Yun Luohe didn’t plan to respond to any of it. It didn’t affect her anyway. She wasn’t a savior—she couldn’t save everyone—and there were still a few days left before winter hit.“Try to guilt-trip me? Useless,” she murmured, gaze steady. In this game, survival still came down to yourself.She would watch the listings and buy a few deeds, build the houses first, then talk.Whether inviting NPCs to settle or taking in new players, the houses had to be ready beforehand.If there really was talent she needed, she could bring them in.But right now the priority was to get ahead of winter.She opened the Reef Mall and purchased a new House Deed. One hundred thousand Sea Coins vanished on the spot.Yun Luohe took out a pocket notebook and started jotting down what she needed.First, stockpile enough food for the winter, then build two more glass Greenhouses.Order all spiders to collect every usable fuel and insulating material at full tilt.Start planting cotton immediately and produce a large volume of cold-resistance supplies.Make time to run Volcano Island and Mechanical Island. Volcano Island had heat-bearing ores and hot-spring materials; Mechanical Island had heaps of gears and tech products—exactly what she needed.Condition the spiders for cold tolerance; once winter landed they wouldn’t be able to operate otherwise and would likely freeze to death.…All of this had to be solved in the next few days.Five days might not be enough.Fenfen fluttered in through the window, clutching a few roasted-dry nuts in its claws—from who knew where.“Cheep-cheep… smells amazing! So good! Master, I brought the old captain.”“Got it.” Yun Luohe washed her hands and lifted the steamed coral trout off the stove.The shredded scallions blanketing the fish sizzled as she poured hot oil over them.She had just set the dishes on the table when Hilco’s voice drifted over.“Not bad. I could smell it from far off.”Hilco ate with obvious pleasure, praising her again and again.Seeing him in a good mood, Yun Luohe probed for news,asking after other NPCs.Hilco didn’t reveal much. He only said she’d learn in due time.Looked like he’d only let things slip last time because he was drunk.It would be hard to pry more out of him now.She changed tack, sounding offhand. “Winter’s coming. What are your plans?”Hilco leisurely cracked a crab leg and picked out the meat. “Plans? Winter comes when it comes. Life goes on just the same. Can’t go to sea, so I’ll keep to the fireplace, sip a little liquor, warm the bones, get through it and that’s that.”Then he glanced at her. “Before winter hits, you’ve got plenty on your plate. I won’t be eating here the next few days. Brew more liquor—come winter, a drink warms you up.”Yes, she needed to brew more.Might as well build a few more Brewery Workshops.She still had several thousand jin of fruit in storage—turn all of it into wine!—After the meal with Hilco, Yun Luohe threw herself back into work.Site the Shop and new housing and start construction.She needed a lot more Sea Coins.In the Trade Hub and within the Mutual Aid Association, she began large-volume collection of high-grade fish meat, buying back at premium Shipping Crate prices and then flipping it to Hilco.Pure arbitrage netted her tens of thousands more.But that high-grade fish still couldn’t match the meat of a Golden King Fish.Selling off the remaining bluefin tuna meat brought in another few tens of thousands of Sea Coins.She still had to find more Golden King Fish. Besides bluefin, there were several autumn-limited species she hadn’t caught yet.And she couldn’t abandon the fish-meat arbitrage channel either.She simply tasked Mu Zitang to assign people to collect fish meat for her and promised a finder’s fee when the time came.After that, she had Roubao take the boat back out to scoop shells, dropping crab pots and setting Knot-Mesh Fishing Nets along the way.She ordered the spiders to work the island’s woods and slopes, digging up every edible wild potato and yam they could find.Beyond that, they weren’t to leave the withered grass, fallen leaves, or pine needles behind either—everything sacked up in burlap—perfect fuel and tinder later. The Gemstone Miner Spiders also began searching for coal seams.At the Trade Hub she bought a batch of cotton seed as well. Plenty of players had finally caught on and were scrambling for winter supplies. Chat channels and forums were deep into winter-disaster prep threads.She opened a post that covered thirty-six key points for handling extreme cold.It was genuinely solid—many points were right on the money.Yun Luohe deliberately copied them down by hand.