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

The village was devoid of any sign of life and supplies.

Even though she had expected it, Jiang Qingyue still felt depressed. With the apocalypse approaching, she didn't know how many remote villages like this would disappear.

After assigning zombies to the coal mines and teaching them how to mine and transport coal, this coal-mining team will henceforth be under the command of a fourth-tier zombie king. With the orders of the zombie king leader, a fourth-tier zombie king cannot escape, even if Jiang Qingyue is not present.

Back at the shelter, with the coal mine solved the energy problem, Jiang Qingyue became busy again.

To be precise, none of the people in the entire shelter were idle.

Long Jiuxing still left early and returned late, spending the whole day at the breeding farm researching zombies, filling three notebooks with notes alone.

As a culture snake, Zazai teaches Little Grey to read every day, striving to help all the shelter members shed the "illiterate" label.

Yan Bao was busy magnifying food, firewood, and other items with the magnifier. Occasionally, he would shine the magnifier on the zombie crystal core, or even on himself, trying to get through the cub stage directly.

Jiang Qingyue was also busy, spending three days making a lot of dishes.

Her space, Long Jiuxing's space, and Xiao Huihui's space were all crammed with lots of things.

Afterwards, she led the zombies to build a furnace. The location of the shelter was almost in the open, and she was not afraid of being seen. This time, the furnace was built to be very large, with half of it exposed outside. Only pipes were installed to extend to the planting room.

Since she didn't have enough iron and other materials, she took the zombies to the city and brought back a large batch.

With a large number of zombies serving as livestock, the problem of heating the plantation was quickly solved.

The planting area is still expanding. Jiang Qingyue has planted all the vegetables she had on hand, and also bought wheat and rice seeds from the government, as well as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn.

Every day, I have to go to the No. 1 zombie breeding base and the several newly opened zombie nests.

Each zombie king was pragmatic and selected the zombies with the lowest potential to extract their crystal cores.

She could collect crystal cores from various corpse nests every day, just like picking up eggs.

The number of crystal nuclei obtained each time is increasing exponentially.

That evening, Jiang Qingyue took out all the crystal cores she had collected.

While Yan Bao and the others were taking a bath, Jiang Qingyue took the opportunity to turn on her personal computer. It had been a long time since she had checked, and the three ranking lists had undergone huge changes.

Individual combat power rankings:

First place: Jiang Qingyue, female, 27 years old, combat power 100000

Second place: Long Jiuxing, female, 18 years old, combat power 100000

Third place: Liu Yuyao, female, 45 years old, combat power 100000

Fourth place: Chen Tangtang, female, 23 years old, combat power 100000

Fifth place: Huang Yali, female, 31 years old, combat power 100000

Sixth place: Yang Qingqing, female, nineteen years old, combat power 100000

Seventh place: Shen Yi, male, 30 years old, combat power 100000

8th Place: Yan Kexin, female, 14 years old, combat power 100000

Ninth place: Chen Sanyang, male, 39 years old, combat power 100000

10th Place: Wang Longhua, Male, 30 years old, Combat Power: 100000

11th: Wang Defa, male, 33 years old, combat power 100000

"..."

Jiang Qingyue was not surprised by this ranking. Because she did not have a second-tier crystal core, her and Long Jiuxing's combat power had been stuck for a long time.

Many people took advantage of this time to catch up.

There are a total of eleven players with a combat power of 100,000, and the others are not far from reaching 100,000.

At this rate, within two months at most, the top 100 people on the list will probably all reach 100,000 combat power.

Jiang Qingyue also saw two foreigners at the 83rd and 96th positions on the list.

Aside from the significant changes in the combat power rankings, the rankings of the new forces and survival index remained relatively stable, although all the values ​​were rising.

Survival Index Ranking:

First place: Jiang Qingyue, Survival index: 765555

Second place: Long Jiuxing, Survival index: 765555

Third place: Liu Yuyao, Survival index: 325641

Fourth place: Shen Yi, Survival Index: 291342

Fifth place: Wang Longhua, Survival index: 116534

……

New Power Ranking:

First Place: Jiang Qingyue, Captain of "Jiang Qingyue's Little Nest"

Second place: Chen Tangtang, captain of "The Pioneers Squad"

Third place: Liu Yuyao, captain of "Overlord Base"

Fourth place: Wang Defa, captain of "The Palace of the Emperor Gou"

Fifth place: Huang Yali, captain of "Hope Base"

……

Jiang Qingyue dug into all three lists. She hadn't paid attention to the lists for a long time, and the biggest change was in Nangong Zhao and the "I'll Be King in the Apocalypse" team she led.

It's possible that Nangong Zhao deliberately hid it again, because this time, Nangong Zhao and her team's names disappeared completely from the top 100.

