Millions of years ago, during the Ice Age, one third of the Earth’s land was covered by thick ice. Walking on the ice, as everyone wore ordinary sneakers, half of the people almost slipped without taking two steps.
Everyone helped each other, and as a result, 12 people fell to the ground collectively our of inertia.
Falling on the ice could be more painful than on flat ground, Yue Xingwen said with a bitter face, “It seems that I can only rely on Pingce and Qin Lu’s displacement skill. I haven’t learned to skate, in this ice, not to mention walking a few kilometers, it’s difficult to walk a few steps.”
Jiang Pingce stretched out his hand, quickly pulled Yue Xingwen up, and said in a low voice, “My coordinate system cooldown once every half an hour, with Qin Lu’s Plate Movement, we should be able to find land before it gets dark?”
Qin Lu said, “The Plate Movement can switch places 12 times, 500 meters at a time, and can advance up to 6,000 meters. I hope this ice isn’t too big, otherwise we really have to spend the night on the ice.”
Ke Shaobin rubbed his fingers that were frozen red, looked at the burning wood, and said, “If Pingce uses the coordinate system to control everyone in the air, this burning fire is not good to carry, right? Without the fire, we’re probably going to freeze to death halfway.”
Lan Yarong said with a bitter face, “I feel that the blood in my whole body is going to freeze. If I continue like this, I will turn into an ice sculpture!”
Liu Zhaoqing made a joke, “Then you first put on a good pose.”
The burning fire was the only source of heat for everyone at the moment.
But even with these fires, everyone was still shivering with cold. The temperature around them was too low, and they had no warm clothes. Once they did not carry the fire during the moving forward process, it was really possible to get frostbite halfway.
However, Jiang Pingce could not let the burning fire fly with everyone, right? In that case, everyone would not be able to warm up by the fire, and it would also increase the difficulty of Jiang Pingce’s calculation.
Everyone was worried, Xin Yan suddenly said calmly, “I have a way, my distillation flask can be enlarged and turned into a container to put everyone in.”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes widened. “But won’t your distillation skill steam the water in the human body to dry? The 12 of us are steamed into jerky by you, won’t the group be instantly annihilated!”
Xin Yan explained, “As long as the heating function of the spirit lamp is not turned on, the distillation flask is a simple container and won’t steam everyone into jerky. I think it’s better for everyone to stay in the bottle than to be out in the cold, at least.”
Ke Shaobin imagined the scene of 12 people collectively staying in the glass bottle and flying in the sky…
Were they making horror movies?
Ke Shaobin asked, “What about the fire?”
Xin Yan thought for a while and said, “After the burning charcoal is extinguished, seal it with a small distillation flask. The residual heat will be stored and turned into a thermos. Everyone will take one each and hold it in their arms to keep warm.”
Ke Shaobin was surprised and said, “Each person takes a small bottle and then sits in the big bottle?”
Xin Yan nodded. “En.”
Yue Xingwen really appreciated Xin Yan’s idea. He simulated it in his mind, and felt that the method was feasible, so he said, “Let’s do it, I can’t think of another way. Xin Yan, go make the bottle, and everyone stands in line.”
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However, since Xin Yan said that he did not turn on the heating device, then this bottle could indeed protect against the cold!
Everyone quickly stood in a line. Xin Yan first put out the fire, made 12 small insulated bottles and handed out one each, followed by summoning enlarged distillation flasks, and put his teammates into the bottles one by one.
Ke Shobin looked at his teammates who were staying in the glass bottle beside him, helplessly holding his forehead. “Although such a scene is a little strange, don’t say, the glass bottle can isolate the cold wind, and it’s indeed a little warmer than just now.”
Yue Xingwen was in the front, he simply sat down in the bottle, and said with a smile, “Pingce, let’s go!”
Jiang Pingce raised his right hand and said, “Everyone sit down.”
Everyone followed Yue Xingwen and sat down in the bottle. Since the 12 bottles gathered together, Jiang Pingce could use the coordinate collection movement to manipulate the trajectory of everyone’s movement. He quickly wrote out a few formulas, and everyone only saw the 12 bottles collectively rise into the air and began to fly forward according to the sine curve.
Ke Shaobin sat in the bottle, looked at the endless ice under his feet through the transparent glass, and said excitedly, “It’s so much fun! I feel like I went to the amusement park to ride the transparent Ferris Wheel when I was a child.”
Xu Yishen said with a smile, “Xin Yan’s method is really good. Let everyone fly in a transparent bottle, holding a thermos in our hands. The instruments of the Chemistry Department are indeed omnipotent, it can be anything!”
Yue Xingwen’s bottle and Jiang Pingce’s bottle were side by side, flying above the ice in a glass bottle, a wonderful experience would probably be unforgettable for a lifetime, right? Even in their dreams, they had never dreamed of such bizarre scene before.
