"Hahaha!"
"Alien technology—this is killing me!"
Inside the Ancient Culture Research and Analysis Archives, someone slapped the table and burst out laughing.
"Don't laugh. If not for the rainfall in the southwest, the typhoon in the East Sea, the Sea City phoenix, and the Three Rivers drainage, would you have guessed it was immortals?"
"I wouldn't have. It's already the new millennium—who still believes in immortals?"
Thanks to the development of technological society, especially in a secular country like Hua Country, fewer and fewer people now believed in immortals.
If Lu Zheng had not revealed too many clues, the people at the Ancient Culture Archives could never have connected it to myths and legends.
"So the rumors circulating in all sorts of circles below are becoming more and more convincing. Some are even saying we discovered alien technology at Sanxingdui, drawing many foreigners there."
"It has sparked a wave of tourism, though."
"Empty talk. The people over there are really just casting two fishing poles, whether there are dates or not."
"The true reason behind the South Sea Nine Islands appearing overnight cannot be hidden from those who are paying attention."
"Our old friends in the south have been calling us one after another, even more frequently than during the Northern Myanmar lightning incident."
"They haven't been this enthusiastic in a long time."
"At the time, they still hadn't confirmed the truth behind the Red Chess River Project. And the Northern Myanmar lightning incident was merely a force capable only of destruction—it couldn't be used repeatedly, or that would be cutting oneself off from the world."
"But the South Sea Nine Islands are a force that has completely turned the strategic situation around."
"The South Sea has completely become our inland sea. No warships from other countries dare barge in