◎Happy Day 66: Charcoal for the Universal Salvation◎

Under Zhou Ying's strong condemnation, several people sincerely apologized to Life-Saving Food, and corrected their attitude and began to show concern for Life-Saving Food.

For example: "How many eggs can this litter produce?"

Wang Qingqing squatted beside the basin and asked with her face in her hand.

"We didn't plant them too densely, and we tried our best to water and get enough sunlight, but the soil isn't right, so the potatoes won't be very big." Zhou Ying estimated in her mind: "Usually, a nest of five or six potatoes is considered a good harvest. Here, we might only have... three or four?"

Zhao Jiahao frowned: "That's not enough to eat."

On average, each person has two nests of potatoes. Based on this calculation, there are probably less than ten potatoes in one harvest, and they are not very big.

Zhou Ying calculated with his fingers: "We have a lot of food on hand now, so we don't need to rely on potatoes for the time being. We can use all the ripe potatoes this time for planting. We can plant two more crops."

All of them here have done things that are against the law, either voluntarily or forcedly. If they just want to maintain their lives and nothing else, they will have no problem eating the food they have for another two or three years.

The problem is that in two or three years, if agriculture has not recovered and the food available has expired, what will they do?

Jiang Muyun fiddled with the potato leaves. "Then let's go out and look for more containers. If we find any with small wheels, we can bring them back and put them under the vegetable pots so we can drag them along. Otherwise, if we have too many pots, we'll be exhausted from moving them around every day."

Chu Buwen looked at the huge rice cooker liner that was converted into a vegetable pot and asked, "Do we have enough soil?"

Speaking of this, Zhou Ying was also worried: "This wave of potatoes and rapeseed will definitely be enough, but the next wave is hard to say."

There is soil everywhere outside, but we have all been outside before, and we have all seen what the plants growing in the fields outside are like.

Zhou Ying frowned and said, "Soil polluted by acid rain and heavy smog is unsuitable for growing crops." Even if they did grow something, they wouldn't dare eat it. These were things they were meant to eat, and likely for a long time, so they had to be extremely careful.

Jiang Muyun recalled the operations of many bases in his previous life: "Then let's shovel some dirt back when we go out. The kind of dirt that's indoors, the silt left after the water washes away."

The contamination of these soils is indeed not serious, but the quantity is too small. Generally, only the first floor of a building will have more soil scraped away, and in most places there is more ash than soil.

It would be pure dream to think that they could grow crops on a large scale with this soil, but it was enough for them to grow food.

Qin Shiwu thought of the previous flood and the things that had been soaked in it: "Then let's prioritize finding soil along with wood and bricks. The soil needs to be dried after it's brought back."

Jiang Muyun assured her that there was no problem. She still had a few snakeskin bags that she had scavenged before. While the others went to collect wood and bricks these days, she would be responsible for shoveling the soil.

By the way, she also mixed in some of the soil she scraped before the end of the world to fish in troubled waters.

Those who had to go out to work the next day went to bed early, so Qin Shiwu didn't have to get up so early. He took Dabai out to patrol the mountains that night.

Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan recovered quickly from their injuries, and the speed at which they processed the wood and bricks soon surpassed the speed at which Jiang Muyun and others transported the things back.

When he had some free time, Qin Shiwen would take his two assistants to each household to clean the kangs, while Qin Shiwu would start fiddling with his pile of strangely colored plant slime.

It’s hard to say what the specific effect is, but the animals at home just refuse to go near his pot of things no matter what.

After Qin Shiwu poured all the nails in and soaked them, he was planning to borrow Dabai from time to time.

He said that the toxicity of some poisons is time-limited, and he was afraid that they would lose their effectiveness over time, which made everyone stand in awe.

By the time Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan had almost recovered, their kang was almost finished. Only the one in the big cave had not been started, but enough bricks had been saved.

Without the need to knock bricks, there would be fewer people left on the mountain.

Zhou Ying took the initiative to apply for a shift change.

The potatoes were ripe, and the other vegetables were also ripe, so she had to stay in the mountains to deal with them.

Qin Shiwen was an old hand at carving wood boards and had experience in processing dried vegetables, so he stayed on the mountain with Zhou Ying and continued to process the things brought back by others.

When harvesting the first batch of potatoes, Zhou Ying deliberately chose a time when everyone returned home early.

