Natural Disasters Strikes: I stockpiled like crazy!-Chapter 160: Blizzard

Pei Huangyi was about to approach the woman when he saw Pei Zhi on his way to the jade points shop.

"Big Sister! They’re all so pretty, and they’ll suit you! How about buying one?"

The one running the stall was Cang Rou. She had collected textile scraps and turned them into practical accessories, as suggested by the kind young woman who worked with her in the sewing department.

Since the three of them were disguised, she didn’t recognize them at all. "Indeed. Madam, I can see you have beautiful hair! These would certainly look good on you!" Then, she turned to Weihao, "Kind sir, how about buying one for your wife?"

Lin Weihao’s eyes flickered as he looked at Nanzhi and his eyes crinkled as she didn’t even bother to correct the stall owner.

Nanzhi glanced at the accessories, especially the ones with tassels. They looked like something a little girl would wear.

She was planning to cut her hair after the winter, so a hair tie wasn’t necessary.

At the end of the stall, she spotted a small teddy bear pendant. Nanzhi grabbed three bears in different colors instead. "How much are these?"

Cang Rou smiled and named her price. Nanzhi paid double, making Cang Rou very grateful.

Nanzhi handed one bear to the little dumpling and gave the other one to Lin Weihao.

Lin Weihao was not fond of these things but he wore the teddy like it was some kind of medal.

As Nanzhi and Lin Yicheng were about to leave, a shadow approached Cang Rou and asked, "How much for everything?"

"E-everything?" Cang Rou gulped.

Nanzhi spotted a stall selling paracord bracelets ahead.

"Customer, this paracord bracelet is not only pretty but also practical! You can disassemble it into rope, which is great for climbing!"

She turned around to ask Lin Weihao if he likes them, but he was nowhere to be seen.

It was only after a minute that he came back with his backpack bulging.

The three spend another hour shopping before returning home.

Days passed, and by the twelfth day, the temperature continued to fall. Fewer and fewer people could be seen walking outside as the cold seeped into their bones.

The amount of jade the store earned in the past few days was enough to increase her Lobby Time to 16 hours. Within that time, she was able to finish her entire stock of winter green mushroom spores and craft another 457 frostbane serums, which she gave to Lin Weihao, keeping 10 for herself, in case of emergencies.

The jade points stores were still operating, but Feng Ran and the soldiers who had taken the serums began building-to-building sales when no customers came by.

Those who were reluctant to part with their keepsakes eventually succumbed to the cold and exchanged them for supplies, allowing Nanzhi to earn more jade, which increased her game lobby time again to 20 hours. That meant Nanzhi could now have 40 hours in a day.

By the 15th day, the number of alien beasts roaming around the base had decreased. Nanzhi and Lin Weihao’s hunting time became shorter, and the amount of wolf meat they brought back decreased as well.

On the 16th day, the temperature dropped to negative fifty degrees. The cars stopped working, and anyone exposed to the snow who didn’t drink the serum suffered frostbite within 10 minutes. The heating methods in the apartment areas also failed to keep up, and children began to develop fevers.

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Lin Weihao was already prepared for this.

The soldiers gathered the residents into the large basements. Everyone huddled together around the stoves and bon fires.

By the 20th day, the recorded temperature reached negative sixty degrees. A massive blizzard and the true eternal night descended. It was pitch black, both day and night.

The recorded cases of fever spiked, but fortunately, no deaths were recorded, thanks to Nanzhi’s herbal medicine. It was extremely effective—so long as one didn’t go outside, they would not fall ill.

All operations were suspended.

The Military Base was in much better shape compared to other parts of the city and country.

Outside, the blizzard howled like a wounded animal, its winds whipping through the skeletal remains of the broken world.

In other bases and parts of the country where the blizzard raged, the snow felt like suffocating sheets, burying everything under three meters and turning the ground into a vast white desert.

Within this time, many people fell ill, and some who had been sleeping never woke up. Those who wanted to search for supplies also fallen to eternal sleep.

Not only were the people, but alien beasts as well. Those who couldn’t find shelter in time perished from the bitter cold.

Nanzhi turned off the radio as she couldn’t received any news anymore.

In the past, she had become numb to deaths in the apartment building. To endure the blizzard, in her desperation, she had thought of the Eskimos in the cartoons she had watched as a child and, in a crazy moment, built an igloo inside her bedroom using a table and mattress to survive.

Using tools she found in the cottage, Nanzhi started building a place for the bees in the corner, away from the chicken coops.

She first found some flowers near the beehive in the Misty Land and brought them back to the safe zone to replant, along with other flowers like sunflowers and lavender from the virtual farm, before transferring the beehives.

The bees seemed to love the sunflowers and lavenders the most.

While foraging, she came across the same cow she saw before.

[Mist Bloom Cow]

The Mist Bloom Cow had a soft, greyish-white coat, amber eyes, curved horns, and unusually muscular limbs.

Nanzhi managed to catch it by setting up muddy traps.

She brought it back to the safe zone and built a fenced enclosure for it. As for its food, Nanzhi gathered grass from the area it frequented, but the cow ignored it, jumped over the fence, and snatched the kernels instead.

Nanzhi fell into deep thought before offering it crops from her virtual farm. The cow liked carrots and carrot leaves the most.

The Mist Bloom Cow’s milk was exceptional—it didn’t even need to be warmed.

Lin Yicheng loved drinking it in the morning.

After a few days, she harvested three bucketfuls of Mist Gold Honey and nine trays of eggs.

The black rooster had made its own harem, and the chickens began hatching chicks.

[Mist Kernel Chick]

As the chickens took their chicks to play in the safe zone, Nanzhi realized that the space was beginning to get cramped.

"Is there a way to expand the space?"

[Yes, there is! The Memory Fragment!]

Nanzhi had to admit that she had forgotten about that entirely.

The odd stone she received from Chu Muwen appeared in her hand.

[Memory Fragment]

She proceeded to the game lobby.

"Am I supposed to absorb this like the spars?"

[Yes.]

Nanzhi closed her eyes and began absorbing it.