Chapter 134: All-in

"I want to become a High-level Animagus."

Transfiguration Research Group, Murphy found Andrew Tooke.

For one, he had wanted to do this for a long time, and for another, with the Intelligence-Boosting Potion being useless, he felt that perhaps he could complete the transformation of his brain through Transfiguration and possess stronger brain power.

"Don't tell me that after researching for so long, you still don't have a clue."

"No, no, Director, actually we have already found the method to become a High-level Animagus." Andrew hurriedly explained.

"Oh?"

Murphy was a bit surprised. He originally thought Andrew only had some progress, didn't expect the other party to have already found the answer.

"Yes," Andrew said, "As our research on vampires and werewolves deepened, we became more and more convinced that these two variants of wizards are actually derived from Animagus Transfiguration."

"Whether intentional or accidental, the appearance of these two creatures is due to the contamination of the potion during the wizard's Animagus transformation process."

"I don't know if you still remember, in the process of waiting for the storm to come, the Animagus potion cannot be disturbed by anything. Its quantum characteristics determine that once observed, its properties will change."

"We suspect that the birth of vampires is due to the potion being disturbed by bats, perhaps the potion was mixed with the genetic material of bats, or some bat behavior disturbed the natural formation of the potion."

"And the birth of werewolves is more complicated. Although the disturbance the potion received also came from a wolf, this wolf might have been infected with rabies in its nerves. Therefore, while werewolves possess the characteristics of wolves, they also have the frenzied characteristics affected by rabies."

"After a large amount of analysis, we believe that actually, wanting to become a High-level Animagus is very simple, just need to mix in some genes of the animal you want to become during the formation of the potion. This mixture will cause the mutation of the potion."

"But this rough mutation has great uncertainty. The mixture of animal genes and the human body has countless possibilities, and the vast majority of these possibilities are fatal to the transformer."

"Werewolves and vampires both have very large negative characteristics." Andrew said, "But in fact, their birth is still a kind of luck. Historically, there might have been many situations where the potion was disturbed and mutated. The vast majority of wizards who drank the potion couldn't have survived."

"Theoretically, unguided mutation, the possibility of reaching a relatively stable High-level Animagus state like a werewolf or vampire, is even less than one in a thousand, and the probability of wanting to achieve a High-level Animagus state without negative effects might be less than one in ten thousand."

Murphy frowned. This kind of method that was completely ten deaths and no life, he could never bet his life on it. "This is the method you said to become a High-level Animagus?"

"Is there no way to increase the probability of success?"

"Yes," Andrew said, "Patronus."

"Theoretically, the closer the Patronus is to the animal you want to transform into, the more stable the Animagus transformation, and the higher the success rate." Andrew said, "Even for a High-level Animagus, it's the same."

"The Patronus is the embodiment of the wizard's soul form and has some mysterious connection with the wizard."

"And the results of our cooperative research with the Spell Research Group reveal that the reason why vampires and werewolves or other mutations have a large number of defects lies in the fact that the transformation component in the entire magical process is too heavy, making the entire magical probability fluctuate too much and uncertainty increase sharply."

"And the Patronus is a pure, positive force that can help this magic change in a good, stable direction."

"We guess that the disturbance to the potion by the Patronus will be able to greatly reduce the occurrence of bad mutations and greatly increase the probability of stable, beneficial mutations."

"How to operate specifically?" Murphy asked.

"First, through some psychological adjustments, turn the Patronus into the image of the animal you want to become. Of course, if you are prepared to transform directly into the original appearance, this step can actually be omitted."

"Second step, complete the pre-steps of Animagus normally, but mix in the genetic material of the animal you want to transform into, as well as your own tissues, into the potion."

"Third, in the process of static waiting for the potion to change, let the Patronus observe the whole process and release positive energy to guide the directional change of the potion. And through the spell time every morning and evening, pre-imagine your own form and abilities after transformation in your mind."

"Theoretically, these operations are enough to complete the High-level Animagus potion."

"Theoretically? Has it been verified?"

