Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

——Waiter, I choose the second reward!

[Host, please confirm that this time you have only one chance to travel through time. If you give up, you will stay in this era forever! ]

——I confirm!

As soon as Shi Anan made her firm choice, the system suddenly flashed white light, and a series of rewards and upgrade prompts filled the entire interface.

Xiao Er's voice rarely showed a trace of fluctuation:

[Thank you for your choice to restore all energy for the system. I hereby reward you with a mysterious gift package, which contains all the industrial era development technologies and a finished steam engine * 1. From now on, the system will serve as the host's auxiliary system to help the host complete the final task of building a country! ]

Steam engine!

Shi Anan's eyes widened unconsciously when she saw the reward, although she felt that the mysterious gift package that could be selected together with the number of time she traveled through time must contain good things.

But she didn't expect that the system would directly give her a groundbreaking reward.

The steam engine is the key to entering the industrial age. Only with this as a foundation can we truly enter the age of mechanization and electricity.

Shi Anan was satisfied. This choice was worth it!

On the eighth day of the fourth month in the thirteenth year of Tai'an,

All areas covered by the protective shield received a life-changing notification today.

They learned that the so-called magical phenomenon of golden light was actually a protective shield used to protect them.

They learned that the Northern King who had tortured them with forced labor had now been killed.

They learned that they now had a new country, named Daxia.

Most importantly, they had the first empress in history, and this empress promised to lead them into a new era!

No one questioned the accuracy of the news because the sound of the horn, which could be heard by everyone, rang clearly in everyone's ears.

Even though they have never seen their own empress, it does not affect her status in their hearts, which is comparable to that of a god!

And an incident that happened afterwards made them completely convinced of this matter.

……

Three days later, just as Shi Anan was issuing decrees to every city and village, she suddenly received an urgent notice:

[Ding! Disaster reminder: A strong acid rain will come in one day, please make disaster preparations in time. 】

At first, the announcement of this news unsurprisingly aroused doubts from people everywhere.

Because in this dynasty, they had not heard of what acid rain was.

Outside the city of Liangzhou.

A well was surrounded by villagers who came to fetch water.

As everyone lined up to get water and chatted, one of the young men pointed to the sky and asked, "What do you think of the acid rain that people up there are talking about?"

Another man in the team said perfunctorily: "How would I know? I just want to know when it will rain here."

Another old man listened to their discussion and joined in: "Is this acid rain like vinegar, which means sour water? Can you drink it?"

Hearing this question, people with a little knowledge couldn't hold back: "Oh, our gods have said that this is a disaster, don't you know about disasters? If the gods can warn you, then it must be dangerous, so don't really drink it. And the gods said that no one should leave the protective shield. This is also the border line. A little further away are vassal states composed of other small tribes. You went out out of curiosity. If you want to save your life, you'd better be honest and obedient!"

The old man smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm just asking. I'm too old to go out by myself."

Day two.

Some curious people all paid attention to the situation in the sky, wanting to know what this acid rain was as soon as possible.

But after waiting for a whole morning, there was no movement in the sky.

Just when everyone thought that the god had made a mistake in his prediction, the world was suddenly enveloped in a mysterious silence. The sky gradually lost its former clarity and became somewhat gloomy and depressing. The originally pure white clouds now seemed to have been painted with a gray brush, stained with a dull hue.

Seeing such an abnormal scene, even a three-year-old child would realize that something was wrong.

Even though they knew that they were protected by a protective shield, except for the people in Guangming County and Cangwu City, which had experienced a typhoon, no other place had actually experienced the effect of the protective shield, so everyone was still a little scared.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock——

With the sound of raindrops hitting the ground, some people hiding in the house cautiously stuck their heads out to look.

But the ground was still dry, but the pungent smell everywhere told everyone that acid rain was coming!

Compared to the people of Daxia who are covered by the protective shield, the other small countries around are in real crisis.

The acid rain was of extremely high concentration and affected the entire continent.

Daxia's protective shield blocked the corrosive rain outside. Apart from smelling some pungent odors that could not be blocked, the people inside the shield could only see ripples caused by the blackened rain hitting the shield.

The safety of the people living in the inland areas was guaranteed, and they did not actually see the damage caused by acid rain. They were only curious about the black rain, but no one dared to go out and commit suicide.

But the people living along the border saw something different. They witnessed with their own eyes how the acid rain was corroding the land.

At first, there were only a few sparse drops that fell on the ground, making a slight "sizzling" sound. But soon, the rain became heavy and poured down.

On the ground, acid rain quickly eroded everything. The originally hard mud road became bumpy, as if it had been gnawed by countless small insects. Flowers, plants and trees quickly withered and died under the attack of acid rain.

Rivers and lakes were not spared either. Acid rain fell into the water, stirring up white foam. The lake water became turbid and the fish rolled and struggled in the water in pain.

The water plants along the river have also been corroded by acid rain, turning yellow and shriveled, losing their former vitality.

In some tribes that were relatively close to the Great Xia Kingdom, someone suddenly let out a scream. It turned out that the roof was leaking due to corrosion from acid rain, causing the acid rain to drip onto their bodies, causing their skin and flesh to begin to rot.

"Help--" The man corroded by the acid rain rolled on the ground in pain, but they did not know any first aid measures and did not know how to deal with the skin corroded by acid. They could only watch the man's skin gradually become torn and bloody.

Some people saw that the scene inside the Great Xia Kingdom, which was separated from them by a layer of protective shield, was completely different from what they had here.

The land corroded by acid rain seemed to be blocked by something and ended abruptly in front of the border of Daxia. On one side there was green grass and on the other side there was withering vitality.

Now they realized how ridiculous their previous thoughts were. Just a few days ago, they were still laughing at the people over there, who were shrouded in some unknown golden light, as if they were sheep kept in a cage.

It turns out that the golden light is what can truly protect them.