thefictionvixens Page 88
Page 88
A seventh-tier fighter beats a sixth-tier fighter like a grandson, and a sixth-tier fighter beats a first-tier fighter in the same way.
Although the gap before the seventh rank is not a qualitative change, if the gap is too large, you will definitely be beaten badly.
As for the threat of the Reapers, the brain-computer array of the Amudax civilization could not come up with a good solution. If they had a solution, they would not have been bullied to the point of extinction. When the local population was in the hundreds of millions, the best way to deal with this enemy was to overwhelm them with sheer numbers and quality.
Does Qinshan have that kind of strength now?
No, not at all. Although the quantity is comparable, the quality is far inferior. Don't forget, the other side is just an interstellar civilization, while our current civilization strength is only at the level of having just left our home planet and started migrating to surrounding planets.
Humans have only developed Mars from Earth's mainland.
They are already capable of sending spaceships to Pluto and the tenth asteroid in the farthest solar system to conduct scientific research, but such scientific exploration is meaningless. What Qin Shan needs is at least the ability to build a solar system defense system.
"That's good, now I feel a sense of urgency!"
The enemy is powerful, but you can still see their health bar. As long as you can see the enemy's health bar, you can cut them down.
But before that, let's have an internal meeting.
Qinshan's internal meetings are all attended by ship girls, who are Qinshan's most reliable core decision-making body. The ship girls also helped Qinshan build a stable management system in six worlds, including the new Soviet Union in the home world, which was also developed and constructed by Zelensky remotely controlled by North Carolina. With Putin's departure, the old era ended, and Earth entered a relatively peaceful new era.
However, we must be prepared for danger even in times of peace. It's time to give humanity a little bit of a shock from interstellar civilization.
For example, the existence of plunderers must be made known to the world's leaders. Qin Shan cannot bear this pressure alone; the real struggle is for everyone to work together for the future of humanity.
After the closed-door meeting, Qin Shan, disguised as Shenzhou Qin Shan, visited the leader of the trusted country in the trusted region. The two sides had an in-depth discussion on the issue of outer space development. When the atmosphere was right, Qin Shan dropped his trump card.
"Chairman Zhao, the Gate of the Abyss is an opportunity, a challenge, and a life-or-death crisis. Now that Earth's civilization has been able to leave the cradle of its home planet, I think it's time to tell you about the dangers beyond this world."
Section 187: The Olympics are a bloodless war
Following this internal meeting, Xinhua quickly made the decision to expand its space force.
Zelensky then announced that the Soviet Union would begin the construction of its Space Force and establish a comprehensive cooperation mechanism with Xinhua. Both sides began to deploy a large number of weapon systems within the solar system and expand their industrial capacity.
The actions of Xinhua and the Soviet Union caused panic in countries around the world. Some doomsday cults even declared that the end of the world was coming and urged everyone to commit suicide and grab a spot in heaven!
But no matter what they thought, the Soviet Union and Xinhua's steps toward space would not stop.
Now, the two superpowers no longer need to consider the opinions of other countries around the world.
After all, most countries on Earth could simply lie low and give up, but China and the Soviet Union, heading towards the stars and the sea, had to consider many things.
Earth is the cradle of humankind, but humankind cannot die in its cradle.
Exploring outer space comes at a price. The unknown environment presents both opportunities and challenges. Once outside the protection of Earth's atmosphere, any region of the universe could become a deadly graveyard. After all, humanity has not yet been able to understand every aspect of the universe, and without being able to reach it in person, what we can see is ultimately limited.
For example, the number of people who have died due to various accidents at the lunar base has exceeded 8,000. However, the number of Earthlings on the moon has now reached an astonishing 7 million. There are three semi-underground lunar cities, all of which were developed by humans themselves: Guanghan, Yuegui, and Chang'e. The largest population is Chinese, accounting for 80% of the total population. Of the remaining 20%, more than half are Russians, and the rest are from other countries.
The lunar base has now become a lunar city, and both Xinhua and the Soviet Union have announced that the moon is open to the public and welcomes everyone to visit.
However, going to the moon requires qualification review, and it's easy to block you. As for who can go and who can't, that's a matter for the two superpowers to decide. Other countries have no right to speak up. If you have any objections, go to the moon and build a city yourself.
