My Player 2

Chapter 346 The Wave of the Times

"Three, two, one, turn off the fire!"

Under the tense attention of countless people, the miniature controlled nuclear fusion reactor code-named "Xihe" completed its first ignition test.

After burning continuously for 168 hours, this miniature reactor of less than 60 cubic meters, like a hardworking old ox, smoothly completed the ceasefire and cooling.

"Successful?" The head of the base stayed here for seven days, eating and sleeping with the researchers, and witnessed this historic moment together.

The white-haired commander remained calm, opened the thermos cup, blew it, took a sip of hot tea, and then said slowly:
"I can't be sure yet, but the effect of the new magic steel is beyond expectations."

The leader noticed that the commander-in-chief's hands were shaking as he held the thermos cup, so he continued to ask:

"Just take it as an irresponsible judgment and tell me, a layman, when it can be installed on the spacecraft?"

The commander-in-chief glanced at the leader and said half-jokingly:
"I'd say now is the time."

He gave an extremely exaggerated time, but worried that laymen would take it seriously, so he immediately added:
"I'm just joking. Don't take it seriously. A spacecraft equipped with controlled nuclear fusion is not something that can be swallowed in one go. It will take at least two years to get started."

"Don't we have the information ready? Why does it take so long?" The chief was a little anxious.

Although they can block domestic information, the duration of the blockade is limited.

Those guys overseas have noticed that something is wrong with that game.

In less than two years, or at most two months, drawings of micro-controlled nuclear fusion will appear in research laboratories in other countries.

This is a race against time.

The commander-in-chief also knew that time was running out. After a pause, he briefly explained:

"There are two problems. One is that the loss of magic patterns is highly uncertain. The other is that our nuclear fusion facilities have never been tested in a space environment. Human lives are at stake, and there are too many unknown variables."

"Fortunately, the progress is going smoothly. If we can disregard human lives, we can start designing the spacecraft. However, in order to prevent accidents, we need to prepare at least five 'Xihe' reactors on board."

Look, a miniature nuclear fusion reactor can supply energy to the entire spacecraft.

But just in case, let's prepare five on the spaceship!
This is the value of the word “micro”!

The chief was eager to let these researchers design the spacecraft immediately, and then he would personally command it and be the first to fly into space for exploration.

But he also knew that not only he could not make the decision on this matter, but no one dared to make the decision.

As early as 1961, when humans first landed in space, space was already a blue ocean. 89 years later, space is still a blue ocean, but its importance is always beyond doubt.

Humans mastered the technology of controlled nuclear fusion more than 20 years ago.

At that time, humans excitedly believed that they had endless energy.

But the alarming losses of controlled nuclear fusion gradually dampened humanity's confidence.

The loss of nuclear fusion lies not in the fuel, but in the materials of the reactor.

Today, combining magic from another world, a new "magic steel" has been created, which seems to have solved the most troublesome material problem.

This is technology that is enough to change the world, and it is one of the most critical periods in the entire human history.

But humans will never be satisfied.

After shrinking a nuclear fusion facility as big as a mountain into a reactor the size of a water tank, anyone can imagine transporting this reactor into space and establishing a production base in the universe.

It is not difficult to imagine that perhaps in 50 years, the solar system will become a thriving "vegetable market" like the novels of the Golden Age.

People are building cities on Venus, mining ores on asteroids, there are flights to Jupiter's moon every day, and there are rampant space pirates... "We are in the tide of the times." The chief couldn't help but sigh.

……

According to the time on the announcement, the new version will not be updated until the early morning.

But if you are a player who has been online all the time, you will find that the game system has changed drastically long before the announcement was made.

The first is that time is eight times faster, much faster than the three times speed of a normal holographic helmet.

One day passed in the game, but only three hours passed in reality.

It can be said that if you don’t count the time you sleep, then as long as you play this game every day, your life will be eight times longer than others.

The discussion on the Internet is very heated, and has exceeded the previous level of popularity. Especially those game anchors with a certain appeal, they are like crazy, opposing the change in the speed of time flow.

After all, this involves their jobs.

They spread rumors that accelerating time eight times would cause irreversible damage to the brain.

Most of the fans who watched their live broadcast were passers-by who had no right to play, so they naturally enjoyed watching the fun and joined in the noise.

But for real players, eight times the time acceleration is a good thing.

Those supporters and opponents were cursing each other online, with all kinds of cross-dressing and outrageous remarks emerging one after another.

"Fuck, how come after decades, these people on the Internet are still like this."

Li Li looked at the quarrel on the forum and felt himself getting impatient. He immediately made a major revision to his official forum.

"Specially Investigate Your Tax Avoidance" was in a passionate debate with netizens, when suddenly I found that the forum was in maintenance and it showed that a major change was about to be made.

He had no choice but to switch back to the game, pinched his brows, and sat on the boat sulking.

Since "Expedition" protects the player's information so well, he couldn't open the opponent's stupid box, and could only question the thickness of the opponent's household registration book, which made him unable to curse to his heart's content.

"Why are you fighting against them? Who knows if those people are paid?" Brother Hedgehog swung his fishing rod and advised with a Buddhist look on his face.

"I hate stupidity." 'Specially Investigating Your Tax Avoidance' took a deep breath, reviewed the previous record, and sneered: "I scolded him ten times and cursed him all over, and he only said haha ​​in return. And he still said that eight times acceleration is not good."

Hedgehog put away his fishing rod, and indeed, he caught nothing. He sighed and said:
"With eight times the speedup, I can work in the game from now on, finish a day's work in an hour, and then enjoy the game after that."

"I even want to bring in a dead eunuch author I know and have him write a book in this game, but sleeping every day is too much of a hassle."

"Yeah..." "Specially investigating your tax evasion" couldn't help but frowned.

They were on their way to the Star Islands, planning to activate the main city there so that others could be teleported over.

The player has activated 3 main cities and can now teleport between the rich continents.

The major guilds had been planning for a long time, wondering what big boss would be near the main city. But when a group of top fighters arrived, they found that it was just an ordinary monster spawning spot.

This made everyone speechless and realized that the game company’s production capacity was insufficient.

but……

"Brother Hedgehog" raised his head and looked at the twinkling starry sky, knowing that the insufficient production capacity was false.

The "Stars" map opened above is much more exaggerated than a few bosses.

(End of this chapter)