Chapter 72: Ice Cold Season 14: The Cold Has Not Ended
Feng Yuechen took out all the stocks of Qingxin Pills from Qiankun Pavilion.
After all, Qingshan Inn is now a large inn that can accommodate more than a hundred people. Feng Yuechen estimated the number and continued to prepare medicine in the backyard.
In the lobby, Jiang Runian picked up a Qingxin Pill and stuffed it into Zheng Xuan's mouth.
A few seconds later, the dark green color in Zheng Xuan's throat flashed, and it was pulled out as if it was sucked away by a magnet, and condensed into the shape of a butterfly again.
Zheng Xuan, who was lying on the table, moved her head. "Gold... a room full of gold... my gold!" She woke up from her dream with a cry of surprise. She stared blankly at Jiang Runian, who had a serious face, and the familiar environment around her. "...it turned out to be a dream."
Seeing that Qingxin Pills were effective, Jiang Runian breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing the butterfly next to Zheng Xuan again, Jiang Runian pulled out the Emei Spear and smashed it to pieces with a dark face.
Zheng Xuan: “…”
She didn't offend Boss Jiang, so Boss Jiang shouldn't be angry with her!
"Boss Jiang, what's going on?" Zheng Xuan saw her feeding the medicine one by one, so he took the initiative to take a bottle and help her feed it. "I seemed to see a green butterfly, and then I had a dream... The first half of the dream was the memory of my work before the end of the world, and the second half was that I owned a golden house, and it smelled so good that I didn't want to wake up!"
"It's a random natural disaster, the green light. If you don't wake up, you will continue to be immersed in the dream until you starve to death."
"There is such a natural disaster?!" Zheng Xuan was so shocked that he almost stuffed a handful of meatballs into people's mouths. "Then Boss Jiang, you shouldn't have suffered any harm this time, right? You and your employees are very capable, and you've always been safe!"
As soon as these words were spoken, several gazes from the Qingshan Sect also came over.
Jiang Runian paused and said, "Well, I didn't enter the dream, so I had the chance to save everyone."
——She didn’t want Qingshan Sect to know that they were different.
With the help of Qingshan Zong and the awakened players, Qingxin Pill awakened the entire inn... Jiang Runian also poked countless butterflies with his own hands.
Qingshan Sect: "..."
I always feel that my junior sister has become more ruthless!
Many players gathered in the lobby. Lin Xianzhi rubbed his neck, which had been twisted accidentally in his dream, and looked at Jiang Runian worriedly: "The previous natural disasters were for all beings, so why did the green light come to Qingshan Inn this time?"
Jiang Ruonian hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "A tall tree attracts the wind?"
"Stop it, if it's because a tall tree attracts the wind, then why don't you go to Dragon City!" Lu Rui just woke up and was also angry, "I don't know what this game is thinking, it's not easy to release a safe Qingshan Inn, and now it's throwing natural disasters in!"
"Yeah, who are we bothering with in our small southwestern place?"
"I don't want the players to live!"
…
At this moment, Jiang Runian caught a glimpse of Ye Wuxue at the door. She seemed to have been listening for a while - eavesdropping on the players scolding herself was quite interesting.
Meeting her gaze, Ye Wuxue shrugged nonchalantly, and just turned his head to the shopkeeper Li Fu and whispered, "Check out."
Li Fu went through the formalities as usual and asked sweetly, "How was the guest experience?"
"Very good," Ye Wuxue hummed, and her voice suddenly rose, "Not to mention that Boss Jiang invited me to watch a great show, which was simply an extraordinary experience."
As soon as these sarcastic words were spoken, the eyes of the entire lobby were focused on Ye Wuxue and Jiang Runian.
Ye Wuxue smiled unruly, while Jiang Runian looked at her coldly with a frown on his face. It was obvious that something unpleasant had happened between the Lord of Dragon City and the owner of the inn. The players in the inn naturally stood on Jiang Runian's side, fearing that their famous boss Jiang would get into trouble with the Lord of Dragon City on impulse.
Lu Rui waved his hands and laughed: "Don't be like this, I'm a little tired of you two..."
Jiang Runian: “…”
I feel so miserable, but I have to hold it in.
She had no idea what Cyber was thinking. First, she didn't want to affect Qingshan Inn, and second, she didn't want to confront it head-on - come on, it was a super AI that could summon a natural disaster if it felt like it.
Jiang Runian didn't even know whether "Qingxin Pills can break dreams" was true, or whether Cyber had rewritten the rules out of pity for her.
She also didn't know how much power Cyber had in this apocalypse.
