The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife

Chapter 250 Onsite Competition

In Joseph’s vision, Jacob should have been very flustered upon seeing Wilson like every other programmer did, but surprisingly, he did not show any form of distress at all. Jacob was calm and managed to keep his poise.

'Maybe he’s just pretending. Did he think he could get away like this?’

Joseph scoffed inwardly and then said, offering them a grin, "You said your system, the SL system, has surpassed the DC system in every possible aspect. I'm very confident that Mr. Wilson does not agree with you. Results speak louder than words. Since both you and Mr. Wilson are the core programmers for the SL system and the DC system respectively, why don't you two have a match to find out which system is the best? What do you say?"

Jacob frowned. He turned to Seth and asked, "What do you think?"

Truth be told, it did not matter to him at all whether or not to accept the challenge. It was just that he and Seth had made a pact. He would only handle the development of the system and Seth would be in charge of external affairs.

Seth looked in askance at Wilson.

Wilson was looking contemptuously at them right now. The DC system had been dominating the market for a decade, and no one ever affected its supremacy since its introduction. He was confident that there was no other system in this world that could surpass the DC system aside from the DC system itself. Therefore, he felt their action of trying to challenge the DC system with a fledgling system was no different from hitting a stone with an egg.

"Now what? Are you not up to the challenge?" Joseph smiled as he pressed on, "So does it mean that everything you said earlier on is nothing but empty words?"

Seth looked at Joseph and he knew he was provoking them. He commanded himself to stay calm and twisted his face into a smile.

"Yes, we're going to accept the challenge, but we have t o know how Mr. Wilson wants the competition to be first."

"Simple," Wilson said. After that, he fished out a phone from his pocket and continued, "This is the latest mobile phone from our corporation, and it is carrying the improved version of the DC system. I suppose you should have your system installed on your phone as well, right?"

"Yes," Seth answered as he took out a phone.

Wilson grinned, "It's simple. Since Mr. Shelby is also a programmer, I assume that you are familiar with the KOP program, right?"

Jacob squinted his eyes. "Yes." "Very well. The KOP program is a popular program that is widely used by us programmers to test the performance of a mobile phone, so let’s see who can finish the program first and make it work on the phone,” Wilson flatly explained.

The competition had two parts. The first part was to complete the program on the phone, and the second part was to get the program running. It tested the capability of the programmer as well as the performance of the mobile phone.

Wilson was a renowned old head in programming, while Jacob... Nobody knew about him before today.

As such, the outcome of the competition was as clear a s the sky. Everyone turned their head and looked at Jacob.

All of them wondered what he would do. Would he accept the challenge, or would he back down from it?

Susan was a bundle of nerves. She was oblivious to her brother's capabilities, but she knew that Wilson was one of the top programmers in the world.

Could her brother go up against someone like this? No, it was impossible. Her brother was not in a good condition to begin with. What if he got too anxious that it triggered his illness?

Susan looked nervously at Jacob. She hoped that he would turn down the challenge. To her, nothing

mattered more than her brother’s health.

Joseph shot a sidelong glance at Susan, and when he saw her worried expression, his grin grew deeper.

Right now, he was certain that Jacob was just faking his calmness to appear strong. His sister should be the one who knew him the most. Since she appeared t o be nervous now, it was apparent that Jacob was just blowing his own horn.

Joseph turned his head back and he was relieved.

"Sure, that's no problem for me,” Jacob said calmly.

"According to international rules, we have to check each other’s phones before the competition starts,” Wilson said.

Jacob nodded and both of them exchanged their phones. After a simple bout of examination, they returned the phones to each other.

"Then, let’s have the competition..."

Just when Wilson was about to say something, Seth suddenly interrupted, "Hold on, Mr. Wilson. I have one request. If you don’t mind, can I put the whole process of the competition on the screen?"

An idea had just popped up in his mind. Wilson and Joseph's appearance at their conference might be a crisis, but it was an opportunity as well.

If their system could not beat the DC system, then naturally their reputation would be destroyed. However, what if it was the other way round? What if the SL system was able to triumph over the DC system? If that happened, then they could use the DC system as their stepping stone and make themselves known to the world overnight.

Seth had full faith in Jacob, and he was confident that he would win the competition. As such, he wanted to let as many people know about the competition as possible.

"Just go ahead," Wilson said, looking at Seth as if he was looking at a clown. He could not fathom why Seth was so eager to make his humiliation public. Did he have no shame at all?

That being said, Wilson would not give up any chances to humiliate Seth.

"It’s decided, then. Jacob," Seth smiled, "Godspeed to you. Don't hold back like you usually do to me, and give it your all."

"Alright, alright." Jacob looked disdainfully at him.

'Don't hold back? Give it your all? What a cocky little brat.'

Wilson sneered and said, "Can we start now?”

"Sure, let's the competition begin then," Jacob announced, still as calm as ever.

Both of them then put their fingers concurrently on their phone screens. The projector was zeroing in on the screens as it cast whatever was happening on their phones on the projector screen.

They both opened the hidden program code interface a t the same time.

After seeing that both of them were ready, Seth then said, "I'll count to three, and then you can start right away." NôvelDrama.Org holds text © rights.

"One, two, three! Start!”

As soon as the word "start" spilled out from Seth's lips, an array of complicated codes soon appeared on their screens as their fingers began to dance nimbly on the screens.

"Julian." Susan tightly gripped Julian's arm. "Do you think Jacob will win?”

"Don't worry. Jacob is..." Before Julian could say anything to comfort Susan, Joseph chimed in with a question. "Mrs. Shaw, do you know what a KOP program is?”

Susan frowned at Joseph's interruption, but she did not say anything and just nodded.

"The KOP program is an enormous program that heavily relies on the performance of the mobile device. If the performance of the mobile device is not strong enough, it will be overwhelmed by the program's large amount of data, and eventually, the mobile device will blow up," Joseph said.

"That's serious!" Susan shouted in an undertone, her voice laced with surprise.

Nodding, Joseph then continued, "Up until now, there are only three mobile operating systems that can run the KOP program. Amongst the three, two of them could barely run the program, and only the DC system can run it smoothly. As such, many of us use the KOP program as the benchmark to test the capability of an operating system."

Susan's heart was in her throat. If the program was really that difficult like Joseph said, would it trigger Jacob’s illness if he lost?

Susan became even more fidgety.

The smile on Joseph's face broadened. "Besides, to complete the program, it requires the programmer to have a strong capability of data calculation, so the length of time used to complete the KOP program is also an important criterion to measure the level of the programmer. As you know, the fastest time Mr. Wilson takes to complete the entire KOP program is 33 minutes and 45 seconds. He is ranked as the top three in the world!"