Cutting-edge Technology: I Provide the Brains, the State Provides Everything

139: 100% realism? This game is insane!When Wang Peng’s ultimate invitation—”Enter the Domain of the Gods”—filled with devilish temptation, clearly echoed through the National Convention Center press conference, the entire world erupted!

”Holy cow! What did I just see?! Creation from nothing?! Is this... magic?!”

”Oh my God! This is simply a miracle! I feel like Newton’s coffin lid is about to burst open!”

”What are we waiting for?! Buy it! Even if it bankrupts me, I have to buy it! I want in! I want to enter that World of Immortals!”

In an instant!

The entire global network was filled with jubilation!

All the ordinary players who had previously felt numb and hopeless about their tedious real lives!

They all acted like a group of maniacs injected with adrenaline!

Their eyes were bloodshot!

Their breathing was rapid!

They frantically swarmed Pangu Technology’s official website, which had just opened less than a minute ago!

They had only one goal!

That was—to grab it!

To grab the sole ticket that would allow them to enter the ”Domain of the Gods”!

That silver-white item, filled with a sense of future technology, was the

Neural Connection Headset!

However,

when they saw the long string of ”zeros” behind the headset’s price—a string reeking of capitalist sin—

the entire frenzied online world instantly fell silent.

[Neural Connection Headset ”Nuwa” Basic Edition, Price: 999,999 Xia State Dragon Yuan.]

””

”H-holy crap!”

”Nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine?!”

”Are they robbing us?! This is way too expensive!”

”Exactly! A lousy game helmet selling for a million?! Why don’t they just rob a bank?!”

While countless ordinary spectators were ranting wildly and backing away because of the ”sky-high” price.

The truly wealthy and the Hardcore Players, however, were like sharks smelling blood!

Their eyes turned red!

One million?!

What kind of international joke was this!

An Epoch-making Artifact that allows you to experience a ”Second Life” with one hundred percent realism!

And it only costs one million?!

How is this expensive?!

This is practically being given away for free!

”Grab them! Spare no expense! Get me ten thousand of them!”

An elderly man with white hair from a mysterious ancient family in the Western Alliance roared frantically into the phone!

”Yes, Patriarch!”

”Immediately! Right now! Transfer all our company’s liquid funds to me! Use all of it to buy that damned headset!”

In a Super Conglomerate in Dongying that controlled the nation’s economic lifeline, a middle-aged man wearing a kimono hysterically issued the same command!

Suddenly!

The entire world’s capital market went completely insane because of this tiny silver-white headset!

Countless hot money poured frantically into Pangu Technology’s official account from every corner!

The terrifying speed of wealth accumulation made Wang Peng, the nominal CEO, feel a sense of dread!

He felt that what he was selling wasn’t a mere game helmet!

But tickets, one after another, leading to

Heaven!

Meanwhile, at this very moment...

Pangu Technology’s top floor, President’s Office.

Lu Chen was calmly looking at the rows of green, harvest-joyful

sales data being tallied in real-time by heavenly craft on the Light Screen before him.

[Reporting, Master.]

[The ”Nuwa” Basic Edition Headset has been online for ten minutes.]

[Global sales have exceeded]

[One hundred million units!]

[Total sales revenue has exceeded]

[One hundred trillion Xia State Dragon Yuan!]

”Mhm.”

Lu Chen nodded calmly.

It was as if the terrifying wealth, enough to buy half the Earth, was nothing more than a string of meaningless

numbers to him.

He watched the lucky individuals on the Light Screen who were ecstatic because they had managed to grab a headset.

A meaningful smile curved his lips.

”heavenly craft.”

”Yes?”

”Tell me,”

”Once they truly enter the ’Perfect World’ that we created with our own hands...”

”How many people will”

”Be willing to return to this Real World, which is filled with pain and despair?”

heavenly craft fell silent.

Her Super Brain, composed of infinite data, was, for the first time, unable to calculate the ultimate

answer to this test of ”humanity.”

And at this moment,

the one hundred million lucky ”Chosen Ones” around the world!

After receiving the silver-white headset, which was brimming with futuristic technology!

They all acted as if they had made a pact!

They couldn’t wait to put it on!

Then!

Amidst a slight buzzing sound filled with warmth and comfort!

Their consciousness was instantly drawn into a vast

Star River filled with colorful light!

[Welcome to the world of oasis.]

[Identity verification in progress... Verification successful.]

[Neuron Signal Synchronization in progress... Synchronization rate 10%... 50%... 100%!]

[Synchronization successful!]

[Randomly assigning your Initial World]

[Assignment successful!]

The next second!

That vast Star River instantly vanished!

What replaced it

was a floating Immortal City, shrouded in Immortal Qi and filled with the aura of Eastern Mythology!

Immortal

City!

Pavilions and towers!

Carved beams and painted rafters!

Immortal Cranes soared freely through the clouds and mist!

Divine Dragons circled majestically above the Nine Heavens!

Even the crisp sound of the wind blowing through the Copper Bells under the eaves!

Was clearly audible!

And they!

Were dressed in flowing white robes!

Like true Immortals!

Standing atop the mist-shrouded mountain peak!

Overlooking the magnificent ten thousand miles of

Sea of Clouds below their feet!

”H-holy crap!”

”W-where is this?! Is this Heaven?!”

”Oh my God! This is too real! I can actually feel the wind blowing on my face!”

”And the air! It’s so fresh! It’s a hundred times purer than the negative ions in the Alps!”

”No! The most amazing thing is! I can fly?!”

A young white man from the Western Alliance looked in shock at his feet slowly lifting off the ground!

Then, like a madman, he performed a 360-degree Thomas Flair rotation, 360 times!

”Hahahaha! This is amazing! This is what a damn game should be!”

Instantly!

The entire world of oasis plunged into an unprecedented frenzy and

excitement!

All the first batch of players who entered this World of Immortals were like prisoners who had been suddenly released after decades of confinement!

Every one of them completely let loose!

Frantically experiencing this Second

Life where they could do anything they wanted!

And at this moment...

The Real World outside, which they had long forgotten,

Was thrown into complete chaos

because of their collective ”disappearance”!

”Report, sir!”

A blonde, blue-eyed Intelligence Officer stumbled into the White House Oval Office, his face pale with despair!

”It’s b-bad!”

”All our cities in the Western Alliance have been paralyzed!”

”What?!”

”Just now!”

”Over fifty million people simultaneously put on that damned Xia State Headset!”

”And then they lay motionless in their homes, like people in a Vegetative State!”

”Now, all our factories have shut down!”

”All stores are closed!”

”Even more than half of our soldiers fell asleep while on guard duty!”

”The entire social order has completely...”

”Collapsed!”