All Novel Full Chapter 978
Chapter 978: Chapter 910: Everyone, go to school!_1 Chapter 978: Chapter 910: Everyone, go to school!_1 The “intense” meeting didn’t last very long.
The finance officer gave up on freezing the special account – because it no longer made sense, but also vehemently refused to earmark any more funds for the project.
Surprisingly, the president didn’t shut down the project either – after all, the money had already been spent, but he also declared he would not earmark any more funds.
His exact words were:
“I don’t give a damn how you do it, just use this money and build me something!
Unless you prove to me that the game is a smoke screen and Daxia is really still making mechs, stop wasting my time!
Build something for me!”
“And don’t make it look like it does in the game!”
The military representative was not very satisfied – because they did not secure more funding, and the president insisted that they must manufacturer the mech.
But they were able to accept this.
At least it means they can avoid most of the trouble of audits and investigation into their accounting.
As for the president’s demand to build the mech?
No problem!
They would take it slow.
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After all, next year is 2032, an election year.
Once the president is replaced, this will all become a tangled mess of bad accounts.
Perhaps they could even resurface it, under the name of “advancing research” or “cleaning up the mess”, and apply for another round of funds.
The only one feeling dejected was the Director of the Intelligence Bureau.
– Because the severe misjudgment of intelligence caused significant losses for the government and greatly embarrassed the president in front of the world, so…
He had to go.
Before he left, the last thing the Director did, besides destroying a pile of documents, was to kick Daniel out of the Intelligence Bureau.
– With the tag of “major mistakes made”, he was kicked out of the Bureau for good.
In the future, he wouldn’t even think about intelligence work, he wouldn’t even be able to stay in any government department.
“Go deliver takeout!”
That was the last thing the Director said to Daniel.
As for the Lincoln Countermeasures Department, they were once again downsized to the Lincoln Countermeasures Group, and there were even fewer members – after Daniel was kicked out, the original group of six was reduced to five.
The old team leader, Barnes, once again became the group leader.
At the first meeting after returning to the original office, leader Barnes bluntly said: “I am planning to retire.
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If any of you want to make a name for yourselves, feel free to report over my head at any time, I will not mind at all.
But there is one thing I hope you will remember-”
“Don’t drag me into it.”
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In the following days, “Cloud Dream’s New Game Exclusive to Chinese Speakers” and “American President Becomes a Joke” remained the hottest topics on the global internet.
The White House Press Secretary was even embarrassed in a regular press conference with reporters, forcing him to flee in panic.
Compared to that, Cloud Dream handled the situation more gracefully.
The official Cloud Dream account explained clearly and directly: The derivative technologies of the [Rehabilitation Therapist Plan] are closely related to the core gameplay of [Pacific Rim].
Due to the lack of technology, Cloud Dream simply could not provide the perfect gaming experience to the players, thus necessitating the restriction of sales.
However, when many overseas players and media came asking “what exactly is the technology” and “what is the specific gameplay”, Cloud Dream suddenly closed up like a clam.
Not surprisingly, the supporters and the opponents started arguing again.
Supporters, of course, believe in Cloud Dream, but the opponents don’t believe at all, and they believe that this is simply an excuse from Cloud Dream.
“Unless Cloud Dream explains just what the technology is, and its correlation with the [Rehabilitation Therapist Plan], we will not believe a word!”
Certainly, Lincoln would never casually disclose their technological approach.
– And most especially not when Mavis has detected a large number of Water Army-like organizations amongst these opponents, he wouldn’t be so foolish.
Thus, the argument got worse and worse.
Later, as if Cloud Dream felt the two sides weren’t arguing fiercely enough, they drummed up another announcement that the game cabin would be officially released soon, and the [Pacific Rim Limited Edition] game cabin would also be restricted to [Chinese-speaking users].
As expected, the intensity of the argument further ramped up.
This was outrageous enough, but after that Lincoln pulled an even crazier stunt – he launched a [Chinese Proficiency Test] in the virtual world.
No matter what country you come from, or what ethnicity you are, as long as you pass this test, you can be classified as a [Chinese-speaking user] and can normally purchase [Pacific Rim] and the Limited Edition game cabin.
This immediately caused quite a sensation.
Before this, Daxia also had official Chinese language proficiency tests, along with official certificates.
However, Cloud Dream’s users are spread all over the world, so it isn’t possible to have them all run to specific locations to take the exam, that level of cost is simply unreasonable.
So Lincoln made the decisive move to introduce the mature assessment method of “online testing”.
Of course, the virtual world’s test is far superior to the regular “online exams”.
The test isn’t merely for reading and writing skills, it also includes a great deal of cultural knowledge related content – not superficial things like “eating dumplings”, “celebrating New Year’s”, “silk, tea, porcelain” this type of superficial and cliched cultural knowledge, but rather the deeper, truly relatable aspect of daily culture in ordinary people’s lives.
This is purely to ensure that those who pass the exam can genuinely play the game unhindered using [Neural Signal Synchronization Technology].
This also caused an unexpected occurrence –
Before Lincoln launched this test, he had been thinking about the reactions of overseas players.
He expected that most of the players would come to join the fun, including overseas users who were completely ignorant of Chinese, and the Daxia players who spoke Chinese every day.
They would all come to watch the spectacle.
However, there was no need to pay attention to the Daxia users.
Initially, the players who passed the test in large quantities were mostly from Izumo and Baekje, followed by Southeast Asian countries.
Although Lincoln included a lot of contemporary cultural content, for East Asia and Southeast Asian countries which share an internet community with Daxia, this was not a problem at all.
It’s not a worry to be tested on contemporary culture.
You can ask about the latest Daxia slang and internet buzzwords from the previous week if you like.
– Just don’t ask about those from a month ago, those are long forgotten.
Finally, there are the Daxia immigrants from various countries, the second-generation Chinese, as well as some foreign scholars and lovers of Han culture.
The rest wanting to pass would probably have to go through a period of dedicated learning.
But there was an issue right at the first step.
The domestic Daxia market, which Lincoln believed was completely unnecessary to pay attention to, turned out to include fish that slipped through the net of compulsory education who couldn’t recognize Chinese characters or speak Chinese.
And it wasn’t just one!
He was both surprised and speechless at the scattered points of light on the plateau of western Daxia indicating [Test Not Passed].
He was only thinking about causing trouble overseas, he didn’t think about fish slipping through the net domestically!
Lincoln quickly sifted through this information, excluding those older ones who may have missed out on education for objective reasons.
He sent the rest directly to Lorin.
Compulsory education is a statutory responsibility and duty, there can’t be any that slip through the net.
Still want to play games?
Go to hell with that, all of you go to school!