Chapter 289 Press Conference, the US Breaks Through

The meeting has ended.

The entire massive state apparatus was set in motion at full speed.

An hour later, the State Council Information Office of China held a press conference broadcast live globally.

The venue was packed.

Hundreds of journalists from around the world pointed their cameras at the press conference platform, and the air was thick with tension and anticipation.

Standing at the front of the stage was a middle-aged female spokesperson with a calm face and sharp eyes.

Behind her, on one side of the huge screen, there was a high-definition poster of the "Kunlun Mirror" bracelet with a warm glow, and on the other side, a video of the breakdown of the "Ninth Set of Fitness Broadcast Gymnastics" was playing silently on a loop.

The female spokesperson walked to the front of the stage, her gaze sweeping across the entire audience, without uttering a single superfluous opening remark.

Good afternoon, fellow journalists.

"Two notices are now being issued."

Her voice, transmitted clearly through the microphone, reached every corner of the venue and also spread to the world.

"First, the new generation of personal smart terminal 'Kunlun Mirror' will be launched nationwide simultaneously through official platforms at midnight Beijing time tomorrow, with an initial batch of 50 million units."

The scene was deathly silent.

The reporters, pen in hand and camera in hand, froze in place.

Personal smart terminals? Are they meant to replace mobile phones? An initial batch of 50 million units?

What does this mean? A bombshell capable of disrupting the global technology market has been casually dropped?

The spokesperson gave them no time to process the information and continued to drop the second bombshell in a calm tone.

"Secondly, after joint verification by several authoritative scientific research institutions in my country, the 'Ninth Set of Fitness Broadcast Gymnastics' which is being promoted in primary and secondary schools across the country, as well as the 'Body Strengthening Fist' and other basic exercises in the online game 'Spiritual Resurrection', can indeed effectively and without side effects improve the physical fitness of the nation and enhance human function."

"The General Administration of Sport of China, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Culture jointly encourage all citizens to actively practice, provided that it is scientific, moderate, and safe."

boom--!

If the first piece of news was a bomb, then the second piece of news was a nuclear explosion.

The entire venue was completely out of control.

The flashbulbs went off wildly, illuminating the speaker's face until it was deathly pale.

The reporters' expressions shifted from shock to bewilderment, and then to a near-manic excitement.

"Oh My God!"

"They confessed! They really confessed!"

"The things in the game are real!"

Countless reporters, as if suddenly awakened, rushed to their laptops like madmen, their fingers clattering on the keyboards, racing against time to send back this historic news to headquarters.

"Quiet."

The female spokesperson tapped the microphone lightly, and her two words quelled the commotion in the room.

"Now, it's time for the Q&A session."

A hand suddenly shot up.

He was the chief reporter for a mainstream media outlet in the United States, and his face bore an undisguised sharpness and provocation.

"Excuse me, Ms. Spokesperson!" His voice was loud and accusatory: "Does your country's use of a game to guide hundreds of millions of people to practice so-called 'kung fu' in real life mean that China is conducting an unprecedented human experiment using its entire population?"

This problem is extremely vicious.

It instantly twisted a good thing that would benefit the country and its people into a moral accusation of being anti-human.

All eyes were focused on the female spokesperson.

She stared at the reporter expressionlessly, her eyes devoid of any emotion.

"We call it the intergenerational leap in the overall health level of the population."

She paused, a barely perceptible smile curving her lips.

"Of course, if your country is interested in our 'radio gymnastics,' we would be happy to license and promote it."

"However, you will have to learn our language and culture, since there is no translated version of our radio calisthenics."

"Pfft—"

In the back row of the venue, a young Chinese reporter couldn't help but laugh out loud.

This is a blatant conspiracy. You want to learn? I'll teach you, but you'd better learn our language first!

The American reporter's face instantly turned a deep purplish-red. He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

The outcome of this confrontation was immediately clear.

Meanwhile, the online world of China was flooded with countless enthusiastic bullet comments.

[Holy crap!!! It's official! The national team has finally stopped pretending! They've come clean!]

[Radio calisthenics is a secret to immortality! I've been telling you! I feel refreshed every day after doing it! My mom says it's all in my head!]

[The development team of "Spiritual Awakening" should take their anger out on us! How many things have you been hiding from us?! This isn't just a game! This is the fate of the nation!]

[The Kunlun Mirror! The Kunlun Mirror! Tomorrow at midnight! Nobody can take it from me! Even if it kills me, I'll get out of bed and get it!]

[Hey upstairs, you don't need to die. You can activate the alarm directly with your voice. (doge emoji)]

[The Kunlun Mirror is mine! The personal AI has finally appeared! I used the speed I've gained from being single for thirty years to snatch it!]

