Amidst the vast ruins, people were bustling about. Unlike the B City base, the houses at Qiyuan Base were built by the survivors themselves. After the earthquake disaster, the base's military and heavy machinery were only responsible for rebuilding the inner layer, while the outer layer had to be rebuilt by the survivors themselves, so the construction was very slow.

As Du Xueting walked out of Yang Songming's residence, she sneered inwardly. "Old fox, do you think she's so easy to fool?"

She walked quickly back to the newly built office building on the east side of the inner layer of the base. The office building was five stories high and had a huge area. All the ability users except Du Xueting lived in this building for easy summoning.

Back in her office, she sat at her desk, her face growing increasingly grim. If she couldn't find that ice-type ability user, wouldn't she be able to find the B City base?!

She picked up the walkie-talkie on the table and called out, "Liu Yunzheng, Song Xiaofei, come to my office."

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As darkness gradually fell, Lin Ruo, Afu, and Ashou finally got up when it was completely dark.

Lin Ruo looked at the ice basins around the fortress. After a whole day, the water in the basins had melted away, and there wasn't even a trace of ice left. The fans next to them were still blowing, but they were blowing out hot air.

Her spiritual power surged, and the ice in the ice basin instantly piled up high. Against the backdrop of the scorching heat, the chill on the ice was clearly visible.

Afu and Ashou ran over and licked the huge block of ice with their tongues. A week had passed since the extreme heat began, and they had adapted to the hot weather. Sometimes they could even go out for a run during the day. Although they still felt the heat, they had escaped their half-dead state.

Lin Ruo saw the changes in them and finally felt relieved.

They only stopped moving the ice basin in the corner after I put lake water with ice in their water bowl.

Ah Liu's willow branch stretched in, with a few mosquitoes still snaking around the fortress's perimeter, showing off to Lin Ruo how well it had guarded the house, not even letting a mosquito fly in.

Lin Ruo also didn't mention that the fortress had been coated with mosquito and fly repellent powder, so these mosquitoes wouldn't even bother flying in.

She only looked at the tiny, dark mosquito, about the size of a fist, on the willow branch, gave the branch a thumbs-up, and said with a big smile, "Willow is awesome!"

Ah Liu's willow branches swayed gently, clearly very happy with Lin Ruo's praise.

Lin Ruo took out a bucket filled with lake water from her spatial storage and handed it to A Liu, saying, "A Liu, this is your water. Go and water the roots of the tree."

Ah Liu stretched out the tree root strung with mosquitoes, and two more tree roots stretched in, lifting the bucket out and pouring it onto the spot where her own tree root was.

Several mutated plants a few hundred meters away from A-Liu sensed the benefits of the lake water and swayed their branches and leaves, but dared not come over to steal it. This big willow tree was very domineering; anyone who dared to steal its water would be killed and have their essence drained. Several mutated trees around it had withered in this way.

Lin Ruo prepared "breakfast" for the three of them. A Liu's portion was normal, but for A Fu and A Shou's food, she froze all the mutated beast meat, eggs, and fruits before putting them in a bowl. This way, A Fu and A Shou had a great appetite and could eat more.

After they started eating, Lin Ruo drank a bottle of chilled milk for breakfast before turning around and walking into the training room to start exercising. She easily lifted a 200-kilogram stone block and began to exercise by lifting it up and down. She was wearing a vest and shorts, but after a few repetitions, she started to sweat profusely.

The sweatband on her head was quickly soaked with sweat. While Lin Ru was exercising, a blue light flashed in her eyes, the sweat on her body disappeared, and her body temperature dropped a little.

After three hours of training and two hours of cultivating her supernatural abilities, Lin Ruo's vest was covered in sweat when she came out of the training room. She needed to replenish her salt intake quickly.

She took out some salt lake water that she had prepared in advance from her spatial storage and drank it in large gulps before returning to her room to take a shower.

The warm water washed over her skin, and all the fatigue and heat of the day disappeared. Lin Ruo stayed in the bathroom for half an hour, which was unusual for her.

Stepping out of the bathroom, Afu and Ashou had already returned from hunting. Outside the fortress were two level 2 mutated beasts, a wolf and a moose. Neither of these mutated beasts was very large, so they must have just reached level 2.

Afu and Ashou squatted obediently by the door, waiting for Lin Ruo to give them a bath. Their paws were covered in blood. Since they adapted to the temperature change, their hunting had become wild again, making them very dirty.

She gently shook her head. She put the two mutated beasts on the platform and Afu and Ashou into her space. First, she gave Afu and Ashou a bath, and then she dug out the crystal cores of the two mutated beasts, bled them, skinned them, and removed their internal organs in a complete production line.

A dozen minutes later, Lin Ruo released Afu and Ashou from the space. When the two mutated beasts were taken out again, they had turned into pieces of frozen flesh and blood.

They were placed in separate large basins. Ah Liu dragged away the huge portion with a willow branch. Ah Fu and Ah Shou first ran to the water basin and drank a lot of ice water before they began to wolf down their food.

Lin Ruo made herself a cold dish, paired it with a few large steamed buns and an iced drink, and simply solved her lunch problem.

After finishing their meal, the three of them lay in the living room watching TV, with the air conditioner blowing right next to them.

Lin Ruo returned to her room and used her mental energy to probe the space. She used the underground ore left over from the last fortress smelting to make huge rectangular containers. Then she changed into her outdoor clothes and said to them, "You stay at home for a while. I'm going out for a bit."

She swiftly traversed the mountains and forests, fully unleashing her spiritual power, and soon spotted her target—a giant mutated cypress tree. This cypress tree was 600 meters to Lin Ruo's left front, and it was using its long roots to entangle a mutated pheasant, the roots digging into the pheasant's body and sucking its blood and flesh.

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