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Wanqi's home, which means...

At this moment, Wan Qi extended his hand in invitation: "Come on, come with me to see the world of the 21st century."

“Okay!” Virtue agreed without hesitation.

Leaving a note, Virtin followed Wanqi and disappeared into the portal.

When she opened her eyes again, Virtin found herself standing in a clean and tidy living room. The style of the room was different from all the styles before 1999. It was simple, clean, and highly functional, with almost all unnecessary decorations removed, leaving only the user's most authentic requirements for the living space.

The balcony is right next to it. Standing here, Wilting looks down and sees the bustling neighborhood and the dense traffic.

The Chinese characters she saw and the Chinese language she heard told her that this was Aurora, Aurora in the 21st century.

“This world is in 2023 now. It’s a parallel world. Although it’s not my real hometown, it can still serve as a meal replacement.” As he spoke, Wan Qi handed Virtin a set of clothes and pointed to the bedroom next door, saying, “Change into these clothes. They’re not suitable for you outside.”

"it is good."

A few minutes later, Virtin, dressed in a white shirt, blue jeans, and black sneakers, went out with Wan Qi for the first time without a top hat, and the feeling of having nothing on her head made her a little uncomfortable.

Because that top hat was less of a hat and more of a prop used to conceal one's emotions at certain times.

Wan Qi noticed Wilting's actions, reached out and pinched her cheek, and said softly, "There are no Reconstruction Hands here, nor are there any power struggles among the Foundation's higher-ups. You can completely relax and think of yourself as a foreigner visiting Aurora."

"I... I'll give it a try."

For Virtue, taking a break without any emotional defenses was a very unfamiliar experience. After all, wearing a mask on your face for too long can turn it into your own face.

As they left the residential area, Wanqi enthusiastically introduced everything around him to Weierting.

"This is Wanxue Residential Area. There's a similar residential area in my hometown, and I live on this floor. The layout is exactly the same. However, this world is a parallel world, so there's no one in apartment 1701. After I settled my identity, I bought it, which is like coming home in a sense."

What Wan Qi didn't say was that, in order to sort out his identity, he went through all sorts of trouble, from the capital to the big data center, infiltrating, mind control, forging, and fabricating. He practically trampled the criminal law underfoot. Even the National Security Bureau had to call 1130 to execute him. However, because there were no magicians or mystics in this world's Aurora, and all kinds of equipment had zero magic resistance, Wan Qi silently and easily won on a track that no one else could find, becoming a legal citizen of the parallel world's Aurora.

As for the money, that's even simpler. Just go to Southeast Asia, find a few drug lords and scammers, beat them up, and they'll automatically drop gold coins. Apart from the trivial matter of over a hundred prominent figures dying overnight in Southeast Asia, it's basically ensured that no innocent people are injured.

As for their money, it was of course Wan Qi who helped them redistribute it; it was the result of his labor.

I, Wan Qi, became rich entirely through hard work!

However, to be fair, the housing prices in this world are truly outrageous, exceeding four thousand per square meter. And this is in XX! Even in XX under President Ibrahim's rule, housing prices aren't this outrageous. What is the local government doing? How dare they be so audacious? Aren't they afraid of being wiped out? Back when Aurora International was opening up and reforming, those guys who wanted to use market economy to develop real estate all had their entire families, including their ancestral graves, moved to Siberia. Doesn't the Aurora government here have similar practices?

What? Siberia is Russian? That's fine then, but the Northwest is also okay.

I don't understand what's going on. Oh well, it's just a meal replacement anyway, don't worry about it too much.

Wan Qi had a lot to consider, but Wilting didn't need to. Everything here was so new and exciting to her. Was there such a big difference between Aurora in the 2020s and Aurora in 1999?

Yes, yes, this is a parallel world, but parallel worlds must have many similarities. In other words, the other side of Aurora could also develop into this kind of world, which is truly incredible.

That's why people say that Aurora's great revival is the greatest industrial miracle of the 21st century.

"Wan Qi, is that the bone armor you used?"

Wilting pointed to the distant sky, where a DJI drone was hovering.

"Mine was made by myself, using magical technology. It's from a famous technology brand. By the way, DJI exists in this world too, but its technology doesn't seem very advanced, and it's very noisy when it hovers."

