Picking Up Supreme Treasures in the Dream Realm

Great Xia.

Monan Province.

Inside an underground base.

A soldier used the Heaven Reaching Tower System to temporarily "access" the surveillance systems of Balia, the capital of the Banan Kingdom, clearly witnessing the various tragic states within the city.

The Heaven Reaching Tower is a groundbreaking black technology communication system, leading by more than a generation over the communications systems of other countries.

This system is also equipped with a super-strong intelligent AI, enabling the control center to easily take over the city’s surveillance network with just one command.

The relevant departments of the Banan people didn’t even notice anything unusual.

Though it was only the Extreme Cold Qi enveloping the city and the frost disaster had not arrived yet, the city’s temperature had plummeted directly below negative sixty degrees.

In a camera feed.

A small figure could be seen, without even wearing a cold-resistant suit, curled up in a corner of the street, with no rise and fall in the chest.

The wealth gap in the Banan Kingdom is huge, with a large number of impoverished people, and many civilians cannot afford cold-resistant suits.

This child frozen to death is just a microcosm.

In another camera feed.

As expected, many civilians attempted to flee by car, and multiple accidents occurred on a two-kilometer-long bridge, with vehicles clogging up like a sealed pot.

Many civilians were forced to get out and walk, but in areas with a high concentration of Extreme Cold Qi, this became an outright disaster.

Many elderly and weak people didn’t manage to walk far before collapsing on the sides of the road.

Some people even used fuel to ignite vehicles for warmth.

But this undoubtedly only delayed the time until death came.

Besides deaths caused by natural disasters, many man-made disasters occurred in the city.

An accident happened on a road, several cars collided with each other.

More than a dozen corpses lay scattered around, with large dark red bloodstains remaining on the ground.

Gang activities in the Banan Kingdom are rampant, and this was clearly gangs taking advantage of the disaster to loot.

There’s also a camera capturing the entire process of a store being looted.

The store had originally closed its doors, but a vehicle rammed the doors open, and a group of people rushed in, followed by gunfire.

The soldier couldn’t help but shake his head repeatedly: "Great Xia issued a frost disaster warning to the world for so long, but it seems like the Banan Kingdom hasn’t prepared at all."

A soldier beside him nodded and said, "The disaster response guide released by Great Xia explicitly advises against blindly fleeing by car; doing so would definitely trigger severe traffic congestion.

"Not only can’t people escape from the city, but rescue forces from outside also can’t get in, leading to an even greater disaster.

"Great Xia specially set up a model in Xiumei City of Tianfu Province to showcase the correct way of disaster response to the world.

"Yet the Ban Nan people can’t even copy this, they all fled by car when disaster came, resulting in a large number dead even before the frost disaster arrived."

Another soldier interjected: "This is group panic, many people simply can’t think rationally in such moments."

At this moment.

A major officer interrupted: "Alright, it’s pointless to impose Great Xia’s standards on other countries."

The soldiers all shut their mouths.

The major continued: "Our team’s task is to monitor changes in the Extreme Cold Qi, to find its inherent patterns, and prepare for future frost disasters."

After these words were spoken.

The room returned to silence.

Everyone focused intently on the screen.

After a few minutes.

A soldier called out: "Report! The expansion speed of the Extreme Cold Qi has suddenly accelerated by 1.6 times."

The major officer paused for a moment and quickly asked: "What is the frost disaster arrival time predicted by the large model?"

Another shorter soldier’s hands moved swiftly, the keyboard clattering with a "ka-ka" sound.

Two seconds later.

He provided the answer: "The latest prediction is that the frost disaster will formally appear 52 minutes after the Extreme Cold Qi arrives."

The major sighed: "Chairman Yang from Celestial Star Agriculture predicted 75 minutes, there’s a 23-minute difference between the two results, and this disparity is quite large."

The shorter soldier seemed a bit dissatisfied: "Balia is half a Canglan Star away from Great Xia; Chairman Yang’s prediction might not be perfectly accurate."

The implication was, he didn’t believe the large model’s prediction was inaccurate.

The major didn’t commit either way, merely said flatly: "Whether it’s a mule or a horse, we’ll soon find out."

The shorter soldier didn’t speak further.

The room once again descended into silence, with only the "buzzing" sound of computer fans continually transmitting.

Time ticked by second by second.

Finally, a voice broke the silence: "51 minutes have passed."

This meant only one minute remained until the large model’s predicted frost disaster time.

A minute quickly passed.

A voice reported the result: "No frost disaster occurred in Balia, the Extreme Cold Qi is still expanding."

The shorter soldier lowered his head.

The major walked over, patting his shoulder.

"Pa!"

The major said softly: "Our understanding of the Extreme Cold Qi is limited, so it’s quite normal for the large model’s predictions to be inaccurate.

"But we are constantly progressing, and I believe that one day we will accurately predict the timing of frost disasters."

The shorter soldier nodded vigorously.

Just at this moment.

A soldier said excitedly: "Report! The Orbital Strike Center has issued the command to deploy the experimental weapon ’Wind Stabilizing Pearl’ in three minutes!"

The person paused, then added: "This black technology weapon costs 1 billion Xia Yuan each; I wonder how powerful it really is."

In the previous rescue payment by the Banan Kingdom, reaching as high as 12.8 billion Xia Yuan, 6 billion Xia Yuan was the cost for six Wind Stabilizing Pearls.