CH 163 Nervous
TN: bonus chapter💕
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
The Changjiang Home Edition was about to be launched. Since the current target customers were limited to a relatively small group of people, Huo Bo proposed to give away part of it for trial use before it was officially sold.
Jiang Chen never participated in the company's operations and decision-making, so when Huo Bo mentioned it to him, he agreed without much thought. Because he was busy, he didn't even look at the list of gift customers.
It wasn't until he was invited to old Mr. Yang's home for a private dinner that he knew who Shen Xu and Huo Bo had selected as gift customers.
"Xiao Jiang, I'm very optimistic about your system. My wife said that it's risky for me to keep these high-tech things in my house when I'm too old to follow the trend. But since it caught a thief, she doesn't even use the alarm clock every day now. Just waiting for Changjiang to remind her to get up and take medicine. She even brought her old friends to the house every day to show off!"
The old man with gray hair on his temples had a kind smile. When facing Jiang Chen, he showed both the appreciation of an elder for the younger generation and in unconcealable fondness.
Jiang Chen naturally knew the old man in front of him. Mr. Zhang Yuanxian, a leading figure in the field of plant research, had even appeared in their biology textbooks.
However, he never expected that this person would be included in Shen Xu and Huo Bo's customer gift lists.
Before a company's product was put on the market, it would often be tried by some specific groups of people. These groups often have a certain degree of authority in the current field, so that their evaluation after use could be more convincing. However, Changjiang was not an ordinary product. Their company made electronic technology products. In this era when computers were not yet common, AI intelligence was even less popular. The use of Changjiang was not difficult, but in the early stage trial and debugging also required a certain degree of manipulation ability.
Changjiang Home Edition was not like a computer that could be used as long as you could turn it on. It was a system that could be customized for each person, automatically collects data, and then provides the owner with the required services and protection. Just like in the previous tests by Jiang Chen and his team, it takes a period of time to collect data. This period of time also requires the cooperation of the user. People who do not have the foundation to use computers or do not understand electronic technology would find it difficult to realize the benefits in a short time.
Therefore, it was very important to have a trial list in advance. It should not only include the diversity of age levels and careers, but also take into account the other party's usage ability and financial ability—putting aside R&D costs, just the runtime of the Changjiang Home Edition and subsequent installation of required equipment costs were no longer within the reach of ordinary people.
In this way, the scope of customers was very narrow.
In addition, although Jiang Chen worked at the Military Research Institute, Changjiang's research and development was a national confidentiality project at the beginning, and no one knew his relationship with the company. Even if they knew, before Changjiang actually was on the market and got approval, his identity was of no use either.
Therefore, as a brand new product being launched, there would be many challenges for the Changjiang Home Edition. In fact, because the number of target customers was not large, it was quite a challenge for Shen Xu and Huo Bo to select suitable candidates.
In addition to the authorities in the field, the only people Jiang Chen could think of at the time were Li Nanfeng and the new generation of leaders who started their own companies. And this was only accepted by Li Nanfeng on the premise that he had cooperated with Li Nanfeng before.
After all, if you agree, you also accept the obligation to give an evaluation after using it.
To sum up, Jiang Chen never expected that Shen Xu and Huo Bo could install the Home Edition of Changjiang into Mr. Zhang's home.
Jiang Chen couldn't help but smile. Even though the things the old gentleman in front of him mentioned were the most trivial or even non-functions of the Changjiang system, and did not exert one percent of its true strength, the reason he insisted on it at the beginning of developing the Home Edition was to allow more people to live a more convenient and safer life.
He was happy to receive positive evaluation, no matter from which aspect.
"As long as you and the old madam feel good about it." Jiang Chen said with a smile: "If you have any questions or problems during use, you can call the after-sales service hotline on the back of the manual, and we will definitely help you as soon as possible to solve it."
"Good, good." Seeing old Mr. Yang coming this way, Mr. Zhang said with a smile: "If old Yang hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that this system was developed by you before today. When your system is officially launched, Grandpa will definitely support you and install one for everyone in our family."
Jiang Chen was not courteous and said immediately: "Thank you, Grandpa Zhang."
Seeing that the two of them were chatting happily, Mr. Yang was curious: "What are you talking about?"
"The system developed by Xiao Jiang." Mr. Zhang paused, suddenly remembered something, and asked Mr. Yang: "You told me before that Xiao Ya's nephew is now in the Military Industry Institute and had opened a company of his own that is engaged in software. It's Xiao Jiang, right?"
"It's him." Mr. Yang turned to introduce Jiang Chen: "Mr. Zhang was your aunt's teacher before."
