Universe Infinite Canteen
Chapter 755 - 755: Protection Fee

When the environmental temperature dropped to -72°, Chacha, the scrawniest of the lot, began having difficulty breathing. The gas he exhaled instantly turned into a mist of ice, clogging his airways.

Soon Chacha started to cough loudly, coughing up blood and falling unconscious.

However, the cold eventually began to affect the Revenge canned carp as well.

Its movements had become noticeably slower than before.

Seeing this, Ma Lu made a decisive move without waiting any longer, tossing a Mimic Jellyfish into the temperature control room.

The Revenge canned carp followed suit, chasing after it as expected.

Battle Axe Muscle Brother and Black Jack took this opportunity to close the temperature control room's door again.

With the resounding clang of the door shutting, the surrounding temperature ceased to fall, giving everyone some relief.

Most importantly, the Revenge canned carp was now shut behind the door forever.

"Is that it solved? These legendary Space Fish seem not so difficult to catch after all," Little Huzi said, clapping his hands before realizing everyone was glaring at him.

At a time like this, casually declaring victory was too reminiscent of a villain's last words before being overturned.

Feeling the stares, Little Huzi shrank his neck and quickly changed the subject, "How are we going to get it out when it's frozen?"

After all the effort to capture this 9-star ingredient, Little Huzi certainly did not want to just leave it in the temperature control room.

"My armor has a powerful temperature maintenance system built in. As long as I'm under three minutes, I can operate in any extreme environments, so I can go in when it's time," Iron Can Man said.

Everybody was already fantasizing about how to divide up the Revenge canned carp, but just then, the light strip above their heads flickered twice more.

Little Huzi's complexion changed abruptly as he stammered, "That... That must be a voltage instability, right?"

"The power system of the fish cage has been reinforced; it won't have voltage instability issues."

Before Iron Can Man finished speaking, the room went dark, and that familiar shadow reappeared in everyone's view.

"Holy shit, how is it back again!" Little Huzi let out a cry of despair.

The Revenge canned carp paid no mind to the despair of the people and descended once more. The process of it materializing into a solid was noticeably lengthier due to the cold, clearly affecting it.

However, this had not completely restricted its movements.

Seeing this, Ma Lu instinctively threw another Mimic Jellyfish out as bait while quickly considering what else could be done about it in his mind.

Yet, the only thing to rely on was still the temperature control room behind them, but if the door were opened now, it wasn't certain whether the Revenge canned carp would be frozen, and of the six people present, all but Iron Can Man would likely succumb first.

By this point, the temperature in the temperature control room had reached -176° and was still dropping. In such extreme cold, exposure to the chilly air would rapidly turn body fluids into ice crystals, destroying cellular structure and causing irreversible damage. It would only take seconds before critical organs shut down, leading to certain death.

But without opening the door, there was no good way to handle the Revenge canned mola mola in front of them. Moreover, as the temperature rose, it would only get more agile.

Ma Lu found himself in a dilemma.

Just then, Iron Can Man found him and reached out his hand, "Lend me your gravity gloves, I have a way to deal with it."

Upon hearing this, Ma Lu didn't hesitate, immediately took off the gloves and handed them over, "What's your plan?"

Iron Can Man didn't answer, but simply put on the gloves, took out an elastic ball from his waist pouch, then grabbed back the Mimic Jellyfish that Ma Lu had thrown earlier, and stuffed the elastic ball into its body.

Next, she threw the Mimic Jellyfish at the door of the temperature control room and used the gravity gloves to press it firmly against it.

Soon enough, the Mimic Jellyfish's mimicry began to take effect, slowly merging with the door of the temperature control room, carrying the elastic ball through the door with it.

Iron Can Man then forcefully threw another elastic ball toward the Revenge canned mola mola overhead.

The elastic ball exploded in front of the latter, turning into a Black Hole. The Revenge canned mola mola didn't react in time, plunged headlong into the Black Hole, and was then sent back into the temperature control room.

Ma Lu and the others were first stunned, then their eyes all lit up.

"This works?!" Little Huzi caught on and immediately started clapping and cheering, "Brilliant, you had this move all along; why didn't you say so earlier? With this, that thing should be completely frozen inside, never able to come out again! Uh..."

He hadn't finished speaking when he realized something was wrong, and before anyone else could chastise him, he covered his mouth right away.

But thankfully, his jinx didn't come true this time.

Everyone waited for a full fifteen minutes, and the Revenge canned mola mola didn't appear again; meanwhile, the temperature in the temperature control room had reached -272°, just 0.9 degrees away from the target temperature set by Iron Can Man.

After waiting another twenty minutes, the six breathed a sigh of relief and took advantage of the situation to go downstairs and retrieve the catch and equipment they had temporarily stored. Luckily, that room hadn't been visited by other anglers.

Speaking of which, Ma Lu and the others felt that the anglers in this fishing event didn't seem to be as numerous as before, but in fact, a total of 372 prisoners from Prison No. 444 had signed up to participate in this fishing event.

One reason was the large venue, but the Revenge canned carp probably played a part as well.

With its terrifying mobility, it may not have stayed on the top floor all the time; it might well have gone to other floors to slaughter anglers before.

The six then exchanged the extra catch they had on them for marbles, met up with Rabbit Man, and instead of going anywhere else, stayed beside the purchasing machine, charging other anglers a protective fee for dealing with the Revenge canned carp and for maintaining peace.

Ma Lu wasn't greedy; he only took seventy percent of their catch and left them the remaining thirty percent, as after all, it wouldn't be right for the others to go without any reward after their hard work.

And those protected anglers each dared not show their anger, as there was no help for it—mainly because Ma Lu and his group's weapons and equipment were simply too good, and with them outnumbering the others, none of the anglers could match them.

When the mechanical announcement sounded again, declaring that there were 30 minutes remaining before the end of the fishing event, Ma Lu had already traded most of the ingredients in his Collection Bag for 7-star and 8-star ones, and had also exchanged the excess for marbles.

Afterwards, the seven went back outside the temperature control room. The others stood far away, letting Iron Can Man go forward to open the iron door.

Soon, she took out the Revenge canned mola mola, now stiff and rigid.

Having been frozen for so long in a near absolute zero environment, this Revenge canned mola mola should have died.

Iron Can Man threw it on the ground, and it immediately cracked into pieces. Each person took a part; Ma Lu took a piece near the belly because he saw fish roe in there.

He planned to take it back and try raising it in the Desktop Farm to see if he could hatch another Revenge canned mola mola. If that worked, he would make a fortune.

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