I, from the Celestial Empire, have parachuted into Teyvat.

Now that China has the Teyvat continent as its backing, coupled with the rapid technological advancements of the past six months, the Western powers may not even realize what they are about to face.

Their arrogance led them to disbelieve that China alone could withstand the "siege" of the entire Western world.

So this time we'll give it a try and see if China can pull it off.

"Little Yi, you know Teyvat better than we do, since we're the ones who stay in the Senate all year round. We'll leave the liaison with Teyvat to you from now on. The Senate will have the relevant departments do their best to assist you."

Ivan nodded slightly at the Grand Elder's instructions.

"do not worry."

After chatting with the Grand Elder for a while, the Grand Elder left. Ivan sighed, his thoughts drifting away.

Now, all they need to do is lay a solid foundation for themselves.

As the saying goes, "one must be strong to forge iron." If we want to survive the encirclement and suppression by the Western bloc and even launch a counterattack, there is still much to be done.

As for the propaganda war launched by the Western bloc, it is nothing more than a clown's performance. It may disgust people, but it will not cause any real harm to China. The propaganda is just a fuse; the real sanctions are yet to come.

Moreover, facing such public opinion attacks does not mean that China will really remain silent. You must know that China has the world's largest online population. Chinese netizens are not to be trifled with. Ivan does not believe that China's enthusiastic young people will sit idly by in the face of such a hostile response from foreign websites.

Thinking of this, Ivan revealed a meaningful smile.

"Perhaps we could apply to the internet authorities to temporarily reduce the obstacles for Chinese netizens accessing foreign websites... Hehe, anyway, the netizens' attitude is the government's attitude..."

Chapter 436 An Arrow Piercing the Clouds

Zhongliao Forum, the largest chat forum in China, became the number one forum website in China a few years ago with nearly one billion users and more than ten million daily active users.

This evening, a new post appeared on the public discussion forum and quickly attracted people's attention.

The post is titled "Are we just going to sit here and wait to die?"

The poster was Zeng Tian, ​​who had decided to unite netizens to launch a counterattack against online public opinion.

Original Poster (Zeng Zhongyutian): [Hello everyone, many of you will recognize my ID. That's right, I'm the one who posted the 10,000-word prediction thread in the military and political section of the forum not long ago. I'm posting here again today because I heard some infuriating news. Just now, a friend of mine who works abroad told me that a few days ago, the Washington Post in the US published an article titled "(Exposing the So-Called Truth About Another World)," which slanders my country for using another world as a pretext to cover up inhumane weapons experiments. The article's language is extremely malicious. I will post the link to the original article later. Following this article, various foreign media outlets have launched a massive campaign of condemnation against my country under the pretext of other world-related topics, manipulating public opinion to slander my country, smearing my country with anti-humanitarian accusations, and even mobilizing a large number of online trolls to flood the official accounts of Chinese embassies abroad with insulting remarks. Brothers, as a native-born Chinese, I can't tolerate this! I'm posting here today to rally everyone to join me in a campaign against the foreign internet and let those hordes of bandits know that we are not so easily bullied!] If any comrades wish to join the expedition, please join the White Goose Group [XXXXXXX].

Zeng Tian's previous prophecy post was indeed very popular. Many people remembered his ID. As soon as his name appeared in the latest post, netizens browsing the forum clicked on it before even seeing the title. As a result, the post received nearly 100,000 views and nearly 1,000 replies within just ten minutes of being posted.

Second floor: [Another mastermind behind this amazing post, front row seat.]

Third floor: [Is the original poster posting another prophetic thread?]

Fourth floor: [Hmm? This doesn't seem to be a prophecy post? Let me see...]

As more and more people clicked on the post, the voices of anger also grew louder.

Floor 88: [Damn! Do these Ansar White bandits really think China is easy to bully? They accuse us of crimes against humanity, but what Ansar have done since their inception that isn't a crime against humanity? And they dare to slander us!]

Floor 89: [There are indeed many smear campaigns against us online these days. I've been arguing with those bastards online for the past few days, and I've even had several accounts banned. My strength alone is ultimately too small. I'm very excited to see someone stand up and raise their voice. Without further ado, I'm joining the group immediately and heading to the front lines of the online battle!]

Zeng Tian, ​​sitting in front of his computer, watched as the number of replies to his post jumped from a few thousand to tens of thousands in just over ten minutes, and it was still growing explosively. At the same time, his post was also added to the site's hot search list by the forum administrator and placed on the forum's homepage. His original prediction post had not received such treatment.

