The next day Xu Xin woke up very early.
I woke up before six o'clock.
He was awakened by the sunlight outside shining on his face.
Li Wenxi was still sleeping soundly, the sunlight shining on her skin, which made Xu Xin feel a little itchy.
I don't know when Coco rolled under the bed, and she curled up into a ball, covering her eyes with her little paws to block the sunlight.
A smile appeared on Xu Xin's lips.
It has been a long time since the dawn of winter.
In the past few days, the dawn time has been delayed to more than ten o'clock.
Now, the days are finally lengthening.
A prompt sounded in his mind, and his random increase today was a luck increase.
A nice increase.
He got out of bed, washed up, and checked the world channel.
"The snow has stopped! The snow has stopped! It's daybreak! Hahahahaha! I'm alive!"
"Fuck! What the hell!
I thought I would have to hold out until ten o'clock, but it was already dawn at five o'clock!"
Today's world channels are filled with excited words of people crying with joy.
It seemed that the day had just begun and the snow had just stopped for a short time.
"Awesome! Explorer is awesome! Boss Xu Xin is awesome! Without the coal he gave me, I would never have survived last night!"
"Yes, yes! Although I only have three pieces, these three pieces really saved my life!"
"Oh shit, I just ran out of coal! It's a critical moment! If the snow stops later, I'm afraid I will die!"
"I threw up! I managed to get through this by exercising! I thought it would last until ten o'clock and I didn't dare to use coal, but now it's over!"
"Brother is awesome!"
"Hahaha, it's warmer! It's really getting warmer outside! The snow is starting to melt!"
“It’s alive! Woohoo, it’s really alive!”
Xu Xin checked the number of people in each region.
Well, not many died.
But it’s not too little.
Originally, the total population of all the areas that were still experiencing blizzards was more than 50,000 people. Now, the total population has decreased by 10,000.
Now there are only a little over 40,000 people.
More than 10,000 people died.
The mortality rate is around 20%.
That's okay.
These people died probably because they used coal too early, and as a result, the coal was exhausted and they died.
Maybe they froze to death in their sleep.
Judging from the world channel, most of the people who survived relied on burning coal to hold on until the end.
It seems that the coal he sent out yesterday did work.
Now, the vast majority of people around the world have a great fondness for explorers.
If one day they can choose to surrender, they will definitely choose Area 188 and choose Explorers.
That's enough.
Sitting on the sofa, Xu Xin began to check private messages.
Shi Wanyun still didn't reply to his private message, and her private message still remained at the same words as at that time.
Fortunately, her name was still lit, which at least meant she was not dead.
"Logically speaking, if she could succeed using my method, she should have succeeded long ago, right?" Xu Xin said to himself.
He couldn't help but send a message to Shi Wanyun: "What's going on with you? Haven't you come back yet?"
He didn't send a voice message directly because he was afraid that the other party was still in the pile of mutant creatures and something might happen.
He thought the other party might not reply to him, but to his surprise, after only ten seconds, the other party replied: "I'm still here, and I haven't gone back yet."
oh
She is...
Her next words made Xu Xin's heart shrink.
"I am now on the giant tree that I showed you before."
ha
In a giant tree?!
The image of the giant tree that reached the sky, blocked out the sun, and was brightly lit at night in the video immediately emerged in his mind.
Ran to the giant tree
Didn't she come straight back
"Why did you go up there? What's the situation up there?" he asked immediately.
"I have to come up. I'm busy now. I'll explain it to you when I get back. I should be able to go back soon."
Shi Wanyun left these words, and then there was no more sound.
Xu Xin sent another message to ask, but she still didn't reply.
What’s going on with this woman
He frowned tightly.
According to what she said before, around ten o'clock this morning should be the final deadline for her activities.
What is she doing
Why don’t you come back quickly and run up the tree
Must I go up a tree
Didn’t she say before that the tree roots were the destination
Is it not enough to just reach the roots of the tree
Xu Xin was very interested in that giant tree.
I hope nothing happens to her.
He stood up and looked out the window.
It's quite normal, and there is no problem.
Although at the end of the cold winter, his tree house entered an upgraded evolutionary stage, and its protective ability was slightly weakened.
He therefore asked the others around his tree house to be more careful at night.
But now it seems that there is no big problem.
In more than an hour, the upgrade of his tree house will be completed.
It seems that this "slightly weakened protection ability" is not a big deal for him.
After all, the protection capability of his tree house has been enhanced several times. Even if it is slightly weakened, it is probably stronger than that of an ordinary tree house.
