In a frigid apocalypse, I went on a shopping spree with the reborn.

Individual combat power ranking

First place: Jiang Qingyue, female, 27 years old, combat power 3019

Second place: Long Jiuxing, female, 18 years old, combat power 3002

Third place: Liu Yuyao, female, 45 years old, combat power 1199

Fourth place: Chen Sanyang, male, 39 years old, combat power 472

Fifth place: Huang Yali, female, 31 years old, combat power 469

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Survival Index Ranking

First place: Jiang Qingyue, Survival index: 10086

Second place: Long Jiuxing, Survival index: 6855

Third place: Liu Yuyao, Survival index: 1012

Fourth place: Huang Yali, Survival index: 743

Fifth place: Wang Longhua, Survival index: 580

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New Power Ranking

First Place: Jiang Qingyue's Little Nest, Team Leader Jiang Qingyue

Second place: Pioneer Team, Captain Chen Tangtang

Third place: Overlord Base, Captain Li Tiege

Fourth place: Gou Di's Palace, Captain Wang Defa

Fifth place: Hope Base, team leader Huang Yali

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Jiang Qingyue looked at the three lists repeatedly, not only at the top few, but carefully at all the lists from first place to 100th place.

Especially some of the names that appeared in Wang Dawei's diary.

Believe it or not, this inspection actually revealed some interesting details.

For example, Wang Defa, this guy showed off in the early days of the apocalypse, saying that he had built a safe house for the apocalypse, had supplies, and wanted to find a fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged young lady.

After that, he never seemed to fall behind, unlike Wang Dawei who became famous but was always on the list.

Another one is Huang Yali, the captain of Hope Base. Although she has never been at the top of the list, she has never fallen out of the top ten.

There are also Liu Yuyao and Chen Sanyang from the original Happiness Base. Liu Yuyao's individual combat strength and survival index are significantly higher than Chen Sanyang's.

"It seems that Liu Yuyao did not share Wang Dawei's diary with Chen Sanyang without reservation."

There's also Wang Longhua, a name mentioned in Wang Dawei's diary. She remembers that he seemed to have appeared on the list before, but she can't quite recall which list it was.

After merging with Wang Dawei's quantum computer, the biggest changes, besides to Jiang Qingyue, were to the Happiness Base.

Without Wang Dawei, the reincarnated individual, Happiness Base disappeared from all three lists.

Jiang Qingyue scrolled down to the top 100 of the three lists, a total of 300 people. Although there were some people with the same name, there wasn't a single person from Happiness Base on the list despite the large number of slots available.

This only shows that Wang Dawei has been too ruthless in his exploitation, resulting in none of the many people at the Happiness Base having made it big.

I opened the regional channel and took a look at the regional channel for Spring Water City.

It's chaotic, as chaotic as when quantum computers first appeared.

Previously, almost everyone in Spring City used the ID "Happiness Base," but now the city has split, with people forming or joining new factions, and IDs from various different bases are flooding the screen.

Some people were recruiting others, some were asking relatives and friends, and some were complaining.

Jiang Qingyue even caught a few insults directed at her in the rapidly flashing messages.

They criticized her for killing Wang Dawei and then neglecting the Happiness Base, and for disregarding their past friendship.

This left Jiang Qingyue speechless.

Where did this friendship come from?

We just live in the same neighborhood, and she happens to sell fish at the market. Everyone lives closest to that market and only visits occasionally.

Out of consideration for regular customers, she would round down the price or give a discount.

In peacetime, such a relationship would be limited to exchanging greetings upon meeting.

In this apocalyptic world, surely these people wouldn't expect her to give them their precious food and drink for free based on such a shallow relationship?

As Jiang Qingyue turned off her personal computer, she was about to boil water to wash up when she saw the little white snake climb onto the stove and use its tail to scoop hot water from the large pot into the plastic basin she used for washing.

The basin was half-filled, and then Yanbao pushed it to her with her rabbit paws.

"Chirp chirp chirp." We've all washed up, you're the only one left to wash.

"Wow!" Jiang Qingyue exclaimed in surprise, "I'm so lucky! You've worked so hard, baby. By the way, weren't you looking at photos? Where's the album?"

