Introduction to Robot Coding
That night, Xia Fei invited Moon Song, Chen Dong, Beihai, Manjun, Bosingwa, and Ye Xiaohan to a meal. After a simple farewell, he immediately set off for the Alliance capital, Khanid Star Region.
Vampire slowly rose into the air. Xia Fei switched the ship to autopilot before heading back to his dormitory to do some serious research.
It would take at least twenty days to travel from Endaro Star Region to Khanid Star Region. Since he had nothing better to do, Xia Fei decided to research how he could make Quantum Holdings undergo a large-scale industrial upgrade as soon as possible, leaping from a company that could only produce the cheapest products to a mid-tier company that could compete in the Alliance.
From his video call with Charlie, Xia Fei learned that Quantum Holdings had not only managed to survive in the fierce market competition, but it had also made a profit of one hundred and fifty million star coins.
This amount of money was nothing to Xia Fei, but it was extremely important to the newly established Quantum Holdings. After all, every cent was from the pockets of extraterrestrials. This was the first time in history that a company on Earth had profited from interstellar trade. This was not only a great encouragement to Quantum Holdings but also to the entire Earth.
Facts had proven that Earthlings could also obtain their own position in the competitive Pan-Human Alliance as long as they put in the effort. They were all humans, and there was no reason for Earthlings to lower their heads when they saw extraterrestrials.
Andre had already retired behind the scenes and was in charge of the overall situation as an advisor. He would only participate in the board discussions when Quantum Holdings had a major decision to make, so the responsibility of being the chief operating officer fell to the young Charlie.
Charlie was younger than Xia Fei by two years, but being born into the Rothschild family, he was born with a business acumen that far surpassed the average person. After training with Andre for a few years, Charlie gradually began to shed his initial shyness, revealing the shrewdness and courage that a businessman should have.
Xia Fei adopted a free-for-all policy toward Quantum Holdings. He never participated in the day-to-day work of the company, leaving it all to Andre, Wu Long, and the others. Xia Fei trusted these people, and their performance did not disappoint him. He believed that in time, Quantum Holdings would surely become a heavyweight interstellar trading company.
Boateng, Sarah, Allen, and Sonny — these people that Xia Fei had recruited from all over the universe gradually began to play more and more important roles in the company. Boateng and Sarah single-handedly propped up the company's transport fleet. Boateng was in charge of the fleet's maintenance, while Sarah was in charge of its operations. The two of them each had their own roles, making the fleet look impressive.
Allen, on the other hand, joined the company's R&D team and used his experience in radar systems to create a small radar product called 'Dust'. This radar was not very powerful, but it had its own characteristics in weak signal collection. It was very accurate. It was relatively one-third of the company's profits last year. The company's profits came from selling Dust radar, which showed how important a product was to a company.
Sonny had a rather cheerful personality, which was why he became a business representative in the company's business department. He was in charge of negotiating with other companies. This young man who drove a taxi demonstrated his talent in diplomacy, traveling across the universe all day long to negotiate contracts with other companies and establish business relations.
Xia Fei had once been worried that Sonny would grow up in the warship graveyard with a gangster's aura that could not be washed away, making him unable to be of much use. Now, it seemed that he had been worrying too much. Sonny's glib personality had instead become Sonny's most advantageous weapon. It was said that whenever the company encountered an unreasonable opponent, Sonny would be sent out to deal with them. As the saying went, everything had its vanquisher, and evil people needed evil people to subdue them.
Xia Fei began to feel that everyone actually had potential. As long as they were placed in the right position, they would shine. Who would have thought that Allen, who could not even afford to eat in the Wild Star Region, would become an inventor on Earth? How could Sonny, who had a gangster's aura, become a qualified business representative?
In the past year or so, Quantum Holdings had already completed the acquisition and restructuring of Earth's production capacity. They now had a powerful manufacturing capability, but the problem now was how to convert this production capacity into profit.
As Earth's trade with other countries in the universe became more frequent, the Federation dollar was rapidly appreciating. Currently, one star coin could only be exchanged for 1200 Federation dollars. In the foreseeable future, the Federation dollar would definitely reach its true purchasing power and be accepted by the Alliance, entering the universal currency system, completely replacing the current Federation dollar and entering the era of star coins.
When that time came, the cheap labor resources on Earth would no longer exist, and Quantum Holdings would no longer be able to use labor to make profits.