[Please, I'm begging you! My great-grandmother is lying in a hospital bed, and she only has one wish: to have the Kunlun Mirror. Please, let me have it! *doge emoji*]

I was wrong, I was so wrong. I used to laugh at those who practiced body cultivation, calling them fools. Turns out, I was the clown myself!

[Ugh, I just want to ask, if body cultivation techniques like 'Body Tempering Fist' are real, then what about magic cultivation? Are they real too? Mom, stop hiding it from me, tell me, are they real too?!]

[It's really, really true! I swear on my life!]

[Can you use your brain for once?! Physical cultivation is real because it involves exercising, like going to the gym, but Dharma cultivation is a completely different system! It's definitely not real!]

I won't listen! I won't listen! I won't listen!

......

Amidst this sea of ​​revelry, the official account of Yunlan University released its first video.

The video is short, only thirty seconds long.

The scene shows the spacious playground of Yunlan University.

A boy in a blue and white school uniform jumps up from a basketball hoop.

His figure was like a cannonball, easily leaping nearly three meters into the air, and with a loud "bang," he slammed the basketball into the hoop.

It landed silently.

The scene shifts.

In the library, a girl with a ponytail is facing a virtual screen in the air, her fingers moving rapidly across it.

On her wrist was a prototype of the "Kunlun Mirror" that was slightly different from the one shown at the press conference.

A complex and dazzling three-dimensional diagram of the spaceship was projected from the bracelet, constantly rotating, enlarging, and disassembling as she moved her fingers.

The camera then shifts again.

A group of students unleashed their physical cultivation techniques in unison, their imposing aura so powerful that ripples could be seen in the air.

At the end of the video, the image freezes on the ancient and solemn gate of Yunlan University.

A line of gilded characters slowly emerged.

Welcome to Yunlan University.

This is the future.

This video has reignited the online frenzy.

【I...I fucking...I want to repeat a year! I'm going to withdraw from school and repeat a year right now! I'm determined to get into Yunlan University next year!】

Stop dreaming. Look at their cutoff scores, and then look at the three cents in your pocket.

[Is this the height a person can jump? Is this the Wudang Mountain's "Ladder to the Clouds"?! My mom asked me why I was kneeling while looking at my phone!]

[Is that the Kunlun Mirror on that girl's wrist? A prototype? This function is too futuristic! Holographic projection modeling? Even Iron Man didn't do this!]

Stop talking, I've already started practicing calisthenics. My goal isn't big, just to jump three meters high!

[Yunlan University is practically the nation's frontline force! The nation just announced the game and AI, and Yunlan University already released a video! No wonder their admission scores are so high.]

Domestically, it was a time of nationwide celebration and anticipation.

Abroad, there was only deathly silence, and beneath that silence, a frenzied fear was spreading.

The atmosphere in the numerous secret meeting rooms was oppressive.

"They've gone mad! All the Chinese people have gone mad!"

"How dare they... how dare they make this power public! Aren't they afraid of it getting out of control?"

"Out of control? Didn't you see that 'Kunlun Mirror'? Why were these two things released together? There must be a connection!"

"This is not the time to discuss this! Has our intelligence department confirmed it? Does that 'radio calisthenics' really have that effect?"

"...According to reports from our spies stationed in China, preliminary test reports show that it is effective, although the effect is weak, but...it is true."

"FUCK!"

The United States, the Pentagon.

The atmosphere in that meeting room, where a coffee cup had been shattered during the "South Heavenly Gate Project," was even more somber than before.

The Minister of Defense's eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the calm face of the Chinese spokesperson on the screen.

"Thief! Shameless thief!"

"Our advanced technology must have been stolen by them, otherwise these explosive technologies cannot be explained!"

He paced back and forth in the conference room like an enraged bull.

"Immediately! Prepare a press conference!"

He abruptly stopped, turned to his adjutant, and almost roared the order.

"I want to tell the whole world! Their so-called 'Kunlun Mirror' is nothing but a pathetic imitation that stole our 'Aegis' project, which was aborted many years ago!"

Half an hour later.

An emergency press conference was held and appeared on screens around the world.

The US Defense Minister stood before the camera, his face ashen.

His voice was hoarse from extreme anger.

"The so-called new generation personal smart terminal 'Kunlun Mirror' released by China today is a shameless theft of our 'Aegis' personal terminal project, which was aborted many years ago!"

"We hereby demand that Huaxia immediately cease the sale of this infringing product!"

"And immediately open all technical data to our country for our technical verification!"