Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight spending money and making money
The number of fifty years is still a bit conservative. When Daming Technology saturates the virtual reality market, the market's enthusiasm for researching this technology will also cool down.
Not to mention anything else, several major VR equipment manufacturers will definitely go bankrupt. If you want to develop virtual reality technology on your own, it will definitely take much more time in this world than in the apocalypse.
Xia Yuhe was obviously very satisfied with the figure of fifty years, and continued after nodding.
"Secondly, regarding the server load capacity. With the quality of this game, if I guess correctly, the amount of calculations required is probably astronomical. With the existing server capacity, how many players can we withstand being online at the same time?
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"You don't need to worry about this, our server resources are more than enough." Zhu Tian waved his hand and said with a smile.
Just kidding, although it is only a civilian-level computer, it is still a quantum computer after all. It is more than enough to run a fantasy-themed online game that does not require the restoration of too many physical phenomena. Not to mention the 3.2 billion Internet users in the world, even the entire population of more than 7 billion
Connecting in is no problem either.
When Xia Yuhe heard what Zhu Tian said, although he was a little skeptical, he still nodded.
"After confirming the above two points, I can start writing the operation plan for the online game. Well, by the way, there is one thing I don't know if you have considered it."
"What?"
"Safety issue." Xia Yuhe said seriously.
There is no doubt that the advent of this new technology will inevitably attract the attention of all parties. There are many companies betting on virtual reality technology, such as Google, Microsoft and even social platforms such as Facebook.
The US$2 billion acquisition of Oculus-VR.
With all the capital chasing it wildly, the sudden emergence of Daming Technology will undoubtedly be a blow to the heads of many virtual companies. It’s like if there are computer online games, who will play Overlord?
It is foreseeable that these companies that were pursued as hot spots in the past two years will usher in an industry winter. The hot spots of capital will be forced to shift from the research and development of virtual reality equipment to virtual reality equipment because of the "breakthrough progress".
On the development of real-world applications.
Therefore, the torchbearers who lead this technological change are bound to attract hostility from those with vested interests.
Of course Zhu Tian would not fail to understand the meaning of Xia Yuhe's words, but facing this potential danger, he just smiled.
"Now, do you still think it's not necessary for me to invest in this island?"
Xia Yuhe was stunned.
"Could it be..."
"Yes, this island is my back garden. Here, my army will protect my legitimate interests."
Xia Yuhe was obviously stunned again.
After a moment of silence, she asked: "That...that is to say, the person behind the scenes of Palau is actually you, right?"
"Yes." Zhu Tian raised the corner of his mouth.
Xia Yuhe stretched out his hand and rubbed his brow, and asked a little confusedly: "In other words, the overseas power you mentioned is actually fictional, right?"
"Not entirely, it's just that it serves me, not that I obey it." Zhu Tian smiled.
After a long time, Xia Yuhe finally digested the huge amount of information in his mind, and sighed.
"...Okay. In this way, there is really no need to worry about safety issues."
Although there were still many questions in her heart, Xia Yuhe chose to bury them in her heart for the time being. She believed that Zhu Tian would tell her one day, just like he told her today,
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These days, Xia Yuhe basically stays in the villa, working remotely through her laptop. While referring to the operation plan conceived by Zhu Tian, she manages the daily operations of Daming Technology Company.
Although he admired her ability to multi-task, Zhu Tian was still a little afraid that she would not be able to handle it.
While Xia Yuhe was very busy, Zhu Tian was not idle either. He basically took a speedboat to and from Crescent Island, Coro Island and Anga Island all day long.
At present, the construction of the Crescent Island military base has been basically completed, and 500 soldiers are already serving on the island. Most of them are clone soldiers exchanged in the mall, and a small number are recruits recruited from the local area.
As for what Zhu Tian is busy with these days? To sum it up simply, it’s spending money.
And it’s still in billions.
The military camp on Crescent Island, a 2,300-meter-long dual-runway airport, a simple radar base station, and two football field-sized offshore platforms connected by dams were completed one after another. After the project funds were delivered to "Mammoth" Company, Zhu Tian's account was
In an instant, another 1.4 billion US dollars was lost from his cash. Including the 4 billion US dollars spent in the previous days, he used 5.4 billion US dollars in just three days.
But this is not over yet.
In preparation for the mining of molybdenum ore, Zhu Tian invested US$1 billion in Daming Mining and through bidding, planned to build two semi-submersible offshore platforms in the southern waters of Anga Island.
This kind of semi-submersible platform is often used in deep sea areas. Its main application area is the extraction of petroleum gas. Its principle is similar to that of a submarine. The platform is built on a large floating barrel, and the floating barrel is embedded below the water surface and fixed to the seabed through an anchor chain.
.The bottom end of the pile legs below the floating barrel is designed with a balancer similar to a fishing lead sinker, which falls into the seawater under the platform to prevent the platform from losing balance due to seawater surges or wind.
