Lu PingAn had always remained calm about Cherry Country. After all, this was not a timeline he had encountered before, and the relationship between the two countries in this world was somewhat better.
After all, Flower Flag's sphere of influence was weaker than in the other timeline, and the Eastern Kingdom had risen earlier. Naturally, a "small neighboring country" had to learn how to coexist with the nearby superpower. Reality was always rather ironic. Small countries would do everything they could to prevent a neighboring great power from rising, yet once that great power truly rose, they would become remarkably friendly.
Still, the relationship between the two countries was not all that good. Some things had not changed.
After all, the historical divergence brought about by the rise of the supernatural had happened after World War II. Everything that should have happened in the other timeline had happened. The dead had died, and the manpower, wealth, and resources that had been plundered were countless. Antiques and cultural relics alone numbered in the tens of thousands.
"Old Buddha. Chiang Kai-shek has already paid for it."
While making a joke no one else could understand, Lu PingAn began his own "collection" work.
He did not really care. This was genuine rescue work, after all, something that could be justified both morally and under international law. Though anyone who studied international law knew that its first rule was that might made right. Rules only existed within the range of a warship. International law had never truly been codified law; it was merely customary law formed through international convention.
".It might be even worse than the Eastern Kingdom back then. At least the country still existed then. The lost artifacts and cultural treasures were returning day by day. There would always come a day