51: Chapter 51 The Showdown at the Investment Promotion Conference! A Major Breakthrough! (Part Two)

Chen Fan, however, looked at his watch with a calm and composed air: "Nine-oh-five. Just about time."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Zhi's voice sounded in his earpiece: "Boss, the 'Xuanniao' data package has been released simultaneously through seventeen anonymous technology accounts. The propagation speed is growing exponentially and is expected to cover the entire network within three minutes."

Chen Fan nodded, straightened his collar, and strode onto the stage.

The thirty-odd entrepreneurs below the stage felt somewhat awkward—they truly saw potential in stardust material, but they had also been constantly suppressed by the Long Corporation, so they had come here to seek a new lease on life.

Seeing Chen Fan take the stage at this moment, they all sat up straight.

“Thank you all for taking the time out of your busy schedules, and even braving the pressure, to attend Fanxing Technology's investment fair,” Chen Fan began, his voice broadcasting through the speakers and echoing in the empty venue. “I know that right next door, there is a much grander press conference happening, with a more eye-catching technical preview.”

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the audience: “But what I want to say is—true technology does not need a thousand-person venue to prove itself. True value does not need free room and board to attract people.”

Just then, the doors to the venue were suddenly pushed open.

The first to rush in was a young reporter wearing glasses, panting heavily and holding up live-streaming equipment.

He glanced at the stage and then at his phone, his eyes widening: “President Chen! The... the data on that ‘Xuanniao’ material online... is it real?!”

Immediately after, a second person, a third... crowds of people flooded into the venue.

There were reporters, entrepreneurs, and even foreign representatives who had been at the Long Corporation's summit just moments ago.

It was as if they had received some urgent command, pouring in from every entrance. In just two minutes, the originally empty venue was packed with people!

Those who arrived later had no seats and stood in the aisles and against the walls. Everyone was holding up their phones, the screens displaying the same page—

It was a complete technical report titled: "'Xuanniao' Superconducting Material: A Critical Breakthrough Toward Room-Temperature Superconductivity with a Critical Temperature of 24K."

Publisher: Anonymous.

Verification Agency: National Materials Laboratory (Verifiable).

Data Integrity: Complete preparation process, raw test data, and third-party replication records.

The most critical part was the comparison chart:

【Long Corporation's "Longyin" Material: Critical Temperature 12K (Promoted Value) / 92K (Measured Value)】

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【Fanxing's "Xuanniao" Material: Critical Temperature 24K (Confirmed by three independent verifications)】

A total two-fold performance crushing!

Furthermore, the data package for the "Xuanniao" material was released at 9:00 AM this morning—five minutes earlier than the Long Corporation's press conference.

What did this mean? It meant that the "world-leading" status the Long Corporation was boasting about on stage had already been reduced to dust by an unknown technology before they even stepped onto the podium!

“President Chen!” A blonde, blue-eyed foreign reporter squeezed to the front and asked in stiff Chinese, “Does this ‘Xuanniao’ report have anything to do with Fanxing Technology?!”

The entire venue instantly fell silent as everyone stared at Chen Fan.

Chen Fan smiled and didn't answer directly, instead switching the PPT on the large screen behind him.

A new page appeared with the title: "From Stardust to Xuanniao: Fanxing Technology's Path of Advancement."

“The ‘Xuanniao’ material you all just saw is a milestone achievement that Fanxing Laboratory completed verification for three weeks ago,” Chen Fan said in a flat tone, as if speaking of a trivial matter.

“Its fundamental theory comes from a new lattice structure discovered during the development of Stardust-S1 material. We originally planned to release it in the first quarter of next year, but...”

He shrugged: “Since someone was in such a hurry to use semi-finished data to define a ‘new era,’ we felt it was necessary to let the world see what the true technological frontier looks like.”

“Whoosh—”

The whole place exploded!

“So ‘Xuanniao’ really was made by you?!”

“24K?! That's already close to dry ice temperatures! What about the possibility of mass production?!”

“President Chen, has the patent layout been completed?! Can it be licensed?!”

Questions hammered down like artillery shells.

Chen Fan raised his hand, suppressing the clamor.

“Regarding ‘Xuanniao,’ I will only say three points today.” He held up three fingers. “First, patent applications have been submitted in major countries worldwide. Second, the laboratory-level preparation process is mature, and mass production R&D is expected to take three months. Third—”

He paused, his gaze becoming sharp: “‘Xuanniao’ will not be licensed separately. It will be the core technical reserve of Fanxing Technology's ‘Spark Alliance.’ Only by joining the alliance and becoming a strategic partner for stardust material will one be eligible to share in the technical dividends brought by ‘Xuanniao’ in the future.”

A killing blow!

This was the true overt gambit!

Didn't your Long Corporation want to use fake superconducting data to attract attention? Then I'll bring out the real thing, crush your performance by double, and furthermore—want to touch this technology? Come cooperate with me on stardust material first!

