frightfiction Chapter 173 It's still dark
Chapter 173 It's still dark
While changing into her thermal underwear, Lu Youyou realized that she was still wearing a cooling gold necklace around her neck, so she quickly took it off and put it in the drawer.
My body is noticeably less cold now; the temperature is rising, but it's far from hot.
She put on another down jacket over it before she felt warm.
"Master, it's getting colder, what about the vegetables upstairs?" Da Rui asked worriedly.
"I'll go collect them now. They're mostly leafy greens that won't survive the cold winter, and there's not enough space to keep them at the bottom."
Will it grow longer?
"They won't grow anymore, they'll freeze to death, but that's okay, I still have seeds, I'll plant them again when the weather warms up."
"Yay!" Da Rui was relieved, and his voice became louder.
Without further ado, Lu Youyou took the scissors and went upstairs.
She doesn't plan to harvest all the vegetables; she wants to keep some with short growing cycles and the essential ones indoors.
Keep one bowl each of chives, pea shoots, lettuce, bok choy, garlic, and chili peppers, and pick and put the rest of them in your backpack.
After finishing all that, an hour had passed.
Lu Youyou went downstairs and put the few bowls of vegetables she had left into the folding kitchen so that she could easily take them out when cooking.
Since placing the flowerpots horizontally on the ground takes up too much space, Lu Youyou applied strong adhesive to the sides of the flowerpots and stuck them to the wall where they could get sunlight.
The chili peppers grew the tallest, standing in a single row, allowed to grow freely.
Leave enough room for the other vegetables to grow, and arrange them vertically in a row on the wall to the left of the chili-sticky pot.
After closing the doors and windows, Lu Youyou left the folding kitchen.
I took off my down jacket, went back to bed, and covered myself with a heavy cotton quilt.
The information continued to scroll on the screen on the roof.
[Let's see who comes in first: Damn it, I shouldn't have been so stingy this afternoon, not buying any of the 66 brand's warm clothes or Zhang Weimin's. Now look what's happened, I'm wearing a cooling T-shirt and feel like an ice pop.]
[Wang Qing: If the upstairs neighbors only have cooling clothes, you should go shirtless. It'll be warmer than wearing clothes. Trust me, guess how I know?]
[Huang: It must be below zero now, right? The key question is, why hasn't Xiaolu reported it yet? I remember last time it was extremely hot, Xiaolu came out to report it!]
[Player 78992: That must mean the extreme cold disaster hasn't loaded yet. The extreme heat reaches temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius, so I suspect the extreme cold is its counterpart, at -50 degrees Celsius.]
[298--11: Isn't that the end of the world? What's the point of living like this? I kind of regret selling that hand warmer to someone before. I just thought it was bad luck to have a hand warmer on such a hot day, but it turns out it's lucky!]
【…】
After staring at it for a while, Lu Youyou's eyes became a little dry. She habitually moved her eyeballs around to make herself feel more comfortable.
Lu Youyou's eyes fell on the air conditioner hanging on the opposite wall, and she had an idea.
She has the blueprints for making air conditioners, but although the materials required are ice cores, she can only make cooling air conditioners.
But she doesn't have to use conventional methods; she also has a DIY machine to try her luck.
Thinking of this, Lu Youyou couldn't wait any longer.
It was too cold to operate by hand, so she gave instructions via voice.
"Xiao Lu, turn on the DIY machine."
【OK. 】
The DIY machine's page appeared on the screen.
"Place in a fire core, an air conditioner, and a wolf monster eyeball, and begin the fusion."
【OK. 】
A one-hour countdown appeared on the screen.
"Xiao Lu, open the public chat page."
【OK. 】
And so, Lu Youyou watched others chat for an hour, and finished her DIY project.
"Xiao Lu, turn on the DIY machine."
【OK. 】
As soon as I entered, I saw a black and gray blob on the DIY machine screen.
A line of small text appeared.
This is a pile of waste.
Although she was prepared for the fusion to fail, Lu Youyou's mood was still inevitably low.
After all, she hadn't failed at fusion many times, so this failure was a significant blow to her.
She looked at the opposite wall, where the air conditioner was no longer there, as if it had never existed.
Lu Youyou quickly composed herself.
It's okay that the air conditioner is gone; she still has an Ice Core in her backpack, which she can make again when the weather gets warmer.
It doesn't matter if she wastes a Fire Core, she still has another one, which can still be used as her hand warmer.
Her situation isn't too bad.
As she pondered, Lu Youyou felt sleepy, wrapped herself tightly in the blanket, and fell asleep.
Time ticked by, and the temperature continued to drop rapidly.
The yellow sand on both sides of the highway disappeared, replaced by black water that gleamed with a cold light.
The black water froze inch by inch, and the black hand within the ice repeatedly broke the surface, only to freeze it again...
And so on and on.
【Ding--】
A new day has dawned, and the extreme cold weather has successfully kicked in. Temperatures are expected to range from -60°C to -30°C. Good luck to everyone!
Lu Youyou was already having trouble sleeping because of her worries, and she woke up immediately when she heard Xiao Lu's voice.
She pulled back the privacy curtain and looked out the window.
It was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
Lu Youyou muttered, "It's not even dawn yet..."
She froze when she saw the time displayed on the upper left corner of the curtain.
6:01
It should have been dawn.
Lu Youyou looked into the treasure basin with disbelief, and there lay a gold coin quietly on it.
The time displayed on the screen was correct.
It is indeed past six o'clock.
She brought up the public chat, where people were also discussing the same thing.
[Player 789923: It's already past six o'clock, why isn't it dawn yet?]
[Player 7892: Will we never see the sun again? If it's 24 hours a day, won't we be encountering monsters all the time?]
[Player 78930: Maybe it's because it's cold, so it gets light slower. After all, it was like this in winter before, when it got light late and went dark early.]
[Player 789002: Yes, the person upstairs is right. Don't scare yourself; dawn will definitely break.]
【…】
Three hours passed.
The time has come to 9:10.
It was still pitch black outside, with only the light from the car headlights.
Lu Youyou's heart sank.
It seems like it really won't get light.
This is not an ordinary drop in temperature, but an extreme cold disaster caused by the lack of heat due to the absence of the sun.
In other words, polar night and extreme cold arrive at the same time.
Now, Lu Youyou finally understood why she was able to obtain deep-sea fish oil and buy candles from the monster shop in the cold weather.
These are all supplies prepared for the polar night.
Her car is equipped with solar panels, so once the sun is out, it can only consume energy from advanced purple energy fragments, and the use of lights and such will naturally be reduced as much as possible.
Deep-sea fish oil is also very useful.
The Omega-3 fatty acids in it help regulate neurotransmitters, which can improve mood and reduce anxiety.
On the other hand, taking deep-sea fish oil can supplement DHA, which can maintain the normal structure and function of the retina.
Wasn't this resource obtained under the lucky buff given by Da Rui?
Without a bit of luck, you might not even be able to get it.
However, Lu Youyou can turn on her lights whenever she wants because they are battery-powered and don't consume the car's power.
In addition, she has the battery manufacturing blueprints, so she doesn't have to be too reluctant to turn on the lights.
The problem is that making batteries requires acid, so she has to find a way to get some acid.