"The value of being a 'Honored Player' is proven once again!"
"I seriously suspect that these 'Honored Players' have already used these devices!"
"Remember Dragon City Flying General smashing the ant swarm with one punch? Could it be that he used the Dream Weaver to create that?"
"Xu Meng said this machine can 'brainstorm' things. Does that mean Dragon City Flying General thought he was awesome, so he really became awesome?"
"If that's the case, what if I have a wet dream?"
"Stop messing around, let's talk about something reliable. Now we can really work during the day and play games at night!"
"No more sprinting on the omnidirectional treadmill? Awesome!"
"I have to watch Xu Meng's press conference again! I thought it was just a joke before, so I didn't watch it seriously."
"Me too! I have to watch it again!"
… …
After basically confirming the authenticity of the Dream Weaver, players were initially a little incredulous, but then immediately became excited.
They frantically discussed the Dream Weaver on various platforms like DreamNet, pilipili, live streaming rooms, and chat groups.
Some were revisiting past 'unsolved mysteries,' while others were fantasizing about future gaming experiences.
Most people, however, were eager to rewatch Xu Meng's introduction of the Dream Weaver at the press conference.
Individual clips of the Dream Weaver introduction saw a meteoric rise in views.
The number of [Currently Watching] viewers soared from over 800 to [100,000+]!
The barrage of comments exploded!
What everyone previously considered to be just jokes had now become inspiring and ambitious pronouncements —
"Bridging the gap between dreams and games!"
"100% immersive experience!"
"Let the brain participate in creation!"
… …
Every sentence made countless players cheer.
[Awesome!]
[Invincible!]
Something that would normally be considered a national treasure and hidden away is now being made available to everyone.
No one knows how Xu Meng managed to do it, but achieving this goal must have required a lot of effort!
What does this mean?
It means Boss Xu cares about everyone!
For this alone, we have to offer Boss Xu a stick of incense.
Especially Xu Meng's sentence —
"The great journey lies ahead!"
It made all the viewers feel excited, wishing they could join this journey right now!
Overnight, countless players changed their personal signatures to this sentence.
Screenshots, posters, and short videos centered around this sentence were constantly being produced by players, spreading across the internet like a virus.
And the "ticket" to truly embark on this journey —
The [Ocean Survival Competition], which previously only had million applicants, saw an explosive increase in the number of sign-ups.
The registration page even displayed the message [Server is busy, please try again later].
But the players who wanted to register had no intention of giving up.
Try again later?
What if too many people register in a while, and DreamNet says it's full?
Everyone would rather open the page on both their phone and computer, frantically refreshing the page, than close the page and wait a few hours.
This led to the act of "registering" itself becoming a competition of "internet speed" and "luck."
It wasn't until DreamNet urgently allocated more resources to this registration interface that the problem was finally solved.
And by this time, the number of applicants had already exceeded an astonishing 16 million!
This number wasn't inflated in any way — casual netizens couldn't even register. All 16 million were real players!
This number wasn't the final result yet.
Players were still registering in the background, and no one knew how exaggerated the number would be when the three-day registration period ended!
… …
In this ocean of frenzy, Qi Fan looked at the 100 yuan transfer record on his phone, and his heart turned cold.
It took him a long time to recover, and he ran to DreamNet to post:
[Ahhhhh! Why didn't you say so earlier! I already sold my electronic authentication card! Boss Xu, you owe me! You owe me!]
Immediately, a pile of gloating voices popped up under the post.
Even the guy who bought the electronic card popped up and replied with three words:
"Thank you oh!"
Qi Fan was so angry that he slapped himself.
But besides signing up for the [Ocean Survival Competition] to compete for that slim hope, there was no other way.
… …
… …
The impact of the Dream Weaver was, of course, not limited to Xia Country.
After the [Bit Storm] war, DreamNet had undoubtedly become a large multinational company with global influence.
Not to mention that this press conference was personally presented by the [Digital Emperor].
Global attention was even more astonishingly high.
It's just that they were also quite tormented by Xu Meng's absurd practices, which were sometimes true and sometimes false.
Now that the authenticity of the Dream Weaver had finally been confirmed, the heat that had been brewing all along finally ushered in a major explosion!
Major media websites around the world have put the Dream Weaver on the front page!
Xu Meng's half-length photo, close-ups of the Dream Weaver at the press conference, the oversized [Breaking] logo representing "explosive news"… …
Sweeping the world!
This immediately caused a sensational impact!
The excitement of the players goes without saying.
Even more amazing is —
When the stock market opened the next day, the stock prices of six technology and internet companies, including [Avalon Network], [Golden Chain], [Cloud Foundry], and [Net News]… … which had been defeated by DreamNet's server crashes, actually stabilized!
