Yang Yi obtained information about the flintlock rifle.[Name: Roaring Flintlock Rifle][Type: Relic][Quality: Exquisite][Description: Once a masterwork, now regaining its former glory.]It has three modes:Standard Mode:Fires a medium-damage bullet without the need for reloading. Cooldown: 5 seconds.Shotgun Mode:Fires a wide spread of projectiles that deal small damage individually but cover a large area. Accuracy is low. Cooldown: 1 hour.Roar Mode:Fires a super projectile far beyond the gun’s caliber. The recoil is tremendous, and the barrel explodes afterward, dealing massive damage. The gun will self-repair over 12 hours.At first, Yang Yi worried the barrel might explode—but after reading the info, he no longer had doubts.It definitely would!Still, that little side effect was acceptable.If he’d had this gun back then, he could have killed the crystalline giant outright—no need to resort to self-immolation.Meanwhile, Suna was roasting the ice egg over fire, but it showed no sign of melting.She’d asked Yang Yi earlier and learned that it could melt.The so-called ice egg was just a protective shell formed from white crystal inside.But even after ten minutes of heating with an oil lamp, there wasn’t a hint of melting.“Looks like I’ll need to raise the temperature…” Suna muttered.Yang Yi entered the cabin just then and called out,“Suna, leave that for now. It’s time we got off this glacier.”An hour later, they used roughly the same method as before to melt the surrounding ice.This time, however, it went much faster—thanks to Suna’s magic, Heat Sphere.That spell’s power increased in the presence of fire.Its drawback: it drained the caster’s body heat, so it was best used with strong liquor to offset it.With bonfires burning all around, Suna formed a blazing sphere a full meter wide, melting vast swaths of glacier.Yang Yi also helped by using the flintlock rifle to blast through ice—the weapon’s fire rate had doubled, and its power greatly increased.Chunks of glacier shattered one after another, saving them enormous effort.The Nyxstar was free again—it could maneuver and move in short distances.To leave entirely, they needed to blast a path through the glacier with cannons.That process would take three to four days—normally monotonous work.But the Waterlogged Cannon once again showed its “unique charm.”Since its aim was unreliable, sometimes it fired… unexpected things, adding a touch of excitement to the dull task.Especially when it shot out an adorably explosive seal!That one shot was worth three, in terms of destructive power!Yang Yi lost count of how much seafood he’d fired—everything he’d fished before showed up again, even the iron-crowned jellyfish.Those, used as ammo, packed a solid punch too.He tried picking up the fired seafood, but the system warned him that they would vanish in six hours and couldn’t be reused…So much for free meals.After three days of shifts, the Nyxstar finally broke free of the glacier and sailed into the frozen sea!Throughout, Suna kept studying the ice egg—from initial excitement to utter exasperation.The thing defied all conventional rules—it was something from an unknown domain.It would only melt at over 1,000°C—which was fine; Suna built a grease-fueled torch that could reach that.But then came the real problem…The white fragment inside was incomprehensible.When touched by hand, its temperature read about 27°C, since the human body was 37°C.Placed in 1,000°C fire, it measured 990°C.In 100°C boiling water, it was 90°C!It was Schrödinger’s low temperature!Its real temperature was unknowable—dynamic!It always measured 10°C lower than the object it touched—meaning it could have multiple temperatures at once!After extensive testing with two thermometers, Suna confirmed the result:the white fragment’s temperature was always 10°C lower than what was measuring it.For example, if one thermometer read 10°C and another 20°C, the fragment would simultaneously show 0°C and 10°C.The discovery made Suna’s head ache.If she could somehow place it at absolute zero… would it become 10°C below absolute zero?What would even happen then?She couldn’t imagine it.One thing, though, was clear—it was beyond her current ability.For now, it was just better to use it as a tool.So the ice egg became a simple utility item, while Suna turned her focus to the crystalline giant’s remains.That, at least, made sense.The crystal would slowly melt above 100°C, with hardness decreasing as temperature rose.At 0°C, its hardness matched steel, though it was brittle and prone to cracking—but weighed only a quarter as much.At even lower temperatures, its hardness became terrifying.After learning its properties, Suna began experimenting to improve its thermal stability.Even if it lost its cold-hardening ability, the material would make excellent armor, arrows, or even weapons.In the meantime, Yang Yi spent most of his days blasting ice and suppressing his inner beast.Through vegetarian meals, refraining from transforming, and even meditation, he finally managed to suppress his urge to eat people.Now, even drinking Appetite Elixirs didn’t trigger cannibalistic impulses.To maintain and confirm this progress, the two started sharing meals together.Suna even began trying the elixir herself, ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) since the Vitality Coconut Juice was nearly gone.The potion slightly reduced sanity but also sped up its recovery—a fair trade.Their conversations grew more frequent, and soon they arrived at a startling conclusion:The Sea of Origin might not be a single, continuous ocean at all.It was more likely a patchwork of fragmented sea regions stitched together!The Ice Nest Cult, for instance, clearly guarded this area, while the players… seemed like outsiders who had suddenly intruded.They speculated that this Extreme Winter Sea was cut out from the cult’s domain.That explained everything—Otherwise, why would the cult guard a glacier destined to be devoured by the black mist?And that black mist, like the white fog, might be a large-scale magic—possibly one that only affected players.Of course, another possibility existed:perhaps all these seas were system-generated copies based on some template.In other words—all players were inside a box.Two more days passed.The Nyxstar had been sailing the Extreme Winter Sea for about a week.They hadn’t encountered any Ice Nest swarms since—perhaps thanks to the white fragment.Along the way, Yang Yi blasted apart many icebergs and killed two pale worms, refilling the ship’s oil reserves to 1,000 liters.Then, while steering, Yang Yi sensed a rise in temperature and immediately checked the weather.〈Today’s Weather〉Location: Sea of Origin (Extreme Winter Zone)Daylight Duration: Polar DayTemperature: −20 ~ −8 °CWind Force: Level 2The temperature was much higher than before!A rise like this likely meant—an exit!After another day’s voyage, Yang Yi believed he’d entered the buffer zone of the Extreme Winter region.The temperature hovered around 0°C, the sea had no floating ice, and the white fog thinned—all signs of transition.He marked the coordinates, sailed for another three hours——and then, all at once, the world flipped from blinding light to sudden darkness, day turning seamlessly into night.He had left the Extreme Winter Sea.A system message popped up immediately:[You are the first player to leave the Extreme Winter Sea!]

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