A Cold Room and Cognitive Inertia

The silk-spider's glands were very large, ten times the size of Chirpy. They could split them into ten meals.

"Little creature, why can't you grow up faster?"

Li Zheng patted Chirpy, who was also looking at the "refrigerator", and teased it.

"Chirp, chirp!"

Chirpy waved its little claws and protested loudly.

It was just born not long ago, how could it have grown up so quickly?

"Alright, alright. I'll keep this for you. You'll be eating this for the next few days. It's best if you could level up."

"Chirp!"

Chirpy nodded its little head, its black gem-like eyes had a determined look in them.

Chirpy would definitely level up!

Li Zheng kept everything and an iron ingot appeared in his hand. He patted Chirpy and said, "go to the side, in case I accidentally hurt you."

Chirpy had witnessed Li Zheng's demolition the day before, so she was already very familiar with what was going to happen next. She flew away obediently and circled in the air.

"Chirp!"

Chirpy raised its little fist, cheering Li Zheng on.

Li Zheng thought that if he had the materials in the future, he could make two light sticks for Chirpy. That way, the atmosphere would be more lively when it cheered him on.

"I'm ready."

Li Zheng had thrown the destroyed jacket away. However, it didn't matter.

After all the smashing from yesterday, he knew how to do it. The iron ingot's recoil would not easily hurt him.

After a while, the storage tank was dented by Li Zheng's violent smashing.

Five minutes later.

[Damaged material storage tank. Can be broken down.]

[Damaged material storage tank. A key part was damaged due to violent dismantling. You could obtain iron ingot x5, copper ingot x5, spare parts x3, type III damaged power core x1, 100g of B25 grade manganese steel.]

The first notification came from the matrix system.

The second piece of information from the detector was more detailed. It even gave the materials that could be obtained after decomposition.

"???"

Li Zheng read it a few times to make sure he didn't misread the words on the detector.

"Break it down!"

[Broken down damaged material storage tank. Obtained:...]

This time, the information given by the matrix system was the same as the detector.

Li Zheng was helpless. He thought that he would have some experience after dismantling a few fridges yesterday.

In the end, he got less materials than he should have.

Especially since he didn't take out the thermal controller this time.

"Speaking of which, the two research desks that were destroyed yesterday gave much less basic materials."

Li Zheng thought about it carefully, he didn't notice it yesterday because he was rushing to explore all the rooms.

"It seems that there's a proper way to smash things."

Li Zheng searched the room to make sure he didn't miss anything. Finally, he stood in front of the only blue safe door.

"Maybe if I have to destroy certain parts to obtain the most amount of materials? How did I smash them yesterday?"

Li Zheng racked his brain but couldn't remember the details.

"Forget it. If there's a refrigerator later, I'll just be more careful."

Li Zheng was no longer troubled and swiped his card at the door.

Beep.

The metal door opened, and Li Zheng had Chirpy enter his pocket. He looked up and frowned.

The detector displayed a safe (blue) environment.

"No materials, no food, no danger, just a safe environment?"

This was the first time Li Zheng had come across such a room.

"Let's go in and take a look. "

Even though the detector didn't show anything behind the door, Li Zheng was still interested.

He stepped into it and was swallowed by the light.

When the colors in front of him faded, he felt a bone-piercing cold wind.

"Chirp, chirp!"

"Ah!" Chirpy cried out and shrank into Li Zheng's pocket, trying to avoid the cold.

"Achoo!"

Li Zheng sneezed into his thin shirt. He rubbed his arms.

"The temperature is close to zero, right?"

He couldn't see the end of the room. What entered his eyes was a small ice mountain that was more than a hundred feet tall.

The matrix system did not give any information about the ice mountain, but the detector responded.

[The ice giants live in groups and have a large clan. They emit cold air.] 

[During the day, they are in an unconscious state. At night, they will be active.]

"Ice giants? A huge clan?"

Li Zheng's mouth twitched. With just a glance, he could tell that there were at least two hundred ice giants.

