The two looked Zuo Qingya up and down and noticed that she was wearing rubber shoes, but they hadn't melted. They thought they had misjudged her.

"Central Continent Base? What are you going there for?"

"It's nothing, just asking."

"Young lady, you'd better not go to the Central Plains base."

"Why?"

"That place isn't very good."

This made Zuo Qingya even more confused.

Zuo Qingya took out two bottles of water and handed them to the two men.

Upon seeing the water, the man licked his lips, feeling even thirstier.

"Beautiful lady, what's your name? My name is Wang Guanglun, and this water..."

Zuo Qingya handed the water to Wang Guanglun, saying, "This is for you."

"Thank you, beautiful."

"And me, my name is Wang Jinyi, I am Wang Guanglun's older brother." He said, looking at the water in Zuo Qingya's hand.

Zuo Qingya understood what he meant, but she didn't tell them her name because she thought it was nice to call her "beauty".

"Here you go." Zuo Qingya handed the water to Wang Jinyi.

"Thanks, beautiful." She said, eagerly opening the water bottle, taking a sip of water, as if afraid the water would run away.

After drinking the water, he put it on the chest of his clothes.

"Beautiful lady, let me give you some advice: you'd better not go to the Central Continent Base. It's really bad there..."

What happened there?

“The food there is almost gone, and many people are causing trouble. If the food problem isn’t solved, things could easily get out of control.” Wang Jinyi looked at the sky and continued, “If this isn’t resolved soon, cannibalism will occur in the Zhongzhou base. But it’s almost there now; people have already started disappearing from the shadows.”

"Is that so? Then I should go and take a look."

"Hey, I've already said all that, why are you still going?"

"Yeah, beautiful lady, are you out of your mind?"

Zuo Qingya didn't speak, but looked at the two of them.

Looking into Zuo Qingya's eyes, Wang Jinyi sighed and said, "The Zhongzhou Base is over there."

"Brother, why did you point that out to her? What if something happens to her? Have you forgotten about that bottle of water?"

Just as Wang Jinyi was about to say something, Zuo Qingya disappeared.

"Hey, where's that pretty girl?"

"Oh right, where did they go? Weren't they just here a moment ago?"

"Oh right, it was just here a moment ago."

At this moment, Zuo Qingya had already appeared outside the Zhongzhou base. When Zuo Qingya appeared, the gatekeeper was dozing off. As Zuo Qingya approached, she felt a slight cold breeze. Looking into the gatehouse, she did not see any air conditioning or anything like that.

Zuo Qingya scanned the person with her divine sense and was surprised to find that the person was covered in ice. No wonder he could guard the gate in this weather. Indeed, there are talented people everywhere. This person must be an ice-type ability user.

The gatekeeper was also surprised to see Zuo Qingya, assuming that she was an ice-type ability user like him. However, upon closer inspection, he could not see a single ice crystal on Zuo Qingya's body.

If he's not an ice-type ability user, then he must be someone with other special abilities, or a cultivator. Otherwise, he wouldn't have broken a sweat walking outside in this heat.

Who are you?

Zuo Qingya was almost at a loss for words when she heard this question. What if she said she wasn't human? Would this person be scared to death? Thinking of this, Zuo Qingya rolled her eyes and said, "What if I'm not human?"

The gatekeeper looked Zuo Qingya up and down, his eyes seeming to say, "Do you think I'm blind?"

Zuo Qingya coughed lightly and said, "Hehe...just kidding." Zuo Qingya took out her ID card and handed it to the gatekeeper.

The gatekeeper held up Zuo Qingya's ID card, compared it to the photo, and shook his head. "The appearance is wrong. The person in the photo is clearly a great beauty. How could it be you, this dark-skinned girl? The photo is wrong."

"That's because I used the mutated fruit by mistake, that's why I turned out like this."

The gatekeeper listened with an expression that said, "I don't believe it."

Zuo Qingya took out the black lacquer fruit and handed it to the gatekeeper, "Here, this is what I used."

The gatekeeper glanced at the fruit, took it, looked at it again and again, and then took a bite.

Zuo Qingya was completely stunned.

Just then, a plume of black smoke billowed from the gatekeeper's mouth.

After the black smoke cleared, the goalkeeper was completely blackened.

Zuo Qingya flashed a bright white smile. "Now, do you believe me?"

"Ahem... I believe it, I believe it now, hurry up and go inside." He waved his hand, signaling Zuo Qingya to leave quickly.

After Zuo Qingya left.

The gatekeeper looked up, his face already streaked with tears, and muttered a few curses, "I should have just let her in. Now I'm a mess, not even human, waaaaaah... My mom definitely won't recognize me."

Zuo Qingya had already spread her divine sense, and upon seeing the gatekeeper's appearance, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"This guy is quite funny. He even cried, and he wouldn't let me see it." Just as Zuo Qingya was speaking, the gatekeeper had already covered his entire face, leaving only his eyes showing.

As soon as Zuo Qingya entered the Zhongzhou base, she attracted a crowd of onlookers. Although she was only inside the room and did not go out, Zuo Qingya could hear the whispers.

"Mom, I'm so hot."

"Honey, Mommy's hot too. Just bear with it, it'll be fine by tonight."

"Mom, look, there's someone walking outside! Isn't she hot?"

The woman glanced at Zuo Qingya and said, "Baby, she might be a special ability user, so she's not afraid of the heat."

"Mom, I wish I could awaken ice-type powers."

The woman sighed, "Well, who wouldn't want that?"

As evening fell, Zuo Qingya heard cheers outside. Confused, she opened the window and looked out. To her surprise, it was quite lively outside. It was like two extremes: during the day, there was no one on the streets, but at night, everyone was out.

Zuo Qingya took out a thermometer to check the outside temperature: 25 degrees Celsius? Not too hot, not too cold.

"I didn't expect the temperature to be like this at night. I wonder how hot it must be during the day. I'll measure it again tomorrow."

Zuo Qingya opened the door and went out.

Walking down the street, I was surprised to find that there were still quite a few people buying things, but they were all exchanging them for food. Could it be that, as those two people said, the Zhongzhou base is almost out of food?

Zuo Qingya didn't go far either. With a sweep of her divine sense, she saw the whole scene. There really wasn't a single food stall, and even the officially controlled shops were closed.

Zuo Qingya glanced at a group of people who seemed to be having a meeting. She overheard them talking about food issues.

Zuo Qingya simply clicked the plus sign next to the small general store, and the store was opened.

Zuo Qingya thought the small general store would appear tomorrow morning, but it appeared now.

"Look, what's that? It suddenly appeared there."

"It's a shop."

Everyone looked up and saw the shop's name.

Someone cheered, "It's the Little General Store! It's appeared! It's appeared at our base! I'm going to exchange some things. Oh, the trash! I had some trash stored before. I'll go back and get it now."

"It really is just a small general store."

"Hurry up, everyone! Go pick up the trash!"

Soon, a queue began to form in front of the shop.

Seeing the queue getting longer and longer, Zuo Qingya thought she could open a few more stores.