I'm the boss because I have a harem of anime characters.

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After making her decision and arranging everything around her, Angelia went to Uzbekistan alone. With the guarantee of her former KGB comrades and under the surveillance of the Uzbek KGB, she finally met Yang Guo, who was named Gale.

He lost his wife (left hand and left forearm) before, and now he has a mechanical prosthetic arm.

As a veteran who survived the battlefield, he has now successfully become a platoon leader. In addition, he survived the devastating blow of the collapse bomb and was the only survivor. Therefore, his comrades affectionately call him "Silver Hand" or "Silver Hand".

Actually, it has nothing to do with Silver Hands. His mechanical prosthetic limbs aren't the flashy, reflective silver color. But because a member of the team had played the famous CD Projekt Red game 2088 (a sequel to the 2077 timeline, but because Xi Xi Zhong's company went bankrupt and went to Poland to develop business, he was absorbed into CD Projekt Red, resulting in the 2088 game script being even more dissected than Girls' Frontline 2, with too many characters having their own Mr. Raymond, causing CD Projekt Red's reputation in Poland to collapse, losing the South China game market, and becoming a ninth-rate game studio, whose main business in this world is currently making eroge), he became known as Silver Hands Gale.

Under the surveillance of Soviet GBI agents, Angelia met Gale in a closed room.

"Hello, comrade, I am Angelia, from the Stasi."

“The Stasi, you’re on the other side.” Gale raised an eyebrow, his face full of hostility.

It would be a miracle if there was no hostility. If you were hit by a collapse bomb, you'd end up like that too.

Rationality? I've lost all rationality after being force-fed the collapse fluid!

"For various reasons, but we are not enemies."

"Before they used collapse bombs against me, I thought so too. So, Su Xiu, what is it?"

This hostility clearly couldn't be eliminated in a short time, and even if Angelia had the idea, she didn't have the time. She could only take out the photo and ask, "Do you know this person?"

Gail took the photo nonchalantly, then exclaimed in surprise, "He's one of yours?"

“No, he isn’t.” Angelia shook her head and then briefly explained what had happened.

"So you came to me to gather information about him."

"That's right, can you tell me? This concerns the future of the Soviet Union!"

At this point, Angelia's tone became noticeably more urgent, because what the other party had shown so far was enough to make her, a professional intelligence officer, uneasy.

Putting aside everything else, the technology that caused the Berlin smart system to go out of control on the spot was enough to cause unimaginable damage.

Being able to disarm the opponent's smart weapon face-to-face means that it is possible to target other weapons of the same type.

That would mean more than just nuclear weapons. You see, the Soviet Union after the Second Revolution realized many of the functions envisioned in the original OGAS system, and the level of intelligent management of the entire society was greatly improved. If someone could arbitrarily intervene in and influence the operation of these systems, it wouldn't be impossible for them to not only eliminate someone, but also directly overthrow the entire country.

Of course, many isolation measures and technical means make this system not as fragile as it seems. But as long as something is theoretically possible, no matter how low the probability, it will definitely happen as long as the conditions allow. We can't wait until a real disaster strikes before we try to find a way to remedy the situation. By then, the blood of many martyrs will have been shed in vain.

The above are just some of the tactics that Qin Shan and his group have demonstrated. Since the other party can easily show such technology, it means that they have even more terrifying backup plans. For national security, the key is not whether you know how to do it, but whether you can do it.

However, Gale clearly did not trust Angelia, the Stasi leader, so Angelia had no choice but to show her utmost sincerity and lay out all her worries and speculations.

I'm doing everything I can for even the slightest possibility, because I'm a Party member.

Angelia's sincere actions touched Gail, who, as a fellow party member, decided to tell Angelia what he knew, hoping that what he knew could play a role.

"I think that Qin Shan isn't even human!"

Section 72: Let's fight! Let's fight!

The gap between people is greater than that between dogs. Gail used to not believe it, but now he realizes that the gap between people can not only surpass the gap between people and dogs, but can even leap to the gap between people and paramecia.

Not some Valkyrie, but real, biologically significant paramecia—the kind of microorganisms you can find in large numbers by searching a puddle in the countryside with a magnifying glass.

See, because of a certain company, this academic term now needs to be explained separately.

It must have been miHoYo!

Angelia didn't believe it at first. After all, you can't just make me believe it. I have to try it first and see if it's true. Then, with a "Duang," she believed it.

"The collapse bomb radiation in your body has been cured!?"

