Da Shi's doubts were also shared by many others, including ordinary citizens and leaders from various countries, who were constantly monitoring Cao Ge's plans.
While the entire world was paying attention to his Galaxy Group, Cao Ge stayed at home, modifying his Mark Armor.
After more than a month of modifications, Cao Ge had essentially completed all the functions he had pre-designed, and the piloting experience had been optimized to the best.
In the underground laboratory, Cao Ge, wearing casual clothes, sat in front of his workbench, frowning at the Mark II in front of him.
Although the performance of the Mark II had been optimized to the extreme, a new problem arose—it was not very portable.
He did not have Tony's nanotechnology that could store the entire armor in the reactor, nor could he disguise the armor as a small suitcase.
In other words, if he wanted to take the Mark II out, he could only do so in its current state, but that would be too conspicuous, not what Cao Ge wanted.
But at the moment, Cao Ge couldn't think of any good solution, after all, the technology was not supportive.
While he was worrying, Li Qiu walked into the underground laboratory from the exit.
"Mr. Cao, the game pod's release conference is about to start, do you want to come and have a look?"
Cao Ge turned to glance at Li Qiu, dressed in a black suit, then turned back to look at the Mark Armor in front of him, and finally said, "Alright, it might be good to take a break and change my train of thought."
First floor hall.
The two sat next to the guest seats, watching the live broadcast on the computer.
Cao Ge did not attend the game's release conference.
The release was short, just over half an hour, and then the drawing phase for game spots began.
Seconds after the official website opened access, the spots were already fully drawn.
Afterward, the host introduced the game server's opening time and then announced the end of the conference.
Cao Ge closed the computer, turned around, and looked at the large cardboard box in the hall.
The contents of the cardboard box was the game pod that had just been delivered last night.
According to Cao Ge's plan, the server would officially launch at midnight tonight.
The purpose of his game was to allow humanity to continue researching the sciences that had been locked by the Trisolarans in the game world.
But reaching this goal would not be quick.
Even if everyone in the world were sent into the game at once, it still couldn't be done.
After all, there were no corresponding facilities in the game.
For example, in physics, without a particle collider, research is simply impossible.
And Tanis Planet had nothing, it was completely untouched virgin land.
It was for this reason that Cao Ge did not allocate all one hundred spots to scientists but chose to distribute them through a lottery.
Because Tanis Planet needed people to cultivate it.
Compared to the physically frail scientists, the die-hard gamers were more suited for the task.
Once the civilization of Tanis was established to a reasonable extent, the scientists would naturally enter as well.
Cao Ge did not plan to tell them that they could study science in the game world; he intended for them to discover this on their own while playing the game.
He made this decision considering the possibility of an assassination attempt.
If he were to shout now that this game could free human science from the control of the Trisolarans,
it would be needless to say that the Trisolarans would undoubtedly issue an execution order against him.
Trisolarans were indeed curious about his research methods, but it did not mean that they had to understand it; as long as Cao Ge was out of their grasp, they would not hesitate to order ETO to kill him, because, after all, curiosity is not as important as one's life.
Compared with survival, curiosity just wasn't as important.
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As time slowly crept toward midnight, the players who had snagged spots for the game began to enter their gaming pods one after another, waiting.
As the clock struck midnight, in the villa area, Cao Ge also entered his gaming pod and then closed his eyes.
Cao Ge had already linked the system with this game, and as soon as he confirmed, he could immediately transfer the players' consciousnesses to the world of Deep Space Amnesia through Murphy.
The last thought in Cao Ge's mind before he drifted off to sleep was to begin.
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"Tick-tock, tick-tock!!!"
In the pitch-dark space, dim lights suddenly came on.
On the steel deck, a row of clone pods over two meters long lit up one by one.
The consciousnesses of those hundred players were entering the brains of the clone bodies.
"Click~"
The doors of the clone pods slowly opened, revealing the clones inside—old and young, male and female.
This chamber was silent, the clones still asleep even though the pod doors had been opened.
It took time for consciousness to enter and adapt to this new body.
In the dim space, a hundred bodies lay quietly in iron boxes, looking very eerie.
About ten minutes later, the players in the clone pods began to slowly regain consciousness and wake up.
"Where is this, exactly?"
"Why is it so dark?"
The players rising from the clone pods looked around at the unfamiliar environment, each voicing their own questions.
"Could this be the game world developed by Cao Ge the Wallfacer, it's just too realistic!" Finally, someone remembered that before falling asleep they were playing a game called Migrating to Space.
"Who is playing this kind of joke on me?"
Others, not believing this to be a game world, suspected it was a prank by friends or family while they were asleep.
The players got up from the clone pods one after another, looking around at the dilapidated space.
"This texture, these pixels, are we really inside a game?" A veteran player asked this, feeling the realism of the surroundings.
It was at this moment that a game guide sprite appeared before their eyes.
Murphy logged on and began introducing the background of this world, the gameplay, and what they could do with transparent information boxes. When Murphy mentioned that it was a completely open-world game, many players shouted out in excitement.
It was evident that these people were sandbox game enthusiasts.
In a secluded clone pod, Cao Ge sat up, feeling the cloned body he was in.
Because he knew where he was, he didn't react with surprise; he was just feeling out this body.
He wanted to know where the limits of this clone body lay. If it were exactly the same as his original body, didn't that mean he could live forever?
This was a significant matter; he had to figure it out.
Soon, under Murphy's guidance, the players in the room left the chamber, while Cao Ge remained in place, busying himself with his own affairs.
If transferring consciousness to a clone body had no downsides, then it would mean he had truly achieved immortality.
Compared to a digital life, he looked forward more to this kind of real-world immortality.
Because only with physical immortality could one control their own fate, whereas digital immortality was, after all, just a sequence of data.
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