As he took off his shoes, Grandpa Song declined Chen Yunhao's offer, saying, "That's enough. Uncle Song appreciates Yunhao's kindness."

Wang Yao's voice came through the phone, "Boss, the leader is looking for you."

Then Chen Yunhao's deep voice came through, "Uncle Song, I'll hang up now. Let's chat again next time."

"good."

What? Extreme cold weather is coming in January? I wonder how many people will die then.

The apocalypse has not been over for a month yet, meaning that the extreme cold weather arrived a little over a month after the apocalypse began.

However, the original text clearly states that the cold winter that appeared one year after the apocalypse lasted for three years.

Was the early arrival of the extreme cold weather related to Song Ranran's death, or was it related to her appearance?

Ye Yubai was also puzzled. He asked the system in his mind, "System, check when the extreme cold weather will arrive."

System 857, which was sent back to headquarters for investigation by the main system, has not yet returned, so Ye Yubai did not receive a response from the system.

Ye Yubai had never encountered a situation where he couldn't contact the system before. Although he was anxious, he knew that he was powerless to do anything about it.

Then I guess I'll just have to eat a little more tonight.

After returning home, Grandpa Song and the others went to the bathroom to take a shower, and then went to the kitchen to help Ye Yubai wash and chop vegetables.

Ye Zhi was forced to watch early childhood education cartoons.

Using her little finger, Ye Zhi changed the cartoon to a horror movie again, and looked with satisfaction at the long-haired woman in white who crawled out of the bed.

Tonight's dishes include stir-fried bamboo shoots with pork, shredded beef and lettuce, braised mutton, stewed pork ribs with soybeans, taro chicken, twice-cooked pork, hot and sour shredded potatoes, and pickled cabbage and minced pork soup.

Seven dishes and a soup, enough for four adults and a baby, was a bit too much, but the chef wanted to eat as much as possible.

Ye Zhi sat at her own baby dining table, looking at the plates of delicious dishes being served, her mouth watering.

I love beef, I love twice-cooked pork, and I love chicken.

Once the family members were all seated, Ye Zhi pointed with her little finger to the bright red, fatty and lean twice-cooked pork, "Eat meat!"

Grandpa Song smiled and put an apron on Ye Zhi. "Okay, what else do you want to eat? This time, Grandpa will give you some sweet beans."

In fact, Ye Zhi didn't need to wear an apron to eat. She ate very cleanly, not only her bowl but also her clothes, without splashing any juice or food on them.

But the bibs were bought by Grandpa Song specifically for Yunling, and he bought them in huge quantities.

What else can we do but wear it?

We shouldn't waste the old man's good intentions.

After dinner, the group went to the training room to review the operational loopholes from the afternoon before returning to their rooms to sleep.

Their lives remained the same until the arrival of the extreme cold.

After a month of hard work fighting zombies, practicing the Eight Pieces of Brocade, honing marksmanship, and so on, everyone's superpower level has improved, with all except Ye Zhi reaching level three.

Grandpa Song only advanced one level because mental abilities are harder to improve than other abilities; they require constantly draining one's mental energy.

The process of draining one's mental energy is more painful than draining all one's superpowers. After draining one's mental energy, one will experience severe headaches and a period of unnatural mental blankness.

Grandpa Song never dared to exhaust his mental energy when fighting zombies in the afternoon, as the lack of a combatant would put everyone in danger to some extent.

Therefore, Old Master Song's superpower level only increased by one level.

This level alone drew praise from Ye Yubai and Ye Zhi.

Wow, cultivating mental strength is so difficult! Grandpa has broken through again! That's amazing!

The original work also describes a master of mental abilities. His mental abilities can be cultivated from level one to level two faster than any other ability, but it is very difficult to upgrade mental abilities after level two.

Level 1 mental strength can be seen as the capacity of a medium-sized milk tea, Level 2 mental strength is the capacity of a large milk tea, and Level 3 mental strength is the capacity of a 5-liter milk tea bucket.

In other words, the difficulty of improving one's superpowers is far greater than a few times.

Ye Yubai went even further, running up to Old Master Song as if worshipping a god.

Our Ye Zhi currently possesses level four abilities in all areas except for mental abilities, with level three in mental abilities.

The group didn't intentionally discuss their ability levels; it was all mentioned casually during their evening discussions in the training room.

For example, when Lu Ke upgraded to a level three earth-type ability user, he said, "I think my earth wall release speed is one second faster than before today."

Don't underestimate that one second. In any battle, being one second faster can give you the upper hand.

For example, when Song Yuanqing upgraded to a level two lightning-type ability user, he said, "My lightning seems to have gotten thicker, about the same size as Sweet Bean's lightning before."

The temperature has dropped rapidly these past few days. One day it was 30 degrees Celsius and we were wearing short sleeves, and the next day we were bundled up in coats as heavy snow fell.

Worst of all, the power went out! Global power infrastructure, long neglected and coupled with the sudden onset of winter, crippled the systems.

While everyone was wearing all their clothes, huddled in small tents and huts at the base, shivering with the help of the five- or two- or three-pound quilts provided by the base.

Inside the Ye family villa, several people dressed in light, long-sleeved shirts and trousers were eating hot pot and watching the snow.

The villa is equipped with various power generation devices, including diesel generators, solar generators, wind turbines, and exercise bike generators, so they don't need to worry about power outages at all.

The villa has underfloor heating and air conditioning on, and even the glass enclosure around the perimeter of the villa provides some insulation against cold air.

The inside and outside of the villa are like two completely different worlds.

The various flowers that Grandpa Song cultivated inside the villa were even vying for attention.

After eating and drinking her fill, Ye Zhi lounged in her rocking chair like a spoiled old man, legs crossed, watching the snowstorm outside. She aptly remarked, "With this weather, we won't even need a freezer for meat anymore. We can just cut it up and freeze it outside."

Then she dismissed her idea, "No, no, that would attract zombies."

The snow outside was heavy. In less than an hour, the snow had piled up to half a meter high. Given Ye Zhi's current height, she probably wouldn't be able to see the way inside, because she would have sunk in.

Ye Zhi lay on the rocking chair, which swayed back and forth, controlled by her own wind-elemental ability. The elderly Lu Ke watched Ye Zhi from the side, while the other young and middle-aged people (Grandpa Song had also become younger after taking the pill) were cleaning the snow piled up on the glass cover.

Everyone was dressed in thick clothes, even thicker than when they went out to fight zombies, and they were shoveling snow with all their might.

Looking at the snow that had just been shoveled and piled up again, Grandpa Song rubbed his aching back and sighed in the tone of Lin Daiyu, "If we had known there would be heavy snow, we would have gotten a snow scraper. We're exhausted today, and in the end, we can only despise our foolishness back then."