228: Chapter 228 Landing Imminent!

Less than ten seconds after the second update was posted.

In the technical monitoring room of the headquarters building of the country's largest public opinion platform, the server load indicator lights, which were already frantically testing their limits under high load, all turned deep red in unison.

"Beep beep beep beep—!"

The piercing alarm sounded again like a death-knell melody.

The head of the technical department had just wiped the sweat from his forehead and was holding a cup of freshly brewed goji berry tea, preparing to moisten his parched throat.

Hearing the sound, his hand trembled, and the tea spilled directly onto his thighs, but he didn't even bother to cry out in pain from the scalding heat, instead shouting directly.

"What's going on! Didn't we just add five sets of backup servers for expansion?! Why is the alarm going off again!"

"Manager! God Lin posted a second update!"

"The traffic... the traffic has surged significantly again!"

The manager rushed to the big screen, and seeing the frantically soaring curve, his legs went weak, and he almost failed to stay standing.

On the other side of the screen, the entire internet had completely boiled over.

After seeing that "Speak Freely" update, hundreds of millions of netizens fell silent for a moment.

Then, countless people's eyes turned red, their bodies trembling with excitement, fingers flying as they began a frantic output in the comment section under the update.

Amidst this overwhelming, near-frenzied wishing carnival.

Some quick-witted netizens suddenly stopped their fingers from tapping on the screen.

Their thoughts briefly pulled away from the excitement, and a scalp-numbing idea uncontrollably rose from the depths of their hearts.

"Wait... God Lin just announced the south heaven gate project in the livestream today, and tonight he's already gathering the next R&D direction..."

"Could this mean..."

"That the Aerospace Fighters and Aerospace Carriers in the south heaven gate project have most likely already been produced and completed, and now only mass production is left!?"

Thinking of this possibility, countless netizens felt a chill down their spines, followed by an unparalleled ecstasy!

The nickname "Lin Half-Year" was once again dug out from the depths of memory by countless netizens.

Every time people felt this title was already ridiculous enough, Lin Yuan always managed to refresh their definition of "ridiculous" with something even more absurd.

At the same time.

On The Other Side of the Ocean, in a certain intelligence monitoring center.

In the duty room, a blonde analyst stared intently at the screen, his eyes suddenly narrowing.

His fingers hovered over the keyboard, frozen for a full three seconds, before he suddenly turned to the duty supervisor behind him.

"Sir."

His voice was kept extremely low, yet it couldn't hide the chill coming from the marrow of his bones.

"That Lin Yuan from the Xia Kingdom... he just started soliciting the next stage of scientific research directions from the public on social media."

The duty supervisor's expression changed abruptly upon hearing this.

He naturally understood that a scientist only has the leisure to plan the next step when their current project has entered the final stages or mass production.

And the project Lin Yuan had on hand was called south heaven gate!

It was the ultimate fortress capable of sending all the navy and air forces that The Other Side of the Ocean was so proud of to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish!

"Madman... just how many things is he hiding..."

The supervisor gritted his teeth and slammed a fist onto the table, his voice terrifyingly hoarse.

Three minutes later.

An intelligence brief stamped with an SSS-level emergency confidential red seal was rushed to the supreme command of The Other Side of the Ocean via an encrypted network.

The core conclusion of the brief was just one line—

[The south heaven gate project is suspected to have entered the substantive implementation phase; immediate activation of the highest-level strategic assessment is recommended.]

...

While The Other Side of the Ocean fell into a panic, the Xia Kingdom's internet had completely turned into a sci-fi carnival.

Below Lin Yuan's "Speak Freely" update, the comment section's thread count soared frantically at a rate of thousands of floors per second.

Countless netizens transformed into "folk sci-fi architects," recklessly throwing their wildest and most imaginative fantasies onto the public screen.

"God Lin! Are you going to do Virtual Reality technology? The kind of 'Second World' with 100% realism that can block pain! I've dreamed of experiencing VR games! Holographic projection works too, please!"

