Offside game

Su Yi took An Jing's luggage, and the three of them walked out of the airport. When they saw Su Yi's new car, Ji Feng exclaimed, "Master, you changed your car again! That's amazing, a Land Rover!" Then he said in a deliberately flattering tone, "Master, can I drive it for a few days?"

“Do you have a driver’s license? I don’t want to go to the traffic police to pick up my car myself,” Su Yi said with a laugh.

"You look down on me, don't you?" Ji Feng then said somewhat embarrassedly, "Ever since you drove that Benz last time, I've been learning to drive. I've already passed the test and will get my license soon."

"Hey, driving isn't hard, it's just that new drivers are a problem. I wouldn't dare let a road menace like you on the road."

"Don't worry, Master. I'm very athletic now, and even my driving instructor praises my driving skills."

Su Yi pretended to think and said, "Alright then, I'll test you another day. If you pass, I'll let you drive that Benz first."

"Hey, sir, can you drive this Land Rover for me? Driving a Benz is too flashy. I'm a public figure now, and if I suddenly start driving a Benz, it'll easily make the news."

Su Yi laughed and scolded, "You think driving a Land Rover is less conspicuous? You can drive this if you want, but let me have my fun for a few days first."

On February 15th, Dream International officially announced the start of registration for the nationwide "Dream Cup" gaming competition. The company has dispatched personnel to provincial capitals across the country to accept registrations. To limit the number of participants, a fee will be charged to each participant, and these fees will be used as prize money for the top three finishers in each region.

This competition features three games: StarCraft, Counter-Strike, and FIFA. The Counter-Strike game requires players to form teams of five. Dream International also announced the prize pool for the StarCraft and FIFA games: the overall champion will receive 5 RMB, the runner-up 3 RMB, and the third-place team 1 RMB. The Counter-Strike champion team will receive 15 RMB, the runner-up 8 RMB, and the third-place team 3 RMB. Furthermore, the top three finishers in each game will have the opportunity to join Dream International's Dream Gaming Club and become professional esports players.

Because the Dream Team will also be participating in this competition, to give more opportunities to CS teams from the Yanjing region, the Dream Team will be seeded and directly enter the final stage, no longer needing to participate in the Yanjing regional qualifiers. This has relieved many Yanjing teams that had originally planned to register in other provinces.

The announcement caused a sensation among domestic gamers, as this was the first time such a large-scale gaming competition had been held in China. The prize money was also very generous, and what excited many players even more was the opportunity for the top three winners to join the Dream Game Club. This enticing offer sparked considerable interest among many.

So far, some lucky players from the Lechang gaming platform have had the opportunity to visit the Dream Game Club on the fourth floor of the Dream Internet Cafe. News and photos circulating from them have shown many players across the country the incredibly comfortable training environment in which the five members of the Dream team train. The cafe boasts a lounge, gym, screening room, kitchen, and even several temporary guest rooms comparable to those in a five-star hotel. Furthermore, their salaries are currently higher than those of ordinary white-collar workers. Therefore, during the five-day registration period, gamers from all over the country eager to participate in this competition flocked to their respective provincial capitals.

While Dream International was making a big show of promoting their biggest event of the year, Liu Jun and a negotiation team, along with all the technical patent documents for the new server architecture array that Su Yi named "Honeycomb" and the Kuafu server operating system, had already begun contacting Inspur Group, the largest server manufacturer in China.

Meanwhile, Dream International established a new subsidiary, Sicheng Software, with Wang Ming, former vice president of Kingsoft, serving as its general manager. At the company's launch press conference, he announced that the company would first release the Kuafu operating system for servers. This operating system uses a unique data protocol, which will improve efficiency by at least 30% compared to existing server operating systems on the market. Furthermore, due to its exclusive data encryption and compression technology, the Kuafu operating system boasts superior stability, security, and network support compared to current operating systems.

Representatives from Inspur Group also announced at the press conference that some of the servers they sell will come pre-installed with the Kuafu operating system.

After more than ten days of negotiations, Dream International and Inspur Group decided to jointly establish a new server manufacturing company called Windchao, dedicated to the research and development and manufacturing of servers specifically designed for the "Honeycomb" server architecture array. The new company will be jointly funded by Dream International and Inspur Group, each integrating their respective server technologies. Dream International and Inspur Group will each hold 50% of the shares in the new company. Simultaneously, construction began on Windchao's first server R&D and manufacturing center in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang region.

To Su Yi's surprise, the first person to approach him after the launch of the Kuafu Operating System was Mo Jianfeng. Mo Jianfeng was one of the personnel in charge of information technology construction at the General Logistics Department of the Ministry of National Defense. The military had been searching for a suitable operating system, and after receiving the Kuafu Operating System, they were very satisfied with the results after specialized testing. Therefore, they wanted to commission Su Yi's company to customize two versions of the operating system suitable for military servers and personal computers, modifying the existing commercial versions for functionalities and optimizing security. The military would first pilot this procurement in the Yanjing Military Region; if the results were satisfactory, it would be rolled out across the entire army.

With such a large military order, Su Yi naturally wouldn't refuse. According to preliminary calculations, the order from the Yanjing Military Region alone is worth around 2 million yuan.

After reaching this initial agreement, Mo Jianfeng's next discussion greatly impressed Su Yi with the efficiency of the military's intelligence system. It turned out they already knew Su Yi possessed a new server architecture array called Honeycomb, which would greatly improve server group efficiency and allow the server group to simulate large-scale computer computations. Their military also valued this technology. Mo Jianfeng, representing the military, requested that Su Yi provide this technology to the military—not free of charge, of course, and he guaranteed that the technology would only be used internally within the military and would not involve non-core military enterprises.

Since that was the case, Su Yi had no reason to refuse. In the end, both sides sent teams to negotiate and reached a super order worth 10 billion yuan. The order for the Kuafu server and two versions of the operating system for personal use was worth 2 million yuan, and the Hive Array was licensed to the military, including the aerospace sector, for 8 million yuan.

The first batch of 10 million yuan of the 3 billion yuan did not stay in Dream International's accounts for long before being invested in Wind Power's server R&D and manufacturing center in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.