88: Chapter 88 The Declaration of the Dragon Kingdom

Year 226.

"Great Wall" Project Command Center.

Elder Long stood with his hands behind his back in front of a giant circular screen.

On the screen, it was divided into hundreds of small windows.

Each window was broadcasting news footage from major global media outlets in real-time.

The Times: "Eastern Ghost: A Collective Disappearance Case That Cannot Be Explained by Science."

The New York Times: "The Fog of War from Shanghai: The Mysterious Disappearance of Four Hundred Soldiers—A Miracle or a Hoax?"

Asahi Shimbun: "National Disgrace! Imperial Elites Encounter Tales of Ghosts and Gods in Shanghai; High-level Officials Enraged!"

In the CNN studio, several so-called military experts and physicists were arguing until they were red in the face over a blurry, distant photo of the Sihang Warehouse.

"This is absolutely impossible!" a white expert said firmly. "It violates all laws of physics!"

"But the facts are right before our eyes," another expert countered. "Hundreds of reporters witnessed it personally, and the official battle reports of the Japanese Army also confirm this point."

Global public opinion was like a pot of boiling water.

Clamor, chaos, full of speculation and fear.

Everyone wanted to know what exactly happened in that warehouse in Shanghai that night.

A mysterious force sufficient to change the landscape of the war had quietly made its appearance.

And the source and purpose of this force were unknown.

This was what truly made the high-level officials of all major powers feel restless.

Elder Long watched all of this quietly.

There was no expression on his face.

But in those deep eyes, a faint, barely perceptible sharp light flickered.

The time had come.

He turned around and said in a low voice to the communicator behind him.

"Connect to the highest level."

...An unprecedented, highest-level emergency meeting was held half an hour later.

No tedious procedures.

No redundant nonsense.

Elder Long stood in the center of the meeting room and proposed an earth-shattering plan in the most concise language.

"Chiefs, the battle results from eighty-nine years ago have already created enough confusion and fear globally through the 'Ghost Incident'."

"What we need to do now is not to clarify, but to deepen this confusion."

"I propose that we provide an official 'annotation' for this incident."

His voice wasn't loud, but it was powerful.

"Using a strategic information disclosure that combines truth and falsehood, we will transform the virtual battle results Master Xi achieved in that space-time into a tangible, visible strategic deterrent in our real world!"

The entire meeting room was pin-drop silent.

Everyone was deeply shocked by the boldness of this plan and the astonishing courage behind it.

After a long time.

The figure in the main seat spoke slowly.

Only one word.

"Approved."

...One hour later.

The Office of the Official News Spokesperson of Dragon Country sent an emergency email to all certified media worldwide.

"Dragon Country will hold a press conference at 3:00 PM Yanjing Time regarding the latest progress in national security and cutting-edge technology fields."

Once the news broke, the world was in an uproar.

Countless reporters from all over the world frantically rushed to the capital of Dragon Country.

The servers of major news websites crashed several times due to the massive influx of traffic.

Everyone sensed that something big was about to happen.

#Official Explanation of Master Xi?#

#Is Dragon Country going to announce a secret weapon?#

#Is World War III coming?#

All sorts of speculations were rife.

In the Livestream room, things were also exploding.

[Holy crap! Is the official side personally stepping in? Is this to clear Master Xi's name?]

[Please don't! If this is exposed, won't Master Xi be in danger in 1937?]

[The person above is thinking too small! Maybe the national team has some slick moves we can't even imagine!]

[I've already brought my small stool, waiting to witness history!]

3:00 PM sharp.

The press conference venue was packed, with no empty seats.

Over a thousand reporters from all over the world squeezed the entire hall so tightly that not even water could trickle through.

Countless cameras, like a forest, were aimed at the empty blue podium.

The air was filled with tension and anticipation.

A middle-aged man wearing a dark Zhongshan suit with a warm smile stepped steadily onto the podium from backstage.

He was Dragon Country's most famous diplomatic spokesperson.

Known worldwide for his calm and composed style, leaving no room for error.

He stood still.

He bowed slightly to the audience.

The whole venue instantly fell silent.

Only the sound of camera shutters clicking frantically remained.

"Good afternoon, friends from the press."

He didn't look at his script, his calm gaze sweeping across the room.

"I invited everyone here today to share a small bit of progress we have just achieved."

His tone was as relaxed as if he were announcing that the weather was nice today.

But this sentence made every reporter's heart leap into their throat.

"Through the unremitting efforts of our country's scientific researchers..."

He paused, his face still wearing that signature, composed smile.

"We have achieved some... theoretical breakthroughs in the fields of 'Long-distance High-dimensional Quantum Communication' and 'Macro-matter Energy Directional Interference'."

As soon as he finished speaking.

The audience fell into a deathly silence.

All the reporters were stunned.

They understood every single word.

But combined together, it sounded like gibberish.

Before they could react.

The giant screen behind the spokesperson suddenly lit up.

"To help everyone understand better, we have prepared two segments of relevant technical verification video materials."

The first video began playing on the screen.

The footage was highly blurred and digitized, filled with noise and pixelation.

One could only vaguely see that it was a pitch-black night.

Countless tiny points of light, like moths, swarmed out from a corner.

They formed a cloud of light and silently pounced toward a blurry area in the distance that looked like a military position.

The next second.

A series of intense, silent explosions erupted in that area.

The fire dyed the screen a stark white.

The video ended there.

None of the reporters had yet recovered from the shock.

The second video began to play.

Also a blurry night scene.

A faint, almost invisible blue beam of light shot from a high point toward a giant, moving metal object on the ground.

Then.

An inconceivable scene occurred.

That seemingly indestructible metal object, under the illumination of the light beam, was like an ice cube thrown into a furnace, rapidly and silently melting into a puddle of twisted, steaming molten iron.

The video ended again.

The entire press conference venue was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone's mouth was wide open, staring blankly at the screen that had returned to blue.

Their brains were a complete blank.

But the viewers in the Livestream room went completely crazy at this moment!

[It's the Armed Swarm! Holy crap! It's Master Xi's Armed Swarm!]

[And the Water Squirter! The part where the tank melts! The officials edited Master Xi's livestream into a promotional video!]

[Awesome! I'm literally kneeling! This operation is on the stratosphere level! This is psychological warfare at its finest!]

[I get it! We neither admit nor deny it, just let you keep guessing! Hahahaha!]

On the podium.

The spokesperson looked at the dumbstruck faces in the audience, the smile on his face becoming even warmer.

He spread his hands.

"As you can see, these are just some basic theoretical applications."

"Currently, this technology is still in a very early laboratory stage, and there is still a long way to go before practical application."

"My announcement ends here."

"Thank you, everyone."

After speaking, he bowed slightly again, then turned and left composedly before any of the reporters could react.

What he left behind was a world that had been completely detonated.

That day.

The highest levels of all major powers in the world received the same highest-level emergency report from their intelligence departments.

The core content of the report was just one sentence.

"Dragon Country, may have already mastered a technology of God that we cannot understand."

A global technological storm, ignited unintentionally by Chen Xi eighty-nine years ago, officially began its prelude.