Chapter 3198 — Market Competition
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What he needed to do was copy the source files of the program from the microcontroller, take them back for analysis and adaptation, and write them into an existing, commercially available microcontroller to serve as a substitute for the original, effectively creating a simulation.
Kang Jingming swiftly powered up the computer and entered the system. Since this was a secret room, Liu Jinghan had not set a boot password—after all, she had never imagined anyone could get inside. And even if she had set one, a PE system booted from a USB drive could bypass the original system and copy the data within.
Quickly, Kang Jingming located a folder on the D drive of Liu Jinghan's computer labeled "Yaoding Source Programs." He opened it and found the source files for the "Single Version," "Ten-in-One," and "Five-in-One." He plugged a USB drive into the computer and copied the source programs out.
This machine, by the look of it, was used for writing programs; apart from the programmer's driver software, there was nothing else on it. Kang Jingming copied the driver as well. Though he could not replicate the microcontroller inside the Yaoding, the driver would allow him to analyze its approximate specifications and find a substitute microcontroller chip.
With the copying finished in short order, Kang Jingming shut down the computer, pulled out the USB drive, and said to Liu Tianli, "Mr. Liu, let's go."
"Oh? You're done already?" Liu Tianli had no idea what Kang Jingming had copied, but he no longer had the presence of mind to wonder. His head was filled entirely with those forty cartons of cigarettes.
After locking the office door, Kang Jingming led Liu Tianli back the way they had come.
True to his word, Kang Jingming did not cheat Liu Tianli. Once he had escorted the man back, he handed over the forty cartons of cigarettes, then quietly slipped out of Yanjing City and returned to the Xuandan Sect...
With these programs in hand, Dr. Benjamin II found that making some modifications and locating a substitute microcontroller was not exactly easy, but far from difficult. After several days of relentless effort, he finally found a microcontroller that could substitute for the original and simulate its functions!
As for the Yaoding itself, although Kang Jingming had obtained the production process data from Foreman Su, the titanium alloy raw material used in the Yaoding was not smelted at that factory—it was imported directly from a place abroad called X Island. Kang Jingming did not know the smelting process.
But this did not stump Dr. Benjamin II either. Using an ordinary first-grade Yaoding together with the assembly process provided by Foreman Su, he actually managed to convert it into a first-grade automatic Yaoding built from an ordinary first-grade Yaoding!
This modified product had the same functions as the first-grade automatic Yaoding. Because it used a genuine ordinary first-grade Yaoding, the cost was somewhat higher, but compared with the retail price of such a Yaoding, the cost remained negligible.
When Ancestor Xuanchen and Kang Jingming learned this good news, their faces lit up with delight!
"Father-in-law, it looks like we can strike at Wei Zhao again this time. The moment our Yaoding hits the market, it will break Wei Zhao's monopoly. We'll sell at a slightly lower price, and everyone will come to buy ours," Kang Jingming said.
"Yes. Not only are we cheaper, but the Xuandan Sect is a long-established alchemy sect. When the time comes to choose, those alchemists will know in their hearts who to pick," Ancestor Xuanchen said, full of confidence in the product about to launch.
"Good. Begin mass production of the finished product as quickly as possible, and we'll put it on the market!" Ancestor Xuanchen declared, striking the final blow of the hammer.