has increased a hundred times compared to when I bought it, and it is the stock with the highest profit in Maya's hands.
I thought this was an absolutely high-quality stock, but seeing how Chiba Makoto looked, why did I feel like selling it quickly?
So, Maya quickly asked: "Is there anything wrong with this company?"
This is about whether to sell it, although in terms of money, they can't say yet. It’s just a bunch of numbers, but wealth freedom has indeed been achieved long ago.
After all, neither of them likes to spend money, and they don't spend money lavishly. They usually have three meals a day. Although they are not simple meals, they are not delicacies every day.
"The problem is that we can't find the problem." Chiba Cheng rubbed his forehead and said helplessly: "These are the information specially collected by the intermediary staff, but they are still very normal."
"It's normal. Isn't it bad?"
Maya doesn't understand that you are not the kind of person who wants to acquire this company and pay a high price, so you use all kinds of slanders and rumors and even use tricks to lower the stock price and thereby lower the price. When I started it, I didn’t want to fight against the autumn wind or pay tribute. Why did I have to find some problems.
Is it so difficult to find problems? If there are no problems, just create problems. Is it difficult to find faults?
“That’s the problem,” Chiba Makoto sat up and looked at the city at the foot of the mountain in the distance, saying, “I hope this is just a normal high-tech company, but it happens to be engaged in artificial intelligence. The name is still Faibas.”
“Uh, what’s the problem?”
Maya was confused when she heard what happened to artificial intelligence. Nowadays, every Internet company is claiming that it has developed many good artificial intelligence. And the companies and laboratories engaged in artificial intelligence are all over the world. More than ten thousand families.
And what’s wrong with the name ‘Faibas’? It’s not taboo, right?
Chiba Makoto!
In the name, there is no sound that overlaps with Faibas?
Chiba Makoto simply made it clearer and said: "In the parallel world, a mechanical life form, or monster, named Faibasi appeared. It was also transformed by artificial intelligence and controlled TPC's sea base almost used the Atdis to blow the metropolis to the ground
But in that world, the timeline when Faibas appeared was eight years ago, and this company also appeared eight years ago, so... "
Maya understood immediately and said with enlightenment: "So you suspect that this company is that mechanical life form. "
"A little doubtful," Qianye Cheng nodded and said: "There is also the super master Kallen who has never been seen on the Internet that Ye Rui mentioned many times. In the parallel world, that is The core consciousness of the mechanical life form is an artificial intelligence, but "Yes"
Chiba Makoto's eyebrows almost knitted together, looking quite entangled and distressed.
Although he had already discovered this company named Faibasi, The reason why I haven't moved is that I can't figure it out.
Artificial intelligence is actually a bunch of data. Even if the code is so large that it requires a computer room as big as a football field to fit it, it will not weigh even one gram in the real world.
Because it is virtual and can only exist in the online world.
But in the 'original work', in addition to Kallen's entity, even the magnificent and large-scale computer game city was turned into ashes after Faibas was destroyed, leaving The place turned into a clearing.
This.
It’s incredible.
Because without hardware support, no matter how awesome the software is, it is useless.
It's like a racing driver, even if he is a world champion and can drive hundreds of kilometers per hour, but without a racing car, you will never be able to catch up with an old man who is having fun.
For this reason, even if the computer city is a virtual image, such a realistic and large-scale computer city still exists all year round. It requires no shortage of instruments and equipment, and the virtual ones are always fake. , It’s okay from a distance, but you can see through it at a glance from a short distance.
But the original work is no different from the real thing. You can see it, not just talk about it, but you can also touch it.
It has gone beyond virtual imaging and become something as magical as magic.
I just can’t figure it out.
Chiba Makoto has also paid attention to this company, because after their rise, they became super rich. They built a computer game city in the place where the mechanical dinosaurs were dug up, and became a big player in the local area. It attracts a large number of tourists every year, and a large number of people come in and out every day to experience the latest games and conceptual equipment. What kind of virtual reality can receive hundreds of millions of people every year?
There is also the construction process, which not only hired a large number of workers, but also purchased a large amount of building materials, including decoration, layout, accessories, and various instruments and equipment inside. Suppliers come from all over the world, and delivery records , transportation records, and inspection records are all available. In order to provide so many materials and equipment, these suppliers also have procurement and production. The factories, warehouses, and merchants that supply them also have procurement, production, and transportation records, as well as the flow of money. .
Let’s put it this way, the cost of building that computer city is tens of billions, but the GDP it stimulates has reached 500 to 600 billion, and more than one million people are involved. If these are all fake, then what else is real? What about?
People do not appear out of thin air, and materials do not disappear out of thin air.
Unless all the materials brought in are buried, and the people who come to build houses, decorate or even play games and experience are controlled, brainwashed and implanted with false memories, otherwise this computer city will be really built, not a virtual one. of.
