Chapter 130, The Upside-Down World, is over~ "Father, language..."
"Father, what does it feel like to have your language system corrected?" The Crown Princess stood by the bed, looking at him coldly. Before he could answer, she continued, "The reason you wanted to kill Mia was because of that world, wasn't it?"
The emperor was now so thin he could be described as skin and bones. His skin was pale, his eyes were sunken, his fingertips were blue, and a rumbling sound came from his throat. He stared intently at his daughter with bloodshot eyes, and a mocking smile stretched across his somewhat terrifying face.
"She always thought I was incompetent and mediocre, and even miracles were kept from me. So I'll just... make everything disappear, hahahahaha..." The emperor laughed a few times, then coughed incessantly.
"Just because of this?" The Crown Princess looked puzzled, but then she thought of the grass's choice in the story Sang Zhitao had told her and sighed deeply.
The emperor opened his mouth, about to say something, but the crown princess stopped him with a gesture. She didn't want to know the emperor's thoughts; he was the same kind of person as Cao Cao—selfish, foolish, and extreme, always seeking revenge against the world for the slightest inconvenience in life.
"Cough, cough." The emperor coughed a few more times before taking a few deep breaths. "It seems everything has failed..."
“Yes, I met with the people from that time and reached an agreement. I think I can resolve everything soon and get everything back on track,” the Crown Princess said, nodding.
The emperor stared blankly at the ceiling, his pupils slowly dilating. He slammed his hand heavily on the bedside, and a soft murmur reached the ears of the Crown Princess: "Mother... I am not a useless person..."
As his breathing gradually subsided, the Crown Princess sighed silently, and after a while, she announced to the outside world: "The Emperor has passed away."
The Crown Princess, who had turned to leave, did not notice that a layer of grayish-black mist appeared on the Emperor, which dissipated before anyone could detect it.
Soon, the servants outside arranged all the funeral rites, and the Crown Princess ascended the throne before the coffin, becoming the new emperor of the upside-down world.
Two flowers bloom, each representing a different branch.
After returning to Earth, Sang Zhitao resumed her daily routine of eating, drinking, and being beaten by her coach.
"Now I know why you said the food in their world is awful." That day, Lin Jing came to her with an expression that was hard to describe.
"You really went to ask for food?" Sang Zhitao asked in surprise.
Lin Jing clutched her stomach, looking like she was about to vomit, and after a while she said, "I just wanted to try it, I didn't expect to die from it."
Sang Zhitao clutched her stomach and laughed heartily: "I knew it was awful. Our two worlds even have our taste buds reversed."
"Didn't they say the inverted virus had been eliminated..." Lin Jing rubbed her stomach and continued, "I wanted to take on the challenge before things returned to normal over there."
Sang Zhitao shook her head helplessly: "I really can't understand your hobby of making things difficult for yourselves."
Then, she asked curiously, "What about the rest of the pastries?"
The simpler and less highly rated the food in the upside-down world is, the more acceptable it is to Earthlings; the more delicious it is, the less palatable it is to Earthlings.
Looking at Lin Jing's expression, she knew that Lin Jing must have chosen the worst-tasting one, and she couldn't help but feel curious.
Lin Jing raised an eyebrow, bent down slightly, and leaned closer to her, chuckling as she said, "I secretly put it with He Lei."
Sang Zhitao gasped, unable to resist pulling her arm: "Are you sure? Has He Lei gone mad?"
Before Lin Jing could answer, a person burst in through the door. The two looked closely and recognized him as He Lei, the man they had been talking about.
He Lei's face turned pale. He clutched his chest, his finger trembling as he pointed at Lin Jing: "What a vicious method!"
Lin Jing was not afraid at all. Instead, she shrugged and acted as if she was not afraid, and said provocatively, "It is impolite not to reciprocate."
He Lei gritted his teeth: "I only made a slight improvement to your experiment, and you're trying to poison me!"
Lin Jing looked at him defiantly: "I'm a space science student and I need you, a physics student, to improve my work. You almost ruined my experimental data!"
He Lei closed his eyes and sighed heavily: "I destroyed your data, you poisoned me, we're even."
Seeing his pale, bluish face, Lin Jing felt a pang of guilt and touched her nose sheepishly, saying, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to react so strongly."
He Lei looked at her in disbelief: "That food is like a biological weapon, my reaction is mild!"
Lin Jing's eyes involuntarily drifted elsewhere: "Actually, that's a delicacy from an upside-down world... Didn't you want to try it before? So I..."
He Lei looked at Sang Zhitao with a mixture of shock and admiration: "You eat this over there? Impressive!"
Sang Zhitao rolled her eyes and explained briefly, "I basically eat steamed buns, so... I can accept that a little bit."
He Lei's admiration remained undiminished: "That's really impressive."
The three were chatting happily when He Lei's senior, Zhang Ping, walked in. His eyes lit up when he saw He Lei: "Lei Zi, come quick! I've been looking for you!"
He Lei was taken aback and looked at his senior brother, who didn't usually come over, with surprise: "What's wrong, Brother Ping?"
Zhang Ping's eyes darted around. He pinched his earlobe, coughed a few times, and then carefully said, "Professor Lan Hu ate the snacks on your table..."
He Lei gasped, "What?!"
Lin Jing also looked terrified. She only wanted to amuse her fellow students with food, and she didn't want to bring trouble to the teachers.
"So...the professor wants to see you." Zhang Ping turned slightly to the side, gesturing outwards.
