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"Yes, yes, yes, infinite resurrection! Wouldn't that mean you can do whatever you want!"
"You're overthinking it. The Divine Continent Civilization has different requirements for different war zones. I heard there are also construction options, called the Fourth Calamity, but it's really just about going online and working for others."
"But working for the Divine Continent civilization can provide cultivation resources."
"That's the most important thing. Enough said, I'm all ready, hurry up and bring it up!"
"Can we start quickly? Everyone else can do everything."
"You're such a self-centered guy."
With the end of the closed beta test, Qin Shan began to promote the Dimensional Online project in various countries around the world, and the discussion on major platforms reached a fever pitch.
For adventure lovers, isn't this just a super game where you don't have to worry about death? Imagine having a Lincoln with a big head in a game pod, and then you can go on an adventure in another world and make your own way in the world.
Of course, everyone has different opinions, but whether you accept it or not, Dimensional Online has arrived.
The first batch of slots were all allocated to China and the Soviet Union, because the region was stable and safe enough to allow Dimensional Online to operate smoothly.
Okay, after all, this thing also needs an extra power supply. If a mission is underway here and you suddenly cause a large-scale power outage, how can the mission be completed? Who will be responsible for the losses? Can you afford to compensate for them?
Despite protests from other countries, China ignored them, leaving those countries helpless.
This was also Qin Shan's intention. In this way, if extraordinary individuals from other countries wanted to cultivate and obtain more extraordinary cultivation resources, they would either have to work hard to improve their own country's environment to meet the social stability standards of the Divine Continent civilization, or they would have to go to China and the Soviet Union.
Obviously, the latter is much easier than the former, but once you get to the Sino-Soviet border, you are no longer easily controlled by the central authorities of the two countries. Once you arrive, you have to obediently follow the laws and regulations of the two countries.
If you're not happy, then get lost. (Lie-Lie Road)
This effectively concentrated superhumans from around the world in China and the Soviet Union, indirectly helping other countries reduce their domestic superhuman crime problems. Anyway, if superhumans from other countries dared to act like that in China and the Soviet Union, there were plenty of ways to kill them.
Even if other countries pass the social stability assessment, China can still find excuses such as insufficient energy supply, inadequate facilities, and substandard basic configurations. If you complete the rectification according to China's standards, comrade, welcome to join the socialist family.
If Qin Shan's previous actions were somewhat concealed, now he has laid his cards on the table.
Our Chinese civilization is just that popular; if you have any complaints, you can go squat in the corner.
After all this maneuvering, the most powerful countries were essentially China and the Soviet Union, along with other countries. If other countries didn't want to fall behind in the new era, they had to cling tightly to China and the Soviet Union and obediently act as appendages.
Of course, there are other methods that can be considered, such as those used in Vietnam.
"We Vietnamese, formerly known as Jiaozhi, were originally part of China. It was the despicable Vietnamese invaders who seized our land and drove out the Vietnamese monkeys!"
Well, the people of northern Vietnam have made a new choice. They want to sever ties with southern Vietnam and belong to the great Chinese nation. As for Vietnam, they don't know them, they're not familiar with them, they're some inferior creature that hasn't fully evolved, and they're not qualified to be compared with Little China.
Isn't this a sign of division? What happened? Of course, Vietnam is preparing to unleash itself (not really).
The reason is very simple. Just look at how the surrounding countries behaved after the rise of the Central Plains dynasties in history. Now it is just a cycle of history. The difference is that it was difficult for a centralized empire in the agricultural era to effectively rule over countries on the other side of mountains and valleys, but now, a huge swarm of drones and superhumans can do it.
The difference in strength between superhumans trained by superpowers and those trained by ordinary countries is vast, as the resources available to them are entirely different.
The most typical example is that in China and the Soviet Union, once a superhuman was confirmed to have awakened, anyone with decent aptitude would be provided with certain cultivation resources for a five-year compulsory education program for superhumans.
But other smaller countries did not lose this treatment.
Five years may not seem like much, especially considering the lifespan of extraordinary individuals who can easily live to be two or three hundred years old. However, the first five years are the most crucial for extraordinary individuals, as they are the foundation-laying stage. Whether or not the foundation is solid will have a fundamental impact on the future development of extraordinary individuals. This is also the internal information that Qin Shan provided to China and the Soviet Union.