—She had the hired builder on a one-week contract; a few days remained—just enough to call him back in to help with the Shop and the new house.Through the mall’s recruitment listing she summoned him again and, after a quick rundown of requirements:“Build the Shop here, close to the dock for traffic,” Yun Luohe leveled the ground and handed over the Shop Deed and the resource list.“The adjacent lot—tight structure, strong insulation, with a fireplace and a small courtyard.”“Leave it to me. No problem—rest easy!” the builder thumped his chest—still that confident NPC cadence—and set to laying the foundation immediately.In the afternoon, Yun Luohe set out again.This island’s area was even larger.She and the Crimson-Blood Combat Spiders with the Gold-Shell Spiders cleared the insects, then had the Horticulture Nanny Spiders drop nets and crab pots into a deep pit by the shore.Once that was done, she had Fenfen lead the spider swarms and begin a carpet search of the island.Priority targets were starchy tubers—giant yams, cassava—and cold-hardy nuts like pine nuts and hazelnuts.With the weather turning cold, edible wild fungi were scarce; there were no mushrooms to pick. Her island still had a Mushroom House pushing out steady harvests, but once winter hit it probably wouldn’t hold.Spiders combed the ground in all directions. Fenfen handled aerial recon, pinpointing resource nodes they might miss.If they could locate a vein, all the better. She was short on every kind of ingot; buying with Sea Coins was too expensive.A sweep like this on a small island didn’t take a full day. With the sun about to set, Yun Luohe prepared to head back.She needed to get home and process food. First stop: the Advanced Cooking Station to batch out every high-grade seasoning she could craft.After that, run large portions of meats and produce through processing and feed them into the various workshops.A chunk of the meat would be dehydrated and smoked—fish jerky, meat jerky, smoked fish, smoked pork.Another portion would go into long-keeping, portable sealed cans: fish cans, vegetable cans, mushroom paste.As for vegetable tubers—yam, cassava, sweet potato, potato—she’d sun-dry and mill them into flour for storage.Nuts could be pressed for oil—peanut oil, pine nut oil.By the time she got back to the island, it was already evening.Roubao happened to still be on the boat at the pier.“How’s the haul?”“Three sacks of shells, seafood’s a bumper crop—tons of crabs, plus a few big fish!”“Nice. Extra supper for you tonight.”She made a quick inspection, pulling out the valuable shellfish and the big fish. Part would go to Hilco for Sea Coins, part she’d keep for processing.The leftover small fish and shrimp would do for a late-night snack—Roubao’s extra supper.She pulled the Motorcycle from her pack, gunned it to the manor, and the lights were already on outside.Fenfen had made a full loop of the island and came back with the day’s situation.“Cheep-cheep, Master! The Gemstone Miner Spiders found a small open-pit coal seam in the southwest corner, and the Gold-Shell Spiders dug up a ton of yams on the shaded slope!”“Excellent.” Yun Luohe was pleased. “Have them head back now.”“They’re already back—over there sorting.”The spider legion had split into several teams. A Horticulture Nanny Spider squad was putting up a temporary warehouse on the open ground, bundling burlap sacks with silk; each bag stuffed with dried leaves and pine needles.Other teams were feeding raw materials into different workshops for processing.The Smoking Workshop was overloaded, so a line of Horticulture Nanny Spiders strung cuts of meat on silk and hung them on a makeshift smoking rack.Another squad of Gold-Shell Spiders was slicing wild yams and potatoes with their claws.Too thick.“These potatoes need to be cut into thin chips and sun-dried, then milled,”Yun Luohe walked over and demonstrated.Potato flour made a good chowder and, mixed with wheat flour, baked into long-keeping cakes—crucial winter carbs.Before the sky went fully dark, she headed into the Greenhouse. The seeds she’d snagged at the Trade Hub weren’t many; not enough for large plots.If she hustled before bed, she could sow the lot tonight.A Horticulture Nanny Spider squad was already working the soil inside.She checked their progress.To push cotton to maturity, she’d deliberately used generous growth accelerant and fertilizer.The accelerant would speed ripening; the fertilizer would raise yield.