Open the windows and let the breeze from outside blow into the tree house.
A cool morning breeze, but not cold.
The temperature outside had risen to over 20 degrees overnight.
"Ah... green."
Looking out the window, the ground and the treetops were dotted with green.
Xu Xin's brows relaxed and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
It seems that the jungle will soon return to its vibrant state.
good.
The bald look now is really depressing. It really affects my mood if I look at it for a long time.
I really hope I can have a good rest today.
He immediately sent a message to Ji Chaoyang: "Are you sure there will be no problem today?"
Ji Chaoyang had also woken up and gave him a direct reply: "Not sure, but from the prophecy, I can't see anything."
The two people contacted each other directly by phone.
"You can predict twice now, right?" Xu Xin asked, "You can't see anything in both times?"
"... After returning to the ground, I can only predict once." Ji Chaoyang's voice was somewhat helpless, "It seems that only in the underground world can my ability be enhanced. I still can't determine the reason."
Only in the underground world can abilities be enhanced
"Are the rest of them like this?" Xu Xin asked.
"That's right." Ji Chaoyang said.
In the underground world, there is such an effect
"The scene in my prophecy this time is a world with bright sunshine and sprouting grass and trees. I tried to extend the time of the prophecy, but in the end I didn't find anything."
"Well, hopefully we can have some peace today then."
"It's better to be careful. Last night, more than a dozen people were missing from Area 1." Ji Chaoyang reminded.
Xu Xin frowned slightly: "Isn't the cold winter season over?"
He had previously deduced that this danger was the crisis that the cold winter brought to those areas where the blizzards had stopped.
"… Maybe it will continue for a while." Ji Chaoyang said, "Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the winter had not ended last night and only ended this morning. In short, it depends on whether there will be any problems today."
"If there are still problems, you can help a little. After all, we are allies." Ji Chaoyang said.
Although there are strong people in Area 1, the amount of their resources is naturally not as much as theirs. Some ordinary survivors in Area 1 still do not have the Tree House Heavy Crossbow.
Without any defense capabilities in the tree house, things could easily go wrong.
They might be able to provide the most common tree house heavy crossbow.
In this way, ordinary survivors in Area 1 will also know who they should turn to.
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin sat on the sofa and relaxed his whole body.
Today, if nothing goes wrong, just relax a little.
During this period of time, I have been really stressed out and too tired.
“Hmm…” In the tree house, there was the sound of Li Wenxi getting up from the bed. Then there was a clicking sound, and she walked out of the bedroom.
"It's so hot..." She rubbed her eyes, and when she opened them she saw Xu Xin sitting on the sofa, "You're awake already? It's already daybreak... It must be very late..."
"It's only six o'clock." Xu Xin looked at her and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Put on some clothes, or you'll catch a cold."
At this moment, a cool breeze blew in from the open window, causing her naked body to tremble slightly.
"Well, I'm going to take a shower first. The quilt is too thick and I'm sweating..."
With that, she ran to the bathroom.
Watching Li Wenxi's disappearing back, Xu Xin took a deep breath, and finally couldn't help but stood up and walked into the bathroom.
The sound in the bathroom made Yin Wang and Mimi look over there.
…
The two people who came out of the bathroom lazily sat on the sofa, leaning against each other.
Coco also crawled out of the bedroom and climbed into Xu Xin's arms.
Although this little guy didn't take a bath, he really doesn't look dirty at all.
"I suddenly feel so tired and don't want to move." Li Wenxi leaned sideways into Xu Xin's arms, competing with Coco for position.
"Hmm?" Coco stared at her.
"Then give yourself a break. The Explorer's resources should be enough for us to use for a while, so you don't have to be so tired all the time."
"It's enough for us. But if we want to provide it to District 1..." Li Wenxi counted on his fingers, "It's not enough..."
"Zone 1?" Xu Xin shook his head. "Even if we want to help them, we can use green-level resources. You already have so many green-level resources that you can't use them all, right?"
Now that Li Wenxi is mining, green-level resources are almost becoming redundant by-products.
"That's right."
"Let's not talk about this. The jungle outside is sprouting new buds, have you seen it?" Xu Xin pinched her cheek and said.
"New sprout?" Li Wenxi sat up immediately. "Really?"
She ran to the window and looked out.
"Really? The jungle is finally going to be green again!" Li Wenxi was delighted. "That's great! It feels like when the jungle turns green, we'll be much safer!"
"…What kind of statement is this?" Xu Xin was slightly stunned.
