Chapter 64: Rare Footage of Early Human Taming of Cruise Missiles

In the three days following his lightning-fast end to the stream, Li Jiajun completely vanished from the public eye.

During these three days, he ate and slept at the factory, leading his team of equally fired-up Master Craftsmen to perform the final integration and debugging of that violent "Electromagnetic Pulse Drive Engine" and the prototype "Optical Stealth Coating."

The entire factory was immersed in a tense yet exciting atmosphere.

On the internet, discussions about that "toy car" with a top speed of three hundred kilometers per hour caused a massive stir in Li Jiajun's fan groups and related tech forums. Fans repeatedly watched and analyzed the video clips of the stress test frame by frame, sharing them wildly in small circles with sensational titles like "..." and "Redefining Toys, Starting from the Li Family Toy Factory."

Countless fans flooded Li Jiajun's dark livestream room to leave messages. The content gradually evolved from initial shock and skepticism into uniform teasing and demands for updates.

“Main Streamer, it's been three days! Is your ‘dragon rider’ finished yet?”

“Exactly. I've watched that engine test video so many times it's practically worn out. You didn't brag too much and now don't know how to wrap things up, did you?”

“I bet that's it. That speed last time must have been an accident. He definitely used speed-up special effects, hahaha!”

Amidst this widespread attention and eager anticipation, at exactly eight o'clock on the third night, the screen of the livestream room that had been dark for three days finally lit up.

The title of the livestream was, as always, full of Li Jiajun-style arrogance and humble-bragging: "dragon knight no. 1 Officially Released! Redefining Your Imagination of the Word 'Toy'!"

Less than a minute after starting, fans who had heard the news and onlookers drawn by the buzz packed the room. The number of online viewers broke the thirty thousand mark, and the bullet chat was so dense it almost completely covered the screen.

In the frame, Li Jiajun stood in the largest open space in the center of the factory. Behind him sat an incredibly stylish small car.

This was the completed form of "dragon knight no. 1."

Its overall design was a perfectly scaled-down hard-core off-road vehicle. The body lines were full of muscularity and power; the high chassis, wide off-road tires, and sharp contours all manifested a powerful desire for conquest. The entire body was sprayed with a deep matte black. Under the lights, that black seemed capable of absorbing all light, giving off a heavy and dangerous feeling.

However, that was all there was to it.

Aside from the cool styling, it looked like a well-made, ordinary children's toy car.

The Netizens who had been waiting for three days were suddenly disappointed upon seeing the finished product. The tone of the bullet chat instantly shifted from anticipation to collective mockery.

“This is it? This is it? Main Streamer, you made us wait three days just to show us this?”

“I'm all ready for this, and you show me this? Where's the promised optical stealth? Where is it? Why don't I see it?”

“LMAO, I knew the Streamer was bragging last time! What 'making light bend around it'? I think he's the one bending the truth!”

“Move along, move along. The Streamer's bluff has been called. This is a massive fail.”

...

Looking at the screen full of mockery, Li Jiajun's lips merely curled into a mysterious smile. This was exactly the effect he wanted: lower their expectations to rock bottom first, then slap them in the face with reality.

He cleared his throat and said unhurriedly to the camera, “family, please stay calm. A great work of art always needs a little buildup before its mysterious veil is lifted.”

As he spoke, he picked up the game-pad-style controller and gave a mysterious wink to the tens of thousands of viewers in the livestream room.

“Watch closely, don't blink. Next comes the moment to witness a miracle.”

As his voice fell.

In the next second, an incredible scene occurred.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands, a ripple like water suddenly appeared on the surface of the deep black body of "dragon knight no. 1."

Immediately after, the outline of the car began to become blurry and transparent at a speed visible to the naked eye, like a block of black ice melting under high heat. The space around it seemed to produce a slight, unreal shimmer due to the distortion of light.

This process lasted less than two seconds.

Two seconds later, that black small car, which had been parked in the center of the open space with such a strong presence, simply "vanished" into thin air.

Completely, without a trace.

The camera clearly captured the empty patch of ground as if nothing had ever been there. If not for the four faint tire marks remaining on the ground, everyone would have thought they had just experienced a collective hallucination.

In the livestream room, the bullet chat that had been scrolling like a waterfall came to a dead stop at this moment.

The entire screen fell into an eerie silence that lasted for five seconds.

Tens of thousands of Netizens simultaneously fell into a daze, their minds blank, completely unable to process this scene that transcended common sense.

Five seconds later.

The pent-up emotions exploded like a volcano!

“!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Holy shit!!!! What did I just see??? Where's the car?! Where did that huge car go?!”

“Oh my god! It... it really turned invisible? This isn't a special effect? Is this not a special effect?! Someone slap me and tell me I'm not dreaming!”

“It's over, I feel like my worldview has collapsed. Newton's coffin lid really can't be held down this time!”

“Why does everyone blame Newton for everything?”

Seeing the screen full of incoherent bullet chat from the shock, the smile on Li Jiajun's face grew even wider.

He pressed the button again. On that empty patch of ground, light distorted once more, a blurry outline emerged from thin air, and two seconds later, "dragon knight no. 1" appeared back in its original spot, perfectly intact.

This time, the atmosphere in the livestream room was pushed to its absolute peak.

Everyone was left with their scalps tingling from the shock of this sci-fi scene, which rivaled a top Hollywood blockbuster.

Li Jiajun, meanwhile, slowly put the controller back into his pocket. Then, facing the camera with an incredibly innocent and matter-of-fact tone, he spread his hands and said:

“You all saw it, right? Just a very simple little optical magic trick.”

“So, how can this not be considered a toy?”