Ji Chaoyang looked a little tired. He glanced out the window with a hint of worry in his eyes. Then he took out an orange from his backpack and began to peel it.
"Prophet?!" Li Wenxi shouted in surprise, then turned to the Silver King who was lying on the ground, "Silver King, if he dares to call himself a prophet, I'll kill him tonight!"
"Oh?" Silver King tilted his head, not understanding what Li Wenxi was talking about.
"Be careful, Silver King might take it seriously." Xu Xin teased.
"Huh?" Li Wenxi was startled, and quickly said to Silver King, "I was just kidding, please don't really do it, Silver King!"
"Ouch?" The Silver King was confused.
The other three all laughed.
"Ah, you are making fun of me again!" Li Wenxi was a little angry and wanted to rub Coco hard, but she found that Coco in her arms had fallen asleep again, so she gently stroked its fur with her hand.
"Hmm..." Coco cried comfortably in her sleep, then turned over and continued to sleep.
"So, can your prophet really predict the future?" Xu Xin looked at Ji Chaoyang and asked.
Ji Chaoyang was carefully peeling the orange in his hand into a flower, and each segment of the orange peel was peeled to almost the same size.
"Rather than a prophecy, it's better to say that I can see the future." Ji Chaoyang put a slice of orange into his mouth and explained.
"Seeing the future?" Xu Xin and the other two exclaimed in surprise. This was better than just a simple prophecy!
"That's right." As he put the orange slices into his mouth, his mental state improved a lot. "I can see a certain time in the future. The scene that my future self sees through my own eyes will last for a maximum of about fifteen seconds. If it's longer, my mental strength won't be able to bear it."
"Hiss—" Xu Xin took a deep breath, predicted the future, and saw the future scene.
This world is becoming more and more mysterious.
Qi Xuefei and Li Wenxi were so shocked that they didn't know what to say.
"So, can you choose the time point in the future yourself?" Xu Xin asked.
Ji Chaoyang ate the last slice of orange, breathed a sigh of relief, and all his fatigue disappeared. He shook his head and said, "No, I can only see the scene at a random time in the future, and I can only guess when that time is. But at present, the predicted scenes will basically happen within one or two days."
"Then how many times can you predict in a day? Is it different every time?" Xu Xin continued to ask.
"If I have enough mental strength, I can keep predicting, but..." Ji Chaoyang glanced at the bleak scene outside the window again, "As long as the scene in the prophecy has not happened, there will be no new prophecies. No matter how many times I predict, it will only repeat the same prophecy scene, and I can only get more details from it. Only when the future I see comes true, will the prophecy change."
"That's really powerful!" Li Wenxi exclaimed, "Being able to know what will happen in the future is really powerful! So, can the future you predict be changed? For example, if you predict a person's death, can it be avoided?"
"I don't know," Ji Chaoyang shook his head and said, "My recent predictions were all able to reveal some information to me, so I have no intention of going against the prophecy."
"You said before that your finding the golden treasure chest was related to your ability. Was it also the prediction of the location?" Xu Xin asked, thinking of what Ji Chaoyang and he said on the way to find Li Wenxi.
"Well, during that prophecy, I saw plant fragments all over the ground and a cave that led underground." Ji Chaoyang nodded. "I made predictions many times and carefully observed the surroundings. I eventually found that location and encountered the guardian beast of the gold treasure chest. You should know what happened next."
"It seems that your predictions are all about critical moments." Xu Xin touched his chin and said.
"Indeed..." Ji Chaoyang looked out the window again, still with a worried look on his face. "In the battle to defend the tree house, I also predicted the moment I saw the plant heart. I concluded that this big heart was related to solving this battle, so I chose to go out directly."
"No wonder," Qi Xuefei suddenly realized, "I said that you were a little too careless to go out at that stage. It turns out you knew it before you went out."
"What about your prediction just now..." Xu Xin asked immediately when he saw Ji Chaoyang was looking out the window with a strange look on his face.
"It's a new prophecy, a new picture." Ji Chaoyang retracted his gaze and his voice became low. This was the tone he used when he was serious about business. "My last prophecy was about the four of us meeting. This has already happened, so a new prophecy has appeared."
"So what did you see?"
The three of them were very curious about what kind of future he saw.
"I saw... The sun had just risen in the sky, but the ground was completely covered with white snow. All the branches of the trees were covered with a layer of silver, and even the crown of my tree house was completely dyed white by the snow." Ji Chaoyang described the scene he had just seen in a deep voice, "The river surface was also frozen, and it was completely frozen. It looked like a world of ice and snow."
Xu Xin's eyes shrank.
Snow and ice
Is winter really coming
"You said before that your predictions usually come true within one to two days?" Xu Xin asked immediately.
"That's right." Ji Chaoyang looked at Xu Xin and nodded, "So far, all my predictions have never been delayed to the third day."
"Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow..." Xu Xin's heart sank.
Xu Xin did not doubt the abilities Ji Chaoyang mentioned or the scenes he saw.
