This is a damn Victorian fantasy novel.
Add a spoonful of steam engines to get that damned tech tree moving! Add a spoonful of love and hate to give everyone a good reason to fight! Add a spoonful of madness to lighten up this gloomy world, and finally, add a spoonful of natural disasters as the main boss… Wait! Bloody hell, I poured too much!
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Year 931 of the Envirg Calendar.
The city I live in has been named the most advanced city in the West. The main reason? Steam technology, the source of both groundbreaking innovation and utter chaos, has turned the world upside down. It’s undeniable. Yet, despite this, people still flock here in droves. This city always offers a glimmer of hope, whether it’s a lie or an illusion. It’s so close, seemingly within reach, that people are willing to risk everything for it. A city of illusions.
And I am one of those dream chasers.
Zhao Yu came to the barren planet to build a base, open up a dungeon, and hide in it.
Worried about the threat from an unknown civilization, Zhao Yu hollowed out half of the planet, built a star destroyer cannon that could destroy the planet, and tens of thousands of fully intelligent mechanical dogs in various forms.
The defensive robot dog, the door god, will disguise itself as a hill and arm around the base.
Detective Gathering Robot Dog, Howling Sky, disguises itself as a rolling stone and wanders around the planet to gather useful resources.
Nezha, a combat-type robot dog, disguised as a crater, is scattered around the base and is ready to attack possible enemies.
Around the base, you can attack enemies who may arrive at any time.
On this day, his collecting robot dog, Xiaotian, dragged back a spaceship to capture three alien creatures, claiming to be from Earth.
Zhao Yu was stunned, didn't I travel to the deep space of the universe, how could I be on the far side of the moon and be regarded as an alien by humans?!
He was framed and thrown into prison, but at the moment of imprisonment, Zhou Yang awakened the omnipotent technology system.
Zhou Yang spent two years to complete the system's first task.
Who would have thought that the first reward from the system would be mecha manufacturing technology.
A new generation of mechas took off into the sky for the first time, and mankind entered the mecha age.
The arrival of interstellar battleships brings people into the era of interstellar travel.
Zhou Yang said, my goal is the sea of stars.
Jiang Le was reborn in the 1990s. On the eve of the disintegration of Da Mao, he became a partner of an arms dealer. He thought he was going to open up a new African market, but who knew he was a scapegoat and made a lot of money through the scapegoat business. So he began to transform from an arms dealer to the military manufacturing industry... Business scope: body armor, night vision instruments, speedboats, new flight generators, stealth frigates, the highest in the world...
"A person wants to find safety in larger calibers, longer ranges, and more powerful firepower—what's wrong with that?"
"So, you’ve created tens of thousands of skeletal mech legions, ghostly airstrike fleets, the Sea of Death Armageddon fleet, and undead heavy armor brigades... and turned the school anniversary into your personal undead arms marketplace?"
Facing the school newspaper reporter’s questions, Rhodes' gaze drifted, and his words faltered.
"Those... those are for civilian use!" Coughs, "Can we talk about something else?"
The reporter took a deep breath: "Alright, let's shift to some campus curiosities. Why is the magic academy's front gate blown up daily? Why are the magical beasts kept on campus suddenly running wild? And there have been repeated ghost sightings in the women's bathhouse—are they real or just rumors? Also, why has a 13th-tier Demon Lord appeared...?"
A brilliant scientist is reborn in 2018 as Hu Jiangshan, the young master of the wealthy Hu family in Hong Kong.
Hu Jiangshan realizes that the world is on the brink of a global technological war. To his surprise, he discovers a mysterious app on his phone called "Tech Drive."
With the help of this app, he secretly purchases an offshore island and begins constructing a cutting-edge semiconductor production line.
A shocking event shakes the world. The United States holds an emergency meeting to devise countermeasures. Meanwhile, Hu Jiangshan's tech island continues to expand, sending shockwaves throughout the Western world.
Ren Jie is a professor of metallurgy at a university in Yenching. When he was sent to work in the countryside, his girlfriend was humiliated and committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. He never married!
By chance, Ren Jie was reborn back to the countryside where he worked as a sent-down youth. In the intertwined love and hate of the two lives, he was on the run. Let's see how he survives in the cracks of the times and realizes his dream of becoming a high-end manufacturing power after going through all the hardships...
“I saw with my own eyes that they used the finest, rustproof refined steel to make utensils and cans, filling them with just a little food, then casually throwing them away after eating.”
“I saw with my own eyes that they used giant beasts as tall as mountains to devour soil and rocks, digging out underground cities, just to park their steel carriages beneath the surface.”
“I saw with my own eyes that they fed glowing ores into an everlasting stellar furnace, unleashing a radiance brighter than the sun.”
“I saw with my own eyes all those indescribable things.”
“Their iron birds covered the sky, their steel ships filled the ocean, their war machines tore the earth asunder, and their gods walked upon the world.”
“You must think I’m mad.”
“But it doesn’t matter.”
“It has already seen you.”
***
Oil is Its blood.
Thick smoke is Its breath.
Ore and steel are Its food.
The countless cargo ships in the harbors are Its myriad offspring.
The place of origin stamped in the corner is Its silent mockery.
They claim they are mere mortals.
Child, you’d best not argue.
You must understand:
Their technology is beyond comprehension.
Their production capacity is unimaginable.
A mere glimpse of their creations will drive you insane.
Their morale surpasses even the most fanatical worshippers of dark gods.
How will you stop them?
With your sword, child? Or your flesh and blood?
You should be grateful that they still consider themselves mortals.
***
“I’ve finished building my factory, and now you’re telling me this world runs on idealism?!”
“Wait, then what the hell did I just create?”
After waking up, Ren Yi traveled to a parallel world.
Domestic cars are beaten by joint venture cars and are subjected to contempt and ridicule.
Ren Yi took over Huawei Automobile, which was about to go bankrupt, and was accidentally tied to the Tianting Heavy Industry system.
"Ding! Congratulations to the player for winning the super carbon alloy technology, which is twice as strong as titanium alloy!!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the player for winning the aerospace glass technology, which is resistant to high temperature, extreme cold, and corrosion, and can block armor-piercing bullets!!"
"Congratulations to the player for winning the flash battery technology, which can be charged for five minutes and has a range of 5,000 kilometers!!"
The world's auto giants were collectively stunned.
"Are you building a car or a tank???"
The protagonist is reborn as the illegitimate son of JPMorgan and his struggle in the American financial world in the late 19th century.
He used his knowledge of the future to develop investment strategies during the Wall Street crisis, took control of companies such as Coca-Cola, and dealt with various forces.
During the financial crisis caused by financial fraud by railway companies, it joined forces with JP Morgan and others to reshape the railway industry and reap rich rewards.
At the same time, it was involved in the military industry, planned arms deals with Spain, cooperated with the British to set up a scheme, promoted changes in the international situation, and established interest relations with the Navy Department and others, constantly seeking development and maximizing interests in a complex economic and political environment.