The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 660 Perfect Recovery! Real Fireworks! Wooden Donkey Parade Through the Streets

After the seventh round of simulated launch, a perfect recovery was finally achieved.

All 77 first-stage rockets landed perfectly at their designated locations, and none of them exploded.

With this, all testing objectives have been successfully achieved!
All the aerospace engineers in the control center breathed a sigh of relief, visibly relaxed, and began excitedly checking the data.

Only Xiaomeng, who had just returned from outside, seemed a little unhappy; her ears drooped down.

"What's wrong?" Xu Meng asked, rubbing her little head in confusion.

Xiao Meng tugged at his arm and whispered, "There are no fireworks to see."

Upon hearing this, Xu Meng almost burst out laughing.

From Xiaomeng's perspective, the success rate of first-stage rocket recovery is getting higher and higher, which means that there are fewer and fewer "fireworks" exploding.

Now that the success rate is 100%, naturally not a single "firework" will be used up.

“Yes, of course we have them!” Xu Meng comforted the little guy.

He walked to the control panel and said to Gu Yifeng, the 42-year-old head of testing, "How's it going? Can we call it a day?"

Gu Yifeng nodded: "All the scheduled test projects have been successfully completed, and the results have far exceeded expectations!"

He said with some emotion, "I never expected that you could refine the parameters to this level."

"If you can bring the world's top mathematicians and physicists into the research and development team, you might be able to make this world exactly like the real world within 10 years!"

Xu Meng shook her head, having no intention of accepting the offer.

Because he knew very well—

Thanks to the astonishing computing power of the photon topology server array, which is ahead of its time, and the innovative approach of the dream transformation algorithm, he has been able to push the realism of the virtual world to its current state.

Instead of relying on solid coding skills to gradually advance to the current level.

This is actually taking a shortcut.

With sufficient investment and the assistance of enough physicists, it is indeed possible to push the level of realism in local areas and specific fields to a degree that surpasses external imagination.

—Just like a rocket launch site today.

If the players who have already run up to watch go a few dozen meters further and actually enter the launch site, they will find that it is frighteningly realistic!

Their long-standing problem of "not being able to take off their underwear" will completely disappear.

Every speck of dust, every blade of grass, and every texture on the surface of every piece of metal here is full of detail!
To the naked eye, it is almost indistinguishable from reality!
Conversely, if they get injured here.

The pain I felt was 100% the same, without any reduction whatsoever!

If they were even more perverted, they could even break through the limitations of the virtual world and have sex in the wild right in front of everyone!
……

However, on this path of "simulating reality," the increase in difficulty and cost is not linear, but exponential.

Especially the very last part, which is a curve so steep it's terrifying.

As for Gu Yifeng's claim of "complete truth"...

Just listen to it and forget about it.

Even the world's top mathematicians and physicists don't fully understand the world yet, so how can they talk about creation?
Let's leave this to the academic community.

“We’ll talk about that later,” Xu Meng changed the subject. “Now that all the testing is complete, it’s time to start my project.”

"Your project?" Gu Yifeng asked in surprise. "Are you going to do other experiments?"

"No," Xu Meng shook her head. "I just thought the test went so smoothly, so I wanted to set off some fireworks to celebrate."

"?"

Gu Yifeng wasn't actually misunderstanding; he had already realized what Xu Meng was trying to do.

What he couldn't understand was: why did Xu Meng do this?

To bomb a rocket is such an unlucky thing, especially on National Day...

Is this appropriate?

After informing him, Xu Meng turned and left, giving Xiao Meng an "OK" sign.

"Great!"

Xiao Meng jumped up excitedly and immediately started "setting off fireworks" as soon as she landed.

Xu Meng quickly raised her hand, signaling her to wait a moment.

Seeing Xiaomeng's puzzled expression, Xu Meng pulled up a pre-written program and injected it into the rocket program.

He also told Xiaomeng, "Don't peek!"

He should have kept quiet, because once he did, Xiao Meng became even more curious and started circling around Xu Meng.

"Haha." Xu Meng took her hand, turned around to say hello to Gu Yifeng, and then disappeared from the scene with Xiao Meng.

The next moment, it appeared on the highest tower in the center of the launch site.

Here, there is also the little blue blanket left by Xiaomeng, where two tiger cubs and a golden retriever cub, who are still nursing, are curled up and whimpering.

Looking at the situation here, a scene immediately flashed through Xu Meng's mind:
Xiao Meng sat on a thick blanket, holding a little tiger and a little golden retriever. Rockets were propelled by powerful flames and rose slowly into the sky!
This is so punk!

However, this scene soon played out again in reality—

Xu Meng sat cross-legged on the blanket, with a small tiger lying on his lap, while Xiao Meng hugged a golden retriever and leaned against him.

