146: Chapter 146 The Smart City Project Exposed, Lu Li Creates a Space Elevator and Goes on a Killing Spree

A streamer with a million followers was lying in the grass of the final circle with three random teammates.

"Brothers, spread out! There's a full squad behind the rock in front. Stay steady, we'll definitely win this!"

He shouted until his voice cracked, only to find that the two health bars representing his teammates in the top left corner had turned grey, indicating they had gone offline.

The only remaining teammate was even more absurd.

He pulled a fragmentation grenade out of his pants and pulled the pin on the spot.

"What are you doing? Don't throw the game!" The streamer shouted in anger.

A voice came through the teammate's microphone, sounding extremely bored.

"What's the point of winning."

"Guanghui Technology's Virtual Helmet is out. Sixty thousand for a real world."

"I'm going to Azeroth to ride a dragon. Who's still here clutching a mouse playing this crappy cardboard game."

With a loud boom.

The teammate turned into a box emitting green smoke on the spot.

The streamer sat blankly in front of the computer, looking at the game screen, suddenly feeling that everything had become extremely dull and boring.

He was also curious about this so-called Virtual Helmet livestream and couldn't help but quit the game to search for it.

...

A "Jian Wang 3" QQ group that had been dusty for many years.

The last message from the group owner was from the day one of them got married and quit in 2014.

Today, the chat box, which had been dead silent for three years, suddenly popped up a message.

[One Sword Cold Fourteen States]: "Brothers, did you watch Guanghui Technology's press conference?"

Less than ten seconds later.

Those long-grey avatars lit up one after another.

[Meow Meow A Sip of Soda]: "Just finished watching. I cried like an idiot in the office bathroom."

[Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs]: "If Jian Wang 3 could be put into the Virtual Helmet, if we could really go back to that Jianghu..."

[My Wife is a Diva] (Group Owner): "I just asked my wife for approval."

[My Wife is a Diva]: "She approved a budget of sixty thousand."

[My Wife is a Diva]: "Old veterans, if that world really opens, let's... guard Kunlun one more time!"

Messages flooded the screen instantly.

Hundreds of adults who had been forced to give up their youth due to the burdens of life regained their passion at this moment.

...

In a large internet cafe in the city center.

The internet cafe manager, Xiao Zhang, yawned while holding instant noodles and patrolling.

He suddenly noticed a very strange phenomenon.

In the entire internet cafe with hundreds of machines, not a single screen was playing a game.

The last time such a scene, where the whole city emptied out, happened was when they won the S-tournament.

He leaned over to look and realized that everyone was wearing headphones, staring excitedly at the same livestream, making various incomprehensible exclamations.

"Awesome! This is what you call a perfect life!"

"Sixty thousand! Just sixty thousand! I'm going to go deliver food tomorrow! No one stop me!"

"Riding a dragon with a girl... This is the ultimate romance of a man!"

Xiao Zhang listened, confused, and squeezed into an empty seat to watch.

When he saw Lu Li's face on the screen, and the groundbreaking virtual world, the instant noodles in his hand dropped to the floor.

As a veteran online novel fan, he understood better than anyone what this meant.

He didn't care anymore, pulled out his phone, and ducked into a corner to watch.

The walkie-talkie in his pocket vibrated crazily; it was the front desk calling him.

He turned a deaf ear, his eyes fixed on the screen, afraid of missing any detail.

He didn't realize at all that when this era he had dreamed of for countless days and nights finally arrived, the first thing to be eliminated would be him, the internet cafe manager.

...

Just when the whole world was immersed in the carnival of complete subversion.

On the empty street of the virtual world, Lu Li raised his hand and pressed it down.

This simple gesture carried an unquestionable, absolute deterrent force.

The noise in the global livestream was instantly suppressed by the system.

Lu Li took Su Qingxue's hand, fingers intertwined.

"Everyone, this is just the beginning."

"Today's press conference is far from over."

As soon as this sentence was spoken, the hearts of hundreds of millions of people, which had just calmed down, were once again suspended in their throats.

This realistic virtual world had already pierced the sky; could there be something even more terrifying?

Lu Li looked directly into the camera, but his vision pierced through the fog of the entire era.

In his mind, there was a very clear map of civilization evolution.

It took humans thousands of years to go from drinking blood and chewing hair to the agricultural era.

It took hundreds of years to go from rural areas to modern cities of steel and concrete.

And now, he wanted to personally push this train of civilization to complete the ultimate leap from traditional cities to a smart city.

This was an irreversible historical torrent.

In his previous life, he also promoted the smart city, but countless capital also flooded into the construction and development of the smart city, monopolizing a large number of jobs for bottom-tier people with technology.

In this life, all of this was led by him, and he would never let these things happen.

Lu Li's voice resounded directly in the minds of billions of people through neural connection.

"I don't know if everyone still remembers."

"At Guanghui Technology's first mobile phone launch, I said we would define the next decade."

"The virtual world is just the first step in reshaping the human spiritual home."

"In the next nine years, Guanghui Technology will fully launch the [smart city] plan."

Snap.

Lu Li snapped his fingers.

The cyberpunk city behind the two instantly disintegrated and reorganized.

Holographic projection built a future city with extreme realism.

"Unmanned flying cars will completely replace the congested morning and evening rush hours."

"The ultimate artificial intelligence will take over every traffic light and every underground pipe network in the city."

"Restaurants, cinemas, milk tea shops, fresh food stores, and even hairdressing and beauty salons will be fully replaced by high-precision Robots."

