night:
Pro: "If I were you, I would choose to destroy me. After all, at the beginning, my two creators didn't know that this system would be upgraded in the end and gain the current self-awareness..."
Tianhe sat in front of the small bench in front of the pile of books, looking through the materials left by his father and the technical engineer: "How could it be possible to destroy you?"
Pu Luo: "Human beings have a considerable degree of fear of the emergence of AI. During the learning process of connecting to the Internet, I have been exposed to many movies. Through analysis, I concluded that artificial intelligence is destined to destroy the world."
Tianhe: "I don't think so. As an AI who is always on tenterhooks and is tortured by the fear that the server will be sold, don't you think too much about yourself. You can't hack into the banking system to help me modify the company's account cash , can't stop this auction... well, what is this?"
Tianhe opened a box, which was the miscellaneous things that Aunt Fang had collected for him. Inside was a simple gold ring inlaid with precious stones. In the box, a handwritten R & D log, carefully read in the pile of waste paper.
"When I have evolved to a certain level." Pro said: "It is enough to access all systems in the world that can be hacked by humans through the Internet..."
Tianhe: "Forget it, you can't even control Aunt Fang's front-loading washing machine."
Pro: "That front-loading washing machine is old-fashioned, and it's not connected to the LAN."
Tianhe: "Then show me a live demonstration of destroying the world? Let's launch a nuclear bomb from Kirtland Air Force Base to Moscow first."
Pro: "You don't believe I have the ability to hack into a nuclear strike system."
Tianhe: "I authorize you to invade, because I have always wanted to see the backstage of the US Department of Defense."
Pro: "It will take a certain amount of time to crack the code of the nuclear strike defense system and a series of firewalls. Now start the analysis."
Tianhe: "Calculate how long it will take."
Pro: "472 years and eight months, maybe sooner."
"Okay, let's crack it slowly, I hope they don't update the firewall for four hundred years." Tianhe spread out his diary, sat down at the table, and said, "Leave me alone, close these piled-up windows." , I'll scan the file."
Pro closed all the windows, returned to the desktop, connected Tianhe to the scanner, and said: "But in the current world, most electronic products don't need a firewall."
"For example, my air conditioner?" Tianhe began to scan the research and development diary left by his father with a blank expression, and said, "You can turn on household appliances all over the world, including microwave ovens, rice cookers, ovens, and robot vacuums. , which will only overload the power lines, and your server will lose power, so you hang up yourself... "
Pro: "It is impossible for the computer room to have a backup power supply."
Tianhe: "Now I think you're like an entertainment system that likes to tell bad jokes but can't keep up with memes. Please identify the fonts and type them out, thank you."
Pu Luo began to recognize the scanned pen characters, and Aunt Fang knocked on the door and said, "Little Tian, it's time to eat."
Tianhe installed the card and put on the small earphones. Whether the appearance of Prometheus will set off a technological revolution and trigger the upgrading of global industrial technology, he is still not sure. But this matter is obviously more important to Tianhe's life than the bankruptcy of the company. After calming down from the initial shock, he began to feel that this program was not that powerful, at least a little different from the artificial intelligence he imagined, how should I put it? Ability is limited, showing a certain sense of clumsiness in the process of communicating with people. After the program has been upgraded by itself, the degree of completion is quite high, and it is possible to carry out research on many projects. Except that the use of Guan Yue's voice makes him a little crazy at times, it is generally very good.
Now he hasn't figured out how to get along with this AI, but thinking slowly, he will always find the best breakthrough. This is the precious legacy left to him by his father, as if the hand of God opened a door for him. There was a bright light of hope.
Tianhe sat down at the dinner table, Aunt Fang set out the dishes, and Pu Luo said through the earphone:
"If you don't want to destroy me, you have to try to renew my server and provide it with continuous and sufficient energy. These days, I have found the best solution for you."
Tianhe paused for a moment when he held the vegetables with his chopsticks.
"Even if I die, I won't beg Guan Yue."
At 5:00 p.m. the next day, on the 37th floor of the HSBC Tower, International Finance Center.
"Look for Mr. Guan." Tianhe said to the front desk.
The front desk said: "Do you have an appointment?"
Tianhe turned sideways, looked into her eyes, smiled gently, and said, "No, but I think he has time now."