She should have kept quiet until she asked, because Jiang Qingyan immediately became aggrieved. She put one paw on her hip and pointed the other at Long Jiuxing's room, chirping.

Jiang Qingyue couldn't understand what he was saying, but she could tell that the little guy was complaining.

I glanced into Long Jiuxing's room and, lo and behold, the two photo albums that the two little ones had been holding were now in Long Jiuxing's hands.

Judging from Jiang Qingyan's expression, it was clear that the two little ones hadn't finished reading it before it was handed to Long Jiuxing.

Her smiling gaze made it impossible for Long Jiuxing to pretend she didn't know. She looked away from the photo album and softly called out, "Sister Xiaoyue."

Perhaps because her owner was backing her up, Jiang Qingyan was full of confidence and jumped onto Jiang Qingyue's shoulder to complain, "Chirp chirp chirp, chirp chirp..."

After a series of shouts and gestures, Jiang Qingyue, still guessing, asked, "You mean she took it before you even finished reading it?"

"Chirp." Yanbao rubbed her eyes and made a wailing motion.

Then he pointed at the little white snake, jumped from Jiang Qingyue's shoulder to the little white snake's back, put his two claws under the little white snake's eyes, and made a gesture as if the little white snake was also wailing.

Unusually, the little white snake, who always sided with its master, did not refute this time and even cooperated with Jiang Qingyan in an extremely cooperative manner.

Accused by the two cubs, Long Jiuxing's ears turned red first, then his cheeks and neck turned completely red: "Sister Xiaoyue, I only brought it over after they had finished looking at it."

"Chirp chirp chirp." No, that's not it.

"Sizzle~" I haven't had enough yet.

Jiang Qingyue looked at this and then at that, hesitating for a fraction of a second.

With one hand he scooped up the fluffy little rabbit and with the other he scooped up the icy white snake, placing both of them on Long Jiuxing's shoulder.

One on each side is just right.

"Alright, all three of you can watch it together. I'm going to take a shower and go to bed. Remember you have work to do tomorrow, so don't stay up too late."

Without long hair, washing up was simple; Jiang Qingyue finished getting ready in less than five minutes.

Wearing bear pajamas, she lay down on the bed and fell asleep instantly.

Jiang Qingyue woke up a little late the next day because she hadn't set an alarm.

I sat up in bed groggily and smelled a faint aroma of rice.

Slipping on his slippers, he went out of the room, puzzled. Long Jiuxing was holding his phone, the two little ones were lying by the stove, and all three of them were craning their necks to stare at the big pot.

The aroma of rice was coming from the large pot.

"Are you cooking?"

Upon hearing this, Long Jiuxing's hand holding the phone froze.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Qingyue found it amusing and leaned over to take a look. It was a porridge cooking tutorial, a text version. "Did I download this before?" She had downloaded a bunch of random things back then and couldn't quite remember.

Looking into the pot, she was astonished to find it filled with whitish water. If it weren't for the aroma of rice wafting out, she wouldn't have recognized it as porridge.

Long Jiuxing's tense little face turned red, and she said weakly, "I saw you were sleeping soundly, so I thought I'd learn to cook so you could eat when you wake up. It says 'water as needed' on this, I..."

"It's alright." Jiang Qingyue patted her shoulder. "It's already quite good that you managed to cook it like this for your first time."

Long Jiuxing pursed his lips: "I'm sorry, Sister Xiaoyue, I wasted food."

"Who said it's a waste?" Jiang Qingyue laughed. "Our Longlong is very smart. He knows how to cook porridge. Unlike when I first cooked, three out of four dishes were burnt and inedible. Now it's just a little too much rice water, no big deal. Come on, let me teach you."

Jiang Qingyue led her to the frozen food section to get some seafood, and then some dehydrated vegetables.

I found a soup bowl, scooped out a shallow bowl of rice water from the top, and then put the seafood and dehydrated vegetables into the pot.

"See? It's just the right consistency, not too thin or too thick. As for this rice porridge, it won't go to waste; we'll save it to drink later."

