Chess Encounters Dark Core

180 Days, a Chinese chip, a gambling table that cannot be lost. 2026, Shenzhen. Chu Tianxing, a former Huawei HiSilicon engineer, received an anonymous email on a rainy night - attached to the letter was an undisclosed architecture diagram of NVIDIA. He sat on the gambling table and was pushed to a path of no return by mysterious capital. His team: An architect who "defected" from Intel. A sixty-year-old technology expert who was kicked out by SMIC. A young man who dropped out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and owns a mysterious AI called "Cicada". There is also a sixth chair that is never filled. The opponent is not a company. It is NPAM—a capital behemoth spanning North America and Asia-Pacific. It has evaluation reports, an internal codename "Lacquerware Project", and technology companies that have been swallowed by it and are reduced to their shells. The moment the truck hit him in the middle of the night, he knew he was in the middle of the gaming table. 180 Days countdown. From the shabby office with second-hand servers at Edgelight Technology to the third row of seats at the NVIDIA closed-door summit in Taipei - Chu Tianxing only had a hand: a locked chip architecture diagram, an AI that could rewrite its own code, and the unopened envelope in his father's used bookstore. This is not a story about Silicon Valley. This is a story about Shenzhen—about the people who risked everything to try to carve a crack in the wall. Qidian Chinese website, science fiction. City. Future world | Updating