Chapter Forty-Four: The Seven-Day Pact

As Lin Yang continued to gather cultural relics within the borders of Yamato, the online frenzy between the two nations escalated day by day!

The domestic reports announced a daily surge in newly received cultural relic donations—starting from hundreds per piece a day, escalating to thousands, and eventually approaching nearly ten thousand daily!

Such a staggering number completely stunned netizens across the country!

Most netizens knew that cultural relics were scattered abroad, but they had no idea that the number of looted treasures was actually this immense!

Receiving nearly ten thousand new donations every single day—what a horrifying figure that was!

This only fueled the outrage of domestic netizens even more!

"Damn it, those wretched bastards actually plundered this many cultural relics from us back in the day??"

"Exactly! If this mysterious heavyweight hadn't stepped in, we wouldn't even have known they hid them so deeply. Truly damnable!"

"They stole so many of our relics, and now they actually have the audacity to shamelessly demand that we return them. I seriously want to use my size-eight shoe to smash them right across their faces!"

"Ahem, bro upstairs, you don't even need to step up for this. Let me use my size-twelve shoe first..."

As the number of cultural relics increased day by day, domestic netizens cursed Yamato with furious indignation while simultaneously being overwhelmed with joy!

After all, tens of thousands of cultural relics were returning home just like that—how could anyone not be happy?

Netizens were celebrating every single day as if it were the Lunar New Year.

They hovered over the official account of the Cultural Heritage Administration every day, waiting for updates on the latest count of recovered relics!

Naturally, every coin has two sides!

While domestic netizens celebrated as if it were a holiday, the people of Yamato spent every day consumed by rage!

They didn't think for a second that these cultural relics returning to Shangxia belonged back where they rightfully should be.

Instead, they only felt that their own possessions were being stolen!

Consequently, the netizens of Yamato urged their government every single day to launch a few missiles directly so that Shangxia would learn the consequences!

The rhetoric from the Yamato government did indeed grow stricter by the day!

This further inflamed the populace of Yamato, giving them the feeling that before long, they would genuinely launch missiles at Shangxia.

The wealthy elite of Yamato, however, found themselves suffering in silence. No matter what methods they employed, no matter where they hid the relics, and no matter how many guards they stationed, at some unexpected moment, the treasures would inexplicably vanish.

These tycoons also began relentlessly pressing the Yamato government, demanding some level of compensation!

Seizing the momentum, the Yamato government directly issued an official announcement stating that Shangxia must provide an explanation within one week.

The severity of the wording reached an indescribable extreme!

"Attack! Crush them! Destroy those damn wretches!"

"My Great Yamato is the only true god of the East!"

"Make these damned Shangxia fellows pay the price!!"

With this announcement, the internet in Yamato instantly erupted into flames!

A massive horde of Yamato netizens even swarmed over to Shangxia's domestic news forums to hurl all sorts of provocations!

And back at home, to be honest, everyone was dumbfounded for a brief moment!

"What the hell, am I hallucinating? Yamato actually dares to talk like this? Are they still sleepwalking or what?"

"Hold on, can this statement roughly be translated to: return all cultural relics within seven days, or else taste our missiles?"

"Spot on, that's exactly it!"

"6! I can only say Yamato is truly 6! Do they seriously think they can dominate the East just because they researched a few crappy missiles?"

"Damn it, daring to threaten us like this—I am really looking forward to our government's response!"

To be frank, domestic netizens didn't take Yamato's threat to heart at all!

Instead, they simply felt that the people of Yamato must still be half-asleep!

Are they joking? Even if they developed new missiles, so what?

Everyone was actually anticipating an even more direct and forceful response from the authorities this time!

In fact, it wasn't just domestic netizens; even those western onlookers felt that Yamato was acting a bit too overzealous this time.

Developing a few new missiles and already wanting to challenge Shangxia's status was simply too delusional!

Of course, for the West, this was none of their business, so they watched from the sidelines.

Therefore, the governments of Western nations silently observed the developments. If Yamato genuinely dared to make a move, it would instead allow them to peer into the true might of the great Eastern power!

However, the authorities did not issue a direct verbal reply. Instead, they simply released an image containing just four characters:

"The Seven-Day Pact!"

These simple four characters felt like a response, yet remained somewhat ambiguous, but they immediately caused Yamato to explode once again!

"Damn Shangxia bastards, too arrogant! We must teach them a lesson this time!"

The Yamato netizens were hopping mad!

Meanwhile, seeing such a powerful response issued, domestic netizens grew wildly excited.

This was a blood feud!

Many people were hoping that Yamato would actually dare to make a move this time!

That way, they would have a righteous excuse to strike back and exact revenge!

The atmosphere instantly became scorching hot!

Seven days—just seven more days, and the truth would be revealed!

Every single citizen of Shangxia was rolling up their sleeves and gearing up for action!

"You Yamato fellows, you better not chicken out!"

Myriads of netizens shared the exact same thought at this very moment!

They were immensely eager for these seven days to fly by!

Yamato.

"Phew... It's finally done!"

As time ticked by day after day, Lin Yang finally finished collecting the very last cultural relic scattered across Yamato!

Immediately afterward, a long string of system notifications echoed in his mind.

"Congratulations to the host for completing the series of quests for the return of national-grade cultural relics within the region. You have received a first-tier bonus reward and an exclusive mystery grand prize!"

"Congratulations to the host! For successfully completing the national-grade cultural relic return series for the first time, you have been awarded 1 achievement point. Your current achievement points total 10."

"Congratulations to the host! Since your achievement points have reached 10, you have unlocked the exclusive achievement title: Quest Master!"

"Congratulations to the host! By returning all cultural relics scattered in Yamato to their homeland, you have inspired a profound sense of admiration among the citizens of your home nation, being revered as a nameless hero. You have gained 1 renown point!"

"Due to the special historical enmity and karmic bond between the host's home nation and Yamato, your acquired renown point has been amplified, increasing your total renown gained to 10 points. Your current renown stands at 31 points!"

"Congratulations to the host for completing a series quest in a nation with a special karmic bond for the first time, granting extra National Treasure Value rewards and bonus achievement points!"

"Congratulations to the host! Your accumulated National Treasure Value has reached 3,000 points, granting you 1 corresponding achievement point!"

"Congratulations to the host..."

This batch of system notifications was longer than any that had come before.

Lin Yang's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he read them!