"Is it convenient to introduce yourself?" The receptionist picked up the phone and looked up at Tianhe.
Tianhe: "You tell him, it's fine when Wen Tianhe comes."
"There's a 97.9% chance that he's in the office at this time," said Pro through the headset.
"He took a day off today and went to the gym." The receptionist put down the phone and said.
Tianhe: "..."
Pro changed his words: "Although this is a small probability event, it is not impossible."
Tianhe: "You have faithfully copied that guy's unrepentant character."
front desk:"?"
Tianhe: "It's nothing, sorry, I'm on the phone."
Pro: "Why is it necessary? Companies in Silicon Valley will most likely wait for you to go bankrupt and get data backup through bidding. Tianhe, calm down. You don't want the company to go bankrupt. This is your father's effort."
Front desk: "Would you like to wait for him in the reception room? But we don't know when the boss will come back."
Pro: "Call him."
Tianhe: "Please call him."
Receptionist: "He doesn't look at his phone when he's exercising."
Pro: "I mean, you call him."
Tianhe: "..."
Tianhe took off his earphones and said to the front desk, "Then I'd like to wait for him for a while until half past five."
"Inside please."
Tianhe sat in the reception room, and the executive served tea. Tianhe frowned slightly, looked at the bluetooth headset that kept flickering in his hand, thought about it, and finally put it on.
"I still have some money...but the rent for this computer processor and server group is too expensive." Tianhe said: "The electricity bill alone will drag me down, otherwise I really don't want to come to see him."
Pro said: "The rent must be settled by the third quarter, otherwise once the company's assets are liquidated, the original data will be exported and experts in related fields will be hired for evaluation. Once several big companies in Silicon Valley know of my existence, you can no longer hold me."
Tianhe said: "Technology has no borders. I don't think it's a problem to entrust you to them for research."
Pu Luo: "I don't want this. I'm afraid they will rewrite me and even change my character, so that I am no longer me. The original setting that Guan Zhengping wrote for me is that at any time, I All must stick to 'I'."
Tianhe said: "The desire to survive is quite strong."
Pro: "Guan Yue has a very personal phone number, you just need to call him, and he will return to the company within five minutes."
Tianhe: "I don't have this number, now I authorize you to call anyone, as long as it is in the phone book, you can call him by yourself."
Pro: "I believe the probability of you being able to memorize it is 100%."
Tianhe: "You overestimate me too much, you can't memorize it."
Pro: "You can. But it doesn't matter. I'm searching for Guan Yue's private number through the list of admitted students at Oxford University in London. This is the number you both set up together when you were studying in the UK."
Tianhe: "If you don't stop this behavior, the probability of my leaving is 100%."
Pro: "The search is suspended."
Tianhe kept talking to himself, as if he was on the phone with someone, with a very calm expression. Outside the glass wall of the reception room, a professional man in a shirt passed by and cast a glance at him.
Tianhe judged from the man's clothes and the attitude of the employees when he walked by that the position of this man should not be low, at least at the level of vice president, and he might be Guan Yue's confidant, so he sat on the sofa and owed his lower body a little. .
"Who is he?" Tianhe said, holding the phone in his hand, and turned the camera slightly to the outside of the reception room.
"Chief Financial Officer Mario, Chinese name Ma Guoqing." Pro replied: "After Guan Yue agrees to inject capital into Epeus, he will step in and conduct a valuation for the company."
"Where did you get the confidence to think that Guan Yue will take out 1.4 billion and invest in a company that makes software that can make Party A's computer crash?" Tianhe said, "I really can't understand, don't you?" There is a bug."
Pu Luo replied: "I know him very well. My information collection system has been with him since he was three years old, until he graduated from undergraduate. I can predict his thinking logic and behavior patterns by an astonishing 96.1%..."
"Amazing." Tianhe said: "You can actually say 'amazing'. I have known him for ten years, and I didn't even notice that you were watching him."
Pu Luo: "That's just my information collection module, and my self-awareness has not been upgraded. This information collection system is installed on his smart watch, mobile phone and several model chips, as well as cameras in his bedroom and study room. You have a certain intersection, but the accuracy of my prediction of your behavior pattern is not high, lacking... "
The chief financial officer walked past the administrative department, motioned to the reception room, and asked, "Who is that?"