After a brief discussion, the two arrived at the entrance of the residential area, where there were two escalators.

In addition, Wilting also found that the surrounding communities all had escalators, with a 100% coverage rate.

"Have you become so extravagant that you're installing escalators everywhere? How much electricity does that consume every day?"

"Is it strange? My hometown already has controlled nuclear fusion, and the electricity price is one cent per kilowatt-hour, the same price in the city and the countryside."

"It's already here too..."

"No, no, no, their nuclear fusion is still in the laboratory stage, but the local technology level has reached the critical point of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology. The next step forward is an artificial sun, which is more than 20 years behind my hometown."

When did Wanqi's hometown master controlled nuclear fusion?

"According to declassified information, our country had already mastered controlled nuclear fusion in 1988. However, at that time, it was being built in secret and disguised. The relevant work was personally handled by the Iranian President, and the level of secrecy was very high. After the victory in the South China Sea standoff in 2010, seventy-nine fusion power plants disguised as fission power plants suddenly appeared across the country. Only then did other countries realize that we had already laid out our plans. The purpose of feigning weakness was to deceive the United States and make it initiate a war. Then we would strike hard and deter the world, and ascend to the throne of a world power in one fell swoop. I have to say, the Iranian President was truly farsighted. The development of my hometown is like a wish-fulfillment novel, going wherever it feels most satisfying."

Through this information, Wilting gained a general understanding of Wanqi's hometown and Aurora in this parallel world.

It's like a weakened, low-spec, and problematic version of Wanqi Hometown Meal Replacement, but it still barely passes muster.

If this is considered a passing grade, then what must Wanqi's hometown be like? Is such a country something that current Earth civilization could possibly produce?

"Don't think too much about it, we're here for sightseeing today."

Wan Qi touched Virtue's head, his hand brushing against the bun of hair she had styled. It felt nice to the touch, so he gave it a squeeze.

Veltin felt Wan Qi's hand moving, smiled slightly, and then quickly kissed him on the cheek.

Miss Sichen won't relinquish the initiative, hmph?

Wan Qi's reaction was to silently repeat: She's only sixteen, she's only sixteen, she's only sixteen...

Geographically, Wanxue Community is located near the city center, making it a very lively area. There are six large supermarkets within a two-kilometer radius. If one had to use specific metrics to describe how prosperous this place is...

Even with the current economic downturn in Aurora, not a single building under construction in this area has been abandoned.

Doesn't that instantly make you realize how valuable this place is?

However, the government really has no way to sell land to make ends meet. The urban village renovation project, which is only one street away from the community, has been directly halted and is currently in an indefinite state of suspension. This scene amazed Wan Qi.

Because the major cities in his hometown of Aurora had already been planned in advance, and the planning was more than 50 years ahead of schedule. Chairman I's long-term vision can even see the details of future technological development. There was even a netizen named 124 who joked online: Our Chairman is a time traveler.

There were also a bunch of likes below; perhaps this is the kind of awe that a vision that transcends time can bring to ordinary people.

So let alone the Southwest region, even megacities like Shanghai are planned in advance, with no trace of urban villages. Land planning is precise down to each block, causing many foreign businessmen who want to make money here to complain bitterly. It is said that a businessman surnamed Li lost more than a billion yuan there and committed suicide when he returned. Tsk tsk tsk.

Serves him right! Doesn't he know that his nickname is "Businessmen Can't Live Without a Trace"? Anyone who dares to act outside the rules doesn't need administrative measures; he can easily make them lose everything within the bounds of the law with just a few subtle hints.

The money for Aurora International's opening up and reform was all extracted by President Yi from international financiers. Whenever he thought of the cries of those streetlight owners who went bankrupt, Wan Qi's lips would tremble with sympathy.

King Almighty! I'd love to try it sometime.

For Wilting, whose perception of time is stuck in 1999, Aurora in 2023 is still too exciting. There are dazzling goods everywhere, and QR code payment can be done everywhere. In a world where cash transactions are still the norm and credit card payments are the only ones, it is like science fiction coming to life.

Then Wanqi discovered another hidden trait of Virtin – his love for sweets.

