Chapter 19: Environmental Room, Inertial Thinking

Pork stomach... pfft, the spider gland is quite large, at least ten times the size of Xiaoying. If you want to finish eating it, you'll have to split it into ten meals at the fastest.

"You little guy, why can't you grow up faster?"

Li Zheng stroked Xiaoying, who was also looking at the refrigerator, teasingly.

"Whimper!"

Xiaoying waved her little paws, protesting loudly.

She was just born not long ago, how could she grow up so quickly?

"Alright, alright, I'll store it for you for now. Over the next few days, you'll be eating this. It's best if you can awaken a powerful ability."

"Whimper!"

Xiaoying nodded her little head, her black gemstone-like eyes showing a determined look.

This Xiaoying is definitely going to awaken a powerful ability!

Li Zheng packed up everything, and an Iron Ingot appeared in his hand. He patted Xiaoying and said, "You go over to the side first, so you won't get hurt in a moment."

Xiaoying had witnessed Li Zheng's demolition attributes yesterday and was already very familiar with what was about to happen, obediently flying out and hovering in mid-air.

"Whimper!"

Xiaoying raised her little fists, cheering on Li Zheng.

Li Zheng thought that if he had materials in the future, he could make two Fluorescent Sticks for Xiaoying, making the cheering atmosphere better.

"It's starting."

The jacket was already damaged yesterday; Li Zheng threw it away immediately. Now there's no more Meteor Hammer, but it doesn't really matter.

After multiple demolitions, he has gained some experience and knows how to smash things; the Iron Ingot's backshock is not likely to injure him.

In no time, the continuous pounding noises rang out, and the storage tank twisted under Li Zheng's violent demolition.

Five minutes later.

[Damaged storage tank, can be decomposed.]

[Damaged storage tank, key components were damaged due to chaotic demolition. Decomposition can yield Iron Ingot*5, Copper Ingot*5, parts*3, broken Power Core Type III, B25 level Manganese Steel 100g.]

The first hint still comes from the Matrix System.

The second hint from the Detector is still detailed, even providing material tools that can be obtained after decomposition.

"???"

Li Zheng checked back and forth several times to ensure he hadn't mistaken the words displayed on the Detector.

"Decompose!"

[Decompose the damaged storage tank, obtaining...]

This time, the information given by the Matrix System was identical to that provided by the Detector.

Li Zheng was helpless. He thought that after dismantling several refrigerators, he should have gained some experience.

But in the end, the materials were even fewer.

Especially since this time he didn't dismantle a Temperature Controller.

"Speaking of which, the two units smashed afterward yesterday also provided much fewer basic materials."

Li Zheng carefully recalled. However, because he hurried to explore all shares before midnight, he didn't notice this point then.

"It seems that even violent disassembly has some skill involved."

Li Zheng searched the room to ensure nothing was overlooked, then finally stood before the only blue safety door.

"Perhaps if you just destroy a few key points on these devices, you can maximize the materials obtained after decomposition? How did he smash those units yesterday?"

Li Zheng pondered hard, but in the end didn't remember many details.

"Forget it. If there are more refrigerators later, I'll pay more attention when dismantling them."

Li Zheng stopped worrying and swiped his card in front of the door.

Beep.

The metal door opened, Li Zheng let Xiaoying drill into his pocket, looked up, and frowned slightly.

Detector display: Safe (blue) environment.

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

Li Zheng was encountering this type of room for the first time.

"Let's take a look inside."

Although the Detector didn't show any resources behind the door, Li Zheng was still a bit interested in this safe environment room.

Stepping inside, the whole person was engulfed by a light screen.

As the colors before his eyes faded, a biting cold wind hit him head-on.

"Whimper!"

Xiaoying called out, curling up inside Li Zheng's pocket, trying to avoid the chill.

"Achoo!"

Wearing only a thin shirt, Li Zheng couldn't help but sneeze, rubbing his arms.

"This temperature is probably close to freezing."

Looking up, the room seemed never-ending, with nothing but rows of small ice mountains over ten feet high in sight.

The Matrix System didn't provide information about the ice mountains, but the Detector reacted.

[Ice Mountain Giants, dwell in groups, large clan, naturally emit cold air.

During the daytime, they fall into an unconscious state, and when night falls, they regain biological attributes.]

