Chapter 1124: Daily Life

Wang Yan

Attributes: Strength 35

Agility 35

Constitution 35

Spirit 136

Unallocated points: 4

The five attribute points left over from last time were added to Spirit as usual. The four new points obtained this time were reserved for adding points in the new world. As for skills, they remained unchanged for a thousand years, with no special progress.

Dismissing the panel, Wang Yan continued to tease the children.

The two little ones were already two months old. With rich nutrition, they had gradually grown, no longer looking as wrinkled as when they were just born. They could already unconsciously make "ah-ba, ah-ba" sounds and would grab the fur of the cats and dogs when they curiously leaned in. Their lively, big eyes blinked, constantly observing the environment they were in, trying to see what kind of family they had been born into...

After playing with the children for a while and watching them fall asleep after being fed, Wang Yan went to make himself tea and poured water for Wei Lan, who was holding a meeting with her subordinates in the study, before starting his own work.

It was the same as always: he was in charge of R&D, technology, products, and business, while Wei Lan was in charge of the company's administration, human resources, and finance. Truth be told, the actual boss of the company was Wei Lan. However, the two had overlapping powers, such as the recruitment of various technical personnel and the sales of various products.

But in reality, of course, Wang Yan had the final say on everything. For the company Long Teng, he was responsible for two goals. One was the rapid expansion of the company, which now had over ten thousand employees, as well as the various upstream and downstream laboring people in the industrial chain that hadn't yet formed a link. The other was to vigorously support the Party and the country.

These weren't empty words or clichés. Long Teng's rapid expansion and development were all supported by the country's resources. Moreover, they fully delegated power and fully trusted him, not questioning the numerous scientific research projects he carried out as if he were squandering money.

But as the saying goes, his task was to spend money.

The current turbulent international situation seriously affected economic construction and development. It was at this juncture that he emerged with the "Strength Pill." Just relying on this one pill, the revenue could reach over a trillion in the next three to five years, and the net profit would also be a trillion.

In 2023, the domestic GDP was 126 trillion, and Long Teng's revenue was one percent of the domestic GDP.

And this trillion, which could influence industrial development, people's employment, social welfare, and many other aspects, was conservatively estimated to be amplified tenfold. That is to say, if he threw this trillion out and spent it all on the domestic real economy without playing with finance, it would drive ten trillion in development.

Of course, he wasn't without real achievements. His artificial intelligence was far ahead of the world. Moreover, with continuous development, it was no longer limited to smart homes. Other areas such as medical care, vision, industrial production, image processing, robotics, etc., were gradually unfolding around these various businesses. With various projects such as civilian use, military use, and government procurement landing, the revenue in this area was also quite considerable.

After drinking the water, Wang Yan took a utility knife to open the express delivery at the door, unwrapped several layers of packaging, and took out a monitor.

It was silver-white, square, with sharp edges and corners, and had a metallic texture. Just the weight of it made one feel it was very expensive.

This was the research result of the screen project mentioned earlier. The one sent to him now was a trial-produced sample. He needed to listen to his opinions on how it was.

This was a 34-inch, 21:9 ultrawide screen, designed to facilitate the display of multiple tasks simultaneously during work, making multitasking easier. Of course, this "multitasking" was literal, not the underlying code logic.

The main advantage of this screen, and also its biggest selling point, was color, aimed at professional image-related work. It had outstanding performance in resolution, brightness, contrast, color gamut, color depth, color accuracy, and many other aspects, being far superior to similar products on the market.

Of course, if some wealthy person bought it for gaming, that was no problem either; the refresh rate and response time were fully supported, and could even be called excellent.

"Did you just buy it?" Wei Lan walked out after the meeting, watching Wang Yan testing the new screen.

"I told you last month that the project team researching display technology had results. This is a sample."

"How is it?"

"A waste of effort. The professionalism is quite high, the audience is quite small, and we're selling it expensive, so the sales volume won't be high. It'll be good if we can sell it."

"Didn't you also say you were going to produce TVs?"

