CHAPTER 281: CHAPTER 281 START ROBBING

Tick, tick, tick.

The clock on the smartphone screen ticks away second by second.

Finally, there are less than ten minutes until the launch of the Elf MINI phone.

At this moment, Zhang Manlin and Jiang Cheng are sitting in the Chairman’s office of Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company.

Looking at the homepage, Zhang Manlin’s heart is actually somewhat anxious.

"Chairman Jiang, we have already urged the local OEMs to speed up the production of the Elf MINI this month. Currently, we have manufactured several billion units. How many do you think we can sell?" Zhang Manlin asked with a face full of doubt.

In fact, although Jiang Cheng had surprised her many times before, she still didn’t quite believe that the Elf MINI phone could sell seven to eight billion units or even more than ten billion, as Jiang Cheng claimed.

"Just wait and see." Jiang Cheng, sitting in front of the computer screen, calmly took a sip of tea, savored it, and then quietly waited for the arrival of midnight.

Time seemed to fly by, with the lights still on inside Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company. Many departments were getting ready for the midnight sale of the Elf MINI phone. Each of them was eagerly anticipating how many units the first batch of pre-sales would sell.

Due to limited time, the global inventory is only a few billion units, but they all believe that the Elf MINI phone will definitely not sell only a few billion units. After all, this phone is the work of the father of modern intelligence, Jiang Cheng! It’s a product of his Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company!

On the homepage of Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company, a red countdown timer is prominently displayed. At this very moment, countless people are waiting in front of their computer screens or smartphones for the start of the first batch sales of the Elf MINI phone. Time is ticking!

11:50!

11:55!

11:59!

The critical moment has finally arrived, and it’s almost midnight!

In a major city in Huaxia.

In a university dormitory, lights shine on several faces. Although it’s way past lights-out time, they remain at their computers or smartphones, waiting for the Elf MINI phone to go on sale.

This is because the website states that only two million units will be available for the initial sale!

Apart from these two million, any orders placed will be pre-orders, indicating that those who didn’t secure one of the two million will have to wait for a second, third, or fourth batch within a month.

One month, to those eager to get their hands on the Elf MINI phone immediately, is sheer torment.

Hence, they must stay glued to their computer or smartphone screens, waiting for the Elf MINI phone sale to begin!

In this university dormitory, everyone is spirited and wide awake, watching the countdown on the homepage, feeling like some emotion inside them is being ignited, making their entire being boil over.

"Lao Si, do you think you’ll be able to snag one of those two million units? I remember the last transparent phone sold out its first batch of one million units really fast," said the dorm leader.

Lao Si’s heart raced at the dorm leader’s words. He had visited the transparent phone’s exclusive store and experienced the Elf MINI phone, never forgetting the surreal thrill it brought him. So, for this Elf MINI phone sale, he must get one!

He plans to eat instant noodles next month, and if he can’t get it, he’ll be quite upset!

Lao Si stared intently at his smartphone screen, where the countdown on the Cosmic Umbrella Technology website was about to end!

The clock read, ten seconds left!

His entire vision focused on the smartphone screen, and as soon as the ten-second countdown ended, he pressed his finger on the screen.

"Purchase successful!"

The Cosmic Umbrella Technology website displayed this message on a secondary page.

Seeing these words, Lao Si’s heart pounded—did he buy one from the first batch? He had no idea!

Then, he saw a message pop up on the Cosmic Umbrella Technology website and let out a groan.

Two other cries echoed from within the dormitory as well.

Because the message read: "Unfortunately, you did not purchase an Elf MINI phone from the first batch. Your Elf MINI phone will be shipped within a month. Happy shopping~"

Similar situations occurred worldwide!

Those black-skinned foreigners, those blonde-haired, blue-eyed foreigners, all cursed repeatedly after failing to buy an Elf MINI phone from the first batch.

Although they did purchase successfully, they might have to wait a month, frustrating those eager to use the Elf MINI phone immediately.

Someone nearby might have snagged one of those two million units, and they would have to watch as others used their transparent phone while they’re stuck with their outdated Android, Apple phones?

That’s downright embarrassing!

Meanwhile, inside the Cosmic Umbrella Technology website, it was a different scene altogether!

There were no cries, no expressions of regret. They looked at the data on the computers, the shocking numbers displayed on the data page. Some employees were so astonished they couldn’t speak for a long time!

First-day sales, the number sold within an hour was ten billion and ten million!

Moreover, this astounding number is still growing, albeit at a slower pace!

Ten billion might not even be the limit! Twelve billion, thirteen billion? No one knows what the final result will be.

At this moment, many employees were moved to tears, their emotions uncontrollable.

Because they knew this was the beginning of Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company’s disruption of the mobile phone industry!

In less than an hour, the sales amount reached ten billion!

Although this is only the pre-order number, the actual delivery won’t reach this number, but ten billion orders have indeed been placed. They will only be shipped in batches within a month, meaning the order volume truly reached ten billion!

Ten billion is such a colossal number, with a 1 followed by nine zeros, and according to Jiang Cheng’s plan, the successful transaction order numbers of Elf MINI phones are displayed on the website.

This staggering number!

It reassures all who want to buy the Elf MINI phone, deterring all mobile manufacturers, likely unprecedented and unparalleled!

One must know, the total population of Huaxia now is just over a billion, yet a single phone’s first-day ten-minute order volume reached ten billion. How terrifying is that?

If someone had talked about this a year ago, anyone hearing that a phone could sell ten billion units in one hour would probably say, "Are you crazy?"