"After all, before the Great Collapse, there were 7 billion people in the world, and the most widely spoken language was English.

Even at the time of the Great Collapse, the world's population plummeted to 3 billion, most of whom spoke English, but it was Chinese that eventually became the world's mainstream language, which is indeed a miracle worth pondering.

At present, the mainstream view in the academic community is the spiritual specificity of the Chinese people.

After the Great Collapse, the country ceased to be a country, and China, like other countries, was divided into many small islands, and drifted farther and farther away from each other, thousands of miles apart.

At that time, sociologists believed that in this case, people in all countries, over time, would have a diminished sense of belonging to the country, and eventually tended to zero. And between the islands that are close to each other, new forces will be established with each other.

In the more than 100 years since this conjecture was made, the development of the world has generally converged with this conjecture, with the exception of the Chinese. ”

"In the early days of the Great Collapse, although the Chinese people were thousands of miles apart, these people still regarded themselves as Chinese people, and still regarded themselves as the descendants of Yan and Huang, and at the same time, they still insisted on Chinese education for future generations and popularized ancient history for a long time.

If you think about it, 400 million of the 3 billion people who survived the collapse may have survived, and although these people are scattered all over the world, they have close ties with each other, what does this mean?

This means that when you go from one empty island to another, there will be a group of people who will accept you as a compatriot, and you don't even need to integrate into the local society, because the Chinese people have a fixed gathering place in the local area.

Then there is the sharing of connections, the sharing of resources, and the same and solid sense of cultural identity, which leads to the fact that most of each empty island has a small area, which is exclusive to Chinese people.

As we all know, the interaction efficiency of resources is one of the important factors of social development, and currency and language are all tools for human beings to improve the interaction efficiency of resources.

Under that special condition, Huaguo deserved to be the fastest resource interaction group, so the fastest recovery at that time was Huaguo, which directly led to everyone else wanting to join this huge resource interaction group.

And then...... You know, language is the most basic condition for joining, and then Chinese is popular.

Now Chinese has become the universal language of the world and can be used all over the world. ”

After Xia Xiaoyu finished speaking, she glanced back at Su Ming, and found that the other party looked excited, and was directly stunned.

"You...... You seem excited, huh? ”

"Don't you think it's exciting!" Su Ming said.

"Yes, yes?"

"Well, you may not understand, but it will convince us that we are special." Su Ming replied, a faint smile on his face.

Xia Xiaoyu really doesn't understand, for her, this is just a historical event, and the legend of the Chinese people has become a thing of the past, and now is different from the past, she doesn't think this story is anything powerful.

Xia Xiaoyu really wanted to tell the other party that today's Chinese people have lost the cohesion they had more than 200 years ago.

The earliest group of people who claimed to be the descendants of Yan Huang only left one Chinese miracle in the end, and nothing else was left, and their incredible spirit and strong sense of belonging were also buried in the dust of history with the passage of time.

Now everyone, whoever it is, is only serving their own clan and the alliance to which they belong.

"Su Ming, it's different now, everyone only does things for their own family and the organization they belong to." Xia Xiaoyu said, "There is no concept of the country anymore, do you understand?

Nowadays everyone introduces themselves by the name of the island, or by the name of their family or organization.

You can be like Flora, you can say that you are from the Osborne family, or you can claim to be from Dongyang Island, and if you join the Occult Investigation Bureau, you can also use this to introduce yourself.

But it's better not to introduce yourself as Chinese, it would feel weird, and no one would say that anymore. ”

"That's a pity." Su Ming said wistfully.

"There's nothing to be sorry for, times are changing, and people can only move forward." Xia Xiaoyu said, "Su Ming, your original world seems to be very similar to our world, did you travel from a parallel world?" ”

"Hmm." Su Ming nodded, "It is indeed very similar, maybe it is really a parallel world." But I don't understand one thing, so I have a question - how many years is it? ”

"The Great Collapse has been 260 years old, and this year happens to be the 260th anniversary, so if you calculate it according to the original calendar, it should be...... Well...... Year 2280. Xia Xiaoyu replied.

Su Ming was taken aback.

In 2280, this would indeed explain why Hua Guo existed 260 years ago.

But after more than 200 years, why does it seem that technology has not progressed much?

Everyone still takes the subway, lives in an ordinary hotel, and there are no cars flying in the air, has the development of science and technology stagnated for more than two hundred years?

"In the past two hundred years, science and technology have not developed at all? How is it still this standard of living? Su Ming asked.

"You guessed it, technology is still evolving, but it's very, very slowly, because the advent of supernatural powers has drawn everyone's attention, and abilities are much more powerful than slow technological improvements.

Moreover, the mainland is divided into various islands, and it is difficult to concentrate resources, so no one is willing to bother to concentrate resources and engage in scientific and technological research and development.

Weirdness is now humanity's worst enemy, but thermal weapons have no effect on many monsters at all, so even if humans develop weapons that are more powerful than nuclear bombs, it won't make humanity's situation better, so everyone has little hope for science.

However, biogenetics has always been very popular, and even now, it has attracted crazy investment from all sides. ”

"Biological genes? Human modification like the Hulk? ”

"What is the Hulk?" Xia Xiaoyu frowned slightly, her face puzzled.

Su Ming thought about it, the Hulk was a film and television more than two hundred years ago, and in the past two hundred years, even if the level of movies has not improved, there must have been many new movies, and it is normal for the other party to not know about this kind of old movie.

"Nothing, the Hulk is a movie character and you shouldn't know it. I want to ask, is it possible that the biological gene technology you are talking about can make ordinary people become supernatural? ”

"You think too much, if you could do this, the human situation would not be so bad.

The so-called biogenetic technology is actually more like mating, which studies how to make the children born to the couples of the alien stronger.

As we all know, there is a high probability that the children born between the ability and the ability will also have the ability, and the difference is only in the strength of the ability.

And in the case of extreme accidents, the child will also carry the abilities of both parents and become a compound ability, and the value of a compound ability is immeasurable, and the inhumane trafficking organization of the goods of the compound ability has existed for a long time.

All in all, if you can grasp the law of fertility of the supernatural, it means that it is possible for human beings to master this extraordinary power, so this discipline has been very favored for decades...... Well...... The aristocracy, in particular, has always been the largest investor in biogenomics. ”

Su Ming nodded thoughtfully, after listening to Xia Xiaoyu's popular science, he felt that he had a lot of things to learn.

"Alright, that's all for today. Are you still going to eat at Flora's? Xia Xiaoyu asked.