"Try absorbing the energy of this crystal, and then catalyze the absorbed energy in your body. Don't convert it directly into metal-based superpowers, but keep it in your meridians and let it slowly permeate your body. See if you can generate heat."
Yan Zhi nodded, took the crystal, stood still, and closed his eyes to absorb it.
The energy of crystals can cause mutations in animals and enhance human superpowers. According to Jiang Zhi's idea, it should theoretically be able to generate heat.
Little did she know that her first attempt would be somewhat painful. Although she appeared calm on the surface, she was actually an unconventional person at heart.
Since it's the end of the world anyway, we only have one life, so dying is fine.
The energy of the red crystal was extracted and seeped into her meridians through Yan Zhi's palm. A warm power flowed through her meridians, circulated three times in her body, and gradually stabilized.
This energy actually generated heat, and her body gradually warmed up.
"Okay, I don't feel so cold anymore, my feet and palms are warm." Yan Zhi opened her eyes, her face full of joy.
Wang Wan asked with concern, "How do you know if your sister feels uncomfortable anywhere?"
"No, it's actually very warm, and my superpowers have also improved."
Having already seen the pearls and jade before him, Wang Wan followed closely behind.
He hadn't finished absorbing the level-three crystal that Jiang Zhi had given him last time, so this time he could use it as energy for keeping warm.
The level-three crystal contained more supernatural power than the blue and red crystals. This crystal not only allowed him to feel the effects of his supernatural power, but also gave him the ability of a strong sixth sense.
He discovered that he could sense danger and make predictions.
I never dreamed that he would one day have the ability to see the future!
After they were no longer cold, they started taking much larger steps.
When Jiang Zhi stepped on the snow, it was no longer soft as before, but hard and unyielding.
She drew the knife from her waist, scraped away the snow, and revealed something black.
"What is this?" Wang Wan asked curiously.
"The corpse of a mutated animal." Jiang Zhi used her foot to kick up the snow and reburied the corpse.
Judging from the appearance of superhumans in the vicinity, the wounds on this corpse were clearly not inflicted by ordinary weapons.
“The snow is so thick, he must have been dead for a while.” Jiang Zhi glanced around; it was quiet, and there was nothing unusual.
The three continued forward and discovered more than a dozen corpses lying haphazardly in the snowdrifts, all of them in gruesome states of death.
Frost had formed on her hat, and Jiang Zhi patted it off. She put on her sunglasses, and the snow-white world instantly darkened.
Prolonged exposure to snow can easily lead to snow blindness.
Yan Zhi and Wang Wan didn't have that kind of advantage. They were already quite fortunate to have the energy supply from the crystal to keep warm, so they didn't ask for anything more.
"Boss, I have a feeling there are people ahead, and more than one." Wang Wan suddenly grabbed Jiang Zhi and whispered.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhi immediately found cover, and the three of them hid behind it.
"If the map is marked correctly, the Kaiping Coal Mine is just ahead." Who knows?
Wang Wan noted down the information that there was a shelter at the Kaiping Coal Mine, then looked at Jiang Zhi and asked her what to do next.
"The mission is simply to determine where there are survivors; we don't need to interact with the people inside. Let's move on to the next location."
"So this task is so simple!" Wang Wan's lips curled into a wide smile.
They just came out for a stroll!
"Didn't they say they needed to find out how many survivors there were?" Yan Zhi asked.
Jiang Zhi shook her head slightly: "Being too greedy will backfire. Those politicians are very cunning."
“Exactly!” Wang Wan chimed in.
Jiang Zhi and the other two moved slowly.
Actually, Jiang Zhi also wanted to get some coal from the coal mine, since the coal she had stored outside would eventually run out.
A plume of black smoke seeped out from the adjacent corrugated iron building and quickly spread, enveloping most of the Kaiping Coal Mine.
Wang Wan exclaimed, "Oh no!"
Jiang Zhi frowned and drew the Tang sword from her waist. Yan Zhi also gripped the sharpened steel bar in her hand.
"Go to the back." Jiang Zhi gave Wang Wan a look, and Wang Wan nodded.
He knew he was a weakling, so he took the initiative and didn't want to be a burden to his two strong fighters.
The black smoke was coming from a small factory building in the Kaiping Coal Mine. The area was full of corrugated iron buildings, all buried in snow. The fact that smoke could still be coming out of such a place showed how intense the fighting was inside.
The black smoke was mixed with a foul stench. Jiang Zhi covered her nose and took out three face masks from her bag.
The three of them put on masks.
Just then, a series of horrific screams erupted from the coal mine. There were men and women, their voices filled with terror.
Judging from the sounds and movements, they were scattering and fleeing.
"Boss, things aren't looking good inside." Wang Wan stared at the plume of black smoke, and a shadowy image suddenly flashed through his mind.
"It looks like a big iron cage broke open, and something escaped, with lots of legs," Wang Wan continued.
"Let's go quickly." Jiang Zhi nodded, indicating that she already knew what it was.
Something was surging in the snowdrift. Just as Jiang Zhi and the other two left, they saw five or six bloody human heads, covered in snow, being flung out.
Jiang Zhi stood at the window on the fifth floor of a high-rise building across the square, watching this bloody scene.
"What the hell?! It's terrifying! It snapped someone's head off!" Wang Wan exclaimed in shock, covering her face.
“A mutated centipede,” Jiang Zhi said slowly, gazing at the plume of black smoke.
"What?"
Centipede!!!
Wang Wan shivered.
"What a disappointment!" Yan Zhi rolled his eyes, and Wang Wan suffered a critical hit of 10,000 points.
Although he's a support staff member, he's not really that useless.
"You stay here, I'm going down," Jiang Zhi said to Wang Wan. This place was some distance from the Pingmei Coal Mine, and there were no other mutated animals nearby, making it relatively safe.
"Should we kill that thing?" Yan Zhi asked.
"Yes, the coal mine still has resources, but we don't have much coal left."
Yan Zhi nodded and didn't ask any more questions. She did whatever Jiang Zhi wanted to do.
Jiang Zhisong took off her backpack and pulled out the hot water bottle from her body, which was given to Wang Wan.
The smoke over there had been mostly blown away by the frost wind, and the screams had also subsided. It seemed that this mutated centipede was quite formidable.
A piece of iron shot through the air, instantly condensing into a sharp blade that stabbed downwards.
Metal-type ability user.
"Wait a little longer?" Yan Zhi was a metal-type ability user, and was quite sensitive to this kind of ability. Her intuition told her that now was not a good time to go down.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. In this apocalyptic world, who cares about humanitarianism?
Let's wait until those people have consumed the mutated centipede before we go over.
Jiang Zhi naturally found it easy.
"It seems there's more." Wang Wan stared intently at the opposite side; just now, a new scene had appeared.
"Wow, it's so long! And incredibly thick, just like the mutated python we encountered last time. Goodness, the Kaiping Coal Mine should just change its name to the Unlucky Coal Mine."
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