Taking advantage of the chaos at the Bright Base, Jiang Zhi collected piles of scrap metal and drove away from the base.

Since killing a bunch of superhumans at the Bright Base, she has become even more reckless, not even worried about being seen.

Who gave her that ability?

Unfortunately, no one saw it along the way.

During the day, she would simply retreat into her private space, leisurely enjoying the breeze, eating, drinking champagne, and then taking long naps.

It was late at night, and we drove for two hours, stopping and starting along the way, like on a tourist trip.

Wanfu had gained weight during these leisurely days. Looking at Wanfu's round belly, Jiang Zhi couldn't resist reaching out her wicked claws to it.

Aside from cities destroyed by the earthquake and endless yellow sand, there was nothing else to see along the way; it wasn't beautiful at all. When she traveled this route years ago, the scenery was breathtaking and expansive, but now it's all gone.

The daytime temperature can be scorching hot, and the nighttime temperature drops sharply, even freezing people to death. This is a scene that cannot be seen south of the Bright Base.

She was watching the beast tide from a high mountain with binoculars as the sun was about to set in the evening.

Heaps of mutated beasts, like a flood, engulfed the entire Bright Base.

One can imagine what would have happened to the people in the Bright Base if they hadn't left.

But none of this can ever happen again.

Summer passed quickly, and the cold winter arrived. Snowflakes fell unexpectedly, and in just three days, the earth was covered in a blanket of white.

Jiang Zhi also arrived at her destination—a small depression on the plateau.

On one side of the depression was a natural cave inhabited by four or five mutated yaks, which she and Wanfu had dealt with together. On the other side was a flat ditch filled with mud, now piled high with snow. She stored the snow in her spatial storage, revealing the entire depression.

Jiang Zhi settled down here.

The air is thin at high altitudes, and oxygen is scarce. She took out a battery and a generator, plugged them in, and connected them to an oxygen generator.

After cleaning the entire cave and taking thorough disinfection measures, Jiang Zhi took out her stove and lit honeycomb briquettes.

The pot was bubbling and boiling, cooking her favorite cabbage and pork dumplings.

Eating a bowl of hot dumplings in this weather, while also roasting sweet potatoes, is pure bliss.

I also took out the sofa and tablet, and just lay on the sofa, eating snacks and watching TV.

Wanfu went out to investigate and found that there was no one living within a five-mile radius, so there was absolutely no one who could disturb her.

Jiang Zhi decided to retire here. The oxygen here is thin, and it would be suicide for an ordinary person to come here, so no one should bother her.

She only wanted to build her own cozy nest, and she wouldn't go out again until the global polar night.

Jiang Zhi blocked the outside of the cave with a plastic curtain, allowing only a little cold air to come in for ventilation so that the room wouldn't get cold.

She had experienced everything before the polar night and didn't want to go through it again, but she still wanted to explore the unknown world after the polar night.

To make this small space more beautiful, Jiang Zhi dug out some green plants from the space and put them in small pots, placing them at the corners of the walls along the edge of the cave. She even cut out branches of red plum blossoms from the space to decorate.

She also nailed a tent above the cave to prevent gravel and dust from falling down.

She also used her supernatural powers to move a stone bed, with a sponge mattress underneath, then two bamboo mats, and finally a mattress. On top of that, she laid two layers of ten-pound cotton quilts, and on top of that, a thick coral fleece blanket. She was also covered with a coral fleece blanket, plus an eight-pound cotton quilt.

Inside the cave, that was enough.

She felt hot at night, so she uncovered the cotton quilt to sleep.

However, she still sleeps in the space most of the time, since the space is the safest place.

But the outside world is constantly changing, and she can't completely immerse herself in the space and never come out.

Occasionally, the snow falling outside would reach the cave entrance, and Jiang Zhi would occasionally clear it to ensure that the heavy snow wouldn't seal the cave.

The year has come to five, marked by alternating periods of cold and heat. In these five years, Jiang Zhi has transformed this small depression into lush green land. Remarkably, not long ago, she even managed to grow cold-resistant rice.

Mutants created through the use of skills.

This type of rice can survive at -40 degrees Celsius, but its yield is not as high as that of ordinary rice. In addition, it will wither and die once the temperature exceeds 10 degrees Celsius.

What kind of unexpected gain is this?

She discovered this rice plant by chance. Now that the three-year freezing period is about to begin, she will use this rice plant as a test to see if the rice plant can withstand the low temperature of minus 40 degrees Celsius when it is forced to produce fruit again.

If rice can be so successful by chance, can other grain crops do the same?

Just start doing it once you have an idea.

During the three-year ice age, temperatures remained between -20 and -40 degrees Celsius, not as low as during periods of extreme temperature fluctuations. Under such low temperatures, humans fared much better.

However, precisely because of this, almost all the land on Earth has turned into permafrost, making it impossible to grow food.

Jiang Zhi's rice stalk was undoubtedly like a lifeline.

Amazingly, during the three years of freezing weather, she successfully experimented with frost-resistant rice and harvested tens of thousands of kilograms of seeds.

There is also frost-resistant wheat, which is even more resilient than rice and can withstand temperatures as low as -40 to -50 degrees Celsius.

Winter wheat is a winter-hardy plant, and there is a theoretical basis for the fact that genetic variants derived from it have stronger frost resistance than rice.

As for root vegetables, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, Jiang Zhi has never succeeded in growing them, probably because of the soil conditions.

The frozen soil was impossible to dig; if it weren't for her extraordinary skills, she wouldn't have been able to achieve such a feat.

Looking at the increasingly dark sky, wondering what kind of scene lay above the layer of clouds, she put on her earmuffs, waved to Wanfu, and said, "Let's go, Wanfu."

"Aww~" Wanfu rolled around in the snow, then shuddered and shook the snow off its fur.

This was seven years, not seven days. She took one last look at the place she had spent seven years in, without a trace of lingering affection.

Seven years have left no mark on Jiang Zhi's face, but Wanfu has grown several times larger. Jiang Zhi rides on its shoulders, feeling the cold wind howling beside her.

With Wanfu as her car, she can even save on gasoline.

For the past seven years, she and Wanfu have wreaked havoc on this desolate plateau, eliminating all the mutated beasts they could see. Wanfu ate a huge amount of mutated beast meat, and tiger stripes and horns grew on his body.

Jiang Zhi only had one species in her mind—the saber-toothed tiger.

Anyway, isn't it cool?