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

Hundreds of zombie employees work together, without eating, drinking, or resting.

The key is that it is extremely easy to manage. You only need to keep an eye on the zombie king, and the other underlings will never show any signs of slacking off or running away.

They're practically chosen by God.

Jiang Qingyue slapped her thigh in regret, wishing she had known better than to kill all the zombies and bring them back to work.

A day passed quickly. Jiang Qingyue estimated that the little zombies working there didn't have any suitable tools and weren't very strong, so each zombie could only gather about two hundred catties of firewood.

But there were just too many zombies, and they managed to collect over ten tons in one day.

With nowhere to put all that firewood, it was simply piled up outside the shelter.

On the other side, the peak fourth-tier zombie king, along with a group of genius zombies, also dug out a sufficiently large nest.

Even though the nest had been dug out, Jiang Qingyue was still worried about leaving them alone in the corpse nest.

Today, the zombie king at Base One taught her a lesson. These guys may not be as strong as her, but their intelligence is already comparable to that of an adult human.

Although she threatened to dig up the crystal core if anyone dared to run away and break it, the prerequisite was that she had to be able to find it first.

To prevent the zombies they had finally managed to buy from escaping, Jiang Qingyue ultimately decided that the four of them would take turns guarding them until a better solution was found.

Anyway, we don't have to work during the day now; each person only needs to watch for 6 hours.

"Longlong, you take Yanbao and Zaizai back to rest first, and come back to relieve me when it's light."

Long Jiuxing glanced at the troublesome Corpse Kings, his eyes filled with warning.

When she turned to look at Jiang Qingyue, her tone softened: "Sister Xiaoyue, you go to sleep. I'm not sleepy at all. I'll just keep an eye on things."

Jiang Qingyue: "It's your turn tomorrow night, hurry up and go."

Jiang Qingyan picked up the rabbit's paw and did some calculations.

"Chirp chirp chirp." Master, I'll be back in 6 hours to take your turn.

"No need." Jiang Qingyue rubbed its little head. "You can come back when it's light. If you're willing to cook, you can eat at the shelter before coming. If you're not willing to cook, just come find me and I'll take some food from my space."

Actually, ignoring the zombies' ugly appearance, eating while watching them work is quite appetizing.

"Chirp chirp chirp." Alright, I'm leaving now. Don't worry, Master, I'll sleep well even without you.

Seeing it make a sleeping gesture, Jiang Qingyue thought it was sleepy.

He picked it up and placed it in Long Jiuxing's arms: "Take them back quickly, the two little guys are growing, not getting enough sleep will affect their growth."

Long Jiuxing nodded: "Then if you're sleepy, Sister Xiaoyue, just send me a message and I'll come over and relieve you right away."

"Okay, okay, go quickly."

Seeing how reluctant the three of them were to part, Jiang Qingyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

With her current strength, she could stay energetic for two or three days without sleep, so she wouldn't get sleepy so easily.

After Long Jiuxing and the others left, turning back every few steps, Jiang Qingyue realized that the group of zombies had actually stopped.

His face immediately darkened.

"Why stop? Keep going! Don't you ever get tired? Do you want to rest?"

The little zombies were completely clueless and couldn't understand at all, while the zombie kings all had miserable faces.

They don't know how to get tired, but just because their bodies don't feel tired doesn't mean they're willing to work day and night.

Unfortunately, Jiang Qingyue didn't treat them as human beings.

"Get to work quickly, chop enough firewood. Once we've chopped enough, I'll take you back to the shelter to dig some soil."

"Once the shelter is big enough, you guys go and dig a well, keep digging down, you must make sure you get a well with liquid water in the shelter."

"Come back and chop firewood after the well is dug..."

"Oh, right, I also need to find time to make baby zombies."

Jiang Qingyue began to make plans for the future without any regard for her own feelings.

The corpse kings were stunned into silence.

When will these miserable days end?

Although they couldn't speak, their expressions of grief and indignation were so lifelike that Jiang Qingyue pretended not to see them.

Those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts. She had shown no mercy to fish, shrimp, and crabs, and she was even less lenient towards the hideously ugly zombies.

"Get moving! Anyone who slacks off will be mining crystal cores."

As he spoke, Jiang Qingyue swept his gaze over the heads of the several corpse kings one by one.

The zombie kings, large and small, were so frightened that they quickly covered their heads with their hands and growled at their underlings. Those who needed to chop wood chopped wood, those who needed to carry things carried things, and those who needed to dig soil dug soil. From the smallest to the largest, none of them were idle.

Jiang Qingyue sat down on the king's cloak, intending to take out a pot of braised pork to eat, when she suddenly looked at the brightly colored king's cloak.

The purpose of this king's cloak is to make the underlings more loyal. She can be considered the leader of this group of zombies now, right?

If she puts it on, will it make the zombies more loyal?

Immediately, Jiang Qingyue stopped eating the braised pork, picked up the king's cloak, shook it, and draped it over herself.

