Chapter 28: How many frogs should I catch?

Jiang Rong returned to his room, and then he found that his grandmother Jiang Suan, as well as Grandpa Zhao and Grandma Zhao were all in the room.

I felt relieved immediately.

At this time, Cai'er, who had just returned to her room to look for Grandpa Zhao and Grandma Zhao, also hurried over. Then, she found that her grandpa and grandma were there. Zhao Cai'er's heart, which had been pounding with nervousness, finally calmed down a little.

"Let's go to the basement first." Jiang Rong whispered.

The houses of Jiang, Xin and Zhao all have basements, and the space is not small. Jiang Rong had specifically instructed that they must be as solid and sealed as possible. It didn't matter if they had several layers of cement bricks, but they had to make sure there was no leakage and no gaps.

There are more mutated beasts in the apocalypse than just the big guys outside.

There was also an air conditioner in the basement, but in order to minimize noise, Jiang Rong did not turn it on this time.

There are three rooms in the Jiang family's basement, two small rooms and one large room. The large room is about the size of the two small rooms combined.

At this moment, there are thirteen people from the three families, all in the big room, it is warm with more people.

After everyone entered the basement, Jiang Rong closed the two security doors leading to the basement. The surroundings suddenly became dark and quiet, and the banging sounds outside seemed very far away from her.

Jiang Rong turned on the warm light in the basement, and the light was dim and soft.

Then he walked back into the house at a leisurely pace.

The room was very quiet at this moment. No one spoke, and everyone sat on the thick white plush carpet with a dazed look on their faces.

Jiang Rong tidied up the house the day before the natural disaster.

There was only one empty space in the room, where three unused heaters were placed. The rest of the room was covered with thick white velvet carpets, on which five thick quilts were spread.

To be more precise, there should be ten beds, but they are stacked into two layers, one for cushioning and the other for covering.

In addition, there are a dozen soft pillows.

The room was still cold at this moment. Even sitting in bed was useless, as my hands and feet were still stiff.

The temperature in the basement is lower than that in the living room above. After Jiang Rong measured it with a special thermometer, it showed minus 40 degrees Celsius.

Therefore, after Jiang Rong entered the house, he reached out to wipe the frost off his face, and slowly took out the fuel piled in the cubicle toilet, and put it into the biomass heating stove he had bought before. After lighting the fuel, wisps of heat emanated from the stove.

At this time, Xin Jue and Zhao Caier also came over and helped light the other two stoves.

The three stoves were burning at the same time, and the temperature in the room gradually rose.

Jiang Rong did not close the door of the room completely, leaving a gap for ventilation.

Afterwards, Jiang Rong took out the coal stove and kettle that he had placed downstairs in the corridor early in the morning, made a fire in the open space in the basement and boiled several pots of water.

Then I filled more than twenty hot water bottles and several cups of hot water before going into the house to rest.

Each person had two hot water bottles, one for warming hands and the other for warming feet, but neither was filled to the brim, only about halfway.

The temperature in the room had risen by now. Although it was still a little cold, it was much better. At least when Jiang Rong, Cai'er and Xin Jue entered the room from outside again, they could feel a burst of heat coming towards them.

Jiang Rong and Cai'er shared one bed, Grandma Jiang and Grandma Xin shared one bed, Xin Jue and Uncle Zhao and Jiang Suan shared one bed, Aunt Zhao, Grandma Zhao and the two little ones shared one bed, and finally Grandpa Zhao and Grandma Zhao shared one bed.

At this moment, except Xin Jue, everyone else was sitting on their beds. The room was quiet, with only the sound of burning flames and some vague thudding sounds.

"Rongrong, is it useful for us to hide in the basement? Will those things stay outside?" Zhao Caier asked in a low voice.

Jiang Rong heard this and shook her head. She couldn't be sure.

"If there are no other people outside who give them loopholes, they will leave after a few days without any gains."

After all, the temperature outside is so low that even mutant beasts cannot stay outside for a long time without eating.

But the situation of other people out there...

It’s hard to say.

Not every family has a one-way anti-peep film like theirs. It would be better if there were curtains at home and the windows were closed tightly. It would be even better if anti-theft windows were installed.

But if there are no anti-theft windows, the windows are made of ordinary glass, and there are no curtains to cover them, then... it's no different from opening the door wide to welcome those quack beasts.

After resting in the house for a while, Jiang Rong went out of the room again. When she came back, she had a backpack on her back.

There was some food and some small toys in the backpack.

Afterwards, Jiang Rong and Zhao Caier cooked a large pot of rice porridge in the basement, and while there was no one outside, they took out many bowls and chopsticks from the space.

The rice porridge cooled down a lot after being left outside for a while. Given the temperature outside, it would probably freeze into ice if left outside for a little longer.

Afterwards, Jiang Rong avoided other people and took out two large folding tables from the space, pretending that he had found them from the corridor. After wiping them, he placed them on the extra space in the middle of the room.

Then everyone had a bowl of rice porridge with fermented bean curd, and they were very satisfied with the meal.

You have to know that with the temperature outside these few days, except for Jiang Rong and a few others who fell into deep sleep, the others were unwilling to even leave the house, and they just made do with a few loaves of bread for food.

So today's bowl of hot rice porridge is the best meal they have had in the past few days.

After eating, several young people in the room washed the dishes with hot water and then went into the house.

The three children in the room, including Jiang Suan, were playing with the puzzles and building blocks that Jiang Rong had just brought in.

It was fun to play.

Several elderly people in the family crawled into bed, lay down with their eyes closed and took a rest.

The main reason is that it is warmer lying down, and there is not much to do in this small room.

Aunt Zhao looked at the children playing with toys.

