158: Chapter 158 The Mirror World is now fully open, and the coordinate anchor point is right at my doorstep!

Alien civilization travel timer, Day 8.

Seven o'clock in the morning, B2 level of Pangu Laboratory.

Su Che sat in front of the main console, a solitary waveform displayed on the screen.

This was the 0.3-second anomalous signal captured in the 1200-kilometer orbit last night.

Most of the computing power of the Yiren AI Core was allocated to scanning Earth, while the remaining small portion was decomposing the underlying logic of this signal frame by frame.

The progress bar was stuck at 81%.

Lin Waner walked over and placed the portable smart milk tea machine on the corner of the table.

She pressed the heating mode switch, and the machine emitted a slight hum.

Su Che picked up the freshly brewed oatmeal milk tea and took a sip.

Jiang Yingxue approached, her military boots clicking on the floor.

She pulled out the chair opposite him, sat down, and slapped her tactical tablet onto the desk.

"Silicon Valley is completely finished."

Jiang Yingxue opened a briefing.

"The Oasis Consortium tried to lobby Congress last night to cut off the cross-border network interface."

"The news leaked, and North American netizens directly blocked the headquarters of several giants."

"Wall Street capital withdrew across the board, and the Oasis-X project team was disbanded on the spot."

"The stock prices of several tech giants plummeted through the floor, entering bankruptcy liquidation proceedings."

Su Che swallowed the oatmeal milk tea in his mouth.

"Don't report their news anymore from now on."

Su Che threw the empty paper cup into the trash can.

Tech competition on Earth had lost its meaning; the Dragon Kingdom no longer had any rivals in the civilian and military fields.

He pulled up the space construction footage on the secondary screen.

At an altitude of 400 kilometers.

The luan bird verification ship was releasing the first batch of prefabricated components for the day. Five hundred space infrastructure robots were weaving through the metal framework, and the assembly rate of the Dry Dock's ring base continued to rise.

Liu Huaqiang walked over carrying a stainless steel lunch box, stuffing a bun into his mouth while typing on the keyboard.

"The global scan progress is at 99% and will be finished soon. After the scan is complete, we will conduct the global test today."

Liu Huaqiang placed the lunch box next to the keyboard. "The underlying nesting for the civilian scenario simplification plugin is complete. It will go online tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, along with the global Mirror World."

Su Che nodded, his gaze returning to the unresolved waveform.

He would leave for the Jiuquan Launch Base in the afternoon and rush back tonight.

Alien civilization travel timer, Day 9.

Seven-fifty in the morning.

The hall on the B2 level of Pangu Laboratory was brightly lit.

Fourteen researchers sat at their workstations, their typing speed pushed to the limit.

The 3D wireframe map of Earth on the main screen had completely solidified.

Mountains, rivers, city buildings, and street layouts.

A one-to-one replica of the digital Earth floated silently in the center of the screen.

Liu Huaqiang pushed up his black-rimmed glasses.

"Global mapping data entry is complete, and the full-scale verification of the global scan is finished."

"The physical engine has successfully loaded all elements, and all parameters from yesterday's global test met the standards."

"The interface for the Star Sea Assistant AI is functioning normally."

Liu Huaqiang stood up straight. "Global scan at 100%, global testing successfully concluded!"

Su Che sat in his swivel chair and glanced at the time on his terminal.

Seven fifty-nine.

He picked up the encrypted communication handset. "Jiang Yingxue, initiate the full-channel push."

Eight o'clock sharp.

The underlying firmware for 50 million Star Sea Glasses globally updated simultaneously.

North America, Times Square in New York.

A young man wearing black-rimmed glasses was waiting at a traffic light.

A green, semi-transparent pop-up window appeared in the bottom right corner of his vision: "Star Sea Assistant at your service. The Mirror World global access is now open."

The young man froze in place.

He tentatively raised his hand and tapped the air to confirm.

The real street in front of him instantly faded, and a digital New York built entirely of data rose from the ground.

He was still standing at the intersection of Times Square, but there was no traffic, no noise, only countless virtual light beams representing other users flickering around him.

"Please select your initial residential plot." The mechanical voice of the Star Sea Assistant sounded in his ear.

The young man opened his mouth wide, looking at the global plot selection menu floating in front of him.