"I just said that Xiao Jiang looks familiar. When you mentioned it, I remembered that he seemed similar to the nephew she had brought to meet me." Mr. Zhang was a little surprised, but also seemed to have expected this. He smiled and shook his head and said: "As you get older, your memory will no longer work as well.”
Mr. Yang also smiled and said: "We are all old and have to give in to nature, but we can rest assured about handing over our responsibilities to these young ones."
"You aren't simply rest assured." Mr. Zhang pretended to be jealous: "You and old Xiang both have Xiao Jiang here, and I only have Xiao Ya. That child doesn't like to mentor students either, and I don't know who to hand over my teachings in the future.”
"Believe in the country and believe in the young people of our country." Old Mr. Yang said: "She will not let you have no successor."
Mr. Zhang was also just teasing his old friend. He smiled and turned to look at Jiang Chen. He was about to say something, but suddenly thought of something else: "Your aunt sent me a document before, wanting me to help see if I can see any patterns in the document. I did see something and I responded to the email, but she didn't seem to have gotten it. Do you know what she has been busy with recently?"
Jiang Chen didn't think much, nodded and said, "My aunt has been in the laboratory recently. She took a few days off some time ago. There was something wrong with the petri dish in the laboratory and she went back. She hasn't come out yet."
Mr. Zhang shook his head: "This girl, in her thirties, is still the same as when she was in school. She doesn't care about anything as soon as she does experiments."
Jiang Chen also agreed. In the past, even if he traveled back and forth between the school, company and laboratory, he would still pay attention to proper rest every day and occasionally, he would be distracted by some life matters as well. But as soon as He Yanya entered the working state, it could almost be said to be a sleepless and foodless mode. Except for maintaining the basics needed by the body, she could completely block everything from the outside world.
In this aspect, he admired He Yanya very much.
"She rarely opens emails in the lab." Mr. Zhang knew his student very well. There was a computer in the lab, but that computer was not for personal use. He Yanya would never use it to accept private emails. In fact, she wouldn't necessarily open the email, even if it was her work mailbox.
Thinking of this, Mr. Zhang said: "She told me before that the document sent to me was very important. If I find any clues, I must tell her as soon as possible. Now she has locked herself in the laboratory and cannot answer the phone or email in person. If it's not to find her personally, then I have to wait until this stage of her experiment is completed.”
Jiang Chen thought for a while and said: "If it is a very important email, I cam go to my aunt's laboratory to find her and remind her to read the email. Now she has moved to a laboratory of the Military Industry Institute, which is not far from my own laboratory."
Mr. Zhang thought about it and felt it was appropriate: "Then I'll trouble you, Xiao Jiang."
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Jiang Chen left the Yang's and stayed at the He's for one night. After returning to the research institute the next day, he went directly to He Yanya's laboratory.
As he expected, He Yanya was already in the laboratory at six o'clock in the morning, and her assistant, like her, was also in the laboratory, and there was no possibility of contact through the assistant.
Jiang Chen could only knock on the door, wait for the people inside to hear, and then open the door.
However, in the extremely quiet laboratory at six o'clock in the morning, even if there was a sudden knock on the door, no one paid attention.
Jiang Chen knocked a few more times before He Yanya's assistant finally discovered him.
The assistant came over quickly and opened the door, apologetically: "I'm sorry, I was recording data just now. I was too focused and didn't hear the knock on the door."
Jiang Chen expressed his understanding, and after directly saying it didn't matter, he asked the assistant: "Can you please call Professor He for me? I have something to say to her."
He Yanya was interrupted by her assistant, and a look of displeasure on her face. But when she turned around and saw Jiang Chen standing at the door, she was surprised. She took off her white coat, and her eyebrows relaxed a little. She asked as she walked: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Chen smiled and gradually explained the purpose of his visit. He Yanya frowned slightly, as if thinking about something. After a few seconds, she suddenly quickened her pace and explained as she walked: "My laptop is in my office, and we can go together now. That document sent to my teacher was the one that you cracked and had trouble finding a pattern to. Unexpectedly, my teacher actually had a clue."
Jiang Chen didn't expect that the email He Yanya sent to Mr. Zhang was actually about helping him analyze the System. He paused for a moment before chasing after her.
He Yanya acted resolutely and quickly found the laptop that had run out of power and shut down automatically in her office. After charging it, she opened the email as soon as possible. Sure enough, there was an unread email from Mr. Zhang.
She immediately moved the mouse and clicked on the email.
Looking at the little loading sign on the screen, Jiang Chen actually felt a bit nervous.
He intuitively felt that if the email in front of him really contained some clues, then it might not be far away from finding the purpose of the System appearing in this world and on this earth.