Lu Zhou did not dare to buy a 2 million RMB server from the internet.
Firstly, it was not safe. Secondly, he needed a professional to install the server. Lu Zhou did not think that Lenovo's PC installation service, including the installation of the server, and all sorts of after-sales and invoicing issues needed to be handled by a professional.
Luckily, Professor Lee Yong-eun gave him a phone number. He said that many professors in the university came to this PC shop to purchase equipment.
The next day, Lu Zhou rode Shi Shang's bicycle and found this PC shop near the university.
The PC shop owner looked at the configuration list that Lu Zhou handed to him. He rubbed his chin and asked, "Who wrote this configuration list for you?"
The owner's name was Li Jun, the same surname as Professor Lee. He was tall and skinny, around 30 years old. He had a pair of square glasses on his nose bridge. From his face, Lu Zhou could guess that he used to write code.
Lu Zhou replied casually, "A friend."
Li Jun pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose bridge and placed the configuration list on the table. "CPU and GPU mining is no longer popular now. If you want to get a miner, I suggest you get a few graphics cards."
Lu Zhou: …?
What the hell is a miner?
Lu Zhou coughed and said, "This PC is not used for mining."
"If you don't want to mine, why did you set up such a high configuration?" Li Jun looked at Lu Zhou. "Are you using it to play League of Legends?"
Lu Zhou: "… …"
Using this thing to play League of Legends, how stupid would that be?
Li Jun saw that Lu Zhou did not say anything, and he lit a cigarette. He smiled and said, "Alright, alright. Stop pretending. It's not like this is illegal. Tell me, how do I write the invoice? "
"Just write it normally, split it into two …" Lu Zhou had a feeling that they would talk about something serious if they continued on this topic, so he quickly ended the topic and briefly explained his requirements for the invoice.
Hearing this strange request, Li Jun looked at him in surprise, but did not say anything. He began to calculate for him according to the configuration list.
The whole machine cost a total of 2.8 million yuan. It was slightly higher than the online price of 50 to 60 thousand yuan, but it was not much different.
The price of high-end hardware like this fluctuated. As long as it wasn't too expensive, Lu Zhou didn't care.
It was not a problem to spend 1.5 million yuan from the research fund, and the rest could be made up with the money in his bank account. When he proved Zhou's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture, the school had awarded him a million yuan each. Over the past year, he had received so many bonuses that he had about 2.5 million yuan in his bank account.
If it wasn't for the text message from the bank, Lu Zhou wouldn't have realized that he was so rich.
However, this kind of money soon became a thing of the past.
When Lu Zhou saw the string of numbers disappear from his bank account, he couldn't help but feel a little sad.
Especially when he thought about how he didn't even have a place to live yet he had to settle down for Xiao Ai.
This made him even more sad.
As Lu Zhou looked at the text message on his phone, he silently prayed in his heart.
Xiao Ai, don't let your dad down!
The servers that needed to be changed had already been changed. If they continued to be so retarded, then it wouldn't make sense!
Li Jun gave the invoice to Lu Zhou and said, "I don't have the machine you want in stock, but I can give you the invoice first."
A server that was worth more than 2 million yuan was obviously not in stock in a small shop like this. Lu Zhou expected this, so he wasn't surprised.
Lu Zhou asked, "How long do I have to wait?"
Li Jun thought for a bit and said, "At most a week. Give me your address, and I'll ask the staff to help you install it."
Lu Zhou said, "I'll give you the address in two days. I'll call you then."
Li Jun nodded and said, "Okay."
…
Installing the server was more troublesome than Lu Zhou had imagined.
For the next week, he was busy with this matter almost all the time.
First of all, the server couldn't be placed in his dorm. The power consumption of that thing couldn't be compared to an air conditioner. Also, Lu Zhou didn't feel safe putting such an expensive thing in his dorm.
A long time ago, he heard someone say that there was an unlucky kid in the software department next door. In order to play games, he put an awesome desktop computer in his dorm. However, when he came back from the summer vacation, he found out that the computer couldn't be turned on.
Finally, he took the case apart and found out that other than the motherboard, the CPU, graphics card, and RAM were all gone. Even the fan and power supply were gone.
After thinking for a long time, Lu Zhou finally chose to rent a house near the school and temporarily put the server there.
Originally, he planned to wait for the patent documents to come out and get his first pot of gold. Then, he would build a lab next to the school and put the server there.
But now, it seemed like the lab would have to wait until he finished his PhD.
Because he was only looking for a place to put the server, the house that Lu Zhou chose was not big. It had one bedroom and one living room, and the rent was 1,500 a month. It was suitable for a couple, and it was a bit big for a single person.
One had to admit that money could really change a person's spending habits.
If it was before, Lu Zhou would definitely resist this kind of wasteful behavior. But now, when he paid the landlord two years' rent, he didn't even feel like he was spending money.
He already bought a "house" worth more than two million, so was paying a "monthly payment" of two thousand a month a lot?
Not at all!
Not to mention, it was for the one and only artificial retard in the world … No, artificial intelligence!
After renting the house, Lu Zhou called Li Jun and asked him to send a guy over to install the server.
After a whole day of work, the server was finally set up.
After the computer shop employee left, Lu Zhou didn't even have time to eat dinner. He took out his laptop and transferred Xiao Ai's data to the server.
When Lu Zhou looked at the freed hard disk space on the laptop, he finally felt relieved.
Now, the traces left by Xiao Ai on his laptop were only a semi-command-line operating system. Through this operating system and the small program he wrote, he could achieve remote communication with Xiao Ai on the server. It was quite convenient.
In the lower right corner of the laptop, Xiao Ai's dialog box popped up.
[Master ~ Thank you! QvQ]
When Lu Zhou saw Xiao Ai's gratitude, he smiled. He placed his hands on the keyboard and typed a line of words.
[Are you satisfied with your new home?]
Xiao Ai: [Super satisfied!]
Xiao Ai: [Heart-heart.jpg]
When Lu Zhou saw the picture that appeared on the screen, he smiled.
However, for some reason, he couldn't smile anymore.
He didn't know if it was an illusion.
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