A large area of glaciers covered the Earth, and the global low temperature continued, such an environment could be countless times worse than the air pollution of the Faculty of Environment. Even if the living conditions of the Faculty of Environment were poor, at least there were humans, and supermarkets. They could even buy protective clothing, masks and other human production tools.
What could be in the Ice Age?
An endless glacier, not even a person could be seen, let alone any supermarket.
In the supermarket of the Faculty of Environment, although the Chinese cabbage for hundred of yuan was very expensive, at least they could still buy it! But in the Ice Age, don’t even think about grapes, cabbage, tomatoes and so on. Millions of years ago, what could be eaten in a world where no humans existed?
Ke Shaobin sighed. “We can’t eat ice for 10 days in a row!”
Qin Lu said with a smile, “That’s not the case. In the Ice Age, although there was no human civilization, there were still animals, we may be able to hunt, roast meat to eat or something? However, during that period, the warm-loving animals and plants on the Earth were extinct. Those who survived were relatively powerful animals, such as sawtooth tigers, cheetahs, cave bears, saber-toothed rhinoceros, giant apes and so on.”
Qin Miao added. “Giant apes are the ancestors of our ancestors. At that time they had not yet evolved intelligence, and it was the arrival of the ice age that made the giant apes begin to come down to the ground and gradually learn to walk upright.”
The more everyone listened, the more frightened they became.
These animals were very difficult to deal with ah!
Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and quickly calmed down. “In the Ice Age, most of the animals that survived were very aggressive and adaptable, they all had thick skin that was more resistant to cold. But we have special abilities, and we are not without a chance of winning.”
Liu Zhaoqing complained, “Fortunately, there are special abilities, otherwise, if you throw 12 ordinary humans into the Ice Age, won’t you send everyone to be food for those fierce beasts!”
With their special abilities, they didn’t need to be afraid of those beasts. If they couldn’t beat them, they could dissolve them with sulfuric acid rain.
Yue Xingwen’s gaze swept over his teammates and said quickly, “No matter what, we still have to take this course head on. Since it’s a survival class, there are two things to ensure, the first is food and water. There are Xin Yan’s distillation flasks, ice is everywhere in the ice age, dig some with distillation flasks, and we don’t have to worry about water resources. For food, we can only get ingredients on the spot, hunt some fierce beasts to eat, and don’t think about vegetables and fruits.”
He looked at Ke Shaobin, who immediately nodded and said, “It’s okay, just get out of this course alive. I’m not a picky eater. What’s more, we’re not actually short of fruit ah, Xingwen can rain oranges.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and continued, “The second one is also the most critical—— temperature.”
When everyone heard the word ‘temperature’, they always felt cold air whizzing down their spine.
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Ke Shaobin was stunned and said, “What’s even more depressing is that library supermarkets and clothing stores don’t sell down jackets ah!”
Everyone: “…”
This was simply worse.
Without down jackets, they went to the Ice Age in summer clothes? It was terrible to think about.
Liu Zhaoqing shook his head helplessly. “My gauze can heal wounds, but it can’t protect against cold. Therefore, the best thing to do is that after we go to the Ice Age, we hunt some beasts as soon as possible, and strip their skins off to make clothes. I have surgical sewing needles and thread, and I can make clothes on the spot.”
Jiang Pingce looked at Xin Yan and said, “What is the cooldown time of your spirit lamp?”
Xin Yan said, “30 minutes, but I can summon hundreds of spirit lamps at a time, as long as the alcohol does not burn out, it can always be on, so in theory, the spirit lamp can do an infinite cycle.”
Yue Xingwen looked at Lin Manluo and said, “Senior sister Manluo’s vine and green trees can be used as fuel. If it’s not possible, we’ll have Xin Yan light a fire and cut senior sister Manluo’s trees into wood, and burn it for heating.”
Lin Manluo nodded and said, “No problem, my green tree cut for fuel can burn for quite a long time, and it can continue to be summoned after 24 hours. With the fire source, everyone should be able to carry it in severe cold weather.”
After discussing the next countermeasures, Yue Xingwen said, “Everyone get ready, I’ll select the course.”
Yue Xingwen pressed the ‘confirm course selection’ button on the globe.
A familiar cold mechanical voice sounded in everyone’s ears: “Congratulations to the C-183 Research Group for the successful course selection, the <Ice Age> course exam of the Faculty of Geography is about to begin, please be prepared…”
After 10 seconds of countdown, everyone’s eyes went dark at the same time——
After they regained their vision, they found that white glacier was in the eye.
The hard glacier stretched for hundreds of kilometers, and the whole world was snow-white, let alone plants, not even an animal could be seen. And they were 12 people, they were in the center of this white glacier, as if abandoned by the whole world.
The extreme low temperature weather made Yue Xingwen sneeze wildly, and the hot air he spat out when he spoke instantly condensed into frost, and his teeth were chattering. “How, how many degrees is this temperature now ah?”
Ke Shaobin released Xiao Tu, and Xiao Tu soon reported the result, “The current temperature is -30 degrees.”
