The heated discussion about extraterrestrial civilization continued.
Over the next few days, as Lu Zhou organized the paper, he not only heard students in the cafeteria gossiping about the ruins of the Martian civilization and the clues to extraterrestrial civilization discovered there, but even his father jokingly asked him over the phone whether there had been any new discoveries.
It seemed that even old men coasting toward retirement at state-owned enterprises in obscure little cities had started using extraterrestrial civilization and gossip about Mars as conversation fodder.
In fact, although Lu Zhou found all this rather abrupt after emerging from seclusion, there was nothing abrupt about it for the people of Hua Nation, or even the rest of the world.
For one thing, Hua Nation had not revealed every detail to the public all at once. Instead, over two weeks of groundwork, it had gradually directed public attention beneath the Hell's Gate Mountains, then introduced the cavern where the ruins had been discovered. Only in the final week had it classified them as "artificial structures," leading to the conclusion that they were the ruins of a Martian civilization.
This slow release of information had both kept other countries in suspense and given the international community time to digest such an enormous amount of information.
Lu Zhou only learned about all this afterward.
Once he understood what had happened, Lu Zhou could not help marveling at how unimaginably fast information traveled in modern society. He had only been offline for about four weeks, yet he already felt as though he could not keep up with the times.
If that timescale were stretched to a century...
Suddenly, a trace of unease rose from somewhere he could not identify, leaving him reluctant to pursue the thought any further.
"The paper is ready, with