Escape From the Library

【Ice Age-03】

During the Ice Age millions of years ago, one-third of the earth's land was covered by thick glaciers. Walking on the glaciers, because everyone wore ordinary sneakers, half of the land would be lost if you didn't take two steps. almost slipped and fell.

Everyone supported each other, and the result was that 12 people fell to the ground collectively out of inertia.

Falling on ice hurts more than on flat ground, Yue Xingwen said with a bitter face: "It seems that I can only rely on the displacement skills of Ping Ce and Qin Lu, I have never learned to skate, on this ice, don't It is difficult to walk a few kilometers and walk a few steps."

Jiang Pingce stretched out his hand, quickly pulled Yue Xingwen up, and said in a low voice: "My coordinate system cools down every half an hour, and with Qin Lu's teleportation of the plates, I should be able to find land before dark?"

Qin Lu said: "The plates have changed positions 12 times, 500 meters at a time, and can advance up to 6000 meters. I hope the area of ​​this glacier is not too large, otherwise, we really have to spend the night on the glacier."

Ke Shaobin rubbed his frozen red fingers, looked at the burning wood, and said, "If Pince used the coordinate system to control everyone's displacement in the air, wouldn't the burning fire be easy to carry? Without the fire, we probably would have to Frozen to death on the way."

Lan Yarong said with a bitter face: "I feel like the blood in my whole body is going to freeze. If this continues, I will become an ice sculpture!"

Liu Zhaoqing joked: "Then you should put on a better pose first."

The burning fire is the only source of heat for everyone at present.

But even with these fires, everyone was still shivering from the cold. The surrounding temperature was too low, and they didn't have warm clothes.

However, Jiang Pingce can't let the burning wood fly with everyone, can he?In that case, everyone would not be able to warm up, and it would also increase the difficulty of Jiang Pingce's calculations.

Everyone was worrying, Xin Yan suddenly said calmly: "I have a way, my retort can be enlarged and turned into a container, and everyone can be put in it."

Ke Shaobin's eyes widened: "But your distillation skills can evaporate the water in the human body? We 12 people were steamed into jerky by you, wouldn't we be wiped out in an instant!"

Xin Yan explained: "As long as the heating function of the alcohol lamp is not turned on, the decanter is a simple container and will not steam everyone into jerky. I think it is better for everyone to stay in the bottle than to blow cold wind outside many."

Ke Shaobin imagined a picture of 12 people staying together in a glass bottle and flying in the sky...

Are they making a horror movie?

Ke Shaobin asked, "What about the fire?"

Xin Yan thought for a while and said, "After extinguishing the burning charcoal, seal it with a small decanter, and the residual heat will be stored and turned into a thermos. Everyone take one and hold it in your arms to keep warm."

Ke Shaobin looked surprised: "Everyone takes a small bottle and sits in the big bottle?"

Xin Yan nodded: "En."

Yue Xingwen appreciated Xin Yan's idea very much. He simulated it in his mind and felt that this method was feasible, so he said: "That's it, I can't think of any other way. Xin Yan is here to make the bottle, everyone stand in line. "

Xin Yan said, "Don't worry, I won't seal the bottles you guys are staying in to ensure air circulation."

Since Xin Yan usually uses retort bottles for food, now that everyone has to stay in his glass bottles, of course it will be psychologically awkward, always feeling as if they are about to be steamed?

However, since Xin Yan said that he would not turn on the heating device, then this bottle can indeed keep out the cold!

Everyone quickly lined up and stood in a row. Xin Yan extinguished the fire first, made 12 small thermos bottles and distributed one to each of them, and then summoned enlarged retorts to put his teammates into the bottles one by one.

Ke Shaobin looked at his teammates staying in the glass bottle around him, and helped his forehead: "Although this picture is a bit strange, let alone, the glass bottle can block the cold wind, and it is indeed a little warmer than before."

Yue Xingwen was at the front, so he just sat down in the bottle and said with a smile, "Ping Ce, let's go!"

Jiang Pingce raised his right hand and said, "Everyone, sit down."

Everyone imitated Yue Xingwen and sat down in the bottle.Since the 12 bottles are gathered together, everyone's movement trajectory can be controlled by the way of coordinate movement. Jiang Pingce quickly wrote out a few formulas. Everyone saw the 12 bottles rising into the air collectively, and began to move quickly according to the sinusoidal curve. before exercise.