Ten people gathered around a pot of soil with a cloth underneath, for fear that the soil would fall to the ground and be wasted when digging potatoes.

There was only a bunch of potatoes planted in a pot. Zhou Ying took a small shovel and shoveled the soil more gently than excavating cultural relics. He was just short of using a brush to sweep it slowly.

Zhou Ying muttered as he shoveled the dirt, "I've lived for over twenty years, and I never imagined that one day I would treasure a nest of potatoes."

Wang Qingqing looked anxious, but she didn't dare to take action to interfere with Zhou Ying's actions. "Didn't you say this is our life-saving food in the future? Don't even think of treating it like a treasure. I'd even burn three incense sticks for it every day."

Jiang Muyun said calmly: "That's still not possible."

Wang Qingqing was dissatisfied: "Why not? Not only can I burn incense for it, I can even erect a monument for it."

Chu Buwen: "The problem is that you can't find the fragrance."

Wang Qingqing choked.

"Here we go, here we go!" Zhou Ying interrupted the nonsense chatter of several people.

Zhao Jiahao's hands were on the edge of the basin, and he muttered, "It's coming out, it's coming out!"

Zhou Ying had already figured out the area of ​​the potatoes. He inserted a shovel diagonally into the soil and pried out a whole nest.

After seeing the gray clod of earth being lifted out, everyone finally let out the cheers that had been suppressed for a long time!

“Several, several, several!”

Amidst the noise and clamor, I couldn't tell who was asking at the top of his voice.

Zhou Ying excitedly slapped Zheng Xiang's thigh: "Four, four, four!"

This litter produced four babies, and the other litters also had good yields. Although they were not big, they all had three or four babies.

Wang Qingqing hugged Wu Xingyue and danced with excitement: "If we dig up all this, we can plant so many nests! Food will be ours!"

After being slapped by Zheng Xiang, Zhou Ying regained consciousness and said, "Maybe the soil isn't loose enough. These potatoes aren't big, so I probably can't plant too many."

To see how many times a potato can be planted, you need to see how many sprouts it can produce. To be on the safe side, it is best to plant the potatoes in the sprouts before cutting them into pieces and planting them in the field.

For the sake of survival rate, the cut pieces cannot be too small, and it is even more impossible to dig out the buds and eat the other parts.

The first batch of potatoes they harvested were only about half the size of Zhou Yingxiao's palm. It was quite good if they could cut three pieces from one potato.

Qin Shiwen calculated the number and said, "That's not bad! Let's take it slow. After planting two or three rounds, we won't have to worry about starving to death!"

Of course this is the ideal situation.

If you want to achieve that scale of planting, the planting area and weather are both problems.

They first had to find a clearing on the mountain that could accommodate all the potato pots. As long as the weather was normal, it would be easy; they could just grow the crops outdoors. If there was another scorching sun or heavy rain, they would have to move the crops back into the cave.

There were fewer things before, so everyone could still fit them all in their own caves.

Now the potato planting is about to be expanded, and the rapeseed left by Zhou Ying has also begun to grow seedlings. They definitely cannot put all the space in their own cave, so other empty caves on the mountain must be used.

At present, the water they store is enough to grow a few vegetables, but if the drought continues for another year or two, or if the scale of planting is expanded, the water will still not be enough.

After coming back to their senses from the joy of the great harvest, everyone began to plan the decoration of the mountain with great interest.

They found a large enough open space to store crops when the weather was normal, but they needed to prepare two caves to store crops when the weather was abnormal.

One is close to an open space, which is convenient for emergency evacuation in case of emergencies.

One is close to where they live, so that if they encounter long-term abnormal weather, they can be taken care of nearby.

The two largest caves on the mountain have been requisitioned by them. The other caves are definitely not enough to spread the crops on the ground, and it would be inconvenient for them to water and fertilize them, so they plan to set up racks in the selected caves.

Qin Shiwen also planned to build a kang with a fire wall in a cave near where they lived to prevent all their efforts from being wasted after one winter.

Of course, if there is still room for improvement, it would be better to expand the other caves and build a shelf on the ground.

They have so much wood outside. It's fine now that it's sunny, but what if it gets cloudy and rainy later? Are they going to just pile them like this?

