Chapter 323 - 313: New Order
Chapter 323: Chapter 313: New Order
Like Tang Mo’s protective circle, although the man’s was small, the temperature inside was completely under his control. This meant they no longer had to endure the cold.
This "small space" was relative. Right now, several people were crammed into every square meter of Tang Mo’s protective circle.
But the man’s protective circle, at three square meters, held only him, his wife, and their child. What’s more, the circle’s range would expand as his spiritual power grew. This was their home.
Before, people thought you could only have a home with a Space Ability User, because they could carry all your belongings with them. But now, everyone felt that home was wherever a Spirit Attribute Superpower User was. There was no doubt about it!
At that moment, everyone looked up at Tang Mo, who was still floating in the sky, and had only one thought in their minds: spiritual power was the strongest attribute in this world, bar none.
Seeing the first man learn so quickly after Tang Mo’s guidance, the people behind him grew even more eager to try.
But now, the ones feeling regretful were the people already inside. ’If I’d known one of my own friends or relatives could learn how to make a protective circle, I wouldn’t have wasted money on this admission fee! I’ll have to leave eventually anyway. All that money just went to an outsider. It’s killing me.’
’Why was I in such a rush to get in? Waiting a little longer wouldn’t have killed me!’
’Oh, wait, I actually could have frozen to death. Well, the money’s spent, so what’s done is done...’
Tang Mo began her own rapid teaching session, working through the line at a rate of one person every five seconds.
The people outside the protective circle queued up even more earnestly, hoping their turn would come soon.
The number of people lining up outside the protective circle also decreased drastically. Everyone was waiting for their own family and friends to learn the skill so they wouldn’t have to pay Tang Mo’s admission fee.
Under this virtuous cycle, the number of people inside Tang Mo’s protective circle dwindled, and the lines outside grew shorter and shorter.
Out of a shared, unspoken understanding, the Spirit Attribute Superpower Users who learned to use the Spiritual Light Ring didn’t find a new place after leaving Tang Mo’s circle. Instead, they set up camp right next to it.
They didn’t know what the world would become, but staying near Tang Mo always made them feel a greater sense of security.
At some point, Tang Mo had already become a leader in everyone’s eyes.
A leader who charged a fee, that is.
Meanwhile, after getting the Qin Family settled, Qin Ling rushed with his men toward the Wen Family’s villa. With the Qin Family’s deep foundation, how could they have been unprepared for the Hell Era?
The moment the Hell Era arrived, they had already fled their houses with their family members and taken out an abnormal treasure that had been prepared long ago, jointly crafted by countless masters.
It was a tent-shaped house, crafted from some unknown material that looked incredibly sturdy.
This abnormal treasure was not only incomparably durable with strong defenses, but it had also been fused with numerous Space Treasures. So, while it didn’t look very large from the outside, the space within was more than enough to accommodate everyone from the Qin Family.
Once the fissures in the ground had formed and stopped expanding, the Qin Family placed the abnormal treasure on the ground and had all their family members hide inside.
The special material did an excellent job of blocking out the cold air from outside. By the time Qin Ling rushed over, his grandfather had already taken care of everything and settled everyone in.
In fact, an abnormal treasure like this wasn’t created by the Qin Family alone. It was jointly developed by the three great families of the base, along with several other wealthy tycoons.
They had pooled their precious materials to finally develop eight of these Iron Armor Tents, each with a different amount of internal space.
This was also why Wen Jianshu hadn’t been worried about the situation with the Wen Family’s patriarch.
The Iron Armor Tents were built to withstand the Hell Era. Initially, the goal was simple: when the base collapsed, the Iron Armor Tents would be able to resist the increasingly powerful mutant beasts.
No one had expected the Hell Era to manifest as an environmental shift, but bringing out the Iron Armor Tents at this time was a perfect solution.
Therefore, in S Base, the truly wealthiest handful of people had no need to rely on Tang Mo. Besides the Iron Armor Tents, they had plenty of other life-saving abnormal treasures.
Qin Ling thought the same as Lin Yu and Xiao Tao. ’Even if Tang Mo isn’t in the base and her ID Watch has lost its signal, at a moment of such drastic change, she’s bound to head straight home. Waiting for her here is the right call.’
As Qin Ling rushed his men toward the Wen Family’s villa, the nervous look on his face was far more intense than when he had been rushing back to his own family’s home.
The men following behind couldn’t help but poke fun at their boss as they hurried along.
"Second Brother, what’s the Boss so worked up about? Sis-in-law is so powerful, it’s not like she needs anyone to worry about her, right?"
In Xu the Third’s mind, his sis-in-law had always been a glorious and great figure. She certainly didn’t need the Boss to play the hero and save the damsel in distress.
The rest of the brothers behind him nodded in agreement. In their hearts, Sis-in-law was even more formidable than the Boss—powerful in a way they could hardly imagine, far from ordinary.
"Shut up, you. Don’t you want to go see your Xiao Tao?"
Second Brother was truly Second Brother; his words were a direct hit. The talkative Xu the Third immediately clamped his mouth shut and started running harder than anyone, swinging his arms with all his might.
’Even though his Xiao Tao was a hardcore loli who had already made significant achievements in Strength, to the point where even he couldn’t easily take her down anymore... still, she was just a young girl!’
’I have to hurry over and protect her! What if Taotao gets scared without me there?!’
Love truly makes people lose their minds. If Xiao Tao, who was on the other side, sweating as she busily collected admission fees, had heard Xu the Third’s sickening internal monologue, she probably would have slapped him already.
The Qin and Wen family villas weren’t very far apart, and since the group was moving quickly, they arrived in no time.
"Second Brother... that... couldn’t have been Sis-in-law’s doing too, could it?"
Xu the Third’s jaw dropped as he stared at the scene before him.
The sight was magnificent. Fissures had carved the land into large and small plates, and on the intact ground sat countless crystal-clear, bubble-like semicircles of varying sizes. Inside these domes were people chatting and laughing, as if the bitter cold posed no threat to them at all.
Amidst these light circles of various sizes, a massive, golden one towered above the rest. Countless people were inside, some standing and some sitting, all with relaxed expressions.
And outside that huge golden circle, several lines of people were waiting to get in.
It was as if humanity had established a new order in a single moment. No one was panicked or helpless; everyone was arranging their next steps in a calm and orderly fashion.
"Sis-in-law has really saved the entire base this time."
Even someone as normally calm as Second Brother couldn’t help but let out a long sigh of awe at such a scene.