prynovel Chapter 18 Lifespan +5, Rare Earth Tens of Thousands of Tons! This salute is to the heroes of Great
Chapter 18 Lifespan +5, Rare Earth Tens of Thousands of Tons! This salute is to the heroes of Great
James ignored him and continued discussing Marcus's path forward.
But his comment section has changed.
A few netizens from DaXia somehow managed to sneak in; at first, it was just a few here and there.
Then it became the tide.
[Su Shen's attributes are all increased by 30%, while your Marcus is catching mice in the F-rank zone. Want to compare?]
[Mr. James, could you tell me your country's player's kill count for today: how many rats?]
[I suggest the US rename its livestream channel "Marcus's Wilderness Kitchen," and feature a dish of rat sashimi.]
[Brothers, stop messing around. Marcus's had it tough too; after all, even rats in the F-class zone have dignity.]
……
The co-host handed over the live chat comments.
James glanced at it, and the smile on his face froze.
He reached for the beer can, only to find nothing; he then realized he had already crushed and thrown it away.
The barrage of comments is still pouring in.
[Mr. James, you previously said that Su Chen would definitely sink into the mire within ten minutes. Now that Su Chen's attributes are off the charts and the fog has dissipated, what are your thoughts?]
[My thought is, just open another can of beer, anyway, he has more cans on his table than Marcus has in his trophy tally.]
[James: I anticipated Su Chen's prediction. Su Chen: You predicted nothing.]
……
James finally couldn't hold on any longer.
He turned sharply to look at the deputy host and squeezed out a sentence in a low voice.
"Turn off the comments section."
The deputy host was taken aback.
"...Should we turn them all off?"
"all."
James tugged at his collar.
"Technical problem, temporary maintenance, just some random excuse."
The deputy host didn't ask any more questions and kept his head down, operating the equipment.
Three seconds later, the comment section of the official live stream from the United States turned gray, and a line of small text popped up in the center: "Comment section under maintenance, please try again later."
The chat in Da Xia's live stream went wild instantly.
[He turned it off!! LeBron James turned off the comments section!!!]
[Hahahaha, they got so angry they had to turn off comments! This is probably the first time in the history of the official US livestream!]
[Is this what freedom of speech is like in your beacon country? You can't win an argument, so you unplug the internet?]
[Before Suarez even got going, James had already surrendered.]
Lin Xiaotang couldn't help but laugh when she saw this comment, but quickly stopped herself.
Zhao Mingyuan held his teacup, his gaze still fixed on Su Chen on the screen.
Su Chen stood on the hard ground, the morning light shining on half of his body, and the thick fog around him had mostly dissipated.
He put away the shovel, dusted off his hands, and prepared to climb onto the vehicle.
An announcement appeared in the skies around the world.
[Global Announcement]
[Su Chen of the Great Xia Kingdom became the world's first participant to fully observe the natural wonder of "Morning Mist and Dawn."]
[Level of Assessment: S-Rank Wonder]
[Triggering the Manifestation Reward]
All the comments in the live stream room stopped at that moment.
The announcements are still ongoing.
[Reward 1: The lifespan of all citizens of the Great Xia Kingdom will be increased by 5 years.]
[Reward Two: The physical fitness and five senses of all citizens of the Great Xia Kingdom will be permanently increased by 10%.]
The blue text of the announcement hovered in the air for a full five seconds.
The entire audience in Da Xia's live stream fell silent.
one second.
two seconds.
three seconds.
Then the comments section exploded.
[Lifespan increased by five years?!?! Five years!!!]
[Last time, the first kill was for an extra year! This time it's five years!! My grandma is 83 this year, so with the previous year and another five years, she can live to 89!!]
[Physical fitness and five senses improved by 10%! Nationwide ascension!]
Me too! I went to get some water just now, and the cup felt incredibly light in my hand. I thought it was just my imagination!
[It's not my imagination! I can smell the fried dough sticks from the breakfast stall downstairs! I live on the 17th floor! I couldn't smell it before!]
Halfway through the barrage of comments, the system announcement sounded again.
[Reward 3: Rare earth veins and various scarce resources will descend upon the entire territory of the Great Xia Kingdom, totaling 1 billion tons.]
The teacup in Zhao Mingyuan's hand stopped in mid-air.
Lin Xiaotang's mouth was open, and she forgot to close it.
The entire Da Xia live stream room fell silent once again.
This time it wasn't three seconds.
It was a full six seconds.
[...10 billion tons?]
[Did I read that right? 1...10 billion tons? Rare earth?]
What does 1 billion tons of rare earth mean? The world's proven rare earth reserves are only 120 million tons! That's almost nine times more?!
