Many people had arrived early.
The city airport was suddenly flooded with social media influencers live streaming on their phones.
Passengers from the same flight were unaware of what was happening, thinking they might be on the same plane as a celebrity. However, upon entering, they found no one they recognized, and there were no frenzied fangirls or screaming.
People were just scrutinizing them, trying to discern their identities.
An e-sports commentator was heard saying loudly, "That's already the fifth scientist. This event has attracted so many people."
Many high school seniors in the live stream chat began to worship these academic elites online.
Each of these scientists was an absolute top expert in their field.
E-sports teams and computer science bigwigs had also gathered here.
Shen Wei had publicly revealed the gaming pod, and everyone wanted to take the opportunity to experience it.
After all, this thing was truly rare and seldom seen.
By the time they arrived, there were already quite a few people here.
Shen Wei had her own live stream.
She hadn't invited any more media people in.
But twenty or thirty of these people had squeezed into Gu Qingyan's small room.
It was suddenly packed.
The live stream chat was scrolling frantically: "The value of the people in this room is off the charts."
"They're all industry top-tier celebrities."
Mentioning industry top-tier celebrities, the long-time fans in the live stream smiled knowingly. Shen Wei had this ability to attract the cream of the crop in the industry.
As soon as they saw the gaming pod, everyone started to examine it.
First, they looked at its appearance, then each person went up to try it out.
The game choices were all different.
But when that realistic sensation hit them, everyone felt a tingling scalp and goosebumps all over their body.
They weren't mentally prepared.
Could AI really achieve this level?
It was as if it connected directly to their nerves.
Everyone came out wide-eyed and slack-jawed.
Even the national e-sports team members were outperformed in gaming.
But when they came out, everyone described the same feeling: "Incredible, absolutely incredible! This is a surreal product."
The online audience hadn't expected so many people to use the same expression, and they became even more excited.
"Oh my god, I want to go play it so badly. I wonder how many more amazing things Starry Sky Kindergarten is hiding from us."
"To think that Shen Wei gave this to Gu Qingyan, I'm so jealous."
"From now on, Shen Wei is my husband. Husband isn't a gender, it's an attitude."
"Hubby, just give me one gaming pod. I don't want anything else."
"I can hear the gears turning in your head all the way from Jiangxi."
Everyone was frantically scrolling through the comments.
The national e-sports gaming team wanted to play again, but they couldn't get in line.
Even though they were all medal winners.
But the others were scientists.
If they couldn't find the screws and buttons, they would have taken it apart on the spot.
Although the e-sports team members were young, they insisted firmly that it absolutely couldn't be dismantled.
This could possibly be the only gaming pod in the country.
This technology and the games inside were too valuable for others to study.
And if it was damaged, no one could bear the loss.
They were at a standstill.
Then they asked Shen Wei, "Where did this thing come from?"
Suddenly, the comments in the live stream slowed down a bit.
That's right, everyone wanted to know.
Shen Wei said that someone had sent her an email before, hoping she could fund their dream.
It was a bit like angel investment, but not commercial in nature.
Everyone immediately imagined the whole story.
The method this scientific genius chose looked like a scammer's, and only a rich second-generation like Shen Wei would give money.
In the end, the scientist reciprocated by sending a gaming pod.
The two had been communicating online and had never met in person.
The scientists' eyes lit up when they heard this.
"Can you give us that email?"
They could use technology to find this genius.
Shen Wei agreed.
Soon after getting the email, the scientists treated it like a treasure.
They immediately activated all their networks to investigate this person.
If they could really find them, the country's technological power would advance by 10 years.
The concept of a gaming pod was first proposed in science fiction novels.
Both domestic and foreign researchers were working on it.
But this was absolutely advanced.
In the fishing game, the splash of water when a fish's tail moved and the faint fishy smell in the wind were exactly the same as reality.
It was hard to imagine what level of genius could achieve this degree of realism. They had so many questions they wanted to ask.
The other scientists began to report this.
They had already positioned this talent at a very high level.
As long as they could recruit them, they could be specially admitted to the research team. They would directly enter the research project.
They would be given treatment befitting national-level talent.
In less than a day, the police had already found some clues.
They rushed to this person's home and found many design drafts.
There were also various tools and other concepts.
Including diaries.
But in the evaluation of the surrounding neighbors, this person was actually a madman.
Their parents were divorced, and they had been living alone from an early age.
Sometimes they would work part-time at convenience stores. They rarely talked to people.
Sometimes they would talk to themselves, unlike normal people.
The police looked through over 500 hours of surveillance footage, almost frame by frame.
In the end, they only saw this person walking to an unfamiliar road section, a small place without surveillance. From then on, they simply disappeared.
The scientists' hearts sank.
They had finally found a genius of this caliber.
The trail had gone cold, and more importantly, the place where they went missing was a lake.
A bad feeling suddenly arose in their hearts.
Many people would feel that everything is perfect after achieving great satisfaction and might do something extreme.
But they would rather hope that this person had just retreated from the world.
Gone to some mysterious place to live in seclusion, rather than believe that such a young genius was no longer around.
With this lead suddenly cut off, everyone returned to Shen Wei's side.
This might be the only hyper-realistic gaming pod in the whole world.
Although they hadn't found this person.
They didn't know the specific steps of how this mechanical pod was made.
But these manuscripts would give them many inspirations and clues.
The scientists, one by one, were moved to tears: "Hold Shen Wei's hand, thank you. You saved a young man's dream and also allowed our technology to make great strides forward."
They had seen the email that boy sent to Shen Wei, and it truly seemed like something a scammer would write.
Most people would have dismissed it and moved on.
A potential genius might have been lost.
But Shen Wei's response gifted them with a treasure for the ages.
Shen Wei knew the system's capabilities were vast.
However, she never imagined that even under such intense scrutiny, with the vast net of investigation cast, it could still weave such a seamless narrative.
It truly lived up to its reputation as a system ahead of its time, undeniably impressive.
