Everything seemed to have returned to the beginning. They had thought that the heavy snow in the cold winter would allow everyone in the base to secretly catch their breath and enjoy a moment of peace in this apocalypse.

However, since the first fierce attack by mutated animals in the new year, the atmosphere in the base has become tense once again.

Outside, the mutated animals struggled to survive and engaged in fierce competition in places unknown to them, while the people inside the base were also constantly busy.

Even Mingmei is frantically making boxed lunches every day, and she has managed to increase the number of boxed lunches she makes from 30 to 80 per day.

However, these boxed meals were not made and served to everyone on the same day. Instead, they were requisitioned from the space ability users in the base to store and store for use in the spring.

According to their estimates, their base would likely face an attack from zombie and mutated animal bases after the spring, a scenario that would force them to prepare as early as possible.

However, Mingmei also took on a job cooking a meal in the outer city every day, which gave everyone a headache.

“Julian came to me again, asking me to persuade you not to risk coming to the outer city.”

Mingmei comes to the canteen for people with superpowers in the outer city every day to cook lunch or dinner; today it's dinner.

Mu Chen had just returned from his shift and, after having dinner, escorted Mingmei into the inner city, saying these words as they entered.

"The canteen is near our old residence, which is quite far from the outer city gate. Even if something unexpected happens, I can retreat immediately. Isn't this how I'm helping you out?"

Mingmei was a little unhappy. She wasn't a person who enjoyed cooking to begin with, but now she was helping out every day, making boxed lunches in the morning and dinner at noon or in the evening. Why did they think she was causing them a lot of trouble?

"A wise man does not stand under a crumbling wall. I know you mean well, but because of the death of the only healing ability user, your existence is all the more precious."

As he spoke, Mu Chen squeezed Mingmei's hand tightly, glanced at the few superhumans secretly protecting Mingmei in the corner, winked at Mingmei, and said, "The snow is almost melted. The day before yesterday, a group of mutated hyenas came to ambush us. They are afraid that if the hyenas rush in, they might accidentally hurt you, so please stop the cafeteria when you have time."

Mingmei naturally noticed the people in the corner out of the corner of her eye, and sighed helplessly in her heart.

She certainly knew about the hyena attack a few days ago, but the mutated hyenas and mutated gray wolves were probably not two extremes.

The wolves have mutated to be tall and strong, while the hyenas are getting smaller and smaller, but they are extremely fast. A couple of days ago, the hyena packs were mainly large and fast; in terms of attack power, they were far inferior to the giant wolves.

Although no one died that time, quite a few people were injured.

"Yesterday, several litters of mutated rabbits died after crashing into the city wall... The quarantine station staff confirmed they were all healthy and brought them back for extra food."

Mu Chen thought for a moment and then chose a lighter topic, but no matter how light it was, it couldn't be denied that life was truly unbearable for mutated animals.

In fact, this kind of life is unbearable.

On the first day that spring returned to the earth and the ice and snow melted, an unprecedented beast tide was seen outside the base.

The commotion of the fleeing beasts led everyone in the base, including Mingmei, to believe it was an earthquake.

However, this time the mutated animals did not attack the base, but chose to take a detour, as if they were being chased by something and were in a hurry to escape.

Occasionally, some mutated animals would stubbornly try to break in, only to be taught a lesson by the newly rebuilt outer city walls.

That's right, the outer city wall.

If someone were to go to the outer city now and look towards the city wall, they would surely be amazed by the even more unexpected sights on the wall than before, and also by the endless, mutated morning glories clinging to the top of the wall.

It's a morning glory.

The mutated flower lives up to its name.

This mutated morning glory is like a natural alarm; as soon as a mutated animal gets close, it immediately starts spitting out a loud "beep beep beep" sound.

That's not all; the mutated trumpet flower will also use its vines to whip people—no, animals! If they don't listen to advice, its eighteen vines will whip them mercilessly.

This mutated morning glory is the best news they've received in recent days.

It was also thanks to Lou Jia's good relationships with people.

He got a few seeds while buying New Year's goods, and he never expected that they would grow into this kind of seed.

"But wouldn't that make it difficult for everyone to get close to the city gate?"

When Mingmei thought about the mutated trumpet flower's ruthless actions, she suddenly thought about the future.

"After this, when the beast tides are gone, and the zombies... even if there are zombie tides, and everyone survives them safely, then this part of the city wall..."

The thought that everyone might face being fined if they left the city made it back to Mingmei's smile again.

She still wanted to laugh even though it was something that should have been a headache.

"Let's wait until everyone has safely weathered these crises before worrying about it," Mu Chen joked. "If it really helps us get through to the end, I'll accept being slapped by it a couple of times later."

...

What happened after that was like a blast from the past. Every day, the base had to deal with those lone, unorthodox mutated animals. Even with the help of the mutated trumpet flowers, there were still a few "exceptionally talented" animals that would fly or jump into the base, causing chaos for everyone.

This situation lasted for nearly a month.

As the weather continues to warm up, the zombies that were frozen solid during the winter are starting to become active again.

Because the base is constantly battling mutated animals, the stench of blood is ever-present, and zombies are threatening to encircle the area. (M.cascoo.net)

However, the zombies are not afraid of pain. As long as their heads are not ripped off by the morning glory, they will relentlessly try to rush into the area. This infuriates the morning glory, which has been swaggering around since it made its home on the city wall.

So much so that—

"My goodness, this morning glory sings all day long, doesn't its throat get tired?"

Brightness's superpower allows her to produce eighty boxed meals a day, and she usually rests immediately after finishing them.

However, for the past two weeks, she has been constantly disturbed by the noise of the mutated trumpet flowers in the outer city, even though she lives in the inner city. She hasn't been able to sleep properly for a long time.

"Its entire body is covered in 'mouths,' and it can even take turns resting."

Mingmei, who had just come out to pour herself a glass of warm water, heard Bai Xiao, who had also been woken up, come out of the house, so she poured her a glass as well.

"I've only been busy in the outer city for ten days, and all I wanted to do for the past ten days was sleep. Who would have thought..."

Who would have thought that in the two days since she came back, every time she heard the sound of the mutated trumpet flower, Bai Xiao's body would sit up on its own, and she woke up inexplicably several times.

This is just too, too torturous!

"This also means that things are indeed not peaceful outside." Mingmei stroked her teacup, looked at Bai Xiao, and asked, "What exactly is the situation now?"

"Well, how should I put it?" Bai Xiao said seriously after drinking the water in her cup in one gulp, "The great battle should be coming soon. Whether we can clear the level depends on this."