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

"Chirp, chirp, chirp!"

The fluffy little thing seemed to want to crawl into the bowl, whimpering as it ate.

The voice was light and cheerful; you could tell the little guy was very satisfied with the bowl of beef noodles.

Just as Jiang Qingyue had predicted, this one was small in size and didn't eat much; it was full after eating just a small bowl of beef noodles.

Jiang Qingyue took away the bowls and pointed to the pile of firewood: "Then this firewood is mine now, so I'll move it inside."

The fluffy creature proudly waved its paws.

With its round, bulging belly and small size, its little paws, when it swung, lacked any real power and instead looked rather comical.

Jiang Qingyue suppressed a laugh. Seeing it lying motionless on the ground, she didn't chase it away and instead moved all the firewood into the shelter.

The logs, varying in thickness, were all the same length as if measured with a ruler, even more uniform than when she chopped them.

After moving the firewood inside, there wasn't enough space, so Jiang Qingyue carried all the soil out and dumped it, then collected the bags.

When I got back to my front door, I found that the furry creature had already left.

As soon as she returned to the shelter, she began to replan.

I originally planned to spend one day digging soil and the other day chopping firewood, but it seems I can adjust my work schedule.

With the furry creature helping her chop wood, she can focus entirely on expanding the shelter, making it as big as possible.

"But what exactly is this furry thing?"

"It looks remarkably like a rabbit, but what rabbit has such a set of perfect teeth?"

"With the north wind howling and temperatures dropping to minus fifty degrees Celsius outside, an ordinary rabbit would freeze in a second if thrown outside."

"Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, do you know what that white thing is?"

[Sorry, Master. If you need Xiaoyi to appraise the item, she will need to scan it, and you will need to pay one transaction coin.]

"Never mind then." Jiang Qingyue gave up without hesitation as soon as she heard that it would cost money again.

After all, this isn't a special item, and even if it's identified, she can't use it.

Moreover, although this furry creature cannot speak, it can understand human speech and communicates with gestures and drawings without any problems.

Well, to sum it all up, it's because we're poor.

So far, she doesn't have many trading coins.

Once the trading area opens on August 1st, another 10 entry fees will be charged, and the monthly rental fee for the quantum computer will also be charged on the same day.

She also needed to buy seeds, fertilizer, and so on in the trading area, so poor that she wished she could split every trading coin in half to spend.

Why has my luck been so bad lately?

If only we could dig up another batch of trading coins.

Jiang Qingyue carefully calculated that she had done a lot of work during this period, but her luck was just so-so. She dug up so much soil and only dug up one trading coin, and she didn't pick up a single piece of firewood.

"Go to sleep, go to sleep. We'll continue digging tomorrow."

Before going to sleep, Jiang Qingyue turned on her personal computer again and saw her name on the world channel.

Happiness Base Jiang Mitian: Jiang Qingyue, I am your second uncle Jiang Mitian. I am in your original house in Happiness Base. I have a serious illness that cannot be cured. I have a special item called Plant Doctor. I have no use for it and I have no children. I plan to leave it to you. Please reply if you see this.

Jiang Qingyue scrolled up and found that it was spamming.

For the past two hours, numerous IDs from Happiness Base have been spamming this phrase, and other factions have tacitly refrained from occupying the world chat at this time.

When I scrolled to the regional channel for Spring City, I saw that the same phrase was being used.

Jiang Qingyue frowned slightly: "Oh no, I'm definitely being watched."

She was certain that she was being watched.

As for which side it was, Jiang Qingyue had some deductions: it was either Wang Dawei from Happiness Base, or someone from Yu You's side, or it could be her ex-boyfriend Ye Hongyu.

As for this second uncle, Jiang Qingyue didn't know if he was real or not, but she didn't think it mattered. Her parents had never mentioned him to her, so even if he was her biological second uncle, he wasn't worth acknowledging.

More likely, these people fabricated a second uncle. Since their parents are dead, there's no way to verify anything, so they can say whatever they want.

The purpose, I suppose, is still to gain some benefit.

Jiang Qingyue sorted out the timeline and realized that she had been a nobody before. The people from the Happiness Base started contacting her after her ranking improved.

Especially after she seized Yu You's personal computer, she quickly rose to the top of the three major lists, and from then on, more and more people came looking for her.

After analyzing the three people who were unfriendly to her, Jiang Qingyue felt that Wang Dawei was the most suspicious, as he also had the power to organize people from the Happiness Base to keep spamming her.

Ye Hongyu may have the will, but he probably doesn't have the ability; he might have frozen or starved to death long ago.

It's unlikely that Yu You is involved, because it was the people from the Happiness Base who were looking for her. Yu You's side only asked her to come forward and give an explanation two days after the quantum computer was taken away, and then they disappeared.