The development of the moon has brought huge economic benefits. Not to mention anything else, the production of helium-3 alone is tempting enough. Now, both the Soviet Union and Xinhua have completed the large-scale application of controlled nuclear fusion technology, and many cities have begun to pilot new Tesla wireless transmission towers. The era of wireless power transmission is bound to arrive, and the manufacturing costs of the Soviet Union and Xinhua have also been greatly reduced.
Energy prices are low, which is normal.
Moreover, the two countries are also jointly building a stellar industrial belt around the sun, which has been propagated by some envious and jealous Western countries as: the two superpowers are about to dominate the sun.
So what? No matter how you promote yourself, when Western countries perceive you as a threat, you'd better actually be a threat.
Before the latest Moscow Summer Olympics, the Olympic events were adjusted and expanded, with more emphasis on events that are easier for third-world countries to participate in. In fact, if you study the Olympics a little, you will find all sorts of tricks in the arrangement of the Olympic events.
Do you think the Olympics only involve doping issues in the United States?
No, no, no, what's even more significant is the event scheduling. Comparing previous Olympic Games, the event scheduling has gradually shifted from initially favoring European countries to favoring the United States. Meanwhile, Xinhua excels in table tennis, and Russia excels in figure skating, among other sports.
The projects have all been subject to various restrictions and weakening.
You wouldn't believe it, but they can use the rules to blatantly target you.
But now, times have changed. Moreover, as responsible major powers, Xinhua and the Soviet Union have no interest in playing tricks on such matters. After all, true gold is not afraid of being tested by fire, and counterfeit goods are still fake no matter how they are packaged, and in the end, they will only harm themselves.
However, in the new era, things must be done with a legitimate reason. Therefore, Xinhua and the Soviet Union, together with many Third World countries, began to exert pressure on China under the pretext that "the Olympic Games schedule is unreasonable and discriminates against developing countries." They also made it clear that if Europe did not agree, then China and the Soviet Union would host the Olympic Games themselves. As for the current Olympic organization, sorry, we do not recognize it.
Good heavens, really good heavens! If the world's two superpowers do not recognize the legitimacy of the Olympics and want to host their own new Olympics, then it means that the Olympics can simply bid farewell to this world. From then on, the right to interpret the Olympics, including the Olympic flame, will belong to China and the Soviet Union.
European countries protested and strongly condemned the protests.
But it was all for naught. China and the Soviet Union had already drawn a clear line. If they didn't give them face, they would break up. If they had the guts, they could go live their own lives. What a disgrace.
Faced with a huge gap in national power, Europe bowed its head. This was not only Europe's bowing, but also the end of the more than four-hundred-year-old era of white supremacy that had lasted since the colonial era.
Countless white supremacists wept bitterly, and some even committed suicide or self-immolated in despair, but they still could not change the reality.
And China and the Soviet Union did not disappoint the world. The new Olympic Games, with its various events clearly favoring developing countries, increased the total number of medals to three hundred. Theoretically, developing countries only needed to focus on their strengths, and with a little effort and intense competition, winning one or two gold medals shouldn't be a problem. But was that really the case?
It's important to understand that humanity is no longer what it used to be. The emergence of superhuman power has widened the gap between individuals. Superhumans who are skilled in cultivation are stronger than ordinary superhumans and will have a brighter future. Second-tier individuals surpass first-tier individuals. Similarly, superhumans will inevitably appear on the Olympic stage sooner or later.
This can be seen from the emergence of martial arts combat as a sport. The only difference between it and the ancient Roman Colosseum is that the fighters cannot kill each other. However, since both sides are superhuman, the combat effect is quite explosive.
Among the participants in this Moscow Olympics, there were more than 100 extraordinary individuals. They were competing in the extraordinary events, but even ordinary people could easily break the world records previously held by ordinary people under the influence of extraordinary powers. Therefore, the Moscow Olympics became the Olympics with the most records broken in human history. The world records in all events were broken at least three times. In the end, a total of 722 world records were broken across 100 events.
People from all over the world were thrilled, especially during the martial arts competition featuring extraordinary individuals, which attracted an astonishing 3.7 billion viewers. Basically, anyone who could watch the live stream or slack off at work during that time watched the martial arts competition. Some called it a real-life "World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament".
Some people say that "a high-level martial arts era with a nationwide emphasis on martial arts is about to arrive."
But no matter what people say, the vast majority of people agree that this era is full of passion and vitality.