The two little ones didn't have big appetites, but Jiang Qingyue and Long Jiuxing, as their strength increased, had an astonishing appetite, eating their meals in bowls.

The two of them ate almost the entire pot of seafood porridge, leaving nothing behind.

After the meal, Jiang Qingyue clapped his hands: "Come on, let me assign today's tasks."

Long Jiuxing sat up straight, Yan Bao put down his crossed legs and stood obediently, and Snake Baby raised his upper body.

"Yanbao and I will expand the shelter. Longlong and Xiaobaishe, you two go and cut down trees. We'll leave these trees in the mountains for now and not bring them back."

"Chirp chirp?" Why?

Jiang Qingyan remembered that when they chopped firewood before, they always carried it back to the shelter.

Jiang Qingyue scratched its fluffy little head: "Because there isn't enough space, according to what Wang Dawei wrote in his diary, with the arrival of the third cold wave, we won't be able to use the water outside, including ice."

"His writing was vague and unclear. It's unclear whether the outside water source was simply unusable, or whether using it would produce certain toxins that required eating fresh vegetables to detoxify it."

"No matter what, it's always good to store more clean ice, so we should use the newly expanded space to store clean ice."

"There's no space today, so I'll go chop firewood first. Starting tomorrow, we'll dig for ice. Once we've stored enough ice, we'll go chop firewood again."

"Anyway, the firewood can only be left outside for now, and we can move it in when needed, or we can move it in when there are extra empty spaces in the shelter later."

As for whether they will be discovered, they are no longer afraid.

"Oh, right." Jiang Qingyue said, then, thinking of the personal terminal, she quickly took out the box containing the trading coins.

He placed it next to Long Jiuxing: "First, upgrade your personal computer to level two. That way, we can add each other as friends and send private messages to each other."

Long Jiuxing nodded and did not refuse. She opened her personal computer, found the personal computer assistant, and selected the upgrade. The 100,000 trading coins in the box flew into her personal computer.

Jiang Qingyue opened her personal computer and checked the remaining transaction coins: 100026.

She originally intended to use this money to upgrade her own personal computer to level two, but after merging with Wang Dawei's personal computer, it automatically upgraded to level two, saving her 100,000 transaction coins.

The two became friends, and Jiang Qingyue went to the planting room and picked the nine essences that the plant doctor had condensed that day from the tree.

Jiang Qingyue thought for a moment, found a needle and thread, and quickly sewed two small cloth pouches with elastic drawstrings and neck loops.

They placed one essence into each of the two small cloth bags, one hanging around Jiang Qingyan's neck and the other around the little white snake's neck.

Seeing the two children's questioning looks, Jiang Qingyue smiled and said, "Just in case."

"Although we won't go far or separate, what if there's an emergency? If you get injured, just eat this essence hanging around your neck to heal your wounds."

After saying that, he said to Long Jiuxing, "The four pills I packed for you yesterday were not used, so you can keep them with you. As for the rest, including those produced every day, I will put them in a separate box in my spatial storage."

Long Jiuxing took out the four from yesterday: "I'll keep one."

"No." Jiang Qingyue closed the small box and put it back in her hand. "Take all four with you. You are strong, and ordinary enemies would not dare to attack you. In other words, those who dare to attack you are naturally not ordinary. Don't be careless, take them just in case."

Jiang Qingyue threw an essence into the bucket, and after it dissolved, she watered all the seedlings in the planting room. She then put the remaining eight into her space.

After thinking for a moment, he stuffed some more supplies and weapons into the space, leaving only two cubic meters of empty space for future use.

Firstly, it frees up more space in the shelter to store ice. Secondly, in case of any unexpected events, such as being forced to leave the shelter due to the inability to defend it, or having to go out in an emergency, there is no need to rush to pack supplies.

"Get to work, get to work."

At the same time, in Yunyou City, which is adjacent to Quanshui City, a high-level meeting was also being held at the Bawang Base.

The group consisted of Li Tiege, the captain of the Overlord Base; Liu Yuyao, the vice-captain; Chen Sanyang, the vice-captain; Li Tiege's wife and younger brother; and several capable underlings.