In fact, magicians generally have a sweet tooth. Because mental exertion is high, and the world is material, you have to respect your body's material needs. Therefore, among magicians' potions, those involving mental energy restoration are almost always incredibly sweet, leading to magicians being labeled as "sugar addicts."

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Note that this refers to sugars that provide energy, not the sweetness of artificial sweeteners; the needs are different.

Fun fact: Magicians do not have a risk of high blood sugar. Magicians have extremely high utilization and consumption of sugar. This group will only die on the spot from hypoglycemia caused by severe consumption, and will not suffer from any high blood sugar-related diseases.

Although mystics can only be considered magicians from the classical era, their mental energy consumption makes their need for sugar equally terrifying. Now, with Virtin starting to learn magic under Wan Qi, they are making rapid progress on this path, so both of them like desserts and snacks.

Furthermore, Virtue is a rare foreigner who doesn't like overly sweet desserts.

"tasty! "

Virtue gave the freshly ordered handmade mousse cake a very high rating.

"Eat as much as you want, there's as much dessert as you want here."

Wan Qi casually placed a few more orders on his phone, all of which were the shop's signature desserts, and all of which were luxury items that the St. Louis Foundation headquarters would not normally produce.

Who told them to have a "torrential rain" over there? This caused the foundation headquarters to be in an unstable state in terms of obtaining external resources, especially for advanced technologies, such as computer projects in the electronics field. You can't reliably purchase them until after 1990. You can't use a 1999 computer connected to a 1949 cable and a 1980 floppy disk to do something that can only be done in 2020. This system is not only unable to work, but its stable operation is also due to the machine's erratic and erratic behavior.

Laplace had previously attempted to solve the problem manually, not because they couldn't build it, but because the cost was outrageously high. After all, the St. Love Foundation headquarters is not a manufacturing base, and construction only began after the second rainstorm. Currently, many departments use a mix of equipment from different eras. As long as there are no major bugs during operation, it's considered to work.

After all, as the programmers say: One bug is a bug, but a bunch of bugs can work, and the boss tells me to work! Work! Work!

At this moment, Virtin suddenly asked, "Wanqi, do we now have a stable rear base?"

"Indeed it is!"

Wan Qi immediately understood what Wilting meant: a world that is developing normally, with a prosperous economy, explosive productivity, and no backlash from the torrential rains is itself an immense treasure.

Especially since Wan Qi still holds the only pass to this world, it's a complete monopoly.

"As long as you can provide stable electronic products, Laplace will be very willing to cooperate with us."

Wilting wasn't the type to only focus on her own little corner of the world. Intelligence gathering and information organization were things she had always been doing. Although she wasn't in a high position, through her own efforts, Wilting learned from the grassroots level about many core issues that the foundation's higher-ups wouldn't pay attention to. For example, the supply of various electronic products to the Laplace Research Institute had always been unstable in both quality and quantity. If Wan Qi were to give them a set directly, even if it wasn't too advanced, just some random gadgets from an electronics scrap yard, they would be treasures to be cherished.

Mysticism combined with modern technology is indeed impressive, but my technology is ten years ahead of yours.

This is pure numerical superiority, my friend.

Even Wan Qi suspected that, given Aurora's development speed, computers in 2010 might be more expensive than the latest models. Moreover, electronic products have a time limit. You might have a hard time finding much outdated technology from five years ago even in the hands of junk collectors, let alone technology from ten years ago. The place you should go is an overseas electronic waste landfill.

Many of the devices at the Laplace Institute still use glow discharge tubes; giving them a set of LED bulbs would be considered advanced technology.

Yes, yes, LED technology existed as early as 1962, but its true value came after the turn of the millennium. It's normal for there to be a ten to twenty-year gap between practical and cutting-edge technologies.

So the answer is obvious. Even if Wan Qi is just a pure middleman, he can still make the entire St. Love Foundation suffer. If you don't buy from me, I'll sell all of these to Reshaping Hand and see if you'll buy them!

They can even be sold to secular regimes at will, without worrying about competition, since the torrential rain will wipe it all out.

Reading this, I realize that this single source of income can sustain me for a long time, and both the Reconstruction of Hands and the St. Love Foundation would willingly let me consume it.

