Chapter 317 What business is it of our diplomacy to deal with other people's business?
For a time, many people carrying screen recordings of Amy's Livestream room flooded the official websites of various governments and medical departments.
Social media accounts and message boards were quickly overrun:
[Look at Long Country's technology! What is our Department of Veterans Affairs doing?! Why are our heroes still using expensive, outdated prosthetics?!]
[Please import the "Rebirth" Neural Induction Prosthetics! Every minute of delay is torture to the disabled!]
[Why has our media collectively gone silent on this?! What are you afraid of?! Are you afraid we'll find out our country's technology is lagging behind?!]
[We need this technology! Now! Immediately! Right away!]
Some hot-tempered netizens even roared and questioned directly under the official accounts:
[Why isn't this being reported?!]
Such an important invention, why can't we see a single word about it in our news?! What on earth are you hiding?!]
Since the popularity of Amy's Livestream room was global, it wasn't just netizens from the USA flooding into official channels; netizens from Europe, Maple Country, and other regions also joined the petitioning army.
The massive volume of traffic and messages even caused the servers of some official websites to briefly overload, and customer service hotlines were flooded with calls.
Faced with this sudden and massive wave of public opinion, some official media outlets initially tried to cool things down.
They issued statements with cautious wording:
"We have noticed the videos circulating online recently regarding the Neural Induction Prosthetics of a certain company in Long Country."
"It must be pointed out that before any new medical device is introduced to our country, it must undergo rigorous and lengthy clinical validation and safety assessment processes. This is a demonstration of responsibility toward our citizens' health."
"Currently, we have not obtained detailed technical information or clinical data for this product, making it impossible to confirm the authenticity of its advertised efficacy. Hastily reporting on it could trigger unnecessary expectations and social risks."
However, netizens who had witnessed the livestream weren't buying it at all:
[Validation? Isn't the living example in the video enough? Do we have to shove the Prosthetic limb right into your hands for you to believe it?]
[This bureaucratic rhetoric again. By the time you finish validating, ten years will have passed!]
[Stop making excuses, you just don't want to admit that others are more advanced than us!]
Seeing that they couldn't fool the public anymore, the official rhetoric was immediately upgraded, switching to a more standard response template:
The general idea was that they were actively communicating and striving to seek possibilities for cooperation, aiming to bring advanced medical solutions to citizens in need as soon as possible.
This watertight official jargon left netizens feeling frustrated but helpless.
After all, ordinary citizens indeed had no way to force the government to import a foreign technology.
Some netizens, turning to any source in their desperation, even found the account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Long Country and left messages under it in various languages:
"May we ask if you could urge Xingchen Technology to speed up production? Our country has many disabled people in urgent need of help!"
"Respected Ministry of Foreign Affairs, could you coordinate to prioritize exporting the Prosthetic limbs to our country? We can pay extra fees!"
The staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Long Country were also completely baffled upon receiving such messages.
In their minds: What on earth is this about?
What does a private company's commercial behavior have to do with our Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
We might manage a lot of things, but how can we control who a company supplies first?
Thus, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could only resort to the all-purpose official rhetoric to respond, meaning that cooperation is welcome, but for specific matters, they should contact the specific company and relevant departments...
Amy was still completely unaware of the global internet storm triggered by their chance encounter on the street.
They bid farewell to the young man and continued strolling through the streets of Rong City.
Recalling what she had just seen and heard, Amy couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of her heart, "Seriously, Ruoxi, Yuqing, you people of Long Country are truly so blessed."
"To be able to live in a country that is so technologically advanced and incredibly safe."
"Without having to worry about whether you'll be taken out by a stray bullet while walking down the street..."
Lin Ruoxi and Chu Yuqing smiled at each other, both showing unmasked pride on their faces, and nodded vigorously.
This sense of pride in being a citizen of Long Country was exceptionally strong at this moment.
The bullet comments in the Livestream room were still rolling, but the tone was starting to drift a bit off track:
[I've decided, I want to immigrate to Long Country! For such a safe environment and all the benefits!]
[+1! The lives of Long Country's citizens are just too comfortable! It's simply unimaginable!]
[Wake up, upstairs! The Long Country green card is one of the hardest to get in the world—hell-mode difficulty!]
[Sigh, to be honest, I used to have a bad impression of Long Country, but now I really want to go and see it for myself.]
[I'm already booking plane tickets. Regardless of whether I can buy anything, I'll go for a trip first to experience it!]
[I'm going too! Just to broaden my horizons!]
In the Livestream room, some were passionately discussing the possibility of immigration, while others threw cold water on them by pointing out the practical difficulties.
Even more people began to develop a huge curiosity and yearning for Long Country, a nation they had once been prejudiced against.
Amy's livestream was like a massive boulder thrown into a calm lake, and the ripples it created were continuously expanding.
Some highly proactive foreign netizens were no longer satisfied with online petitions and arguments. They began checking flights and applying for visas, deciding to personally fly to Long Country.
Regardless of whether they would ultimately have the chance to get their hands on those miraculous products, at the very least, they wanted to see this miracle-making country with their own eyes and experience its true face in person.
An unprecedented wave of "Travel to Long Country" was quietly rising on a global scale.
Travel agencies and airlines around the world were surprised to find that inquiries and bookings for travel to Long Country, especially to Rong City, were starting to show explosive growth...
Over in the Imperial Capital, Jiang Jing was living a very comfortable life.
Shuttling between Miss Liu, Yan Shuyao, and the two beautiful captains.
Accompanying this one today and that one tomorrow, and occasionally flirting with the two captains, their favorability ratings were steadily rising.
It was just that Liu Ruyan's favorability was somewhat difficult to increase; since the hero-saving-the-beauty incident last time, there had rarely been any increases.
Liu Ruyan was indeed an extremely charming woman. Her family background, appearance, and conversation were all top-tier, and the atmosphere between them was always very harmonious.
The favorability rating on the system panel, which remained stable above 80, was proof of this.
But Jiang Jing could feel that this young lady had high standards, her own pride, and her own pace. To take things a step further, it would probably require some patient, slow-grinding effort; it couldn't be rushed.
"Let nature take its course." Jiang Jing had a great mindset; after all, he wasn't lacking beautiful women around him.
Calculating the time, his business in the Imperial Capital was basically settled. He prepared to head home, returning to his Rong City Shanshui Manor to continue being President Jiang.
However, just as he had Zhou Wanqin arrange the return trip and was lazily lounging on the sofa scrolling through his phone, an unexpected phone call came in.
Seeing the name on the caller ID, a playful, wicked smile involuntarily curled up at the corner of Jiang Jing's mouth as his finger swiped to answer.
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