Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Chapter 670 - 404: Blood Donation by the Entire Population

Siam, Manchester.

At ten in the morning, the streets were bustling with people and traffic weaving through.

It was hard to tell that just half a year ago, the city had been through a war.

Fortunately, due to the restraint shown by the Jieke Group, the war did not reach this largest city on the Southeast Asia peninsula, allowing it to remain prosperous and lively.

The biggest change in Manchester since the past was the addition of a Jieke Group military encampment not far outside the city, and, due to the withdrawal of a large number of electronic processing plants from Europe and America, the factory buildings were repurposed into Insect Nests, breeding a large variety of venomous insects and snakes. Many Siamese people joined the Jieke Group's insect breeding venture, and business was booming.

Xu Changming walked down the main street of Manchester with several of his graduate students. At forty-seven years old, he was a professor in the Department of International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, at a well-known university in Hua Country, certainly considered to be young and promising.

This trip to Siam was for the purpose of researching the Jieke Group.

After the Jieke Group forced the Siamese Four Countries to sign the "Manchester Treaty", becoming the undisputed hegemon of the Southeast Asia peninsula,

Research related to the Jieke Group and how to better interact with this corporate nation had become a major focus for many countries.

Economic affairs, international relations, geopolitical matters, Mecha hegemony, genetics, and medical fields—every aspect of the Jieke Group had become hot research topics in universities.

For the purpose of research, Xu Changming had specifically come to Siamese City Manchester for field investigation.

"The city is filled with many blonde-haired, blue-eyed foreigners as well as our own people from Hua Country."

Lin Lingling, following her mentor Xu Changming, noticed that today Manchester was teeming with many foreign tourists, including a substantial number from China.

"You should have done more homework, today is the opening day of the Nightmare Park in Manchester, attracting a lot of domestic and international tourists to come and experience it."

Xu Changming spoke, having seen the news yesterday that the Jieke Group had opened several branches of Nightmare Park all at once in five countries on the Southeast Asia peninsula. This immersive Ghost House experience was extremely attractive, especially to the youth.

Moreover, there were generous rewards for those who successfully completed the challenge in the Nightmare Park's Ghost House, although hardly anyone ever claimed them.

"Manchester has a Nightmare Park too?"

Lin Lingling's eyes lit up, somewhat eager to try. During her research trip to Chan Country Mande City, the movie "Wedding Dress" had been a hit, and she had visited the Nightmare Park in Mande City. However, being skittish yet playful, she was always thoroughly scared by the realistic ghosts and monsters, yet she never tired of it.

"After you rest, you can go and have fun on your own, I'm too old to handle that kind of excitement."

Xu Changming said with a smile. As they turned down a street, they unexpectedly came across a square where several buses emblazoned with red cross symbols were parked.

Doctors and nurses were busy with activities, and a large number of people were queuing up to donate blood.

"So many blood donation vehicles, is there a shortage at the hospital?"

Lin Lingling asked curiously, seeing as many as fifty or sixty donation vehicles occupying a large part of the square, with thousands of people lining up around it, eagerly talking and creating a festive atmosphere.

"Let's go, have a look, everyone split up and investigate, find out what's going on."

Xu Changming's interest was piqued, and he led his students over, suggesting they each conduct their own investigations.

"Hey handsome, what are you all doing here! Why has everyone come to donate blood voluntarily?"

Lin Lingling harnessed her charming looks and sweet voice to approach a young man and asked him in her passable Siamese.

Seeing Lin Lingling, the pretty young lady, the young man immediately perked up and enthusiastically explained, "Heh heh, Miss, this is not voluntary blood donation, but mandatory blood donation. Our country has just issued a regulation that every citizen has the obligation to donate blood, with the government requiring a minimum of two donations per person per year. This policy is starting in the big cities first and then gradually spreading out. I received a text message and came here specifically to donate. Because of this, my company arranged three days of leave for me, as per the regulation that must be implemented."

"Mandatory blood donation? Really?"

Lin Lingling was taken aback, it was the first time she'd heard of mandatory blood donation in her life.

Siam was about to lead the world by being the first country to require blood donation from all its citizens.

"Could this be fake? This blood donation policy has just been implemented. You're likely not Siamese people, are you? Here it's already caused a huge stir, not just in Siam, but in the countries across the Southeast Asia peninsula, all of which must carry out this blood donation policy."

Upon hearing this, Lin Lingling immediately understood that this likely wasn't Siam taking the initiative for blood donation; it was probably the Jieke Group pulling strings in the background.

The only entity with the power to make every country on the Southeast Asia peninsula implement such an outrageous policy was the Jieke Group.

"If I may ask, when the Siamese authorities require you to come and donate blood for free, you just come? Is everyone so enthusiastic or is there a punishment for not participating?"

Lin Lingling couldn't wrap her head around when Siamese citizens had become so conscientious.

Something like blood donation, which is advocated for every year, only attracts a very small percentage of the population to genuinely donate love, to the point where hospitals often face blood shortages and lack blood reserves.

If people claimed to be actively donating blood out of the kindness of their hearts, Lin Lingling wouldn't believe it.

"This isn't like the past voluntary blood donations; there are awards for us for this mandatory blood donation."