There is no condition for them to use chemical pest control now. The only way is to build a frame on the ground to separate the wood from the ground to reduce the possibility of the wood being infested by mosquitoes.

Qin Shiwu didn't know where the inspiration came from, but he decided to study the plants growing from contaminated land while collecting supplies to see if he could find any that could repel mosquitoes.

There is also the issue of water sources.

Previously, their demand for water was not that great, and they only used reservoirs and stainless steel barrels dug by themselves to store water. One reason was that they thought digging the reservoir in the cave would reduce high-temperature evaporation, and the other was that there were not enough waterproof materials.

After all, they don’t know how long the drought will last, and the remaining water is all based on drinking water standards, so protection must be in place.

However, if the scale of planting is expanded in the future, their existing water storage capacity will definitely not be enough.

Therefore, it is necessary to dig a large reservoir to store water for agricultural use.

If you calculate it this way, they have quite a few things to find in the next few days.

The first thing they need is the boards and metal poles used to build the shelves for the crops. After they get these things back, they have to find time to set them up.

Fixing these racks in the cave is a strenuous task, and it would take a long time for just a few people to do it.

I didn’t feel it before we started preparing for the winter so intensively, but now that we have started, I always have an inexplicable sense of urgency.

I was really scared by the rapid drop in temperature earlier.

So in order to preserve their future food supply, these racks have to be built as soon as possible.

The frame needs to be built and the kang needs to be built.

The bricks they had originally prepared were not enough, so they had to get some more.

These bricks are not only used to build the kang in the crop cave, but also to build the waterproof layer of the reservoir.

The waterproof membrane they have is definitely not enough to cover a large water reservoir, and they don’t know how to make other waterproof layers. The current plan is to use a layer of plastic sheeting first, then a layer of bricks, and finally dig some more clay to seal it.

However, it is still time to do these things when there is water. After all, there is no water to store for them even if they are built now.

Moreover, the water used to power the few existing kangs is enough to make them feel distressed.

If they have to allocate some of the water to mix with clay to seal the reservoir, they will really fall into a water shortage panic.

Who knows when the next normal rainfall will come?

There are also some thick clothes and quilts that no one was interested in before, but now I have to take them back if I come across them.

They had fished out quite a few sealed down quilts from the water before, but no one paid any attention to the dirty thick clothes.

These clothes and quilts, dug out from the muddy ruins, were so stained they couldn't even be distinguished. They couldn't be washed now, so all they could do was clean the dust off them, dry them in the sun, and then wash them when it rained.

After all, water is in short supply now. They even filter the water used to wash their underwear over and over again, and try their best to squeeze out every drop of water before drying them. How can they afford to use the water to wash other things?

Zhou Ying choked while cleaning mud from her clothes and quilt on the mountain. She said worriedly, "I hope the rain comes faster than in winter, otherwise we'll have to make do with this."

In addition to these, you should also not miss any large containers you encounter on the road.

I originally thought that with a few large barrels and a water reservoir at home, I would at least not have to worry about dying of thirst due to lack of water. However, when the future plans for the planting industry were put in front of us, the water shortage crisis was once again put before everyone.

It’s better to store more water if you can.

Containers that are deep enough are used to store water, and those that are not deep enough are used to grow vegetables. In short, they are short of everything now, and everything they see seems useful.

There are a lot of things to collect, and they have a lot of manpower.

After Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan recovered from their injuries, they joined the supply collection team.

Now that the temperature has dropped, it is no problem to transport supplies back and forth several times a day.

The only problem is that it is inconvenient to carry things.

Originally, everyone carried heavy loads and walked along the mountain road, and at most they only ran once a day.

The supplies from the foot of the mountain are transported up the mountain using pulleys, and then brought back to your home through the big cave.

Now, it takes a lot of things to build a scaffold. Some plates, steel pipes and the like are not convenient to transport with pulleys, so everyone can only lift them manually, and sometimes they cannot be transported all in one trip.

After running back and forth with the things several times, everyone fell a few times.

No matter how low a mountain is, it is still a mountain, and it is a half-bald mountain at that!

If one is unlucky and rolls down, isn't that like slamming the table and asking the King of Hell if he has the courage to take him away?

