Asia-Oceania Union.
Capital Gini City.
Bernie sat upright at his laptop, his fingers tapping swiftly on the keyboard.
The cursor danced on the screen, and large passages of text flowed out.
"...This is the stupidest act I've ever seen!
"Utterly stupid!
"Stupid enough to redefine my understanding of stupidity!"
Bernie typed several "stupid" to express his sentiments at the moment.
Just like back in Dongli Kingdom.
The third largest city of Asia-Oceania Union, Buban City, was hit by a frost disaster, resulting in tens of thousands dead.
Three Heaven Reaching Towers were immediately activated and formed a communication cluster, then a "Asia-Oceania Division" was established by the control center.
Network signals from space instantly covered the vast territory of the Asia-Oceania Union, spanning 8.7 million square kilometers.
Whether in urban areas or uninhabited desert regions, mobile signals could reach full bars.
The Heaven Reaching Tower System also sent out a message to over 46 million citizens of the Asia-Oceania Union: "Currently, communication in disaster-stricken areas is completely interrupted. To ensure communication in the disaster area and assist more citizens, the Heaven Reaching Tower network will provide free communication services."
Any Australasians can immediately receive 500G of free data by registering a virtual card number.
In the backdrop of the frost disaster, this approach was quickly accepted.
Over 2 million Australasians within the Asia-Oceania Union voluntarily applied for virtual card numbers to experience the Heaven Reaching Tower network.
The speed of up to 2G per second stunned many Australasians who had never experienced even 4G networks.
With enough users, the Asia-Oceania Division soon became active and attracted more Australasians to use the Heaven Reaching Tower network.
So far.
Users within the Asia-Oceania Division have exceeded 12 million and continue to grow rapidly.
The Asia-Oceania official is deeply worried about this phenomenon and continually urges Australasians to stop using the Heaven Reaching Tower network.
The reasons given are the cliché "serious risk of leaks" and "seriously threaten security."
But no one cares.
After all, who doesn't love free stuff!
The Asia-Oceania official lacks the capacity to close the Heaven Reaching Tower from space and cannot forcefully confiscate citizens' phones, only able to watch helplessly as this happens.
And Bernie, he is one of the active participants in the Asia-Oceania Division.
After the Asia-Oceania official announced the "80% increase in iron ore prices," he has been fiercely criticizing the officials in the division.
"I can affirm, this act will inevitably destroy the Asia-Oceania Union.
"The era has completely changed, Eastern Great Xia's national power long surpassed the Carmenia Federation, it's an undeniable fact.
"If we continue following the Carmenians' footsteps to resist the Eastern Giant Dragon, it will certainly lead to catastrophic consequences.
"Soon enough, the iron ore extracted from this continent will end up piled like garbage at dockyards, as Great Xia will no longer purchase a single piece of iron ore.
"According to information from the Great Xia network, due to breakthroughs in exploration technology, the proven iron ore reserves within Great Xia have reached an astonishing 215.4 billion tons.
"While before the Age of Calamity, the figure was 21.6 billion tons, that's an increase tenfold.
"This is only the domestic reserves of Great Xia. According to public data from media, Great Xia bought over 100 iron mines worldwide.
"The total reserves of these iron mines are not outlined clearly by the media, but it's estimated not to be less than 1,000 billion tons, even 2,000 billion tons might be possible.
"Due to Great Xia's vast trade surplus accumulated, they are willing to import ore and raw materials from overseas.
"The Asia-Oceania official should be thankful to Great Xia because they give us the chance to exchange cold stones for materials, allowing Australasians to survive the Age of Calamity.
"The officials seem to have forgotten that this will force Great Xia to adjust the current strategy, shifting to developing their controlled iron mines to tightly hold the ore supply rights.
"Once this becomes reality, iron mines of Asia-Oceania Union will become worthless and we will lose our most precious foreign exchange source.
"Great Xia only needs to patiently wait a few years, or even less than that, to buy the Asia-Oceania Union's iron ore at extremely low prices.
"So the Asia-Oceania official fundamentally doesn't understand that now Great Xia people are willing to purchase our iron ore is goodwill towards millions of Australasians."
Bernie rested for over a dozen seconds before continuing to type again.
"Unfortunately, these politicians whose brains are stupider than pigs, have rejected Great Xia's goodwill, opting to push Great Xia into opposition.
"These fools are filled with the arrogance of Caucasians, they will inevitably bring enormous disaster to the Asia-Oceania Union.
"I hereby call on Australasians to unite and halt these fools' actions before disaster befalls."
Bernie focused for a moment and offered a solution: "I thought of three methods.
"First, we should step out the door..."
Only typed this far.
Suddenly he felt something amiss, instinctively turned his head.
With just one glance Bernie was startled.
He saw a tall man in black, his face completely covered by a black mask, unknown when appeared behind.
The man's gaze was icy cold as if looking at a dead man.
Boni felt a premonition of extreme danger, his lips moved to say something.
But it was too late.
The man in black swiftly extended a hand directly grabbing Bernie's neck, lifting him up entirely.
