40: Chapter 40 The Shengdong Platform Has Collapsed!

"Move!!!"

Following Lei Jun's series of commands, the passion of all employees was completely ignited.

"Understood!!!"

"..."

In the hall, everyone immediately took action. There was no time for cheering, and no time for celebration. While the sales figures filled everyone with shock, it was even more of an indescribable sense of awe.

They originally thought that selling 10,000 units in an hour would be quite good, but the current data—breaking 10,000 units in five minutes—had already far exceeded everyone's expectations.

"How are the figures for Samsung and Apple?" Lei Jun turned his head to look at Li Guoqiang again. His voice sounded calm, but he was clearly suppressing his emotions.

"Their sales channels are mainly concentrated offline, and the data for their online platforms hasn't been released yet. It's estimated it will take an hour!"

Li Guoqiang spoke quickly, while also not remaining idle, making one phone call after another to collect data.

Lei Jun nodded, suppressing the excitement in his heart. Although he didn't know the situation with the two giants, Fanmi's sales situation had already far exceeded his expectations.

Following this trend, it was even possible for the first-day sales volume to exceed 200,000 units.

Soon, he thought of a problem: the first batch of products totaled only 300,000 units, and the current situation might be far from enough.

"Old Li, contact the major suppliers immediately to sign contracts, increase the order by 1,000,000 units, and have them work day and night to replenish the stock as quickly as possible. The price should remain the same as before!"

"Also, we must contact more suppliers; the current supply chain capacity is far from enough!"

"If nothing goes wrong... our first batch of orders might be sold out by tomorrow..."

Lei Jun grabbed Li Guoqiang's shoulders, his eyes revealing a bright light, and his tone was somewhat trembling.

"I understand, I'll leave this to you!"

Li Guoqiang also didn't hesitate at all, immediately turning and leaving the hall with hurried steps.

After a series of arrangements, looking at the busy hall, Lei Jun took a deep breath, thought for a moment, and sent a text message to Zhou Fan.

"The data is out. Five minutes, 10,000 units!"

Hangjiang University, Room 608.

Feeling the vibration, Zhou Fan took out his phone and glanced at it, then looked up at his roommates whose attention was entirely on their computers, frantically refreshing the official website of Fanmi and the platform pages where they could buy the fanmi mobile phone...

"10,000 in five minutes..." Zhou Fan was quite satisfied with such sales.

Looking at his roommates, he knew that Fanmi had already taken root in many people's hearts and had begun to sprout.

Qian Donglai's slightly irritable voice rang out.

"Damn, what's wrong with the network on the E-commerce Platform? Why is it so laggy?"

"Forget it, the official website of Fanmi is even laggier. It's probably being crushed by too many orders..." Sun Chuyang was a bit helpless, even a bit anxious.

"No way, the E-commerce Platform webpage won't even open after refreshing; it just keeps loading..."

"That's exaggerated..." Sun Chuyang, who was refreshing the official website of Fanmi, poked his head over to take a look and saw that the page on Qian Donglai's laptop screen was blank.

"It's not just the official website that exploded; even the E-commerce Platform has been crashed..." Chen Bing muttered from the side, looking at the anxious expressions of his two roommates: "What's the rush? If you have money, are you afraid you won't be able to buy a phone?"

"I'm actually really afraid I won't be able to buy one..." Qian Donglai shook his head and said.

"It's so popular, surely a lot of people are buying!" Sun Chuyang kept refreshing the official website of Fanmi.

Chen Bing shook his head, speechless, and looked at Zhou Fan.

"What's the rush? It can't possibly sell out, can it? After all, it's something that costs several thousand yuan. There are just more people at the start of the sale. When Apple phones first came out, wasn't it the same? The stores were packed, and if you went late, you couldn't buy one, but there would be stock again in a few days! I still want to see the experience after they get their hands on the new machine before deciding whether to buy it!"

Although Chen Bing was determined to get a fanmi mobile phone, he didn't think it would be impossible to buy one.

"This... that's not necessarily true!" Zhou Fan shook his head. He knew the inventory of the first batch of fanmi mobile phone, and it was just that the traffic at this moment exceeded expectations, leading to the general lag in online sales platforms.

