Bound to Fortune: Starting with Whitebeard Template
Chapter 2

The Whole World in Shock, Forbidden Land Livestream!

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With the development of technology, the first to enjoy its dividends was average life expectancy, extending from seventy to one hundred and ten years.

This caused the population on Blue Star to continuously rise.

The speed of resource consumption was even more so.

Coupled with the waste generated by industrial development.

Resources that were already limited either became scarce or were polluted and unusable.

Even with repeated emphasis on protecting the environment.

Conserving resources.

Engaging in massive construction and returning farmland to forests.

Yet it still proved impossible to turn the tide.

Many major powers began coveting the resources of other countries.

If not for the restrictions between major powers.

A world-scale war would likely have swept the globe long ago.

However, if the fundamental problem could not be changed...

War would arrive sooner or later!

Yet just when the whole world was extremely worried about this problem and panic-stricken.

The mysterious Outer Forbidden Land entered the public view in an extremely incredible way!

Causing many people to start doubting whether they were fully awake.

Or if they were experiencing some kind of hallucination.

However, various signs from around them and on the internet indicated.

This was not everyone's hallucination or dream!

Rather, it was an immensely real super event!

Resembling a divine miracle, or perhaps a gift from a higher civilization to Blue Star!

Giving them a chance to survive!

Undoubtedly, everyone firmly believed in their hearts that a new era had arrived!

And the ones to first list the Outer Forbidden Land as a major event were naturally the governments of various countries.

At the very first instance, they held a series of secret meetings.

Just twenty minutes before the countdown to entering the Forbidden Land was about to end, the superpower entrenched in the West, the Lighthouse Nation.

Took the lead in making its voice heard to the whole world.

Faced with the completely unknown situation of the Forbidden Land, they repeatedly insisted that powerful weapons were the guarantee for ensuring survival within the Forbidden Land.

Therefore, they were willing to provide weapons to other countries around the world for the contestants entering the Forbidden Land to use.

Furthermore, they were willing to accept contestants from small countries and provide them with protection in the Forbidden Land.

Of course...

These provisions were not without compensation.

As a reward, the Lighthouse Nation would hold partial usage rights to the resources materialized into the real world.

As soon as these remarks came out, they instantly caused an uproar across the globe.

Such overbearing conditions caught everyone off guard.

Immediately following that, the voice of the Yan Kingdom appeared on the internet.

Calling on various countries and the contestants entering the Forbidden Land to realize that in the face of the resource scarcity problem.

We belong to a community with a shared future for mankind.

All contestants entering the Forbidden Land should form an alliance to explore the resources of the Forbidden Land together.

At the same time, the Yan side stated its willingness to bring out the precious resources materialized into the real world for joint development!

A stone stirred up a thousand ripples.

"Perspective, what a macro perspective!"

"As expected of my great Yan Kingdom, yes, right now this isn't a competition, this concerns the resource issue of all humanity, of course cooperation is better!"

"That's right, only this way can all of humanity continue to survive!"

The people of the Yan Kingdom were naturally immensely gratified.

Yet voices targeting the Yan Kingdom also emerged one after another.

"What joint development, it's nothing more than hypocrisy. Once those resources are actually obtained, it'll probably just be another face. Although the Lighthouse Nation isn't much better, I'd rather trust an honest villain than a hypocritical gentleman!"

"That's right, the current global resource scarcity isn't that caused by the Yan Kingdom? Their country actually has the largest population in the world! They should apologize to the whole world!"

For a time, the Forbidden Land livestreams had not even begun.

The internet was already in utter chaos.

Netizens from various countries fought tooth and nail.

An hour is neither long nor short.

Amidst the intense discussions between national governments and netizens, it quickly slipped away.

Until about twenty minutes left in the countdown.

The contestants who were randomly selected successively received prompts in their minds.

[Congratulations to the lucky contestant selected from Country X, beginning binding to Country X!] [Binding successful!] [You will enter the Outer Forbidden Land in twenty minutes, please begin preparing supplies!]

Directly afterward.

These selected contestants began using various methods to prepare the supplies they needed.

Fresh water, compressed food, and various weapons.

Of course...

Almost everyone made contact with their national government at the very first moment.

In order to seek help from the authorities!

No matter what, this would be an expedition concerning the national fortune of a country!

Once a contestant died in the Forbidden Land.

The country they belonged to would also suffer corresponding punishment!

The most terrifying thing was...

For a country with a population of hundreds of millions or billions, the random death of ten million people might seem small.

But you have to know, every single week, new contestants would be randomly drawn to enter the Forbidden Land!

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change!

Such punishment was not something every country could endure!

Especially when it reached the final few seconds.

The 15 billion people of the world all put down the work in their hands and fell into silence.

Everyone's heart was filled with extreme tension.

Although quite a few ordinary people wanted to participate in this expedition.

Yet considering the issue of national fortune, everyone knew that only well-trained special forces soldiers could ensure a survival rate in the unknown Forbidden Land!

Even many selected contestants began using various methods to beg for help.

They needed enough supplies to ensure they would not be eliminated by the Forbidden Land so quickly!

And both the government and society provided them with the maximum degree of assistance!

[00:00!]

As the countdown came to a complete end, the more than two hundred contestants selected from around the world all vanished from where they stood!

Outer Forbidden Land.

A plain area covered in white snow.

Thump!

Xu Fan, representing the Yan Kingdom's contestant, suddenly descended from the sky, dropping straight into the pristine white snow.

Clashing with this scene, Xu Fan was still wearing summer clothes at this moment.

"What is going on here?"

Xu Fan nimbly stood up from the snowfield, brushing the white snow off his body.

He looked around, his gaze inevitably carrying a trace of bewilderment.

Just now during the countdown process, he heard it extremely clearly.

It said every contestant would be given twenty minutes to prepare supplies.

However...

There was not a single prompt in his own mind.

Yet what he never dreamed of was that the moment the countdown ended, he had actually left his warm room and landed on a snowfield!

"Is it me being targeted, or is the Yan Kingdom being targeted?"

Xu Fan's brain worked at top speed.

In recent years, the Yan Kingdom where he lived had frequently been targeted by other countries, especially the Lighthouse Nation.

Yet relative to these matters, an even more realistic problem lay before Xu Fan.

He needed fresh water and food!

And he needed to figure out as soon as possible whether there were any hidden dangers lurking nearby!

No matter what, this was a completely unfamiliar environment!

Contestants from other countries might also be his enemies!

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