Chapter 3 Treasure
The old man, General Lou, coughed and said, "Miss Jiana, according to our agreement, you have to talk about the original world every day."

The mermaid tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "Today I will tell you about the greatest treasure in the world."

When everyone heard the word "treasure", they were immediately cheered up.

The mermaid slowly spoke: "Every civilized world that descends into the primordial world will surely give birth to some treasures with magical powers."

General Lou asked, "Why was the baby born? What is the specific principle?"

The mermaid shook her head: "I am from the Mega Civilization, and I don't know the reason, but I have heard that it may be because the original law has been disturbed."

General Lou nodded: "Please continue."

The mermaid added, "I've said before that items with extraordinary powers usually have negative effects, so they are called 'tricks'. There is a price to pay for using tricks."

General Lou nodded again.

He seemed to remember something, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, as if he had seen the negative effects of the strange weapon.

The mermaid changed the subject: "But treasures are different. They have magical powers but no negative effects."

General Lou's eyes lit up: "Good stuff."

He asked: "If it's just this, it's probably not enough to be called a treasure, right?"

The mermaid nodded: "Of course, treasures have a characteristic, at first their power is not strong, and may even be very weak.

"But as time goes by, they will spontaneously absorb power and become stronger and stronger, until they become terrifying."

The mermaid dropped a bombshell: "As far as I know, every life that obtains the treasure has a more than 50% chance of becoming a 'Venerable' if it survives."

General Lou was extremely excited.

Several soldiers also looked eager.

Of course they knew what the Venerable meant.

To put it bluntly, every venerable is the trump card of each civilization.

The more cards you have, the stronger your civilization is.

General Lou calmed down and asked again, "Miss Jiana, how do you identify a treasure?"

The mermaid replied, "It's very simple. Just drip a drop of blood and the soul will spontaneously fuse with the treasure. The fuser can take the treasure into the body at any time. That's why many civilizations call the treasure the soul sacred vessel."

General Lou exclaimed: "It's amazing."

The mermaid added: "Also, the treasure has a flaw. If the fusion person dies, the treasure will disappear permanently."

She paused and smiled, "Of course, this is good news for the Fusion, because no one can take away his treasure."

General Lou nodded: "That makes sense."

He still had a question: "Excuse me, how do we find the treasure?"

The mermaid giggled. “Searching? You think too much!”

General Lou was puzzled: "Why?"

The mermaid said: "The treasure is a gift from the original world. Do you think you can find it if you want to?"

She raised her voice and said, "We in the Meijia civilization have studied and found that obtaining the treasure depends entirely on luck. There is no other way to find the treasure.

“It is an incomparable fortune to be able to obtain a treasure.

“The two treasures were obtained. The Meijia civilization has communicated with hundreds of civilizations over the years, but I have only heard of one case.

"This guy, who was blessed with incredible luck, later grew up to be a top-level warrior that terrorized more than a dozen worlds."

General Lou asked, "What is a world group?"

The mermaid replied: "It is a community composed of many civilized worlds. A world group includes at least hundreds of civilizations, and at most three hundred civilizations."

General Lou sighed, "I understand."

He understood what the other party said. Among thousands of civilized worlds and intelligent life forms worth "trillions", only one person obtained the two treasures.

As for obtaining the three treasures, even the Meiga civilization had never heard of it.

General Lou asked the last question: "How many treasures can be born in a civilized world?"

The mermaid replied: "Canglan Star is a medium-sized civilized world, and usually seven to ten treasures are born there."

General Lou was a little disappointed: "So little?"

The mermaid laughed and said, "If there are a lot of them, can it still be called a treasure?"

She said with pride: "Our Mega Civilization is a large civilized world, and has produced eighteen treasures so far."

General Lou looked envious.

The mermaid added, "According to our understanding, if a civilization is completely integrated into the original world for more than fifty years, no more treasures will be born."

General Lou asked, "Why?"

The mermaid said: "There is a saying that the treasure is the law of the original gift. After fifty years, the original will take back the gift." The implication is that the treasure that has not been found will disappear after fifty years.

General Lou saluted: "Thank you for your guidance!"

