"Mom, don't worry, this time we are going to discuss business, what are the risks? Besides, there will be people from the relevant departments going with us, they seem to be on a diplomatic mission, and they are of a higher level. Yes, I've been with them, and of course I'm on my own. ”

Qian Jing hung up the phone, carefully put it into the backpack under his feet, and then fastened his seat belt. Raisa turned the key, and the van shuddered slightly after two sudden thuds.

The car was full, with Raisa, Qian Jing, and Ghost from the White Flag grocery store, as well as four other people from the relevant departments. There is no place for another one in the car, and even the ghost is actually in the same seat as Qian Jing.

"Don't move, I'll get goosebumps and chills all over my body when you move. Qian Jing adjusted his sitting posture slightly, and the ghost's smoky body slowly moved into his silhouette, taking away some of the yang energy by the way.

"Don't blame me!" the ghost pouted, and his big black eyes glared hard at the people in the relevant departments next to him. Originally, the relevant departments planned to go only to two people, so they only reserved 6 seats on the bus, and the rest of the space was used for loading. Six seats, let Raisa, Qian Jing, Hu Ka and Mr. Liu go together, and the ghost stays to watch the store. However, this morning, the relevant departments suddenly notified that two more people needed to go.

You have to be in a seat to be protected by a seat belt when you cross, so there are only two seats left at the White Flag grocery store – one of which is still the driver. Laisha thought about it, Hu Ga is a two-headed ogre, and the dark sun earth is full of humans, so it will be inconvenient to act, so it will be excluded; Mr. Liu is older, and Laisha feels that he is a little estranged from him, so he can rule it out for the time being; Qian Jing may cause trouble again, but on the whole he is very lucky, and he is young and can withstand the possession of ghosts, and taking him is equivalent to taking ghosts with him.

Unloading and modification are too time-consuming, and the time window for "discounting" will be missed. In addition, the authorities paid twice as many gold coins as tolls for this sudden change, which calmed Raisa's depressed mood to a certain extent. She stepped lightly on the gas pedal and drove deeper into the garage.

The garage of the White Flag Grocery Store was facing the dirt road outside the yard, but it was the direction to the Origin Earth, and you had to walk through it to the White Flag Store. The garage door slowly closes, and the garage floor slopes downward, revealing a passage to the underground.

The passage was illuminated by red lights, and a thick white mist filled the air, leaving only a sight distance of four or five meters. The van could only move slowly, but after a few moments it came to the end - the car was parked right underneath the crossing room. The roof opened, the ground rose, and the car was safely parked in the transition area in the middle of the three glass partitions.

"White Flag Warning: Start scanning, do not bring contraband. If there is, please turn it in as soon as possible, otherwise it will disappear. Friendly reminder: If the destination is a parallel world, the Origin Power Protection Circle will not take effect. ”

The news didn't make Qian Jing nervous - he had expected it. cooperated with Hu Ga to pass the "practice test", and now Qian Jing has finally gotten rid of the state of "ignorant people are frightened". The protective circle of the white flag is the effect created by the will of the origin world of the earth and the destination world, so that the salespeople of the white flag can better adapt to the local environment. There is no such thing as "adaptation" between the origin earth and the parallel worlds, and there is no protective circle.

Not having a circle under your feet will definitely reduce security, but can this prevent Qian Jing from participating in this operation? The people in the relevant departments did not have a circle under their feet, nine out of ten of the traversers did not have a circle under their feet, and on the last trip to the fortress star, Qian Jing did not circle under his feet for more than ninety percent of the time.

Qian Jing will not worry about people and be complacent, but he must stuff himself into a heavy thermal suit. By the time they got on the bus, they had already changed into super thick clothes, and everyone looked like astronauts. Just sitting in the car for a while, sweat has already oozed from everyone's forehead, and this is still the result of not wearing a transparent helmet. When you start crossing, you need to close your helmet and turn on all the heaters immediately to ensure safety.

