vrcanaries Chapter 4989
Chapter 4989
This was the consensus reached by all parties in the post-meeting summary: the original territory of Huaxu Kingdom on the surface of Earth would remain unchanged, and they acknowledged that Huaxu Kingdom was an entity with independent negotiating rights and would no longer be included in the so-called "relocation zone".
In other words, in the short term, no one is qualified to use the banner of "epochal change" to enter the land of Huaxu, set up colonial flags, and occupy land and station troops.
In the final negotiation, all races tacitly accepted this outcome through silence.
But other countries in the human world are not so lucky.
Britannia shrank its coastline to the south, giving up large tracts of coastal farmland and shallow-water fishing grounds in exchange for a slightly safer inland highland.
The entire northern territory of Fremont has fallen, with only a river basin being reclaimed as the new capital region.
The vast plateau to the east of the Kuton Empire was marked by the Titans, and thereafter it was no longer a human administrative region, but a "Titan hunting ground".
Further south, countries like Bharata and Japan nominally retain so-called "civilizational autonomy."
But their own territory has begun to crumble, as if cut by a high-temperature welding torch, and the patched-up borders are clearly not the original state.
They coexisted with ancient civilizations, and the ancient civilizations became the dominant force, while they became the followers.
Japan, in particular, has lost all its voice and has been completely controlled by the Rat Clan.
In other words, apart from the Huaxu Kingdom, almost no country has been able to completely preserve its original territory.
Some small countries were even crossed off the map altogether.
After this round of spatial folding, the actual surface area of Earth that has been unfolded far exceeds the understanding of humans in the old era.
The mainland appears to have been kneaded, flattened, and turned outwards. What was once a thousand-kilometer border has suddenly become a ten-thousand-kilometer-long plain.
Countless habitable plateaus, canyons, and heat fields have sprung up around what was once a barren trench.
This implies a reality:
Even after losing their original homes and being forced to retreat inland, human survivors still have a place to stay.
The tragic situation of "800 million people having nowhere to live and sleeping in the wilderness" will not occur.
However, the place they settled in was no longer their original country.
In many countries, the regimes are now merely nominal, and the leaders, upon returning to their so-called new capitals, have fewer than a million subjects remaining around them.
Not to mention the national education system and the industrial system, even the daily order is on the verge of collapse.
For them, being temporarily given a refuge on the map is already a stroke of luck.
This is what all races call "benevolence".
Peel off your armor, leaving only a slit for you to breathe.
This has also caused new turmoil within the human camp.
Many small and medium-sized countries have already recognized the reality.
In their view, living alongside the other ancient races was simply being lambs to the slaughter.
Rather than risking their lives on beings who don't consider the sixth generation of humans as "fellow humans," they'd rather join a group with stronger cohesion.
In other words, they sought refuge with a powerful nation.
Within half a day, seven or eight surviving regional regimes had submitted the same application to the Huaxu Kingdom.
They hoped to be incorporated into the Huaxu Kingdom, or temporarily accept military protection and population resettlement.
They were playing the same card—
"We are willing to give up sovereignty, just to let our people survive."
However, Zhang Yi, as the highest authority in Huaxu Kingdom, did not hesitate at all and rejected it outright!
It's straightforward and realistic.
"The current population of Huaxu Kingdom is close to one hundred million," he said in a response to the outside world. "Our resource allocation, infrastructure depth, and food reserves are prepared for one hundred million people."
“We can share technology, disaster avoidance experience, and even provide refuge quotas for some high-value talents in extreme situations. But we cannot take you all over and cram you in.”
"We are not Noah's Ark; we cannot save so many people."