32: Chapter 32 Supercomputer, Epic Upgrade

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A few days later, in Hu Dalei's office, Lin Fang looked somewhat awkwardly at the middle-aged man sipping tea in front of him. His leave of absence application had been approved, and today he was back to collect his belongings.

"What's done is done, and I have nothing more to say."

Hu Dalei took a sip of tea, looked at him, and sighed, "Be careful of jackals and wolves. I wish you success."

"With your blessing, Brother Hu, how could I not succeed?"

Lin Fang refilled his teacup and said earnestly.

"Haha... you kid." Hu Dalei chuckled, patted Lin Fang's shoulder, and took another sip of tea. "Tell me, which journal did you submit that paper to?"

Lin Fang was surprised. "How did you know, Brother Hu?"

"Hah, I've eaten more meals than you've eaten salt," Hu Dalei scoffed.

"I submitted it to 'Annals of Mathematics'," Lin Fang replied.

This journal held a very high reputation and influence in the mathematical community.

Hearing this, Hu Dalei felt a bit smug. "If you really manage to get into the Annals of Mathematics, that would truly bring great honor to our faculty."

He was on a leave of absence, not dropping out; he was still a student of Binhai University. For a work praised so highly by Professor Huang Tao, getting into this journal shouldn't be difficult.

"..."

After leaving the office, Lin Fang organized a meal at the school cafeteria, inviting the other three from his dorm. Faced with their questions, Lin Fang stuck to his original story: going home to start a business!

Afterwards, having packed his things, Lin Fang didn't linger and headed off-campus. The figure carrying his backpack seemed a bit lonely, yet gradually grew stronger!

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The roar of the Hummer H2 approached the outskirts. Lin Fang's villa renovation was complete, costing a total of 12.2 million, more than the villa's original value.

According to the person in charge,

this villa could now serve as a stronghold in a local war.

Lin Fang didn't comment. Commercial boasting was just that—boasting. There wasn't going to be a war; the person could say whatever they wanted.

His purpose for renovating this villa was only to prevent unscrupulous petty thieves from breaking in.

As soon as Lin Fang stepped into the villa's courtyard, the alloy iron gate behind him automatically closed. Little Black was in charge of the security system here.

[Boss, takeover complete.]

Excellent. Time to get to work. Lin Fang loosened his joints excitedly.

He went down to the basement, the focal point of the renovation he had requested. The surrounding walls were embedded with double-layered high-strength structural steel, and a secure room had been created at the very back.

Placing the prepared cables and transformers to the side, Lin Fang manifested the CraigVault server he had first obtained in the Venom Dimension from the Black Watch's storage. This thing was worth nearly half an aircraft carrier. Since the hardware obviously wasn't that valuable, the data inside must be extraordinary.

The icon representing the server disappeared from the storage.

In the next instant, this CraigVault server appeared on the ground.

On the ground it was, then. Conditions were what they were; he couldn't move it himself. What Lin Fang was curious about was how the Black Watch had taken the server out. What kind of technology was this?

Wormhole? Subspace?

Unable to figure it out, Lin Fang shook his head, picked up the cables. Today's goal was to connect this server.

He worked until 10 PM, having skipped dinner, and finally clapped his hands and stood up.

Success!

Pressing the power switch, this server from another dimension began to operate once more. He wasn't worried about network protocols; he had confirmed in the Venom Dimension that they were the same.

"Little Black, see what's inside."

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Over the next month, Lin Fang was quite busy.

He resumed his training regimen of combat and physical fitness. If there was any change, it was that Zhou Hui was getting increasingly brutal in his attacks.

Besides that, Lin Fang had Xu Anqing arrange the acquisition of a data center near the company. He also ordered two sets of Huawei Atlas 900 supercomputer cabinets in the company's name from the domestic Huawei company.

A single set of Huawei Atlas 900 supercomputer cabinets could perform 256 petaflops to 1024 petaflops of half-precision floating-point operations per second. Lin Fang bought two sets, spending nearly 3 billion in total!

Xu Anqing, the executor, didn't understand how 3.2 billion had appeared in the account of their small company, which had a registered capital of only 2 million. All she knew was that this massive cash flow stayed in their company account for less than two days before being spent—and it was spent by her. It was utterly insane!

Their company simply didn't need such a massive server cluster!

In the data center's factory building, Xu Anqing, wearing a white hard hat, shook her head after signing the acceptance documents. But the boss surely had his reasons; she just needed to execute.

"Manager Xu, a car arrived outside. A man who looks very fierce says he wants to see you," Xu Anqing's assistant came in.

A very fierce man?

"Xiao Yun, it's our big boss!" Xu Anqing reacted, showing excitement, and hurried towards the entrance.

Huh? That big guy is our mysterious behind-the-scenes boss? Assistant Xiao Yun's dream of a handsome CEO falling for her began to shatter.

Outside the data center,

"Boss, do you think there would still be lag playing games inside here?" Zhou Hui clicked his tongue, opening the car door for Lin Fang in the back seat.

Lin Fang, dressed in a fitting suit, stepped out of the car slowly, smiling as he looked at the data center worth 3.2 billion.

"There still would be."

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"Boss, after expert inspection, both sets of supercomputers are fine..."

Xu Anqing reported while stealing glances at Lin Fang. *Holy cow*, she knew the boss wasn't bad-looking, but who knew that after taking off his glasses and changing his style, he could debut as an idol.

She, Xu Anqing, would work at this company until she died!

Truly far ahead of the competition. Lin Fang stroked the metal casing of the Atlas 900 with admiration. Compared to these two advanced supercomputers, the other servers in the data center were practically redundant junk.

Expensive, with no other drawbacks. And this would be Little Black's new base. The epic upgrade in Little Black's computing power held significant importance for him.

Ignoring the assistant whose eyes were practically sparkling with hearts, the group, after touring the data center, went straight to the company. This was also the first time Lin Fang had shown his face to everyone since the company's founding.

Handsome, young, rich!

This was the first impression Lin Fang left on everyone. The stir caused by this young man's arrival nearly brought the entire company to a halt.

In the conference room,

Lin Fang sat at the head of the table, leaning back slightly. He was listening to everyone's reports. Half a month ago, a browser named "Fangzhi" had officially launched on major platforms across the Central Continent.

Under the bombardment of various paid posters, soft articles, and short video pop-up ads, the promotional slogan—'Running one ad will bankrupt our company'—quickly spread across the continent, leading to a rapid surge in the "Fangzhi" browser's visibility.

Netizens discovered this company wasn't joking because they found out, to their surprise, that this damn browser was subscription-based!

Membership was 20 yuan per month. New users could enjoy a 10-day free trial. Promoting a new user to register an account also earned an additional three days of free usage.

Discounts were available too: subscribing to an annual VIP Three months free... (gifted three months...)