An Nuan slept, her mind hazy.
She dreamt of being taken to the zoo and amusement park by her parents when she was little, and also of her grandmother making spun sugar for her.
Muddled dreams intertwined in her mind, giving An Nuan a splitting headache.
"Little Nuan, when you grow up, I'll come back with eight great horses and a hundred-person palanquin to marry you, just like in the TV shows you love to watch."
"Big brother, you won't lie to me?"
"Mmm, I won't lie to you."
"Big brother, pinky promise..."
An Nuan's lips parted slightly.
Big brother? Who was big brother? Why couldn't she remember?
But they must have met before, it felt so familiar.
"Little Nuan, Little Nuan, are you awake? Don't scare me!"
"Sister, if you don't wake up soon, Brother Hai will die!"
Whose voice was that?
So familiar...
An Nuan mustered all her strength and opened her eyelids just a sliver. She saw many glowing orbs floating into her body.
"She's awake! Little Nuan is awake! Hai Changfeng, I'm giving you ginseng today, so try harder!"
Hai Changfeng gave a wry smile.
That might require a thousand-year-old ginseng to recover.
Hai Changfeng sped up, continuously injecting life force into An Nuan.
An Nuan gradually regained consciousness. A deep blue light circle exploded from her chest, and a wave of energy shook the villa a few times.
She stood up and found herself outside the house, within a circle two and a half meters in diameter. All the snow had melted, revealing a patch of ground.
The water reached her chest and was very hot.
It felt like being in a sauna.
An Nuan couldn't remember what had happened, only that she was full of energy, brimming with vitality from the inside out.
"Little Nuan, come up quickly!"
Luoluo lowered a vine, and An Nuan grabbed its end, being pulled up.
Chang Kaitong and Chen Wenjing immediately blushed and turned away shyly.
An Nuan noticed their strangeness, completely bewildered.
"What's wrong with you two? Do you have a fever?"
"Little Nuan, put on some clothes first, and we'll talk slowly."
Luoluo quickly wrapped her in clothes.
She had only been wearing a casual tank top and shorts when she was put in the snow. After soaking in the snowmelt for two hours, they were as wet as could be.
She already had a good figure, with no extra flesh on her stomach or thighs.
A beautiful woman in wet clothes was irresistible to men of any age.
Luoluo whispered in her ear teasingly.
"Little Nuan, you have the qualifications to be a heartbreaker!"
"Stop messing around! Let's talk about something serious, I've leveled up to tier three!"
Everyone hadn't registered what she said.
An Nuan snapped her fingers, and several pits appeared on the snow-covered ground.
They easily swallowed the accumulated snow in the yard.
"I can now activate five devouring zones simultaneously, and without close proximity, anything within a thousand meters is within my reach!"
"Sister Nuan, you're amazing, I admire you so much!"
An Nuan smiled bashfully.
"I didn't expect to be able to level up beyond my rank. I've never heard of it before!"
"That's why Sister Nuan is amazing!"
"What's amazing about it!"
Luoluo kicked Chang Kaitong angrily.
Although she understood her brother's excitement, she was still very angry.
"If Hai Changfeng hadn't used his life force to protect you, your CPU might have burned out! We're doing well now, let's proceed steadily and don't take any more risks!"
After Luoluo finished speaking, she hugged An Nuan.
Everyone fell silent.
Juanzi also came over and licked her fingers, nuzzling her with its head.
An Nuan was also filled with trepidation after learning about the upgrade process from them.
Crystals were indeed very suitable for her, but the danger of jumping levels was much greater than she had imagined.
Perhaps Black Smoke believed in her strength when making that choice, but An Nuan decided not to take risks anymore.
What if something went wrong and she died? What would happen to these children?
An Nuan also felt sorry for Hai Changfeng.
She grabbed a pile of health supplements, including deer antler, donkey-hide gelatin, and ginseng, and stuffed them into Hai Changfeng's mouth.
Hai Changfeng never imagined he would experience the feeling of being force-fed supplements to the point of nausea one day.
An Nuan took a shower and changed into comfortable pajamas.
By the time she came out of the bathroom, the weather outside had changed.
First, there was a short period of acid rain, which wasn't very destructive, not even damaging ordinary walls much.
However, most of the snow had melted.
When four to five meters of snow melted instantly, the force was considerable.
Especially in low-lying areas, a small tsunami immediately followed, submerging entire buildings.
Ordinary televisions were rendered useless, but satellite TV still had a signal.
The news no longer spoke of stability and peace, but instead displayed several place names and route maps, encouraging survivors to go there.
"The Seven Major Bases."
"Little Nuan, what are the Seven Major Bases?"
"Survivor concentration camps, mostly built by former industry leaders and those in power. They have weapons and resources, so establishing a fortress base in a relatively safe location wouldn't be difficult."
"Then the seven bases that have been revealed must have been built by those scoundrels. Damn it, I don't believe such a great natural disaster would happen without any warning!"
Hai Changfeng was right.
Such a strange natural disaster must have had warning signs.
Although they could say it was to avoid causing panic, who would believe that the bases were built so quickly?
Those were bases, not Lego structures, how could they be built in such a short time.
The news anchor on TV began to urge everyone to enter the bases for refuge.
The slogans were also very appealing.
XX Base, ensure your family's safety, and build our new home together.
They also displayed some partial environmental maps.
There was mountains, water, and food.
Such an attractive environment was a lifesaver for everyone, and they would do their best to grasp it.
But was it really that good?
Hmph.
An Nuan let out a cold laugh, which said it all.
If it were really that good, why would so many small groups have formed their own fortresses and bases in her previous life?
An Dong had also entered one for a period of time, but seized an opportunity to lead people out and establish their own territory.
Even poisonous snakes couldn't navigate well within them, so ordinary people would be lucky to just survive, let alone build a home.
Luoluo turned off the TV: "The official propaganda sounds like a pyramid scheme, it makes me inexplicably angry."
"Sister Nuan, if everyone goes there, should we consider going?"
"The current entrance fee is five catties of rice per person. In another month, it will likely be ten catties per person. There's no need to provide rations to those in power."
Hai Changfeng gnawed on donkey-hide gelatin: "Brother, have you seen The Hunger Games? In groups like this, the bottom foundation will always be the most miserable, and the extravagance of the upper class is beyond your comprehension!"
Chang Kaitong nodded, becoming even more enlightened today.
An Nuan knew that the villa could not stand indefinitely in the apocalypse.
It could handle a thousand zombies, but it would surely fall against a thousand mutated ability users.
But for now, the villa was safe, they had food and drink, and Black Smoke was helping them from behind.
If it really came to a point where they had to hide in a base or fortress, they would snatch one and become the boss themselves!