He glanced at the zombies and, seeing that everyone was still doing what they were doing, couldn't help but cough.

"uh-huh!"

"..."

Jiang Qingyue frowned and said loudly, "Stop, everyone, and look at me."

Now all the zombie kings were staring at her.

Jiang Qingyue carefully examined their eyes... well, she couldn't discern anything.

After all, zombies don't have the eyes of a domineering CEO, and their eyes don't hold any darkness, mockery, or repression.

"Is this useful or useless?"

Just as she was wondering, her personal terminal flashed, and Jiang Qingyue opened it to find a message from Long Jiuxing.

"Sister Xiaoyue, I don't know why, but I suddenly really want to do things for you, to take a knife for you, to run errands for you, and to eliminate all your enemies. Are you in trouble? I'm coming right now."

hiss!

Jiang Qingyue gasped. The case was solved. The king's cloak, draped over her, would also be useful to her underlings.

However, according to the system's assessment, as the captain of "Jiang Qingyue's Little Nest," she only has one subordinate, Long Jiuxing, belonging to her faction.

Therefore, this cloak only works on Long Jiuxing.

What's the point of that?

Jiang Qingyue, looking annoyed, ripped the king's cloak off her body and continued to use it as a pad for her buttocks.

He replied to Long Jiuxing's message, reassuring her and telling her to continue sleeping.

He then took out a large bowl of braised pork from his spatial storage and, while eating, roared at the zombie kings.

"What are you looking at? Get to work, or we'll start mining crystal cores."

The several zombie kings felt wronged, because it was clearly this woman who told them to watch over her.

Otherwise, who would want to look at her? She's so ugly.

A group of zombies were huffing and puffing as they worked hard.

As the cold wind blew, it carried the stench from their bodies towards Jiang Qingyue, who was eating braised pork.

For a moment, Jiang Qingyue's body smelled both fragrant and foul.

Rolling her eyes, Jiang Qingyue carried her braised pork and moved it in front of the zombies so that the wind would blow past her first and then past the zombies, preventing the stench from reaching her.

However, her luck seemed to be bad today. She had just changed direction when the east wind stopped and a west wind started blowing.

It then carried the stench of the zombies toward her.

Helpless, Jiang Qingyue could only hold her pot and turn it around again.

The zombies, who could only smell human scent and not braised pork, thought she was crazy when they saw her running around with a pot in her arms.

Tragically, this group of genius zombies was captured and forced into illegal work by a sick human.

The God of Eternal Winter must be blind to allow such a human to become a powerful being.

After a night of hard work by nearly 200 zombie henchmen, almost 10 tons more firewood was added next to the shelter.

In other words, if these zombies were used to chop firewood every day, it would conservatively be estimated that they could produce around 20 tons of firewood daily.

As the first rays of morning sunlight fell upon the snow-white earth, Jiang Qingyue stretched and looked at the zombies still working, remarking with a sigh.

"Who said there's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine? Look, chopping 20 tons of firewood, zero consumption."

Just as dawn broke, Long Jiuxing brought the two little ones to relieve him.

Several people sat on the ground eating breakfast while commenting on the zombies.

Baby: "Hiss hiss hiss~" That one is quite intelligent, but it always tries to slack off and has been yelled at by the Corpse King several times.

Jiang Qingyue: "The one Huang Yali bought is incredibly strong; its talent is terrifying. In just one day, I feel it has become even stronger."

Long Jiuxing: "I wonder how much a fifth-tier crystal core would benefit us?"

"Hiss hiss hiss." I'm craving crystal cores too; the fifth-tier ones must taste even better.

"Chirp chirp chirp." The zombie skeleton was small, but quite cute.

?

Long Jiuxing looked at Yan Bao with a strange expression.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Qingyue asked.

Long Jiuxing pointed to the little zombie: "Yan Bao said it's quite good-looking."

"Huh?" Jiang Qingyue glanced at the zombie that Long Jiuxing was pointing to and almost spat out her food.

"Seriously, Yan Bao? While aesthetics can vary greatly between species, you're a rabbit with outstretched legs and wide eyes, completely unrelated to zombies. Your tastes can't be that bizarre, can they?"

"Or is it that being single for so long makes even zombies seem attractive?"

"No way! If you really find a zombie partner, as your mother, I really can't accept it."

She wanted to be an enlightened parent, but looking at the drooling, ragged, pale-faced, and incredibly smelly zombies, she just couldn't convince herself.

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp..."

This time, Yan Bao's call was too long, and even Long Jiuxing, who usually understands, couldn't quite understand it.

One can only guess: "It probably means that it's pleasing to the eye among zombies, not that it's liked."

Jiang Qingyue asked Yan Bao, "Is that so?"

Jiang Qingyan tapped the rabbit's head frantically, causing its long ears to sway back and forth.

Fearing that Jiang Qingyue might misunderstand again, it didn't look at the little zombie once more.

After the meal, Jiang Qingyue kept them there to supervise the work.

"The first zombie nest is big enough. Let them continue digging from the side. Eventually, each zombie king will live in a separate nest, making it easier for them to produce baby zombies."

