Chapter 449: Tsunami? No, a Mega Tsunami!_2
Two unmanned research vehicles from Huaxia, carrying hundreds of explorers, running to do scientific exploration underwater just a few dozen kilometers from Philadelphia?
Legally speaking, it's actually not that impossible.
After all, it's still in international waters.
According to the maritime convention, any country has the right to freely navigate, fly over, conduct fishing activities, lay cables and pipelines, and conduct scientific research in international waters.
It's just that no one probably had the nerve to come to this location for scientific exploration and research before.
There's always some discrepancy between legal theory and reality, but people usually know how to handle it.
But now someone who doesn't understand this has shown up and even boldly announced it, even putting up the coordinates. This is nothing short of riding a face with a big move.
Who wouldn't be dumbfounded at this?
When the screen went dark and the lights lit up again, the entire conference hall fell into complete silence. Most people hadn't managed to turn their thoughts around.
Let's just say, is this unmanned deep-sea scientific exploration geological survey system serious?
Is this really a tech company's product launch?
Could this possibly be...?
Unlike the on-site reaction, live streaming platforms online were completely blowing up with all sorts of comments and pop-up messages!
Most lacked eloquence, just a frenzied outpour of emotions.
"Crap crap crap!"
"Holy crap, Dou Dou is awesome!"
"For real! My Dou is mighty!"
"Other than awesome, I don't know what else to say! Crap"
"Oh my god..."
Yes, you could hardly see a complete sentence among the comments now.
Rational people were still looking for answers, but the output speed of complete sentences couldn't match pure emotional venting.
On phones, everyone trying to type a complete sentence had already typed "crap!" countless times by then.
The sheer spectacle of the comments could be described as an ocean of "crap!"
With interspersed phrases like "WTF?" "MF!" "Damn!" "Bullshit!" which unmistakably carried a refreshingly awake flavor. This probably again proved that watching the conference off-site brought even stronger reactions than those on-site.
After all, in public places, people tend to have reservations.
But clearly, AI has no reservations.
When the lights came on, Dou Dou's figure reappeared on the podium of the conference.
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you surprised? Unexpected? As I just reported to all of you, the first phase of our unmanned cluster deep-sea scientific exploration geological survey system has been successfully completed, giving us the preliminary capability of scientific exploration across entire sea regions.
Next, we will begin the second phase of our mission. Officially launching phased geological studies in all sea regions, with focal points including but not limited to charting undersea resources distribution, exploring new sea routes, deep-sea species research, and more.
Contributing our part to uncovering the secrets of over 70% of Earth's surface. We have reason to believe that in the not distant future, as the second and third-generation deep-sea vehicles and explorers launch, humankind will unveil the mysterious veil of the oceans!
Cheer, my friends! Trust me! This is a small step for Huaxia, but a giant leap for the human community worldwide!"
After finishing, without waiting for a response from the audience, the lights gradually dimmed again, and the familiar background music began playing once more, still the melodies and voices most familiar to those born in the 80s and 90s, as the large screen started switching rapidly back to oceanic videos.
This could be thought of as old wine in new bottles, a new MV replacing the old.
"The lost time scattered in the wind, as if forgotten how to face it again, the wandering days you were accompanying, to meet again by fate, the innocent voice has faded away, each for their goals parted, gazing at the night sky, who of the past, understanding the fatigue inside..."
When the audience finally reacted, applause erupted just as the passionate chorus grew more intense.
"Let go of right and wrong, recall the past, there are always joys even through hardships, not believing in despair, not feeling hesitant, striving daily in the dreams, waking and intoxicated in the drifting wind and rain, all stories as if happened in the drifting years..."
When the background music completely faded, and the lights on the podium of the conference brightened again, Dou Dou's figure had disappeared, replaced by Yu Hongwei.
Alright, even though it's still a big shot holding the scene together, it was clear this big shot couldn't remain calm either.
This probably indicated that today, before Dou Dou took the stage, there wasn't even a discussion with the main figure of today's product launch about what it would be announcing. Hence, logically, the rest of the conference turned into garbage time.
Even though there were originally several product previews slated for next year, it was obvious nobody cared about these anymore.
It's not just the online viewing audience, the people on the conference site were pretty much the same.
The most direct manifestation for the former was the precipitous decline in the number of people watching the conference live on major platforms, and for the latter, it was even clearer, as many people visibly took out their phones, focusing all their attention on their devices instead of the people on stage and the big screen.
Even many of the VIP guests sitting in the front row were included.
It's genuinely not about being rude, but everyone was filled with a multitude of questions they hoped to get answers to.
If it were someone else, say Qiao Ze personally doing the presentation, people would understand they couldn't get answers. But Dou Dou is different, as the hottest and most dazzling star in Huaxia right now, almost all Huaxia people know Dou Dou even personally runs a Weibo account.
And here's a fun fact: no matter who it is, anytime, as long as you interact with Dou Dou in Weibo's comment section, you almost always get a reply.
Yes, at that moment, the majority of people taking out their phones thought of this fun fact.
The questions that came to mind couldn't be asked in person, but they could be asked on Weibo!
Maybe they'd get an answer?
Really, at that moment, whether Dou Dou could become a mentor was already unimportant. Thinking it over, being a mentor is just that.
What truly got people excited was the ocean! Thischapter'struesourceisMyVirtualLibraryEmpire(M|V|LEMP-YR).
Just like that, the flow that countless people admired, some of it just leaked out to Weibo, something no one expected.
But what more people did not expect was, when everyone took out their phones to log into Weibo, it visibly became extremely difficult, with the little circle spinning and spinning, failing to log in for ages.
Previously many logged in, found Dou Dou's Weibo, but trying to write something in the comment section was also exceedingly difficult. After finally composing a message, pressing send resulted in more spinning and spinning, making many so frustrated they wanted to smash their phones...
Yes, at a critical moment, the Weibo server crashed!
In actuality, this wasn't supposed to happen.
After the same issue occurred last time, it was said that Weibo had adopted more advanced dynamic bandwidth management technology to ensure no repeat crashes from a sudden user influx.
Hadn't happened in quite some time since then, but this situation was indeed special. Who would've thought that a second ago, it was the low season for concurrent online users in half a year, and the next second, nearly a billion users suddenly logged on simultaneously.
Honestly, not just Weibo, but any software's servers probably couldn't handle being played like this. By comparison, Weibo actually did pretty well.
It was just that on the weekend, the operations engineers, who had provoked no one, had to start working overtime. Fortunately, Weibo was experienced in such situations, and it only took twenty minutes to release an announcement that the server had completely returned to normal, allowing everyone to enjoy their time on Weibo again, catching most of this overwhelming flow.
Another small portion of the traffic, during those thrilling twenty minutes, diverted to other platforms where Dou Dou also had accounts, such as Donghu, Maopu...
Back to this point, the unexpected server crash this time ironically resonated with this event.
Because when the Weibo server was restored, Youwei's conference also officially ended. It seemed to have ensured the last twenty minutes' viewership of the product launch.
When countless netizens finally swarmed into Dou Dou's Weibo, unsurprisingly, the comment section under the latest Weibo post had already exploded.
A hundred thousand whys?
No, this might turn into a million whys on location. Refreshing casually, the comment section's update speed was increasing by tens of thousands, who could believe it?!