How big can the gap be?
Currently, the average level of superhumans in China and the Soviet Union is one level higher than that of those abroad, and their equipment is on average two generations more advanced.
On the battlefield, that makes all the difference between being able to fight back and not being able to.
To give the most obvious example, the second-generation tank is the T-54, while the T-72 is a third-generation tank. Under normal circumstances, the outcome of a battle between the two is predictable. This is the fatal impact of the generation gap.
For small countries, still living in the old era, they really have no ability to resist large countries. The outcome of the war between the two sides depends solely on whether the large country wants to really wipe them out, leaving them with land but not people.
The future is a foreseeable despair. Once the Soviet Union becomes the sole superpower and completes its integration, how the history books will record the stories of small countries will ultimately be determined by this superpower. Those who cannot adapt to the times are destined to be abandoned, a fact that has become universally acknowledged by all small countries.
Small countries far away can manage to get by, but what about small countries right next to large countries?
The rapid division of Vietnam into North and South, and the emergence of a powerful Sino-Vietnamese integration faction in a short period of time, demonstrate that without a large base of public support and high-level backing, it would have been impossible to create such a large momentum in such a short time.
But Vietnam is a bit petty. Look at Cambodia, they directly expressed their desire to become a province of Xinhua. If Xinhua thinks it's too small, even a city would be fine. Anyway, big brother, no, Motherland, you decide. Your child has no other thoughts, just wants to come back and pay homage to you!
With Cambodia setting an example, other Southeast Asian countries instantly opened the door to a new world.
You can do it this way too, Mom! I'm hungry, time for dinner!
Does it seem surreal? But it's true. A superpower with absolute national strength is fully capable of assimilating surrounding smaller countries. Moreover, the influence of Chinese culture has been increasing along with the growth of China's national power, far exceeding the threshold of the past, making these smaller countries remember the majesty of the Celestial Empire.
In the past, I was young and naive, and I didn't understand my mother's true feelings. That whip wasn't meant to bully me, but to spur me on and urge me to come home. Now I understand. History has come to this point, and things will eventually be set right. It's time for the wanderer from afar to come home!
Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Bangladesh have successively submitted applications to join the Xinhua family. As for the past, that was all the perverse actions of the puppet government. The children will never make things difficult for their mothers, so they will personally strangle these evil little devils to death!
The struggle for interests between the old and new forces inevitably leads to war. Therefore, before Xinhua made its statement, a fairly fierce civil war had already broken out in Southeast Asian countries. The original governments had split into several parts, some were neutral, some were involved, some vehemently denounced the other side as traitors, but most of them denounced the other side as traitors to their motherland. If they were not of Han ethnicity, they would all have called them traitors. The scene was extremely chaotic.
The Chinese public is absolutely stuffed with gossip; these past few years have been even more exciting than the "Year of the Boomerang"! Can anyone tell me what's going on?
Suddenly, it seemed like the whole world thought that China and the Soviet Union were right, and everyone else was trying to prove it. Was this the scene of having a great scholar debating with me? How exciting!
"Alright, let's fight them first, and then take them one by one."
Qin Shan also felt that there were too many countries on Earth and it was necessary to reduce the number. After they were riddled with civil war, the new China would descend like a divine army, and the People's Liberation Army would save the locals from their suffering. Then, countless local girls would throw themselves into his arms, and young men would enter the schools of the new China to be influenced by Chinese culture. Then, a few million immigrants would arrive. In two or three generations at most, the original name and history of this country would become a part of what has always been.
However, this good thing wasn't just for Xinhua; the Soviet Union was also enjoying it.
For example, the three Baltic states, often jokingly referred to by netizens as the "Three Idiots of the Baltic Sea."
The three small countries frequently tried to undermine the Soviet Union. Whenever a leader with Stalin's abilities emerged in the later stages of the Soviet Union, these three small countries would be subjected to a major purge. The Slavic people have a very firm belief in strongman politics; as long as they can win, they don't care how brutal the politicians' methods are.
After the transformed Zesheng took over the new Soviet Union, under the backdrop of Sino-Soviet integration, the new Soviet Union developed with great vitality, with everything flourishing and seemingly regaining its former superpower glory.