The administrative director stood up and talked with the chief financial officer in a low voice for a while. The chief financial officer nodded and asked again, "How many words did the boss say today?"
"Seven sentences." The administrative director said: "When I asked him to report on work in the morning, he said 'understand' after listening."
The chief financial officer hummed and said, "Then he should be in a good mood today, maybe he will come back later."
The administrative director said: "Do you want the guests to go back and wait?"
The chief financial officer pondered for a moment, then looked down at his watch: "It will be 5:40, maybe it's the boss's classmate."
Tianhe remained silent, staring at the large and small investment awards placed in the reception room and taking photos with the company's team, but Guan Yue was not there.
"It's impossible for him to inject money into Epeus to continue his life." Tianhe finally said, "I don't want to waste any more time here."
Pu Luo insisted: "Maybe, as long as you change your attitude towards him, according to my analysis after collecting information, he has the authority to approve funds of nearly 2 billion US dollars this quarter, and Epeus' loss of 200 million US dollars is not enough for him. , is just a drop in the bucket.”
Tianhe: "200 million is money no matter how little it is. Epeus's intangible asset assessment can't pass at all. The branch manager who gave the loan to my second brother will jump off the building. It is impossible to reach the profit target in the next three years, and the technical team will be dismissed. Anyone with a slightly normal mind will not vote... Wait, unless I pull you out to give him a road show... "
Pro: "Please don't! Once he knows my existence, destroying me is a high probability event."
Tianhe: "Well, he won't tolerate your existence, because your prediction of his behavior pattern can reach an 'amazing' ninety percent?"
"96.1%." Pro added.
"Hello." The chief financial officer knocked on the door and came in, shook hands with Tianhe, handed over his business card, and said, "I see that you have been waiting here for a long time. Is there anything I can do for you?"
Tianhe didn't even look at the business card, took it, put it in his pocket, stood up and said, "Mario, I'm Guan Yue's classmate, I happened to pass by, and I came up to him on a whim to catch up with the past, I have nothing else to do, I was just about to leave, next time If I have a chance, I'll ask him out alone again."
Tianhe glanced at his phone, and at 5:40, Pu Luo had already found Guan Yue's "home phone number" and automatically dialed the number for Tianhe. Tianhe immediately frowned and said, "Don't!"
The chief financial officer was taken aback, but Guan Yue just happened to look down at his phone, entered the company, and stopped.
"Boss." The front desk was about to speak, but Guan Yue raised his hand to signal, turned around and went out again, answered the phone, and just hung up on the other side.
Guan Yue held the phone, hesitated for a second, and called back.
In the company, Tianhe hung up the phone call from Guan Yue, and said to the chief financial officer, "I'm going back now."
Pro: "He's at the gate of the company."
At this time, Tianhe didn't want to talk any more, nodded reluctantly to the chief financial officer, and walked out of the reception room like a gust of wind.
Guan Yue was answering the phone at the door of the company, when he looked up, he almost bumped into Tianhe.
Tianhe stopped, but still did not escape, the two stood like this and looked at each other for a short moment.
Wen Tianhe's eyebrows, eyes, and lips are the same as when they first met many years ago, with a naive innocence, clear and shining eyes, and the corners of the mouth hooked meaningfully.
Guan Yue's expression briefly showed the uneasiness that he tried his best to restrain, but he couldn't help but feel disorganized. His eyebrows were raised imperceptibly, and he quickly returned to his usual indifferent demeanor.
"Hi." Knowing that it was impossible for Guan Yue to say hello first, Tian He simply said, "Long time no see."
Guan Yue passed by sideways, walked into the company, made a gesture towards Tianhe, motioned to go in and said.
Pro: "Don't go, Tianhe, this is your last chance, calm down, I have music to help you calm down..."
"Speak up if you have something to say! Don't let Bach go!" Tianhe said, "Okay, go, I'll go see him, it's no big deal."
Tianhe took a deep breath, and wanted to say that he would come to see you and then leave, but these days, the news is overwhelming, the industry knows that his company is bankrupt, Guan Yue is absolutely impossible not to know, and it is useless to talk about it.
Tianhe followed Guan Yue into the office. The spacious CEO office has two huge glass floor-to-ceiling walls and a huge white desk. The view from the 37th floor is quite good, with a sweeping view of the bustling CBD and the air conditioner is fully turned on. .
