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

Although the probability of Wang Dawei coming in person was not high, just to be on the safe side, Jiang Qingyue, Yan Bao, and the little white snake took turns standing guard for the next few days.

Even at night, at least one person should be outside.

Fortunately, everyone was in good physical condition, and each person was fine after staying outside for two or three hours. However, for some reason, Wang Dawei didn't come, nor did he send anyone.

Under Jiang Qingyue's care and feeding, Long Jiuxing's health improved rapidly.

Long Jiuxing stammered, "Sister Xiaoyue, I... I'm almost better."

"Hmm...are you leaving?" Jiang Qingyue hesitated, "Well, you have difficulty walking and don't have a wheelchair..."

Jiang Qingyue wanted her to stay and join her team, but she didn't know how to bring it up. After spending the past few days together, she realized that this girl only looked cute and innocent on the outside.

Even many everyday, common-sense things are just idiotic.

She is very opinionated, and internally she is like a proud female eagle.

He doesn't seem like the type of person who likes to stick together with others for warmth.

Now that she's asking me to stay and help, it sounds like she's trying to take advantage of my kindness.

Long Jiuxing bit his lower lip, looking down at his knees: "It's time to leave."

She can't chop wood, cook, or grow plants... she can't do anything, and even taking care of herself is difficult for her, yet she still has to eat several large bowls of rice every day.

Even before the apocalypse, someone like her who only eats and doesn't work would be very annoying, let alone in the current apocalypse where resources are extremely scarce.

"If you recover a little longer, even if you have to leave, I'll at least try to get you a wheelchair. Otherwise, if you're dragged along by the little white snake and constantly rubbed against the ground, even if you're stronger than the average person, you'll suffer a lot."

"No." Long Jiuxing shook his head firmly.

She knew Sister Xiaoyue well; if the shelter had wheelchairs or materials to make them, Sister Xiaoyue would have done so in the past few days. Since she hadn't asked, of course, they didn't have them.

We need to find a way to get her a wheelchair, unless we go to the city.

Nowadays, Quanshui City is practically Wang Dawei's personal fiefdom. Even if you take that rabbit to Wang Dawei's old base, it will be very dangerous.

Jiang Qingyue frowned: "Are you in such a hurry to find Wang Dawei for revenge?"

Long Jiuxing nodded.

The revenge must be taken, the sooner the better.

Wang Dawei's power is too great, and as a reborn person, his growth rate is extremely fast. The longer time drags on, the greater the gap between her and Wang Dawei will become.

Then she won't have the right to seek revenge.

"You're no match for him right now," Jiang Qingyue advised. "He's stronger than that clone, and besides, none of us know if he has any other clones like that, or any other special items we've never heard of."

"More importantly, we can't be sure how much he knows about you. What if he knew you very well in his past life and could guess from your personality that you would be eager to seek revenge on him?"

"They might have set up a trap and are waiting for you at the Happiness Base."

"I'm going anyway," Long Jiuxing insisted.

She and her baby had no other survival skills, no shelter, no supplies, no water or electricity, and no cooking skills.

Previously, they could rely on their children to collect food like potato chips, but as Wang Dawei took control of the entire Quanshui City, all the resources were concentrated by him, and now the food they could find was becoming increasingly scarce.

She can't survive unless she stays with Sister Xiaoyue.

Staying here would only be a burden to Sister Xiaoyue. She has nothing else to repay the kindness, but she absolutely cannot repay kindness with enmity.

Xiaoyue's shelter wasn't very big, and the supplies stored there weren't many either. Plus, she and Zai Zai ate together, so it wasn't enough.

It's better to take a chance. Maybe Wang Dawei doesn't know her that well, just like he didn't expect her to be lying in wait at the hospital before.

She had made up her mind: if she could kill Wang Dawei, she would; if she couldn't, she would risk her life to get the quantum computer back for Zai Zai to give to Sister Xiao Yue.

By integrating her quantum computer, the gap between Sister Xiaoyue and Wang Dawei can be minimized. With the addition of the rabbit and the baby, she won't be afraid of Wang Dawei anymore.

Jiang Qingyue sighed, "Why are you so stubborn? You know you're going to your death, but you still insist on going."

Long Jiuxing pursed his lips and didn't reply.

After leaving the shelter, she and her baby will become tired and weak due to lack of food and water and a comfortable environment, and their combat strength will decline.

Therefore, they cannot stay outside for long. They must leave and quickly go to find Wang Dawei to take revenge. That is when their chances of winning are greatest.

Looking at her like this, Jiang Qingyue finally understood the helplessness of being a parent. She was clearly doing it for her own good, but her child wouldn't listen.

