"Here they come! Move it!"
Roaring engines echoed outside as over thirty heavy trucks approached the China Star Auto Plant gates.
"Quick! Where are the tech leads?
Guide them into Workshop 3!"
Xu Zhilin's face was flushed with excitement. He shouted directions like a man possessed.
Workshop 3: Engine production line
Workshop 4: Gearbox production line
Both had been completely cleared out and scrubbed clean the night before. Now, they stood ready.
Twenty-some trucks rolled into Workshop 3. Another dozen diverted into Workshop 4. Xu barked at the workers nonstop.
"Easy with that!
That's precision equipment—watch your damn hands!"
"You brat! That's worth more than your yearly salary—move carefully!"
Despite the yelling, everyone knew Xu wasn't angry. He was hyped like a general preparing for war.
These weren't just standard shipments.
The system had delivered everything.
It is entirely untraceable from the tech to the trucks to the drivers.
Once the last piece was unloaded, the trucks pulled away. Installation could now begin.
But first, Xu led the engineering team to pore over the manuals.
It wasn't their first time with precision hardware. These were top-tier, system-grade production lines—higher in precision than anything most foreign factories had access to.
Installation would take about two weeks.
With that handled, Haifeng headed back to the China Star headquarters.
He'd just stepped through the doors when his phone rang.
"President Lu!" Li Gang's voice came through, breathless with excitement.
"The server and supercomputer project is done!"
📍 China Star Phase I Data Center – Internal Launch
Haifeng arrived at the facility just as the final checks were finishing.
Rows of pristine, high-spec servers stood in place. In the center was Huaxing-1—China Star's first homegrown supercomputer.
"President Lu," Li Gang said proudly.
"After a year of development, we've finally conquered server and supercomputing architecture."
Lu Hong joined in, giving a technical breakdown:
"The servers are equipped with multi-core, multi-threaded Xuanwu processors, ultra-large storage arrays, and multi-port redundancy."
"They support clustering, allowing multiple units to form a unified processing platform for massive computational power."
"We've built servers for all levels:
Basic units for startups and small enterprises
Mid-tier servers for traditional web apps
High-performance nodes for cloud providers and tech platforms."
Haifeng raised an eyebrow.
"Have they been tested under load?"
"Yes, sir. We migrated several live services. Storage, calculations, and request handling are all passed. But…"
"But?" Haifeng asked.
"The test traffic was too low," Lu Hong admitted.
"We need a high-concurrency real-world site to stress-test the platform."
Haifeng nodded.
He already had one in mind—but that could wait.
Then Li Gang brought up the cloud plan.
"We've split the servers into two main usage streams:
① Enterprise Sales – selling physical servers to businesses
② Smart Cloud Platform – a hybrid of traditional and supercomputing-powered cloud."
Most companies couldn't afford to build dedicated data centers. Instead, they'd rent cloud server capacity—especially startups or those expanding quickly.
"Users can lease compute and storage power based on demand.
Pay-as-you-go. Completely scalable."
Haifeng nodded again.
"And the supercomputer?"
"Huaxing-1 clocks in at 20 petaflops," Li Gang reported.
"Not quite at the U.S.'s Jaguar level—but enough to rival second-tier international systems."
"Can we integrate it into the smart cloud?"
"Absolutely."
"Then do it. Immediately."
China Star's Smart Cloud v1.0 project kicked off with that one order.
Unlike traditional platforms built solely on server clusters, theirs would feature:
Zone A: Normal cloud server clusters for standard operations
Zone B: Supercomputer-powered cloud for high-performance computing (HPC) clients
Zone A would serve startups, apps, and e-commerce.
Zone B would support universities, labs, and enterprise-grade research.
"Affordable for small users.
Powerful enough for scientific breakthroughs."
That was the China Star difference.