"We observed the changes in the potion and initially verified this process, but because High-level Animagus transformation is very dangerous, we want to first perform some analysis and comparison on the transformation process of ordinary Animagus wizards. If the theory is verified, then apply for human experiments. However, among the wizards we cooperate with, no one has become an Animagus yet, so it might take some time."

"Can the guys who became Animagi a long time ago do it?"

He still had Peter Pettigrew caught in his hand, might as well use him.

"Of course! What we need is an Animagus wizard who has entered a steady state! The longer he has been an Animagus, the better."

"Very good." Murphy grabbed a gray rat from his pocket, "What do you need to do?"

…

In August, the animated movie "The Lion King" produced by Pict was released. With its classic and concise yet powerful plot, exquisite pictures, and excellent music production, it received a pile of praise in the film and television circle as soon as it was launched.

Plus Pict's unremitting promotion, soon, The Lion King became a hit, starting to slaughter the box office in major global movie markets one after another. The global first-week box office exceeded 70 million pounds, and the predicted total box office was 280 million pounds, which had basically booked the annual box office champion.

At the same time, after dragging on for a full year, Camelot Company finally completed its listing, with an initial public offering ratio of 30%. And due to the powerful dominance of the Venus series and subsequent many derivative products in the mid-range beauty market, even though the price per share was set at a high price of 24 pounds, the stock price on the issuance day directly hit the limit, pushing the company's market value into the ranks of super enterprises with a market value of 10 billion pounds.

With the money raised from shareholders by The Lion King and Camelot, Murphy's financial pressure was suddenly reduced a lot, but he had no intention of stopping to catch his breath at all, immediately turning around and buying three more chip design companies, which would design various chips based on the brand-new instruction set for Murphy.

In addition, there was a factory specializing in chip packaging and testing, a wafer factory, and a leading enterprise in the field of photoresist. He prepared to further compress chip costs by opening up the entire industrial chain, so that his new chips could obtain overwhelming advantages.

At the same time, in the field related to computer terminals, Murphy was also throwing money everywhere, first buying three LCD panel manufacturers to design and produce LCD screens for the terminals he wanted to launch, and then signing a strategic cooperation agreement with Seagate to jointly develop high-speed read-write mechanical hard drives.

On the other hand, the desktop system development team began to adopt an extreme elimination system. The salary was no longer a fixed monthly salary, but directly linked to the engineering contribution rate. The team listed an extremely detailed subdivided task framework and technical difficulties, and quantified the workload and technical difficulty of each task, linking it to the development fund pool in the form of a ratio.

Completing more workload and solving more technical points could take away more funds from the fund pool. A bottom-level engineer, if able to complete one or two major technical breakthroughs, their remuneration could catch up to the level of the project's top supervisor, Bob Henderson, or even exceed it.

Theoretically, if an engineer could complete all the work alone, he could take away all the development funds for the entire project.

And Murphy had put a full 1 billion pounds in the pool!

But if the minimum engineering contribution rate could not be reached for two consecutive months, they would be directly eliminated.

Under this extreme reward and punishment system, the salary level of employees was pulled extremely wide, but the huge interest temptation and full-of-competitiveness method also immediately increased the development efficiency by more than four or five times.

In fact, the finance department of Zhi Zi Technology had calculated for Murphy that even if calculated based on a two-year development cycle, according to the previous salary level of employees, the desktop system development might not even use 1 billion pounds.

This approach of his was very uneconomical.

But Murphy didn't care, being able to throw money to exchange for time, worth it!

Under the successive big moves, now not only the semiconductor industry, but the whole world noticed the crazy behavior of Zhi Zi Technology or Umbrella.

Good guy, it actually planned to wrap up the entire industry alone!

Is this going to become the next Samsung?

Countless people were shocked by the all-in fighting spirit of Zhi Zi Technology, but more people were preparing to watch the joke.

As the founder of Zhi Zi Technology, Murphy naturally received a lot of attention. Various invitations were countless. He mostly ignored them, but in some occasions, in order to maintain market confidence, he couldn't push them away, so Murphy let Boris deal with them in the capacity of Morpheus Anon.

Murphy didn't care about the various doubts from the outside world. He was currently in seclusion preparing for his High-level Animagus transformation.

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 135 =====