Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Zhuang Li’s performance at the hearing not only conquered his peers, but also the shareholders and senior executives of Huarui Manufacturing, so the 5 billion investment plan he formulated was quickly passed unanimously.
Cambrian was a very mature software development company with the most advanced equipment and the best team in the world.
Zhuang Li, who had taken over the Cambrian in this period, only advanced his plan faster.
In stark contrast to his situation, Zhuang Han suffered repeated setbacks in the traditional automotive field.
Zong Zhengming was still watching his every move, like a vulture staring at a piece of meat. He showed no interest in it while it was still fresh, but when the meat rotted, maggots grew, and festering sores formed, he would spread his huge wings and peck at the painful spots fiercely and accurately.
If Zhuang Han violated the rules even a little, the inspection department would come to his door immediately. Today it was the tax bureau, tomorrow it was the fire department, and the day after tomorrow it was the Environmental Protection Bureau. It was endless.
Zhuang Han was overwhelmed and exhausted.
However, what made him even more exhausted was that Zhuang Li also began to chase him in the business world. As soon as he negotiated an order, Zhuang Li would snatch it away; and as soon as he met a raw material supplier, Zhuang Li would immediately make the other party change his mind and refuse to cooperate with him.
After seven months, Zhuang Han not only did not make a penny, but he kept selling his property, and his life became more and more difficult. Even so, his factory still stopped production, and he owed tens of millions of loans. The monthly interest was enough to make him breathless.
Back then, when Zhuang Jincheng was still the chairman of Huarui Manufacturing, if Zhuang Han needed funds, he could just ask his father for it. Not to mention tens of millions, even hundreds of millions could be deposited into his account immediately.
But now, the supplier asked him to pay a deposit of one or two million yuan, and he couldn’t come up with even a penny.
He would never forget the embarrassment and humiliation of being pointed at and called poor. It turned out that he was the worthless loser after he lost all his support.
When despair struck, Zhuang Han could only silently comfort himself: Everything will be fine, temporary failure does not mean everything, didn’t Zhuang Li fail too? You still have time to defeat him and surpass him!
Why did Zhuang Han have such confidence? Let me start from the beginning.
On the day the hearing ended, Zhuang Li posted a nonsensical message on Weibo: [Seven months later, please welcome the arrival of the artificial intelligence era.]
The fans were completely shocked, and passers-by thought they were seeing things.
Who among the Chinese people today didn’t know that Master Zhuang was a pioneer in opposing artificial intelligence? Zhuang Han had already opened a crack in the door to the intelligent era, but Master Zhuang closed it with his backhand.
Why would a person who was so distrustful of emerging technologies suddenly change his tune and embrace the intelligent era? Did he take the wrong medicine? Was his account hacked?
Everyone had this confusion.
But soon after, the government also announced a major news, saying that it would vigorously support the research and development and promotion of driverless technology, and quickly supplement and improve relevant legal provisions. Then, they encouraged Mr. Zhuang to do a good job.
These two pieces of information indicated that the automobile manufacturing industry would usher in a huge change.
So everyone was looking forward to the intelligent era seven months later.
But now, seven months had passed and there had been no movement from Zhuang Li.
The Internet had memory, not to mention that the arrogant Zhuang Li kept that Weibo post at the top so that everyone who visited the webpage could see it.
Therefore, even though more than half a year passed but the netizens still came to ask him every day: [Mr. Zhuang, where is the intelligent era you mentioned?]
Zhuang Han was also one of the people who went there to check in every day.
Zhuang Li was a man of eccentric character. He didn’t like to write. He only posted a few photos from time to time. The content was also fragmentary and uninteresting. A cigar, a box of cigarettes, a razor, a tie could all become the protagonist of his photos.
Zhuang Han often just glanced over the pictures and then read the comments attentively. He would feel better when he found that netizens were constantly urging Zhuang Li to move forward with the smart era and expressing various doubts.
But today, his careless gaze froze.
Zhuang Li updated his Weibo with a line of text: [Rejoice, be excited, the era of artificial intelligence has arrived.] Other than that, there were no photos, no videos, no links, nothing.
Netizens were curious and left messages asking him what he meant. They also went to the official websites of Huarui Manufacturing and Cambrian to find out the news.
The two websites also published the same words: [The era of artificial intelligence has arrived.]
There was no explanation at all, and it made people even more confused!
Zhuang Han was stunned for a long time before typing out a comment with trembling fingertips: [Impossible! You are cheating!]
He used a small account, which had few followers, and said things similar to those skeptics, so he shouldn’t have attracted anyone’s attention.
But Zhuang Li immediately responded to this comment: [Why is it impossible? Tell me your reasons.]
Zhuang Han quickly typed out a line of words: [There is simply no room for driverless cars to be used in China.
It is not convenient for me to discuss the profound technology with you here. I just want to ask you a question. Our country has extremely strict control over map and mapping. The “Surveying and Mapping Law” stipulates that in our country, the location accuracy of public maps shall not be higher than 50 meters, and the height and width limits of important bridges and the height and width attributes of important tunnels cannot be disclosed.
The maximum longitudinal slope and minimum radius of curvature of highways, viaducts, approaches, streets and internal roads shall not be disclosed.
