Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 12: System Points

          A group of people clearly well-organized, two people in the truck side were continuously unloading and pulling packages from the truck beds to the ground. Another two besides the conveyor belt, throwing the deliveries onto it. As for the rest of the group, they were responsible for "transferring goods". It was quite fun by surprise.

　　Although Ocean Woo didn't tell how many goods, they had to sort in one night, and only said that they should just do what he said, Orion guessed that there must be certain agreement between the sorting center and Woo, that they would calculate the money according to the amount of work they have done.

　　For example, a piece of goods calculated at five cents, a night they only need to sort 22,000 pieces, Fatty Woo will get enough money. If they sorted an extra thousand pieces, they would make an extra fifty dollars. Eight hours a night, ten people, 30,000 pieces, not a big challenge, right? Forty thousand pieces were still possible, counting Fatty Woo himself, there were twelve people working. While other people earn $100, Fatty Woo may get a thousand or two thousand per night, which are worth a month's living expenses of ordinary students!

　　Although he was jealous, Orion knew in his heart that if he were to do it himself, he wouldn't be able to manage that. First of all, you need to recruit so many people, but also need to organize these people. Moreover, you must have enough bargaining power, so that the person in charge of the sorting center to be assured that the work given to you, and negotiates a reasonable price, so that both sides to achieve a win-win situation. 

         Just by looking at Fatty Woo's skillful handing of cigarettes to the person in charge, Orion knew that he could not do it, nor could any of the footballers playing there. Otherwise, it would not be Fatty Woo, but one of them, who would get a couple of thousand dollars a day.

　　Hands mechanically operating the goods on the truck, Orion tried to think diversely to make himself less bored, his eyes darting around the workshop.

　　Honestly, from the perspective of a college student, the design of this sorting center completely irrational. Firstly, it wasn't intelligent at all, and secondly, it wasted a lot of labour on unskilled repetitive operations.

　　Upgrading facilities requires capital costs, and it is unlikely that a sorting centre operating on an outsourced basis would have access to external capital. Moreover, if the shareholders of the sorting centre really have enough money for upgrading the equipment, the money will definitely flow into the property market or various types of fund products in both ways. Because the ultimate goal of capital is never to upgrade technology to allow all mankind to embrace the future, but just the opposite, technology is to serve capital.

　　"If another parallel conveyor belt is added, and parcels are identified and screened through intelligent mechanical arms, not only the loss of parcels in the movement process be reduced, but the operational efficiency of the sorting center can also be improved ...... "

　　Suddenly, just as he was thinking about this issue, he felt that the picture in his field of vision began to become somewhat subtle.

　　As his concentration continued to focus, a semi-transparent holographic window surfaced in front of him.

　　[No.001 Type Intelligent Sorting System Design Drawing (Including Intelligent Mechanical Programmes ). Requirements: Informatics LV1, Engineering LV2.]

　　[Required Points: 5000]

　　"F... F*uck?!"

　　Being startled by this sudden appearance of the system, especially when he saw the number of points required, it scared Orion even more.

　　5000 points! Is this damned system's technology all this point-burning?

　　"What's wrong?" The dude next to him looked at him blankly, not knowing what suddenly got on his nerves.

　　" Umm..., nothing, I suddenly remembered that I seem to have miscalculated a question on my Advanced Algebra exam today." Orion smiled, his eyes refocusing on the holographic viewport that only he could see, thoughts spinning fast inside his head.

　　The system was able to answer real-life questions by consuming points, and it seemed that the question could be more than just a particular question, it could even a vague concept, and the system will refine the details of it.

　　Simply speaking, it's like co-operating to write an academic paper. The host is the person who comes up with the "idea", and the system is the hired gun, responsible for realising the idea.

　　For example, this drawing, number 001, is the result of a perfect reduction of his idea and the actual situation of the sorting centre. Of course, because he set it too vague, it caused the system to design some of the components too sci-fi.

　　In addition, depending on the difficulty of the question and the relevant skill level, the system would decide the value of the consumed points ......

　　Suddenly, Orion thought of something and "If the problem is specified into the intelligent program required for the picking robotic arm only ......" then, focused his attention on this new topic, and soon a line popped up on the holographic viewport.

　　[Intelligent Robotic Arm Control System. Requirement: Informatics LV1]

　　[Required Points: 1570]

　　Just as expected, Orion clenched his fists in excitement. This was exactly the right fucking way to use the system!

　　As if he wanted to make a mobile phone, there was absolutely no need to directly pack the entire big idea completely for the system to solve, but instead, he could split it into several small ideas and focus on solving a few that he couldn't solve by himself.

　　To be more specific, take a Samsung, shouted "system, give me to improve its performance by 10%", with the cost of 5000-10000 the system points, may result in a full set of mobile phone upgrade program. But if he took the Qualcomm 801 chip inside, and then to the system for help, the requirements only for the chip itself, to give the '10% performance increasing' design.

　　When the request is specified up to this point, the system gives the solution according to the rules, and in the end, it may only need to consume less than 1,000 points to get the drawing of the upgraded version of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip ......

　　Finally, he found a way to utilize the system's points!

　　But soon, he calmed down again: there are only 35 points left. Even if there was a way to utilize the points, he still had to have enough points available firstly. 

　　Thinking about this, Orion's mood instantly became unpleasant again.