Space-Time Merchant: Exchange Food for The Elf Princess

Soon, a short film titled "Rebirth" was released on the Tianyu Group official website and its official accounts on various platforms.

The video began with a small island that had some greenery but looked somewhat barren from a distance.

Some dilapidated wooden shacks were vaguely visible on the island, and there were also some small fishing boats by the sea.

Clearly, this was what Penglai Island looked like before.

Then the scene shifted, and the aerial view of the dilapidated small island disappeared, replaced by a large, flat expanse, like a desert in the sea, abruptly appearing in the middle of the ocean.

Anyone with a bit of common sense could easily see that this barren island was now many times larger than the previous one.

Immediately after, the scene flashed to the process of large construction modules rapidly transforming the island.

The video clearly showed a fast-forward effect, under which the barren island quickly "grew."

Green plants began to grow from the coastline, soon covering the entire island.

At the same time, buildings rapidly sprouted up in the middle of the island like mushrooms after rain, even faster than the green vegetation covered the island.

Careful viewers could even clearly see numerous transport planes continuously taking off and landing from the island's airport in the aerial view, and countless giant ships constantly entering, unloading, and leaving multiple ports around the island.

Everything highlighted extreme efficiency.

At the end of the short film, in front of a completed military facility-like compound on the edge of the island, an army covered head-to-toe in exoskeletons was drilling in formation.

After the camera gave a close-up shot of one of the exoskeletons, the entire video ended.

The logo at the end was the two characters "Tianyu Penglai" in ancient Jiuzhou script.

The former was the Tianyu Group's trademark, and the latter was naturally the island's name.

As soon as the video was released, Tianshu used a little trick to drive traffic, and then it didn't even need to do anything; due to the explosive content of the video, it quickly went viral across the entire network, topping the trending lists of various video websites.

At the same time, it naturally attracted the attention of countless people.

: Is this the Tianyu Group's island? Didn't they have a problem with aboriginals landing on it a few days ago? Now you're telling me the island has been completely transformed and its area has been expanded so much?

: Holy cow, this efficiency, are they filming a fantasy movie here?

: Are you guys stupid? Didn't you see the fast-forward? This must have been transformed a long time ago and edited in post-production. I guess the islanders' attempt to land on the island was when the island transformation was already nearing completion.

: That makes sense, I guess this island has been in Tianyu Group's hands for a long time.

: Then why did those islanders come to cause trouble at that time?

: Do you even need to think about it? They must have known the island was made too good by Tianyu Group and regretted it.

: But speaking of which, buying islands is legal abroad, I know that. But is it really legal to reclaim land and expand the island's area on a purchased island like this? Won't it affect shipping lanes?

: Hiss, that's a really niche question. I guess even the countries that sold the islands would never have thought that someone would reclaim land and expand the area on a private island they bought.

: If it doesn't affect shipping lanes, it should be fine, right?

To Tianshu's surprise, the first thing netizens focused on when the video was uploaded was not the island's transformation, but whether such expansion was legal.

And because the popularity was too terrifying, legal bloggers quickly jumped out to popularize knowledge for netizens.

Some said it was legal, others said it was not; in short, everyone had their own arguments, but not a single legal provision could be found as a basis.

After all, no country was truly bored enough to legislate on such a niche matter.

Fortunately, it wasn't long before someone brought the topic back on track.

A small blogger with only a few hundred followers made a video with a very explosive title, "With this thing, you actually care if what Tianyu Group is doing is legal?" As soon as the video was released, it quickly received website promotion and soon gained millions of likes.

Because the content inside was also very simple, mainly extracting the last part about the exoskeleton armor from the video released by Tianshu, and also cutting in a part of the video from a few days ago where the Power Armor intercepted those islanders and the urgent fleet, and the video also included some captions:

"Did you all forget the Power Armor Tianyu Group sent out when those islanders attacked the island? Holy cow, although these released at the end of this video look a bit different from the previous two, aren't these clearly Power Armor too? With so many of these things, do they still need to care about any laws? Even the White-headed Eagle would have to think twice before moving against Tianyu Group, right?"

When netizens saw this, they immediately recalled the Power Armor that had just caused a heated discussion online a few days ago.

Then, looking at the nearly hundred meticulously arrayed exoskeleton armors filling the screen, they were all stunned.

: Oh my god, if these are all like the Power Armor from that day, not only can they fly, but they can also withstand grenade explosions at close range, then that's really a bit too awesome, isn't it?

: I can't even imagine how explosive it would be if our Jiuzhou army were also equipped with such good things.

: Honestly, no wonder Tianyu Group dared to claim this island, knowing that those Western white-skinned people had malicious intentions, and dared to invest resources in its transformation and development. So this is where their confidence comes from.

: ...

Amidst the exclamations of "I've discovered the truth" from a crowd of netizens, Tianshu directly logged into Tianyu Group's main account and replied in the comment section of this video.

"These armors only appeared for less than two seconds. It's impressive that the blogger noticed them. Regarding these armors, I can give everyone some popular science."

"The ones that appeared guarding the island a few days ago are our Tianyu Group's latest developed Power Armor, officially named 'Heavenly Soldier-1' All-Terrain Multi-functional Power Armor. Its functions are extremely powerful, capable of flying, diving into the sea, and even maintaining combat effectiveness in a space zero-gravity environment."

"And those that appeared in the video are our group's 'Garrison' type exoskeleton armor, whose technology is already quite mature. There is a big difference between the two; compared to Power Armor, exoskeleton armor has many limitations and can only support ground combat without modifications."

Its serious popular science explanation wasn't really meant to educate people about the difference between Power Armor and exoskeleton armor.

Of course, it wasn't for showing off either; Tianshu is an AI and doesn't need people to provide it with emotional value.

The purpose of saying so much was merely to preheat the exoskeleton armor.

If both the exoskeleton armor and the Power Armor weren't hyped up, how would they be sold later?