Chapter 95 Back to Earth After burying the former emperor, ...
After burying the former emperor, Sang Zhitao returned to Earth in a dream.
The affairs of the Gem Kingdom have been mostly resolved through subsequent channels, and the country is temporarily being managed by the regents, with the queen as the head.
Mingcai and her group were eventually discovered to be the ones who murdered the mine owner. Since the murder was not for a reason, they were sentenced. However, because they had also contributed a lot in eliminating the Dark Duke's forces, their merits and demerits canceled each other out, so they were spared the death penalty and were instead sent to the Garbage City for labor reform.
The destroyed buildings and policies were eventually rebuilt, and people like Mingcai and Touhui, who were forced to do wrong things, were thrown into various regions for restorative labor reform.
"So Touhui is going to Shisha Corridor for ten years?" Sang Zhitao asked Tou Lan curiously while eating fried skewers.
Tou Lan nodded, somewhat unaccustomed to her current appearance, and stared at her for a long time before saying, "There's nothing we can do about it. Tou Hui did make a lot of mistakes before joining us."
"Alright, by the way, what about Dark Duke's subordinates like Lady Yue?" Sang Zhitao nodded and continued to ask.
Tou Lan sighed: "Lady Yue is dead."
"Huh?" Sang Zhitao was so surprised that she didn't even swallow her words.
"Upon learning of the Dark Duke's death, Lady Yue committed suicide." Tou Lan pursed her lips, then continued, "However, before she died, she killed almost all the other people who followed the Dark Duke."
"Well... alright then." Sang Zhitao really didn't understand what Madam Yue was thinking, so she could only shake her head helplessly.
"Speaking of which, although the diamonds you provided were man-made, their energy is very high and pure, comparable to our perfect-grade gemstones," Tou Lan said with a smile.
"That's good, but right now we can only trade through this small door, so the trading volume is still a bit small," Sang Zhitao said with a shake of her head.
Tou Lan couldn't help but laugh loudly, "It's already very good as it is now, we're not greedy."
“Alright, the corpses of the Gem People are also quite useful.” Sang Zhitao recalled the news that everyone had told her in the past few days. “Although the corpses of the Gem People are polluting in the Gem Kingdom, they have the ability to purify on Earth, which is amazing.”
"Isn't this great? I heard you also have pollution over there. These should solve the problem, right?" Tou Lan replied.
Sang Zhitao hesitated for a moment and didn't reply. She really didn't know how to explain that there were one or two hundred countries on Earth, and that her country solving pollution didn't mean other countries could do the same.
It seemed like someone was calling Tou Lan over there. Tou Lan turned around, answered, and then said goodbye to Sang Zhi Tao.
"Aren't you chatting with your friends anymore?" Sang Lezhi asked curiously.
She had been conducting research in other places with her teachers, and only came back specifically because she heard about the emergence of a gemstone with purifying abilities.
"No, we'll have another chance to talk about it later." Sang Zhitao shook her head. "Do gemstones also have a purifying effect on plants?"
Sang Lezhi nodded and then shook his head: "Currently, it seems to have a purifying effect on pesticides contained in plants, but whether it has any effect on pests and diseases or environmental pollution still needs further observation."
"I see..." Sang Zhitao tossed her hair nonchalantly.
Sang Lezhi grabbed her hair, which was flying wildly as she shook it: "I'll tie it up for you."
Sang Zhitao obediently squatted down. After returning from the Gem Kingdom, her hair grew to the ground, which was always a hassle to tie up. The key was that her hair was of a special type, and ordinary hair ties could not hold it up. It always became messy with the slightest movement.
"Currently, it seems that gemstones can purify most pollutants." Sang Lezhi carefully braided her younger sister's hair with a comb.
"That's good. Environmental pollution is a big problem." Sang Zhitao sighed, recalling the stinking ditch she had once seen. "The country has done a lot in recent years. I remember the stinking ditch in front of the orphanage when I was a child. When I went back last time, it had become a beautiful little river."
"That's true, but there are still quite a few factories that discharge pollutants indiscriminately," Sang Lezhi sighed.
“There’s no other way. For a small factory, spending ten or twenty thousand to bribe a local official is much better than spending a hundred or twenty thousand to buy a purification device.” Sang Zhitao thought for a moment and continued, “Speaking of which, it’s not just a hundred or twenty thousand. I think I heard before that a set of equipment cost nearly a million.”
“They can’t even earn a million a year, there’s really nothing they can do, but once the environment is polluted, it affects future generations.” Sang Lezhi nodded in agreement.
"If it's gemstones, the cost should be much lower, right?" Sang Zhitao asked curiously.
Sang Lezhi thought for a moment before shaking his head: "It's not clear yet, but the price should be much lower at the moment."
"If a set costs a few hundred or a couple thousand yuan, and with policy support and regulation, I think the pollution situation should be greatly reduced."
"We'll see what happens with my brother then. I'll probably hand it over to his company anyway," Sang Lezhi replied with a smile.
"Tao Tao! We've made a major discovery!" Lin Jing waved and shouted to them.
"What discovery?!" Sang Zhitao shouted back, her hands forming a megaphone.
"Gemstones can purify nuclear contamination!" Lin Jing exclaimed excitedly, her cheeks flushing red.
"What?!" Sang Zhitao was stunned, somewhat unable to believe what she had just heard.
