Xu Song had a clear idea of how to collect the electric energy emitted by his mother. Soon, a simplified version of an electric current collector was ready.
Mother Xu’s ability to discharge electricity was good, but the intensity of the released electric currents varied. After burning three simple circuit boards, they finally found the appropriate electric current size for this basic collector.
So, Mother Xu began to discharge electricity, claiming that it was for training the uniformity and stability of her ability. Though the explanation was a bit forced, since Mother Xu planned to infuse electricity into bullets to enhance their power, it required stable electric currents. For now, they considered this a different method of training.
After continuously releasing for half an hour, Mother Xu said, “Oh, I’m tired. I’ll stop now! I’m feeling a bit dizzy.”
“It should be her limit, but she sustained it for quite a long time,” Xu Song nodded and looked at Yue Zheng. “It seems like it took longer than the first time I checked when I first used my ability.”
“It might be related to the current environment or perhaps how Mom acquired her ability,” Yue Zheng suggested.
Xu Song shrugged, “People who can survive in the apocalypse have already had their bodies transformed by energy once. Maybe that’s why it’s different from our time.”
After half an hour of continuous discharge, they managed to fill half of the maximum capacity of the battery. What excited them even more was that after resting for an hour, Mother Xu could continue to use her electric powers! As long as they did this twice a day, the car’s battery would have enough power!
Xu Song sighed silently, noting that her recovery speed was much faster than his at the beginning. Even now, his recovery rate was similar to his mother’s, provided he didn’t use crystals.
The experiment temporarily concluded, and while Mother Xu was cooking, Xu Song and Yue Zheng wandered around the yard.
Abu wagged his tail happily and ran around them, lowering his head as if he wanted to rub against Xu Song. Suddenly, a tremendous force pushed Xu Song into Yue Zheng’s arms.
“Abu, please remember that you’re a big dog…” Rubbing his numb nose, Xu Song’s eyes welled up with tears. Yue Zheng’s chest was so hard!!
“Whimper…” The big dog lowered itself to the ground, resting its chin on its front paws, looking dejected.
Xu Song was speechless and twitched his mouth a few times. Seeing Abu’s appearance, it was as if he had been grievously wronged.
Reaching out to touch its nose, the big tail wagged briskly again, and its excited demeanor returned. Its eyes sparkled brightly.
Yue Zheng patted Xu Song’s shoulder and led him into Abu’s den.
The den was made like a small two-story house with wolf fur covering the inside. Almost an entire wolf pelt was used to cover it, and the remaining areas and the floor were patched together with fur from various animals.
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“Grandma said our blankets are enough, so we’re giving this one to Abu,” Mo Tiancheng explained, pointing at the quilt. After finishing his explanation, he cheered and, together with Mo Tianyou, threw themselves into Abu’s den, which was almost big enough to bury a person.
There was still a slight odor inside the den – the scent of wolf fur, fox fur, and the aroma of other animal furs. But as instructed by Mother Xu, Mo Tiancheng planted some four-leaf clovers every day and placed them inside. This helped reduce the odor significantly.
“Dad, after the weather gets warmer, can we find some flowers? Let’s plant them in the yard for Abu!” Mo Tianyou rolled over to the two adults, lifted his little face, and looked at them with his two shiny black eyes.
“Sure, when spring comes, we can plant whatever flowers you like in the yard.” Mo Tianyou cheered and rolled back into the den. These two children seemed determined to completely occupy Abu’s den, didn’t they?
As they were thinking about it, Xiao Shu, who had filled the water tank, swayed over to them. It squeezed in beside Abu, who had been lying at the door, and tipped over to the ground. Just like that, it joined the children in rolling around.
Leaving the two children in the dog’s den, Xu Song and Yue Zheng continued to inspect the surroundings.
The part of the wall not covered by the shelter was now accumulating a thick layer of snow, and the snow in the sky showed no sign of stopping.
“Thank goodness we built the shelter,” Xu Song sighed.
Yue Zheng nodded. “Otherwise, the solar panels on our car might have been damaged.”
“That’s true. Luckily, Mom suddenly gained the ability to generate electricity. Otherwise…”
Yue Zheng let his head rest on Xu Song’s shoulder and sighed softly. Yes, it was just too dangerous a process, and he couldn’t imagine allowing her to go through it again. She was such a great mother-in-law; where else could he find someone like her?
As night fell, they called the two kids, who had been playing to their heart’s content, along with Xiao Shu, back into the RV.
Oops, almost forgot – among the remaining two creatures… ah no, among the three creatures, due to their natural instincts, the grasshopper and Achi had been affected to some extent. In recent days, they have become even less active.
And the bee pupae were still in the process of metamorphosis. In any case, they were all in a state of semi-hibernation, sleeping soundly.
Mother Xu still made a large pot of hot pot, but this time she made some improvements. She added a lot of crushed tomatoes to the soup base, turning it into a tomato hot pot with a sweet and sour flavor, which tasted really good.
