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

The Happiness Base is falling apart, the Overlord Base is rife with undercurrents, but Jiang Qingyue's little nest remains peaceful and serene.

Jiang Qingyue and her colleagues' lives became extremely regular.

In the morning, they would cook breakfast first, and Jiang Qingyue would teach him as she cooked. Long Jiuxing learned very diligently.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Long Jiuxing took the two little ones to read and learn to read, while Jiang Qingyue went to the planting room to tend to the vegetables.

They studied for one hour every day, and then Jiang Qingyue led Jiang Qingyan to expand the space of the shelter.

Long Jiuxing took the cubs to dig for ice or cut down trees.

Sometimes we eat hot pot for lunch, sometimes porridge, and sometimes beef noodles—whatever is most convenient.

After lunch, Jiang Qingyue and Long Jiuxing each took their weapons and went outside to practice.

Practice for one hour at a fixed time.

After the practice, one of them was still digging in the dirt, and the other was cutting down trees.

We finished work promptly at dusk.

The laborers carried the firewood that Long Jiuxing and the others had chopped all day to the entrance of the shelter, and Jiang Qingyue then took it from the entrance to the place where the firewood was piled up in her space.

Day after day, the space expanded, and more and more firewood and clean ice were stored.

The trading area opened on September 1st.

Jiang Qingyue and Long Jiuxing both entered the trading area.

I put a few things on the shelves that I don't really need, but they didn't sell.

The two wandered around for a while but couldn't find the seeds, fertilizer, or other items they needed, thus wasting twenty trading coins.

On October 1st, Jiang Qingyue put the treatment medicine she obtained from Wang Dawei on the shelves.

I was lucky this time; I sold it and earned 1,700 trading coins.

On November 1st, Jiang Qingyue sold two stoves and five boxes of multivitamins, earning 138 transaction coins.

On December 1st, Jiang Qingyue was lucky this time and bought ten packets of seeds from a seed seller, spending 113 transaction coins.

"Bitter melon, cabbage, cilantro, chives, lotus root, edamame, tomato, pumpkin, green bell pepper, cucumber."

After the trade fair ended, Jiang Qingyue finally had time to carefully examine the seeds she had bought, a total of ten kinds.

However, the cabbage and cucumbers were the same ones she had bought before.

Jiang Qingyue was still very happy.

It's the end of the world, we're lucky to even have seeds to grow, what more could we ask for?

"Longlong..."

Jiang Qingyue turned her head and saw Long Jiuxing holding the Burning Heaven Fire Stick and starting a fire.

"..."

Even though it wasn't the first time I'd seen it, I still couldn't help but twitch my lips.

Two months ago, Long Jiuxing couldn't find a fire poker, so he started using the Burning Heaven Fire Pole to poke at firewood.

Upon probing, it was discovered that this Heaven-Burning Fire Stick was far more effective than any other kind of fire poker.

Thus, this treasure, which made countless people envious, became Long Jiuxing's exclusive fire poker.

Not only was it used as a fire poker, but when it grew larger, it was also used by the little white snake and Jiang Qingyan as a slide.

Being a stick is quite a hard life.

"What's wrong, Sister Xiaoyue?" Long Jiuxing turned her head and looked at her innocently.

"...It's nothing. I just wanted to say that now that we have extra seeds, you and Zai Zai don't need to go out tomorrow. You can come with us to dig soil and expand the planting area."

"After the third cold wave hits, accompanied by toxic fog, vegetables can detoxify, and there will definitely be a shortage. We had no choice before because we didn't have enough seeds, but now we have to plant more and try to exchange vegetables for more trading currency so we can upgrade our computer to level three as soon as possible."

Upgrading a quantum computer from level two to level three requires one million transaction coins.

Such a huge amount of money would be incredibly difficult for anyone to raise.

After Wang Dawei was promoted to level two and received a reward.

In the past few months, some people have certainly reached level two, but level three is still a long way off.