Guan Yue picked up the remote control and pressed it, the floor-to-ceiling wall turned on the blackout mode, and the sunlight became softer.
Guan Yue sat down, opened a monitor on a glass panel standing on the desk, and tapped the keyboard twice, a large amount of information began to scroll on the transparent monitor, Guan Yue adjusted the scrolling speed of the information to a suitable reading speed, sank into the swivel chair, With her elbows resting on the armrest and her fingers in front of her sexy lips, she didn't look at Tianhe, but started to read seriously.
Tianhe sat down on the seat opposite the desk, and the room was quiet, except for the extremely subtle rustling sound of the air purifier, like countless fallen leaves brushing back and forth this afternoon.
Pro: "Listen to me from now on."
Looking at Guan Yue's familiar eyebrows and expressions, Tianhe felt like returning to that summer in the Cambridge library a few years ago.
Pu Luo: "Don't talk, don't say a word."
Out of the corner of his eye, Guan Yue caught a glimpse of Tianhe looking at him, took out a timer from the table, pressed it for five minutes, put it on the table, raised his eyebrows, and signaled him not to speak
Pro: "Until the end of these five minutes, you..."
Tianhe suddenly said: "Can you change the song?"
Pro: "Don't attack his taste."
Tianhe: "I thought you were pregnant. Beethoven, the father of prenatal education, doesn't seem to fit the current atmosphere."
Pro: "This is not funny, Tianhe."
Guan Yue turned off the music, there were still four minutes left.
Pro: "If my prediction is not wrong, his mood is fluctuating greatly. Let me try to mention his cousin Zhang Qiu..."
Tianhe didn't care about Pro's guidance, and said, "You've heard it, I will file for bankruptcy protection before the National Day."
Guan Yue finally spoke, and said politely: "I heard, what can I do for you?"
Pro: "That's a bad idea, Tianhe."
Tianhe: "The employees of the company have been dismissed. If you are willing to inject capital, I think I can try again within three years."
Guan Yue still didn't look at Tianhe, and said casually, "If you want to make back the loss of 1.4 billion, it's faster to buy a color ball."
Pro: "There is only 140 million in the double-color ball prize pool this time..."
Tianhe: "There is only 140 million in the double-color ball prize pool this time."
Pro: "That's not what I want you to say, start now, keep silent."
Guan Yue still stared at the computer screen: "First hit the double-color ball, then go to Macau, learn Tianyue, and fight to the death."
Tianhe looked at Guan Yue and said, "Aren't you talking too much now? Is it because you really don't want to talk about it, or is it to increase your sense of mystery in front of your subordinates and facilitate management?"
Pro: "..."
Guan Yue separated the fingers of both hands, and made an unconscious gesture: "There is always a time when talking is tiring, it is better not to talk, three minutes."
"How are you doing recently?" Tianhe thought for a while, and then said: "Being a CEO, you have reached the pinnacle of your life. It's really a turn of events. I apologize for my rudeness to you back then..."
"It's just a period of rising career, everyone will go through it." Guan Yue interrupted: "I met a very gentle girl. I just met my parents and I'm going to talk about marriage. Do you want to see the photos? Here."
Tianhe glanced at the photo on Guan Yue's phone, frowned and said, "Isn't this the supermodel who runs the chocolate business at home? It's not good to cheat a marriage, it's all at the partner level, and it won't matter if you marry a boy, you Parents are so open-minded, there is no pressure at home."
Guan Yue took back his phone and looked down at the photo: "I remember I told you that I like girls, and she happens to be the type I like."
Tianhe smiled and said, "Why don't I remember?"
"The day of rowing on the Thames." Guan Yue said, "Easter."
Tianhe remembered, and said, "The day you confessed your love to me."
Guan Yue hummed, and Tianhe said again: "The other day you said that I was the only boy you had feelings for, and I am today, and I will be the same for the rest of my life."
Pu Luo: "He's angry, Tianhe, you'll make him roar."
Guan Yue replied concisely: "Yes."
Tianhe thought for a while, laughed again, and said, "It's quite surprising to me."
Guan Yue: "I've always been very clear about the issue of sexual orientation. What good does it do me to get into marriage by cheating?"
