"The fist is not the main point of attack here. When the shoulder and elbow move in unison, the force of the opponent's attack can be deflected, and the elbow strike can be used to generate momentum..."
In the training room of the fortress, Lin Ruo was practicing a new boxing technique using videos he had obtained from Qi Chengkai.
At this moment, Afu and Ashou ran into the fortress and first ran to the water basin to drink water frantically. Meanwhile, a tender green branch slowly extended from a small basket hanging around Afu's neck and also reached into Afu's water basin to steal water.
Afu didn't dodge; instead, he moved the basin below towards Aliu a little. Seeing this, Ashou also moved his basin towards Aliu.
Ah Liu happily absorbed all the remaining water from Ah Fu and Ah Shou.
Old Bai tapped the glass of Lin Ruo's window a few times with his branch. Lin Ruo's attention was drawn to Old Bai, and her mental energy quickly expanded outward, only to find that there was another fire in the northeast of the mountain.
Lin Ruo frowned deeply. How many times had this happened this week? Was it the third or fourth time? The frequency of fires was too high.
She quickly used her spatial domain, and several teleported people arrived at the fire site. The fire had just started, and although it was fierce, the area was small. A lot of black smoke floated in the air. She could stand close to it, and the scorching temperature baked her. Her water-based supernatural power circulated, helping Lin Ruo regulate her body temperature.
Without further delay, she activated her mental energy, causing a large number of water molecules within a ten-kilometer radius to converge here, forming a giant water sphere in the air. She threw it onto the flames, and the flames were immediately extinguished by the water. The thick smoke then drifted back into the sky through the water.
Lin Ruo scanned the area with his mental energy, confirming that no hidden sparks remained before letting out a soft breath.
Many of the mutated plants in this area were charred black by the sudden flames, but because the burning time was short and their vitality was strong, they immediately transferred a large amount of energy underground, so it did not affect their lives.
The branches of these mutated plants lightly touched Lin Ruo in mid-air, as if thanking him for extinguishing their flames. Some plants even offered Lin Ruo the fruits they had painstakingly borne, which Lin Ruo accepted without hesitation and stored in his spatial storage.
These mutated plants gently swayed their branches, and the branches on the ground continued to grow taller, transferring the energy from the ground back to them. Watching Lin Ruo's departing figure, they even shook their branches to say goodbye to Lin Ruo. In this kind of weather, being able to extinguish the fire so quickly is a privilege only the mutated plants on this mountain can enjoy.
They were just as unwilling when Lin Ruo dug them back from other mountains as they were now, marveling at how lucky they were back then.
Lin Ruo's figure flashed through the mountains and forests. The ground beneath her feet was so dry that it was cracked, and the water molecules in the air had become much thinner. Everything was enveloped in heat.
She frowned. She remembered that she had used her water-based powers to make it rain just a week ago. The rain lasted for two whole hours and had soaked the land on the mountain. Now, in such a short time, it had become like this again. The moisture was being lost too quickly.
With a thought, she teleported to the water level at the foot of the mountain. In just two months, the water level had dropped to only a dozen meters, indicating that the rate of water evaporation had indeed accelerated.
Lin Ruo raised his head and used his spiritual power to travel through the sea and probe towards the opposite mountain peak. He "saw" that several kilometers away from the water, the opposite mountain peak had begun to show signs of withered mutated plants. These mutated plants were mostly level 1 or 2, and were relatively weak. They had too little energy to allow their roots to penetrate deeper into the ground to obtain more water, and they could not catch mutated animals. It was normal for them to wither.
The deeper one probes with their spiritual power, the more withered and mutated plants appear, along with large areas that have been burned and are now completely blackened.
This is all due to the excessively long hours of sunshine. Two months ago, the sun rose at 4:30 in the morning, but now it rises at 3:30, a full hour earlier, while the sun sets at 9:00 in the evening.
In other words, the nights now last only six and a half hours, with the rest of the time spent under intense sunlight. Such sunlight naturally increases the risk of fires.
Furthermore, the ground absorbed a large amount of heat, causing the temperature to rise significantly even at night.
This wasn't a problem for Lin Ruo, who had already experienced it once in her previous life; she adapted very well. The number of ice basins in her house had increased from four to eight, and two more air conditioners had been added. At the same time, the power consumption was also increasing rapidly. Lin Ruo was very glad that she had collected a large amount of refined oil during the extreme cold; otherwise, relying solely on those solar panels, her house would have lost power long ago.
However, she needs to periodically bring rain to these mutated plants on the mountain to ensure that they do not wither due to excessive water shortage.
But for ordinary survivors, whose lives had just begun to improve, this change has brought even greater obstacles to their lives, especially for those living inland, for whom drinking water has become the biggest problem.
Even living in a coastal area, the long hours of sunshine meant that these survivors had to hide in cellars all day. As the temperature rose, they dug deeper and deeper cellars, with only thick layers of soil able to block out some of the heat.
They dare not come out during the day, as they risk heatstroke or sunburn. Even minor ailments can be fatal these days.
If they were kept out of work for an extended period, they would be unable to obtain resources such as crystal cores. In addition, the temperature rose considerably at night, and many people eventually succumbed to illness.
The survivors at the B City base have all been moved to the underground base. To ensure the lives of these residents, the refrigeration system in the underground base has been kept on. Lin Ruo doesn't know how long the refined oil stockpiled at the B City base can last.
Even so, many people with weak constitutions still contracted the virus, and the base hospital was already overcrowded.
Jiang Yue told Lin Ruo all of this through the terminal, with the aim of bringing them closer. However, Lin Ruo sometimes saw the messages but didn't reply, only replying with a sentence or two when she found something interesting.
Lin Ruo withdrew his mental energy and probed into the seawater below the mountain. At this time, there were no mutated sea beasts in the water, because the water temperature was too high, and the mutated sea beasts were no longer suitable for living in this water. They had already swum to the deep sea area.
Lin Ruo thought back to the scene when the sea monsters came ashore and sighed deeply. These were all crystal cores and meat, and they all ran away.
After thoroughly investigating the surrounding area, Lin Ruo turned around to return to the fortress when she suddenly looked back and saw a ship sailing towards her, with the people on board waving at her.
She squinted slightly and stood still.
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