San Francisco, an important port on America's West Coast, was also the first American soil Great Xia Chinese laborers set foot on. Many healthy Chinese laborers had been lured here by the gold supposedly covering the ground in "Gold mountain." After most of the surface gold here had been dug out and a new "Gold mountain" appeared in Australia, this place came to be called "Old Gold mountain"...
Standing on the ocean liner as it docked, Xu Yue looked down at the chimney-filled wharf ahead and the busy figures upon it, gaining a new impression of America in this world.
Compared to old powers like France and rising powers like Japan, America lacked top-tier Ranked Descent Military Formations and accumulated Dragon Qi. It had no experts at the absolute highest level.
Yet aside from its enormous population of Intruders, Veteran Intruders, and Elite Intruders, America was also one of the few nations willing to pay out of pocket to enter Mission Space and steadily study knowledge.
The hulking, clumsy industrial mechs on the dock, rumbling and spewing black smoke yet brimming with the scent of steel, represented America's capabilities.
Because the cost of foundational theories such as "Nuclear Energy" was far too high for them to afford, their technological tree was severely lopsided.
But in some respects, it produced artificial "technological" items that surpassed the modern era.
They were not special warships or the like, materialized after being brought out of Mission Space. Rather, they were products created when research scholars who pursued scientific paths entered Reincarnation Space for further study with dedicated funding subsidies, then returned and transformed what they had learned into productive capacity.
These things were not affected by spatial permissions and could be freely used by anyone.
But clearly, despite all these attempts and such immense