227: Chapter 227 Speaking Freely

The second the name "Lin Yuan" appeared in their push notifications, countless fingers across the territory of Xia were poised to swipe, only to freeze mid-air in a collective reflex...

With incredulous shock and a desperate urgency for fear of missing out on history, tens of millions of fingers tapped the notification simultaneously.

The screen jumped rapidly.

Countless eyes were instantly seized by the ID at the center of the screen, which carried the highest-spec official Gold V Verification—[Lin Yuan]!

Their gazes shifted downward impatiently.

In the empty activity feed, there were no long-winded pleasantries, only four simple words.

"I am Lin Yuan."

It was these four words that caused the brains of countless netizens staring at their screens to completely short-circuit for several seconds.

Their breathing hitched, their pupils contracted violently, and they felt a current of electricity surge from their tailbones straight to the tops of their heads, completely igniting the blood in their bodies!

After a brief moment of dead silence, suppressed emotions erupted in the comment section like a collapsing sea of stars!

"Holy crap? Is this really God Lin's own account?"

"It's not some marketing account using a high-quality imitation or the same name, is it? Are people risking their lives just to chase clout these days?"

"Are you blind upstairs? Open your titanium-alloy dog eyes and look at that Gold V Verification! This is the platform's highest level of real-name authentication. Given God Lin's current status, who would dare impersonate him?!"

"Quick, pinch me! I was just rewatching this morning's livestream and betting with my roommate about when God Lin would open an account, and now it's already out? The national team's efficiency is insane!"

Once it was confirmed that Lin Yuan himself had joined, the comment section—which had been slightly tentative and skeptical—instantly transformed into an unprecedented scene of large-scale "pilgrimage and meme-making."

"Taking a photo in the front row! Soaking up some of God Lin's divine energy!"

"Oh my god, I've never been this close to a living legend! Praying to God Lin, please let me pass my Advanced Mathematics final. If I pass, I'll set up a longevity tablet for you and burn three sticks of incense every morning and night!"

"God Lin, look at me! I'm your long-lost wild wage slave! I've already prepared a truckload of brain-holes for you; I can unload them right now!"

"God Lin, do you need a leg pendant? The kind that's graduated from university, can feed itself, and can shout '666'!"

Xia netizens were venting their extreme fanaticism and worship for Lin Yuan.

Every second, the comment count jumped upward in units of ten thousand.

While the netizens were desperately leaving comments, the platform officials naturally weren't going to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Swoosh—

A bold, oversized red headline banner announcement with full-screen special effects was forcibly pushed to the top of every online user's screen!

[A warm welcome to the Peerless Scholar of the Nation, Academician Lin Yuan, for officially joining this platform!]

The bright red characters were domineering, giving him the ultimate level of prestige.

Subsequently, as this news spread virally, netizens in every other corner of the internet moved quickly upon hearing the news.

Those who were originally playing games, watching shows, or even working overtime flooded into the platform after receiving the news. Countless traffic surged into Lin Yuan's personal homepage like a tsunami.

It wasn't just ordinary netizens; even some usually aloof big influencers and the Blue V Accounts of various official institutions cast aside their status to frantically grab a spot in the front row of the comment section.

This caused the follower count of Lin Yuan's account to jump at a terrifying, scalp-numbing speed.

One million.

Three million.

Five million.

Ten million!

It took less than two minutes to go from zero to breaking the ten-million mark!

Moreover, this number was still skyrocketing at a horrifying rate of tens of thousands per second.

At this moment, the technical monitoring room at the platform's headquarters was a scene of wailing.

"Beep beep beep beep—!"

The piercing sounds of the highest-level red alerts rang out in unison.

The server load indicator lights on the large screen flashed frantically, a blinding red.

The head of the technical department was drenched in sweat. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead haphazardly with his sleeve while shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Mobilize all backup servers! Direct everything to support the main site!"

"Also, what's going on with the firewall? Why are so many overseas IPs suddenly flooding in?!"

"Manager, it's foreigners jumping the Great Firewall! They want to see God Lin too!"

"Damn it, hold the line! If we crash today, we're all getting fired!"

The entire technical department was in chaos. The fingers of every programmer hitting the keys were trembling—they were in a state of painful bliss.

With the explosion of the follower base, the speed at which comments were being left had already far exceeded the limits of an ordinary person's imagination.

"God Lin, when will the giant mechs several dozen meters tall come out? Please include me in the mech pilot selection!"

"May I ask what the requirements for mech pilot selection are? Can someone with nearsightedness fly one? My physical fitness is great; I can run 800 meters in three and a half minutes!"

"Yes, yes, yes! When will the south heaven gate project start recruiting? I want to fly into the sky and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the sun!"

"Coach, I want to pilot a Gundam!"

Fanatical emotions leaped between every character. Everyone was anticipating Lin Yuan's next move.

...

Meanwhile.

Inside an independent dormitory at the Xishan Base.

Lin Yuan leaned back comfortably on a soft sofa, his legs crossed.

He held his phone, looking at the terrifyingly fast-jumping data on the screen and the messages filled with fanatical expectation in the background.

The faint light of the screen was reflected in his deep eyes, and the corners of his lips curled up bit by bit.

"Not bad."

Lin Yuan murmured in a low voice.

This traffic pool, covering 1.4 billion people and even billions more globally, was the perfect breeding ground for his next step: harvesting faith and subverting the laws of physics.

As for now, he certainly didn't intend to let this fanaticism spin its wheels in vain.

He knew well that to turn this earth-shaking traffic into a steady stream of confidence nourishment for the system, he had to give this group of already excited netizens a direct outlet.

He had to give them a guide for action, making them willing participants and the foundation of his "lies."

Lin Yuan's fingers hovered over the screen, paused for a moment, and then began to tap rhythmically.

Tap, tap, tap...

Characters leaped onto the screen one by one. Every word carried the magic power to stir the tides of the era.

A moment later.

Under the watchful gaze of hundreds of millions of eyes across the internet, so intense that people barely dared to breathe.

Lin Yuan's second post was published without warning.

"I have felt everyone's enthusiasm."

"Just as I said in the livestream this morning, after the south heaven gate project, the blueprints for future technology might just be hidden inside your minds."

"Now, my personal account has been successfully established."

"If you have any wild and imaginative ideas, you are free to speak your minds here."