Chapter 291 |
In the study, Josh first had some routine exchanges with many trading partners.
In the Game of Thrones world, Daenerys had now completely conquered the entire planet with her powerful army, establishing a truly sun-never-sets empire.
Although they had not yet ventured into space, industrialization was basically complete, and the world’s technological level was roughly equivalent to early 19th century Europe.
Of course, this process was not smooth sailing; during this time, Daenerys also encountered an existence called “God.”
However, after all, the Game of Thrones world was a low-magic world. Those so-called gods, although having some strange abilities, compared to the Marvel universe, were far from the level of the Celestials, let alone the Asgardians.
So after encountering this situation, Daenerys and Josh discussed and directly established a new sect; Daenerys combined both royal and divine power, and passed judgment on those so-called false gods.
And it was from then on that the humans of the Game of Thrones world understood what true divine judgment was.
Wherever the great Mother of Dragons passed judgment, nothing was left alive; all false gods turned to ashes.
Even if someone wanted to enter those areas later, they would suffer terrible curses.
Since then, except for Daenerys, basically all other faiths in the Game of Thrones world went down the drain.
Daenerys also became one of only two true gods in the entire Game of Thrones world.
Why two? Because the mischievous Daenerys also set up a statue for Josh as her official partner.
In Daenerys’ words, influenced by Josh’s various modern ideas, it was basically “I can’t have you, so why can’t I fantasize a bit?”
No choice: as Daenerys’ status rose, the men of the Game of Thrones world no longer caught her eye; if she really had needs, even robots would be better than them, so Josh was the only one left for her to fantasize about.
Josh found this amusing but could only let it be.
Compared to Daenerys’ pleasant little life, the situation in the Yuri world was not so good.
Although Yuri had tried every possible means to stop it, Tiberium was still spreading.
Fortunately, in recent years, Yuri had long since unified Earth and put interstellar colonization on the agenda, having already found several Earth-like planets suitable for human survival in the galaxy.
When Josh communicated with Yuri, he was leading an exploration fleet surveying a newly discovered planet.
Unlike the Marvel universe, the universe Yuri was in was a relatively normal space without many space-traversing wormholes; therefore, space travel had to rely on the faster-than-light engines from the Star Wars world provided by Josh.
Because of this, their exploration progress was still limited to the Milky Way, and besides some primitive life forms, no other civilizations had been discovered.
In the Azeroth world, little Abbendis…this kid’s paths have become wilder over the years; his fleet’s footprints almost covered the entire Azeroth.
Perhaps because the kid was so independent and had shown so many unusual traits over the years, his parents hardly managed him anymore.
His actions did not affect the interests of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and his overseas trade brought large amounts of taxes and unprecedented treasures to Lordaeron, so the still young King Terenas adopted a tacit approval attitude.
There were even rumors that King Terenas was considering a marriage alliance between little Abbendis and his just-turned-three daughter Jaina Proudmoore.
Not to mention, though little Terenas was precocious, he was actually only thirteen years old.
A ten-year age gap is common even in modern society, let alone in a medieval fantasy world like Azeroth.
Turalyon was over a thousand years older than Alleria, after all.
Of course, little Abbendis said that the marriage alliance was just a rumor.
But Josh could tell from his smug expression that it might be true; it was just that Terenas hadn’t made a final decision.
Besides King Terenas, little Abbendis had also befriended many high nobles by trading Azeroth’s treasures and specialties.
He also had two older “brothers” backing him — the nobles Mograine and Fordring so his overseas development plans had been going very smoothly.
Currently, he had built a town in Northrend’s Howling Fjord to trade with some native Northrend races.
When Josh contacted him, he was scouting Durotar, preparing to build a city there and attempt to establish relations with the Night Elves and Tauren.
Good kid. Sounds like he’s planning to follow the orc’s path and leave no way for the orcs…
Quite good.
During the conversation with the kid, Josh also obtained another very important piece of information.
That is, in the far south of the Eastern Kingdoms continent, in the Stormwind Kingdom, King Llane Wrynn had just had a son named Varian Wrynn.
King Varian was born.
And that also meant that only ten years remained until the opening of the Dark Portal.
After ending the conversation with little Abbendis, Josh moved on to the Equilibrium world.
Although most of the population of this world had already been transferred by Elo Patje to the Game of Thrones or Yuri’s worlds, Elo Patje himself, as a dimensional trader, couldn’t leave, and some humans were unwilling to leave their world.
But as Josh’s technological mastery increased, the good days of this world began; through Elo Patje as a transit point, Josh traded a large number of robots there to build factories and mine various resources.
Today, this world has become one of Josh’s main arms factories.
Half of the ships in the Ranger First Fleet and Vrykul Second Fleet were produced in this world and then traded to Josh via Patje.
The remaining humans led by Patje had completely become Josh’s workers — well, high-paid workers who only needed to check production progress, with no real labor, living a very comfortable life.
In the Gods and Monsters world…the Dragon Emperor was in seclusion, and the entire country was basically managed by Empress Cai Lin.
Besides routine trade with Josh, the country was steadily developing with nothing particularly noteworthy happening.
In the I, Robot world, after establishing contact with Josh, Lawrence Robertson, from a purely robotic company, began comprehensive diversification, especially making huge investments in interstellar exploration.
