Facing the teachers and others who had arrived in a group, Ding Yun didn't give them a chance to confront her. She directly pushed a storage sphere, which she had filled with one hundred jin of stones, out of the room.
Then, she calmly pointed at the storage sphere and said:
"I probably know why you've come.
And I know what you want to say.
But some things, I think it's better to discuss after you've confirmed them yourself, to avoid being embarrassed later. Look, this is the storage sphere I mentioned online.
I've already put a hundred jin of stones inside.
You can come and feel it for yourselves!
Later, I'll let you try how to take things out of and put things into the storage sphere."
Since Ding Yun had already said this, and even pushed the physical storage sphere out, those who had come couldn't very well criticize without touching it. So, they could only approach with skepticism to try and handle the storage sphere.
The result was quite obvious.
One hundred jin of items, all concentrated in a small sphere, how could it be easily lifted?
In the end, it was the one with slightly more strength among them.
With great effort.
That they finally managed to move it.
And then quickly put it back.
Because it was too heavy, holding it felt like their bones were subtly creaking. A hundred jin of something with a large volume, and a hundred jin of something with a small volume, felt completely different when held. The latter brought far more pressure than the former.
It was like holding one jin of iron in one hand and one jin of cotton in the other. Although the weight was the same, most people would feel the iron was heavier because the contact area of the iron with the human body was far smaller than that of the cotton.
This would create a strong sense of pressure.
"Why is this thing so heavy?"
"Are you telling the truth?"
"If this is true, it's incredible!"
At this point, they finally began to believe Ding Yun's words, with some of them repeatedly touching the storage sphere and even trying to press the black button in the middle to open it, though they didn't succeed.
"How do you open this thing? Isn't this black button the opening button? Or is there some other mechanism? Show us how you do it.
Then we can help you explain!"
"Yes, hurry up and show us, pour out the stones you mentioned in front of us!"
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Amidst the urging of everyone, Ding Yun skillfully stepped forward. Using her fingerprint, she gently pressed the button at the dividing point in the middle of the storage sphere. With a 'drip' sound, the storage sphere opened:
"Considering that the storage sphere is ultimately a personal storage device, a certain degree of privacy is still necessary.
So I specifically added a fingerprint lock.
It can only be bound to one person. This storage sphere is bound to me. No one else's fingerprint can open it. The subsequent operation is quite simple; just turn the storage sphere upside down and give it a few taps!"
As she spoke, Ding Yun had already inverted the storage sphere and tapped it twice. Then, everyone present witnessed a miraculous scene: a pile of seemingly small sand and stones rapidly grew in size the moment they fell from the storage sphere.
Eventually, they transformed into a pile of stones of various sizes.
Appearing before them.
In the middle of summer, magic shows wouldn't be this impressive, so most of the crowd quickly believed what Ding Yun had said. Those who remained skeptical were completely convinced after Ding Yun put the stones back into the storage sphere and they personally tried putting stones back in themselves.
Their attitude immediately changed.
They praised Ding Yun and declared they would support her and ensure she wouldn't be slandered by others.
Subsequently, they contacted local media.
And began to stand up for Ding Yun.
Of course, the actual effect was limited.
After all, local media didn't have much reach.
At best, it was a statement of attitude.
The truly influential ones were the reporters who arrived later. Although those reporters initially intended to interview Ding Yun and expose human ugliness, the fickleness of people, etc., after Ding Yun demonstrated the process again in front of them and even let them participate themselves in using the storage sphere.
Their attitudes immediately shifted.
Their prepared scripts were all discarded and rewritten.
Thus, before long, the online news presented a polarized situation: one part was positive reports with pictures and videos, while the other part was pieced-together images criticizing Ding Yun.
Ordinary netizens were also arguing fiercely.
Some believed that the storage sphere might be real and that ordinary people couldn't understand the world of geniuses. Others believed it was fake, claiming that the media speaking well of it had been paid, and the pictures and videos were fabricated, perhaps due to magic tricks or special effects.
As no authoritative media intervened, no one could convince the other.
It wasn't until people who could understand the academic papers Ding Yun had published online read them and began to speak up for her that this stalemate was broken.
While they didn't directly support Ding Yun, they at least clearly stated that the papers Ding Yun had published had no issues, and some of the data had even been successfully replicated in their own experiments.
At the same time, many prominent figures in the video industry.
Also stated that the videos showing the storage sphere's function were flawless, with no mid-cut editing or special effects, shot in a single take.
So, at this point, there were only two possibilities.
Either the content was all true.
Or the other party was performing a magic trick.
A perfect magic trick so flawless that even when slowed down by several times, no flaws could be detected. But would a top scholar in liberal arts really need to be so attention-seeking?
Therefore, the technical experts generally felt.
The possibility of the storage sphere being real was extremely high.
Some were even starting to make offers to purchase it.
At this point, the online situation changed again. Those who believed began trying to figure out how to buy it, while those who didn't continued to mock and sneer. Some technology companies even sent people specifically to contact Ding Yun, both to ascertain whether her storage sphere was real or fake, and to seize the opportunity. If it was real, they wanted to quickly buy the technology.
[Why do people actually believe such nonsense and are willing to pay for it? I also have a time travel portal, who wants to buy it? Ten thousand is enough!]
[I really don't understand, even if this technology is real, so what? Stuffing a hundred jin of items into a ball, and the ball directly becoming a hundred jin, isn't it less convenient than just carrying a hundred jin of items directly?
And you can't organize things when you put them in, and when you take them out, you can only pour everything out. This is too impractical.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder can't stand it!]
[No, are some people pretending to be stupid or genuinely stupid?
What's important is whether the storage sphere is easy to use or not?
What's important is the technology contained within the storage sphere!
If the storage sphere is real, it means it contains spatial technology internally, and it's already applicable spatial technology. This is the kind of technology found only in sci-fi novels, and if spatial technology already exists, is it far from creating real storage devices in the future?]
[I'm really conflicted right now. I both hope it's real and worry that it's still a sham, leading to disappointment or even making foreigners laugh at us!]
[Why haven't the official media spoken yet?
Make a decisive ruling quickly and put our minds at ease!]
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