344: Chapter 344 Ultimate Fantasy

"Solving the growth issues of white-collar workers?"

Yang Tongan repeated these words, his hand, which had been holding a teacup, tightening involuntarily.

His gaze shifted from initial scrutiny to contemplation, and finally, into a bottomless shock.

The bigwig's lips moved slightly, as if a thousand words were stuck in his throat, but in the end, it only transformed into a whisper suppressing countless emotions.

"What a 'second world' indeed."

He raised his head, staring intently at Lin Yuan, his voice raspy.

"I originally thought it was just a shelter you prepared for those ordinary people who lost their jobs due to automation."

"Or rather, a 'public opinion harvesting ground' you built in advance to make it easier for you to throw out more 'earth-shattering remarks' in front of the whole world later."

"After all, as long as billions of people are connected to this network around the clock, the efficiency of making them see or believe whatever you want will be hundreds or thousands of times higher than in reality."

"But I didn't expect..."

He looked at Lin Yuan, his gaze filled with a bit more contemplation.

Only at this moment did Yang Tongan truly catch a glimpse of the terrifying scale beneath the surface of that magnificent iceberg known as the "second world."

This virtual network, which exploded across the globe at the press conference and was regarded by billions as the ultimate fantasy.

The strategic significance it carried behind the scenes was far, far more profound than he, or even Old Long, had initially imagined.

"Your brain..."

Yang Tongan shook his head, his voice filled with heartfelt emotion.

"When I heard Old Long relay your plan, I thought that was the entirety of this game of chess."

"But today, you just casually flipped open the tip of the iceberg, and there was actually another layer hidden underneath."

His gaze fell on Lin Yuan, his eyes deep.

"Do you even know how many layers this thing has?"

Lin Yuan picked up his teacup, the warm tea misting up and obscuring the flash of a smile in his eyes.

"You flatter me, Old Yang."

His tone was relaxed and casual, as if he were discussing something perfectly ordinary.

"I'm just in the habit of thinking a few steps ahead before doing anything."

"After all, what the second world can do is far more than what we can imagine right now."

Lin Yuan certainly wouldn't explain in detail at this moment exactly how many possibilities the underlying architecture of the second world could support.

Some cards didn't need to be laid out on the table all at once.

Watching his calm and breezy demeanor, Yang Tongan eventually just laughed helplessly and didn't press further.

Having dealt with this kid for so long, he knew it too well—

The more indifferent he appeared, the more it meant that the game of chess in his mind was larger than anyone could imagine.

Since he didn't want to say it now, then there was no point in asking.

In any case, the day the results came out, the whole world would join him in trembling with shock.

With a shift in his thoughts, Yang Tongan's train of thought quickly returned to a more realistic level.

He sat up slightly, hands resting on his knees, and cut straight to the point.

"Fine, you decide the strategic matters."

"Since the blueprint has been drawn so perfectly, then according to the terrifying fully automated production efficiency of Xishan Base..."

"The fully immersive access equipment for the second world should be ready soon, right?"

Lin Yuan put down his teacup and nodded slightly.

"The production process for the core of the equipment is indeed much simpler than that of the genetic stock solution and mechanical prosthetics."

"Furthermore, the composite materials required are also much easier to obtain than the other two. With our country's existing industrial foundation and resource reserves, we can fully support the massive consumption."

"However..."

Lin Yuan paused for a moment, his gaze becoming a bit more profound.

"The problem is not in the breadth of resources, nor in the technical barriers."

Yang Tongan's brows twitched, his eyes focused as he waited for what came next.

"The problem lies in quantity."

Lin Yuan extended a finger and gently drew a circle in the air.

"With over a billion people nationwide, even if we release them in batches, for the first round of rollout, we need at least hundreds of millions of sets of access equipment to barely cover the first batch of core user groups."

"Even if the production process is mature and resources are abundant, with a quantity of hundreds of millions of sets, production and preparation take time."

Hearing this, Yang Tongan did not show any signs of impatience, but nodded extremely steadily.

He naturally understood this principle too.

"Moreover, besides production capacity, there is another more critical physical limitation."

Lin Yuan continued, his tone steady.

"The fully immersive experience of the second world has a massive and real-time data throughput. It must be built on the foundation of comprehensive, dead-zone-free coverage of the seventh-generation communication network."

"The equipment I mentioned just now is merely the 'key' to entering the second world."

"And the seventh-generation communication network covering the whole country is the 'door' that carries everything."

Lin Yuan looked at Yang Tongan and made an extremely vivid analogy.

"The door hasn't even been built yet; even if we hold many keys in our hands now and distribute them to the citizens, they are just a pile of useless scrap metal."

"Although the satellite networking of the space-based network is basically complete, the renovation of the ground-based seventh-generation signal receiving base stations is still proceeding according to plan."

"For this part, we have to rely on our Xia country's infrastructure engineering teams to work day and night, laying them out station by station."

"And according to the current progress, it is expected that we still need..."

Speaking of this, Lin Yuan deliberately paused.

Meeting Yang Tongan's urgent gaze, a relaxed smile suddenly bloomed on his face.

He slowly extended one finger.

"One month."

"One month..."

Yang Tongan's expression changed when he heard this number, but he quickly grasped the key point.

"Wait, since the base station renovation takes one month... then could it be?"

Hearing Yang Tongan's reaction, the smile on Lin Yuan's face grew even wider.

"That's right, Old Yang!"

"One month is not just the construction period for the base station renovation. It is also the time when the first batch of equipment will come off the production line!"

"At that time..."

"The door and the key will be delivered to the hands of our 1.4 billion citizens simultaneously."

"One month from now, we will open the true... second world."

"..."

Yang Tongan fell silent.

For a grand project capable of overturning the existing social structure and changing the course of human civilization, "one month" was so short it sounded like an unrealistic, crazy statement.

But coming from Lin Yuan's mouth, it seemed to have become the most unbreakable promise.

After a long while, Yang Tongan slowly raised his head, looking at Lin Yuan with an extremely complex smile on his face.

"Good kid..."

"Then I'll wait for one month."

"I want to see with my own eyes exactly how you will overturn this world again in one month!"