The heavy snow continued until Li Xue finished her confinement.

Yes, you heard it right, confinement.

Li Xue, as a superpower, and a very high-level superpower, was locked up by Xiangdong at home after giving birth, and after being blessed by the light superpower and space spiritual spring water, she had to complete the confinement that ordinary women have to do.

Li Xue was very resentful about this, but Xiangdong took care of her in the name of caring for her, and served her very comfortably and thoughtfully during this month, so she couldn't say anything more. Fortunately, there was not much trouble now that the heavy snow was continuous. After this confinement, Li Xue, who originally had a perfect figure and immediately recovered to her pre-pregnancy figure after giving birth, has become much fatter.

Xiangdong really enjoyed the warm bed with his wife and children this month. Every day, he cooked different kinds of food for Li Xue, amused his concubines, washed clothes for his wife, and washed diapers for his daughter. He was very busy.

When Li Xue finished her confinement, the heavy snow finally seemed to weaken, and then slowly, the snow stopped.

The snow finally stopped.

Since that day, there has been no more snowflakes falling from the sky.

But no one was happy.

Because since the snow stopped, the weather has been getting colder and colder. The heavy snow that had submerged the mountains near the Hope Base was directly frozen into ice under this strong low temperature.

The whole world was made of incredibly thick ice.

Even when the sun was out, the ice showed no signs of melting. Instead, it reflected the sunlight, making it blinding.

Everyone was in despair. It was as if they were at the North Pole or the South Pole. There was no temperature in the air. The reed-flowered cotton-padded clothes and quilts they had made before were not very warm in this severe cold. The base tried desperately to grow trees to ensure the base's fuel supply. However, the trees that grew could only be used for cooking and could not provide them with warmth.

Outside the base, all places were sealed by ice turned from heavy snow. Xiangdong and his men took great pains to dig a passage through the ice layer to the surface. Some brave people climbed up to the top of the ice layer through the transparent passage. Looking around, they found that the whole world was just the ups and downs of the ice layer. They could barely distinguish what those places were before the heavy snow.

The whole world seemed to be swallowed up by the ice. The world was so quiet that only their breathing seemed to remain.

The view on the ice layer was excellent, and they could see very far away at a glance. The cold sky was so empty that it made people feel cold.

Standing on the ice layer and looking into the base, they found that the place where they stood was level with the top of the mountain of the base. It seemed that the whole base was under their feet. This situation did not make people feel proud, but made people more panicked. In such a world, do they still have hope of survival?

The more worrying issue is food.

If the population of the base of over one million only eats half a pound of sweet potato per person per day, the daily consumption will reach more than 500,000 pounds. This is an astonishing number. As far as they know, before the snow, the food harvested by the base was only enough to sustain the base for three or four months. Now the heavy snow has been falling for nearly three months, and the remaining food is probably only enough to sustain for one month. Looking at the ice layer outside the base that surrounds the entire base, they dare not naively think that in this month, the ice can melt and they can successfully grow food.

Before the weather changes, it seems that there is no food, but there are still a large number of mutant animals that can be used as food. Since the flood, no mutants have been seen. Now, let alone mutants, even the terrifying zombies have disappeared again. Without food and mutants, how can they survive?

At first, the news that the base was running low on food was just a secret discussion among everyone. But before long, many people began to worry, and many people began to complain. From complaining about the bad weather at first, they even complained that the base was too populated and the base managers were unable to protect them.

Therefore, some people who were worried that they would die of hunger sooner or later, under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, began to jump up and down, hoping that the base would drive out those old and weak elderly people, so that they could save a lot of food and let these young and strong people hold on for a while longer.

At the beginning, only a very small number of people made a fuss, but as time passed, more and more people joined this group.

These people were all those who were afraid of hunger and were originally from the H base.

They were afraid of the life of being in danger from day to day and having no food to eat. They finally survived desperately and escaped to the Hope Base, but they encountered such a situation again after only a few days of good life. When they thought that they would most likely face the threat of hunger and death again soon, they were terrified. They were scared. So, they exploded.

These people did not dare to go too far and did not cause any damage in the base. After all, they were a little worried that the base would drive them out. The outside world was so cruel. If they were really driven out, they would freeze to death or starve to death outside the base without waiting for a month.

These people chose a relatively mild policy. Protest. Protest in front of the gate of the core area.

Even though the temperature is so low that the breath turns into ice, and even though some of the protesters are frozen from time to time, they are still very persistent. They stand guard at the gate of the core area every day and do not move a step.

But the base simply ignored them. No, they didn't ignore them. The base actually sent people out to register the names of these protesters and then went back. They knew the purpose of this list. Before, anyone on this list was basically blacklisted by the base. From now on, anyone on this list would have no chance of enjoying many benefits of the base.

In the past, they were still very afraid of this list. But what time is it now? Seeing that they are about to die, who would care about the benefits that they would probably never get in the future? Therefore, they refused to retreat even a step, and stood guard at the gate of the core area every day, hoping that the leaders of the base could accept their opinions and drive all those old people out of the base. However,

as the days passed, the leaders of the base did not respond at all, and it seemed that they did not take their protests seriously at all.

Seeing that the one-month deadline was approaching and they were about to run out of food, these people, instigated by a few particularly excited people, broke out in chaos.

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