Escape From the Library

【Ice Age-02】

A large area of ​​glaciers covers the earth, and the global low temperature continues. Such an environment is infinitely worse than the air pollution of the School of Environment.No matter how poor the living conditions are in the School of the Environment, there are at least human beings and supermarkets, where they can even buy tools produced by humans such as protective clothing and masks.

What can an ice age have?

In the endless glacier, you can't even see a person, let alone a supermarket.

In the supermarket of the School of Environment, although Chinese cabbage costing hundreds of dollars a piece is very expensive, at least they can still buy it!But in the Ice Age, grapes, cabbage, tomatoes, etc., don't even think about it.Millions of years ago, in a world without human beings, what food could there be?

Ke Shaobin sighed: "We can't eat ice for 10 days in a row!"

Qin Lu smiled dryly and said, "That's not the case. In the Ice Age, although there was no human civilization, there were still animals. We might be able to hunt and eat barbecue. However, at that time, the animals and plants that liked warmth on the earth were all extinct. , the ones that can survive are relatively powerful animals, such as saw-toothed tigers, cheetahs, cave bears, stegodonts, plate-toothed rhinoceros, giant apes, etc.”

Qin Miao added: "The great apes are the ancestors of our ancestors. At that time, they had not evolved intelligence. It was also the arrival of the Ice Age that made the great apes start to go to the ground and gradually learned to walk upright."

The more people listened, the more terrified they became.

These animals sound very difficult to deal with!

Yue Xingwen took a deep breath, calmed down quickly and said, "In the Ice Age, most of the animals that survived have strong attack power and adaptability, and they are more resistant to cold with rough skin and thick flesh. Not without a chance."

Liu Zhaoqing complained: "Fortunately, there are supernatural powers, otherwise, throwing 12 ordinary humans into the ice age, wouldn't it be sending everyone to be food for those beasts!"

With the ability in hand, they don't need to be afraid of those beasts, and if they can't beat them, they can be dissolved with sulfuric acid rain.

Yue Xingwen glanced at his teammates, and said quickly: "No matter what, we still have to bite the bullet for this class. Since it is a survival class, there are two things to ensure. The first is food and drinking water. There are hard words Retorts, Ice Age is full of ice, dig some and use retorts to make fresh water resources, you don’t have to worry about water resources. For food, you can only use local materials, hunt some beasts to eat, don’t even think about vegetables and fruits.”

He looked at Ke Shaobin, who immediately nodded and said, "It's okay, as long as you can get out of this class alive, I'm not picky. Besides, we don't lack fruits, Xingwen can rain oranges."

Yue Xingwen nodded and continued: "The second point is also the most critical - temperature."

When everyone heard the word "temperature", they always felt chills running down their spines.

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "Qin Miao also said just now that the giant apes hadn't evolved into humans at that time, and their bodies were covered with thick fur, which can withstand extremely cold weather, but we have evolved millions of years later. Humans without fur, throwing us into the Ice Age, will all freeze to death within half an hour."

Ke Shaobin was stunned for a moment, and said, "What's even more depressing is that neither the library supermarket nor the clothing store sells down jackets!"

Everyone: "..."

This is simply worse.

No down jackets, they went to the Ice Age in a summer suit?It's scary to think about.

Liu Zhaoqing shook his head helplessly: "My gauze can heal wounds, but it can't keep out the cold. Therefore, the best way is to hunt some ferocious beasts immediately after we go to the Ice Age, and peel off their skins to make clothes. There are surgical needles and threads, and ready-made clothing."

Jiang Pingce looked at Xin Yan: "What is the cooling time of your alcohol lamp?"

Xin Yan said: "30 minutes, but I can summon hundreds of alcohol lamps at a time, as long as the alcohol is not burned out, they can always be on, so theoretically, the alcohol lamp can be infinitely cycled."

Yue Xingwen looked at Lin Manluo: "Sister Manluo's vines and green trees can be used as fuel. If it doesn't work, we will ask Xin Yan to light a fire, chop Sister Manluo's tree into wood, and burn it to keep warm."

Lin Manluo nodded and said: "No problem, my green trees can be used for a long time to burn for fuel, and I can continue to summon after 24 hours. With a fire source, everyone should be able to withstand severe cold weather."

After discussing the next countermeasures, Yue Xingwen said: "Everyone, get ready and choose courses."

Yue Xingwen pressed the "Confirm Course Selection" button on the globe.

A familiar cold mechanical voice sounded in everyone's ears: "Congratulations to the C183 research group for successfully selecting the course. The exam for the "Ice Age" course of the School of Geography is about to begin. Please be prepared..."

After a 10-second countdown, everyone's eyes went black at the same time——

Restoring their vision again, everyone found that what they saw was a glacier of whiteness.

The hard glaciers stretch for hundreds of kilometers, and the whole world is snow-white, not to mention plants, not even a single animal can be seen.And the 12 of them were in the center of this white glacier, as if they had been abandoned by the whole world.