Under such strict control, driverless cars have no way of obtaining important data such as road conditions, routes, and global maps, so how can they be driven on the road? If driverless cars want to avoid the risk of traffic accidents to the greatest extent possible, they must rely on high-precision positioning services at the decimeter or even centimeter level.
However, China prohibits private use of this level of service and does not disclose clearer and more reliable maps. This one regulation alone can kill the development of driverless technology!
Stop trying to attract attention! Your Weibo post may fool laymen, but it is just a joke to insiders!]
Thanks to Zhuang Li’s attention, Zhuang Han’s small account was also seen by many netizens.
The words he typed were not nonsense, but had legal basis, so many people began to doubt the artificial intelligence era mentioned by Zhuang Li.
China was a very special country. Its development, its strength and its explosion attracted attention from all over the world.
Therefore, the Western powers, always on guard, had never stopped their infiltration activities against China.
China thus enacted the “Surveying and Mapping Law” to block foreign spies from snooping, not to hinder the development of science and technology. In the face of an increasingly severe international situation, the government was unlikely to open the door to Huarui Manufacturing.
[Is Mr. Zhuang bragging again?] A netizen looked up the relevant laws and regulations and came back to mock him.
Zhuang Li ignored him and went straight to Zhuang Han’s trumpet, saying provocatively: “Whether I am a joke or a legend, you can verify it yourself. Just because you are a loser does not mean that others are losers too. It’s time to take off your tinted glasses.”
The word “loser” deeply hurt Zhuang Han’s self-esteem. Just at this moment, the finance department came to him with a stack of bills for his signature, saying that if he couldn’t pay the debts, the company would go bankrupt this month.
Zhuang Han, who had nothing left, suddenly kicked over the desks and chairs in the office, picked up his car keys, and ran out.
He was once handsome and tall, but now he was so thin that he looked unrecognizable, and his face looked particularly hideous due to his hatred and murderous intent.
His brain had completely lost the ability to think, and only one sentence surged in his heart – Kill Zhuang Li! Kill this man and everything will be over! The derailed life, the disordered heart, and the endless suffering will all become a thing of the past!
During these seven months, he endured failure every day, suffered blows every moment, and accumulated hatred and anger every minute and every second that had nowhere to vent.
He was like a trapped beast forced into a desperate situation, wanting only to fight hard and not wanting to turn back.
The car driven by Zhuang Han quickly arrived near Huarui’s headquarters and he quietly parked in an alley.
He thought he was a hunter, but he didn’t know that at the same time, Zhuang Li was silently watching his every move through his mobile phone.
7480 looked at the small red dot flashing on the positioning map and asked fearfully, “Master, what do you want to do by deliberately angering the Child of Destiny?”
“Do you remember I said I wanted to get rid of him?” Zhuang Li left the company slowly, holding his cell phone, and deliberately dismissed the bodyguards.
“You want to kill someone?” 7480 blurted out.
Zhuang Li pursed his thin lips and smiled slightly, but did not answer.
This time, 7480 was even more scared! It should have guessed long ago that how could the host, the great devil, really change his ways just because of Zong Zhengming’s words? His vengefulness was simply the best in the universe!
“Master, you have to think it over carefully. The god is the administrator of this country. If you do something illegal, it will be very difficult for him to deal with you.” 7480 gave a dry advice and stopped talking. Because it knew that the host’s decision would never change.
How about I sing a requiem for the child of destiny? I have really tried my best in this world. 7480 thought silently while holding the cross.
Zhuang Li drove his eye-catching sports car out of the underground parking lot.
There was only one of this car in the world. It was built by Huarui Manufacturing and Cambrian for their own boss. The body of the car was a smooth bullet shape, which minimized wind resistance. When the two doors were opened, they were like two wings, which was very futuristic. The top cover could also be folded and closed to become a convertible. The silver-white paint sparkled under the sunlight, and when it passed by, it was like a meteor, taking away all the light and wind.
Many people became fans of Zhuang Li because of this car.
And now, this unique luxury car was slowly driving past Zhuang Han.
Zhuang Li opened the car window, looked into the alley, and curled the corners of his lips in disdain.
Zhuang Han had never expected that Zhuang Li would actually discover him. After a moment of pause, he stepped on the accelerator and chased after him.
He had nothing left, what was there to be afraid of?
Two cars were driving on the road one after the other, with a very close distance between them.
Zhuang Li inserted the mobile phone into a groove on the car panel as if it were a chip and pressed the start button. All the LCD screens lit up and Zhuang Han’s hideous face appeared on the screen at a strange angle.
“Zhuang Han, long time no see.” Zhuang Li greeted with a smile.
Zhuang Li’s voice suddenly came from the car. Zhuang Han was startled. He looked down and found that the mobile phone placed next to the joystick had automatically turned on the video connection mode.
“You hacked my phone!” Zhuang Han suddenly realized and then gritted his teeth.
“I just want to talk to you.” Zhuang Li steered Zhuang Han’s car into a road with few people.
Zhuang Han followed him closely and sneered, “What do you want to talk about?”
“Let’s talk about your failure.” Zhuang Li said bluntly, then shook his head and chuckled.
This laughter was like the devil’s voice coming from the abyss of hell, which made Zhuang Han’s head split and his face grim. He stepped on the accelerator hard and rushed forward desperately.
He was crazy! He had been driven crazy by Zhuang Li!
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