Once the server capacity was expanded, at this rate, the 300,000 units would probably be sold out in half a day. That was not an exaggeration at all.

He had seen the grand occasion where some popular models were hard to come by in his previous life, and he was confident that the 'Fanmi 1' at this time would not sell any worse than any other model.

"Aren't you a shareholder of Fanmi Technology? Why don't you get us a few units through internal channels?" Seeing Zhou Fan fall into silence, Chen Bing said jokingly.

"Sure..." Zhou Fan nodded.

"If you ask me, our fourth brother is the one who really knows how to show off..." Chen Bing chuckled and gave a thumbs up.

"That's right, I couldn't even think of this way to show off as a shareholder of Fanmi... No, I have to call the customer service of E-commerce Platform. What kind of service is this? I can't even buy things!!!" Qian Donglai turned his head to respond, then said in a very irritable tone, took out his old-fashioned feature phone, and dialed the customer service number for the E-commerce Platform.

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Shengdong Data Engineering Department.

Most employees were on holiday, with only a few people on duty.

"Samsung and Apple's new phones are both going online today. Keep an eye on them; don't let any problems occur!" Team Leader Lin Xueming reminded his team members in a serious tone.

"There's another company selling phones, right? They're also going online today. Don't we need to keep a special eye on them?" Team member Zhao Weijing's voice rang out.

"You're talking about Fanmi Technology, right?" Lin Xueming shook his head and smiled: "That's just a startup company. Their new phone is launching; it's not even certain if they can sell any!"

"Besides, Samsung and Apple's new phones are both launching today. With the two giants standing in front, this Fanmi Technology probably won't even get any scraps! I can't understand what the executives of Fanmi Technology were thinking, insisting on choosing today to compete with the two giants!!!"

Lin Xueming looked down at his watch, his expression gradually becoming serious: "By the way, the data for Samsung and Apple should be out, right? How's the situation?"

As he spoke, he leaned over to Zhao Weijing's computer and scanned the screen.

"Samsung's ten-minute data: 2,000 units sold. Apple: 4,000. Not bad..."

"Wait, there's abnormal data!"

Accompanied by Zhao Weijing's exclamation, the phones in the Engineering Department rang urgently at almost the same time.

Lin Xueming was stunned for a moment and quickly gave instructions: "Hurry up and check what's going on with the abnormal data. I'll take a call!"

"The phones are blowing up... Fanmi Technology's store crashed? How is this possible..."

"Wait a moment, we'll handle it immediately!"

After hanging up the phone, Lin Xueming subconsciously looked at Zhao Weijing, his entire demeanor becoming serious. A store crash would involve their year-end bonuses, and if not handled in time, they might even be publicly reprimanded. He certainly had to treat it seriously.

"Have you found the reason for the abnormality?"

"Found it! A few minutes ago, a large amount of traffic suddenly flooded the platform. The order volume for Fanmi Technology is abnormal; the data is growing extremely fast. Oh my... it has already broken 10,000 orders in ten minutes. Because too many people are gathering, it caused lag and a crash!"

"Ten minutes... sold 10,000 units? The order volume is directly five times that of Samsung and twice that of Apple? Is that possible?" Lin Xueming's tone was filled with confusion.

The backend of E-commerce Platform was not fragile. If the order volume hadn't truly exceeded the normal threshold, it would absolutely not have caused a crash. But for something that two giant mobile phone manufacturers hadn't achieved, a startup company like Fanmi had done it???

Is this really possible?

But in an instant, he threw this thought away. After excluding all the impossibilities, the remaining one was the greatest possibility: Fanmi had no reason to fake orders, and such a large amount of traffic was simply not something Fanmi could control.

If it really were controlled by Fanmi, someone would probably be at the Fanmi headquarters drinking tea and conducting an investigation today.

"Immediately expand the data capacity for the Fanmi Technology store and fix the page lag!" Lin Xueming made a decision instantly.

In an instant, the sound of keyboards clicking in the Engineering Department connected into one, and the previously leisurely engineers instantly became busy.