Chapter 269 - 231: Ice Grapes
"It’s fine," Jiang Si said. "We can still think of other ways."
’If all else fails, we’ll just have to ditch the Mammoth.’ She’d truly done her best.
Suddenly, the Mammoth charged past them, running off excitedly.
Jiang Si was a little puzzled. ’Should we chase after it, or take this chance to sneak away via teleportation?’
Her intuition told her there was something good up ahead, so Jiang Si couldn’t resist her curiosity and had Qin Shen follow it.
They saw the Mammoth swinging its trunk and using its front feet like a massive, mobile excavator. It dug furiously into the snow and suddenly stuffed something into its mouth.
Qin Shen sniffed the air and knew at once. "Grapes. It’s eating grapes."
Jiang Si was surprised. ’There are grapes under all this ice and snow?’
’Could it be a mutated variety? If so, we could take some back to plant.’
"Ice grapes existed before the apocalypse," Qin Shen said. "They’re quite cold-resistant and ripen gradually in the winter. In Europe, they’d deliberately wait until after the vines were covered in heavy snow to harvest them. The ice wine made that way was said to be richer and more delicious, and it also helped relieve fatigue and aid digestion."
Jiang Si nodded. "Then let’s dig some up and take them with us."
In front of the newcomer, Zhang Bosheng, Jiang Si suddenly used her Space Power again. The ice grape vines actually uprooted themselves and loaded themselves onto the truck.
Zhang Bosheng was utterly stunned. ’Jiang Si can’t just control people, she can control objects too! Incredible, truly incredible.’
’As long as Jiang Si doesn’t have any ill intentions toward me, I should be safe, right?’
Zhang Bosheng’s fear gave way to a sense of relief.
The Mammoth was still devouring the grapes, so Jiang Si urged everyone to hurry up; she was about to open a black hole to teleport.
But the instant she opened the black hole, the Mammoth shrewdly realized that if it didn’t follow, its meal ticket would be gone.
It charged toward Jiang Si’s group and, just as the black hole was closing, managed to squeeze through.
Jiang Si and her group were teleported over two hundred li away, but the Mammoth had followed them. This time, as if afraid of losing its meal ticket, it hooked its trunk around their SUV.
’Who knew the black hole closed so slowly?’ Jiang Si thought.
’Then again,’ she reasoned, ’if it closed too quickly, I wouldn’t have been able to grab the Holy Mother last time.’
Since she couldn’t shake the creature off, she might as well put it to good use.
Jiang Si stored the SUV and the truck, then had everyone climb onto the Mammoth’s back.
They were like a swarm of fleas on its back, having little to no effect on the massive creature.
In fact, its furry, swaying back felt like riding a mobile sofa, and it was surprisingly warm.
Jiang Si searched the area but still found no trace of Shen Baoying and the others.
’I have no idea where they were teleported to.’
Instead, numerous zombies, having caught their scent, were gradually closing in.
The Mammoth was no pushover. It stomped them flat, one by one—SPLAT!—and even had a powerful impact Barrier. The zombies stood no chance.
Jiang Si finally felt a bit of relief. ’The food it’s eating isn’t going to waste. It’s actually useful.’
While the others rested, Jiang Si closed her eyes to search for her next controllable target.
This time, she "woke up" inside a cave. The moment she did, she found a girl and a woman there as well.
’Probably this superpower user’s wife and daughter.’
Surprisingly, their supplies were abundant. Food, drinks, and other necessities were all stacked neatly. Their daughter even had a princess bed and toys.
’But how did they get to this cave, thousands of meters up a mountain?’ she wondered.
Jiang Si sensed the man’s superpower and, sure enough, he was one of the mutated Winged People. As Jiang Si flexed the man’s shoulders, a pair of black wings instantly unfurled.
Using the man’s ability to fly, Jiang Si surveyed the area from above. Suddenly, she spotted something incredible in a ravine below.
’Aren’t those my supplies that went missing during the teleportation?’
But it wasn’t all of it—only about a fifth.
’No wonder the things in the cave looked so familiar.’
’They must have been taken from my storage space.’
Jiang Si memorized the location, intending to come back for them. Then she noticed the shape of the ravine—it looked like a volcano.
The memory of the volcanic eruption on the isolated island still sent a chill down her spine.
’With all these supplies here, I have to get them back, no matter what.’
Most importantly, there was a helicopter among the supplies. A helicopter would make it much easier to find the others.
She flew back to the cave, relinquished control of the man, and said to Qin Shen, "I’ve found our missing supplies. We’re heading southwest."
Even though she hadn’t found Shen Baoying and the others, finding the supplies was still cause for a little celebration.
The Mammoth was very smart. Jiang Si named it Little Meng, and with just a little pointing, it knew which way to go.