The most noteworthy technology in this Olympics is the consciousness uploading technology provided by the Shenzhou civilization. This technology allows both sides participating in the martial arts competition to enter a new body, thus ensuring that the original body is not harmed during the competition. However, such a puppet body can only compete in techniques, since their individual strength is insufficient. But also because there is no need to worry about death or injury, both sides can fight to the death, using all kinds of deadly moves at will.
This kind of brutal, no-holds-barred fighting fully ignited the fighting spirit of the audience and opened up a completely new competition arena. Compared to this kind of fighting, other Olympic events are simply effeminate nonsense. Real men fight with blood and gore!
It has a strong resemblance to the ancient Roman Colosseum.
At first, the contestants were not used to it, but once they got used to it, they instantly found that this kind of competition was really cool. As a result, the battles became more and more intense and the methods became more and more brutal. In this kind of unrestricted fighting competition, only the most skilled and ruthless people can stand on the stage in the end. Mental quality and fighting ability are indispensable.
As a result, the Moscow Olympics saw the rare occurrence of additional events added at the last minute. Countries urgently dispatched additional personnel, especially their special forces, to compete for national glory, since there was no need to worry about casualties. This led to even more intense competition between the two sides.
At this stage of the Olympic Games, the two sides on the field have reached the point where they are settling scores and seeking revenge.
A divided India teams up to challenge Pakistan, the two countries fight fiercely, Poland and Germany have a friendly exchange, and France and Britain renew their alliance (the Hundred Years' War).
What a wonderful Olympics! Even Qin Shan found it so interesting that it deserves to be recorded in history.
As a result, by the time this Summer Olympics ended in September, China and the Soviet Union ranked first and second in the medal standings (and also first and second in the gold medal standings), winning a total of one-third of the medals. European countries won gold medals in their strong sports, but most notably, many developing countries that had previously only played a minor role also won medals this time.
For example, Somalia won a gold medal, Haiti won a bronze medal, Peru won two gold medals, and so on, making the medal distribution more equitable than before.
The difficult part is that the divided United States, during the Olympics, unusually formed a team with the largest number of members in history, but more than four-fifths of the members tested positive for severely excessive doping levels. It wasn't that they had used performance-enhancing drugs, but rather that they could barely be identified as human beings through the doping test.
Experts have revealed that the doping situation in the United States is now worse than it was during the Paris Olympics.
There was even an American athlete who suddenly died during the opening ceremony, collapsing straight down in front of hundreds of live cameras around the world, startling the Soviet staff present. The test results showed that the sudden death was caused by an overdose of performance-enhancing drugs (this was a face-saving explanation; in reality, the athlete was high and had taken too much medication). Some even suspected that the American team had come to the Soviet Union specifically to cause trouble, wondering why they had invited such a drug kingpin.
In any case, when the results were announced, the Soviet spokesperson was shocked and said sarcastically, "We can hardly imagine that a human being could hold on until the end of the opening ceremony after being injected with so many drugs. The American team has shown us the miracle of life with their actions. Athlete Okdor (American athlete) is a real tough guy."
Yes, it is indeed very hard. Due to long-term drug use, some of the blood vessels in this guy's body are as hard as stones.
This confirmed to the world that the United States was essentially finished, utterly finished. At this point, America was a giant cesspool, even cleaner than India, a cracked cesspool itself. With the conclusion of the Moscow Olympics, many things changed dramatically, but the United States, having fallen to its lowest point, was about to undergo a radical, transformative rebirth. Under Qin Shan's arrangement, the Republican Party of America and other progressive forces within the United States, through a transformation fueled by blood and fire, completed their final sublimation. The American Socialist Revolutionary Party officially stepped onto the historical stage.
Their slogan was very simple: Armed struggle to build a new America that truly belongs to the American people.
Section 188: A Civilization, A Government
When it comes to being tormented, if the United States claims to be second in the world, then no one else would claim to be first.
There's no way around it; the US, being so close, is the first to suffer. When Qin Shan first went to any part of the world to cause trouble, his homeland was always his base and foundation. How could he confidently export his influence if his homeland was unstable? The biggest destabilizing factor on Earth is the US and its allies, and the US's allies are practically useless now. Only the US is still persistently causing trouble.
Since that's the case, if you don't die, who will?
