185: Chapter 185 Dimensional Reduction Attack! A Single Sentence Makes a Wasteland City Sprout

The venue fell silent instantly.

In the Google conference room, there wasn't even a whisper of extra sound.

Lu Li looked down at the audience and continued:

"Creation shouldn't just be about generating a world faster."

"Creation should be—"

"Letting ideas grow directly into a world."

This sentence was like a knife, stabbing right into the center of the banner Google had just raised last night.

In the overseas conference room, the AI lead's hand, gripping a pen, visibly tightened.

On stage, the live demonstration had begun.

A tester put on the Virtual Helmet and entered the creation platform.

The next second, a completely blank world popped up on the big screen.

No map.

No terrain.

No sky.

Nothing at all.

Lu Li spoke:

"Settings—wasteland-style seaside city."

As soon as he finished speaking, the horizon began to grow.

It wasn't a switch.

No loading bar.

It was truly like a seed rapidly sprouting in the air.

The coastline was outlined.

The skeletons of dilapidated buildings rose up one by one.

The distant sky was covered in a layer of gloomy gray-blue.

Lu Li continued:

"There are broken overpasses in the distance."

"There are circular orbital trains in the sky."

"It will rain fluorescent rain at night."

The scene continued to grow outward.

The broken overpasses spanned half the city, like the remains of some old-world civilization.

Further away, the afterimages of the circular orbital trains hung in the sky, carrying a sense of the future that was both absurd and breathtaking.

A layer of faint fluorescent particles even subtly floated in the sky.

Lu Li, acting as if he didn't notice, continued:

"Add a mission system."

"Add a monster ecosystem."

"Add trading zones and basic NPC behaviors."

The next second, the entire world changed again.

Shadows of activity began to appear deep within the ruins.

Sparse lights lit up at the edges of the blocks.

Several areas were automatically divided into functional logic, and the corners of the map even began to grow the most basic guidance nodes and interactive icons.

A world that was originally blank had grown a skeleton, rules, behaviors, and playability right before everyone's eyes in just a few dozen seconds.

There was first a deathly silence in the venue.

Then, as if someone had suddenly pressed a bomb detonator, it exploded completely.

"Holy shit!!!!"

"What the hell is this?!"

"Yesterday Google was still generating game prototypes with one sentence, and today you're growing an entire world with one sentence?!"

"This isn't generation, this is creation, right?!"

"I feel like I could be a game development engineer after this!!"

In the backstage area, Wang Peng was going crazy.

"I knew it!"

"I knew there was another trick up his sleeve!!"

Lu Yaoguang was also so shocked that her breathing quickened.

Just moments ago, he had made the entire venue quiet and eyes well up with tears.

In the blink of an eye, he had shattered everyone's perception all over again in a completely different way.

And in that overseas conference room, the atmosphere was so oppressive it was almost freezing.

When it was the mobile phone, they could still say it was "just hardware."

When it was Doubao AI, they started to feel uneasy because Lu Li had put the gateway back into the mobile phone.

When it was the air imaging video, their mindset started to collapse because Lu Li had turned spatial equipment into emotional infrastructure.

Once the air imaging future terminal route was revealed, they lost even their last fig leaf of the "personal mobile port."

And now.

Once the creation platform came out, the Genie3 they were bragging about yesterday instantly felt like it had been thrown back into a PowerPoint presentation.

Because what Google was talking about was still "generating game prototypes faster."

But what Lu Li put on the table was "personal developer creation platform + generation rules + content ecosystem + subsequent distribution."

This was no longer just a technical feature.

This was the entire chain.

After a long silence, that Google executive finally squeezed out a sentence.

"We have lost the right to speak."

No one in the conference room replied.

But a few seconds later, another voice slowly rang out from the corner.

"It's not just the right to speak."

That person stared at Lu Li on the screen, his face turning pale with ugliness.

"It's the future..."

With these words, the entire conference room fell completely silent.

They had originally wanted to seize the right to interpret the "future."

As it turned out, Lu Li didn't follow their path at all.

He just used mobile phones, AI, air imaging, and the creation platform, layer by layer, to forcibly snatch the words "the future" right out of their hands.

On stage, Lu Li didn't stop.

He just looked at the developers, media, peers, and investors off-stage who could no longer sit still, and continued.

"Starting today, any individual developer can create, list, and sell games within the Virtual Helmet ecosystem."

"Creation is no longer the privilege of a few big companies."

This sentence was even more destructive than the technical demonstration of the world growing just a moment ago.

Because everyone who truly knew the industry knew what this meant.

It meant the tools were there.

It meant the platform was there.

It meant the users were there.

It meant distribution and sales channels were there too.

Lu Li wasn't just launching a feature.

He wasn't just showing off a technology.

He was building a platform right in front of the entire industry.

And, not just building a platform.

He was also trampling the threshold for all latecomers, and then rewriting the rules.

The venue was quiet for a few seconds.

Many developers could no longer sit still.

In the media section, some people's hands were even shaking, wishing they could immediately publish headlines like "The Era of Individual Developers," "Restructuring of the Content Industry," and "Guanghui Technology Ecosystem Closed Loop."

Lu Li was in no rush to leave the stage.

He just looked at the audience and continued.

"After the creation platform goes live, all individual developers and small teams that pass the review can publish their works directly within the Virtual Helmet ecosystem."

"The default revenue share is 70% for developers and 30% for the platform."

As soon as he said this, the audience fell silent.

Immediately after, the entire venue exploded.

A 70/30 split.

And it's 70% for the developer, 30% for the platform.

This could hardly be described with the word "friendly."

You have to know that in traditional content platforms and game distribution platforms, the platform is never a charity.

Even if they talk about supporting creators, when it comes down to the actual revenue sharing, everyone knows how much they'll actually leave for you.

But this strike by Lu Li was almost explicitly telling the whole industry—