When Jiang Wan woke up again, the mission in this small world had been completed.
They returned to the oxygen-deprived post-apocalyptic RV. The two little ones lay on either side of the bed. When they saw them suddenly appear, they covered their mouths with their hands and widened their round eyes to express their surprise and delight.
All the negative effects on Socotra disappeared with their return.
For example, in her drunken state, Jiang Wan was perfectly sober and naturally forgot what she had said to Cheng Zhen while she was drunk. As soon as she opened her eyes, she hurriedly checked the status of the gold coins in the tree hole space.
He lamented, "I shouldn't have drunk alcohol; I wasted the whole day!"
If she had used the last day to collect the unique plants on Socotra Island, the gold coins she had would have at least tripled or quadrupled.
If she remembered correctly, she should have 9,800 gold coins.
So when she saw the gold coin storage value in the tree hole space, she was really shocked.
Not 9800 gold coins, but gold coins!
That's a whopping 10,000 gold coins!
She was certain she was drunk and hadn't gone out to dig up plants, so she asked Cheng Zhen, "Did you go dig up plants while I was drunk?"
Cheng Zhen shook his head: "No."
He wanted to go, but the locals wouldn't let him leave the room no matter what, or rather, they treated her as nothing more than an appendage of the saintess.
In their eyes, he was her slave; his master was drunk and lying in bed, and he had no right to leave the room.
He tried a few times, but gave up after failing to give it away.
He was already worried about leaving Jiang Wan here alone, and he also knew that she had already completed her mission. Even if she did nothing all day, she would only waste a few gold coins.
If something were to happen to her because of his departure, that would truly be a case of losing more than one gains.
"But this is so strange, I have 10,000 more gold coins!"
Jiang Wan exclaimed in surprise, then quickly lowered her voice as she remembered the current situation.
"10,000?"
Even Cheng Zhen was surprised. Ten thousand was no small sum; it couldn't have appeared out of nowhere.
Could it be because they cleared the mission world, so it's a completion reward?
Jiang Wan shook her head: "I don't know either."
But upon closer inspection, she noticed a new plant encyclopedia on the wall of the tree hole space. All the plants she had collected were marked with icons on the encyclopedia.
The latest plant encyclopedia entry is for the Socotra Dragon Blood Tree. Each plant encyclopedia entry has ten stars, but the Socotra Dragon Blood Tree entry currently only has one star lit up.
She was suspicious, so did her reviving the Socotra Dragon Blood Tree on the island count as her successful collection?
It can't be that simple, can it?
Just as she was wondering, Cheng Zhen suddenly remembered: "This afternoon, the female leader brought over a branch of a dragon blood tree, which disappeared as soon as you held it in your hand..."
"oh."
Jiang Wan nodded. Now that she thought about it, she figured she should just let it go, even if it was just this tree branch.
But no matter what, she now has a gold coin, which makes her quite wealthy. Even if there is danger, she dares to pull out a weapon and fight with people!
They spent three days in the mission world, but in reality, only six hours had passed.
The twins were hungry; their stomachs were empty, as if all the feast they had on Socotra Island had been for nothing.
Jiang Wan immediately got up and made a simple meal for the four of them. She also brought out some seafood for the children to try, and the two little ones couldn't stop eating because they were so hungry.
Jiang Xiaoxin kept praising her mom while eating: "Mom is so good! I love Mom~!"
Cheng Zhen shook his head with a "tsk tsk," quickly filled his stomach, and went down to check on the situation in Long Xiangcheng. The weather was as hot as ever, and it was the hottest time of day at noon. Everyone was huddled in the shade to avoid heatstroke.
Despite this, everyone was still incredibly hot and extremely thirsty.
They deeply regretted their actions: "If we had known the weather would be this hot, we should have dug a cellar and built an icehouse a few days ago to freeze the snow and store it all up!"
"You make it sound so easy. We haven't even built the city walls yet. There are zombies and mutated plants outside, and now even monsters are coming. Do you think we, the people of Longxiang City, have three heads and six arms?"
"Sigh!" That's true, everyone complained and sighed helplessly.
Suddenly someone else thought, "Zhu Sha City is such a big city, surely they have ice cellars? Besides, they have so many people, if each of them digs up a little snow, they could make a block of ice every day and that would last them a long time!"
Upon hearing this, everyone felt it made sense, as if the ice cellar of Vermilion City was beckoning to them. Just thinking about it made them feel a chill run down their spines.
But then Yu Fen added fuel to the fire: "Give me a break! Why would they give you the ice from the city? Besides, with their cowardly and unintelligent nature, who knows if they even thought of making the ice in advance?"
Actually, it was my sister-in-law who first thought of them and mentioned it briefly, which is why we stored some ice.
But later, he wandered around and was on the run, never settling down. Where would he find the time to make ice?
They all assumed that with such a massive natural disaster, the ice they had stored back then must not have survived.
But the weather is unbearably hot right now. How can we work in this heat? How can the city wall be built if we don't work?
Outside, there are zombies and unknown monsters everywhere. If they all attack at once, they will really be like meat on a chopping board, at the mercy of others!
Cheng Zhen looked around and overheard them talking about this, so he said, "Don't worry, I'll get you some ice."
There was ice in Jiang Wan's tree hole space. When he returned to the ruins of Xiangcheng, he collected all the ice he could from the ice cellar. Although the quantity was not large, it was enough to solve his immediate problem.
He put ice in a large basin and placed it in a room, allowing the able-bodied laborers building the city wall to take turns going in to cool off before going back to work.
Everyone took turns working, and although the pace was slow, the city wall was finally being rebuilt.
But the weather was so hot that the whole basin of ice melted into water in no time, and the temperature inside the room rose again instantly.
Just as Jiang Wan was worrying, an ice-elemental user walked in from outside the door and with a burst of force, the basin of water inside the room solidified into a block of ice.
Jiang Wan was pleasantly surprised and asked him, "Since you know how to make ice, why didn't you make ice for everyone to cool off earlier?"
The man scratched his head and said, "I froze everyone's drinking water, but it was too hot, and everyone ate it all quickly. Besides, drinking water is limited, so there's really no extra water to make ice."
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