In a frigid apocalypse, I went on a shopping spree with the reborn.

"Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, why is my survival index so low?"

[Replying to Master, Master is an adventurous person, without family or friends to support him, without subordinates to serve him, lacks emergency first aid knowledge, and also lacks necessary skills such as generating electricity, building greenhouses, and planting. Therefore, the assessment will be lower.]

Jiang Qingyue exclaimed in disbelief, "Everything else is one thing, but me? You're kidding me?"

She came to this shelter all by herself.

Xiao Yi reasoned: [Master often goes out in extreme weather and fights against stronger opponents, which are all very risky actions.]

Is that so?

Jiang Qingyue never expected that this could be assessed as being adventurous. Honestly, she had no choice but to do it.

However, Xiaoyi's words also reminded her that generating electricity, building greenhouses, and planting are actually necessary skills.

"So, after the third cold wave hits, not having these skills will cause me a lot of trouble?"

Originally, Jiang Qingyue planned to go to sleep after looking at the rankings, but now she's not going to sleep at all. She takes out her phone and starts looking for skills in these areas.

Fortunately, she had downloaded enough things before the internet went down, otherwise she would be completely lost now.

Jiang Qingyue searched very carefully. She knew almost nothing about this field, only some vague concepts such as hydropower and wind power. She had no idea how to build a power station by hand.

She searched for more than two hours, and surprisingly, she found a feasible solution: steam power generation.

Hydropower would actually be better, as there's no need to worry about fuel consumption. But in this horrible weather of minus fifty degrees Celsius, the rivers she knows are frozen solid, and she doesn't know if there are any underground rivers, nor does she have any way to search for them.

Wind power generation is more difficult; the only option worth trying is steam power generation.

However, it requires fuel, which means she might need to keep cutting down trees.

Hey!

Although the mountains and plains are covered with trees, cutting down trees would require a lot of physical strength and time, and burning them would produce a lot of smoke, which would also easily expose the location of her refuge.

But then Jiang Qingyue thought again, exposing her location was better than freezing to death: "We still have to do it, but how can we get the smoke from the fire to dissipate?"

Jiang Qingyue kept frantically searching through her phone, and that's when the benefits of downloading so much really became apparent.

They found two feasible solutions in a short time.

The first option is to build a secondary combustion smoke-eliminating furnace.

Jiang Qingyue carefully observed the construction process. It wasn't difficult; it was just a matter of time. Now, she had plenty of strength and resources.

The second option is to bury a pipe so that the smoke can slowly be drawn into the mountainside.

After carefully comparing the two options, Jiang Qingyue preferred the first one.

It's simple to build, unlike the second one which requires digging a long pipe, since the ground is now frozen and difficult to dig.

Without further ado, Jiang Qingyue took notes of the necessary materials.

Metal cans, or even good quality tin buckets, will do; wires, stones, clay, hardwood, and bearings will also work.

There is another crucial component: the battery.

Fortunately, she bought this thing back then, otherwise she really wouldn't have the ability to make one by hand.

As for the bearings, they were taken from the tricycle and fit perfectly.

After writing it down, Jiang Qingyue glanced at it and found that she only needed a metal can to complete the set; she had everything else.

"Looking at it this way, generating electricity isn't so difficult after all."

Jiang Qingyue happily fell asleep while holding her phone. Even if she really wanted to take action now, there was nothing she could do. She only had two options with that metal can.

You either have to risk going into the city to look for one, or wait until the trading area reopens on August 1st and see if you can buy one.

"That's not right!"

Jiang Qingyue sat bolt upright as if she had risen from the dead: "Do I have a metal can?"

Remembering something, she didn't care about sleeping and quickly got up to rummage through the pile of supplies.

After a great deal of effort, they finally found a dry powder fire extinguisher.

This wasn't bought on purpose; she bought it to keep in the store as a spare.

The seafood shop was quite messy, with piles of cardboard often at the entrance, and the electrical wiring was old and posed a great safety hazard, so she bought one as a spare.

I just haven't had the chance to use it yet.

Looking at it now, this thing is of really high quality.

"After some modifications, it seems like it might work?"

Thinking of this, Jiang Qing stopped sleeping and started working through the night. Anyway, she didn't feel too tired, probably because her combat power had increased.

Unaware of her busy life, she had risen from an unknown nobody to the top three on the list.

Its momentum is even more terrifying than that of Wang Dawei before.