Before them, rockets from the entire launch site ignited and lifted off simultaneously!
Just as the previous rocket ascended a hundred meters, a new batch of rockets emerged from the launch pad and ignited again without any pause.

……

This is the last rocket launch of the day.

This time, Xu Meng plans to launch a thousand rounds in one go!

And it's a rocket with extra features!
After watching the rocket tests all morning, the players, who were no longer interested in them, turned their attention back to the sight of such a large number of rockets launching at the same time.

This time, the rocket's flight time was very short.

These rockets exploded just as they reached an altitude of 1,000 meters!

For a moment, everyone was worried when the first rocket exploded.

But when they saw that the explosion's flames were no longer bright yellow, but rather a large cloud of shimmering indigo smoke, everyone immediately felt relieved.

The same batch of rockets exploded one after another.

Vermilion, light blue, orange, dark purple, plum red, dark green...

Clusters of brilliant fire and colorful smoke exploded in the sky.

These colorful explosions were larger and had a wider impact than the previous realistic explosions. They would occasionally explode in pairs, triplets, or even quadruplets or quintuplets!

The visual effects are absolutely stunning!

Seeing this, the players immediately understood—

The rocket test is over.

It's time to celebrate!
……

In the southern part of the bustling metropolis, at the rocket launch site built by players, there are still many players lingering.

However, instead of staying indoors, everyone watched Mr. Xu's experiment outdoors.

Seeing this unique fireworks display, I immediately had an idea.

"Don't we still have three spare rockets? Why don't we just blow them all up?!"

Someone in the crowd shouted.

The proposal was immediately met with widespread approval:
"Explode! Explode together!!"

"How would it explode? There's no self-destruct sequence in the rocket launch procedure, is there?"

"What's the big deal! We may not know how to launch, but we know how to detonate! I have a time bomb here!"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! If Boss Xu finishes frying them, we won't make it in time!"

……

Manufacturing these rockets actually consumed a considerable amount of resources and effort.

If a player were to build it, it would probably take a month of grinding dungeons and another half a month of hammering.

If it weren't for the valiant sniper team's influence and ability to gather enough help, it would have been impossible to build it in such a short time.

But now, when it comes to joining Boss Xu's "fireworks party" and blowing everything up, not a single voice of opposition has been heard.

And they have incredibly strong action-taking ability!
Soon, the players in the Mansheng Metropolis saw the rocket in the south of the city slowly take off.

It exploded along with Xu Meng's rocket.

Although it consisted of only monotonous bright yellow flames and white fragments, lacking the splendor of Xu Meng's rocket fireworks, everyone still laughed and applauded.

……

By this time, nobody cares about bad luck. But if you launch a single rocket to celebrate your country's birthday and it explodes in the sky, that would indeed be very unlucky.

But if you launch hundreds of rockets first, letting everyone watch as they go from "more than half exploded" to 100% recovered, and then send them all into the sky to explode.

That would be completely different!

What's so unlucky about that?
This is the celebratory fireworks display!

And it's the most luxurious and unimaginable fireworks display in history!
Beneath this magical fireworks display, it wasn't just the players from the Xia Kingdom who were cheering and marveling.

Players worldwide were amazed by this incredible scene and were thrilled and excited.

The keywords and video footage of "[rocket fireworks]" swept across the global internet at an even faster pace than previous rocket explosions!

And then, something magical happened—

On the internet, concerns about Xu Meng's rocket launch in half a month have almost completely disappeared.

The odds on Betwin for Xu Meng's successful rocket launch rose sharply before plummeting even further.

In the process, gamblers who bet on the "launch failure" all regretted their actions and lamented endlessly on social media.

As for peripheral industries...

The attitude of the financial market has once again made a 180-degree turn—

Just half a day ago, institutions, retail investors, and media outlets were enthusiastically bullish and pessimistic, but quickly turned collectively bearish.

Even Thomas Booker, CEO of Edge Industries, laughed.

He even made a special trip to post a social media update:
[It's so funny how you all got completely fooled by Xu Meng!]
This person, like their president, is someone who likes to speak out on social media, and everyone is used to his style.

So retail investors who were mocked went to argue with him, while institutional investors didn't waste their time on him.

Thomas Booker didn't argue with retail investors; he simply responded to a serious comment from a netizen.

Are you ready to embrace the challenge of building your dreams?
Thomas Booker replied:
[Of course, I welcome any challenge!]
Whether he felt this response wasn't enough or wanted to bolster investor confidence, he quickly posted another update to provide further clarification:
"Virtual and reality are different."

I acknowledge that Dreamweaver possesses incredible technical capabilities in creating virtual worlds, and I fully understand the power of the Genesis Engine.

