Chapter 1104 Big Game

"Alex! Woooooooooooooooo..."

Aunt Susie and Tony came to pick up the plane, and Song Ya accepted his hug and crying with a smile of the return of the king, "Okay, auntie, I'm about to fall apart."

"Woo woo woo..."

Aunt Susie let him go quickly, and wiped her tears with her hand, "We thought you wouldn't wake up, Alex..."

"Hey!"

Tony smiled and stretched out his fist, Song Ya raised his hand with difficulty and touched him lightly.

The relatives tacitly did not mention what happened during the coma, including Connie who was bluffing, "The airport is too windy, APLUS can't be exposed to the outside for too long." But Sloan still didn't want to give her a chance to speak, seeing Connie He opened his mouth and said immediately.

"Okay, let's...let's get in the car, Alex, I'll help you...I'll do it."

Tony graciously squeezed out the nurses to do the work, and together with the muffler, he easily lifted the man and the wheelchair into the ambulance.

Song Ya's black Mercedes-Benz convoy huddled together, driving on the roads of Chicago as it was more than five months ago, and nothing seemed to have changed.

"Thank you, Doctor."

When the wheelchair was locked in the car, Song Ya showed a more sincere smile and thanked the attending physician of the University of Chicago Medical Center. This is one of the real benefactors. The patient still resisted Goodman when he was in a coma for four months. Their pressure, and perhaps their private temptation, did not produce proof of their continued vegetative state.

Doctors and professors in such top hospitals have high income and social status, and their professional ethics are still guaranteed. There is no reason why they should not continue to use them when they return to Chicago.

"Ashamed, Princeton cured you." The other party said sourly.

I have been treated here for four months, and I became sober when I went to House for a month. In terms of the perception of the outside world...

In short, the University of Chicago Medical Center is suffering.

"Haha, they're just lucky, I'll donate a lot of money to you." Song Ya happily promised.

The motorcycle paparazzi and the reporters waiting at the door were all disappointed. The ambulance drove smoothly into Highland Park without stopping. The TV station helicopter also hovered in the air far away from the wealthy area.

"APLUS!" Another big 'hero', O'Grady of the Northern Trust, was already in the lobby, talking with 3DFX President Ballard and other director representatives, seeing himself joking affectionately, "Why? This is the recovery working already!?"

"How to do it?"

Song Ya smiled wryly, but she didn't see the liar trio who 'came back to life'.

Some unfamiliar white men and women gathered in the villa, probably Xue Linfen’s relatives, but now he has no energy, and he doesn’t want to talk to these people. They met Tony and Connie as enemies. Did not tear it up on the spot.

Song Ya gave old Mike a look, and the old man properly invited these people to the swimming pool outside.

Including O'Grady, everyone looked at themselves with glowing eyes and curiosity, "Please wait a moment, I'll be down right away."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Tony and the silencer carried him to the second floor together with the nurses. A nurse had already sorted out a room as a recovery ward. He went in and looked at it and expressed his satisfaction, letting Linda push him to the master bedroom. doorway.

"Tony." Linda stared, drove Tony away, and then pushed Song Ya into the door.

"Sansa, look who's coming!"

The bedridden Xue Linfen couldn't stop crying when she saw him. When his wheelchair arrived at the bedside, she raised her eldest daughter, who was only a few days old, to his eyes with a sad and flattering expression.

"Very beautiful...beautiful like you, oh oh oh." Song Ya didn't have the strength to hold her, and looked at the wrinkled baby with a smile and coaxed her, rubbing her nose, "Is your name Sansa? It's so cute."

"I'm sorry... I... have a big belly and don't have the energy to take care of Goodman and the others..." Xue Linfen took the opportunity to explain pitifully.

"none of your business……"

"Daddy!" The nanny brought little Robb and Jon in, and little Robb jumped on his lap affectionately, "Why are you so skinny!"

"Um.

"

Song Ya played with them for a while, "Take a good rest, Xuelin, I'll go down to have a meeting first."

"Are you going to work right after you come back?" Xue Linfen asked.

"Um."

It turned out that two plainclothes police detectives from the Chicago Police Department were mixed into the group of director representatives just now. After Song Ya went downstairs, "We need your signature after confirmation, Mr. APLUS."

After being shot and riots, the politicians in Chicago were very nervous about the troubles on their side. The aunt and son of Xue Linfen’s family who was in charge of watching the keys stole a lot of things and wanted to get them out to pay back the money. He was stupid and unfamiliar with the place. The police who are staring at this place are about to get all the stolen goods.

"Okay. Sloan."

Song Ya glanced at the yellow Oscar statuette and other valuables in the transparent plastic bag, asked Sloan to help him hold the pen again, and dragged his arms crookedly to sign the police document.