With the five Central Asian countries joining the Sino-Soviet alliance, the unruly Outer Mongolia was completely subdued. In Asia, the Sino-Soviet alliance was unmatched, and countries on other continents had to act according to the whims of the Sino-Soviet alliance.
As national strength grew to a certain level, the Slavs' ambition to expand their territory also began to stir.
In the extraordinary era, small countries cannot reap much of the extraordinary benefits. The Baltic states are in an irreversible and rapid decline. As for the European Union and the United States, which has lost even the concept, they obviously cannot help them.
Looking around, the only major power in the region was the Soviet Union. In other words, without maintaining good relations with the Soviet Union, they had no future and might even be stripped of their present status one day, if the new Soviet Union so desired.
They didn't even need to use any military means; just an economic blockade would have been enough to cause the three kingdoms to collapse.
The most terrifying time is when the shoe hasn't dropped yet, especially recently. With the expansion of national power, the call for the restoration of "historical territories" within the Soviet Union is growing louder. Given Ze Sheng's current prestige in the new Soviet Union, if he wants to do something, it's just a matter of a word. Do you think the Baltic states are afraid?
However, the reason that drove the Baltic states to beg the new Soviet Union to incorporate them was an accident.
Volume Two: World Number Eight
Section 1: World Number Eight, Let Me Visit!
Anyone who has seen the Khan's Bizarre Small Country series knows that small countries have extremely poor resilience.
Small country, small population, area less than a province (by our standards), nuclear tests cannot be conducted on its own territory. This is what makes a small country. European countries are all small countries. They only had a brief period of glory in a special historical period. The disadvantage of lacking a large territory will soon be exposed in subsequent competition and they will eventually fall into decline.
To put it bluntly, if Britain had controlled all of Australia or Canada, and then moved part of the royal family there, even into the 21st century, the decline would have lasted much longer, and they wouldn't have been squeezed out by the United States.
However, this is all hindsight. In reality, when a small country faces a large country, it basically doesn't have a second chance.
People find it absurd that a few people in an African country could successfully stage a coup, but in reality, Europe back then wasn't much better. During the Dark Ages, there were countless stories that were even more outrageous than this. The success of Lower Halfburg was a pioneer in opening up a new track for the new order in Europe. It's hard for us to understand how something like this could rely entirely on bloodlines and families to ensure a thousand-year legacy.
The reason is simple: we have had ruthless figures like Huang Chao, and since the Song Dynasty, there have been no truly legendary families that have lasted for a thousand years.
Under such a national structure, if an extraordinary individual were to attempt to overthrow the state, the small country's ability to withstand risks would be similar to that of a small farmer facing a natural disaster. Even if it survives, it would inevitably cause nationwide turmoil.
Superman? Think again, our ancestors are the most numerous.
Thanks to the successful export of American comics, many people in Europe and America have benefited from them.
Of course, these ancestors were no match for the Chinese and Soviet superhuman forces; at best, they could only rule over small countries.
For the locals, this was the beginning of a nightmare.
The Baltic states have a total area of only 17.4 square kilometers and a population of less than eight million. With such weak national strength, the emergence of superhumans is so rare that just a dozen or so are enough to keep the armies of the three states busy. Meanwhile, the number of superhumans on Earth has entered a period of explosive growth, and new superhumans may appear at any time. Under such circumstances, the cost of maintaining order across the country has skyrocketed.
The reason is simple: due to the hostility of the Baltic states towards the new Soviet Union, the new Soviet Union directly prevented the Belt and Road Initiative from connecting with them. Meanwhile, many countries within the EU have already gone bankrupt, leaving only France and Germany to support them. Germany is now considered one of Qin Shan's own people, so it is naturally developing very well and has a strong momentum to continue its efforts.
In this context, the EU is practically non-existent, and the Baltic states, which have joined the Eurozone, clearly do not have the support of the EU. Germany has made it clear that if the EU does not listen to me, I will leave the EU. Poland, France, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia, you don't want me to fight for my living space, do you?
So now the EU has become a German-dominated arena, and Germany's current stance is very clear: the Baltic states are no longer EU members; you've been expelled, so keep your complaints to yourselves.
Yes, that's how capricious they are; that's how the strong are capricious.
