Guan Tong cooked a bag of instant noodles using the gas canister stove. After eating, Wang Yan seemed to feel a bit better and lay down to sleep.

Chen Na said her mother had barely slept at all last night. Since there was only one bunk in the vehicle, she, as the daughter, slept on the bunk every night, while her mother Wang Yan made do sleeping in the vehicle seat, then would lie down to sleep for half the day.

"Brother Guan, is it because Mom hasn't been sleeping well at night that her stomach hurts?" Chen Na's small face showed some self-blame. "It's all my fault for being too selfish."

Guan Tong comforted her: "Don't say that. Your mother definitely wants you to sleep well too. But since your mother is sick now, you should let her sleep on the bunk at night."

"Mm! I know, I'll tell her when she wakes up later."

After saying this, Chen Na added: "Oh right, Brother Guan, these past few days following your advice, I've learned to control the activation and deactivation of [Perception Domain] by myself."

"That's good. You can practice more normally. This cycle of repeatedly consuming and recovering Mind Power can also accelerate the increase of your Mind Power Upper Limit."

After speaking, Guan Tong left the painkillers with Chen Na, got out of the vehicle, and returned to his own camp.

Humans eat all kinds of grains, so getting sick is unavoidable.

But in the era of Doomsday Rules, just dealing with the challenges brought by the rules requires giving one's all. If illness comes to drag you down further, it truly adds insult to injury.

So Guan Tong paid attention to this aspect himself, trying to eat his fill, sleep well, and keep his body warm.

He only used the 6 effective hours of [Constant Temperature Tech Underwear] each day for work, and afterwards, when he had nothing to do, he tried to stay curled up in his warm sleeping bag.

After returning to camp, he didn't waste time. He immediately took the folding shovel and finished today's task of clearing the snow from the path first.

After clearing it, wearing his [Multi-Terrain Marching Boots], he jogged all the way around to the forest on the other side of Mingdao Mountain.

He ran this far because he wanted to test the Type 2 and Type 3 Ammunition for the [Silver Hunter]. The Type 2 slug was okay, but he was worried the Type 3 high-explosive round would make too much noise. Being too close to camp might scare Chen Na or wake Wang Yan.

"Let's try Type 2 first."

Guan Tong consumed 10 points of Mind Power to generate one Type 2 Ammunition.

Then, supporting the barrel with his left hand, he aimed at a large tree and pulled the trigger with his right hand.

"Boom!"

With a gunshot, the trunk of the large tree cracked, a large, splintered hole blasted through its middle! The upper part wobbled groaning for a moment before crashing down with a heavy load of snow.

"So powerful..."

Guan Tong walked forward and touched the large hole in the trunk. If he had this gun back when the wild boar came down the mountain, just one Type 2 shot would have definitely killed the boar.

Even some stronger, larger beasts probably couldn't withstand this one Type 2 shot. Even if they survived one shot, they wouldn't survive a follow-up shot.

"The power is great, but the drawback is the area of effect is much smaller than Type 1 Ammunition. Use Type 2 for single, tough-skinned targets; otherwise, Type 1 is more useful."

Guan Tong then consumed 30 points of Mind Power to generate one Type 3 Ammunition.

The effect of this quite expensive high-explosive round was undoubtedly something to look forward to.

Playing it safe, Guan Tong found an open area without obstacles on either side, raised the muzzle a bit to avoid accidentally injuring himself.

Then he pulled the trigger.

"Kaboom!"

A loud noise like muffled thunder erupted from the barrel, startling even Guan Tong who was holding the gun.

Immediately followed by another explosive "Boom!", within the impact area of the Type 3 round, flames burst forth, four or five surrounding large trees fell accordingly, and large amounts of snow poured down, quickly extinguishing the flames.

Looking at the mess ahead, Guan Tong said distractedly, "This Type 3 high-explosive round basically has the power of a personal grenade launcher..."

No wonder generating one Type 3 round consumed a high 30 points of Mind Power. Guan Tong knew that firing one of these at a critical moment could solve many problems.

Forget combat; even for breaking down doors or blasting through walls, as long as there was a need for destruction, one Type 3 shot would satisfy most requirements.

Stockpile, stockpile, stockpile.