The Earth has now reached 2045, and many things have changed dramatically. The United States has completely fallen silent, and the European Union, while nominally united, has actually returned to a state of disarray.
The inevitable result is that unification without war is impossible, and centralized power is impossible.
Ironically, in the midst of the chaos of war, the drug rate in the United States actually decreased.
After all, drug use requires a stable supply of drugs and internal production channels. Most ethnic groups in the United States are not good at farming, and the Chinese Americans who are good at farming have mostly gone to neighboring countries or left while they still have ties with their motherland. The Chinese Americans who are loyal to the United States were almost wiped out in racial hatred and the American Civil War. The survivors have all climbed to the top positions in various states in the United States, proving the value of their Chinese American heritage.
The more chaotic the times, the more capable people are needed; to engage in rainbow-themed activities at this time is tantamount to cutting off one's own arm.
However, don't expect these people to centralize power in the United States and reshape the world. Although neither China nor the Soviet Union took any overt action against the United States, they only needed to regulate trade to intensify the American civil war. There should not be a second United States on the American continent; this is the consensus of the entire Eurasian continent.
Will the birth of the American Socialist Revolutionary Party change this country?
Well, Qin Shan did indeed arrange things this way before, completely transforming the United States into a red bloc country and secretly having Saratoga support these resistance forces. But now, he has a better solution.
Let China and the Soviet Union support proxies to digest the entire Americas.
Under Qin Shan's covert efforts, China and the Soviet Union are now beginning to integrate. The border is completely open, and the police systems on both sides are partially shared. From the perspective of many loosely connected countries, China and the Soviet Union are now one country.
Under normal circumstances, such a push is completely impossible. Language, culture, beliefs, customs, and even appearance and skin color can all become obstacles in the integration process, unless someone can precisely eliminate the obstacles before problems occur.
Qin Shan had this capability, so Sino-Soviet integration began to advance rapidly. All those who might have been obstacles in this process disappeared, and even the languages of the two countries began to shift towards the Chinese language family. Of course, officially, people could use simultaneous translators to communicate, so it still didn't have much of an impact. But as time went on, more and more people would speak Chinese.
Just three years ago, Xinhua abolished the ethnic classification, and the people of the whole country have only one ethnic group, which is the Chinese nation.
All preferential treatment for ethnic minorities was abolished. Before that, Qinshan had already purged all the local leaders who were capable of instigating trouble. Without these people leading the way, the public reaction was quite indifferent.
This is the norm for most people. Often, trouble is started by influential people who protest first. These people are usually rich and powerful in their localities. They are the biggest beneficiaries of special policies. Otherwise, they would be the biggest obstacle to the policies. It has become an unspoken rule for the state to share the benefits with them when formulating policies.
But Qin Shan chose to teach them a lesson using the Avengers.
Such families inevitably have shady dealings, and offending others is commonplace. They could suppress these things before, but not anymore. One avenger after another has caused the local family power to collapse rapidly, leaving behind mostly small fry who have completely lost their lineage and can't even find a complete family tree. After being ravaged by modernization, the remaining clan power that was rekindled was physically eliminated by Qin Shan.
The effect is obvious: the exorbitant bride price in Shanxi has dropped to 10,000 yuan, and it's still being criticized.
Ironically, the Shanxi Soviet Area was the most thorough in its reforms back then, but it was also the place that suffered the most from the Kuomintang's scourge after the Red Army began the Long March. It's like a stone being thrown into fire, and people need to be replaced (comrades with poor mental fortitude should not search it on Baidu).
The new Soviet Union also underwent similar reforms. Don't assume that the Soviet Union's centralized power was all-powerful. In the world, there is only one truly long-term centralized state: us. The Soviet Union can be ranked second. However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia faced a crisis of further disintegration. The core reason why it did not disintegrate was that Putin controlled the core areas of Russia.
This refers to the western region of Russia, centered around Moscow, which accounts for 70-80% of Russia's population. The remaining vast lands consist of many uninhabited snow-covered wastelands.
This is why many Russian prisons are located in Siberia or the Far East near the Arctic Circle, with few or no guards.
Go ahead and run, whatever. Without any transportation, you're going to die no matter how you run.
Therefore, the Bolsheviks who were able to escape from the Tsar's exile were all ruthless people. Only such ruthless people could overthrow a dynasty and unite the people to create a new era.
