Chapter 1518 A Heartless Thesis-Writing Machine

Going into seclusion until the 10th of next month...

Huang Sibo couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Although on the surface it seemed like only a month, in the business world, time is life.

Even a single day is extremely precious, let alone a whole month?

Many crisis public relations situations require companies to provide proper solutions within a short one or two hours, the faster the better. And many companies choose 996 (9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week) precisely because commercial competition is too fierce and they must fight for every second.

Take games for example: two similar games, launching a month earlier or later, could have completely different fates.

CEO Pei going into seclusion for a month most likely meant that Tengda's various departments wouldn't be able to receive any further instructions during this time, and would need to resolve the current crisis on their own.

This month might allow Tengda to accumulate huge disadvantages.

Logically speaking, wouldn't CEO Pei be able to tell what was more important?

A very ordinary undergraduate thesis, would it really require CEO Pei to rack his brains for an entire month?

It felt like both of these answers were "no."

In that case…

Huang Sibo suddenly had a flash of inspiration and replied, "I think you're all just blinded by concern. CEO Pei's intention is so obvious, how could none of you have seen it?"

The department heads who were discussing in the chat group quieted down one after another, asking, "What do you mean by that?"

Huang Sibo explained, "Think about it carefully, CEO Pei is well-informed and has never miscalculated. Would he not know about other large companies joining forces to target Tengda?"

"Since he knows, would CEO Pei completely abandon the entire Tengda for an ordinary graduation thesis?"

"Think about it carefully, every past crisis, which one wasn't already part of CEO Pei's advance planning, luring the enemy into his encirclement?"

"Has CEO Pei ever miscalculated?"

These words left the other heads dumbfounded.

That's right, when had CEO Pei ever made such a low-level mistake?

CEO Pei definitely had the information. With CEO Pei's planning ability, it was impossible for him to leave so irresponsibly.

Xiao Peng: "Are you saying... CEO Pei has actually already given instructions, but none of us have noticed them?"

Huang Sibo was silent for a moment, then replied, "That's not certain."

Everyone: "..."

Huang Sibo hurriedly explained, "What I mean is, there are two possibilities for CEO Pei's current behavior."

"The first is that CEO Pei has already completed the layout, and knows that this anti-Tengda alliance is bound to fail, so he's not worried at all."

"The second is that CEO Pei is deliberately using the excuse of writing a thesis to disappear, wanting to see if everyone can remain rational and clear-headed in this 'headless' state, analyze the situation on their own, come up with countermeasures, and resolve this crisis."

"It's also possible... that it's a combination of both."

The chat group fell into a brief silence.

Clearly, these heads had all begun to seriously analyze the possibility of this explanation.

The conclusion after the analysis was naturally: the possibility was very high, close to 100%!

Because Huang Sibo's reasoning was too solid. With CEO Pei's talent and planning ability, he shouldn't have taken such an abnormal action.

So, leaving this difficult problem to all the heads to solve together, to continue to exercise their abilities, was the most powerful and reasonable explanation.

It was also possible that CEO Pei would step in to take responsibility after everyone failed, but they couldn't count on that.

Because if they always thought that CEO Pei would bail them out, then they would never be able to achieve true growth.

No matter how large the scale of development of each department, no matter how vigorously they grew, if they always lived under CEO Pei's protection, unable to withstand the wind and waves, unable to cope with truly brutal business rules, then it would always be weak, without vitality.

After a while, Rui Yuchen replied, "But... what we need now is overall coordination."

Huang Sibo: "CEO Pei wants to train everyone's ability to coordinate overall."

Rui Yuchen: "...That's right."

Soon, the heads' group regained its vitality.

Many of the heads had been a little panicked before. After all, the pressure from the outside world was great, and they couldn't find CEO Pei, so they naturally felt a little flustered.

This was also human nature. Who, apart from a genius like CEO Pei, could always maintain absolute rationality and calmness? With interests at stake, they were blinded by concern.

But now, after Huang Sibo's analysis, everyone quickly understood.

It seemed that this was likely a form of training and testing from CEO Pei!

Maybe CEO Pei was saying he was writing a thesis, but he had actually already finished the thesis and was patiently waiting to see the counterattacks of the various departments!

Since that was the case, they couldn't continue to scramble around like headless flies. They had to quickly come up with a solution that would satisfy CEO Pei!

Xiao Peng said, "We were indeed a bit chaotic before, let's sort things out again."

"In fact, the current offensive of this 'Anti-Tengda Alliance' is mainly concentrated in several fixed directions, such as the rental, express delivery, and food delivery industries. In other industries such as games and movies, the alliance is still working hard to win over other companies, and the offensive is not very strong."

"We have to start analyzing their main attack direction, and carry out targeted differentiation and attacks on their alliance, defeating them one by one."