"How long will it take?" asked a young man sitting next to Qian Jing. He should not be more than thirty years old, with a long thin face, wearing round, highly myopic glasses, and a Sven look. He was already sweating, and his face was starting to redden: "Can you hurry up? I think I'm going to get heat stroke." ”

"Xiao Qi, your heart is calm and naturally cool, now bear with it for a while. Never turn off the power at this time. "The team of the relevant department this time is led by Han Qi, she is a strong and resolute woman. "The course of the Dark Sun Earth is no different, and if the temperature cannot be maintained, even a few seconds of heating process can lead to death. ”

"Such an exaggeration?" the man surnamed Qi became even more nervous, he gasped, laboriously took out a bottle of water from the backpack in front of him, clumsily opened it with a thick, thick glove, and drank it vigorously. "Captain Han, I heard that in the past two years, the Dark Sun Earth has come out of the extreme freezing period of the past, and the temperature has begun to rise? These suits should still be from more than ten years ago, right? This heat ......"

"Let me tell you this, be careful in everything. Captain Han leaned forward and patted the two newcomers: "Qi Ming, Ma Jianye, you two are going for the first time, you shouldn't have heard this story." Seventeen years ago, there was a man who, because he was afraid of heat, turned off the heated spacesuit for about thirty seconds before going to the dark earth. After that, because of these thirty seconds, his clothes never reached the rated temperature. As a result, the entire system had to be overloaded with insufficient temperature and the parts broke down too quickly. He didn't encounter particularly bad weather, but his clothes broke down while walking. He only had time to say three words on the communicator: there was a problem. We immediately turned back to him, and in less than twenty seconds, he was already frozen. ”

"Why did it shatter? Did you encounter an impact?" Qian Jing tilted his head back to look at the others, but he was blocked by the towering helmet, and he couldn't see it.

His clothes still had some residual temperature, which slowed down the freezing process a little. As a result, there was a difference in the rate at which his body froze, and some of it swelled and shattered under the squeezing. ”

After a story was told, everyone suddenly stopped feeling hot, and the temperature of the heating suit became amiable. Qi Ming's fingers moved away from the "turn off the heat" button, and even put on the helmet in advance. This helmet is seven or eight centimeters thick, has a pleasing weight, and specializes in cervical spondylosis. It is said to be made of 21 layers of different materials stacked on top of each other, five of which are extremely fine heating filaments. The total weight of the helmet and clothing is 70 kilograms, and a 30-kilogram battery pack is required. Fortunately, the exoskeleton design is used in the clothes, which can help bear the weight, otherwise Qian Jing would not even be able to get into the car.

"Now you know how I'm doing, I can make you feel pretty cool. The ghost came out of Qian Jing's body and winked playfully. "Little money, do you have any treasure to hide from everyone? What is it in your vest, can you let me see it?"

"I've never turned over your stuff. Qian Jing snorted and expressed his dissatisfaction: "If that's the case, I'll say that I can't bear the speed at which you inhale yang energy, so you can go home now and can't go out to play!"

The ghost stuck out his tongue and slowly retracted back into the mirror. At this moment, the test was completed, and the radio rang outside: "Permission to pass, I wish everyone a smooth journey, go and return." ”

The ground began to descend again, and this time a new passage appeared in front of the car. This time the passage was pitch black, with occasional twinkling starlight, and it looked like a cosmic scene in a science and education movie. Captain Han Qi asked everyone to put on helmets, activated the heating suits, and then the car started.

There didn't seem to be any ground in the starry sky, but the car was still driving smoothly. After about five minutes, everyone vaguely saw the passage of the Dark Sun Earth. Obviously, the crack where snowflakes kept coming in was the exit. After another ten minutes, the car jolted and then squeezed out of the crack with snowflakes.

There was no snow on the side of the crack, and all the moisture in the air had already condensed and turned into ice beneath your feet. The ice fields are endless, bare, flat and rounded. Try to exhaust your vision, and you can see the curvature of the earth from the horizon, just like if you are looking at it from afar on a calm sea.

"It's cold!"