Sitting in the bottle, Ke Shaobin looked at the endless glaciers under his feet through the transparent glass, and said excitedly: "It's so fun! It feels like going to the playground to ride a transparent Ferris wheel when I was a child."

Xu Yishen smiled and said: "Xin Yan's method is really good. Let everyone fly in a transparent bottle and hold a thermos in their hands. The instruments of the chemistry department are indeed omnipotent and can hold anything!"

Yue Xingwen's bottle is juxtaposed with Jiang Pingce's, flying over the glacier in a glass bottle. They will probably never forget this wonderful experience, right?Even in dreams, I have never dreamed of such a bizarre scene before.

The glacier has a large area, but the advantage is that the field of vision is very wide, and there are no obstacles to stop them from moving forward.In this way, Jiang Pingce's coordinate system calculation can continue forever.

Everyone went smoothly all the way, 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, "Ping Ce, did you ever go to an amusement park when you were young?"

Jiang Pingce shook his head: "No." Compared with other playful children, Jiang Pingce liked to be quiet since he was a child. He loved to be alone and study difficult math problems beyond his age. In the eyes of his parents, he Very sensible, but in the eyes of children of the same age, his character is indeed a bit boring.

Yue Xingwen imagined the kid Jiang Pingce who was quietly doing math in the room, and said with a smile: "When we leave the library, let's go to the playground for a day. This glass bottle is uncomfortable to sit on, and I will take you to it when the time comes." A real Ferris wheel."

Jiang Pingce raised the corners of his lips and said in a low voice, "Yes."

He doesn't like crowded places, but if Xingwen takes him there, he can go anywhere.

Just as he was thinking about it, it snowed suddenly in the sky, the goose-feathered snow fell, and the cold wind mixed with the heavy snow poured in from the bottle mouth. Liu Zhaoqing immediately cursed: "This is a fucking house leak, it rains all night, it's freezing cold!" Dead man's weather still snows!"

It was just warmed up for a while, and the bottle couldn't keep out the cold when it snowed.

In order to ensure air circulation, Xin Yan did not seal the mouth of the retort bottle. After heavy snowfall, the heads of everyone sitting in the retort bottle were soon covered with snowflakes, like gray-haired old men and old ladies.

Yue Xingwen was so cold that he sneezed several times. Jiang Pingce looked at him worriedly, frowned and said, "I've been walking for half an hour, and my skills have cooled down. Should everyone stop and rectify, or let Qin Lu continue? "

Qin Lu continued to switch plates 12 times, and could still go forward 6000 meters.

Yue Xingwen thought for a moment, and typed on the research group channel: "Qin Lu changed positions 10 times, and saved two skills for emergency. If we still can't see the trace of land after 10 times, we probably won't be able to get out of this glacier tonight. Alright, let's think of another way."

Qin Lu immediately responded by typing on the research group channel: "Okay, Ping Ce put the bottle on the ice, and I'm going to change places."

After the 12 bottles fell steadily, Qin Lu took out the globe and began to change positions quickly.

It only takes about 2 seconds to change positions once. After 10 consecutive positions changes, everyone teleported forward 5000 meters.

However, there are still endless glaciers around, the scenery has not changed at all, and there is no trace of land at all.They've been on the ice for so long, it feels like they haven't walked.

There are only 12 of them on such a barren and vast glacier, it really feels like the end of the world.

The snow fell harder and harder, and everyone's clothes and pants were soaked in snowflakes. The low temperature of minus 30 degrees made their clothes condense into ice almost instantly.It's unbearable to wear clothes frozen into ice in the already cold weather!

Yue Xingwen took a deep breath, feeling that the air he sucked into his nose was bitingly cold, his teeth chattered, and he said quickly: "Stop, it's getting dark, build an igloo on the spot for the night!"

Zhang Xiaonian was stunned for a moment, and then confirmed: "Brother, what you mean is that I dig down the glacier and dig an underground ice cellar out?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "That's the only way. Spending the night in the open air on the glacier will definitely not survive tonight, and you can't freeze to death here. Although the underground igloo is also very cold, it can at least withstand the cold wind and heavy snow. At that time, Xiao Nian Then lay a layer of concrete walls from the School of Architecture inside the igloo, and light it up, and it should be fine for the whole night.”

This is the only way at present.

Dig up the ice to build an igloo. Although the surrounding area is full of ice and the temperature will definitely be very low, compared to the cold wind and heavy snow in the open air, the closed underground igloo is their only way out at present.

