【“Truth exists only within the range of artillery.”
“Ultraman’s maximum speed is only Mach 20, while we really have Mach 31. Japan had better really have an Ultraman.”
“Japan: Watashi admit my mistake! Please don’t hit me. （dog-head）”
“Actually, Mach 31 isn’t the most important thing. What matters is its precision. Do you know what this represents?”
“A missile launched from land can be detected, and an early-warning aircraft can issue a warning in advance. But launching one from outer space is much more difficult. However, transporting a nuclear warhead to a space station would be far too obvious.”
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An Ran looked at the comments and felt wonderful. She was also extremely proud of her nation. It had gone from having nothing to leading the world in technology in only more than seventy years.
What moved her most was learning that Tom and Jerry had been created in 1939. At that time, foreigners were living happily, while her people suffered under their invasion. Learning this filled her with emotion over how difficult yet great her nation’s journey had been.
Meanwhile, the people of the Ancient Era stood with their mouths agape, unable to believe what they saw.
A scholar tugged at the Young man beside him and asked blankly, “What does it say up there? The Moon’s Local specialties? Is this Moon the same as the Moon in the sky?”
The Young man also said incredulously, “It, it should be. That ball looks like it, but how is that possible? Didn’t they say the people on the Heavenly Screen are from the Future Era? Could they all have become immortals?”
“Of course they have. I was wondering what era’s people could live so well. If they’re immortals, then it all makes sense.”
“Exactly. Look at what they said about Mach—ten kilometers per second. Isn’t that an immortal’s ability to shrink the earth to an inch?”
“The people of the future era are all immortals! Do immortals also have to work and eat?”
“When there are too many immortals, they stop being valuable!”
“They’re definitely not immortals. From what we saw earlier, they haven’t even solved the problem of Consanguineous Marriage producing Children with congenital abnormalities. If they were immortals, wouldn’t that make them rather useless?”
“Then tell me, besides immortals, who else could go up to the Moon and run ten kilometers in a second?”
“This…”
Qin Dynasty.
Qin Shi Huang was initially drawn to the Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion of China and the Japanese Army’s invasion of China. The “China” mentioned clearly referred to his land. Eight nations had joined forces to invade China—what incredible audacity.
He first committed Argentina, Germany, and Japan to memory, then ordered his people to investigate where these three nations were located. Once they found them, they would attack.
The statement about ten kilometers per second frightened him at once. That speed was far too fast; it was truly the work of immortals!
They could even reach the Moon. When Ying Zheng saw this, his breathing quickened. If people could go to the Moon, did that mean they had already discovered a method of achieving immortality?
He wanted to verify it, but there was no way to contact the Heavenly Screen. He could only calm himself and continue watching.
When he saw the sentence, “Truth exists only within the range of artillery,” he nodded in agreement. Although he did not know what a Cannon was, the mention of its range made it clear that it was probably a weapon.
Only with strength could one reason with others. If you were weak, who would bother with you?
Han Dynasty.
Liu Che stared at the court ministers in shock and disbelief. “The people of the Future Era can actually reach the Moon. Are they all immortals?”
Dong Zhongshu was also shocked. But after considering what they had witnessed over the past few days, he felt that the methods resembled those of immortals, though tools had made them possible. Aside from that, the people seemed more like ordinary mortals.
After all, he had never heard of an immortal having a Child with congenital abnormalities. Nor had he heard of immortals needing to work. They could not fly or ascend to heaven and enter the earth.
“Liu Che nodded after hearing him. “That makes sense. However, they can already reach the Moon. I wonder whether immortals truly exist.”
He, too, began to yearn for a method of achieving immortality. Although he was still young, who would not want to live a few more years?
“Five thousand years of history. Is that a dynasty from five thousand years in the future era?”
“It should be counted from the beginning of the recorded dynasties. Let’s calculate. The Han Dynasty should be about three thousand years before us.” Dong Zhongshu had subtracted the Han Dynasty’s age from five thousand. In fact, the Xia Dynasty was more than four thousand years before the present, while the Han Dynasty was more than two thousand years before the present.
Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin was also shocked by the Future Era’s speed and by the fact that people could reach the Moon. But he did not believe that everyone in the Future Era could be an immortal. Apart from the immortal-like feats made possible by those tools, the people shown above appeared to be ordinary mortals.
He was more concerned about the Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion of China mentioned above.
His face darkened. He had never expected the Future Era to face such a major crisis. Eight nations had surrounded it. Even if the later dynasties were no weaker than the Tang Dynasty, they must have gone to great lengths to drive away those bandits.
He ordered his people to investigate the few nations whose names had been mentioned. If they found them, they would strike first.
Wu Zhou.
When empress regnant Wu Zetian heard the name Japan, she exchanged a surprised glance with Shangguan Wan’er. Wasn’t that the name of the vassal state to which she had just granted a name a few days earlier?
They had acted servilely before her, yet she had never expected them to be so audacious. Her expression darkened. In the Future Era, they would actually do such a thing.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di looked at the sentence, “Truth exists only within the range of artillery.”
He slapped his hand down. “Well said! In the eyes of the strong, the weak are invisible. If they cannot even see you, how can you reason with them?”
“Perhaps this was a lesson the nations of the Future Era learned through bloodshed.”
He was unfamiliar with Argentina and Germany, but he knew they were overseas nations. Their strength should not be negligible. Even if they were not particularly strong, so many nations joining forces could overwhelm even an expert.
As for Japan, they were old acquaintances! Even now, they often harassed the coastal regions. He had never expected them to remain the same in the Future Era. Their vitality was tenacious indeed!
Qi Jiguang had been fighting the Japanese Pirates all along. He had never expected them to be so tenacious—to harass them for so long and even cause greater losses in the Future Era.
From what he had read, they no longer seemed to be merely harassing the coastal regions as they did now. They had truly invaded inland. Given what he knew of their cruel methods, he could imagine the miserable lives of the Common people in the Future Era.
At this thought, his eyebrows rose and his anger soared. He resolved to teach this group of short barbarians a lesson!
Qing Dynasty.
When Kangxi heard that people could reach the Moon and travel ten kilometers per second, he rose to his feet in shock.
However, the astonishing speed concerned him less than the fact that people in the Future Era could reach the Moon.
If they could reach the Moon, could they find some method of achieving immortality?
He was already quite old, and his fear of aging and death had grown. He wanted to climb into the Heavenly Screen and ask them about it, but he had no way to do so.
When Kangxi saw the figure of five thousand years, he converted it and realized in horror that the Future Era lay only more than three hundred years ahead of his own. In other words, would this future nation destroy his Qing Dynasty?
He had been watching the spectacle with amusement, but he grew restless at once. His Qing Dynasty would be finished in roughly three hundred years!
Moreover, he knew both Germany and Argentina. The Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion of China—could his Qing Dynasty be the one they invaded?
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