"Alright, as long as you can accept them, I'll do anything!"
Ming Le's supplies wouldn't last a few more days.
The weather grew colder, and everyone lived in fear, with no hope for the future.
Although Zi Xing was a ruthless person, she was good at painting a rosy picture to lead her team.
Ming Le couldn't do such things.
"Kneel for an hour first."
Ming Le and everyone else panicked.
This blizzard wasn't as cold as the last one, but temperatures of minus ten degrees Celsius were no joke.
They could freeze quickly.
An Nuan didn't care about any of that.
They were the ones who insisted on joining, not her begging them to come.
It was normal to eliminate those with poor physical condition or health first.
"You can leave anytime if you want to quit, I won't stop you."
An Nuan closed the window and pulled the curtains shut.
Tang Jing was almost crying, "How can she be so ruthless! What do we do now?"
"You almost killed her, so kneeling for an hour is a light punishment."
Tang Jing didn't dare to object again and silently knelt in the snow.
Hai Changfeng watched their small, pale faces turn even colder. After only half an hour, some people had already fainted from exhaustion.
Two other girls gave up immediately.
After an hour, only six people remained.
An Nuan kept her word and let them up after an hour, providing them with hot soup and medicine for frostbite, as well as charcoal and hand warmers.
An Nuan allowed them to enter the villas in the front row.
Ming Le quickly led them inside. After resting for half a day, An Nuan's second order came down.
She instructed Fu Yunting to mobilize ten zombies and have them stand in a line at the main entrance.
Most of them were ordinary zombies, not even entering any class, but four were relatively powerful, one of them even possessing an ability.
Tang Jing was stunned, "Zombies listen, they really listen! Sister Nuan, you're amazing, you're my goddess!"
An Nuan ignored her.
"The six of you will kill six zombies. It doesn't matter if it's one-on-one combat or a group kill. I'll come out in an hour to see the results."
"Wait a minute! Those are zombies, and you're forcing us to kill them!"
"Is there a problem?"
"That's life-threatening!"
Tang Jing was unwilling. She had finally escaped danger and didn't want to provoke those things again.
An Nuan sneered.
"In the current situation, if you don't fight for your life, do you want someone else to fight for you?"
"We are all risking our lives for tomorrow; no one is absolutely safe. Don't tell me we're strong and powerful. Who says the strong must protect the weak? You're not my mother, why should I protect you!"
Everyone fell silent upon hearing An Nuan's words.
Even biological parents might abandon their children out of instinct, let alone them, who were not related by blood.
"The zombies given to you are the lowest grade. You only need to blow up their heads. If you can't even kill these things, what will you do when you encounter stronger zombies in the future? Will you rely on others to save you every day?"
Luo Luo used vines to wrap a box of weapons and tossed it in front of them.
"Here are your weapons. I'll only release two zombies at a time. If you can't kill six within an hour, you'll automatically be kicked out."
Ming Le took the lead and picked up a machete.
As long as they killed six zombies, her sisters could live. She would do it.
The other sisters followed Ming Le to get weapons. Only Tang Jing, trembling, dared not approach.
Ming Le didn't expect anything from her. Such a person would only be a burden on the battlefield. It was better for her to go.
She led the way, attracting the zombies first, then trapping them with a barrier, allowing her sisters to finish them off.
The six zombies were eliminated in just half an hour.
An Nuan was quite satisfied with her leadership skills.
Tang Jing was shocked that the zombies were dealt with so quickly. She shouted excitedly,
"We passed, right?"
"They passed, you didn't."
"What do you mean? You're cheating!"
Luo Luo said coldly, "You didn't participate in this round, so of course, you don't get a share."
Luo Luo wasted no more words. A whip-like vine shot out, sending Tang Jing flying two hundred meters away.
Tang Jing would not die even if she landed in a snowdrift, but she was certainly injured.
Ming Le and the others were shocked by them.
They never expected such powerful ability users!
An Nuan opened the main door. The aura emanating from inside made Ming Le hesitant to move.
"Did we pass?"
"For now, yes, but there's one more challenge that will depend on your luck. After the snow stops, you'll go out and kill zombies, retrieve their crystal cores, and give them to me. The amount of supplies your team receives in the future will depend on how many crystal cores you can give me."
Ming Le remembered something and quickly fumbled in her pocket, pulling out a small crystal core.
"Is it this? I picked it up accidentally last time."
"Yes! It's this one!"
An Nuan took the crystal core and gave them ten jin of charcoal, three jin of rice, three jin of meat, four jin of vegetables, and a bunch of bananas.
Seeing the food, Ming Le didn't think anything else and lunged forward, eating half a banana, peel and all.
"It's so fresh! Is all this for us?"
"From now on, you'll have supplies if you have crystal cores. If you develop and want to leave in the future, that's fine too. But as long as you are under my name for a day, you must abide by my rules."
"Okay, you tell us, and we will absolutely obey."
Ming Le looked at her eagerly, waiting for the next instruction.
However, An Nuan couldn't say anything specific because she hadn't planned to expand her influence before, so she hadn't set any rules.
Fu Yunting said, "You should take your sisters to rest first. The blizzard will continue for a while longer, we'll discuss things later. You can stay in the front courtyard; don't enter without permission."
"Yes! That..."
Ming Le stammered, "The two sisters who fainted earlier are actually very good people and have decent combat abilities. They were just too weak from not eating for a long time. Can I..."
"You've been given the supplies. How you distribute them is your business, but I don't want to see those who quit midway."
An Nuan closed the door. Ming Le immediately led her sisters to move the supplies into a villa in the front row.
She didn't take any of their previous belongings, only packing personal items and leaving their old house. kuAiδugg
Then, she had someone move the two fainted sisters into the house.
The other two had voluntarily quit and could only watch with envious eyes.
When Tang Jing woke up, she banged frantically on the door, begging Ming Le to let her in.
Not to mention the rice or meat, just ten jin of charcoal was enough to drive someone insane.
She also wanted to live in a warm place!
But Ming Le strictly followed An Nuan's words and refused to let anyone who quit midway enter. When Tang Jing made a big scene, Ming Le, fearing she would disturb An Nuan, directly isolated Tang Jing with a barrier and sent her back to the original villa.
She warned her that if she came again, she would break her legs.
An Nuan had been observing their actions and felt a strange sense of satisfaction seeing this scene.
Life returned to peace. A few days later, Shi Huai's anesthetic drug was also developed.
He excitedly presented his results to An Nuan.
"Director Nuan, we can prepare to sterilize Juanzi!"
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Recruiting the first team, now there will be people to help dig out brain-shells.