Yue Xingwen hugged Jiang Pingce and fell asleep not long after.
This night’s dream was full of Jiang Pingce’s figure. Jiang Pingce, who wore a school uniform in high school, sat by the classroom window, lowered his head and did math problems seriously. His fingers were lined with black pens, slender and clean. The sunlight shone on him through the window, and his handsome side profile was simply like the male protagonist who came out of an idol drama.
Yue Xingwen looked at the beautiful scene in the dream and subconsciously blurted our, “Our family Pingce looks so handsome.”
Jiang Pingce heard Yue Xingwen’s dream words, smiled lightly and reached out his hand to rub his hair, “Dreaming again?”
Xingwen dreamed of himself again, which was really a good phenomenon. You know, as early as a few years ago, in his young and ignorant high school days, Jiang Pingce’s dream had always been Yue Xingwen.
Yue Xingwen also didn’t know what to dream of, and continued to say to himself, “No one is worthy of our Pingce.”
Jiang Pingce followed his words and said softly, “En, only you are worthy of me.”
Yue Xingwen didn’t know if he heard it or not, he seemed a little dissatisfied and stretched out his arms, hugging Jiang Pingce tightly in a possessive manner.
The next morning, Yue Xingwen was awakened by Xiao Tu’s alarm bell.
“Now, the time is 8 o’clock in the morning. The student from Research Group 183 should not sleep. Go to bed early and get up early to develop good living habits.” Xiao Tu slid back and forth on the base on wheels, reciting the lines in a childish mechanical child’s voice.
Yue Xingwen woke up in a daze and found that his hands and feet were wrapped around Jiang Pingce like an octopus. Both of them were really ‘intertwined’ in an extremely ambiguous posture. Yue Xingwen’s face flushed slightly, quickly withdrew his hands and feet, rolled over and sat up, finding a suitable excuse to say, “Ahem, it was too cold last night, so I cuddled up and slept… it’s quite warm.”
The corners of Jiang Pingce’s lips raised lightly, and he agreed. “If you are afraid of cold, you can continue to hold me to sleep in the future.”
Yue Xingwen thought to himself, how embarrassing was it to hold him to sleep everyday ah? Both of them were good buddies, not a married couple, it was not proper this way. He ignored the awkwardness in his heart and quickly changed the subject, “Go get some hot water.”
At this moment, Ke Shaobin rubbed his eyes and passed by the door. Yue Xingwen immediately stopped him and asked, “Young Ke, can you let Xiao Tu have some normal alarm bells? The line ‘go to bed early and get up early’ is the same as the class teacher’s inspection of the dormitory.”
Ke Shaobin scratched his head with a smile, “Oh, then I’ll let it sing next time to wake everyone up?”
Xiao Tu immediately said seriously, “Okay master, I will sing two tigers.”
The students in the other bedrooms were also called up by Xiao Tu. Xu Yishen sneezed while complaining in a hoarse voice, “I have grown so big, and this is the first time I slept in an ice cellar, covered with a quilt made of gauze. I was almost frozen and cold.”
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Liu Zhaoqing sniffed and said, “Gauze is not a duvet, make do with it.”
Lan Yarong smiled and asked, “How did everyone sleep last night ah?”
Zhang Xiaonian said with a bitter face, “It’s too cold ah. I woke up several times in the middle of the night freezing.”
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Yue Xingwen turned his head and met Jiang Pingce’s gaze. His heart suddenly jumped, and he hurriedly avoided the other party’s gaze. The roots of his ears were slightly hot, and he coughed. “Everyone first drink some hot water to warm up your body. Xin Yan has a distillation flask and can make hot water at any time… by the way, where is Xin Yan?”
Xin Yan got up even earlier than Xiao Tu. As soon as Yue Xingwen’s words fell, he came to the living room with several distilled bottles and said, “I got up in the morning to make distilled water, and I dried it for half an hour. It should be about 55 degrees now, so you can drink it directly.”
The frozen people immediately took the distillation bottle and drank the hot water. The warm water slid down their throat all the way through the gastrointestinal tract, which was really soothing to their bodies. Everyone drank a few sips and waited for their bodies to warm up, then put away the bottle of warm water and held it in their arms to keep warm.
Ke Shaobin asked, “I haven’t eaten anything since yesterday, is everyone hungry ah?”
It was impossible to say that they were not hungry. They were all university students in their 20s, sometimes eating supper, snacks and other meals in addition to three meals a day, and now they had come to the deserted Ice Age. Nearly 20 hours had passed since yesterday afternoon, they had only drunk a few sips of hot water, and they were almost hungry with their stomach sticking to the back. However, they were embarrassed to take the initiative to mention this topic.
Yue Xingwen said, “I’ll start with a rain of oranges, and everyone will eat some oranges to fill your hunger.”
Oranges were not a staple food, so at least they could add some vitamins.
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately dispersed consciously, making room for Xingwen. Yue Xingwen opened the <Modern Idiom Dictionary> and used the skill ‘Torrential Rain’. A cloud appeared in the sky and then he took out the <Modern Writer’s Classic Anthology> to use the ‘Figure from the Back’ skill and an orange appeared in his hand.
They thought he would throw the orange into the clouds and it would rain oranges like last time…
As a result, before the orange in his hand could be thrown into the clouds, a large hailstorm actually crackled in the clouds!
Liu Zhaoqing, who was standing relatively close, was smashed all over his face, and couldn’t help but curse, “Fuck, how come it’s become hail!”
