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Chapter 1192 The Future World (rd update, please subscribe)

When everyone's attention was attracted by the Olympics, some people were not paying attention to the Olympics.

In other words, for some people, coming to watch the Olympics is just an excuse, and most of them just come here to travel. Of course, there are also some people who want to observe the country up close.

Among these people there were journalists, some politicians and, of course, some old friends. As Nanyang was hosting such a big event as the Olympic Games, Li Yian would of course invite old friends to come.

Among them were not only old friends like McCarthy, but also some old friends he had met over the past decade or so. Even Reagan and Bush, whom he had only met once, received his invitation. Naturally, they were very excited to receive the invitation.

Who could have thought that His Majesty the King would always remember them?
In fact, Li Yian always remembered them and sent them greeting cards every year. After receiving the invitation this time, Bush brought his wife and children.

As for Reagan, perhaps because he was still working hard in Hollywood and was embarrassed to meet his old friends, he did not come.

After watching the opening ceremony and several American games, Bush drove around Chang'an with his wife and son.

Driving the car and looking at the city outside the window, Bush couldn't help but sigh:

“Nanyang is different from what I imagined!”

"Yeah, it's really different. Everything here is so clean."

Laura couldn't help but exclaim as she looked at the city outside the car window.

"Can you believe this is a city with tens of millions of people? Los Angeles has only a few million people, but many places are like garbage cans!"

Before coming to Nanyang, Laura thought it was an exotic oriental world, but it was actually elegant and peaceful. Unlike Houston, and also unlike Los Angeles where the sky was filled with antennas, brick buildings and old signs, what appeared before their eyes was a strange world, where everything from lamp posts to coffee machines was light and elegant, as if they had walked into a chaotic future.

"This is because hygiene is a virtue in Southeast Asia."

Bush, who was driving the car, explained:
“That’s why everything here looks so clean.”

He highly respected his old friend Nanyang. Even in the whole of Texas, everyone knew that His Majesty the King of Nanyang was his old friend, the kind to whom he would send greeting cards every year.

When Bush received the invitation this time, he boasted to his friends that he had received an invitation - an invitation from the king. Who else in Texas had such a distinguished friend?

As a result, Bush became the most handsome guy in the village. If he hadn't thought it was not good to be too high-profile, he would have even held a party for ten consecutive days. God knows, he only held it for five days. He was just showing off to half of his friends.

“It is well known that the people here are good people full of virtue.”

The praise in his words fully reveals Bush's mentality, which is to love the house and the dog.

However, compared to his father's admiration for Nanyang, George, as his son, did not think so much. He just took out a bottle of Fanta from the small refrigerator in the car.

The transparent plastic bottle contained a green drink. When George unscrewed it, he took a sip and couldn't help but sigh:

"Dad, compared to here, I feel like this is the future. Not only is there a refrigerator in the car, but even drinks... Look at this plastic bottle, it's so light and you can just throw it away after drinking it. Why didn't American engineers invent it? It's just made of plastic."

As he listened to his son's story, Bush glanced at the bottle.

As the general manager of an oil company, he knew that the bottle was made of plastic.

The bottle may look inconspicuous and unoriginal, but God can testify that it contains many patented technologies, and they are key technologies. For example, the plastic bottle cap is its core technology. Without this technology, the bottle is useless - who would want a bottle without sealing?

These technologies may seem insignificant, but they are critical, so critical that no one can do without them.

And this is exactly the most special thing about Nanyang. They can always find new uses for certain raw materials. Some of them are unexpected, but they are very practical, so practical that they can change everyone's life.

"Dad, look, even the telephone booths here are so sci-fi!"

For George, who was only fourteen years old, this world was so new and novel. There were not only many exotic oriental buildings, but also many modern buildings full of science fiction. Even those oriental buildings had a hint of magic.

This is even more true of Nanyang’s early architecture. The architectural engineers from the Third Reich turned Nanyang into a large utopia, with streamlined, futuristic and Bauhaus designs lurking in every corner of Nanyang.

Because of this, this city seems a little strange and bizarre to many people.

Even a telephone booth made of transparent plastic is novel to people who are used to traditional telephone booths, and it even feels like being in the future.

This feeling is not only shared by the Bushes, but also by almost everyone who comes to Nanyang. When they come here, they feel like they are in the future.

In fact, Nanyang is not a future world, but there are many things here that seem magical to them.

It is a simple plastic bottle, but it is extremely magical in the eyes of many people. The impact it has brought is even greater than when Fanta launched the can five years ago.

Because it's plastic - in this era, plastic was still a very cutting-edge technology. Maybe it had started to become cheap, but who would have thought that it could be used as a container to hold water?

The endless stream of new products has had an unprecedented impact on people, which to a certain extent far exceeds the Olympics themselves.

Like the Bushes, they had inadvertently created an illusion—the future.

In a way, they were right, this was the future - it opened the door to the future for them, leading them into a future they had never seen before.

Even if it was just a glimpse, it was enough to make them marvel. Although they were not scared to death, it was enough to form a very deep impression in the hearts of all of them - Nanyang is the future!
In many cases, once people's impression is formed, it becomes deeply rooted and becomes their most basic understanding of the world.

What athletes and tourists from various countries see and feel at this year's Olympics will definitely affect and even control their lives.

It is not only the tourists from various countries who are affected, but also those who see Nanyang through TV screens, who have more or less developed this feeling.

“Perhaps the United States is the most developed country in the world, but Southeast Asia is definitely the most modern country.”

Standing in a library, looking at the glass curtain wall that is several stories high, a man wearing glasses said in an extremely emotional tone.

“This is my second time here, but every time it gives me a very fresh feeling.”

They came here to watch the Olympics. After all, this was the first time that the Tang people hosted the Olympics. How could they not come to such a grand event?

But as I looked, I saw somewhere else, and I saw this library that had been built just two years ago—just a modern library building.

He was looking at the people reading books under the bright glass wall, but another idea came into his mind.

The man pursed his lips, and his eyes behind his glasses revealed a very complicated look. He paused for a moment, then continued.

"The last time I came here, what I saw was hope. That kind of hope is what we pursue and dream of in our lives. In this land, they turned our dreams into reality, and they did better than we imagined."

Listening to her husband's words, Jiang Dongxiu asked curiously:
"And this time?"

Facing his wife's question, the man thought for a moment and then replied:
"The future! This place is for the future. I'm not just talking about our future, but the future of mankind.

What they are committed to pursuing is not just modernization. They are developing towards the future. What will that look like? I don’t know, but…if this world has a future, I think it might be Nanyang.”

Jiang Dongxiu laughed at her husband's words:

"I remember that the last time you came here, you gave this place a very high evaluation, but you also mentioned some problems."

"Haha, I've let you reveal my true colors. Well, my last evaluation of Nanyang was biased, but I still have some opinions of my own, but this does not affect my appreciation for him."

The man adjusted his glasses. Only he knew who the "he" he was referring to.

In fact, the woman also knew who "he" referred to, so she asked:
"Then will you stay here? Last time, when we visited Mr. Qian's home, Mr. Qian mentioned that he admired you very much."

"Leave……"

The man smiled, then shook his head and said:

"I'm not needed here, and neither is he."

After saying that, he once again looked at the library, or to be more precise, at the people who were studying hard in the library. He sighed and then said.

"Okay, let's not talk about this. We are here to watch the Olympics. The Olympics is much more important than anything else. By the way, Yang Chuangguang won the gold medal in the decathlon, haha, that's also something to celebrate. However, Nanyang won more..."

(End of this chapter)