Moreover, the notification sounds for joining groups on Zeng Tian's White Goose chat software, which is currently running in the background, are about to explode. White Goose group chats have a limited number of members, with a maximum capacity of 2000 people. These 2000-person groups are instantly full within a minute. As a last resort, Zeng Tian and several of his friends have had to create more new groups and post new messages on the forum to inform those who want to join.

In the group chat of the political and military enthusiasts' association, Zeng Tian and several other members of the group were all extremely busy.

Zeng Zhongyutian: [Groups 16 and 17 are full; we need to open a few more.]

Bugle sounds: [I am driving.]

Crazy144: [All ten of my groups are full too.]

Member of the Landmine Club: [This is outrageous! There are over fifty groups already, and they're still full in seconds... How come there are so many more people than we expected?]

As more and more people joined the group, the group members became increasingly alarmed. The number of netizens who had joined the "Extranet Expeditionary Force" had now exceeded their expectations by dozens of times, or even more.

Because of the chaos and confusion, the group doesn't have much time to think about why things are like this. But if they just calm down and think about it for a moment, they would realize that this astonishing situation was inevitable.

With the announcement of the existence of another world and the opening of Qindao City, more and more events happening in Qindao City have become known to people.

In the past two days, the entire Chinese people have been immersed in grief for the victims and heroes of Qindao City. However, at this time, the Western group led by the United States has come out to accuse China of crimes against humanity, which is simply walking into the line of fire of the Chinese people's anger.

Two days ago, due to the mutual isolation between the Chinese and the outside world's networks, news from the outside world did not circulate within the Chinese network. It was only known among a small number of netizens. In fact, voices condemning the outside world had already appeared on various online platforms a couple of days ago, but they did not cause much of a reaction because the publishers did not have the huge amount of attention that Zeng Tian had.

Today, Zeng Tian's post became the fuse that ignited the powder keg in the hearts of Chinese netizens, instantly setting off their pent-up anger.

We are mourning the victims and heroes, yet you Western groups are jumping out at this time to cry wolf and distort the truth, accusing us of crimes against humanity? Not only that, you are also manipulating online trolls to spread insulting remarks.

This is absolutely outrageous!

As a result, Zeng Tian and others' "Extreme Expedition" naturally attracted countless responses.

It can be described as an arrow piercing the clouds, attracting thousands of troops to meet it.

Of course, if it were just based on the Zhongliao forum, the number of people participating in the overseas expedition would probably be halved. Later, Zeng Tian and the others learned that their posts on the Zhongliao forum not only trended on Zhongliao, but also reached the top five trending topics on other major social networking sites and portals. They were even widely forwarded and promoted in group chats on various messaging apps. In just one night, hundreds of thousands of Chinese netizens announced their participation in the operation, and more were expected to follow.

Such a scene also frightened Zeng Tian and others who were the original planners. Of course, at this point, it was no longer realistic to organize things by relying solely on group chat.

Fortunately, many of the netizens who announced their participation in the action were experts in the IT industry. These experts worked together and spent one night building a website called the Annihilator Alliance, which means "Those who offend China, no matter how far away, will be punished."

At this moment, hundreds of thousands of Chinese internet expeditionary forces have gathered on the Exterminator Alliance website, ready to launch an expedition to the external internet at any time.

But at this moment, a new problem arose...

Chapter 437 National-Level Backdoor

The time came to the morning of the second day of the anxious "external expeditionary force".

Although he had been busy all night and barely slept, Zeng Tian was not sleepy at all, after all, they were doing something of great significance.

After a night of hard work, the number of netizens gathered has initially exceeded 500,000, and according to the backend data of the bigwigs who created the website to eliminate this alliance, a large number of people are still constantly pouring into the website.

Overall, the manpower has already reached a considerable scale.

However, after completing the above preparations, an unavoidable question arises.

There is a firewall separating China's internet from the outside world. External internet users need to bypass this firewall to access China's online forums and other content, and vice versa.

