At three in the morning, on the moving ice sheet in the Extreme Winter Sea.
Night did not exist here. It was perpetually in a state of polar day.
The blizzard had stopped two hours earlier, but it had still left five meters of snow on the ground.
Together with the existing snow, it had thoroughly buried Yang Yi and the others. They had used the materials at hand to build an igloo, leaving only a ventilation opening large enough to enter and exit through. Light streamed straight inside, along with a vast amount of data, falling onto a pile of broken mirror shards.
"...Are you sure you want to do this?"
Yang Yi asked for confirmation yet again.
"Let's try it. It's already broken anyway, and putting it together didn't do much. We might as well make a last-ditch attempt," Su Na replied.
Yang Yi nodded. He was worried about ruining the mirror.
But since even Su Na could not fix it, they could only try magic and see whether a miracle would occur.
For this purpose, Yang Yi had gone outside and caught some live Long-Legged Sardines.
It was not that other fish would not work, but these were the easiest to catch and were widely distributed. He had casually caught over a dozen.
To keep them from instantly freezing solid upon exposure to the air, Yang Yi had even carried the fish against his body until he returned to the igloo and put them in a water vat.
There was a fire here too, in a makeshift stove they had built. The temperature was much higher than outside, but still below freezing.
Once he was ready, Yang Yi looked at the mirror surface Su Na had collected and pieced together. It was roughly oval, about two meters