502: Chapter 501 This isn't a technological gap, it's a species gap!

In an instant, the tide of the entire comment section shifted.

"Exactly! Right now, I just want to know, what on earth do I have to do to become a Chinese person?!"

"I am willing to give up everything! As long as it lets me enter the Nanke Dreamscape!"

"My great-great-grandfather seems to have been Chinese. May I ask if I still have a chance? Waiting online, urgent!!!"

The wave of protests vanished in an instant, replaced by an overwhelming deluge of inquiries filled with humility and yearning.

It was as if, overnight, the nation they had once despised, mocked, and smeared had become the only promised land in their eyes, a place to escape their real-world hell.

How to acquire citizenship in China? How to become a Chinese person? This question was becoming the hottest topic on Blue Star right now, with unprecedented intensity.

Western Europe. The United Kingdom. Inside a massive circular conference room, the most important emergency summit in its history was being held.

On the giant screen to the left, the footage of the four core achievements from the China Spring Festival Gala was playing on a loop.

The screen on the right was split into dozens of windows. Each face represented the most powerful figures on the European continent.

At the scene, United Kingdom Prime Minister Wilson, France President Macron, and Germany Chancellor Merkel sat in their respective seats with grave expressions. No one spoke.

The video had been looping for no less than ten times. Those happy, beaming faces of the Chinese people and those mind-bending technological wonders were like silent, heavy hammers, repeatedly striking the nerves of everyone present.

Finally, Wilson slowly raised his hand, signaling the staff to pause. His chapped lips moved, and the sound he emitted was incredibly strained.

"Exoskeleton Armor..." "For civilian use?" "Full coverage within a year?"

Every word Wilson spoke seemed to be questioning himself, and even more so, questioning this absurd world.

"If... if every adult in China were truly equipped with this kind of thing..." He dared not continue. Everyone understood the unspoken fear in his words.

That would not be an army. That would be a steel torrent composed of hundreds of millions of "super soldiers." Any traditional national defense system would be as fragile as a sheet of thin paper in the face of such power.

Furthermore, would the even more advanced, high-tech military Exoskeleton Armor of the China military really just stand still?

"This isn't even the most terrifying part." Germany Chancellor Merkel pointed to the "Nanke Dreamscape" footage that had just flashed on the screen, her eyes filled with complexity.

"The lunar base, we can understand as the advantage of their whole-nation system, concentrating resources to accomplish great things."

"Universal armor, we can attribute to them having achieved revolutionary breakthroughs in energy and materials Science."

"But this... this 'fully immersive virtual reality world'..." "What kind of terrifying computing power does this require?" "What kind of advanced brain Science technology?" "This completely contradicts every law of technological development we currently know!"

Chancellor Merkel's gaze swept across everyone present, and she enunciated her final conclusion word by word. "This means." "In areas we cannot see, China is already ahead of us... by at least one hundred years!"

"One hundred years?" Macron of France let out a bitter laugh from the side. "No, my friend, this is not a question of one hundred years."

"Do you still not understand?" "This is not a technological gap; this is... a species gap."

"In their eyes, we might be no different from those uncivilized primitive tribes."