After all, under the governing philosophies of Zeppelin and Hindenburg, Germany had fully entered the stage of industrial recovery and was connecting with Chinese and Soviet industries. Anyone who obstructed this process was directly imprisoned in German-style prisons, which were concentration camps without gas chambers, and the national public facilities protection law was strictly enforced. If anyone dared to cause damage, we would not be polite. At this time, it was a time to use harsh measures in chaotic times, so let's just shoot them.
In the past two years alone, Germany has executed a total of 180,000 people, effectively reducing the number of Green Party members and extremists.
If you're not even willing to die for your beliefs, what kind of extremist are you?
It must be said that the results were outstanding, the German people applauded, many policies were able to be implemented, and Germany began to turn red, while German industrial capitalists chose to accept their fate.
They're not stupid; they know that the most glorious period for German manufacturing was when the government effectively controlled the economy.
Small government and big market do not meet Germany's actual needs, and the new era cannot reject Sino-Soviet cooperation, after all, the future of mankind belongs to the nation and country that can lead all mankind to the stars and the sea.
Germany chose to take sides, turning the EU into a puppet of Germany, leaving the Baltic states completely dumbfounded.
They have lost their backing and the aid of major powers, and are surrounded only by the new Soviet Union, which is eyeing them with hostility. They are no longer the stubborn and foolish Ukraine of the past, and naturally cannot challenge the new Soviet Union in terms of physical strength. They can only barely maintain themselves for now, but how long can they sustain this after being excluded from the world market?
Now, the two superpowers, China and the Soviet Union, are united and possess the world's complete manufacturing industry, all at the world's top level, accounting for more than 87% of the global manufacturing output. Germany itself accounts for another 5%, and the rest is the total share of other countries. Forget about a complete industrial chain, they can't even complete the basic industrial chain. Every manufacturing production has a link under the control of China, the Soviet Union, and Germany, and Qin Shan is the biggest shareholder behind the scenes, able to remotely control the three countries to make decisions, or directly influence them through the Shenzhou civilization.
In this game, everyone from the players to the referees was one of their own, making it incredibly easy for them to crush the Baltic states.
The Baltic states, on the verge of bankruptcy under the control of the government, naturally experienced severe domestic turmoil. The economic downturn, coupled with massive unemployment, led to a surge in zero-dollar purchases. The emergence of superhumans disrupted the operation of the small countries' national machinery. With a combined population of less than eight million, how many armies could these three countries support? How many police officers were there in each region? Their limited resources were utterly inadequate against the hundreds of superhumans in their own countries.
The superhumans, already dissatisfied with the government, formed several new political parties, directly launching physical criticism of their own government. In Lithuania, the top leadership changed nineteen presidents in less than a month, setting another world record.
The other two countries weren't much better off. Nineteen presidents a month is unlikely, but eight or nine presidents a month might be driven to madness or openness. With their leaders being killed like this, it's not a question of whether the top leader is upright or not; there simply isn't a top leader at all.
If a country doesn't even have a main beam, then all that's left is a gap in the roof, and in this situation, the situation can't possibly improve.
So, almost without any surprises, the three small countries entered into civil war.
When Zesheng received the news, the three idiots had already fought a major battle in Shanxi.
Ze Sheng's attitude towards this was, "Go ahead and fight, it won't affect us anyway, let's just pretend we didn't see it."
Even if Stalin were in the position of Chairman of the new Soviet Union, he would be happy to see the three Mediterranean fools fighting each other. These three small countries were never exactly honest people to begin with, and now that they are fighting their own civil war, no matter what the final outcome is, the new Soviet Union will have absolute control over their narrative after the war.
In reality, if Russia hadn't been in a continuous decline since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this situation of small neighboring countries fighting with a major power would never have occurred, even with US support. But Russia is truly pathetic; the entire country is tied to a single resource, and its economy is heavily reliant on resource exports. Such a major power is nothing more than an armed gas station, severely affected by international oil prices, and has no economic autonomy whatsoever. What kind of major power is so rubbish?
However, they certainly wouldn't dare to actually take action. Historical experience has proven that even when a great power is in decline, it still possesses overwhelming combat power against smaller neighboring countries. It's true that the Kuomintang (KMT) can't defeat the People's Liberation Army (PLA), but it's also true that it swept across Southeast Asia. So, who is truly the one that's crumbling? It's hard to guess (laughs).