O'Grady and other 3DFX people watched this scene sympathetically, "How about we come back in a few days? APLUS." O'Grady said.

"Ah?" Song Ya's hands softened, and he made the last stroke, "No, I'll be fine soon."

The two plainclothes didn't say anything. They took out the things in the plastic bag, checked with Song Ya and the documents one by one, and then left. This seemed to be a bit of a violation of police procedures, but the big shots should have taken care of it, it's just a small problem.

"Ha! APLUS, we just moved the baseball game arcade machine to the basement for you. It's very fun, really!"

The trio of liars finally appeared carelessly, chatting beamingly about how fun a large arcade machine is. Like the previous few times, they should have sent one for free along the way.

This is okay in life, Song Ya didn't take their troubles, "Let's have a meeting in the lobby, sorry, I don't have a big conference room here."

Dr. Chen and Dr. Mei have followed the 3DFX matter for a long time, and they have a very deep understanding. Generally speaking, Goodman also wanted to privately profit from the last round of financing before the IPO like the American music website, but they rejected it. Since Dr. Chen's A+ venture capital company is separated by a layer, Goodman no longer cares about making small moves.

3DFX was successfully listed a month ago. The stock price fluctuated from 17.5 yuan per share at the close of the first day, until recently it fell to 7.7 yuan when it was shorted by Wall Street.

Other short-selling points are basically psychologically prepared before the 3DFX listing. The main black swan event is actually a lawsuit with Sega. Now Sega has publicly stated that future game consoles will not use Voodoo graphics cards, so future profit expectations will be worse. Moreover, once the lawsuit of violating the confidentiality agreement in the prospectus is lost, 3DFX is likely to go bankrupt directly.

"Why do you disclose information related to Sega's confidentiality agreement in the prospectus?" Song Ya asked.

The entire board of directors looked at the CTO of the founder trio, Chief Technology Officer Scott, "Writing it is good for the stock price. At that time, we thought that Sega would not dare to do anything. They have no other GPU options except Voodoo chips." He answered with a shrug.

It's a pity that Sega has it. They secretly made a two-handed preparation called "Horse Racing Action". The codenamed "Skunk" project on the US side uses PowerPC603e made by IBM and Motorola as the CPU, 3dfx's customized version of Voodoo2 as the GPU, and the local version of the book. Broadsword' plans to use a CPU developed by Toshiba and a GPU developed by NEC.

Sega's high-level executives probably intended to develop in parallel, and who could use the last plan, but they didn't expect 3DFX to make such a revelation in order to boost the stock price...

Sega was furious and simply rejected the "skunk" plan completely.

This is the problem of the trio of liars. They are not bad people, and they have good personalities and skills, but they just like to take crooked paths and are extremely courageous. I lied to myself, and also to the eyes of all those outside the industry who were present at the time.

"So now we have to save Sega to save the stock price?" Song Ya asked quietly.

"It's not necessary. Sega cooperated with us to steal technical secrets and disclosed the technical details of Voodoo2 to the project team of the 'Big Sword' project. We will soon launch a countersuit against them. They cannot win the lawsuit in the United States." The trio Ross's said.

Song Ya didn't know about this section, but fortunately Ross added, "We just got conclusive evidence in the past two days."

"One hundred percent win?" O'Grady asked.

"One hundred percent, the stock price will go up after the news of them accompanying us money comes out." Ross is very sure: "We will let those short sellers cry and go home to find their mothers."

"How much can we pay? We and Sega are both at fault, so there is a high probability of reconciliation?" Sloan asked.

"Ten to twenty million? That's what the lawyers predicted," President Ballard replied.

"What's the use of that? Are you all not interested in Sega's order? That's a game console that can compete with Sony's next-generation PS." Song Ya asked other board members irritably.

"It will be a few years later." The representative of the director representing Carmack said: "Sega's image in the minds of American consumers is not good. Products such as 32X, SegaCD, and Saturn are not considered successful, and they have been tormenting channel suppliers for no reason. .”

According to Dr. Chen's summary, John Carmack, who produced games such as Thor's Hammer, doesn't like 3DFX half-heartedly. His interest is to support 3DFX to create the top 3D platform for the new game of IdSoftware company he created, and he also likes to dig 3DFX company. top talent.

Song Ya looked at the representatives of EA, they are Sega's strategic partners.

"It's great to be able to cooperate with Sega, but now... things are already like this."

EA undoubtedly wants to deepen the relationship with Sega, but they also have conflicts with Sega, because the licensing fee cannot be negotiated, and Sega is also supporting its competitors in order to share risks, such as companies that also produce sports games.

"APLUS, which side are you on? Netscape? Microsoft?"

Ross interrupted with a sudden smile: "Now everyone knows that you have been quietly buying Microsoft stocks, so you should also support Sega. His next-generation game console will use Microsoft's WindowsCE customized version of the operating system. If you support Sega, Netscape I won't be happy."