But the "Genesis Engine" is ultimately just an engine written by humans and applied to the digital world, not the "engine" by which God created the world.

It's impossible for it to be perfect in every aspect.

Stress changes in metals, metal fatigue under high-temperature burning, subtle balance disturbances caused by explosive combustion of fuels, as well as turbulence, celestial phenomena, and so on.

In the real world, there are too many details that the virtual world cannot capture.

and so--

Looking forward to seeing how Dream Building performs in the real world on October 15th!

I wish you success!
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As soon as this statement was released, a large number of netizens tagged @许梦.

Some people even took screenshots and sent them to Xu Meng via private message, fanning the flames and eagerly anticipating seeing them fight.

This time, however, they were all disappointed.

Xu Meng didn't say anything, she just kept setting off rockets and fireworks.

Players in the virtual world have no time to care about anything outside the game; they just find good spots to take selfies with the rocket and post them online, having a great time.

Then, something even more interesting happened—

Someone was paraded through the streets.
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After the first rocket was interfered with and exploded, most players were so engrossed in watching the rocket launch that they had no time to pay attention to anything else.

But a group of people are still furious.

Those are the players who rushed to the String of Deep Space to hunt down the "real culprit".

After Xunfei arrived, he only paused briefly to catch his breath before joining the Xia Kingdom players who had surrounded him to charge into the Deep Space String.

Inside the Deep Space String, the battle had been going on for a while.

Cat Tea was beaten badly.

She's a construction enthusiast, and although she has a fiery temper, she's terrible at fighting and can only win verbally.

His special skill is being able to verbally abuse his opponent in multiple languages ​​while taking a beating.

This time, however, she suffered a crushing defeat—

There are usually no guards in the Deep Space String, only some curious people who come to visit, which is how this place was taken advantage of.

Cat Tea rushed to provide support upon hearing the news, only to discover that the attackers were a team of Indian players.

This meant she couldn't fight back or even curse at him.

Cat Tea isn't afraid to curse Indians, nor is she incapable of cursing them in English.

The key issue is:
She was too afraid to scold him.

The percentage of perverts among Indians is far too high!

Cat Tea really didn't want to touch a single drop, so it could only silently endure the beating, feeling incredibly frustrated.

Fortunately, the experts arrived quickly after Deep Space String fired!

Xunfei had exhausted his "battery" due to his rapid journey, and his mental energy was also almost depleted.

Even without Nen abilities, his combat power is still top-tier!
Armed with a pistol and a sword, he charged left and right through the Indian ranks.

The players behind quickly caught up and separated the other player.

Other experts arrived one after another, not only completely defeating the team of more than 50 Indian players, but also successfully capturing more than 37 of them!

—The respawn point had already been surrounded by Xia Kingdom players!

Cat Tea was finally free and kicked the Indian leader in the groin viciously, venting his anger.

Then he raised his gun, ready to blow his head off.

But he was stopped by the people around him.

"What's wrong?" Cat Tea asked, puzzled.

The player shook his head: "Killing them like that is too easy on them!"

Cat Tea blinked. "What else can we do?"

She also had a fiery temper and showed no sympathy for these Indians who caused trouble at this crucial moment, but she was also very clear-headed—

The pain experienced in the virtual world is very limited.

Ultimately, Mr. Xu is very lenient with the players. Although he retained negative feelings such as pain and nausea for the sake of a realistic experience, he greatly reduced them.

Beating up your opponent to vent your anger only makes you feel better psychologically.

If your opponent is shameless, they won't care about this at all.

As for whether these Indians are thick-skinned or not?
This is not even a question that needs to be considered.

When have Indians ever cared about this?

After the hot-tempered players beat them up, they also started to have a problem.

I'll just kill him to end it all; I can't vent my anger anymore.

This is the kind of person who stirs up trouble during the National Day celebrations!
But there is no other way.

At this crucial moment, a master emerged from the crowd—

Happy Superman squeezed to the front row, confidently patted his chest and said, "Leave it to me, I have a great idea!"

"any solution?"

Everyone turned their heads at once, and when they saw it was him, their eyes lit up.

Happy Superman smiled slightly: "We've talked too much about good character; it's time to let them see some cultural dross!"

Everyone became even more curious and urged him not to keep them in suspense.

Happy Superman then said, "Do you know about the wooden donkey parading through the streets?"

"???"

The eyes of the surrounding players widened immediately!

Happy Superman looked on with satisfaction at their shocked expressions and continued:
“I know a guy who made an electric shock version of the wooden donkey for his cyber wife. We can borrow it.”

"??????"

Everyone's eyes widened even more!

Cat Tea covered her head with one hand, unable to process the overwhelming amount of information:

"Etc., etc!"

"Wait a minute!!"

"Who did you think he made it for???"

(End of this chapter)