"I accepted a friend's request a while ago and made some improvements to the medical pod. Now, you just need to choose your gender and lie in the medical pod for three days, and you can change your sex."
"Not only can women become men, but men can also become women."
Qi Qu Dan couldn't believe his ears: "This! How is this possible? Is sex reassignment surgery really that easy?"
"Is it difficult?" Jing Mingqiu spread his hands. "I can regenerate severed limbs, let alone a body organ."
"If you don't believe me, you can try it yourself. Didn't you say women are oppressed? Now that you've become a man, no one will oppress you anymore."
Faced with Jing Mingqiu's statement, Qi Qu Dan had no response and could only leave dejectedly.
Many people who were dissatisfied with their original gender, upon hearing Jing Mingqiu's words, immediately rushed to the hospital.
Three days later, the medical pod doors opened. Looking at their new genders, everyone smiled with satisfaction.
Jing Mingqiu specifically announced that after one week of a baby's birth, they could change their gender in the medical pod. This completely eliminated the practice of drowning female infants, which had persisted for thousands of years.
If you felt oppressed as a woman, you could become a man. If you felt the responsibilities of being a man were too great, you could become a woman.
Jing Mingqiu's action was like pulling the rug out from under everyone. No matter how you stirred up gender conflict, the core issue was that gender was innate and unchangeable.
Now, with the ability to easily switch between male and female genders, Jing Mingqiu had directly solved gender discrimination, resolving a major problem that had entangled human civilization for thousands of years.
In the White House of the United States, seeing their plan fail and Dragon Country not only failing to fall into internal strife but becoming even more harmonious, Joseph Biden was seething with anger.
"Why are these high-tech advancements appearing in Dragon Country and not in my great United States! We are supposed to be the world's number one technological power!"
"Smith, contact the British Prime Minister immediately, contact the Emperor of Sakura Country, and the President of Korea. Our plan needs to be expedited."
Smith Luen took his orders and left: "Yes, Mr. President."
That evening, the United States, in conjunction with the Six Eyes Alliance, issued an announcement stating their intention to develop the high seas, construct mobile islands, and redelineate coastlines.
"Damn it!" In the Great Hall of Dragon Country, Assistant Zhao, following behind the Supreme Leader, frowned with indignation. "Those guys in the United States have sinister intentions. If they really succeed, we'll be completely confined to land."
This was not the first time Western powers had done such a thing. The atomic bomb was like this, Antarctica and the Arctic were like this, and space satellites were also like this.
To prevent these thugs from arbitrarily setting rules, Dragon Country would scrape together everything it had to plant the Dragon flag in those places!
Jing Mingqiu was invited to the conference room. Hearing Assistant Zhao's complaint, he chuckled, "The high seas are ownerless land. Whoever occupies them claims them. They want to confine us to land, and we want to confine them to land as well."
"Does the United States really think it's still the world's police? Do they think we'll back down just because they've gathered a group of lackeys? We've fought the United Nations forces before. Back then, with millet and rifles, we could repel them. How much more so now with so many high-tech advancements?"
"Boss, we can do it this way..."
After Jing Mingqiu laid out his entire plan, the Supreme Leader was overjoyed. "Mingqiu, when did you start working on this plan?"
"When we were reforming the desert, I got the inspiration. I spent a lot of time and finally perfected it."
"Excellent, excellent, excellent!" The Supreme Leader applauded vigorously. "This plan will be called Project Spark, meaning a single spark can start a prairie fire! Mingqiu, this plan is entrusted to you. If you need any help, just ask."
Jing Mingqiu shook his head. "Boss, I can help with the technical aspects, but Project Spark involves many other areas besides technology, including but not limited to diplomacy and personnel allocation."
"I don't understand any of these things. Each person has their own expertise. You should find someone else to be in charge of Project Spark. I can provide technical support."
Seeing that Jing Mingqiu was determined, the Supreme Leader did not try to persuade him further. Instead, he assigned his assistant, Zhao Nianguo, to be responsible for the plan and called a press conference to announce it to the world.
As Dragon Country publicly announced its intention to build permanent islands in the high seas, it immediately encountered joint opposition from Western powers.
"This violates international conventions! The high seas belong to everyone, not just you!"
"We firmly oppose Dragon Country's arbitrary seizure of public resources and oppose Project Spark!"
"We absolutely will not agree to Dragon Country building permanent islands in the high seas!"
In the face of opposition from other countries, Jing Mingqiu responded assertively on behalf of Dragon Country.
"You've got one thing wrong. I'm here to inform you, not to seek your opinion!"
"If you want to object, feel free to act. Dragon Country will welcome it."
"However, I need to remind you in advance: do not say you were not warned!"
In the White House of the United States, Joseph Biden's hair stood on end upon hearing Jing Mingqiu's words. "This is bad. Dragon Country has seen through our plan. Pass my order, stop Dragon Country's Project Spark at all costs."
"We have been comprehensively surpassed by Dragon Country in several fields. If the oceans also fall into their hands, the tragedies that occurred in Dragon Country will be repeated in Great America."
As the United States disrupted the plan by any means necessary, Project Spark encountered many difficulties. Although Dragon Country's technological strength had greatly improved after Jing Mingqiu's intervention, it had to be admitted that in terms of naval fleets, the Western powers were still superior.
While Dragon Country's fleet was transporting materials and building permanent islands on the high seas, the fleets of various Western countries continuously harassed them.
One island was almost completed when the United States, in conjunction with Sakura Country, suddenly organized a military exercise and deliberately shattered the island's floating pillars.
In response to Dragon Country's condemnation, the United States adopted a rogue stance, humbly accepting and refusing to repent.
Seeing Project Spark stalled, while the United States' islands were already taking shape, Zhao Nianguo, the general person in charge of Project Spark, developed sores from anxiety and was helpless.
After all, both Dragon Country and the United States possessed the capability to annihilate the world. The two countries could compete in secret, but they absolutely could not engage in open warfare.
In his helplessness, Zhao Nianguo went to the laboratory and found Jing Mingqiu, who was researching base vehicles, to seek help.
After hearing Zhao Nianguo's request, Jing Mingqiu shrugged. "This is easy. They're conducting exercises, so we can conduct exercises too! It's just accidental damage. If they make the first move, don't blame us for making the second."
"Coincidentally, I've developed a new weapon that can be tested on them!"
In the high seas of the Pacific Ocean, the United States' Third Fleet, Ninth Fleet, and the Royal Fleet of the Commonwealth gathered, surrounding Dragon Country's North Sea Fleet.