All Novel Full Chapter 1382
Chapter 1382: Chapter 1244: Veteran Players Dominate Unparalleled, New Players Play Battlefield Chapter 1382: Chapter 1244: Veteran Players Dominate Unparalleled, New Players Play Battlefield Lincoln came up with the idea and immediately put it into action.
During the free discussion phase in the latter part of the meeting, Lincoln proposed the idea:
If one wanted to build a large aircraft capable of operating in the upper atmosphere, what feasible routes would there be, based on current technology and disregarding the issue of cost?
If not feasible, what technological challenges would need to be overcome?
If it were possible, then taking it a step further, how about making this large aircraft break through the atmosphere and travel to and from low Earth orbit?
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Generally speaking, such questions wouldn’t appear at a top-level academic conference, but are more commonly found in science fiction enthusiast forums, or as homework assignments that professors give to students in university elective courses.
After all, they are much more about curiosity than practicality.
But Lincoln was different.
He might not be the global researcher with the most authority, but he was certainly the one with the most freedom.
Truly in possession of immeasurable resources and wealth, capable of pursuing his research entirely as he wished—this was almost the dream state every scientific researcher yearned for, and Lincoln had that kind of condition.
At the same time, he had repeatedly proven his own capabilities.
Combine these two factors, and one had to consider whether he was simply asking out of interest, or whether he really was moved by the idea, thinking of embarking on a significant endeavor.
If he really wanted to do it, could he make it happen?
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And what if…
he really could?
Even the mere possibility made the aerospace engineers in attendance take it seriously, treating it not as a casual topic to lighten the mood, but rather following Lincoln’s line of thought and considering the potential.
In the time that followed, this group of bosses gave face and genuinely discussed the challenges of building such a “large aircraft,” as well as potential solutions, for a long time.
As the discussion went on, Mavis was simultaneously rendering the image of this “large aircraft” in real-time within the conference hall.
This aircraft didn’t resemble Lincoln and Mavis’s Spaceship in terms of size or form—it was much more conservative.
Lincoln didn’t butt in with his own aside; instead, he listened patiently, only asking for clarification wherever he couldn’t follow.
With the collective wisdom and effort of these bosses, the real-time image grew larger and the details became clearer, as countless formulas and numerical units were continuously filled in.
Unsolvable issues were highlighted in red and annotated with potential solutions and experimental approaches.
The engineers from Daxia were especially diligent—many had opened auxiliary software to verify their thoughts and calculations on the go.
Eventually, the meeting, running way over time and into lunch, concluded.
Before it ended, Lincoln distributed his digital card, cornering the top aerospace engineers from overseas.
This action made Henry’s eyelids twitch.
Normally, aerospace engineers interested in immigration would definitely join the Aerospace Academy of Daxia, but with Lincoln’s interference, that was no longer a given…
Although Yunmeng did not yet have any business related to aerospace, if Lincoln truly wanted to, it could happen.
The Aerospace Academy or Yunmeng?
Just the appearance of this choice was enough to give some people a headache.
The engineers at the Aerospace Academy were looking a bit funny, too—thinking, you’re supposed to contribute to the aerospace field, maybe even join us at the Academy to work together.
But what do you do?
You start poaching right off the bat?
Couldn’t you have done it in private?!
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Lincoln paid no attention to this.
As far as he was concerned, as long as he didn’t poach engineers from the Aerospace Academy, what came next was a matter of fate!
It wasn’t until he walked out of the conference site and was being driven home by Yue Pengju that Mavis told him the progress of the [Return to the Stars] mission had reached 40%, triggering an invasion event, and now players were being beaten down by the NPCs of [General Energy], their heads being bashed in.
Lincoln was somewhat shocked.
The combat power of NPCs from [General Energy] was not exceptional, with the strongest BOSS being only 10% stronger than the BOSS of the final battle in the main storyline, plus a dynamic difficulty system that increased the health pool according to the number of players around—he had even refrained from boosting the BOSS’s attack power as the number of players grew.
The remaining difficulty resided solely in the organized NPC army.
As long as players organized themselves, dividing tasks between aerial and ground combat, and coordinated their sniping of the BOSS, it shouldn’t have been too difficult.
—Could the NPC army possibly outnumber the players?
He looked at Mavis with confusion.
Mavis immediately waved her little hand and opened several holographic screens in the air to show him the intense battlefield in the virtual world at that moment.
Actually, the description “intense” was somewhat of a beautification for the players at the time.
The reality was: the players were being furiously rubbed raw!
Centered around the launch base where the space elevator was located, players were forming a defensive line, struggling to resist the attack from [General Energy].
But this defensive line was anything but sturdy, as it was being breached by NPCs almost every minute and second.
Then more players would rush forward, recklessly sacrificing themselves to frantically fill the gaps.
Then another position would be breached by the NPCs…
And the players would push them back again…
So it went back and forth.
There were indeed player teams that stood out, like Yi, who was typically unreliable but now leading a team that was firmly nailed to the front lines.
The defenses around them were broken time and again, but they always stayed put, ensuring the line could be reinforced rather than completely collapsing.
Such “nails” were scattered sporadically along the entire circular front, preserving a glimmer of hope for the overall battle.
There was also a special team led by Lance, consisting of the highest level and most combat-powerful players, who formed a mobile force specifically tasked with slaying powerful BOSSes that broke through the defenses.
Were it not for these individuals, [General Energy]’s invasion would have long been successful, and the space elevator would have been overrun or even blown to smithereens by now.
The screens Mavis chose were very targeted, helping Lincoln to quickly grasp the key points:
The solid defenses were maintained by veteran players who had invested ten to twenty days in “Cyber Chang’an: 2077”, with reliable combat power.
Not to say one could fight ten, but at least one could easily handle five.
But for those players who had only entered after the public world opened, their combat power was problematic.
—They were only equipped with standard issue weapons and some acquired from missions, lacking the systematic class system bonuses, and were practically just large NPCs.
The high-powered laser weapons of [General Energy] might knock down a well-equipped advanced cyborg or mech warrior who could quickly get back up, but when hitting players without class templates, it meant instant death!
No suspense about it!
To sum it up in one sentence: veteran players were playing in unstoppable mode, while new players were on the battlefield.
The world mission progress remaining was:
[36%]
If it fell below 35%, the NPCs of Chang’an City would join the battle in full force.
But at the same time, [General Energy] would launch a total assault.
“Are we going to fight a total war?”
Honestly, Lincoln had not expected things to develop to this point.