The advantage of this kind of offshore platform is that it is mobile. After the minerals at the bottom are mined, it can be hauled away by anchor and towed by ship. Zhu Tian's plan is to have two soldiers and three staff stationed on the offshore platform to control the mining machines located on the seabed through electronic equipment.
A ship comes every once a week to replenish the offshore platform with living supplies and to remove the mined manganese nodules rich in molybdenum ore.
Although the technology of mining robots is still under development, Zhu Tian believes that it will not be long before there will be results in Shelter 7. Before that, it is a good choice to build an offshore platform first.
These mined manganese nodules will be pulled to Anga Island, because in addition to molybdenum-rich oxides, more than 50% of the structure is composed of iron oxide and manganese oxide. In order to process these manganese nodules,
Zhu Tian once again injected US$200 million into Daming Mining and built a manganese nodule processing plant, a molybdenum ore refinery, a steel plant, and an aluminum plant on Anga Island.
The manganese nodule treatment plant crushes the ore and performs preliminary sorting to produce metallic manganese and molybdenum-rich slag. These slag will be sent to the molybdenum ore refinery for secondary processing to produce molybdenum ore required for manufacturing virtual reality helmets.
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The steel plants and aluminum plants are mainly used to process iron and aluminum ores purchased from Australian mining groups. They also process the slag remaining from refined manganese nodules.
It is expected that the entire production line will be completed after March. By then Anga Island will be
Taking the first step in industrial transformation, the abundant mineral resources will not only meet the needs of the island, but can even be exported at a profit!
After finishing the matter of Daming Mining, Zhu Tian then started working on the matter of Daming Technology Headquarters.
The headquarters is located on Coro Island. In order to ensure the safety of the quantum computer, Zhu Tian spared no effort to spend 100 million US dollars to build this headquarters building, striving to make it strong enough.
In addition, Zhu Tian plans to place the virtual helmet production line here in the real world. After all, these are billions of helmets, and he won’t be able to move them all even if he is exhausted. Not to mention that he has to transport food and steel to the end of the world, and to the real world.
Transporting arms to the border.
Now that we have decided to produce it here in the real world, we must carefully consider the safety and confidentiality issues of virtual helmet production.
But Zhu Tian had already considered this. The offshore platform he built next to Crescent Island was tailor-made for the factory that produces this virtual helmet!
There is no safer place than next to a military base. Under the scanning of the wide-area radio life signal detection device, no agent can escape the eyes of dozens of staff at the radar station. Once someone who has not logged in identity information is found,
For infiltrators, the drone will arrest or drive them away. For those who resist arrest, the drone will initiate an attack program to eliminate them.
Zhu Tian plans to adopt an automated production model for the production process of this virtual helmet. In other words, in addition to manual participation in the transportation of raw materials, product output and other links, the production processes that need to be kept confidential are all completed in a "black box". Although this
The cost of an automatic production line is a bit high, but it is absolutely necessary for confidentiality reasons.
Zhu Tian used the drawings designed by Li Chengwei to build the factory buildings, which he hired from a modern construction company. There are three factories in total, occupying three corners of the triangular offshore platform. The total cost is two million U.S. dollars. Compared with the previous ones,
The project is simply a drizzle.
After a series of purchases, Zhu Tian spent more than 6.7 billion of the 30 billion US dollars in loans. But he didn't feel bad at all because he knew he would earn the money soon.
Putting aside the matter of spending money, Zhu Tian has also made a lot these days.
As expected, Yang Ming lived up to his expectations and signed supply orders for 400,000 boxes of nutritional mixtures for Daming Biotechnology. Based on a profit of US$500 per box, the profit from these 400,000 boxes was US$200 million.
On the other hand, Emma Watson's agent readily agreed to the spokesperson contract proposed by Daming Biotech, and immediately arranged Emma's trip to Coro Island to shoot advertisements and promotional posters. The reason why she agreed so quickly was that
On the one hand, it was because of the $1 million endorsement fee. On the other hand, I heard that I would have the opportunity to appear in the push advertisement of Daming Technology 1.0.
Considering the terrifying installed capacity of Daming Technology 1.0, there must not be many people who would refuse to show their faces there.
Once the sales matters are taken care of, the production matters cannot be left behind.
In order to expand the production of nutritional mixtures, Zhu Tian made several trips to Doomsday and moved five newly built organic synthesis furnaces and a full 10 tons of induction reagents to expand the seaweed planting area.
As a result, the workers in the nutritional mixture production plant began a nightmare life of overtime. In order to complete the production tasks, the technicians responsible for inducing and differentiating Sargassum even slept on the floor in the laboratory. The cultivation ships on the sea also worked day and night.
Traveling across the ground, workers worked in three shifts to plant the seaweed that left the factory, fertilize the sea fields, and harvest the newly grown algae leaves...