He Lei suddenly turned to look at Lin Jing and quickly grabbed her arm: "Lin Jing! You can't run away! This is your fault!"
Lin Jing certainly didn't want to go, but seeing He Lei's determined look and Zhang Ping's eager expression, she could only dejectedly follow him out the door.
Since that day, this upside-down dessert has become a hit in the base, used for pranks or as punishment; in short, everyone has experienced what it means to have food that resembles a biohazard.
Even the top professors were not spared; on the contrary, they had more fun than the young people and played even more ruthlessly. Even Dean Li Mingguo, who rarely returned to the base, was tricked several times.
"According to the feedback from over there, the upside-down world is slowly recovering." Li Mingguo listened to the report from his subordinates and looked at Sang Zhitao with a smile. "I had the biology team and the medical team jointly verify it."
"They discovered that the blood of people in the upside-down world does indeed contain some modified genes, especially when compared with Earth's genes."
Sang Zhitao frowned: "When I came back, some people's language systems had been corrected, which also meant that their cognitive systems were being corrected, but that black stone still makes me a little worried."
Li Mingguo looked at her reassuringly: "Don't worry, we've communicated with the Crown Princess. Back then, Toya drew your blood to study the vaccine, and they discovered that your blood has a very special power to correct genes."
“But…” Sang Zhitao was still a little worried.
Li Mingguo smiled and looked at her: "They extracted some stone fragments from the emperor's corpse and found that your blood can directly dissolve the stone fragments. Not only that, it can also directly purify the black aura."
Sang Zhitao was taken aback by these words. She frowned and looked at Li Mingguo: "So, I'm the nemesis of the black stone?"
Li Mingguo nodded: "So don't worry, everything will be fine. Things will return to normal over there soon."
Sang Zhitao stroked her chin and thought for a moment: "In that case, why don't we do some experiments with them before they recover and verify each other's data? If they succeed in their experiments, we will definitely fail; if we succeed in our verification, they will definitely fail?"
Li Mingguo laughed heartily a few times: "Don't worry, it's been arranged a long time ago. You can check the news these days, and you'll find out soon."
Sang Zhitao always believed that they hadn't gotten anything beneficial to Earth from the Upside-Down World, not even the technology, which was of little use. As a result, she had been somewhat depressed since returning.
But now everyone is telling her that turning the world upside down can actually bring about change, which has piqued her curiosity to a fever pitch. Even after returning to the observation room, she keeps thinking about it.
It wasn't until ten days later, when a bombshell news story broke, that she understood what the upside-down world had truly brought about.
"Dongguo's 23-year-old mathematician Mingyue, together with her mentor, proves the Poincaré conjecture, a millennium problem!"
"A 52-year-old physicist from East Korea provides a complete explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetric matter problem!"
"A 41-year-old medical expert from the East has discovered the cause of Alzheimer's disease and perfected a specific treatment drug in the laboratory!"
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On the first day of National Day that year, ten news stories from different fields made it into the top ten trending topics, further shaking the world's awareness of the East.
"What did I just see?!" — Netizen "Seahorse Watching Seahorse"
"Holy crap!!! Ten different world problems were solved by the people of the East!!! My mom is awesome!" — Netizen "Bailing Su".
"At that moment, I finally realized that the difference in intelligence between people is greater than the difference between people and fish." — A netizen chuckled and patted a dog's head.
If the online upheaval stemmed from the joy of the people of East Korea, then the turmoil between nations arises from mutual scheming and probing.
"I wonder when your country can hold the lectures? Mr. Azir of our country is very interested in Professor Mingyue's research." The diplomat from Country A called the embassy's contact number immediately after that day.
"We've been quite busy back home lately. We'll make the arrangements once everything is settled," the East Korean ambassador replied, sporting his ever-smiling face.
"We await good news." The diplomat from Country A didn't say much. After a brief exchange, he brought the documents to meet the president.
Country A was not the first to directly contact Country A. It was the chiefs of the Ala'a region, known for its abundance of wealthy people, who were the first to react and directly called Country A, asking for the technology regardless of the cost.
As for the countries of Baba, which have always been on good terms with Dongguo, they are not in a hurry. After all, even if they don't ask, as long as Dongguo develops well, they will be included.
As they expected, even though these countries didn't have many people researching these advanced technologies, they still received invitations from the East.
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Author's note: All the small plots that I originally wanted to include, but were cut for various reasons.
After the virus within Sang Zhitao subsided, she regained her sense of the inverted world and returned to Earth...
Mini-drama 1: Sang Leping (…): “Tao Tao, is the cake I bought you delicious~”
Sang Zhitao (*^▽^*): "It tastes awful~"
Sang Leping (ΩДΩ): "It's actually awful?"
Sang Zhitao = - = ||: "It's awful! It's not tasty at all!"
Sang Leping o(╥﹏╥)o: "You're so averse to this food...?"
Mini-drama 2: Sang Leping doesn't believe his sister is being sarcastic, so he brings stinky tofu to Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao: "Delicious! Ugh!"
Sang Leping Σ(⊙▽⊙"a: "It's really the opposite!"
Mini-drama 3: Sang Leping has forgotten that his sister's perception is the opposite of his own...
Sang Leping: "Wait for me in the east conference room this afternoon."
Sang Zhitao nodded obediently.
At 3 p.m., Sang Zhitao sat in the west conference room waiting for someone.
Sang Leping was going crazy in the east conference room.
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