Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

"Hot, hot, hot! It's so hot!"

"Don't accidentally touch the metal here. I'm afraid these metals have already exceeded a hundred degrees."

"Ugh... I just touched it and it blistered instantly..."

"ah!"

"careful!"

"It's slippery here, don't fall!"

"This... if this hits directly on it, it will be burned and disfigured immediately..."

"With Sister Xuefei's pills, you can recover even your disfigurement."

"……snort."

The three of them shuttled through the mechanical ocean.

After Coco led Xu Xin and the others to find a secret intersection, he climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulders.

It probably felt that it was too hot to get into Xu Xin's arms now.

"Ugh..." The little guy's hot tongue stuck out.

At this time, Xu Xin and the others were walking on a winding walkway that was only one meter wide.

On both sides of the walkway are machines that are constantly emitting heat, making this area very stuffy.

This walkway is still in the shape of a metal grid, so the three of them can pass through this metal grid road and see below the road.

It is also a sea of ​​machines.

They are now completely surrounded by a sea of ​​machines.

"Where will this road lead..."

Li Wenxi was soaked all over, her hair stuck to her cheeks, and she said weakly.

Anyone exposed to high temperatures will become weak.

Especially with the current ambient temperature, it needs to be at least 70 degrees to start.

If their bodies hadn't been strengthened long ago, they would have collapsed and fainted from heatstroke by now.

"I don't know, but don't have high hopes."

Xu Xin glanced at Coco, who was lying on her shoulder with her tail hanging down.

Coco has no interest in this road.

I always feel that if Keke is not interested, there may not be any good stuff.

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

Xu Ying also said feebly.

This temperature is really going to cook them...

But the passage here is too narrow, and the cooling device in Xu Xin's bracelet cannot be taken out.

"Do alien invaders usually work under such high temperatures..." Li Wenxi turned her head to avoid a mechanical pipe spitting out above her head.

"Probably not."

Xu Ying glanced at Xu Xin's bracelet: "We seem to have... put away the cooling device here."

Forehead……

It seems so.

If the cooling device is still there, the entire ceiling above this area will be able to cool down.

Because the giant beast's freezing space is directly above this area, and the overall temperature is below minus fifty degrees.

But now, this cooling device has been put away by Xu Xin.

As a result, there are no cooling measures in this area, and the temperature will naturally be much higher than normal.

"Ah... So, the freezer we went to before is not equivalent to being roasted now, right?"

Li Wenxi looked up.

You can't see the ceiling, only a dense collection of various mechanical parts and pipes.

"...It's really possible." Xu Xin said.

No wonder the giant beast in that space revived so quickly.

He previously thought it was caused by the body temperature of the giant beast.

But now it seems that it is probably because the area below has been "fired", so it heats up quickly.

"Um...do you feel that it's getting hotter and hotter here..."

Li Wenxi felt like she was out of breath.

and……

call--

The hot air began to flow weakly.

call--

Not long after, another gust of flowing wind blew by.

The temperature here itself was ridiculously high, and the wind was even worse. It did not bring coolness to the three of them, but made their breathing even more difficult.

"We should be approaching another cylinder of this giant ship's engine." Xu Xin speculated.

Isn't this frequency of blowing the same cylinder they saw before?

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

"ah……?"

Li Wenxi looked up with some difficulty.

"Uh... It seems, really? Sigh... I can't see clearly either. It's all metal here..."

Li Wenxi covered her head, her feet already a little weak.

She obviously had symptoms of heatstroke.

He even tripped and almost fell.

"careful."

Xu Xin supported her.

"How about you get into the bracelet first. But it might be very cold inside the bracelet now."

After all, the device is in the bracelet.

But it doesn't matter if it's cold, just wear more clothes.

They also have cold-proof scarves and snow suits.

Just stay away from that device.

"No... no need!"

She patted her cheeks that were already flushed, then took out a pill and took it, immediately feeling much more energetic.

"Without my ability, you guys would be too dangerous!"

"Well, don't force it."

As the three of them continued to move forward, the sound of the hot wind continued to grow louder, and the surrounding temperature...

It actually dropped a lot slowly?

"Phew...I finally feel better."

Li Wenxi breathed a long sigh of relief.

At the same time, the three of them once again saw a huge cylinder emitting dark red light through the gap in the machine.

This was the second huge tank they had seen.

It is also a dark red color that seems to be cooling, and it is also constantly blowing air upwards.

But the temperature here is much lower than that of the other cylinder.

Although it is also very hot, it is only over 40 degrees.

For three people, sleeping in an environment of more than 40 degrees may be too hot to sleep, but if they can tolerate it normally, there will be no problem.

Especially after experiencing the nearly eighty-degree temperature before, the body was almost cooked.

Even Xu Xin couldn't help but take a pill just now.

Otherwise, he felt like he would get heat stroke and his internal organs would be steamed!