"It's better to injure one finger than to hurt ten. Even if we exchange injuries for injuries, as long as we can hurt and scare this loose alliance, they will naturally collapse without a fight."

"In a situation where both sides have suffered heavy losses, Tengda's recovery speed is definitely far superior to theirs!"

Rui Yuchen agreed: "That's right, I also agree with this view. Let's quickly distinguish between the main and secondary contradictions now, and learn to analyze the entire situation using CEO Pei's way of thinking. Once a plan is reached, the various departments must not have complaints, and should not consider the cost and losses of their own departments, but should do their best to complete their respective goals and tasks!"

"Even if some departments suffer too much damage in this process, it doesn't matter. After this battle is over, other departments can transfuse blood together and save them in a short time!"

The heads began to chime in, reanalyzing the current situation.

Before, it was a bit like headless flies, each saying their own thing, because everyone's way of thinking hadn't changed, and the starting point for thinking about problems was still the interests of their own departments, so it was difficult to reach a unified conclusion.

But now, the heads had all stood on CEO Pei's position, considering the problem from a global perspective, and then thinking about how each department should cooperate and execute this plan. The progress of the discussion immediately moved forward a big step.

They had all been old employees following CEO Pei for so long, they had to be infected with a little of CEO Pei's way of thinking, right?

It didn't matter if CEO Pei didn't take action, as long as the heads worked together, they could also come up with a plan that was no worse than CEO Pei's!

Seeing this scene, Huang Sibo nodded with satisfaction.

Even watching the discussion of these heads, he felt a little excited and wanted to participate now to offer advice.

But Huang Sibo still restrained this impulse and closed the heads' group. After all, he still had the movie *You Choose the Future* to be responsible for.

"I'll call Lu Zhiyao and see if he's interested in playing the protagonist in this movie."

…

"Achoo!"

Pei Qian was in seclusion at his residence writing his thesis when he suddenly sneezed for no reason.

"Who is talking about me behind my back again!"

"Where's my phone…"

"Damn it, no, I absolutely can't touch my phone during seclusion, endure! Endure!"

Pei Qian's current state could be described as "fully armed."

He had a red headband with the words "必胜" (bì shèng - certain victory) tied on his head, and both his left and right hands were wearing the medical wristbands he had just bought some time ago. There was a seatbelt on the ergonomic chair that wrapped around his waist to hold him firmly in the chair. There was a 2000ml kettle filled with tea on the table, as well as two cups of iced coffee.

His phone, turned on airplane mode, was thrown into the farthest bedroom.

The keyboard had been newly replaced with a electrostatic capacitance keyboard that cost 2000 yuan.

All games and chat software on the computer that were unrelated to writing the thesis were uninstalled.

The power to the large TV and game console was also unplugged, and he had even specially asked someone to come to seal them with tape, and he absolutely couldn't touch them until he finished writing the thesis!

Then, he told the manager of Sloth Apartments that if someone really came to him, unless it was absolutely necessary, they should never disturb him.

In short, Pei Qian used all the methods he could think of.

The reason why he wore medical wristbands was not because he was worried about tendinitis or that writing the thesis and typing for too long would cause problems with his wrist. Just these few words weren't enough to cause that. The main reason was because there was a very thin steel plate in the medical wristband to reinforce it, so the thumb couldn't move flexibly and the palm was difficult to hold tightly.

This didn't affect writing a thesis or typing, but it would make it extremely difficult to play with a mobile phone or move the mouse.

He had already collected the papers, so he didn't need to move the mouse frequently to search for information for the time being.

Coffee was for energy, and the kettle was for replenishing water, to prevent himself from always using the excuse of getting water to walk around, which would seriously affect his concentration, and might even be attracted by some things on the way to get water, causing the great cause of coding to be ruined.

The ergonomic chair and electrostatic capacitance keyboard were to ensure comfort and coding efficiency, plus the seatbelt on the chair and other auxiliary restriction measures. Pei Qian only had one feeling now: he was now a heartless thesis machine!

As for the disturbances from the outside world…

Sorry, he didn't care at all.

Pei Qian felt that if this set of equipment could work, he could consider giving each person in the author training class at Qidian Chinese Website a set.

Of course, he knew about other companies joining forces to deal with Tengda, but he didn't care at all. Come on! The more violent you are, the better!

These department heads actually wanted CEO Pei to help them make up their minds. This was simply wishful thinking.

Although there was still a month before the first draft had to be submitted, Pei Qian not only didn't panic, but instead had a confident feeling that the progress of the thesis was still going relatively smoothly!

At least, Pei Qian was quite accomplished in studying the results of others studying himself!


 
Here are two chapters first. I'll save some more today to ensure that it can be sent on time at 10 o'clock tomorrow, and then resume the previous update rules from the day after tomorrow, still with extra updates on Wednesdays and Sundays, and then find time to make up for the extra updates owed from last Wednesday and Sunday.