154: Chapter 154 The 9.9 Yuan Glasses Are Going Crazy! The Silicon Valley Press Conference Turns into a Funeral!

Near dusk, Workshop No. 3 of Kaitian Base.

The afterglow of the sunset filtered through the high windows, striking the cold, hard alloy floor.

The quantum force field of the Zhulong slowly retracted, and the faint blue light gradually dissipated.

Three palm-sized transparent crystals hovered in mid-air.

Su Che walked forward and took out a specially made anti-static temperature-controlled box.

He didn't wear gloves; he reached out directly, pinched the crystals, and placed them into the box.

"Three optical lens master plates." Su Che closed the box and pushed it to Qin Lan, who was beside him. "The surface roughness is 0.05 nanometers, which is slightly better than the original standard."

Qin Lan took the box and turned to hand it over to the two fully armed Ministry of State Security special agents behind her.

"Urgent air transport via Y-20 at the military airport, airborne delivery." Qin Lan glanced at her watch. "Deliver to the factories in Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Suzhou within three hours."

Su Che nodded and unzipped his hoodie.

"Back to Pangu Quantum Computer."

Nine o'clock in the evening, level B2 of Pangu Laboratory.

The sound of keyboard typing in the hall merged into one continuous stream.

Liu Huaqiang's team was sustaining their lives on Red Bull and black coffee, and the code progress of the underlying engine had reached 75 percent.

Su Che walked to the main console, pulled over a swivel chair, and sat down.

"The algorithm for physical collision volume has been successfully run." Liu Huaqiang pushed up his black-rimmed glasses. "The digital model of the Kaitian Base now possesses basic mechanical feedback."

He hit enter.

On the secondary screen, a virtual metal ball dropped from mid-air, hit the virtual alloy floor, bounced, rolled, and finally stopped at the corner of the wall.

The trajectory of the entire process was identical to the real gravitational environment.

"Progress is good." Su Che looked at the screen.

Wen Bo walked over from the testing area, holding a report in his hand.

"Chief Engineer Su, the self-healing network for the forty-meter test section has been completely inspected." Wen Bo placed the report on the table. "The capillaries are not blocked, and the piezoelectric ceramic array signal is stable."

Su Che picked up the report and scanned it.

"Leave it for now." Su Che set the report aside. "Once the Mirror World goes online, import the data for this section of the skeleton directly. In the future, all structural destruction tests for the mothership will be done in the virtual world."

Wen Bo nodded and turned to walk back to the testing area.

On the AR glasses production side, the assembly lines at the three factories roared day and night, with injection molding machines and chip mounters running at maximum speed.

Batches of thin, black-rimmed glasses were packed into simple cardboard boxes and loaded onto logistics trucks.

The third day, 7:50 AM.

The courtyard house on the Third Ring Road, study room.

On the sandalwood table sat three military-grade encrypted terminals, with all screens lit up.

Su Che leaned back in the large, high-backed chair, holding a steaming bowl of soy milk in his hand.

Lin Waner placed a steamer of soup dumplings on the corner of the table and conveniently took away the half-plate of cucumber salad left over from last night.

Jiang Yingxue walked in wearing a thin black trench coat and pulled out the chair opposite to sit down.

"The production capacity of the three factories is fully maxed out." Jiang Yingxue threw a tablet on the table. "Fifty million pairs of Star Sea Glasses have all been boxed and distributed to one hundred and twenty central warehouses across the country, as well as forward warehouses overseas."

She picked up a soup dumpling and took a bite.

"Domestically on Taobao and Pinduoduo; overseas on Amazon and AliExpress." Jiang Yingxue said while chewing. "The product links are ready, and the flash sale will start promptly at eight o'clock."

Su Che took a sip of soy milk and put the bowl down.

"The overseas price is 1.29 USD, who is paying for the shipping?" Su Che asked.

"China Post and the four major courier companies have joined forces to take this order." Jiang Yingxue swallowed the dumpling. "The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission is covering the bottom line, using sea freight and dedicated lines; overseas users get free shipping."

Su Che took a dumpling.

"Switch the live broadcast from New York over here."

Jiang Yingxue swiped on the tablet, and the projection screen on the study wall lit up.

The screen showed Madison Square Garden in New York.

The venue was packed, and the lights were brilliant.

On the big screen, the CEO of the Silicon Valley giant "Oasis" consortium was standing in the center of the stage.

He was holding a bulky black VR headset in his hand, with a thumb-thick data cable dragging behind it.

"This is the key to the next generation of the Internet." The CEO's voice spread throughout the venue via the speakers. "Oasis-X, equipped with the latest M5 silicon-based chip, possesses a single-eye 4K resolution."

The audience erupted in enthusiastic applause.

"Its price is only 300 USD!" The CEO held the headset high. "It goes on sale globally at 10:00 AM this morning!"

Su Che looked at the image on the screen and took a bite of the dumpling.

Pork and green onion filling, very juicy.

"Time is up." Jiang Yingxue glanced at the time on the terminal.

Eight o'clock sharp.

On domestic and international e-commerce platforms, a product link named "Star Sea - Holographic Glasses" lit up simultaneously.

There were no overwhelming advertisements, no flashy promotional videos.

The product header image was just a pair of extremely ordinary black plastic-framed glasses.

The details page only had one sentence: Holographic overlay, the intersection of reality and digital.

Price: 9.9 Yuan (RMB) / 1.29 USD.

Domestic netizens were the first to discover this link.

