Picking Up Supreme Treasures in the Dream Realm-Chapter 494 - 340. Mr. Spirit Crows has become stronger again, and I have mastered the method to remotely detonate the Heping Bullet.
Aleksey felt something was amiss but still said, "That’s right, the intercontinental railway repair project started half a month ago."
Qin Deguang shook his head, "No, it hasn’t started."
Aleksey blurted out, "That’s impossible! On the day the project began, His Majesty King went to the site personally, and the TV station even made special reports."
Qin Deguang spoke frankly, "According to our information, the repair work on this intercontinental railway stopped after just three days.
"Because the damaged section is over five hundred kilometers long, the project is enormous, and the construction environment is exceedingly harsh. Bering Kingdom’s engineers barely managed to work for a few days before they couldn’t keep going.
"At this rate, it might take your country up to twenty years to fully repair the intercontinental railway."
By then, there might not be many people left alive in the Eastern Bering Region.
Aleksey instinctively refused to believe, "Really? Our official reports seem not to have covered this news."
Little Ivan smirked slightly at the corner of his mouth.
He thought this remark was utterly foolish.
Such a scandal as "starting construction for three days only to stop" would obviously not be publicly reported by the Kingdom, else they would be cursed to death by the Eastern Bering people, wouldn’t they?
But Little Ivan was rather pleased with this news.
Because the failure to repair the intercontinental railway meant that the success rate of Eastern Bering Region’s independence had increased.
Qin Deguang didn’t refute, instead pointed out the most fatal issue, "The materials for manufacturing steel rails must have sufficient strength, stability, and wear resistance.
"The Bering Kingdom indeed can produce steel that withstands extremely low temperatures, but their strength and wear resistance do not meet the requirements, making it impossible to use for steel rails.
"Even if forcibly used, these substandard rails would be damaged again after just a few days."
Aleksey’s expression looked grim.
Qin Deguang then presented evidence, "I have several high-resolution satellite images here for everyone to see."
He nodded towards his wife Anna.
The latter immediately took out a few pictures from a bag and handed them to Aleksey and others.
Aleksey didn’t reach out to take them.
Lev took one of the photos.
Little Ivan also quickly grabbed a photo.
Anna stood beside them and explained, "These are images captured by Great Xia satellite yesterday at noon, the red line markings on the photos represent the railway to be repaired, the white squares are the camps set up by the workers, the entire construction site has no visible small black dots, which means no workers, nor can any construction equipment be seen."
Little Ivan carefully looked several times, finding the situation indeed exactly as Anna described.
He scorned silently, "These Western Bering people are just a bunch of incompetents. Construction sites are all over Great Xia, yet Western Bering people can’t even handle three days of railway repair!"
Lev directly cursed aloud, "Sh*t! I knew the Kingdom was unreliable!"
The group passed the satellite photos around, and everyone had an unpleasant expression.
The atmosphere on-site was somewhat gloomy.
Little Ivan looked around the group and spoke bluntly, "Everyone, if we want to save the Eastern Bering Region, the Kingdom absolutely cannot be relied upon; we can only rely on ourselves."
Aleksey remained silent.
Others opened their mouths in agreement.
"Little Ivan is correct!"
"Abandon fantasies."
Qin Deguang waited a few seconds, then spoke, "Sorry to bring bad news to all of you, but the car is ready outside, parked right outside the hotel."
Aleksey forced a smile, "Mr. Qin, this is the Kingdom’s problem, not yours, no need to apologize."
This Lafte person paused and gestured, "Let’s go."
Led by Qin Deguang, the group quickly left the hotel and boarded the bus.
Little Ivan positioned well in boarding order, deliberately sitting in the seats behind Qin Deguang.
"Buzz~"
Accompanied by the sound of engine operation, the bus quickly started and headed toward the next target.
Little Ivan glanced at the back of Qin Deguang’s head, his lips imperceptibly moved for several seconds.
Qin Deguang’s head moved slightly, seemingly wanting to turn around but he forcibly held back, trying his best to control facial muscles, refraining from showing any expression.
Because a voice sounded in his ear.
This voice directly revealed an astonishing secret.
"Mr. Qin, I know that in Bering Kingdom there’s a place preserving over fifty Heping Bullets, besides me, no one else knows this secret."
Qin Deguang recognized that the voice was Little Ivan’s.
This secret was so shocking that he began to doubt its authenticity.
Superpower weapons like the Heping Bullet would be meticulously guarded by any nation, how could they be left outside?
It seemed too contrived!
Little Ivan seemed to anticipate his doubt and immediately explained, "Mr. Qin, do you remember the great collapse of the empire half a century ago?"
Qin Deguang sat without moving.
The empire’s great collapse was a historical turning point, clearly documented in every history textbook. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Bering Kingdom inherited most of the properties of the empire’s collapse and has continued to exist until today.
From that day, Carmenia Federation was left without rivals, becoming the sole hegemon of the Canglan Star.
Until the rise of Eastern Great Xia, Carmenians gradually began to lose their hegemonic throne.
Little Ivan continued, "After the collapse, the entire country was in chaos, the military had no funding, and soldiers became extremely poor.
"Many people began selling military equipment to survive, someone secretly got a batch of Heping Bullets out during retirement and intended to sell them to Western Hemisphere countries.
"But the plan was only halfway when that person died of a heart attack."
Qin Deguang was stunned.
He now began to believe the probability that this matter was real was quite high.
Because when Bering Kingdom was first established, indeed there was a scandal of missing a Heping Bullet, although only one was officially disclosed.
"Several years later, Bering Kingdom started inspecting the Heping Arsenal and finally discovered a batch of Heping Bullets was missing.
"But the situation was too chaotic, participants were clandestinely killed by the main manager, who himself also died, so the Kingdom found no clues, the matter was left unresolved, and the files were entirely sealed and never disclosed."
Qin Deguang heard up to this point and had a suspicion in his mind, "Little Ivan is likely the descendant of one of the survivors involved in this matter."
The next words confirmed his suspicion, "My father was one of the people involved in transferring the Heping Bullets back then; although he was later assassinated, he narrowly escaped.
"You know we are Tatars, and Bering Kingdom has always been openly and secretly suppressing the Tatar Race.
"Thus, my father never reported the secret to the authorities, only told me when passing away."
"After awakening my superpower last year, I specifically went to check the secret warehouse, and the Heping Bullets are still stored there."
Qin Deguang felt as though he was hearing a novelistic story.
He sincerely thought reality was far stranger than fiction.
Little Ivan revealed an even more shocking secret, "The secret warehouse’s location is right in a key area of the Bering Kingdom, and I hold a method to remotely detonate them."
Qin Deguang was almost dumbfounded.
He understood that Little Ivan intended to use this batch of Heping Bullets to deliver a critical hit to Bering Kingdom at a crucial moment, thus creating an opportunity for Eastern Bering’s independence.
This guy was ruthless!
He then remembered Spirit Crows Black no.6’s words - Little Ivan is definitely a talent.
Mr. Liu was indeed right!
