Due to the long-standing embargo on information from the other side, very few people had an adequate understanding of it, to the point that in the minds of most, they had no clue how frighteningly advanced the other side had become after decades of rapid development.
It's not just that it was the year 5008, even several years later, there would still be so-called experts and professors who, with all seriousness, would proclaim on television that people from the other side were so poor they couldn't afford anything, a bunch of real-life frogs in a well.
And those men and women who came with Lin Dong were exactly that kind of frogs in a well.
"Lin Dong, you gave too much money, several hundreds! Look how you've scared this kid, he can't even speak!"
