This is the place.

Jiang Zhi looked at the two mountains in front of her. After the snow melted, a large amount of snow water gathered between the two mountains, forming a lake.

After she and Wanfu killed all the mutated beasts nearby, they put on their diving gear and went directly underwater, unsure of whether it was safe to go down.

The snowmelt continued to accumulate. Jiang Zhi sank into the water. Before Wan Fu ran out of oxygen, Jiang Zhi sent him into her space. After getting a fresh oxygen tank in the space, she continued her search.

My memory is hazy; I'm relying entirely on my senses to find my way.

The reason this ice cave was formed is because there is a natural canyon fissure here, which was a sparsely populated place before the apocalypse.

After changing three gas canisters, she finally found the crack.

Before she even got close, she could feel the familiar presence.

Jiang Zhi struggled to swim towards the crevice, when suddenly, a gaping maw burst open and lunged at her.

She spun around, dodging the mouth like a pike.

What is this?

Could it be a piranha?

Who cares, just kill them.

The underwater fairy's guidance wasn't very effective, so Jiang Zhi first suppressed the mouth, and then used her virtue to persuade it by repeatedly striking it. Soon, the surrounding water was stained red with the blood of this mutated beast.

Just then, swarms of mutated piranhas began to tear at her frantically. Seeing the situation was dire, Jiang Zhi decisively entered her spatial dimension.

Soon the blood was completely swallowed up, and the mutated piranha that Jiang Zhi had killed was gone, leaving not even bones behind.

The other, smaller piranhas, still hungry, began to fight amongst themselves, with the larger fish eating the smaller ones, and soon they merged into a gigantic piranha.

The giant piranha's fierce eyes darted around, but it couldn't find the food that had suddenly disappeared for a long time, so it had to go to other places to look for food.

"What's wrong with Mom?" Wanfu asked with concern.

Jiang Zhi looked terrible when she entered the space; she had several pieces of flesh clinging to her body, and a broken fish tail was stuck to the oxygen tank.

"It's nothing, just a few small fish." Jiang Zhi took off her diving suit and took a shower to get rid of the smell of blood.

This diving suit is unusable for now; it's been contaminated with the scent of piranhas and could easily cause a riot among the piranhas.

Although she could easily overpower mutated animals, the underwater environment was too restrictive, and the relentless attacks from swarms of piranhas made it difficult for her to cope.

If she were on the water, she could kill a whole bunch of people with a single blow.

Be careful underwater, don't be too reckless, or you might capsize.

Jiang Zhimei had a good sleep. After waking up, she looked at the vegetable garden, cooked a vegetable meatball soup, changed into a new diving suit, and prepared to leave the space to explore the canyon rift.

"Minister Jiang filled the granary at the Fuxi base when he left."

After the soldiers in charge of the granary discovered the changes, they immediately reported it, and soon the higher-ups at the base knew about it.

Judging by appearance, this batch of grain weighs several dozen tons.

"The tests revealed that this grain was old grain from many years ago." Logistics Minister Jiang Longwen had mixed feelings. On the one hand, Jiang Zhi had deceived them; her space was far more than five square meters. On the other hand, Jiang Zhi had taken out hundreds of thousands of tons of grain at once, making an unprecedented and enormous contribution to the base. She was a hero of the base.

Why didn't Jiang Zhi take it out before? Why did she wait until after she left to take it out? Was she wary or afraid of the base?

Zhou Renchang remained silent.

Some things can't be said outright.

"Let's wait for her to come back."

Everyone seems to have tacitly accepted this. Perhaps Jiang Zhi really is the turning point in this apocalypse?

Since she came to the base, the Fuxi Base has indeed been improving, and even its spirit and energy have changed.

Her departure was kept secret to avoid affecting morale.

Jiang Zhi came out again, but the piranhas were gone. She quickened her pace and entered the crevice. Along the way, she encountered some small mutated fish, which she dealt with using the "Persuasion with Virtue" technique she had placed outside.

I initially thought it wouldn't sink due to pressure, but I was surprised to feel a stronger suction as I went deeper.

Jiang Zhi clearly felt that the water around her was flowing downwards.

Half an hour later, Jiang Zhi landed at the bottom of the crack, actually sucked down by that suction force.

Returning to this familiar place, Jiang Zhi felt a mix of emotions.

She carefully felt around using the dim searchlight.

Hopefully, this time all the mysteries can be solved.

After searching for a while, Jiang Zhi found a total of eight water absorption points. With her oxygen tank exhausted, she went into her spatial dimension and drew the exact locations of the eight points on a piece of paper.

this……

Isn't this just the Bagua diagram?

Jiang Zhi was in a dilemma; she wasn't very knowledgeable about the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams.

Wanfu leaned over to take a look and said, "Mom, this is exactly the same as the picture on the wall inside the thatched hut."

"I hadn't remembered until you mentioned it." Jiang Zhi changed into her home clothes, took the map, and went into the thatched hut, with Wan Fu following beside her.

"This isn't Bagua, it's a formation." Jiang Zhi rewrote the small seal script on the wall into simplified Chinese characters, and then drew a pattern on the paper according to the patterns on the wall.

After finishing the drawing, Jiang Zhi found books related to the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams formations in the study area to read.

"Xiao Wanfu, the book says that formations need energy to operate. This energy comes not only from the natural energy of heaven and earth, but also from external sources. What do you think these circles are?"

"Oh, I don't understand, I don't know." Wanfu's brows were furrowed so deeply that the character "王" (king) between his eyebrows was almost completely furrowed.

Energy, energy! These holes are currently absorbing water, but what do they absorb when there's no water?

Wait a minute, could it be that when she fell down she happened to land right on the center of the formation, and all her blood was absorbed by the center to gain the right to be reborn?

She doesn't want to die right now, and she doesn't have that much blood to give to the array's core.

Jiang Zhi paced back and forth, thinking of other alternatives.

“If Mom keeps walking, Aowao will get dizzy.” Wanfu lay on the sofa, looking at Jiang Zhi, his eyelids drooping.

Got it!

Jiang Zhi approached Wanfu and gently tapped its head.

"Found it."

Jiang Zhi put aside the blueprints, made a few simple dishes, ate and drank her fill, rested for half an hour, then put on her diving suit, grabbed a handful of crystals, and left the space.

Wanfu stared at the spot where Jiang Zhi had disappeared, circled that place several times, and then lay down on the ground waiting for her to return.

Once outside the confines of the space, she was immediately transported to a high-pressure environment. Jiang Zhi leaned against a rock for a while to adjust before swimming toward the nearest array eye.

She was holding the lowest-grade red crystal. When she released one, the crystal was automatically sucked into the array's core.

The array's absorption of water seemed to slow down, as if it were tasting something. Then, a burst of red light exploded from the array's core, and Jiang Zhi was thrown five meters away.

After the red light faded, a dilapidated scene appeared before Jiang Zhi.

Only silhouettes are visible, making it impossible to discern the specific colors.

It was a massive surge of energy that swept through the area, and in less than two breaths, Anle's home was razed to the ground, even though the buildings were clearly ancient.