Even if the Earth Federation was unable to enter the universal currency system of the Alliance, Xia Fei did not plan to rely on these low-end products to develop. The profits from low-value-added products were frighteningly low, and many of them would only earn a few hundred star coins per ton after deducting the operating costs. There was no profit to speak of, and it was not a long-term solution.
The projected screen was blank, and the thought-assisted composition system was on standby. As long as Xia Fei thought about it, the projected screen would immediately display what Xia Fei was thinking about.
Lighting a cigarette, Xia Fei sat in his chair and quietly pondered. Industrial design was a broad and profound field of study, and the products that Quantum Holdings needed could not be of a high technological level. If it was too high, it would bring great difficulties to production. Even if they relied on extraterrestrial equipment to barely start production, the conformity rate would be a big problem. After all, Quantum Holdings still did not have the experience or the ability to produce complex products.
Furthermore, the product design needed to be done on the basis of the technology that Xia Fei currently had. Xia Fei would not be able to design a product that was beyond his current level even if he were to die trying.
Electronics, machinery, and alchemy. These were the three main topics that Xia Fei was currently focusing on, and they were also the things that he was studying the most aside from cultivation. He had the basics, but the lack of product design experience was a huge constraint on him.
Industrial design was completely different from designing a small item for personal use. The most important aspect of industrial design was cost control. Every cent that you reduced the cost of the product would increase the profit and competitiveness of the product. However, there was no need to be so particular when it came to personal use. It did not matter if it was more expensive, as long as it was suitable for use.
Xia Fei still had no idea where to start even after thinking about it for a long time. For someone who had absolutely no experience in product design, designing a product that could be industrialized from scratch was quite a challenge.
Frowning, Xia Fei asked Phantom, who was meditating beside him, "Is there any possibility of those medicinal formulas of yours being industrialized and mass-produced?"
Phantom slowly opened his eyes and giggled. "First of all, these formulas came from my sect, so you have no right to take them and produce them. Second, it's not like you haven't tried these formulas before. They're all taking the ultimate route, and a single mistake could turn them into poison. Even if you can produce them, most people won't be able to withstand the pain. If you were to produce them, just the compensation alone will turn you into a pauper."
Xia Fei was speechless. Phantom's formulas were all madly compounding medicinal ingredients with conflicting medicinal properties. Though the effects of these medicines were not bad, the risks were quite high. It looked like he would have to first remove the medicinal ingredients from his plans, and he could only look for opportunities in the fields of electronics and machinery.
In the field of machinery, Xia Fei had mainly learned it from Old Porters teachings and the notes he had given him. Moreover, the mechanical knowledge he had was mainly in the area of maintenance and modification.
Though Xia Feis mastery over a single point would allow him to comprehend many mechanical principles after learning how to repair and modify, his understanding of mechanical principles was still very mediocre when compared to modifying. The former was the legacy of Old Porters lifetime of experience, while the latter was something that Xia Fei had slowly figured out through practice. The two simply could not be compared.
As such, he would have to remove machinery as well, leaving only electronics for Xia Fei to choose from.
Electronics was something that Xia Fei had learned from ancient books in the past year or so. There was no doubt that the technology was advanced, but such advanced technology required a strong production capacity to support it. Even if Xia Fei really managed to imitate the ancient technology and design a new high-efficiency product, he would run into production problems when he brought it back to Earth to manufacture.
After going one round, Xia Fei was back to square one. It seemed that designing a product was not as simple as he had thought.
Feeling a little depressed, Xia Fei decided to just lie down on his bed and read.
Putting the introduction to robot coding that Qin Mangs had given him on the screen, Xia Fei began to read from the table of contents.
After reading a few dozen pages, Xia Fei began to understand that the book was not just an introduction to computer coding, but the entire process of manufacturing robots and writing artificial intelligence.
Though the introduction in the book was very simple, and the theoretical knowledge involved could not be considered profound, it gave the reader a comprehensive blueprint for manufacturing robots.
From how to design the robot's shape and balance system to how to write the core code for the robot, from theoretical knowledge to practical applications, everything was described in detail.
Most importantly, this book also introduced many practical cases of robot manufacturing, allowing the reader to form a series of images in their mind as if they were watching a movie. They watched with their own eyes as pieces of ore were refined into metal, made into the shape of a robot, and finally installed with an artificial intelligence system, becoming a robot that was exactly the same as a real human in terms of intelligence and emotions.
