Apocalypse Hoarder: I Have Billions in Supplies

Jiang Si smiled and shook her head. "No, you don’t have to raise it. Just give it some snacks from time to time."

Zhang Bosheng heaved a long sigh of relief. "Okay, I’ll be sure to guide Little Meng well."

"Mm."

After getting everyone settled, Jiang Si went to check on Bao’er.

Bao’er was thriving under Song Yufang’s care. She was plump and sweet-smelling, and when she saw Jiang Si, she giggled as if she recognized her.

Jiang Si gently took her little hand. "We saw your mother. She should be okay. The next time we return, we’ll be able to bring her back with us."

Bao’er broke into an even bigger smile, revealing a few adorable little baby teeth.

Everyone watching felt their hearts melt.

In quiet moments like these, seeing such a fragile, adorable little life always stirred a strange sense of emotion in them.

When they came out of the room, Zhang Aihua asked in surprise, "You just got back and you’re leaving already?"

Jiang Si nodded. "If we can’t find them, we’ll come back to check in from time to time. You make sure to organize everyone and keep building up the base."

Superpower users are powerful, but we can’t have them bullying others.

And especially conflicts between superpower users—those need to be mediated and resolved quickly to avoid any serious damage.

For example, if Hayden were to suddenly go on a rampage, the base they’ve built could be destroyed in minutes.

That’s why keeping an eye on everyone’s day-to-day behavior is also very important.

Of course, the most important thing is to keep stockpiling enough food and clearing more arable land.

Once Jiang Si returns and opens her Barrier Space, they’ll be able to grow all the vegetables, fruits, and grains that can’t survive in this frigid region.

For now, they could only rely on Mei Na.

She could regulate the climate in a small area, and the few vegetables and fruits she managed to grow could be given as rewards to those who contributed most to the base.

Jiang Si also made a point of giving her some easier-to-grow vegetable seeds from her dimensional space.

Mei Na was delighted and asked Jiang Si, "Are you sure you don’t need us to go with you to search for them?"

’The world outside is just so dangerous,’ Mei Na thought. ’But with more superpower users, they could watch each other’s backs.’

Jiang Si shook her head. "No, it’s fine. You all just stay here at the base."

"Alright, then. I wish you a safe journey."

"Mm."

Just as Jiang Si was about to leave, she remembered to call for Dai Mao and Little Chun.

Zhang Aihua said, "After you left last time, they went out and never came back."

Jiang Si’s eyes fell, a hint of disappointment showing. ’They’re gone? Well, that’s probably for the best.’

’They’re smart. They should be able to live freely, happily, and safely on their own.’

Since she couldn’t ride Dai Mao and the others, Jiang Si produced a helicopter from her dimensional space, ready to take Qin Shen with her on the search.

In case the group encountered a danger that required evacuation, Jiang Si left another helicopter for them in the warehouse.

Qin Shen piloted the helicopter. Since Jiang Si hadn’t been able to locate Shen Baoying’s group through her remote viewing, she had Qin Shen fly at a low altitude. That way, if Shen Baoying and the others saw them, they could immediately call out for help.

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In the howling valley, Shen Baoying had no idea how long she had been walking.

Fortunately, Jiang Si’s normally harsh training was now paying off.

She had managed to deal with every danger she’d encountered so far.

She was also heading in the right direction.

As long as she kept walking, she would eventually make it back to the Holy Mother Base.

But the greatest difficulty was the lack of food.

Beneath the snow, there were frozen plants and trees from before, and if she was lucky, she could even find edible things or animal carcasses.

But deep in this valley, Shen Baoying hadn’t found anything edible in a long time.

Now, as she walked on, her head would grow faint, her vision would blur, and her body felt so weak that she desperately wanted to just fall down and sleep.

But she knew with chilling certainty that if she fell asleep, she would very likely never wake up again.

Shen Baoying found a stick. When the hunger became too much to bear, she would chew on it.

’If I can just get out of this valley,’ she thought, ’I might be able to find something else to eat.’

She gritted her teeth and pushed on, hoping that Lu Zhifeng and the others weren’t facing the same hardships.

She walked until nightfall. The temperature plummeted, and Shen Baoying, completely out of strength, finally found a place to shelter from the wind and snow and crawled inside.

As luck would have it, there was a nest of dead woolly rats.

Shen Baoying snatched one up, about to eat it, but immediately stopped herself.

’First, I have to check if it’s started to rot. Then, I need to figure out how it died before I can eat it.’

Jiang Si had taught her exactly how to determine these things. Judging from the state of the corpse, it had likely frozen to death from the sudden plunge in temperature.