Chapter 63 [A speech on the shelves that is not a speech on the shelves]

Let’s talk about the background of the story here.

Many people must have noticed it. One of the backgrounds of the story is that after the ending of Sekiro's Return of the Dragon, the wolf and the son of Bianruo went to the [Far West] together to return the power of Long Yin.

Some people will definitely be confused. According to the ending of the game, this [Far West] is obviously China, or an unnamed place in the upper right corner of China.

In this book, how did it become a super empire similar to England?

The answer to this question is one of the core worldview structures of this book.

(The 5,000 words involving spoilers have been deleted here.)

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[Timeline when the story takes place]

Thousands of years after the revival of civilization, the old gods brought enlightenment, and science and technology prospered as a result. The huge gap between rich and poor allowed steam engines and cybernetic machines to appear in the world at the same time.

As you readers must have seen in the previous chapters, steam engines and smartphones exist at the same time.

However, high-tech products such as mobile phones have not entered thousands of households.

Instead, it exists as a high-end technology that is unreachable to civilians and is monopolized by large companies.

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[About the protagonist and the entire era]

What ordinary workers like Chen Yan pursue and yearn for for a better life are higher wages and advanced technology that can make life more convenient - these are the characteristics of the steam age.

The essence of steampunk is the constantly developing new technology, which brings infinite hope to mankind for a better future.

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【The other side of the times】

And ordinary workers like Chen Yan, because of the ubiquitous monopoly of science and technology, cannot see clearly what the world itself is like, and they don't know how far human civilization has developed -

This is another side of world development, a real state of civilization beyond the reach of ordinary workers.

As Lawrence Argent said, Chen Yan was lucky, so he came into contact with things that ordinary people could not reach.

Unlike ordinary workers, Chen Yan is at least qualified to explore the world.

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[The world is rapidly transitioning from the steam age to the cyber age]

The entire world has developed rapidly because of the knowledge of the gods, and the rich and poor have become sharply divided.

Large companies monopolize almost everything, human nature is more likely to degenerate in a highly commercialized society, and the weaponization of criminals becomes easier - the prototype of a cyber society has been formed and is developing rapidly due to the rapid rise of technology.

The essence of cyberpunk is that a huge monopoly makes people unable to see any hope, which results in depravity, madness, neglect of the body, and extreme anti-morality.

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【Next story】

During the rest of the journey, Chen Yanyan explored all kinds of weird and extraordinary powers that existed in the city.

He will go deep into the zoo, come into contact with more "animals", and learn the secrets of the [Rules].

He will come into contact with the mysteries that existed before the time, and touch the origin of the world, and the history that does not exist in the historical records.

He will become an unqualified landlord and have all kinds of strange tenants.

He will join a certain party, become a representative of certain interests, and make great efforts for this.

He will be carried forward by the times until he understands the nature of the world and his true identity.
Chapter completed!