Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 826 - 369 Extreme Cold (Part 1)

Chapter 826: Chapter 369 Extreme Cold (Part 1)

Dould Ma arrived at the car’s side, and the streetlights of the town had already lit up. Lin Meng approached to greet them and asked, "Is this the last trip?"

Lin Wu asked, "Hmm, tired?"

Lin Meng replied, "No, I’m not tired."

Lin Wu said, "Help Maya get off the horse and into the car. She was so hungry earlier that she ate a few of her own toes."

"Huh?" Faced with Lin Wu’s nonsense, Lin Meng was dumbfounded again, always feeling that Lin Wu was making things up, but seeing that Maya didn’t react, it seemed like he might be telling the truth.

Lin Wu got off his horse and flicked Lin Meng’s forehead, "The point is to help Maya get off the horse and into the car."

"Oh, okay." Lin Meng moved forward, half-hugging Maya, and curiously asked, "Tastes good? I’ve only ever eaten toenails."

"Don’t listen to his nonsense. His characteristic in telling lies is to exaggerate things greatly so everyone immediately knows it’s a lie."

"Everyone? Have I fallen out of touch?" Lin Meng burst into tears, "Why am I doubtful?"

Lin Wu clarified, "You didn’t have any doubts."

Annoyed, Lin Meng couldn’t help but hit Lin Wu lightly and then helped Maya into the car.

Lin Wu put Dould Ma in the back of the pickup and took the passenger seat before the car entered the town. The streets of the town were brightly lit, with piles of snow shoveled to the sides of the road. They entered the villa area, drove onto the main road, passed around a roundabout, and then headed north toward home. Maya shouted, "Stop the car, turn off the lights."

The car stopped by the roundabout, which was about thirty square meters in size, with a flowerbed in the middle. The winter flowers were dead, leaving only withered shrubs and willows.

Maya said, "Look at the shrubs."

"It’s winter."

Maya noted, "No snow." It was impossible for the snowplow to have not sprayed snow onto the roundabout.

Lin Wu got out of the car with a gun, communicating via headset, "It’s not that there’s no snow; someone has sprayed a de-icing agent."

Lin Meng asked in surprise, "How did you know?"

Lin Wu explained, "My clothes got stained. A check showed it’s a de-icing agent, dummy. Snowplows aren’t responsible for de-icing, right?"

Maya said, "Look closely, see if there’s anything unusual or problematic, be careful of traps."

Lin Wu hummed affirmatively and walked around the roundabout, saying, "In the middle part, the shrubs form a circle, and there’s something in the middle. From Little Fight’s perspective earlier, I thought it was a manhole cover. Now, it really is a manhole cover. But this is no ordinary manhole cover; it’s an eye. Ah... In the fall, the entire roundabout looks like an eye, similar to this pattern."

Others viewed it from the ground, but Lin Wu, with an aerial image earlier from Little Fight, had already noticed something was off about the roundabout but hadn’t delved deeper. Now, upon entering the roundabout and clearly seeing the eye on the manhole cover, Lin Wu said, "Combining the two together, it indicates that this manhole cover isn’t ordinary."

Lin Meng quickly responded, "It’s a manhole cover painted with an eye."

"Maya, give her a knock on the head for me," Lin Wu said. "Remember the secret lab we encountered at North Lake? Our entrance was the lab’s emergency exit. I guess this here is an entrance to some place."

Maya agreed, "It likely leads to an underground lab 80 meters below, a fortress set up beneath Leimeng Town. Let’s retreat; today’s not the right time. We don’t want to startle anyone." Mainly because of injuries, otherwise they would have explored it.

"Understood." Lin Wu returned to the car and lightly tapped Lin Meng’s head.

Getting tapped on the head was annoying, but this time it was unusually gentle, was it because of a delay? Ah! Torn between reactions, not sure whether to be angry or not.

...

The car reached the small square, and Lin Meng notified via headset, Stone extinguished the bonfire and led people downstairs. Although those with low Cold Resistance Values were freezing their butts off, they still came down. Everyone transferred the wood to one side, Snow Egg and Su Shi began splitting the wood, and Little Knife and Stone delivered the split firewood to the command center near the second-floor bonfire room. Lin Meng wanted to help, but everyone told her to rest. Shana helped Maya, supporting her by the shoulder to the infirmary, and they chatted briefly about their reserves.

There can be no compromise on warmth; all the firewood that needed to be burned had to be burned, otherwise the comfort level would be too low, potentially leading to conflicts. The main unstable factor was the temperature—the lower the temperature, the more firewood was needed. However, using the fuel-safe shelter method, their current stockpile could essentially last through the half-month of extreme cold, and then they would address problems based on the actual situation at that time.

System broadcast: As of now, the number of surviving players is exactly 800.

Lin Wu sent Dould Ma back to the tent camp and then lay down inside the tent, looking up at the dark tent ceiling. Disliking assembly line work, after a day’s worth of it, both his body and mind were exhausted, spontaneously generating a feeling of aversion. He detested the game, and even those who stayed warm indoors while he worked hard outside.

It was just an emotion, unrelated to whether or not he understood the reason. Like a girl you secretly love holding hands with someone else—you know that’s her boyfriend, and they should be holding hands, and you’re the unethical stalker, but it just irks you. Lin Wu’s condition now was primary fatigue and secondary dejection, caused by the harsh working environment.

When with Maya and Lin Meng, Lin Wu always took their emotions into consideration, not wanting to pass his emotional trash onto others. But when alone, Lin Wu preferred solitude, hoping that no one would disturb him. Wounds would heal gradually, and with Lin Wu’s mindset, not even a scar would remain.

Then Lin Meng arrived, "Anyone here? If there is someone, make a sound, but getting stepped on doesn’t count."

Getting stepped on doesn’t count? Was that sentence problematic? That darn girl, deliberately stepping towards his head. Lin Wu dodged, and Lin Meng laughed triumphantly, sitting down and handing over a can of biscuits.

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