The students looked at the thick layer of hail that instantly accumulated on the ground and were stunned.
After a moment, Jiang Pingce said, “Xingwen’s Torrential Rain can’t amplify skills in the Ice Age environment. The temperature is too low to rain down, only hail can be dropped.”
Liu Zhaoqing couldn’t help sighing and looked at Ke Shaobin. “This time, we don’t even have oranges to eat.”
Yue Xingwen picked up the orange that fell into the hail with a smile and said, “The ‘Figure from the Back’ skill can be used 3 times, 3 targets are specified each time. I can make 9 oranges and everyone can eat 3 first, just as a plug to replenish some vitamins.”
He made 3 oranges and handed them to Ke Shaobin, saying, “At -30 degrees, the oranges will be frozen, so share and eat them.”
Three oranges, shared by twelve people, each person could only eat two or three petals.
Everyone stuffed this orange into their mouths with mixed feelings and chewed it slowly, as if they were eating mountain and sea delicacies.
Yue Xingwen drank a few more mouthfuls of hot water, then said, “We continue to go southeast. We must find a way to find land today, if we are hungry for another day in this cold weather it will be even worse.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “In the state of hunger, the body’s resistance will deteriorate, and it’s easy to get sick with a low temperature of -30 degrees. And everyone also knows the conditions here. Let alone hospitals, pharmacies, not even a single Chinese herbal medicine can be found. Once sick, it’s likely to die on the road.”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s faces also became serious.
Jiang Pingce reminded them, “I remember there is a setting in the Research Group, as long as it’s not a course with shared points, if a group member dies unexpectedly during the exam, the team member will be judged to have failed the course and automatically quit the Research Group?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “That’s right. If a classmate falls ill and can’t survive halfway, we simply won’t have time to rescue, and that classmate will be judged by the library to have failed the course, quit the Research Group and return to the 1st floor to retake. It will be hard to meet later.”
His gaze swept over the students around him in turn, and he said in a low voice, “I hope that everyone who comes to this exam room together will also leave together, and no one will be left behind.”
Ke Shaobin hurriedly agreed and said, “That’s right! If you are uncomfortable, say it in time, and we will think about the way together, don’t hold it up!” He looked at Xu Yishen, who had been sneezing and said, “Senior brother Xu, are you catching a cold?”
Liu Zhaoqing immediately stretched out the back of his hand, tested the temperature of Xu Yishen’s forehead and said, “No fever, it’s okay. But you should pay more attention next and don’t let the cold get worse.”
Xu Yishen rubbed his nose and said, “I just have a sore throat and a runny nose.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “It’s an upper respiratory infection, and it can still be controlled.” He paused and said, “How about this, why don’t you simply become a cell lying on my shoulder and I’ll wrap you up with gauze. You won’t be cold if you wrap a few more layers?”
Xu Yishen couldn’t laugh or cry and said, “Then I will be suffocated to death.”
Liu Zhaoqing was puzzled and said, “Do you still need to breathe when you become a cell?”
Xu Yishen said helplessly, “The skill of turning into a cell in the Faculty of Biological Science is actually to shrink the human body into a cell, I can speak and breathe as usual. However, this is a good idea, just leave a small hole for me to breathe, and then wrap a few more layers of gauze. The cell is smaller and consumes less energy, and it will make me less cold.”
He said that and turned into a cell, rolled into the palm of Liu Zhaoqing’s hand, and said with a smile, “I’ll trouble you.”
Liu Zhaoqing tore open the gauze and wrapped the round Xu Yishen in several layers, wrapped him into a lollipop.
Everyone looked at the little round ball wrapped in gauze, and they could not cry or laugh. Xu Yishen was very happy, and said lazily, “I didn’t sleep well last night, so it’s just right to sleep, call me again when everyone needs help.”
Liu Zhaoqing fixed him on his shoulder, followed closely to look at the other students, and asked with his eyes if anyone needed gauze.
Yue Xingwen said, “Students who are not in good health must pay attention to keeping warm. We don’t have down jackets, and we don’t have animal furs to make clothes, so we can only rely on senior brother Liu’s gauze for the time being.”
Everyone nodded their heads.
So, everyone began to wrap gauze around their bodies, especially the students wearing short sleeves, using gauze to wrap all the exposed parts of their arms and wrap them in several layers. Although the warmth effect was average, it was good that they did not need to expose their skin directly to cold air.
After getting a ‘mummy’-like equipment, Yue Xingwen said, “Okay, everyone get ready to go.”
Zhang Xiaonian looked around and asked, “Abandoned the base?”
“Today we try to rush all day, find the land before dark and build a base after finding it. This ice cellar is left here, it’s not easy to take away anyway.”
“En, my excavator is always available, and it won’t take much time to rebuild one.”
Yue Xingwen looked back at Ke Shaobin and said, “Let Xiao Tu go and see the weather outside.”
Ke Shaobin asked Xiao Tu to go out to monitor in a circle. Xiao Tu quickly returned to everyone and reported the results: “Today’s weather, heavy snow. The average temperature, -35 degrees.”
Everyone: “…”
On a snowy day of -35 degrees, did they really have to brave the snow to continue their journey?
Yue Xingwen gritted his teeth and said, “Let’s go! The longer we delay, the more likely it is for everyone to get sick, so let’s do it quickly.”
Thank you so much for you work in translating! I can’t wait for Xingwen to fully understand what he’s feeling.
I think using excavator in snowy day is a pretty good idea, but everyone can’t seat in excavator cabine(((
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