Chapter 178 Did I lose money?

Chapter 178 Did I lose money?

Now the Saudi team has encountered a very big problem. Although they purchased the right to use the US team's satellite control room, they cannot handle it on their own due to the excessive information they have obtained.

They don’t have the extraordinary judgment of reserve astronauts like Brett.

"Damn it! Go this way!" Abdul had no choice but to pick a route that was more suitable for their team to run.

“I really don’t know how those Chinese brothers did it. They decided the appropriate route almost instantly.” Behind Abdul, a member of the Saudi team said.

"I'll have to ask during dinner later." Another member of the Saudi team said, "Captain, I feel like we can't catch up anymore. Why don't we think about what to treat our Chinese friends to dinner tonight?"

“Don’t make any noise, don’t make any noise!” Abdul said, “I’m still figuring out which way is right.”

“I heard that Neon’s kaiseki cuisine is very good and elegant. Exquisite, or just that.”

“Let’s say goodbye. Those things are exquisite, but they are not enough. What if our Chinese friends are not satisfied?”

"This morning I asked the butler to buy the king of tuna that arrived in Hong Kong today. It should have been sent to the restaurant in Kyoto by now." The coach of the Saudi team suddenly joined the chat.

"Today's winner? Long live the coach!" The members of the Saudi team instantly became elated.

In the control room, listening to the chat among the Saudi team who were ordering food first, Hama helplessly held his forehead. He could tell that these guys came to the World Cup purely to have fun and make friends. Yes, they have no intention of winning at all. Their satellite control room is just a toy in the hands of these people. Not to mention the right to use the satellite, even if they give them the Jumper, they probably won't win.

"Two American kids over there, are you going to go tonight?" The coach of the Saudi team suddenly looked at Hama and Brett.

The coach of the Saudi team does not care about the outcome of the game. Anyway, the members of their team are composed of young men from five oil field owners. Before this, they could not even compete with the most ordinary mini racing cars. I have never played it, but after seeing the publicity for this game, Abdul and four friends put together this team, and then spent a lot of money to have German engineers build a super racing car for them, and they were very happy. They came to Neon to participate in the competition. They paid 50,000 US dollars per game to buy the right to use this satellite control room. The more reason is that they think this thing looks socool.

"Then I'll trouble you." Brett said. He also wanted to know the reason why the Chinese team could make perfect judgments in an instant.

On the playing field, the Chinese team ran in an orderly manner and would soon reach the second must-pass point.

"Xiaoyin, calculate the speed of each group to ensure that we can reach the second must-pass point together." Lin Tie said.

AI quickly gave suggestions, and then the two two-person teams began to accelerate at the same time. Before the second necessary point, the Chinese Dragon Team completed the convergence.

Brett's expression in the rest car of the Saudi team became condensed when he saw this. In the past, the Chinese team always chose the right route. This can be explained by the fact that the Chinese team members have very good instant judgment, but now the Chinese team has always chosen the right route. The five vehicles in the team gathered at the same time before the second must-pass point. The computing power required was beyond judgment.

At this moment, there were seven forked roads before the second must-pass point. However, this did not stump Xiao Yin. Combining the map and the track conditions seen by Lin Shu, the AI ​​quickly A suitable route was calculated.

The Chinese team's queue was divided into two groups again. The Yin Yang Demon Scorpion, which was consumed a lot by exploring the path, merged into Lin Shu's side. The Light Speed ​​War Dragon and the Sword Shark King each led their teammates to different routes.

Three minutes after the Chinese team passed the second necessary point, the Saudi team came belatedly, but faced with a more complex fork in the road, Abdul's brain was overloaded and he didn't even think about it. Thinking about it, he led the team members and rushed into the nearest difficult track.

"Hey! Your car is too reluctant to run that route..." After seeing the Saudi team make such a choice, Hama couldn't help but want to remind him, but he was quickly stopped by the official behind him. Personnel cut off communications.

"If you violate the rules again, the Saudi team will lose this game. At the same time, your American team will also lose the next game."

