When I am reborn, I just want to be a top student

Galaxy Technology's flight inspection and assessment team continuously conducts assessments and inspections of partner companies across the country. As a result, netizens across the internet have been criticizing their own company while also envying Galaxy Technology's employees.

It's important to understand that this assessment and supervision is not only aimed at Galaxy Technology's partner companies, but also at their own internal operations.

The disclosed cases include station managers illegally charging fees and withholding benefits from delivery workers.

In order to increase profit margins, some factories engage in various forms of deductions and force overtime work.

Galaxy Technology made no attempt to conceal any of this; it revealed it all clearly.

They even presented the proposed solutions.

Any violation of company rules will be dealt with in accordance with the rules.

Supervisors who forced overtime and station managers who withheld benefits were fired on the spot, and other supervisors along the same line also received different punishments.

Netizens can clearly see that Galaxy Technology did not play any word games or hold back on this matter.

This approach has made netizens even more envious of Galaxy Technology's employees.

In this atmosphere, the time finally came for the Galaxy Technology Annual Conference to begin.

January 15, 2020, Tangdu, sunny.

The snow on the Qinling Mountains gleamed with a cool, silvery light under the sun, and a huge star trail symbol slowly rotated on the exterior wall of the newly built Galaxy Activity Center in the High-tech Zone.

This venue, which can accommodate 30,000 people, was specially built by Tangdu to host the Galaxy Technology Annual Meeting and the International Frontier Technology Summit. The overall steel structure dome has a very large span, and the interior uses Galaxy Technology's self-developed distributed sound field system.

A year ago, this was a construction site where tower cranes turned day and night. Now it has become one of the new landmark buildings in Tangdu.

The employees lined up at the entrance starting in the early morning, their dark blue, bright yellow, gray, and silver-white uniforms intertwined, like a flowing galaxy.

Some people held up their phones to take pictures of the star trails on the exterior wall, while others were video chatting with their families and pointed the camera at the large characters at the entrance: "Galaxy Technology 2020 Annual Meeting: A Tribute to Every One of You Who Works Diligently".

The venue wasn't decorated in a lavish, opulent style. The main stage was a giant circular screen with such high resolution that even people sitting in the last row could clearly see the performers' facial expressions.

Dozens of holographic projection arrays were suspended on the dome, playing images of Galaxy Technology's key projects over the past year on a loop before the official start: the blue flames spewing from the Hercules engine test stand, the silver rocket body of Pioneer 2 lying horizontally docking on the lunar surface, and the white medicine bottle held in Baili Xiu's hands when the first bottle of the Wanwu production line rolled off the line.

As the audience watched the projects they had participated in appear on the dome, some whistled, some clapped, and some secretly wiped their eyes with their sleeves.

Those all-nighters spent in the Gobi Desert, those days spent repeatedly debugging parameters on the production line, and those late nights spent troubleshooting line by line in the codebase have all now become flowing light on the dome.

The live stream started promptly at 7 p.m.

The event was simultaneously streamed on three major platforms: Douyin, Toutiao, and Neihan, with the opening screen displaying the message: "Galaxy Annual Meeting, Nationwide Lucky Draw".

The number of viewers in the live stream surged at the start, with the barrage of comments so dense that it completely obscured the screen. The backend showed that the number of real users online at the same time quickly exceeded two million.

It's important to understand that these are real users, not the inflated popularity figures that platforms usually display.

The technical team expanded the server cluster in advance, and Wa specially allocated some computing resources to monitor the data channel of the live broadcast room to prevent it from being overwhelmed by the sudden influx of traffic.

However, there were simply too many people, and the live chat channel briefly lagged a few seconds before the show started. The technical team immediately switched to backup bandwidth.

Wang Donglai sat in the middle of the first row.

Next to him is Yang Anchao, a veteran aerospace worker who has spent half his life working on the Gobi Desert. This year, he and his team turned the entire rocket landing on the moon from blueprints into reality.

Yang Anchao declined several times, but Wang Donglai eventually forced him to sit down.

When the stage lights came on, the first people to come on stage were not company executives, but Lao Zhou from Xinghuo Express, Xie Tao from Pinhaofan, Zhao Mingyuan from Yinhe Supermarket, and Zhu Gui from the Yinhe Energy production line.

They stood in a row, dressed in their work uniforms, nervously gripping the microphones.

Old Zhou spoke first, saying, "I've been driving big trucks for twenty years. I used to drive for myself, but now I drive for the company. They pay for my social insurance and housing fund, and they also have commercial insurance. When I was hospitalized for back pain, the company reimbursed me for several thousand yuan."

