65: Chapter 65 He is Wang Shuo

W City, Software Park.

Wang Shuo looked at Chen Xin, who had appeared before him once again, with a look of astonishment.

"The USB drive is lost?"

Chen Xin nodded.

"When did you lose it?"

Chen Xin lowered her head and checked the time.

"It should have been half an hour ago."

Half an hour ago... Hmm, that was right around the time I arrived at the Software Park. Did I seem to have forgotten something very important?

Seeming to notice that Wang Shuo was clearly distracted, Chen Xin raised her eyebrows.

"My father asked me to ask you if there is any technical way to retrieve the USB drive. If it cannot be found, please explicitly inform us of the technical risks after the loss of the USB drive and whether it will have any impact on our subsequent products."

"There shouldn't be any impact." Wang Shuo came back to his senses. The technology used to make the USB drive was provided by him, and it was personally packaged by Zero. According to current coding technology... there shouldn't be anyone who can directly crack it. And even if they did crack it...

Heh... Do they really think I'm some clueless college student who doesn't know anything?

As a programmer, isn't it perfectly normal to occasionally create a backdoor or two?

Besides, my luck wouldn't be so bad that I'd run into someone whose anti-reconnaissance skills are off the charts, right?

So...

Wang Shuo cleared his throat, full of confidence.

"Please tell Uncle Chen not to worry. Leave the matter of the USB drive to me. However..."

Wang Shuo's eyes darted around. Ever since he had been taught a lesson by Chen Zhongxuan, he had deeply grasped the core philosophy of Uncle Chen's important speeches. As an heir to an alien universe's legacy with high intelligence, it would be unjustifiable not to immediately implement it and draw inferences about other cases.

"However, this is not within the scope of our contract. If you need me to take action to retrieve the USB drive... it might require some remuneration... Otherwise... I don't know if the encryption lock I set up will be brute-forced... By then..."

Chen Xin stared wide-eyed.

"Alright, Xiner." Chen Zhongxuan's voice came from the side. Immediately, Chen Xin glared at Wang Shuo, and as the image shifted, Chen Zhongxuan appeared.

Old fox.

Wang Shuo curled his lips, as expected.

"Wang Shuo, oh Wang Shuo... What am I supposed to say about you?" Chen Zhongxuan said with a tone of disappointment. "Is that how you understood what I told you?"

"Personal relationships are one thing, business is another." Wang Shuo smiled shyly. "Or is Uncle Chen prepared to pay me the remaining one hundred million?"

"In your dreams." Chen Zhongxuan snorted, then steadied himself and said, "Do you think I don't know what's going on in that head of yours? We have analyzed that USB drive. Your encryption lock is very secure. I believe no one can crack it except yourself."

"That's not necessarily true, Uncle Chen." Wang Shuo blinked innocently. "Technology is the least reliable thing. Who knows when it might just unlock itself? By then, our Chen Group will suffer losses. Chen Cheng told me that quite a few products have been pre-ordered this time..."

"You kid..." Chen Zhongxuan was amused to the point of anger. "You just spout nonsense. I know exactly where that kid Chen Cheng went. Even if he wanted to tell you, he wouldn't know the situation. Stop trying to smear others."

Wang Shuo spread his hands innocently.

"However, what you said is not without reason." Chen Zhongxuan nodded seriously and said, "How about this: if you can take action to retrieve the USB drive, I will pay you a portion of the remuneration. If you can waive this portion of the remuneration, then when you purchase the Machining Center from my company, I will authorize a discount for you. It will definitely be enough to offset your remuneration. How about it?"

A portion of a discount?

Wang Shuo did the math in his heart and felt that such a condition was not unacceptable.

"That works." Wang Shuo nodded with a smile. "But Uncle Chen, if your company's Machining Center cannot meet my needs, I will need the Chen Group to guide me in purchasing imported equipment from abroad."

"No problem." Chen Zhongxuan nodded. He still had enough face for that. Although he couldn't buy the most advanced ones, they would definitely be better than the existing equipment in his group, and at least the precision would be sufficiently guaranteed.

"Also, Uncle Chen... are you sure you don't want to upgrade the grade of your company's equipment?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Zhongxuan was a bit puzzled.

"Nothing special." A sly smile appeared on Wang Shuo's face. "It's just that I don't want a discount. I want... it for free."

"For free?" Chen Zhongxuan raised his eyebrows, then shook his head. "That's impossible."

