Outskirts of the Ice Sea.

The icebreaker Galileo, resting motionless on the sea surface.

When the massive earthquake occurred on the Icefield before, this icebreaker had not yet entered the Arctic Circle, luckily avoiding a disaster.

After the earthquake, superpower users from various countries suffered heavy casualties; how could the Galileo dare to proceed?

A superpower user exploration team aboard this ship, affiliated with a company from the Bailu Kingdom, was awkwardly trapped in the Ice Sea.

At this very moment.

Inside a lounge.

Dorset gazed through the porthole at the boundless Ice Sea.

He took a cigarette box out of his pocket, pulled a cigarette from it, put it in his mouth, and lightly touched the tip of the cigarette with his finger.

A flash of red light swept over.

The cigarette was instantly lit.

Dorset took a deep drag and exhaled a spiral of smoke.

He mumbled indistinctly, "I hate this godforsaken place, not even a hot lady around."

With this little trick of lighting and exhaling smoke, he had flirted with quite a number of women in bars.

Many women, upon knowing he was a superpower user, would cling to him persistently.

However, Dorset would unhesitatingly kick them away.

For a solitary tree, to give up an entire forest — how could he do such a foolish thing?

At this moment.

"Creak~"

With a light sound.

The cabin door was pushed open.

Dorset glanced over, and his eyes immediately caught sight of an extremely burly man.

The man stood 2.5 meters tall, practically a small giant.

The giant bent down to enter the cabin door, frowning as he looked at the cigarette in Dorset's hand.

Dorset grumbled with dissatisfaction, "Being stuck in a cabin all day is boring as hell. What's wrong with smoking?"

Though complaining, he obediently snuffed out the cigarette butt.

This small detail showed that this small giant's strength was indeed formidable, or Dorset wouldn't so readily comply.

The giant said in a muffled voice, "Rules are rules. If you want to smoke, you can do it outside."

Dorset muttered in a low voice, "It's so cold outside, I'm not an idiot."

The giant glanced at him, "Rules are the cornerstone of human society's development. Great Xia People are willing to strictly follow rules; thus, they have established the world's most extensive allocation system and resolutely implemented it.

"No other country on Canglan Star, including the Carmenia Federation and the Southern Cross Alliance, can do such, hence their clumsy responses to natural disasters.

"Eastern Great Xia has turned from a backward country into the most powerful country on Canglan Star in merely two hundred years, inseparably linked to this."

Dorset always felt something was off in the other's words, filled with flaws but didn't know how to counter them.

If he had read more, he'd understand this was a typical "shooting the arrow first, then drawing the target" behavior.

Great Xia, as a superpower on Canglan Star, still rare in its upward phase, naturally has countless people willing to study it, bestowing all sorts of praises upon it.

In another phrase, "There are always great scholars to argue my case."

The giant sat down, opened a bottle of alcohol, poured a glass, and downed half of it in one go.

Dorset asked, "By the way, Giant Fist, weren't you just in contact with the employer? What did the employer say?"

Giant Fist uttered one word, "Wait!"

Dorset complained, "This time, the Icefield cost the lives of tens of thousands of superpower users, who knows how many other dangers await, the exploration team should just pack up and go home."

Giant Fist succinctly replied, "We took the money, so we must follow orders."

Dorset was left speechless.

The two lapsed into silence.

Giant Fist sipped his drink slowly.

Dorset gazed out of the window.

After a while.

Dorset changed the subject, "This time, Carmenia Federation sent two thousand superpower users to the Icefield, while Great Xia sent less than a hundred.

"At the time, I thought Great Xia People were too conservative, but looking back now, they were the truly wise ones.

"Only a few dozen superpower users were lost on the Arctic Icefield, hardly affecting Great Xia at all.

"Yet the Carmenians sacrificed nearly a tenth of their superpower users for the Cold Abyss Ice Fish — utterly foolish."

Giant Fist said, "The more I understand about Great Xia, the more I think of it as an excellent nation."

Dorset shrugged, "I'm increasingly feeling you've become a die-hard fan of Great Xia."

Giant Fist said seriously, "Future natural disasters will only increase, and if only one country can endure, that country must be Great Xia."

Dorset curiously asked, "Why don't you join Great Xia then?"

Giant Fist calmly replied, "Though Great Xia is wonderful, I do not intend to betray my own country."

Dorset somewhat disapproved, but said nothing more.

At this moment.

Giant Fist's ears suddenly perked up, and he turned to look outside the porthole.

Dorset was taken aback and asked, "What is it?"

Giant Fist responded, "I seem to hear the sound of helicopter rotors."

Dorset was skeptical, "Impossible, right?"

He added, "Great Xia people said that the Arctic Icefield is filled with Extreme Cold Qi, making helicopters prone to malfunction here.

"Carmenians didn't believe the information provided by Great Xia and sent quite a few helicopters here, ending up with over twenty crashed in just two days."

Giant Fist stood up with a "whoosh", "I won't mishear."

He quickly walked out of the cabin.

Dorset hesitated for a moment, but followed.

Soon.

The two reached the door leading to the deck.

Giant Fist rapidly opened the door.

Cold wind rushed in.

At this very moment.

"Buzz~"

A slight vibration sound came from the horizon.

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