Chapter 259: Fruit Company on the Verge of Bankruptcy

After the quotas were drawn, many people made appointments on Tiantian Assistant that very day.

The next day, these netizens who had made appointments headed to the nearest designated Grade A tertiary hospital.

Among them, several self-media bloggers live-streamed the entire process, from entering the hospital to entering the consultation room, verifying their identities, and receiving the injection.

Under the gaze of many netizens, the blogger's body became sturdy at a speed almost visible to the naked eye; the once loose flesh became increasingly firm, the bulging little belly disappeared without a trace, and the person radiated a remarkably full and vigorous spirit.

This slightly chubby middle-aged man, under the eyes of thousands of live-streaming netizens, underwent a 180-degree transformation in physique and temperament!

Watching all this with their own eyes, many netizens went straight crazy.

"Damn it! Where is this gene enhancement! This is simply plastic surgery, okay!"

"Just for this plastic surgery effect, spending 300,000 is worth it!"

"I want plastic surgery too! I beg President Su to grant me a quota! My wallet is already starving and impatient!"

The blogger also came back to his senses from the excitement of the enhancement at this moment, feeling the explosive power within his body, and couldn't help but clench his fists excitedly.

After thanking the doctor and asking about some precautions, he left the hospital.

While walking out, he shared his various feelings during the enhancement with the netizens, and occasionally showed off his biceps, or lifted a metal bench in the hospital corridor with one hand to demonstrate his current powerful strength.

There were several other bloggers just like him.

Among them, there was even a big celebrity.

After all, the quota released by Tianqi Group this time was as many as 10,000, so it was not strange for people of any profession to be drawn.

These people shared their enhancement process and their performance after the enhancement on Tiantian Forum or Tiantian Short Video, making countless netizens even more determined to inject Tianji Zero.

Body enhancement plus full-body sculpting.

Just 300,000, worth it!

However, let alone the quota, most netizens actually don't even have the qualification for the lucky draw right now; their good-rating scores are still not up to standard.

In a luxurious villa.

A young man wearing high-end silk pajamas sat with his legs crossed, leaning extremely lazily against the soft sofa.

On the huge television screen in front.

A short video was playing, in which an enhancer of Tianji Zero was demonstrating his powerful physical fitness through various methods.

This made him feel a burst of envy in his heart.

Immediately followed by a burst of anger and dissatisfaction.

"Damn it! It's not like I don't have money! Why not give me a chance to draw? Instead, give those poor ghosts all kinds of preferential policies."

"If you can't afford it, don't buy it!"

"Just us rich people are enough for Tianqi Group to make money; even if they doubled the price, it would be fine, and they would earn even more."

"Can't I just spend a million to buy it?"

"They just have to engage in these fancy policies; these brain-dead people at Tianqi Group are really damn annoying!"

"Do I have to go around pleasing others to get a chance to draw?"

The young man slapped the armrest hard and cursed, "Fuck!"

Just at this moment, a bloated aunt happened to walk over carrying tea and fruit, and was startled by his movements and cursing.

The tray in her hand wasn't held steady, the fruit spilled all over the floor, and the tea splashed onto the carpet.

The aunt apologized repeatedly in fear.

"I'm sorry, it was my carelessness!"

Knowing the temper of the young master of the employer's house, the aunt hurriedly squatted down, trembling as she picked up the scattered fruit on the ground.

She knew that what she would face next would definitely be a ruthless scolding and punishments like salary deductions.

But she could only endure it.

After all, she couldn't lose this job.

Just when the aunt was feeling nervous, she suddenly saw a fair hand reach out in front of her, picking up the fruit on the ground with her.

The aunt was stunned.

She looked up.

She saw that this young man, who was usually manic and had never looked at any servant straight in the eye, was now wearing a full face of smiles and said:

"Aunt Liu, it doesn't matter if this fruit is lost; just clean it up later. The main thing is, did you get burned?"

"No... no, I didn't get burned."

Aunt Liu said dazedly.

"It's good that you didn't get burned. No need to pick it up; Aunt, you just clean this place up."

"Oh, oh, okay!"

Aunt Liu stood up hesitantly.

Seeing that the young man still had a bright smile on his face, she couldn't help but think of a surprising yet inexplicably reasonable reason—

"Could it be that he has taken a fancy to me?"

"I heard this kid is very lecherous, changing girlfriends every day, relying on his family's money to harm girls everywhere. Maybe he's tired of playing and has become interested in an aunt like me who still has charm..."

"Back in the day, I was also a factory beauty chased by many people. Although I'm a bit older now and my figure is a bit bloated, the foundation is there after all, so maybe I'm still a bit attractive to young people."

"Yes, it must be like this!"

"I have to guard against him in the future, keep my distance from him, and never be deceived by his performance. He is a fickle and irritable rich second generation."

Aunt Liu immediately became vigilant.

But she also felt proud in her heart; even such a young master who has been through thousands of flowers is interested in her, which shows that she is still very attractive.

