Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1434 - 710: Is This Giant Ship a 4-Cylinder?

"Hot hot hot! It’s so hot!"

"Be careful not to touch the metal here. I’m afraid these metal pieces are all over a hundred degrees."

"Ugh... I just brushed it, and it blistered instantly..."

"Ah!"

"Careful!"

"It’s really slippery here, don’t fall!"

"If you slam straight into it, you’ll get your face scorched off on the spot..."

"With Sister Xuefei’s pills, even if you’re disfigured you can recover."

"...Hmph."

The three of them wove their way through the mechanical ocean.

After Keke led Xu Xin and the others to the hidden entrance, it climbed up onto Xu Xin’s shoulder.

It probably felt that burrowing into Xu Xin’s arms right now was just way too hot.

"Eee..." The little thing was so hot its tongue was lolling out.

Meanwhile, the three of them were walking along a crooked passage barely one meter wide.

On both sides of the passage were machines constantly radiating heat, making the whole area stifling.

The passage itself was a metal mesh, so through the grating they could see what lay beneath the path.

Another mechanical sea.

Right now they were completely surrounded by this mechanical ocean.

"Where does this path even lead..."

Li Wenxi was soaked from head to toe, hair plastered to her cheeks, sounding weak and listless.

Anyone would get drained in an environment this hot.

Especially at the current ambient temperature, which had to be at least seventy degrees to start with.

If their bodies hadn’t long since been enhanced, they would probably have collapsed from heatstroke already.

"No idea, but don’t get your hopes up too much."

Xu Xin glanced at Keke, who was sprawled on his shoulder with its tail drooping.

Keke didn’t seem interested in this path at all.

Whenever Keke wasn’t interested in something, it usually meant there wouldn’t be anything good.

"Anyway, let’s go take a look. Maybe we really can find a way to destroy this giant ship’s engine."

Xu Ying spoke weakly as well.

This heat was really going to roast them...

But the corridor here was too narrow; Xu Xin couldn’t even take out the cooling device from his wristband.

"Do alien invaders usually work in this kind of high-temperature environment..." Li Wenxi turned her head to avoid a mechanical pipe protruding above her.

"Probably not."

Xu Ying glanced at Xu Xin’s wristband. "Looks like... we’ve actually put away the cooling device that was here."

Uh...

It did seem that way.

If that cooling device were still in place, the entire stretch of ceiling above this area would help lower the temperature.

Because that giant beast’s freezing chamber was right above this region, and overall it was below minus fifty degrees.

But now that cooling unit had been taken into Xu Xin’s wristband.

Which meant this area no longer had any cooling measures, so the temperature was naturally much higher than normal.

"Ah... so that means the freezer we went to earlier is basically being baked right now?"

Li Wenxi tilted her head back to look up.

She couldn’t see the ceiling, only a dense mass of mechanical parts and pipes.

"...That really might be the case," Xu Xin said.

No wonder the giant beast in that chamber revived so fast.

He’d thought it was because of the beast’s own body temperature.

But now it looked more like the region below had been "firing up the grill" non-stop, so it was heating up quickly.

"Uh... do you guys feel like it’s getting even hotter in here..."

Li Wenxi felt like she was already struggling to breathe.

And...

Whoosh—

The hot air began to flow, faintly.

Whoosh—

Not long after, another gust of moving air blew through.

The ambient temperature was already absurdly high, and this wind was even worse; instead of cooling them, it made their breathing even more labored.

"We must be getting close to the engine’s other cylinder core," Xu Xin guessed.

This regular, pulsing blast of wind was just like the one they saw at that other cylinder.

"Wenxi, with your ability you should be able to see it, right?"

"Ah...?"

Li Wenxi managed to lift her head with difficulty and look around.

"Uh... I think... yeah? Sigh... I can’t see clearly either. It’s all metal here..."

Li Wenxi clutched her head, her legs already feeling weak.

She clearly had heatstroke symptoms.

She even stumbled and almost fell.

"Careful."

Xu Xin steadied her.

"Why don’t you go into the wristband first? Though it might be really cold in there right now."

After all, that device was inside the wristband.

But the cold didn’t matter; she could just wear more layers.

They had cold-resistant scarves and snow suits.

As long as she stayed away from that device, she’d be fine.

"N-no... I’m fine!"

She patted her cheeks, already flushed from baking, then took out a pill and swallowed it, perking up noticeably.

"Without my ability, you two would be way too exposed!"

"All right then, just don’t push yourself."

As the three of them kept moving forward, that "whoosh-whoosh—" of hot wind grew louder, and the temperature around them...

Actually started dropping quite a bit?

"Phew... finally a bit more bearable."

Li Wenxi let out a long breath of relief.

At the same time, through the gaps in the machinery, the three of them once again caught sight of a gigantic cylinder glowing with a dark red light.

This was the second massive cylinder they’d seen.

The same dim, cooling dark red; the same constant jets of vapor rushing upward.

But the temperature here was far lower than it had been near the other cylinder.