People in America started by developing the Yellow Turban Army.

Chapter 95 Buy it, you only have one chance.

【————Task Reward: You can use 15 units of the remaining ancient fortune from Empress Dowager Cixi's jade seal to resolve the current predicament.】

Dilemma: (Although the United States is a small, peripheral country, it has the destiny of the Greedy Wolf. It wants to seize the land within a 10-kilometer radius of Ping'an Town, which is beyond the limits of the host's current destiny and fortune. It can only be obtained by stealing the secrets of the past.)

Mission Failure: The host's destiny upgrade has failed, and he may be imprisoned, but fortunately, his life is not in danger.

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This is the first time a mandatory task has appeared. Since Chen Ping'an obtained the Taiping Heavenly Book system, the tasks triggered by the system have all been passive and relaxed.

It's fine if it succeeds, but it's okay if it doesn't!

The main point is: do it if you want, don't do it if you don't. The penalty for failing a task is minimal—at worst, there's no reward.

But now, the system has given a seemingly mandatory task, and there's even a penalty for failing the task.

Failure to complete the mission might result in imprisonment, but there's a high probability that your life won't be in danger; you'll just be stuck in jail!

Chen Ping'an seemed to have figured it out a bit. When the Taiping Heavenly Book gave him a task, whether there was a penalty for failing the task depended on the circumstances.

Based on the actual situation, including the task assignment, we provided hints and assistance according to his current predicament.

If it is completed, what are the benefits? If it is not completed, what will be the consequences? These are conclusions drawn based on deductions from the actual situation.

Chen Pingan was right!

For example, right now.

If it's just a peaceful town, no more than 1 kilometer wide and 2 kilometers long, an abandoned town without even water, what kind of legal autonomy is it going to have?

Having likely already investigated all the intelligence, the White House and the Pentagon in the United States might just give it a shot and agree to give them a chance.

Even if we take a step back and assume that Chen Ping'an, the owner of this town, and his 30-odd homeless people had a stroke of luck, withstood a month of attacks, and even managed to appoint a judge and publicly announce which law was used...

But how could something so small, with only two square kilometers of land and no water, possibly turn upside down?

If you just fence off that godforsaken place, the water will have to wait for rain, and the dozens of people inside will just have to wait to die—either from starvation or thirst.

Therefore, the United States doesn't take it to heart.

Moreover, no one could withstand a month of attacks from any civilian or military contractor, outside of official organizations, in such an abandoned town.

This is why, when faced with the Easterners banging on the table in the conference room and threatening to disrupt the plans in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, the Pentagon and the White House gave the Easterners an opportunity to play the fool.

That's right. In the beginning, the White House and the Pentagon just wanted to see Asians make a fool of themselves!

But they didn't expect that those Easterners were not simple; they possessed extraordinary power and were members of a very dangerous sect from ancient times in the East.

These extraordinary members of a dangerous Eastern cult managed to withstand attacks from more than eight military contractors and five or six civilian groups in less than ten days.

Among them were tanks, armored vehicles, cannons, armed helicopters, and drones of various sizes, yet they all met their demise in the small town of Ping'an.

And there were absolutely no results!

Even if these military contractor teams are supported by high-definition, high-precision battlefield intelligence imagery provided by satellites and high-altitude electronic reconnaissance aircraft from the U.S. government.

It was still a complete mess!

Yes, most importantly, there were no results.

It's even because some of them are Vietnam War veterans or Iraq War veterans.

The shelling outside Ping'an Town gave those dangerous elements of the Taiping Dao in Ping'an Town a reason to cross the town's boundaries and retaliate.

It also gave Easterners another reason to go to the White House and bang on the table.

However, just as Chen Ping'an guessed, if he fails this time, he will likely face imprisonment, or even spend his entire life in prison.

But he shouldn't be in any danger, because the Pentagon knows about Chen Ping'an's abilities—extraordinary power!

So if he fails, all that awaits him is imprisonment, research, and torture to find out the origin of his extraordinary power.

For the use of America!

This is the task and the turning point that the Heavenly Book System deduced based on his current situation.

The turning point was that jade seal of Empress Dowager Cixi!

Although Chen Ping'an was unaware of these inside details, he was confident in the direction of his guess.

This task must be completed!

But California Shepherd, is that the skinny, dark-skinned guy who picked up his own money?

To be honest, if the Heavenly Book System hadn't suddenly popped up this task, Chen Ping'an would have almost forgotten about this person.

But little did he know, he had forgotten the Heavenly Book, which had set its sights on the jade seal of Empress Dowager Cixi that someone had found.

What puzzled him even more was how the Empress Dowager Cixi's jade seal was related to California in the United States, and how it could nominally govern California.

That's impossible!

It is universally acknowledged that the Qing Dynasty delayed the East by 300 years, and world leaders have expressed concern, to varying degrees, in their public speeches about whether the East might return to the hegemonic era of the Ming Dynasty, which dominated the world.

Because in the eyes of foreigners, the East during the Ming Dynasty ruled over all nations and was known as the land of light. (This is not my opinion; it's what Western heads of state, the US Secretary of Defense, and other Western political figures and scholars have said in public and at conferences.)

Westerners yearn for the East during the Qing Dynasty, believing that only such an East could make the world feel safe, unlike the Ming Dynasty when treasure ships sailed across the seas.

So how could the Qing Dynasty, an era that the world misses, where Empress Dowager Cixi ruined the country and claimed to "give to friendly nations rather than to her own slaves," possibly have nominally governed California in the United States?

If we're talking about the Ming Dynasty, that's still possible!

The Qing Dynasty? Impossible!

Chen Ping'an's mind was in complete turmoil; he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried. But since a mission had been assigned, he had to complete it.

Meanwhile, the California sheriff was unaware that he was being targeted; he was live-streaming!

Ultimately, only one ten-thousandth of his luck was stolen back then, so his good fortune in California seems to still be there.

"Dinner's almost ready, guys!"

"Brothers, every time someone comes begging, I pretend to be Japanese or Korean!"

They always say "secretly, Marseille, mysmida!"

We can't let us Easterners down, brothers, don't you agree?

"As for me receiving this relief food here, I feel perfectly justified in doing so, brothers!"

The Empress Dowager has already given the money!

While he was live streaming, Chen Ping'an secretly slipped out of Ping'an Town at night and found him by instinct.

Knowing his time was running out, Chen Ping'an sneaked out at night. With his skills and stealth, he managed to temporarily deceive the armed forces stationed around Ping'an Town, but he couldn't hide from the satellites in the sky and the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that circled around him.

Looking at the small jade seal hanging around the neck of that dark-skinned, thin young Asian man, was that the seal used by Empress Dowager Cixi?

This seal is crucial to my future, but I can't steal it; I can only buy it!

Moreover, it needs to be purchased before the Americans discover it; otherwise, the FBI might investigate why you risked your life to meet this person at such a critical moment.

If he can't reach an agreement with this dark-skinned, thin Asian man on the first try and can't buy the item, then there might not be a next time.

This thing will fall into the hands of the FBI, or the U.S. Department of State.

Then I'll have no choice but to go to jail!