Lu Ye stroked his chin, the slight discomfort in his heart caused by his previous cold decision was instantly dispelled by this huge surprise.
Who cares! With guns and medicine, there's no need to panic!
In this sea, if you don’t have some strong weapons, you will die without knowing how!
At this moment, the gaming bracelet on his wrist vibrated slightly, and a unique prompt message popped up on the screen. It was not from the regional channel, but from the system itself.
[Ding! A special node has been detected, and the courier system module is being upgraded... Current progress: 42/500]
"Hmm?" Lu Ye raised his eyebrows and looked at the progress bar carefully.
Upgrade? What the hell? Requires 500… nodes? Where did the 42 come from?
He quickly recalled his previous experiences and his eyes suddenly focused.
Could it be... He remembered the vague thought that had emerged in his mind before, that Xiong Ren might be in danger.
So that's it! This dog's system upgrade also comes with some fragments of foresight?
No wonder I always felt something was wrong, it turns out this thing was causing the trouble!
This progress bar is probably a count of triggering or completing certain special events?
This discovery made Lu Ye's heart tremble.
He immediately looked up and called out to Xiao Yiyi, who was helping Shen Shu sort out the medicines.
"Yiyi, stop it! Go! Burn all the coal we have! All the furnaces, full fire, fill them up!"
Xiao Yiyi was stunned when she heard this. She was holding a box of bandages that had just been counted, with obvious worry on her face.
"Brother Lu... We have ten boxes of coal, but it's being used up quickly... It's cold outside, but the temperature inside the cabin is still okay. Isn't it too hasty to burn it like this? What if later..."
Wouldn’t it be even worse if there wasn’t enough fuel later?
"Just listen to me, that's right." Lu Ye's tone left no room for doubt.
"If you don't want to end up with both you and your boat being turned into ice sculptures, go quickly. The real 'big guy' is coming soon."
Xiao Yiyi looked at Lu Ye's determined eyes. Although she was still nervous, her experiences during this period had made her almost blindly follow Lu Ye's judgment.
She bit her lower lip, no longer hesitated, immediately put down the things in her hand, and called out to Shen Hebei, who was also a little confused.
"Brother Hebei, hurry up and help! Brother Lu wants to add coal! Add coal to all the stoves!"
The two men immediately took action, continuously filling the heating stove in the cabin and the small combustion chamber attached to the engine preheating system with shiny black high-quality coal.
The raging flames rose, and the temperature in the cabin began to rise significantly, even a little hot.
Xiao Yiyi wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked at the sea outside which was still slowly freezing, her worries not diminishing at all.
Is it really that serious? Could it be that Brother Lu made a mistake in judgment this time?
However, the slap of reality always comes quickly and loudly.
Just three minutes later!
“Beep, beep, beep—!!!”
Inside the cabin, the game bracelets on the wrists of Lu Ye, Chen Shu, Xiao Yiyi, and Shen Hebei all emitted sharp and piercing highest-level alarm sounds at the same time!
The scarlet warning sign flashed wildly!
[Emergency Warning!!! The main body of the extreme cold air has arrived! The ambient temperature will plummet in a very short time! Expected low: -45°C! The sea surface will be completely frozen! All players, please take the highest level of cold-weather protection measures immediately!!!]
[Warm Reminder: This extreme cold is the final environmental adjustment. This extreme low temperature will be maintained and there will be no further temperature drops. Please prepare for a long-term response.]
Xiao Yiyi subconsciously looked at the screen of her bracelet, only to see that the temperature reading displayed on it was dropping wildly at a speed that made her scalp tingle!
-15°C…-20°C…-25°C…it’s dropping by several degrees almost every second!
She felt a chill running from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, her face turned pale, her teeth trembled uncontrollably, and even breathing became difficult!
Just when she was almost frozen by the sudden fear, a warm and strong hand suddenly embraced her waist, which had instantly become cold, and brought her to the center of the warm cabin.
"Stand still! Stay away from the porthole!"
Lu Ye shouted in a deep voice, his eyes sharply sweeping over Shen Hebei, who was obviously also a little panicked.
Because a large amount of coal had been burned in advance, the cabin was warm as spring, even a little stuffy.
However, looking out through the porthole, the world looks completely different!
The sea surface, which was originally still slowly freezing, seemed to have been fast-forwarded, and the ice layer spread and thickened wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye!
It was no longer mottled floating ice, but instantly solidified into a boundless piece of solid ice with a pale cold glow!
Shen Hebei was leaning over a porthole near the bow, looking out. He saw with his own eyes the icy blue cold current sweeping in like a tsunami. Wherever it passed, everything was instantly frozen! Even the air seemed to stagnate!
“Crack—!!!”
A crisp sound that makes your teeth ache!
At the moment when the main body of the cold current passed over the hull of the "Breaking Waves", the thick tempered glass porthole in front of Shenhe Bei could not withstand the sudden temperature difference between the inside and outside and the extreme cold outside. It suddenly let out a wail, and a hideous ice crack instantly started from the edge and quickly covered the entire window surface!
Fine frost covered it almost immediately!
"Oh my god!" Shen Hebei screamed in fear, and crawled back several steps, rubbing his arms, with fear on his face.
"Oh my goodness... this is too scary! The windows are all frozen and cracked! Fortunately, we listened to Brother Lu and the coal was burning well! Otherwise, we would have been frozen into popsicles in the cabin!"
If the coal had not been burned in advance and the ship had only relied on its own insulation, it would probably have ended up like those unlucky guys outside!
Either frostbite or freeze to death!
Lu Ye glanced at the cracked porthole through which cold air was seeping in, his face expressionless.
"Basic operation, no 6."
Before he finished speaking, he had already thought about it and retrieved a few pieces of [Universal Composite Panels] and a tube of [Fast Low-Temperature Resistant Structural Adhesive] that he had unpacked earlier from the system warehouse.
With the assistance of the game system, he walked to the porthole, quickly cleaned up the risk points of shattering, and then accurately covered and pasted the plate on the inside, forming a temporary layer of reinforcement and sealing.
The whole process went smoothly. In just a dozen seconds, the precarious porthole was temporarily stabilized, and the cold air that seeped in was almost completely blocked.
After doing all this, Lu Ye slowly opened the [Regional Channel] again.
This time, the scene on the channel was even more tragic than before.
The list of players that was originally quite active now turned into a shocking gray!
At least one-third of the avatars were completely dark, meaning that these players had completely lost their vital signs in this sudden extreme cold.
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