As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 218 Part Two
Since the discovery of magic coin, both the acquisition price and the construction price of the observatory have increased significantly.

In the past, when acquiring an international observatory, the price was usually 200 million US dollars, and it was usually acquired.

(This price is my own guess. Since I can’t find any official data online, I can only see the general situation from the budget of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

If I find more accurate data later, I will make changes.)
You should know that there are a large number of astronomical observatories surrounding the Andes Mountains in northern Chile.

Including a series of top astronomical telescopes and observatories, including the Atacama Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, the Very Large Telescope, the Cerro Tololo Observatory, the La Silla Observatory, and the Las Campanas Observatory.

China's second top observatory abroad is also located in the Andes Mountains in northern Chile.

The specific location is the Atacama Desert between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

In the past two years, Ke Chuang Bio has also made a considerable investment in the field of astronomy. They spent a huge amount of money to acquire an international observatory in the Andes Mountains.

China's astronomical observatory is not for sale to the public, and even if one wants to apply for the right to use it, one has to go through cumbersome procedures.

There may be disputes over ownership. For various reasons, it is better to acquire an international observatory yourself.

As long as you are willing to spend money, you can always negotiate a deal abroad.

All of the country's top observatories are state-owned. Previously, no private enterprise was willing to spend the high price to build an observatory capable of conducting deep-space observations.

At most, look at the stars.

The cycle of re-selecting a site for construction is too long.

This is also an important reason why the prices of observatories have skyrocketed during this period.

After Li Miaomiao knew about it, she did not disturb Zheng Li.

Kechuang Bio is completely on the right track. While the existing business is in the expansion stage, the company only needs to develop by inertia.

Brain-computer connected VR is gaining ground in the electronic entertainment market around the world.

Affected by brain-computer VR, the sales of indirect competitors such as NS and PS5 have declined significantly.

Endorphin's self-operated and patent licensing businesses are also developing steadily.

In the past, endorphins could only be extracted from the brains of certain animals, which was difficult to extract and preserve.

Research on endorphins has only scratched the surface.

As humans have been able to produce endorphins on a large scale, more research has been conducted on the properties of endorphins.

Endorphins have been found to have uses beyond just pain relief.

Zheng Li combined endorphins and lipotropin-stimulating protein kinase to reduce addiction.

Subsequently, as endorphins became more widely used, researchers discovered more uses.

Therefore, there is always a gap in endorphins.

Ke Chuang Biotechnology is engaged in a transnational lawsuit with India over endorphins in a third world country.

Including lithium battery business, it has expanded to all battery fields and is in a situation of complete supply exceeding demand.

In the automotive field, people's demand for battery capacity has a diminishing marginal effect.

That is to say, when the battery capacity reaches a certain level and continues to increase, consumers' attention to it actually decreases.

You would think a car is great if it can travel 2,000 kilometers, and you would still think it is great if it can travel 3,000 kilometers. However, continuing to increase the range of more than 3,000 kilometers will have limited effect on consumers' purchasing desire.

But mobile phones, pads, and laptops are different. The capacity at which the diminishing marginal returns take effect is larger.

The second-generation graphene coating equipment is in complete shortage, and battery manufacturers are even willing to double the purchase price.

What you buy is what you earn.

They all want to seize the market. If they get the second-generation device first, they can rely on it to sign large-scale procurement contracts with consumer electronics giants such as Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi.

Currently, Kechuang Bio's main business is developing well and is in a state of rapid expansion.

There were very few places where Zheng Li needed to intervene. Therefore, during the period when Zheng Li was in seclusion, Kechuang Bio didn't even have much perception inside.

After all, Zheng Li was too reclusive.

Only researchers at the Suzhou R&D Center can see him from time to time.

The executives meet Zheng Li even less often than ordinary researchers.

When the biggest boss takes the lead, it is difficult for the ordinary researchers below not to roll.

Although Zheng Li only required them to work from nine to five and comply with the regulations.

But the pressure is increasing. Zheng Li works 007 every day, just like a doctoral student in biochemistry and environmental materials.

At least that's what other researchers in the company see.

This will naturally affect the people below, the head of the R&D department, the line supervisor, and the sub-team leader, and the pressure will naturally be passed on layer by layer.

This is inevitable.

Especially the departments without achievements.

Departments that have huge investments in innovative drugs but no output for the time being are the most affected.

If we don’t bring profits to the company, we need to find other ways to let our leaders see how hard we work.

It was not until the mid-year assessment and job promotion that everyone realized what Zheng Li said about working hours not being an assessment indicator and even having a negative impact was true.

After that, the internal atmosphere in the research department was much better. Except for a few people, most people maintained the habit of working an extra half an hour to an hour before leaving get off work.

Zheng Li optimized the Haiber algorithm and then used most of the computing power of Kechuang Bio's self-built data center.

At least we have to pretend that there will be a lot of follow-up investigations within China.

At this time, we still follow the process of mining magic coins by all forces on Blue Star.

At most, the algorithm is 20% faster than others' optimized calculation speed.

Half a year later, at the end of 24 years, shortly after the first "Heroes of Doom" global finals ended, Zheng Li called Li Miaomiao:

"Success."

Li Miaomiao was excited at first: "I knew you could do it!"

"Wait for me at the R&D center. I'll be there soon."

"We need to discuss this carefully."

Li Miaomiao quickly asked the driver to take her to the R&D center.

The rapid development of Kechuang Bio has led to the separation of the R&D center from the headquarters and its placement on the outskirts of Gusu.

Data centers occupy a large area, consume a lot of water and electricity, and have a large number of optical cables underground.

Therefore, most data centers are built on the outskirts of cities.

The same goes for the R&D center, which occupies too much space and is more conveniently located on the edge of the city.

In the beginning, there were few people, so it was fine to place the R&D department in the CBD around Jinji Lake. Later, however, more than half of the tens of thousands of people were R&D personnel, so it was not reasonable to place it in Jinji Lake.

After Li Miaomiao hurried to the R&D center, she couldn't help but hug Zheng Li excitedly in his independent office:
"Sorry, I'm so excited!"

“We became the second company in Bluestar to have Magic Coin, second only to Apple in speed.”

Li Miaomiao made excuses for her behavior, but Zheng Li didn't feel anything, because this body was just a clone anyway.

"Does anyone else in the MC project team know that you mined the magic coin?"

(End of this chapter)