17: The leak of Chapter 17 topped the trending searches and continued to escalate online!

Some students shouted, "We absolutely understand! We must understand!"

"Long live China!! Long live the University of Science and Technology of China!! Long live Lin Mo!!"

Seeing that the purpose of the speech had been achieved, Vice Principal Liang communicated with Deputy Captain Zhou of the Supreme Military Region Special Operations Force.

They began to have everyone present sign confidentiality agreements one by one.

It was not until three in the afternoon, after everyone had finished signing, that the military control and signal jamming were officially lifted.

"Holy shit! I'm fucking starving!"

"You talk too much, clearly you aren't hungry enough yet. I'm out of here!"

The ravenous university students rushed towards the cafeteria for food, while those from other schools had to go out to eat.

Everyone sighed, agreeing that while it was certainly a trip worth taking, they wouldn't come again!

If they did, they would have to bring their own rations in advance!

A junior student, however, was in no rush to go to the cafeteria.

He returned to his dormitory, first boiled a kettle of water, and prepared a cup of Old Altar Pickled Cabbage Beef Noodles. Then, he opened his laptop and connected his Fruit phone.

After some operations, the photos and videos that had been completely deleted were miraculously restored!

"This is it!" the student said, extremely excited while slurping his noodles.

He put down the noodles and quickly logged onto the forum. He drafted an explosive post title and uploaded all the photos and videos.

"Warning, warning! This is not a sci-fi movie! Individual Exoskeleton Armor soldier exposed! The developer is actually a university student!"

The post quickly became popular. It was mainly the blurry video footage that caused many people to be skeptical.

"What the f*ck!! This black alloy armor is way too cool!!!"

"What the hell is that, lifting a truck???"

"Holy crap, is this fake?? And you're saying this isn't a sci-fi movie?!"

"You idiot OP, you didn't even know to zoom in the camera? It's too far to see clearly!!"

In the video, a person wearing dark matte alloy armor looked like a future soldier straight out of a sci-fi movie. They moved nimbly and agilely in the testing field. The action was explosive, every single frame!

At this moment, in the Supreme Military Region, on the third floor of the General Armament Department office building, the Strategic Intimidation Bureau.

"Report to the Director! As of now, we have monitored three sensitive public opinion sources regarding the Individual Exoskeleton Armor!"

"The sources are from the B11 dormitory building at the University of Science and Technology of China, the Gaoli Group office building, and the fifth building of the Yuandi residential complex!" A field officer in military uniform wearing a headset reported over the phone. Shortly after, a voice came back through the receiver.

"Proceed as planned!"

"Understood!"

At the University of Science and Technology of China dormitory building, the student was arguing fiercely with people on the forum. The vast majority of people expressed that they absolutely did not believe it, insisting it must be a sci-fi movie, and even started cursing the student's family. The student couldn't help but retort angrily.

"The hell, are you all idiots? Don't you know how to look at the surroundings? It's all students, and there are so many leaders there! Who the hell has the spare time to shoot a sci-fi movie for you to watch!"

The student organized all the profanities he had learned in his life, and even specifically looked up some on Baidu, preparing to curse them all back. Suddenly, the dormitory door was kicked open violently. Several Dragon Army soldiers stormed in.

"Hua Feng, you are suspected of leaking state SSS-level secrets. Come with us!"

The student, named Hua Feng, turned pale. He was so scared that he peed himself!

At the same time, the leakers at Gaoli Group and the Yuandi residential complex were also invited to the military region for tea.

"Report to the Director, the leakers have been captured. Should we initiate the next step of the plan?"

"Initiate immediately!"

"Yes!"

At seven o'clock that evening, the golden time when everyone had finished dinner and was enjoying entertainment.

"Quick, look at Weibo, there's explosive news!"

"What, what? What explosive news? Which celebrity is on drugs or cheating? Let me see!"

"See for yourself, the first trending search!"

At this moment, the top three trending searches on Weibo all had the suffix "Explosive!"

"Trending Search 1: On-site video of Chinese black technology exposed, the armored soldier is so cool! (Explosive)"

"Trending Search 2: Lifting a two-ton truck cab? Still dare to say this isn't a sci-fi movie! (Explosive)"

"Trending Search 3: Military Science Expert: It is cutting-edge Individual Exoskeleton Armor technology! (Explosive)"

The on-site videos, especially the few explosive scenes, were made into short clips and GIF memes by some netizens and were flying all over the Weibo platform.

"The armored soldier's speed rivals a sports car, moving like the wind!"

"The armored soldier leaps several meters high!"

"The moment the armored soldier lifts the truck!"

With countless netizens frantically reposting, in just one hour, the entire Weibo platform was ignited like a powder keg!

Especially since some videos were deleted by Sina as soon as they were posted, and despite rushing to the trending searches in a short time, they were suppressed to the bottom of the list, only to be pushed back to the top by netizens again. This only aroused everyone's curiosity even more. The popularity of related topics kept rising, taking up eight of the top ten spots on the trending list. Even an explosive trending search about an A-list celebrity cheating was pushed down to seventh place.

Among the countless related videos, the most popular one had already reached over 2.2 million likes and 600,000 reposts. The comments below were varied, with more than half being skeptical.

"It must be fake! There are actually people who believe this kind of video?"

"Wearing a suit of armor can lift a truck? Do you know how heavy a truck cab is? Do you take others for fools?!"

"Here's a joke: videos can't be Photoshopped, so this is real (serious face)!"

"Hahaha, believe it or not, I don't!"

"..."

However, some netizens who were full of confidence in China or had observed carefully expressed,

"You're all idiots, which eye did you see cameras and equipment with? There isn't even any wire rigging! How can it be a staged video? It's obviously real!"

"This is a video shot on the fly, look clearly! The phone is shaking! How could it be fake!"

"China is rising! Breaking through the sanctions of Eagle Country!"

"..."

The news continued to ferment. It spread crazily not only on the Weibo platform but also through platforms like Tencent, WeChat, and Toutiao. The comments on related videos were refreshing rapidly.

At this moment, a famous big V with three million followers, "Great Nation Ark," reposted the video and added a caption.

"Some people must have just finished a full meal, isn't it too early to start dreaming?"

"Eagle Country has nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, manned moon landings, and fifth-generation stealth fighters, with a technological level far exceeding China by several generations, and even they haven't researched any so-called Exoskeleton Armor."

"Someone asked me to comment, so I'll just say this: if you're going to shoot a sci-fi movie, you could use a little more imagination!"

A famous pro-American public intellectual officially posted an article, and many spiritually American people, like flies finding hot shit, gathered in the comment section to start reveling.

"A bunch of brainless little pinks were just chasing me to criticize me, it's hilarious! With the backward China as it is now, wanting to catch up to Eagle Country's technological level will take at least fifty years!"

"Eagle Country's free education can nurture super geniuses, while your country's exam-oriented education is destined to only produce a bunch of high-scoring, low-ability losers!"

"..."

"Hahaha, I'll put it on the record today, if this stupid video is real, I'll livestream myself eating shit while doing a handstand!"