These companies had been having an extremely difficult time in the past month.
After Xu Meng crashed their servers, the stock price plummeted for three consecutive days, not to mention anything else.
Afterward, even sending high-level executives to Dream Building's headquarters in Ningzhou to buy "atonement tickets" couldn't salvage the stock price.
Only [Net讯], [Gold Chain], and [Cloud Foundry] managed to stabilize their stock prices because they had reached relatively deep cooperation with Dream Building—
[Net讯] provided online sales support to Dream Building, supporting the online sales of Dream Building's products in the global market.
[Gold Chain] provided Dream Building with more favorable cross-border payment and settlement services.
[Cloud Foundry] provided cloud servers for Dream Building's overseas business at a very favorable price.
The other three companies also tried to cooperate with Dream Building, but because the business relevance was not high, they could only reach some insignificant cooperation such as "cooperative research and development" and "technical exchanges."
This level of cooperation was completely unable to convince the market, so the stock price continued to decline.
But now, everything is different!
After the authenticity of the Dream Weaver was confirmed, all companies that cooperated with Dream Building received almost mindless pursuit in the capital market!
The declining companies not only stopped falling but even began to rise.
[Net讯], [Gold Chain], and [Cloud Foundry], which had relatively close cooperation, even ushered in a wave of 7 or 8 percentage points of surge!
At the same time, New Force's global hardware sales plummeted to the bottom.
Downstream distributors not only stopped picking up goods but also began to compete to lower prices to clear inventory.
In order to clear the inventory as soon as possible, they even did not hesitate to fall below the purchase price.
They would rather bear the cost loss than sell it as soon as possible to avoid all the inventory being stuck in their hands and becoming waste that takes up space.
But even if they offered a huge discount of "50% off", sales still did not improve.
——At this time, players are either saving money, preparing to buy Dream Weavers in the future.
Or they think the price of the game station can still fall!
Is 50% off very cheap?
Compared with the original price in the past, it is indeed very cheap.
But compared with the future, it is hard to say!
Buy now?
Absolutely impossible!
Let it fall first!
Now everyone can see that New Force's game station is doomed!
It's not just New Force that is suffering.
The executives of Softoe game boxes, who had been aggressively attacking and constantly eroding New Force's North American market with Dream Building and its partners for the past month, were also struck by lightning!
They are considered very forward-looking—
Not only did they reach a game development cooperation with Dream Building, but they also reached a hardware compatibility agreement.
According to the agreement, the game box can support holographic display devices in the middle of this year.
In their opinion, they have already boarded the big ship of the next generation of the game industry.
That's why they confidently invested a lot of money to attack New Force and erode the market.
But now, they suddenly discovered—
The Softoe game box did board the big ship of the next generation, but on the other side of this "next generation" big ship, Dream Building built another ship!
That's not even a ship for sailing on the sea, but a fucking spaceship!
This completely unexpected and outrageous thing led to the fact that Softoe game boxes, which had the longest cooperation and the closest relationship with Dream Building, ushered in a sharp drop when other people's stock prices rose sharply!
All senior managers had to hold an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures.
But this meeting was interrupted halfway by an unexpected news—
The White House spokesperson appointed by the President held a press conference and announced at the meeting:
"Super Digital Project: [The Great Firewall] has been formally signed and approved by the President and will immediately enter the actual development process."
"Once the Great Firewall is built, entities deemed unfriendly, unsafe, inhumane, and illegal by the federal government will be prohibited from entering our Territorial Cyberspace."
As soon as this statement came out, the world was shocked.
The President had mentioned the "Great Firewall" once in public and had been using it to beat domestic social media giants.
But there has never been any sign of progress.
It has not even been discussed in any formal meetings.
A month later, everyone has regarded this as a scare tactic against domestic Internet giants.
But now, the day after the Dream Weaver was announced, this major project suddenly entered the implementation phase!
This is too obvious!
Even though the spokesperson did not mention any words such as "Dream Building", "Xu Meng", or "Dream Weaver" at the entire press conference.
The targeted questions from the reporters below were all avoided by the spokesperson with Tai Chi.
It also cannot stop the views of the media and netizens—
This is definitely aimed at Dream Building!
One is a technology creator who hopes to define the future of the Internet, and the other is the leader of the world's only superpower.
This tit-for-tat instantly added huge variables to everything!
Now, it's not just the senior management of Softoe game boxes who are meeting.
All large companies are nervous!
Even Dream Building is no exception, especially the employees of the International Relations Department, who are sweating profusely.
But at this critical moment, an invitation from the United States was sent to Dream Building—
The organizers of the [International Neural Interface and Virtual Reality Summit] sincerely invite the Dream Building technical team to San Francisco for friendly technical exchanges.
