Jiang Yan Hai's words undoubtedly reassured Lin Mei. Or rather, she knew he was telling the truth.
"Then I have one more question." Lin Mei fell silent for a moment before continuing.
"Go ahead." Jiang Yan Hai smiled.
"Did your Great Qin Empire come for black powder?" Lin Mei's delicate face was utterly serious.
Jiang Yan Hai nearly burst out laughing at her question, but he held it in. Though he really wanted to laugh, doing so now would have been rather impolite.
Black powder? You might as well ask about nitroglycerin, TNT, RDX, C4, HMX, TATB, CL-20, the N3-N15 all-nitrogen series, metallic hydrogen, and so on...
As for plutonium, uranium, fusion, and the like, those weren't explosives, so there was no point discussing them.
"General Lin, I'll say the same thing again." Jiang Yan Hai paused. He was too embarrassed to say that black powder was usually used in things like poppers for children just a few years old, and that anyone with even a little knowledge of chemistry could synthesize it themselves.
"The world is vast."
Jiang Yan Hai spoke those six words. Lin Mei paused, unsure what he meant, but she knew the meaning behind them was certainly different from what she had imagined.
"All right. It seems we've had a very productive exchange." Lin Mei thought for a moment, then nodded earnestly.
"Then, General Lin, you've asked me many questions. I'd like to ask you one as well." Jiang Yan Hai smiled.
"Go ahead." Lin Mei nodded readily. She had asked Jiang Yan Hai questions, so it was only fair that he asked her some.
"General Lin, when did you come here? I mean, when did you become a soldier here?" Jiang Yan Hai pointed at the Great Wall beneath their feet and looked into the