145: Chapter 145 Cultural Counterattack: Learning Chinese!

Seven days after the press conference ended, the first batch of "tianshu evolver" phones began shipping.

Customers started receiving their packages one after another.

Domestic social media platforms turned into a massive showcase event.

As soon as users got their phones, they immediately turned on their recording equipment.

To record this moment.

Short video platforms and sharing platforms were flooded.

Review videos of the "tianshu evolver" covered every screen.

One food blogger...

...stopped filming food, picked up the phone, and placed it on the table.

He issued a command to wake up "Taiyi."

"Taiyi, help me design a fat-loss meal plan. Make it for the coming week. It needs to be nutritionally balanced and not repeat every day."

Above the phone, the chibi version of "Taiyi" tilted its head.

Ten seconds later, a detailed meal plan appeared.

The meal plan, combining text and images, was presented in the space in front of the blogger as a holographic image.

The calorie count for every meal, along with the ratio of protein, carbs, and fats...

...were all clearly marked. The video ended.

The food blogger looked into the camera lens.

"Brothers, I might be facing unemployment."

His voice sounded somewhat helpless.

A gaming streamer opened a game app on the phone.

He didn't use his hands to operate it; his gaze was fixed on the screen.

Rapid voice commands issued from his mouth.

"Skill one, Flash, skill two, attack, Ultimate!"

On the screen, his game character...

...linked moves seamlessly with precise operation and extreme speed.

After completing a combo, the opponent fell.

This was the "Mind Control" mode; the phone captured the user's eye focus.

By sensing faint vocal cord vibrations, it achieved control over the game.

This was an advantage outside the rules of the game, directly impacting game balance.

A student...

...placed the phone on his desk, facing a pile of complex physics problems.

He felt the problems were quite tricky.

"Taiyi, how do I solve this problem?"

The scanner at the top of the phone lit up.

The next second, the image of a virtual physics teacher...

...appeared before him.

The virtual teacher held a piece of chalk and, on a virtual blackboard...

...calculated the solution process step by step.

At the same time, the teacher used voice to explain.

"Student, look. For the force analysis here, we must first consider gravity and the normal force..."

Below this video...

...the message area quickly filled with comments.

"I paid nine thousand nine hundred to get an all-subject home tutor?"

One comment read.

"Learning problems: solved."

Another comment read as such.

These videos were quickly uploaded to overseas platforms.

Global netizens watched the videos, all of them showing looks of envy.

A blogger named "Tech Sorcery"...

...was an internationally renowned digital reviewer.

Through special channels, the blogger spent five thousand US dollars.

He bought a "tianshu evolver" from a Chinese international student.

In a live stream to tens of millions of viewers worldwide...

...the blogger displayed this phone, and the number of comments in the stream surged.

He saw the chibi figure from other people's videos dancing and doing somersaults on the phone.

The blogger's breath hitched, and he was speechless for a long time.

He wanted to experience those phone features.

Facing the phone...

...he said in his native tongue: "Hello, Taiyi."

The phone did not react at all.

The blogger tried various phrases.

"Open the map."

"What’s the weather like today?"

"Play a song."

The phone still had no reaction, and the live stream viewers grew anxious.

"Speak Chinese! Have you watched the press conference content?"

"Call out 'Ni hao, Taiyi'!"

"Pinyin! pinyin! ni hao!"

This blogger with ten million followers flushed red in front of the live camera.

He opened a translation software.

The blogger used clumsy, heavily accented Chinese to read out the wake-up command.

"Nee... how, Tai... yee?"

The chibi figure appeared above the phone, light flashing in its eyes.

"Master, I am here."

Four Chinese characters accompanied a soft female voice.

The live stream comments, at this moment:

[Awesome!]

[666666]

[Hahahaha!]

For the next hour, the blogger gave up on the product review.

The live content became...

..."How a Westerner uses translation software to communicate with a Chinese phone."

This live stream set a record for the highest number of concurrent viewers on an international video platform's digital channel.

It drove a global craze for learning Chinese.

In a short period, enrollment at language academies worldwide increased tenfold.

Server traffic for online Chinese teaching platforms exceeded their limits.

Some programmers observed the market and reacted quickly.

They developed "Chinese Learning Assistant Apps" overnight.

The apps launched on app stores, and downloads broke a million in a single day.

In the top ten best-selling books...

...seven of them were Chinese textbooks.

For example, "Introduction to Chinese" and "Happy Pinyin."

A craze for "reverse purchasing" rose up all over the world.

Countless foreigners tried every possible means.

They commissioned friends, colleagues, and even netizens in China...

...requesting them to buy a "tianshu evolver" on their behalf.

Some bold individuals began researching how to enter China through unofficial channels.

Their goal was singular: to buy the phone.

Chinese international students became the most popular people in various universities in a short time.

International students no longer went to libraries to ask questions.

They were surrounded by groups of foreign faces, who pleaded with the students...

...to teach them how to correctly pronounce the four tones of "Ni hao."

The profession of "Phone Chinese Private Tutor" emerged in society.

The hourly rate reached three hundred US dollars.

In stark contrast to this was the total collapse of Apple phones.

On second-hand trading platforms...

...fruit s models in near-mint or even brand-new, unopened condition...

...saw their listing prices continue to drop, yet there were no buyers.

A comment appeared under a trading post.

"Why should I pay a thousand dollars for a calculator that can only make calls?"

Star Technology's direct-sale stores across the country had been spun off from the previous Puji Medical.

They were now renamed "Xingchen" experience stores, selling phones as well as prosthetic limbs.

Every day, the lines in front of the stores stretched out very far.

In the long lines, besides domestic users...

...there were also a large number of foreign faces, and scalpers continued to loiter by the store entrances.

But they were no longer there to sell phones at a markup.

Instead, they were buying them back at high prices from users who had just purchased them.

"Friend, just bought it? I'll add ten thousand! Sell it to me."

A scalper said to a young man who had just come out of the store.

The young man's gaze swept over the scalper, and he tightened his grip.

"Not selling, I'm using it myself."

"Go wait in line yourself."