Banxia thought her cold attitude had deterred her neighbors from coming again, but before long, there was another knock at the door. She opened the door impatiently and asked, "What is it?"

Rong Youyou was so startled by her icy voice that she couldn't help but take two steps back. Then, she subconsciously put on a fawning smile: "Hello, sister~ I'm your neighbor. I'm so bored at home alone. Can I come and play with you?"

Banxia refused ruthlessly: "No! You and your mother shouldn't come again, or I can't guarantee what I might do!"

After saying that, he closed the door again.

Rong Youyou was startled: "So cool!"

Rongguang emerged from behind the wall and mocked, "You said your cuteness was irresistible, but you can't even get through the gate."

“Heh,” Rong Youyou rolled her eyes, “It’s better than you, a coward who doesn’t even dare to knock on the door.”

Rong Guang retorted, "It's not that I'm afraid, but if a grown man like me shows up here without reason, people might think I'm looking for trouble and start a fight with me."

The two bickered all the way home. Rong Guang glanced into He Song's room and asked, "Watching that little star's movie again?"

Rong Youyou casually complained, "She's like she's living in the pre-apocalyptic world. Besides occasionally making a snack to fool our idiot dad, all she does is watch TV dramas and movies. People who don't know her would think that the little stars on TV are her sons, that's why she cares so much about them!"

Rong Guang paused in taking off his scarf: "What did you just say?"

Rong Youyou looked puzzled: "Only her..."

“Not that sentence,” Rongguang interrupted urgently, “the second to last sentence!”

Rong Youyou: "...People who don't know the situation might think the little star on TV is her son."

"How come I only just realized this now!" Rong Guang clapped his hands. "The old hag and the little starlet have at least seventy percent of their features similar!"

Rong Youyou stammered, "No, no way? Isn't that little star an orphan?"

Rong Guang said coldly, "That old hag threw her son away herself."

...

Disturbed one after another, Banxia grew impatient. She went upstairs to check on Su Yao and the others before returning to her spatial dimension.

Nanxing and several furry creatures were still absorbing the crystal core. She turned around and circled the space, finding the Devouring Tree soaking in the seawater.

"Tian Tian, ​​what are you doing soaking in the water?"

The Devouring Tree rolled over: "Want to take a bath?"

Banxia suddenly didn't know what to say: "...Seawater bath?"

As a tree, wouldn't it die if it were soaked in seawater?

“I’m not an ordinary tree,” the Devouring Tree climbed ashore. “There’s nothing in the water, it’s so boring. Banxia, ​​after the extreme cold ends, let’s go to the beach and catch some mutant fish and shrimp to raise?”

Banxia firmly rejected the idea, saying, "Have you forgotten the bizarre fish we saw in our past lives? I absolutely refuse to keep ugly things in my space!"

"But I really want to raise that talking whale from my past life."

"...Poseidon?"

The title "Sea God" is an honorific given by humans in a past life to the leading whale that instigated a war of revenge.

Devouring Tree: "Yes, maybe after we died in our past lives, the Sea God became the overlord of the planet. I want to compete with it to see who is more powerful."

Banxia: "...Then you can just fight it, there's no need to keep it, right?"

The Devouring Tree, mimicking a human, put its hands on its hips and said, "One fight isn't enough! I want to fight it every day!"

Banxia tried to persuade it: "The sea god is a highly intelligent being with self-awareness. We cannot restrict its freedom, otherwise what's the difference between us and bandits who abduct women?"

Most importantly, she didn't want to raise fish bigger than mountains!

The Devouring Tree tugged at Banxia's sleeve with pleading eyes, "I just want to keep it! The seawater in the space isn't polluted, it'll definitely want to live here!"

What about its companions?

"Bring them all in!"

What do you want to eat?

"And while you're at it, catch some mutant fish and shrimp to raise."

Banxia pulled out her sleeve: "If you can convince the sea god, I'll agree."

Seventy percent of the surface of the Blue Planet is ocean. How big is its space? How could it possibly support the Sea God's companions? Tian Tian's wild imagination is simply impossible to realize!

The Devouring Tree didn't think too much about it and excitedly jumped into the water to play: "Then you have to keep your word, I will definitely try my best to 'persuade' the Sea God!"

If words don't work, there's always fists; if all else fails, try both—one of them will surely work!

Banxia shook her head and went back to her room.

Three days later, Nanxing and the others successfully leveled up their abilities by one level.

Nanxing, Suyao, Caiyuan, and Zhaoxuan decided to cook a big meal to celebrate the added security for the future.

Banxia, ​​Fang Yunyun, and Su Xiao wanted to help, but were chased out of the kitchen by the four of them. With nothing else to do, the three of them dressed up and took the restless furry creatures out to the yard to build a snowman.

Banxia built a lifelike cat in the shape of Yinzi, which made Jinzi, Taozi, and Tuanzi extremely envious. They watched her longingly.

"Sister will build you a snowman right away..."

"Bang bang bang—"

Fang Yunyun, who was not far from the door, put down the snowman she was making and prepared to open the door, but Banxia quickly stopped her: "Sister Yunyun, don't go."

Fang Yunyun stopped in her tracks, puzzled. "Someone's knocking. Aren't you going to open the door?"

Banxia took out two lumps of coal and poked them into the snowball to make eyes: "Don't open it. The person knocking is the neighbor from the villa next door. I don't know what's wrong with that family. The old and the young all want to get close to me. I suspect they have ulterior motives."

The mother and daughter next door have been knocking on the door every day for the past three days to try and get closer to me.

The older ones always looked her up and down with what they thought was a subtle, critical gaze, while the younger ones always peeked at her with curious eyes. If they hadn't wanted to avoid trouble before Yan Ning returned, they would have shot her long ago.

Fang Yunyun frowned and continued making snowballs: "Fine, I won't open it."

Su Xiao stuck two branches into the snowman as hands: "I really hope the extreme cold ends soon."

The S City base was indeed very good, but she preferred a life where she didn't have to deal with people.

Banxia sighed softly, "It's only been less than two months, I guess we still have a long way to go."

If the second extreme cold lasts for six months, they will have to stay at the base for at least another four months.

Fang Yunyun looked at the two of them with amusement: "You two aren't even afraid of zombies and mutated animals, so why are you so afraid of dealing with people?"

“Sigh,” Su Xiao couldn’t help but frown, “Life is too short, I don’t want to waste time with people I hate.”

Banxia rolled up a big snowball again, preparing to build a South Star: "Zombies and mutated animals make me unhappy, so I kill them, but I can't kill people."

She feared that if she indulged her murderous intent, she would gradually stop valuing human life, just like the mission team in her previous life had a similar example.

After the snowman was finished, Jinzi and Yinzi, along with their furry companions, circled around it several times with satisfaction, even subconsciously avoiding it while doing parkour to prevent accidentally damaging it.