With Yu You, who was originally ranked second on the individual combat power list, disappearing from the list, Yu You's brothers guessed that it was Jiang Qingyue, the person who replaced Yu You, who took Yu You's position and took Yu You's personal computer.

They kept shouting in the world channel, demanding that Jiang Qingyue, the murderer, come out and give an explanation.

It was precisely because of these people's constant shouting and spamming that the news that plundering a quantum computer could also plunder the other party's data suddenly became no longer a secret.

This caused an uproar among many people who were unaware of this secret.

Originally, this matter was only known to a small group of people, except for a few lucky ones and the captains of those bases.

Their strength can increase dramatically, except for special items, by plundering other people's quantum computers.

Even though these people knew that the news would eventually be exposed, they still wanted to stay ahead of the curve during this period, so they kept it a secret.

Now the news can no longer be kept secret. Many people only realized this after making connections. Those who mysteriously disappeared at the base, those who claimed to have frozen to death even though they hadn't reached their limit, were actually forced to disappear and forced to freeze to death.

Even late at night, the world channel and various regional channels were in an uproar over this matter.

The Happiness Base even convened a meeting overnight with many people.

Wang Dawei's living room was packed with people, with more than thirty of his underlings sitting in a row.

Wang Dawei's wife boils water and cooks rice to serve a group of men, and is occasionally scolded by the younger men. Two young girls, pretty and fresh-faced, sit next to Wang Dawei.

He himself doesn't respect his wife, so his underlings follow his example and naturally won't give her a good look either.

As a result, after the apocalypse, Wang Dawei's wife did not enjoy any benefits from her husband becoming the captain of the Happiness Community, a well-known figure. Instead, she became their nanny.

When everyone had almost finished eating, Wang Dawei coughed lightly, and everyone quickly put down their chopsticks.

"Yu You was from our Quanshui City. In this kind of weather, it's impossible for people to move between major cities. He died, and it was someone from Quanshui City who killed him."

"Judging from Jiang Qingyue's sudden surge in ranking, she did indeed obtain Yu You's personal computer, and it has already been merged."

He stared at the few underlings specifically tasked with finding Jiang Qingyue, his face extremely grim: "A perfectly healthy person is right here in our Quanshui City, and you mobilized so many brothers to search for him, but you haven't even found a hair on his head."

"Captain, we have indeed searched everywhere, all the major bases, even the smaller bases and some scattered forces. We knocked on doors one by one, but we really couldn't find it."

Wang Dawei: "Then keep searching. Dig three feet into the ground in this whole city of Quanshui, and find them for me."

"Yes."

"By the way, tell those people to stop posting. They've been posting for two days straight, and Jiang Qingyue couldn't possibly miss it. Since she saw it but ignored it, there's no point in posting anymore."

"Try to contact Yu You's brothers. They must know where Yu You died. As long as we know the general area, we will definitely be able to find him."

"Understood, Captain, we'll go right away."

After arranging this matter, Wang Dawei looked at his other underlings: "Any news about the people who went to kill Long Jiuxing?"

"Boss, it seems like our men have been wiped out. I've sent over a dozen waves of men, and not a single one has returned. But these men aren't on the leaderboard, so I'm not sure if they were killed or imprisoned."

"Send more people," Wang Dawei ordered coldly.

The younger brother hesitated for a moment, then mustered his courage and asked, "Boss, how about we hold off for now, until we get some more powerful weapons, or until the brothers are stronger? The enemy is too strong; sending more people over would just be sending them to their deaths."

It's not that I'm truly heartbroken for the brothers; it's mainly that the subordinates are becoming uncontrollable.

This is different from secretly making people disappear. Openly and deliberately sending people to their deaths has made the resentment among the people below so great that it could kill several evil sword immortals.

No one dared to openly provoke Wang Dawei, but he wasn't Wang Dawei.

He has no power, and his strength is only slightly better than that of an ordinary person. If his subordinates were to rebel, he really wouldn't be able to control them.

At that time, Wang Dawei will probably use the excuse of those people killing him to forcibly kill a group of people and seize their personal computers.

But he was already dead by then, so what use was he?

"I said, keep sending people over; if you can't kill her, keep harassing her so she can't rest. Don't you understand?"

"Yes." The younger brother swallowed hard, but didn't dare to argue any further.

Wang Dawei squinted, a sense of unease rising within him.

He originally thought that after being reborn, he would rule the world alone and become the undisputed ruler.

The results backfired.

