Chapter 57: Shelter Accident and Extreme Cold

"Jojo!"

Qiao Qiao turned around and it turned out to be Xia Momo.

She took off her mask, and her pale face instantly turned red from the cold. The wind blew up her long hair, bringing a touch of messy beauty.

"I recognized you as soon as you showed up, so I didn't say anything in order not to cause you any trouble. Are you leaving now?"

Qiao Qiao nodded.

"Will you come again?"

"Probably not. My mission is to escort you to the mine."

Xia Momo looked up at her. "The Federation told us that as long as we come to the mine to mine, we will not only be provided with food and accommodation, but we can also receive three supplies every day."

Qiao Qiao asked: "How long do you need to stay here?"

She just smiled bitterly, "One month. Fortunately, by then we can have enough supplies for 90 sets, and we can have a good New Year."

Qiao Qiao didn't know how to comfort him, so she could only say dryly, "Thank you for your hard work."

Xia Momo laughed out loud immediately, without a trace of sadness on her face, only relief.

"Don't comfort me. Although life is a bit hard now, at least I am not dependent on others. I rely on my own hands."

After saying that, he looked at Qiao Qiao, as if he was recalling something through her.

"The most important thing is that they are still alive. I heard that you helped to cremate the bodies of Grandma Wang and Grandpa Jiang?"

Qiao Qiao lowered her eyes and thought of the scene when Xia Momo handed her the suicide note.

"Yes. But I didn't scatter the ashes into the water. I didn't want the dirty water to contaminate them. Maybe I'll meet their son in the future and I'll give them to him then."

Xia Momo was silent for a while, "That's fine."

Qiao Qiao glanced at the sky which was about to get dark, "I'm leaving now. It's cold outside. You should go in quickly."

"be safe."

Qiao Qiao tapped his ski poles lightly and slid deftly in the snow.

Her figure gradually moved away, seeming insignificant in the boundless sea of ​​snow.

Xia Momo stood there, looking at the receding figure until it completely disappeared.

She exhaled gently, and the white mist quickly dissipated in the cold air.

Then she immediately put on a mask and turned and walked into the mine camp.

Qiao Qiao walked for half an hour, and after making sure that there was no one around, he took out a sled from his system backpack and sat on it.

He said in a brisk tone: "Manman, I leave it to you."

It was such a long journey, she didn't want to slide back by herself.

As soon as she finished her words, a nearly one-meter-long dark green vine appeared and touched her palm affectionately.

He understood what Qiao Qiao was going to do, so he grabbed the rope tightly and rolled it a few times.

Then apply gentle force to tighten the rope instantly.

The sled was speeding across the snow like an arrow. Due to inertia, Jojo's body leaned back slightly, and her long hair fluttered wildly in the wind.

Just as she was about to find a quilt to cover herself, the shadow under her feet expanded, her vision went dark, and she subconsciously straightened her body.

Then reacted.

"Moon Shadow?"

Yueying's voice appeared, "Shadow can block everything. There is no wind here."

Qiao Qiao took off his equipment, smiled and stroked the black walls around him, "Thank you."

Qiao Man was very fast, almost reaching 100 kilometers per hour, and she returned to the city in less than ten minutes.

Qiao Qiao patted Yueying gently, signaling him to retract his shadow and not let others see it.

Suddenly, as we approached the shelter, we noticed something was wrong.

Not only Qiao Man and Yueying, but even Qiao Qiao could smell an unignorable smell of blood in the cold air.

"Oh no! Something happened!"

There was no time to think about hiding his strength, so he asked Qiao Man to speed up and return.

The closer we got to the shelter, the stronger the smell of blood became.

"ah!"

“Help!”

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

“Ouch!”

There were constant shouting, gunshots, and roars of wild beasts. Qiao Qiao held a pistol in his hand and was alert at all times.

Suddenly, Qiao Qiao's hair stood on end.

A gust of wind blew past, blowing up the snow on the ground.

The next second, a tiger three meters long and one and a half meters tall jumped out from the side.

“Ouch!”

At this moment, Qiao Qiao felt that time had stopped. She could clearly smell the stench in the tiger's mouth and see every whisker of the tiger.

The fear of facing large beasts at close range is no less than that of mutated plants and animals, and may even be far greater than before.

Perhaps humans have a natural fear of large wild beasts in their genes; this fear is deeply rooted in the blood and is awakened the moment we face danger.

Qiao Qiao's body seemed to be under a spell, unable to move at all, but her heart was beating wildly in her chest, the sound so loud that it felt like a drum beating in her ears.

“Get moving!”

Qiao Qiao shouted loudly in her heart, but unfortunately her body did not obey.

The tiger let out a low roar from its throat, the sound made the earth tremble slightly, the snow on the dead trees fell off in a mess, and everything made her scalp tingle.

Just as Qiao Qiao was about to fall into the tiger's mouth, Qiao Man and Yue Ying moved at the same time. Qiao Man quickly released the rope and threw her body towards the tiger.

“Ouch!”

The tiger felt pain and its huge body flew backwards, breaking the already lifeless tree in half. It finally stopped after crashing into three larger trees.

The moonlight wrapped Qiao Qiao in it, isolating him from all harm from the outside world.

Qiao Qiao bit the tip of his tongue hard and tasted blood in his mouth. Fortunately, his body finally broke free of the stiffness and started to move.

She was breathing heavily and her clothes were soaked with sweat in the cold weather.

After a few seconds, he stood up and clenched his fists.

"I'm fine, come on, Yueying, let's go out and kill this tiger!"

"good."

