Chapter 376: Chapter 374: Where There’s Something Unusual, There Must Be a Demon

Ye Qing left the AS zone alone in a black snowstorm to find Jiang Yan, unaware of her actions.

After night fell, she left Hua Bao outside on guard duty and gave it a pile of gold bars before she entered the Space by herself.

After dinner, as Jiang Yan prepared to find something to do to pass the time, she suddenly realized that she had forgotten to leave extra firearms and ammunition for Song Qian and the others.

With a thought, she retrieved the ammunition “packed” from the AS zone’s armory and immediately took out an ion cutter, carefully beginning to dismantle the metal protective net around the magazines and the firearms.

Three hours later, the metal protective nets ensnaring the magazines and firearms were finally removed.

Looking at the pile of valuable weapons and ammunition, Jiang Yan suddenly felt an indescribable sense of fulfillment.

The joy of zero-cost gain is probably like this.

She carefully recalled the weapons that Song Qian and the others commonly used, and specifically left some that were simple, effective, and powerful. The rest she put back in the [Inventory Area].

Glancing at the time, it was approaching dawn.

“Hua Bao, is everything normal outside?” she communicated with Hua Bao, who was guarding outside of the Space.

As Hua Bao chewed on the gold bar, its small eyes whirled around, “Hmm, the snowstorm seems to have lessened a bit. Don’t worry, Mom, rest easy with me watching.”

There were no living creatures in sight here, making it unusually safe.

Even so, with one vine wrapped around the gold, Hua Bao extended its remaining eleven vines like octopus tentacles in all directions.

If there was any movement around, it would be the first to grasp the situation.

“Okay, thanks for your hard work, Hua Bao.” With Hua Bao on guard outside, Jiang Yan felt exceptionally relaxed.

She stretched her hand to cover her mouth and yawned several times, then leisurely returned to her house.

A good night’s sleep.

The next day, Jiang Yan was awakened by the sound of roosters crowing.

Indeed, within the brood of chicks that she had hatched from the constant temperature box, there turned out to be several roosters.

Despite it being always daylight inside the Space, these chickens, ducks, and geese seemed to have their own biological clocks.

In the period corresponding to the night, they all obediently returned to the containers or hid under a fruit tree, quiet and still.

Only in the period of “daytime,” did they start running around like headless chickens.

The Residential Area in the Space was equipped with an automatic function for purifying trash and excrement, and as these chickens, ducks, and geese seemed to be limited in some way, they would not actively run into the Apple Cabin.

Therefore, aside from occasionally picking up eggs, Jiang Yan was too lazy to manage them, opting for free-range care like she did with the Reindeer.

The next day, as the snowstorm continued, Jiang Yan stayed in the Space to rest and recuperate.

She estimated such a black snowstorm would not last for long.

Indeed, on the morning of the fourth day, the black snowstorm stopped.

After breakfast and getting her gear ready, she finally left the Space.

Small black snowflakes continued to fall from the sky, but the daylight was significantly brighter.

Jiang Yan chose a spot to rest, somewhat resembling a natural archway formed by a fissure.

At this moment, the outside was piled up with nearly four to five meters of black snowflakes.

If it weren’t for Hua Bao, the exit from Jiang Yan’s Space would probably have been buried by the thick black snow.

As usual, Hua Bao curled around her body and, with twelve agile vines like a spider’s legs, quickly climbed out of the trench.

Having reached the surface, Jiang Yan surveyed the surroundings with a frown.

The originally endless white snowfield was now eerily desolate and dark at a glance.

The ground was covered with black snowflakes, and beneath both large and small black meteorites were thousands of fissures torn open by the impact of gravity.

The fissures varied in size, and an accidental fall could be deadly.

Especially some of the larger ravines, which seemed to be covered by ice and snow on the surface.

In reality, they were powder snow, not yet compressed, and one could easily fall into the ravines with sharp icy teeth.

The snowmobile was no longer rideable.

Even walking had to be done with extreme caution.

Jiang Yan thought for a moment and rejected Hua Bao’s suggestion to weave her a path with its vines.

She took out a telescope to look around, and then retrieved a climbing stick from the Space, slowly moving toward her selected direction with cautious probing.

Not long after walking, a building covered with icicles appeared not far away.

On top of the building was a row of inconspicuous characters frozen in frost: YD Yunding Tower.

Jiang Yan was shaken for a second.

According to the information she searched on the computer before the apocalypse, this landmark building of East Mountain had 68 floors pre-apocalypse.

There was a helipad on the rooftop.

To reach the helipad from the 68th floor, there were also 3 levels of interlayers about 6 meters in height.

Now, only about ten or so layers seemed to be exposed at the top.

This meant that the area covered by ice and snow in this region was at least around 50 floors.

How much is that, 300 meters…

Additionally, throughout her journey, she encountered a lot of meteorites.

Within ten meters around the tower, there was nothing at all.

When something is out of the ordinary, there must be a monster–

Jiang Yan’s eyebrows knotted.

“Mom, Dr. Song was right!” Hua Bao didn’t catch this detail but was instead very excited.

“Hmm.” Jiang Yan nodded, subconsciously taking out her telescope and looking towards the tower.

Hua Bao twisted its vines and stretched out its red tongue to lick its fangs, “Then Mom, shall we return now?”

“Retu–” Jiang Yan was halfway through her sentence when her pupils contracted, and her body quickly ducked behind a large nearby meteorite:

“There’s a situation, don’t go just yet…”