Cheng Mei put the gasoline in the can inside her coat to prevent it from freezing.
Cheng Quan tried five times before the motorcycle finally started.
Jiang Zhi warmed up the car for half an hour today. It seems that this time, the car can no longer be left in the open, otherwise it may be easily damaged.
She had previously bought a batch of cars for free, but hadn't modified them at all. In this cold weather, it was all for nothing.
As temperatures drop to minus 60 or 70 degrees Celsius, cars will be practically unusable, and most people will have to walk or ski.
Jiang Zhi drove ahead, and Cheng Quan quickly lost track of her.
Most of the snow on the road has been cleared, but it's still not as easy for motorcycles as it is for four-wheelers because the road is too slippery.
Jiang Zhi had put snow chains on her car. She was a skilled driver and it took her two and a half hours to find the weather station.
The weather station and the Shuofang base are diagonally opposite each other across the entire Jiangcheng area, which gives you an idea of how far apart they are.
She didn't wait for her siblings; after storing the car in her spatial storage, she went into the weather station herself.
It's eerily quiet here.
The basic information about the main weather station is on the task bar. It says that there were originally two large wolfhounds inside, but it's unknown whether they are dead or alive, or whether they might have mutated.
In short, we need to be extra careful.
Besides wolves and dogs, we also need to be wary of other mutated animals.
As Jiang Zhi walked along, the snow covered everything, and each step she took reached up to her calves.
In fact, the snow here was about three or four meters deep, and Jiang Zhi jumped down from the second floor next door.
Walking is extremely difficult.
Jiang Zhi took out a rope from her backpack, hooked it onto the air conditioner unit on the second floor, and then climbed up the rope.
The glass had shattered from the cold. Jiang Zhi punched it, creating a large hole. After clearing away the shards of glass, Jiang Zhi slowly moved into the second floor.
This is the office. The documents on the desk are scattered all over the floor. Jiang Zhi jumps off the desk onto the ground.
At that moment, a black unidentified object rushed towards Jiang Zhi, its stench so foul that even her mask couldn't conceal it.
Mutant animals.
Jiang Zhi didn't have time to use the Immortal's Guidance, so she had no choice but to fight him with her sword.
The knife struck the creature, but instead of causing harm, it enraged it.
Jiang Zhi's wrist felt slightly numb, and the kitchen knife had already developed a nick.
"Damn it! It's at least a level two mutation." Jiang Zhi gritted her teeth. That thing was even faster than the previous mutated dog, and Jiang Zhi could only rely on instinct to fight it off.
Both "Pointing the Way" and "Piercing the Heart with a Thousand Arrows" require aiming at the target, but this guy is too fast to aim at.
Her weapon, a kitchen knife, couldn't withstand it.
This thing is very sensitive, and Jiang Zhi still hasn't figured out what it is.
Unable to subdue this mobile prey, the mutated wolfhound stopped, scratching at the floor. Its sharp fangs were stained with blood, and its bloodshot eyes were fixed on Jiang Zhi, as if it would not give up until it had torn her apart and devoured her.
The opportunity came. Jiang Zhi focused her spiritual energy on her legs and quickly got up, so that ugly thing wouldn't be able to do anything.
The mutated wolfhound howled and lunged at Jiang Zhi, but she nimbly leaped onto the desk. The mutated wolfhound missed its target again.
If there were a rage meter, this mutated dog's rage meter would probably be overflowing.
The blood on the fangs suggests that the dog may have recently hunted some animal, or perhaps a person.
Jiang Zhi once again slashed at the mutated wolfhound with the kitchen knife. The knife made Jiang Zhi's hand numb from the impact, but she finally managed to cut a wound.
The mutated wolfhound, in pain, flew into a rage and began to bite wildly.
Jiang Zhi seized the opportunity to fire a follow-up shot, which, by sheer chance, hit the dog in the eye.
"Awooo~ Awooo~" The mutated wolfhound howled.
"Let me show you my new skill, Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart!" He channeled his spiritual power into his palm, gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, condensing it into an ice arrow. With a sniff, the ice arrow pierced through the eyes of the mutated wolfhound.
But it still didn't die, stubbornly trying to bite off Jiang Zhi's neck.
A sage points the way!
It pierced through its heart.
The mutated wolfhound then died.
Jiang Zhi took a deep breath, broke open the ugly thing's head, and poked out a blue crystal from inside.
It is indeed a level-two mutant animal.
Her weapon was terrible; it would be much better if the knife could cut through tofu like that—it wasn't sharp enough.
This kitchen knife can't cut a watermelon; I wonder if those sharpened Tang swords in my space would be able to.
Jiang Zhi didn't have time to think about these things. She put the mutated dog's corpse in a plastic bag, moved it into her space, and placed it together with Li Erwei's corpse.
Then they collected a bunch of meteorological data and various measuring instruments. Jiang Zhi took everything she could; for the rest, there were two other people behind her.
I just don't know if there's only one mutated animal here.
Generally speaking, some social animals still prefer to live in groups after mutation, while territorial animals will fight with other mutated animals in their territory, and whoever survives becomes the boss of the area.
After taking her things, Jiang Zhi left the weather station immediately; she had no obligation to wait for the two people behind her.
Next to the weather station is a small, open earthen slope, which used to be a grassland but is now completely covered by snow.
This was already the suburbs, and Jiang Zhi drove towards the urban-rural fringe.
Unexpectedly, the road was very difficult to drive on, and the car got stuck in the snow. Helpless, Jiang Zhi put the car into her space.
The snow was deep, and even with three pairs of socks, her feet, wrapped in snow boots, were still not warm enough. As she walked, Jiang Zhi's feet began to feel warm.
After struggling for about a kilometer, Jiang Zhi noticed that the surrounding snow seemed a bit off.
It's normal to have footprints on the road in and out of the city, but the snow on both sides of the road is quite messy.
It looks like something was dragged along, but it's not a neat mark.
Jiang Zhi squatted down and gently rubbed the imprint with her gloved hand. The brownish-red unidentified substance on the ice looked like some kind of slime.
Could it be... a mutated python?
Jiang Zhi's pupils dilated. Goodness, what kind of monsters did she encounter on this trip?
However, judging from the freshness of the marks, if it really is a mutated python, it must have just eaten and will not easily come out in a short period of time.
Jiang Zhi continued forward, and the further she went, the more chaotic the tracks became.
Is there more than one?
Has she stumbled into a snake pit?
So, are there still people in this area?
Jiang Zhi stopped moving forward and instead cautiously surveyed her surroundings before slowly retreating.
She hadn't awakened any special abilities, and her "piercing through the heart with a thousand arrows" technique wasn't yet fully mastered, so she couldn't easily fight multiple mutated pythons.
The mutated python is covered in venom; even a graze on the skin will cause a burning sensation similar to sulfuric acid.
Countless people died in the mouths of this ugly thing in their past lives.
The snow crunched beneath Jiang Zhi's feet, and the snow-covered ground nearby trembled at the same time. Jiang Zhi stopped and listened carefully. Before she could react, a huge, brownish-brown creature stood up about three zhang away from her.
Damn it!
What you fear most is exactly what happens!
Jiang Zhi took out a silenced gun and held it in her hand, then replaced the kitchen knife with a dagger.
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