"Sorry..." Haha. Ma said angrily.

As Hama would like to remind you, the nearest route is an uphill mountain road, and a large amount of water has been specially sprayed on the track. The entire track is slippery and muddy, even for the five cars of the Chinese team, According to Xiaoyin's calculation, it will also waste a lot of time on this track, not to mention the performance of the car is obviously not as good as the Saudi team.

In the end, after the Chinese team reached the finish line, they waited for more than 5 minutes before they saw the members of the Saudi team arriving at the finish line in embarrassment.

However, although the Saudi team lost this game ugly, their players were not unhappy at all. After reaching the finish line, they immediately congratulated the members of the Chinese Dragon Team and proposed An invitation to have dinner together.

Everyone happily agreed and followed their wealthy friends from the Middle East to a luxurious restaurant in Kyoto, along with Brett and Hama.

"Friends from China, can you tell us? Why did you not hesitate at all when facing the fork in this game?" During the dinner, Abdul showed off a piece of tuna belly. asked.

At this time, Brett also quietly pricked up his ears.

“Well, our cars have AI to assist in calculations, so making choices doesn’t take so much time,” Lin Tie said.

"AI? Really? It sounds really powerful!" The members of the Saudi team became excited.

"AI? How is it possible?" Brett said at this time, "The capacity of the GP chip on the super car is probably not enough to carry an AI that can allow you to complete calculations instantly."

"Our cars do not use official chips, but ones developed by ourselves, which are much better than the official 180-nanometer chips." Lin De said truthfully.

"I see." Brett nodded, which would explain why on the second section of the track, the Chinese team was clearly divided into three teams and acted separately, but they were able to reach the second necessary point together.

“The new GP chip? How much better than the official one?” asked the coach of the Saudi team.

“The computing speed is about three times, and the capacity of the chip has increased a lot.” Lin De said.

“Friends from China, can this chip and AI be sold?” Abdul couldn’t sit still when he heard that the technology of this chip surpassed the chips provided by the government.

"Well...because this technology is still being kept secret, it's not that convenient..." Lin Ye said apologetically.

But it was obvious that Lin Dai had gone wrong. After listening to Lin Dai's words, Abdul wondered: "Technology? What do we need technology for? We can't make it. Wouldn't it be enough to have a chip?"

"Huh?" Researchers like Lin Bo are obviously not on the same channel as Abdul, a big businessman like Abdul who waves his money to buy. When Lin Bo heard that others wanted to buy, he instinctively thought that they wanted to buy technology. As a result, All Abdul wants is a chip equipped with AI. "Well, this can be sold." Lin Ye nodded.

"Then set a price." Abdul said boldly, and Brett also pricked up his ears. If the price is right, he would also like to buy a few copies.

Lin De calculated the cost of a chip, then added the price of an ordinary AI program, and raised five fingers. A set of US$50,000 should be about the same, although the profit is a bit much. But this technology is currently the only one in the world, and the price should be quite reasonable...

But before Lin Shu could speak, Abdul nodded in surprise: "500,000 U.S. dollars a piece? Okay, okay! Friends from China are so polite."

Lin Shu:! ! !

In Abdul's view, they paid US$50,000 for the right to use the US team's satellite control room. One chip can run more games than 10, not to mention that there are As for an AI that assists calculations, it only costs 500,000 U.S. dollars. Friends from China are really happy.

Brett: Excuse me...

After hearing the price quoted by Abdul, Brett immediately gave up the idea of ​​buying a chip back. Although NASA has money, , but the team budget they came to participate in this WGP is limited, and the 50W US dollar chip is still too expensive.

The generosity of the big business owner completely exceeded Lin Bo's expectation. After eating, signing the contract and getting on the bus back to Tokyo, Lin Bo realized: "Did I make a loss on the sale?"

