paranoianovel Chapter 55 The Eastern Government Must Provide an Explanation Immediately
Chapter 55 The Eastern Government Must Provide an Explanation Immediately
By the mandate of Heaven, may your life be long and prosperous!
In the live stream, Ma Dugong's voice paused noticeably for the first time, as if an invisible force had choked him.
Several suppressed gasps and the jarring sound of chairs being moved came from the background of the control center.
At this point, Governor Ma could no longer get excited, because artificial intelligence had already clearly translated those eight characters.
Eastern Bird and Insect Seal
By the mandate of Heaven, may your life be long and prosperous.
Origin: The Imperial Seal of the State!
no……
I'm not filming a sci-fi movie, I'm live-streaming an exoplanet exploration! How, how, how did you create something like this?!
As Governor Ma fell silent, the whole world fell silent in that instant.
There's no way around it, it's just too shocking!
Both the giant characters that covered the entire plain and the content on them!
"Go ahead and pretend, keep pretending, let's see how you keep it up!"
In Jiangcheng University, School of Biology, male dormitory 412, the sound of "click-clack" broke the silence of the dormitory.
"Sang Biao, you..."
"Is Governor Ma making a promotional video for a movie? He's tricked us all into watching it," Hu Biao said, looking bewildered.
He believes that there must be many people in the world who share this idea.
Live streaming? What a load of rubbish!
Is this a publicity stunt for their new movie?
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the things that are now defying the world's understanding.
Of course, after a few seconds of silence, the internet exploded!
Various subtitles flooded the screen like a waterfall, and at that moment, network servers around the world showed signs of overload.
There's no way around it; just like the monster that made a fleeting appearance on Earth a few months ago, they are beings that completely overturn human understanding.
This time, the upheaval is even more significant.
Especially on the internet in the East, after a moment of utter silence, a frenzy arose that surpassed even the detonation of a nuclear bomb!
Holy crap!!!
[The Imperial Seal of the State?! What kind of cosmic joke is this?!]
[This font... is it Bird-and-Insect Seal script? Or some kind of variant? But it's definitely Chinese characters!]
[By the mandate of Heaven, may your life be long and prosperous... This, this is the First Emperor's...]
[A hallucination! It must be a NASA special effect!]
[Coordinates to Mars? The inscription on the Imperial Seal of the State? Am I dreaming?!]
【Since ancient times, I ask you, what the hell do you mean by "since ancient times"?!】
[Quickly take a screenshot! Quickly record your screen! Something terrible has happened!!]
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But this is not the end of the story.
The humans on Earth erupted in shock, but the nine orbiters, devoid of human emotions, continued to operate methodically, faithfully transmitting the captured footage to the live broadcast room.
Soon, another surround camera's lens locked onto another, even more conspicuous presence on the plain.
That was a "mountain".
No, that's not a natural mountain. It takes the shape of an inverted bucket in an extremely regular manner, standing quietly in the center of the plain surrounded by eight giant characters. Its color is a light-absorbing, deep black, which contrasts sharply with the surrounding red soil and golden characters.
Most people, aside from being shocked, don't think much else. But in the Eastern Kingdom, anyone with even a slight understanding of ancient Eastern tombs will feel a chill run down their spine...
This isn't a mountain at all; it's clearly a burial mound, and of imperial scale at that!
What's even more chilling is that in front of this "Black Mountain" stands a colossal black monument that reaches to the heavens and the earth.
The monument is square and angular, with an estimated height of over 10,000 meters. Its material is neither stone nor gold, and its dark, unyielding appearance gives it an ancient and profound sense of weight. The camera zooms in with difficulty, attempting to capture the details of the monument's surface.
Finally, under the gaze of countless eyes that almost popped out of their sockets, eight more ancient and bizarre bird-script characters on the stele clearly appeared.
The divine body of the Ancestral Dragon will forever guard the heavens.
"boom--!!"
The internet in the East was completely blown up! All history buffs, archaeology enthusiasts, and even ordinary netizens felt a surge of excitement rush to their heads and their scalps tingle!
[The First Emperor?! Zheng Ge?!]
[Eternally guarding the celestial frontier... Mars is the celestial frontier?!]
[The Mausoleum of the First Emperor is at Mount Li, this one is on Mars...]
Is this a tomb? A cenotaph? Or...?
