Chapter 270 Winter Arrives Suddenly...
Chi Yi took over the driver's seat, and Ji Xian sat in the passenger seat.
Wen Qing practiced his knife skills in the open space of the carriage, holding specially made 'small rattan canes'. The sound of the rattan canes cutting through the air was particularly crisp...
At the island counter, Luo Xingyou and Gu Wan were busy washing ingredients, the sound of running water mingling with their soft conversation.
Shi Xu was intently flipping through the documents Lu Nange had given him last night, his brows sometimes furrowing and sometimes relaxing.
Those were experimental data that Lu Nange and the others brought back from Master Jin's basement with Liu Ping and her daughter, Tian Tian.
Lu Beiye nestled on the sofa, clutching his tablet, the screen playing "Animal World," a game Lu Nange had downloaded before the apocalypse...
He Zhuo and Gu Qi, as if they had discovered a new toy, examined each of the crystal core energy slots inside the car one by one...
Lu Xici and Chi Yanzhou are still catching up on sleep in their room...
Hearing footsteps, Wen Qing stopped waving the vine: "Nan Nan, you're awake! Are you hungry? Would you like something to eat?"
Lu Nange: "Sister Wenqing, I just woke up, I'm not hungry yet..."
"Then I'll practice a hundred more times." Wen Qing flicked his wrist, and the vine shot out again.
Luo Xingyou poked her head out from the island platform: "Sister Wenqing, Wanwan and I will have breakfast. You should get some rest today."
At this moment, Lu Beiye jumped off the sofa, put on his shoes, ran to Lu Nange, and looked up at her with his little face: "Sister, good morning, did you sleep well?"
Lu Nange crouched down to look him in the eye, gently smoothing his slicked-back hair with her fingertips: "Hmm, where's A-Ye?"
The child nodded: "I slept super well too!"
Ji Xian turned around from the passenger seat and pointed to the dashboard: "The thermometer inside the car shows that the outside temperature has dropped to 5°C."
Lu Beiye tiptoed and whispered in Lu Nange's ear, "Sister, it's so strange, in my past life the temperature only started to drop months later..."
Lu Nange ruffled his little head: "Even if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. Our Aye doesn't need to worry about these things."
She gazed thoughtfully out the window: [Is this apocalypse all related to that thing that invaded the narrative consciousness?]
He Zhuo and Gu Wan could no longer contain their curiosity and opened the car window to reach out and test the temperature outside.
"Has God really gone mad? Is He really determined that as long as He's happy, it doesn't matter who collapses?" He Zhuo suddenly pulled back his red, frozen hands, grimacing as he said, "He's gone through all four seasons in just a few days?"
Chi Yi, Ji Xian: "Is it...raining?"
Lu Nange looked out the window at the white crystals falling: "No, it's snowing."
Everyone gathered around the window, where they saw fine snowflakes falling gently, quickly covering the forest and roads with a thin layer of white.
Lu Xici and Chi Yanzhou lifted the curtain and came out, still sleepy-eyed.
"Yan-ge, Ci-ge," He Zhuo pointed out the window, "This awful weather, it suddenly started snowing."
Everyone woke up, and as the RV was parked by the roadside and people started eating, the wind and snow outside the window intensified.
The howling wind whipped up heavy snowflakes, turning the entire world into a vast expanse of white.
The pristine white snow reflected a faint light, making the night's visibility much higher than usual.
Chi Yanzhou put down his chopsticks and bowl: "We need to find somewhere to stay as soon as possible. If the snow is too deep or the roads are icy, it will be very dangerous for us to drive."
"It's time for our shift to change." Gu Qi nodded, stood up, and patted He Zhuo on the shoulder: "Old He, it's our turn to drive."
The two quickly walked to the driver's seat, and the RV restarted in the wind and snow, slowly moving forward as it rolled over the increasingly thick snow.
After driving at a speed of 40-60 km/h for about four hours, a small gas station appeared in the snow.
Gu Qi maneuvered the vehicle to park in the refueling area.
The car's outside thermometer showed that the temperature had plummeted to minus three degrees Celsius.
Although everyone was wearing thermal clothing, they still put on thick gloves, hats and non-slip boots, and got off the vehicle fully armed.
Zhizhi and Chiyi waved their vines to clear the snow from the roof of the car.
With a wave of his hand, Lu Beiye sent a flash of golden light through the air, instantly reinforcing the gas station's rickety metal roof to its original solid state.
He Zhuo gazed at the snow falling heavier and heavier outside the gas station: "If this snow continues for months like the extreme heatwave we've experienced before, are we going to be stuck in a daze...?"
He glanced at the looks on everyone's faces, then stretched casually: "It's so cold today... Wouldn't it be nice to have hot pot and barbecue?"
Gu Wan frowned upon hearing this: "The smell of hot pot and barbecue is too strong. The whole car will be filled with the stench..."
"Perfect timing to test the car's air purification system," Lu Nange said, already taking out a divided pot and hot pot base from her spatial storage.
Even so, everyone still opened all the car windows.
Everyone worked together: setting the table, washing ingredients, chopping ingredients, preparing dipping sauces...
As the red oil and clear broth in the hot pot begin to bubble, the rolling bubbles send a rich aroma into everyone's nostrils.
The rising steam condensed into fine water droplets on the car window, blurring the snowy scenery outside.
"Delicious!" He Zhuo eagerly picked up a slice of fatty beef and dipped it in the spicy broth, panting heavily even though it was hot, but he didn't want to spit it out: "It smells so good!"
Lu Beiye sat alone with his small hot pot, which contained sliced meat and vegetables.
In order to grow taller, the picky eater began to obediently follow the "balanced diet" plan, but his little brows remained slightly furrowed when eating vegetables.
That night, Lu Nange told everyone that she was going to absorb the level 5 mental crystal core.
The entire team went on high alert and took turns on duty.
Lu Nange sat cross-legged on the bed, holding the level-five crystal core in her palm, which emitted a light green glow.
For a full day and night, Shi Xu could feel the powerful mental fluctuations constantly emanating from Lu Nange's body.
As the last bit of energy merged into her body, Lu Nange slowly opened her eyes, her pupils seemingly reflecting a galaxy of stars—she had achieved Level 5 Spiritual System.
Chi Yanzhou, who had woken up earlier, had already absorbed two level-three crystal cores and was now looking at the ice crystals condensing in his palm—the ice element had officially entered level four.
After Lu Nange tried using her wind-based supernatural ability, she pushed open the door and stepped out. Everyone waiting in the living room stood up and stared at her...
Lu Nange: "After level four, it seems you have to absorb a level five crystal core of the same element to continue leveling up. My mental element is at level five, but my wind element is still stuck at level four..."
Lu Xici: "It seems that from now on, we won't just have to collect crystal cores for the RV, but we'll also have to hunt down high-level zombies of the same type?"
Gu Qi: "We have all five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, ice), so to level up to level five, we'll have to keep diving into hordes of zombies?"
Gu Wan: "What a disaster... Where are the zombies? Where am I?"
He Zhuo popped a peanut into his mouth: "What can relieve sorrow? Only smashing a zombie's head!"
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