“Our food reserves still aren’t enough. I need two more glass Greenhouses.”She’d have to make more tempered glass. Regular panes wouldn’t stand against blizzards—hail wasn’t out of the question either.If it got worse, ice balls dropping from the sky wasn’t impossible.Only tempered glass would hold.And heat retention was the key to winter planting. She’d need a layer of insulation inside the Greenhouse. Volcano Island had to be run, fast.Right then, a message from Mu Zitang popped up: “Sister Yun, we collected around two hundred jin of high-grade fish today, plus some assorted fish and shrimp, a bit over three hundred jin total. Send to you now?”“Do it. Send it over.”The amount was much lower than she’d expected.Most likely everyone realized it was time to hoard food; they weren’t bringing much to market.A glance at the Trade Hub showed cotton seed prices spiking already, and other insulating materials—hides, down, heat-shield fiber—were all climbing with them.She thought for a moment and snapped up another batch of rising-price goods. If they were still available now, they might be impossible to buy later.She didn’t lack them yet, but better to stock deeper.The chat channels were still drowning in messages.“Level 9 boss please take me in! I’ve got the Warmth Aura—‘little furnace’!”“Any big boss out there? Look at me! I’ve got level 6 Planting!”“One hundred thousand Sea Coins! Who’ll sell me a deed? I’ll sell the house to buy the deed!”“Did everyone read the winter survival rules? The one from District 1’s guru—super practical.”She closed the light screen and walked over to the Brewery Workshops.The two she had weren’t enough; she planned to expand three more.The spiders had already hauled thousands of jin of fruit to the workshop yard—autumn’s last apples and pears, plus the grapes, strawberries, bayberries, peaches she’d stored earlier.“Looks like I’ll be burning the midnight oil. Let’s try to get all this fruit processed tonight.”She checked the time.“Work until two, then sleep. I still have to hit Volcano Island in the morning.”She’d wanted to dive tonight and search the Underwater Ruins for the other two autumn fish kings, but there was no time.She hadn’t gone diving herself in days. Since forming a diving team, she didn’t need to personally hit the seabed to bring back materials; even mother-of-pearl and Deep-Sea Black Iron were no longer scarce.But after she returned from Volcano Island tomorrow, she had to explore the Underwater Ruins.If winter arrived and the sea iced over, the seabed might become inaccessible.She still hadn’t finished the Underwater Ruins Teleportation Array, either—she needed to locate the array nodes and complete it. That way she could still reach the seabed in winter.Too much to do.Yun Luohe sorted her thoughts and took it step by step.She checked the Mushroom House: growth had slowed in the cold—noticeably.This would probably be the last flush.Working deep into the ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) night, she was about to head to her room when a tiny sound came from behind.“Hss-hss…”Yun Luohe turned. “Yuntun, you’re here.”She quickly reached out and scooped up the shrunken Yuntun.Yuntun had been in the spider house for many days, and its appearance had changed again.Its colors and markings looked more opulent; its eyes were deeper now.Yun Luohe pulled up Yuntun’s info in a hurry.One look—and she couldn’t help it.“Yuntun, you leveled up again!”Yuntun: “Mm. Hehe, I don’t need the spider house to breed little spiders anymore. I can stay with you.”“That’s fantastic,” Yun Luohe said, delighted.She hadn’t quite gotten used to Yuntun being away these days.Yuntun had stayed in the spider house long enough—all to help her forge a stronger spider legion.And an extra surprise on top of that: it had leveled again this fast.Probably because it had been exercising Queen’s Dominion and its mental force constantly, grinding the skill—and because it ate huge quantities of insects every day.The insects were delivered right to its mouth by its spider offspring—high-grade bugs, all of them. With a diet like that, fast leveling was only natural.

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