Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#684 - Fallen Nobility

As before when entering the public world, everyone was first sent to a semi-transparent platform.

This platform was shaped like a frustum, with a radius of about several tens of meters. Outside the platform's range, all around were stagnant time-space belts like a kaleidoscope, the kind that could make one dizzy with just a glance.

Liang Yue and the others had already established fixed identities in the DC world, so they didn't need to do anything after arriving on this platform. Only Elizabeth was descending for the first time and needed to be properly arranged.

According to the suggestions of the women, choosing an identity as a Chinese Taoist priest, like themselves, would be the most time-saving and effortless.

But this little girl clearly still had some of her own ideas. After a period of picking and choosing, and spending 300 points of Liang Yue's, she finally selected a family heir of a declining British noble.

Reportedly, that was an old noble family with a long heritage. Several hundred years ago, they had even intermarried with the British royal family several times, flourishing for a time, but later gradually declined.

The male family members basically died on the battlefields of World War I and World War II, and the women either died young or married far away.

By Elizabeth's generation, only she was left as the sole direct descendant.

It is said that she is also facing a financial crisis. According to the relevant inheritance laws of Great Britain, if she cannot produce a very large sum of tax money in the property inheritance matters a few days later, she will lose the qualification to inherit the family property and related titles.

At that time, the British royal family and the British government will openly and legitimately nationalize her family's property...

Originally, according to the normal development of the situation, there would no longer be any possibility of saving this family business, but now that Elizabeth has set her sights on it, the result will naturally change.

As a great landlord and local tyrant, Liang Yue certainly would not lack some financial resources.

Even if only calculating the wealth he had scavenged from the battlefields of World War I and World War II during his previous experience in the DC world, various precious metal products, taking out even a very small portion of it, would be enough to solve Elizabeth's inheritance crisis.

In short, the issue of identity placement was resolved very smoothly. A few minutes later, Liang Yue and the others on the platform turned into white light and descended into the DC world!

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Opening his eyes, Liang Yue was now in a stone room built on a steep cliff, which was the place where he had announced his seclusion before leaving the DC world.

This was a very simple, semi-open stone room, only about twenty or thirty square meters in size. In fact, it was just a rectangular cave that he had directly cut out with his sword.

At the entrance of the cave, Liang Yue had completely blocked it with a thick glass wall. Now, after a long period of wind and sun, the outside of the glass had been covered with a layer of accumulated snow.

With a thought, the snow layer immediately turned into a sky full of ice flowers, scattering in all directions, and the long-lost sunlight shone in again.

Looking around, the line of sight was filled with a land of ice plains and forests.

At this moment, the warm morning light had just risen from the end of the horizon.

In the sky, large swaths of rosy clouds were slowly dyeing the clear sky at dawn along with time.

A gust of wind happened to blow by at this time, instantly wrapping up patches of snow mist from the treetops of the forest sea and flying into the air, glittering like diamonds under the reflection of the morning light.

Facing such magnificent and beautiful scenery, Liang Yue was somewhat lost in thought for a while.

For a long time, he was silent.

At this time, he was in an unknown place, located in an unknown corner of the Siberian Great Forest, uninhabited, so this place of seclusion was naturally unknown to anyone.

"Di Di ~"

The changes of forty years, the livelihood and reproduction of two generations, and the vicissitudes of hundreds of millions of creatures, naturally countless moments worth leaving a mark occurred during the period.

Even with Liang Yue's current mental strength and brain capacity, it took him nearly an hour to carefully read the content listed by Xiaowu.

Of course, the things recorded by the intelligent brain Xiaowu were definitely not as simple as those historical textbooks, which were like swallowing dates whole, like a major event chronology.

Among them, there were not only international events on the surface, and various macro-level changes in the situation, but even some changes in the fields of economy, military affairs, scientific research, and humanities were also included.

Secretly, there were quite a few secret supernatural events that were not known to ordinary people!

Of course, compared to those international situations, Xiaowu's focus and record were still on the development and changes in the country over the years.

At this time, China had undergone tremendous changes compared to when Liang Yue left last time.

With the solid foundation he had laid for this country, although it was impossible to say that it had jumped to become a strong country at the forefront of the world, it was definitely among the strong countries.

Just not long after the end of the Pacific War, when the Americans were still high-spirited because of the great power of the atomic bomb and showing off their power everywhere.

Before a few years had passed, China also announced its mastery of nuclear bomb technology, and then detonated two atomic bombs in a row in the western desert area of ​​the country.

One of them was just a simple ignition test explosion, and the other was a long-distance raid of hundreds of miles in the form of a missile, accurately hitting the target at a fixed point.

With the trump card of nuclear weapons to support it, the new Chinese regime naturally had the confidence to resist foreign enemies.

Although it still could not eliminate the arrogance of imperialist forces in the international arena, at least within China, it laid the cornerstone of peace in one fell swoop, greatly boosting the confidence of the country and the nation.

No matter how the international situation changes, it can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and calmly watch the world's turmoil.

Of course, force is force. If a country wants to move towards prosperity, it is certainly not enough to have only a strong military deterrent force.

Especially for China, which had just ended more than a hundred years of humiliation and decadence, and was almost building a new country on ruins, it was even more necessary to calm down, concentrate on cultivating internal strength, and accumulate family wealth.

In the following decades, the development of the world situation was similar to that in the proper history.

This country has had moments of high-spirited sword-shining, and also had moments of lying on the firewood and tasting courage, and keeping a low profile. There have been turbulences caused by serious mismatches between data and production, and there have also been trial and error periods after the introduction of new rules, but due to incompatibility with reality.

But no matter what, the new Chinese stage in this world is undoubtedly much happier than the Chinese in the normal historical process.

The Soviet Union is gone. Although that red regime has not been completely destroyed, it is fundamentally different from the steel behemoth that should have taken shape.

Some so-called foreign debts, weapons and materials, etc., no longer need to be sold like in history, relying on the extreme survival mode of the vast number of working farmers to purchase from abroad.

On the contrary, China has developed a fairly good military industry because of the family property left by Liang Yue at the beginning.

If it were not for its strong self-consciousness, and the Chinese people, who had suffered from the pain of war in the early days of the founding of the country, were unwilling to embark on the road of selling arms, I am afraid that this career would have developed even better.

In short, after forty years of ups and downs, with the successive withering of a generation of influential figures, China is changing direction and moving towards a new era.

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