Chapter 013: Great Collapse
Twenty minutes later, Su Ming was brought to the hotel by Xia Xiaoyu.
"Is this the highest-class hotel you mentioned?"
Su Ming stood in the hotel lobby , looking around.
There are no dazzling crystal chandeliers, no classical fountains and rockery, and no reception area specially separated for guests to rest. The decoration of this hotel is not luxurious or grand, but as simple and unpretentious as a homestay.
Moreover, this hotel only has ten floors, which is not tall at all.
“Because Dongyang Island is a forbidden island, there is no tourism industry at all, and there are almost no outsiders, so the accommodation industry is not well developed here.
The hotel you are staying in now is considered first-class in this neighborhood. If you want to stay in a better place, you can only go to the club...but the nearest club is some distance away, this place is a bit remote." Xia Xiaoyu explained enthusiastically.
"What exactly does the Forbidden Island mean?" Su Ming discovered that the other party mentioned the Forbidden Island several times.
"I'll tell you right away. Don't be impatient. An afternoon is enough for you to understand the most basic common sense."
"It feels so difficult 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 gently patted Su Ming's shoulder and whispered in Su Ming's ear, "Don't worry, I will teach you all the knowledge I know."
Su Ming felt his ears a little hot, but he didn't dare to turn his head, because Xia Xiaoyu was right next to his face and they would meet his eyes if he turned his head.
Damn! How can this woman be so cute!
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In the hotel room, Xia Xiaoyu's instruction had lasted for several hours.
After Xia Xiaoyu's careful teaching, Su Ming had a general understanding of what the world was like.
He was very glad that he did not hide his identity as a time traveler from Xia Xiaoyu, because a time traveler's identity could not be concealed in this world.
Without the guidance of local natives like Xia Xiaoyu, any time traveler would easily expose his or her identity during daily conversations.
For example, in his previous conversation with Flora, a small word like "travel" exposed his lack of common sense.
This world is completely different from the world Su Ming originally lived in. This world experienced a super natural disaster two hundred years ago. It was this natural disaster that caused the entire world's historical direction to completely deviate from the norm.
Two hundred and sixty years ago, a super natural disaster occurred. In that year, the continental plates fell apart and the seven continents split apart like a puzzle.
Over the many years that followed, those cracked lands gradually underwent huge displacements.
Some plates flew into the sky and became islands in the sky, while some plates sank into the seabed and became underwater Atlantis.
The sea level is no longer flat. The sea surfaces in different areas have different heights, with the largest drop reaching several thousand meters. All the common sense accumulated by mankind over thousands of years has been broken with this natural disaster, and supernatural powers have begun to manifest in every corner of the world.
That natural disaster was known in history as the "Great Collapse," and that year was called the "Year of Collapse."
It was from that time that the world's pattern changed completely. As the plate fragments moved away from each other, the concept of country disappeared, and island-based forces began to rise one after another.
At the same time, extraordinary powers and terrifying monsters also appeared one after another, abnormal phenomena increased year by year, and human safety was seriously threatened. Finally, humans had to rely on extraordinary powers to protect themselves. Although this choice made society stable again, at the same time, the order and social classes were also reshuffled.
In the following two hundred years, mainstream ideas such as human supremacy, superpower supremacy, and the School of Balance began to spread wildly. For a long time, it was difficult to distinguish between these three mainstream viewpoints, and each had its own supporters.
It was not until one hundred and sixty years ago that the first forbidden island appeared, and its appearance once again changed the world's pattern.
Anyone who enters this forbidden island has a small probability of gaining superpowers, but at the same time, everyone who enters the forbidden island cannot leave. Except for extreme individual exceptions, all those who enter the island cannot leave. As long as they leave the island a certain distance, they will die suddenly within a short period of time.
For this reason, the forbidden island has become a paradise for criminals. Criminals with no way to escape like to break into a forbidden island. Once they enter here, no one will chase them in.
Because this is a natural cage, when criminals enter here, it is equivalent to entering a cell, and when the police come in, they are also entering a cell.
The emergence of the Forbidden Island provided an opportunity for the rise of superpower supremacy.
At that time, there was a reborn man named Lu Tianyi who single-handedly defeated the government armed forces on a forbidden island and led the superpowers to establish his own dictatorial empire.
This terrorist act that shocked the whole world became the fuse and directly led to the prosperity of the supremacy of superpowers.
As a result, powerful people with special abilities launched rebellions on various forbidden islands. They replaced the local governments and established a society composed of people with special abilities, calling it the new society.
During that period, ordinary people on those islands almost lost their social status as human beings and became like slaves.
It was not until another fifty years later that another unknown psychic defeated Lu Tianyi and his group of psychics single-handedly, destroyed several dictatorial islands similar to Lu Tianyi's, and liberated all ordinary humans.
Afterwards, the Balance School began to replace superpower supremacism and became the mainstream public opinion.
Fifty years have passed since then, and human supremacy has become the mainstream public opinion.
Until now, human supremacy still occupies a dominant position in thought.
However, although human supremacy is dominant worldwide, there are still many residents on forbidden islands who still stubbornly adhere to the supremacy of mutants.
They still rely on the natural advantages of the Forbidden Island to maintain their own social order in that small area.
Xia Xiaoyu also said that this island changed from superpower supremacy to human supremacy just ten years ago.
"So, in Dongyang Island, due to historical issues, the current social order is dominated by the Investigation Bureau!" Xia Xiaoyu made the final class summary.
"No wonder that civil servant is so arrogant, this is the reason." Su Ming suddenly realized.
He lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his hand and asked, "I have another question. Why can the Japanese civil servant I met speak Chinese so fluently, and his name is clearly written in Chinese on his business card?"
Hearing this, Xia Xiaoyu frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly realized, "Ah, you're talking about this! This is indeed a very interesting academic question. In the history circle, this is called the 'Chinese miracle'."