Jiang Rong was guiding Cai'er, Xin Jue and Uncle Zhao to learn how to use the method of cultivating supernatural powers that she had learned in the later period of her previous life.

Among the four people present, except Jiang Rong, Xin Jue was the first to figure out the trick, followed by Cai Er. The two of them were only a few minutes apart.

As for Uncle Zhao, he was probably about half a day late.

After that, apart from the necessary eating and drinking, the few of them frantically circulated a certain special energy in their bodies day and night.

Although this method is safe and solid, there is almost no need to worry about the danger of being contaminated and assimilated into a monster.

But the speed of progress is indeed slower than hunting mutant beasts and then improving by devouring their flesh and blood.

During the next three days, apart from the necessary food and drink, they put all their energy into cultivation.

After all, only by improving their strength can they survive better in this doomsday, and they will face more than just those mutant beasts in the future.

This time, when Jiang Rong once again circulated the familiar, almost transparent energy in his body, he seemed to feel something different.

It seems to be running faster than before.

And it is visibly fast.

If the speed of energy circulation in her previous life was like a blocked mudflow, then in this life, it was a gurgling stream.

Jiang Rong tried to operate it for a while, and the more she operated it, the more frightened she became. She had never experienced such a speed in her previous life.

Not only that, her cultivation speed has always been much slower than others.

According to her own speculation, in her previous life, when she practiced for the same amount of time as others, her practice speed was probably only one tenth of that of other ordinary psychics...

The talent cannot be said to be average, it can only be said to be very poor, otherwise life would not be so difficult.

Jiang Rong slowly opened his eyes and reached out to touch the always warm jade talisman hanging around his neck through his clothes.

Then she sighed softly. It turned out that she could also absorb the energy of the jadeite stones in the space, but she needed the transformation of spiritual jade as a medium.

But in her previous life, she had never felt the presence of spiritual jade in the jade talisman.

Jiang Rong has always been confused about this and doesn't know why, but it feels a bit stupid to ask Lingyu. How could Lingyu know about her past life?

Three days later, the faint banging sound coming from outside disappeared.

Jiang Rong opened his eyes again and looked around.

Grandma Jiang, Grandma Xin, Grandma Zhao and Grandma Zhao were sitting at a table together, playing mahjong on a soft table with a set of rubber mahjong tiles.

They all looked very restrained, and even when they were bumping and barging, they suppressed their voices and didn't shout out in joy.

Grandpa Zhao and Mother Zhao sat aside and watched with great interest.

The three younger ones each held a picture book in their hands, looking at it and gesturing with their hands.

Jiang Suan seemed very busy, and was explaining the words in the pictures to the two children in a low voice.

As for Xin Jue, Cai'er, and Zhao Shu, they were still practicing with their eyes closed.

The three heating stoves in the room are basically burning all the time. She also has a lot of fuel in her space, so there is no need to worry about it being insufficient, so the temperature is always maintained at around ten degrees above zero.

It's not too cold.

Besides, it would be stuffy if so many people stayed in such a small room for a long time. But the temperature outside was very low, and it dropped several degrees in the past few days. There were also mutant beasts, so people couldn't go out.

So Jiang Rong found a set of rubber mahjong from the space and let his grandmother and the others pass the time, which also served to divert their attention.

She anxiously stockpiled so many things before the apocalypse, wasn't it just so that her family could live more comfortably in the apocalypse?

Jiang Rong felt that the noise outside had disappeared, so he put on a thick black coat and quietly went out.

During this time, several elders who were playing mahjong also stopped what they were doing and looked over here, but were then signaled by Jiang Rong to continue and not to bother with her.

After Jiang Rong left the room, he walked up the stairs and went straight towards the basement door.

Then he carefully opened the two doors.

At this time, the light outside was a little dim, and Jiang Rong walked towards the living room in front, shivering.

The temperature now is a little lower than it was three days ago.

However, it was still within Jiang Rong's acceptable range, because she knew that the temperature could still drop.

It will eventually stop at around -50 degrees Celsius.

Then it neither rises nor falls and lasts for about a year.

Afterwards, the psychics can still barely hold on with their physical strength, at least they won’t be frozen to death so easily, but ordinary people... many people will die in their sleep, but that is if they can sleep.

As for how many people there are, there is no way to count them.

The time was now around four o'clock in the afternoon, but it was already getting dark. Jiang Rong walked to the front hall of Yikou and saw the giant quack beast still crawling outside the window.

Although they were still hanging on the window, Jiang Rong could see their slightly rising and falling bellies, but based on his experience in his previous life, Jiang Rong knew that these quacking beasts would leave soon.

Otherwise, if they don't eat and have no energy replenishment, they will slowly freeze into ice if they stay outside.

Thinking of this, Jiang Rong had an idea.

Afterwards, he came back and called out Xin Jue Cai'er and Uncle Zhao and others.

Then close the two doors of the basement again.

"Rongrong, what do you want to do?" Zhao Caier asked in confusion.

"Catch frogs. They are edible."

If you can catch it, you can eat it, and I heard it tastes delicious.

How could such a big frog, full of meat, not be delicious? Jiang Rong felt a little greedy just thinking about it. She had never eaten it in her previous life, but she had heard of it!

The meat of this thing tastes great even if it is stewed with only oil and salt without any other seasoning.

However, the quack beasts usually appear in groups, so it is difficult for ordinary people to catch them. It is good enough not to be caught.

But nothing is absolute.

For example, at a time like this, if you take advantage of its illness and kill it, it is possible for several people to work as a team to catch one and try something new.

In this regard, Jiang Rong first ruled out the one outside with a mouth full of blood, which was disgusting just by looking at it.

"What do you want to do?" Xin Jue asked.