Jiang Qingyue is different from her previous life.

He originally planned to wait until the apocalypse began, until Jiang Qingyue was about to freeze or starve to death, then casually bestow some favors upon her and take her in.

Then the apocalypse came, and Jiang Qingyue... disappeared.

I still can't find it no matter what I do.

He was puzzled. Quanshui City was such a small place. He had searched everywhere he could, and he had even dug up all the sewers. Where could he possibly hide?

Looking at the two beautiful women nestled beside him, one had eyes that resembled Jiang Qingyue's, and the other had a chin that resembled Jiang Qingyue's, which was why the two of them were able to stay by his side.

But he still felt uneasy.

If you can't get the meat you've been craving, everything else is just something to make do with.

What upset him even more was Yu You.

This guy had slicing him apart piece by piece in his past life, and after being reborn, he was determined to take revenge.

He only knew that the other person lived in Spring City before the apocalypse, but he didn't know exactly where they lived.

Before the apocalypse, he did consider investigating, but at that time he had no connections and no ability, so how could he investigate?

Thinking that once I have power and influence after the apocalypse, I can easily find someone.

Before they could even find the person, this top-tier expert, who had lived until six years into the apocalypse in his previous life, was killed by Jiang Qingyue.

It also allowed Jiang Qingyue to discover the secret of optical brain fusion, directly propelling him to the top of the three major lists.

Especially the survival leaderboard, which is right behind him.

They were so close, one wrong move and the woman might have gotten ahead of him.

The angrier he got, the more Wang Dawei kicked out, shattering the rock coffee table in front of him.

"Boss, calm down!" This action startled everyone.

Fortunately, Wang Dawei did not continue to take his anger out on others.

Thinking about how he couldn't take down Long Jiuxing's side, he considered rushing over there himself several times, but he knew it would be the same if he went.

I tried to hold back, but in the end I decided to just bear with it for now.

After all, he was a reborn person, he had foresight, and he had countless opportunities to become stronger. There was no need for him to fight to the death with Long Jiuxing, this woman, in the early stages of the apocalypse.

Looking at the terrified crowd, he was very satisfied; this was the majesty of the strong.

If you make these people afraid and terrified, they will obey.

"Listen up, everyone! Use all your strength to win over all other forces in Springwater City, big and small, even those individual forces. If they don't agree, we'll do it the old way."

He paused for a moment, then added, "Don't send any strong people to Long Jiuxing's side, lest she seize the opportunity to kill and steal the quantum computer, becoming stronger and stronger. Send those who are about to die to harass her in every possible way."

"Boss, why?"

Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask.

"Yes."

The younger men scattered in a flurry, and as soon as they stepped out of Wang Dawei's house, the warm air vanished, and everyone tacitly put on professional cold-weather gear.

Their physical condition is nowhere near Wang Dawei's. In this kind of terrible weather, if your skin is exposed, it can freeze to the point of amputation in just a few seconds.

In the Happiness Base, there is no such good treatment as amputation.

Don't be fooled by their position in the management of the Happiness Base; they're no different from the beasts of burden. If they become incapacitated or injured and rendered useless, their fate is even worse than that of ordinary people.

Wang Dawei glanced at his wife huddled in the corner and casually ordered, "Clean it up."

After saying that, he took the two beautiful young women into the room.

In his haste to get things done, he didn't see the hatred in his wife's eyes as the room door closed.

Perhaps he knew, but he didn't care.

This day was the end of the world for the Eighth Experimental Zone.

It was even more despairing than when a cold wave hit.

The secret to the fusion of quantum computers has led many to take a gamble.

But now that everyone is staying at home, the only people they can contact are their relatives or teammates...

Even those who don't have such intentions dare not sleep with their families anymore. Before, they would huddle together for warmth, but now they would rather freeze to death than close their eyes when there are people around.

In just a few hours, countless people's strength increased rapidly, while countless others were completely wiped out.

Among them are many top 100 players from the three major rankings.

Its daybreak.

July 2nd, the tenth day of the apocalypse.

Many people have disappeared from the rankings, while many new people have taken their place, resulting in a major reshuffle of the three major rankings.

Everyone knew how these people got on the list, but no one said a word.

Since the apocalypse began, countless messages have been flooding the world channel and various regional channels.

But today, there has been an unusual silence.

Not a single message.

The major factions didn't participate, and individual factions remained silent.

The world seemed to have been paused, and there was a deathly silence.