"Ice Mountain Giants? A large clan?"

Li Zheng's mouth twitched. Just a glance and without counting, he could estimate there were at least two hundred Ice Mountain Giants here.

"You call this a large clan? This is so large it's boundless, okay?"

An ice giant stands over thirty meters tall, and with over two hundred of them gathered together, the scene is quite spectacular from a distance.

"Scan for weaknesses."

Li Zheng opened the scan function in the illustrated guide and aimed it at the nearest hill.

Beep.

The illustrated guide began searching for information.

Five seconds later.

The illustrated guide displayed: No target information.

"It seems this creature isn't included in the seventh volume of the illustrated guide."

Seeing that he couldn't get more information, Li Zheng reluctantly gave up.

He soon discovered another issue.

"Strange, the detector didn't give the ice giant's level? Is it beyond the detection limit, or because the giants are asleep?"

Li Zheng wasn't sure, but judging from the size of each over thirty-meter-tall ice giant,

they were certainly not something he could provoke at the moment.

"Hiss~"

Li Zheng shivered, pulling his neck and wrapping his arms around himself, he bent down and moved to the side.

The ice giants radiated cold; it was freezing even from afar. How low would the temperature be if he ventured into the middle of the giant clan?

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

In contrast to the giants' height, the metal doors remained as usual, always around two meters tall, regardless of the room's internal space.

"Just my luck, it's a red dangerous room!"

Li Zheng cursed and continued on his way.

Forty minutes later, staring at the third door he found, Li Zheng cursed angrily, "Damn, another red dangerous door!"

Thud thud thud...

Li Zheng had spent a whole hour in an environment near zero degrees, his core temperature slowly dropping as time passed.

At this point, his entire body was shaking involuntarily.

His upper and lower teeth kept chattering, making a clattering sound.

"The detector clearly gave a blue safe warning, yet at this rate, I'll freeze to death here sooner or later!"

Li Zheng couldn't afford to continue exploring.

Logically, such a low-temperature room should be at least an orange-red dangerous room for him.

Why was the detector's warning blue?

"Could it be like when I got the Desert Eagle and the room difficulty decreased, I have something on me that provides resistance..."

"..."

"I'm such a big idiot!"

Something flashed in Li Zheng's mind, and he raised his hand to slap himself on the cheek, not even bothering to wipe the snot from his nose, as he urgently pulled things out from his capsule residence.

[Fiber (Gray) Material

Can be used to make specific tools and has a certain insulating effect.]

Item information updated.

Actually, when he wiped Sakura's butt before, the detector had already given an information prompt, but at the time, he was focused on the treasure chest and subconsciously ignored it.

After all, who keeps an eye on the item information of a gray-quality item all the time?

With clumsy fingers, he pulled Sakura out of his pocket and wrapped her in a bundle of fibers, then stuffed both the fibers and Sakura into his shirt.

"Whimper."

Although Li Zheng had been protecting Sakura with his arm, after an hour, she too was listless from the cold.

Being completely wrapped in fibers, she was warmer but it became less breathable.

The little guy tore open a small hole in the fibers, stuck out her nose to breathe, and protested weakly with a couple of squeaks.

"There, there, bear with it for a bit."

While comforting Sakura, Li Zheng kept stuffing fibers into his clothing.

As clumps of fibers were stuffed into his clothes, Li Zheng started to look somewhat bulky.

"Good thing I always buy clothes a size larger, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to fit so many fibers."

Li Zheng was extremely grateful.

Because he used to be chubby, he always bought large-sized clothes.

Although he lost a lot of weight after dieting, he kept buying the same size, in case he couldn't resist and gained weight back someday.

Now it came in handy, large-sized clothes really proved useful.

Packing the fibers tightly inside his shirt, buttoning the sleeves tightly, and tucking in the hem,

a makeshift "down jacket" was completed.

"Stuff some in the pants too, but just a thin layer so as not to restrict movement."

Li Zheng took out previously removed shoes from his capsule dwelling, and pulled out the shoelaces to tie his pant legs.

With the fibers all over him, his body temperature began to slowly rise.

As his body warmed up, Li Zheng suddenly realized something.

"Ever since I got called a brainless fool at Phoenix Mountain..."

"It's like I really started to become brainless?"

Damn! (a type of plant)