"Uncle Chen..."

"When talking business, we don't talk about feelings... It's useless to call me uncle." Chen Zhongxuan was categorical.

"That's too bad..." Wang Shuo showed a look of heartbreak and said, "Originally, I was prepared to use this technology to exchange for a few pieces of equipment. I didn't expect Uncle Chen to be so strict about business rules. I can only painfully offer it to Uncle Chen..."

"Uncle Chen..."

Wang Shuo revealed a cunning smile.

"A complete machining system design scheme with an accuracy of 0.005mm-0.002mm. Do you want to know about it?"

...

If there was one thing the Chen Group incident taught Wang Shuo, it was that technology has a price. You can estimate the value of any technology, but the value varies. The premise of technology having a price is to encounter the right object to apply it to.

The Chen Group was exactly such an object: large scale, having a market, and having a good relationship with him. Most importantly... they had money.

It wasn't that Wang Shuo hadn't realized this before, but the impact brought by the Humanoid Race was too huge, so huge that it exceeded Wang Shuo's cognition. It was like an ordinary person suddenly receiving ten million in assets; they might happily improve their life and buy luxury goods. But what if they suddenly received a trillion? A normal person's reaction wouldn't be to immediately spend that trillion, but to be scared to the point of being unable to function, then feeling at a loss, and subsequently feeling bewildered. A normal person doesn't know how to use a trillion to realize their own value.

Wang Shuo was exactly like that.

On some level, Chen Zhongxuan's advice came very timely, which allowed Wang Shuo to quickly shake off his bewildered state and clearly realize his own value.

Hmm... the core had already merged with him, he was the core. If the core counted as black technology, then now... he was the black technology itself. So it was his own value, not the core's value, that was correct.

He... was no longer a penniless poor kid.

After happily finishing his conversation with Chen Zhongxuan, ignoring Chen Zhongxuan's somewhat sour expression, Wang Shuo happily closed the video call.

Looking at the code he hadn't finished typing yet, Wang Shuo hummed as he continued his work. There were still many parts of Zero's logic core and nodes waiting to be perfected, and this could only be done by him typing code by code.

If doing this work before was just for interest, then now...

It's all money.

He didn't want to think about how much Zero was worth; in any case, it would be a lot.

"Zero, play a cheerful song."

A few seconds later, a familiar tune rang out...

"Today is a good day, everything you wish for can come true..."

This song... Wang Shuo expressed that he was very helpless, but this song really wasn't played wrong; it was very fitting.

Hmm... might as well listen to it.

...

Chen Zhongxuan watched the screen show the end of the call, only then did he put away his heavy expression, changed to a relaxed expression, picked up his teacup, and took a small sip.

"That kid Wang Shuo..." Thinking of Wang Shuo's greedy little face just now, he couldn't help but chuckle. "Interesting, very interesting."

"He learns very quickly." Chen Xin said.

"But it's not enough." Chen Zhongxuan said with some amusement. "He actually bragged to me directly, even 0.002 mm accuracy. As a computer major, being able to create a system that Japanese experts are obsessed with is already astonishing. On the internet, he is even hailed as a savior, and he actually wants to get involved in the field of mechanical manufacturing... Forget it, young man, after all, even learning has a process, you can't force it. Xiner, what do you think?"

Looking at Chen Xin's affirmative look, Chen Zhongxuan laughed again. "Why, don't tell me you believe what Wang Shuo said is true?"

"If someone else said it, I would believe he couldn't do it." Chen Xin looked at her father quietly. "But he is different; he is Wang Shuo."

"Xiner, you still don't understand the inside story of the industry." Chen Zhongxuan shook his head and chuckled. "The highest precision mass-produced Machining Center in the country can only reach 0.005 mm. Other machine tools have slightly higher precision, but it's very limited. The manufacturing of mother machine tools is even worse; they haven't even perfectly solved the problem of material stress release. 0.002 mm precision, and it's still a Machining Center, this Wang Shuo really dares to brag... Heh."

Bragging?

Chen Xin looked at Chen Zhongxuan, who was full of smiles, and didn't speak. When she was in the Hospital, she thought the same way, but what was the result?

The arrogant Matsumoto Bieyun was furious, the high and mighty W Company was silenced, and the Chen Group's stock was as red-hot as the sun.

If Wang Shuo really designed and manufactured such high-precision equipment, then... what would be the result?