"No, we can't keep risking our lives like this. It's okay now without any rain or snow, but if it rains, snows or has a strong wind, we won't even be able to get out of the door." Jiang Muyun put the steel pipe in his hand on the platform in front of the cave, sat down and took a breath.

They suffered during the insect plague. They couldn't go out during the day because the sun was too strong, and they couldn't go out at night because they didn't dare to turn on the lights to light the way. They never saw the sun day after day, and their lives were worse than being in prison.

If they hadn't been lucky enough to get the solar panels, they would have been sick during that time.

As for the heavy haze before, it was also thanks to Wang Qingqing and others on the mountain who made road signs, otherwise Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen would have had a hard time climbing the mountain.

"Since we need time to set up the scaffolding, why not repair the road at the same time!" Jiang Muyun suggested.

They have almost found the materials they need and are planning to take a few days off to do the decoration.

Zhao Jiahao glanced at the path they often took when going up the mountain. "I think it's feasible. Not only the path up the mountain, but also other commonly used paths can be slightly improved to make it more convenient for future travel."

Now the roads they often walk on have been trampled flat. All they have to do is clear away the stones on the roads and expand the steep areas into steps to reduce the slope. The workload is not very large.

No one had much rest during this period. They were running back and forth on the road every day. Zhou Ying and Qin Shiwen, who stayed on the mountain, also had no time to rest for even half a minute. After dealing with the supplies, they still had to make the kang, and they were exhausted every day.

It's a good opportunity for everyone to take a break while the renovations are going on in the mountains.

Although it is called a rest, there is still a lot of work to do every day.

They had to build the road, erect the scaffolding, and dig out the shape of the reservoir. It would take ten people five or six days to finish the work.

Fortunately, they have a lot of manpower and can work efficiently with division of labor and cooperation. When a group of people get together, they can chat and relax. Compared with the period when they were frantically collecting supplies, these days are indeed relaxing.

"Finally, I've come up with a prototype." After digging the reservoir on the last day, Jiang Muyun wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood in the pit, leaned against the wall of the reservoir, and drank a sip of water.

Qin Shiwen leaned against Jiang Muyun and fanned himself: "I didn't feel it when I was busy, but now that the work is done, I suddenly started to think, it's still so hot, why are we in such a hurry?"

They have now collected wood from several large caves, built a kang, and found a lot of clothes and quilts. They are just waiting for water to come to wash and dry them.

Even the door of the big cave was installed.

Everything was prepared properly, but when we looked at the temperature, we found that everyone was still working in short sleeves and sweating.

There is a thermometer in Jiang Muyun's space, and she has always had the habit of measuring her temperature.

Everyone has been busy during this period. They have to cover themselves tightly when going out and sweat every day, so it is not obvious.

But in real time the temperature has been dropping.

When the heavy haze just passed, the temperature was still hovering around 30 degrees. If you stay outside for a long time at noon, the temperature can reach 34 or 35 degrees at the hottest time.

Now more than a month has passed, and the highest temperature in recent days has not been close to 30.

Just as Qin Shiwen finished speaking, a gust of wind blew over, and Jiang Muyun shivered.

The sun gradually set and the temperature gradually dropped. She was now sweating all over and felt cold when the wind blew.

Jiang Muyun was not the only one who felt cold.

Everyone was wearing short sleeves and sweating profusely. The sudden cold wind immediately brought back psychological trauma for many people.

Wang Qingqing rubbed her arms and put on her coat: "Why does the temperature suddenly drop?"

Chu Buwen handed Jiang Muyun her coat: "It's not sudden, it's been quite cool at night lately."

Qin Shiwu, who occasionally goes out with Dabai to patrol the mountains at night, also testified: "I have to wear a coat every time I go out at night these past two days. It's definitely not because it suddenly got cold."

A sudden, dramatic drop in temperature over a year ago marked the beginning of the end of Blue Planet. Since that day, no one has had a peaceful life.

Everyone present was a little scared when they heard the words "sudden drop in temperature".

Jiang Muyun calculated the time. If counted from the time she and Chu Buwen returned to Nanshi, the new spring season had lasted for more than two months.

Their second wave of potatoes has started to sprout, they have harvested several crops of leeks, and they have reserves of other dried vegetables.

Plants are sprouting everywhere on the mountain, and even green can be seen faintly in the cracks of the rocks.

