219: Chapter 219 What we have always valued is winning people over with virtue.

Lin Yuan's voice, carried by the global live broadcast signal, reached the ears of billions of people.

The live broadcast screen experienced an eerie two-second vacuum.

Not a single bullet comment floated by.

Everyone stared fixedly at the young man in battle armor in the center of the screen, their brains completely losing the ability to think.

Two seconds later, the volcano of emotion erupted!

"Holy shit!"

"A contemporary dream-maker! Long live God Lin!"

"'You do the imagining, I'll do the realizing!' This is the most domineering and romantic thing I've ever heard in my life, no exceptions!"

Under the extreme stimulation of "national dream fulfillment," the direction of the bullet comments underwent an unprecedented sudden change.

Countless people had bloodshot eyes, frantically pounding their keyboards, recklessly smashing their wildest, even daily unimaginable sci-fi fantasies onto the public screen.

"In that case, how about a space elevator? I want to travel to low-Earth orbit!"

"A holographic projection gaming pod! The kind with 100% pain suppression, I want to cultivate immortality while flying on a sword in a virtual world!"

"Can you make deep-sea ecological cities? Let's go 20,000 leagues under the sea!"

"Nano-medical robots! Just one shot, curing all terminal illnesses! God Lin, this could really save the lives of billions!"

An unprecedented "national sci-fi wish-granting carnival" was completely ignited in the live broadcast room.

Lin Yuan watched the dazzling live comments and chuckled.

He raised his right hand, palm down, and pressed it down slightly in a calming gesture.

"Alright, I know everyone is very excited right now."

"But you're scrolling too fast, I can't read a single one, we can't communicate properly like this."

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, the speed of the bullet comments slowed down slightly, and countless people pricked up their ears.

"Like this."

Lin Yuan tilted his head, his tone casual.

"After this live stream ends, I will open a real-name verified personal account on domestic social platforms."

"In the future, if you have any wild ideas, you can leave them there."

He looked directly into the camera, a meaningful smile on his face.

"I can give everyone a small promise: for future research directions, I will likely draw from the ideas in the high-voted comments."

"As long as you dare to imagine, as long as your voices are loud enough..."

Lin Yuan paused, and smiled, enunciating each word, "I will dare to turn it from fantasy into reality-based sci-fi!"

The second his words fell, the bullet comments in the live stream refreshed frantically at a terrifying speed.

"What!!! High-voted ideas might actually be researched by God Lin!!!"

"I'm going crazy, for the first time in my life, I feel like scrolling through a social media platform is participating in history!"

"The wish I just made was for a space elevator, God Lin, did you see it, did you see it?!"

Meanwhile, on The Other Side of the Ocean, inside that white building.

The big shot stared fixedly at the screen, veins bulging on the back of his hand, knuckles white.

"Absurd!"

He slammed his fist onto the solid wood table.

"National wish-granting? Does he think he's God?"

The voice echoed in the conference room, but could not hide the trembling within.

The intelligence executives and advisors below kept their heads down, no one dared to respond.

From the perspective of scientific common sense, they instinctively felt this was extremely absurd.

Scientific research is rigorous, requiring long cycles and countless trials and errors; how could he build something just because a group of netizens randomly proposed an idea on a whim?

But... looking at that young man from Xia Country on the screen, a chilling thought took root in everyone's heart.

What if?

An extremely oppressive silence and boundless fear shrouded the entire The Other Side of the Ocean.

The scene cut back to the live broadcast room.

Seeing that the timing was just about right, the smile on Lin Yuan's face restrained a little.

"Alright, since there's no need to elaborate on the subsequent boring technical parameters, our live stream today is about to come to an end."

A wave of wailing quickly floated across the bullet comments, the whole screen filled with comments like "Don't go, God Lin."

Lin Yuan ignored these pleas to stay; he stood in place, his posture as straight as a pine tree.

"However, before officially ending the stream..."

"I still have a few heartfelt words I want to take this opportunity to say to friends all over the world one last time."

As soon as he spoke, the bullet comments that had been flooding the screen consciously decreased all of a sudden.

"I guess many people, before watching this live stream, or even after watching the south heaven gate concept I just described..."

"Must be whispering in your minds."

Lin Yuan spread his hands and said with a smile.

"That is, Xia Country suddenly made such a big scene, even throwing out the south heaven gate, is this a show of military deterrence?"

As soon as this sentence came out, audiences both domestic and abroad were collectively stunned.

The high-level officials in the conference room on The Other Side of the Ocean suddenly looked up, looking at each other, faces full of shock.

The unspoken rule of diplomatic occasions has always been to see through it but not say it.

No one expected that Lin Yuan would ruthlessly poke through this layer of window paper directly in front of billions of people around the world.

But Lin Yuan didn't care about the shock of all parties at all.

He didn't use any high-sounding diplomatic rhetoric to whitewash, but instead nodded with a smile, extremely generously.

"That's right."

"Everyone's feeling is correct, your intuition is very sharp."

"This is deterrence."

"There's nothing to be ashamed of admitting."

Extreme straightforwardness brought an extreme sense of contrast and satisfaction.

Netizens in the domestic live broadcast room were stunned at first, then cheered wildly.

"Holy shit, God Lin, you really dare to say anything!"

"This kind of candor... I actually think it's super cool! Cool as hell!"

"I'm just deterring you, what can you do about it? If you're not convinced, come hit me!"

Lin Yuan didn't care about other people's opinions at all; he even continued slowly in a tone like chatting at home.

"Actually, friends who are familiar with our Xia Country history all know."

"Our Xia Country, at its core, is a pure agricultural civilization."

"Our nation, everyone's biggest hobby, and also the simplest wish, is to quietly guard our own little plot of land, do some farming, engage in construction, and let the common people live a good life."

"What we have always advocated is to convince people with virtue."

Speaking of this, Lin Yuan paused.

"But just because we only want to farm doesn't mean we like to be disturbed."

"It's just like when everyone grows vegetables in their yard, you always have to build a sturdy enough fence and raise a few guard dogs."

"And this is the meaning of the existence of the south heaven gate!"

Lin Yuan looked directly into the camera, piercing through the screen and into the marrow of everyone with ulterior motives.

"If there are really uninvited guests who come to the door, wanting to trample our crops, or even wanting to steal our seeds..."

"Then, I'm sorry."

"Just like the Chengying Mecha yesterday, the south heaven gate will appear anywhere it is needed."