The area of ice was large, but the advantage was that the view was very open and there were no obstacles to stop them from progressing. In this way, Jiang Pingce’s coordinate system operation could continue forever.
Everyone went all the way unimpeded, and after staying in the bottle for a long time, it was indeed much warmer.
Yue Xingwen turned his head to look at Jiang Pingce in the bottle next to him and asked, “Pingce, did you go to the amusement park when you were a child?”
Jiang Pingce shook his head and said, “No.” Compared with other playful children, Jiang Pingce liked to be quiet since he was a child. He loved to be alone the most, studying difficult math problems that were beyond his age. In the eyes of his parents, he was very sensible, but in the eyes of children of the same age, his personality was indeed a little boring.
Yue Xingwen imagined Jiang Pingce as a child who stayed quietly in the room to do math, and said with a smile, “When we leave the library, let’s go to the amusement park for a day. This glass bottle is uncomfortable to sit on, and when the time comes, I will take you to the real Ferris Wheel.”
The corner of Jiang Pingce’s lips lifted slightly and he whispered, “En.”
He did not like lively and crowded occasions, but if Xingwen took him, he could go anywhere.
Just thinking about it, it suddenly snowed in the sky, goose feathers snow fell, cold wind mixed with heavy snow poured in from the mouth of the bottle. Liu Zhaoqing immediately cursed, “This is a fucking house leak in the night, it’s also snow in the freezing weather!”
Just warned up for a while, snowing for a moment, the bottle could not keep out the cold.
In order to ensure air circulation, Xin Yan did not seal the mouth of the distillation flask. When it snowed, the heads of everyone sitting in the bottle were soon covered with snowflakes, like gray-haired old men and old women.
Yue Xingwen froze and sneezed several times. Jiang Pingce looked at him worriedly and frowned, “It’s been half an hour, my skill is cooling down, should we all stop and tidy up, or should we let Qin Lu continue?”
Qin Lu continued to switch places 12 times and they could still go 6,000 meters forward.
Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and typed in the chat channel: “Qin Lu, you can use your Plate Movement 10 times, leaving 2 times for emergencies. If we can’t see the land after 10 times, we probably won’t be able to walk out of this ice tonight, so let’s find another way.”
Qin Lu immediately typed in the chat channel to respond: “Okay, Pingce can lower the bottle to the ice, I’m ready to switch places.”
The 12 bottles fell steadily, and Qin Lu took out the globe and began to quickly switch places.
It only took about 2 seconds to switch places once, and with 10 times in a row, everyone instantly moved forward 5,000 meters.
However, there was still endless ice around, the scenery had not changed in the slightest, and there was no trace of land at all. They had been walking on the ice for so long, it felt like they stayed in place.
On such barren and vast ice, there were only 12 of them, which really felt like the end of the world.
The snow was falling heavier. Everyone’s clothes and pants were soaked with snowflakes, and the low temperature of -30 degrees Celcius made their clothes condense into ice almost instantly. This already cold weather, wearing frozen clothes, was simply unbearable!
Yue Xingwen took a deep breath, feeling that the air he inhaled into his nose had a piercing chill. His teeth chattered, and he said quickly, “Stop, it’s almost dark, build an ice cellar in place for the night!”
Zhang Xiaonian was stunned and confirmed, “Senior brother means that I dig down to the ice and dig an underground ice cellar out?”
Yue Xingwen nodded, “It can only be like this. We will definitely not last tonight to stay on ice openly, and we can’t freeze to death here. The underground ice cellar is also cold, but at least it can withstand the cold wind and heavy snow. At that time, Xiao Nian will lay a layer of cement wall of the Architecture Department inside the ice cellar, and everyone will light a fire. It will be fine for one night.”
That was the only way to do at this point.
Digging up the ice to build an ice cellar. Although the surrounding was full of cold ice, the temperature would definitely be low, but compared to the cold wind and heavy snow in the open air, the closed underground ice cellar was their only way out at present.
Zhang Xiaonian immediately worked, and the excavator dug the soil quickly. However, digging the ice was obviously not so easy. In the past, it took 10 minutes to build a base, but this time it took nearly half an hour.
Everyone only felt that the blood in their whole body was about to freeze into ice. Xin Yan decisively turned on the spirit lamp for distillation. He only dared to steam for half a minute and immediately stopped, so as not to damage the body of his teammates. As soon as the spirit lamp was turned on, the snowflakes in the distillation flask instantly evaporated, forming a hot air that enveloped the bottle and relieved the teammates from the cold. But when it stopped, more snowflakes poured in.
After staying up for half an hour like this, Zhang Xiaonian’s ‘ice cellar’ was finally built.
