The auditorium was suddenly filled with the dense ringing of cell phones.
All kinds of phone notification sounds erupted within a dozen seconds. The phones in everyone's pockets seemed to come alive, calling out to one another.
Everyone pulled out their phones to check the messages. They were pop-up notifications from news media:
"Artificial Vision Technology Announced! Multiple Blind Monkeys Have Regained Their Sight!"
"Breaking! Blindness Restoration Technology!"
"Bombshell! Chenghuang Company and Neuron Company Launch Artificial Vision!"
"An Earthquake in Ophthalmology—Will Blindness Become History?"
The buzz rose rapidly. The number of viewers in the Livestream Room shot upward, breaking through the ten-million mark in just a few minutes!
Wei Liqun held up the microphone and continued his introduction:
"Besides these three, Neuron Company has also restored the sight of eighteen more monkeys!"
On the big screen, photographs flashed by one after another. There were eyeballs soaking in culture fluid, monkeys strapped down for surgery in operating rooms, and monkeys having their bandages removed to undergo vision tests. Finally, all the monkeys appeared together, each with lively eyes!
"At present, all the blind monkeys have successfully regained their sight. There hasn't been a single failure!"
"We're currently optimizing and improving the artificial vision technology, striving to further enhance postoperative vision! At present, the monkeys' postoperative vision is approximately 35% of normal. To use human eyesight as an analogy, it's equivalent to severe astigmatism combined with high myopia. They can barely see objects, but have difficulty making them out clearly!"
"Next month, we'll begin recruiting blind volunteers for surgery. We already have sufficient technical reserves and are confident that we can restore sight to blind people!"
"At present, our country has more than ten million blind people, while there are approximately fifty million blind people worldwide. Artificial vision technology will give these