If this apocalypse is just a feast for Cyber, and every living being is an appetizer, then it would be easy for it to wipe out the data piles of Qingshan Sect with a wave of its hand.
Jiang Ruunian raised his eyes and lightly glanced at Qingshan Sect.
She never forgot her mission.
Even if the person she wants to protect is an NPC, she will try her best until the time comes when she is unable to do anything more.
Therefore, Jiang Runian chose to avoid the spotlight for the time being.
Ye Wuxue gathered her troops, mounted her mechanical mount, and raised her chin proudly: "Boss Jiang, see you another day."
…
If possible, I don't want to see you again in this life, okay!!
After Ye Wuxue left, Jiang Runian returned to the staff dormitory.
As soon as I opened the door, two slender figures, one big and one small, rushed over: "Boss Jiang, thank you!"
Looking closely, it turned out to be Su Niao and Su Yuan who had regained her human form.
"Why are you thanking me?" Jiang Ruonian explained what had just happened, "I didn't do anything."
"The Green Light is a regional natural disaster in this game. If you hadn't found a way to break it, Ye Wuxue would definitely not have solved it for me so easily." Su Yuan held Jiang Runian's hands tightly with tears in her eyes. "Besides, you are willing to help us in front of Ye Wuxue, which is enough for us to owe you a favor."
Perhaps because he had just regained his human form, Su Yuan talked a lot.
She held Su Niao's hand, and the two seemed to have made some important decision: "Boss Jiang, are you still short of employees?"
“…Huh?”
"We want to stay at the Qingshan Inn."
Su Yuan and her sister looked at each other, their expressions were a little complicated, but their eyes were still firm: "We can accept the divination prediction, and you can decide how much to charge, Boss Jiang. After something like this happened, we don't want to go back to Longcheng, and Ye Wuxue won't trust us anymore, so why not stay here."
Indeed, Ye Wuxue had come all the way here, and she must have known that Su Yuan and Su Niao were in Qingshan Inn. But she neither pursued Jiang Runian's protection nor planned to bring them back to Longcheng, and it was obvious that she had decided to give up these two chess pieces.
...What a luxurious practice.
The NPC that I had worked so hard to raise for so long was abandoned because of a natural disaster.
"Okay," Jiang Runian estimated in her heart, "I feel that people here like fortune-telling. Opening a fortune-telling house can attract a lot of new business for Qingshan Inn." She even thought about asking Elder Yu to build a fortune-telling house in the shape of a glass ball in the beach commercial district. The starlight at night gave off a mysterious atmosphere.
A room was temporarily arranged for Su Yuan and Su Niao, and Jiang Runian finally had some time to be alone.
She sat at the table sipping tea and said in a deep voice, "System, come out."
[……] The system that had been pretending to be dead for a long time finally came online, and I dared not breathe. [Host, I swear to God! I know nothing. I am innocent. I just followed the instructions of my superiors! ]
"I'm going to break off relations with you for a second." Jiang Ruonian gritted his teeth, "So I guessed correctly, the AI of Infinite Tomorrow is Cyber, right?"
[Yes! Thank you so much, host. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have had the chance to meet Cyber.] The system's voice became more and more excited, until it felt Jiang Runian's silence, and then it coughed, [Well, compared to Cyber and the host, I still think my host is more powerful! It was during this time of the green light that I learned that you, the host, are the rumored Zero Three Zero!]
Jiang Ruonian's ears moved: "Rumored? What do you mean?"
[Just like you pay more attention to super-intelligent AI, we pay the same attention to the test subjects with strong mental power.] The system paused, [Host, you are the test subject selected by Cyber.]
She? Was she chosen by Cyber?
Jiang Ru Nian was somewhat speechless: "...Is this the reason why it lingers around me?"
It's a cultivation simulation game, and an apocalypse game. Now he even went to Qingshan Inn to watch her suffer the green light. What kind of bad taste does this AI have...
[I don't dare to speculate on Cyber's thoughts... but at the moment, it doesn't seem to want to force you, the host, into a dead end.]
Jiang Runian was well aware of this.
If Cyber wanted to see humans half-dead and lying dead all over the ground, there would be no need to go through all this trouble.
*
After the green light, Qingshan Inn was unusually peaceful for a while.
Ever since he was defeated by Ye Wuxue last time, Jiang Runian's damn desire to win has surged in his heart. Every day when he opens his eyes, he starts to gain experience in the inn in order to raise the level of his protective shield.
With the bonus of the phantom disc, the inn experience and the players' experience rose rapidly. Jiang Runian worked hard every day to do his daily tasks, and he also took out the third-level skill books of "Qingshan Sword Technique" and "Xingluo Jiqiao Dao".
