Chapter 13: The Great Collapse
Twenty minutes later, Su Ming was taken by Xia Xiaoyu and came to this hotel.
"This is what you're talking about the highest-grade hotel?"
Su Ming stood in the lobby of the hotel, looking around.
There are no dazzling crystal chandeliers, no classical fountain rockeries, no specially isolated reception areas for guests to rest, and the decoration of this hotel is not luxurious, nor magnificent, but as simple and unpretentious as a homestay.
And this hotel is only ten floors, which is not very high at all.
"Because Dongyang Island is a forbidden island, there is no tourism at all, and there are almost no outsiders, so the accommodation industry here is not well developed.
The hotel you're in now is top-notch in the neighborhood, and if you want a better stay, you have to go to the clubhouse...... But the nearest clubhouse is a bit of a distance away, and it's a bit of a remote place. Xia Xiaoyu enthusiastically explained.
"What exactly does the Forbidden Island mean?" Su Ming found that the other party had mentioned Forbidden Island several times.
"I'll tell you right away, don't worry, spend an afternoon enough for you to understand the most basic common sense."
"It feels like it's really hard to mix up here." Su Ming sighed.
"Don't be discouraged, with Teacher Xia here, it won't take long to become a local native." Xia Xiaoyu smiled, she patted Su Ming's shoulder lightly, leaned into Su Ming's ear and said, "Don't worry, I will hand over all the ~had~ knowledge I know to you." ”
Su Ming felt that his ears were a little hot, but he didn't dare to turn his head, because Xia Xiaoyu was right next to his face, and he met his eyes as soon as he turned his head.
Damn it! How could this woman be so lovely!
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In the hotel room, Xia Xiaoyu's guidance has been going on for several hours
After Xia Xiaoyu's careful teaching, Su Ming roughly understood what this world was like.
He was very glad that he didn't hide the identity of the traverser from Xia Xiaoyu, because the identity of the traverser couldn't be hidden in this world at all.
Without the guidance of a local native, Xia Xiaoyu, any traveler would reveal his identity in daily chats at any time.
For example, in the previous conversation between himself and Flora, a small "tour" exposed his lack of common sense.
This world is completely different from the world where Su Ming was originally located, this world experienced a super natural disaster two hundred years ago, and it was this natural disaster that made the history of the entire world completely deviate from the norm.
Two hundred and sixty years ago, a super-natural catastrophe struck, and in that year, the continental plates fell apart and the seven continents cracked apart like puzzle pieces.
The land that cracked apart gradually shifted dramatically over the years.
Some plates flew into the sky and became islands in the sky, while others sank to the bottom of the sea and became Atlantis underwater.
The sea level is no longer flat, the sea level in different areas has been divided into high and low, the drop is large to thousands of meters, all the common sense accumulated by human beings for thousands of years has been broken with this natural disaster, and supernatural forces have begun to manifest themselves in every corner of the world.
That natural disaster is known as the "Great Honkai Disaster" in history, and that year is known as the "Honkai Year".
Since then, the pattern of the world has changed completely, and as the fragments of the plates move away from each other, the concept of the state disappears, and the power of the island has risen one after another.
At the same time, supernatural powers and terrifying weirdness also appeared one after another, anomalies increased year by year, and the safety of human beings was seriously threatened, and finally human beings had to rely on extraordinary power to protect themselves, although this choice made society stable again, but at the same time, order and social class were also reshuffled.
In the following two hundred years, mainstream ideas such as human supremacy, supernatural supremacy, and balancism began to spread wildly, and these three mainstream views were inseparable for a long time, and each had its own supporters.
It wasn't until one hundred and sixty years ago that the first Forbidden Island appeared, and its appearance changed the pattern of the world again.
Anyone who enters this Forbidden Island has a small chance of gaining the ability, but at the same time, all those who enter the Forbidden Island have no entry or exit, except for extreme exceptions, all those who enter the island cannot leave, as long as they leave the island a certain distance, they will die in a short time.
Because of this, the Forbidden Island has become a paradise for criminals, and criminals who have no way to escape like to break into a certain forbidden island, as long as they enter here, no one will chase them in.
Because this is a natural cage, when criminals enter here, they enter a prison cell, and when a police officer enters, they also enter a prison cell.
The appearance of the Forbidden Island has given the Adeptus supremacy an opportunity to rise.
At that time, another reborn man named Lu Tianyi single-handedly defeated the government forces on a forbidden island and led the supernatural to establish their own dictatorial empire.
This terrorist act, which caused a sensation all over the world, became the fuse, which directly led to the prosperity of the supremacy of the supernatural.
As a result, powerful paranormal people rebelled on various forbidden islands, and they replaced the local government and established a society dominated by paranormal people, which they called the New Society.
During that time, the ordinary people on those islands almost lost their social status as human beings and became slaves.
It wasn't until another fifty years later that another unknown Alien single-handedly defeated Lu Tianyi and his group of Aliens, destroyed several dictatorial islands similar to Lu Tianyi, and liberated all ordinary humans.
It was only then that the Equilibrarians began to replace supernaturalism as the mainstream of the popular view.
Fifty years have passed since then, and human supremacy has become the dominant view of public opinion.
To this day, it is still human supremacy that dominates the current of thought.
However, despite the dominance of human supremacy around the world, there are still many inhabitants of the forbidden islands who still stubbornly cling to the supremacy of the Alien.
They still rely on the natural advantages of the Forbidden Island to maintain their social order in that small area.
Xia Xiaoyu also said that the island also changed from the supremacy of the supernatural to the supremacy of humanity just ten years ago.
"So, in this place of Dongyang Island, because of the problems left over from history, the current social order is dominated by the Investigation Bureau!" Xia Xiaoyu made a final class summary.
"No wonder the civil servant dragged it so much, it turned out to be this reason." Su Ming suddenly realized.
He looked down and thought for a while, then raised his hand and asked, "I still have questions, why the Japanese civil servant I met can speak Chinese so fluently, and the name on his business card is prominently marked in Chinese." ”
When Xia Xiaoyu heard this, she frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Ah, you said this!" This is indeed an interesting academic question, and in historical circles, it is called the 'Chinese miracle'. ”