Zhang Xiaonian went to work immediately. The excavator dug the soil very quickly, but it was obviously not so easy to dig the ice.In the past, it took 10 minutes to build a base, but this time it took nearly half an hour.

Everyone felt that the blood in their bodies was about to condense into ice. Xin Yan decisively turned on the alcohol lamp for distillation. He only dared to steam for half a minute and then stopped immediately, so as not to damage his teammates.As soon as the alcohol lamp was turned on, the snowflakes in the distillation bottle evaporated instantly, forming hot air that enveloped the bottle, easing the coldness of the teammates.But after stopping, more snowflakes poured in.

After half an hour of hot and cold, Zhang Xiaonian's "ice cellar" was finally built.

Everyone hid in the underground ice cellar as quickly as if they were fleeing for their lives.

The temperature inside the house was still very cold, everyone quickly lit the fire, Yue Xingwen and Xin Yan worked together to heat up hot water, after having hot water, everyone finally felt that the cells in their bodies had regained their vitality, and they were no longer walking alone. Ice sculpture!

Lin Manluo hugged a bottle of hot water and said tremblingly, "I found that the School of Environment is actually quite friendly to us."

Xu Yi sighed deeply: "I also think that the genetically mutated animals of the Academy of Life Sciences are really too cute."

Qin Lu smiled wryly and said, "I didn't expect the School of Geography to be so perverted. Fortunately, our team has an unlimited fire source from the Department of Chemistry, and the juniors from the Department of Architecture can build houses. If we don't have these skills, we will definitely be frozen to death in the Ice Age!"

There is a layer of cement inside the house to separate it from the ice outside, so the house will not melt if the temperature is too high.With a temporary shelter, everyone finally felt relieved.Yue Xingwen said: "Senior Brother Liu get more gauze and cover it up at night, it's better than nothing at all. In addition, I cut down all the trees of Senior Sister Lin to make wood, lit fires everywhere, and raised the ceiling of the whole house. temperature."

Xin Yan reminded: "Our house is located under the ice. If we light fires everywhere, the wood needs oxygen to burn, and the house is not ventilated. It is easy to produce carbon monoxide due to insufficient combustion, which will lead to carbon monoxide poisoning during sleep."

Yue Xingwen almost ignored this key point, and immediately said: "Then wait for sister Lin's skills to be refreshed at 24 o'clock, and then perform another air purification, like last time, to collect enough fresh air and store it?"

Xin Yan nodded: "Well, this should be fine."

Everyone settled down in the igloo, using Liu Zhaoqing's gauze as clothes, and wrapped them in several layers, each wrapped like a mummy.But in order to keep warm, they no longer cared about their image.

At 24:[-], Lin Manluo once again summoned the green tree area to purify the air. Xin Yan collected enough air for burning charcoal at night. He placed bottles storing air in each bedroom to ensure the air circulation during night sleep.

Jiang Pingce made a bed with a triangular ruler again, and everyone slept separately.

Yue Xingwen was sleeping on the bed, shivering from the cold.

Jiang Pingce noticed that the person beside him was trembling all the time, so he stretched out his hand and gently hugged him into his arms.

Yue Xingwen was stunned: "...Ping Ce?"

Although I accidentally used Jiang Pingce as a pillow in my sleep last time, but now, they are all sober. Is it not good for two boys to hug like this?

Yue Xingwen's heart beat like a drum, and his mind instantly became a mess.

Jiang Pingce retracted his arms and hugged Yue Xingwen even tighter, and the two of them stuck together almost seamlessly.He stretched out his hand and gently stroked Yue Xingwen's hair, his voice was low and gentle: "It will be warmer if you hug her to sleep."

Yue Xingwen: "..."

But is this posture too ambiguous?

Although they were separated by clothes, the clothes they were wearing were very thin, such an intimate posture made Yue Xingwen's face turn red.But he was embarrassed to object, after all, it would be warmer if two people hugged each other to sleep.Ping Ce has said so, if he said "Don't hug me" coyly, wouldn't it appear that he is very petty?

Anyway, both of them are boys, so it won't matter if they hug each other.

Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen stretched out his hand readily, and also hugged Jiang Pingce.The fresh smell and body temperature from the other party made Yue Xingwen sniff his nose in satisfaction, and whispered: "It's really warm."

He simply buried his face in Jiang Pingce's arms.

I didn't realize it at all. In the darkness, the corner of the boy's lips raised a gentle smile.