498: Chapter 497 The Public Intellectuals' Regret!

The United States.

498: Chapter 497 The Public Intellectuals' Regret!

The United States.

Los Angeles.

In a luxury mansion located in Beverly Hills.

The atmosphere was so oppressive that it felt like it could be wrung out like water.

On the massive 8K LCD TV in the living room.

The rebroadcast of the Chinese Spring Festival Gala was still playing on a loop.

That festive music and the faces beaming with happiness.

Were now like sharp knives.

Repeatedly slicing through the nerves of everyone present.

Xu Siyun.

He was once an economics professor at a famous university in China.

And also a "public intellectual" who was once somewhat famous in the Chinese financial circle.

Three years ago.

Relying on article after article attacking China and touting the status of the United States as a "beacon."

He successfully obtained a green card for the United States.

Achieving what he called "class transition."

Tonight.

Xu Siyun invited a group of people just like him.

Over 30 "elite" Chinese who had fled China, as well as graduate students studying in the United States.

They had intended to throw a party.

To spend New Year's Eve together in their spiritual homeland.

But the champagne for the party was still sitting in the ice bucket.

Not a single sip had been taken.

The exquisite food was also left untouched on the table.

No one paid any attention to it.

Everyone looked as if they had been hit by a paralysis spell.

Staring blankly at the TV.

"Fake... This must be fake..."

A man wearing gold-rimmed glasses muttered to himself.

He was formerly a sociology professor at Shuimu University.

Famous for touting the "United States model" as the ultimate form of humanity.

"This kind of technology... it completely defies the laws of development!"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"What about their costs?"

"What about their input-output ratio?"

"This is definitely another monstrous lie concocted by China!"

"Right!"

"It must be!"

Another person immediately chimed in.

He used to be a lawyer.

Most skilled at arguing for the "illegitimacy" of China from various angles.

"Kunlun Armor coverage for the entire population?"

"Do you know how much that costs? How much manpower and material resources it requires?"

"Those aren't just some industrial toys, but over a billion sets of high-end Exoskeleton Armor!"

"And that Nanke Dreamscape!"

"Brain-computer interface?"

"Damn it, how many years has Musk been working on Neuralink? They're still only experimenting on monkeys now!"

"How could they possibly have quietly and completely non-invasively put it into commercial use like that?"

"This... this is simply a huge insult to our intelligence!..."

"..."

Everyone chimed in one after another.

Desperately trying, from their own professional fields.

To find flaws in this "sci-fi Spring Festival Gala."

Attempting to prove that this was all just a carefully choreographed scam.

Because if all of this was real...

It would completely overturn the beliefs they relied on to live.

And shatter the sense of superiority they had built up over the past few years.

Into pieces!

Xu Siyun did not participate in their discussion.

He just stared intensely at the screen.

At the young figure surrounded by the cheers of countless people—Lin Mo.

As a former famous figure among The Doves in the Chinese academic world.

He and Professor Ai Chongfeng, the representative figure of The Hawks.

Had publicly clashed no fewer than ten times.

Regarding Professor Ai Chongfeng and his prized student Lin Mo.

Xu Siyun understood them very deeply.

From the Kunlun Exoskeleton Armor, to the Xuan Nu Aerospace Fighter, and then to the later Azure Dragon Supplement...

The miracles created by this young man.

Broke conventions time and time again.

Subverted perceptions.

At first.

Xu Siyun, like his friends.

Believed this was all just China's propaganda.

An exaggerated "god-making movement."

But later.

The Luan-niao Aerospace Mothership appeared in the sky.

Crossing half the planet directly.

Suppressing the Black Palace.

Breaking the North America continent into fifty scattered state-nations.

Everything proved.

That this was all real!