The entrepreneurs who had been hesitant earlier now had bloodshot eyes from excitement.

stardust material itself was already disruptive, and now adding a promise of "possible future sharing of room-temperature superconducting technology"? This was no longer just a business cooperation; this was a ticket onto the technological wave of the next twenty years!

“The Spark Alliance cooperation plan—we provide the technology, you make the big money. Today our protagonist is Stardust-S1, which can be directly mass-produced.”

As Chen Fan spoke, he displayed the performance data of Stardust-S1 on the large screen. “I don't need to say much more about Stardust-S1; everyone should already know about it.”

“Today, Fanxing is only doing three things.” His voice was clear. “First, the Stardust-S1 patent is licensed for free; you can use it however you want. Second, the core production equipment monthly rent is only one-third of the market price. Third, we will supply the raw material masterbatches at a 50% discount on the market price, and we will never cut off your supply.”

An instant commotion broke out below the stage. Several bosses had already pulled out their calculators.

“We only make money from two sources,” Chen Fan held up two fingers, “equipment rent and the raw material price difference. As for how much the product sells for and how much profit you make—that's all yours.”

Sitting in the first row, President Liu of Hongda Metals finished his calculations with trembling hands and suddenly stood up: “President Chen! This plan... is it really this price?!”

“The contracts are right over there.” Chen Fan pointed to the signing desk. “In black and white, you can sign right now.”

The venue exploded. The crowd surged toward the signing area.

Chen Fan stood on the stage, watching the boiling scene, knowing that this fire—had finally been lit.

“President Chen! We at Hongda Metals can sign right now!”

“And us! Xingfa Technology applies to join the Spark Alliance!”

“President Chen, although our company isn't large in scale...”

The scene spiraled completely out of control.

People surged toward the stage, some holding contracts, others pulling out official seals directly. The reporters in the back rows were taking photos frantically—this reversal was too dramatic! From a deserted hall to a surging crowd, it had only taken ten minutes!

Lin Hao watched from backstage, dumbfounded, and muttered: “Fan Zi, this brain of yours... was it Amplified by you?”

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International Convention Center, the site of the Long Corporation Summit.

By now, the venue had already emptied out by more than half.

The foreign representatives in the front row were gone, more than half of the media in the middle were gone, and the remaining attendees were all looking down at their phones. Their screens were uniformly displaying the "Xuanniao vs. Longyin" performance comparison charts.

Long Zaitian stood on the stage, his face ashen.

His speech was only halfway through, but no one was listening anymore. His assistant was frantically gesturing from the side of the stage, signaling for him to end it quickly.

“Everyone... everyone please be quiet.” Long Zaitian forced a smile. “Regarding those false data circulating online, the Long Group will issue a formal response. Our ‘Longyin’ material has undergone rigorous verification...”

“President Long!” Someone suddenly raised their hand from the audience. It was a fearless self-media blogger, holding up a live-streaming lens and asking directly, “Can you explain? Why is there such a huge difference between the 12K you promoted and the 92K actually measured in the lab? Does this constitute false advertising?”

“And!” Another person stood up. “The data package for the ‘Xuanniao’ material was released five minutes before your press conference, and it has complete third-party verification. Did you, the Long Corporation, really not know this technology existed before your release?”

The questions became sharper and sharper.

Long Zaitian's smile completely froze on his face.

He looked at the questioning gazes below, at the half-empty seats, and at the news flashes on his assistant's phone constantly updating about the "packed scene at the Fanxing investment fair"... “Today's press conference... ends here.” Long Zaitian squeezed these words out from between his teeth, turned, and left the stage with staggering steps.

Behind him, the venue buzzed with discussions and irrepressible snickering.

The "Global Summit" carefully planned by the Long Group, which had cost tens of millions in funding and utilized all their connections, had ultimately become the best reverse-publicity for Fanxing Technology.

All the media were reporting: "Long Corporation's False Publicity Slapped in the Face; Fanxing Quietly Releases True Technology."

All the entrepreneurs were discussing: "Fortunately we went to Fanxing's side, otherwise we would have missed a historic opportunity."

All the peers were lamenting: "The Long family... has lost face on an international scale this time."

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At 1:00 AM, the signing ceremony had lasted for more than 10 hours.

In the end, forty-six enterprises officially joined the "Spark Alliance," with the cumulative signing amount exceeding 200 million. This didn't even include those companies with letters of intent that required further auditing—the list already stretched out for three months.

“Forty-six companies...” Lin Hao looked at the summary sheet and grinned foolishly. “Fan Zi, we've... made it, right?”

“Made it?” Chen Fan leaned against the back of his chair, eyes closed. “This is only the first step. For the next three months, we have to help these forty-six companies complete their production line setups and technical training.

The Long family suffered such a huge loss; they definitely won't let it go. Raw material blockades, public opinion smearing, even official pressure... they'll use every trick in the book.”

“We need to plant our roots deep enough before the Long family can react.”

“Deep enough... that no one can pull them up.”

The night grew darker.

The lights at the Fanxing Factory remained lit all night.

And the curtain on this commercial war had only just been pulled back.