I started on a rocking horse and relied on watching ads to dominate the highway survival charts.

Since we can't find any snow foxes in the forest anymore, let's take a gamble and see if anyone wants to trade snow foxes for pine cones.

Just ...

Huo Yunzhi thought about her luck, which was comparable to that of a hapless bear reincarnated...

"I have a feeling that even if I kill the red fox, it won't drop anything."

Huo Yunzhi was conflicted; she hadn't expected to be stumped by the issue of sunk costs at a time like this.

But now there isn't much time for her to hesitate.

That guy in the trench coat is no ordinary person.

If he clears the game first, it's uncertain whether there will be enough left for me or whom.

She had no choice but to take the initiative and try her luck.

With that thought in mind, Huo Yunzhi began searching for the red fox throughout the forest.

Instead of finding the red fox, they discovered a snow fox under a pine tree.

Huo Yunzhi cautiously approached the snow fox.

She had only taken two steps when she suddenly stopped.

"Something doesn't feel quite right?"

If you stare at a single character for too long, you'll find that you no longer recognize it.

That's how Huo Yunzhi felt looking at the snow fox in front of her.

Even though it still looked as cute as ever with its snow-white fur, she still felt a sense of incongruity.

Seemingly sensing Huo Yunzhi's movement, the snow fox nimbly turned around.

At some point, she finally realized what was wrong.

This is a snow fox with red eyes!

The moment Huo Yunzhi met its gaze, she felt her head spinning, as countless chaotic whispers invaded her brain.

[Player detected as suffering from mental pollution; health will continue to decrease.]

[Player detected as a ghost messenger; mental pollution inflicts only minimum damage.]

Health value -1

Health value -1

withdraw!

Huo Yunzhi reacted immediately.

Noticing Huo Yunzhi's movements, the red-eyed snow fox locked onto her location.

Seeing that the red-eyed snow fox was faster than the ordinary snow fox, Huo Yunzhi decided not to flee blindly.

She pulled out an assault rifle from her backpack, ignoring aim and recoil, and began indiscriminately firing at the snow rabbit.

Unfortunately, this attack is ineffective against red-eyed snow foxes with similar contaminated cores.

However, this also gave Huo Yunzhi a chance to escape.

A man and a fox began a chase through the forest.

During this time, Huo Yunzhi would occasionally hit it with bricks.

Just as the red-eyed snow fox was knocked unconscious once again, Huo Yunzhi couldn't help but want to kill it instantly.

[A pollution source has been detected. Should we activate the purification system?]

Upon hearing this announcement, Huo Yunzhi's eyes lit up.

Purify!

Huo Yunzhi used up her remaining two karma points, and the red-eyed snow fox returned to its normal form.

The last snow fox is here!

After resting, Huo Yunzhi saw that there was only half an hour left, so she stood up and prepared to find an evacuation point.

"Hello there."

Huo Yunzhi had only taken two steps when she heard someone calling her from the tree.

She looked up warily and saw another girl who had entered the game with her sitting on a tree branch.

"What are you doing up in the tree?"

"I was originally in a team with three other people. Not only did we find the snow fox's den, but we also got several invisibility pine cones. At first, I thought they were going to use the pine cones to avoid the hunters, but I didn't expect that the middle-aged man was trying to find an escape point and ambush you with the invisibility pine cones."

Although the girl seemed unable to get down from the tree, her voice and tone remained calm: "I didn't want to associate with them, so I thought I would leave on my own. But not only did they not give me any snow foxes, they also had that young man with the awakened power talent throw me up in the tree."

"So what do you have now?" Huo Yunzhi wanted to hear if she was worth saving.

"I managed to steal two pine cones from them!" The girl understood Huo Yunzhi's implication: "I also know the location of the evacuation point!"

"Wait." Huo Yunzhi tore the clothes she had worn when she first entered the game into strips, wove them into a rope ladder, and threw it up the tree.

"The ladder isn't long enough, but once you've secured it, climb to the last rung and jump down. At least you won't break your bones."

Tian Yin nodded and obediently followed Huo Yunzhi's instructions, finally falling into the snowdrift with a "plop".

"Let's go, lead the way."

Tian Yin led Huo Yunzhi southeast for more than ten minutes, and finally saw a small wooden house in a wide open space.

"The evacuation equipment is inside that small wooden hut."

Huo Yunzhi adjusted her goggles and crouched down as she approached the cabin.

Inside the cabin, three figures huddled in a corner, trembling.

"At minus 25 degrees Celsius, will anyone really come?"

"They definitely will! The evacuation points in the northwest have already been used, only this one is left. If they don't come, they'll die here. Everyone, stay alert!"

Has the man in the trench coat left the game?

Huo Yunzhi knew without even guessing who had used the northwest evacuation point.

She couldn't hesitate any longer.

Huo Yunzhi's gaze was fixed on the campfire not far from the cabin, and she decisively used the invisibility pine cone that Tian Yin had given her.

"Hey, don't you guys feel less cold now?"

"Yes."

The middle-aged man's expression changed drastically upon hearing this.

He hurriedly stood up and opened the door of the cabin.

The warm light from not far away reflected in his eyes.

"Damn it! That little bastard lit the campfire!"

The middle-aged man rushed out to try and put out the campfire, but before he could take two steps, he was slumped on the snow by a dozen hunters who emerged from the forest.

Five minutes later, a sharp scream came from the cabin.

Huo Yunzhi quietly approached the campfire again and then threw a large handful of snow to extinguish it.

Without the heat source to guide them, the hunters circled around twice before slowly dispersing.

When Huo Yunzhi walked into the cabin, she saw that the three people who had been inside were all dead.

The snow fox they had obtained was exposed and was trembling in the corner of the cabin.

"Good heavens! There are only five of them?"

Tian Yin jogged over and, seeing the obviously mismatched number of snow foxes, covered her mouth: "Did they go and exchange the pine cones again?"

"Definitely."

Huo Yunzhi tied up a snow fox in each hand and handed them to Tian Yin: "You took their two pine cones. To make it easier to ambush and rob, you'll need to acquire a few more plots. I reckon they even tried ambushing in the Northwest, but they didn't get anything, so they came here. Let's go, let's evacuate."

Huo Yunzhi and Tian Yin handed over the snow fox together.

[Two players have submitted enough Snow Foxes; teleportation will begin shortly...]

Then an irresistible force gently lifted the two of them up, and in just a few breaths, they were transported into the air.

Huo Yunzhi then noticed that the man in the trench coat was sitting in mid-air in the northwest direction.

It's likely that this person saw everything she just did.

The man also saw Huo Yunzhi. He stood up, waved to Huo Yunzhi, and then the three of them disappeared together above the instance.