Chapter 106: Zhi Zi Technology

Should I say that these two are worthy of being crazy scientists? They are so ruthless that they don't even let themselves go, and they are actually willing to use such a dangerous spell on themselves...

For this, Murphy is still a bit impressed.

However, he doesn't quite support it.

Murphy's attitude toward human experiments is similar to the Three Unforgivable Curses. He can use them, but he tries not to use them unless necessary.

These methods or tools, although they are the simplest to solve current problems, cannot be used as conventional means. If one is accustomed to simple and rough handling of things, the detailed resistance ignored at that time may accumulate over time and become a huge trouble.

This is also a truth he only realized recently.

Whether it is the defeat of Malfoy and Kingsley against him, or Joachim's madness, or the failure of Voldemort and Grindelwald, it is actually this truth. It is difficult to adapt to the endless changes of the future by relying only on one or two tools and one or two methodologies.

The so-called "by any means necessary" should bring more choices, not become a stubbornness of going down one path to the dark.

Therefore, he is vigilant against those oversimplified handling tools, such as the Three Unforgivable Curses, such as the threatening and intimidating way of winning over, such as the money offensive he used on wizards before.

For the Soul Seed, he also maintains such caution, but this spell is too powerful, simply a cheat tool, so he really can't give it up.

Whether to use it is one thing, and whether to have it is another.

"Such a dangerous spell, let's not use ourselves for experiments for the time being," Murphy said.

Changing human thoughts is contrary to ethics no matter what. Obviously, except for these two crazy people who are willing to sacrifice for science, it is unlikely that many people will volunteer to participate.

But research on mind-type spells is difficult to make progress without operations on consciousness.

He thought for a moment. "There are quite a few creatures in the Wizarding World that possess simple intelligence..."

In the Wizarding World, there are many creatures that possess consciousness and can speak human language.

Not to mention intelligent creatures like goblins, house-elves, centaurs, etc., even creatures like Acromantulas have their own consciousness and can even talk to humans.

Although there are still moral risks in experimenting on goblins and centaurs, there are also some creatures that no one will care about whether they live or die.

For example, gnomes. These little things can also speak human language, and their behavioral patterns also have certain intelligent characteristics, but they are pests in the Wizarding World. Murphy has helped wizards deal with this kind of trouble many times before.

Others include little fairies, little dwarf demons, little evil sprites, little devils, and even the Cornish pixies that once appeared as teaching aids in the original work. They are all creatures with simple intelligence. Their intelligence is not as good as humans, but their behavioral patterns are far more complex than ordinary animals.

Even creatures like Doxies, which are treated like rats and cockroaches, also have simple intelligence.

Or merpeople?

They even have their own social structure and can tame creatures. Their intelligence is not much worse than ordinary humans, but they have no human rights in the wizarding world.

In fact, the concept of human rights is not very popular among wizards. They even sell people with blood curses as performance animals.

If you take these creatures for experiments, no one should say he is abusing magical creatures, right?

Oh, there seems to be a law called "Prohibition of Breeding for Experimental Purposes"?

Who cares.

I help you deal with pests, so I can't be breaking the law.

Various magic researches are advancing steadily, and Murphy is also making intensive preparations for manufacturing chips in the Muggle society.

In March, Camelot Company founded the luxury brand Medis in France. The first product launched was a perfume called the Eros series, divided into eight major series, with a total of 79 single products. Murphy gave them different names and asked advertisers to rack their brains to write 79 advertising copies that sounded completely different.

But in fact, they are just ordinary perfumes of various scents mixed with a very small amount of Love Potion.

And what determines its price is the content of Love Potion. Those with a content of one ten-thousandth are low-end products, selling for about 2 pounds per milliliter. Those with a content of about three ten-thousandths are mid-range products, selling for 8 pounds per milliliter. High-end products with a content of five ten-thousandths sell for 15 pounds per milliliter.

That is to say, Murphy sold one milliliter of Love Potion for 30,000 pounds!

In Murphy's view, this is not even called robbing money; this is simply ransacking a house.

But Love Potion is indeed powerful.

Even if only one drop is added to a bottle of perfume, it can bring a quite good olfactory experience to the user, making people vaguely perceive a trace of wonderful, ethereal expectation like a hallucination in the fragrance.

And users of high-end perfumes found that their charm seemed to have really improved due to the perfume, and they received more favor and praise.

The mysterious effect of Love Potion made Eros perfume immediately loved by the French, and then radiated to the whole of Europe through Paris, the fashion capital, and then swept the European and American cultural circles around the world.

Then, Murphy changed the packaging of the Venus series, changed the unimportant plant essential oils, dressed them up again, and turned them into the high-end cosmetics Helen series of Medea. The cost was almost unchanged, but the price directly doubled more than ten times.

The continuous flow of banknotes made Umbrella's financial pressure suddenly ease a lot, and the chip factory began to be built intensively.

In May, Umbrella Company established "Zhi Zi Technology" and officially stepped into the electronics field.

Zhi Zi Technology is divided into four departments, responsible for chip manufacturing and R&D, electronic product terminal design and manufacturing, computer system and basic application software R&D, and Internet technology expansion, directly laying out the development of the electronics field for the next thirty years.

Among them, what Murphy pays most attention to is chip manufacturing.

This is the core of the electronics field and also the biggest bottleneck.

In June, Zhi Zi Technology began to scatter money crazily, buying Fantasy Technology in the IP core design field, and ARM, which had just been established in Cambridge Industrial Park not long ago.

Buying this top player in the chip field in the future only cost Murphy 20 million pounds, not even as much as the Inkle Company in the personal computer field that had long since gone bankrupt.

In July, Zhi Zi Technology bought three chip factories of Inmos for 200 million pounds, plus a subsidiary engaged in IC design.

In August, Isis Pharmaceuticals completed its listing ahead of schedule. Zhi Zi Technology, which had money in hand, took advantage of the fact that ASML, a future lithography machine giant, had not yet made a profit, and directly injected 150 million pounds to pay off Philips' loans, and also solved the problem that ASML had been short of funds since ASM withdrew last year.

This investment gave Zhi Zi Technology 85% of ASML's shares, becoming the largest shareholder.

In September, after the basic cards were almost gathered, chip R&D officially got on track. Half of ASML's employees were transferred to a mysterious department, responsible for developing an unprecedented lithography machine.

At the same time, ARM and Fantasy Technology began to design brand-new IP cores, instruction sets, and processor architectures under Murphy's authorization, with the requirement to adapt to a new chip with a very high integration rate and a process of 0.3 microns.

While Murphy was calling the wind and rain in the Muggle society, his infiltration into the Wizarding World did not stop.

One day in September, Murphy came to Malfoy Manor again.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 107 =====