Wang Yan nodded. "We're currently developing the system and negotiating cooperation with those streaming media companies. It'll take a few more months."

Wei Lan said, "Why don't we make one ourselves? Since you like watching them, we can make it ourselves and film it ourselves."

"We can't touch everything. The stall is already spread wide enough, and we can't take care of it. Our energy is mainly focused on products with high technical content and high added value. Like this screen, whether it's a bestseller or not, it's a technology we developed ourselves, and it has many applications, so there's a need for it. TVs are just additional derivative products."

"Our technology covers it, and TVs are also part of smart homes. Opening a few more product lines, covering high, medium, and low grades, or finding other brands to cooperate with, using our system, and enriching our ecosystem—that's what's necessary to do. As for content, it's enough to be able to watch various TV programs without ads affecting the mood. The sales volume shouldn't be bad."

The smart home ecosystem had been constantly enriched and iterated. As long as it was in the house and used electricity, everything was being made intelligent. They still adhered to the original strategy: make high-end products in-house. Of course, they were also found to be produced by foundries, but whether it was the materials used or the workmanship, everything was top-notch, and the requirements were very strict.

To this end, Long Teng Company also opened a qualification certification. Only by passing their assessment could they carry out the foundry production of Long Teng products.

The remaining low-to-mid-end products opened port protocols, matched the smart system, and were listed on the Long Teng Mall. From the days when they begged for help and no one wanted to pay attention, to now, various companies were taking the initiative to find them for cooperation.

Nowadays, in the domestic smart home field, Long Teng was already the boss. They had their own products and also launched solutions on the corresponding platform. Various product categories were complete, useful or useless, cheap or expensive, which could be called all-encompassing.

In nearly two years, they had basically completed resource integration and had no opponents in the country. As for abroad, Long Teng was also very famous, but because they were sanctioned, except for the "Strength Pill," other products were not easy to sell because of high taxes, and there was only remote after-sales service abroad, with no other services. However, this didn't prevent people from buying them; they only bought Long Teng's high-end products.

However, relatively speaking, the revenue from abroad wasn't very high; it could only be said that they had international business. The thing that sold the most was the smart speaker...

Wei Lan nodded to show she understood, then asked with a sigh, "How is the game engine you're developing coming along?"

"It'll be basically done after the New Year."

"It was started when the company just expanded, and it's finally about to be finished."

Wang Yan knew that Wei Lan meant to sigh at the time and the encounters. At that time, they were just about to develop the company, but now they were heading toward becoming a super-invincible behemoth enterprise.

He said, "Our R&D has been very fast. If it were other companies, they wouldn't even know the direction. If they really started developing it, it would be very difficult to accomplish without several years. Also, this monitor—the technology on it is currently leading..."

Wei Lan laughed. "It's all because you're amazing, right?"

"It's obvious."

"I don't know how you know so much, slice by slice."

Wang Yan shook his head with a laugh. "I still play a bigger role while I'm alive."

His information had been checked in all directions, and of course, his trajectory was clear and clean. Since the company expanded and began to invest a large amount of resources in research, the researchers in numerous project teams had exchanged with him countless times and found that he really understood and really had substance.

So far, none of the company's projects had changed their research direction, and they could even be advanced to a certain extent that could be quantified. Whenever they were stuck on some problems, as long as they chatted with him, there would always be some inspiration, and the problems would be solved not long after. Just like that, they broke through one difficulty after another, and one technology after another was researched.

Leadership ability, learning ability, affinity, memory, insight—all were top-notch. The more they understood, the more shocked they were; it was terrifyingly awesome. No one really believed in any system; it was better to believe in aliens than to believe in the system...

Therefore, the current understanding of Wang Yan could only be attributed to a supernatural acquired awakening, because only in this way could his mediocrity for the first twenty-eight years be explained, followed by his sudden reversal of fate to achieve today's success.

Wei Lan sighed and asked, "It's almost New Year. What's the plan for this year?"

"The children are small, so we're not going anywhere. My parents already agreed when the children were a month old that they would come back for the New Year. What about your parents? Are they coming or not?"

