Chapter 54 Extra
"What a nice weather today."
At the south gate of Hope Base, Wan Shiwen looked up at the gray-blue sky and the sun emitting gentle light.
Compared to the azure sky before the end of the world, the weather today is certainly not that good. It is no longer clear, but rather gray, like a sapphire covered with a layer of gray gauze.
But compared with the gray and depressing sky at the beginning of the apocalypse, the gray-blue sky now has a different kind of beauty, which makes people feel very good from the bottom of their hearts.
"It's really good." Fang Jiao nodded in agreement, with a cheerful smile in her eyes.
It has been ten years since the end of the world, but she still has a very unreal feeling.
Many times, Fang Jiao would feel dazed.
Is all this real?
Last night, she had a dream.
After waking up, she could no longer remember the content of her dream, but her heart was filled with bitterness and tears remained in the corners of her eyes, as if she had dreamed of something extremely desperate.
In her dream, she seemed to have seen her father and brother after the end of the world, but at that time she did not feel any joy, only desolation and despair in her heart.
"Jiaojiao, why don't you leave?"
"I heard that the store will have a new batch of flying magic tools today. We have to hurry, otherwise they might sell out."
Wan Shiwen's voice brought Fang Jiao back to her senses, and she was pulled forward hurriedly by the other party.
The two of them were heading towards the Jiucang Grocery Store.
There were many people around them who were also going to Jiucang Grocery Store to buy things.
However, most people don’t want flying magic tools. After all, this thing sounds expensive. Others just want to buy some supplies.
Although there are many alchemists, talisman masters, weapon refiners, etc. now, and the pills and other things they refine are quite effective, but when given a choice, most people still prefer to buy from Jiucang Grocery Store.
It's not just about supplies, it's also about peace of mind.
This situation occurs in various bases. The first preparation many people make before going out is to go to Jiucang Grocery Store to buy things.
Basic elixirs such as Energy Recovery Pills, Hemostatic Powder, and Detoxification Pills are indispensable. There are also some emergency elixirs, such as the Berserk Pill that can temporarily increase strength, and the Spirit Purification Pill that can purify water.
You also need to prepare some talismans, such as the speed talisman, the light body talisman, the feather transformation talisman, etc. for running away, and the concealment talisman or the invisibility talisman for ambushing prey...
Others go to see if there are any suitable spiritual weapons, or to repair or check their own spiritual weapons.
Some would also buy some contract jade talismans. These people were obviously planning to catch exotic plants or beasts. This led to the emergence of a profession called exotic hunters, who made a living by catching exotic plants and beasts and then selling them to monks in need.
Because of the constraints of the equal contract and the benefits of the contract, most alien plants and beasts are not averse to making contracts with humans. It’s just that there are more alien plants and beasts who are unaware of the benefits of the contract, which is why professional alien hunters appear.
In addition, more people go to grocery stores to buy vegetables, rice, meat and other ingredients.
Now many bases have planting areas. As people's cultivation levels improve and the number of people who overcome tribulations increases, there are more and more planting areas. The food crisis that once reduced the human population by nearly 90% has not reappeared.
However, if conditions permit, people still prefer to buy ingredients at Jiucang Grocery Store, because the ingredients sold in the grocery store are the most delicious, and even simple cooking is very good.
Some people who are not well-off will consider eating a meal made with ingredients sold in the grocery store as a reward for themselves.
There were even cases where people had to eat meals made with ingredients from grocery stores on birthdays and holidays, forcing Gu Qi to increase the supply of ingredients before important holidays.
Normally, the ingredients sold in grocery stores basically have to be snatched away. It can be said that the majority of people squatting at the door of the grocery store every day are those who want to buy some high-quality ingredients.
In the tenth year of the apocalypse, Jiucang Grocery Store has become an indispensable part of people's lives.
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After the end of the world, many places gradually became desolate places, and few people could survive. But on the contrary, once they could successfully come out alive, the rewards would definitely be good.
Especially with the emergence of Jiucang Grocery Store, the whole nation entered the era of cultivating immortals, and batches of teams entered various Jedi adventures in order to obtain more resources.
After all, there are not many people who have talents in alchemy and refining. Many cultivation resources have to be purchased with money, and many cultivation resources cannot be bought with just crystal cores. Some precious resources need to be bartered.
Not to mention that mutant creatures are now more difficult to kill, and most people will not choose to kill them, but instead find a way to make a contract with them, and the source of the crystal core falls on the zombies.
As time passed, there were fewer and fewer zombies that had no ability to reproduce, and the output of crystal cores also decreased.
Crystal cores gradually became a circulating currency rather than a cultivation resource.
The places with the richest cultivation resources are undoubtedly those extremely dangerous Jedi.
As we all know, high-level exotic plants, high-level exotic beasts, spiritual minerals, spiritual medicines and other things that are rare outside are everywhere in the Jedi.
The most famous Jedi places are the Arctic Valley in the north, the Black Sand Lake and the Red Sea in the south, and the Xiyuan, the largest zoo and botanical garden before the end of the world. In the west, there is a volcano with flames burning all year round. In the east, there is the Death Forest and the S City where the Zombie King lives.
