Chapter 751 - 478 ...No way? (4500 words)

Xu Xin woke up very early the next day.

He was already awake before six o’clock.

He was awakened by the sunlight shining on his face.

Li Wenxi was still asleep, with the sunlight casting over her skin, making Xu Xin feel a little itchy.

At some unknown time, Keke rolled off the bed, covering her eyes with her little paws to block the sunlight, curled up into a ball.

Xu Xin’s mouth curved into a slight smile.

Since winter came, it had been a long time since dawn came this early.

In recent days, dawn was delayed to after ten o’clock.

Now, daylight is finally extending.

A prompt sounded in his mind; his random enhancement today was "luck enhancement."

Not a bad enhancement.

Turning over to get out of bed, while freshening up a bit, he began to check out the world channel’s situation.

"The snow stopped! The snow stopped! Daylight has come! Hahaha! I survived!"

"Holy moly! I thought we’d have to hold out till ten o’clock, but turns out daylight came before six!"

The current world channel was filled with words of excitement and tears of joy.

It seems the day has just broken, and the snow had only just stopped.

"Awesome! Explorer is awesome! Xu Xin is awesome! Without the coal from the big boss, I wouldn’t have survived last night!"

"Exactly! Although I only had three pieces, those three pieces truly saved my life!"

"Holy moly, I had just exhausted my coal! Such a close call! If the snow had stopped a little later, I’d have died!"

"I threw up! I relied on exercise to tough it out! Thought we’d have to wait till ten o’clock, didn’t dare use more coal, and now it’s already over!"

"Bro, awesome!"

"Hahaha, it’s warming up! It’s really warming up outside! The snow is starting to melt!"

"Alive! I’m really alive!"

Xu Xin checked the number of people in various regions.

Well, not many deaths.

But not few, either.

Originally, there were more than fifty thousand people in all the areas still experiencing heavy snow, and now, there’s one thousand fewer.

Now there are just over forty thousand people.

Over ten thousand deaths.

Mortality rate around 20%.

It’s acceptable.

These dead people probably used up their coal too early, and as the coal ran out, they could not survive.

Perhaps they were frozen to death in their sleep.

According to the world channel, the vast majority who survived did so by using coal to last until the end.

It seems the coal he distributed yesterday indeed played its part.

Now, most people worldwide hold extreme goodwill towards the Explorer.

If one day they could choose whom to lean towards, they would certainly choose Area 188, choose the Explorer.

This is enough.

Sitting on the couch, Xu Xin started checking his private messages.

Shi Wanyun still hadn’t replied to his private messages; her messages still lingered on the previous conversation.

Fortunately, her name was still lit up, at least indicating she hadn’t died.

"Logically, if she were going to succeed using my method, she should have already succeeded by now, right?" Xu Xin muttered to himself.

He couldn’t help sending Shi Wanyun a message: "How are things on your end? You haven’t returned yet?"

He didn’t send a voice message because he was worried she might be among the mutated creatures, leading to an accident.

He didn’t expect a response, but to his surprise, within just ten seconds, she replied: "I’m still here, haven’t gone back yet."

Oh?

What’s this about...

Her next words made Xu Xin’s pupils suddenly constrict.

"I’m currently on that giant tree I showed you before."

What?

On the giant tree?!

His mind quickly conjured the image of the towering, sky-covering, brightly lit giant tree from the previous video.

She went up the giant tree?

Didn’t she return directly?

"Why did you go up? What’s happening there?" he immediately asked.

"I had to go up. Busy now, I’ll explain when I get back. Should be back soon."

Leaving these words, Shi Wanyun fell silent.

Xu Xin sent another inquiry, but she still had no reply.

This woman, what’s going on?

He tightly furrowed his brow.

According to what she said earlier, it should be around ten o’clock this morning, her activity would be at its final limit.

What is she doing, not hurrying back, but going up the tree?

Must she go up the tree?

Didn’t she previously say that the tree roots were her destination?

Could it be that just reaching the tree roots is not enough?

Xu Xin is very interested in that giant tree.

Hopefully, nothing goes wrong.

He got up and looked out the window.

All seems normal, no signs of trouble.

Although at the end of the winter season, his treehouse entered an upgrade phase, its protection capability slightly weakened.

Therefore, he advised others around his treehouse to be a bit cautious at night.

But now, it looks like there shouldn’t be a big problem.

In more than an hour, his treehouse upgrade would be complete.

It seems that this "slight weakening of protection ability" is not a big deal for him.

After all, his treehouse has been enhanced several times in terms of protection, even slightly weakened, it likely remains stronger than a regular treehouse’s protection.

Opening the window, letting the breeze from outside flow into the treehouse.

The cool morning breeze, yet not cold.

The outside temperature has risen to over twenty degrees overnight.

"Ah... It’s turning green."

Looking out the window, the ground, and the treetops were already dotted with patches of green.