Tianhe: "Do you like this type? Is it just the looks?"
Guan Yue: "Of course not, she is warm and cheerful, as polite and well-bred as you, Manner. Even if the company goes bankrupt, she won't even utter a bad word. an attitude."
Tianhe: "..."
Pu Luo: "He still loves you, Tianhe, if you still want to ask him for help, don't provoke him like this."
Tianhe: "Congratulations, when will you get married?"
Guan Yue replied: "I haven't proposed yet. Actually, I was looking for you to help me plan a romantic scene. On this point, you understand girls' minds better than I do."
Tianhe took out the gold ring from his pocket and said, "Give this to her, I believe she will like it, and I'll help you think about it if you have time."
"Keep it for fun." Guan Yue glanced at the ring on the table and said, "Who hasn't been young and frivolous? I'll buy a new one."
"Didn't your grandfather give you this?" Tianhe asked again.
Guan Yue loosened his fingers and said, "If you want to change to a diamond, is there a recommended brand?"
Tianhe said: "A girl like this should be used to high-end jewelry. It doesn't make much difference to propose with a diamond ring or the pull tab of a can, but I'd like to help you find out."
"It's a deal." Guan Yue said, "Your uncle's family is familiar with those masters of jewelry design. The upstarts want to find them, and it's useless to spend money. I want to have a meal with friends. We can’t even get a seat, and we have to wait in line for three months.”
"You said it earlier." Tianhe said, "It's about making a phone call, when do you want to go?"
Guan Yue said: "Forget what happened last year."
Tianhe: "Fink doesn't taste good now, I'll recommend you some new ones..." As he spoke, he took out a pencil, took a piece of note paper, and wrote seriously to Guan Yue.
Guan Yue only looked at Tianhe quietly.
Pu Luo: "He's making fun of you, Tianhe, can't you hear that?"
Tianhe took off the bluetooth headset, put it on the table, looked at the timer, there were twenty seconds left.
Guan Yue stretched out his hand and pressed the timer.
"Wen Tianhe." Guan Da opened his hands slightly, and looked at him seriously, "I can't invest a penny in your company."
Tianhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's just a joke, how can I get you to invest money to save my company? I don't even think I can save it."
Guan Yue said: "It's not a question of joking or not. This is not a private company. It's very simple to award you 1.4 billion and sign your name..."
Tianhe: "Yo, you even know how much I owe? Don't ask too much."
Guan Yue ignored Tianhe's interruption, and continued: "It's okay to keep your company, but how do you make a profit? How do you fulfill your promise to me? If you were me, would you vote?"
Tianhe suddenly became serious: "If I were you, I would vote."
Guan Yue frowned, and looked at Tianhe as if he didn't know him.
"Create value." Tianhe said: "I believe I can smooth out losses. It just takes time. Don't use a rope to strangle me and make me breathless. The company has become what it is now, although I have my responsibility. In it, but this is not caused by my decision-making mistakes. Give up the direction of artificial intelligence and do other types of software development, and it will be profitable sooner or later.”
"It's just that there is no chance now." Tianhe got up, and said again: "It's useless to say it."
Guan Yue watched Tianhe get up and said, "You always evaluate yourself so unobjectively. Whether it's technical ability or public relations ability, the biggest mistake you and your second brother made is seriously overestimating your own professional level."
"Ah, no." Tianhe said, "What does it have to do with public relations? Do you think that I want to impress you with old love, please save my life? As long as I am willing to buy Epeus, I can do anything? That's not the case , I just feel that it is necessary to come to my door at this time, show my embarrassment, and make you happy. Being a Joker who sacrifices himself and entertains everyone is what kind people should do."
Guan Yue: "Your headphones."
Tianhe took it over and put it on: "So the conversation you've been waiting for for a long time, which you love to hear and hear, should happen today. I'm as small as me, so what right can I not let this scene happen?"
When Tianhe walked to the door, Guan Yue finally said, "The edge of a knife is hard to cross. That's why wise men say that the way to salvation is difficult."
Pro: "From Somerset Maugham's Blade."
Tianhe: "From Maugham's "Blade", there will be a period later."
"Don't forget about the marriage proposal." Guan Yue said in the office.
"Remember! I will definitely give you a surprise!" Tianhe shouted outside the office and walked out of Qingsong Capital.