Angelia was shocked. It wasn't that radiation was incurable, but under the conditions at the time, waiting for reinforcements to arrive at Gale's position and then sending him back for treatment would have been extremely difficult.

He's already been taken to the hospital. Just put him in a lead coffin and bury him. If the battlefield situation is a little more complicated, the reinforcements probably won't even make it to his seventh day memorial.

"That's right. Although I don't know what method they used, I'm pretty sure he (Qin Shan) didn't take out any medical equipment. It was like a priest healing teammates in a game, and then I came back alive and kicking."

Have you told anyone else about this?

“I was telling the truth, but nobody believed me. Instead, they took me to the hospital for a thorough examination and thought I had been damaged in the brain by radiation from the collapsed building.”

Gail shrugged. These days, nobody believes the truth, and he was helpless about it.

Could you describe the situation in more detail?

"Ask me anything, I'll tell you everything I can remember. After all, even if I were to tell you this now, you can see they still have a skeptical look on their faces, as if they think I've lost my mind."

Gail was referring to the Soviet GBI personnel standing next to him, whose faces showed obvious suspicion.

However, the current situation is that, because of that person (Qin Shan), this odd group of four—one boy, one girl, and two little girls—has become a hot topic of discussion, and has also made An...

The fact that a Stasi official like Jeliya, a member of the Soviet revisionist camp, made the trip despite her own comfort was something the KGB officers on the Soviet-Ukrainian side wouldn't believe, even if they thought it was just to listen to the ramblings of this old soldier, Gale. But reality was simply too much of a challenge to their values.

Generally speaking, unless they see it with their own eyes, most people refuse to accept anything that challenges their values.

Even if you see it with your own eyes, you'll subconsciously reject it. It's a self-protective mechanism; after all, questioning the fundamental premise of the world is too mind-boggling and easily leads to confusion. "Don't make a sound,"

I was in the terrifying hell of the college entrance examination.

After learning all the details, Angelia must have had the same doubts as Gale.

Were Qin Shan—no, that group of people—actually human?

"It's also possible that they are indeed human, but have mastered some technology that we cannot understand. Who knows?"

Gail shrugged, looking remarkably calm. After all, he was a veteran who had faced life-or-death situations, and he could calmly say that he didn't care about things that ordinary people couldn't accept.

Especially since this matter is currently much further away from us than Suzhou building its own airport.

You're just an ordinary veteran. If you're asked to handle this, why don't you get all the provinces of Jiangsu closely united under the banner of the provincial capital, Nanjing, and declare yourselves an unbreakable province?

"Compared to this matter, you're likely to encounter trouble when you return," Gail kindly reminded him.

Angelia risked her life to make a trip for the future of the Soviet Union, which is enough to prove her firm belief in the red faith. It would be a great pity if such a comrade were to be harmed by the Soviet revisionists.

“I know, but there are some things that must be reported; it’s my job.”

"Then I wish you a safe journey."

Gale stood up, shook hands with Angelia, and watched her leave.

Hopefully, even if those Soviet revisionists did reform, they could at least get things done.

"Kill them! Kill them all! From now on, we're the ones in charge here!"

"Hahaha, let you be arrogant! Don't you know? Your era as white people is over!"

"Yoshi, what a beautiful girl!"

In Australian mines, an alliance of overseas workers from more than a dozen Asian countries, including Vietnam, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, and former India, is carrying out a massacre. Their weapons are even more advanced than those of the Australian army.

Yes, they're all advanced American weapons. Can you guess where they came from?

Although these Asian workers came to Australia to work, changes in the international situation have long made the local white people less arrogant and domineering. Although there are still occasional brainless white-Austrian racist idiots, the two sides are generally in a state of mutual dislike.

The locals thought, "You're not from southern Jiangsu, why are you pretending to be from a farmers' market?"

Asians think, "You white people have long since declined, stop pretending!"

This can be seen from the fact that Asian workers live here in completely segregated areas from white people. The local white people do not even trade with them. In other words, the white Australians, who have lost the war and their underwear, can only maintain their pitiful self-esteem through this self-proclaimed proud method.

But now, that self-esteem has been completely destroyed.

After Richelieu arrived in Australia, he easily stirred up local unrest, as local white gangs frequently bullied Asian workers on construction sites, and even caused unauthorized disappearances.

