Several colossal sky-space battleships, as vast as mobile cities, appeared before everyone's eyes.
The sky-space battleship, officially named the Sky Suppression Yellow Heaven-class battleship, was initially designed with an aircraft carrier as its blueprint, intended to be a flying aircraft carrier that served as a platform for aircraft, providing global aerial strike capabilities.
However, due to excessive self-weight, insufficient power, and high energy consumption, it had never been implemented.
It wasn't until Jing Mingqiu appeared, developed the controlled nuclear fusion device that solved the energy shortage, and then created the anti-gravity device to address the issues of excessive self-weight and insufficient power, that sky-space battleships were fully put into use.
Because the anti-gravity device could greatly reduce the constraints of gravity, the battleships' volume continued to increase, their armament and various production facilities grew, and eventually, their size expanded dozens of times.
Their functions evolved from single fighter jet takeoffs and landings to integrated offense and defense, possessing all the functions of an entire carrier fleet, augmented by an arsenal and production workshops, becoming true behemoths.
Facing the Dragon Country's massive sky-space battleships, the American First Fleet, urgently deployed to protect overseas military bases, appeared as insignificant as ants.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Accompanied by a series of thunderous sounds, over a thousand shipping containers were dropped by the sky-space battleships, and under the gaze of countless viewers worldwide, these containers sank into the ocean at astonishing speeds.
Foreign netizens, who had been wildly bearish on the Dragon Country, along with those so-called public intellectuals and rationalists, erupted upon witnessing this scene, flooding the comments with sarcastic and mocking remarks.
"That's it? I thought the Dragon Country would directly build a floating island. I didn't expect such a simplistic method. What's the difference between this and those guys using the world's strongest metal, Vibranium, to make spears!"
"Can't be helped, they're just a bunch of yellow-skinned monkeys! It's a huge improvement that they didn't try to throw stones and reclaim land! After all, they're just a group of recently civilized monkeys!"
"Friendly reminder, although the water depth near ordinary islands is generally shallow, it's at least one to two hundred meters. Each container is a little over two meters. Considering collapse coefficients and ocean currents."
"You'd need to throw tens of thousands of containers just to barely form a small tip. To build a large island capable of supporting two hundred thousand people, even throwing all the world's containers wouldn't be enough!"
Facing the celebratory revelry of these individuals, Jing Mingqiu had no intention of explaining. Instead, he raised an eyebrow and made a gesture to "wait and see."
Seeing Jing Mingqiu's composure, the somewhat anxious Dragon Country viewers found their backbone once more. Grabbing their keyboards, they launched a counter-attack against the sarcastic commenters.
Instantly, the entire internet became a battlefield, and the dispute topped the trending lists in all domestic and international media reports.
The argument didn't last long. Less than half an hour later, after the Dragon Country's sky-space battleships had deployed hundreds of thousands of containers, they ceased their drop.
Simultaneously, the sea surface at the initial container deployment sites began to churn violently. The cameras immediately shifted, and everyone's attention was drawn to the spectacle, temporarily halting their arguments.
"Gurgle, gurgle!"
Under everyone's tense gaze, a large amount of yellow-white sand erupted from below the seabed. Due to the water flow, much of the sand was swept away by the waves, but most of it remained, accumulating and piling higher and higher.
Soon, a small mound appeared at the initial container deployment location. The portion protruding above the water was minuscule, only about the size of a fist, as if it would vanish with a gust of wind or a single wave.
But it didn't disappear. Instead, as more and more sand erupted, its area rapidly expanded on the sea surface at a visible rate.
It started as a single point, then ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand…
Until all the deployed devices from the sky-space battleships were activated, and sand began to erupt simultaneously from the locations where hundreds of thousands of containers had sunk.
The countless grains of sand spread at an incredible speed, forming land that gradually converged, interconnected, and finally merged into one.
Thus, Taiping Island, Hengdian, and Chongying, these three American overseas military bases, officially became small islands within an inland lake.
The American aircraft carrier fleets, urgently recalled to protect military bases, found themselves encircled, becoming the "Inland Mongolian Navy."
At this point, the American-proud third island chain, which they claimed could completely blockade the Dragon Country, was utterly shattered.
Meanwhile, witnessing the Dragon Country adding over a million square meters of land in less than a day, global public opinion completely exploded.
"What am I seeing! In just a few hours, the Dragon Country has moved mountains and filled seas to create new continents. Are they gods?"
"This is unscientific. Setting aside what they used to fill it, the sudden increase in such a large landmass should cause sea levels to rise significantly. Yet, there's no sign of sea level rise, and it even seems to be slightly decreasing!"
"Fake, it must be fake! This is all a trick of illusion. The Dragon Country cannot possess such advanced technology!"
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Facing the frenzy of discussions and doubts online, Jing Mingqiu had no intention of explaining. He activated the scanning function, confirmed that the underlying pillars and cushioning sand were all in place, and then gently stroked the small head of Cang Yue, who was sitting on his shoulder.
"It's about time, Yue'er. Adjust the seawater plasticizer, and we can start making soil."
"Okay, Brother!"
Cang Yue closed her eyes, entered the internal network, and communicated with other AI lifeforms, beginning to adjust the deep-sea seawater plasticizers that were absorbing seawater to produce special sand.
Soon, the sand eruption stopped. Before anyone else could react, after a brief delay, vast amounts of fertile black soil began to be sprayed towards the sky, covering this newborn continent with a layer of topsoil suitable for plant growth.
Considering that the terrain would need to be adjusted later, the thickness of this topsoil was not very substantial, only about thirty centimeters. However, this was already sufficient for most plants to grow.
After the soil layer was fully covered, over a hundred thousand small houses, identical to those from the desert transformation project, descended from the sky, landing evenly on these three newly formed landmasses.
Upon landing, these houses immediately took root, extended mechanical grapples to secure themselves firmly, and connected to the previously deployed seawater plasticizers and the pre-arranged underground dark rivers.
"It's about ready," Jing Mingqiu walked up to the camera. "The initial preparatory work is basically complete. I declare that the first public test of the Dragon Country's nationwide land reclamation project officially begins!"
With Jing Mingqiu's command, military transport ships, which had been waiting for a long time, arrived at the designated positions. The more than two hundred thousand selected lucky individuals from the Dragon Country disembarked in a long queue.
Carrying their luggage and filled with anticipation for the future, they stepped onto this newly developed continent under the watchful eyes of the entire world!