"The host can place his finger on the door handle, and the Ice House can collect the host's fingerprint." The system reminded.
Ning Xiao was slightly surprised. She didn't expect that this ordinary-looking ice house had such a high-end fingerprint lock.
She placed her hand on the wooden door handle of the igloo. With a click, a green light flashed, indicating that the door could be opened.
Push the handle down and the door opens smoothly.
The space inside the house was not as small as Ning Xiao had imagined. Instead, it was quite spacious.
There is even a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen and a living room with a fireplace.
The house is fully equipped with furniture and appliances, with a completely modern decorative style, simple and elegant.
There is also a large window in the living room, through which you can see the scene outside the igloo, and it will not freeze or frost due to the weather.
What puzzled Ning Xiao was where the electricity and water came from.
"Water and electricity are both provided by the system. In addition, there is also an air circulation system. The host needs to pay points to the system every month to maintain its operation."
"integral?"
"Yes, host. Points are earned by renting out houses. Points in any world can be earned by exchanging for the currency currently in circulation in the current world. In this ice and snow world, the snow crystals paid by tenants to the host can be converted into points. Level 1 snow crystals can be exchanged for 10 points, level 2 snow crystals can be exchanged for 100 points, level 3 snow crystals can be exchanged for 1,000 points, and so on." The system explained, "The host also needs points to buy an ice house from the system. It takes 100 points to buy an ice house, and the rental fee is one level 3 snow crystal per month, which is 1,000 points."
The system explained it in great detail, and Ning Xiao understood it without much effort. The currency in this world today is probably snow crystals. The more ice houses she rents out, the more points she can get.
The system said that in order to allow her to adapt to the environment, she would not have to pay points for water and electricity in the house for the first seven days, so even if she was penniless, the house would still be warm and bright, and there would be hot water and food.
After seven days, an igloo will need to pay 100 points per month to ensure energy operation.
"What if the ice house is not rented out?" Ning Xiao asked.
"Once the points are used up, all the services and protections provided by the system will also be exhausted, and then both of us will be completely destroyed."
Although he had died once, Ning Xiao didn't want to die again
The cold outside could hardly be felt in the ice house. The fresh air and the constant and comfortable temperature after the charcoal fire made Ning Xiao suddenly feel that she was not in the end of the world with ice and snow.
The fireplace display showed a falling 8, an infinity symbol. After asking the system, she found out that this meant that the charcoal in her house was in unlimited supply.
She took out a set of clothes from the closet in the igloo that were more convenient for movement and changed into them.
As soon as you open the refrigerator, you will find food, including cooked food that only needs to be heated up, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables and meat
According to the system, these foods will be refreshed after they are eaten, and no points are required. These are benefits only available to her as the landlord. Other ice houses do not have them. Other tenants who want food can only buy it from Ning Xiao's cart.
After this experience, Ning Xiao felt hungry, so he went to the refrigerator to get a portion of black pepper beef fillet rice and heated it up in the microwave.
The kitchen is fully equipped with various household appliances, and it is full of life atmosphere.
The taste after heating is no different from that in the restaurant. The beef is tender and the rice with sauce is sweet and delicious.
She hadn't had a good meal for a long time, and after the meal there were some cut fruits waiting for her.
On days like this, Ning Xiao doesn't care even if he can't go back to his native world.
Just as Ning Xiao was enjoying the food , in a precarious high-rise building not far from her that had not yet been completely submerged by the snow, a short-haired woman hid behind the wall, covering her abdomen, listening to the roar of the snow beast outside.
She gasped, enduring the severe pain in her abdomen, but dared not make a sound.
But the blood gushing from her abdomen was like a locator. Even though she didn't make any sound, the snow beast was slowly approaching.
The short-haired woman closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her eyes were filled with sadness. It seemed that she was going to die here today.
At this moment, there were several bangs, like the muffled sound of a wooden stick hitting something, and the snow beast let out a wailing sound, and then, there were even louder noises.
The short-haired woman waited for a while. It was quiet outside and she heard no other noise. Then she mustered up the courage to stick her head out and look.
The snow beast that had just been chasing her and scratching her abdomen had now fallen to the ground, seemingly without a sound.
In front of it, there was a girl squatting in casual sportswear. She had fair skin and a pretty profile. She didn't seem to be very old, and she was holding a black thing in her hand.
Ning Xiao's legs were a little weak at this time. After she had eaten and drunk her fill in the ice house, the system said that it had detected snow beasts nearby and asked her if she wanted to practice with her new weapon.
Ning Xiao felt a little scared and subconsciously wanted to refuse, but when she thought about it carefully, she still had to go through countless apocalypses, and if she remained such a loser and relied entirely on the system for protection, it didn't seem like a solution. In her own world, her parents had passed away, and the remaining relatives only wanted to suck her blood. She had always relied on herself, and only by relying on herself could she feel safe.
