It's too spicy and you'll sweat.
Who doesn't love hot pot?
It's absolutely delicious!
Jiang Zhi couldn't stand the spiciness anymore, so she immediately took out a bowl of ice jelly and started slurping it up.
Iced jelly with hot pot is like beer with grilled skewers – a perfect match.
Jiang Zhi thoroughly enjoyed the hot pot meal, and after finishing, she poured the remaining broth into a specially prepared swill bucket.
She prepared five such swill buckets, and when the opportunity arose later, she would take the garbage outside the space to dispose of it.
When the temperature dropped to fifty degrees Celsius at night, Jiang Zhi, wearing a women's vest and shorts, carried a kitchen knife and went up the mountain along the path behind the house.
Behind her villa was originally a green belt about ten meters wide, and behind the green belt was a pedestrian walkway leading up the mountain.
Previously, the sidewalk and the villas were not visible from each other. After the extreme heat, most of the vegetation in the green belt withered and died, and the sidewalk can now be seen from the villas.
Jiang Zhi quickly climbed onto the green belt and silently stepped onto the sidewalk.
She was wearing night vision goggles, so she didn't need any lighting.
She had initially thought there might be a landslide, but it seems she was overthinking it. The mountain has been almost completely leveled, and there should have been a large lawn before the extreme heat, so the probability of a landslide is very small.
The mountain's drainage system was not damaged, and there was a natural ditch that flowed in another direction of the mountain.
Jiang Zhi was finally relieved.
The surroundings were deathly silent, as if there was no trace of life. However, Jiang Zhi's feet crunched on the withered grass.
She suddenly had the feeling that she was being watched by a hunter.
A faint, foul odor was gradually spreading.
The dry branches by the roadside made a slight rubbing sound.
Jiang Zhi's lips curled up slightly.
Something seemed to be lurking in the darkness, waiting for its chance to strike.
In an instant, a stench assaulted her senses. In the nick of time, Jiang Zhi swiftly retreated, dodging the attack with a sidestep.
Under the night vision goggles, Jiang Zhi recognized it as a mutated black dog. The dog's body had not only swelled to several times its original size, but it had also grown a set of sharp fangs, and foul-smelling saliva was dripping from the corner of its mouth.
At this moment, this guy was staring fiercely at Jiang Zhi, as if she were an extremely tender and delicious food.
Before Jiang Zhi could react, the mutated black dog turned around and attacked again, this time even faster than before.
Jiang Zhi had no intention of avoiding it; she was lacking a real opportunity for combat, and this dog had unfortunately come to her doorstep, so she had no choice but to accept it.
The cleaver in her hand almost left afterimages as she swung it, and several wounds appeared on the black dog's skin. Jiang Zhi's playful actions completely enraged the mutated black dog.
She never intended to kill the black dog quickly; she was just there to practice.
After confirming that the energy within her body could be released externally, she named this energy "spiritual power," following the description in the novel.
She had a strong premonition that this spiritual power would become incredibly strong in the future, and that she might become as powerful as the immortal from the previous cycle of reincarnation who had given her the space.
The black dog grew increasingly furious. How dare a mere piece of food be so arrogant in front of it? It had to swallow this food whole today.
"Awooo! Roar!" A hiss came from the black dog's throat. Jiang Zhi was not afraid. The kitchen knife in her hand flew out as if it had a mind of its own. The blade was as sharp as a needle. After leaving a deep mark on the black dog's forehead, it grazed its head, turned in mid-air, and returned to Jiang Zhi's hand.
Enraged, the black dog lunged at Jiang Zhi's neck at its fastest speed.
Jiang Zhi's eyes flickered slightly, a smile appeared on her face, and she raised her finger.
A sage points the way!
Before the black dog could react, a large hole suddenly appeared in its body. Due to inertia, its body was thrown towards Jiang Zhi, who slightly turned to the side. The mutated black dog crashed heavily to the ground, its eyes bulging out, dying with its eyes wide open.
"This show-off skill is still the most impressive." Jiang Zhi smiled, took out a piece of steel bar from her spatial storage, and poked the corpse of the mutated black dog to make sure it was dead beyond any doubt.
Then, using a butcher knife he'd smuggled from the slaughterhouse, he ripped open the mutated black dog's brain. Damn, its skull was fucking hard.
There was a red crystal lying in the black dog's brain; it would be a good thing in the future.
It can increase the ability level of a superhuman.
These crystals, which look somewhat like crystals, are encased in the brains of mutated animals, and their color indicates their rank.
Red is the weakest.
From top to bottom, the colors are blue, green, gold, and transparent (white).
Transparent crystals have the highest energy purity.
This stuff is extremely rare and hard to come by. Not every mutated animal has crystals, so it's a valuable commodity after the apocalypse. Once, a single white crystal was auctioned off for a high price of 50,000 points.
In her previous life, Jiang Zhi had never even touched Bai Jing.
Jiang Zhi washed the red crystal with warm water and disinfected herself. She tried to absorb it by holding it in her hand, but found that there was no reaction after a long time.
Is it possible that she can't absorb this stuff?
Therefore, she never awakened any superpowers.
The cultivation techniques she's been practicing these past few days are not the same as supernatural abilities.
Since she didn't need any special abilities right now, Jiang Zhi simply tossed the red crystal into an empty iron box on the spatial shelf, intending to use it to store any crystals she obtained in the future.
As for the mutated black dog's corpse, to prevent the corpse from breeding bacteria and causing a plague, Jiang Zhi kindly gave it an oil-splashed cremation.
After wandering around the mountain for a while and finding no other mutated animals, Jiang Zhi slowly strolled down the mountain.
She had just entered the house, intending to take a bath and then relax, when she heard a knock on the door.
Jiang Zhi: "..."
"Who is it?" Jiang Zhi casually put the night vision goggles into her spatial storage and turned around to call out.
"It's me, Zhou Heng."
Jiang Zhi opened one iron gate and asked through another gate, "It's almost dawn."
Zhou Heng said, "Sister Jiang, I've come to ask if you can exchange supplies with me?"
"Exchange supplies?" Jiang Zhi opened the door and saw a 5kg bag of rice and five packs of instant noodles lying on the bicycle behind Zhou Heng. There was also a plastic bucket with a lid hanging on the handlebars of the bicycle.
"Yes, can I trade these for some water?" Zhou Heng asked tentatively.
If you're having a hard time too, then never mind.
Jiang Zhi said, "Okay, come in." Jiang Zhi then asked Zhou Heng to push the bicycle into the yard.
“5kg of rice, 5 bags of instant noodles, and I’ll give you 5 bottles of mineral water. Then bring your own bucket to fill up my swimming pool, fill it up as much as you can.” Jiang Zhi pointed to the swimming pool covered by a plastic sheet.
"Okay, thank you."
Without saying a word, Zhou Heng unloaded the rice and instant noodles, picked up the bucket, and lifted the plastic sheet.
The water in the pool was crystal clear, and it looked so lovely under the dim light of the oil lamp.
"I haven't touched this water. It's best to boil it before drinking it," Jiang Zhi added.
Zhou Heng was somewhat surprised, but he noticed that Jiang Zhi didn't seem very clean either, so he figured she must be living in poverty.
That's a misinterpretation.
Jiang Zhi stated that no one who fights with a mutant animal will be completely clean.
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