68: The orders are booming! The orders are booming!

Eastern Federation, Shen City, Longteng Technology Headquarters.

Three minutes after the press conference ended, over 8 million users flooded Longteng Technology's official website pre-sale page.

"The server crashed!" Engineer Wang Lei stared at the monitoring screen, cold sweat beading on his forehead, his fingers a blur on the keyboard. "Peak traffic exceeded 8 million concurrent users! Server load is 120%!"

"The payment gateway is stuck!" another Engineer shouted, "Aiwai Cloud's elastic scaling can't keep up!"

Technical Director Zhang Mingyuan ripped off his tie and rushed to the main control console: "Activate Plan B! Bring all backup servers online!"

The Technical Director roared, "All nodes activated! Max out the CDN!"

Inside the server room, the hum of the cooling fans suddenly intensified, and indicator lights on dozens of servers flashed madly. On the large screen, the numbers were still soaring.

8.5 million... 9 million... 9.5 million...

"We can't hold on!" Cold sweat trickled down Wang Lei's forehead. "If this continues, the database will crash!"

Zhang Mingyuan gritted his teeth: "Degrade non-core services! Shut down the user review system! Disable real-time inventory display!"

However, the moment the pre-sale channel opened—

"It's over..." Wang Lei looked at the inventory number, which had suddenly reset to zero, and slumped into his chair. "1 minute 47 seconds... 200,000 units... all gone..."

However, the moment the pre-sale channel opened, 300,000 "Baijue" holographic terminals sold out in 1 minute and 47 seconds.

The live stream's bullet comments went completely wild:

[Bullet Comment: Gone??? That's it???]

[Bullet Comment: I was stuck on the payment interface!]

[Bullet Comment: Scalpers have already started raising prices, 9,999 is now being sold for 30,000!]

[Bullet Comment: Can Longteng do something about this?]

[Bullet Comment: Lol, do something about what? Scalpers bought it with real money, they got it with their own skill.]

[Bullet Comment: The person above, are you a scalper?]

At the same time, Xiaohongshu.

[User "Tech Fanatic": Damn! I've been waiting since the press conference started! But the payment interface froze for ten seconds and then it was gone??]

[User "Holographic Enthusiast": Hahahaha! Got two! One for myself, one for my descendants!]

[User "Death to Scalpers": Xianyu is already at 35,000, these beasts must be using cheats!]

[User "Rational Analysis": Suggest Longteng learn from Xiaomi's F-code system, at least let core fans buy it...]

[User "Professional Agent": Offering Robbery service, 80% success rate, 20% commission, contact via private message]

[User "Justice Seeker": @Longteng Technology Do something about the scalpers! Real users can't get it at all!]

[User "Professional Gossip": @Justice Seeker What are you @-ing? They don't have an official account here, okay.]

A tech forum, "Geek's Home"

Hot Post: Failed to buy Baijue, can any experts analyze if it's really worth it?

1st Floor (Xiaoxin Tech): It's absolutely worth it! Neuronal computing architecture + holographic interaction, this thing is simply incomparable to existing technology. Apple Vision Pro is a toy compared to it.

2nd Floor (Scalper): In stock for 35,000 per unit, private message me.

3rd Floor (Angry Bro): 2nd Floor, you!

Hot Post: "Baijue's First Sale Sold Out in 1 Minute 47 Seconds, Is It Hunger Marketing or Genuine Insufficient Production Capacity?"

OP "Chip Specialist": Rational discussion, Longteng's stock of 300,000 units this time is actually not small. Compared to Apple Vision Pro, which only sold 150,000 units in its first month. The key is the explosive demand caused by technological superiority.

3rd Floor "Backflipping Cat": Just finished analyzing the press conference demo video and found three terrifying details: the neuronal architecture's latency is less than 0.1 milliseconds (existing technology lowest is 5ms); holographic projection remains clear in strong light (existing technology requires dark environments); brainwave interaction's misidentification rate is only 0.001% (industry average is 2%). Think about it, really think about it.

7th Floor "Scalper Slayer": Latest news! Longteng official website announcement: 1. AI risk control system enabled to automatically block scalper accounts. 2. The second batch of 500,000 units will adopt a "quiz + reservation" model. 3. Offline experience stores will open for full payment pre-orders.

15th Floor "Angry Bro": Reply to 7th Floor: Quiz? Quiz your sister! I have to take a test to buy a phone?

16th Floor "Mentally Extremely Advanced": Reply to 7th Floor: Bro, don't be so agitated, you're not buying a phone, after all.

Three hours after the Longteng Technology press conference, the area outside the Shen City Bay Sports Center was still bustling with people.

To compensate for the collapse of the official website's pre-sale platform, EastWei announced that all 100,000 Baijue units originally intended for internal replacement and emergency inventory allocation would be released. Scalpers huddled under streetlights, frantically refreshing their phones, sweat dripping down their temples.

