Chapter 12: Boiling (Part 2)

  Song Jie stood in the middle of the house and said, "You few hide a little to the side."

  Lei Xingfeng, Miao Ling and Xiao Diya all hid aside.

  The temperature in the room was dropping rapidly, and even if they wrapped themselves in more fur, the three of them were still shivering with cold.

  "Activate the defense, or else I really can't hold on." His body began to emit threads of lightning, and suddenly his physical condition improved a lot. However, this would consume a large amount of wheel imprint power, but he couldn't care about that now.

  Miao Ling hastily buried his entire body in a large pile of fur, not even daring to stick his head out. As for Xiao Di Ya, he was even more unbearable, and even with his defenses fully open, he was shivering crazily like autumn leaves, his face deathly pale. He stuttered: "H...he...he..."

  "Who? Him?"

  Xiao Diya took a deep breath and said: "He... damn it!"

  Lei Xingfeng was suddenly speechless, and he said: "Hey, you don't have to pretend anymore. Just pile up some animal hides and learn from Miao Shijie. At least it won't be this cold."

  Xiao Diya rolled her eyes and said: "No, no... no..."

  Lei Xingfeng said: "No fur?"

  Xiao Diya shook her body vigorously and said: "No... no, nothing!"

  Lei Xingfeng suddenly cursed: "Damn it! Not a word, don't let a single word leak out!"

  Xiao Diya was frozen to the point of being on the verge of collapse, his face twisted in agony, his whole body trembling as he looked at Lei Xingfeng. The pitiful and indescribable expression made Lei Xingfeng speechless. He said, "Alright, alright, you're cold, not doing it on purpose."

  Although Xiao Diya spoke unclearly due to the cold, it didn't stop him from nodding enthusiastically, and a look of relief also appeared on his face. He indeed had a stutter when speaking due to the cold, not intentionally trying to tease people.

  Xin Zhaolun said: "Xiao Diya, don't just stand there stupidly, move around and maybe you won't feel so cold."

  Xiao Diya was very obedient and immediately started jumping up and down, at this time he looked like a big green frog, his whole body was wrapped in extremely thick fur, like a matchstick wrapped in a thick layer of cotton balls, his feet seemed to be equipped with springs, bouncing up and down very quickly.

  Lei Xingfeng stared blankly, unable to help but say: "Damn... this is also possible?"

  No kidding, Xiaodi suddenly jumped wildly and actually managed to warm up a bit. Leixing Peak was also freezing and couldn't take it anymore. He thought for a moment and realized that as long as he moved around, he could indeed keep out the cold. So he started jumping too, and the two of them looked like two zombies, jumping around wildly in place.

  Tick-tock, tick-tock...

  Cracks began to appear on the ice wall, although it had not yet cracked open, but enough to shock people.

  Lei Xingfeng and Xiao Diya were jumping with joy when they saw a crack on the back wall spreading from the bottom up, Lei Xingfeng pointed and shouted: "Quick! It's opening!"

  A thread of extremely cold air crept in through the crack, and Xin Zhaolun quickly wetted his fur with an extremely fast speed. In an instant, he flashed to the front of the crack, stretched out his hand and covered the fur on it. Because the fur had just been wetted, the icy wall immediately stuck to it when it came into contact with the fur. Pouring a layer of water on it instantly sealed the crack.

  The ice crack continued to extend upwards, and the mad eagle had already flown up. The animal skin in his hand also stuck on.

  A thrilling patch-up operation has begun, with a group of people swarming around the room like ants on a hot pot, rushing to fill in the gaps wherever they see ice cracks. Fortunately, most of the problems are with the rear wall and the ice walls along the corridor, while the other two faces of the ice walls have relatively minor issues.

  Lei Xingfeng jumped up and down, saying: "If I had known it was this kind of situation, when building the ice house, as long as you build an ice house on top, bottom, left, right, front, and back of this room, the middle room will be the safest."

  "Damn it, who knew this extreme cold weather would be so severe? In the past, this ice house was enough to withstand it."

  "There's just a little more time left, it's about to pass, and the extreme cold is extremely severe at this moment! Everyone be careful!"

  No one dared to be careless about the warning for the hammerhead, each focusing their attention and staring at the two ice walls that were most likely to cause problems.

  Suddenly, a loud cracking sound came from the corridor, followed by a sharp whistling sound. That was the extremely cold air outside rushing in. Then there were continuous cracking sounds, followed by a rumbling noise, and the corridor collapsed.

  Xin Zhaolun tilted his head to listen, and suddenly let out a breath, saying: "It's not the collapse of this corridor... It should be Song Shixiong, the opening he blasted open in front has cracked and collapsed."

  Lei Xingfeng said, "Fortunately, Senior came in from the other end. If he had come in through our door...". He couldn't help but shudder at the thought, which meant that at least two or three people would die in this room, and even he himself might not be able to escape with his life.

