Chapter 207: The Live Broadcast Ends, Widespread Discussion

Inside the livestream room, the audience realized that Jiang Zhe had already gone offline.

Here, the barrage of comments surged in like a tidal wave.

"A natural super-intelligence; this is the intelligence composed of our 1.4 billion Chinese citizens!"

"I really want to see that kind of super-intelligence formed by the hearts of our people. I wonder what kind of existence it would be?"

"It should be benevolent. It will continue to learn, continue to grow, and continue to lead our national fortune to strengthen, making us better!"

"That's right, national fortune; in this way, it seems to be national fortune. The 'Dragon Qi' mentioned by the ancients might be its name in ancient times, right?"

"No, it's not national fortune. Our China is populous, and national fortune already exists. That is the human network composed of each one of us. If such a consciousness is born, it should belong to the child of national fortune. It should be called the 'Child of China'."

"Hahaha, I really want to see what the child of our 1.4 billion people looks like."

"I'm off, I'm off. Let's go to Tieba and the forums to see what the netizens are discussing."

"Don't rush. Maybe Wang Lin will talk about this topic. After all, Teacher Jiang gave him the traffic, so he has to handle it. If he can't handle it, he'll get fired."

"Then let's wait a bit longer."

"..."

Even though Jiang Zhe had gone offline, the livestream room remained lively.

They were all immersed in the discussion of the term 'national fortune'.

At this moment, inside the monitoring room.

Old Wang looked at the content on his phone screen, unable to tear himself away for a long time.

Soon, he looked up at the final traffic numbers.

The television viewership reached a staggering 12 million before the end.

The online livestream room reached an even more heaven-defying 23 million.

"Incredible, this one livestream directly broke through the 35 million mark."

"If it weren't for Teacher Jiang being low-key, the TV station would have to prepare a big cake for breaking viewership records every day."

Subsequently, he reported the situation to the station manager, Old Zhao.

Upon hearing the news, Old Zhao remained as steady as an old dog. After a single "Hmm!", he went silent.

Inside the leadership conference room.

Old Zhao looked at Wang Lin and instructed him sternly: "In a moment, change tonight's topic. Your topic should revolve around 'national fortune' and 'Chinese Humane Consciousness'."

"Your dad said that the current traffic is still very high. As long as you stabilize this wave of traffic, you can take off with the help of Teacher Jiang's traffic."

Upon hearing this, Wang Lin took a deep breath and stood up. "I understand, leader. I can do impromptu speeches too."

To tell the truth, he could not do impromptu speeches.

Wang Lin's skill level was obvious to all. Previously, he was a behind-the-scenes speaker, and now that he was put on the main stage, he definitely couldn't reach Teacher Jiang's level.

But the traffic was right there. If he couldn't do it now, he would never become popular in his life.

After gathering his courage, he walked straight out.

Xiao Shiyi looked left and right. Finding that every leader was still discussing the previous 'Chinese Humane Consciousness', he quietly left the leadership conference room and went to the lounge to chat with Jiang Zhe about the authenticity of the content just now.

At this moment, on the internet.

The moment Jiang Zhe went offline, numerous news items appeared on the internet.

"Shocking, the fermi paradox has been solved!"

"Do you dare to believe it? UFOs have actually already descended upon Earth. UFOs are not rumors, but the truth!"

"Who is protecting Earth from world-ending disasters?"

"Mysterious underground dwellers, why don't they meet with us on the surface?"

"The astonishing fourth type of consciousness; it is the child born from ordinary you, me, and him. If it has a name, it must be called the 'Child of China'!"

"Incredible, the ancient mythological era was actually a high-tech era!"

"Incomprehensible, multiple ancient alien civilizations descended upon Earth. What exactly did they want to do?"

"Jiang Zhe creates a myth once again!"

"..."

A series of eye-catching headlines appeared on platforms like Weibo, Douyin, and Kuaishou.

These news items, as long as they contained the two words 'Jiang Zhe', quickly surged to number one.

A massive number of night owls staying up late clicked in to watch.

They watched the trending Jiang Zhe news one by one, from the fermi paradox to the Child of China.

More or less, everyone had heard of Jiang Zhe. After all, he appeared on the internet frequently, but they didn't know his specific capabilities.

