67: Chapter 67 The air is filled with energy! Even hoverboards have appeared!
The Eagle finally yielded.
They used aircraft carriers to haul ship after ship of ink-smelling "green paper," lining up at the ports of the Dragon Kingdom to exchange them for the pitifully small amount of "dragon coin" that represented the future.
And the Dragon Kingdom very "thoughtfully" sent this "green paper" straight to public restrooms across the country.
For a time, "wiping one's butt with US dollars" actually became the newest and trendiest fad in the Dragon Kingdom.
With the establishment of the "dragon coin" system and the proliferation of infinite energy, the entire Dragon Kingdom society entered an unprecedented era of explosive imagination and creativity!
When the cost of energy approached zero, countless scenes that had once only existed in science fiction novels began to appear in streets and alleys in a wild, unbridled manner.
This day, in the capital.
In the busiest square in the city center.
A group of young people were stepping on skateboards flashing with neon lights, chasing and playing freely in mid-air!
Without any external force, they were just hovering in the air half a meter above the ground!
Performing all sorts of mind-boggling anti-gravity extreme stunts!
Things like "Thomas flares" and "720-degree spins" made the surrounding onlookers gasp in amazement!
These were the newest trendy toys that had recently swept the nation—hoverboards!
Their principle was extremely simple.
It was just a small wireless energy receiver, plus four low-power anti-gravity engines.
All the materials could be bought online.
The total cost for the whole set was no more than three hundred dragon coins!
"So cool! Is this what cyberpunk is!"
"Mom! I never want to walk again! I want a hoverboard too!"
"To the person above, skateboards are already outdated! A tech geek in my neighborhood has already modified his sofa to hover, and now he drives his sofa to work every day!"
On the internet, all sorts of strange and bizarre "folk inventions" born from "energy freedom" were emerging one after another.
Some people modified their home refrigerators into personal aircraft to deliver takeout every day.
Some people equipped their pet dogs with anti-gravity collars, achieving "walking the dog without a leash, flying entirely by thought."
Even more exaggeratedly, some people set up a "home version" of a "material synthesizer" directly on their balconies.
As long as there was enough energy, theoretically, they could synthesize any object they wanted from the various elements in the air.
For example, if they wanted to eat steak today, they could just use carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and other elements to print a steak that was exactly the same as the real thing.
The entire Dragon Kingdom was immersed in a feverish atmosphere of a technological explosion.
Everyone had become an inventor, a creator.
But Lin Mo, who created all of this, had no interest in it.
He still lay in his Hardware Store every day, drinking cola and scrolling through short videos, living his simple, unpretentious, and boring life as a salted fish.
To him, these were just "little toys."
The real "big show" hadn't even started yet.
Just as Lin Mo was cringing so hard his toes were curling from watching a "cheesy pickup line" video, Zhao Zhenhua's call came through in a rush again.
His voice was filled with unbelievable shock and ecstasy!
"Lin... Mr. Lin! You... you must watch the news!"
"Something big happened! A... a college student! He..."
Zhao Zhenhua was so excited he couldn't even speak clearly.
Lin Mo turned on the TV with some impatience.
On the news, a video shot with a mobile phone was playing—it was extremely blurry but incredibly shocking!
The background of the video looked like a university dormitory.
A gentle-looking male college student wearing glasses was standing next to a sci-fi silver-white egg-shaped cockpit.
He smiled shyly at the camera.
Then, he slowly sat into that egg-shaped cockpit.
The next second!
"Hum—!"
Without any flames or airflow!
The egg-shaped cockpit actually rose vertically from the dormitory balcony without a sound!
It circled flexibly in the air a few times.
Then it suddenly accelerated!
"Whoosh—!"
Turning into a silver streak of light, it instantly disappeared into the horizon!
Leaving behind the stunned, ghost-seeing expressions of the video filmer and the countless viewers in front of the screen!
And the eye-catching headline at the bottom of the news that was enough to make every aircraft manufacturer in the world unemployed on the spot:
[A Miracle Under Energy Freedom! Our Country's Senior College Student Independently Develops the First Personal Anti-Gravity Aircraft in One Week in a Dormitory!]
Lin Mo looked at the smile full of dreams and vitality on the college student's face on TV, and was slightly stunned.
Then, he smiled.
This was what he wanted to see.
Once the spark of technology is ignited, it will sweep across the entire era like a prairie fire.
Just then, Zhao Zhenhua's voice came over the phone again, only this time, his tone became a bit strange.
"Mr. Lin... uh... this college student said..."
"He said that the reason he was able to build the aircraft so quickly was mainly because he cracked some of the underlying code of the artificial intelligence installed in the [Kunlun] combat vehicle you sold us before..."
"He said... he wants to crack even more..."
"Do you think... should we encourage this, or...?"
Zhao Zhenhua's words were full of probing.
After all, this was Mr. Lin's core technology.
If this were cracked by a college student, then...
"Oh?"
Lin Mo was not angry when he heard this; instead, he became interested.
He rubbed his chin and smiled playfully.
"Interesting."
"Tell that kid to go ahead and crack it."
"If he can really crack my AI..."
"I'll give him those two stone lions guarding the door as toys."
"However, before that..."
A glint of cunning flashed in Lin Mo's eyes.
"I need to upgrade our Xiao Ling first."
"And by the way, add an 'anti-addiction' system to it."