  Song Jia burst out laughing and said, "Haha, I wasn't being reckless, was I?... If I hadn't been decisive at the time, I'm afraid I would have become a human ice sculpture outside too."

  Lei Xingfeng smiled wryly and said, "Not bad luck." He secretly congratulated himself.

  Song Jiao said: "Don't think too much, get through this difficult time!"

  Tick-tock! Tick-tock! Tick-tock...

  Innumerable sounds came from the top of their heads, and everyone's face changed color. Even Song Jia's face began to turn white, and he shouted: "Damn it, it's on our heads!"

  Several people had both feet off the ground, holding large pieces of animal hide in their hands, ready to lay them down at any moment.

  Once the roof collapsed, it was estimated that except for Song Jia, everyone else would have a hard time surviving.

  The creaking sound accompanied by the sharp whistling of the strong wind, the entire room fell completely silent, with only a few people's heavy breathing sounds.

  Suddenly, all sounds disappeared.

  Whether it was the sharp howling of the wind or the continuous crackling, all the sounds that originally filled their ears disappeared. In an instant, everyone seemed to have arrived at a strange place, and both Lei Xingfeng and Xiao Diya stopped moving.

  Xiao Diya looked at everyone in confusion and muttered to himself: "Did I freeze to death?"

  Then the sound of hammers and axes was heard, accompanied by a loud cheer: "Wow! The extreme cold is over! Haha, it's gone!" Every time there's an extremely cold day, for the locals, it's a natural elimination process. If you can't survive, you die. This is just a normal thing in the eyes of the local people. Of course, if they get through the extreme cold smoothly, that's definitely something worth celebrating.

  Lei Xingfeng plopped down on his butt, cold sweat streaming down his body. "Damn it," he said, "I'm never coming here again!"

  Xiao Diya also said: "Yes, if you don't come again, it will scare people to death!"

  Miao Ling poked her head out of the pile of fur and said: "I won't come again in the future, even if I'm not scared to death, I'll be frozen to death!"

  "Alright, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have brought you guys here."

  Lei Xingfeng suddenly put on a smiling face and said, "Brother, I'm not blaming you, the harvest here is great, it's just a bit cold... a bit scary, hehe."

  "This place is still worth coming to, mainly because there are quite a few things here that are rare materials. Among them, several are materials for making secret doors, and it's hard to obtain them if you don't come here. The high-ranking True People who come here are mostly after these materials, even someone like me, a True Lord, can't help but take the risk of coming over."

  Lei Xingfeng suddenly thought of a question and said: "Huh, it's strange, extremely cold weather... how can it suddenly disappear?"

  "Ah, this is a local specialty," Hammerhead laughed. "The extremely cold weather ends very quickly, and it can completely disperse in just a few breaths. As for the reason, we don't know either. Moreover, after the extreme cold, the weather will immediately warm up, and the temperature will rise rapidly."

  "When can we get out?"

  "Let's wait for another ten minutes or so, we'll be able to leave soon."

  "Ah? So soon?"

  Song Jia said: "Don't be surprised, this place is like that. It's actually cold, mainly because of the wind. Once the wind stops, the temperature will rise immediately."

  "Alright, I'm going out, it's too stuffy in this room."

  Xin Zhaolun said: "Wait a little longer."

  At this time, the room temperature began to rise rapidly. The charcoal brazier's dying flames suddenly started burning fiercely. The remaining oil wood also started burning faster. Soon, Miao Ling crawled out of the fur pile and even she couldn't bear it. She was sweating on her forehead and said: "I really want to take a bath... I'm going to stink!"

  "Don't worry, you can take a bath soon."

  After a moment, Xin Zhaolun said, "Alright, we can go now." As he spoke, he punched the ice wall sealing the door, and with a loud crash, the ice blocks shattered into pieces. The ice wall shook slightly before collapsing, leaving only a steel frame behind, which he stored in his wheel storage space. Only then did he step out of the room and onto the corridor.

  Lei Xingfeng followed closely behind and came out. Song Jiao smiled and said, "I'll take a look, where did the corridor collapse earlier?" As he spoke, he also walked out of the room door.

  The ice wall on the corridor is full of cracks, with several thicker ones that can already see the outside. The entire right side of the corridor has collapsed, and even the steel frame has been completely twisted. The ground is covered with shattered ice blocks, with thick frost condensing on top.

  He took out the hammer, holding his precious hammer, and directly hit the ice wall in the corridor with a loud bang. Suddenly, the entire ice wall shattered like glass, and the ultra-low temperature just now made the ice wall brittle, which couldn't withstand a single blow.

  The field of vision suddenly became broad and open.

  Lei Xingfeng pointed at something in the yard and said: "What the heck is that?"

  ………

  The third watch.