I've already reached the Nascent Soul stage, and you're saying I didn't time travel?

Chapter 80: The Exploration Team is Established!
"Urgent report from this station: The fog cloud surrounding the floating continent is rapidly expanding outwards!"

"It has been confirmed that 48 passenger planes were involved in the crash. The specific flights and contact information are as follows!"

"The fog is expanding, damaging ships from multiple countries. Coastal cities need to be on high alert for tsunamis and strong winds!"

……

Breaking News! Land debris has been confirmed to have fallen from the floating continent. This newspaper will continue to follow up on this story!

"The landmass fragments are falling at extremely slow speeds. Is there any anti-gravity material in the surrounding fog?"

"The landmass debris successfully fell into the Pacific Ocean, and a reporter filmed a sperm whale being crushed to death on the spot."

……

"A shocking development! Fragments of landmass are merging with seabed rock formations, and a new island may be taking shape?!"

……

From the moment the fog cloud surrounding the floating continent began to expand rapidly outwards, major news media platforms urgently released related reports. The authorities did not impose news censorship, but instead emphasized that coastal cities needed to enter disaster relief and rescue mode.

For areas and people prone to danger, large-scale evacuations and relocations were carried out in advance.

Many netizens who originally thought the floating continent was far away felt a real sense of crisis for the first time, and with the dense news reports, it was like being shocked three times a day.

Fortunately, nothing particularly serious happened in the end.

The sky is still blue.

The clouds are still white.

The college entrance examination still needs to be taken.

However, when netizens learned that the fragments that fell from the floating continent were going to transform into an island, everyone was stunned:
"Really? Land fragments turning into islands? Could it be that the fragments are thicker than the Pacific Ocean?"

"That's hard to say. After all, the news reports that the diameter of the landmass fragment is about 30 kilometers, so it's normal for it to be 5 or 6 kilometers thick. The average depth of the Pacific Ocean is only about 4 kilometers."

"According to my friends abroad, the thickness of the landmass fragment is estimated to be only about two or three kilometers. Under normal circumstances, it would definitely be completely submerged in the sea. However, it seems that the seabed has risen up a bit, which directly supported it and turned it into a land island."

"What the hell?! How much mass does a landmass fragment with a diameter of 30 kilometers and a thickness of 3 kilometers have? It's already a miracle that the seabed doesn't sink under the pressure, let alone push upwards. Do you think the seabed is a spring?"

"Although it is indeed somewhat bizarre, the seabed is located at the sinking point of the landmass fragment and has indeed risen significantly. This has been detected by monitoring teams from multiple countries, and it cannot be faked."

"First-hand photos from the scene, click to view—"

"Damn, you guys are making it sound like the seabed has its own mind? Won't I make the seabed pregnant if I stare at the toilet and have a big airplane every day?"

"Airplane Bro is dreaming again. You've been making airplanes for so many years, and the seabed hasn't moved at all. But when land debris comes down, the seabed actively moves up. Isn't that enough to explain the problem?"

You are not worthy to raise his child.

"Haha, what a delightful surprise! But speaking of which, now that the island has formed, shouldn't we go up and explore it?"

"The changes around the island have not completely subsided. There are all sorts of troubles, such as whirlpools and strong storms. Even fighter jets can't fly in right now, let alone ships."

"Are we just going to wait outside? What if the island's resources get stolen if we don't get up there soon? This isn't some floating continent high in the sky that eliminates all those small countries. This island is accessible to everyone."

"Let's wait for the announcement."

...While netizens were discussing this, the official announcement was promptly released:

"According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and international practice, newly emerging islands in the high seas of the Pacific Ocean are the common heritage of mankind, and no country may claim sovereignty or exclusive rights to resources. Countries will further consult on subsequent island exploration and formulate corresponding exploration rules."

The online uproar after the announcement was released goes without saying, but the login affairs coordination group led by Liu Wang was already overwhelmed with work.

Leaving aside the fact that landing on the floating landmass has become landing on the mainland island, a lot of work needs to be prepared again. The most troublesome issue is actually the division of interests between the mainland and the island.

The reality is far more complex than the official announcement suggests; countries are arguing fiercely over the land and islands.

Pacific island nations such as Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, as geographically neighboring countries, strongly demand priority rights to benefits and prohibit armed destruction of the mainland and islands.

Countries such as Spain, South Korea, and Japan, which suffered huge losses in the expanding fog storm, demanded that resources extracted from the island be compensated to them first, and then distributed accordingly.

Some smaller countries have proposed forming multinational joint scientific expeditions and limiting the number of large countries on the expeditions.

Other representatives strongly demanded that at least half of the landing expedition team members be women.

Then the representatives who support LGBT began to oppose it.

……

In short, the entire venue was in complete chaos.

In the end, however, it all comes down to who has the bigger fist and the greater influence.

After initial discussions, it was decided that each country would send an exploration team to conduct explorations under the supervision of the United Nations Interim Management Committee.

The number of people in each country's exploration team, including logistics, is limited to no more than one hundred. The use of heavy weapons of mass destruction is prohibited. Very detailed regulations have been made regarding various aspects such as exploration areas, exploration time, and intelligence sharing.

In fact, many countries have expressed their opposition to this exploration policy, but the leading countries, whether it be the United States, China, or Britain, have all tacitly approved it.

The reason is simple: resources on the island are limited. Even with the premise of intelligence sharing and time constraints, each country can still get a share of the spoils by exploring independently. Moreover, the leading countries that go to the island are usually well-equipped, so their gains will definitely be more substantial.

Furthermore, their priority in exploration is also justified. Many countries' exploration teams are located near the island and have suffered huge losses during the expansion of the fog. The changes around the island are still ongoing, and they can still wait.

But if the changes are completely over and the countries still can't get there, are they supposed to keep waiting?

We all drive Mercedes or Rolls-Royces, you drive a Mazda, no wonder you're late.

Even worse, some don't even have a Mazda.

Surely it's okay if we go inside and wait, right? It's not like we're stopping you from exploring the island.

Just like lunar exploration, the moon is there, and its resources belong to all mankind, but first, you have to land on the moon.

However, we can't go too far with this. After all, it's not the real moon. Once the first wave of exploration is complete, subsequent development should focus on multinational collaboration, and we can't completely disregard the wishes of other countries.

In short, regardless of the external disputes, Daqian has secured a spot for the first exploration team to land on the island. As for the detailed rules and conditions, they are mainly intended to restrain these first exploration teams and prevent them from causing too much damage after landing on the island.

"Now we just have to see when things will calm down around the island."

Looking at the real-time monitoring images transmitted by the satellite, Liu Wang was full of confidence.

At this moment, Xiao Li suddenly strode forward:
"Sir, a new report has just been submitted, concerning the celestial palace phantom above the fog."

(End of this chapter)