From the beaches of Hawaii to the Alps, everything was open for free.

Sakura Country, Akihabara in Tokyo.

A tech blogger was wearing the glasses, doing a street livestream.

The moment the firmware update finished, he summoned a three-story villa directly in the digital street block.

Using a voice command, he planted a cherry blossom tree in the villa's courtyard. The cherry blossom tree grew within two seconds, and the petals drifted down with the wind.

The wind speed and gravity calculated by the physics engine were indistinguishable from reality.

The global social network completely collapsed at this moment.

Fifty million users surged into the Mirror World simultaneously, running, building houses, socializing, and exploring within the virtual Earth.

B2 level of Pangu Laboratory.

The mechanical voice in Su Che's mind rang out frantically.

[Ding! Detected massive user access to the Mirror World global map.]

[User emotional value has seen a significant explosion; the virtual ecosystem independent point pool has begun settlement.]

[New points: +1000 ... +2000 ... +3000 ...]

The numbers were scrolling faster and faster.

In just ten minutes.

The total amount in the independent point pool had broken through the 300,000 mark and was continuing to climb rapidly.

Su Che leaned back in his chair.

He no longer had to worry about the massive amount of blueprints and technical plans needed for the subsequent construction of the Dry Dock.

This virtual ecosystem had become his inexhaustible energy pump.

Liu Huaqiang looked at the concurrent data on the main screen.

"Fifty million users are online simultaneously, and the server load is less than 10%."

Liu Huaqiang wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"The Yiren AI's edge computing combined with cloud collaboration has distributed all the computing pressure onto the users' microcontrollers."

Su Che picked up the water cup on the table and took a sip.

"Open up purchasing rights for the second batch of Star Sea Glasses."

Su Che put down the water cup.

"Quantity: 200 million units. Price remains unchanged."

Jiang Yingxue operated the terminal quickly from the side.

"Order channel is now open."

"Global distribution is expected to be completed within three days."

250 million users.

One in every thirty people on Earth was connected to the Mirror World.

Su Che stood up and walked to the secondary screen.

At an altitude of 400 kilometers.

The luan bird verification ship was docked next to the massive metal framework.

The last piece of special sintered rock-soil substrate was pushed into the designated slot by a robotic arm.

The intense light of the plasma welding torch flashed, and the ring base of the Dry Dock officially closed.

A super artificial ring with a diameter of over two kilometers hung in Earth's orbit.

Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's dedicated line cut into the big screen.

"Chief Engineer Su, the base closure is complete."

Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang stood in the command tower of the Jiuquan Launch Base. "Phase one of the infrastructure task is complete."

Su Che looked at that magnificent metal ring.

"Prepare the supplies for the second phase."

Su Che issued the order.

"Start building the main keel truss. We need to see the prototype of the 100,000-ton class luan bird's skeleton as soon as possible."

The communication was cut.

The sound of typing returned to the hall of Pangu Laboratory.

Su Che turned and walked back to the main console.

Lin Waner walked over pushing a food cart and placed a serving of stir-fried yu-mai lettuce and a bowl of rice on the table.

"Eat something."

Lin Waner handed him the chopsticks.

Su Che took the chopsticks.

In the bottom right corner of the main screen, a red prompt box suddenly popped up.

The highest priority alert from the Yiren AI Core.

The chopsticks in Su Che's hand paused in mid-air.

He put down his bowl, pulled the keyboard over, and tapped it twice.

The parsing progress for that 0.3-second anomalous signal captured in the 1200-kilometer orbit had reached 100%.

Two short lines of conclusion popped up on the screen.

[Physical characteristics of the signal source: non-electromagnetic wave, non-gravitational wave, residual instantaneous radiation generated by high-dimensional space collapse.]

[Parsing result: This signal is a type of high-dimensional space anchor marker. Marked location: Earth's low-Earth orbit.]

Su Che stared at the words on the screen.

This wasn't ordinary radar detection; this was spatial coordinate anchoring.

The guests in the sky were not only traveling; they had also driven a nail into Earth's doorstep.

So that when they arrived, they could point their guns directly at Earth's forehead.

Su Che picked up the terminal and dialed Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's dedicated line.

"Lieutenant General Peng."

Su Che's voice was calm.

"The progress of the Dry Dock must be accelerated; we don't have three years left."