158: Chapter 158 Snow Sweeping in the Northern Territory! The Infrastructure Maniac Descends upon Yingzhou!

The northernmost tip of Yingzhou Province, formerly the Hokkaido region.

This place was once a skiing resort, but now it has become a dead, frozen wasteland.

Covered in snow year-round, with biting cold winds.

After the Cataclysm, the climate here became even more extreme, with temperatures maintaining around minus forty degrees year-round. Even the seawater has frozen into thick layers of ice, as if the entire world has been Seal(ed) inside a giant piece of amber.

"Achoo—!!!"

Wang Dachui let out a thunderous sneeze.

Although he was a Perfect Primarch with Qi and blood like a Dragon, theoretically unafraid of the cold, the psychological chill still made him shiver uncontrollably.

"This place... is fucking cold! What happened to the promised hot spring resort? Why does it feel like I've walked into a giant freezer? The kind that hasn't been defrosted!"

Wang Dachui rubbed his arms and complained: "If I had known, I would've asked Second Brother to leave me a seed of fire to make a hand warmer. A miscalculation, a huge miscalculation!"

"Shut up, stay quiet."

General Leng Feng, who was walking in the lead, turned her head and glanced at him indifferently.

Unlike the bedraggled Wang Dachui, General Leng Feng wore a thin black tactical suit and looked perfectly at home in this frozen world.

Not only did she feel no chill, but she was also surrounded by a faint ice-blue spiritual energy. With every step she took, the snow beneath her feet automatically condensed into a hard ice surface, emitting a crisp "crack" sound.

"There is a very strong ice-element energy fluctuation here; it is very pure, and also very... greedy."

General Leng Feng took a deep breath. The biting chill in the air caused the Hanyuan Blade inside her to hum with excitement. "Be careful, this kind of environment is most suitable for that kind of thing to survive."

The group was walking through a primeval forest completely covered in ice and snow. The once towering ancient trees were now frozen into huge, crystal-clear ice sculptures, with sharp icicles hanging from their branches and leaves. It was like a series of natural crystal palaces—breathtakingly beautiful, yet chillingly desperate.

"Hee hee hee..."

Suddenly, a burst of silver-bell-like giggling came from the depths of the forest in all directions without warning.

The laughter was ethereal and drifting, echoing through the quiet, icy forest, carrying a charm that could make one's bones soft and one's mind drift.

"It's here!"

Wang Dachui's eyes instantly lit up. His waist no longer ached, his legs no longer felt cold, and he immediately straightened his back, even using the icy surface to fix his hair that had been messed up by the wind.

"Listening to this voice... it's definitely a great beauty! And there's more than one!"

"Dachui, be careful." Nalan Ruo, who was behind him, moved the vines in her hand slightly, looking alert. "The more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is. The Death Qi here is hidden under the ice and snow, and it is very heavy."

As soon as she finished speaking.

"Whoosh—"

A cold wind carrying an exotic fragrance swept over, blowing away the mist in the forest.

On the snow ahead, more than a dozen women wearing pure white kimonos, with skin fairer than snow and stunningly beautiful faces, were drifting over lightly with bare feet.

They left no footprints, their bodies had a translucent texture, and they were surrounded by white mist. Their long hair flowed like waterfalls, and as their eyes darted around, it seemed as if they could snatch away a person's soul.

"Such... such a handsome young man..."

The leading Snow Woman drifted in front of Wang Dachui. She was more solid than the other Snow Women, and her appearance was devastatingly beautiful. Her ice-blue eyes were full of adoration. She stretched out her slender, jade-like hand, wanting to stroke Wang Dachui's face, her voice sounding seductive to the bone:

"In this desolate mountain wilderness... Young Master, aren't you cold all by yourself?"

"Stay... and play with us... We will make you... very hot... very comfortable..."

As she spoke, the surrounding air seemed to become ambiguous. Those Snow Women gathered around, singing and dancing lightly, their sleeves fluttering to reveal glimpses of snow-white skin.

"Ahem, that..."

Wang Dachui looked at these peerless faces, and his old habits flared up again. He felt his heart pounding uncontrollably. Is this the legendary exotic charm?

He subconsciously reached out, wanting to take the jade hand that was extended toward him, a perverted grin appearing on his face:

"That's not impossible... as long as you are hospitable, I'm someone who loves making friends the most..."

"Careful! That's Soul-Sucking Technique!" Nalan Ruo shouted.

"Crack!"

Just as Wang Dachui's fingers were about to touch the Snow Woman's fingertips, a sudden change occurred!

The once charming Snow Woman's mouth suddenly split open to her ears, revealing a mouthful of saw-like fangs! Her hand instantly transformed into sharp ice claws, ruthlessly gripping Wang Dachui's wrist!

An extreme chill instantly spread up his arm!

"What the f*ck! So cold?!"

Wang Dachui felt his entire right arm instantly lose sensation, turning into a blue popsicle! The cold energy was still crazily drilling into his body, wanting to freeze his Qi and blood!

"You want to absorb his Yang Qi?"

A voice, cold to the extreme, like a freezing wind from Hell, instantly froze the enthusiasm of the entire scene.

General Leng Feng appeared in front of Wang Dachui, though no one knew when. Although the Hanyuan Blade in her hand was not drawn, the terrifying chill it emitted actually caused the falling snowflakes around them to freeze in mid-air!

She looked at the Snow Woman who was holding her husband's hand, her gaze sharper than a blade:

"Playing with ice in front of the ancestor of ice manipulation? You're courting death!"

"Who are you?!" The Snow Woman leader discovered in terror that the cold energy she was so proud of was trembling in front of this woman in black, as if it had encountered its natural predator.