"I'll ask." Wei Lan then said, "How is the company giving time off this year?"

Wang Yan thought for a moment and replied, "Give them half a month off. Those who have annual leave can take it."

"Then I'll hold another meeting to see when to start the time off and notify everyone in advance so they can buy tickets. Actually, it's the same whether we say it or not. I estimate that in a few days, the company will be empty, and everyone will be working from home."

"You should issue another notice emphasizing confidentiality. Although there are no secrets for those who can work from home, there are still some things that involve secrets, so it's better to pay attention. In addition, start purchasing New Year goods. Get some practical, good things; don't save money."

Internal confidentiality in the company was also graded. There were national-level confidential projects, as well as confidential projects for core technologies, etc. The company had a special counter-espionage department.

"Okay." Wei Lan responded, went to look at the two little ones sleeping, did a round of strength exercises, and went back to work.

Wang Yan also continued to test the monitor by feel and communicate with the project team. Then he dealt with various emails, all from various project teams—some asking questions, some reporting progress, some wanting money, some wanting people, and others needing collaborative deployment in other related aspects—a mess of big things.

With Long Teng's stall spread out and the framework set up, the only opponent was themselves. Because the company didn't lack money and wasn't afraid of losses, it just needed to develop step by step. As for other companies, various domestic and foreign targeting basically had no lethality. There would indeed be some trouble, but it wasn't as big as imagined.

As long as the "Strength Pill" remained a bestseller, the group would be as immovable as a mountain. As long as they maintained their style, the business targeting consumers basically wouldn't lose money. And the reason why various restrictions in other aspects didn't cause too much trouble was that Wang Yan had always been committed to building the group's entire industrial chain, which was the basic understanding one should have when born in China.

Just like the "Strength Pill," they had previously encountered malicious price hikes, and some medicinal materials couldn't even be bought. Later, he acquired a traditional Chinese medicine company and extended his tentacles directly to the most grassroots herb farmers, which ensured normal production. And with the increase in the use of medicinal materials, he was constantly acquiring plantations and developing new herb farmers to ensure stable raw materials and control production costs.

The same operation was applied to other involved fields. Only things with low technology would be produced by other companies.

Therefore, this resulted in the group having no opponents, no matter how they were targeted, it was of no use. Wang Yan didn't go abroad, and there were many people protecting him by his side. Now that he had children, he didn't go out the door, and no one could do anything to him. They could only watch as Long Teng's technology became deeper and deeper, constantly involving itself in various industries, and its market share increasing day by day.

Long Teng's rise was a slow death for many companies, because what Wang Yan did was the standard...

As for the stars and the sea, that wasn't something that could be achieved overnight; it was still a long-term struggle.

Wang Yan's simple and unadorned life continued—poking cats and dogs, teasing children, watching the children grow day by day, and the company grow stronger day by day, and the days just passed like that.

He thought there would be no waves, but on this day, the person in charge of life science research excitedly called Wang Yan.

"The optic nerve signal can be captured and interacted with?"

"Apply for filing first. Doesn't our company have blind employees? Find a batch of people to experiment. If the reaction is good, then collect blind experimenters from the whole network."

"Go do it. Your name will be in the new era."

This wasn't an accident, of course, because Wang Yan provided the correct direction. Capturing the optic nerve signal could allow some blind people to see the world again.

It could also open up a new world.

This made virtual reality possible, at least AR was no problem. Putting on glasses could make the city look sci-fi. Undoubtedly, the change to life was huge.

But clearly, there was still a distance to go before such a scene, it just wasn't too far away.

A month passed like this, and the "Living Father's" message arrived unexpectedly.

"《Coming North and Going South》 Ma Kui: Happiness."

After watching intermittently for a few days, one morning, after changing the baby's diaper and feeding the baby, Wang Yan pulled open the panel and operated the selection.

A mysterious dark blue flashed, and when he opened his eyes again, he was in another world... ===== CHAPTER 1125 =====