"By the way, Wang Dawei probably doesn't know about my shelter, does he?"

Jiang Qingyue felt a lingering fear.

When my dad was digging this shelter, he was actually just playing around. At that time, people in his circle were obsessed with building post-apocalyptic fortresses, but how many of them actually believed that the apocalypse would come?

Many people are just playing around and don't really ensure the privacy of their so-called secret fortresses. They even brag about them to their friends.

Jiang Qingyue didn't know if her father had ever revealed the location of this shelter.

After all, my parents ran the shop back then, and when people from the same neighborhood or the surrounding area went to buy things, they would chat with them for a bit when they weren't too busy.

People like Wang Dawei, in particular, like to sit down when they go to buy fish and wait for the fish to turn belly up, sometimes chatting for one or two hours.

When running a business, harmony is paramount, so Dad certainly wouldn't want to kick people out, nor would he want to remain silent.

Two men of similar age were chatting together. Who knows what they might talk about? They might inadvertently reveal that he had dug a shelter or something.

"Probably not?" Jiang Qingyue felt a little uncertain.

"If it really is Wang Dawei looking for me, then it means there's something I can profit from. If he's just having people spam the internet, then he probably doesn't know I'm here."

"Even if Dad talked to him about digging a shelter, there are mountains all around Springwater City. Unless the location was explicitly stated, he probably wouldn't know, otherwise he would have come looking for him long ago."

"But Wang Dawei is a reincarnated person."

This is something that Jiang Qingyue is particularly worried about.

"What was I doing at this time in my previous life, or when the end of the world came?"

She hadn't thought about this question before, but now she was giving it careful consideration.

"Assuming I hadn't noticed Wang Dawei's anomaly and didn't know he was a reincarnated person, I would most likely have continued living my life as usual until the apocalypse came."

Since her parents passed away, her life has been a monotonous routine, going back and forth between the seafood shop and home, repeating the same routine every single day of the year.

If we calculate it that way, when the apocalypse came, she would probably still be in the seafood shop at that point in time.

If the hail is too big, she will hurriedly bring everything back into the shop and then close the seafood store door.

This is equivalent to her being trapped in the seafood shop.

Jiang Qing felt increasingly disheartened as she thought about it.

The seafood shop was not very big to begin with, and it had nothing but various kinds of seafood. There were no thick clothes, no quilts, no heating equipment, and not even a small pot for cooking rice.

She usually eats boxed lunches at the nearby shop at noon.

However, the store was not far from home, and for the first seven days it was only minus twenty degrees Celsius. That temperature wouldn't kill anyone in a short time. Even wearing the thinnest clothes, it was no problem to run home from the seafood store.

However, even after returning home, the situation remained far from optimistic.

There were thick blankets at home, but no extra heating equipment, only air conditioning, and even less extra food.

She doesn't eat many snacks and doesn't cook at home much, mainly because she's too busy. By the time she gets home from the store, it's already past 7 p.m., so she doesn't have the energy to cook and just grabs whatever comes to mind.

This means that, like everyone else, she will face the same water shortage in the early stages of the apocalypse when the water pipes are frozen.

There is no food stored at home; we are short of food.

There wasn't much heating equipment either.

Especially after a power outage.

In other words, even if she were clever enough to brave the sub-zero temperatures of the first seven days of the apocalypse and spend a lot of money to buy food outside, while also bringing home everything she could from the seafood store, her life still wouldn't be easy.

Because there is no electricity or coal for heating, she will still face freezing to death when the second cold wave arrives, when the temperature reaches minus fifty degrees Celsius.

"So, if nothing unexpected happened in my previous life, I could only hold out until the eighth day at most, which is the first day of the second cold wave."

Jiang Qingyue felt that her deduction was correct.

Because the walls of Xingfu Community are very thin and there is no underfloor heating like in the north, once the temperature reaches minus fifty degrees Celsius, even if she is wrapped in thick blankets and wearing thick clothes, she can only last for an hour at most if there is no electricity and even if the doors and windows are closed.

"I see."

Jiang Qingyue slapped her thigh: "Wang Dawei is a reincarnated person, he must know about my tragic ending in my previous life."

"In this life, after he finished training his body and the apocalypse came, he did a survey of everyone in the neighborhood and found that I was gone. He found that I had sold the house and left quietly."

"For him, that's the variable."

"Because everything should have been under his control, and now that something has happened to me, he'll definitely wonder if I know something, or if I'm also a reborn person?"

"So, Wang Dawei must be looking for me."

"He wants to find me, someone who might be just as special as him, and get rid of me."

Jiang Qingyue felt that her guess was pretty accurate, and at the same time, she broke out in a cold sweat.

