Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

After the watchmen were dispatched, the frequency of werewolf attacks immediately dropped a lot.

In a certain attack, a werewolf wizard was knocked unconscious or even caught by the outnumbered watchers. The morale of the watchers was greatly boosted, and their fear of werewolves was eliminated. They became uncontrollable. , repelling the werewolf attacks one after another with crushing combat power.

A week after the Watchmen were dispatched, the werewolf attacks actually ceased.

This outstanding combat power naturally needs to be boasted. Murphy asked Rita to write a follow-up report every day. On the one hand, he promoted how brave and powerful the Watchers were, fighting against the werewolves to the death, and ensuring the safety of wizards and civilians. Safety.

On the other hand, she made a lot of sarcastic remarks about Aurors, mocking them as a group of cowards whose calves tremble when they see werewolves. Barty Crouch was dubbed the "werewolf phobia", and Rita was also very insulting. Someone drew a picture of Barty Crouch's big-headed baby crying after being frightened by a werewolf.

This unscrupulous reporter has always had a knack for hurting people.

As for the few werewolves who were unfortunately caught during the battle, since the Aurors didn't care, Murphy naturally accepted them and sent them directly to the Transfiguration Research Team. They were in short supply of such real werewolf samples.

The morale of the watchmen was high, and the security shop was immersed in the joy of victory, but Murphy did not relax his vigilance.

He suspected that these werewolves would not give up so easily, and that the commanders behind them might make further moves.

One day in June, Murphy came to Patrick's house.

"I'm going to assign you some security guards." After dinner, Murphy played with Patrick's son Ares for a while and said casually.

"Security guard?" Patrick was a little funny, "Did you borrow a loan shark from somewhere?"

"There are no loan sharks, but there are many people who are jealous of us." Murphy said, "I don't appear much in public. If someone wants to deal with Umbrella, you will be the first target."

It took Patrick a moment to realize that Murphy was serious.

"This is London," Patrick said, somewhat unconvinced, "Who would hurt me? Did something happen?"

"I hope I'm just unfounded, but I'm prepared for anything, right? You're a billionaire now, and it's not a big deal if you don't have a few bodyguards around you."

"...Okay." Patrick didn't refuse. Anyway, it was just that there would be a few more people at home. Compared to the safety of his family, it was really not a big problem.

"How is the development progress of the computer system?" Murphy asked.

Since part of chip research and development requires the use of magic, most of it is carried out in magic research institutes, while Muggle companies are responsible for the design of computer systems and complete machines.

Among them, the complete machine design was handed over to Sinclair Research Company. They are responsible for communicating with motherboard and other manufacturers according to various chip parameters given by the chip research team to help them design accessories that can bring out new chip performance.

To this end, Murphy has also invested in multiple manufacturing plants such as motherboards, memory, and hard drives.

As for computer systems, although a lot of research and upper-layer architecture design were carried out in the early stage, and some functions of the system were written in high-level languages, the actual combination of them into a system was completed after the instruction set research and design. I started it after I got my own compiler.

"I talked with Bob from the project team before. The current overall system completion rate is less than 40%. According to his expectations, it will take at least a year to complete the development." Patrick said, looking at Murphy's darkened face. : "He suggested that we could first launch some server equipment using a DOS-like system..."

Because most servers are in the commercial field and perform relatively single tasks, and customers have higher requirements for computing performance than ease of operation, this suggestion is reasonable.

But this road doesn't work.

For one thing, the server market is not as big as personal computers.

Secondly, in the server field, it is difficult to establish technical barriers. Historically, the x86 architecture, which was as powerful as Intel, took decades to dominate the market. Without establishing a monopoly advantage, high premiums could not be formed. Without high premiums, measured by Murphy's early R\u0026D costs, it would be impossible to sell it any more. Many products are about losing money and making money.

"Continue to recruit people," Murphy said, "We can't wait any longer. Once the chip tape-out is successful, we must immediately start producing our own personal computer terminals. In up to half a year, our own desktop system must be online."

"But..." Patrick looked at him worriedly, but hesitated to speak.

Murphy knew what he meant. With such an aggressive cash burn, their funds would not last long.

"It doesn't matter, our first movie will be released next month."

The Lion King has entered the promotion stage and will be released in a month at most.

And not only that, Pickett's next film, Aladdin, is already on the way.

There's nothing you can do about it just trying to get rid of Disney. Among the two-dimensional animated films, the ones with the highest box office are really owned by Disney.

There are risks in doing this. The Lion King is okay, but Aladdin is completely modeled after Disney animation. Maybe they already have preliminary plans.

Therefore, Murphy plans to copy another Frozen at most and let Pickett be good.

…

After leaving Patrick's house, Murphy went to meet with the mansion's security director, Radwan Perry.

It was a strong man with a red beard.

"Radwan, I need a fully armed team to protect several of our important people. Can you help me organize such a team?"

"You can contact the company directly and they will definitely have a plan that suits you."

"No, you didn't understand what I meant." Murphy said, "It's not about cooperating with a certain security company, but I want to form the umbrella company's own security team."

"You want to poach me from the company?" Radwan asked doubtfully.

"Not just you, but also your team and your past comrades." Murphy looked at the other party, "I know you served in the British army. You and your friends participated in the Falklands as Royal Marines. War, right?”

Radwan looked at Murphy suspiciously. It stands to reason that the information about the Falklands War has not been made public now. These should be secrets. It is not written on his resume. How could Murphy know.

But he nodded slowly.

"Come to Umbrella. I will pay the liquidated damages for you." Murphy said.

Generally, scarce talents like Radwan are also highly valued in security companies. The China Insurance Group has signed a five-year work contract with him. If Radwan wants to leave the China Insurance Group, he will need to pay two percent of his annual salary. liquidated damages, up to one million pounds.

However, for a mere million pounds, Murphy, who has already burned through money and is about to become an immortal, does not care about counter-offering.

"Bring your friends with you, and I will give you twice your original salary. During combat missions, your salary will be doubled again."

"But I ask you to form a team with sufficient combat effectiveness within half a month. I mean a team composed of members with the same level as your former teammates."

Radwan nodded, "Besides ordinary security tasks, is there anything else I need to know?"

Murphy glanced at the strong man.

This guy is very sharp.

But this is one of the reasons why Murphy values ​​him.

He thought for a while, "I hope I'm just unfounded, but if the worst happens, you may face some unusual enemies..."

Murphy hesitated for a moment and finally did not tell the other party the truth. He just said: "Anyway, let's get the equipment together."

The lethality of firearms is no less than that of magic wands, and those werewolves that can only transform during the full moon cannot take a few hits. Dozens of gunmen with professional military training should be enough to deal with most situations.

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