Yueying retracted her shadow and stood beside Qiao Qiao like a guard, feeling extremely annoyed.

Because the smell of blood was too strong, neither he nor Qiao Man noticed the appearance of the tiger at first, and almost put Qiao Qiao in danger. It was an unforgivable mistake.

Qiao Man was already fighting with the tiger. No one knew why, although it was just a vine, its fighting habits were like those of a giant python.

It kept whipping the tiger with its tail, and even tried to wrap itself around and strangle it several times. The spikes hidden in its body, which it obtained from the mutated megalodon, also kept attacking.

Unfortunately, the tiger was huge, with thick skin and flesh, and although it was beaten and bleeding, it was not seriously injured.

Qiao Qiao took aim at the target and kept pulling the trigger, firing multiple rounds in succession.

□□Its power is comparable to that of a rocket launcher. Once it hits the target, it will explode and blood will flow.

Every time the tiger tried to attack Qiao Qiao, it would be intercepted by the mutant vines. After many rounds of attacks, Qiao Qiao was unscathed, but the tiger was covered in blood, and even had several bones broken.

The tiger finally realized that it was no match for this strange man and vine, so it turned around and wanted to leave.

But it’s not that easy!

Qiao Man flexibly wrapped herself around it, tightening her grip like a giant python. The tiger was already exhausted, and even though it struggled with all its might, it could not escape.

Qiao Qiao knew that the outcome was decided, but he did not put away his gun and continued to be alert to his surroundings.

"Yueying, you should come up too. Let's solve this problem as soon as possible so as to avoid any more trouble."

Shadow received the order, and although he was a little worried about her safety, he still chose to obey.

It quickly merged into the ground and flew away. The tiger didn't notice at all and was swallowed by the huge shadow that suddenly appeared.

Although the tiger was successfully devoured, it did not die immediately. The shadow was torn into different shapes, and one could even see the tiger struggling.

Qiao Qiao couldn't help but worry, would her shadow be torn? Could it be restored after being torn? Would she die without her shadow?

All kinds of questions linger in my mind.

Fortunately, as time passed, the tiger's resistance became weaker and weaker, until it finally calmed down.

"Oh no! Qiao Man is still in there!"

Qiao Qiao ran over quickly. "Yueying, are you okay? Where's Qiao Man?"

Yueying squirmed a few times and spit out the lifeless tiger and the struggling mutant vine.

As soon as Qiao Man appeared, she shrank and got in front of Qiao Qiao, pointing her roots at Yueying and shaking her head, and it was obvious that she was complaining and cursing.

"Okay, okay, Manman, you've worked hard, take a rest." Qiao Qiao stroked the body of the mutant vine, and feeling its somewhat decadent spirit, she quickly comforted it.

The mutant vine returned to its wrist and nestled quietly, its head turned inside without even glancing at its shadow.

Qiao Qiao approached Shadow and asked, "Yueying has worked hard, are you okay?"

The shadow turned into a human form, and the body became more solid. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't tell the difference between him and a human, provided you ignored his dark skin.

"I'm fine. I'm just a tiger that's about to mutate. Give me some more time. Once my strength is fully restored, I will definitely protect you well and will never let what happened today happen again."

Qiao Qiao's eyes widened: "Recover? Can you continue to get stronger?"

Yueying reached out, smoothed Qiaoqiao's hair that was messed up by the wind, and brushed off the snow.

"Of course, the limit of an SSR-level card is not just this. I can feel that its power is getting stronger every day."

Qiao Qiao was full of curiosity and anticipation: "I look forward to the day when you regain your strength."

Then the moon disappeared, and a shadow reappeared under Qiao Qiao's feet. She collected the sled and other props that had fallen on the snow and ran to the shelter.

Along the way, the smell of blood became stronger and loud noises could be heard in the distance.

The shelters at the back were in a mess, and several had collapsed.

The ground was littered with corpses, some of them were humans with bite wounds all over their bodies; there were also large wild animals, tigers, leopards, and even a bear, which had obviously been brought down by axes or guns.

Qiao Qiao's face became extremely solemn. She walked forward cautiously. The house was in tatters and there were traces of fighting everywhere.

Suddenly, a faint voice came: "Who are you? Hide!"

Qiao Qiao ran in the direction of the sound and found a little boy hiding in the corner. His clothes were disheveled and his exposed skin was all bruised and purple from all the wounds caused by rubbing against the ground.

Qiao Qiao quickly squatted down and checked the boy's injuries. "How are you? What happened here?"

The little boy watched the gentle older sister in front of him clean his wound with iodine and wrap it with a Band-Aid and gauze.

The strong heart that had always been there suddenly collapsed. She had no idea where the medicine came from, and burst into tears and said:

"Woo woo, just now, hiccup, a lot of animals suddenly came, there were tigers, leopards, and bears. Hiccup, they rushed into the shelter, and no one had time to react. Many people, many people were killed by them."

Qiao Qiao held the boy in her arms and patted his back to comfort him, "Don't be afraid, sister will protect you."

“Woo woo.”

Then he continued, "Do you know where they all went?"

The boy looked up. "They should have gone to the front. There are troops there. But they can't beat the animals."

Qiao Qiao picked up the child and said, "Sister will take you to find them."

After walking through more than ten shelters, she finally saw a crowd of people. Several shelter doors had collapsed, and she looked inside and saw that at least a third of the people were injured to some extent.

"roar!"

Hearing the desperate roar of a wild beast in front of him, Qiao Qiao hurried over.

A black bear as big as a hill fell down, and everyone felt the ground shaking.