You say the cataclysm only comes after you've cleared the entire dungeon?

Lou Fengyue took out a thick cotton coat from her spatial ring, and then took out two scarves, one to wrap around her neck and the other to tie on her head.

The two ferrets had been tamed by her and were lying obediently at the entrance of the base, waiting.

"Blizzard, blizzard, let's go."

She flipped over and mounted Blizzard's back, with Blizzard following closely behind.

The ferret's fur did not stiffen in the extreme cold; instead, it became fluffy like two moving heaters.

As they rushed out of the base gate, the guards only saw two white shadows flash by, without even having time to greet who they were.

The blizzard and snowstorm moved extremely fast across the snow, and the claws barely sank into the snow, feeling as stable as if they were walking on flat ground.

Lou Fengyue lay on the back of the blizzard, the wind whistling past her ears and stinging her face, but the warmth emanating from the two ferrets enveloped her, preventing her body temperature from dropping much.

According to the directions given by Lu Xin, the Mohe base is located more than 700 kilometers due north-west.

At the speed of a ferret, it can arrive in as little as two days.

If nothing unexpected happens along the way.

Lou Fengyue laid a blanket on the blizzard's back and secured herself with ropes to prevent herself from falling off while asleep.

She lay on the blanket, sensing her supernatural abilities spreading out intermittently. The energy fluctuations within a fifty-meter radius formed a net, constantly monitoring the surrounding situation.

After running for most of the day and crossing two snow-covered mountains, she took out her mobile phone and contacted Xie Jingtian.

The call connected quickly, but the audio was intermittent and the signal was weak.

"Comrade Loulan? What are you doing—"

"Chen Lishen sent me over to provide support. Where are you now? Are the worker bees still emerging?"

"It's still flaring up, but less than the previous two days. We're guarding an abandoned area south of the Mohe base, near the factory buildings. Ice-type ability users are taking turns building walls, while fire-type users are burning at the base of the walls. We're barely holding on."

Xie Jingtian paused for a moment, then his tone became a bit more serious: "But it won't last long. The ice wall will only last for two hours before it has to be rebuilt, as people's physical strength can't keep up."

"What's the factory structure like?"

"It has three floors, including a basement that can prevent worker bees from crawling up from underneath, but the above-ground portion has already been gnawed in half."

"Hold on, I'll be there tomorrow."

Are you alone?

"Um."

After a few seconds of silence on the other end, Xie Jingtian didn't ask any more questions, only saying, "Okay, we'll wait for you."

After hanging up the call, Lou Fengyue put the phone back in her pocket and patted Blizzard's neck.

Blizzard seemed to sense its master's intention and sped up even more.

After nightfall, the temperature dropped sharply.

No matter how thick a ferret's fur is, it can't keep out the extreme cold of minus seventy degrees Celsius.

Lou Fengyue took out two thick cotton quilts from her spatial ring, draped them over the backs of the ferrets, and fed each of them two Body Tempering Pills.

The Tempering Pill works more directly on mutated beasts than on humans; after the two ferrets swallowed it, their spirits improved significantly.

She wrapped herself in a blanket, lay on the back of the blizzard, and closed her eyes to rest.

After resting for about two hours, we continued our journey.

The next afternoon, the outline of the Mohe base came into view in the distance.

It was a gray factory area with its exterior walls covered in a thick layer of snow and ice, and the snow on the roof of the factory building was piled up to half a meter high.

The ice wall surrounding the factory area was in a dilapidated state, with several gaps in it, and charred worker bee corpses piled up at the gaps.

Several worker bees were crawling in and out of the gap in the ice wall when Lou Fengyue struck them with a bolt of lightning and turned them into charred remains.

Two ferrets rushed into the factory area. Lou Fengyue rolled off and twirled the golden rod in her hand.

At the factory gate, Xie Jingtian was guarding with two people. When he saw Lou Fengyue, his eyes lit up.

"Comrade Loulan."

"How is the situation?"