"After I arrived at the company, I realized that an employee could enjoy such a good life and work with such dignity."

"I am very grateful to the company for hiring me and giving me this job opportunity!"

Old Zhou's words were brief, but sincere and heartfelt.

The same applies to Xie Tao, Zhao Mingyuan, and Zhu Gui.

Using the simplest words, they expressed their most sincere, earnest, and passionate emotions.

There was a few seconds of silence in the audience, then applause rang out from a corner and quickly spread throughout the entire venue.

After the employees finished speaking, the program performance began.

The performing guests took to the stage one after another.

Galaxy Entertainment Group's lineup of stars, assembled through its own channels, is not exaggerated but genuine; they are all established actors who have built a reputation through their work in recent years.

The lucky draw segment began interspersed from the very beginning.

Every half hour, a round of red envelope giveaways will take place, and all Galaxy Technology employees can participate in the lucky draw using their employee ID number.

Ordinary netizens watching the live stream were also treated equally and could participate in the lucky draw.

One hundred thousand tourist prizes have been prepared, each worth two hundred yuan; ten thousand lucky draw prizes have been prepared, each worth one thousand yuan.

This is not a coupon, nor a discount coupon; it's a cash bonus that can be withdrawn directly.

The odds of winning aren't high, but they're not low either.

Someone won 200 yuan and left a long string of exclamation marks in the live chat saying that he had used up the luck of his life tonight.

Someone won the lucky draw and immediately posted a screenshot on their WeChat Moments with the caption, "From now on, I'll be a lifelong fan of Galaxy Technology."

Some people who didn't win commented sourly that they were low-net-worth users who were precisely excluded by big data.

What's even more interesting are the food delivery riders and couriers who won the prizes. While they were grabbing red envelopes in the live broadcast room, they were also wearing the uniforms of other platforms and scrolling on their phones on the roadside. Someone took a picture and posted it online with the caption: "This guy just grabbed a red envelope in the group-buying red envelope, and when he looked down, he found that he was wearing a yellow group-buying uniform."

The gray market account matrix certainly wouldn't let such an opportunity pass, with a large number of bot accounts attempting to flood the live stream to exploit the system. However, Wa, through extremely low-latency identification and behavioral sequence analysis in the background, accurately screened out those "people" whose operating rhythm was completely consistent: dozens of accounts logged in simultaneously under the same IP address, the click time difference between each account when the red envelope popped up was almost zero, and the content of the bullet comments was highly repetitive.

These accounts were marked and banned before they even touched the red envelope button, and they didn't even appear in the view of real users.

Halfway through the party, the host invited Wang Donglai onto the stage.

Wang Donglai did not prepare a speech or use a remote control to play the PowerPoint presentation.

He walked to the center of the stage, and the lights projected his figure in a dark gray shirt onto the huge circular screen.

The audience fell silent, and all 30,000 people held their breath. The only sound in the entire venue was the faint hum of the machines running overhead.

He said he wouldn't repeat his thanks, but would only mention one small thing.

A while ago, he went to Jiuquan and squatted down by the roadside to chat with Yang Anchao in the Gobi Desert. Yang Anchao asked him a question: What is the point of working so hard?

He didn't answer then, but now he wants to take this opportunity to give his answer.

"My goal is that one day, everyone who works hard can settle down in this city. My goal is that every drop of your sweat can be rewarded accordingly. My goal is that when you get old, you can tell your children, 'I worked at that company, and I found it valuable and meaningful.'"

There was a few seconds of silence from the audience, then applause erupted.

Yang Anchao took off his reading glasses and wiped them several times with his sleeve, but the lenses were always covered with a layer of fog.

The grand finale prize draw will begin after the program ends.

One hundred properties, each with a quota of five million.

It's not about specifying a particular house in a specific location, but rather a housing quota of five million yuan. Employees who win the lottery can freely choose a property in any city in China, with the purchase price paid directly from the company's special fund.

When the host announced the number "one hundred properties," the audience fell silent.

That silence wasn't indifference; it was an instinctive reaction after being struck by a huge, heavy surprise.

Then the entire venue seemed to be set on fire, the barrage of comments caused the live stream to freeze, and the number of concurrent connections in the live stream instantly soared to nearly twice the platform's historical peak. The technical team's scaling scripts couldn't keep up with this growth rate, and the video would occasionally freeze for a few seconds, and the audio would also be intermittent.

Nuwa also intervened immediately and activated the emergency plan, caching some non-core data on the backup server and freeing up the main bandwidth for the live stream.

However, the barrage channel was still frequently interrupted due to overcrowding.