Li Tiege stared at his personal computer. Even though he had already looked at the three leaderboards many times, he still looked at them again: "Gentlemen, Wang Dawei is dead, and Happiness Base is in chaos."

"Our strength is growing, and we're not far from Spring City. We're fully capable of absorbing Happiness Base. What do you think?"

Li Tiege's younger brother, Li Tieyang, immediately chimed in: "Big brother, I'll go. I've used the special item Ice Jade, so I'm completely immune to the cold and can stay outdoors for long periods. I'll go to the Happiness Base first to win over some people, and then take out the rest who are unwilling to submit."

"Although you can operate outside, your combat strength is too low. Even if you go to the Happiness Base, you won't be able to suppress that group of people." Li Tiege shook his head.

Looking at Liu Yuyao, he said, "Vice Captain Liu, you have the strongest combat power in our base, and you used to work at Happiness Base, so you are familiar with those people. Why don't you lead the team to Quanshui City and recapture Happiness Base?"

Before Liu Yuyao could speak, Chen Sanyang frowned: "Captain, our most important task right now is to develop steadily."

"That's why we need to strengthen our forces." Li Tiege looked distressed. "We can't compete with each other individually. Look at Long Jiuxing, he's a monster. And look at Jiang Qingyue, she's a reborn person who's even more cunning than Wang Dawei."

"If we want to survive in this apocalypse, we need a large population. Now that Happiness Base is leaderless, it's the perfect time to take them under our control."

"But..." Chen Sanyang was about to say something more.

Liu Yuyao shook her head at him, then said to Li Tiege, "Captain, give me three days to think about it."

"Of course, no problem," Li Tiege laughed. "Such a big matter, I can handle it in seven days, let alone three."

"Moreover, the apocalypse is not like before. There are no high-speed trains. If you want to set off, you need to be well prepared. Let me know when you are ready, Deputy Captain Liu, and I will send some good people to help you."

"That's troublesome."

After the meeting, Liu Yuyao was the first to leave, followed by Chen Sanyang, and the two returned to Liu Yuyao's room.

Chen Sanyang asked in confusion, "Boss, why did you agree to him? This is clearly a thankless and arduous task."

"He's kicking people out." Liu Yuyao rubbed her temples; she hadn't slept for several days and was exhausted.

"Kick them out?" Chen Sanyang asked, puzzled.

Liu Yuyao said helplessly, "Little Sanzi, tell me, what value does the Happiness Base still have these days?"

Chen Sanyang blurted out, "What value is there in it?"

"With Wang Dawei dead, no one from Happiness Base made the list. The only things they could plunder were the heating equipment and living supplies they had collected before, which weren't even enough for them to eat."

As Chen Sanyang was speaking, he suddenly realized something and slapped his forehead: "That's right, the Happiness Base has no value now, so why did Brother Li Tie make us go on such a long journey to collect it?"

"Because he's almost been sidelined by the two of us, he's afraid that one day I'll kick him out, so he wants to get rid of us." Liu Yuyao's voice was calm and even, as if she had long expected this day to come.

"I wrote everything down in that diary, and I burned the diary. I've already told him the secrets I was willing to tell him, and there's no way I'll tell him the rest."

"For Li Tiege, we are no longer of any use. Now that he has kicked us aside, this Tyrant Base will still belong to him alone."

Chen Sanyang's face darkened: "You mean this guy plans to send us back to Happiness Base? Even if we manage to subdue Happiness Base, he's not going to let us bring them here to join him?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Liu Yuyao rolled her eyes. "The migration of hundreds of thousands of people is simply impossible in this kind of weather."

"Even if we take over the Happiness Base, it will only mean that everyone has nominally joined the Overlord Base, but they will still live in Spring City."

"With so many people, it's impossible not to send someone to manage them. If I'm not mistaken, Brother Li Tie intends to turn the original Happiness Base people into a branch of the Overlord Base, and have the two of us stay in Quanshui City to manage the branch."

Liu Yuyao tapped her index finger lightly on the table, pondering the likelihood of eliminating Li Tiege...

Her individual combat strength is stronger than Li Tiege's, but only by a limited margin... and this is Li Tiege's territory again...