197: Chapter 197 My sister was stunned: My brother secretly built a Gundam behind my back

Yet, the scene was even quieter than the internet. Because when people are truly stunned, they end up unable to speak.

Lu Yaoguang's lips parted slightly, and her eyes widened bit by bit.

It wasn't that she hadn't seen the things her brother had made before. She had been at the Virtual Helmet launch event.

But those were ultimately just consumer electronics, tech products. Today, however, as this four-meter-tall heavy mech walked straight toward her, for the first time, she truly realized one thing—

What her brother possessed was no longer just technology that changed daily life. It was technology capable of rewriting the shape of the era.

In Qingyang County, Wang Peng was already clutching his head and pacing around the living room.

"Mom!! Mom!!!"

"My brother was actually secretly building Gundams!!!"

"This is even cooler than a Gundam!! And this one is tangible!!"

"I've decided, I'm going to join the army too, and I'm going to pilot a mech!!!"

There isn't a single boy without a mech dream, yet Lu Li had brought that dream into reality!

Yang Yueru sat to the side, her originally fair little face flushed a light red. She had always been well-behaved, and even when excited, she didn't like to shout or scream.

But at this moment, watching those steel mechs pressing past the camera lens, her heart was still pounding fiercely.

She suddenly remembered how she had secretly fantasized when she was little, wondering if one day her cousin would really be like the protagonists in novels, standing in a place where everyone looked up to him. But back then, her imagination only went so far. And reality was far more exaggerated than she had ever dared to imagine.

The comments in the live stream were almost impossible to read.

"Is this fucking Titan???"

"The ultimate romance for men has arrived!!!"

"It's not a Gundam, it's a Titan! It's a Titan!!"

"God Lu!! Just how much stuff have you been building behind our backs!!"

"I don't care if Lu Li came or not anymore, I just want to know if this thing can actually be piloted!"

"To the one above, you're about to find out!"

Overseas, the shock had turned into speechlessness. Some had initially tried to analyze it calmly, but stopped halfway through. Because the scene before them could no longer be lightly summarized by the word "advanced."

"A piloted mech??"

"Four meters tall? Operated by a Brain-Computer Interface? This is impossible."

"This has completely overturned everyone's imagination."

"I envy the Chinese people; they get to pilot mechs, while our Apache helicopters are older than my grandmother."

Immediately after, as the Titan phalanx marched past, the chest cockpits of several mechs slowly opened. Inside, the pilots were clearly visible. This scene struck everyone's mind like a heavy hammer.

Lu Yaoguang's breath hitched. Chen Shuyu's pupils constricted, and she subconsciously clenched her hands on her lap.

Because the opening of the cockpits meant a fact that couldn't be clearer—this was not a stationary prototype. Not an empty shell. Not a concept demonstration. This was a heavy mech that could truly be piloted, could truly be deployed, and had truly walked out into the open.

Chen Shuyu suddenly felt that the cognitive system she had painstakingly built at Guanghui Technology over so many years had been dismantled and rebuilt by Lu Li once again today.

"Neural direct connection..." She murmured, as if talking to herself, or perhaps confirming something.

"He even reached this step..."

Su Qingxue turned her head and glanced at her. The shock in the latter's eyes had almost become tangible. But Su Qingxue herself wasn't actually much calmer. It was just that she had always been good at keeping her emotions in check. So at this moment, she just watched the front quietly, the light in her eyes growing deeper.

Because she knew better than anyone. Whether it was neural direct connection, control systems, dynamic balance, energy architecture, or AI perception and feedback logic—these things didn't just fall from the sky.

They all shared a common source. There was a man who always lay lazily on the sofa, saying "work is so annoying," who had once pieced these things together, piece by piece, in countless corners unseen by others.

In the live stream, the comments went blank for a brief moment. Then, like a tsunami, they completely flooded the entire screen.

"It opened!! The cockpit really opened!!"

"There's someone inside!! There's actually someone inside!!"

"Not a concept machine! Not a model! This is a real mech!"

"My scalp is numb, holy shit!!"

"Does anyone understand, brothers, I just stood up straight from my bed!"

"Overseas, everyone has collectively gone quiet, hahahaha!"

It had indeed gone quiet. Because this scene was just too hardcore. So hardcore that even questioning it seemed pale.

Under the immense shock, some people belatedly remembered another question.

"Wait, what about Mirage?"

"Why didn't we see any projection-related equipment today?"

"Did they not bring it out?"

"It's normal if they didn't... what we've seen today is already exaggerated enough."

"Some things, they probably never intended to show you fully."

Once this was said, many people's hearts sank even further. That's right. What had been displayed today was enough to make the whole world re-evaluate what "future equipment" meant. What about what wasn't displayed?

Just as the atmosphere of the entire venue was pushed to its peak by the Titans, the camera finally swept across a certain area. A familiar figure flashed by. But in that split second, Lu Yaoguang's breath trembled violently.

They were sitting in the viewing area of the square; they couldn't really see the city tower clearly, they could only watch the screen. Seeing this scene,

"Brother..." Lu Yaoguang blurted out.

Although it was only a few short seconds. The image had flashed by almost instantly. Yet she recognized him at a glance. It was Lu Li. Really, it was Lu Li.

He stood in the high viewing area of the city tower, dressed unassumingly, his expression even as calm as always. No, one could even say a bit lazy. It was as if he didn't consider his appearance at such an occasion anything worth making a fuss about.

Yet it was precisely this calmness that elevated his presence to another level. Because while everyone else was shocked, guessing, and frantically digging into how much he had participated, he stood there as if he were just watching a demonstration for which he already knew the answer.

At this moment, the middle-aged couple sitting next to the Lu family was also completely stunned.