A week into the transmigration missionary work, thirty-seven missionaries and their accompanying staff had broken down, with six choosing to withdraw directly. The remaining thirty-one stayed behind at the newly established base camp, intending to rest and strengthen their resolve to continue.
As for the six to seventy billion viewers in the live stream rooms, tens of millions began seeking psychological treatment. Many others dared not watch certain live streams anymore. The primary reason was that the events unfolding in some of the otherworld nations struck them with terror, making their hearts pound and their livers crack, unable to bear watching, as if witnessing an earthly hell. They couldn't bear to watch, smell, or think about it, yet any memory brought on nightmares and even weeping in the dead of night.
Compared to the human sacrifice cases discovered by Li Wen, the realities of war, famine, and cannibalism, situations that were originally written in history books and passed over in a few words, were happening in the otherworld reality. The impact of witnessing these events firsthand through the live streams was an unimaginable horror and tremor. Few who had never gone hungry and had grown up in peaceful countries and peaceful times could accept it calmly. No matter how much fear they felt, it wasn't enough to describe their emotions.
The Sun Order forum was also in a state of constant debate.
[It was once difficult to imagine how many broken families and cruel realities lay behind a single line, a paragraph, or a few data points in history books. Now that I've seen it, I can't find any other adjectives besides terror and dread. It's too cruel, a true earthly hell.]
[In reality, our country has only been able to provide for the basic needs of all its citizens and free them from hunger and cold for less than fifty years. Many so-called prosperous eras in the past merely meant that the majority of people wouldn't starve to death. That's right, just ensuring that the majority of the common people don't starve to death was considered a glorious and prosperous era!]
[War means death... I think I'm starting to understand why Emperor Renzong seemed weak and his martial arts mediocre, yet the people wept uncontrollably after his death. Thirty years of peace and no warfare was the greatest happiness for the people at that time.]
[Emperor Wu's martial prowess was legendary, shaking ancient and modern times, but for the common people of that era, it was an unbearable hardship. A single line in the history books stating that the population halved in a few decades meant unimaginable suffering for every family. For one general's success, countless lives were lost; I can imagine the countless families, mothers, wives, and children weeping, even dying...]
[Ten thousand blessings to the Goddess!]
[Human history is truly a history of suffering.]
[I was hesitant before, thinking that so-called missionary work was just invasion. But now I suddenly feel that it might not be a bad thing. After all, we are not barbarically impacting civilization or destroying it; we are bringing them sustenance and more advanced civilization.]
[It's too tragic, I can't bear to watch...]
[What is happening in the otherworlds has happened in our past. These things will not cease to exist just because we refuse to look. I still hope that the missionaries of the past can quickly resolve the chaos and famine.]
[I wonder if we can donate food. My family has a large artificial nutrient solution factory. Although the taste isn't great, it will definitely fill your stomach. Business has been declining lately, so I can donate tens of millions of tubes for emergency use.]
[You can choose to give rewards, designating a specific streamer. Once a certain amount is accumulated, the Sun God Hall will initiate dimensional transmission to send the items over. It can be considered a crowdfunding endeavor for everyone.]
[Life nowadays is truly blissful.]
[Yes, especially for an ordinary commoner, the current life is undoubtedly the happiest in the past five thousand years. I can't say whether officials were happier in the past or now, but commoners are definitely happiest now. I just hope this kind of life can continue. May it not be followed by decline after prosperity.]
[With the Goddess here, I believe we can break the past cycle of prosperity and decline. The next generation, and even subsequent generations, will be able to live even better lives than now, rather than living precariously, with life and death in the hands of fate...]
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After this, the number of daily live stream viewers gradually decreased. Most people preferred to watch the curated and censored versions edited by various television stations, as they found them more palatable, feeling like they were just watching documentaries. The impact would be less jarring. Otherwise, they simply couldn't endure it, experiencing nightmares for half a month straight.
Fortunately, these situations did not significantly impact the transmigration missionary plan. The overall situation continued to advance steadily. The few who withdrew did not all withdraw completely; only some did, while the remaining individuals continued to push forward with the transmigration missionary plan.
However, the missionary plan in some of the worlds had already begun to deviate from its original intent. Instead of missionary work, it was more akin to foreign aid, especially in worlds experiencing climatic anomalies. They truly had no surplus, and the grain seized from overthrowing corrupt rulers was insufficient for disaster relief. They had to import thirty billion units of nutrient solution from their own world to meet the reserves before the next harvest.
However, these worlds were also the easiest to gain faith from. Distributing some food would immediately turn most people into true believers. It was estimated that once the first batch of high-yield crop seeds were harvested and only a very small portion of taxes were collected as agreed, most people would be able to advance to become devout believers. This showed how much hardship was conducive to gathering faith.
For people living in prosperity and without worries of hunger, they would need to pursue cultivation, longevity, and things beyond basic sustenance to make them offer their faith. But for those who had wallowed in suffering for most of their lives, who had never eaten their fill, and were on the verge of starvation, a single meal was enough. This might be why some worlds ruled by deities, despite having the ability to ensure the people's peace and favorable weather, still frequently experienced natural and man-made disasters. After all, without hardship, where would devout faith come from? Or rather, without hardship, where would devout faith be obtained so cheaply?
However, Ding Yun did not mind the cost, nor did he stoop to artificially creating disasters and then rescuing people from them. He certainly did not treat people differently because of differences in civilization level or lower levels of civilization that were easier to deceive. Therefore, even in the otherworlds that had not been completely conquered, as long as someone reached the level of devout faith, Ding Yun treated them all equally, bestowing them with corresponding cultivation techniques and the authority to redeem Sun Orders.
Consequently, less than a month after the transmigration missionary work began, users from other worlds started appearing one after another on the Sun Order internal forum. Many new users appeared, tentatively learning knowledge and exploring the main world within the forum. Cross-world comprehensive exchange had officially begun. It was no longer a one-sided understanding and exploration, but a mutual understanding and exploration. Many people, eager to teach, were helping them understand their own worlds, and even showing off the power of their nations.