Lin Chu did not linger in the room for long.

Taking advantage of Aunt Juan’s return to her bedroom to close the door, she secretly locked the bedroom door and hung a small bell on the doorknob.

She then carefully adjusted the curtains in the room before heading back to the shelter.

As soon as she stepped into the front yard of the shelter, the warm, hot air enveloped her.

The fireplace was burning charcoal. Before she left, Lin Chu had instructed the assistant to add more charcoal if it ran low, and the flames were now burning brightly.

Upon seeing her return, the assistant, who was flipping eggs inside, immediately stood up, holding something in his hand, and walked toward her.

“Master, I was just cleaning the bathroom and found this thing on the floor. I didn’t know what it was, so I picked it up first,” the assistant said.

Lin Chu looked up and saw that between the assistant’s white bony fingers, he was gently holding a thin, transparent thread tinged with a faint white hue.

The thread was about half the length of a finger, about as thick as a cotton thread, mostly transparent, but with a very fine white section in the center, thinner than a hair.

If you didn’t look closely, it was almost invisible.

It seemed that the assistant was afraid of breaking the thread, so he didn’t dare grip it tightly.

Lin Chu extended her hand, asking the assistant to place the thread in her palm.

The moment the thread touched her skin, a notification sound echoed in her mind.

[Host has discovered the daily mission target, daily mission activated.]

Lin Chu opened the daily mission panel and saw that the content of the daily mission had indeed appeared.

[Daily Mission (Optional): Please submit 1 snow insect (alive or dead)]

Mission Reward: 20 points

So this thin thread was called a snow insect.

A single small thread like this could be exchanged for 20 points.

Lin Chu instinctively felt that it wouldn’t be that simple.

The system showed that the snow insect in her hand was already dead.

But how could a dead snow insect end up in her shelter?

Lin Chu asked the assistant where the snow insect had been found.

It was in the shower area of the bathroom. Earlier, after Lin Chu finished showering, the floor was still wet, and the assistant came in to clean it, trying to dry the water on the floor.

Suddenly, he found the snow insect.

Lin Chu couldn’t help but marvel at her luck.

This was all thanks to the assistant being a robot with electronic eyes, able to see more clearly than human eyes.

If it were her, she probably would have swept it straight into the drain.

She crouched down at the spot where the assistant had discovered the snow insect and carefully searched.

However, the assistant had only found one. No matter how carefully Lin Chu searched, she didn’t find any more.

She submitted the only snow insect to the system, and the 20 points were credited.

She couldn’t help but ask the system.

“If this time the daily mission rewards 20 points for one submission, what’s the maximum number of submissions allowed?”

If it was still 500 times like before…

The system’s electronic voice quickly interrupted Lin Chu’s speculation.

[50 times.]

Actually, 50 times wasn’t too bad.

With 20 points per submission, if she completed the maximum of 50 times, she would earn 1,000 points.

But Lin Chu knew that the higher the point value, the greater the difficulty or the rarer the target.

If she wanted to hit the maximum, it wouldn’t be as easy as it was in the previous worlds.

Otherwise, why would Yu Hongfei have abandoned the A-rank world’s mission and come to the B-rank world to accumulate points?

As for this snow insect…

Since it appeared in her shelter, it must have come from her.

But when did it attach to her, and how did it fall to the ground and die…

All of this was unknown.

She had some guesses…

She left the bathroom and looked toward the window at the far end of the activity room.

The window could show the day and night of the mission world, but when Lin Chu looked outside, she could only see endless chaos.

However, this time, when she looked outside again, she received a system notification.

[Do you want to spend 10 points to open the window’s view of the current world?]

The window’s view could be opened?

“What will I be able to see if I open it?”

[You will be able to see the external view corresponding to the window’s direction.]

This was easy to understand. For example, the shelter was located on the west side of the balcony, and the window in front of her corresponded to the west.

If she understood correctly, after opening the window’s view, she would be able to see the scene from the west balcony of this house.

The peephole view could only see the scene at the door.

Now that the shelter was placed on the bedroom balcony door, looking through the peephole, she could only see the situation inside the bedroom.

But after opening the window’s view, she wouldn’t need to leave the shelter to see what was happening outside.

10 points wasn’t too expensive.

Lin Chu readily agreed.

As the points were submitted, the chaotic scene outside gradually cleared.

The sight of white snow greeted her eyes.

Lin Chu saw that there were still many people looking up outside.

Some had been standing out there for a long time, afraid they hadn’t been soaked enough, so they kept flipping over to soak themselves more.

Others were new faces.

Lin Chu carefully observed the situation outside. Soon, her gaze stopped at one place.

In front of the building opposite, a person appeared at the door.

He held an umbrella to block the falling snow, holding a basin in his hand as he scooped up a pile of snow from the ground in front of the door.

Then, he folded up the umbrella, shook off the snow, and hurriedly returned inside.

Some of the people who were looking up, just like Lin Chu, noticed him and shouted at him:

“Old Zhao, why aren’t you getting soaked in the snow?”

The man turned and glanced at the person who called out to him. “I’m not soaking. If you want to, go ahead.”

Lin Chu saw that this man, Old Zhao, had his head and face fully covered with a mask and hat.

Even his ears were covered with ear muffs.

Only his eyes were visible.

This made a stark contrast with those people who had their faces exposed, looking up to greet the snow.

Perhaps, this world had naturally divided people into two groups.

One believed that soaking in snow could toughen the body, while the other completely rejected this theory.

Old Zhao carried the basin full of snow and hurried off.

Behind him, the people looking up couldn’t help but shake their heads.

“Old Zhao is too stubborn.”

“He’s an elitist. A senior teacher, and his daughter is a top student. He thinks we’ve all been brainwashed.”

“Old Yang’s son is also a top student, and both he and his wife are soaking in the snow too.”

As the people downstairs were discussing, suddenly, the window on the second floor of the opposite building opened.

“Splash—”

A basin of steaming hot water was poured down from the upper floor, landing on the heads of many people downstairs.

Many of them cried out in pain, holding their heads.

“Stop talking bad about my daughter, or I’ll make you pay!”

A harsh woman’s voice echoed, and downstairs there was the sound of pain and anger.

Soon, those who had been drenched with hot water returned home.

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to keep soaking; their heads were just too painful.

That kind of pain, Lin Chu had experienced not long ago.

Her gaze fixed on the second-floor window across the way.

She saw that behind the woman who had thrown the hot water, the man who had just entered the house, fully armed with a mask and hat, was none other than Old Zhao.

But…

Did that woman really throw water just to scold those people?