Super Island Tycoon

Chapter 1393: Chapter 1392: Eye-Opening Experience!

Captain, you mean... we’re going to go fix people’s computers door to door? Mount Da asked.

Pretty much, but going one machine at a time is way too exhausting. We definitely need to use the easiest way to solve this problem.

”What do you mean?”

”You guys know Tencent Company, right?” Jiang Cheng asked.

Of course we do, they’re a tech giant. I remember they got acquired by the Captain, right?” Ning Jing replied. She actually paid some attention to this sort of thing.

”In this year, Tencent Company has just been founded not long ago, it’s still just a small company. That’s our opportunity.” A mysterious smile appeared on Jiang Cheng’s face.

Using the address for Tencent Company he’d pulled from his wristband, Jiang Cheng led everyone to an office building. They all stared at the shabby building in front of them, finding it really hard to imagine that the future overlord of the tech world started out in a rundown place like this. They practically suspected that if a car swerved off the road and crashed into the wall of this building, the whole thing might just collapse.

Following the address, they went up to the third floor. At the moment, Tencent Company’s headquarters was this one floor. All the employees together probably didn’t even add up to ten people, and this entire third floor might not even be as big as the conference rooms of some larger companies.

Hello, who are you here to see?” Sitting at the company’s front desk was a woman who looked very young, probably just graduated not long ago.

We’re here to see your President Ma.” Jiang Cheng said.

The receptionist looked at these five weirdos in front of her, and just felt like they didn’t look like anything good, especially the man who spoke first—he looked downright sleazy. If Jiang Cheng knew what this receptionist was thinking, he’d probably blow his top.

Do you have an appointment?” The receptionist still tried to remain polite as she asked. ”Since when do you need an appointment just to see him? He’s already putting on airs like that?” Jiang Cheng was a bit annoyed—he was here to hand them money, and he still needed an appointment?

”Since when, what when?” The receptionist didn’t quite understand what Jiang Cheng was saying. ”It’s nothing... could you please report to him that we’re here to talk business with President Ma?”

”Talk business? You should’ve said so earlier, go on in, President Ma is inside.” The sudden change in attitude from the receptionist caught Jiang Cheng and the others off guard. Just mention business and you flip like this? How poor are you guys exactly? Jiang Cheng and the group stopped wasting time with the receptionist and walked in. The inside wasn’t big, only three or four offices. Naturally, Tencent Company’s boss Old Ma was in the chairman’s office.

Jiang Cheng told the others to wait outside, then went up himself and knocked on the door. ”Come in!” A very young yet slightly tired voice came from inside.

Hearing the voice, Jiang Cheng pushed the door open and walked in. The office was tiny; one desk, one office chair, and a single sofa were already crowding it full. All kinds of discarded office junk were scattered across the floor. This didn’t look like a chairman’s office at all—it was basically a nerd’s lair.

And to be fair, Old Ma really was a thoroughbred nerd. As a startup IT guy, Old Ma’s eyes were full of lines of code and endless bugs; hygiene, cleanliness, tidiness—none of that existed in his world.

Orderly or not, (even if you threw money at it) clean or not, it was all the same. Old Ma was already extremely exhausted. This Y2K bug was just too bizarre. He had tried every method he knew and still couldn’t solve the problem. He’d been fighting this millennium bug for almost a month now, but still didn’t have the slightest clue how to fix it.

Hearing someone walk in, Old Ma finally tore his eyes away from the computer screen. Seeing this stranger Jiang Cheng come in, a puzzled look appeared on his face.

Jiang Cheng had finally met Old Ma in the flesh. Old Ma had created a legend in the tech world, but Jiang Cheng had never had the chance to see him in person. Today he finally got to see the real person.

Old Ma looked only about thirty, with a center part hairstyle and a pair of thin-framed glasses. He looked very gentle and bookish, not like an IT guy at all—more like a Chinese language teacher.

Hello President Ma, I’m Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng proactively reached out his hand to Old Ma. Seeing this, Old Ma also extended his hand and shook his.

”Hello, Mr. Jiang. I don’t know what brings you here today...?” Old Ma’s eyes were full of doubt. He had definitely never seen this person before. Could he be here to ask for money?

Ha, I’ll just be straight. I’m here to discuss a business deal with President Ma.” Jiang Cheng looked at Old Ma with a very confident gaze, making Old Ma instantly feel that Jiang Cheng wasn’t here to mess with him.

Doing business—what kind of business exactly, Mr. Jiang?” Old Ma was curious. Jiang Cheng didn’t look like some executive from another company. Insurance salesman? Didn’t seem like it either—insurance guys should be dressed a bit better than him.

Maybe because of the time-space turbulence, Jiang Cheng’s clothes looked all wrinkled and crumpled, like they hadn’t been changed for ages. That was why the receptionist earlier had felt he was sleazy.

President Ma, you must have been having a grand old battle with the Y2K bug recently, right?” A faint smile surfaced on Jiang Cheng’s face.

Yeah.” Old Ma wasn’t particularly surprised. Without exaggeration, nine out of ten engineers right now were figuring out ways to tackle this problem. Once someone succeeded, they’d definitely go down in history forever!

What if I said I can fix this Y2K bug?” Jiang Cheng still spoke in a very calm tone.

If you can solve it...” Old Ma listened to Jiang Cheng and didn’t really react at first, just opened his mouth and spoke. But halfway through, he finally processed what he’d just heard.

What!!” Shock spread over Old Ma’s face. ”You’re saying you can fix the millennium bug? Are you kidding me?” Old Ma really couldn’t believe it. This was a problem that even entire regions couldn’t solve. Could this guy, who looked about the same age as him, really fix that kind of difficulty?

Ha, I know it’s hard to believe, but I really can. Hearing is false; seeing is believing. I wonder if I could borrow President Ma’s computer for a bit?” Jiang Cheng wanted to use brute facts to thoroughly earn Old Ma’s trust.

Sure, sure, this one right here, use it however you like.” Old Ma pointed at the computer on his desk. Anyway, this machine had already been ravaged by the Y2K bug and didn’t have any important data on it, so letting Jiang Cheng use it was no big deal.

Jiang Cheng sat down in Old Ma’s chair, glanced at the interface a couple of times, roughly recalled how to operate this old system, then his hands started flying across the keyboard with a rapid clatter.

Just watching Jiang Cheng’s typing speed already made Old Ma believe him about fifty percent. Was that even human hand speed? This was way too fast! He himself could type at most ten lines of code a minute, while Jiang Cheng was easily pushing thirty or forty. Watching line after line of incomprehensible code appear on the screen, Old Ma’s eyes were starting to blur. With Jiang Cheng’s final heavy tap on the Enter key, the computer rebooted, and then—went into the system normally!

This... this fixed it?” Staring at his computer back to normal, Old Ma still found it a bit unbelievable. A difficulty that had stumped him, and the whole world, for so long had just been casually solved by Jiang Cheng? Who on earth was this guy?

Well? You believe it now, right?” Jiang Cheng asked Old Ma, who was busy operating his own computer, checking it over.