After the coal yard deal was finalized, Gu Mingyue immediately led her people to the coal yard according to the route map planned by Xinghe.
A total of one hundred people accompanied Gu Mingyue, including Li Zhong and Ji Fangru, as well as Lu Qingchen, who found the trip interesting.
During the day, the temperature was extremely low, with minus forty degrees Celsius, heavy snow falling from the sky, and a fierce white wind blowing that made people stop in their tracks.
Even those with superpowers would find it difficult to discern directions in such weather.
Fortunately, with Xinghe as their human guide, the group managed to carve out a path through the vast expanse of white snow.
Gu Mingyue, dressed in extreme cold clothing and wrapped up like a dumpling, sat on the shoulder of a level 5 giant monster and walked at the front.
The others were in similar situations, all riding in layers upon layers of sleds driven by mutated animals, traversing the snow.
Some of the mutated animal companions were too small, so they had to follow their own small animals along the snowy path. Their soles, touching the snow, would soon become sore and itchy from the cold.
On this trip, Gu Mingyue brought along two level-five giant monsters and five level-four spiked monsters.
In the icy snow, the giant monster, believing it was Gu Mingyue's order, wore only a short skirt made of tattered cloth around its waist, its blue skin exposed.
Gu Mingyue rubbed her slightly frozen cheeks and looked down at the monster's smooth skin beneath her, but she didn't feel frozen at all.
She immediately felt it was unfair. Why was she, a level 5 ability user, less resistant to freezing than a level 5 monster?
Looking back at the other members of the Bright Moon Base, Gu Mingyue noticed that they were all as red from the cold as she was, and only then did she realize the difference between her earlier encounter with the monster.
However, when she looked back, she saw Lu Qingchen lagging behind in the group, wearing a flashy red trench coat and seemingly oblivious to the wind and snow. Gu Mingyue couldn't help but take a few more glances.
She just wanted to see why Lu Qingchen wasn't afraid of the cold wind, afraid that he would sacrifice warmth to maintain his composure, and then freeze and faint into some ice hole.
As a result, when this narcissistic guy saw that Gu Mingyue was staring at him without blinking, he immediately manipulated the whirlwind and ran to Gu Mingyue's monster feet.
He raised his handsome, otherworldly face and revealed a slightly flamboyant smile.
"Beautiful boss, why are you staring at me for so long?"
"Is everyone else wrapped up like a dumpling, while I stand out from the crowd, reminding you of my good looks?" He blinked his alluring fox-like eyes, speaking to himself while striking a dashing pose.
Other men would hardly look good in a red trench coat, but Lu Qingchen looked surprisingly good in it in the snow.
Unfortunately, Gu Mingyue was looking down at him, so she could only see his pale face and the red collar of his clothes.
Gu Mingyue knew that this man was all talk and no action, and that he never had a sincere word when it came to relationships. So she ignored his feigned seductive gaze and watched his performance silently.
As expected, seeing that Gu Mingyue remained unmoved, Lu Qingchen sighed deeply and stated his request.
"Someone like me should stand side by side with you, how can I stay at the back of the line to cover the rear?"
"Do you know how disgusting it was that I controlled the whirlwind the whole way, throwing out all the poop left by those animals?" Lu Qingchen frowned, pointing at the whirlwind he was controlling and complaining.
Gu Mingyue then looked seriously at the small whirlwind beside him. It was a rotating airflow that directly surrounded Lu Qingchen in the eye of the whirlwind, which insulated him from a lot of cold air.
"Do you want to go ahead?" Gu Mingyue asked.
With the current ice and snow crisis and the attacks on human settlements by level four and five humanoid monsters, Gu Mingyue was afraid that a few more monsters with piercing eyes would attack near the base when she came out.
Currently, only Gu Mingyue, Xinghe, and Lu Qingchen have reached Level 4 or 5 in the entire base.
Lu Qingchen and Gu Mingyue absolutely do not trust him. Although Xinghe can only enter and exit the space for half a day, Gu Mingyue only trusts him in the apocalypse.
If Lu Qingchen were to stay behind, he would most likely be the first to run away if danger were to arise.
On the way to the coal yard, Lu Qingchen insisted on coming with her for some reason, saying he wanted to see the snow scene. Although Gu Mingyue didn't understand what was so interesting about this vast expanse of white, she still let him come along.
The two people, one in front and one behind, were perfectly positioned to protect the team's safety.
Hearing Gu Mingyue's question, Lu Qingchen nodded repeatedly. "Yes, I want to walk side by side with you."
Lu Qingchen actually had his own ulterior motives. With Xinghe not around this time, he could take the opportunity to deepen his relationship with Gu Mingyue.
After joining the Bright Moon Base, Lu Qingchen ate a lot of delicious food here. He finally saw a few perfectly frozen Arctic sweet shrimp, but he didn't have much stock.
Before the apocalypse, he could eat as much of this seafood as he wanted.
But now it's the end of the world, and people are willing to sell their bodies for a piece of whole grain cake that hasn't gone moldy.
The head chef at the base repeatedly emphasized that there was only a limited amount of seafood that hadn't mutated during the apocalypse, and this was a delicacy that only Gu Mingyue and her husband could enjoy.
Lu Qingchen tried everything but failed to steal any, so he set his sights on Gu Mingyue. Anyway, he was quite interested in Gu Mingyue. Right now, food was the most important thing in the post-apocalyptic world, and beautiful women were the second most important thing.
Gu Mingyue had no idea that Lu Qingchen's mind was filled with thoughts of her and Arctic shrimp.
Looking at the whirlwind surrounding Lu Qingchen that shielded him from the cold wind, a slight smile appeared on his lips.
In the end, Lu Qingchen was forced to enlarge the whirlwind he controlled, accommodating one hundred members of the Bright Moon Base and the mutated animals.
Originally, his whirlwind was small in area and fast in speed, so he could hardly feel the cold wind.
Now that it suddenly grew larger, the area of the whirlwind expanded several hundred times. His thick trench coat was completely useless, and he soon developed snotty noses from the cold.
In the end, he had no choice but to wrap himself up like a rice dumpling with everyone else, blending into the crowd.
Seeing that his first attempt at using a beautiful woman to stand out from the crowd had failed, Lu Qingchen was extremely annoyed and continued to calculate how to win over Gu Mingyue.
After three days of trekking, the group arrived at the open-air coal yard marked by the starry sky.
The area is covered in ice and snow, making it difficult to see any exposed black coal mines, but there are still various large mining tools and a few houses where miners once lived.
Although the area marked by the starry river was deserted, Gu Mingyue, adhering to the principle of caution, did not approach rashly.
First, a level 4 spiked monster was sent to investigate.
Soon, the level four spiked monster, with a pair of propeller-like wings on its back, spun back to Gu Mingyue's side, its expression somewhat excited, as if it had seen a new living person.
Seeing that it had returned unharmed, Gu Mingyue guessed that even if there were people there, their abilities were no greater than itss, so she asked Li Zhong and Ji Fangru to go with her to check the situation.
Gu Mingyue leaped off the level 5 giant monster, burying half of her body in the snow. In three days, the snow had covered Gu Mingyue up to her waist.
The three of them had no choice but to wade through the snow together and move forward.
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