The other party came from a powerful civilization and taught the Daxia people a lot of valuable knowledge without asking for anything in return.

He felt that the other party deserved this military salute.

The mermaid said nothing more and shrank back into the water.

General Lou thought for a few seconds and waved his hand: "Let's go."

*
Linjiang City.

Yang Fan leaned lazily on the sofa and began to count the supplies in the Space Pearl.

"Ten tons of rice should be enough, but two thousand boxes of canned food are a little less. We should have bought another thousand boxes of canned fruit and canned beef.

"Unfortunately, the authorities have started to strictly control supplies, and now I can’t buy them even if I want to."

He just checked online and found that all canned foods on various platforms have been removed from the shelves. It is obvious that they are under official control.

Only canned pet food is still sold online.

However, Yang Fan definitely had no intention of eating cat food or dog food.

"One thousand boxes of mineral water, one thousand boxes of various beverages, a total of 24,000 bottles. If there is an emergency, drinking only water and beverages will last a long time."

He deliberately picked a lot of sugary drinks.

With the supplement of sugar, the human body has a source of calories and will not starve to death even if it does not eat.

"Beef jerky, chocolate, candy, wafer biscuits, mochi cakes, pickled pepper chicken feet, duck necks, duck racks... I bought snacks worth three hundred thousand yuan, but it still wasn't enough!"

Yang Fan felt a little regretful: "Now there are more and more abnormal weather conditions, and food production will definitely drop significantly. It will be more difficult to buy snacks in the future. I should have bought 100,000 more!"

Give the simplest example.

The bag of pickled pepper chicken feet he bought online cost 9.8 yuan, but now the price has risen to 18.8 yuan.

Judging from the current trend, it is highly likely that the price will rise to thirty or forty yuan in the future.

It is foreseeable that ordinary people will not be able to afford snacks in the future.

Yang Fan's gaze jumped to another corner.

There are forty large freezers there, each with a capacity of up to 300 liters.

The freezers were filled with frozen pork, beef, chicken, duck, fish, and even thousands of ice cream bars.

At that time, in order to stock up on these goods, Yang Fan spent more than 800,000 yuan in one go, which was almost equal to the price of a house.

In order to conceal the existence of the Space Pearl, he deliberately took over a poorly managed small supermarket and suffered a huge loss.

He didn't think that the authorities had the leisure and effort to investigate the whole story of the closure of a small supermarket.

I must say one more thing here.

The Space Pearl has a very magical property.

When low-temperature or high-temperature objects are placed in a space, the temperature changes very slowly.

Yang Fan had done an experiment before. He froze meat at minus 30 degrees Celsius and measured it again after 30 days. The temperature had only risen by one degree.

Now the Space Pearl has become much stronger, and the time required to raise the temperature by one degree has been extended to fifty-three days.

in other words.

It takes nearly 1,600 days, or more than four years, to rise from minus 30 degrees to zero degrees.

This is an astounding heat retention capability.

Super energy saving!
Super environmentally friendly!
because of this.

Only Yang Fan dared to hoard so much frozen meat.

In the event that the freezer temperature rises, this is easily fixed by taking the freezer out and plugging it in, then plugging it back in once the temperature drops.

no power?

It's ok!
He had already considered extreme situations and specially prepared a set of solar panels and inverters, so that he could find a place to generate electricity if there was no electricity.

Yang Fan began to check other supplies.

"One hundred down jackets, four thousand pairs of pants, one thousand two hundred pairs of shoes, twenty thousand pairs of socks... three thousand bottles of shampoo, two thousand bottles of shower gel, thirty thousand boxes of toothpaste...

"Cold medicine, anti-inflammatory drugs, vitamins, and calcium tablets are enough... sugar, salt, soy sauce, vinegar... forty pots and fifty kitchen knives. At critical moments, the pots are shields and the kitchen knives are weapons... No matter how good your kung fu is, you are afraid of kitchen knives!

He confirmed that nothing was left out and smiled proudly: "With a big supermarket on you, you won't be afraid even if you encounter famine!"

Yang Fan muttered again: "It's a pity that I only found three of these rare items like the Space Pearl. It would be better if I could get eight or ten."

(End of this chapter)