If Jiang Qingyue hadn't known that Nangong Zhao could hide his abilities, she would have thought he was finished.

In addition, there's Yang Qingqing. I never expected that the girl who shouted "One day, with a knife in hand, I will kill all the heartless dogs in the world" when we first met would have a combat power of over 100,000.

No wonder he was the Sword King in his previous life!

In other words, she's not very bright; otherwise, Yang Qingqing would definitely have been one of the eight strongest figures in the apocalypse of her previous life.

There was another person who surprised Jiang Qingyue: Yan Kexin, a fourteen-year-old girl. It was the first time she had seen this name, and her combat power had exceeded 100,000.

Jiang Qingyue didn't know that all of these combat power values ​​were 100,000, so why weren't they all tied for first place?

"Is the ranking based on the order in which they reached 100,000?"

I glanced at the world chat channel and saw that no major factions were using it; people with various IDs were just chatting.

When Jiang Qingyue switched to the Quanshui City area channel, she was instantly stunned; there was no one there.

"So quiet? That shouldn't be the case."

The internet has been shut down for a long time, but people's habit of going online hasn't. For many, chatting on a personal computer is a way to vent.

So when no major powers are trying to occupy the space, there are so many people chatting that it's impossible to see them all.

The sudden quietness made Jiang Qingyue's heart skip a beat.

After waiting a while longer, Jiang Qingyue couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, is there a bug in the regional channel of Quanshui City?"

[No, Master. The quantum computer issued by the Eternal Winter God and the God himself belong to the same controller, so bugs are impossible.]

"The same controller?" Jiang Qingyue pondered for a moment. "Isn't the Eternal Winter God itself a controller?"

[Yes, Master, you can think of the quantum computer and the Eternal Winter God as a single system, except that the God has the highest authority, and the quantum computer with a lower level has lower authority, that's how it is.]

Jiang Qingyue's heart skipped a beat. The authority kept rising, from the level 10 system to the regional supervisor system... eventually reaching the same level as, or even surpassing, the controller of the Eternal Winter God. Could it then turn around and control the Eternal Winter God?

"Chirp chirp."

Yan Bao, smelling sweet after her bath, jumped into Jiang Qingyue's arms, and Jiang Qingyue finally abandoned her unrealistic thoughts.

He kissed the little rabbit and put it in the basket containing first-tier crystal cores: "Use it as you like, until you can't upgrade any further by consuming crystal cores."

After accumulating so many crystal cores, it's time to raise both little ones to 100,000 combat power.

I don't know how much I need. If there's any left over, I'll give it to Little Grey.

Long Jiuxing put the clean-washed snake cub into the basket and let it use the crystal core with Yan Bao.

She sat down next to Jiang Qingyue and, seeing the worry in her eyes, asked, "Who made Sister Xiaoyue unhappy? I'll go kill him."

"Nonsense, how could I be unhappy every day? I just find it strange that the regional channel in Quanshui City, which is usually very lively, is completely silent today."

"Oh." Upon hearing this, Long Jiuxing instantly lost interest. A group of unrelated people, it didn't matter whether she talked or not. She didn't even look at her personal terminal normally.

Jiang Qingyue knew she wasn't interested, so she moved a little further inside.

Long Jiuxing pulled his feet out of his slippers, crawled into the blanket, and rubbed his head against her lower back: "Sister Xiaoyue, go to sleep, don't worry about them."

"You go to sleep first." Jiang Qingyue helped her tuck the blanket in, looking at the dark circles under her eyes, feeling both heartache and helplessness.

Research is indeed an extremely mentally and physically demanding task. When they only had a combat power of over 20,000, they hadn't slept for two consecutive days, fighting zombies continuously—considered high-intensity combat—yet they still hadn't made Long Jiuxing as exhausted as she is now.

Exhausted to the point that someone who wouldn't normally need sleep for days found their breathing become steady almost as soon as their head hit the pillow.

Jiang Qingyue was also a little tired, but she hadn't finished her work for the day.

I glanced at Zaizai and Yanbao; the two little guys were frantically using crystal cores to boost their strength.

Since the beasts aren't on the rankings and their combat power isn't directly visible, you can only rely on your own intuition to keep eating them until you can no longer improve using a first-tier crystal core. It looks like that will probably take a while.

Little Grey was dozing off in its newly dug nest.

Jiang Qingyue hesitated for a moment, then sent a message to Nangong Zhao: "Has something happened to your base? Do you need any help?"

She thought that with her current combat strength, if she took Zaizai and Long Jiuxing to help, the fee would have to go up.

However, Nangong Zhao didn't give her that chance, and directly threw a question mark at her.

He then replied, "How long has it been since you last looked at your personal terminal?"

