Chapter 1406: Chapter 1266: Smoke Grenades!
These must be smoke grenades!
Chapter 1406: Chapter 1266: Smoke Grenades!
These must be smoke grenades!
Since the establishment of Cloud Dream, the virtual world had always been developing at a breakneck pace.
During that period, regardless of what happened, no matter how many updates there were, it had never once gone offline.
This led users to develop a certain mindset:
No matter when you put on the headband, when you started Mirage, the virtual world would always be open for you.
It was like the elevators people take every day—just press the button, and the elevator would open its doors for you.
Now that the virtual world had suddenly stopped, everyone didn’t think much of it at first, but upon waking up, they immediately felt that something was amiss—
They got up wanting to feed their Spirit Beasts and realized, even “Pokémon” had stopped along with it.
Later on, after having eaten and drunk their fill and when they were ready to go to work, they received a notice from the company: [Due to the comprehensive shutdown maintenance of the virtual world, today is a holiday rest day.]
Well, if it’s a holiday, what should one do?
Watch live streaming?
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With the virtual world shut down, the streamers who relied on Mirage for broadcasting were all grounded, either wracking their brains to figure out how to fill the time or simply announcing a day off.
All sorts of virtual competitions—whether virtual esports events or virtual sports events—without exception, took a day off.
With 1 billion users globally without a virtual world to go to, they couldn’t find anything else to do and could only vent their energy on the Internet.
Fortunately, today’s Internet is anything but dull.
*
Cloud Dream released a promotional poster and officially announced the [2031 Global Press Conference] date—
This Saturday, Daxia time at ten in the morning.
At the same time, this poster also revealed more information about the press conference—
——
Title: “In Honor of the New Era”
Keynote Speaker: Lincoln
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This title was ambitious.
But because Lincoln was the speaker, not only did no one think Cloud Dream was overstating, but everyone was full of anticipation.
Virtual world, brain-controlled prosthetic limbs, focus headband, hibernation technology…
Lincoln had already changed the world time and again; he was fully qualified to speak of a “new era.”
But he never talked about it before, so why now?
The reason was obvious—he still held an ace up his sleeve!
Considering that last night, meteorological bureaus across the provinces said their radars were fixed, this indirectly proved that the experiments led by Lincoln had achieved a crucial breakthrough!
So, this ace was very likely the result of that experiment.
And Lincoln was 100 percent confident: this achievement would change the world again and create a new era!
How could this not excite people?
This topic had netizens from all over the world discussing fervently from last night until today, with their passion showing no signs of waning.
Media interviewed experts who published feature articles one after another, television stations invited scholars to advanced talk shows…
The news was all about this.
This was the case with the public as well as with the officials.
Since the electromagnetic interference had completely subsided yesterday, countries capable of launching satellites into low Earth orbit all turned various optical and electrical remote sensing equipment towards the now-exposed experimental base, closely monitoring every bit of movement there.
…
They didn’t wait in vain.
Daxia also unexpectedly didn’t make much effort to cover it up.
The next morning, after the large-scale electromagnetic interference had ended, rows of military vehicles ostentatiously arrived at the doors of the experimental base.
A moment later, the gate of the base opened wide, and a large, tracked special transport vehicle slowly drove out, its cargo covered by thick tarpaulin, making it impossible to see what was underneath.
Afterward, under the escort of rows of military vehicles, the transport vehicle took to the highway, and under the satellites’ relayed attention, it began a long-distance transportation.
At first, most of the intelligence agencies in various countries believed that this vehicle would continue non-stop, traveling halfway across Daxia all the way to the outskirts of Xiajing City, and finally appear at the press conference hosted by Lincoln.
But they guessed wrong again—
Midway, the transport vehicle took a turn and headed to Tongchuan.
“What’s in Tongchuan?”
In California, inside the office of the [Lincoln Countermeasures Group], Bree, a female member who had once been handed a floppy disk by Lincoln, sparking a storm of violence in America, asked curiously.
Everyone in the office looked at each other blankly.
How would they know this?
They had to hastily look up the information.
More than ten minutes later, team leader Barnes, who was scrolling through the tablet page by page for results, suddenly stiffened.
Noticing this detail, everyone turned their gazes toward him.
Barnes looked up, slowly turned over the tablet in his hand, and showed its contents to his team members—
[Asia’s largest rocket engine test stand settles in Tongchuan!]
A few team members read the headline and their eyelids began to twitch uncontrollably.
“A rocket engine test stand?
Did Lincoln build a rocket engine?”
“How is that possible?
How could a rocket engine cause electromagnetic interference affecting nearly half of the Asian continent?”
“Exactly, it must be a coincidence, right?”
“It’s no coincidence!
The car went in!
Is it really a rocket engine?”
“Impossible!
This must be a smokescreen by Daxia!
If it were just about optimizing the rocket engine, Lincoln wouldn’t be making such a big deal out of it!”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the meeting room began to hesitate.
Optimizing a rocket engine is, of course, a significant scientific achievement.
But they found it hard to imagine that Lincoln would get so excited about this level of breakthrough and describe it as an “unimaginable achievement”.
It simply wasn’t possible!
But if this was a smokescreen, then what was the real breakthrough?
They all started to worry again.
Except for Bree.
She seemed worried on the surface, but inside she was contemplating what to eat after work.
—Her brief encounter with Lincoln last time had left her with no small psychological shadow.
Out of the blue, the very person she was observing came over and called out her identity, then casually handed her a floppy disk that caused a massive uproar across the American continent, and to this day, it remains a mystery in the intel and political circles.
Bree really didn’t want to get involved with such a character anymore.
Had it not been for the benefits of the countermeasures team, she would have resigned and fled long ago.
Now, although she hadn’t fled, her attitude was that of a salary thief, “taking the pay without doing the work”, was her current life principle.
*
The confusion of the [Lincoln Countermeasures Group] mirrored that of global intelligence agencies everywhere.
They could not make sense of it but could not ignore it either; their heads throbbed with the stress.
However, the “chief culprit” causing all this, Lincoln, was much more relaxed.
With his highly intensive use of the brain, the extreme utilization of the scientific research team, the continuous experiments day and night, and the unconditional and limitless cooperation from the vast logistics team and engineering team, they had once again created a little miracle—
In less than ten days, they had replicated the [Positron Reaction Furnace].
As a result, all the staff involved in the project were close to collapsing from exhaustion, the consumption of electrical resources exceeded that of the original nuclear fusion experiments by nearly a hundred times, and—the entire experimental base had to undergo a lengthy overhaul.
This planet’s natural environment lacked the electromagnetic disturbances of Dark Star Doctor’s homeworld, and this environmental difference meant that building the reactor could not be done by simply copying blueprints; targeted adjustments had to be made again and again.
They had spent a considerable portion of their efforts here previously.
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Now that the problem was resolved, Lincoln naturally wanted to give himself a good break to prepare for the next day’s press conference.
Meanwhile, he also had to complete a small task without Camille Victoria knowing—
Personally crafting a special ring.
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