After years of effort, Lawrence had cooperated with governments worldwide to successfully find a planet suitable for human survival in Centaurus and begun interstellar colonization.
But obviously, Lawrence was not satisfied, secretly scheming to build his own new empire based on the colonies.
For this, like Patje, he became Josh’s worker, in exchange for various technological supports, constantly updating robotic technologies, while secretly building his own super soldier army, waiting for the opportunity.
In the Transformers world, the Decepticon Cybertron Empire under Starscream steadily developed.
The only shortcoming was that he still hadn’t completely eliminated the Autobots’ resistance.
Yes, referring to Optimus Prime, the true heir of the Transformers world; this guy’s life was really tough.
Even Bumblebee had long since been captured on Earth, but Prime had never been caught, partly because of history changes—he never went to Earth and no one knew where he hid.
Next were a few worlds in the past five years that, besides Pacific Rim, had little significance.
Apart from discussing the plan to counterattack the Pioneer civilization with the still cold Liwen Shao, Josh barely bothered with the other worlds’ traders.
After talking with Liwen Shao, there were only a few minutes left until the new plane beacon appeared.
Soon, the plane beacon appeared and quickly found a host.
Immediately, a soaking wet, blonde beauty dressed only in thin underwear appeared on the screen.
Judging by her environment, it was a high-tech room made mostly of metal.
Of course, Josh was very familiar with this beauty’s face.
Charlize Theron…
Josh’s expression instantly became more serious; this actress and this scene…seemed to be only one.
“What are you? A plane trader? I must have been sleeping too long, I’m hallucinating!” “Charlize Theron” said, holding her forehead.
“Believe me, everything you see is real. Meredith Vickers, Peter Weyland’s illegitimate daughter, right?” Josh asked.
“That’s right. How do you know me? According to this thing, we’re from different universes!” Vickers frowned upon hearing Josh call her by name.
She doesn’t like anything that is out of her control; obviously, this dimensional trading system and Josh as the trading partner were such things.
Indeed, this blonde beauty is the second female lead in the movie Prometheus, Vickers.
At this moment, she is on the spaceship Prometheus.
And the current scene should be the moment in the movie when she just wakes up from the cryo-chamber.
“Hehe, that’s not important. What matters is what I can bring to you!” Josh said with a smile.
“Ma’am, who are you talking to?” At this moment, another voice sounded near Vickers.
At the same time, a man appeared outside Vickers’s chamber.
He was the male lead in the movie, and in a certain sense the antagonist, the android David.
The spaceship had reached its intended destination, and he was there to wake Vickers but obviously, Vickers had woken up first.
As he walked to Vickers’s chamber to check on her, he saw Vickers talking to the wardrobe.
Because the trading system was invisible to outsiders, he could only see and hear Vickers talking.
“Do you think there is anyone else in my chamber?” Vickers sneered; this was also her usual attitude toward David—extreme disgust!
“Sorry, ma’am… I was just concerned about you!” David quickly apologized. He also thought Vickers might be hallucinating and talking to herself. Although he was an android with self-awareness, the concept of a dimensional trader was obviously beyond his understanding and imagination.
“I don’t need that… Now please leave and do what you need to do—wake the other crew members!” Vickers ordered.
“As you wish!” Though puzzled by Vickers’s attitude, David still obeyed and left.
After David left, Vickers decisively closed the chamber door to prevent the previous situation from happening again.
“Sorry to embarrass you, but don’t take it too seriously, that’s just a robot!” After closing the door, Vickers resumed talking to Josh. “By the way, I still don’t know your name.”
“Josh, Josh Kane, from the United States in 1956. Of course, my world is quite different from yours!” Josh briefly introduced his world.
“...Wow, Captain America? You’re from the Marvel world?” After Josh’s introduction, Vickers couldn’t help but widen her eyes in surprise.
Obviously, like in the I Robot world, Vickers’s world also has Marvel comics.
Because of past experiences, Josh wasn’t too surprised by this. What surprised him was that a strong woman like Vickers would actually read comics.
“I didn’t expect Ms. Vickers to like comics?” Josh acted surprised and said.
“Haha, I actually don’t read comics, but when the Weyland Corporation acquired Marvel Studios years ago, I managed it for a while, so I’m familiar with it!” Vickers explained, while internally deciding that after this call with Josh, she would find and watch all the Marvel comics and movies.
Hearing this, Josh immediately understood.
In Prometheus, or the Alien universe, the Weyland Corporation runs through the entire plotline from beginning to end.
And before the Prometheus project, Weyland Corporation was already the world’s largest corporation. Acquiring a major cultural IP like Marvel was a normal move.
“Enough small talk, Ms. Vickers. Perhaps you don’t know yet that you, and your Prometheus project—no, not just this project, but the entire human civilization—are facing an enormous crisis!” After some casual chatting, Josh’s expression turned serious and he got to the main point.
“Crisis? What kind of crisis?” Vickers asked, puzzled.
“It’s a long story, starting from an extremely advanced civilization. We can call them the Engineers, and this Engineer civilization is exactly what your Prometheus project is searching for…” Josh then began explaining without reservation.