"Snap!"
At this moment, the roof of the cable car carriage, which had been quietly suspended in the air, suddenly burst into a ball of sparks.
Then the entire cable car carriage began to shake.
"Holy crap, the cable car is moving!"
Someone shouted.
As the words fell, the suspended cable car carriage seemed to suddenly release its hook or something, and plunged downwards…
"Bang! Bounce!"
"Clang! Clink!"
"Bang!"
The cable car carriage slammed heavily onto the rocks at the foot of the mountain, sending up a shower of sparks and rolling over…
"This..."
The group of explorers exchanged confused glances, clearly unsure of what had happened. Only an old man with white hair and eyebrows among the crowd seemed to be deep in thought.
...
In the evening,
The sun had almost set.
The group of explorers, who had excitedly climbed the mountain only to end up utterly bewildered, all returned to the entrance of the Colorful Banner Supply Station.
Many more people were already at the Colorful Banner Supply Station. Some were explorers who were stationed nearby long-term, resting at the supply station at night and venturing out during the day, while others were new explorers like Ye Feng who had only entered the mountain recently.
The explorers gathered in twos and threes, discussing their gains and observations of the day.
Meanwhile, Ye Feng was observing the cable car carriage that had fallen from a great height and was now a mangled wreck.
More precisely, Ye Feng was observing the top of the cable car carriage!
Like ordinary cable car carriages, this one also had hooks and a device for carrying the cable, but Ye Feng had not seen any cable in the air just now…
Ye Feng couldn't help but feel curious!
"Huh? The hook on the roof of this carriage is metal!"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's eyes lit up.
He quickly took out a survival coin and compared it with the metal on the roof of the cable car carriage, tapping it occasionally.
"They are made of the same metal?"
After a thorough inspection, Ye Feng was quite surprised.
He had been very curious about the metal that made up the survival coins before!
Because he only knew it was a metal, but he didn't know what specific metal it was. It wasn't gold, silver, copper, iron, or tin. It seemed to be a very special metal…
"And there seem to be strange patterns on the hook on the top of the carriage too~"
Ye Feng squatted down and observed carefully, becoming even more curious.
"Big brother, I've already paid the price, and we can rest at the Colorful Banner Supply Station tonight~"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao walked over and said crisply to Ye Feng.
Earlier, when Xiao Xiao learned that Ye Feng intended to stay at the supply station for the night, she volunteered to handle the check-in procedures.
Xiao Xiao, like other explorers, paid the overnight fee to the staff at the Colorful Banner Supply Station and received two tokens.
"Oh, okay~"
...
Night soon fell,
The large stone gate of the supply station was quickly pushed shut by two burly men on each side.
The interior of the Colorful Banner Supply Station was quite spacious and illuminated by several lamps with a very futuristic design that Ye Feng couldn't name.
A large number of explorers were gathered around the lamps, warming themselves, eating and drinking, or chatting.
"Buddy, this lamp is called a heat lamp~"
Seeing Ye Feng curiously examining the lamp, a young man spoke to him.
"Heat lamp?"
Ye Feng looked at the other person with some confusion.
"That's right!"
The young man nodded. "This thing looks very futuristic, but it's indeed called that. Besides emitting light and heat, it has no other function!"
"Explorers need this very much when they go out exploring, not just at night, but sometimes during the day as well."
"This Frozen Snow Region is different from other snow mountains. Blizzards and even extreme cold storms can occur suddenly!"
"The fuel used for the light and heat emitted by the heat lamp is crude crude oil, which is petroleum that has been directly extracted and requires no processing…"
Perhaps due to being young explorers, the other party explained to Ye Feng in detail.
After all, when the young man first went out exploring, he knew nothing…
"Oh, I see~"
Although Ye Feng listened to the young man's explanation, he still felt something was not quite right.
The heat lamp looked like a high-tech product, so how could it only have simple functions like emitting light and heat?
"Where did you get these heat lamps? Did you buy them?"
Ye Feng then asked the question that was on his mind.
"No!"
The young man shook his head. "I haven't heard of any place that specifically buys and sells heat lamps. There are all sorts of kerosene lamps and candle lamps, though!"
"Then how did this thing come about? It didn't fall from the sky, did it?"
Ye Feng frowned, feeling a little puzzled.
"Uh… I heard that the first heat lamp actually fell from the sky…"
The young man hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"No way…"
Ye Feng was speechless.
"But that was a long time ago. The heat lamps you see now are all found by explorers deep in the Frozen Snow Region."
He paused, and the young man spoke again.
"Deep in the Frozen Snow Region?"
Ye Feng looked at him with curiosity.
"That's right!"
Saying this, the young man smiled mysteriously. "Because these heat lamps are so high-tech and don't look like they could be made in today's society, plus people occasionally bring back heat lamps from the depths of the Frozen Snow Region."
"So, many people speculate that there's a high-tech civilization deep in the Frozen Snow Region, at least at the technological level before the Great Cataclysm…"
"It's just that no one has ever confirmed this!"
"The further you go into this Frozen Snow Region, the greater the danger, and the higher the probability of extreme cold storms…"
By the end, the young man's expression was somewhat dispirited.
Because he had explored before, but to no avail.
"Buddy, speaking of which, it's really okay to bring a little girl… to explore this Frozen Snow Region?"
As he spoke, the young man looked at Xiao Xiao, who was curiously looking around nearby.
"Uh, it's okay~"
Ye Feng scratched his head and replied casually.
"Oh, I almost forgot, your skills are not comparable to ordinary people!"
"This afternoon, you eliminated over a dozen Tier 1 zombies in less than a minute!"
The young man looked like he had suddenly realized something. "Ah, this damned apocalypse, everyone judges by appearances. Unknowingly, I've been influenced too…"
After that, the two chatted about all sorts of other things…
...
Time flew by. After giving the young man 3 small bread rolls and 1 braised egg, Ye Feng quickly walked towards Xiao Xiao.
Because he noticed that Xiao Xiao's condition seemed a bit unusual from a moment ago.
"Xiao Xiao, what's wrong?"
Ye Feng walked up to Xiao Xiao, squatted down, and asked with concern.
"B… Big brother, I… I feel so cold!"
Xiao Xiao's face was a little pale, and she seemed to be shivering from the cold, her teeth chattering as she spoke.
...