National Fate Trial: The Bitterly Cold Winter

Temperatures across the globe plunged below freezing. At first, no one paid much attention. Many even mocked people in the south as pampered and sheltered, saying they had never seen the world. Only after the cold persisted for three years, with every season just as harsh as the next, and the world's food reserves ran out did people realize how serious the situation was. Just as humanity faced extinction, the National Fortune Trial livestream quietly began. Contestants entered another world in person, while their families could watch the trials live and earn popularity for them. Popularity points could be spent to give contestants hints. Supplies obtained by contestants would randomly appear beside their most beloved living blood relatives in quantities multiplied tenfold, a hundredfold, or even tens of thousands of times. Even the abilities they gained in the trials would be passed on to all their blood relatives according to how closely related they were, at a rate of up to one thousandth. Everyone knew that the people of Huaxia were descendants of Yan and Huang, and of Chiyou, while all humanity itself originated from a single brother and sister. This system of passing things on would directly affect national fortune, and even the fate of all humankind... For the contestants, these trials came without penalties. But if they were unlucky enough to die in the other world, that really was the end of their lives...