This was similar to the coldest winter in the north. The key was that in the real winter, they would wear thermal underwear, a cashmere sweater, down jackets, and wrap themselves tightly when they went out, and there was heating in the house when they went home.
But now, they were all wearing thin short sleeves!
The library’s clothing stores and supermarkets only sold summer clothes, which was a big pit.
Everyone’s hands were frozen and painful, and they all stuffed their hands into their pockets. Yue Xingwen’s ears instantly froze red, and he said while his teeth chattered, “Make a fire!”
Lin Manluo immediately summoned the green tree. Her tree was now level 2, the trunk was as thick as an adult’s arms wrapped around, the branches were lush, the green tree was shady, staying under the tree, she suddenly felt that the air around her was much fresher.
Liu Zhaoqing quickly took out the chainsaw to sawn off the trunk as wood, and Xin Yan lit the wood with a spirit lamp. The biting cold wind blew in the face, using a spirit lamp to ignite, the speed was too slow. Xin Yan simply smashed two spirit lamps, splashed alcohol on the wood to help ignite, which successfully ignited the wood.
The burning wood radiated heat, and everyone stretched out their hands around the fire.
However, this did not help.
Imagine the coldest winter in the north, what was the use of warming up in the fire if they wore short sleeves to go outside? The clothes on their bodies were too thi, the surrounding temperature was so low, and the cold wind was constant. It was impossible to keep warm.
Liu Zhaoqing resisted the urge to curse, shivering and said, “Can little junior brother dig a base? It’s better to stay inside a room with walls than to blow the wind outside, right? This cold wind almost blows my soul out of my body.”
In the past, no matter how cold it was, there were down jackets to wear, but now, they simply wore such broken short sleeves in the winter. What was the difference between running naked in the snow?
Zhang Xiaonian looked at Qin Lu. “I’m not sure if I can dig the foundation. I used to dig on the ground, here is the ice. I can’t build an underground base if there is water under the ice.”
Qin Lu looked into the distance and frowned. “I remember that during the Quaternary Ice Age, about one-third of the Earth’s land was covered under ice more than two hundred meters thick, and the ice under our feet was probably more than two hundred meters thick.”
A 33 storey building was only 100 meters high, and 200 meters thick ice was too scary.
Zhang Xiaonian said with a bitter face, “With more than 20 hundred meters of ice, my excavator can’t dig through. We must find normal land to build the underground base.”
Lan Yarong analyzed, “Lulu said that one-third of the Earth’s land is covered by ice, so there are still two-thirds of animals living in it, right? As long as we find animals, we can follow the trail to the land.”
Qin Lu nodded. “That’s true. In addition to a very few animals that can survive on the ice, there are many beasts that survived on land during the Ice Age, and we must first find land if we want to survive.”
However, in which direction should they go in the endless ice?
Yue Xingwen said, “Use wood to ignite the fire, even if we stay next to the fire all the time, we can’t hold out for too long. In case we go in the wrong direction, we are likely to get frostbite halfway, or even freeze to death.”
Human beings were the most intolerant to cold, a long period of evolution had allowed humans to shed their fur. Using ‘clothes’ as an external tool to resist the cold, they now wore short sleeves on the glacier at -30 degrees celsius. Yue Xingwen said ‘frostbite, freeze to death’ was not an exaggeration.
Maybe they might be able to hold on for a few minutes or half an hour, but what about going the wrong way? With such a large area of the ice, there was not even a single reference around them, and the possibility of them getting lost was extremely high.
Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment and said, “Staying still is just putting us in a slow death. It is daytime, the temperature is already -30 degrees, once at night, the temperature drops again, we may not live beyond today, not to mention 10 days.”
Everyone fell silent.
The cold temperature made everyone shivering with cold, constantly sneezing. Some students had runny noses uncontrollably, everyone’s brain seemed to be frozen and numb, and their thinking began to become rigid.
At this moment, Qin Lu suddenly said, “I have an idea, the center of the Quaternary Ice Age period is in the large ice field region of the American continent and Eurasia, of which the north side of the American continent and the northwest side of Eurasia are covered by ice. If we go southeast we should find normal land without ice.”
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately had a goal.
Liu Zhaoqing said, “It’s good to determine the direction. But, southeast, how should we determine it?”
Qin Lu took out the globe and said, “My globe can locate latitude and longitude, let me take a look.”
Every time she used the Plate Movement skill, a directional icon appeared on the globe. The globe in Qin Lu’s hand really began to rotate. Soon, she determined the southeast position, pointing to the distance and said, “Go that way.”
Yue Xingwen immediately stood up. “Everyone hurry up, let’s use all kinds of movement skills, we must find land before dark and build a base to prevent cold. We can’t spend the night on this ice, it’s too cold at night and I don’t want to freeze to death!”
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Freeze to death is really cruel death
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I hope they brought protection for their eyes. Don’t they have to worry about snow blindness?
Oohhh good point. I think they’ll realize how big of an issue it is once they encounter it. Plus, the snow blindness they’re used to is probably nothing compared to any of the ice ages.