Surviving in a Collapsed World, Is Something Wrong?

"Take it! The ultimate move! A flash of lightning--!!!"

"(? ? ?)"

Jiang Ming controlled the female character on the screen, and the character on the screen began to accumulate power. The next second, with the flash of lightning bursting out all over her body, a blow with murderous intent instantly rushed towards Bronya's character.

but.......

clang!

"Whoa-!"

A crisp sound came into the ears, followed by the wailing of Jiang Ming and Kiana. That's right, the most powerful ultimate move was blocked by the unique defense mechanism of the character controlled by Bronya. Just as the ultimate move of the character controlled by Jiang Ming can kill enemies of all health at once, this defense mechanism can block any attack, but it is ridiculously difficult to operate.

Jiang Ming thought that even Bronya would find it difficult to do it at that moment, but he still miscalculated. In fact, Bronya was showing fake moves from beginning to end, deliberately letting Jiang Ming take away most of her health, and finally letting the opponent use the ultimate move to end the fight thinking he was very handsome, and finally he took the opponent's ultimate move with absolute defense, which was both murderous and heartbreaking.

"Bronya's 21st victory today."

Sanwu Loli said this expressionlessly, then looked at Jiang Ming and Kiana who had very unwilling expressions on their faces.

"Jiang Ming you are such an idiot!"

Kiana jumped in front of Jiang Ming from behind and kept kneading Jiang Ming's face with increasing strength. Poor Jiang Ming had a bewildered expression, and even though Kiana pinched his face hard, he couldn't recover.

"Ahh... that was a very cool wave just now."

Jiang Ming fell into endless regret.

"No, no, try again. I'm sure I can do it this time."

"What? Jiang Ming, I'm afraid your strength is not as good as mine."

"It's just that I've never played this type of game before. Besides, I only lost one game, and I persisted for a very long time. Kiana, you've lost more than 20 games. What qualifications do you have to criticize me?"

"Hmm....What kind of games are you good at?"

"Development type."

Bronya: "......."

Kiana: "Huh......?"

In the end, Bronya, Jiang Ming and Kiana ended the game with a score of 40:5:1.

.......

“Ahh… My waist is sore, my neck is sore too——!”

"Kiana, you keep leaning over, almost touching the screen, how can you not feel jealous?"

"You are like this yourself..."

“I’m concentrating.”

Jiang Ming and Kiana stretched their aching backs while complaining about the disadvantages they had just faced in the battle.

"Everyone, I have finished setting it up."

Mei's gentle voice came from the living room, causing Jiang Ming and Kiana, who were in Bronya's room, to tremble.

"Set? Set what?"

Kiana looked at Jiang Ming and walked towards the living room.

"It might be something that will be of great help in the winter. Kiana, you go check it out first. Bronya and I will rush over after we put away the game console."

Jiang Ming started packing up his game console after taking a look at Kiana.

"Oh, alright."

After responding, Kiana walked into the living room and saw Mei at first sight. When Mei showed her what had been set up, Kiana opened her eyes wide with an expression of surprise. Then she stared at the living room intently, or to be more precise, at a table-like thing placed in the middle of the living room.

"Hmm? Mei, what is that? It seems to be a different table from usual?"

Then, as if to cooperate with her, Jiang Ming, Bronya, Yuexia, Ying, Rin, Theresa and Himeko also came to the living room, as if they had heard Mei's call.

"Kiana, what's wrong?"

"If you stop here, we won't be able to get through."

Theresa and Himeko said, so Kiana said, “Oh, sorry,” and moved aside.

Then, perhaps because they saw the same thing placed in the living room, Theresa and the others also opened their eyes wide.

"Oh? What is this?"

"Hmm...I think the name is - Kotatsu?"

Himeko, who was more aware of this aspect, answered.

"Kotatsu?"

Not only Kiana, but even Sakura, Rin and Yuexia tilted their heads in disbelief. Jiang Ming seemed to understand and nodded slightly. Then he walked to Mei and patted the top of the kotatsu gently as if to supplement their explanation.

"To put it simply, it's like a table and a quilt combined together, because there's a stove installed inside, and the quilt will help block the heat."

“Hmm…Hmm?”

Kiana looked confused and frowned. Then, Kiana's aunt Theresa, who had entered the kotatsu first, felt the warmth inside the kotatsu and spoke.

"Anyway, Kiana, you guys should come in and try it out first. It's really warm."

After saying that, Theresa pressed her face against the ceiling, and the way she looked made me think of a mollusk or a freshly made rice cake... I felt like if I pointed that out, she would take advantage of her status as the principal and start to act like a spoiled child, so I decided not to tease her for now.

"Hmm... Let's go in and take a look first."

"OK.......!"

"(? ? ?)"

"oh--!"

Kiana and Rin raised their hands in response, and the others nodded in agreement, patting the top board with interest to flip open the quilt and putting their feet into the kotatsu.

Followed by.

"oh oh.......!?"

“This, this is…?!”

Everyone opened their eyes wide in surprise, Kiana and Rin being the most obvious, even Himeko, who knew about kotatsu, looked as if she had been shocked and was enjoying it.