The van of the White Flag Grocery Store could still operate under the protection of the will of the world, but it did not have the ability to keep warm, so the air conditioner took over the carriage in an instant. Qian Jing watched as "cobwebs" appeared in the air in front of him, but they were actually ice flowers formed by the freezing of moisture. On Earth, ice flakes appear on glass windows in the bitter cold. On the Dark Earth, it condenses directly into the air.

The car jolted, and the "cobweb ice flower" shattered, turning into a cloud of ice ballast, which creaked and creaked when stepped on. Snow is a strong desiccant to dry you off, and Antarctica is a continent of ice and ice, but the air is actually very dry. These bookish "anecdotes" are common knowledge on the Dark Earth.

The temperature outside was minus 63 degrees, which was still the middle of the day. Qian Jing leaned his helmet against the car window and tried to look at the sky outside. He felt that the sun here was sickly, redder and darker than the sun of the origin earth. On Earth, the sun of this color only appears at dawn and dusk, not high overhead.

"Captain Han, I don't wear sunglasses, but I don't dare to open my helmet. Will there be snow blindness here?"

In the communicator, Ma Jianye was asking, he was about fifty, his voice was calm, he was usually relatively silent, and when he came to the grocery store, he simply said hello, and checked his backpack over and over again. He is engaged in bridge engineering, and he has been dealing with drawings for a long time, so he has formed this character.

"The helmet has polarization, shading and reflection functions, and will protect your eyes. Moreover, when we get to the hot town, we can change into lighter thermal clothing, which will be much more comfortable than now. ”

Qian Jing glanced at Raisa, but the female driver was concentrating on driving, moving along the ice in the direction of a puff of black smoke in the distance. They came this time for this kind of thermal suit, especially its energy core. Elsewhere except for the Dark Earth, the ability to keep warm and heat is not so scarce, but portable mechanical heat is in the market - especially after the advent of the Fortress Card.

Take the money mirror as an example. He can do magic, so he can directly charge the Stronghold cards of the Magic series, while maintaining the "Magic Apprentice" and "Apprentice Magic Robe" cards. However, this maintenance is not sustainable, and as soon as Qian Jing sleeps, the fortress card will lose energy. Qian Mirror can use Fortress Crystals to power cards, but it's too extravagant, right?

Therefore, it is inevitable to supply energy through external stability, and this energy needs to be cheap, stable, safe and portable. Obviously, there are five sets of Stronghold cards, which require mechanical, electronic, elemental, life force, and "anomalous" forms of energy. At present, the only qualified energy supply tool that the White Flag grocery store can access is the dark earth thermal insulation suit with mechanical energy.

"The hot town is just below the black plume of smoke, which is the smoke from the old coal-fired thermal energy center. In the future, if you get lost in the wild, find the smoke pillar as soon as possible, and there will be a hot town under the smoke pillar, and there will be a way to live. Captain Han Qi was talking about precautions again, although she had said it many times, she would always hurry up and do it again. "There is only self-help on the ice field, and no one will come to save you. The warships of the relevant departments cannot sail here, which will cause tension and even war. Remember, there are tensions between the two Earths right now, and there are some rumors that are not good for us, so don't make things more complicated. But it's nice to have a white flag, at least your car can drive – we've all walked this way on our legs in the past. ”

Raisa smiled slightly when she heard the praise from the comm headset. As the boss of the White Flag, she personally negotiated with the relevant authorities, so she was well aware of the previous distress of the relevant authorities, and also understood the current tension between the two worlds. On the side of the dark earth, the sudden cooling of the sun was combined with the sudden close connection of the two worlds, and it was believed that the powerful origin power of the other side of the earth tried to absorb the world here, so it stole the temperature of the sun. As for the Origin Earth, after the connection of the two Earth Worlds, part of the Origin Power disappeared, and it was suspected that it was the Dark Sun Earth. Neither of these things can be proven, nor can it be falsified, and the situation is frozen here.

The White Flag Grocery Store is a "neutral" organization, at least as the Origin Force and the Will of the World think, so it will act better than an official organization such as the relevant authorities. Because of this, the two sides hit it off and came together to complete this trip to the dark sun earth. "Shelving disputes and developing together" is beneficial to both planets in the current situation.

It should be an easy task, and Raisa thinks so far.