Jiang Qingyue thought for a moment, it had been quite a while, and she hadn't deliberately tried to remember it. She quickly asked, "Has something major happened in Quanshui City?"

After a while, Nangong Zhao replied: "If my moving out is a big deal..."

Nangong Zhao moved away?

Jiang Qingyue was stunned. Good heavens, she had always thought that Nangong Zhao's previous talk of a transition period was three to five years, but he had already left with his family so quickly.

No wonder no one is talking on the regional channels.

Everyone's left, so naturally no one's talking anymore. Even if someone does speak, it won't be displayed in the Quanshui City area channel; she won't see it.

"Hiss~" Jiang Qingyue realized that this meant that she and Long Jiuxing were the only two living people in the entire Quanshui City.

Does this regional channel count as a small group with only two people?

Nangong Zhao: "Jiang Qingyue, I'm giving you this territory. I hope that when we meet again, we can be less guarded and fight together."

Jiang Qingyue stared at the reply for a long time without saying a word.

Actually, she had a very good impression of Nangong Zhao and Liu Yuyao, but when it came to fighting together, she really couldn't do it.

Liu Yuyao possessed too many secrets. Although she managed to pry open Wang Dawei's mouth, his memory had faded considerably, and he couldn't recall many things.

The notebook in Liu Yuyao's hand contains all of Wang Dawei's memories.

Holding that notebook, Liu Yuyao looked more like a reborn person than Wang Dawei.

Jiang Qingyue was afraid that she might be tricked and killed by the other party if she wasn't careful.

As for Nangong Zhao, he's the sixth among the sixth.

It can hide its stats, appear on the leaderboard whenever it wants, and disappear when it doesn't. Plus, it has an invisibility cloak. Who wouldn't be afraid of that?

When she was overwhelmingly superior, she had to be extremely cautious even when meeting him. Now that everyone's combat power is equal, it's completely impossible to make her lower her guard.

However, Nangong Zhao's departure was indeed a good thing for her.

In this way, apart from her and Long Jiuxing, the entire Spring City was filled with zombies. This meant that, apart from the domesticated zombies, they were all crystal cores.

Once Yan Bao and Zai Zai have accumulated 100,000 strength tonight, they can go and explore the surrounding area. First, they can investigate the wild zombie lairs, and second, they can dig up some second-tier crystal cores.

It's time to significantly boost her and Longlong's strength.

We're all stat-obsessed, we have no choice but to get involved.

"Hiss." The little snake gently crawled to Jiang Qingyue's hand and flicked its tongue.

Jiang Qingyue, as if struck by a divine inspiration, asked: "Have you reached your limit?"

The little one nodded happily, wanting to share the good news with its owner, but seeing that its owner was sleeping soundly with his arms around Jiang Qingyue's waist, it decided not to disturb him.

Be patient, your master will find out when he wakes up tomorrow.

"Congratulations to the little one for becoming the third person in the shelter to break the 100,000 combat power value."

"Hiss." You flatter me. If I hadn't been killing and eating at the same time, my older sister would have been a little faster than me.

As they were talking, Yan Bao silently sensed something and then jumped onto Jiang Qingyue.

With its paws on its hips, the rabbit looks like it's saying, "Master, praise me!"

Jiang Qingyue made an exaggerated expression in cooperation: "Wow! As expected of my fluffy pets, you are amazing! You are still in the cub stage and already have the same combat power as us. You two are so great! You must be rewarded with a bowl of beef balls today."

There are other rewards?

Upon hearing this, the two little ones forgot all about showing off their small size.

After Jiang Qingyue took out a bowl of cooked meatballs from her spatial storage, they worked together to lift the meatballs onto the table and began to eat them voraciously, ignoring Jiang Qingyue completely.

"Hey, you guys are making me very sad."

With their mouths full, the two little ones used their paws and the tip of their tails to poke a piece of meatball and offer it to Jiang Qingyue's mouth.

Jiang Qingyue took a bite from the left side and a bite from the right side, not having time to chew, leaving the food in her mouth and making her cheeks bulge.

He couldn't help but say, "Even beef balls can't shut me up."

This time, the two little ones ignored her.

Jiang Qingyue felt awkward and touched the tip of her nose. The child was grown up and not easy to fool anymore. In the past, if she said she was sad, Yan Bao would have come over to comfort her long ago.

Looking at Little Grey, this little guy should be pretty innocent, right?

Just as I was thinking this, Little Grey jumped out of its nest, ran into the basket, and ate all the remaining Tier 1 crystal cores of Yan Bao and Zai Zai.

After eating, it spread its wings, stretched, yawned, wiggled its rear, went back to its nest, lay down, and then dozed off.

Jiang Qingyue: "..." Well, she's quite clever.