"hehe……"

Song Ya was a little embarrassed by the eyes of other people eating melons. The game, the game between companies and countries, no one will completely hand over the back to others, but why did I always trust Gu so much before? What about Deman? He was a little embarrassed, "Everyone will share the risk, don't I understand?"

The board meeting continued, and Song Ya was not in a hurry to propose firing the trio. They are the founders, all have board seats, and have a good relationship with EA and Carmack. Dr. Chen thinks it is impossible for him to get enough votes .

Song Ya looked at the director representative of the second largest individual shareholder who had been deceived by the trio from the beginning, and was deceived until now. Among the group of people, only himself and them still remained. In the board of directors, the interests of both parties are absolutely the same, and even the dissatisfaction of the other party is even worse. They were the ones who initiated the audit with other investors before.

There are also director representatives of several investment institutions. Of course, these people don't want to lose Sega's big business.

"How about we fight for another Sega?" Song Ya asked.

"Bow your head? You are too young, maybe you don't feel APLUS in the 1980s. Books were very vicious when they were in a strong position. Don't look at them now they are much more obedient..." President Ballard said.

"Is there a way? APLUS?" A director representative of an investment institution became interested.

"No! No! We will never bow our heads!"

Ross shouted, "We are the world's top 3D display chip company! The best! Let them use NEC's bad chips! Without our Voodoo2, they will definitely be killed by Sony!"

As soon as he mentioned Sony, Song Ya wanted to make friends with Sega even more...

"Is there any big business that you don't want to do?" The director representative of the second largest individual shareholder quarreled with Ross.

The trio seems to have a sense of honest national pride in the way they talk about the book. Maybe the book insists on keeping its own chip-based "big sword" plan. Their semiconductor industry has now been completely controlled by the United States. It was miserable, but the spirit seemed to be still there.

"Let's rest first, and continue driving tomorrow."

Song Ya soon felt tired, and the others had no choice but to leave and come back tomorrow. When he woke up, he was still the chairman of the company.

"Netscape should really be unable to do it this time, unless there is a miracle and wins Microsoft's monopoly within a year, APLUS." After sending people away, O'Grady came back to remind, "Of course it is my personal opinion. You are better than that."

"Um."

How could it be possible that my little Bahn case could easily be dragged on for a year.

Song Ya was carried to the study room again, staring at Linda returning the Oscar trophy and other lost stolen goods to their original positions. Xue Linfen was not stupid enough to lock important items such as photos and documents in the safe in advance, and her personal computer Also put away.

I already have two children with her, so it's not easy to get too stiff...

"Why don't you fully invest in Microsoft? Let Microsoft help with the public relations of Sega." O'Grady suggested again.

"Is there anything I can do for Microsoft?"

Song Ya doesn't think Microsoft will be elated by selling Netscape stocks. It's not at the same level. Netscape is just one of the many enemies of that software giant. It may be possible to take effect a year earlier. Now Microsoft's IE is bundled for free. under the strategy of doing it.

"3DFX's GlideAPI is a competitor of Microsoft's D3D, although the conflict has not yet intensified." Dr. Chen joined the discussion.

"Big gamble..." It's okay not to say, Song Ya hesitated even more, Glide currently has an advantage in 3D, and it is the lifeblood of the trio and 3DFX.

"TheGreat, if you want to reverse the situation quickly, you have to play the big game APLUS, and you have to be fast, maybe it will make the short sellers suffer." Sloan said: "If we can turn the tide on this matter, I will thank you on the 3DFX board of directors. Prestige has great benefits."

Song Ya saw Linda put the photo frame back on the table, and stared at the face of Gates' father in the photo of himself and the giants, thinking for a while, "Who can contact this old man?" He asked.

"Let me introduce you to the lawyers in the Chicago office of Preston, Gates & Ellis (PGE), who will be responsible for part of the legal work of my company in the future."

The next day, Song Ya introduced two strange white men to the 3DFX board of directors. They were lawyers from the top 10 law firms in Quanmi, and they were no more powerful. "We also met for the first time, and we just signed a contract."

"They will..." President Ballard asked hesitantly.

"Yes, replacing Goodman and Hamlin." Song Ya replied lying on the wheelchair, "Please sit down."

"Wow, mobility, APLUS." Ross teased.

"I've already decided, I'll take someone to visit the notebook myself, just these two days." Song Ya ignored him, "Finally fight for Sega, PGE will get my ban on going abroad as soon as possible."

"NO!" The trio protested in unison.

"No nonsense, vote. Okay, passed."

At the same time, the stock prices of Nasdaq, Infoseek and other Netscape companies suddenly collapsed, and traders were dumbfounded, looking at the straight downward curve with their heads in their hands, dumbfounded.

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