"Sister Xiaoyue, we...we're leaving now."

As he spoke, Long Jiuxing crawled out of the warm quilt, then crawled onto the ground, using his hands to push himself up.

Just as her legs, which were almost numb, were about to touch the ground, Jiang Qingyue scooped them back onto the bed.

"I finally managed to save your life. That snake dragged you all the way from the city to here, and you even took such a big risk to come to us for help."

"It's only as thick as a chopstick; how much effort would it take to drag you over?"

"And you, after wasting so much of my good food and drink, so much of my medicine, are you going to go and die?"

"Then didn't I and your snake cub save you for nothing?"

The barrage of scolding stunned Long Jiuxing; his face tightened, and tears streamed down his face.

The little white snake crawled to her side, up her arm to her shoulder, its tiny tongue rubbing against her head, and it also shed tears.

Seeing the two of them, one human and one snake, crying together made Jiang Qingyue sigh deeply.

"I know you don't want to stay here and don't like teaming up with others, but you have to think about your little snake, right?"

"It's still a cub. You yourself said it suffered with you before, and now that it's only had a couple of good days, you're going to take it with you to its death. How can you do this to it?"

Long Jiuxing cried and hiccuped, "I hiccup~ I... I didn't."

"What do you mean, 'not there'?" Jiang Qingyue said sternly. "Taking it to Wang Dawei is practically suicide!"

"...No...it's hiccup..." Long Jiuxing cried and waved his hands.

"Still not admitting it?" Jiang Qingyue frowned. "Then tell me, what are your chances of winning against Wang Dawei now?"

Long Jiuxing: "Burp~"

Jiang Qingyue: "Nine points? What's the difference between that and suicide?"

"You might as well just put up with it and stay in my shelter. If you don't want to join my team, I won't force you. We can just be friends."

"Wow..." Long Jiuxing started hiccuping as soon as he opened his mouth, and he couldn't stop crying. The more he tried to explain, the more nervous he became and the less he could say.

Finally, he simply hugged Jiang Qingyue's waist and buried his head in her stomach.

Jiang Qingyue was at a loss and deeply reflected on whether she had scolded him too harshly.

The young girl had fought desperately but only managed to kill one of the clones. It's understandable that she harbors resentment and is eager for revenge.

She's so much older than others, shouldn't we try a different approach to guiding her?

Jiang Qingyue softened her tone: "It's not that I don't want you to take revenge, what I mean is that your life is much more precious than Wang Dawei's life, it's not worth risking your life for him now."

"You should focus on recovering. We'll try to get some constitution-enhancing or recovery potions so that your legs might be able to walk like a normal person again."

"Wait until your little white snake grows up, then you can take your revenge easily, right?"

Long Jiuxing was still crying, but he hugged himself even tighter.

She meant that she wasn't unwilling to join a team.

She just couldn't put it into words. A familiar, dull pain shot through her heart, along with a bittersweet feeling she'd never experienced before, making it impossible for her to speak clearly.

"Okay, okay." Jiang Qingyue gently hugged her back, patted her back to help her catch her breath, "Don't cry, I don't know how to comfort a child."

Perhaps influenced by its master, Yanbao, who had been anxiously waiting on the sidelines, also jumped over and, imitating Jiang Qingyue, forcibly pressed the little white snake's head onto its own belly.

Then he raised his paw and patted the little white snake's back to help it breathe.

Unfortunately, the claw landed right on the little white snake's vital spot.

The little white snake froze, its tears welling up in its eyes.

"Chirp chirp." Yanbao thought her soothing words had worked, so she stretched out her other paw as well.

The claw pressed down on the little white snake's vital spot.

"..." The little white snake was so frightened that it didn't even dare to flick its tongue.

It glanced at its owner with its tiny, bean-sized eyes, trying to call for help with its gaze.

Unfortunately, its owner's face was buried in Jiang Qingyue's stomach at the moment.

Perhaps because someone was comforting him, or perhaps because he realized that crying could be comforted instead of being beaten, Long Jiuxing cried even louder.

Jiang Qingyue felt guilty and kept apologizing: "It's not that I don't want you to leave, it's just that I want you to be completely well-prepared before you leave. It's the same if I take my revenge later."

"Our lives are more precious than anything; it's not worth trading one life for another with Wang Dawei, is it?"

"Don't cry, I was wrong."

"..."

Jiang Qingyue didn't even know how many words she had said until she slowly relaxed the arms that were holding her and the crying stopped. Only then did she realize that the person who had insisted on leaving had cried herself to sleep.

She supported Long Jiuxing's head with one hand and pulled the blanket over him with the other, gently making him sit or lean against the pillow.

