68: Chapter 68 Tanaka's Worries

Why do the protagonists in novels immediately become awesome the moment they get a cheat, while I, despite having the technology, have only become more miserable?

The hardware facilities can't keep up, and the software needs to be coded by myself. How is it so hard just to earn some simple money to spend? If it weren't for the nearly thirty million in revenue giving Wang Shuo sufficient confidence and high expectations for the future, he would have long since given up and just laid flat.

Ten-plus hours later, it was another sleepless night.

It wasn't until ten o'clock the next morning that Wang Shuo entered the final set of code into the screen and let out a long sigh.

"Zero, check all code commands and begin logical supplementation."

"Checking code library. Extracting... Supplementing..."

"Estimated time required: seventeen hours and fifty-four minutes. Estimated resource usage: eighty-seven percent."

Eighty-seven percent resource usage... Well, forget about using Zero for anything else now, otherwise the servers will crash on you in a minute.

"But... nearly eighteen hours, that's too long."

Wang Shuo sighed helplessly.

It wasn't that the servers were bad, but that the computational volume had already exceeded the maximum capacity of these few machines. Even though Wang Shuo had optimized the algorithms and adopted distributed computing, he couldn't avoid the fate of the servers running at overcapacity.

Upgrading the hardware level of the servers was already imminent.

And developing a new generation of computer platforms was also a matter of great urgency.

As for adding new servers... Wang Shuo had indeed already asked Liu Yemei to customize a few extra servers, but distant water cannot quench near thirst. Moreover, the current servers were truly too poor; unless he spent a huge amount of money to stack hardware, their performance was so bad that he couldn't bring himself to use them.

Rather than wasting huge sums of money solving the quantity issue of the servers, it would be better to solve the aforementioned problems to address the quality issue of the servers.

"Zero's core also needs a further upgrade. Now that the new code is all finished, I can completely upgrade Zero's core to the second generation and add some behavioral recognition algorithms, emotional algorithms, and stress response algorithms to make Zero more flexible and anthropomorphic."

"As for the source of the emotional training data..."

Wang Shuo propped up his chin... and fell asleep...

Tanaka stood before the giant floor-to-ceiling window, watching the heavy traffic below. The slight apprehension and worry that had originally been in his heart grew increasingly severe as time passed.

He was fifty years old this year.

Given his age and technical ability, he was a senior-level figure in Japan. Originally, he shouldn't have had to make this trip in person, but unfortunately, the internal cohesion of the company was poor, and the infighting was severe. His coming out this time was also partly to avoid the limelight.

But no one expected that what was originally supposed to be a very relaxing trip would evolve into the current situation.

Looking at the message notification on the phone in front of him, this was the fourth time the Huaxia company had booked a flight ticket for him. Furthermore, this time it was explicitly stated that the "senior" he wanted to meet had not responded.

In Japan, the meaning of no response is, in all likelihood, an attitude of refusal.

If it were any other matter, with this kind of attitude, he would have just gone with the flow and left by plane, but this time...

He didn't dare.

Ever since he saw the complete system brought out by the Huaxia company, he hadn't slept well once.

Others only saw that Huaxia had brought out a very advanced CNC machining system, but as a top engineer, he knew very clearly that this was not just a simple CNC machining system. If this system were to truly spread, it would become the company's nightmare, a death warrant for the company; the company's existing commercial territory would be vulnerable before it.

Therefore, he had to meet the designer and creator of this system. He had to!

No matter the cost.

He took out his phone and scrolled through it.

"Matsumoto..." Tanaka pondered for a moment. Recalling his situation when he first arrived in Huaxia, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly and swiped past this name.

"Mr. Bieyun..." Tanaka shook his head slightly and continued swiping.

"Chen..." Tanaka looked at the large "25" in parentheses behind the phone number. He hesitated for a moment, but ultimately pressed the call button.

The phone's connection tone rang slowly.

Each ring felt as if it were beating against Tanaka's heart, making him inevitably even more anxious.

Finally, the call connected, and a familiar voice came from the other end of the line.

"Hello."

"Moshi moshi... Hello... Chen." Tanaka replied in a steady voice: "This is Tanaka."

"I recognize you, Mr. Tanaka." Chen Bangguo on the other end of the line laughed heartily: "Our company has already booked your return ticket to Japan. I wonder if Mr. Tanaka has received the notification?"

"I have, Chen." Tanaka paused and organized his thoughts: "But... I don't... want to... leave... yet. I still... insist on... my... request. I hope... Chen... will grant it."

"Mr. Tanaka." Chen Bangguo's voice was somewhat heavy: "It's not that our company doesn't want to grant your request, but there are truly reasons for this. You must believe that our company has done its utmost to coordinate the meeting for you, but unfortunately, the other party simply will not respond. The multiple invitations we have sent out have all sunk like stones into the sea. Mr. Tanaka, forgive my bluntness, but you cannot continue to drag this out."

"I know, Chen." Tanaka's voice trembled slightly, no longer possessing his usual high spirits: "My... visa... will expire in two days. So I would like... to ask Chen... for help. After the matter is done... there will definitely be... a great reward."

The visa expiration was an unavoidable issue. If he really didn't leave by the day after tomorrow, it would become an illegal stay. If he were deported, who knows how many people would be laughing at him then.

Seeming to hear the unwillingness in his voice, Chen Bangguo on the other side sighed: "Then I will try again, Mr. Tanaka. I will extend your ticket to the day after tomorrow. If the other party still refuses to meet with you by the day after tomorrow, you cannot drag this out any longer."

"I understand, Chen." Tanaka nodded heavily.

The call ended.

Tanaka placed his phone aside, squeezed his fist powerlessly, and then gently relaxed it.

Sighing deeply, Tanaka returned to the sofa in the center of the living room and sat down. His expensive work computer was still running by his side, and the illuminated screen displayed an unsent email.

This was an email addressed to the head office in Japan.

Tanaka reviewed it carefully, then gently closed the computer lid and pressed the communication button by his side.

"Nakamura, help me take care of one thing... We cannot just... sit here and wait for death."

To meet... or not to meet, that is the question.

Wang Shuo didn't spend too much time thinking about this question.

In fact, right after Chen Zhongxuan and Chen Xin raised this issue with him, he made a clear response.

"No meeting!"

The reason was... very busy.

This reason made Chen Zhongxuan smile bitterly, and left Chen Bangguo, who knew the inside story, unable to laugh or cry.

Therefore, the conversations above were all just gestures made out of necessity to avoid offending Tanaka.

But neither of these two knew that Wang Shuo was indeed very busy, really very busy.

After resting for a little while, Wang Shuo woke up again; it was already one-thirty in the afternoon.

After eating a little something simple, Wang Shuo began his next step of planning.

"Zero, how is the web crawler data collection going?"

"Collecting, sir."

"Perform statistics."

"Due to excessive system resource usage, the estimated time for statistics is quite long. Shall we proceed?"

"Proceed."

That's right, Wang Shuo now needed to pay attention to the issue of Zero's healthy growth, which was also of paramount importance regarding whether Zero could continue to upgrade.

If Zero were a child, then the development of this child's personality would depend to a large extent on massive amounts of data—which is a very hot term right now.

Big Data.

Big data is collecting personal data from numerous small personal terminals to understand the specific situation of this person—from small things like personal preferences, tastes, clothing, and habits, to big things like family, work, career, assets, credit capacity, and contract-keeping ability—all of which can be analyzed through bits and pieces of data.

And for Zero, the main purpose of the analysis is... personality and emotion.