Chapter 83: Chapter 83: Polar Day: The Sun That Never Sets

[Training Complete]

Qi Suian let out a sigh of relief. The AI had really pushed him, but ’it was unrealistic to expect a mental breakthrough overnight.’

He had to keep at it relentlessly, day after day. Fortunately, the AI had a good grasp of the intensity and duration, preventing it from truly driving Qi Suian to develop mental and psychological illnesses.

His mind and psyche were already unstable from dying so many times and suffering from all sorts of ailments, even if Qi Suian himself had grown numb to it.

What the AI was doing now wasn’t just about improving his mentality, but also about further stabilizing his mind and psyche.

[The outside temperature has dropped to thirty degrees. The night phase may be starting. You need to explore, preferably to find the required heat-resistant materials.]

The AI issued the reminder.

Qi Suian had been researching the Blood Moon Organization sample, so he was the one in control of the Tai Sui God.

He definitely couldn’t explore without it; Qi Suian cherished his life.

Stark is the weak link of the Iron Man Armor, but that’s fine because he can mass-produce the suits and doesn’t have to go out and fight alone.

But Qi Suian was different. He only had one life. The Tai Sui God’s duty wasn’t to fight battles or punish evil, but to protect Qi Suian and help him grow.

So, no matter how weak he was, Qi Suian was the core.

"How long did the whole process take?" Qi Suian asked casually.

[According to real-time monitoring, the high-temperature phase lasted for sixteen hours. The heating and cooling phases each took two hours.]

"So that means I need to hide from the high temperatures for a total of twenty hours."

’As for the temperature rising one degree per minute, how could it not go from thirty degrees to three hundred in two hours?’

It really was like that at the beginning, but then the temperature spike became more and more aggressive, accelerating very quickly.

It had taken only two hours for the temperature to rise from the fifty degrees at his landing to three hundred.

The AI, after all, had been monitoring it through the reconnaissance network.

Qi Suian didn’t say much more. He put away the Blood Moon Organization sample and handed control of the Tai Sui God over to the AI.

He would be accompanying the exploration, not conducting it himself. He still had a lot of knowledge to learn and needed to review his experiments.

For example, after his Virus Talent was upgraded to S-rank, he had come up with many ideas using the Seal of the Profound Dominator and the Virus Bloodline Armament—two SSS-rank modules—along with the Blood Moon Organization sample.

If he succeeded, his A-rank Virus Control would undergo a qualitative change, perhaps granting him immense power.

The only problem was the high degree of difficulty.

His current focus of study was on enhancing his psychic organs and the Low-level Poison Element Attachment Magic.

The former would enhance his ability, Spirit Reinforcement, while the latter would boost his combat power.

Progress on both wasn’t great, especially the latter.

Qi Suian was thinking about modifying the Enchantment Array, along with the materials and energy it required.

For example, replacing the original Extraordinary materials with the virus from his own body, and changing the required energy source to Spirit, flesh and blood, nutrients, or something similar.

If he succeeded, it would no longer be the Poison Element Attachment Technique, but the Profound Virus Attachment Technique.

For Qi Suian, that would be equivalent to having a way to output the Profound Virus.

Unfortunately, it was something from another world. Even if it was just the lowest-level single Elemental Attachment Technique, it wasn’t something a novice like Qi Suian could immediately master, let alone modify.

As for other matters, Qi Suian could only look into them when he had free time.

He was just one person. It was true he could multitask, but his energy was limited. Spreading himself too thin would lead to losses.

After leaving the underground cavern, Qi Suian found the thirty-degree temperature to be refreshingly cool.

However, the ground was still scorching hot. The high temperature had clearly only just subsided. The cavern, on the other hand, had absorbed a lot of heat from the direct sunlight and was actually less cool than the surface.

"Wait, you call this the night phase?" Qi Suian stared at the great sun overhead. ’This thing looks like a fake.’

The sun was in the same position as when Qi Suian had entered the cave to escape the heat.

It hadn’t changed one bit.

[The night phase is merely a designation. It does not mean it is actually nighttime.]

[If the data is correct, this high-temperature world most likely does not have a night. You can refer to it as a Polar Day World.]

"I can understand a polar day. That can happen in certain geographical locations."

"But what the hell is a Polar Day World? Did the planet stop rotating?"

[Perhaps it has not stopped rotating. The planet you are on may not be a sphere, but a flat plane.]

[This would allow the sun to shine on this side forever.]

Qi Suian fell silent after hearing this. ’I guess I really was being narrow-minded.’ After all, this wasn’t some normal world, but a Doomsday World.

The world he had lived in for so many years had a zombie apocalypse that turned out to be linked to the corpse of a terrifying cosmic deity. It was only natural for this world to have its own issues.

It was the apocalypse; how could he expect so many things to conform to his common sense? Besides, this was another world’s business. Qi Suian couldn’t force it to be something it wasn’t.

[Furthermore, the sun may be an Extraordinary Source. The vulture encountered previously quite possibly evolved through the sun.]