The system hadn't notified anyone yet that they had completed it, and Jiang Qingyue was very envious of the reward for reaching level three.

Even including Long Jiuxing's, she only has a little over 200,000 trading coins in her hands right now.

We are still more than 700,000 short of one million.

Aside from completing hidden quests to obtain a large amount of trading currency, the only thing Jiang Qingyue can think of right now is growing vegetables.

However, triggering hidden quests is not easy.

In the past few months, a few lucky individuals have triggered and completed the hidden quest.

Jiang Qingyue and the others also tried various methods, including but not limited to washing their hair upside down, and making snakes and rabbits sworn brothers.

But it never triggered.

In the end, Jiang Qingyue and the others simply gave up and decided to let things take their course.

While chopping wood, digging ice, or digging soil, you might occasionally get one or two trading coins, which is better than nothing.

"I'll listen to Sister Xiaoyue."

As Long Jiuxing spoke, he used the Burning Heaven Fire Stick to poke into the stove again, removing the excess ash and stuffing in a few more pieces of firewood.

"Sister Xiaoyue, let me cook today. How about braised pork?"

After several months of learning, Long Jiuxing's cooking skills improved by leaps and bounds, and he had no problem making home-style dishes.

Even because she learned from Jiang Qingyue, the taste of every dish she makes is nine-tenths similar to Jiang Qingyue's.

Jiang Qingyue learned to cook from her father.

So no matter who cooks, it tastes just like Jiang Qingyue's father's cooking.

Jiang Qingyue nodded: "Then I'll go give the two little ones a bath."

Jiang Qingyue boiled a pot of water, then brought over the rabbit and snake that were digging a hole and threw them into the basin.

They washed it quickly and efficiently, like washing radishes, and then wrapped it in a small blanket.

They were each tossed back onto their own beds.

She poured out the dirty water, then cleaned her and Long Jiuxing's patina-covered clothes and put them on the rack by the fire to dry.

The rice was just cooked, and Long Jiuxing used two rice cookers to cook two whole pots of rice.

That's right, Jiang Qingyue and Long Jiuxing's appetites have increased again.

With all the work and energy expenditure every day, one pot is no longer enough.

"Sister Xiaoyue, this pot is yours."

Jiang Qingyue picked up her pot, took a small bowl, scooped a spoonful from the edge and gave it to Jiang Qingyan, then added a few pieces of braised pork to her plate.

Long Jiuxing did the same thing, making a bowl of braised pork rice for the little white snake.

Then Jiang Qingyue picked up a large bowl of braised pork and scooped half of it into Long Jiuxing's rice cooker.

The remaining half-bowl was poured directly into my rice cooker, and I ate it directly with a spoon.

Just as he swallowed the last piece of braised pork, the quantum computer gave him a new notification.

[Congratulations to Liu Yuyao, deputy captain of the Overlord Base, for completing the hidden mission: "Punch the Boss in the Kidneys." Reward: 6 Transaction Coins and the special item, the Abstinence Elixir.]

[Congratulations to Nangong Zhao, wife of the Overlord Base Captain, for completing the hidden quest: "The boss is more appealing than the wife." A reward of 6 Transaction Coins and the special item Invisibility Cloak is given.]

Jiang Qingyue looked at the two newly popped-up announcements, feeling slightly dazed.

Liu Yuyao hadn't made any moves, and if she weren't still on the leaderboard, she would have thought she was dead.

Unexpectedly, once they made a sound, it shook the heavens and the earth.

Long Jiuxing was also looking at the two announcements, but she wasn't interested in Liu Yuyao.

She's only interested in stabbing kidneys.

"If I had known, I should have found someone to acknowledge him as their boss, and then stabbed him in the kidneys."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qingyue felt a pang of kidney pain: "Longlong, strictly speaking, I am your boss."

Although Jiang Qingyue's little nest only had her, Long Jiuxing, and two little ones, it was still a place of some influence.

