Hundred Schools of Thought (Please Bookmark and Recommend)

"Your Highness! Could you tell me what happened after Great Qin fell?" Bai Qi asked with a cupped-fist salute.

Zhao Fu nodded and began, "After Qin fell, there was the Chu–Han Contention. At the end of the Eastern Han came the Three Kingdoms, then the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties..."

"What? Why was mighty Huaxia subjected to humiliation by foreign tribes everywhere?"

Hearing Zhao Fu's words, Bai Qi's face filled with fury, and he could not help speaking out. Only after he finished did he realize himself and hurriedly apologize to Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu gently shook his head to show that it was nothing. After Qin, Huaxia was no longer something those foreign tribes feared, but something they could bully at will. During the pre-Qin era, the Military School, Legalist School, School of Diplomacy, Taoist School, Confucian School, and Mohist School had all flourished in contention, and talented people abounded in every field.

But after the Han, the Hundred Schools of Thought had been cast aside, with Confucianism alone revered. Though studying was not necessarily wrong, it was somewhat unsuitable when it came to marching and warfare.

"Your Highness! I think that if we are to win this game, we must first break free from several major chessboards. The first one we should leave is Huaxia," Bai Qi said after calming down from his initial anger and thinking it over quietly.

Li Si also nodded. "Your Highness! Huaxia is about to become the largest main battlefield. If we get dragged into it, the losses will be too great. Staying out of it is the best strategy."

Zhao Fu nodded as well and went on to explain some world history. In the end, they decided on Great Qin's path for the future.

Though they had gone a little far afield, this was their overall strategy. Right now, the most important thing was naturally to develop Great Qin Village properly.

Without realizing it, he had already spent more than ten hours in Apocalypse World. It should be daylight in the real world by now. Thinking that he had some matters to handle there, Zhao Fu told Bai Qi and Li Si to be extra careful, send people to patrol and stand guard at night, and ensure their safety. Then he logged out of Apocalypse World.

His consciousness returned to his body once more. Zhao Fu slowly opened his eyes and found that it was indeed daylight. He took out his phone to check the time. It was already eight in the morning.

He climbed up from the floor, washed up briefly, and bought something outside for breakfast.

Then Zhao Fu planned to withdraw from university. In the near future, Apocalypse World would certainly devour the real world; the warning had already been given during the inheritance. Thus, studying hard and getting a good job in the future had become meaningless, so Zhao Fu changed his original plans.

Nanshi University was considered a famous university in Huaxia. Those who could enter it were undoubtedly elite talents, and the school was the dream of countless people.

"Are you sure you want to withdraw?"

His homeroom teacher, Li Hong, looked at Zhao Fu with regret and tried to persuade him otherwise. Although Zhao Fu was somewhat withdrawn in class, his grades and abilities were excellent in every aspect. After graduating from university, he should have had a bright future. Li Hong had never expected him to choose withdrawal.

Zhao Fu nodded seriously, indicating that he had already made up his mind. In the end, Li Hong could only agree helplessly. After completing the withdrawal procedures, Zhao Fu even received a five-thousand-yuan tuition refund.

Zhao Fu had never played around all these years. Whenever he had free time, he chose to work. He currently held three part-time jobs. Though it was rather exhausting, he had already saved up some money. If he lived frugally, it should last him for several years.

After buying several boxes of instant noodles at the supermarket, Zhao Fu returned home and turned on the secondhand computer he had bought to look up information about Apocalypse World. Right now, the hottest topic in the entire world was undoubtedly Apocalypse World.

Almost everyone was discussing everything related to Apocalypse World. With one search online, countless pieces of information popped up. Zhao Fu also discovered that someone had already established an Apocalypse World Forum. It had over a hundred million users, and that number was increasing like mad.

"Who has the capability to build a forum like this so quickly?"

After thinking about it, Zhao Fu registered an account and entered the forum. Aside from discussions about all sorts of Apocalypse World matters, it was full of people buying everything related to Apocalypse World. A single copper coin had already been driven up to eight yuan.

Of course, the top aristocratic families in the real world knew what would happen in the future. They were therefore pouring nearly all their assets and resources into Apocalypse World. Some had even offered tens of billions to buy an Inheritance Stone. Ordinary people naturally did not know why; they merely watched with envy, thinking that if they got one, they would have more money than they could spend in several lifetimes.

But anyone who possessed an Inheritance Stone would only smile lightly at that. Obtaining an inheritance undoubtedly required passing trial after trial. If someone sold an Inheritance Stone for such a small amount of money, they would never have obtained one in the first place.

Watching the massive resources of the great families flood in, Zhao Fu also felt a heavy pressure.

However, the one fortunate thing was that although every area in Apocalypse World had system main cities, each main city was independently managed by its own city lord. In other words, regions were not connected to one another. Apocalypse World was now divided into different regions, and one could only cross between them by relying on oneself.

Yet Apocalypse World was vast. Every region was tens of thousands of miles apart from the next, and the dangers in between were easy to imagine.

Furthermore, ordinary people entered Apocalypse World at random rather than choosing their own locations. So even if the major factions poured in their resources, they would still be divided into small portions across different regions. Otherwise, Zhao Fu would have already lost from the very beginning.

On the forum, Zhao Fu also found information on the place where he was located. It was now named Terror Forest and had three system main cities: City of Holy Light in the east, Forest of Soldiers in the south, and Demon Tree City in the west.

Zhao Fu also read some introductions to the main cities. First, every system main city was enormous and could hold more than a million people at most. Entering the city required two copper coins, private fighting was forbidden within the city, though there were arenas. Furthermore, the guards there were generally at least Tier 1.

The cities sold all kinds of things, even silver-quality weapons. As for Apocalypse World weapons, they were divided into ordinary (white), refined (blue), rare (silver), perfect (gold), legendary (purple), and epic (orange).

Ordinary weapons could add one attribute, blue weapons added two, silver weapons added three, gold weapons added four, and so on.

Besides goods, another important feature was that each city had its own merit points. As long as one completed the various tasks they assigned, one could obtain merit points. These points could be exchanged for different rewards offered by the system cities, and even for official positions within the system main cities.

After Zhao Fu finished reading all the introductions about the main cities with interest, he finally let out a breath and prepared to enter Apocalypse World again. The real world appeared calm, as though everything was as usual, but in truth, a storm was already gathering.

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