At noon,
In the [Regional Chat Channel],
"This... is the temperature really going to drop suddenly?"
"Drop my ass, it's scorching hot right now, don't you know?"
"Damn it, who spread the rumor that it would get super cold today? I prepared a pile of firewood and reinforced the cabin, and now I'm about to die of heat!"
"I was fooled too! I traded a bottle of water for firewood..."
"It seems to be that guy Zhang San, he said it three days ago. Wasn't he deliberately spreading rumors and then taking the opportunity to sell firewood and stones?"
"No, he seemed to be buying firewood and stones, and trading with food and water!"
"Damn it, this Zhang San guy won't have a sudden impulse and trick us one last time, right? He hasn't posted any trading information in the [Trading Channel] for days~"
...
Looking at the complaints in the [Regional Chat Channel], Ye Feng wasn't angry.
In fact, even he doubted if the system's prompt was wrong.
Because the weather wasn't showing any signs of getting colder, it was even hotter than yesterday...
"Huh?"
Suddenly, feeling unusually hot and fanning himself, Ye Feng abruptly felt a chill.
"What's going on?"
Ye Feng frowned.
He walked out from under the eaves of his cabin and looked up at the sky, only to see a massive, dark, oppressive cloud rapidly approaching, and something was falling densely from it.
"Is it raining?"
Ye Feng was a little confused, then his expression changed.
Because what was falling from the dark, oppressive cloud was not just rain, but sleet.
"Whoosh~ Swish~"
At this moment, a fierce and rapid cold wind blew past, instantly chilling Ye Feng to the bone, causing him to break out in goosebumps. Tiny hexagonal snowflakes also hit his face.
"It's... it's starting to cool down?!"
Ye Feng quickly understood, but he realized he might have understood a little too late.
Because the temperature in the area where the massive cloud passed dropped at an astonishing speed. Many treetops had turned white, and the huge cloud had already moved directly above his cabin.
"Whoosh!~ Swish~ Whoosh~"
A fierce convective cold wind began to blow. Ye Feng had no choice but to quickly run back into his cabin and securely bolt the door.
"Bang!~ Crackle~ Bang! Bang bang~..."
A series of dense, loud impacts sounded from the roof of the cabin and the ground outside, the sound of hailstones striking.
"Whoosh~ Whoosh! Whoosh~"
"Crackle~ Bang~........."
The howling of the cold wind and the impact of hailstones continued for a considerable period.
After the sounds gradually faded, Ye Feng opened a crack in the cabin door and looked outside, only to be stunned.
At this moment, outside the cabin, the previous bright sunshine had completely disappeared, replaced by a misty white expanse of fog and ice particles.
Amidst this misty white fog and ice particles, snowflakes continued to fall.
Trees were everywhere, battered by hailstones, while areas further away had turned into a world of white.
"One... one second to winter!"
A phrase suddenly flashed in Ye Feng's mind.
"Swoosh swoosh~ Woo woo~"
The cold wind whistled, seeping through the gaps in the wooden door and blowing onto Ye Feng, making him shiver.
"The system's prompt is quite reliable after all~"
Ye Feng muttered and closed the wooden door again.
Then, he quickly put on his cold-weather gear and stoked the stone stove inside the cabin to a roaring fire.
Ye Feng opened the [Regional Chat Channel] and began to read.
"Damn it, what's going on with this sudden super cooling? I was almost killed by egg-sized hailstones~~"
"Help! My roof was blown away by the strong wind, and now rain and snow are falling into the house~"
scp-520: "It's a super-large cold air mass. Everyone, be extremely careful. Don't stay in the very center of this cold air mass, or you'll freeze to death instantly."
scp-520: "I've just calculated it, from around 40°C to freezing in less than 4 seconds..."
"Holy crap, that's terrifying, just like in the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'~"
"How do you tell if you're in the center of a super large cold air mass?"
scp-520: "Look at the wind. In the center of a super large cold air mass, there is no wind at all. The super low-temperature air is falling vertically..."
"Holy crap, I see it! It's not far from me. A tree instantly turned into an ice sculpture. That's terrifying!"
...
Seeing this, Ye Feng stopped reading.
At this moment, he was nervously adding firewood and charcoal to the stone stove, even pouring some gasoline into it.
What the person named scp-520 said in the [Regional Chat Channel] was correct. This situation was indeed a super cold air mass, and he and his cabin were currently in the very center of the cold air mass.
Because, for the past few seconds, the outside had suddenly become completely silent, with no wind at all...
"Bang! Bang~ Bang~"
Several birds that were flying in the sky above instantly turned into ice cubes upon contact with the vertically descending super-low temperature airflow and crashed onto the roof.
As the super-low temperature air descended onto the cabin, the roof of the cabin instantly froze over.
The wood in the roof, due to the rapid cooling, continuously contracted, compressing the pine needles, leaves, and small stones that were packed around it, making "crack~ crack~ crack~ crack~" sounds.
Immediately after, Ye Feng felt a wave of cold air surge down from above the roof.
The flames in the stove in front of him instantly became much smaller. If it weren't for the gasoline and charcoal, they might have been extinguished.
Unable to help himself, Ye Feng poured in more gasoline, and the flames grew larger again, but only slightly...
"This..."
Looking up, Ye Feng's expression was grim, because the entire inner surface of the roof had begun to freeze over.
To protect against the cold, Ye Feng had wrapped the roof with layers of stones, clay, dry grass, and dry leaves, and the outermost layer was waterproofed...
And it wasn't just the roof. Ye Feng noticed that as the cold airflow descended, the entire inner walls of the cabin began to frost over, even though those walls were reinforced with a layer of stone and wood!
"Whoosh~"
At this moment, the fire in the stone stove became smaller again, and the floor also began to freeze.
"Damn it!"
Ye Feng panicked and immediately added more dry firewood, poured gasoline on it, and the fire flared up intensely.
He no longer cared about the preciousness of gasoline, directly pouring it all onto the prepared pile of firewood and igniting it with a lighter.
"Boom~"
After a burst of sparks, the firewood pile ignited, but as soon as the gasoline burned out, the fire immediately extinguished.
The firewood itself did not catch fire, it only blackened!
So, Ye Feng had to carefully shield the stove with his body to prevent the fire from going out...
Soon, even the floor was covered in a layer of ice. Ye Feng's feet, clad in snow boots, felt incredibly cold, and he kept stamping his feet.
Fortunately, this super-large cold air mass came and went quickly.
In a short while, the center of the cold air mass had passed.
"Boom~"
As soon as the center of the cold air mass moved away, the flames immediately grew larger, almost burning Ye Feng.
"Whoosh~"
Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He took out the Erguotou he had bought from the [Shop], took a swig to warm himself up, and then picked up a wooden stick to chip off the frost and ice from the floor and walls, clearing it outside the cabin. He didn't want this frost to melt inside the cabin.
...