[It's insane! It's insane! Su Shen has gone mad! Great Xia is about to take off!]
……
The reaction from the external network was a dozen seconds slower than that from the main internet, but it came on stronger.
The chat rooms in various countries began to be flooded with translated English, Japanese, Korean and other languages.
A large number of foreign netizens flocked to DaXia's live broadcast room.
[Fake! This must be fake! 10 billion tons of rare earth elements?]
This reward is unreasonable!
Where do so many rare earth elements come from on Earth?
This game is rigged! Why are the rewards from Great Xia always so outrageous?
[We suggest that the United States intervene in the investigation!]
......
When netizens saw these comments, they didn't rush to refute them.
Because they themselves are also waiting for confirmation.
Zhao Mingyuan put down his teacup and turned to look at the director.
The director nodded to him and held up three fingers.
Three seconds later, a split-screen window popped up in the lower left corner of the Da Xia official live stream.
Footage of an emergency news broadcast interrupting the program.
The scene depicts a desolate desert.
In the northwest of Daxia, there is a no-man's-land.
The camera pans down from the sky, revealing a massive crack stretching for kilometers across the earth's surface. Chunks of rock have been ripped up on either side of the crack, exposing the dark gray mineral deposits beneath.
The cross-section of the ore body refracts a dark metallic luster under sunlight.
A military helicopter was landing on the edge of the crevice, and before the dust kicked up by the rotor had settled, the cabin door was suddenly pushed open.
Three people in protective suits jumped down, carrying instrument cases, and ran towards the edge of the crack.
The man leading the way was in his fifties, with gray hair. His protective suit wasn't zipped up properly, and he wobbled as he ran.
He crouched down beside the crack, pulled the detector out of the box, and pressed the probe directly onto the cross-section of the ore body.
The numbers on the screen began to skyrocket.
The data bar hit the upper limit of the scale, flashed twice, and then a line of red text appeared: Overrange.
The gray-haired man changed the probe and took another test.
It's still over-range.
He stood up, took two steps back, took off his goggles, and looked up at the mine that stretched to the horizon.
The camera gave him a close-up shot.
His mouth was trembling.
He turned to the camera, opened his mouth twice, and then let out a hoarse voice.
"Confirmed."
He paused, then repeated it.
"Confirmed, rare earth oxide content... far exceeds expectations. Preliminary reserve estimates..."
He didn't finish speaking.
The man covered his face with goggles, his shoulders heaving violently.
His young assistant, who was standing nearby, supported him, and his own eyes reddened.
The chat in Da Xia's live stream paused for a second.
Then, it erupted completely with an unprecedented speed and density.
It's true! It's really true! Rare earth elements are real!!!
[The geologist cried! He cried in front of the camera!]
Do you know what one billion tons of rare earth elements mean to Great Xia? It means semiconductors! Engines! Missiles! Satellites! Starting today, all the areas where we were previously held back will be open to trade!
[Su Chen!! He alone! Watched a sunrise! And earned back resources for the Great Xia that others couldn't mine for hundreds of years!!]
[I don't care anymore, Su Chen must be recorded in history! A monument must be erected in his honor! His biography must be inscribed!]
[Agreed! Unanimously approved! No objections accepted!]
[The hero of Great Xia, Su Chen! From this day forward, these six words will be etched into the bones of every Great Xia citizen!]
……
In the studio, Zhao Mingyuan stood up.
He didn't say anything, but pushed his chair back a step.
Seeing his movement, Lin Xiaotang also stood up.
Her eyes were red, but she didn't say anything.
Zhao Mingyuan turned to the large screen.
On the screen, Su Chen was standing in the morning light, packing things up in the truck bed. He was unaware of what was happening here, and his face remained expressionless.
He was a 24-year-old young man, standing alone on the wasteland of an S-class disaster zone, with only a modified tricycle and a rusty shovel by his side.
Zhao Mingyuan straightened his back and raised his right hand.
Hold your palm straight with your fingertips against the side of your brow bone.
A standard military salute.
Lin Xiaotang followed suit, raising her hand in the same gesture.
Her hands were trembling, but she held them up very steadily.
The entire studio fell silent.
The director didn't cut the camera; the camera remained focused on the two people for even a second.
The comments disappeared for a full three seconds.
Three hundred million people watched as two people stood upright on the screen, saluting the oblivious young man on the big screen.
Then the comments returned.
Professor Zhao saluted.
Sister Lin also saluted.
I stood up. At home, in front of my phone screen, I stood up.
[Salute, Su Chen.]
[1.4 billion people salute you.]