With the boost from earth, wood, and metal elemental abilities, the dilapidated houses in the open-pit mine were quickly repaired, and everyone no longer had to sleep in the cold wind at night.
A few days later, with the help of enhanced individuals and various large auxiliary tools such as excavators, ten truckloads of coal were mined. Gu Mingyue quickly took the coal back to the Mingyue base.
Under Gu Mingyue's orders, Li Zhong and others began to build defensive fortifications around the mine. Lu Qingchen originally wanted to go back with Gu Mingyue.
Ignoring the handsome man's coquettishness, Gu Mingyue resolutely kept him at the first branch of the Mingyue base.
Since Lin Afeng and others were able to find this open-pit coal mine, it means that other people suffering from the severe cold will also find this place.
Many people are entering the Black Domain now, and there's no guarantee that some of them won't obtain Black Domain Crystal Sources. In this kind of harsh weather, this open-pit coal mine is an irreplaceable hot commodity.
Once they're noticed by a large organization, they'll stick with it and never let go.
Before leaving, Gu Mingyue used a bunch of crystal cores to upgrade Li Zhong. Now, there is Lu Qingchen, a level 4 mid-stage wind and earth dual-element ability user, Li Zhong, a level 4 early-stage earth element ability user, and a level 4 mid-stage healing-type mutated black bear at the coal mine.
At this time, the three of them, leading so many superhumans and mutated animals, were practically part of a top-tier organization.
Unless they encounter an organization like the Church of Angels with its abnormal drugs again, they are practically invincible.
When Gu Mingyue returned to the Mingyue base, most of the ordinary members had contracted the flu.
Fortunately, during the poisoning incident at the Angel Base, Wei Jianguo had already allocated some manpower to rebuild the mask manufacturing plant. Now everyone is wearing blue masks, and there are also various herbal decoctions prepared by pharmacists, so the problem isn't too serious.
Upon seeing Gu Mingyue return, Xinghe immediately led a large group of space ability users to clear out the items from the space and transport them to the heating boiler room, saving time.
In less than a day, the temperature in the residential area of Mingyue Base rose above zero.
It takes time for the heating to heat up.
However, in less than five days, the temperature in the residential areas, botanical gardens, livestock sheds, large hospitals, important factories, and weapons research labs within the Mingyue base rose to a level that the human body could tolerate.
The base members, who had caught a bad cold, finally recovered and were all grateful to Gu Mingyue.
The boss and his wife saved their lives again. Gu Mingyue always seems to be able to create miracles. Now the residents of the base look at Gu Mingyue with shining eyes.
Especially after nightfall, the patrol team saw a group of heavily wrapped superhumans five kilometers from the base, frozen to death in the snow, their bodies like cold wax figures in the dead of winter.
They were horrified. Someone dug open the skulls of these corpses and found that most of them were level one or two ability users, mostly those with earth, wood, metal, or water element abilities.
They barely managed to avoid the attacks of level four or five humanoid monsters, but they couldn't escape the freezing cold of minus fifty or sixty degrees Celsius.
There are many more corpses like this outside.
Among them were also the carcasses of mutated animals frozen into specimens.
Gu Mingyue went out once and had the base members dig out their crystal cores and bury the corpses on the spot.
If no one pays attention to these energy-filled corpses, then when level four or five humanoid monsters wandering around in the snow discover them, they will swallow the corpses and crystal cores together.
At this point, Gu Mingyue had become a god-like figure in the Mingyue Base. Everyone in the base dared not utter a word against her orders, and they all thought their boss was an incredibly kind person. If they were to freeze to death outside, they would hope that someone would help them bury their bodies on the spot.
Since they're already dead, there's nothing wrong with digging out the crystal cores to strengthen humanity and fight against the monster invasion.
After that, without Gu Mingyue's instructions, whenever the patrol team encountered a corpse, they would knock off its skull and search for the crystal core.
The interior of the Mingyue Base is warm and comfortable to live in. It is hoped that the base, with the support of the headquarters and sufficient coal reserves, can barely withstand the severe cold.
However, the level four and five humanoid monsters would destroy their base walls every time they attacked, making it a tough battle every time.
Sometimes, in order to obtain some large weapons, Gu Mingyue would bring along level 5 giant monsters to help repel attacks a few times. Yu Shuyun, on the other hand, directly sided with the Hope Base headquarters, merging her base into the Hope Base and becoming the head of a Hope branch.
Furthermore, because he lived closer to the Hope Base headquarters, he was doing even better than Jiang Shenglin and Xu Lanyue, and Gu Mingyue didn't have to worry about him at all.
In the bitter cold, time slowly passed, and a year gradually came.
Apart from a few large bases that have barely held on due to sufficient resources, many small bases have been breached by level four or five humanoid monsters outside.
The high-level ability users who were wandering outside stared with hatred at Bright Moon Base and Hope Base, whose city gates had not yet been breached by the level 5 giant monsters.
They envied the people inside for having warm living spaces and delicious food, unlike them who could only eke out a living in the freezing cold, looking at their frostbitten fingers and toes, their hearts filled with hatred for their fellow human beings.
Even later on, these people, even if accepted by some bases, would develop a desire for revenge, directly destroying their heat sources. They would coldly watch as the bases, deprived of their heat sources, saw innocent people crying out in despair due to the extreme cold, and they felt only pleasure in doing so.
People accustomed to warm weather simply cannot face temperatures of minus seventy degrees Celsius again; their attempts to retaliate are rusty, while these vandals escape unscathed because they have long since adapted to the extreme cold.
The various bases have named this group the Destroyer Alliance, also known as the Wanderer Alliance. Everyone avoids them like the plague. In order to prevent the base from being cut off from its heat source, some bases don't even accept ordinary survivors.
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