With various thoughts in mind, Aunt Liu turned and left, then took a broom, vacuum cleaner, and other tools to carefully clean the carpet.

The young man watched Aunt Liu with a smile the whole time, thinking to himself:

"After showing a bit of my goodwill, Auntie Liu doesn't seem to be as afraid of me anymore."

"However, I can't be too deliberate. In a few more days, I'll ask Auntie Liu to give me a good review again; she shouldn't secretly change it anymore."

"The same goes for the other aunties."

"Perhaps, it won't be long before I can also have a chance at the lucky draw."

"As long as I can win a spot and become an enhancer, next time I race with Kaizi and the others, I will definitely be the one leading the pack! Hehe!"

The expression on the young man's face became even brighter.

Auntie Liu, who had been observing him secretly from time to time, became even more certain of her previous guess after seeing this scene by chance.

Like the young man, many people who were not very popular in their daily lives also began to try changing the way they treated others and handled affairs.

Whether sincere or feigned, they suppressed their tempers and tried to be kind to others.

Tianqi Group had indeed issued an announcement that many products with limited production capacity in the future might have spots drawn in this manner.

That is to say, if they could never obtain enough good review scores, they might not be able to purchase many of Tianqi Group's subsequent products in the future.

Not just Tianji Zero, but possibly many other epoch-making, excellent products as well.

This forced many people to try and change themselves.

……

While Tianji Zero was causing a sensation in the outside world, Tianqi Group was also making quite a few moves.

The Xiaozhi Driving System was updated, reaching L5 level intelligent driving, which is fully autonomous driving; humans would henceforth completely become passengers, and it wouldn't even matter if they just lay down in the car to sleep.

Of course, besides the learning and optimization of the program itself, L5 level intelligent driving also relied on a seamless 5G Network, so only car models in Long Country could enjoy the new intelligent driving.

There was more.

Tianqi Core Technology successively released several of the most advanced chips in various fields, including computing chips, storage chips, and cutting-edge chips in fields like sensing and communication.

This move caused a shock throughout the industry.

It caused the market values of a large group of top industry companies, such as Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, TK Company, Chouguang Technology, and others, to plummet in response.

With this, the Long Country Semiconductor industrial chain became fully dominant, reigning supreme in every link worldwide.

From upstream equipment, materials, and EDA software, to midstream lithography equipment, chip design, and manufacturing, and then to downstream packaging and testing, and finally to terminal consumer electronics application markets like refrigerators, air conditioners, mobile phones, cars, computers, and tablets, Long Country enterprises had already fully occupied the market's leading position.

Furthermore.

Tianqi Electronic Company's first high-end mobile phone, Tianshu 1, had reached a cumulative sales volume of seven million units in the three months since its release.

That's an average of over two million per month!

It topped the domestic single-item mobile phone sales list for three consecutive months, leading by a wide margin.

One must know, this was a high-end mobile phone with a starting price of six thousand, and it was the first mobile phone released by Tianqi Electronic Company, as well as its only one at present; such sales figures could be called terrifying.

Behind this news was an unprecedented Waterloo for Apple phones in the Long Country market, with monthly sales plummeting to a few thousand units.

And Tianshu 1.

With three months of continuous hot sales and the constant, significant increase in production capacity, Tianshu 1 had accumulated quite a bit of stock, and Tianqi Electronic Company decided to officially sell Tianshu 1 overseas.

This made countless overseas netizens eager to get started, ready to queue up for a purchase at any time.

Overseas mobile phone manufacturers, meanwhile, were facing a formidable enemy.

Even Apple and Four Star Company saw their stock prices plummet directly after this news appeared.

This left the two companies, already in a precarious situation, facing a life-and-death crisis.

Without the advantage of an operating system, without the advantage of a processor, and without the advantage of a brand, Apple and Four Star Company had long been abandoned by the vast majority of global users.

Their market share had already been snatched away by more than half by Long Country enterprises led by Longwei Company, and their global sales had shrunk to about sixty percent of what they once were.

With Tianshu 1 about to go on sale globally, many media outlets and consulting firms predicted that the mobile phone sales of Apple and Four Star would plummet further, expected to be less than thirty percent of their original levels.

Among them, the most miserable was Apple.

The Long Country market was originally their main market, but now it had almost completely collapsed, which had already caused them heavy losses.

Coupled with shareholders not being optimistic about Apple's future prospects, they had been desperately trying to withdraw capital and flee during this period, and retail investors were also frantically selling off stocks, causing the stock price to plummet repeatedly.

In the international market, under the impact of several major Long Country mobile phone manufacturers, it was constantly shrinking, and sales of all consumer electronic devices—mobile phones, computers, tablets, smartwatches, etc. —were all cooling down.

Under all these storms, Apple's business was on the verge of collapse, nearly bankrupt.

The capital market is just that cruel.

Even if you were once the most profitable company in the world for over a dozen consecutive years, when the era abandons you, it doesn't even say goodbye.