So she gritted her teeth and agreed.
"The host does not need to show a fearless expression, the system's protection still exists, and nothing can harm the host.
Ning Xiao calmed down a little, took out a wooden stick from the storage compartment, held it in his hand, and went out.
Following the system's instructions, Ning Xiao didn't walk far before he saw an animal that was completely snow-white and more than a person tall when standing up. Its body was covered with what looked like snow and also like its own fur, with only its nose and eyeballs being black.
It looks a bit like a bear, but its size is more than half that of an ordinary bear.
"Because the small world mutated, the animals also mutated." The system explained.
Ning Xiao noticed that there was a glaring red color on the snow beast's body, as if it was injured, and it was now roaring and walking around.
Ning Xiao's hands were shaking as he held the wooden stick. Although he knew that he was protected by the system, he was still instinctively afraid when he saw such a huge snow beast.
"Host, don't be afraid. The power of the stick is far beyond your imagination."
With the comfort and guidance of the system, Ning Xiao slowly approached, and then raised the wooden stick and prepared to hit the snow beast on the back of the head as the system instructed, but he missed the target. Even so, the snow beast seemed to be in great pain, and the whole beast fell to the ground, howling.
The snow beast stared at Ning Xiao, struggling to stand up and tear apart this ignorant human.
Ning Xiao was terribly scared, but he still raised the wooden stick and hit it a few more times. One of the sticks hit the snow beast right on the head. The snow beast shook and immediately stopped moving.
Her legs went limp, and then the scene that the short-haired woman saw appeared.
"The host is already very brave. Most people would be frightened and unable to move at the beginning." The system comforted.
Ning Xiao squatted there for a long time before standing up.
"Host, there are snow crystals in the snow beast's head." The system prompted.
Instructed by the system, Ning Xiao endured the nausea and dug out a snow-white hard object from the snow beast's shattered brain. This should be the snow crystal mentioned by the system.
After washing it with snow, he used the fur of a snow beast to wipe off the dirty blood stains on it. The snow crystal in his hand looked like a snow-white, thumb-sized round stone, which seemed to be nothing special.
"Isn't this a tumor?" Ning Xiao said with disdain.
system:"…"
Perhaps in order to verify that this was a snow crystal and not a tumor, the snow crystal quickly disappeared in Ning Xiao's hands and turned into ten points. This was a first-level snow crystal.
Ning Xiao looked at the big guy on the ground with lingering fear. A level one snow beast was so powerful, if it was a higher level one... She shuddered and didn't dare to think about it further.
"They won't attack my igloo, will they?" Ning Xiao asked.
"The entire area chosen by the system to place the igloo can automatically block wild beasts. In that space, the host is the dominant one. No creature or human can harm the host."
Ning Xiao felt relieved after hearing this.
"Host, the snow beast corpse can be exchanged for points. Do you want to exchange it?"
Ning Xiao's eyes lit up, and she realized that her hard work was not in vain: "Sure, how many points can this snow beast get?"
"One hundred points." said the system.
"This snow beast is so big, but it can only be exchanged for 100 points?!" Ning Xiao was a little surprised.
"Snow beasts are ordinary products of this small world and cannot be exchanged for many points." The system's somewhat helpless voice sounded.
Ning Xiao curled her lips, but still changed it. After all, her points were very few now, so any points she could save were valuable.
Just as Ning Xiao was about to leave, a bang was suddenly heard not far away.
"Host, a living being has been detected nearby." The system suddenly said, "Preliminary determination is that it is human."
After Ning Xiao felt nervous, she felt happy. The presence of humans meant that her ice house could have a chance to be rented out.
However, she did not forget that this was the end of the world. She held the wooden stick tightly in her hand, in a defensive posture, and then slowly walked towards the place where the sound came from.
Behind a cracked wall, Ning Xiao saw a person fainted on the ground, his life or death unknown, and blood on the ground.
The man was covered in some kind of thick and strange-looking clothes. There were two holes dug on his head through which one could see outside. The clothes were a bit tattered, with deep claw marks and bloodstains. It seemed that the man had fought with the snow beast that had just roamed outside.
"Is she dead?" Ning Xiao asked cautiously.
"She's not dead, but her breathing is weak. If the host doesn't rescue her, she will die in one hour, twenty-one minutes and thirty seconds." The system's voice sounded emotionless, and even the countdown to death was accurate to the second.
"I would like to save him, but I don't have any medical supplies, and my weak arms and legs cannot carry him back." Ning Xiao frowned.
"The host can use the system mall to purchase medical supplies to treat her." said the system