"Let's leave it for now!" Xing Baohua said. They've already gone to so much trouble to build it, it would be too much to tear it down now, it would feel like they're playing a trick on them.

Actually, the construction workers don't feel like they're being played. It's not like the demolition is due to quality issues. It's all up to the big boss. There's money for construction, money for demolition, the workers have jobs, and the project manager can still charge the usual price. He's happy about it.

Xing Baohua didn't go anywhere today; he just stayed home with Su Ya.

In the afternoon, news came from the hospital that Xiao Tian had woken up, and Xing Baohua went to visit him.

"You came empty-handed?" Xiao Tianna said weakly as he looked at Xing Baohua. In fact, he was grimacing after just a few words, probably due to a broken rib.

When he woke up, the doctor examined him and said there was nothing seriously wrong; he just needed to rest. So he was transferred from the intensive care unit to a VIP ward. This kind of ward is equivalent to our current VIP ward.

There are two beds, one for the couple, a TV, and a small refrigerator. There's also a sofa, coffee table, and chairs.

These kinds of wards are inaccessible even to those with money, and even lower-ranking officials can't get in; only those of a certain rank can.

Captain Han was of a high enough rank to make a call to the hospital, so the couple received high-level treatment.

Xing Baohua walked to the bedside with a smile and said, "I wanted to buy some fresh flowers or something, but I haven't seen any for sale along the way. As for fruit, you can't eat it now, and it will spoil easily if left for too long. Let's not waste that little bit of money."

This time, Xiao Tian didn't say anything, but instead gestured towards Geng Rui with his lip.

Xing Baohua looked over and saw that Geng Rui was perfectly fine, nothing was wrong!

Helpless, Xiao Tian grinned and said, "They're not going to eat!"

"Oh! My bad, I forgot about that." He took out his phone and called the guard downstairs in the car to buy some fruit and have it delivered.

When Xing Baohua was on the phone, Geng Rui said, "Don't listen to his nonsense, all he has left is his stubbornness."

Xing Baohua smiled and said it was nothing.

Then, Xiao Tian asked, "What exactly happened to me? Someone just put a big firecracker in my suitcase for no reason. If Geng Rui hadn't discovered it early, we would both probably be done for."

"It's a long story. This is a consequence of our testing at the Nandu Cave Base. They can't do anything to us openly, but they can hire people! That's when we were all targeted. I was one of them. If my vehicle hadn't been better protected, I probably would have been lying in wait."

After Xing Baohua finished speaking, Xiao Tianna asked again, "Will they target us again?"

"The hired organization is called Firebird. I've already sent people to deal with them. They'll hire me too. They'll hire over a hundred people from Da Mao and Er Mao's group, almost a company. Let's wait for news. We won't be able to sleep peacefully until we wipe them out."

Xiao Tian nodded, finally showing a relieved expression.

"The founder of ARM has disappeared in Hong Kong, and there's still no news. I suspect he's in grave danger," Xing Baohua blurted out.

"Hermann Hauser and Dukeban Yesser?"

"Um!"

"These two are really talented! Aren't you worried about them going missing?" Xiao Tian found a comfortable position to ease the pain from speaking.

"Well, there's no use in being anxious. I didn't have the means to go to Hong Kong at the time. Actually, I hoped that something unexpected would happen to those two. Don't say I'm heartless or anything, but Loongson will become more and more important as time goes on, and I don't want them to be involved anymore. Since I've spent money to buy out all their patents, even if they are the creators of Loongson's core technology, Loongson's future development has nothing to do with them."

"Still a bit ruthless."

"Say what you will. This society is a place where the big fish eat the small fish. If they don't leave in a few years, I will send them away. Just like this attack on us, it's because some people don't want us to develop and want to stop the development we bring."

Xing Baohua spoke indignantly, and his voice rose as he spoke.

If both Xiao Tianna and Zhang Dongshuo were to encounter unforeseen circumstances, Xing Baohua would be delayed for at least several years before achieving significant success, which would hinder his development.

Especially the research on superconducting chips developed by Zhang Dongshuo. If this kid dies, the superconducting project will be temporarily shelved, and it will take several more years to find someone to take over the research.

By the time the research was completed, it would be ten years later.

Furthermore, regarding the development of the Xiaotianna system, it can be said that the Mount Everest system was the beginning of the prototype of a domestically developed system.

Although it's currently on a mobile platform and doesn't pose a threat to PC systems, after modification and porting, it can be used on x86 platforms, which will then trigger a system war.

The friendly relationship with Gates will turn into an adversarial one.

There was no other choice but to follow one path, and the only option was to fight tooth and nail in the market competition.

There will be a CPU war to come, and Xing Baohua can already foresee the intensity of that battle. Western capital will join forces with Japanese capital to encircle and suppress their chip industry. But they forget one thing: our territory and population also constitute a form of strategic depth.

Xing Baohua sells only a small amount of its products domestically, while a large portion is sold overseas. This creates the illusion that rice cannot exist without overseas markets, and that if overseas markets impose sanctions on rice, the only option left is bankruptcy.

The domestic market is Xing Baohua's biggest reliance and support. He first launched a wave of export-to-domestic sales, and then established the domestic market. Those channel distributors often went hungry because of the lack of supply.

Now people know that rice is a good brand, sells well all over the world, and is hard to buy.

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