Now, in the forties?

It's trivial.

The three of them walked out of the mechanical ocean.

Because there is also a platform below the cylinder.

"It's really cool here!" Xu Ying sighed.

"I'm afraid it's because there is no problem with the cooling device of this tank." Li Wenxi speculated.

Xu Xin looked at the air outlet of the cylinder.

The dark red color of this cylinder is almost the same as the previous one, and it is also spraying hot air upwards.

Hot air sprayed against the metal ceiling.

But this time the metal ceiling was not burned red like the previous metal plate, but was still a normal color.

Obviously, the top here is probably also a cooling device.

Maybe it's also a...behemoth cooling space?

"This engine has actually stopped running. There are so many machines around that are still. Why are they still blowing air..." Li Wenxi said a little puzzled.

"Is there a possibility that it is shutting down right now?"

Xu Xin raised his head and looked at the metal vat.

"It is trying to stop, but it cannot stop at will. It needs to cool down first, otherwise it may cause unnecessary damage."

"Yes." Xu Ying nodded, "It has only been an hour since this giant ship came back, right? It does take time for the engine of such a super giant ship to cool down completely."

"Is that so?" Li Wenxi wiped the sweat that was about to flow into the corners of her eyes with her sleeve and blinked, "Um...wait a minute. In general, engine maintenance work must first let the engine cool down, right? That is explain……"

She looked at Xu Xin and Xu Ying with some despair: "In other words, even alien invaders will not enter here before the engine has completely cooled down, right?"

This is indeed the case.

The three of them looked at each other.

They all saw the speechlessness in the eyes of the other two people.

This environment is indeed too dangerous.

Not to mention the high temperature, the surrounding mechanical pipe parts that are easily touched are extremely hot.

It's easy for skinny humans like them to run into each other accidentally, let alone an alien invader that looks like a giant slime.

They won't enter here at this time.

"Isn't this just right?" Xu Xin said with a smile, "This shows that we are very safe now. They should not come here."

"It seems so." Li Wenxi licked her chapped lips.

The high temperature and extreme dryness are really uncomfortable.

It felt like smoke was rising from my throat when I spoke.

"So, continue to move forward?" Xu Ying pointed to the huge cylinder above like a moving suspended building, "There's nothing we can do to it, right?"

"Let's continue exploring inside first," Xu Xin said.

It is a very good thing to find this place.

Even if they don't find anything here, if they stuff a dozen nuclear bombs here before leaving and detonate them after leaving...

Even if these cylinders cannot be broken, this sea of ​​precision machinery...

It will definitely be messed up.

By then, this giant ship may really be useless!

Even if it can be repaired, it will take some time.

In this case, even if their mission is not completely successful, all four giant ships of the alien invaders will be scrapped, and the deterrent effect against them will be greatly reduced.

Xu Xin told the two of his ideas. The three of them discussed it and immediately decided to plant nuclear bombs while walking.

Continuing to move forward, the three of them once again entered the sea of ​​machines.

"I think a nuclear bomb should be able to blow this place to pieces."

Xu Ying inserted a nuclear bomb into the gap between the two machines.

"The temperature of the giant tank is actually not very high, that is, a few thousand degrees, but it is already in a red state. The alloy material of this power system should not be the kind of giant ship hull that cannot be penetrated by nuclear bombs. Material.”

That being said, it does make sense.

The explosion center of the nuclear bomb has hundreds of millions of degrees, and it can't do anything to the giant ship.

The engine here is red-hot at a few thousand degrees.

It doesn't seem to be the same material.

"That's just right. When we leave, we'll blow up everything here!"

Li Wenxi also inserted a nuclear bomb into the side.

Two nuclear bombs exploded in one location.

"Let's go, keep going."

As they moved forward, the three of them became more proficient in the mechanical sea, and their movements became faster and faster.

During this time, there has been no danger.

Just as they had guessed before, the alien invaders would not come in here before the engine had completely cooled down.

The three of them also deployed more than double-digit nuclear bombs along the way.

Their mission this time was originally related to nuclear bombs, so they brought a lot of them. Even if they consume more than a dozen here, it will not have any impact.

"Is this the end?"

Xu Xin and the others have reached the end of the mechanical sea.

This section of the road lasted about seven or eight hundred meters. The straight-line distance was not very far, but it took a lot of effort to travel through the sea of ​​machines.

"It's finally over." Li Wenxi breathed out.

"It seems like there's nothing... Hey, what is that?" Xu Ying's eyes lit up.

The three of them saw that at the end, there was a... small metal door?

There...is actually a small room here?

"Is this a room for engineers who specialize in repairing this place?" Xu Xin said to himself.

"Really? It's so hot here...ah, it doesn't seem to be hot here anymore!"

Along the way, they saw a total of four giant metal tanks.

The engine of this giant ship is a four-cylinder engine.

Of course, each tank is as big as a building.