To compensate for the lag in the live stream, Wang Donglai picked up the microphone and said, "Because of technical issues affecting everyone's viewing experience, I've decided to add an extra 100,000 red envelopes, each worth 1,000 yuan. I'll distribute them now."

The moment those words were spoken, the entire live stream room erupted in excitement.

The barrage of comments was so dense that the screen was completely obscured, and countless people screamed in front of their screens.

One hundred thousand 1,000 red envelopes, which is another 100 million yuan, were just to apologize for the live stream lag.

This kind of boldness has never been seen on internet platforms before.

While there are many wealthy business owners in China, none have ever been this generous.

Simply because there were too many people watching the live stream and the stream was lagging a bit, he generously gave away 100 million yuan in red envelopes to ordinary netizens.

This is beyond just being rich; it's more like being a super-rich person.

The news quickly spread across major platforms.

The Galaxy Annual Meeting occupied seven of the top ten spots on Weibo's trending topics list.

#Galaxy's annual meeting features 100 properties#, #Wang Dong said that hard work will lead to a stable home#, #100,000 1,000 red envelopes of 1,000 each as an apology#, #Just how rich is Galaxy Technology#...

Each one is followed by the word "explosive".

A video of Xie Tao talking about his job-hopping experience on Douyin was forwarded millions of times in a very short time, and many users in the comments section spontaneously shared stories of people around them who also work at Galaxy Technology.

Someone posted: "My cousin used to deliver packages for Tongda Express. He worked there for many years without ever paying social security. Later, he switched to Xinghuo Express and now he has bought a house in Tangdu."

Some people posted screenshots of the 200 yuan red envelopes they had just received, with a caption of only one sentence: "My dad said he got half a day's wages for free tonight."

On Zhihu, someone posted a long post overnight, making a comparison table of the total amount of red envelopes from major internet companies over the years. Collecting lucky cards would distribute hundreds of millions of yuan, but the average person would only get a few yuan. Sponsoring the Spring Festival Gala would also distribute hundreds of millions of yuan, but the total amount of red envelopes distributed by Galaxy Technology tonight makes these figures seem particularly meager.

The most upvoted comment in the comment section was: "The few yuan I got from collecting lucky cards is less than the 200 yuan red envelope I grabbed tonight."

One commenter wrote: "The hundreds of millions of yuan from the Spring Festival Gala are distributed among all the people in the country, while the red envelopes from Galaxy are distributed among those who watch the live broadcast. The denominators are several orders of magnitude different."

Some people commented that collecting lucky cards on Zhifubao requires scanning lucky characters every day, asking others to exchange cards, and in the end, the money they receive is less than the lucky red envelopes they can grab in the group. Meanwhile, he only spent half an hour in the live broadcast room tonight and won 200 yuan.

Someone added that the two hundred yuan was real cash that could be withdrawn directly, which was completely different from coupons that required recruiting others to use.

After this comparison post was shared on Weibo, it sparked an even more intense wave of ridicule, with none of the internet giants that sponsored the Spring Festival Gala escaping the criticism.

From Zhifubao to Qiandu, the comments section was filled with the same sentence: "Learn from Galaxy Technology, see what a real lottery is, what a real money-sharing is."

The repercussions of this annual meeting did not end that night.

In the early hours of the morning, a tech blogger posted a long article detailing how Galaxy Technology used distributed sound fields and projection arrays to support the live experience of 30,000 people watching a performance simultaneously, and how it used Wa's computing power to combat script attacks by gray-market operators who exploit loopholes. Hundreds of thousands of bot accounts were all marked and banned before they even touched the red envelope button, with not a single one escaping the net.

In the comments section of this technical post, someone remarked that Galaxy Technology is not only generous with its funding, but it even uses aerospace-grade technical standards for its annual meeting.

Some people even dissected Wang Donglai's words on stage, believing that it was not just a company giving out benefits, but setting a benchmark for the whole society: what kind of company deserves to be taken seriously, and what kind of job is worth doing for a lifetime.

Many people are asking the same question: When will Galaxy Technology hold another annual meeting? Will the prizes be even bigger next time?
Tangdu is no longer just a place name; it has become a symbol.

This annual meeting was like a mirror, amplifying this longing and sense of belonging countless times.

A bonus of 100 million yuan, 100 properties, and 100,000 red envelopes—these figures convey not only the company's strength, but also its willingness to share that strength with everyone who has worked for it.

Wang Donglai's generosity, along with Galaxy Technology's actions, made a strong impression on netizens across the internet in January 2020, leaving a lasting impression. (End of Chapter)