Zesheng carried out a purge within the Soviet Union, demonstrating the spirit of his benevolent father from years past, and purged the reactionary forces within the new Soviet Union. As the various policies of the new Soviet Union were successfully implemented, these policies, ostensibly aimed at building a community with a shared future for mankind in cooperation with Xinhua, were in reality promoting the integration of the two countries.
When there are strong internal forces driving two countries to integrate with each other, the process of localization becomes very simple.
Just like the Northern Wei Han Translation Group back then.
If the integration of countries with hundreds of millions of members can proceed so smoothly, then adding the Americas would certainly be possible as well.
Don't worry, Qin Shan isn't Emperor Yang of Sui. He won't expect to accomplish in a dozen years what would take centuries. He's just controlling the general direction and letting the momentum of the massive organization gradually achieve the final goal.
Humanity on Earth has begun to explore the stars and the sea, so it's not unacceptable for Earth's civilizations to form a unified government; it's all up to human effort.
With the successful completion of the relocation of the United Nations headquarters to Suzhou, China and the Soviet Union began to promote international peacekeeping efforts.
This is truly incongruous. It would require the United States to stop its civil war and truly practice so-called human rights, but the greatest human right is the right to life.
"The American Civil War has caused enormous harm to its own people and the people of neighboring countries. Many innocent people have lost their lives in this most devastating war since World War II. Humanity is a community with a shared future. No matter what we have experienced, we should work together to create a better future. Therefore, China proposes that the United Nations send a peacekeeping force of no less than 200,000 to the United States. At the same time, in order to demonstrate the spirit of a community with a shared future for mankind, this peacekeeping force should be composed of soldiers from many Third World countries, carrying out this great peacekeeping mission with the highest beliefs and missions of mankind."
Looking back, the United States sent UN forces to intervene in North Korea; now, UN peacekeeping forces have arrived in the United States.
At the UN vote, the United States, which had lost its status as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and was divided into a federation and a confederation, voted for one country and against the other, while the vast majority of countries voted for the other.
Whether they genuinely wanted peacekeeping or simply enjoyed stepping on former superpowers, this vote showed the world that the era of China and the Soviet Union dominating the world order had arrived.
"Admiral, with 200,000 peacekeeping troops, they can only maintain peace along the coastal areas of the east and west coasts of the United States at most, and cannot penetrate deep into the interior."
Lexington holds information on the planned deployment of UN peacekeeping forces. Even in the most optimistic scenario, the deployment would only protect the major cities and surrounding areas. Further inland, it would take more than 200,000 people; even 2 million would be insufficient, unless the region is permanently controlled—not just by planting a flag, but by achieving substantial control.
"The 200,000-strong peacekeeping force is just a figurehead; the real bulk comes from the logistics personnel. By controlling key areas, rebuilding local order, and integrating with the suffering American people, especially by getting the American Socialist Revolutionary Party to join the UN peacekeeping operations, we can become a driving force for Sino-Soviet integration in the Americas. That is our goal."
"It's simply unrealistic to take over North America and even the whole of the United States in one fell swoop at this stage. It took European colonists more than four hundred years to exterminate Native Americans, and in the end, they didn't wipe them out completely. Genocide is the most costly, least efficient, and most risky approach. Rather than going through all that trouble for nothing, we should let them beg us to integrate them, let them see a truly inclusive, powerful, and correct civilization. In time, the Americas will surely become ours."
If it were a matter of brute force, Qin Shan could indeed clean up the entire American continent. However, everything has a cause and effect. When you get used to solving problems with brutal methods, you will only become more and more brutal and impatient, eventually leading to your own destruction. There are countless precedents for this in history. Qin Shan doesn't think that he, with his current and previous lives totaling only three or four hundred years old, is qualified to compare with the wisdom of our ancestors spanning five thousand years.
At least until there is a fundamental change in human nature, our ancestors have already explored all the paths that would lead to what consequences for human actions.
In any case, the situation on the mainland has completely stabilized. Before a new Abyss Gate appears, Qin Shan plans to shift his main focus to military... no, to the Abyss Gate he recently collected in World Six.
World Seven, which is being harvested by the Reapers.
Chapter 189: The Truth About Time Travel
The place was fraught with danger, every step fraught with peril, and a single misstep could cost one's life. Qin Shan hadn't felt this sense of crisis in a long time.