Li Wenxi turned around and looked at him: "Think about it, now in the entire jungle, only our tree house is green, how conspicuous it is! But when the jungle becomes lush, the tree house will be hidden in the jungle, won't it be easy to be discovered!"
"Now that you put it that way, it seems to be true." Xu Xin said with a smile.
There is truth in that, but not much.
As the jungle grows more lush, the blood-marked creatures and mutant creatures in the jungle will become more difficult for survivors to discover.
After all, it is very easy to hide a person or an animal in a lush jungle.
Moreover, Xu Xin didn't think that the enemy would be unable to find them because of the dense jungle.
Their location has probably been discovered and located long ago.
So in fact, the lush jungle may do more harm than good to them.
But he didn't say it.
Let's relax a little today.
Xu Xin also stood up and walked to the window to look out.
Outside the window, purple-black beams of light were still rising, and a purple-black arch bridge spanned the sky.
"Hmm? Hmm!" Coco was lying on the windowsill looking out, and suddenly cried out.
"Oh!" It pointed outside with its little paws and called twice.
"What's wrong, Coco?" Xu Xin looked outside.
Coco's voice didn't sound like someone was in danger, so he wasn't nervous.
"Bing!"
"Hey! Look at those snow peaks!" Li Wenxi also discovered the clue, exclaimed in surprise, and immediately pointed to the snow peaks in the distance that were still standing but not activated.
These snowy peaks...
"Are they... much shorter?" Li Wenxi shielded the sun with her hands and squinted her eyes. "Of course they are shorter! They were much taller than this before!"
The snow peaks are getting shorter!
In other words, these snow peaks are slowly sinking!
Sure enough, the two continued to observe for a while and determined that the snow peak in the distance was indeed sinking at a slow speed.
"At this rate, I'm afraid the snowy peaks will all sink into the ground in an hour."
"Hehe, luckily we unlocked quite a few of them." Li Wenxi said with a smile.
Then, she said somewhat disappointedly: "However, I didn't make it to the leaderboard this time, so I didn't get the reward this time."
“Ah…” Xu Xin was slightly stunned.
yes…
She should have been allowed to climb the snow peak via a shortcut yesterday.
Although you cannot gain access to the teleportation array by climbing the snow peak via shortcuts, you can still receive rewards.
Now it seems that it would be fine if Lou Feier received this reward, but it would be a waste to let Zeng Tao receive it.
Zeng Tao’s tree house is just a low little tree house!
What a waste...
"It's okay, it's just a constant temperature ability." Xu Xin comforted, "If something really happens, you can just stay at my place. My house is pretty big."
"Yeah, that's true." Li Wenxi nodded and didn't care much.
Anyway, she basically sleeps at Xu Xin's place every night now.
Her tree house is almost becoming a metal smelting factory!
It was still early and most people were probably not awake yet. The two of them sat on the sofa, enjoying the peace and quiet of the moment.
"Hmm..." After about ten minutes, Li Wenxi sat up and frowned slightly, "Do you feel hot..."
hot
"You've been in the cold winter for too long and have forgotten the original temperature of the jungle, right?" Xu Xin said with a smile, "You forgot the first stage. At that time, the temperature had to be lowered with saltpeter to be comfortable."
The upgrade of the tree house has not been completed yet, and the temperature inside the tree house will still be affected by the environment.
The temperature in the house has gradually risen to nearly thirty degrees.
Of course, compared to the previous temperature of over 35 degrees and even close to 40 degrees at noon, it is still cool now.
"Oh, that's right." Li Wenxi also reacted and said a little embarrassedly, "It's been so cold, I forgot about it."
"However, we were still using the fireplace to make a fire yesterday, but today we have to use saltpeter to cool it down." Li Wenxi sighed.
Outside the window, the green buds in the jungle were growing very fast. After just a few dozen minutes, the whole place was dotted with green.
A map appeared in Xu Xin's mind.
Is this guy Qin Fu still inside the hilly resource area
This guy won’t encounter any difficulties, right
If he doesn't come back, I should go and see him.
"… It's so hot." Li Wenxi suddenly sat up straight, no longer leaning on Xu Xin, and fanned herself with her hands, "The temperature change is so big, I can't stand it!"
The temperature now has risen to around 35 degrees, which is about the same as before.
…
wrong!
Xu Xin frowned.
This temperature is a bit strange!
The temperature in the jungle had indeed been this high before, but that was always around noon.
But it’s only six in the morning!
Even before, the temperature wouldn't exceed 30 degrees during this period!
This is the temperature now, what about at noon
this…
His eyes slowly opened wide, and then the corners of his eyes twitched.
"… No way?"