The ice and snow and the frozen river are definitely a disaster for most people!
The temperature in the past two days has reached around 7 or 8 degrees. For many people, it is not very convenient to go out, just like Li Yajun they met before. She was shivering in the cold wind just a few seconds after coming out of the tree house.
At present, the blue-level suit has the effect of keeping warm, but the actual warming effect is not very strong. Ji Chaoyang said that he was not particularly comfortable in the wind when wearing a blue-level leather armor suit.
However, when Li Wenxi rode with him, he did not mention feeling cold or uncomfortable. It seems that the warmth retention effect of the blue-level steel armor is stronger. After all, the steel armor set is also the highest-level set among the blue-level ones. Xu Xin, who was wearing the purple-level scale armor set, did not feel cold either.
This shows that the higher the level of the suit, the better the warmth-keeping effect.
But this is based on the current 7 or 8 degrees. The warmth-keeping effect of the blue-level leather armor is just enough at this temperature.
The flowing river surface could be completely frozen. The temperature was probably at least minus 10 to 20 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, not to mention the blue-level leather armor set, even his purple-level scale armor set might not be able to withstand it. After all, it was not a special warm-keeping suit.
In addition, none of the survivors today grow cotton on a large scale, nor do they have the ability to raise wool-producing animals such as sheep. The survivors today do not have the raw materials to make thick clothes, and have no thick clothes to wear.
In other words, when the ice and snow come, most survivors may not even be able to go out, and can only stay in the tree house and stay by the fireplace to spend the cold.
"Is it going to snow in the next two days?" Qi Xuefei was a little excited.
As a person who has never actually seen snow in her 20-year life, she actually has a strong yearning for ice and snow.
Unexpectedly, she was about to see real snow in this world.
"It's so cold when it snows, and we don't have any thick clothes now, so we can only stay in the tree house, right?" Li Wenxi frowned slightly, "Then we can't go out, right?"
"I hope it won't come until the day after tomorrow." Xu Xin sighed, "At least give us a day to prepare. If the cold winter hits tomorrow, then even the plan to find Ma Hongwei will have to be put on hold for the time being."
He and Ma Hongwei were "discussing" how to destroy the tree house in the north, but who would act in such a snowy and icy environment!
"According to my guess, it should be the day after tomorrow." Ji Chaoyang's words gave Xu Xin some peace of mind. "The interval between my two predictions is usually between one and two days. The scene I just predicted was when the sun was rising. If it is tomorrow morning, then the interval between my last prediction, which was when the four of us met, is less than a day, which is inconsistent with the previous pattern."
"If that's the case, that's great." Xu Xin relaxed a little. There were still two days left, enough time to prepare a lot of things.
"But that's not necessarily the case. This is just my guess, so we still have to prepare for the worst." Ji Chaoyang's expression became serious, "Be prepared to wake up tomorrow morning and find the world covered in ice and snow!"
Xu Xin immediately opened his watch and clicked on the regional channel: "We must now tell the other people in District 188 to make the fireplace within today... Damn it! The total number of people in the area is reduced again!"
The three of them also opened their watches. The number of people in Area 188 was three less than before.
This was the result after Ji Chaoyang brought the woman from the east and added one more person to District 188.
In fact, at least four more tree houses were destroyed.
Xu Xin gritted his teeth. Now most people were too far away from them, and they could only provide heavy crossbows and armor support.
Ji Chaoyang also frowned and immediately spoke on the regional channel.
"Everyone, if you encounter other people, first confirm whether they are from this area. At this stage, the possibility of people from this area appearing is low, so you must remain vigilant.
Those who are able to cross the protected area and come to you are all strong, so don't come down from the tree house. Everyone should have a tree house heavy crossbow. If you find something wrong, use the tree house heavy crossbow to shoot!"
Xu Xin also spoke out on the regional channel.
“Don’t trust anyone. If we find you, we will use our watches to communicate with you privately to confirm each other’s identities. So, be wary of everyone.
Several more people died this morning. We have finally survived the disaster and the event. We cannot die at the hands of other survivors. Everyone must not take it lightly!"
The two people's words made the regional channel boil.
"I understand, sir. I will never go down from the tree house!"
"I don't believe anyone who comes, unless the boss sends me a private message!"
"Someone really died again. Oh my god, why do the survivors have to kill each other? Aren't we all poor people who were dragged into this world?"
"The guy above, you worked so hard to collect resources, how can it be faster than just robbing them? Stop being so naive!"
"Hahaha, I'm smart. Just now, someone came and I shot him away with a heavy crossbow. He's not from our area, so get lost!"
Xu Xin noticed the last person's words.
Did he meet people from other areas
At this stage, there are not many people who can cross the safe zone to find other tree houses. The person he meets may be the strong man from the neighboring area who they want to focus on dealing with!
Xu Xin wrote down his name and planned to have a private chat with him later.
However, seeing that their words had attracted the attention of the survivors in the regional channel, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief.
They don't want anything to happen to the survivors in the same area whom they have worked so hard to rescue.