As the first batch of people to upgrade their skills to level three, Bai Yexuan and Chu Yu's abilities have made a qualitative leap. First of all, Bai Yexuan, with two swishes of the Sky Sword in his hand, can produce - gold! color! material! principle!
Jiang Runian quickly asked Bai Yexuan to make the simplest dish to find out:
【Shredded Green Pepper and Potato (Quality: High)】
Description: This is a very thoughtful dish. When you are enjoying it, be careful of the shredded ginger and green onion disguised as shredded potatoes.
Effect: Constitution +5, lasts for 12 hours.
Jiang Runian: “!”
Even the attributes of the simplest dishes have more than doubled, so wouldn’t the attributes of other complex dishes be even higher!
Chu Yu's third-level skill gave her an additional exclusive illustrated book, "One Hundred Ways of Entertainment for Immortal Cultivators".
"... Elder Yu," Jiang Ruonian held the illustrated book in his hand, just like he did in the treasure house in the past, "Can this thing really be made?"
Chu Yu didn't even raise his head as he used the planer to measure the wood: "Mortise and tenon structure, double-layer secret compartments, inlaid with four spirit core lamps... not difficult."
Three days later, a new table appeared in Qingshan Inn.
The ebony tabletop had warm fluorite inlaid in the four corners, which would emit a soft green light when touched. On the table were four cards carefully crafted by Chu Yu, made of leftover snow jade, which felt cool to the touch.
The first player passing by exclaimed, “…Mahjong table?!”
In the end times with a lack of entertainment, even in Qingshan Inn, all people can do is look at the sea, chat, soak in hot springs, and eat delicious food. Who would have thought that they could also play mahjong!
Soon, the card table was crowded with people.
"Hu!"
"I won't fight you anymore. What kind of luck is that!"
"Master Chu, can you build a few more tables? I still have a lot of mineral materials, I'll give them all to you!"
…
Based on last year's experience, it will be the hurricane season after the cold season.
After experiencing three natural disasters, Jiang Runian finally understood why players said that hurricane season was the easiest.
During the hurricane season, everyone does what they should do during the day. It's just that there are occasional strong winds and you can't go out at night. Going to bed early and getting up early will keep you healthy. It's better than the sandstorm season with scorching sun and quicksand all over the ground, and the cold season with ice and snow and hunting is impossible.
Qin Fang bought ten sets of food and medicine and filled his backpack.
Zheng Xuan sneered at her: "If you don't know, you would think you are going to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures."
Qin Fang looked at her backpack which was almost overflowing: "..." Can you please tidy up your bag before you complain about others? !
Not only Zheng Xuan and Qin Fang, a pair of elementary school friends, but even Lu Wei and Lu Rui, who have almost settled down in Qingshan Inn, are filling their backpacks: "Hurricane season herbs have grown, and we have to get back to our old business."
After enjoying the entire cold season at Qingshan Inn, the players who are about to usher in the hurricane season are just like children before their spring and autumn tours, with everything ready except for the east wind.
The Ice Season is the most unfriendly season for players, especially this year.
You need water when you are out and about. We have just survived a sandstorm season with a water shortage, and we have finally waited for the season where we can replenish energy by digging ice and boiling water. But this year, we have to face the frostbite debuff.
Therefore, most players cannot make money by killing monsters or using life skills outside as usual.
Fortunately, the old customers of Qingshan Inn relied on various super powerful buffs to gain a lot of experience and save a lot of gold coins early on, so they had a comfortable long vacation in the inn.
Now that the cold season is finally coming to an end, players have made sufficient preparations and plan to make another big splash in the hurricane season!
The players slept particularly soundly that night.
Because they know that when they wake up at six in the morning, it will be a new world.
"how so?!!"
At the entrance of Qingshan Inn, more than a hundred customers huddled together, looking up at the sky.
Outside the barrier, it was still snowing heavily, and the white fog was even worse than yesterday.
"No, no!" Qin Fang ran back from a distance, gasping for breath while holding his forehead. "I can't move an inch! I just walked ten meters and I couldn't hold on any longer. A huge ice block fell on my head! I have to find Pharmacist Feng to save me!"
When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked.
Qin Fang is the strongest among this group of people. In addition, she had spent a huge amount of money to ask Chu Yu to make a set of equipment for her when she had nothing to do. If she can't handle it, what about the other players?
"It's impossible to go out in this weather!"
"If we continue like this, how can we survive without any output..."
“Isn’t this just waiting—” The player didn’t finish his sentence.
Jiang Runian's eyes darkened.
The players are right.
If this continues, everyone will die.
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