Chapter 23 — The entire department's salary is 39,000 yuan, just me 5,800 yuan

He originally thought that the Pan Co project would be the most glorious mark of his career. They mobilized more than a thousand top engineers. Spent two years. Burning tens of billions of US dollars. They once believed that they would rewrite the rules of the entire industry. But now. Something appeared from nowhere called the Phoenix. Only used for one month. Turned their two years of effort into a joke. This is no longer a technology gap. It's the gap between two civilizations.

“Go investigate now!”

Smith roared.

“I want to know who is in charge of the Phoenix project!”

“I want to know which planet that woman named Chu Nhien comes from!”

An hour later. When my resume was placed on Smith's desk. Monthly salary 5,800 yuan. Position: Project assistant. The illustrious Silicon Valley technology expert sat staring at that piece of paper for ten minutes. He picked up the file. Slowly lean back in the chair. Empty eyes. And despair. He knows. This war. Before starting. They have already lost. Completely lost. Three months later. The early autumn sunlight covered the whole city. It was a day that will surely be recorded in the history of Internet development. Lap Ton Technology. Phoenix system. Official version V1.0. Simultaneously launched globally. There was no grand press conference. There is no widespread advertising campaign. Lap Tan Technology simply posted a notice on the homepage. Then open the system API to all programmers in the world. Most people still maintain an observant and skeptical attitude. Anyway, the performance indicators that were spread before were too unbelievable. As the first programmer. Then the second person. Then countless others. Be curious about connecting your application to the Phoenix system. The entire Internet exploded.

"Oh my god! After connecting to Phoenix, my application's response speed increased three hundred times! Three hundred times!"

"No way! I just called a basic data storage API and the back-end server load was reduced by ninety percent!"

“From today Chu Nhien is my idol!”

“Phoenix System is the bible of programmers!”

Social network. Technology forum. Programmer community. In just a few short hours. Both are completely dominated by the names "Phuong Hoang" and "Chu Nhien". Those are no longer compliments. It's an almost fanatical devotion. Countless small and medium enterprises. Even the leading corporations in the industry. Like a school of sharks smelling blood. Rushing to compete for the opportunity to cooperate with Lap Tan Technology. Company stock price. Right in the first hour of trading. Has increased so much that it activates the circuit breaker three times in a row. The entire capital market went crazy. The media uses all the most bombastic words.

"Technology revolution! Phoenix system opens the next digital era!"

"She used a line of code to change the world! Revealing the legendary life of Chu Nhien - the mother of the Phoenix!"

"An empire fades, a new dynasty rises! After the Phoenix, there are no more opponents!"

The last headline takes aim squarely at the Silicon Valley tech giant. Their Pangu Project. A week ago. Silently declare defeat internal failure. More than a thousand engineers on the project were dismissed on the spot. The day the Phoenix system launched. Their stock prices plummeted. Market capitalization evaporated by tens of billions of US dollars. The deputy general director used to be arrogant and unmatched by anyone. Must also resign to take responsibility. Then completely disappeared from the technology world. A giant technology empire. Just because of a wrong strategic decision and arrogance. Having been shaken to the core by an Eastern opponent they had never taken seriously. The person who started all of this. At that time, I was sitting in my private office with a panoramic view of the entire city. Calmly take a sip of lemonade. Acclaims out there. Praises everywhere. It seems to have nothing to do with me. On the computer screen. Not news. Nor is it a stock chart. It is a preliminary architectural sketch of the Phoenix system version V2.0. To me. The success of V1.0 is just the beginning. Right at that moment. Personal phone rang with a WeChat notification. It's a friend request from an unknown number. The verification line reads:

“Mr. Chu, I'm Trieu Vu, do you still remember me?”

I took a quick look. Face without any emotion. Then press the Skip button directly. I don't have time anymore. No more energy. To worry about dust particles from a bygone era. In another corner of the city. In an old, cramped and chaotic internet cafe. Trieu Vu looked at the red text on the phone screen: Rejected. The last bit of blood on his face disappeared. Next to it are cigarette butts and instant noodle boxes. He has been unemployed for half a year.