As the team leader, she was indeed the boss of Long Jiuxing in name only.

"That Liu Yuyao is really ruthless. Did she know about this hidden quest beforehand, or was it triggered accidentally when she took down her boss?"

Long Jiuxing, with a blank expression, washed the pots and pans clean and put them back in their place.

Jiang Qingyue had gotten used to her being like this.

As long as it doesn't concern their little family, Long Jiuxing always seems indifferent.

"Boss..." Jiang Qingyue remembered that the captain of the Overlord Base was called Li Tiege.

In other words, Liu Yuyao, the deputy captain, killed Li Tiege and stabbed him in the kidney.

"But who is this Nangong Zhao?"

This was the first time Jiang Qingyue had ever seen this name.

"Captain's wife, that means Nangong Zhao is Li Tiege's wife."

Now that two announcements have appeared together, and the hidden mission that Nangong Zhao completed is quite interesting, the eldest son is more appealing than the madam.

"Could it be that Liu Yuyao and this Nangong Zhao teamed up to kill Li Tiege, and then Nangong Zhao became the boss?"

Jiang Qingyue opened the New Power Ranking and took a look.

First Place: Jiang Qingyue's Little Nest, Team Leader Jiang Qingyue

Second place: Pioneer Team, Captain Chen Tangtang

Third place: Overlord Base, Captain Liu Yuyao

Fourth place: Gou Di's Palace, Captain Wang Defa

Fifth place: Hope Base, team leader Huang Yali

"Huh? The captain isn't Nangong Zhao, it's Liu Yuyao."

Jiang Qingyue frowned slightly: "What's going on?"

No lady smells as good as the boss. Nangong Zhao has clearly made himself the boss by completing this hidden mission.

But how did the captain of the Overlord Base become Liu Yuyao?

I looked at it for a while, but still couldn't figure it out, so I gave up.

Jiang Qingyue had no intention of making things difficult for herself. There were plenty of things in this world that she couldn't understand, so one more wouldn't make a difference.

However, the rankings have not changed much in the past few months.

Jiang Qingyue flipped through the list and found that the top twenty were all familiar forces.

The top five have remained unchanged.

What changed were those ranked after 50th, with many new names emerging that I'd never even heard of.

Scrolling down to the hundredth place, Jiang Qingyue saw a familiar name.

100th place, I reign supreme in the apocalypse, Captain Nangong Zhao.

Upon seeing the list, Jiang Qing felt increasingly uneasy.

Nangong Zhao, who was previously unknown on various ranking lists, has now appeared, first completing a hidden mission, and then directly becoming the captain of another faction.

It's not surprising that a new faction has been established.

After leaving the group, one can establish their own power on their own.

The strange thing is that Nangong Zhao's influence directly entered the top 100 of the rankings.

It's important to understand that the current rankings are not nearly as valuable as those from the early days of the apocalypse.

Currently, in the top 100 of the post-apocalyptic rankings, almost all of those captains are also listed on the other two lists, and their combat strength is not weak.

Not only do they have names, but they are also ranked very high.

But Nangong Zhao didn't.

Thinking it over, Jiang Qingyue read through the other two lists from beginning to end.

It's confirmed, there really isn't one. Nangong Zhao isn't in the top 100 on either the individual combat power ranking or the survival index ranking.

"Is it that strange?" Jiang Qingyue touched her chin... and felt a pimple...

It's worth noting that although Long Jiuxing wasn't on the other two lists back then, he was in a difficult situation. After joining her team, his survival index immediately improved.

Nangong Zhao, who was previously the captain's wife of the Overlord Base, has now established a new organization—"I Reign as King in the Apocalypse."

A person who becomes the master of a powerful force will definitely have a good living situation.

Even if they can't make it into the top ten, it's impossible for them not to be ranked in the top 100.

Completely baffled, Jiang Qingyue decided to turn off the personal terminal.

Just as she was about to turn it off, someone suddenly started spamming the world channel and the regional channel of Spring City.

