Cheng Wenshan put away the cards and asked Cheng Zhen again, "Aren't you the city lord of Vermilion City? Are you sure you don't want to cooperate with me?"
Instead of answering, Cheng Zhen asked, "Is the arsenal really located in Zhusha City?"
Cheng Wenshan wasn't actually sure, but he disguised it very well, remaining calm and saying without hesitation, "That's right, it's inside their city."
Cheng Zhen brandished the gun at him a few times: "You want to seize the arsenal, that's your own business, but please be more careful in the future. If something like today happens again, I won't hesitate to end your life prematurely."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Wenshan's eyes flickered slightly, and then he smiled and said, "Cheng Zhen, I think you'll need me in the future. We should be friends."
As he spoke, he backed away, entered the woods, and quickly disappeared from sight.
Cheng Zhen had no interest in pursuing him. The most urgent task now was to immediately close the city walls of Longxiang City, as this was the only way to ensure everyone's temporary safety.
A large-scale attack on Qinyuan depleted most of their firearms, ammunition, and crystals. Therefore, in addition to building city walls, they also had to leave the city as soon as possible to mine crystals for future needs.
Similarly, Jiang Wan needs to leave the city to find special plants to pay off the gold coin debt in the tree hole space.
With three tasks piled on their shoulders at the same time, they suddenly realized they were short-handed again.
She couldn't help but sigh. No wonder Cheng Zhen, a hot-tempered and arrogant man who would shout for violence at the slightest provocation, was so unwilling to ignore the life and death of ordinary people. Although these people were not very useful in battle, they were truly better off having as many as possible in times like these.
Cheng Zhen saw the plant weapons Jiang Wan had planted, so he knew she had to go out and dig up plants to pay off her debts as soon as possible. He instructed Yu Fen: "You personally lead a team to go out and dig up plants with her tomorrow. Remember to be vigilant."
Jiang Wan glanced at the sky and said, "There's no rush. It's already dark. We'll set off tomorrow. We can stay here tonight to help everyone dig for crystals. There are also some plants around here. Let's dig up as many as we can."
Cheng Zhen did not object to her arrangement, and even went out of the city with her that night to dig for crystals and plants.
However, at this moment, they keenly noticed that the snow on the ground was gradually melting, the ground was very damp and the moisture was quickly evaporated, and gradually, they could no longer wear their clothes.
The two little ones were the first to shout, "It's so hot!"
As they shouted, they began to take off their clothes, peeling off their outer cotton-padded coats layer by layer.
Jiang Wan's expression turned cold: "It's starting to heat up."
Cheng Zhen breathed a sigh of relief: "After the harsh winter, everyone's lives will be much easier, which is a good thing. Why are you...?"
He quickly noticed that her expression was quite unpleasant. Jiang Wan's gaze fell on the plants on the ground, and she suddenly asked, "What do you think will happen to these plants if they suddenly transition from extremely cold weather to extremely hot weather?"
Cheng Zhen didn't react immediately: "What extreme heat?"
In his mind, once the harsh winter weather passes, spring will arrive, right? How hot can spring really be?
But seeing that Jiang Wan's expression didn't seem fake, and considering his own experience of how the weather had gotten hot at an unusually fast pace, he couldn't help but say:
"You mean we're going to experience scorching heat next?"
Jiang Wan didn't have time to explain, she just said to him, "Have everyone come out and dig up plants, no matter what kind, dig up as many as you can! Put aside the crystals and repairing the city wall for now! It will be too late if we miss this time!"
Plants do not die in extremely cold weather, nor do they die in extremely hot weather.
However, when extreme cold and scorching heat suddenly alternate, she can hardly guarantee that these plants will not have any accidents, because they have all stopped growing!
At that moment, her intuition told her that if she didn't dig up the plants, they might become extinct!
Although Cheng Zhen didn't understand why, he still trusted her in this matter, so he immediately ordered all the elderly, weak, women and children to come out and dig up plants.
The men were responsible for guarding the city and repairing the city walls. After all, the Cinnabar City was watching them closely, and there were various mutated plants and zombies all around. Security patrols could not be relaxed.
The temperature rose rapidly. Jiang Wan took out a thermometer from the tree hole space. In less than half an hour, the temperature had quickly risen to 35 degrees Celsius and was still rising.
"Holy crap, what kind of weather is this? Why did it suddenly get so hot?"
Yu Fen and the others suddenly became agitated and started tearing off all the clothes they could find, digging up plants as fast as they could. Some people had already noticed that some fragile herbaceous plants had become dying and were on the verge of death when the extreme weather of extreme cold and extreme heat suddenly changed.
Jiang Xiaoxin also sensed it: "Mom, this kind of climate change is a very extreme test for them, and I feel very bad..."
Jiang Wan kept moving, instantly storing all the plants that everyone had dug up into her space.
The weather was too hot; the ground was like a furnace. The dug-up plants couldn't be left in the sun to dry out and die in no time.
The ground temperature had reached 40 degrees Celsius.
She asked Jiang Xiaoxin, "How do you feel?"
Jiang Xiaoxin glanced at her older brother, hesitating whether to tell the truth or not. In the end, her innocent nature as a child led her to choose the truth: "I feel that there is a 99% chance that they will die."
Jiang Wan took a deep breath.
Before this, and even in her previous life before her death, she always thought that the greatest challenge in the oxygen-deficient apocalypse was oxygen, mutated plants, and zombies.
But little did I know, the real test was yet to come—the plants were dying.
If plants die completely, then there will truly be no source of oxygen on this planet.
Meanwhile, the ten little rose assistants in Jiang Xiaoxin's backpack kept complaining: "Oh dear, it's so hot!"
"It's so hot! I can't stand it! I'm going to burn!"
"I'm going to start smoking!"
"If this keeps up, I'm going to catch fire!"
Jiang Wan couldn't hear them, so Jiang Xiaoxin tugged at her sleeve and said, "Mom, can we go back to the RV? The roses are dying of heat."
Jiang Wan then turned her gaze to the backpack on her back and saw that it was bulging inside, as if someone was spinning and jumping wildly inside.
She didn't refuse: "Xin Xin, you and your brother should go back to the car quickly, and remember to lock the door."
The RV has air conditioning, so it will be a bit more comfortable for them when they go back inside.
The temperature eventually settled at a wind chill of 46 degrees Celsius. Everyone was sweltering and exhausted, desperately seeking out comfortable corners to escape the sun.
The work of building city walls and mining crystals to save plants could only be left until after sunset.
Nevertheless, the perceived temperature after dark remains around 40 degrees Celsius.
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