"9.9 free shipping? Are there still such cheap AR glasses these days?"

"Is this sourced from the Yiwu small commodities market?"

"Wait, the seller is Huaxing Electronics, which is under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission? Official endorsement?"

"It's not a loss even if I buy it as a toy, I'm going for it!"

The sound of mouse clicks and screen touches rang out simultaneously all over the world.

In the study, the data panel on Jiang Yingxue's terminal began to jump wildly.

"Twenty million units of domestic inventory." Jiang Yingxue stared at the screen. "Three seconds, gone."

Su Che stuffed the remaining half of the dumpling into his mouth.

"What about overseas?"

"The servers for Amazon and AliExpress lagged for five seconds." Jiang Yingxue refreshed the page quickly. "Thirty million units of inventory, sold out in twenty seconds."

Fifty million pairs of glasses, sold out in less than half a minute.

This was not just a dimensionality reduction strike on price; this was a direct slaughter of the Silicon Valley hegemony.

On the screen, the New York launch event was still continuing.

The CEO was just about to demonstrate the virtual social functions of "Oasis-X."

On the giant broadcast screen behind him, a dense row of bullet comments suddenly cut in.

It was the real-time interaction channel of an overseas video platform.

"Buying a brick with a cable dragging behind it for 300 USD? I just spent 1.29 USD to buy a pair of holographic glasses!"

"Star Sea Glasses! Thirty grams! No host needed!"

"The Oasis consortium is just a joke; they are still selling electronic trash from the last century!"

There were more and more bullet comments, quickly occupying the entire screen.

The media reporters in the audience lowered their heads one after another to check their phones.

The camera flashes were instantly aimed at the CEO in the center of the stage.

The CEO's speech stalled.

He turned his head to look at the screen behind him, his originally confident face turning beet red.

Boos began to emerge from the audience.

"Turn off the bullet comment interface!" The CEO shouted into the microphone.

But it was already too late.

The capitalists of Wall Street were sitting in the VIP boxes, looking at the market briefing they had just received, and the champagne glasses in their hands were smashed directly onto the floor.

Fifty million units of equipment had been distributed.

The market share of Oasis-X was wiped out the second before it went on sale.

Su Che took a tissue and wiped his hands.

"Is that all it takes to break their defense?" Su Che leaned back in his chair. "This is just the beginning."

Jiang Yingxue put the tablet away.

"The domestic courier network has already been activated." Jiang Yingxue stood up. "The fastest batch of same-city orders will receive their goods very soon."

Su Che nodded.

"Tell Dean Liu to hurry up." Su Che picked up the bowl of soy milk. "After users receive the goods, they will only be able to see AR overlays in individual spaces; the underlying engine must be sped up."

Jiang Yingxue pushed back her chair and walked out.

Lin Waner walked over and took away the empty steamer.

"What do you want to eat for dinner?"

"Anything." Su Che watched the chaotic launch event on the projection screen.

In his mind, that blue-and-white panel suddenly flickered.

[Ding! Detected a massive convergence of user emotional value.]

[Skill points settlement beginning.]

[Current host has accumulated skill points: 91,000 points.]

[New skill points: +50... +120... +280...]

The numbers began to jump upward at a steady, slow speed.

Although it wasn't much, even mosquito legs are meat.

This was just the emotional fluctuation generated by fifty million users who had just placed their orders.

Once they put on the glasses, and after the underlying construction engine was completed, waiting another five days, the Mirror World would be fully online.

That 120,000 exchange threshold was simply not worth mentioning.

4:30 PM, a high-end office building in the capital.

A young white-collar worker who had just received the package opened the cardboard box; inside lay a pair of ordinary black-rimmed glasses.

With a skeptical attitude, he placed the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

In front of his eyes, the originally ordinary desk instantly changed.

A semi-transparent digital panel hovered above his coffee cup, displaying the water temperature: 45 degrees.

Next to the wall clock, a three-dimensional holographic memo popped up.

He stood up abruptly, his hand knocking over a pile of documents nearby.

There was no dizziness, no delay.

This was not an image displayed on a screen; this was a true reality overlay.

His hands trembling, he took out his phone, recorded a video of what he saw through the lenses, and posted it to social media.

"Brothers, a 9.9 item has rubbed Silicon Valley into the ground!"

The video was retweeted over a million times within ten minutes.

7:00 PM, level B2 of Pangu Laboratory.

Su Che sat in front of the console, watching the constantly increasing user activation data on the main screen.

The computing power of the Yiren AI Core was running crazily.

"Chief Engineer Su." Liu Huaqiang walked over from the main console. "The final piece of the puzzle for the underlying engine, the multi-modal data fusion algorithm, has finished compiling."

He handed a code log to Su Che.

Su Che did not take the log.

He looked at the already formed digital Pangu Laboratory on the big screen.

"Initiate global scan." Su Che ordered.

The Yiren AI Core instantly allocated computing power, and through the global satellite network and Quantum Communication base stations, began to frantically capture the Earth's topographical data.

From the capital to New York, from the Himalayas to the Mariana Trench.

The skeleton of the Mirror World was forming at a speed that surpassed human understanding.

The space Dry Dock for the 100,000-ton interstellar mothership now had the most solid computing power backing it.

Su Che leaned back in his chair.

The guests in the sky were still on their way; counting today as the third day of the alien civilization's voyage, he had to keep a close watch on the timing.

However, Earth's cradle was about to be built.