"It's gone again! I was stuck on the payment interface for a full ten minutes!" A middle-aged man in a floral shirt slammed his knee, the red "insufficient stock" alert on his phone screen particularly glaring.

Next to him, a chubby man with a gold chain, smoking a cigarette, sneered: "Be content, I got two hundred college students to help me snatch it, and now I haven't even seen what an order looks like."

Behind them, the glass curtain wall of the EastWei flagship store in the shopping center was being pounded. A dozen young people clung to the display windows like zombies, drooling as they stared at the Baijue demo unit inside. The security captain wiped his sweat and spoke into his earpiece: "Headquarters? Send thirty more people over! People are going to get hurt here!"

In the store's experience area, the Baijue demo unit was cordoned off. Each experiencer only had three minutes of operating time, but the queue stretched two kilometers to the subway station.

"Sir, time's up," the staff gently reminded the man in the suit who was frantically gesturing in the air.

"Just ten more seconds! Just ten seconds!" The man ignored her, his fingers rapidly tapping in the void. Five holographic screens floated before him, displaying stock trends, architectural design drawings, and a video conference simultaneously. "See? Absolutely no lag! This, damn it, is a productivity tool!"

"With this, I'll never go home from work!"

The staff helplessly looked at the next experiencer, a middle school student with a backpack. The boy suddenly knelt down: "Please! I've been queuing for six hours, just let me touch it! Just a touch!"

New Village, Fifth Avenue Apple Flagship Store.

The once crowded experience area was now deserted. Store Manager Johnson stared at the long queue outside the Best Buy across the street, his face paler than the white wall behind him. A huge poster there read: "Baijue in stock, limit one per person."

"Sir, would you like to try the new Vision Pro?" A sales associate tried to sound cheerful as he pitched to the only customer.

The bald man glanced at the display case: "Can it open five CAD windows simultaneously?"

"This... currently..."

"Garbage." The man turned and left. "I'm going to queue across the street."

Edo, Akihabara.

Otaku Sato Takashi rushed out of the electronics store clutching the Baijue box he had just snatched, pursued by three maids with bunny ear headbands.

"Takashi-kun! Please transfer it! I'll pay double!"

"Triple! Cash payment!"

Sato, while sprinting, didn't forget to shout back: "Give up! This is for opening a virtual maid cafe!"

He turned into an alley and suddenly braked. Ten burly men dressed as bosozoku blocked the intersection. The blond leader swung a metal baseball bat: "Little brother, can I see your box?"

New Union, New Village Stock Exchange.

In the Huge Rong Consortium's trading hall, dozens of traders stared at their screens, their fingers frantically tapping on keyboards.

"Gray Rui stock price broke through support!"

"Strong Rise sell-off intensified!"

"Medical ETF capital outflow set a record!"

The Dow Jones fell 300 points! The medical sector collectively plummeted!" Emergency news from UNN and FOXS flashed across the screens in the trading hall.

"What the hell! Apple launched a phone and it was fine, so why did this break the medical sector again?" Low Prosper trading director Mike Watson roared, tugging at his tie, "Buy! Anything related to the holographic industry chain, sweep up as much as you can!"

His assistant Anna softly reminded him, "But... Longteng Technology's core technology is Titan's, and we can't buy that."

Mike Watson sneered, "Then buy the supply chain! Buy graphene! Buy everything even remotely related!"

Anna quickly scrolled on her tablet, "Boss, abnormal capital flow detected! White Stone Group is aggressively buying Longteng Technology supply chain stocks!"

"Damn it! That was fast!" Mike slammed his fist on the table. "Follow suit! Focus on sweeping up EastWei supply chain, graphene concepts, and optical components!"

An intern in the corner whispered, "But, can these companies really get Titan's technology?"

Mike sneered, "Does it matter? As long as retail investors think they can!"

Emerald Principality, Mandala, the hottest coffee shop in New City District.

Why was it the hottest? Because this was the coffee shop Francisco Debis loved to frequent. With a senior Titan employee leading the way, a large number of people who wanted to join Titan started staking out here.

Riding on coattails, it's not shameful.

Zhou Ping slapped his phone onto the table, the screen displaying a prominent "Order Confirmed" page.

"'Copper Coin' is the GOAT!" He took a big gulp of his iced Americano. "This script for flash sales is too powerful!"

Li Ming, sitting opposite him, rolled his eyes. "Do you know that the company's intranet suddenly had a 1% increase in traffic load because of this? The department logistics are even planning to issue an announcement."

"What's there to be afraid of!" Zhou Ping proudly shook his phone. "We used the employee privilege channel, it's reasonable and compliant~ By the way, do you want one? I can get you one from the second batch?"

Li Ming suddenly lowered his voice, "I heard that the technology research and development department has already prepared the military version?"

Zhou Ping's smile froze. After glancing left and right, he leaned in. "Shhh—that thing is called 'Bai Ze', and it can directly call satellites. I have a pretty good relationship with a research assistant from the technology research and development department, and he said this thing is purely the most stripped-down version of the company's self-use model..."

