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Chapter 1378: Chapter 1240: The Trend Has Arrived Chapter 1378: Chapter 1240: The Trend Has Arrived It’s been a week and two days since the trial of hibernation technology in three hospitals in Xiajing City.

This has caused a huge shock in public opinion, both in Daxia and overseas, but in these three pilot hospitals, it’s been relatively calm.

Of course, saying “relatively calm” is a bit of an understatement.

Over the past week or so, hospitals have been swamped, with terminally ill patients flocking from all over the country; guiding and attending to these patients was no easy task.

Fortunately, the hibernation surgery is nearly fully automated, which prevented the medical staff from being overwhelmed.

But this busyness was all in terms of workload and physical effort; they were not disturbed by external public opinion.

After some support staff helped with shift changes, all work proceeded in an orderly fashion.

Finally, it all became a thick stack of information in Lincoln’s hands.

And a simple summary from Henry’s mouth, “All is well.”

Lincoln was not careless, quickly flipping through pages of documents—Henry and Camille watched with calm expressions.

Having interacted with Lincoln for so long, they had grown accustomed to some of Lincoln’s outrageous behaviors.

Like now, no one doubted whether Lincoln was just skimming through.

Because they knew very well: Lincoln could indeed read that quickly!

He didn’t need to wear a [Focus Headband] to achieve what others could with the headband on, and in fact, he was many times better than them!

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Perhaps only those geniuses in the field of mathematics could compete with him in their domain, but they were far behind in terms of overall ability.

Henry, watching Lincoln’s actions, couldn’t help but wonder: Lincoln didn’t have such exaggerated abilities last year; did he come up with some outrageous invention to secretly upgrade his own brain?

The next second, he shook his head slightly, discarding the thought from his mind and focusing on the matter at hand.

And Lincoln also put down the information in his hands.

“No problem, we can roll it out fully.

I have no objections,” he said.

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Upon hearing this, Henry slowly exhaled.

This full rollout would mean more than three hundred public hospitals would be involved, the impact so great, the breadth so wide, that it was incomparable to the current three.

But the momentum was already building, and there was no reason for Daxia to hesitate.

Just do it!

So, Henry nodded firmly and said, “Okay.”

Then, Lincoln picked up the next document.

This time, it was about [Digital Life], even thicker and more detailed than the one on hibernation.

The conversion work went smoothly; some experienced doctors, who had spent a lifetime around the operating table, had returned to the hospitals using realistic robots after converting to digital life.

For now, the precision of realistic robots was not high enough to handle surgeries that require terrifying levels of accuracy, but they were perfectly capable of performing regular surgeries.

And their rich clinical experience was a valuable asset.

So, for their return, the doctors at the hospital were only joyful, without any suspicion.

However, as the [Digital Life] project scaled up, involving more people and more issues, efforts put into confidentiality increased with each passing day.

Now, just over a week later, they had to consider lowering the confidentiality level by one grade.

But this was merely a temporary fix, a stopgap solution.

As long as the scale of the project continued to expand, exposure was inevitable.

The official stance is also spelled out in the information provided to Lincoln:

Relax!

Just focus on the work!

We can handle it!

“Is this preparation for exposure?” Lincoln asked.

Henry nodded in confirmation.

He didn’t mention the specific confidentiality measures or detailed contingency plans post-exposure, only briefly informing Lincoln of a piece of news: “The Eastern War Zone is preparing for a military exercise, an exercise with new weaponry.”

“Oh—” Lincoln instantly understood.

If that’s the case, there’s nothing to worry about.

He put down the document in his hand, “Then let’s proceed to the next step.”

Scientific research, medical science, engineering, energy, physics…

and other technological fields began to more broadly accept professionals at the end of their lifespans for transformation into digital life, embarking on a second phase of life.

The requirements for professional abilities were also lowered by a level, not insisting only on that tiny group at the very top anymore.

At the same time, by hosting global academic exchange conferences, the existence of the [Digital Life] project was revealed to the top academic talents worldwide.

Telling them: As long as they were willing to move to Daxia Country, they could enjoy the same treatment.

——Regarding this point, there was actually some controversy, but ultimately, it was unanimously approved.

Today’s Daxia already had the qualifications to consider some grander, longer-term matters from the perspective of human civilization and to make small concessions for the benefit of the entire civilization in the future.

After all, it wouldn’t be at a loss.

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When Henry stepped out of Lincoln’s house, he felt a heavy weight on his shoulders, but at the same time, his spine was ramrod straight.

When you can clearly hear the trumpet of the times changing, it’s truly hard to maintain an ordinary mindset.

But Henry knew he had to stay steady, as he had too many things to do.

People like Lincoln should look to the future and think about the future.

But he couldn’t, and many others like him couldn’t either.

They must focus on the present to make this transition as smooth as possible without causing too sharp a division and conflict in society.

Fortunately, everything was going smoothly for now!

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For the next two days, Lincoln’s life was very calm.

But outside his villa, it was a different story—

Daxia suddenly announced a series of global academic exchange conferences, attracting global academic attention.

Because Daxia released several cutting-edge results that had been confidential until then, despite the abruptness of the academic conference invitations, a large number of academic heavyweights still made long journeys to Daxia to attend.

Especially in the field of medical science, Daxia took the opportunity of expanding the hibernation pilot from the capital to all the provinces in the country, inviting leading figures from around the world to discuss the profound impact of hibernation on the physical condition of patients.

This move was shocking, and its effect was naturally beyond saying.

In an extremely short time, the global academic community began to boil!

At the same time, the citizens of Daxia Country were also delighted to see that hibernation had moved from the capital to their own provinces, even to their own cities.

The hibernators were no longer distant internet figures but were increasingly appearing around them, making a strong and profound change in concepts and trends of thought.

Particularly when young people heard their parents talk at the dinner table about “someone from someone’s family hibernated in the hospital yesterday, and now someone’s renovating their house for them, they’ll be coming home in a couple of days”…

The feeling was completely different!

In correspondence, “Mixed Reality Transformation” was becoming an entirely newly rising industry, flourishing in just a week or two.

The “Mixed Reality City” project previously developed to tap into urban tourism resources also received several times more funding than before, with a large workforce mobilized, and construction progressed at a breakneck pace.

Changes were happening in every aspect…

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As one big news event after another occurred in the real world, the absolute hotspot in the virtual world—[Return to the Stars]—inevitably saw a decline in heat.

After all, if it was just about progression, it was somewhat lacking in explosive news.

But soon, the next milestone arrived—

Wednesday night at 11:55 p.m., the task progress for [Return to the Stars] reached 30%.

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