Chapter 433: 85 Years of Technological Progress, Condensed into a Single Book

Chapter 433: Chapter 368: 85 Years of Technological Progress, Condensed into a Single Book

“That’s right!” Lin Xia nodded in firm agreement and added, “This is all purely organic traffic… We didn’t spend any money on promoting the blog!”

“…” Chu Bamboo rapped his knuckles hard on his forehead, composing himself. He casually clicked on the first trending topic. Unsurprisingly, it was entirely dedicated to criticizing him.

“…It’s precisely because of people like this—who gain a sliver of fame and then proclaim themselves scientists, flaunting their ridiculous and fantastic delusions—that the scientific community of our Divine Continent suffers such discrimination and ridicule on the international stage…”

However, Chu Bamboo didn’t feel the least bit humiliated or questioned. In fact, he almost wanted to laugh… He had just discovered the most interesting part of all this—

Because he had slept through the night… he had already missed the climax of the debate, or what could even be called a war.

By now, many of the theories within the *Star Sea Detailed Explanation* had already been verified.

And for that very reason, the comment section below this trending topic was now flooded with posts making a fool of the original poster.

The earlier comments were still relatively tame…

At most, they just said things like, “*Star Sea* is a sci-fi book? Does the dumbass OP even know what sci-fi is?” “I don’t care if the book’s content is reliable or not, I found it fascinating.” “I don’t really get the science in it! But I think it’s a great read, and I firmly support Chu Bamboo!”…

But as time went on, things started to get interesting.

“OP, OP, are you serious? I was practically on my knees reading this book! I showed it to my boss… and my boss was on his knees reading it! All I can say is, from the tip of the iceberg that’s been revealed so far, the scientific depth of this book is unfathomable.” The commenter posted a picture of a censored Qingbei University student ID. The “boss” he mentioned was clearly his supervising professor, which was enough to prove the commenter was, at the very least, a PhD student from Qingbei…

And then…

By the time this morning’s comments started rolling in… the tone had changed completely!

“OP, OP, are you for real, old timer? Three academicians from the White-headed Eagle nation, two from Mao Bear, and another four from the Europe United Kingdom have all publicly announced… They’ve confirmed that this book and its internal records have massively advanced the research progress on the Navier-Stokes equations, Yang-Mills existence and mass gap, the Riemann hypothesis, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, the Hodge conjecture, and so on… These are all world-class problems! When you talk about pseudoscience, are you also including these foreign academic titans who are coming out to praise it?”

The number of likes on this comment… had reached 390,000! It might not seem like much, but considering the short amount of time… it was actually terrifyingly high!

The one below that…

“Four Nobel laureates in physics have already spoken out publicly! Although three of them were critical… one stated that the conjectures within are actually viable… And after a ton of academicians from all over the world weighed in, the latest statements from those three critical Nobel laureates now also say there’s room for verification!”

“LMAO… I have no idea what’s going on! But at least I know… the OP ran headfirst into an iron plate!”

Of course, there were also people who were completely out of the loop…

“??? Wait, isn’t Chu Bamboo a pop star? And didn’t he already confess after being tortured in a North American prison…”

“? What… isn’t he an actor?”

“Nani… there’s a real person named Chu Bamboo? I thought he was a world-class AI superstar, synthesized by computers and pushed by corporations?”

“Damn! Where the hell are you all getting this bizarre intel from… I’m dumbfounded! How did an AI-synthesized star even enter the conversation…”

At the same time, a bunch of people were engaged in heated debate.

“Damn it! No wonder North America put a bounty on him… Chu Bamboo must have stolen the White-headed Eagle’s top secrets! This is all the great work of the White-headed Eagle nation. How hateful, how evil! He must be the most outstanding spy cultivated by the **!”

“? Is the person above out of their mind? Are you toxic or something… The *Star Sea Detailed Explanation* is just an analytical companion to *Star Sea*! If he didn’t write it himself… do you think North America is so bored they’d go out of their way to fabricate a book and then cram so much knowledge into it?”

“I’m starting to wonder… Did I even survive the three years of disaster? Is this still the mortal realm… Ever since this book came out, things have gotten so surreal.”

“Heh, even brain-dead theories like ‘stealing North American achievements’ are popping up… Let me put it this way: go look on the foreign internet right now! It’s not that there aren’t conspiracy theories about this over there… but the problem is, even on the foreign internet, that speculation hasn’t become mainstream! A single question is enough to cast doubt… whose achievements are these, exactly?”