"They are bigger than huge!"

A single ice giant was over thirty meters tall, and with over two hundred of them together, it was a spectacular sight.

"Scan their weakness."

Li Zheng used the scanning function in the handbook and aimed at the nearest one.

Beep.

It started to search for information.

Five seconds later.

There was no information.

"It seems like it's a creature that's not recorded in the seventh book."

Seeing that he was unable to obtain any more information, Li Zheng gave up.

Then, he found another problem.

"Strange, the detector didn't give us the level of the ice giant? Did it exceed the detection limit, or is it because the giant is sleeping?"

Li Zheng didn't know, but from the looks of it, each of the ice giants was over thirty meters in size.

He definitely couldn't afford to provoke them at the moment.

"Hiss~"

Li Zheng shivered and walked to the side.

It was already so cold even though he was not near the giants. If he walked into the middle of the group, how low would the temperature be?

After walking along the edge for twenty minutes, Li Zheng finally found the first door in the room.

Unlike the giants' height, the metal door was as usual. No matter how big the room was, it always maintained a height of about two meters.

"What bad luck, it's actually a dangerous room!"

"F*ck!" Li Zheng cursed before leaving.

Forty minutes later, Li Zheng found the third door and cursed, "f*ck, it's a red door again!"

Beep, beep, beep…

Li Zheng had spent an entire hour in an environment that was close to zero degrees. His core temperature was slowly dropping as time passed.

At this moment, his entire body was shaking uncontrollably.

His teeth clattered.

"The detector clearly told me that it was safe, but if this situation continues, I'm going to freeze to death here!"

Li Zheng couldn't be bothered to continue exploring.

Logically speaking, a room with such low temperature should at least be a dangerous orange-red room.

Why was the detector blue?

"Could it be that there's something on my body that could resist it, just like how the room's difficulty was reduced after I obtained the Desert Eagle..."

"…"

"I'm a f*cking idiot!"

A thought flashed across Li Zheng's mind, and he slapped himself on the face. He didn't even bother to wipe his snot as he hurriedly dug out things from his capsule.

[Fiber (gray) material.]

[Can be used in crafting. It also has a warming effect.]

The item information was updated.

In fact, when he was cleaning up Chirpy's mess, the detector had already given him some information. However, he was too focused on the treasure chest and ignored it subconsciously.

After all, who would pay attention to the information of a gray-grade item?

He took Chirpy out of his pocket with his not-so-nimble fingers, wrapped it in a ball of fiber, and then stuffed it into his shirt along with the fiber.

"Chirp, chirp."

Even though Li Zheng had been shielding Chirpy with his arms the entire time, it was still listless from the cold after an hour.

Although it was much warmer wrapped in fiber, the material was not very breathable.

The little creature tore a small hole in the fiber, stuck out its nose to breathe, and weakly protested twice.

"Be good and suffer a little."

Li Zheng kept stuffing fiber into his clothes as he tried to calm Chirpy.

Li Zheng's body began to swell as the fibers were stuffed into his clothes.

"Luckily, I always have the habit of buying clothes that are one size bigger. Otherwise, I might not be able to stuff so much fiber into my clothes now."

Li Zheng rejoiced.

He used to be chubbier in the past, so he always bought clothes in large sizes.

Although he had lost a lot of weight, he still kept the size of the clothes he had bought in the past. He was afraid that one day he would not be able to control his appetite and put on weight again.

This time, the large-sized clothes really came in handy.

He stuffed his shirt with fiber, then buttoned up his sleeves and tied up the hem.

A simple and crude version of a "down jacket" was completed.

"I should stuff some inside my pants too, but just a thin layer is enough. Otherwise, it will affect my movement."

Li Zheng took out the shoes he had changed out of earlier and tied them up with the shoelaces.

With the help of the fibers, his body temperature began to rise slowly.

Li Zheng suddenly thought of something when his body temperature returned to normal.

"After Feng Shan called me an idiot..."

"Am I really becoming an idiot?"