Chapter 122 The Temperature Drops Again (1)
Chapter 122 The Temperature Drops Again (1)
After the footsteps faded into the distance, Ji Lang and Yang Xiao agreed to follow quietly.
Ji Lang and his group had only taken a few steps when he felt the keypad in his hand vibrate a few times. Because he was afraid of missing any information, Ji Lang had been holding the little thing ever since he came out of the room.
From the received cipher signal, Ji Lang knew that among the five or six people who had just gone up, one was Qin Yuan, who had contacted him, and the other was Gu Nanfeng.
Gu Nanfeng's cipher device, like Yang Xiao's, was left unattended in his backpack. However, the moment he was taken out of the room, he sensed Qin Yuan's presence through his mental abilities.
His mouth was taped shut, preventing him from speaking. He assumed Qin Yuan was in the same situation, so he secretly released some electric current to stimulate Qin Yuan. Although the other party immediately understood, Qin Yuan couldn't let Gu Nanfeng know in this environment that he was currently using a cipher device to transmit information to Ji Lang.
They didn't know where these people would take them yet, and they were still going upstairs. Qin Yuan guessed that they might be taken back to the hotel lobby, so he told Ji Lang his judgment through the keypad.
Ji Lang's feedback came quickly. He and Yang Xiao were actually not far behind Qin Yuan and the others. Now, the only ones missing were Zhong Qiang and Wei Cheng.
The strange, white, oval-shaped egg gradually vanished before Lin Yun and Pei Sihao's eyes, the whole process resembling a silkworm cocoon being stripped of all its silk. When Lin Yun and Pei Sihao finally saw Lu Yuan lying inside, his thick protective suit was gone, and he was shivering in the cold room.
"Quick, wrap him in your coat first." Without the spatial enhancement, the two could only take off their own coats and wrap them around Lu Yuan, but their coats were really useless. For an ordinary person like Lu Yuan, the temperature of minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius was really too cold.
"Heater! Heater! Turn on the heater!" Lu Yuan's voice trembled. Fortunately, he had guessed this situation when he felt the cold as the fibers dissipated. He had already opened his space and selected the heater. As soon as the strange fibers surrounding him disappeared, he took out the heater from his space.
They use this heater frequently. Lu Yuan always fills it with fuel before taking it back, so once it's taken out, they can turn it on immediately to keep warm without worrying about the fuel freezing or running out.
Pei Sihao, quick-witted and agile, immediately spotted the heater that had suddenly appeared beside Lu Yuan and turned it on. However, since Lu Yuan was already a bit dazed from the cold, this was the only heater they had for the time being.
Lin Yun helped Lu Yuan up, and then he and Pei Sihao embraced him, wrapping him tightly in their coats, almost making Lu Yuan hug the heater to his chest.
Time passed second by second, and when Lin Yun could clearly feel that the air around them had become much colder, Lu Yuan groaned in a daze, and then seven or eight heaters appeared around them.
“This kid…” Pei Sihao looked down at Lu Yuan, who still had his eyes closed and was trying to burrow into his arms, and smiled helplessly. “It’s good that he still remembered to bring us a few more heaters even though he’s freezing.”
"The temperature has dropped again..." Unlike Pei Sihao and the others' evolutionary paths, Lin Yun's physique has improved, making him much better than Lu Yuan, who has always been a weakling, but he is still much worse than Pei Sihao and the others. He can now clearly feel the chill.
Without much thought, Lin Yun immediately got up, arranged the heaters that Lu Yuan had taken out around the three of them, and then turned them on one by one. The combined heating effect of the eight heaters was very powerful. Not only did Lin Yun feel warm, but even Lu Yuan, who was so cold that he wanted to curl up into a ball, finally slowly stretched out his body in a daze.
"This...this protective suit...although...although good, it's really...really...torturous. Remember...it can't be used again..." Lu Yuan stammered, leaning against Pei Sihao's chest. Although his eyes were still closed, he had regained consciousness.
"Don't talk yet. Get a glucose bottle and keep yourself alive first." Pei Sihao pulled Lu Yuan's coat tighter around him. Seeing that he had regained his senses, he was finally a little relieved.
Lu Yuan obediently drank two vials of glucose, then wrapped himself tightly in his clothes and stared blankly at a circle of heaters for a while before finally regaining his senses.
"What happened on your end? How come the yacht is still under their control?" Seeing that Lu Yuan was fully awake and was taking out protective clothing from his spatial storage to put on, Lin Yun finally asked him what had happened.
"I've already sailed the yacht away..." Lu Yuan told Lin Yun and Pei Sihao about what happened at the time, while constantly changing into different styles of protective suits. Before he could finish explaining, a small open space in the middle of the heater was already piled with various styles of protective suits, some of which were too bulky and others that did not provide warmth in the current climate.
Clearly feeling that his body couldn't handle it, Lin Yun picked out a protective suit from the pile that would be easy for him to move in and would also keep him warm. He asked Lu Yuan to get him a suit of the right size.
“Looks like they’ve been watching us for a while now,” Pei Sihao said, kicking aside the protective suit Lu Yuan had tossed at his feet. “Aren’t you ready to change yet?”
"No, it's too cold! I feel like the temperature has dropped by more than 10 degrees." Lu Yuan wrapped himself in another set of protective clothing that wasn't very resistant to the cold, shivering as he returned to the heater. "Don't you guys feel cold? Has this superpower evolution changed your species?"
"I'm feeling cold now too. I probably wouldn't be able to stand it without this protective suit." Lin Yun changed into the protective suit and, like Lu Yuan, went outside the heating circle to check the temperature before returning to the center. "Now I can clearly feel that the heating range of the eight heaters has shrunk."
"Team Leader Lin, don't tell him. Brother Hao won't understand." Lu Yuan was about to take off his protective suit and find another one to try when he found that there was no room left in the middle of the heater. He could only put the protective suits that were not resistant to the cold back in one by one.
“I was thinking, even someone with superpowers like me is clearly feeling the cold. How can ordinary people like you, without your spatial reserves, possibly survive tonight?” Lin Yun glanced at the window of the room. Outside, thick snow blocked out all the light. If Pei Sihao and Lu Yuan hadn’t both had watches, they wouldn’t have known whether it was day or night in the room.
"I wonder what's going on with Brother Feng and the others." After the team returned from the beach and arrived near this base, Lin Yun and Pei Sihao tried to contact Gu Nanfeng and the others several times via walkie-talkie, but there was no response. It's very likely that all their equipment has been taken away.
Pei Sihao also found the cipher machine in the bag, but the commercial area was very large, and they were on the outermost edge, which was beyond the usable range of the cipher machine. He and Lin Yun originally planned to sneak into the commercial area, but then they saw that group of people throw out Lu Yuan, the "egg"...
After all this back and forth, by the time Lu Yuan "hatched" and woke up, most of the day had already passed. Pei Sihao had no idea what the current situation was with Gu Nanfeng, who had been taken away.
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