The two of them began to discuss business.Yang Yi laid out his plan to melt the glacier using fuel to free the Nyxstar — the steps included setting fires, firing cannons, and maneuvering the ship out of the ice.But when it came to execution, they’d have to plan carefully.If they burned fuel recklessly and the Nyxstar still didn’t move when it ran out, they’d be completely finished!That’s why Yang Yi had called Suna over — to discuss the details of how to carry out the plan. It was hard for one person to manage everything alone, but with two, things would go much smoother.However, before they began their discussion, Suna suddenly asked:“Yang Yi, why do you smell like burnt alcohol?”“Do I?”Yang Yi sniffed his heavy coat but didn’t notice anything strange.Suna, however, could smell it clearly.Her sense of smell was sharp — she’d noticed the odor earlier, and now she was sure it was coming from him.Yang Yi himself had no idea.Then it dawned on him — the smell of charred liquor!Just like how drinking a lot of strong alcohol leaves you smelling of ethanol, drinking too much charred liquor made you reek of burnt fumes, as if you’d ignite on contact with fire.Yang Yi sent Suna the information about the drink, putting her doubts to rest.“Oh, right — want to try some?”He poured her a glass, but Suna refused.She didn’t like the burnt stench of it.So the remaining two and a half barrels of charred liquor were stored in the cabin for later use.After that, the two of them began drafting their escape plan.Suna’s suggestions turned out to be quite valuable.She proposed digging holes beside the ship first — once deep enough, they could light fires inside. That way, more of the ice would be exposed to heat.And since hot air rises, they could set up a pot above the fire to boil water, then pour the warm water over the surrounding ice layers...Once the plan was finalized, it was time for execution!Yang Yi took charge of the main operations, while Suna calculated the necessary amount of fuel and built additional campfires on deck.To make sure the fires burned properly, the first step was to clear away the ashy snow around the Nyxstar.Those bone ashes interfered with combustion, so they needed an open patch.Normally this would’ve been tedious work, but once Suna’s stitched-together creature joined in, it became effortless.Its tentacles could blow and suck air like a vacuum cleaner, sweeping away large sections of ash in no time.Yang Yi distributed over fifty stone pickaxes he’d crafted with the simple synthesis system to the skeletal arms, ordering them to dig into the glaciers around the ship to make large pits.Once distributed, the arms shuffled to the hull’s outer edge and began hammering away.The ones without pickaxes used stones — there were still over a hundred units of stone on deck.If they didn’t even have stones, they could just punch. It didn’t matter if they broke — they were all renewable skeletal arms anyway.No lazy arms allowed!Making the pickaxes alone had cost over 500 units of wood, and with the stone used and wasted, total expenditure reached over 400 units — not a small cost.Still, once the pickaxes wore out, the handles could be burned as firewood, so it wasn’t too wasteful.Once everything was arranged, the skeletal arms began working — clang, clang, clang, echoing nonstop.The plan was to dig eighteen pits evenly around the hull.While the skeletal arms worked, Yang Yi went to purchase iron pots.Those could be resold later, so while the price was high, the loss would be minor.He spent 8,500 conch coins in total, buying seventeen large iron pots. Since they were made of steel, there was no way they’d be cheap.Afterward, he went to the bow and tested the glacier’s thickness using the water-immersion cannon — a single shot pierced a hole straight through.Good news — the ice wasn’t that thick.He ran over to check and estimated it at around eighty centimeters thick. The area around the ship might be slightly thicker, but not by much.So he set the pit depth to fifty centimeters.“If only I could move the water cannon... I’d just aim it under the hull, fire a few shots, and we’d probably be free already…” Yang Yi muttered to himself.About five hours later, all eighteen pits were finally done.And that was with Yang Yi helping — otherwise, who knew how long those weak skeletal arms would’ve taken!Their strength was too low — probably only around level 3 — so efficiency was abysmal.If he relied on them alone to dig through the surrounding ice, it could take weeks.Once the pits were done, Suna finished building over ten campfires on deck and had divided up the fuel.The fuel, naturally, came from pale worm fat — less dense than water and capable of burning even on its surface.Suna prepared 20 liters of fat for each pit, totaling 360 liters.After pouring it in, she fired flaming arrows from the deck to ignite them all.Once the pots were set up, the preliminary stage was done — now came the long waiting period, repeating the same cycle:Toss the ice chunks dug from the pits into the pots, melt them into water, and pour the warm water back into the pits to widen them.Once the water cooled, scoop it back into the pot and reheat — repeat endlessly. The skeletal arms could handle that.Eventually, when the pits widened into puddles, they’d move the pots onto the Nyxstar’s deck to boil water there.By continuously pouring hot water around the ship, keeping the surrounding water warm, and having the skeletal arms stir to promote heat circulation, the bottom ice would soon thin out — until it could no longer restrain the ship’s power. Then they’d finally be free.Four more hours passed.With a grinding, creaking noise, the Nyxstar finally broke free!The ship’s powerful engines crushed the last thin ice, sending shards floating to the surface.Yang Yi seized the moment, adjusting the ship’s angle and turning the cannon southwest, preparing to blast open a path through the glacier.Once the melted area widened a bit more, they could pilot the Nyxstar out of this frozen trap!Everything was going perfectly.But suddenly, a frigid wind swept in from the northeast, dropping the temperature sharply.Normally, Yang Yi wouldn’t have cared.But now—he noticed where the wind came from. The northeast.He immediately switched to his “third eye” vision and looked in that direction——and saw a massive swarm of Ice Nest Worms flying toward the Nyxstar, about two kilometers away.They hadn’t even arrived yet, but the chill they carried had already reached him.“How could this be…”Yang Yi’s eyes widened in disbelief.“What’s wrong?”Suna heard the tone in his voice and stopped feeding wood into the deck fire.“The Ice Nest Worms are coming!”Yang Yi’s voice carried fatigue and frustration.He wasn’t afraid of them — but their arrival meant all their half-day’s work was about to be ruined!“Get off the deck, now!” Yang Yi quickly regained his composure and ordered Suna below.Then he ran into the captain’s cabin — preparing to drag out the Life Furnace and burn those damn worms to death when they arrived!

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