All Novel Full Chapter 980
Chapter 980: Chapter 911: Translate What is Called Professional!
(Two in One)_2 Chapter 980: Chapter 911: Translate What is Called Professional!
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President became a laughingstock, scoffed at by the media around the world.
How could he just swallow this humiliation?
Merely firing over the phone and expelling the Intelligence Bureau chief was far from enough to vent his inner fury.
A banstorm swiftly swept across the nation!
—Of course, it’s not about banning Mirage, that thing had been banned long ago.
Though the ban was not entirely effective, they couldn’t possibly issue the same ban repeatedly, admitting publicly that the previous ban had failed, could they?
Wouldn’t that be slapping the faces of officials at all levels?
Therefore, this time the ban targeted network proxies.
Until now, American users have needed to use proxy ports to log into the virtual world.
Even though Lincoln had donated a supercomputer to the Embassy in Mexico, places beyond the border states were still too remote.
The surge in user count and the resulting distributed computing power couldn’t fundamentally change this situation.
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Therefore, proxies are still indispensable.
Now, the President’s swift cut was aimed directly at the network proxy companies.
At first, Mirage users in America didn’t realize what was happening, they just suddenly found themselves unable to log into the virtual world.
After checking, they discovered that all the lines and ports of the proxies they were using were all marked red with [connection failure].
Then came the waiting and endless attempts.
But no matter how they tried, all they were met with was [connection failure].
In desperation, they turned to social networking or gaming forums to ask for advice, only to quickly realize that they were far from alone– countless people were experiencing the same problem!
Just how many?
No one knew.
But it was certainly a massive blow, as many players learned that all of their gaming friends had fallen victim without exception.
Even netizens made a list and found many familiar network proxies suddenly died on the same day.
If only one or two had failed it could have been accidental, but this kind of large-scale failure couldn’t possibly be coincidental.
It must have been the work of the government!
Once they identified the criminal, the rest was simple.
Have a row?
Don’t be ridiculous!
Since when have words resolved issues in this world?
Take to the streets!
Protest!
March!
If necessary, arm the march!
Damn them!
Only when users dispersed throughout all states took to the streets did the American government realize the serious problem caused by the ban–
Due to the customs ban, all Mirages entering America were smuggled in, resulting in the government having no related data.
How many Mirages are there domestically?
How many Cloud Dream users?
Just how many citizens will be affected by the related prohibitions?
Or more accurately, how many voters will be impacted?
Will this have an effect on approval ratings?
…
They knew nothing about any of these issues.
And Cloud Dream wouldn’t disclose these data.
Cloud Dream obviously had no intention of going public, thus there was no need to disclose financial information.
They had also banned access to Cloud Dream domestically, so they had no reason to ask Cloud Dream for related data.
If they merely asked Cloud Dream across the Pacific a hypothetical question, Lincoln might simply reply, “There aren’t any.”
The end result was that the President looked at the “sprawling beacon fires” across the country and realized he had severely underestimated the speed of Mirage smuggling domestically.
—They could never have imagined that the number of Mirages in America had nearly hit 30 million!
It’s about to reach one-tenth of the American population!
Considering that more than one Mirage user can log in from a single device, the actual number of users with virtual world gaming experience would only be greater!
Even Lincoln was shocked by the wealth of the American people.
You know, the smuggled equipment costs much more than the official price!
Of course, what shocked him even more was: Your smuggling industry is so damned advanced!
In just this small amount of time, 30 million devices!
And they’re not just concentrated in coastal and border states, even in inland states, there are a large number of smuggled Mirages, with incredibly smooth smuggling channels.
At first, Lincoln could see in the virtual world as devices were activated from the coast to the heartland of America.
One by one, points of light lit up along the highways and river channels, forming lines of light.
But soon, these lines of light diverged from the main roads and rivers and rapidly spread out across cities, making them impossible to track.
He didn’t want to say anything more, he just ordered the factory:
If any Americans place orders, as long as the money arrives, arrange for delivery ASAP!
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What would a person who’s used to the convenience of the internet, and spends most of their leisure time online, feel if their internet connection was suddenly cut off?
At this moment, all those disconnected from the virtual world shared this feeling.
Admittedly, not every network proxy was down, and even among the users who were disconnected, the majority were pacifists who at most vented online or sought out other network proxies…
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But even if only 5% of irate individuals took to the streets, it would be enough to create a startling impact.
5% of 30 million is 1.5 million!
—1.5 million spread across all the states and towns big and small.
How many people does it take to paralyze the main streets of a city?
50,000?
Or 30,000?
The reality is that it takes far fewer than that!
Two or three thousand are enough.
If you factor in firearms—even if they just hang them from their chests unloaded, this number would shrink again.
The even trickier part is: the components of this marching crowd are quite complex.