Less than ten seconds after this comment was posted, the number of likes exceeded 50,000, and the following replies directly exploded.

"Upvote! Must upvote! I'm willing to trade ten years of my ex-girlfriend's life for a virtual world where I can fly on a sword!"

"Only ten years? I'm going ALL IN! As long as there's a virtual reality world, I'd give away even a hundred years of my ex-boyfriend's life!"

Immediately following, a second highly-upvoted comment emerged.

"Medical nanobots! Just one injection to clear all cancer cells and viruses from the body! God Lin, if this thing can be made, it would truly save countless lives!"

The style of this comment was completely different. The replies below had no jokes or memes, only one realistic message after another that made people's noses sting.

"My mom was diagnosed last year. If such technology really exists... I'm willing to kowtow ten thousand times to God Lin."

"Push it to the top! God Lin must see this one! Isn't the ultimate meaning of technology to save lives!"

The third highly-upvoted comment followed closely, the style shifting into the cyberpunk era.

"Anti-gravity flying cars! Go straight to the sky when you head out! No more being stuck on the Second Ring Road questioning your life!"

"Support! We won't even need to build elevated roads in the future; just draw lanes in the sky!"

"Wake up, upstairs. You can't even pass the reverse entry in the second stage of your driver's license test, and you want to fly? You just want to be an aerial killer, don't you?"

With every wild idea thrown out, the number of likes below soared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Hundreds of thousands, even millions of likes were reached in the blink of an eye.

To squeeze their wishes into the front row, netizens launched an unprecedented vote-gathering war in the comment section.

"Brothers! Virtual Reality party, assemble! Charge for number one!"

"Nano-medicine is the right path! Isn't saving lives more important than you playing games?"

"The Flying Car party says you all suck! We're taking humanity directly into the flight era!"

The entire platform turned into a giant national wishing well.

As emotions continued to heat up, the wild ideas in the comment section inevitably began to spiral towards increasingly ridiculous directions.

"How about a Dyson Sphere? Wrap up the sun to extract energy! Solve the energy problem once and for all!"

"God Lin, look at me! Can you build Dimensional reduction weapons? Dual-vector foil, Droplets, just one of them will do. I want to see if The Other Side of the Ocean still dares to talk trash."

"Your vision is too small! I strongly suggest the Curvature engine be put on the agenda. Let's achieve light-speed travel first and go colonize Andromeda!"

"Upstairs, do you even know what the speed of light is?"

"I don't know, but it's enough that God Lin knows. I'm just responsible for thinking; God Lin is responsible for doing!"

Seeing these increasingly ridiculous messages, some netizens who still had their sanity couldn't help but jump out.

"Can you guys wake up! This isn't the Eternal Dragon's wishing well from Dragon Ball!"

"Exactly, why don't you just ask God Lin to hand-craft a Milky Way galaxy?"

"Stop it, upstairs. I just saw someone wishing for God Lin to make a time machine, saying he wants to go back to the past and buy a few more courtyard houses..."

Complaining aside, not a single person was willing to leave this comment section.

Because everyone knew that the wishes made in this comment section... might actually have a chance of becoming reality.

...

The next morning.

Lin Yuan woke up from his sleep. He reached out to grab his phone by the bed and clicked on the update comments.

He saw that the one firmly holding the number one spot on the like list, crushing all other concepts with a terrifying, landslide advantage, was—

Large Mecha!

"Manned Large Mecha dozens of meters tall!"

"God Lin said in the livestream, if you're going to pilot something, pilot something big!"

"Brothers and sisters, I want to pilot a Gundam!"

The number of likes on this comment had already exceeded 100 million.

In the reply section below, it was a sea of "Support" and "Charge," densely covering over a thousand pages.

Lin Yuan looked at this result and shook his head with a light laugh.

Then, Lin Yuan clicked on that comment and his thumb lightly tapped into the reply box.

His fingertip hovered for a second.

Then, he unhurriedly typed four characters—

"Landing soon!"