Please Prepare for War

There were many wars in this world,

and a great many of them were fought on invisible battlefields, where there was no gunpowder smoke, no blood or fire, and no charging battle cries.

Yet those places were just as treacherous, every step fraught with danger.

One careless move could lead to defeat, bringing enormous losses and grievous casualties.

The intelligence wars, espionage wars, wiretapping wars of the past, and later technological wars, economic wars, and today's wars of public opinion and information... these battles were just as thrilling, thunder erupting in silence.

And Morgan's earlier actions

were no different from handing China a Demon-Slaying Divine Sword! Thus,

a swift and forceful "pest eradication campaign" unfolded across China, with those mouthpieces embedded throughout every level of society being uprooted one by one.

Under the current circumstances, they did not even have anywhere to seek shelter.

The patrons behind them had proactively sold them out. Other than their own country and those patrons, where else in this world could be a place of refuge? They were terrified, like startled birds,

even willing to turn themselves in to save their own skins, hoping only to remain in the country.

Even prison would do.

That was rather interesting.

It was as though things had suddenly returned to many, many years ago.

During the era of feudal dynasties, whenever ministers of the Central Plains heard they were being exiled, they mourned as though their parents had died. Some would rather die in the Central Plains than be exiled.

Why?

Because back then, the Central Plains dynasties were the most glorious, greatest, and most civilized places in the entire world; beyond the Central Plains, all were barbarian lands.

Being exiled to some wilderness far from one's homeland might truly have been worse than death for those