Just as she was about to change into some dry clothes, she turned around and realized that the little white snake that Yanbao was holding in his arms had almost stiffened into a snake stick.

Look at Yanbao's two rabbit paws.

One snake was placed three inches away, as if it were about to snap the little white snake's spine at any moment; the other snake was placed seven inches away, as if it were about to crush the little white snake's heart.

Jiang Qingyue: "..."

"Chirp chirp." Seeing her looking over, Yan Bao tilted her head slightly.

Jiang Qingyue, who was familiar with this action, could tell at a glance that the little guy was asking for praise.

It's as if it's saying, "This rabbit isn't one to be trifled with either. You've appeased its owner, and I'll appease the little snake too."

Look, it's not crying anymore.

Jiang Qingyue's eyelids twitched, and she quickly reached out to rescue the little white snake from Yan Bao's arms and placed it next to Long Jiuxing.

He scooped up his rabbit and tapped its fluffy head: "Come on, Yanbao, you haven't watched cartoons for days, let's watch one."

Jiang Qingyue remembered that she had downloaded animations before. After searching for a long time, she found an educational animation about snakes on her father's phone. She had watched it when she was a child, and it included an explanation of how a snake's vital spot is its seven inches.

After adjusting the volume to a moderate level, making sure it wouldn't disturb Long Jiuxing's sleep, Jiang Qingyue placed the phone in Yanbao's little nest so it could watch over it.

She carried water to the greenhouse planting area and used the water, which had been cooled to room temperature, to water the vegetables that had been planted a few days earlier.

She was practically an agricultural idiot, so to avoid making mistakes, she made small wooden signs when planting, writing the name of each plant on them and sticking them in the soil next to it.

To avoid wasting seeds if the plants didn't survive, she initially planted only three kinds: bok choy, mint, and scallions.

Now, thanks to her careful care and continuous heating, they have all sprouted and grown into seedlings.

Bok choy looks like a four-leaf clover, mint has two separate small leaves, and scallions are the easiest to identify, with each one resembling a thin green needle, just like the wild grass sprouts on the mountain.

She watered the seedlings gently, avoiding knocking them over, then went to the generator room to add firewood before washing her hands and cooking.

Whether Long Jiuxing decides to leave immediately after waking up or stays, Jiang Qingyue intends to cook him a good meal.

If she's willing to stay, consider it a celebration.

If she insists on leaving, then we've known each other for a while, so let's give her and the snake a proper farewell.

Soon, one dish after another was served.

Steamed minced beef rice, beef meatball and dried radish soup, pork liver soup, spicy bullfrog, salt-baked mantis shrimp, fish ball noodles, and also stewed white fungus soup for Long Jiuxing.

The two little ones have small appetites, and the leftover food was enough for her and Long Jiuxing.

The small wooden table was filled to the brim.

Jiang Qingyue went to the generator room to call Long Jiuxing for dinner, but as soon as she entered, she was met with a pair of staring eyes.

"You're awake..."

"I'm willing."

"Huh?" Jiang Qingyue was taken aback.

Long Jiuxing repeated, "Sister Xiaoyue, I'm willing."

Jiang Qingyue realized what he meant: "You mean staying at the shelter and teaming up with me?"

"Mm." Long Jiuxing nodded emphatically. "I wanted to say this before, but I cried too much and didn't say it. I really want to stay here, but... I can't do anything, and I still have to eat so much every day."

Jiang Qingyue was both amused and exasperated upon hearing this: "So that's why you planned to leave to seek revenge on Wang Dawei?"

"Hmm." Long Jiuxing counted on his fingers, "With my and Zai Zai's current physical strength, it will take at least two hours to get to the city from here. If we don't hurry up and take revenge on him, the longer we stay, the less fighting power we will have, and the smaller our chances of winning will be."

Fearing that Jiang Qingyue might misunderstand that she still wanted to seek revenge, she quickly explained, "But I'll listen to Sister Xiaoyue. You said my life is precious, so I won't go for now."

"I'll wait until I become stronger, until my son grows up, until my sister surpasses Wang Dawei, until we're strong enough to easily crush Wang Dawei, before I take my revenge."

"That's the right way to think. Come on, let's eat first. I've really gone all out today, but let's make it clear that this is only for one day. Tomorrow, we'll go back to the standard of one dish."

As Jiang Qingyue spoke, she gently picked her up and placed her on a small stool against the wall, so that her back could lean against the wall.

The stool was still not very comfortable.

Jiang Qingyue said with some annoyance, "I've been so busy chopping wood and guarding against Wang Dawei these past few days that I haven't had time to make you a comfortable chair. Tomorrow, I'll definitely make you a chair tomorrow."