[Divine body? What does that mean? Isn't it a corpse?]
Look! That black mountain behind the monument! Doesn't it look like an enlarged version of the ancestral dragon's mausoleum mound?!
[This is insane! Has the world gone mad?! Or has history gone mad?!]
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"My God..." Ma Dugong murmured subconsciously, his voice hoarse. At this moment, he was on the verge of being speechless with shock, but a master of pretension is a master of pretension. He forced himself to compose himself and spoke again, "Ladies and gentlemen! What we are witnessing is... possibly the greatest discovery in human history..."
His voice trembled slightly, then stopped abruptly.
Because at that very moment, the last images transmitted back by the nine orbiters captured the same instant:
One hand.
A gigantic hand, gleaming with a bronze-like metallic sheen, reached out from the direction of the "mountain" and flashed across the screen.
The hand was disproportionately large; just half of the index finger was almost as tall as the 10,000-meter-tall monument. The lines at the knuckles were clearly visible, and the fingertips seemed to retain some kind of dark golden, mottled trace, like dried blood.
It simply and casually, as if swatting away mosquitoes, swept lightly across the array of surrounds.
The next instant, the images from all nine surround speakers simultaneously turned into a sea of static.
A piercing tone sounded, indicating a signal interruption.
The mission control center fell into a deathly silence.
Governor Ma stood frozen in place, his expression a strange mix of excitement and horror.
Billions of live streaming screens worldwide simultaneously went black. Only the "signal lost" indicator remained, flashing silently.
ten seconds.
Twenty seconds.
One minute.
For a full three minutes, the global internet seemed to be muted. There were no new comments, no new tweets, no new posts. Everyone was processing the world-shaking information they had received in those few short minutes.
Then, the tsunami struck.
Pushing X causes paralysis.
The system crashed.
All major social media platforms' servers are experiencing a critical situation.
The hashtags #MartianScript##By Mandate of Heaven, May You Live Forever##The Divine Body of the Ancestral Dragon Will Forever Guard the Heavenly Frontier##The Giant Hand of Mars# and others have dominated all the trending search lists around the world at rocket speed.
On the internet in East Korea, the discussion exploded:
"So His Majesty the First Emperor really became an immortal? And even has a palace on Mars?"
"The inscription on the Imperial Seal of the State is engraved on Mars... What kind of fantasy plot is this?"
"That hand...is it the hand of the First Emperor? Is he...still alive?"
"Are you historically illiterate upstairs? Those are Jurchen statues. Don't you know about the Twelve Golden Statues of Emperor Chengzu?"
"@China National Space Administration, what's going on here? Does our 'Wentian-1' spacecraft know about this?"
"I now seriously suspect that Zu Long was an alien..."
"No, it must be that an extraterrestrial civilization visited Earth and left behind the Ancestral Dragon as the 'administrator'?"
"Did that hand swat the detector away? Like swatting a fly?"
At the same time, international public opinion was plunged into chaos, suspicion, and panic:
"This must be a conspiracy by the Eastern Kingdom! They've set up a holographic projection on Mars beforehand!"
"Foolish! How much energy and how advanced technology would that require? If we could build such a massive project on Mars, wouldn't it be better to just conquer Earth?"
"So there really is a Martian civilization? And they have connections to the Eastern Kingdom?"
"That hand... is it mechanical or biological? How huge is it? Is it still on Mars?"
"The detector in Madugong was destroyed? Is this an act of war?"
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Emergency hotlines of all major powers around the world, including the White House, the Kremlin, and the central government of the Eastern United States, were overwhelmed at the same time.
Space agencies, intelligence departments, and military command centers around the world have all entered a state of maximum alert.
Amid this global uproar and chaos, Hu Biao slowly stood up, walked to the dormitory window, looked at the night sky, rubbed his left hand hard in his pocket to wipe off the metallic paint, and then took out half a radish from his pocket, crunching it one after another.
"Hmm, the radish fritters taste good!"
Although he really wanted to say something sarcastic like, "To not bow to the emperor is to have lost the mandate of heaven," he was afraid of giving himself away because he didn't know how to pronounce the ancient Chinese.
Behind him, the slightly hoarse voice of Governor Ma could be heard coming from the speakers: "I believe the Eastern government must provide an explanation immediately!"