All Novel Full Chapter 1358
Chapter 1358: Chapter 1220 [Black Dream], [Revolution], and [New Equilibrium] Chapter 1358: Chapter 1220 [Black Dream], [Revolution], and [New Equilibrium] Lincoln was very efficient with his movements; he replied to all the emails that evening, informing them of the “briefing.”
The next morning, a temporary world was created in the virtual world just for these wealthy elites, giving them a little lesson.
The “little” here refers to the short amount of time it took, but the scale was not small at all.
Lincoln was also unusually patient, answering all their detailed questions with a pleasant demeanor.
By the way, he kicked out two young people who were brainless enough to think they were customers entitled to nitpick and wanted a complete offline solution.
He could understand their thoughts.
After all, the proposal Lincoln talked about was still highly dependent on the virtual world—otherwise, just putting both body and consciousness into hibernation, unless it was for patients at death’s door or the elderly nearing the end of their life, would have very limited appeal to others.
Preserving the clarity of consciousness, even most of the ability to live a normal life, and achieving “unconscious life extension” was the truly attractive part.
But this meant that their consciousness was tied to the virtual world and, by extension, to Cloud Dream.
This binding was highly secure, completely different from today’s “conscious deception” created by neural signals, where one could remove the headband at any time to be awakened.
If they offended Lincoln, there was a real possibility they might never wake up again!
It was almost like their consciousness was in Lincoln’s hands.
How could these nobles, accustomed to being on top, stand that?
So, some desired an “offline solution,” to have all this under their own control, which Lincoln could understand.
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But what he didn’t understand was: Did someone really believe he would sell this technology?
Are they out of their minds?
Or was this a deliberate ploy to test his attitude?
Lincoln couldn’t be bothered to ponder this.
Either way, it was all the same to him, kick them out and move on.
After kicking people out, the rest of the interaction went very smoothly.
In just half an hour, Lincoln had answered all the questions and concluded the briefing.
However, he still did not provide a clear answer to the most crucial question—how to experience this technology—just announced the time for the next briefing: next Monday morning, at the same time.
The day and a half in between was the time for Daxia to carry out the pilot hospital trial.
Henry’s actions were as swift as ever—of course, this was also because the official preparations and contingency plans had been made in advance, and now, all that was needed was execution.
On Saturday evening, the three pilot hospitals in Xiajing City worked overtime for a meeting and training.
Early Sunday morning, these doctors, deeply shocked by the hibernation technology and almost without sleep, began to introduce the [Hibernation Warehouse], a brand new piece of “medical equipment,” to the families of terminally ill patients accumulated in the hospitals.
A portion of the patients’ families in the Intensive Care Units and ICUs also received phone calls, putting aside their affairs and rushing to the hospital.
Like dropping three stones into water, ripples emanated from the three pilot hospitals, spreading outwards layer by layer.
But the capital’s large hospitals were like pots of water always boiling, with countless patients and medical staff rushing about, countless stories of joy and sorrow playing out.
Therefore, the ripples caused by the Hibernation Warehouses did not immediately attract attention.
The officials did not require the hospitals to keep it a secret, and neither did the hospitals or doctors require the patients and families to be confidential.
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But the patients and families, struggling in despair for so long, had become accustomed to isolation.
Even while chatting with friends and relatives, they would deliberately avoid talking about the sick member of the family.
Now that they had finally caught a glimpse of hope, they were all busy discussing with their families, running around with paperwork, so how could they have the heart to initiate a conversation about it?
After a whole day, this matter hardly stirred any significant waves in the outside world.
At the same time, a more covert operation—the second phase of the [Digital Life] project—began its secretive execution.
This time, the scope was extended to include doctors, engineers, and scientific researchers nearing the end of their lives.
Just like before, they strictly adhered to the principle of voluntariness.
However, unlike the old veterans of the past, this time very few refused to convert into [Digital Life].
The plan progressed very smoothly, and every aspect of security was well-covered.
The kind of change that could alter the course of civilization was thus brewing in silence.
The hottest topic on the Internet that day had nothing to do with either of those.
What the Netizens were discussing were several new endings that players had achieved in “Cyber Chang’an: 2077″––
[Dark Dream], [Revolution], and [New Balance].
Of these, [New Balance] was relatively the best.
Conflict gradually subsided, the chaotic situation was effectively controlled, and the various powers like companies, gangs, religions, and city administration each held their ground, achieving a new equilibrium.
The world didn’t get better, but it didn’t get worse either.
Although contradictions remained and potentially greater conflicts might happen in the future, that would be a problem for another time.
Comparatively speaking, this was already a better ending, unlike the first two, which were more preposterous than the next––
[Dark Dream]
Yelang, for the sake of stirring things up, joined the [Escapers] organization seeking Ascension.
After a long and complex series of tasks, he finally won the trust of the [Scavengers] and got his hands on an important piece of lost technology from them.
Then Yelang collected various supplies, provided resources for the organization, and after half of the mad scientists in the organization had died in wild experiments, they indeed claimed to have realized the long-sought Ascension technology.
Unfortunately for them, they didn’t have time to celebrate––
The moment they announced their success was the moment the [Dissenters] against Ascension burst in and started wrecking the place.
And Yelang didn’t win the fight.
Just when he was about to fall at the last hurdle before triumph, the organization went completely mad and released a super virus capable of invading electronic brains––[Apocalypse]––in an attempt to break through.
But the power of this virus far exceeded their expectations.
Not only did the Dissenters fall one after another, but they themselves lost control of their bodies, collapsing to the ground, unable to move.
After that, Yelang saw the ending cutscene––
This super virus spread out wildly from the base of the Escapers organization, people on the streets collapsed one by one, like the Grim Reaper waving his invisible scythe, reaping everyone’s lives.
But in fact, no one died.
Their electronic brains were simply invaded, overridden by the terrible virus that hijacked the highest level of control, leaving them unable to control their own bodies.
After that, the virus-controlled “zombies” battled against the city’s AI-controlled robots.
In the end, the super virus triumphed and took over control of the entire city.
The robots operated as usual, while all the human zombies fell into an eternal deep sleep under the control of the Apocalypse virus.
…
At this point, the cutscene ended, the save file was created, and the parallel world opened up.
But the funny thing is: Yelang, who triggered this world, couldn’t enter it himself.
Because the moment he entered, he would be caught by [Apocalypse], and immediately fall into a coma.
The only way to enter this parallel world was to start a new save file with a [Wanderer] identity.
Because only players with a [Wanderer] identity weren’t installed with an electronic brain at the beginning of the game…