In addition to short grass, there were also many shrubs and saplings growing in the place that the few people rarely went to. When Jiang Muyun secretly went in to insert branches, he also noticed traces of animal activities.

Under Dabai's leadership, the cubs in their family have developed the habit of patrolling their territory and clearing out some highly poisonous plants when they are free.

Qin Shiwu and Zhou Ying would sometimes also follow along and do some research.

According to their judgment, most of the plants growing on the mountain are inedible, and the few edible wild vegetables have all been stripped clean by the kids.

Qin Shiwu and Zhou Ying carefully identified the various characteristics of the small portion that remained. After combining the knowledge of theorists and practitioners and referring to Dabai's suggestions, they came to the conclusion that the toxicity was not strong, but long-term consumption might be harmful.

The result was similar to Jiang Muyun's previous life. The soil quality had not changed at all. If he wanted to grow crops, he still had to dig up the pitifully small amount of soil that was not deeply polluted.

Jiang Muyun brushed off the dirt on his body and walked out of the reservoir along the steps. "The temperature is starting to drop anyway, and winter will come sooner or later. No matter what the situation is this winter, we can't go wrong by preparing for the worst."

Prepare for the worst-case scenario, and the most important thing is fuel.

Their current fuel is mainly wood, with a small amount of loose coal.

Several people have been collecting wood for quite some time. Not only did they fill up several caves with the wood they collected, but there was also a lot of wood piled up outside. It looked quite intimidating, but they were not durable.

The wood that Jiang Muyun and his team collected was basically half solid wood and half synthetic wood, and now it may not be enough to burn for two months.

Chu Buwen and Jiang Muyun both had experience in burning charcoal themselves. After calculating the efficiency and cost of burning firewood and charcoal, they felt that it would be safer to burn some charcoal.

After the basic infrastructure on the mountain was built, the few people changed shifts again.

This time, Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen stayed behind to deal with the supplies and burn some charcoal for backup.

To make charcoal, you have to pick out solid wood of a certain thickness. They took this opportunity to store the solid wood and synthetic wood separately.

The synthetic wood will be kept for use at home when it is not so cold and can still provide some support.

If the synthetic wood ran out and winter wasn't over yet, everyone would move into a large cave and start burning real wood and charcoal for warmth.

No one can guarantee when winter will come this year and how long it will last, so it is better to store as much supplies as possible now so that you can save money in the future.

Since the last time we talked about the temperature, everyone paid special attention to it when they went out.

The more I paid attention, the faster the temperature dropped, as if Blue Planet was about to make some big news.

In the first new spring after the end of the world, several people were half happy and half anxious.

Chu Buwen's belongings are all in the western suburbs, and now he lives in the mountains, so he has to prepare everything he needs.

Jiang Muyun didn't have this worry. She carried all her belongings with her. The reason she followed them through the hardships was not only because she didn't want to expose her space, but also because she wanted to protect the precious wealth she had exchanged her life for from depreciating.

For Jiang Muyun, the confidence she gained in declaring that she would cherish her life and live a long life after her rebirth did not come from the space or the supplies in it, but from her survival experience over the past ten years.

This is what is truly valuable to her.

Jiang Muyun quietly categorized herself: her past life was about dynamic survival experience, a treasure she already possessed. This life was about static survival experience, supplementing and improving her past life experience, a form of financial investment and value creation. Living on material possessions meant waiting for survival abilities to deteriorate and wealth to depreciate.

If there's another life... Never mind, forget it. Jiang Muyun silently recited a few innocent words. She felt that as a reborn being, she should be more cautious when it comes to metaphysics.

The supplies she stockpiled were more like the water she used for bathing.

With these, she would be much more comfortable, but without them, she wouldn't die—unless her Bazi Hardness balance ran out. If she was so unlucky as to be killed by a rock while walking, Jiang Muyun would accept it.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen both had a tacit understanding that they could live to the tenth year in the apocalypse.

If, after experiencing the apocalypse, they are still so fragile that they can only survive by relying on the supplies they prepared in advance, then they are truly close to death.

So Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen were in a mess from burning charcoal every day, and they never mentioned going back to the western suburbs of Nanshi to move some things back.

If they really couldn't survive, it would be fine for Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen to run out to get some supplies to save their lives, but there is no need to do that now just to save trouble.

