Chapter 159 Showdown
The noisy classroom became quiet as three people pushed the door open and walked in.
Luo Jiu walked up to the podium and said, "I know you must have many questions. I will answer the questions you are most concerned about now."
Stop pretending, let’s get real.
She signaled everyone to close the doors and windows, and the guards outside were taken away fifty meters by Chen Zhi. Everyone's eyes were focused on her.
"You just want to know why we chose you, why we trusted you, why we went through so much trouble to bring you here, and what we want you to do.
First of all, I want to tell you one thing, we are from the future. "
Luo Jiu picked up the chalk on the table, drew a timeline on the blackboard, and put a few points on the timeline.
"This is 1914, the time you are living in now.
This is 1949, an important time point.
This is 2028, the time where the four of us are.”
A parabola connects 2028 and 1914. "We have traveled through time and space. It sounds incredible, right?
I think you have been wondering for a long time.
Why have you, men and women from different places, different ages, and different experiences, been brought together here?
Why are you students numbered? The order of numbers is neither based on age nor on the order of precedence.
I know you must be very confused and you may think that everything I said sounds illogical.
Let me briefly explain why I have summoned you here."
She pointed to the mark 1949 on the blackboard and said, "We came here to change many things, but we decided to bring you here to make what happened in this year happen again."
The people in the audience were already stunned; they couldn't believe this ridiculous statement.
Comrade Quansheng, student number one in this class, raised his hand.
Luo Jiu: "Please speak."
Comrade Quansheng: “What happened that year?”
Luo Jiu swept his eyes across everyone's faces, "That year, you established a new China where the people are the masters of their own country."
There was a burst of exclamations from the audience, and Luo Jiu decided to produce evidence to prove his point.
She took out the projector, and Cheng Yaoyao and Zhong Jialing closed the curtains tacitly.
Feng Qi looked around, stood at the door, and blocked the glass above the door firmly.
Just when everyone was confused, a video started playing in the front, using the recently introduced simplified Chinese characters, and it read: Color high-definition restored video of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China.
The more than ten minutes of video made everyone dizzy and they were discussing it in low voices.
"is that you?"
"Isn't this someone else?"
"What kind of weapon is this? Were we that advanced in 1949?"
"We won? We won!"
Everyone went from suspicion to shock and then to joy, and the atmosphere in the classroom suddenly became lively.
Someone asked: "What kind of weapon is that thing with wheels wrapped up and moving on the ground and a cannon mounted on it?"
Luo Jiu: "That's called a tank, and it will be invented next year."
Everyone's eyes lit up. "In 1949, our country had tanks? Were we the strongest country in the world at that time?"
Luo Jiu shook his head. "It wasn't at that time, but later we continued to grow and develop, and after going through many ups and downs, we finally became one of the best comprehensive countries in the world."
Luo Jiu said as he played another video, "This is the 2019 National Day military parade. By this time, we have become a world power."
Accompanied by passionate and moving commentary, the video shows high-rise buildings in the capital, troops waiting for inspection and countless advanced weapons developed independently.
Three long hours passed, and when the military parade ended, Cheng Yaoyao opened the curtains and found that many of her classmates had tears on their faces.
Someone asked: "You are from the 21st century, was your life good then?"
Is it good? How to describe it? It is definitely better than now, but it depends on individual circumstances.
Luo Jiu, who had a rough life, glanced at Feng Qi and Cheng Yaoyao, and his eyes finally fell on Zhong Jialing.
Luo Jiu: "Jia Ling, you answer."
Zhong Jialing smiled and said, "That's good. I've never suffered from hardship since I was a child. My family has several houses and endless money..."
Before she finished speaking, someone immediately stood up and questioned, "Are you a landlord?"
Luo Jiu hurriedly explained: "At that time, it was a market economy and there was no such thing as landlords. Her family was relatively wealthy from doing business and research and development.
The three of us come from an ordinary family. Although we don’t have much money, we can go to school for free thanks to the country’s compulsory education policy.
There are also grants, scholarships and some poverty subsidies. In short, in the future children from poor families will also be able to read and write.
There was no war or invasion at that time, and we were well protected.”
Comrade Quansheng: "Then why are you here?"
Luo Jiu was stunned. He almost forgot about the zombies in the apocalypse.
If these people knew that they had worked hard all their lives, and several generations had sacrificed their lives and shed their blood, but in the end their descendants were eaten by a group of non-human guys, how complicated would they feel?
"Well..." Luo Jiu hesitated and told a white lie: "Because life is so good and technology is so advanced, we traveled through time for fun."
Everyone exclaimed with emotion, "Our country's technology has developed so fast that humans can travel through time on their own. Can we travel through time and see for ourselves?"
Luo Jiu chuckled, "It's not advanced enough to travel freely, but that's not the point. The point is that a lot of things happened before and after 1949."
She placed two thick stacks of books on the desk and said, “You can read about the past, present and future in these history books.
After you read all this, you will understand why we are so anxious to get you all here and why we are so eager to build the world's number one power.
Because as long as we are not strong enough, oppression will exist.
If we want to avoid repeating the humiliation that this time and space in the book has experienced in the future, we must develop comprehensively from now on.
Military, politics, technology, culture, medicine, etc., when we become the undisputed number one power in the world, the whole world will bow down to us."
This sounded a bit overbearing, and everyone looked at each other, "Isn't this goal a little unpeaceful?
We don’t need other countries to bow down to us. We can coexist peacefully with other countries and develop together.”
Luo Jiu smiled and looked at the classmate, "For example, which country?"
The student thought for a moment and said, "For example, Han Country, our neighbor."
Luo Jiu smiled slightly, "In the future, our neighbors stole a lot of things from us. They said that they invented Chinese characters, the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, and movable type printing..."
The classmate couldn't stand it anymore and slammed the table angrily, "Attack Han Kingdom first!"
Another person asked: "What about the United States? This country seems to only want to develop and seems to be at peace with the world."
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