While the hundreds of thousands of Chinese internet users constitute a large force, not everyone knows how to bypass the Great Firewall. Although some skilled individuals have shared methods for doing so free on the Exterminator Alliance website, it's still far too cumbersome for such a massive number. Furthermore, according to Chinese law, using internet tools to circumvent the Great Firewall is illegal. While normally such use is like watching adult films in Japan—the government doesn't usually interfere, falling into a gray area—this time is different. The number of people mobilized is enormous, and at this rate, it won't be long before it reaches a million. With so many people using these tools, it's unlikely that the relevant authorities will turn a blind eye.

Then the problem is coming.

We can't have hundreds of thousands of troops blocked at our doorstep before they even set out, can we?

Soda decided to hold a meeting this morning to discuss this matter.

Of course, to speed up communication, this meeting will not use text communication, but will instead use more efficient video conferencing.

It can be considered fate.

Before today, none of the four knew each other's real appearance or name, or even their gender. The four of them created this small group because of their shared interests, just to chat and joke around. None of them expected that one day they would meet each other online with their real faces because of such a meaningful event.

At this moment, all four members of the political and military enthusiasts' chat group had their webcams connected.

Although we had been chatting online for a long time, this was the first time we had met in person. We couldn't help but take a few extra glances at each other, and of course, our expressions showed some surprise.

"Crazy 144 is actually a white-collar woman!"

"The bugle call was from a high school politics teacher!"

"The landmine agent is a top special effects artist in Los Angeles, the movie capital of the United States!"

Of course, the other three were equally surprised by Zeng Tian's identity as a freelance writer.

After a brief introduction, the meeting got down to business.

Zeng Tian said, "I discussed this with the big shots behind the website. Judging from the current website access speed and registration speed, the number of people will probably exceed one million by noon today."

Bugle nodded: "The number of website registrations increased at an astonishing rate in the latter half of last night, and now that it's already daylight, this rate is not surprising."

Crazy144: "Won't it attract the attention of relevant departments if so many IPs access a website that has been established for less than 24 hours at the same time?"

Zeng Tian shook his head: "Don't worry about that. I already discussed it with the people who created the website early this morning, and we've already reported it to the relevant authorities. The main problem now is how so many people will be able to bypass the Great Firewall and access the internet?"

On the other end of the camera, Crazy144 pondered, "Could we also apply for official approval and reporting regarding the large-scale use of online tools?"

"The chances of this passing are slim."

The bugle call, acting as a political teacher, gave a negative answer.

Zeng Tian sighed and asked, "What's the situation abroad now?"

This question was directed at members of the landmine society who were located abroad.

"Still the same as always."

As the mine-collecting member spoke, he operated the computer. Through the reflection in his glasses, one could see the relevant information he was browsing on the web.

"The situation is worse today than the previous two days. In addition to the large number of our embassies abroad being attacked by online trolls, the accounts of some other official institutions have also begun to be attacked. Furthermore, the stocks of almost all of our country's top 100 companies are falling continuously... Wait a minute!"

At this point, the landmine cop's expression suddenly changed, becoming extremely serious.

The other three were startled, and Zeng Tian hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Damn it."

One member of the Landmine Society directly launched a tirade: "I just saw a message on the largest social media platform in the US that Viper, the world's largest hacker group, announced it will launch a cyberattack against our country's network, including but not limited to government official websites and major portal websites..."

Zeng Tian slammed his hand on the computer desk, causing the camera to shake.

Hackers never give advance notice of their attacks; at most, they admit to the attack afterward. After all, if you give advance notice, the target is prepared, and your chances of a successful attack drop by 90%, and you might even be counter-tracked. Now, this so-called "Viper" hacker group has openly made such an unreasonable move, so there are only two possibilities.

First, they believed that their equipment and technology far surpassed China's, and that even if China was prepared, it couldn't stop them.

The second point is that this organization is using this opportunity to gain attention.

But regardless of which one it is, it is a provocation against China.

"Damn it, those bastards."

Zeng Tian gritted his teeth: "It's decided. All the expedition members will use internet tools to bypass the Great Firewall. We don't need to worry about the others. As the main organizer, I'll take responsibility if anything goes wrong."

Crazy144 exclaimed in surprise, "How can this be? We can't let you shoulder this alone, we..."

But their conversation was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a bugle.

"Wait a minute, everyone quickly check the news!"

Zeng Tian was taken aback: "What news?"

"Check the trending topics on your phone!"

Zeng Tian immediately opened the relevant news app. After the app opened, a hot news list popped up, and the relevant news appeared right in front of Zeng Tian. The content was a notice issued by the Chinese government, which consisted of only two short lines.