Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

March 1, 1991.

Not long after Murphy celebrated his 22nd birthday, after more than two months of campaigning, the product launch conference of Sophon Technology, a subsidiary of the Umbrella Group and an upstart in the electronics industry, finally began.

Exhibition Hall 3 of the Birmingham International Convention and Exhibition Center has been transformed into a huge conference hall. In a space of nearly 20,000 square meters, there are more than 3,000 seats. Electronic product publishers and major media from all regions around the world , so that friendly companies such as Intel, Apple, and Microsoft have come from afar.

Everyone is eagerly waiting to see what the project that the Umbrella Group has spent nearly 10 billion pounds on will be.

In order to ensure the effect of the press conference, Patrick even spent three million pounds to use 1,500 LCD screens to build a huge LCD screen 30 meters wide and 12 meters high, which almost covered the entire wall behind the podium. , directly creating a world record.

Just to synchronize the connection of these screens, eight servers equipped with Sophon Technology's latest chips were used, and a set of collaborative programs were even specially developed to complete the synchronous refresh of all screens.

In fact, the preparation funds for the entire conference were as high as 10 million pounds, and this was just for the display of a product.

The press conference started at 18:00 in the evening and was already packed by 17:30.

There was only a countdown number on the huge screen that kept beating.

"Hey, Paul." A bald man patted his American counterpart in a suit and tie who had just sat down next to him, "Paul Otellini?"

The latter glanced at him and said, "Steve Ballmer?"

"Is Intel also paying attention to this company?" Steve Ballmer, a bald man, joked.

"Isn't it the same with Microsoft?" Paul Otellini tilted his head to the side as he said that, "Look who I saw, another Steve."

Steve Ballmer glanced in that direction and saw a young man with short hair and a white shirt sitting there, staring deeply at the podium.

"Steve Jobs."

"He's here too."

"Of course he will come. After all, the style of the conference here gives me an Apple feeling. But they don't have such a good big screen. Oh, this screen is so amazing! I think Intel should also do this for future product launches. A screen like this."

The two chatted about some interesting things in the industry and talked about Umbrella's huge investment in Sophon Technology. They both expressed shock at Umbrella's generosity.

"Patrick doesn't look like a British guy at all, he looks more like an American who grew up in Silicon Valley." Paul Otellini commented, "No British guy has such a big deal, suddenly crossing from the pharmaceutical industry to the unrelated electronics field. It’s really unbelievable.”

"I heard that the decisions were all made by the mysterious founder of Umbrella, Murphys Anon. Patrick is only the nominal president of the group. He only holds less than 10% of the group's shares."

"There is almost no news about Murphys in the media. He is probably the most low-key technology company founder."

"Hey, Paul, do you want to make a bet?" Steve Ballmer suddenly said, "I bet a hundred dollars that today's conference will turn into a piece of shit."

“Microsoft is not optimistic about umbrella companies?”

"Umbrella is indeed amazing in the pharmaceutical industry. But in the electronics industry... it is taken too much for granted. I heard that their desktop system was developed in less than a year, and it is based on a completely new architecture of CPU and instruction set. Isn't this a joke?"

"It is said that their chip manufacturing process is very advanced," Paul said. "I have my doubts, but they have already held a press conference. You can't fool people with something you don't have, right?"

"I guess they just got some other people's hardware, used Linux to make a system, and designed a good-looking chassis. Maybe they copied Apple's set." Ballmer said, taking his hat from his knees. , took out a crumpled bill and threw it in, "One hundred dollars, do you want to bet?"

"But I'm not optimistic about them either, so how can I bet on them?"

In fact, it's not that Intel is not optimistic about umbrella companies, but it really doesn't want another competitor to appear.

"Disappointing..." Ballmer was about to put the banknote back into his pocket when suddenly a hand pressed his arm. "I don't have US dollars. Can I bet on pounds?"

As he said that, the other party took out two fifty-pound bills and threw them into the hat, "I bet that today's press conference will be one of the greatest press conferences in the history of the electronics industry. You two, please Don’t you want to bet with me?”

The two Americans listened to each other's British accent and looked at each other, "Excuse me, who are you?"

"Murphy, just a nobody."

…

17:59.

The time-type countdown suddenly changed to 60, then to 59, and then to 58. Each jump of the number was accompanied by a trembling animation.

As the numbers get smaller and smaller, the amplitude of the picture vibration becomes larger and larger. At the same time, the low drumbeats also sound from small to louder, and gradually merge into faster and faster drums.

At this time, other sound effects also joined in, gradually becoming an ever-approaching ensemble, attracting the attention of everyone in the exhibition hall to the podium.

The ensemble became faster and faster, more and more passionate and high-pitched, but as the number jumped to 10, it suddenly changed to red. At the same time, another Qingyue countdown electronic sound sounded, and the music gradually weakened, so the entire exhibition hall , the last countdown sound was left.

3. 2. 1.

Suddenly, the lights in the center of the entire exhibition hall suddenly dimmed, leaving only the faintest light in the outermost layer.

Then a vertical white line suddenly appeared on the dark screen of the rostrum. It was like a crack in space, dividing the dark space of the entire exhibition hall into two.

With the sound of the door being pushed, the white line expanded a bit, and people discovered that the dark part of the screen was actually two doors that stood tall on the sky.

At this moment, a person was pushing the door open from the opposite position.

With a "Boom!", the door was suddenly pushed open. After the blazing white light, the light intensity gradually weakened and turned into a gradient of dark blue.

It seemed to be a sky, an ocean, or a deep starry night.

On the dark blue background, a huge red and white umbrella-shaped logo appeared.

Umbrella.

Behind the small podium next to the huge screen, Patrick, wearing a loose T-shirt, appeared there at some point.

He waved his hand to the audience.

"Welcome, welcome everyone, welcome friends from all walks of life, welcome to the umbrella product launch conference." Patrick said, "And friends from business partners, welcome you too. I hope you won't hate me too much after the conference."