Xia Fei was engrossed in reading. Every word in the book deeply attracted him.
Whenever he read about a case where the development of a robot failed, Xia Fei would be sad along with the developers, and whenever he read about a successful robot, Xia Fei would be excited along with them.
Xia Fei had completely forgotten about time and space. He was like a rapidly growing plant, constantly absorbing the nutrients in the book, immersed in the world of robots, unable to extricate himself.
The Beast Spirit Codex had given Xia Fei extraordinary eyesight. His sensitive nervous system allowed him to read ten lines at a glance, and his fully opened seventh brain region allowed him to understand the problems in the book abnormally quickly. It only took Xia Fei three days to finish flipping through the tens of thousands of pages of the book.
Turning off the screen, Xia Fei closed his eyes, wanting to rest for a while, but his brain was still recalling what he had just read. The extreme excitement kept Xia Fei awake.
Might as well read it one more time, Xia Fei muttered to himself.
There were no words to describe the excitement in his heart. It was as if there were brand-new robots in front of him. Xia Fei could even see these robots talking to each other and working busily. Though they looked cold and stiff, they had hearts that were no different from humans. Joy, anger, sorrow, joy, separation, and reunion — these were all emotions unique to humans that could be found in their words and expressions.
Xia Fei had never been indoctrinated into the idea that robots would destroy humans. Though it was a fact that no one could change, Xia Fei could not feel any aversion toward robots.
Since robots could feel emotions just like humans, they had essentially surpassed the category of machines and had become complete humans. War was the nature of humans, and Xia Fei felt that perhaps some unknown conflict had broken out between humans and robots, which eventually escalated into a war.
Xia Fei continued reading crazily. As the number of times he read increased, large amounts of cutting-edge technology and theories developed by the ancient civilization were absorbed into his mind.
After reading a book a thousand times, the meaning would naturally emerge. Xia Fei would read the parts he did not understand the first time a second time, a third time, all the way until he could understand it.
Xia Fei's way of reading might not be as smart as some geniuses. Reading over and over again might even seem a little clumsy, but Xia Fei had never considered this problem before. There was no helping it. Who asked him to be weaker than others?
The education level of the Earth Federation itself was rather limited, and Xia Fei had never been to school at all, so the gap in knowledge and reading skills between him and the top students from the higher-level planets was not just a little bit.
Fortunately, Xia Fei was tenacious enough. He was like a foolish old man moving a mountain, using the stupidest method to slowly study the complex and profound knowledge bit by bit. He did not stop, did not give up, and did not complain.
Time passed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, Xia Fei had already spent half a month on the ship. They would arrive at the Alliance capital in five days.
In this half a month, Xia Fei did not rest for even a quarter of an hour. When he was hungry, he would eat a few mouthfuls of cold food. When he was thirsty, he would go to the bathroom to get a pot of cold water and gulp it down. He did not even have the time to take a shower or shave. He was completely engrossed in reading, unaware of the passage of time.
Nine times. When Xia Fei read the introduction to robot coding for the ninth time, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and an idea inadvertently flashed across his mind.
Just like the arrival of a heavy rain, the raindrops gradually converged into small puddles, which finally developed into a river that flowed for a thousand miles.
Xia Fei knew that when inspiration struck him, he had to firmly grasp it and develop it from a mere idea into a complete plan that he could finally put into practice.
Leaping out of bed, Xia Fei went to his desk and quickly put his inspiration into practice.
The mental control screen began to get denser and denser, and many complicated lines kept appearing. A few hours later, a complete mechanical blueprint appeared on the screen.
This design was the crystallization of Xia Fei's inspiration and knowledge, using the technological achievements of the ancient civilization as an original creation.
Something that he had designed was like his own child, so Xia Fei naturally could not bear to part with it. What he needed to do now was to raise his child into an adult, giving him a complete personality and life.
The blueprint was revised over and over again, with every detail needing to be perfected. Moreover, the ideas that kept popping up in Xia Fei's mind gave him new inspiration, and step by step, he finally pushed this design to the realm of perfection.
Another three days passed. Xia Fei lit a cigarette and looked at the blueprint on the screen with satisfaction. His mood was surprisingly calm, as if this was not the first time he had done something like this.
What is this? Phantom, who had been watching from the side for a long time, could not help but ask.
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