Chapter 181: Chapter 179: Unexpected Tragedy
Translator: 549690339
Is this “making history”, or being etched in the “pillar of historical shame”?
Before everyone could debate an outcome, the virtual girlfriend off in the distance had already completely disappeared.
Then, a tide of music suddenly sounded, interrupting them. Yi instantly reacted, “This is the Achievement trophy?!”
This thing actually comes with an Achievement trophy?!
A beam of light collected and appeared in front of each of the ten players, a trophy that looked identical to the Clearance trophy, only this one was made entirely of crystal.
As per usual, the name of the achievement was carved into the base of the trophy, only, this name was a bit outrageous— “May the Holy Light Protect You.”
It also unlocked a special piece of furniture—a Bathing Girl Lamp.
“A Bathing Girl Lamp, seriously…?” comments started showing up ridiculing it. “I seriously suspect that the Cloud Dream team is messing with us.”
“Yeah, take a look at that glowing butt! With a 16+ rating, they pull this, I can’t imagine what they would do if the game was rated 18+.”
Yi chose to physicalize the lamp, only to find out that it is a statue of a female made from jade material, wrapped in a bathrobe.
Curvy and appealing, but with both hands covering her chest, she struck a pose of a woman shrieking at the sight of a pervert.
Touch it once, and the whole statue will glow with a gentle white light. Touch it again, and the light will automatically go out. Very intelligent.
However, in the system description of the statue, there is an additional note.
[Note: This lamp should not be placed in a bathroom setting, nor should it be disturbed by high-decibel noise. Otherwise, unfortunate consequences may occur.]
“Unfortunate consequences?”
Seeing this note, without waiting for the audience to cheer him on, Yi went straight into the room with the lamp, wanting to try it out in the bathroom.
Before stepping into the bathroom, he worried if the seriously damaged bathroom would affect anything. But the next second, the lamp in his hand turned into a flash bomb.
—No, it was even more savage than a flash bomb, it was more like a constant exploding shock bomb!
A blinding, intense dazzling light and an extremely piercing scream erupted simultaneously!
Not only Yi, who hastily dropped it and covered his ears tightly. His physical instinct drove him to flee.
Even the other nine players, who were still studying the trophy, were startled by the sudden noise.
The most pitiful were the viewers in the live broadcast room. They were looking forward to seeing Yi tormented, only to have the strong light and ear-piercing noise suddenly erupt, sending many viewers leaning back wildly, trying to get away from the screen.
—They forgot that their headphones were still connected to the computer.
A tragedy, not without warning, but one that still caused widespread damage, occurred.
That afternoon, the store that sells the most headphones on the “Skydog” shopping website, received 18,000 new headphone orders in just two hours.
The store owner thought it was a system glitch. After figuring out the reason, he sincerely posted on the Spiritual Rhinoceros to express his gratitude to Yi and Cloud Dream.
Looking at the “lamp” that was still spreading dazzlingly bright light and ear-piercing noise in the distance, no one dared to take it out of the bathroom. Yi felt helpless.
It took a considerable effort to find the option on the system panel to store this lamp back into the system warehouse.
In just five minutes, the number of people in the live broadcast room had dropped by a third, proving its astonishing power!
Looking at the plummeting temperature of the live broadcast room, Yi was so regretful that his intestines almost turned green, so he slapped his own hand in frustration, “Why can’t I control my hand?”
Mavis, thoroughly enjoying herself up this point, finally decided to end the recording.
She carefully saved this video in her storage section named “Sharing the Good Fortune”, waiting for Lincoln to have some free time to slack off. Then, the two would snuggle on the small sofa to watch it together.
The contents of this storage partition have been continuously enriched and updated.
The jokes, news, gossip, and even the lullabies and wake-up songs that Mavis tells Lincoln all come from this partition.
With Mavis’s full assistance, Lincoln worked undistracted until eight o’clock in the evening.
Even when Yue Pengju knocked on the door to bring food, Lincoln rejected him, drank a cup of water and continued to work.
When Lincoln finally stopped, the large-scale neural modem in front of him became more and more cyberpunk – not in terms of technology, but in terms of appearance.
Lincoln didn’t care about the appearance at all, the distribution of various cables, components, and indicator lights was very random, the entire cube looked pitted, with no flat surface.
Looking at it, Lincoln himself felt a bit ugly and decided to tidy up the wiring and layout problems after verifying that there were no problems. Although he felt hungry, he couldn’t wait to start the reliability test.
First step – System self-check, everything is normal.
Second step – Software runs smoothly, without any bugs.
Third step – Wearing the headband for the user experience.
But this most critical step encountered a problem.
“What’s going on?” Lincoln touched the headband in confusion, “No effect?
Where did it go wrong?”
He took off the headband, expecting to see where the problem was.
Unexpectedly, Mavis suddenly spoke up to clear his confusion: “Nothing went wrong! It’s just that the effect of the focused headband on the master is very small now, so the master didn’t feel it.” “Why is that?” Lincoln asked, puzzled.
“Because the master has been under the assistance of Mavis, the brain has gotten used to staying highly concentrated, it’s easier to immerse into focus, thinking, memory, creation, and other neural activities.”
Mavis happily said: “The concentration level that the focused headband can reach, can be reached by the master without the help of the headband!”
Lincoln blinked his eyes, stood in place and thought, “So, when Mavis assists me in thinking, it’s actually a kind of thought pattern training. If it lasts for a long time, this state of highly active brain nerves, which can double the efficiency of thinking, can become a proactive ability that I can master?”
“Not quite right!” Mavis shook her head, “Without the precise auxiliary neural signals from the outside, it’s impossible to achieve 100% efficiency.”
Hearing this, Lincoln wasn’t disappointed at all, he was even very surprised: “So you’re saying, 80% efficiency can be achieved?”
“Yes!” Mavis confirmed by nodding her head, “But it will take a long time. To ensure safety, this ability needs to be adapted and improved little by little.”
“Then, can it be replicated?” The first thing Lincoln thought of was “mass production.”
If this technology can be widely spread, the focus headband would be nothing!
This damn thing feels like you can ascend spiritually!
Unfortunately, Mavis immediately poured a bucket of cold water: “No!”
“Do you remember what Mavis said? For all matters involving human brains, we are subject to strict restrictions.”
Although she mentioned restrictions, Mavis wasn’t upset: “Mavis is the master’s exclusive Al, so I can only do this for the master!”
“Okay.” Lincoln was a bit regretful, but he quickly let it go, “Thanks, Mavis!”
Then he didn’t care about the time and directly called Lorin, asking him to bring along the 30th person the next morning, to verify the multi-user effect of the large-scale neural modem.
Lorin’s voice was very excited and he couldn’t wait to bring people over right away, but considering the confidentiality of the selection, he agreed to come the next morning.
However, as soon as he hung up the phone, he started to arrange the specific selection, technical personnel, and confidential measures right away.
Many people are bound to spend a sleepless night..
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