"I'm his wife!"

General Leng Feng snorted coldly, and the Hanyuan Blade was suddenly drawn!

Swish!

General Leng Feng swung her blade.

There was no dazzling blade light, only a wave of invisible, extreme freezing-cold rules that instantly spread to a radius of one hundred meters!

"Ah!!!"

The smiles on the faces of those Snow Women, who had originally wanted to charm the group and were preparing to pounce to absorb their vital energy, instantly froze.

They discovered in terror that the flowing ice spiritual energy within their bodies had actually been frozen in reverse by an even lower-temperature cold!

"No... this is impossible... I am a Snow Woman... How can I be cold..." The Snow Woman leader let out a final, desperate scream.

"Crack, crack, crack—"

In just one second, these dozen or so Snow Women turned into lifelike ice sculptures, maintaining their reaching postures. Even their terrified expressions were perfectly frozen within the ice layer, and they could no longer move. The entire forest turned into a dead, silent ice prison.

"This..."

Wang Dachui forcefully shattered the ice on his arm, looked at the row of stunningly beautiful ice sculptures in front of him, swallowed his saliva, and looked regretful:

"Wife, does this count as... wasting resources? This is too realistic, they're works of art!"

"What? You want to keep them?"

General Leng Feng sheathed her blade, turned back, and looked at him with a half-smile, a dangerous glint in her eyes:

"How about I move them back to your room to serve as air conditioners? Save electricity in the summer?"

"No, no, no! No need! Having you is enough for me! You are the most beautiful air conditioner in my heart... ah no, the warmest little padded jacket!" Wang Dachui's survival instinct immediately maxed out, and he shook his head like a rattle-drum.

"Hmph, you're sensible."

General Leng Feng rolled her eyes at him, pointed at the ice sculptures, and said:

"These are [Vengeful Snow Women], specifically designed to absorb men's vital energy. If you get entangled by them, you'll turn into a dried corpse."

"Smash these ice sculptures. Their core is the 'Snow Soul Bead', which is an excellent ice-element Material. Keep it for Third Brother to use as a coolant, or for the big freezer at home."

"Understood!"

Wang Dachui quickly called Lao Jin and Zhang Dapao to get to work, turning into a foreman:

"Did you hear that! Smash them! Dig out the beads! Be quick about it! This is a gift for Third Brother!"

"Yes!"

With a series of clattering and banging sounds, this group of Snow Women who had entrenched themselves in Hokkaido for many years completely became the Wang family's spoils of war.

...

With the cleaning of Hokkaido finished, the high-risk monsters on the entire Yingzhou Island were basically wiped out.

Three days later, in the center of Yingzhou Island, at the foot of Mount Fuji.

This place was once a desolate volcanic ash plain, but today, it was shaken by a force known as an "Industrial Miracle".

"Hum— hum— hum—"

The sky once again carried that reassuring and shocking roar of engines. But this time, it wasn't fighter jets, nor was it just a few transport planes.

It was two hundred of them! A fleet of super-heavy strategic transport planes painted with the bright red characters "Huaxia Infrastructure"!

They blotted out the sky and sun, like a steel cloud, sweeping majestically toward the ground.

"Rumble—"

When these behemoths landed, the entire earth trembled, as if welcoming the arrival of its new master.

The cargo doors opened, and countless engineering mechs, automated construction robots, and thousands of top-tier engineers and construction workers poured out like a tide.

They didn't pause for a second; as soon as they got off the planes, they immediately threw themselves into work. Measuring, excavating, leveling the land, erecting frameworks... every step was as precise as a precision machine.

The leader was none other than Captain Li Jianguo, who had been in charge of the renovations at the Cloud Top Palace and had been promoted to the national special-grade project commander-in-chief.

"Consultant Wang! We meet again!"

Captain Li, with a glowing face and wearing a hard hat, held a huge holographic blueprint in his hand. He trotted over and excitedly shook Wang Dachui's hand:

"Under the orders of Elder Long, the entire staff of Huaxia's First, Second, and Third Engineering Bureaus have assembled! At your service!"

"The higher-ups have issued a strict order to build you a world-class—[Yingzhou Imperial Palace] within one month!"

Captain Li pointed to the busy construction site behind him, full of heroic spirit:

"Our goal is: not only to live comfortably, but also to combine SS-level defense, top-tier research, three-dimensional agriculture, and luxury leisure all in one!"

"We want to build a lighthouse of human civilization on this wasteland!"

"Good!"

Wang Dachui looked at the spectacular scene and the steel skeletons rising from the ground, a sense of heroic spirit welling up in his heart. This is what you call a big move! This is the feeling of being a lord!

"Old Li, build away! Don't try to save money for me!"

Wang Dachui waved his hand, having quite the air of an upstart:

"If you don't have enough money, go find Xiao Ji; if you don't have enough Materials, I'll go find them!"

He pointed to the towering Mount Fuji:

"I want to build the largest outdoor hot spring pool under this crater! The kind where you can look at the stars while soaking!"

"Also, on the ruins of that Tokyo Bay, build a marine amusement park! It needs to have a Ferris wheel and a roller coaster!"

"No problem! Leave it to us!"

Captain Li patted his chest in assurance, "This is the specialty of our Huaxia Infrastructure Team!"

Thus, a vigorous, massive infrastructure campaign capable of changing the landscape of Yingzhou began on this wasteland.

High-rise buildings rose from the flat ground, and the wilderness turned into fertile fields.

Wang Dachui stood on high ground, watching all of this, a satisfied smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"This is just the beginning."

"When the house is built, I should consider... how to fill this place up."