Coincidentally, all the people flooding the screen this time are using the same faction's ID—"I Reign Supreme in the Apocalypse."

Jiang Qingyue's brain was a beat slow to react.

"Nangong Zhao is in Quanshui City."

"So, this new force where I reign as king in the apocalypse is actually the original Happy Base."

"No wonder they broke into the top 100 right away."

Jiang Qingyue didn't know how many people lived in other cities or what their situation was.

But she was very familiar with Quanshui City.

Even though Wang Dawei was later killed by Long Jiuxing and the Happiness Base fell apart, some people who followed Wang Dawei still grew a lot, and these were all considered minor leaders.

If someone can win over these people and reorganize them, their power will be no less than that of the former Happiness Base.

After figuring it out, Jiang Qingyue suddenly chuckled.

Seeing that Jiang Qingyan, Snake Cub, and Long Jiuxing were all looking at her curiously, Jiang Qingyue smiled and said, "I just suddenly thought of something very interesting."

"Liu Yuyao was originally the captain's wife of the Happiness Base, while Nangong Zhao was the captain's wife of the Overlord Base."

"Now, Liu Yuyao went to the Overlord Base and became the captain, and Nangong Zhao came to the Happiness Base and also became the captain."

"And the original team captains, Wang Dawei and Li Tiege, are both finished."

Long Jiuxing and the two little ones turned their heads expressionlessly.

They clearly didn't understand what was so funny.

Jiang Qingyue felt helpless. It seemed that apart from herself, the other three were indifferent to anyone or anything in the outside world.

In Long Jiuxing's eyes, Liu Yuyao and the others were far less important than whether or not they could have an extra beef ball at night.

Just as she was thinking this, a friend request popped up, and Jiang Qingyue looked at her personal terminal.

Nangong Zhao.

After hesitating for a moment, she still clicked "accept".

Without any unnecessary formalities, Nangong Zhao sent a message directly after becoming friends.

Nangong Zhao: "Your cousin Jiang Qingtian is in my base, and your second uncle and aunt are also there. Do you want the body or the person?"

Jiang Qingyue: "Threatening me?"

Nangong Zhao: "To please you. Liu Yuyao told me that your second uncle and aunt plotted against you. I happen to be cleaning up the team right now, and knowing you're too lazy to make the trip, I can kill them for you while I'm at it."

"As for your cousin, if you need her, I can give her a ride, but you'll have to come pick her up yourself."

Jiang Qingyue thought for a moment and replied, "Have everyone in Quanshui City stop sending messages, and let Jiang Qingtian talk to me."

"it is good."

Soon, the regional channel of Quanshui City fell silent.

Jiang Qingyue understood. It seemed that Nangong Zhao had gathered all of Wang Dawei's previous influence, and everyone in Quanshui City had joined the "Apocalypse I'll Be King" team.

Otherwise, Nangong Zhao wouldn't be able to command everyone to obey his orders.

Soon, Jiang Qingtian posted a message on the regional channel with the ID "I Will Be King in the Apocalypse".

Jiang Qingtian: "Sister, I'm sorry, I couldn't stop my parents back then. Now I'm lucky, I got a physique potion, and I'm doing well on my own. I don't have any contact with my parents anymore, so I don't care how you deal with them. As for me, I won't cause you any trouble. I'm doing well working with Captain Nangong, and I won't have any problems making a living. I'll add you back after my personal computer reaches level two."

Jiang Qingyue patiently read through a very long message.

He replied, "You posted it yourself; no one coerced you?"

Jiang Qingtian: "No, sister, you're so amazing now, no one would offend you because of me. On the contrary, after everyone found out that I'm your cousin, they all take care of me, intentionally or unintentionally."

After reading it, Jiang Qingyue replied, "I will speak with Captain Nangong. If you encounter any difficulties in the future, you can contact me through Captain Nangong. I will help you within my capabilities."