Picking Up Supreme Treasures in the Dream Realm

He sighed, "I remember the river wasn’t this wide before. Now with the super flood, the river is at least twice as wide."

Napatthan vaguely saw many white, block-like objects floating on the river and asked, "Are those ice floes?"

Long Xingyun nodded, "The military blew up many glaciers upstream to preemptively guide the flood."

As soon as he finished speaking,

some small black dots fell into the river, and huge columns of water shot up into the sky.

"Boom!"

The thunderous sound followed.

It was evident that the military had dropped bombs of great power.

The crowd watching the diversion efforts in the square immediately became visibly agitated.

Voices of discussion arose.

"So spectacular!"

"The power of this bomb is enormous!"

"Is it to clear the ice floes on the river?"

"At the river bends, ice floes easily accumulate. Explosions can shatter the ice to prevent blockages."

Long Xingyun was seeing this kind of scene for the first time and couldn’t take his eyes off it.

Napatthan was equally fascinated.

Every once in a while, another wave of bombs would fall.

"Boom!"

The water columns rose and fell again, and it began to pour on the river.

Long Xingyun shared what he knew: "Lanjiang River is over 6000 kilometers long, with more than 1000 detonation points arranged."

"Every so often, the military will drop bombs on the river. This bombardment will last 10 days until the super flood ends."

"I saw online that just for the diversion of Lanjiang, the Great Xia Military prepared 80,000 tons of explosives."

Napatthan marveled again, "No matter the disaster, you Great Xia handle it exceptionally well."

Long Xingyun replied with an air of inevitability, "Of course! Because we are Great Xia!"

*

Central East Continent.

Jickistan.

Among the "Five Great Stan Countries" in the central East Continent, Jickistan is known as the "Mountain Nation."

Because 90% of its territory is mountains and plateaus, with nearly half located at altitudes above 3000 meters.

This country has many mountains, naturally abundant in mineral resources.

After the Age of Calamity arrived, many mutated mineral deposits were found in Jickistan, considered a gift from heaven.

Due to its proximity to Great Xia, Great Xia Corporations took the opportunity to enter Jickistan to exploit the mutated mineral resources.

However, the Five Great Stan Countries are not very honest, all remain wary of Great Xia, and Jickistan dares not act openly but imposes many restrictions on Great Xia Corporations in secret.

To counterbalance Great Xia, Jickistan even reached an agreement with the Bering Kingdom, allowing the Bering people to station troops in the country and granting them more favorable conditions to exploit national resources.

The purpose of this is solely to stop Great Xia’s expansion.

While Long Xingyun watched the military blasting ice floes, the capital city of Jickistan, Duran’shan City, was facing a cataclysm.

Once, the mountains brought wealth to the Jike People, but today they brought a terrifying disaster.

The massive glaciers accumulated in the mountain region during the cold weather disaster were now melting on a large scale, carrying countless ice floes toward Duran’shan City.

This was even more terrifying than a mere flood.

Because the ice floes could crash into objects with the currents, posing an actual substantial destructive force.

The Jike People had no ability to foresee the disaster, no capability to build dams, nor the means to divert the flood in advance.

In the sky,

the highest commander of the Blood Banner Legion, Long Xingyun, aboard the Canglan Eagle fully-invisible helicopter, looked at the icy torrent rushing towards the city and exclaimed, "Tsk tsk, over 2 million people, what a pity!"

It was predictable that among these over 2 million Jike people, not many would survive.

Next to him, a blue-haired Superpower User asked, "Why doesn’t the higher-up save these Jike People? Given Great Xia’s current strength, relocating over 2 million people shouldn’t be too difficult."

Long Xingyun shook his head, "Things aren’t as simple as you think."

He then explained, "Decades ago, Jickistan and the Bering Kingdom were one family. Though they later split, the two countries still have very deep connections.

"The Bering people aren’t exactly friendly towards the Great Xia People, the Jike People were greatly influenced, and their perception of the Great Xia People is worse, especially their upper echelons.

"Back when the Pioneer Alliance was founded, the Bering people never applied to join, nor did the Five Great Stan Countries.

"Now that Duran’shan City is facing a great flood, Jike People would rather seek aid from the Bering than look to Great Xia, which is already enough to explain the issue.

"Even if Great Xia intervened to save the Jike People, don’t expect them to be grateful. All you’d save are a bunch of ingrates, assimilating them would be very difficult, so why bother helping?"

As a senior military official, he knew very clearly that Great Xia needed not just a number of people but people who genuinely recognized Great Xia.

Those who don’t recognize Great Xia, even if given national certificates, aren’t Great Xia People!

Long Xingyun added, "Now, Jickistan only has over 7 million people left. The expected birth population of Great Xia this year is over 55 million, with a high probability of exceeding 60 million next year. We really don’t lack this small number of people."

The blue-haired Superpower User nodded, "That’s true."

After a few seconds,

the two watched as the flood roared into the city, a large ice floe crashing hard into a church, easily toppling it.

Soon after,

the entire city turned into a vast ocean, with only a few taller buildings protruding from the water’s surface.

A few survivors struggled on the water’s surface, but due to the extremely low temperature of the floodwaters, they soon fell into hypothermia and sank beneath the surface.

The blue-haired Superpower User couldn’t help but lament, "In the face of disasters, how insignificant humans seem."

Long Xingyun retorted, "Insignificant, my ass! If you’d seen the Ghost Lord in action, you wouldn’t think humans are insignificant."