The extreme low temperature made Yue Xingwen sneezed like crazy, the hot air he spit out instantly condensed into frost when he spoke, and his teeth were chattering: "What is the temperature now, how many degrees?"

Ke Shaobin released a small picture, and the small picture quickly reported the result: "The current temperature is minus 30 degrees."

This is similar to the coldest winter in the north. The point is that in real winter, they will wear thermal underwear, cashmere sweaters, and down jackets, wrap themselves tightly when going out, and have heating in the house when they return home.

But now, all of them are wearing thin short sleeves!

Clothing stores and supermarkets in the library only sell summer clothes, which is a real pitfall.

Everyone's hands ached from the cold, and they stuffed their hands into their pockets one after another. Yue Xingwen's ears turned red from the cold instantly, and while his teeth chattered, he said, "Like a fire!"

Lin Manluo immediately summoned the green tree. Her tree is now a second-class tree. The trunk is as thick as the arms of an adult. .

Liu Zhaoqing quickly took out the chainsaw and sawed off the trunk to use as wood, and Xin Yan lit the wood with an alcohol lamp.The biting cold wind was blowing head-on, using an alcohol lamp to ignite the fire was too slow, so Xin Yan simply smashed two alcohol lamps and splashed alcohol on the wood to support the combustion, and only then did the wood successfully ignite.

The burning wood gave off heat, and everyone stretched out their hands to warm themselves around the fire.

However, it doesn't help.

Imagine the coldest winter in the north, what is the use of wearing short sleeves to warm up outside?The clothes on his body were too thin, the surrounding temperature was so low, and the cold wind continued, it was impossible to keep warm at all.

Liu Zhaoqing resisted the urge to curse, and said tremblingly, "Can I dig a base? Let's stay in a room with walls, it's better than blowing the wind outside? The cold wind is blowing my soul out of my body. .”

In the past, no matter how cold it was, there were down jackets to wear, but now it is easy. In the winter, they wear such short-sleeved short sleeves. What is the difference from running naked in the snow?

Zhang Xiaonian looked at Qin Lu: "I'm not sure if I can dig the foundation. I used to dig on the ground. Here is the ice layer. If there is water under the ice layer, I can't build an underground castle."

Qin Lu glanced into the distance, and frowned: "I remember the Quaternary Ice Age, when about one-third of the Earth's land was covered under a layer of ice more than 200 meters thick, the thickness of the ice layer under our feet is very likely Also more than 200 meters."

A 33-story building is only more than 100 meters high, and the ice layer more than 200 meters thick is too scary.

Zhang Xiaonian said with a bitter face: "My excavator can't dig through the 200-meter-thick ice layer. We must find normal land to build an underground castle." He looked around, "This white glacier, we Where are you going to find land?"

Lan Yarong analyzed: "Lulu said that one-third of the earth's land is covered by glaciers, so there are still animals living in the remaining two-thirds, right? As long as we find animals, we can follow the clues to find land .”

Qin Lu nodded: "That's the reason. Apart from very few animals that can survive on the ice, there are still many beasts that lived on land during the Ice Age. If we want to survive, we must first find land."

However, which direction should the endless glacier go?

Yue Xingwen said: "If you use wood to light a fire, even if you stay next to the fire, you won't be able to last long. If you go in the wrong direction, we may get frostbite halfway, or even freeze to death."

Humans are the least cold-resistant animals. Long-term evolution has allowed humans to shed their fur and use "clothes" as an external tool to resist the cold. Now they wear short sleeves and walk on glaciers at minus 30 degrees. The article said "freeze injury, freezing to death" is not an exaggeration.

You may be able to persist for a few minutes or half an hour, but what about going wrong?With such a large area of ​​glaciers, there is no reference point around them, so they are very likely to get lost.

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, and said: "Staying still is nothing but slow death. It is daytime, and the temperature is already minus 30 degrees. Once it is night, the temperature drops again. Let alone live for 10 days, we may live." But today."

Everyone fell silent.

The cold temperature made everyone shivering and sneezing constantly. Some students had already started to runny noses uncontrollably. Everyone's brains seemed to be numb from the cold, and their thinking began to become rigid.

At this moment, Qin Lu suddenly said: "I have an idea. The center of the Quaternary Ice Age was in the large ice sheets of the American continent and Eurasia. Among them, the northern side of the American continent and the northwest side of the Eurasian continent were covered by glaciers If we go southeast, we should be able to find normal land without glaciers."

When everyone heard this, they immediately had a goal.

Liu Zhaoqing said: "It's enough to determine the direction. But, how to locate the southeast?"

Qin Lu took out the globe and said, "My globe can locate latitude and longitude, let me take a look."

Every time she uses the "Plate Swap" ability, a direction icon will appear on the globe.The globe suspended in Qin Lu's hand really started to spin, and soon, she determined the southeast direction, pointing to the distance: "Go that way."

Yue Xingwen stood up immediately: "Hurry up, everyone, use all kinds of displacement skills, we must find land before dark, and build a cold-proof base. We can't spend the night on this ice, it's too cold at night, I don't want to Frozen to death!"