"We just held off another wave, and the ice-type ability users went inside to rest." Xie Jingtian pointed to the interior of the factory. "The survivors are at the very back, including seven seriously injured people and a pregnant woman. We don't have enough manpower to protect them all as they evacuate."

Lou Fengyue glanced into the factory and activated her sensory abilities.

There were energy fluctuations underground, densely packed, like a nest of ants pushing outwards.

But its energy is far weaker than that of the SS-class mother body in Beihe City.

It's at most a D or C grade.

"Where is the insect hive?"

"There's an underground river about 200 meters behind the factory." Xie Jingtian pulled out a simple hand-drawn map from his pocket. "We wanted to blow it up, but we didn't have enough explosives."

"No need to blow it up." Lou Fengyue slung the golden rod over her shoulder. "I'm going to take down the insect hive. You guys prepare to retreat."

"Are you going alone?"

"Otherwise what?"

Xie Jingtian opened his mouth, but remembering Lou Fengyue's deeds in Beihe City, he swallowed his words.

Lou Fengyue took out a spatial card and tossed it to him, "There are some supplies and medicine inside. Feed the wounded first. You just need to guard the entrance until I get back."

"it is good."

She flipped herself onto the blizzard and rode towards the back of the factory area.

The entrance to the underground river is hidden beneath a collapsed factory, and worker bees are constantly swarming out from several cracks.

Lou Fengyue jumped off the ferret, used her earth-based abilities to temporarily seal the crack, and then followed a relatively intact passage underground.

The water in the river was warmer than the ground, and worker bees built their nests on the damp rock walls. Lou Fengyue walked several dozen meters further in and found the insect nest in a huge underground space.

A grayish-white egg sac, two or three meters tall, covered with wriggling worker bees, with a pulsating blue light in the center.

It's around rank D, not even a fraction as good as the one in Beihe City.

Lou Fengyue drew her golden staff, its body covered in blue and white lightning, and smashed it directly into the center of the egg sac.

The moment the egg sac burst, the worker bees in the entire underground space scattered and fled as if their tails had been stepped on. But without the mother's command, they quickly began to fight each other and kill one another.

When Lou Fengyue came out of the underground passage, Blizzard and Snowstorm were guarding the entrance, each with a worker bee in their mouth, chewing them with a crunching sound.

"What's so delicious about insects?"

She walked over with a frown, slapped them on the head, and made them vomit.

Then he tossed out a mutated wild boar, and looking at the two ferrets' bright eyes, he slightly curled his lips.

"Eat this, and you'll run faster on the way back."

Blizzard and Snowstorm grunted a few times, nudged Lou Fengyue's trouser leg with their noses, and then buried their heads in the wild boar.

Back at the factory gate, Xie Jingtian had already organized the manpower. The seven wounded were put onto a makeshift sled, and the pregnant woman was placed on a stretcher covered with thick quilts.

"The insect hive has been destroyed?" he asked.

"Hmm, D-rank, not worth mentioning." Lou Fengyue put the golden staff into her spatial storage. "Have the seriously injured been treated?"

"I've used up six boxes of hemostatic ointment, and the external wound is almost healed, but I'm still a bit weak."

"Let's go back first," Lou Fengyue patted Fengxue's back, rolled over and lay down on him, "If we stay in this weather for another two days, we'll either be bitten to death by bugs or freeze into ice sculptures."

Xie Jingtian glanced at the two enormous ferrets, his lips moved slightly, but he silently turned around to arrange the retreat.

That evening, Lou Fengyue led Xie Jingtian's team and all the survivors away from the factory area of ​​Mohe Base and embarked on the road back to the central base.

She rode at the very back on the back of the snowstorm, with the blizzard following beside her. The warmth from the two ferrets made the surrounding air a bit warmer.

Bringing a large group always slows down the journey; it took four days to travel those 700 kilometers.

Just as the troops were about to enter the base gate, my mobile phone suddenly rang.

Lou Fengyue glanced at the serial number; it seemed to be Luo Zeyan's machine.

"Feed?" she answered.

"Yueyue, we've discovered a massive horde of zombies at the Shimen base, and they're migrating towards the central base."