After the huge sum of 250W US dollars was received, Lin De also asked China to quickly make five chips and send them over. At the same time, he also re-created a copy based on the underlying code of the AI ​​that came with the system. This AI is similar to Zhan Long. The team's AI controlled by Lin De's car soul is naturally inferior, but it can also help the Saudi team members process the information detected in the satellite control room.

[The system update is completed, please check it yourself]

Just after Lin Dai helped the Saudi team’s sponsor prepare the AI, the system’s prompt sounded for a long time.

"Is the update finally finished? I almost forgot about it!" Lin De opened the system module in front of his eyes.

The 90 days of update time have finally passed. If this system is not updated, Lin Shu himself will almost forget that he even has a system.

Lin De took a look at the new system interface. First of all, the honor system has been cancelled. If there is honor credit, he will be directly provided with the courses he needs.

Just like the two honors of this Super Cup, the mid-season cup championship reward is "Aerodynamics·Mastery", while the final Super Cup championship reward is "MG Ore Mining and Application"

MG Ore? What? Lin Ye clicked into the details in confusion.

The answer given by the system is that it is a high-energy mineral that is unique to this world and contains a large amount of stable energy. It also comes with a video.

In the video, a blue racing car was speeding at high speed, with high-energy currents surging around the car. Wherever the car passed, a terrifying trace was plowed out.

"Neptune's Wand?" Lin Dai recognized the car and at the same time remembered what MG Ore was.

This is the outrageous ore that can be used to support the energy consumption of the space elevator.

After understanding what this thing is, Lin De also scoffed at the way the master used this ore. He actually used this energy directly to the outside. On the track in the video That ravine looks quite intimidating, but most of the energy in it is completely wasted.

After reading this, Lin De turned his attention to the Mid-Season Cup championship reward "Aerodynamics Mastery"

Lin Shu has already completed the introductory and advanced courses of "Aerodynamics". It can be said that more than half of Lin Shu's current mini racing skills are the foundation laid by these two courses.

But unlike the previous two stages, this aerodynamics proficiency course is more expensive than chip technology in the original system store.

Although he could only look at the catalog of the course and the final reward for playing it, Lin Shu still clicked in. He really wanted to know why this course was so expensive before.

The catalog of the course was just as Lin Bo had expected, including some cutting-edge topics in aerodynamics, but the reward for completing the course made Lin Bo's eyes light up.

The name of "Intelligent Aerodynamic Auxiliary Component" sounds a little confusing, but the function of this thing, simply put, is to allow the mini racing car to use a fan to corner.

To be honest, this thing is much more attractive to Lin Shu than the ore.

"It seems that there is one more reason to win this Mid-Season Cup." Lin Ye thought to himself.

Just kidding, this is a fan cornering technique, which boy who likes racing can refuse!

Soon, all the competitions between different groups were over.

The Victory team unexpectedly defeated the England team, which had won the previous two games, in this week's match.

After the Victory team lost to the Vietnam team, many Neon viewers began to pessimize the Victory team's prospects in the World Cup. In this game against England, a veteran European team, most of the Neon viewers did not think about their own team. Can win.

But the victory team won by force, and Xiao Hao, who ran the last leg in the relay race, turned defeat into victory before the finish line with the Tornado Charge, which also made him temporarily take off his helmet. A hat of Vietnamese fermented bean curd for the week.

Returning to the fourth week of competition in the same group, the Chinese Dragon Team is about to face its biggest test since the start of the season.

The Huaxia Zhanlong team's opponent this week is, like them, the German Iron Wolves, who have maintained a record of winning 3 games and can be said to be the strongest team in Group A.

Although the current record is also 3-0, the opponents the German team defeated were obviously much stronger than the Chinese team's previous opponents.

Moreover, the German team obviously did not use all its strength. As far as Lin De knew, the dual airflow and combined rockets that could be used by the Iron Wolf II's unique asymmetric body were never used once.

But the good news is not without it. The next game of the Chinese Warriors is at home. The Chinese Warriors did not hesitate to choose the relay race, which can avoid their current shortcomings to the greatest extent. competition format.

(End of this chapter)