That was too hasty.

They were only thinking about following Wang Dawei to buy supplies and find a place to hide, but they left such a big loophole.

However, Jiang Qingyue's brows were furrowed tightly. After thinking carefully, she seemed to have no other way to plug this loophole.

Unless she stays in Happiness Community, Wang Dawei will become suspicious if her story doesn't match up with her past life.

"Ugh."

Jiang Qingyue sighed.

She realized that if she were Wang Dawei, she would also have suspicions.

Before the apocalypse, she took out a lot of loans, sold her house, and left without a care in the world. After the apocalypse, this ordinary girl quickly climbed to the top of three major lists and has now even surpassed Wang Dawei, a reborn person.

If she were Wang Dawei, she would definitely think that Jiang Qingyue was also a reborn person.

Otherwise, if he died such a pathetic death in his previous life, why would he live so well in this life, as if he had been prepared all along?

After thinking it through, Jiang Qingyue began to devise a plan on how to confront Wang Dawei.

Putting yourself in others' shoes, nobody wants to be reborn into a situation where someone else is also reborn, because then they'd lose their advantage.

Therefore, Wang Dawei will definitely do everything in his power to find her and kill her.

"Can I beat him?" Jiang Qingyue weighed the options and realized it was a bit risky. Her individual combat strength was stronger than Wang Dawei's. Even without combat experience, her physical attributes were undeniable, and she was absolutely not afraid of a one-on-one fight.

What she feared was the tens of thousands of people at the Happiness Base.

She knew she couldn't handle tens of thousands of dollars by herself.

Even if tens of thousands of melons were lying on the ground, motionless, and she were to chop them down, she would still be exhausted to the point of vomiting.

As for moving away, that's even more impossible.

She had put a lot of effort into this shelter, and moving it was absolutely out of the question.

"Alas, we still suffer from our weak strength."

If she had tens of thousands of men under her command, she wouldn't be afraid at all. So what if they were reborn? She'd just kill them first.

Unfortunately, she didn't.

Jiang Qingyue couldn't sleep that night, tossing and turning all night. She pondered all night and got up the next day with dark circles under her eyes, but she couldn't think of any good solutions.

"Looks like I've been working on these dark circles for nothing."

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp".

I had just woken up when I heard a furry meow coming from the doorway, along with the sound of paws slapping against the door.

"Are you hungry so early?" Jiang Qingyue sighed, scratching her now-grown buzz cut. The little guy has quite a good appetite.

She went to the door and called out, "I just woke up, I'll cook for you right away."

Then he went home, put the pot on the stove, and planned to make the fluffy beef noodles first.

As for herself, she planned to have a bowl of crab roe noodles.

The crab roe was pre-prepared and packaged, so the taste wasn't as good as fresh, but it was still acceptable.

As for beef noodles, that was the furry girl's favorite, but she used them to exchange for firewood; she couldn't bear to eat them.

What if the little one finishes the beef noodles and then refuses to eat anything else, and just walks away without a care in the world?

The beef noodles were ready, and as soon as the door opened, Jiang Qingyue was stunned: "Did you eat all this firewood overnight?"

"Chirp chirp." The fluffy thing nodded vigorously, pointing with its front paws at the bowl in her hand, indicating that it should be put down.

"Excuse me, here you go." Jiang Qingyue put the bowl on the ground.

Looking at the neatly stacked firewood beside her, there was a lot of it, equivalent to what she could chop in a day.

By that calculation, this guy chops wood faster than she does, because the time spent transporting it needs to be factored in.

She can carry a lot of firewood at once, while the little guy can only carry one piece at a time.

Even so, the workload of this one night was more than that of a whole day, which forced her to reassess the furry creature's capabilities.

I initially thought they were evenly matched, but now it seems they were clearly hiding their true abilities.

Something Jiang Qingyue had overlooked flashed through her mind: how did the fluffy creature know the specifications of the firewood she needed, including its length? She hadn't paid attention before, but now that she thought about it, it was clear that the little guy had been watching her go out to chop firewood in the vicinity after she killed Yu You.

And she was completely unaware.

So the little guy was always nearby, with the opportunity to bite her like he bit Yu You, but he never laid a hand on her or used his mouth.

Instead, they chose to chop firewood in exchange for beef noodles.

It seems the little guy is very friendly to her.

He had the ability to kill her, and even the ability to enter the shelter and steal beef noodles, but he didn't. He's a furry creature that you can cooperate with.

"The key is that it's cheap!"

After thinking it through, Jiang Qingyue's eyes lit up with a green light when she looked at the furry creature again.

She looks just like the wolf grandmother who was about to trick Little Red Riding Hood.