Twenty years passed quietly in the bronze clepsydra. When Ying Zheng's chariot once again rolled over the frozen soil of the Pamir Plateau, the conquest marks on the chariot railings had extended from East Asia to the Persian Gulf.

With the help of the system, Su Mohui brought technology far beyond that of the Qin Dynasty ten years ago. The new generation of Four Elephant Guards, armed with weapons, formed a star formation behind him.

The Suzaku Guard's hot air balloons obscured the sky, their flame patterns juxtaposed with the black bird totem. The Azure Dragon Guard's steam warships plowed through the Arabian Sea's snowy waves, their propellers stirring the water, and the mermaids' totems of submission rose and fell with the waves.

The Xuanwuwei Engineering Corps built a cement-poured highway through Mesopotamia, with each brick engraved with bilingual inscriptions in Qin Li and cuneiform.

The heavily armored cavalry of the White Tiger Guards wore foldable fine iron scale armor, and the Big Dipper pattern on their horseshoes made even the nomadic tribes of the Sahara believe that this was a divinely appointed army guided by the stars.

In the Roman camp on the Danube River, the senators looked at the black bird-shaped wooden kite circling in the sky and finally took off the golden laurel wreath that symbolized power.

These mechanical creations that can carry people flying for three days are Su Mohui's masterpieces based on the integration of the remaining pages of "Lu Ban Jing" and system technology.

When the first wooden kite landed on Capitoline Hill and the hatch opened, what the Roman nobles saw was not weapons, but boxes of Qin seal books and bronze plates engraved with the "Twelve Tables" - the Qin Dynasty's conquests were never limited to swords.

In the clouds of the Andes Mountains, the Inca Empire's sun priest knelt before the tortoise-shell formation of the Xuanwu Guard.

Their golden sun disk is now embedded with a bronze sundial brought from Xianyang. The shadow cast by the sundial needle perfectly coincides with the winter solstice point in the Inca calendar.

The "civilization calibrator" designed by Su Mohui himself was placed in the festival square, and the conversion formula between the Qin calendar and the Mayan Tzol calendar was forever engraved on the stone wall of Machu Picchu.

The fiercest resistance came from the Berber tribes deep in the Sahara of Africa. Their poisoned arrows could penetrate ordinary armor, but they were unable to move a step against the asbestos cloaks of the Suzaku Guards.

Ying Zheng looked at the telescope handed to him by Su Mohui. The cloud-thunder patterns on the tube were intertwined with Egyptian hieroglyphs. He saw that the enemy leader's chariot was carrying Qin surrendered soldiers plundered from Persia.

"Activate the crossbow." His voice was as calm as the Wei River, yet it made the entire sand dune tremble.

Three hundred and sixty-five improved crossbows rotated simultaneously, and the gunpowder warheads carried by the triangular crossbow arrows exploded into a sea of ​​fire in the desert. This war technology from thousands of years later made the nomadic warriors believe that they were facing the true wrath of God.

When the last city-state that refused to surrender collapsed in the rain of fire, Ying Zheng stood on the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and watched the Black Bird Flag unfurl under the scorching equatorial sun.

The flag is embroidered with colorful Mayan cotton thread. In the center is a golden bird holding an olive branch, surrounded by totems representing the seven continents: the brick pattern of the Great Wall of Asia, the relief of Roman columns of Europe, the elephant pattern of Africa, the feathered serpent totem of America, and the fire rune of Oceania.

These symbols of civilization that were once isolated from each other now look at each other for the first time under the banner of the Qin Dynasty!

Su Mohui stood in front of the newly built "Hall of the Council of Nations". The bronze dome on the top of the hall was engraved with the longitude and latitude of the world, and each pillar was a sacred object from the conquered region.

Egyptian granite, Greek marble, Persian glazed columns, Indian sandalwood. Envoys from various countries signed their documents of submission in Qin official script, their seals bearing the unique "Sun and Moon Shining Together" seal of the Xuanniao Guard.

It was designed by Ying Zheng and Su Mohui, symbolizing the equal coexistence of all civilizations under the sun and moon of the Qin Dynasty.

On the east coast of America, the White Tiger Guard's cavalry were drinking corn wine with the local indigenous people.

On their saddles, the black bird pattern and the eagle pattern of the totem pole are intertwined and coexist. In the saddle bag is the "Qin Law Brief Annotation - American Edition", with articles marked in red paint such as "The rest order applies to all free people" and "Women can participate in tribal meetings".

On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, the craftsmen of Xuanwuwei are carving the Qin Dynasty's history into the ice wall. Each groove is injected with a specially made never-melting metal liquid, becoming the eternal coordinates of civilization.

During the twenty-year journey, Su Mohui's system space has become a mobile melting pot of civilization.

The blast furnace she improved produced fine steel in the Mesopotamian region, the steam engine automated the irrigation canals along the Nile River, and printing technology spread the "Cangjie Pian" with parallel versions in various languages ​​around the world.

Whenever she conquered a civilization center, she would take out the local "spark of civilization" - which could be a cuneiform clay tablet, a copy of a Dunhuang mural, or a Mayan statue, and then seal them in the "Huanyu Pavilion" of the Xianyang Palace, allowing all civilizations to continue to grow under the roof of the Qin Dynasty.

However, the final battle takes place in the mists of the British Isles.

When the White Tiger Guard's cavalry broke through the druid's spell barrier, Ying Zheng saw that what was placed on the other side's altar was actually the fragment of the Xuanniao battle flag that was lost during the expedition to Japan more than 20 years ago.

"This is the guidance of fate." He said this to Su Mohui, his fingertips stroking the burn marks on the fragments, which were the marks left by the fire attack ship that year.

Today, this fragment will fly together with the new black bird flag at the top of the Tower of London, witnessing the birth of an empire spanning all oceans and continents.

When the last wooden kite landed in Xianyang Palace Square, its fuselage was loaded with black ice collected from Antarctica and auroral specimens from the Arctic.

Su Mohui watched Ying Zheng inject this "blood of the world" into the base of the merit column. The bronze column suddenly let out a dragon roar, and the global map on the column began to flow, and each conquest route lit up with the corresponding light of civilization.

The system prompt sounded in her mind, but it was no longer a cold mechanical sound, but the resonance of "Da Qin" in tens of millions of different languages ​​- this was the first true global unification belonging to mankind.

"I...did it." There was a rare tremor in Ying Zheng's voice, and his eyes from under the crown swept over the people of various countries in the square.

Persian merchants were hawking Qin-style colored tiles, Egyptian scholars were teaching Qin arithmetic, and Roman architects were surveying the structure of the Xianyang Palace.

Su Mohui looked at the Taia sword at his waist. The pattern of the universe on the scabbard flickered in the twilight. The lands that had been baptized by war were now growing unprecedented flowers of peace.

The night wind blew by, and the chanting of "Ode to the Black Bird" came from afar. It was a hymn composed by poets from various countries, written in Sanskrit, Latin, Qin Li, Mayan... and floating in the same melody.

Su Mohui knew that this conquest that had lasted for decades had long gone beyond territorial expansion.

When the fishermen of the Euphrates River began to use Qin-style fishing nets, when the girls of the Ganges River put on saris embroidered with black bird patterns, and when the children on the Thames River built their own castles with Qin bricks, a new era based on the fusion of civilizations was spreading from under the feet of Ying Zheng and her to all places where the sun and the moon shine.

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