"Purify nuclear contamination!!" Sang Lezhi excitedly pressed her shoulder, "Tao Tao, did you hear that! We can purify nuclear contamination!"
"I...I heard it..." Sang Zhitao was a little dizzy from being shaken, and her hands kept grabbing at each other.
"Hey, hey, be careful, be careful, she's dizzy." Lin Jing quickly helped Sang Zhitao up.
Sang Lezhi then realized that she had impulsively shaken her younger sister, and she scratched her cheeks somewhat embarrassedly.
"So...it really works?" Sang Zhitao finally calmed down, drinking the apology milk tea her sister bought for her, and asked curiously.
Lin Jing nodded repeatedly.
"By the way, aren't you from the space team? Nuclear contamination is from the chemistry team, right?" Sang Zhitao looked at Lin Jing and suddenly thought of another question.
Lin Jing paused, her cheeks instantly turning red. After hesitating for a long time, she patted Sang Zhitao and said shyly, "Just leave it alone."
Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but tease, "Oh~ you're dating the senior student in the chemistry group?"
Lin Jing's face was beyond red; it was practically boiling hot.
"Alright, stop teasing her," Sang Lezhi said, unable to suppress a laugh.
“Okay, okay.” Sang Zhitao shrugged. “Speaking of which, I saw the news yesterday that a certain country has been secretly discharging nuclear wastewater for seventy years, and the nuclear wastewater discharged by the neighboring country has already reached our coastal waters. If the purification of gemstones is really useful for nuclear pollution, it would be a great thing.”
Lin Jing secretly patted her face, suppressing her embarrassment, before frowning and saying with displeasure, "Which of these European and American countries doesn't illegally discharge pollutants? In the end, we have to clean up their messes."
"There's nothing we can do. If we don't help, it will affect us sooner or later," Sang Zhitao said helplessly.
“Yeah, that’s true…” Lin Jing was speechless as she thought of the shameless acts of those countries.
"Alright, let's talk about something cheerful." Sang Lezhi clapped her hands, interrupting their worries. "Do you still remember your museum?"
Sang Zhitao nodded: "I remember, what's wrong?"
Sang Lezhi couldn't help but smile as she recalled the news she had read: "You haven't seen the news, have you? Recently, foreign countries have been scrambling to trade their national treasures with us."
"How so?" Sang Zhitao asked curiously.
Although she had long anticipated that the items she brought would attract international attention, and even hoped to use them to exchange for national treasures, she never expected it to ignite such a fierce competition so quickly.
Sang Lezhi smiled and recounted everything that had happened during this period.
It turns out that from the very beginning of the museum's promotion, the government used the name of lost Western cultural relics to promote the museum, which sparked heated discussions in China at the time.
After all, in many people's eyes, there are no real Western cultural relics in China, especially these so-called "proper" museums built in the name of the state, which inevitably draws ridicule.
"Really? Western artifacts? Where did our country get Western artifacts from?"
"Could it be one of those paintings in private collections?"
"No, that's not true. A lot of them are fake, just to fool those rich and foolish people. It would be too shameful to let those things go."
"Exactly, it's a museum opened in the name of the state, and it's embarrassing for them to the point of being foreign."
"Are you going upstairs to go take a look?"
"go……"
"Go ahead..."
"Uh...go..."
Despite the doubts of many people, quite a few still decided to visit the site on the day the coffin was opened.
Many online celebrities have started live streaming, especially a well-known blogger who specializes in Western history.
"Good morning, everyone. As you all know, the country established a museum of Western civilization half a month ago, which caused a lot of controversy at the time. Now that the coffin has been opened, let's come to this museum of lost Western artifacts today. I hope the country will not let us down." Holding up her live streaming phone, she was wearing a beautiful Hanfu and greeted everyone with a smile before starting to walk towards her destination.
"Wow~ There are so many people today. I estimate we'll be queuing for an hour or two." The online influencer exclaimed in amazement as she looked at the queue that had already wound its way around several corners.
"Before we go in, let's take a look at the exhibit brochure." She took out a palm-sized booklet from her bag, which the museum distributed free of charge.
“Most of them are paintings, wow, and quite a lot of jewelry too. Indeed, many of them have very typical historical styles.” She looked at the descriptions in the booklet and couldn’t help but exclaim, pointing out each item to everyone and telling them their stories.
She truly lives up to her reputation as a professional Western history blogger, making the history of each artifact extremely interesting, and even providing brief anecdotes about the relevant time periods for those she didn't know.
Her witty descriptions and simple yet rich content not only attracted a large number of online viewers, but also drew many tourists offline, who instinctively gathered around her to listen to her stories.
By the time she reached the end of the line, she had become a new celebrity in the area. Everyone knew that there was an extremely famous blogger who knew these cultural relics and their history inside and out.
"Wow! Is this the lost Holy Grail?!"
"This...this is the legendary shroud!"
"And this! Dadach's lost manuscript!"
As soon as she entered the hall, she was stunned by the several cultural relics that caught her eye and exclaimed, "My God, did Mother State dig up the ancestral graves of Western history?!"
Such amazement arises in the hearts of every visitor; those things that should have disappeared into history are now on display in this great Eastern country.
In just three days, these messages spread overseas, and overseas netizens went from questioning to amazement, and then to strongly demanding that the government take back their own cultural relics—all in just seven days.
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