(It sank into the sea). Of course, if people from southern Jiangsu were here, they would never dare to do this. However, southern Jiangsu has no interest in Australia right now, and Australia obviously doesn't dare to hold southern Jiangsu hostage in terms of iron ore. In fact, Australia is currently providing iron ore to southern Jiangsu at low prices as compensation. According to the agreement, they are to provide southern Jiangsu with iron ore for fifty years as compensation at a standard equivalent to fifty percent of the international price. If you have any objections, you'll see if southern Jiangsu's favorable winds blow against you.

As it turns out, if Southern Jiangsu starts to adopt the practices of the Han and Tang dynasties, neighboring countries will have to kneel and grovel before it.

Fortunately, the second revolution in southern Jiangsu prevented the country from becoming an imperialist country. At most, it became a truly socialist country that stood up, which is a reward. Otherwise, some countries would have to question their very existence.

But there are no people from southern Jiangsu here now. Their embassy is in Canberra (which is the real capital of Australia, not Sydney, which is always being exposed), so this creates the objective conditions for mutual discrimination between the two sides.

At this point, even a slight intervention from external forces could cause the situation to develop in a more complex direction.

The local white gangs are very bullying, so it would be great if Asians had their own gangs too.

Although there are more countries and the composition is more complex, sticking together is the only way to avoid being bullied. Moreover, sometimes they can still use the banner of Sunan to get the Australian authorities to discipline the locals. For example, the Asians working for Sunan Mining Company in Australia have a higher status than their own countrymen in the new Asian system.

It has a strong resemblance to the hierarchical system of the tributary system of the Celestial Empire in ancient times.

But this is all what the locals think; the people in southern Jiangsu have never thought of turning back the clock to the tributary era.

These people became the backbone of the local Asian community, and some gang-like organizations emerged. Naturally, these gangs also had to pay dues, which were essentially protection fees. With a lack of grassroots management, spontaneous grassroots power organizations inevitably entered the scene, forming a gang rule system that was acceptable to the locals.

After Richelieu arrived, she instigated conflicts and confrontations between gangs, resulting in a brutal shootout that took away the leader of the local Asian gang. Then, she used her supernatural powers to control a group of puppets to take their place, reshaping the local gang order. She then equipped them with various advanced weapons donated by American "resources," trained them using militarized methods, and subsequently attacked the local white gangs, extracting new profits from them.

While Australia, a country in the second world, also enjoys a degree of freedom to bear arms, it is not the United States. Apart from its own mineral resources, the importance of other goods in the global trade system is almost negligible. In addition, it has little manufacturing industry of its own, and everything imported from abroad is relatively expensive, whether it is finished products or parts, or even routine maintenance. The Australian dollar is obviously not very attractive to other countries. Therefore, the proportion of gun ownership among locals is not comparable to that of the United States, and is even lower than that of Mexico.

Once their opponents were all armed with automatic weapons, the rest became incredibly simple: just start killing.

The white gangs surrounding the mining area were wiped out in just one day, and then began to expand into the more densely populated eastern part of Australia. Although their numbers were small, Australia's own army was also small, with less than 100,000 in total, of which more than 20,000 were civilian personnel. Such a small number of people was completely disproportionate to their vast territory.

However, if you think about the countries surrounding Australia, it's not hard to understand Australia's laid-back attitude.

Aside from the navy, they really don't have much need for national defense. As for discussing military strength with the Soviet Union and South Korea, is it that the Dongfeng missiles aren't powerful enough, or that the aircraft carrier battle group isn't convincing enough?

So just be a local tyrant and don't be so foolish as to provoke the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, let alone the two permanent members. If you die, you'll end up like Yanovsky with his ashes.

But if the gangs cause too much trouble, especially foreign gangs, the Austrian military has no choice but to intervene. After all, this is their home. If you've already taken a dump in my house, do you expect me to clean it up and kneel down to thank you?

This is also the result Richelieu wanted.

Whether it's transnational workers from Asia or local forces in Australia, they are all pawns in Richelieu's plan to become the governor. If Qin Shan wants Australia to become an extension of the reshaped United States, then the local forces must first be weakened to a near-vacuum level so that it will be easier for him to add his own ingredients.

So when these gang members were armed, Richelieu's puppets deliberately indulged them, especially the former Indian and Japanese workers. They became so ruthless that even dogs could stand up and say they were human.

Their excessively R18G behavior quickly became intolerable to the surrounding white people, leading to more direct and intense conflicts with Asian gangs. These conflicts forced those who did not want to join gangs to either join or leave in order to protect themselves.