Their conversation was interrupted by a sudden news flash.

"Breaking News: New Union Ministry of Commerce announces the inclusion of Longteng Technology on its entity list..."

Zhou Ping and Li Ming exchanged glances and simultaneously burst out laughing. "Again?"

"Seriously, do they have no sense of self-awareness? Who's sanctioning whom?"

"Exactly. Without using nuclear weapons, who can deal with Titan now?"

Eastern Federation, Imperial Capital, a certain architectural design company.

"This... this is impossible..."

Senior architect Wu Ming stared at the holographic model suspended on his desk, his fingers trembling slightly. Three days ago, he received the first batch of 'Bai Jue' terminals, and now, he had just single-handedly completed a proposal—a commercial complex design that would have originally taken a team weeks of non-stop work to finish.

"Old Wu, your efficiency is on steroids, isn't it?" A colleague came over, eyes wide, looking at the constantly rotating 3D model. "The client only gave the brief yesterday, and you've already run the structural mechanics simulation?"

Wu Ming grinned, his finger swiping in the air to bring up material parameters. "Bai Jue's 'Neural Sandbox' mode can simulate building stress in real-time. Look here," he tapped a node, and the holographic image immediately showed the stress distribution map. "Traditional software takes half an hour to render the data; this does it in 3 seconds."

A gasp of surprise suddenly erupted from the other end of the office.

"Holy crap! Everyone, look at the Bilibili!"

Everyone gathered around, only to see a streamer with the ID "I'm a Professional at Making Games" live-streaming on the screen. In front of him, a model of the 'Zeus' space-based weapon from the latest AAA game "Call of Duty 10: Ghosts" was suspended, and his 'Bai Jue' wristband was connected to a PS5 controller. (Fortunately, COD in this world is released slowly, otherwise Ains would have been exposed. Doge.jpg)

"Brothers, I've written a simple conversion plugin!" The streamer excitedly waved the controller. "Now, all games that support 3D rendering can be played with Bai Jue!"

The bullet comments exploded instantly:

【Is this even civilian equipment?】

【Titan: I said this is for office use, but you insist on playing games with it】

【Plugin please! Begging!】

【Probably fast-forwarding to civilian firearms soon (Doge)】

【Holy moly! It's possible! Get one quickly before the government snatches them up!】

New Union, Silicon Valley, a certain tech company conference room.

"This completely overturns our product roadmap."

CTO Mark slammed a report on the table, the stock chart projected on the screen a dismal red. Three days ago, the stock price of their proud VR collaboration platform was halved.

Product Manager Lisa swiped her tablet and brought up a video. "Eastern Federation netizens have already developed at least 12 'unofficial uses' for Bai Jue, and this one is the most terrifying."

In the video, a doctor was using "Bai Jue" for holographic anatomy teaching, with organ models accurate down to the capillary level.

"Medical-grade precision!" Mark took off his glasses and rubbed his temples. "I'd believe it if they sold it for $19,999, but it's only 19,999 RMB?"

The conference room door was suddenly flung open, and the Marketing Director rushed in, holding his phone. "Latest news! Longteng Technology has opened up its developer SDK!"

Eastern Federation, Hangzhou, a certain internet giant.

"Brothers, charge!"

Programmer Xiao Wu slapped his "Bai Jue" wristband on the table, and over twenty people in the office looked up simultaneously. Their team had just received the first batch of developer kits from Longteng Technology.

"I've been studying the SDK documentation for three days!" Xiao Wu excitedly brought up the holographic interface. "I found that Bai Jue's 'Neural API' can directly call local computing power! Look at this!"

With a swipe of his finger, a complex code matrix immediately unfolded in the air. Unlike traditional IDEs, these code blocks floated like Lego, ready to be reassembled at any time.

"I made a visual programming plugin, now even product managers can write code!"

Product Manager Old Wang looked up at the sound. "Really?" He leaned over and tried to drag a few logic blocks. Three minutes later, a simple web crawler actually started running.

"Can I change careers?" Old Wang murmured.

East Ocean, Edo, Akihabara.

Otaku Sato Eusuke rubbed his dark circles and knelt before the holographic projection, hands clasped together. "Kore koso mirai da! (This is the future!)"

His "Bai Jue" was projecting a life-sized virtual idol, perfectly replicating the concert experience and even adjusting its dance moves based on his brainwave feedback.

In the live stream, bullet comments refreshed at a rate of hundreds per second:

【This interactivity! Official light sticks can be thrown away!】

【Tutorial please! How to import idol data into Bai Jue?】

【Titan Technology, the savior of the two-dimensional world!】

Suddenly, the idol in the projection blinked and said in Japanese, "User heart rate detected as too high, recommended to rest ~"

Sato was stunned. "You can speak Japanese?"

"Bai Jue is equipped with a real-time neural translation module." The idol tilted her head playfully. "Would you like to try bilingual conversation mode?"