After eating their fill of the hot pot, they washed up and went to bed. Xu Song hadn’t even finished arranging the bedding when someone pounced on him from behind.
Well, it was just like that. Being pressed like this repeatedly, one could get used to it. In the midst of it, Xu Song completely forgot about the issue of counterattacking and was effortlessly eaten whole by the other person. It was only the next day, after he had fully awakened, that he would feel a bit of regret.
In short, someone was gradually getting used to being pressed – it was really a sad story.
Outside, the wind and snow raged on for two or three days. The ordinary snow turned into a blizzard that no one could cope with. The base’s road maintenance and management had completely paralyzed, and even the roads couldn’t be cleared.
Fortunately, before the snow disaster hit, the base had managed to transport back that batch of supplies. Whether it was the corpses of mutant beasts or the subsequent batch of warm supplies, they had saved the vast majority of their resources for the base.
The unfortunate part was that within two or three days, the death toll in the base had greatly increased.
Some froze to death, others fell ill with untreatable diseases and couldn’t even leave their homes to seek help before they died. And some starved to death because they ran out of food… There was also a group of people whose bodies couldn’t be found. Perhaps they hadn’t turned into zombies, but they ended up inside someone else’s stomach.
Xu Song and his group didn’t have to worry about food or energy, but meat consumption was relatively high. However, the most worrying thing for them was that on the fourth day after returning to the base and recharging their crystals, they ran out of the mutated animal’s pouches.
“There are only six left,” Xu Song confirmed, poking the pouches in the bag.
“And there’s not much meat left at home,” Mother Xu said after tallying up the remaining supplies in the “warehouse.”
The main meat consumer at home was Abu, and they didn’t want to deprive it too much. Therefore, even though they added some vegetables to its food, the proportion was not too large.
“It looks like we’ll have to go out the day after tomorrow,” Yue Zheng said, glancing at the sky outside. Fortunately, the snow had stopped falling, and the weather outside seemed to be gradually clearing up.
“But the road doesn’t look easy to travel on,” Mother Xu hesitated. The snow piled up along the wall, the only part of the wall that wasn’t blocked had reached almost a person’s height.
“It’s okay,” Xu Song said, flexing his elbow.
“My ability might be able to deal with this snow.” The temperature of his fire-based ability was much higher than that of a typical fire-based ability. The last time they went out, Xu Song discovered that he could directly evaporate the snow from a considerable distance without needing direct contact.
After thinking for a while, Mother Xu sighed lightly and slapped her thigh. “Alright, everyone, let’s go!”
“Mom…” Xu Song was about to object, but his mother raised her chin and looked at her son with a contemptuous look. “Aren’t you going out to hunt this time?”
Xu Song nodded.
“And what about the prey you catch? Are you going to leave them in the snow?” She shook her head. Could they just leave it? Those were all money!
“In that case, it’s settled. We’ll bring the game back. We can fit it in the car, one car or two cars, it doesn’t matter. Let’s go together.” After speaking, Mother Xu added, “Isn’t that what you said? You can clear the way.”
So, they would take a larger vehicle!
Xu Song was completely overruled by his mother, and no matter how he resisted…
Yue Zheng suppressed his laughter and patted Xu Song’s head, pointing at his wristwatch. “The base is still heavily collecting food and warm supplies. We can hand over what we don’t need directly in exchange for points, and then exchange them for ammunition.”
Mother Xu had been playing with her ability bullets more and more happily these days. Every day, their yard would produce a loud noise. If it weren’t for the fact that the snow had blocked the roads, their neighbors would have protested long ago.
Rather than letting her waste her bullets at home, it was better to go out and practice.
“…Alright,” Xu Song finally nodded. Anyway, he couldn’t argue with his mom, couldn’t fight Yue Zheng, and with the two kids cheering them on, was there any reason to refuse?
Xu Song and Yue Zheng planned to go to the mission hall today to pick up a mission and also check the situation outside. But when they opened the door, they were stunned by the white “wall” behind the door…
The snow had sealed the gate completely!
A bright orange fire dragon flew out, and without getting close, it melted a hole in the snow gate.
Fortunately, although the gate was blocked, the road outside had been cleared to some extent by the base staff who had resumed work. To call it clearing was a stretch; they had mostly used tools to scrape and flatten it, with most of the effort still relying on human labor.
Walking laboriously on the snowy ground, the two of them headed towards the central street. In weather like this, everyone was dressed like a ball. Even if they accidentally slipped, they would hardly get hurt. Instead, they might end up like an overturned turtle, struggling to get up for half a day.
The mission hall was unusually quiet, and apart from those who had to go out to find food, few people would venture out in this weather. After picking up their mission and heading back home, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of oppression as they looked at the increasingly emaciated people they encountered on the way. In these past few days, so many had died again…
Time to work! Heigh-Ho!
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Thank you for the chapter. I binge read from the beginning. I love this story. ❤️