Giving In!

It was already the third day...

Lei Xue was staying in her room, recording the events of the past two days since entering the ice region with pen and ink. The room was still as beautiful as before, but on closer inspection, one could see traces of decay appearing in the wood grain that had originally been full of life.

According to the ship's technical specifications, its wood was high-grade biological timber that had undergone special processing. Even if it were soaked in water for thirty years, it should not show any signs of decay. Yet, after entering the ice region for only a few days, many things on the ship had begun undergoing inexplicable changes.

Lei Xue breathed into her hands and continued writing with her stiff, frozen fingers: On the third day after entering the ice region, the constant need to break through floating ice on the sea caused the ship's speed to drop drastically. In three days, the ship had advanced less than a hundred nautical miles, yet there was still no sign of leaving the ice region.

The weather was growing colder and colder, and it was a kind of cold that could not be resisted. The ship's heating equipment was practically useless, and even the thick cotton clothes on their bodies could not fend it off. The same was true of the food. Hot food turned to something like ice chips the moment it entered their mouths, no longer offering the delicious enjoyment it once had!

Moreover, the food on the ship was spoiling at an astonishing speed, especially the sealed meat cans, which were corroding extremely quickly. According to Tang Dou, these cans used high-quality vacuum technology, giving them a shelf life of at least three years while preserving the meat's freshness to a