(The hospital suddenly called. Mom will need surgery in a couple of days, so the pressure to keep updating will be pretty high for a while. I'll do my best to keep the updates coming.)
"I know a little about how the Dream Control Helmet was developed, too. The most crucial parts were made personally by Old Song, and they involved incredibly complex mathematics. Basically, only the couple themselves understood it anywhere in the world. I figure the North Carolina Blue team didn't even realize there was such a mathematical hurdle. And that team didn't have a single decent mathematician. Even if Song He had written the answer out for them, they probably wouldn't have been able to understand it!"
"Old Song was extremely strict about safety. He made the engineering team revise the safety plan at least forty or fifty times, and the number of animal and human experiments reached over ten thousand. The slightest hidden danger meant starting over from scratch."
"If the Dream Helmet had undergone the same massive amount of safety testing as the Dream Control Helmet, they would've discovered the Dream Maniac problem long ago. It never would've been released to the market in the first place. They just thought, 'If the Dream Control Helmet can do it, so can we,' and cut corners during testing. And then they blew up spectacularly!"
"All the things they bragged about at the Dream Helmet's Press Conference sound great to people who don't understand them, but to those who do, every single one is a red flag. Uploading materials to generate dreams sounds wonderfully free, but dumping all kinds of random materials into people's brains—how could that not cause mental problems? The human brain evolved in a stable environment, not by jumping between hundreds of completely unrelated scenes.