"The rest of the zombies should continue chopping wood. Who knows how cold it will get with the third cold wave? It's always good to store up more firewood."

After returning to the shelter, Jiang Qingyue did not sleep. Although keeping watch was not tiring, it was still quite troublesome to do it all the time.

She issued a bounty.

Bounty Notice:

Objective: To acquire special items that can control hordes of zombies or the zombie king. Payment can be made with trading currency, crystal cores, or plant doctor essence. If interested, please add me as a friend and chat privately.

After sending the message and receiving no response for a while, she couldn't help but send another message to Liu Yuyao.

"Captain Liu, do you have any items that can control the Corpse King? At least something that can control a fifth-tier Corpse King."

Liu Yuyao replied, "No."

"Then do you know how to get it?"

Liu Yuyao stared at the message for a moment, stunned.

She had private contact with Nangong Zhao. According to Nangong Zhao, Jiang Qingyue asked her if there were any zombies in Quanshui City when the third cold wave started, which was right after the zombies were released.

The news that the Corpse King was equivalent to the Queen Ant was told to Jiang Qingyue by Nangong Zhao.

Although it wasn't explicitly stated, Liu Yuyao knew that Nangong Zhao meant to tell her that Jiang Qingyue was very likely not a reincarnated person.

Liu Yuyao later realized that this was highly likely based on some clues. The reason she didn't suspect it was because she was misled by Wang Dawei.

Wang Dawei issued a bounty, stating directly that Jiang Qingyue was a reincarnated person.

Because Wang Dawei was reborn, no one doubted the truthfulness of his words.

Another reason that no one doubted was that Jiang Qingyue had grown up too fast.

She is very strong.

In current discussions on the world channel, the name Jiang Qingyue is gradually being replaced by "God Jiang".

Besides the official forces on the overall rankings, Jiang Qingyue has been steadily growing stronger among private forces, and once she's been on any of the various rankings, she's never fallen off.

This led many people, including her, to subconsciously assume that she was definitely a reborn person, otherwise how could she be so far ahead of everyone else?

When she sold the hidden quest "I Married My Best Friend" to Jiang Qingyue, she never doubted that Jiang Qingyue was not a reincarnated person.

Because she knew that even as a reborn person, she didn't know everything.

But right now, Jiang Qingyue doesn't know the distribution of the zombies, doesn't know that the zombie king is the ant queen, and doesn't know if there are any items that can control the zombie king...

All of this combined is enough to prove that Jiang Qingyue was not reborn at all.

This discovery left Liu Yuyao speechless for a long time. She would rather believe that Jiang Qingyue was a reincarnated person than believe that someone who started on the same footing as her could be so far ahead of her.

Seeing that Jiang Qingyue had sent another question mark, Liu Yuyao replied, "It costs money."

Jiang Qingyue wasn't surprised to see those three words. Paying for knowledge is normal, especially since Liu Yuyao had Wang Dawei's diary, which contained exclusive secrets.

Name your price.

Liu Yuyao: "The first zombie to complete the hidden mission obtained a King's Cloak. If I'm not mistaken, it should be in your hands. Give me the King's Cloak, and I'll give you the method to control the Zombie King."

"Deal." Jiang Qingyue said without the slightest hesitation.

To her, it was like getting it for free.

As for why the Corpse King was unhappy?

So what?

You dare to try and take it from her?

If she cries, there's no need to comfort her; a good spanking will make her behave.

Seeing how quickly she agreed, Liu Yuyao felt she might have asked for too little.

But for a captain like him to back out and raise the price would be too undignified.

"The way to control the Zombie King in the long term is a special item called the Zombie Remote Control. This special item is not obtained by completing a hidden mission, and I don't know exactly where to get it."

"The short-term control method is to have the strongest zombie king order his underlings not to run around, and then keep the zombie king by your side to watch over him personally. As long as the zombie king doesn't escape from under your nose, the underlings won't run amok."

"That's all I know. Have your personal assistant bring the King's Cloak over."

After Liu Yuyao finished speaking, she turned off her personal terminal. She didn't want to talk to Jiang Qing any longer, as it would only make her feel worse.

She used to think that Jiang Qingyue was so strong because of the advantage of being reborn.

Aside from the advantage of being reborn, they are actually inferior to them in terms of strategy and courage.

Otherwise, why haven't we seen Jiang Qingyue's people speak out on the world channel or the regional channels?

It is evident that Jiang Qingyue is seen as someone without much ambition, content to live a quiet life.

Knowing that Jiang Qingyue was not a reincarnated person, she felt a chill run down her spine. She always felt that although Jiang Qingyue appeared to be unassuming and non-competitive, she must have a bigger plan.

How could an ordinary person like him not have ambition to kill Wang Dawei, a reincarnated individual, and suppress so many powerful forces?

This is almost supernatural; she's afraid that if she talks to Jiang Qingyue a few more times, he'll sell her out and she'll end up counting money for him.