It is better to take advantage of the suffering now and make yourself stronger than to stay in a comfort zone for the rest of your life and live in fear and avoid others every day.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen's charcoal-burning business was progressing with difficulty every day, and those who went down the mountain to search for supplies were also having a hard time.

Now that the weather is getting colder, some people are even forced to wear dirty cotton coats. They are not the only ones who recall the fear of being dominated by extreme cold.

In the past, people fought over food, but now all the food in the Yi City has been searched out, and the next scarce commodity is wood.

Collecting wood is nothing new. Not everyone has a boat like Jiang Muyun and his friends, who can take home dozens of cans of LPG at a time. Everyone needs fuel for cooking. However, it's just that it's everywhere, so few people go out of their way to collect it in large quantities.

Before, when Jiang Muyun and others went down the mountain to collect wood, they often moved to another place after each search, so as to avoid always searching in one place and being targeted by others after the temperature dropped.

Now that everyone is scrambling for wood, they don't need to bother with that anymore. They just focus on a furniture store and move as much as they can.

Before the infrastructure on the mountain was completed, they still needed other materials and often had to work separately.

Now that bricks and soil were enough for the time being, the eight people who went down the mountain began to go in and out together, with fire axes in their hands. If no one was looking for trouble, they would use them to chop wood, and if someone was looking for trouble, they would use them to chop bones.

But the situation outside has been chaotic for a while, and everyone has learned to see the situation clearly.

Most people have a rough idea of ​​when search is less dangerous than robbery and when it is appropriate to practice the saying "killing and arson for the gold belt."

The eight people including Qin Shiwen stood there in unison. Seeing that none of them were easy to mess with, there were naturally fewer people coming to cause trouble. The collection speed became faster and faster. Moreover, the wood brought back was mainly solid wood, and synthetic wood was just picked up as an extra.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen's charcoal-burning business also developed on the mountain.

It takes about 1-2 days to burn a kiln of charcoal. In order to improve efficiency, Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen found a piece of land on the hillside and dug six charcoal kilns of different sizes, letting them work at staggered times.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen had just packed up a batch of furniture that had been dismantled into pieces. Seeing that it was almost time, they ran to the charcoal kiln to prepare to open the kiln.

Before Chu Buwen swung his hammer, Jiang Muyun couldn't help but sigh, "I wonder when the trees outside will grow."

They now open the kiln just like opening a blind box. Some furniture has no idea what kind of special treatment it has undergone. Even if the outer layer of paint is scraped off, there is still a strange smell when it is burned.

If there were more non-toxic trees growing on the mountain, they wouldn't have to go through so much trouble to store fuel next time.

"It will take until next spring for the trees to grow. Actually, we only need this kind of wood this winter, so we'll just have to make do with it." Chu Buwen pulled up his mask and put it on, then swung a hammer.

What is being burned in this kiln today is expensive wood taken from the dismantling of mahogany tables of a brand that these poor people have never heard of.

After opening the charcoal kiln, Jiang Muyun took a few steps back in despair. "Am I just ignorant, or what? Isn't redwood the same as rosewood? Why does it smell like that when it burns? Are you trying to physically exorcise me?"

Jiang Muyun felt that the smell coming out of it had a tendency to save all living beings.

Chu Buwen used an iron rod to pull out the carbon inside: "Do you think it can be used after burning it like this? Will the carbon smell like this when it is lit?"

Jiang Muyun poked them twice, spreading them out on the ground. "If money were still useful now, I'd be jailed for three years washing dishes if I even scraped a sliver of paint off its original body. How could I possibly have the guts to figure out how to use it after burning it into charcoal?"

Chu Buwen pondered for a moment and said, "Why don't we give it a try? The burning style is no worse than using a dole to light a cigarette, right?"

I feel a little excited just thinking about it.

The two of them did what they said and immediately grabbed a piece of broken charcoal to experience the happiness of being rich.

The two of them squatted head to head. Chu Buwen held up a piece of synthetic wood with sawdust removed, and placed the piece of charcoal on top. Jiang Muyun rubbed the magnesium rod to ignite the sawdust. As the flames just shot up, her eyes blurred and something quietly disappeared into the flames.

Jiang Muyun blinked, raised his head and looked up, and saw snowflakes flying all over the sky.