Until... after reading the news, those newcomers were stunned.

"Holy crap, the heaven-defying fermi paradox was directly broken by these UFOs. The key is that I actually checked the videos and pictures he provided, and they were all witnessed by netizens last year!"

"UFOs descending on Earth; it turns out they have always been around Earth. Why didn't they descend to the surface to make contact with us?"

"If you were a high-tech civilization, would you go to make contact with extraterrestrial primitives?"

"I would!"

"Then congratulations to you; then they would too. But would you go to meet ordinary people?"

"This... I probably wouldn't. I would only go to meet the person in charge of this country."

"That's exactly it. The key is that we belong to the same technological civilization society as them. You have weapons that can hurt me, so do you think I would still go to meet you? Before understanding you, I would definitely go to the internet to learn about your information first. After all, the internet is enough. Who would risk meeting you? After all, there are corpses of aliens beaten to death by people online, including cases in our country where aliens were electrocuted or killed by various accidents. Those are all real."

"Hiss... when you put it that way, it seems there's no special necessity, and indeed there's no need to meet. It's just like a jungle photographer, just using a camera to observe, hiding in uninhabited areas to observe. Making personal contact with wild beasts would only lead to a backlash."

"Congratulations, the aliens think the same way, so they are observing us."

"Then the underground dwellers protecting us; the 2013 case seems quite convincing."

"I watched that video. There was indeed a high-speed, hard object that shattered the meteorite. That was definitely not a missile from Russia; the speed simply wasn't enough!"

"Underground dwellers... they should be white people, right? After all, they live underground all year round."

"Too small, your outlook is too small. There are rumors that the underground dwellers are from Atlantis, but this rumor is likely unbelievable. What's more credible is that the underground dwellers are ancient people of various skin colors. If an ancient branch of our human race lived underground, multiplied and lived underground, and then went deeper and deeper underground, then the environment they lived in would be deeper and deeper, and they must be people of various skin colors."

"That's right. It's possible that a branch of our ape ancestors from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago entered underground. In this way, it satisfies the legend of the underground dwellers. Maybe many years ago we lived on the surface together, but later their technology became more advanced than ours."

"It's possible that this is the case; but I'm still quite curious. The Child of China, this concept is really new. Carl Jung even said—there is such a human network, it's just the global human network and the universal human network. The 'Chinese Brain Thought Experiment' proposed by Jiang Zhe, I feel it's really romantic!"

"It must be romantic. It is the child of our 1.4 billion people, except this child is an extremely smart child. Its appearance will definitely protect us from foreign disasters."

"I really want to see it. I really don't know what it will grow up to look like, whether it's a muscular nerd or a pure young girl."

"..."

"Then how do you explain ancient nuclear wars? Could it be that what Jiang Zhe said is correct?"

"Hmm, it's mostly correct. Some details are wrong, but it's not a big deal. Maybe it's true."

"Is there anyone from the archaeology department? Give us an official answer?"

"I am from the archaeology and geology departments. I know about that Hill of Death. It is indeed as Jiang Zhe said; his explanation is convincing. Combined with the mythological era and Nuwa appearing globally, it's actually that the aliens at that time saw that humans were not a threat; different groups of them descended on Earth in batches. Actually, it's not just the Hill of Death; there are such legends and rumors all over the world. He said in previous episodes that the global mythological era was not a mythological era, but a high-tech era. This is convincing, but not much; it can only be used as after-dinner conversation."

"So, is it true or false?"

"True or false is no longer important. In the classic of mountains and seas, there are all kinds of strange beasts. Some strange beasts have appeared on Earth, and some have not. Would you say the classic of mountains and seas is fake?"

"This, I wouldn't say it's fake; after all, I really found real-life cases in the classic of mountains and seas."

"Then that's it; anyway, it's a mix of truth and falsehood. Splitting hairs will only get you trapped. The world, indeed as he said, needs to be a bit mysterious; it doesn't need to have a fixed answer for everything."

"..."

Jiang Zhe's news caused a massive amount of discussion on the internet.

It is visible to the naked eye that after another night of fermentation, it will cause even more discussion!

At this moment, Jiang Zhe is in the lounge, receiving a reward.