Not just looking at the information, Chiba Makoto also went to see and touch it in person. The floor is hard, the pillars are real, the lights are gorgeous, and the game equipment is really fun, and there is nothing virtual about it. , the head is not charged, it is indeed a real game city, not a virtual one.
After that, due to his busy schedule, Chiba Makoto paid less attention to this computer game field. When he saw it again, he saw that this company had grown so huge and entered many fields. , including TPC’s supply chain.
Although TPC has a large number of personnel and a gathering of elites, it does not do everything by itself. It has to do everything by itself. Except for some core tasks, which are internally responsible, others as small as clothes and socks, as large as instruments and equipment are all handled by the world. The supply chain, including weapons and equipment, as long as it is mass-produced, is purchased globally.
Take the Victory Condor as an example. Even for the new Max engine, which is the absolute core, parts are purchased from all over the world, and TPC is only assembled and debugged at the final end.
The reason is simple. You cannot build a factory with dozens or hundreds of people just because of a screw or a wire.
The Victory Condor has millions of parts, produced by tens of thousands of suppliers, involving millions of workers, and the parts of the Mobile Fortress have reached tens of millions, suppliers It has reached 50,000 to 60,000, and there is also the artificial sun that has just been put into use. The parts have exceeded 100 million. More than 100,000 factories around the world meet its needs, as well as major space stations, interstellar bases, and armed satellites.
It is no exaggeration to say that there are hundreds of manufacturers that have supply relationships with TPC alone. There are thousands of them, the big ones cover hundreds or even thousands of acres, and the small ones are just family workshops.
Should all these be included in the management of TPC and included in the establishment of TPC?
This is simply impossible.
The cost alone can bring TPC down and ruin it.
Because of this, even for such a large and important project as the Universe Network, TPC cooperates with the private enterprise PWI, let alone other aspects.
What Faibas is bidding for this time is network security, which TPC has always attached great importance to. Although it is not an important place such as the headquarters base or space station, it also provides Internet services for some laboratories in the branch. Security protection.
The reason why Chiba Makoto pays more attention to it and even asks Megumi to conduct an investigation is because the branch laboratory also has a port that connects to the TPC internal network.
Although the TPC intranet also has layers of protection, and the more confidential the area, the higher the level of protection, but it is still a hidden danger. What if the cooperation deepens?
Chiba Cheng conducted a detailed investigation on Faibas with a fearful attitude.
The result is that the more we look at it, the more normal it becomes. Whether it is Faibasi's rise, the flow of funds, or the computer city where Faibasi is the headquarters, there is no problem.
This time Chiba Makoto was investigating the senior executives of Faibas, and the details went as far as the fifth generation.
Everything turned out to be normal.
From birth to growth, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, to postgraduate entrance examinations and doctoral studies, everything is recorded, as well as classmates and teachers, and even the test papers of previous exams, handwriting identification is no problem. Daily life is no different from normal people.
The physical examinations and medical records over the years, as well as the examination reports they have done in the past few years, and even the recent blood tests can all prove that they are human beings.
That's all. What's more important is that Chiba Cheng didn't see the fat 'butler' who received Ye Rui in the original work. From the establishment of the laboratory to the present, Faibasi's personnel This person is not even in the directory.
It is precisely because of this kind of normality that Chiba Cheng hesitates, and sometimes even feels that he is too sensitive.
Does that mean someone with this name must be a monster?
Well, maybe it’s because I really can’t find Kallen, so I can only find Faibasi.
The legend of Kallen is known to everyone in the computer industry, but her true identity remains a mystery.
The Intelligence Bureau is powerless to do this. Their investigators also need to have accurate information. As for tracking along the network cable, how should I put it? Unless you can defeat Kallen on the Internet, don’t even think about it. Find him.
Because of this, Chiba Cheng went to investigate Faibas to see if he could find any clues, but he was disappointed.
This company is very normal. Although there are some leaks and even small tricks that are sure to win, these are too common in business operations, and some are even more excessive.
However, no abnormalities involving cosmic humans or monsters were found.
Even so, Hui Jiama still gave Chiba Makoto a lot of 'face' and had already sent intelligence personnel to go undercover to see if they could get some relevant clues after infiltrating the inside.
This is also a routine operation of the intelligence department. After all, many secrets are actually internal and external. Just look at the medical department. The gossip is really flying all over the sky. Despite repeated emphasis and management, But it was no use.
Everyone has a heart for gossip, and everyone loves to hear gossip.
One sentence: I tell you, you must not spread it out.
It means that you must upload it immediately.
After all, who wouldn’t want to talk mysteriously and proudly about gossip?
“Well, I’d better sell first.”
Maya said, planning to exit quickly.
Although this company is normal, what if it happens.
It’s better not to take this risk.
After all, the stock market has risks and investment needs to be cautious. This is not an empty talk, but the experience and lessons summed up with countless blood and tears. (End of this chapter)