(Early June 2027, XX Group Headquarters. The weather was fine, the air was filled with the aroma of tea, and occasional peals of thunder rolled in the distance.)
Ever since XX Group staged a global tech-world drama titled "An Overbearing CEO Falls in Love With... My Cutting-Edge Technology" and casually bought out an entire "Future Exploration Division (FED)", the atmosphere throughout the conglomerate had been running on pure adrenaline. In particular, the stunning debut of Pangu AGI V3.0 and the ignition of the "Prometheus Fire" initiative sent XX Group's stock price and Prestige rocketing upward.
On this day, the XX Group Quarterly Strategy Summary and Commendation Conference was grandly held in the headquarters' "Zixiao Hall" (affectionately dubbed as such by employees), a venue capable of holding ten thousand people. Li Banjia personally presented awards to the teams and individuals who had made monumental contributions during the "Tianyuan Counterattack" and the subsequent "territory-expanding" operations. There were all sorts of wonderfully eccentric award categories: the "Best Pangu Application Innovation Award", the "MIU Nemesis Award", the "Global Scrap-Picking Expert Award"… The names were varied, and the prize money was so generous it made people's hands go soft just from counting it. For a time, colorful banners fluttered across the group, gongs and drums thundered, and morale surged high enough to knock a few satellites back down.
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