With the Baltic Three's departure from the Central Plains, insightful people in Europe realized that the winds of change had completely shifted.
Based on past historical experience, the Slavs will definitely move westward next, from Eastern Europe to Western Europe, turning the whole of Europe into a Slavic Europe, and the true Fourth Rome will soon return to its loyal Istanbul.
Not to mention Europe, even Türkiye is trembling with fear now. If the new Soviet Union is going to take a hard line this time, they won't be able to find any help.
So even if the new Soviet Union did nothing, the whole of Europe began to feel a sense of impending doom. This was because the historical performance of the Tsarist Russian Empire had left too deep an impression on European countries. No matter how the new Soviet Union promoted its national policies, it would still have to bear the geopolitical legacy of the Tsarist Russian Empire, whether positive or negative.
But this time, Ze Sheng did not take the opportunity to devour Er Sha as the Western countries had expected.
"The new Soviet Union respected the territorial sovereignty and integrity of other countries. The affairs of the three Baltic states were their own business and had nothing to do with the new Soviet Union. At most, we would make arrangements for the refugees from the three countries out of humanitarian considerations."
There will definitely be refugees after war breaks out, and how to arrange their resettlement is up to the new Soviet Union. Siberia is in dire need of manpower right now, so you should go there and take good care of the polar bears.
Remember the Eastern Development Project we talked about before? The new Soviet Union had been doing this all along, hiring a large number of laborers from Xinhua to develop Siberia. But for the vast Siberia and the entire Far East of the new Soviet Union, a mere hundred or so people were simply not enough. Even adding another one or two hundred million would still result in a sparsely populated area. But Xinhua was also helpless. It was indeed a large country in terms of population before, but after the full-scale development of the solar system began, the Moon and Mars alone consumed more than ten million laborers. This was only the initial stage. It is estimated that the construction in the two places in the later stage, as well as the future development of the solar system, will not be able to be sustained without hundreds of billions of people.
Hundreds of billions! What does that mean? The entire global population is less than eight billion!
In fact, due to the turmoil brought about by the emergence of superhumans, the Earth as a whole has been experiencing negative population growth for the past ten years or so. Not only has it failed to break through the nine billion mark, but it has also fallen below eight billion, with less than seven and a half billion at present. If this continues, the population growth of various countries will remain sluggish in the next five years.
Now, both China and the Soviet Union have begun to promote artificial insemination technology, which allows implanted fertilized eggs to grow to a fully developed state in an artificial gestation system before birth. With effective interventions, not only has the pain of childbirth been completely eliminated, but it has also made it possible to not get married and form a family. Single people can also have their own children. Furthermore, because effective interventions can be carried out at any time and newborns can be nurtured in a concentrated manner, genetic diseases can be eliminated in the embryonic stage, thus ensuring the healthy growth of newborns.
A healthy body is also the foundation for cultivation and awakening to become extraordinary.
However, in order to ensure genetic diversity and the overall stability of civilization, family and marriage still need to be protected by law. Countries with developed sex industries have already proven the consequences of promiscuity through historical experience. Before the advent of superhumans, a gathering of a group of men was quite terrifying. Now that superhumans are beginning to awaken on a large scale, if tens of millions of single superhumans were to emerge, any country would be doomed. Therefore, allowing transnational marriage has become an effective means of stabilizing internal issues.
Of course, this only applies to large countries; small countries, on the other hand, will quickly lose their valuable human resources.
Therefore, as long as the population can be stably controlled and integrated, both China and the Soviet Union welcome it. Of course, only high-quality immigrants are welcome; trash is not acceptable. Many foreign scum who had previously infiltrated China and the Soviet Union have been thoroughly cleaned up in recent years. Having finally ensured their own purity, they cannot allow themselves to be polluted by trash again.
Qin Shan has also put the timetable for completing the unification of the Earth on his agenda. As for how to implement it and whether to adopt other contingency plans during the implementation process, it depends on the changes in the real world.
Now that a new Abyss Gate has appeared, how can we stand still? World Eight, let me visit!
Section 2: I fuck your mother!
The development of civilization comes at a price, a fact that everyone acknowledges.