Being an otaku in the world of American comics

With a flash of light, the scene before him distorted briefly, and Liang Yue returned to the confines of the stronghold world's walls.

Compared to when he first entered the New Shaolin Five Ancestors world, the interior of the walls was now almost entirely filled with various supplies.

The spoils plundered from the Imperial History Museum and the various powerful families of the Qing court alone occupied most of the area.

The remaining gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy, jade, stone carvings, precious medicinal materials, and other items occupied another part of the space.

"Fortunately, I chose this rocky mountain as a warehouse when I left, otherwise a rainstorm would have ruined all the books here."

Reaching out to touch the rows of bookshelves filled with various books, Liang Yue nodded in satisfaction after confirming that his collections were dry and intact.

"By the way, System, does the infinite shelf life attribute in this MC world also apply to my plundered spoils?"

"Ding! As long as the items themselves are well-preserved, with no signs of damage or human-caused destruction, the stronghold world's rules can guarantee their integrity."

"That's good! It seems I need to build a place myself, specifically for storing these books, calligraphy, and spoils. Hmm, how about building a private library?"

Unconsciously stroking his chin, Liang Yue's thoughts drifted away after receiving the System's affirmative answer.

Previously, when he was still in the New Shaolin Five Ancestors world and had completed the Animal Chapter of the stronghold world's upgrade mission.

Besides receiving an extra lottery opportunity and the small surprise reward from the ecological chain's micro-end, as the System called it.

As an implicit reward for the increased integration with the stronghold world, Liang Yue's mastery of the MC world before him had also improved significantly in subtle ways.

This increased mastery was mainly reflected in the precision with which he could collect and use various resources.

For example, Liang Yue could previously only use the MC world's map to assist him in roughly locating areas within the stronghold world.

Whether it was the storage and retrieval of animals, plants, or various plundered items, there was always a certain degree of error.

In addition, Liang Yue was unable to collect or use items within covered areas, even with the map's assistance.

This situation manifested as Liang Yue being unable to manipulate items inside a house or cave within the stronghold world.

But now, this situation had improved.

At the very least, Liang Yue could now relatively freely take a book directly from the bookshelf in the stronghold world to read.

"System, show me the rewards for this mission."

Sitting back in the grandmaster's chair, Liang Yue comfortably groaned and subconsciously looked up at the starry sky where the moon was already overhead, then requested the System.

"Ding! After detection, in this main quest 'Hunting Qing Court Hounds', the host completed the task with a number exceeding the mission target multiple times, meeting the reward upgrade conditions.

Therefore, the mission reward given by the System is the mission points multiplied by eight. In addition, in this lottery privilege, the host can add a keyword to influence the selection range of the prizes."

"Ding! After detection, in the side quest 'Twisted Plotline', the host successfully protected the Chief舵主 of the Heaven and Earth Society, Chen Jinnan's personal safety during the mission period, achieving the mission objective.

Therefore, you will receive 500 mission points and an identity setting scroll."

"Huh? It didn't achieve the ten-fold mission point reward like the previous Apocalypse world? How do I feel that I've eliminated enough Qing Court Hounds in the past six months?"

Hearing this, a suspicious look flashed across Liang Yue's face, and then he unconsciously began to calculate with his fingers.

After successfully driving the Qing court's group of people back to the so-called Shengjing, Liang Yue did not give up hunting down those Han traitors and lackeys in the remaining half of his training time.

In fact, after retreating to the north, the young emperor and a group of Eight Banner nobles, unwilling as they were, did indeed send many hounds under their command, as he had previously thought, to spy on information within China.

When necessary, they would even take on the responsibility of assassinating certain important figures.

As a group of people who had truly tasted the pinnacle of power and sat in that position, after falling headlong from the lofty Chinese capital and retreating all the way back to the so-called secondary capital, which could only be considered a small city compared to Beiping.

These Tartar nobles had been plotting the day they would re-enter the Central Plains.

To this end, the Qing court, from top to bottom, could be said to be striving for self-improvement, preparing everywhere, forming alliances, and constantly wooing surrounding forces.

The reason for this was simply because the gap between the two places was too great. The huge difference between the capital and Shengjing was unbearable for anyone!

However, the Manchus were not a large ethnic group in this period.

According to their own records, when they entered the pass, the total population of the Manchus was only 340,000, including about 40,000 Manchu Eight Banners, which also included many other ethnic minorities under their command.

After more than 20 years of reproduction and living in various parts of China, the population had at most doubled, roughly 700,000 to 800,000.

Among these people, those who could successfully escape the pursuit and liquidation by uprising armies and folk heroes in various places, and escape back to their ancestral homeland outside the pass, would be remarkable if there were 10,000 of them.

In addition, those who were driven away from the capital by Liang Yue and returned to the Shengjing area with the young emperor and others, adding up all the odds and ends, it would be lucky if the total population was 500,000.

Honestly, with so few people, how many troops could they form? Could they have 100,000?

Returning to that cold Northeast region, they, who were not good at farming, could support how many people?

After the Chinese land returned to war, uprising armies and warlord forces in various places, in order to compete for the world, would inevitably set off boundless conquests.

With the Tartars' natural vigilance against the warlords and uprising armies in various places, once they were driven back to the Northeast, they would never want to come back.

Liang Yue never doubted whether this situation would occur.

The fact was just as this guy had expected. In the half year before he officially left the New Shaolin Five Ancestors world, Shanhai Pass was reoccupied.

Chen Jinnan, Hong Xiguan, and others, who were unwilling to get involved in civil wars and conquests, personally organized a group of troops to garrison it.

While defending against the Manchus from re-entering the pass, they also constantly intercepted and killed the Tartar remnants who were fleeing from all parts of the Central Plains to outside the pass.

After hearing the news, the warlords in various places also tacitly supported them with a lot of food and materials.

During this period, this guy even recruited a group of craftsmen with his reputation, and taught them the skills to build more advanced firearms based on the principles and concepts of modern firearms.

Under Liang Yue's cramming, various grenades, guns, landmines, cannons, and even steam engines, were launched and put online on the Chinese land of the New Shaolin Five Ancestors world within a few short months.

Before officially leaving this world, Liang Yue had just led that group of craftsmen to build a warship made of pure metal material.

Compared to the warships of later generations, this warship was undoubtedly very crude, but it also made many people understand a truth, that is, metal materials, as long as conditions permit, can also float on the water!