Chapter 754 I want it
Li Yanwu wouldn't break up with Chen Wei over this, but it did raise some of his suspicions.
For over a year, the Li family has never given up on their program, which has evolved from a single method at the beginning to infiltrating people around the team.
He and Chen Wei had only been together for three or four months.
This Li family not only has many tricks up their sleeves, but also a very long reach!
"I'm going to the studio. You go back to school first."
"Huh? Didn't you say you'd come with me to get my nails done?"
"Let's do it another day."
Li Yanwu hailed a taxi, preoccupied with his own thoughts, and left without a second thought for Chen Wei.
When Shen Ci received the call from the studio, she was still in her dorm, admiring herself in the mirror.
"What's wrong? Is it urgent?"
Shen Ci asked, turning on the speakerphone.
Normally, Tianrui rarely contacts her, and when he does, it's usually only for two reasons.
One possibility is that the project has made a breakthrough or achieved a significant milestone.
The second option is to ask for money.
It's unusual that she said she needed to come over today.
"It's not that urgent, but if you have time, junior, you should come over. It's better to talk about this in person."
Shen Ci didn't ask any more questions. She knew Luo Tianrui's personality to some extent. He would never bother her if he could avoid disturbing her, so he probably really had something to do.
So he hung up the phone, made an appointment with Pili and Lianxing to meet at the bar that night, and went straight out.
When we arrived at the studio, all the employees were in good spirits.
"Miss Shen, Mr. Luo and the others are in the meeting room."
Shen Ci nodded, walked to the door of the reception room and looked inside through the glass. She saw several senior students laughing and joking.
The atmosphere seemed good, and Shen Ci breathed a slight sigh of relief; it shouldn't be anything bad.
As she pushed open the door and entered, everyone stood up upon seeing Shen Ci: "Junior Sister."
With a smile on her face, Shen Ci looked at everyone and asked, "What's the matter that you had to call me here?"
Luo Tianrui looked at Li Yanwu: "Yanwu, you talk to Aci."
Shen Ci looked at Li Yanwu in surprise, only to see that he was a little embarrassed, but still spoke up and told him about his meeting with Li Xiao today.
He didn't hide it from Chen Wei, because the most crucial and serious part of the whole thing was Chen Wei herself. He told others about it to remind everyone.
"Junior, Chen Wei was knocked unconscious by a pie falling from the sky. I've already told her that. But honestly, the Li family's methods are really disgusting. I can't believe they came up with such a thing."
Shen Ci wasn't angry after hearing Li Yanwu's words. Instead, she shook her head with amusement: "Although this method is disgusting, it is undeniably tempting."
"It's because you, Senior Yanwu, are so determined today. If it were someone else, with their girlfriend encouraging them, they might have actually fallen for it."
Upon hearing this, the other members of the studio exchanged glances.
Ge Youcai glared and said, "Who else? Let's see who dares to be someone else!"
Luo Tianrui pursed his lips: "I don't have a girlfriend."
Senior Peipei also said, "Anyone who can't resist the temptation and goes to Li's will be betraying our studio and our juniors, and they won't have a good ending."
Others echoed this sentiment, saying they would not have wavered if they were in their shoes.
"So, apart from Senior Yanwu, none of you have had any contact with the Li family yet?" Shen Ci asked.
Everyone shook their heads in unison: "No."
Li Yanwu said, "It's probably because Chen Wei and Li Xiao knew each other before, so it was easier for him to contact me. I guess he didn't expect me to be so disrespectful to him."
Shen Ci nodded in understanding. The Li family had gone so far as to poach people from within the company in order to improve their technology. Although this was a dirty trick, it was a common practice in the business world.
"They're probably really desperate."
Luo Tianrui suddenly looked at Shen Ci and said, "I heard before that the Li family is in talks with a technology company in Europe. The other party is not providing a patch program like ours, but a complete set of terminal technology. Obtaining the right to use it will not be cheap. It will be much more expensive than our program."
"The reason they're resorting to these underhanded tactics against us is probably because they couldn't reach an agreement with the companies in Europe and have turned their attention back to us."
This was the first time Shen Ci had heard of this matter. She raised an eyebrow and said, "Is that so? The Li family has been dragging things out with us for over a year. Now the 2.0 program is almost complete. If they can't break through our impenetrable defenses, they might actually cooperate with a company in Europe."
At this point, Shen Ci couldn't help but ask curiously, "Senior, I don't understand the technical stuff, I just want to know if this European company's terminal technology is better than ours?"
Luo Tianrui nodded in agreement: "It's definitely much better than the 1.0 program currently on the market, but it's expensive. Domestic companies only pay a few hundred yuan a year for the right to use our technology, but to buy the other party's complete technology, it would probably cost several thousand yuan a year, and that would be in pounds."
Foreigners won't be polite to Chinese companies; if you want something, you'll have to pay a hefty price!
Ge Youcai timely reminded them: "The Li family is not short of money, but our program is more cost-effective and more attractive to them."
Shen Ci replied, "But when people are at their wits' end, they may only have one other way to go."
Everyone nodded slightly. Luo Tianrui was already mentally speculating about what changes would occur in the domestic artificial intelligence market after the Li family adopted more advanced European technology.
Not only him, but Shen Ci was also thinking: "No, if they really go to great lengths to acquire the technology from Europe, then Li's products will achieve a great leap in performance, and may even far surpass other brands. Then our program's advantage will no longer exist."
“Given the price of European technology, even if they actually buy it and use it, I'm afraid they won't be able to recoup their costs,” Ge Youcai analyzed. “As far as I know, most of Li’s current AI products are everyday items, like robot vacuums and smart home devices. They need tens of thousands of yuan in net profit a year just to cover the cost of the foreign technology. And that doesn’t even include other costs. No matter how you look at it, they’ll lose money!”
Ge Youcai's statement is true, because the domestic artificial intelligence market currently has the largest demand in the home furnishing sector, which is why some companies started with home furnishing products.
For more than a year, Li's studio has been bogged down in optimizing its programs, causing its artificial intelligence to stagnate and fail to make further progress. As a result, it is still producing the same old things.
Just then, after thinking for a long time, Shen Ci finally looked up at Luo Tianrui and said, "Senior, you should contact the European technology company as soon as possible. This technology cannot fall into the hands of the Li family. I want it!"
(End of this chapter)
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