In the picture, various industrial-grade sweeping Robots were tirelessly cleaning along the edge of the street.

Between high-rise buildings, silent flying cars shuttled in an orderly manner.

"The boundary between reality and virtual will be completely erased."

Su Qingxue stood by the side.

On her beautiful face, she originally maintained the coldness and composure of a female CEO.

As the helmsman of Guanghui Technology, she had long been prepared for the technology of the Virtual Helmet and the pricing of sixty thousand.

So when the outside world went crazy, she didn't even blink.

But at this moment, looking at the holographic image of the smart city behind her, her expression changed.

Lu Li hadn't mentioned this plan to her at all.

She thought the Virtual Helmet was Guanghui Technology's ultimate weapon.

She didn't expect this to be just a stepping stone.

Lu Li actually held the future development process of the entire Chinese civilization in his heart.

She turned her head, her beautiful eyes full of uncontrollable shock and obsession.

...

At the National Exhibition Center in Mingzhu City, in the venue with tens of thousands of people.

Chen Shuyu, who was responsible for maintaining order in the venue, stared fixedly at the big screen.

The walkie-talkie she was holding had long fallen onto the carpet, but she didn't know it.

"Crazy... This guy is really crazy."

"His concept is actually planning the future of all mankind!!"

She muttered to herself, her voice trembling.

From initially despising Lu Li for being a kept man, to now witnessing him kick the entire human technology tree into the future with one foot.

Chen Shuyu's heart was pounding wildly, and that sense of awe for a god completely overwhelmed her.

Jingzhou University female dormitory.

Lu Yaoguang hugged her tablet, rolling wildly on the bed in excitement.

"Ahhh! My brother is so handsome!"

"I want to cut this video and let my best friend see it properly!!"

Her eyes were red, and she was so proud she wanted to shout to everyone that the man standing in the video was her brother, Lu Yaoguang's brother.

Thinking back to when she was young, she thought her brother was annoying, and she wouldn't find a partner like him in the future, someone who went to marry into a rich family.

Who knew that now, her brother was so excellent, could she really find a partner as excellent as her brother in the future?

Qingyang County, Grade 2 Class 3.

Yang Yueru looked at the screen on her classmate's phone, dumbfounded.

"Cousin... so the era you wanted to create is a smart era."

Her eyes were incredibly bright, and her mind was full of that futuristic city full of technology.

Qingyang County Elementary School, Wang Peng was even more showing off.

Holding the Guanghui Mobile Lu Li gave him, he proudly showed the livestream to his followers:

"See that? My brother's future goal is to build a smart city. When that time comes, maybe we'll fly to school!!"

His little girlfriend looked at him with admiration: "Baby, your brother is amazing. You must be tired of playing with the Virtual Helmet, when can I play with it?"

One of the followers next to him was fanning him with a small fan: "Yeah, Brother Peng. After watching your brother's press conference, I realized that others like Lei Jun and Yu Dazui are just bragging about parameters. Your brother's is a real press conference, shocking the world time and time again!!"

Wang Peng leaned back in his chair, enjoying it: "Don't rush. I can invite you to visit my brother's villa when the time comes, but don't call me Brother Peng then."

He had been feeling really great lately; he had become the one who had the final say in the class.

His relationship with his girlfriend was harmonious, calling and playing games every day, simply invincible.

This was all brought by his brother, Lu Li.

...

Meanwhile.

Jingzhou Prison.

Above the wall of the cafeteria hung an old LCD TV.

The prison guard specially tuned to Guanghui Technology's livestream channel.

Fan Yu was wearing prison uniform, hands handcuffed, staring fixedly at Lu Li on the screen.

His once gentle face was now distorted.

His originally shiny hairstyle was now just a buzz cut.

His teeth were gnashing, and the muscles at the corners of his eyes were constantly twitching.

He thought his father could block Guanghui Technology with the traffic of Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment.

Now it seemed that Guanghui Technology had reached a level that Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment had to look up to.

Even his father would have to go and beg Lu Li, otherwise, when Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment wanted to expand the ecosystem content of the Virtual Helmet in the future, would they be shut out?

Naturally, he didn't know that his father had already offended Lu Li to death.

It was impossible to play with him; this time, the Virtual Helmet was killing the Fan Family's hard work.

...

At the press conference.

The internet audience had not yet recovered from the shock of the smart city.

Lu Li's announcement continued.

"After the smart city."

"Our goal is not limited to this blue star under our feet."

The picture behind him suddenly pulled up again.

Through the clouds.

Through the atmosphere.

Directly to the boundless deep space.

Against the pitch-black cosmic background.

A huge metal tower rose from the equator.

Pointing directly to the geostationary orbit.

The cold metal shell reflected the dazzling starlight.

Extremely precise mechanical transmission structures operated silently in a vacuum.

Space Elevator.

This was the ultimate ladder for mankind to move towards the stars and the sea.

"Thank you all for watching."

At this critical node, Lu Li calmly spat out these few words.

The livestream screen was instantly cut off.

The screen went dark.

The global internet, however, ushered in an unprecedented explosion.

"smart city? Is this real or just drawing a big cake?"

"Robots replacing most jobs, rebuilding high-rise buildings from the ground up, that will take at least thirty years!"

"Can we see it in our lifetime?"

"Space Elevator is out too? Is this f*cking a sci-fi movie!"

"Whatever! Guanghui Technology is awesome!"

"Sixty thousand is ready, hurry up and put up the link!"