Ruowang was very puzzled by Shang Jianyao's reaction:

"What's wrong? Don't you think it's really cold at night?"

"I do." Shang Jianyao nodded honestly.

Before Ruowang could ask further, he started talking to himself:

"That evening when all the passengers boarded the cruise ship, the cold air moved south, causing a significant drop in temperature. The cycle started from that moment...

"Afterwards, the daytime was okay, but the nights were cold and penetrated the bone marrow...

"Daytime was normal, nighttime was chaotic...

"On the last day, I escaped the fate of being infected with 'Heartless Disease' by hiding in a dark and cold storage..."

Ruowang listened in stunned silence:

"What on earth are you talking about?"

Because his father was a fan of the Grey Earth culture, he mastered the Grey Earth language in his childhood. Relying on this skill, he barely survived in the area around Tieshan City, which was dominated by Grey Earth people, and eventually entered the Second Food Company, where he had a "lucky encounter."

At this moment, he only had one thought:

What's with this guy being so weird?

Facing Ruowang's question, Shang Jianyao smiled, a very sunny smile:

"I've figured out some problems and found a key point.

"Then, I'll see you the day after tomorrow."

After saying that, Shang Jianyao, wearing a black trench coat, pressed his hand to his chest and bowed, not knowing where he had learned it from.

During the bow, his figure quickly faded and disappeared before Ruowang's eyes.

Ruowang watched in astonishment:

"He, is he really a future person?

"What does 'see you the day after tomorrow' mean?"

After exiting and re-entering for the fourth time, Shang Jianyao arrived at the daytime when the cruise ship docked.

He knew that Ruowang, Sally, and the others should have already hidden in the cold storage, so he went straight there and banged on the metal door.

The crew members in the kitchen had been guided by his thoughts earlier, and regarded this as normal.

After banging for a while, seeing that there was no response, Shang Jianyao opened the door himself and walked in.

He didn't forget to put on thick clothes and wrap himself in blankets and quilts.

Closing the door of the cold storage casually, Shang Jianyao turned on the flashlight and shone it around randomly.

Unsurprisingly, he found Ruowang in a familiar location.

"We meet again." Shang Jianyao greeted with a smile.

Ruowang was stunned for a few seconds and asked blankly:

"Are you, are you Shang from the day before yesterday?"

Before the story "restarted," he still had corresponding memories.

"Who else did you think it was?" Shang Jianyao retorted, wrapped up like a bear.

Ruowang became excited and looked around, lowering his voice:

"I chose to hide here because I remembered you once said about the dark and cold storage.

"In the end, will 'Heartless Disease' really break out outside?"

He had repeatedly recalled Shang Jianyao's "weird" words from back then over the past two days.

"You'll know the answer when the cruise ship docks." Shang Jianyao dragged his paralyzed right leg at the tailbone and walked towards a corner where food was still stored.

Sally and the others were chilled to the bone by his "style," trembling as if they were facing a monster.

If Shang Jianyao hadn't shown no intention of attacking, and hadn't even looked at them, they would have lost control and rushed out of the cold storage to find another hiding place.

Of course, thinking about it the other way, the fact that such a monster chose the kitchen cold storage as a hiding place meant that this place was better than any other.

As for Ruowang, he turned a blind eye to Shang Jianyao's unique style and was already "used to" it.

Shang Jianyao didn't waste time here, he exited and re-entered, pushing the timeline to the point when the cruise ship docked.

As soon as he appeared in the cold storage, he rushed towards the door amidst the announcements and opened it.

Outside in the kitchen, the crew members turned into "Heartless Ones" looked over with a swish.

Shang Jianyao ignored them, went around half a circle, and got rid of these hunters.

He was racing against time to go to the source of "darkness," the current location of the captain, not wanting to waste any time.

Bang bang bang!

Amidst the gunfire from Ruowang and the others at the "Heartless Ones," Shang Jianyao rushed out of the kitchen and, relying on the perception of the "Six Senses Beads," ran in the direction where the "darkness" was gradually thickening.

On the way, he reluctantly shot and killed the "Heartless Ones" blocking the way, but every shot hit, very accurately.

All the way to the cockpit, Shang Jianyao finally saw the captain's figure.

His round body leaned against the side glass, watching the chaotic scene of the "Heartless Disease" outbreak below, motionless.

If he didn't still have human consciousness, Shang Jianyao would have suspected that he was already dead.

Of course, "Heartless Ones" also have human consciousness.

And all the signs were showing that the captain had been infected with "Heartless Disease":

First of all, he was the source of "darkness," the node connecting to the "New World." If Heartless Disease really came from here, then he couldn't have escaped it;

Secondly, there were still many crew members in the cockpit, and they were all infected with "Heartless Disease," their bodies hunched over, their eyes cloudy, full of bloodshot, but they didn't attack the captain—when they weren't particularly hungry, "Heartless Disease" wouldn't hunt its own kind;

……

Bang bang bang!

Shang Jianyao, with "Icicle" on his left and "Joint 202" on his right, knocked down the few "Heartless Ones" who were trying to pounce on him.

Hearing the gunshots, the captain's round body slowly turned around.

