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Chapter 1355: Chapter 1217: The Fourth Change of the World Chapter 1355: Chapter 1217: The Fourth Change of the World “We may not succeed, but since we already have the technology, why not give it a try?”

Lincoln’s tone wasn’t serious.

But as Randall looked into Lincoln’s eyes, he could clearly feel his earnestness and determination.

To the outside world, Lincoln was both simple and complex.

Players loved and hated him at the same time.

Most of the time, Daxia’s officials treated him as a treasured asset, though occasionally they found him to be a major headache.

Overseas, there were quite a few officials from other countries who harbored a bitter resentment towards him in private.

The employees of Dream Cloud could always sense the strong color of idealism emanating from him.

And to those who received his help, he was nothing short of a truly good person.

As one of the earliest employees of Dream Cloud Studio, having spent quite a bit of time with Lincoln and having repeatedly received his selfless help, it goes without saying how Randall regarded Lincoln.

Not only did he clearly watch Dream Cloud grow and strengthen step by step, but he also vividly remembered many things about Lincoln.

He remembered Lincoln telling them, “I want the light of technological progress to shine upon everyone.”

He also remembered when Lincoln said, “I want to initiate a plan involving one hundred million people to give voice back to the mute.”

He even remembered Lincoln’s words, “After today, even the most remote and impoverished classroom will have enough [focus headbands]!”

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Lincoln had made many grand statements and had realized each and every one of them.

Now, he was about to embark on another major plan – to put terminally ill patients into hibernation, preserving their hope for a cure in the future.

This did not truly eliminate terminal illnesses, but when looked at on a longer timeline, it was almost no different from a cure.

This would be his third, or maybe fourth time changing the world – Randall wasn’t quite sure.

An ordinary person who could change the world once would already be a historical figure, but Lincoln, like racking up achievements, changed the world time and again.

But that was not important.

What mattered was: in Randall’s heart, Lincoln had once again taken a big step toward the image of a “saint”!

To patients with terminal illnesses and their families, someone who can ease the burden of life and death and bring hope is naturally a saint!

But for society as a whole, this might not be the case.

It was not hard to imagine that, once this technology became public, those wishing to undergo hibernation wouldn’t just be “terminally ill patients”!

However, given Lincoln’s character, once he set his mind to something, he wouldn’t be easily swayed by the outside world.

Randall felt a storm was brewing, and his expression immediately became solemn.

But Lincoln patted his shoulder and said, “Relax, it’s not a big deal.”

“This time, the wind is so favorable it couldn’t get any better.

Anyone who dares to disrupt it will just get rolled over!”

Randall didn’t know what kind of preparations Lincoln had made, or what kind of support he had received, but he absolutely believed in Lincoln’s capabilities.

So he nodded, asking no further, and decided to work even harder to spread the influence of Dream Cloud further!

The influence of Dream Cloud was the influence of Lincoln.

And this was the best help he could offer Lincoln.

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Lincoln wasn’t just comforting Randall; this time, it was indeed a hundred percent in his favor.

Under the influence of a major trend, all tricks and schemes were bound to fail, and anyone daring to cause trouble would just get crushed!

He had talked so late into the night with Henry yesterday, just to ensure that the hibernation technology would be launched in the right way.

Henry also gave him a positive response.

After Lincoln mentioned that “once the graphene chip level is up to standard, hibernation technology can be deployed,” discussions on [how to roll out hibernation technology across society while ensuring social stability and positively contributing to societal development and people’s happiness] had already begun.

The meeting had been held over and over again, the plan revised and perfected time after time, with basically all aspects taken into consideration.

Yesterday, Lincoln finally brought up the matter, and after Henry seriously listened to his ideas, immediately produced this proposal.

The two discussed the proposal into the wee hours, and only then was the matter truly settled; preparations are now underway.

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If all goes well, this weekend will see the selection of three pilot hospitals to officially introduce this “medical equipment” to the public.

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Little Chun’s leave of absence had no impact on the development of “Monster Hunter.”

In fact, development of the game was already in its final stages, and now it’s just down to fine-tuning the habitats of the monsters.

——Mainly the [monster’s living area] and the [invading species occupied area], the borderlands between two different ecosystems.

This part of the work was not essential, but the development team, driven by a desire for perfection, took it upon themselves to add the extra effort.

The developers believed that these two ecosystems should not be strictly separated — even when aiming for a more startling visual effect to make them seem distinct, more details could be added in the boundary areas to make this fierce ecological invasion look even more tragic!

In the new “Monster Hunter” setting, the story takes place on the primitive planet “Mountain Sea World,” teeming with miraculous and strange beasts.

Everything was peaceful until a mysterious meteorite crashed onto the surface of the planet.

Subsequently, an ecological mutation began centered around the point where the meteorite fell.

As the herbivorous animals consumed the mutated plants, the mutation spread to the animals.

In the end, this meteorite caused an almost infinitely spreading ecological disaster, bringing catastrophe to the life on the planet.

The original small spirit beasts from “Pokémon” were sent to the human world for refuge because of this.

The development teams wanted to incorporate the theme of “invasion and resistance” into every detail, and “ecological invasion” is a crisis on par with “monster invasion”!

——Although the main content for players is hunting monsters, they also want to perfect these details.

This pursuit certainly isn’t a bad thing.

However, such meticulous tasks won’t be affected by the absence of Little Chun — it won’t be too late to check them when she returns.

But Randall’s leave of absence left many people dumbfounded.

Yes, we’re talking about the “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” project team!

While it is routine for the development team to take turns resting after a project goes online, it has only been the grass-roots employees who have taken a break in the past few days, and that too is routine!

The game just went online three days ago; it’s a time prone to issues and in need of extensive fixes.

By convention, the project team leaders should be overseeing the operation.

But now, with “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” featuring an overly complex and highly free narrative line, players have come up with various exploits, and it is precisely the time when the leaders need to make decisions and take responsibility.

Yet, at this critical moment, the boss suddenly left to visit his mother-in-law!

You can imagine how the team members felt…

“So…

Boss, take a look, should we do something about this?” one employee asked Fred.

With the top boss gone, it was time for the second in command to step up…

to make decisions!

Equipping numerical values and skill effects were minor problems that they could quickly resolve.

The real trouble were issues created by the players — and the most difficult part was: often, they didn’t even need to exploit any bugs to cause significant trouble!

For instance, the issue an employee was consulting Fred about:

A player had discovered a vulnerability in the sky rails that could be exploited using hacker technology along with some explosions at specific locations, effectively turning a sky rail train into a roller coaster!

And this strategy could theoretically work in the multiplayer world, even in the Public World!

This forced them to consider: whether to add “worldview-breaking” safety measures in certain areas to restrict players from causing chaos…