The last giant metal tank was more than a hundred meters away from them.

Perhaps because the cooling measures have been done well, the temperature here is already around 30 degrees.

Thirty degrees is not comfortable for ordinary people, but it is considered a temperature that can lead to normal life.

For alien invaders, maybe it doesn't matter even more.

So, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with having a small room here.

"cocoa."

Xu Xin grabbed the little guy who was lying on his shoulder and started to sleep again, into his arms and wrapped him in the cloak of the Invisible.

"Come on, let's go over and take a look."

The three of them walked to the door.

The door was not closed, but ajar.

The closer they got, the more the three of them could smell a damp and putrid smell.

They had actually smelled this smell before they came down and saw the power system.

However, the taste was not very strong, so the three of them gradually got used to it.

But as I got closer to the door, the smell suddenly became several times stronger.

This made the three of them frown immediately.

"It won't be..."

Xu Xin reached out and slowly opened the half-open door.

Immediately, a strong stench hit my face!

"vomit……"

The three of them couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses.

Good guy, this tastes too...

After seeing the situation inside, they immediately knew the source of the stench.

On the ground, there were two piles of mud.

Obviously, they are two alien invaders.

But the mud is no longer pitch black, but gray-black, and there are even some crawling on the mud...

Thin, small black spots.

The moment Xu Xin opened the door, these small spots flew up tens of centimeters with a "buzz", forming two black flying insect balls near the mud on both sides.

But only two seconds later, they seemed to feel that there was no danger, and they clung to the bright mud again.

"Hey...this insect can't be..."

Li Wenxi covered her mouth tightly and murmured.

She was a little afraid that these scavenging bugs would fly into her mouth, which would cause serious damage.

The two corpses of two alien invaders that had obviously been dead for a long time and were severely decomposed on the ground had been chewed to pieces by these scavenging bugs.

It's really...indescribable.

Xu Xin felt like she was about to suffer from trypophobia.

And Coco has shrunk her entire little head, only exposing her two little ears.

"There are indeed two alien invaders living here, but they are already dead..." Xu Ying also covered her mouth and said, "But..."

They saw a lot of equipment in this room.

Some push-type switches, levers, etc.

"It should be the switch that controls the power room, right?" Xu Ying was a little concerned, "Would you like to try pulling it?"

"Um..." Li Wenxi looked at the bugs crawling over the corpses of the two alien invaders, "Do you really want to go in... Besides, we don't know what those switches are for... Ah!"

Li Wenxi stared blankly at the body on the ground.

"What's wrong?" Xu Xin asked, seeing her staring at the corpse, her eyes moved, "Did you find anything on the corpse?"

"...Yeah." Li Wenxi nodded honestly, "It's...a metal card."

Metal card.

Xu Xin looked at the various control devices in this cabin.

It seems that the metal cards on these two alien invaders are needed to control these switches.

"I'll get it."

Xu Xin took a step towards the two corpses.

Just taking one step, the black-spotted insects were immediately alerted, and they flew up together again, forming dense insect balls around the two corpses!

"Don't!" Li Wenxi hurriedly stopped him, "We don't know how aggressive these bugs are, and they are probably poisonous!"

The corpses of the two alien invaders were a little pale...

"Then..." Xu Xin frowned slightly.

"Brother, use that cooling device." Xu Ying suddenly said, "One hundred degrees below zero, I don't believe these bugs can't be frozen to death!"

"It makes sense, but... these facilities won't be frozen, right?" Xu Xin touched his chin and said.

He actually wanted to light a fire to see if the insects could put out the fire, just like they did with the insect swarm.

But there is a light source here, and these bugs don't seem to care about the light source. None of them fly to the light source, they all pounce on the bodies of the alien invaders.

They only care about the corpses of intruders on the ground.

"If it's broken, it's broken. The worst we can do is leave directly." Xu Ying said, "At least we can't let these scavenging bugs bite us!"

The bugs that eat the corpses of alien invaders don't feel like creatures from this earth.

I don't know if this creature carries any deadly alien germs or viruses.

Maybe even Qi Xuefei’s medicine is useless!

Xu Xin nodded, immediately turned the bracelet and released the cooling device.

Immediately, the surrounding temperature dropped sharply!

It was only 30 degrees here, but after the cooling device was released, it dropped to minus 70 or 80 degrees within a few seconds.

All three of them trembled violently.

The ones that reacted more violently were the scavenging flying insects.

The flying insects originally flew very fast, and flew into two round balls next to the two corpses in an orderly manner.

But in these few seconds when the temperature dropped sharply, the formation was in chaos!

Then they all fell from the air and died on the ground.

A densely packed place.

"It should be... dead, right?" Li Wenxi looked at the flying insects on the ground and whispered, "It won't be resurrected, right?"

The two alien invader bodies on the ground seemed to freeze instantly.

A layer of white appeared.

At least... less disgusting.