Chapter 955 - 491: Yaochi Park

Zhao Xiaoying, dressed in a blue tracksuit, was briskly climbing the Yaoshi Stairway.

The so-called "Yaoshi Stairway" is a stone stairway built around the highest peak of the Kunlun Mountains, extending all the way to the summit.

This mountain was originally called Gongger Peak, but after Yang Fan established the Second Gateway, it received a new name—Yaochi Peak.

The elevation difference from the base to the summit is about 3100 to 3200 meters, but the actual climbing route exceeds 30 kilometers.

The Yaoshi Stairway consists of more than 60,000 steps.

Zhao Xiaoying also knew that it was the Iron Fist People who helped build this stairway.

The Iron Fist Civilization has a type of superpower user known as "Stone Mason," considered the "Civil Engineering Brothers" of the Iron Fist Race.

Their combat power is not strong, but they are truly experts in construction.

Long-legged Sister watched a video on the Jiuzhou Legion’s internal network showing these Iron Fist Civil Engineering Brothers touching the stone with their hands, causing it to flow like a viscous liquid.

In just a few breaths, level five or six smooth steps would appear.

The Iron Fist Civil Engineering Brothers could also alter the rock structure, forming a dense rock layer on each step’s surface, with strength comparable to steel.

A couple of dozen Stone Masons working together completed the construction of the Yaoshi Stairway in just two days.

By the way.

About a month ago, the Pioneer Alliance engaged in another trade with the Iron Fist Civilization.

This time, the product that caught the Iron Fist Civilization’s interest was something unexpected—air conditioners.

Because the Iron Fist World is excessively hot.

Changes in the World Law, along with volcanic eruptions lasting over half a century, turned their world into a scorching furnace.

Although the Iron Fist People collectively relocated to underground caverns, the temperatures there still commonly exceed thirty degrees.

Even though the Iron Fist People are highly heat-resistant and have adapted to the stifling underground environment, who doesn’t want to live more comfortably?

The second trade group sent by the Iron Fist Race, after experiencing the Great Xia-made air conditioners, placed a massive order.

That is—to purchase 20 billion various models of air conditioners over five years.

The Iron Fist Civilization has a population of 40 billion, meaning that there would be one air conditioner for every two Iron Fist people.

After the news broke, Great Xia’s air conditioner industry went wild with joy.

Originally, when the cold wave disaster struck, drastically lowering temperatures on Canglan Star, most air conditioner manufacturers either went bankrupt or switched to producing other items.

This massive order revived the moribund air conditioner industry.

For Great Xia, delivering 4 billion air conditioners annually is not an impossible task.

Before the Age of Calamity, Great Xia’s peak annual air conditioner output reached an astounding 320 million units.

With Great Xia’s current industrial level, smart AI-controlled unmanned manufacturing plants have already spread everywhere.

From ore mining and smelting to component production and air conditioner assembly, the entire industry chain can achieve smart operation, with humans only needing to supervise.

Mere 4 billion air conditioners, just the output of 1,000 assembly plants each producing 4 million units annually.

Is that even an issue?

On the other hand.

The Iron Fist Civilization imported a massive amount of industrial products from Canglan Civilization but primarily exported raw materials to Canglan Civilization, inevitably causing a trade deficit.

To balance the deficit, the two Guardians of the Iron Fist Race decided to send a large number of Iron Fist People to work in the Canglan Civilization.

Commonly known as—working.

On Great Xia’s first super railway, with a speed reaching 600 kilometers per hour, quite a few Iron Fist workers participated in the construction.

In Great Xia, many urban areas are massively constructing metro networks, with many Iron Fist workers also actively working on the construction sites.

At this moment.

The interface of the smart glasses Zhao Xiaoying was wearing suddenly displayed a message: "Breaking News: The King of Yingsang, Mu Zuo, died of illness half an hour ago!"

Currently, Great Xia is in a period of technological explosion, with new technologies and products emerging one after another, and these smart glasses were just released last month.

The glasses can project a beam of light into the pupils, creating a screen as large as 100 inches, and are integrated with metal nerves, allowing for mental operation.

Of course, the price is also very high, with each pair costing 120,000 Xia Yuan and sold in limited quantities, with the Jiuzhou Legion providing one pair for each superpower user.

Long-legged Sister curled her lip: "Died of illness? Who are you kidding! I think he was forced to suicide due to pressure from Great Xia and coercion from major corporations within Yingsang."

Ordinary people aren’t aware of the inside story, but she knows it very well.

Great Xia clearly laid out conditions that the Ying Sang Royal Family must abdicate and those aristocrats involved in blood sacrifices must die, or else face Great Xia’s fury.

In historical wars, the King of Yingsang played the role of a spiritual symbol for the Ying Sang People. How could Great Xia allow the Ying Sang Royal Family to continue existing?

Don’t even think about it!

Between "Everyone dies together" and "Only a few die", the Ying Sang aristocrats unsurprisingly chose the latter.

Noble like a king, he’s not immune to death.

Long-legged Sister then opened the special report on the "Ying Sang Super Tsunami", seeing the preliminary statistics on casualties: "Currently, the super tsunami has resulted in 26.4 million people going missing."

This information was released by Great Xia’s statistics.

The method of statistics is simple—the Heaven Reaching Tower System compares mobile phone signals.

The Great Xia Heaven Reaching Tower System has a lightning-fast network speed, allowing connection anywhere in the world at a very low cost, and most Ying Sang people are using this communication network.

By simply comparing the number of mobile phone signal connections before and after the tsunami, one can roughly estimate how many people have disappeared.