However, in the past two years, the Death Forest has been eliminated from the list of Jedi.
It's not because its danger level has decreased or its resources have become less abundant, but because its danger level has greatly increased and it has become a deadly place where no one can survive.
Gu Qi was currently in the Extremely Cold Valley, one of the several remote areas.
This is the far north, where the temperature is already relatively low. After the apocalypse, it snows almost every day, making it unsuitable for human habitation.
Among the several remote places, the Arctic Valley is the one with the least number of people coming to take risks.
Especially in the past two years, the temperature in the Extreme Cold Valley has been getting lower and lower. Monks with low strength or exotic plants and beasts who come in can easily turn into ice sculptures. In addition, there is a special species in it - the ice monster.
This monster's body is made of ice and snow, making it very difficult to fight. The most important thing is that after killing it, you won't get anything except ice.
Even after a period of time after death, the ice monster will be resurrected and condensed into a smaller ice monster.
As soon as Gu Qi entered the Extreme Cold Valley, he saw densely packed ice sculptures of various kinds at the entrance, as well as humans or alien plants and animals that had long lost their breath in the ice sculptures.
The reason she came here was not to collect resources, but to find someone.
This story started when she was tidying up her storage space a few days ago.
When she was finishing up, she found something she had put into the storage space when she first came here.
It was a pendant with the letter N, which came from a beast-like zombie. It was the one she had brought to give Xiang Haoyu and others a "little surprise" when she first came here.
Later, she encountered it again. She protected the pendant very well. Even though she had turned into a zombie and lost her humanity, she still protected it subconsciously.
When he found this pendant a few days ago, Gu Qi suddenly had an idea. He thought about taking advantage of the free time to go find the person that the beast-like zombie wanted to find, the owner of the other pendant that was a pair with this pendant.
Finally, she used the magic of finding objects and found this place.
Gu Qixian searched among these ice sculptures, looking at one human-shaped ice sculpture after another with different postures and frozen expressions. There was even an ice sculpture with a ball of fire inside that was frozen.
They are obviously mutually exclusive, yet they strangely appear together here. The flame keeps burning in the ice sculpture and never goes out, while the ice sculpture is not burned by it.
After searching through all the ice sculptures, Gu Qi confirmed that the person was not among them, and then she continued to go inside, with Jiu Cang following silently beside her.
As they went deeper into the extremely cold valley, the temperature around them became lower and lower, and Gu Qi had to use his spiritual power to resist the cold.
What made her feel a little strange was that since she entered the valley, she had not encountered the ice monster mentioned by others, and had not even seen the shadow of a living creature.
However, she felt as if something was staring at her, but she couldn't figure out where the gaze was coming from.
Until she reached the deepest part of the Arctic Valley.
She saw a strange plant that looked similar to the sacred tree, with the same icy branches, but the leaves of this strange plant were made of snowflakes, and there was no light blue light lingering around it. There were also traces of bright red flowing in its icy branches, like human blood.
The most eye-catching thing is the half human body on the alien plant.
The body is also made of ice crystals, like an ice sculpture. There are also traces of bright red in the body. Apart from that, the only other colors on the body are the bracelet pendant on the wrist.
The bracelet chain has already turned into ice crystals, only the pendant is still made of silver.
The woman lowered her head slightly, her eyes lightly closed, and her hands folded in front of her, as if she was asleep.
Her left hand was placed on her wrist, and her fingertips seemed to be stroking the pendant, as if protecting it from being assimilated.
It was a pendant with the letter X in it, very similar to the one in Gu Qi's hand, with the same patterns on it, like the engraving of some kind of flower.
What made Gu Qi sure that the pendant was a pair with the one in her hand was the faint light emitted by the array plate in her hand.
Looking at the combination of this man and the alien plant, Gu Qi's expression was somewhat complicated.
She had thought that the other party had turned into an ice sculpture in the Arctic Valley, and she had also thought that the other party had been buried in the Arctic Valley, but she had never thought that this would be the case.
The moment he saw the other person, Gu Qi knew where that gaze that was difficult to determine the direction of came from.
She, or rather it is the core of this extremely cold valley, is an ice-type alien plant whose level has exceeded ten. There is also an ice-type spiritual mine under the alien plant, which is also the key for the alien plant to break through to tenth level.
This strange plant is it, and the entire Extreme Cold Valley is also it.
After a moment of silence, Gu Qi stepped forward and hung the pendant on the ice crystal bracelet.
He didn't ask anything, nor did he attack the spiritual mine as he had done before. He just turned around and left.
Life is unpredictable.
Gu Qi didn't notice that at the moment she left the Extreme Cold Valley, a drop of ice crystal shaped like a water drop fell from the corner of the eye of the woman who had been sleeping with her eyes closed. She raised her left hand slightly, completely covering the bracelet.
Ice monsters, big and small, emerged from the ground, all looking towards the center of the Arctic Valley.
The temperature in the Extreme Cold Valley dropped again, and the layers of ice grew higher and higher until they enveloped the entire Extreme Cold Valley.
Outsiders can't get in, and people inside can't get out.
Outside the valley, Gu Qi looked up at the sun in the sky and held Jiucang's hand even tighter.
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