His face was full of panic and fear, and although there were some bloodshot in his eyes, they weren't cloudy at all.

He hadn't become a "Heartless One" yet!

But Shang Jianyao could "see" very clearly that the source of "darkness" was still within his body.

Shang Jianyao's mind raced, and learning from Jiang Baimian, he showed a kind smile:

"I'm here to save you!"

"You, you're not infected with 'Heartless Disease'..." The captain observed for a while and breathed a sigh of relief.

He then said with some emotional breakdown:

"I thought I was going to die just now!

"As a result, as a result..."

As he spoke, a suspicious look appeared on the captain's face.

Shang Jianyao didn't respond, put away "Joint 202," and walked over.

Slap!

He punched the captain behind the ear.

The captain fainted without a sound.

Immediately afterwards, Shang Jianyao tore off the clothes of the nearby "Heartless Ones" and tied the captain up again, tightly.

Then, he carried the captain and ran back to the kitchen along the original path.

Because Ruowang and the others had already left here, and a batch of "Heartless Ones" had been cleared along the way, Shang Jianyao returned to the cold storage door quite smoothly.

He took a breath and confirmed that neither the "Six Senses Beads" nor the "Angel of Life" necklace had gone wrong, and then stepped through the half-open door and entered the dark and cold interior.

Hiss, the unconscious captain was like being thrown into icy water, his body writhing, about to wake up.

At this moment, Shang Jianyao closed the metal door of the cold storage.

Almost instantly, he felt the entire cruise ship shaking violently, no, the entire world was shaking!

At the same time, in his senses, the "darkness" was like the receding tide, successively returning to the captain's body, curling up into a ball, and gradually disappearing.

A illusory cracking sound followed, and this psychological shadow directly cracked, with those "glass fragments" falling piece by piece, revealing the deep black void hidden behind them.

In the void, there was vaguely a city, and within the city, there were high towers reaching into the clouds.

Whirr!

The entire psychological shadow completely collapsed, and a faint mist that seemed to reflect a sunset glow emerged and flew towards Shang Jianyao.

Shang Jianyao thought for a moment, reached out and caught it, and kneaded it into a small ball.

When this psychological shadow completely disappeared and the deep black void also merged into the night, a temple ruin supported by many stone pillars appeared in front of Shang Jianyao.

This was the second psychological shadow of the owner of room "912."

Shang Jianyao glanced at it and exited the room with a flourish, returning to reality.

……

"Hiss, it's a bit cold." As soon as Shang Jianyao sat up straight, he shrank his neck.

He picked up the sunglasses clipped to his trench coat and transferred the ball of crimson mist from the psychological shadow into it.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Baimian, outside the jeep with the door open, asked curiously and concerned.

Shang Jianyao threw the sunglasses into the passenger seat and said with a smile:

"Solved it, got a prop."

"How did you solve it?" Long Yuehong was very curious about this.

Shang Jianyao explained his thoughts completely, focusing on the keyword "cold."

"So, is 'darkness' afraid of the cold, or is it not afraid of the cold?" Bai Chen asked in confusion.

On cold nights, it would accelerate its outflow, affecting the entire cruise ship and plunging most people into a state of chaos, seeming to like such an environment very much, but when faced with the cold storage, it chose to avoid it, allowing the people hiding inside to survive, and, when Shang Jianyao finally stuffed the captain into the cold storage, the "darkness" was clearly shrinking back, gradually disappearing.

Jiang Baimian reorganized the relevant scenes in her mind and said with deliberation:

"I think it's afraid.

"But because the degree of coldness is different, the reactions are different."

She further explained:

"Under normal low temperatures, 'darkness' is annoyed by the cold, and influences humans outwards; at the temperature of a cold storage, it chooses to detach and escape."

"I wonder if there were similar situations in those previous 'darkness' places..." Genaver agreed with Jiang Baimian's explanation and expanded his associations.

Shang Jianyao stroked his chin:

"Being afraid of the cold seems to be one of the characteristics of the 'Scorching Gate' domain?

"Does that darkness carry Dafityl's consciousness?"

"It shouldn't be only those who have awakened in the 'Scorching Gate' who are like this." Jiang Baimian didn't refute Shang Jianyao's guess, but reminded him not to overlook anything.

After a few people discussed for a while, Shang Jianyao suddenly pointed at the sunglasses in the front row and said to Jiang Baimian:

"You try it."

"Does this count as mine?" Jiang Baimian joked.

"Yeah!" Shang Jianyao didn't hesitate.

Jiang Baimian was about to speak when she, who had already picked up the sunglasses, suddenly shivered.

"It's a bit cold..." Her teeth chattered.

It was approaching summer and she was wearing relatively light clothing.

Shang Jianyao laughed:

"The price is 'fear of the cold,' the ability is 'to make people confused,' probably."

He couldn't know the correct name of the ability.

Jiang Baimian put down the sunglasses first, preparing to try again after adding thicker clothes.

She then asked Shang Jianyao:

"After passing through this psychological shadow, your abilities should have improved a lot, right?"

ps: Asking for monthly tickets at the beginning of the month~