Guan Tong made a decision. In the coming days, he would stockpile more bullets in the gun. Slowly build up a supply of Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3, so that if needed in the future, he wouldn't "regret having too few."

Of course, he wouldn't spend all his Mind Power on generating bullets. He still planned to use half for the deep character addition development of "Shadow".

Testing complete, he carried the gun back to camp.

For the final three days of the rule's effective period, Guan Tong didn't do anything else. Each day after clearing the snow from the path, he curled up in his sleeping bag, consuming Mind Power to generate bullets and add characters.

During this time, he visited Wang Yan once. Her stomach illness still hadn't improved, and she could only rely on taking painkillers daily to control the pain.

Chen Na massaged her mother's stomach every day for this reason, hoping she would get better soon.

Guan Tong could do nothing about this. He had considered that among the products available in the Ascension Store, there was one called [Primary Medical Box · Bronze Tier].

In the tests done in the official White Paper, the box could yield various medical supplies, like Special Effect Pain Relief Tablets, hemostatic aerosol, antidote potions, etc.

Perhaps among them was a random medicine that could help with Wang Yan's stomach illness, but the chance of getting it was extremely small.

Moreover, this medical box cost a hefty 80 Ascension Coins. Apart from official testers, no one was willing to spend that many coins on a random box. If the item obtained wasn't useful to them, those 80 coins would be equivalent to wasted.

Even with unlimited coins, able to buy freely, there was another unsolvable problem—items obtained from the box could not be traded.

This meant that even if Guan Tong created coins to buy the box, and was incredibly lucky enough to get a medicine that could treat Wang Yan's stomach illness, he couldn't trade it to Wang Yan or directly give it to her for use.

So, he could only hope that Wang Yan could endure, that the snow on the road would melt quickly after the rules ended, allowing her to quickly go to the hospital.

And so, the final three days of the rule's effective period passed quietly.

On July 1st, Guan Tong woke up an hour earlier than usual, then discovered that Chen Na and Wang Yan had also woken up early. It seemed everyone woke up early on this day the rules ended, due to anticipation and a sense of relief.

Nearing nine o'clock, all three came outside, standing together looking up at the sky, waiting for the moment announcing the end to arrive.

[Rule time has ended]

[Congratulations on passing the test of the fourth Doomsday Rule]

Reward has been distributed to the Storage Box

[Ascension Store has listed more products, viewable through Personal Terminal]

[The fifth Doomsday Rule will be announced in thirty days]

As the voice of the Fire Thief sounded, the thick cloud layer in the sky rapidly dispersed.

Sunlight once again shone upon the land. Because of the snow's reflection, the world between heaven and earth appeared crystalline white.

Feeling the warmth of the sunlight falling on their bodies, at this moment Wang Yan couldn't hold back her tears, and Chen Na also threw herself into her mother's arms, crying loudly.

Guan Tong also felt a warmth in his own eyes.

Although he hadn't encountered any serious dangers this month and passed it relatively safely, undoubtedly, his psychological and mental state had still been considerably affected.

He thought most people in the world probably felt the same way now; countless people were likely cheering and crying.

Because there was no time like the present to appreciate the warmth and beauty of sunlight. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Mom, let's go to the hospital in the city to get you treated!" Chen Na said immediately after crying.

Wang Yan stroked her daughter's hair: "Silly child, the snow on the road hasn't melted yet, we still have to wait."

"But our vehicle is a big one, isn't it!"

"Even so, we have to wait. The snow on the highway is too thick... Don't worry, Nana, Mom is fine. Besides, it's July now, the hottest month of summer. The bright sun will melt all the snow away soon. Right, Xiao Guan?"

Wang Yan looked at Guan Tong, who nodded. Indeed, July was typically the month with the most abundant sunlight and highest temperatures.

But it had snowed the entire month of June, followed immediately by July's high temperatures. How fast the snow would melt under this clash was something no one had researched.

After all, apart from the Fire Thief, humans couldn't manipulate the natural forces of heaven and earth to accomplish such a thing.

"Xiao Guan, you said the snow here was relatively light, and it's already this difficult. What must the city be like? Surely many people died..."

Wang Yan gazed towards the highway direction at the endless thick snow and couldn't help but say.

Guan Tong remained silent. He didn't know what Yunhua city proper looked like at this moment, but the situation was certainly not optimistic.