The two of them headed west.

"Actually, there used to be a small river here." Zhao Xiaochuan pointed to his feet, "It's just that now it's frozen and buried in the snow."

"Hey..." Coco poked her head out of Xu Xin's arms and observed her surroundings.

Zhao Xiaochuan did say before that you can find Qin Yunlong's tree house by walking along the river from his tree house.

"My tree house is actually a bit far away from Qin Yunlong's tree house." Zhao Xiaochuan said with some embarrassment, "Probably, more than 40 kilometers? It was also because of this that I couldn't find it for a long time."

More than forty kilometers...

If you use a power skateboard, it will take almost an hour.

"Then let's speed up the action." Xu Xin stepped lightly on the power ski snowboard, making a "buzz" sound and increasing the speed to the highest level.

The reason why he didn't use the maximum speed before was because there were many trees in the jungle and he didn't have enough skills to be afraid of hitting the trees.

But now, after skating for so long, he has become very proficient, so naturally he no longer needs to be so careful.

But even at the fastest speed, it will take at least close to an hour to arrive.

The consciousness moves and the map emerges from the mind.

He has explored a lot of the map here. From Wen Guixin's tree house to Qin Yunlong's tree house, and then to Qin Yunhu's tree house, this journey and the surrounding areas are all clearly visible on the map.

Although they did not encounter any dangers along the way, nor did they encounter mutant organisms, there were still scattered red dots around them.

Those places with more red dots, which could even be said to be gathering places, were not within their distance, which also saved them a lot of trouble.

After gliding for about half an hour, his watch vibrated. It was a voice call from Li Wenxi.

"Xu Xin, how's it going? Are the coordinates activated?"

The sound was played externally, and Zhao Xiaochuan also heard it and immediately winked at him.

"It's still early, at least an hour." Xu Xin glanced at Zhao Xiaochuan and then looked ahead.

The crown of Zhao Xiaochuan's treehouse can't be seen clearly, after all, everything in his field of vision is white.

"Is it so slow? I thought you would be back soon." The sound of Li Wenxi's footsteps and the sound of sitting on the sofa came from the voice, "I've basically finished my work here. It's been half an hour.

If I send you a private message, no one will come again, so now all that’s left is to wait.”

"How many people were there in the end?" Xu Xin asked.

"I didn't count... Ji Chaoyang should have posted it in the group, right? Let me see, um, 132 people? Wow, there are so many!"

"132 people?" Zhao Xiaochuan, who was next to him, also started to check the explorers, and was also very surprised, "Then each of us can get... 15 people? This is really a lot..."

"Why, are you afraid that you won't be able to support them?" Xu Xin glanced at him and said with a smile.

"How is it possible? We can definitely afford to raise it, but..." Zhao Xiaochuan was a little worried, "If there are too many people, won't the disaster be more serious?"

"Our strength is also stronger!" Li Wenxi said on the other side of the voice, "And, with the portal, we can easily help each other when the time comes, and we are not afraid of attacks at all!"

Indeed, if it were before, when the two sides were not connected, Xu Xin would not have dared to accept so many people, but now...

When the abilities of the auxiliary system and the ability of the combat system are combined, it is definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two.

The team's combat effectiveness is a qualitative improvement.

If you are purely defensive, there is basically no problem.

"Consumed... more than a hundred pieces of blue-level iron?" Xu Xin asked.

This consumption is not small. You must know that these more than one hundred blue-level iron blocks can be smelted into steel blocks using steel fire, and her furnace has a certain chance of upgrading them to purple-level steel blocks.

.If you think about it, the consumption is really huge.

"Ah, my heart aches when I talk about this!" Li Wenxi's tone suddenly became slightly distressed, "My inventory has been basically emptied again! Well... I won't say any more, I'm going to take everyone out to mine.

It’s over! The inventory is too low, I’m a little panicked, I’m going to replenish the inventory!”

"Wait a minute, Wen Xi, I want to give each of the nine people in our team a set of purple-level steel armor. Do you have enough materials?" Xu Xin asked.

"...A set of purple-level steel armor for each person?! You, you, you..." Li Wenxi was stunned when she heard Xu Xin's words.

After a few seconds, she spoke again: "I... I did the math. A set of steel armor costs about four purple-grade steel blocks and twelve blue-grade steel blocks. For eight sets... um...

just kill me!"

"Huh?" Keke tilted her head in Xu Xin's arms.

"Ah this..." Xu Xin touched her nose in embarrassment, "They will provide purple-level steel blocks with treehouse cores for upgrading, and a group of people will come this time to use our purple-level steel blocks.

There is no shortage, so you just need to provide enough blue-grade steel blocks."

