Transmigration: Experiencing Life's End - Dying Peacefully in One's Sleep

Chapter 859 Extreme Apocalypse 23

Gao Mingcheng nodded: "The cold period is over, and I don't know how long it will last, but it should be hot all the time."

Upon seeing everyone, Xu Zhenzhu immediately instructed them, "Go wash your hands and then come and drink the porridge."

After the ice outside completely melted, there was water everywhere.

There are many incense burners outside the temple, so it's easy to find water to wash your hands.

Zhang Anwen was already very hungry, and the smell of food made his stomach rumble.

"Aunt Xu, you made porridge! It smells so good. I'll ask my mom to make some too. We still have some rice left."

Xu Zhenzhu said with a smile, "Come and have a bowl with us, we should have extra."

"No need, no need. Everyone is short of food right now, we'll cook for ourselves."

With that, Zhang Anwen quickly slipped away.

"Sister Tong, when did you wake up?"

After washing her hands, Li Xinyan took a bowl of porridge and sat down next to Ruan Chutong.

"Just now."

"Wow, I'm so envious of your sleep quality. I've had a hard time sleeping for that long since I turned 22."

Hearing her say that, Ruan Chutong smiled and casually distributed the white sugar to everyone.

Everyone else drinks their porridge without adding sugar, but Li Xinyan has the same taste as her.

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In the following days, everyone came and went, busy setting up temporary accommodations, and things went peacefully.

After what happened that night, it served as a deterrent to the people in the temple, and no one dared to disturb them.

The weather is getting hotter every day. In just a few days, I've switched from thick coats to thin coats, and I no longer need to cover myself with a thick blanket at night.

Gradually, many people ran out of food and went to the mountains every day to look for something to eat.

Perhaps it was a case of "when one door closes, another opens," because someone actually found winter bamboo shoots underground.

After the news spread, many people rushed to the bamboo forest to dig.

Ruan Chutong and his group naturally went as well. If they didn't go, wouldn't that be clearly telling people that they had plenty of food?

In the bamboo forest, everyone was busy digging in the soil, but without any tools, the work was very slow.

However, Ruan Chutong didn't want to wrong herself and her people, so she directly took out several entrenching tools.

"Sister Tong, did we accept this thing too?"

"Yes, the outdoor gear store we buy from has this."

Apart from themselves, no one could really remember exactly what they received, nor did they know the total amount.

All we know is that they spent almost two months collecting supplies, diving and climbing buildings every day to gather them, and they always succeeded.

Gao Mingcheng picked up an entrenching tool: "Having tools makes things much easier."

He started digging, huffing and puffing. Li Xinyan found it interesting and grabbed a handful, finding a spot to dig as well.

Of the remaining two, Ruan Chutong held one, and Li Yanjing didn't take the other one, which was eventually taken by Li Dayuan.

Mr. Gao was looking around for bamboo shoots. Although he didn't know much about bamboo shoots, he kept looking around.

Xu Zhenzhu and Gao's mother didn't come; the two of them stayed at the temple to guard their belongings and cook.

Li Yanjing reached out to Ruan Chutong and handed her a piece of wood: "The winter bamboo shoots are buried very deep. I'll dig them up. You can use this to help push away the soil that's been dug out. When I get tired, you can take over."

Do we need to cooperate to dig bamboo shoots? If he wanted to dig, why didn't he bring an entrenching tool earlier?

Ruan Chutong glanced at him for a moment, but in the end, she handed him the entrenching tool and exchanged tools with him.

However, the two of them worked together and dug very quickly; at least they had already seen something before the others had even dug out any bamboo shoots.

Upon seeing the bamboo shoots in the soil, Li Yanjing quickened her pace.

Finally, they harvested a bamboo shoot the size of a palm, which Ruan Chutong put into the burlap sack they had brought.

"Brother Li, we're pretty lucky. We can find it just by digging anywhere."

She didn't specifically look down into the ground, so it was all by luck.

"Hmm." Li Yanjing's lips curled up slightly, but she remained as taciturn as ever.

He looked around and then spotted a spot: "Tongtong, come over here."

Ruan Chutong was a little surprised to hear him call her that.

She rarely heard him call her that; only her mother and Uncle Li would call her that. If he wanted to call her, he would call her Chu Tong.

However, she didn't say anything. She felt that although this person seemed silent, he had a lot of ulterior motives, all of which were revealed in his scheming against her.

They're actually siblings now, which is... kind of exciting.

Ruan Chutong walked over and squatted down next to Li Yanjing. While watching people dig in the soil, she had nothing to do, so she started to look him over.

His profile is sharply defined, exuding a coldness; his jawline is clean and clear, his nose is high and straight, and his eyebrows and eyes are sharp.

"What are you looking at?" Li Yanjing didn't need to turn his head to know that she had been staring at him.

"Brother Li, you're handsome! You must have had quite a few girlfriends before, right?"

When Ruan Chutong heard his words, they were merely casual praise and questions.

Upon hearing this, Li Yanjing paused in his work and turned to look at her.

As if surprised that she would ask this, I looked closely at her expression.

I couldn't tell anything, but he still answered seriously, "No."

Ruan Chutong's eyes held amusement and teasing: "Nothing much? Is it not much, or have you never paid any?"

"Never."

"No way, Brother Li, you're already thirty-two and you've never had a girlfriend?"

"Yeah, I don't have time," Li Yanjing replied honestly, seemingly unconcerned.

He paused, then countered with, "How many have you had?"

"Me? I haven't had a chance yet. It's the apocalypse now, so I probably shouldn't be thinking about these things anymore."

When Ruan Chutong said this, she deliberately stared at him, trying to see if she could get any reaction.

In the end, it was discovered that Li Yanjing was indeed a person with very detached emotions.

All she could see was his hand pause for a moment, his lowered eyelashes flutter, and then there was no other reaction.

If I didn't know what he was like normally, I would have thought he had no reaction.

It has to be said that he hid his emotions very well; only someone with extensive experience and keen insight could discern his thoughts.

I doubt anyone else noticed it.

"Sister Tong, I dug up some bamboo shoots! Hahaha, look, they're not big, but it's still a harvest! How's your digging going?"

Li Xinyan suddenly ran over with a grin, interrupting their conversation.

Li Yanjing hesitated for a moment, and originally wanted to ask Ruan Chutong what kind of girl she liked, but in the end she didn't say it.

He glanced at his younger sister who had tried to interrupt, but had no choice but to continue digging bamboo shoots.

Ruan Chutong smiled and looked at the bamboo shoot in Li Xinyan's hand: "Your brother just dug up a palm-sized one, and here's another one that you can see the end of."

The bamboo shoot that Li Yanjing was digging up had indeed sprouted, and the two of them were chatting just now, so no one paid any attention to it.

"So fast? Then I'll go back and keep digging." Li Xinyan thought it would be the fastest.