Transmigration: Experiencing Life's End - Dying Peacefully in One's Sleep

Chapter 854 Extreme Apocalypse 18

He lifted his head, which was pressed tightly against the child, and when he saw what it was in the moonlight, he was filled with excitement and surprise.

After realizing what had happened, they quickly looked in the direction from which the object had come.

Ruan Chutong held out a hand and placed it between her lips, signaling him to be quiet.

Liu Ye understood and nodded quickly, his eyes glistening with tears as he carefully bowed his head a few times to express his gratitude.

The woman next to him was startled awake by his movements, and the two communicated in sign language. Liu Ye pointed to the medicine and then pointed in the direction of Ruan Chutong.

Then, while squatting, the woman bowed deeply to Ruan Chutong.

Ruan Chutong waved her hand and looked away, no longer glancing in that direction.

Li Yanjing had just heard the sound and had been watching them.

When she met his gaze, Ruan Chutong blinked.

Li Yanjing nodded, indicating that she should get some rest.

Ruan Chutong smiled slightly, closed her eyes, sat on her bag, and rested her head on her knees to sleep.

After staring at her for a while, Li Yanjing finally looked away.

Beside him, Gao Mingcheng was yawning while looking in another direction, unaware of their conversation.

Before dawn, Ruan Chutong got up after only a few hours of sleep.

"Brother Li, you guys rest, I'll take over the guard."

"Chu Tong, have you rested well?" Gao Mingcheng turned around.

"It's too cold, I can't sleep well, I don't want to sleep anymore."

Li Xinyan opened her eyes, stood up, and touched her cold buttocks, feeling that her entire lower body was cold.

Even if the end of the world comes, no one cares about issues like uterine coldness.

"I wasn't fully asleep either. You guys go to sleep, Tong-jie and I will keep an eye on things."

Seeing the two of them like this, Li Yanjing nodded: "You can move around a bit, but don't make any big movements."

"I'm going to sleep now, I'm so sleepy." Gao Mingcheng said, and immediately closed his eyes.

Ruan Chutong and Li Xinyan drank some water and ate some food.

As dawn broke, the others gradually woke up as well.

"Sister Tong, look at that child, has his fever gone down?"

Li Xinyan kept this matter in mind and never forgot to look in that direction.

Seeing that the child named Lele's face was no longer red and she didn't seem to have been in any trouble, she felt both happy and puzzled.

Considering that everyone had collected the supplies together, Ruan Chutong still spoke up to tell the truth.

She leaned close to Li Xinyan's ear and said, "Yes, I gave them some fever reducers last night."

"Really? I was going to help, but..."

“I know your concerns, so I gave it to you when no one was looking. No one saw it except Brother Li. As for the supplies, those few pills are my share. I'll talk to the others about it when I have time.”

After all, both families' supplies are with her, so it's better to tell her.

Li Xinyan smiled and said, "It's okay, no one will care about this."

Putting everything else aside, the Li family certainly wouldn't mind what Sister Tong did.

The Gao family wouldn't either, since Tong Jie has a space, which would make things much more convenient for them.

Otherwise, even if they had supplies, they wouldn't have been able to take so much with them, let alone preserve it well.

Upon hearing this, Ruan Chutong smiled. Of course, she knew that no one would mind, but she had to show her attitude.

*

The first day passed peacefully, but trouble broke out on the second night.

Because many people ran out without taking anything, and when they saw others eating while they went hungry, they started to steal from them.

Li Yanjing was also being robbed, but he was very careful and reacted quickly.

The two families happened to be sitting on the edge. He didn't give them a chance and threw them out, causing them to fall into a crevice in the ice.

Seeing that it was difficult to rob him here, the others didn't bother them.

Because many people were looting, a number of injuries and deaths occurred.

The two families just watched coldly, not interfering unless they provoked them.

Seeing this, Liu Ye, carrying his child and wife, approached Ruan Chutong and the others.

This effectively blocked people from coming this way; to get close to the two families, one had to deal with the family of three first.

Seeing this, the two families knew that Ruan Chutong had given them medicine to save their child, and they did not object to their good intentions or their desire to stick together.

Lele's fever seems to have subsided, and she appears to be in a relatively stable state for now.

*

Everyone gathered around to eat in the evening, but the atmosphere wasn't very pleasant.

With a worried look on her face, Gao's mother said, "What are we going to do? It's so cold outside. If we stay here any longer, our health will collapse sooner or later."

They had hot water and thermal blankets, but their bodies weren't warm enough; they felt the cold constantly creeping up from their feet.

“We can’t get out; the cracks on the side are impossible to cross,” Li Xinyan said resignedly.

The others remained silent, knowing they had no choice but to stay put.

"Have you guys noticed that it seems like the temperature hasn't dropped since today?"

Ruan Chutong closed her eyes, quietly feeling the temperature in the air, then opened them and asked them.

Upon hearing this, everyone carefully listened and felt it.

Li Xinyan touched her head: "Sister Tong, I can't feel it, isn't it cold everywhere?"

Xu Zhenzhu shook her head: "No, the temperature today is about the same as yesterday. It's not like the past few days when the temperature dropped every day."

"So, does this mean an extreme heat wave is coming? Once this ice melts, will we be able to leave?"

Li Dayuan's guess was tinged with hope.

Gao Mingcheng said, "That will probably take a long time, and it's much colder than snow when the ice melts. Most importantly, how are we going to get our assault boats out?"

Ruan Chutong had an idea about this problem: "Kayaks and rubber boats can be deflated and folded, so it's understandable that you could just take one out of your bag."

Upon hearing this, Li Xinyan smiled and nodded: "Yes, assault boats may be difficult to pack and carry, but kayaks and rubber boats are fine. Fortunately, we found them when we were collecting supplies before."

"I was hoping for extreme heat, but I never expected to be looking forward to this," Mr. Gao said with a wry smile.

Li Yanjing said, "We can only wait for the ice to melt, but we need to be careful these next few days. Some people might be so desperate that they'd risk their lives to drag others down with them."

Hearing him say that, everyone immediately became serious.

Within a few days, the extreme heat arrived just as quickly as the extreme cold, even faster than anyone had imagined.

The temperature is rising rapidly, and the ice is melting very quickly.

In less than two days, everyone had nowhere to stay.

Seeing that everyone was leaving before the ice had completely thawed, the two families, as agreed, took out an eight-seater rubber boat and inflated it.

They planned to go up the mountain, and I guess everyone had the same idea.

Because there is nowhere else suitable to live, and only in the mountains is it high enough that it will not be submerged for the time being.

Because taking out the rubber boat would be too conspicuous, the Li father and son and the Gao father and son each took a watermelon knife and stood guard in four directions.

In the middle of them, Ruan Chutong and Li Xinyan, along with Xu Zhenzhu and Gao's mother, were using an air pump to inflate the rubber boat.