“My dude, do you really think the White-headed Eagle nation just assembled some all-star team of countless top scientists and physicists… stuffed them all in a research lab to churn out results, and then those final results got stolen? Think about it, does that sound reasonable… Do you think scientific and technological research can be mass-produced in a factory?”

“I don’t understand it, but I am greatly shaken!!”

Chu Bamboo browsed casually. All he could say was that this comment section had truly drawn out all sorts of people… He even saw comments from several verified professors who held *Star Sea* and the *Star Sea Detailed Explanation* in extremely high regard—

“Have no academicians weighed in yet?” Chu Bamboo asked thoughtfully.

“It’d be strange if they did, wouldn’t it?” Lin Xia’s eye twitched. “The university president already came over… As for making a public statement! I suspect they still have their doubts about you… After all, no matter how you look at it… this whole thing is…”

“To be honest, if we didn’t know some of the inside story and were just looking at this as bystanders… I think I’d be completely bewildered!” Lin Xia paused, clicking his tongue in amazement. “No, even knowing the inside story, I feel like I’m completely bewildered…”

“Indeed!” Hodges nodded, his expression a mask of complexity. He rubbed his briefcase, as if feeling the plans hidden within, and sighed with emotion. “This is, without a doubt, a single book that has advanced the entire world’s technology by at least five years… no, perhaps even more!”

A brief silence fell.

Zhao Shao narrowed his eyes, seemingly thinking this was all perfectly natural.

“…” Lin Xia slumped onto the sofa. After a long moment, he opened his mouth, as if talking to himself, or perhaps narrating to someone: “But if I remember correctly… this book is, it seems, just the first edition…”

There were seventeen more editions to come!

Five years for one book… doesn’t that mean…

“Eighty-five years of technological progress? Condensed into one book?”

Lin Xia felt his breathing stop.

What did eighty-five years even mean?

Eighty-five years ago, it was 1940. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was still being fought!

How unbelievably vast was the technological leap over that period?

Although Lin Xia had long been mentally prepared, he was still deeply shaken at this moment. Especially when he realized he could read all seventeen books if he wanted to… He felt his legs grow weak.

To this, Chu Bamboo replied as if it were the most natural thing in the world, “That’s nothing.”

Lin Xia fell silent, then slowly gave a thumbs-up… pointing down. ‘Such a show-off,’ he thought. ‘I can’t take it anymore.’

“Oh, right…”

Chu Bamboo remembered something and his expression turned serious as he called out, “Lin Paru, get to work… I need you to continue acquiring some companies!”

“…Again?” Lin Xia was silent for a moment, then rubbed his face and said in an anguished tone, “Go on, lay it on me!”

Chu Bamboo said unhurriedly, “Next, we’re going to get into virtual reality… Hmm, let’s aim to have it done in half a year!”

“???” In that instant, all confusion and shock vanished from Lin Xia’s mind. As a devoted gamer, he shot to his feet, snapped a military salute, his eyes filled with fervor. “I will resolutely carry out this order!”

As they talked, Chu Bamboo began to speak, launching into an eleven-minute-long explanation… In his usual precise style, he detailed which companies to acquire, which personnel to retain, and which direction the research should take next…

And then…

Chu Bamboo’s words suddenly stopped. Lin Xia, who had been burying his head and scribbling notes, gave Chu Bamboo a strange look. He was certain Chu Bamboo hadn’t finished explaining the acquisition and research plan.

Meanwhile, Zhao Shao, who was also on his phone, had clearly received the same notification as Chu Bamboo. His expression was priceless. He glanced sideways at Chu Bamboo. “Tsk, tsk, Ah Zhu. The White House has made a statement! They’re condemning you for stealing numerous top-tier research achievements from North America… and demanding you return to North America to turn yourself in at the earliest possible moment…”

Hodges: “…?”

Hodges laughed in anger. As someone who had been persecuted to no end in North America, he immediately started cursing in both Chinese and English, “Motherfucker, fuck you Tru*p! Damn it, if I could travel back eighty-some years, I’d make sure to give his father a con*om on that fateful night! He never should have been born into this world!”

“I actually think it’s not bad…” However, Lin Xia nodded, his mind taking a creative leap. “You could say the Golden Lion King is giving Ah Zhu’s book a promotional shout-out!”

“…” Chu Bamboo’s eye twitched. He gave Lin Xia a strange look, then nodded, at a loss for words. “You make too much sense!”