The latter is obviously too costly for ordinary people to bear. They have no choice but to become members of the gang, which gives them a reason to fight, or rather, a reason to be forced to fight.

Don't forget that the bloody fighting orchestrated by Richelieu caused heavy losses to the local gangs, with almost all of their leaders killed. As a result, Richelieu has also planted puppets in the hundred-man gangs to control the gangs and carry out the bloody fighting.

In this way, both gangs became puppets in Richelieu's hands, with him supplying them with weapons and ammunition. The escalating and tragic situation also caused the situation in Australia to continue to heat up, affecting the delivery of iron ore and indirectly appearing in international news.

But it's impossible for it to be a front-page headline. Only countries of the level of the United States are worthy of front-page headlines. Australia will at most become a topic of ridicule and mockery.

This is not surprising. Take ourselves as an example: the United States is geographically very far away from us, but we feel that it is very close to us. Australia is geographically very far away from us, but it doesn't get as much attention from us as our pet dog.

The influence of a large country can transcend physical distance, while that of a small country cannot.

The simplest example is the Rwandan genocide. Even with the internet so developed today, not many people know about it. In contrast, many people know about Auschwitz.

Do you understand now? This is the super power of discourse that belongs exclusively to great powers. What great powers are willing to promote, the whole world can hear. What great powers don't want to talk about, the 35 million casualties of the Soviet Union are just air.

While the world's attention is focused on the United States, no one is paying attention to Australia, even though a story of self-destruction and spiraling upwards is unfolding there.

The only request from southern Jiangsu to Australia was to deliver the iron ore on time and to prevent the internal conflicts in Australia from escalating. That was all.

Well, in this world, Su Nan is like Guan Yu. Before he opened his eyes, the whole world thought he was a gentle, unassuming natural environment. But once Guan Yu opened his eyes, you definitely wouldn't want to know why he opened them.

Australia, having been soundly defeated, gave a tearful thumbs-up.

Less than a month after the start of the American Civil War, Australia's internal conflicts could no longer be contained.

After all, gang fights have escalated to the point of involving planes and tanks. Which gang is so unruly? Does your gang even have such things? If the environment allowed, would you be planning to bring out an aircraft carrier?

According to Qin Shan's plan, the heart of the Americas and Australia finally fell into a state of myocardial infarction.

Section 73: Difficult to handle? Then let's not do it!

With Bismarck and Richelieu keeping an eye on things, it's only a matter of time before the Americas and Oceania of World Two become theirs.

However, Qin Shan needs to keep a close eye on the local world at this time, because there will be a concentrated outbreak of Abyss Gates in the second year after the Abyss descends. At that time, Abyss Gates will appear on all the major continents of the world, including the Abyss Gate on Mount Everest, which is a permanent Abyss Gate.

Look at this place, it's practically overgrown with weeds! If you want to set up a defensive position, you can only do so at the foot of the mountain. What's worse, a horde of undead swarms out of here. Although China held on, India couldn't. Their massive population has become food for the zombies.

In his previous life, Qin Shan remembered that the collapse of the Asian situation, especially the situation in South Asia, began with the large-scale fall of India. Without the billion free soldiers they provided to the Undead Empire, as well as enough souls to support the enemy in hundreds of death sacrifices, the Undead Cataclysm would have had a hard time gaining a foothold on Earth.

While the undead scourge is indeed very troublesome, it's like an early viral outbreak. As long as you do a good job of isolation, it's not difficult to crush it. As for the materialized undead, the basic units are all trash. Even superhumans below the high rank need to be wary of the firepower of modern armies, let alone these brainless basic undead. A few rounds of barrage can easily take care of them.

But look at India's quarantine policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. That was with the coronavirus, which had a mortality rate of only 2%, and they still managed to control it so poorly. If it were a natural disaster like the Undead, this would be beyond their capabilities.

Once individuals of the third rank or higher are born among these undead, things will be completely out of control. In the previous life, until the day Qin Shan died in battle, the undead calamity ravaged the earth, only being suppressed to a certain extent. It was impossible to eradicate it completely. They even spread the legacy of necromancers. That is knowledge, and the spread of knowledge is more terrifying than the spread of a virus.

Of course, he had to avoid such a tragedy in this life, so he made preparations in advance. According to the characteristics of the system, as long as he came into contact with the Gate of the Abyss, the system could transform him, and then the power to open the gate would be in Qin Shan's hands. Dangerous creatures like the Undead Scourge could not be allowed to come over; at most, he would go and take a look at their side himself.