Chapter 328: Return to [Transformers]

After negotiating with the people from Panda Communications for an entire day, a preliminary consensus was finally reached.

After a busy day and having dinner out with the people from Panda, Sun Cheng was sent back to his newly purchased villa by a dedicated driver newly hired by the company, reeking of alcohol.

Pushing open the main gate to enter the villa, Sun Cheng hurriedly loosened the tie that had been choking him all day and called out casually, "I'm home..."

In recent years, top-tier luxury villas in the country have begun to popularize indoor intelligent control systems; for instance, the villa he bought has one.

However, it is not free; the installation cost for a complete indoor control system starts at a million, no cheaper than a full set of luxury interior decoration.

Of course, you get what you pay for.

For example, just as Sun Cheng finished speaking in the foyer on the first floor of the villa, a nine-inch embedded LCD screen on a nearby wall quickly lit up, displaying an image of a young woman with faint steam rising from her head, using a dry towel to wipe her wet long hair.

"A-Cheng, you're back... Have you had dinner? I'll go help you heat some up!"

The woman appearing on the screen of the indoor intelligent control system was none other than Ye Qi. Seeing her flushed cheeks and wet hair, Sun Cheng knew without guessing that she must have just finished showering and was drying her hair.

"No need, I've already eaten. Are you in the gym?"

"No, I just finished showering and am on the second floor now. I'll be starting my livestream in a bit..."

"Got it!"

Locking the front door on the first floor behind him, Sun Cheng poured a glass of warm water in the living room and leaned back on the sofa.

He was sobering up!

Although they had a meal with the people from Panda at noon, because everyone knew there were still many issues to discuss in the afternoon, both sides tacitly focused on building rapport during that lunch, and no one was tactless enough to bring up drinking.

But the dinner tonight was different.

Since a preliminary consensus had already been reached and the remaining details would be negotiated by designated personnel later, a heavy round of drinking was naturally unavoidable in the evening.

Fortunately, before the banquet began, Sun Cheng had quite bluntly stated that his alcohol tolerance was poor; after sipping two or three taels of white liquor during the meal, he stopped drinking and left it all to the heavy-drinking Wang Lu to handle.

Even so, he could still feel a sense of dizziness swirling in his head. This feeling of losing control over his own state and thoughts made Sun Cheng very uncomfortable.

"Future generations will surely have those who lose their states because of alcohol..."

An ancient teaching left behind by Dayu couldn't help but pop into his head, and Sun Cheng could only sigh in his heart at the wisdom of his ancestors.

This sentence comes from the 【Strategies of the Warring States】, an ancient classic he had just finished reading a few days ago.

Legend has it that in the primordial era, the two daughters of Yao, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors—Ehuang and Nuying—presented wine brewed by Yidi to Dayu, one of the Five Emperors. After tasting it, Dayu found it delicious but said, "Future generations will surely have those who lose their states because of alcohol," and subsequently issued an edict ordering Yidi to stop brewing wine.

Sun Cheng never liked drinking before; although he couldn't say he loathed it, he truly couldn't feel what was so good about alcohol back then.

Now, he disliked it even more.

Because the prolonged effects of alcohol on his nervous system and body after drinking made Sun Cheng even more repulsed by it. Unless it was an unavoidable situation like today, he never touched alcohol in private, including beer and red wine.

A warmth slowly entered his body from his throat.

Sun Cheng leaned back on the sofa with his eyes slightly closed, and soon he had an illusion that the alcohol affecting his thinking had instantly faded quite a bit.

Of course, this was definitely an illusion, but it didn't affect his good mood now.

"The tasks for this return to the real world are mostly done; I should prepare to return to the 【Transformers Universe】 as well."

The country is temporarily taking the blame for the CIA for him. He believes that for some time, without figuring out how the agents they sent to Nandu were wiped out, the Americans won't be able to find him even if they want to cause trouble.

Also, his layout in reality has basically been completed satisfactorily this time.

Cybertron Technology has gained momentum; relying on the simplified hard drive black technology from the Decepticon Workers he brought from the 【Transformers Universe】, it now has the potential to take off.

So much so that even an internet giant like Panda Communications, which counts on a global scale, couldn't help but jump out.

Panda Communications has its eyes on the new hard drive technology held by Cybertron Technology. Although compared to other black technologies from the planet Cybertron in his possession, these are nothing.

However, DRAM production is no different from profiteering. For example, through the D Printer he brought from the 【Transformers Universe】, the cost of manufacturing an IT mobile hard drive can be reduced to less than twenty yuan, and that is even after including the procurement costs of raw materials and electricity. This shows how profitable it is to master intergenerational production equipment and technology.

According to his own conservative estimate, if Cybertron Technology can fully capture the entire DRAM market share in China, it could bring him no less than ten billion US dollars in net profit in just one year.

This income is not only legal but also conducive to him blatantly expanding his power and influence in reality, so naturally, it is impossible to share it.

However, Panda Communications still needs to be courted; its giant influence and connections can provide a certain main force for the development of Cybertron Technology.

Therefore, although he refused to let them buy shares in Cybertron Technology, Sun Cheng still took out the 'UIMI' mobile operating system, a high-imitation Android, to make a deal with them.

Whether open-source or closed, a mobile operating system cannot bring too many direct benefits to the developer, and since Android, iOS, and in already exist on the market, it would take a lot of time just to promote it and snatch food from the tiger's mouth.

Sun Cheng is very short on time, and although the operating system is important, he only needs to keep the subsequent development rights in his own hands, which is why he is willing to use it to trade with Panda Communications.

Panda Communications has the ambition to become a great company, and UIMI is not that important to him, but the other party's Weiyun relies on the social software under Panda Communications, holding a massive user base of hundreds of millions.

Although it has been suppressed and rubbed on the ground by One Hundred Cloud Drive due to issues like technology and support, resulting in far fewer true core users than One Hundred Cloud Drive, and its profitability might not even be as good as Cybertron Cloud Drive, it holds a large number of potential users in its hands. This point alone is enough for Sun Cheng to be moved by it.

"Trading UIMI for Weiyun—once I take down Weiyun, Cybertron Technology will have both technology and users, and my layout for this stage will be considered complete..."

He finished the warm water in his hand in one gulp, his eyes shimmering.

"It is time to return to the 【Transformers Universe】..."

Placing the water glass casually on the coffee table beside him, he took Xiao Wu out of his pocket and set it aside.

"Keep watch for me..."

After giving the instruction casually, he let his whole body go limp into the soft leather sofa. After adjusting to a more comfortable position, Sun Cheng quickly closed his eyes and silently summoned the Spherical Space in his heart.

PS:

Sorry, my mood these past two days has been affected by a long-lost "nice guy" card.