Picking Up Supreme Treasures in the Dream Realm-Chapter 528 - 356. The Power of Misfortune

"Woo~"

The cold wind howled as it swept through the streets.

Zhang Hehua couldn’t help but shiver a few times, and a bit of snot trickled down.

She didn’t have a cold-resistant suit, only a simple version of a cold-resistant vest, which was far less effective than the suit. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

This was her "benefit" for applying to be a snow-clearing worker in the Capital White Stone City.

The White Stone City Hall forcibly required all snow-clearing workers to purchase cold-resistant work clothes, priced at a hefty 2400 Carmenia Dollars.

As far as she knew, the Federation imported cold-resistant suits from Great Xia, sold for just 1600 Carmenia Dollars.

This was sheer profiteering!

What’s worse is that everyone was forced to buy cold-resistant vests in 12 installments.

The City Hall’s explanation was that purchasing the work clothes in installments reduced the pressure, with only 200 Carmenia Dollars in principal each month and an additional 36 Carmenia Dollars in interest.

This way is too Carmenian!

Anyone who isn’t a fool can see that the City Hall’s real motive is to make extra money.

Many Carmenians can’t figure out how high this interest rate is, but Zhang Hehua is a Great Xia person, who received higher education, understands how to calculate.

Zhang Hehua found an interest rate calculator, which showed the nominal annual interest rate was only 18%, but the actual annual interest rate was as high as 33.23%.

Every time she thought about how Great Xia People could spend 50 Xia Yuan, calculate at a 1:1.6 exchange rate, equivalent to 80 Carmenia Dollars, to buy a cold-resistant suit, she wanted to curse at Carmenians.

It’s just outrageously dark!

At this moment.

The voice of a mysterious person sounded in Zhang Hehua’s ear.

"Your body temperature is a bit low, and you might be in danger of hypothermia in half an hour. You’d better find a warm place."

Zhang Hehua shivered again: "Sir, I don’t know where to go."

She immediately explained: "You should know, I owe high-interest loans to the gang, I don’t dare go home or to the snow-clearing company, otherwise those scumbags will definitely find me."

After a few seconds.

The mysterious person suddenly asked: "Are you afraid of the dead?"

Zhang Hehua was first shocked, then shook her head: "Living people are far scarier than the dead. The Old Heat men in the gang will first ruin me, then sell me, at least the dead won’t do that."

The mysterious person said calmly: "Follow my guidance."

Zhang Hehua nodded: "Okay."

Twenty minutes later.

When Zhang Hehua could barely feel her feet, she reached a house.

She looked around the surroundings in uncertainty.

Because this was a typical middle-to-upper-class residential area, where most residents are Caucasian, and it’s a key area of police attention.

Someone like her, an outsider, with yellow skin, and clearly poor, would be closely watched here and could easily get into trouble.

"That one on the right, open the door."

The mysterious voice sounded again.

Zhang Hehua hesitated for a moment, and then followed directions to the front of the residence.

She glanced at the door, not daring to open it: "Sir, this is a security door."

Ever since the Age of Calamity arrived, the overall security in the Federation hasn’t been good, nor has it been in Capital White Stone City, so these residences have almost all changed to solid security doors.

If tools were used to forcibly unlock or break the door, a piercing alarm would sound.

The voice was very calm: "It’s okay, just open it."

Zhang Hehua gathered her courage and reached out to grab the door handle.

Just the moment her hand touched.

"Click!"

The door lock automatically opened.

Zhang Hehua froze for a moment, then pushed the somewhat heavy door open with an expression of surprise.

A rush of warmth instantly poured out.

This long-lost sense of warmth made her couldn’t help but let out a satisfied sigh after standing outside for a long time.

Zhang Hehua entered the room and closed the security door behind her.

She looked around the living room furnishings, finding it very much like the scene setting in old movies, making her momentarily lost in thought.

Many years ago, when she was still in school, it was precisely after watching a Carmenia movie that she developed a deep longing for the land across Canglan Star.

She remembered the nights she spent studying hard, as someone from a small town focusing on exams, it was her only way to change her fate.

She remembered getting into college, even though it was just an average school in Great Xia, but it was the first time she saw the hope of achieving her dreams.

She also remembered in her senior year, in order to obtain a guaranteed postgraduate slot, she hooked up with a married professor.

She spent a few years accompanying the professor, eventually using a bit of blackmail to secure an opportunity to study abroad.

She still remembers putting a USB drive containing a video in front of the professor, whose face immediately turned livid.

Through this incident, she summarized two important life lessons.

First - The body, sometimes, is a tool.

Second - To achieve success, sometimes you need to resort to unscrupulous means.

She then came to the Carmenia Federation, dumped her boyfriend, and hooked up with an elderly white man.

His name was Old Sam.

The living room setup at Old Sam’s house was very much like this room.

The first time she entered Old Sam’s house, she deliberately provoked him, and they had a relationship in the living room.

At that moment she felt that her years of dreams had finally been realized.

But.

Why have I worked so hard, yet things have turned out this way, and not even lived as well as a mediocre high school classmate?

Zhang Hehua was filled with confusion.

Just then.

The mysterious person’s calm voice suddenly rang in her ear.

"The fate of small individuals is intricately interwoven with the evolution of the Great Era’s direction."