Even if they decipher these technologies, so what? The torrential rains have deprived them of a stable industrial and resource base, making it difficult to control both their progress and regression. My stable production capacity can crush them.

If an ordinary person had access to such a channel, the St. Love Foundation and the Reincarnation Hand would definitely arrest and torture them to seize this advantage. However, the owner of this channel is Wan Qi.

"You want to arrest me?"

"If you don't buy my products, I'll cultivate your enemies!"

"What does world peace have to do with me?"

"We are all trying to live."

"Even my bone dragon tried so hard, how could you possibly be alive!"

What a perfect business strategy! Wan Qi felt moved by it.

"I have a feeling you're thinking about something dangerous." Wilding stared...

"Who said that? I'm working tirelessly for the peace of nuclear weapons in the world. No one in the world knows more about nuclear peace than me."

The two finished their dessert chatting and laughing. Afterwards, Wan Qi took Wei Erting to the largest shopping mall in the vicinity. Coincidentally, there was a Cosplay event there that day, with many men and women in outlandish costumes walking around, making the youth and vitality of the place almost surpass the Yellow River dike.

Midway through, Virtue became interested in the lucky bags, so she went to queue up, while Wan Qi stood beside her waiting for her.

Just then, a girl dressed in the costume of the Virtue Emperor walked by.

Wan Qi rubbed his eyes, confirming several times that there was no mistake; the outfit was exactly the same as the Si Chen uniform that Virtin usually wore. Just as he was wondering about it, the large screen next to him suddenly switched to this mobile game promotional advertisement:

"Return to the Future 1999 will be officially launched on May 31st!"

Chapter 61: Crossroads of Fate

(Second update delivered! By the way, how many of you play both Arknights and 9?)

Wan Qi's expression at this moment: (OwO'i)!

The clear image of the secondary source on the screen, like a giant Ultra Ray, almost knocked him over, but after a brief moment of surprise, he quickly returned to normal.

It's just a simple theory of mirror mapping between parallel worlds, nothing serious.

This theory was developed by magicians when they were studying summoning and divination. Simply put, when they are summoning to another world or performing divination across spatial dimensions, they will see information about another world that is related to their own world. This mirroring can be considered as predicting the future to some extent.

But in reality, the variables of the future are as unpredictable as Trump's thinking. Relying on prophecy to plan everything will only lead to being led by the nose by fate and becoming a puppet with no possibility of anything happening.

As for the idea that once you observe the future, the future is predetermined.

Good heavens, are you the only person in the world? Don't other people interact with you? Aren't these interactions new variables? Can all of these variables be taken into account?

The simplest example is that if you want to calculate the positions of all the fundamental particles in a universe, the energy required would be greater than that of a universe. If someone has this ability, does it really matter whether they can see the future?

Therefore, divination magic can only be used as a prediction of the possibility of a certain plan or matter. In other words, if you have to do this now and there is no turning back, see if divination can help you complete the plan, rather than relying on divination to defy fate.

Throughout the history of the magical world, many people have tried to do the same, but their fates were similar to that of Xiao Yan, who starved to death. This is the consequence of ignoring the plight of the people and instead seeking help from ghosts and gods.

So theoretically, the possibility of seeing the future of other worlds from another world is a matter of probability. If you happen to encounter it, you can learn from it; if you don't, you don't. Wan Qi isn't some abstract bean sprout who has successfully made a joke of himself by making predictions.

"I'll download it and give it a try. I hope the plot isn't too brainless. But reality is always more outrageous than works of art. Judging from this, the screenwriter's imagination can never compare to the performance of an abstract national leader."

Wan Qi took out his dimensional phone. He was actually just curious whether this thing could be used to play games, and it actually downloaded successfully. He would try it out again when he got back. If this thing could connect to the internet across different worlds, that would be truly amazing.

"This world also has Bilibili, but why is this Bilibili privately owned, and listed on a foreign stock exchange? Foreign capital has intervened in its propaganda platform. The Aurora Government in this world is really bold. At the very least, it should be a public-private partnership. Sigh."

I follow Bilibili to watch the promotional videos for the game "Back to the Future: 1999". Of course, I also need to play the game to complete my learning and gather enough information.

"Wan Qi!"

At this moment, Virtue returned, sounding somewhat anxious.