62: Chapter 62: A quantum invisibility cloak for 9.9 yuan with free shipping—what more could you ask for?

8 PM, prime time.

Tens of millions of netizens across the web had long since pulled up their little stools, waiting in the official livestream room of "Chenxing Technology".

Everyone wanted to see what kind of earth-shattering new product this "National Fisherman" — who had just paralyzed an Eagle-chan aircraft carrier with electricity — was going to release. Was it a civilian version of an exoskeleton? Or that gravitational wave fishing rod that could pull fish onto the shore?

Even the intelligence agencies of Eagle-chan had their entire staff working overtime, with dozens of experts staring fixedly at their screens, ready to analyze the latest technological trends of the Dragon Kingdom at the first opportunity.

However.

The moment the livestream screen lit up, everyone was stunned.

There was no flashy PPT, no presenter wearing a Steve Jobs-style turtleneck, and certainly no high-end launch venue.

On the screen, there was only a slightly cluttered living room background (which was actually Jiang Chen's home), and a coffee table covered in... junk.

Jiang Chen was wearing his signature oversized shorts and flip-flops, holding a cup of soda, and waved at the camera casually:

"Hello there, everyone. Have you eaten?"

"Well... we're not doing any of that pretentious ceremony stuff today. The company was just founded, funds are tight, so we're just streaming casually from my living room."

A string of question marks instantly drifted across the livestream barrage.

[???]

[God Jiang, have you been hacked? This vibe is all wrong!]

[Funds are tight? The money in that black card of yours is enough to buy half the entertainment industry!]

[Stop talking nonsense, post the link! As long as it's high-tech, I'll buy it no matter the price!]

Jiang Chen glanced at the barrage and chuckled.

"Alright, everyone is in a rush, so I won't dawdle."

He put down the cola and picked up a piece of gray fabric that looked like a moldy rag from the pile of "junk" on the coffee table.

The fabric was wrinkled and even had frayed edges; it looked like it had just been dug out of some trash heap.

"This is the first blockbuster product from our 'Pinxixi Technology'!"

Jiang Chen shook the rag in his hand and introduced it proudly:

"As you all know, it's been raining a lot lately, and it's easy to get soaked if you don't bring an umbrella. So, I specially developed this —"

"[Quantum Optical Camouflage Raincoat (Beggar Edition)]!"

"It uses nano-flexible materials. It's breathable, waterproof, windproof, and it can also bring you a little... visual surprise."

After saying that, he snapped his fingers at Ikaros, who was nearby:

"Post the link!"

An orange shopping link popped up instantly at the bottom of the screen.

[Product Name: Quantum Optical Camouflage Raincoat (Beggar Edition)]

[Price: 9.9 Yuan (Free Shipping)]

[Inventory: 100,000 pieces]

Seeing this price, the livestream room was silent for a full three seconds.

Immediately after, the barrage exploded like a volcanic eruption.

[9.9 with free shipping? God Jiang, are you here for poverty alleviation?]

[A raincoat? I don't need a raincoat! I want an exoskeleton! I want a Gundam!]

[Forget it, everyone. I guess God Jiang has been losing money lately and is selling Yiwu trinkets to recover his funds.]

[This thing looks like an oversized garbage bag, can you even wear it?]

Sounds of doubt and ridicule instantly flooded the livestream.

Even the Eagle-chan intelligence experts across the ocean looked at each other, and one by one, they threw down their pens.

"What is he doing? Selling raincoats? This is the Dragon Kingdom's secret weapon?"

"A waste of time! This is simply an insult to our intelligence!"

Facing the barrage full of mockery, Jiang Chen was completely unruffled.

"I see everyone doesn't seem to believe me."

He scratched his hair and sighed helplessly, "These days, when you do honest business, no one believes you. Fine, talk is cheap, I'll demonstrate it for everyone."

Jiang Chen stood up, took the "rag," and casually draped it over himself.

The movement was as if he were putting on a sack.

"This raincoat, although it looks a bit ugly and the texture is a bit poor, it has a special real-time calculation function."

Jiang Chen muttered while fastening the buttons (actually magnetic buttons), "It can capture the surrounding light in real-time, then refract and bend it through the quantum coating on the surface, thereby achieving a... slightly magical effect."