"Well, that's acceptable, but it's not enough now." Li Wenxi explained, "All the blue-level steel blocks are used to make coordinates, and the blue-level iron blocks are basically used up. Now I have blue-level and above materials.

I’m basically broke now, let’s wait and see what I’ve gained today.”

Zhao Xiaochuan was gliding aside and couldn't help laughing when he heard the conversation between the two: "Hahaha, after calculation, it seems that it does consume a lot of materials, so why not make weapons first? Weapons require less steel blocks.

There's a lot of it, we have purple-level wood ourselves. A blue-level armor is enough for the time being."

Xu Xin nodded: "Let's take a look at Wen Xi's results today. If it's enough, we'll give it to everyone. If it's not enough, we'll make weapons first."

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu” Li Wenxi’s voice was filled with a hint of resentment, “Now I not only have to support you, but also the entire Explorer... The inventory will be empty for a long time... I won’t say any more, I have to hurry up.

go out!"

"Then be careful. Coco's behavior is a bit strange today. Remember to leave one person to look after the house."

"Well! Then I'll leave Yajun to look after the house. She's becoming more and more like a housekeeper now!"

After hanging up the call, Xu Xin and Zhao Xiaochuan moved forward at full speed.

There is still no danger around. Zhao Xiaochuan also said that this section of the road is relatively safe. At least he has not encountered any attacks by mutant creatures so far.

Finally, after another half an hour, the two finally arrived at Zhao Xiaochuan's tree house.

Next to his tree house, there are also three parasitic tree houses.

Under the tree house, there is already a person waiting.

He is a relatively mature looking man with a slight beard.

If he hadn't known that the oldest survivor was only thirty-one, Xu Xin might have thought that this person was already forty years old.

"Xiaochuan, you are back. Is this Xu Xin?" The man looked at Xu Xin with eyes full of admiration.

"I am Xu Xin. This is..." Xu Xin looked at Zhao Xiaochuan.

"Ah, he is one of my own from District 188 that I brought back before. His name is Ke Xiancheng. He has passed his 31st birthday now and is a big brother! Because he is much older than me, I call him Brother Ke." Zhao Xiaochuan immediately told Xu

Xin introduced, "Brother Ke is really meticulous in his work. I don't worry at all if I leave him at home to guard the house."

"I have already chosen the location of the coordinates. It is right next to my tree house. I will be responsible for guarding it." Ke Ge led the two of them to slide towards his tree house.

When we arrived at the location, the coordinates were already there, and the surrounding snow had been cleared away.

Xu Xin was slightly surprised: "So close to your tree house? The sound of the portal condensing is very noisy. Now there are more people in the team. If it is so close..."

"Ogawa told me," Ke Ge said, "It doesn't matter. It's easier to defend if you are closer. My heavy crossbow will be more accurate, preventing some situations and providing protection for everyone."

It's more thoughtful.

The portal really needs a treehouse to protect it.

"Okay, let's stay here." Xu Xin nodded and reached out to activate the portal.

"Brother Ke, I will trouble you to come and watch this portal from now on." Zhao Xiaochuan said.

"Just leave it to me." Brother Ke nodded.

Zhao Xiaochuan then turned to Xu Xin and said, "Actually, I have two people here. I asked the other one to go out and explore the surroundings to see what's going on."

Xu Xin nodded, asked their names, made teleportation cards for both of them, then said goodbye to this mature-looking man, and the two of them continued towards Wang Lei's tree house.

This time, nothing happened again. After half an hour of gliding, Wang Lei's tree house was already in sight.

Zhao Xiaochuan immediately sent a voice message to Wang Lei: "We are almost there, come out to greet the bullies, hurry up!"

"Ah? Damn it, you guys are so fast! You came here without even stopping? I'll go out right away to greet Brother Xin and my Sichuan son!"

Two minutes later, when they taxied to Wang Lei's tree house, he was already waiting under the tree house.

"You guys really arrived so quickly!" Seeing the two of them, Wang Lei hurried over, "My place is the farthest from Wen Guixin. When I went rock climbing yesterday, I went at full speed, but I spent all my energy.

It took two hours to arrive, and I thought it wouldn’t be my turn this morning.”

The three of them arrived at the coordinates chosen by Wang Lei.

Xu Xin looked at the three parasitic tree houses around him and asked, "How many people are there here?"

"Two people, both are survivors from the original area 189. The survivors in area 188 around me are all in despair." Wang Lei said helplessly, "Oh, there is only one left, and that's this guy."

He pointed at Zhao Xiaochuan.

Everyone else is dead, so it's normal.

Even if District 188 now has the largest number of people left among all districts, there are only 3,000 people left out of 10,000, and the death rate has reached an astonishing 70%.

This is equivalent to two out of three people dying.
To be continued...