Everyone quickly hid in the underground ice cellar as if fleeing for their lives.
The temperature inside the room was still very cold, everyone quickly lit the fire. Yue Xingwen and Xin Yan cooperated to boil hot water. After having hot water, everyone finally felt that the cells of the body were rejuvenated, no longer a walking ice sculpture!
Lin Manluo held a bottle of hot water and said, “I found that the Faculty of Environment is actually quite friendly to us.”
Xu Yishen sighed and said, “I also think that the genetic mutation animals of the Faculty of Biological Science are just too cute.”
Qin Lu smiled bitterly and said, “I didn’t expect the Faculty of Geography to be so perverted. Our team is fortunate to have the infinite fire source of the Chemistry Department, and the junior brother of the Architecture Department can build a base. If we don’t have these skills, we will definitely freeze to death in the Ice Age!”
There was a layer of cement inside the base separated from the ice layer outside. The temperature was high and they were not afraid that their base would melt. Yue Xingwen said, “Senior brother Liu, I want more gauze to cover our sleep at night, it’s better than nothing. In addition, all of senior sister Lin’s trees were cut down to make wood, lit the fire everywhere to raise the temperature of the entire base.”
Xin Yan reminded them. “Our base is located under the ice, if there is a fire everyone, the wood requires oxygen to burn, and the base is not ventilated. It’s easy to produce carbon monoxide due to insufficient combustion, resulting in carbon monoxide poisoning during everyone’s sleep.”
Yue Xingwen almost overlooked this key and immediately said, “Then wait for senior sister Lin’s skill to refresh at 00:00 and do another air purification, collecting enough fresh air to store it like last time?”
Xin Yan nodded and said, “En, that should work.”
Everyone settled down in the ice cellar, using Liu Zhaoqing’s gauze as clothes, wrapped in several layers, one by one, wrapped like a mummy. But in order to keep warm, they could no longer care about their image.
At 00:00, Lin Manluo summoned the green tree range air purification again. Xin Yan collected enough air for the burning of charcoal at night, and he put the bottle of store air in each bedroom to ensure the air circulation during night sleep.
Jiang Pingce once again used the triangular ruler to make the bed, and everyone then split up and went to sleep.
Yue Xingwen slept on the bed, shivering with cold.
Jiang Pingce noticed that the person beside him had been shivering, and couldn’t help but stretch out his hand and hugged him gently into his arms.
Yue Xingwen was stunned. “… Pingce?”
Although he accidentally used Jiang Pingce as a pillow in his sleep last time, they were all awake this time. Wasn’t it not good for two boys to hug like this?
Yue Xingwen’s heart was beating like a drum, and his brain was instantly in a mess.
Jiang Pingce closed his arms and hugged Yue Xingwen tighter, and their entire bodies pressed together almost without a gap. He stretched out his hand and gently rubbed Yue Xingwen’s hair. He said with a low and gentle voice, “It will be warmer to sleep while hugging.”
Yue Xingwen: “…”
But wouldn’t this posture be too ambiguous?
Although they were separated by clothes, the clothes worn by the two were very thin, and such an intimate posture made Yue Xingwen’s face couldn’t help but blush a little. But he was embarrassed to object, after all, two people cuddled up to sleep, it would indeed be warmer. Pingce said so, if he squirmed and said ‘don’t hug me’, wouldn’t it look like he was very petty?
Anyway, both of them were boys, a little hug wouldn’t do anything.
Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen stretched out his hand happily and also hugged Jiang Pingce in the same way. The fresh smell and body temperature from the other party made Yue Xingwen inhale in satisfaction and whispered, “It’s indeed warm.”
He simply buried his face into Jiang Pingce’s arms.
Completely unaware in the darkness, the corners of the lips of the boy beside him raised a gentle smile.
Ey!!
A little tofu here and there never hurt anybody. 😌
Eyy pingce got the moves hahaha..
Thanks for the chapter!!!
Sweet!!!!
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I would have thought it warmer for all 12 of them to be in the same bottle.
Author never heard of igloos?
I think the reason why, is because he doesn’t have a large enough flask for 12 grown people to stay in. I mean, a flask big enough to fit a human is already impressive, but have you ever heard of one big enough to fit twelve?
That’s a good point. I just figured he could change the size of his flasks at will, if he could make them big enough to hold a person.
Yup! I’m just pretty sure there’s a size limit, since someone (there are twelve incredibly smart people; nicknamed the demon team LOL) would’ve brought up the idea of all getting together into one big flask.
Pingce is working hard
I thought one of them had a skill that changed weather/temperature; one was for cold weather and the other for hot weather.
Maybe the author forgot about it, but I think it’s the skill to change day to night or night to day? 🤔
I also don’t remember about it …🤣