"Ahh... I see. This is different from the situation with the air conditioner and the furnace."

“It’s so warm…”

"It would be nice if there was some wine at this time."

"By the way, I don't think we've ever done something like this before, Himeko?"

Theresa turned her head and looked at Ji Zi beside her.

"Hey, hey, I forgot."

".......Forget it, since I feel comfortable now, I won't talk about you for now, but you are not allowed to drink at night, Jiang Ming, watch her."

"As you command, Master."

"Hey, you're not serious, are you?"

Ji Zi looked anxiously at Jiang Ming who responded with a smile, and Jiang Ming gave an answer with a kind expression.

“Ahhh….”

Jiko fell down weakly and half of her body was curled up in the kotatsu. Jiang Ming, Mei and Sakura also entered one after another to grab the best positions. Everyone began to talk and started to enjoy the kotatsu. Seeing this smiling face, Mei and Jiang Ming couldn't help laughing.

"Ahaha, that's pretty good, right? As expected, we still need kotatsu in winter. Air conditioning is actually not bad either. They each have their own advantages."

"Yeah, there are a lot of people in the villa, so it's a good thing that we prepared a larger one in advance - huh?"

At this time, Mei began to look around.

"What's wrong, Mei?"

"Um... nothing, I just wondered why I didn't see Yuexia. Was she there just now?"

"Ah...Now that you mention it, I always thought she was with Rin. Where on earth did she go...Eh?!"

Jiang Ming and Mei began to look around, but Jiang Ming suddenly shouted.

The reason was simple. The originally calm kotatsu suddenly rose and fell, and then Jiang Ming felt something hugging his legs. After lifting the quilt, Jiang Ming also learned the answer.

Yuexia was seen like a white cat, with her limbs tightly wrapped around Jiang Ming's legs. But when Yuexia saw Jiang Ming turning over the quilt, she decisively let go of him and crawled towards him like a baby who could not walk yet. Then she turned around and sat in front of Jiang Ming, leaning against him with a look of enjoyment.

".......Great......This......How should I put it, it feels so comfortable......"

Then her cheeks flushed, and she looked dazed as she muttered, and it seemed that she liked it very much.

"......"

"......"

"Ahahaha, um, what do you want to eat tonight?"

Having a bad feeling, Jiang Ming quickly used the topic of dinner to attract everyone's attention.

"Oh, in that case..."

Jizi raised her hand first.

"Since we're taking out the kotatsu today, how about having hot pot or something? It's very cold today after all."

After hearing what Ji Zi said, everyone started to laugh and get excited.

"Yeah. That's great. I'm looking forward to it!"

"But...even though it's called hot pot, there are many types, right? Which one do you want?"

"Hey? Can I give you some suggestions? I want to eat soy milk pot—"

"How about cutting the dandelion pot?"

"liquor......."

etc.......

Everyone started talking at the same time, and Jiang Ming helplessly spread out his hands to stop them.

"Hey, there's no way I can do all of these. I can only choose one."

Considering this problem, Theresa seemed to have come up with an idea. She slowly propped herself up, without pulling her legs out of the kotatsu, and reached out to a nearby shelf... She almost reached it, and Jiang Ming, who couldn't bear to watch it anymore, helped her get the notebook and black pen there.

"Oh, thank you, Jiang Ming."

"That's fine...whatever you want to do?"

"Well, I was thinking that since we have to choose one anyway, why not let everyone write down the name they want and draw lots? That would be fair, right?"

After saying that, Theresa tore off paper from her notebook and distributed it to everyone. Everyone nodded, "I see," and started writing on the paper in their notebooks one by one. When everyone had finished writing their requests, Theresa gathered the papers together, washed them, and then threw them all into the kotatsu.

As the only boy present and whose kitchen knife was recognized by everyone, Jiang Ming was recommended to choose the paper strips.

"Eh? Let me put my hand in here?"

Jiang Ming pointed at himself with a puzzled look and asked in disbelief.

"Hey, why are you shy? There's nothing else here. Come on, hurry up."

"...oh oh."

Under everyone's urging, Jiang Ming gritted his teeth and reached his hand into the kotatsu. Fortunately, nothing happened and he didn't touch anything slippery and soft. After picking up a piece of paper, he pulled his hand out.

"Hmm... Let me see, let me see, so the dishes for tonight are..."

At this time, Jiang Ming frowned, but this was understandable, after all, what was written on it was————

"......Dark Hot Pot?"

Jiang Ming looked at Kiana with sparkling eyes with a little doubt.

"Ohh! It's mine! That's mine!"

Kiana raised her hand excitedly, so Kiana’s luck doesn’t just come from herself?

Looking at the words "Dark Hot Pot" written on the note, Jiang Ming understood what Kiana meant. After sighing, he turned his attention to everyone and gave a brief explanation.

"Well... that's it. Although it might be fun, you never know what it will turn out to be. What do you think of this dark hot pot? If there are no objections, this is it?"

In this regard, Theresa was the first to raise her doubts.