"That vulture’s stats were probably around 2.0 to 2.5. Logically, there’s no way it could have survived in three-hundred-degree heat."

"If these Extraordinary Creatures don’t have lairs to hide in and can instead move about with impunity in the high temperatures, it means their body structures and Extraordinary powers grant them extreme heat resistance."

"So, if my guess is correct, the best heat-resistant material modules will have to be obtained from these Extraordinary Creatures."

Qi Suian communicated with the AI while watching it control the Tai Sui God and begin exploring the surroundings.

Thanks to the Wind Master flight system that allowed the Tai Sui God to fly, combined with the satellite and reconnaissance network, all the surrounding terrain had been meticulously mapped.

As for whether this was a modern world, that was unclear. In any case, the AI hadn’t detected any signals.

[Minor geological variations detected. Preliminary estimate indicates the direction ahead is a desert.]

[Based on your suggestion, entering the desert may yield better and more complete heat-resistant materials.]

[The danger will increase upon entry, and temperatures will be much higher than in the Gobi Desert region.]

"Well, we’re already here. Maybe this is my protagonist’s halo leading us to a fortuitous encounter," Qi Suian said directly.

With Qi Suian’s command, the Tai Sui God naturally moved forward without hesitation.

"But one thing’s for sure, we definitely went the wrong way."

"Perhaps the temperatures in other regions aren’t this high."

He figured his landing spot wasn’t a normal area; it was basically a hell-mode start.

’As for why he wasn’t just thrown into the desert to die, did they really think his X-rank talent, Celestial Fate: Profound, was useless?’

’It must have intervened somehow. Otherwise, if the Doomsday Game couldn’t kill him outright, couldn’t it at least rig the game against him?’

[Your hypothesis has some merit. However, even if the temperature is lower elsewhere, it is unlikely to be below one hundred degrees.]

[In the desert, however, the peak temperature could reach one thousand degrees.]

The AI responded to Qi Suian.

[Now officially entering the desert region. Temperature has increased by at least ten degrees.]

After more than half an hour, Qi Suian arrived at the edge of the desert. He could see the landscape within was somewhat distorted due to the high temperature.

But this wasn’t a real spatial distortion, just an effect of the heat.

"Why have we stopped?" Qi Suian asked.

[There is an anomaly on the sandy surface. A cautious probe is required.]

As the AI finished speaking, all the Floating Cannons next to the Tai Sui God combined into one large Floating Cannon, which then unleashed a Ghost Energy Storm.

"Wait, you’re unleashing your ultimate, and you call that a ’probe’?"

As his voice fell, the Ghost Energy Storm landed on a specific spot and detonated, creating a crater in the area.

And then, Qi Suian saw a giant Sand Worm, severed in two, struggling out from beneath the yellow sand.

This Sand Worm’s entire body was covered in a thick, metallic-looking cuticle.

After crawling to the surface, it didn’t die immediately but continued to writhe.

Because it had been hit by a Ghost Energy Storm, no fluids flowed out; instead, its body was being continuously carbonized into particles.

[This attack was not at maximum output. This was to ensure the enemy’s head would be preserved.]

[According to data analysis, its metallic cuticle possesses heat-resistant, fire-resistant, and insulating properties.]

[If you can successfully acquire it, you can make up for what you lack.]

[Furthermore, the head can be burned as fuel to obtain enough evolutionary energy for the Tai Sui God’s next evolution.]

"Something’s not right. It died too soon. What’s the reason? Go check it out."

Qi Suian noticed that the giant Sand Worm had stopped struggling before it could die from the Ghost Energy Storm.

"It... froze to death..."

After a half-hour-long inspection, Qi Suian came to this conclusion.

He never would have imagined this was the reason.

The temperature here was forty degrees, yet for this Sand Worm, it was extremely cold.

So, it was probably hiding under the sand to stay warm.

"This is good news."

"We’ve discovered a weakness of the Extraordinary Creatures in this world."

As for why it had heat insulation but no heat retention, how was Qi Suian supposed to know how the creature had evolved?

Of course, under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t have frozen to death. It only happened because the Sand Worm was critically injured first.

A healthy Sand Worm, if exposed to a low-temperature environment of thirty degrees, would be affected at most; it wouldn’t die so decisively.

"Then we can use cold- or frost-related weapon modules as a counter," Qi Suian said, feeling they should exploit this weakness.

[I do not recommend this. Due to environmental factors, even if such a weapon module reached SSS-rank, it would not produce any extra effect in the high temperatures of the Polar Day World.]

[On the contrary, it would be weakened. While cold may indeed be the bane of the high-temperature Extraordinary Creatures of the Polar Day World, the cold itself cannot be fully utilized here.]

[Its effect might even be inferior to that of the Floating Cannons.] 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Hearing this, Qi Suian realized it was true. ’How can a single drop of water extinguish a mountain fire?’

’In the face of an entire world, even something of SSS-rank is probably no different from an ant. How could it fight against the macro-environment?’

"Well, there goes another useless idea," Qi Suian said softly.