He fastened the last button.

"Click."

At that very moment.

A miracle happened.

No special effects, no transition animations.

The part of Jiang Chen's body that was covered by the "raincoat" — from his neck down to his knees — vanished without warning.

It didn't turn translucent, nor did it turn into the background color; it was completely, utterly — non-existent.

On the livestream screen, only a lonely head and two calves wearing flip-flops remained, eerily floating in mid-air.

Furthermore, no matter how Jiang Chen turned or moved, the "vanished" area blended perfectly with the living room background behind him, without even a trace of light distortion visible.

It was as if someone had used the eraser tool in Photoshop to forcibly erase his body!

The barrage in the livestream room seemed to have been pressed with a pause button at that moment.

The densely packed text was instantly cleared.

Tens of millions of people stared at the screen, jaws dropped, eyes almost popping out.

Even Academician Chen Shuyin behind Jiang Chen (though not on camera) couldn't help but gasp. Although she had known the principle of this thing, seeing this visual impact with her own eyes still made her scalp tingle.

After a few seconds of deathly silence.

The server crashed.

The barrage wasn't coming in line by line; it was surging up in blocks!

[WTF!!!!!!!]

[Where is the person? Where is the body? Where did my big God Jiang go?!]

[Is this magic? Or special effects? This is unscientific!]

[Quantum camouflage? Is this the legendary invisibility cloak?! And you call this a raincoat?!]

[9.9 with free shipping? Are you kidding me? Eagle-chan spent 50 billion and couldn't make this, and you're selling it for 9.9?!]

Jiang Chen looked at the frantically scrolling barrage, and the head floating in mid-air revealed an extremely punchable smile.

He reached out a hand — of course, the hand was also invisible, and one could only see a glass appearing out of thin air being picked up, and the cola inside automatically decreasing.

"Glug, glug."

After drinking the cola, Jiang Chen took off the invisible "raincoat," and his body reappeared in the frame.

He tossed the gray fabric onto the coffee table and shrugged at the camera with an innocent face:

"I said it was quantum camouflage, so invisibility is reasonable, right?"

"This is just a simple optical refraction principle, there's no technical difficulty. It's just some scraps from the Wasteland... ahem, just some scraps eliminated from that laboratory of mine."

"Don't think of it as too divine."

"It's just a raincoat. Rain protection is its main job; invisibility is just a little extra function."

Having said that, Jiang Chen leaned closer to the camera, his eyes so sincere that it made people want to cry:

"Besides."

"It only costs 9.9, what more could you ask for?"

"Can it stop a nuclear bomb? Definitely not! But for preventing paparazzi, dodging debt collectors, or playing hide-and-seek with your girlfriend, it's absolutely an artifact."

"There are only 100,000 units in stock, don't miss out!"

As soon as he finished speaking.

On the data monitoring screen in the background, the red sales curve, which had been stationary, suddenly turned into a vertical line pointing upwards.

"Ding ding ding ding —"

The transaction notification sounds merged into a sharp shriek, even more piercing than an air-raid siren.

0.1 seconds.

Just 0.1 seconds.

100,000 units in stock, instantly reduced to zero.

There were even millions of people who clicked at the same time because their hands were too fast, paralyzing the payment system.

And those who didn't grab one were currently beating their chests and stamping their feet, letting out heart-wrenching wails in front of the screen.

[Gone? It's already gone?!]

[God Jiang! Restock! I'll pay a hundred times the price! I want to buy it to... ahem, play hide-and-seek!]

[To the guy above, is that really what you want to play hide-and-seek for? I'm embarrassed to point it out for you! You want to go to the women's bathhouse, right!]

[Eagle-chan Intelligence Agency: Quick! Contact that platform immediately! Even if it costs 100 million USD, get me a sample! This is a strategic-level technology!]

Watching this crazy scene, Jiang Chen nodded with satisfaction.

He turned to look at Academician Chen Shuyin, who was dumbfounded, and Ikaros, who was frantically processing orders, and snapped his fingers:

"Looks like our first shot was a success."

"However..."

He looked at the comments in the barrage that were gradually drifting off-topic, and his eyebrows twitched slightly:

"Are the imaginations of these netizens a bit too criminal?"

"Is the invisibility cloak... really used for hide-and-seek?"