Read Novel Full Chapter 488: She Lacks This Thing
Chapter 488: She Lacks This Thing
More than a hundred people came and they were pretty spread out. Koreans are known for being the best at talking big, but when it comes to real fights, they tend to back down. So, it’s no surprise that even the snow didn’t hold them back.
After confirming that they were dead, the two hurried back.
As expected, the few who struggled out of the snow had all been slashed in the neck by Huo Yishen.
But even with the bulletproof vests and helmets, they still needed to be cautious. The three hid behind a trench and waited to see if there were people trying to climb out before taking action.
Ten minutes later, several more people crawled out. They were suffocating, and their consciousness was blurred. Even with guns in their hands, they didn’t have the strength to shoot.
Jiang Ning took aim with a crossbow and sent them off to meet their maker.
After that, no one else crawled out.
After two hours of waiting, Jiang Ning made sure there was no surveillance around and neatly put the snow pile into the space.
The family followed her in and started digging out the bodies with shovels.
This group of people came prepared, and the supplies they confiscated were abundant, making Jiang Ning so excited that she almost called her father out of excitement.
Her suspicions were correct—the United Base operated a strict hierarchy based on skin color.
Aside from those burned alive in the ice house, 20 soldiers were suffocated by snow, while the rest were ordinary members.
These soldiers had the best equipment. All their submachine guns were top-grade military ones, and they weren’t just protected by bulletproof vests—some were even wearing military exoskeleton gear.
The ordinary blue-eyed members had civilian submachine guns and no bulletproof vests.
As for people of other skin colors, they only had basic pistols, weaker bodies, and much less protective clothing.
It’s clear that the hierarchical system is quite strict, but there’s no equality to speak of—it’s just survival of the fittest.
After digging up more than a hundred corpses, they harvested 3 flamethrowers, 20 military submachine guns, 23 civilian submachine guns, 60 grenades, hundreds of pistols, and a large batch of bullets.
There were also daggers, watches, cigarettes, canned luncheon meat, and other items.
Such a huge pile of supplies, given as a gift—no father would pamper someone like this.
Among them, the item that made Jiang Ning most satisfied was the flamethrower. She needed this thing.
The seized model could not only spray over a large area but also had a maximum range of 50 meters, with a maximum temperature reaching 1800 degrees Celsius.
Once they finished collecting the supplies, the rest of the process was unsuitable for children. Jiang Ning took Doudou back to the villa to rest. “Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Huo.”
What could the hardworking Huo Yishen say?
Coke couldn’t bear it and chose to help the trainer.
Stripping them down to just their underwear, all the clothing was tossed into the storage container.
This is hard work, and by the time it’s done, Huo Yishen is totally worn out.
Jiang Ning asked him to take a shower quickly to get rid of the bad luck.
“Mr. Huo, you’ve worked hard.”
Not only did she flatter him, but she also gave him a massage to help him relax.
It was several hours later when they came out of the space.
The ice house had melted in the flames, and several charred bodies lay on the ice.
The snow hills were still there, acting as a wind and snow barrier.
Jiang Ning didn’t want to find another place, so the three worked together to clean up the charred bodies, shoveled the charred ice surface, spread a layer of fresh snow, laid down a layer of wooden boards, and then placed the container.
Then they poured water to create a new, thicker layer of ice.
After dark, Jiang Ning came to the place where the tank had sunk.
The explosives had been powerful, blasting a ten-meter-wide hole through the thick ice layer.
The seawater was flowing, and it would take time to refreeze. After half a day, only a thin layer of ice had formed.
Jiang Ning broke the thin ice with a bamboo pole and tossed over a hundred bodies into the sea to feed the fish.
The ocean worked quickly, and the bodies vanished without a trace.
The United Base suffered another crushing defeat, but their retaliation would only grow more intense.
All Jiang Ning wanted was to live a simple life, but there were people who just wouldn’t let her.
But this is how the end of the world is —a mix of natural disasters and man-made catastrophes, where there’s no room for morality or reason.
When she returned home, Huo Yishen was still keeping watch through the night
Coke acted as his patrol assistant, while Bai Xue stayed at home nursing the pups.
In the morning, Jiang Ning was still asleep when Coke excitedly ran in.
It spit something out of its mouth.
A gift for its owner!
At first, Jiang Ning thought it was one of the eggs the dog had stolen from her space.
But when she picked it up and looked at it carefully, she found that it was much larger than an egg.
A goose egg? It seems to be about one and a half times larger.
Jiang Ning shone a flashlight and found that it was a fertilized egg, and the shell was very hard.
“Where did you pick it up?”
Coke wagged its tail vigorously, urging her to follow it to the spot.
Just then, Huo Yishen returned from his patrol, brushing snow off his clothes before stepping inside. “There’s something unusual near the ice hole. We need to stay alert,” he said, holding two more eggs he had found.
Overnight, dozens of eggs had appeared in the snow around the ice hole.
In other words, an animal crawled out of the ice hole last night to lay eggs.
Jiang Ning cracked one into a bowl.
The egg liquid has not been frozen, and it’s very fresh. When you get closer, it has a strong fishy odor.
It was surprising that, despite the freezing temperatures, the egg liquid hadn’t solidified.
She was a bit curious, “What kind of egg is this?”
Huo Yishen’s expression gradually became serious. “It might be a crocodile egg.”
Jiang Ning was a little surprised. “Crocodiles are freshwater creatures.”
Then again, after ten years of natural disasters, evolution under survival pressure wasn’t out of the question. If land became uninhabitable, they could have migrated to the ocean and adapted, leading to explosive reproduction.
“How many of these eggs are there?” she asked.
“There are a lot, all piled in the snow. Each nest has at least a dozen, and up to fifty or sixty.”
Jiang Ning felt a shiver down her spine when she heard it.
Crocodiles are reptiles that lay many eggs, and can lay 10 to 60 eggs at a time.
They are capable of eating even humans, and if they spread uncontrollably, the consequences would be severe.
Wearing thick clothes, Jiang Ning went to the ice hole herself.
The area was blanketed in snow, hiding everything from sight.
Using a rake, she started digging through the snow and quickly unearthed more eggs.
The more she caught, the more panicked she felt.
This time of the year was indeed the crocodile breeding season, but the temperature was far from suitable.
Crocodiles are sensitive to the cold, and they only thrive in southern climates. How could they be in the Arctic?
But then again, aren’t humans also drifting around the world? So nothing is impossible.
Still, crocodiles should have avoided the cold. If they weren’t nearby to incubate the eggs, they were likely staying in the ocean to keep warm.
Crocodiles are irritable during the breeding season. Once they adapt to glacial temperatures…
Jiang Ning searched all over the ice hole and threw all the crocodile eggs she found into the sea.
She then returned home to resume her work, while Bai Xue, after feeding her pups, went out to play with Coke. The two ventured farther away, digging up crocodile eggs in the snow and proudly burying them near the house.
At night, Huo Yishen went out on patrol.
The dog suddenly barked at the front.
When Huo Yishen hid in the trench, he used a flashlight to look into the distance.
It was too far away to see clearly.
He turned off the flashlight and stared carefully for a while before he found that there were red dots moving in the distance.
It wasn’t the United Base. Human movement didn’t look like this.
It wasn’t a wolf pack either.
Then it hit him—crocodiles! A whole swarm of them!