Chapter 17 - Master of Thermodynamics - NovelsTime

Master of Thermodynamics

Chapter 17

Author: Yinma Liuquan
updatedAt: 2025-06-01

The insect uses two pairs of hind legs to support the ground, suddenly stands on its upper body, opens its mouth, and suddenly ejects a large stream of dark green liquid.

    Renault quickly mobilizes his magic power and quickly deploys another heat shield.

    Even though they knew that they were protected by heat shield, they could not help retreating. They had seen the power of venom and were afraid of being touched by it.

    When the venom comes into contact with the hot air shield, it makes a "hiss" sound instantly. The outer layer of the venom begins to evaporate rapidly, and the remaining venom is also evaporated when it goes deep into the hot air layer.

    Seeing that the heat shield worked so well, they were relieved.

    The poisonous insect was stunned and slowed down, but it soon recovered, changed its moving direction, climbed to another direction, and ejected a stream of venom again.

    This time Renault has dealt with it more easily.

    Next, the poisonous insect swam around the three people and launched several waves of poison spraying attacks, but they were blocked by Renault.

    Renault is also acutely aware of one thing. It seems that the poisonous insect does not want to fight with them at close range, which indicates that its defense is probably not high.

    Muse also thought of this. He grasped the sword with his right hand and saw a chance. Suddenly, he threw the Epee at the poisonous insect.

    Poisonous insect sends out extremely sharp neighing sound, soft body instantly turned an incredible angle.

    2 meters long body actually fold up, head and tail close, even curled up into a green meatball.

    Epee with a strong wind swept by the poisonous insects, leaving a not deep scar, light green body fluid quickly exuded from the wound.

    "Bang" a dull sound, epee oblique into the soil.

    However, the poisonous insect was enraged, and its scream became more and more harsh. It stretched out its curled up body, turned its head, and spewed out a large stream of poisonous fog against the epee.

    The Epee began to melt quietly, just like ice was thrown into hot water. As the layers of metal were corroded, the body of the Epee broke off.

    The melting continued. Just a few seconds later, the Epee disappeared completely, leaving only a little residue on the soil.

    Muse''s face showed a look of pain. The Epee had gone through big and small battles. Unexpectedly, it was damaged here.

    The poisonous insect hissed a few times, and its voice was obviously much lighter. It was obviously quite satisfied with this. It looked at the three people again, opening and closing its mouthparts one by one, and was not in a hurry to launch an attack.

    Obviously, after the injury, it seems to have scruples about the blade in the hands of the three people, and dare not rush directly.

    The poisonous insect began to swim around them again, spraying poison from time to time. It also kept an eye on the movements of the three people to avoid being thrown again.

    Renault, on the other hand, keeps making hot air shields to resist the venom. Judging from the posture of poisonous insects, it seems that it is fighting a war of attrition to consume Renault''s magic power.

    Muse and Angela are equally helpless. In the face of the terrible fog, no one dares to fight close to each other.

    When Renault''s magic power was less than half, he suddenly found that the venom ejected by the poisonous insects was less and less. It seemed that the venom was almost consumed.

    But his eyes instead become a little dignified, he looked at the opposite insect, quietly increase the input of magic power.

    After another confrontation for a while, the poisonous insect suddenly gave a loud hiss, opened its mouth wider than at any one time, and spewed out a large stream of venom, which was three times the normal situation.

    The venom is completely dispersed in flight, blocking most of the heat shield.

    The cunning beast deliberately reduced the amount of spray before, on the one hand, in order to paralyze them, on the other hand, he also intentionally accumulated venom to prepare for the eruption.

    However, it''s not over yet. When the enemy''s sight is blocked by the venom, the venom''s body contracts violently, just like a spring compresses to the extreme point. Then it stretches its body fiercely and jumps high by the reaction of the ground.

    The poisonous insect crossed an arc in the air, just crossed the heat shield and fell towards the three people. Before landing, it had opened its ferocious mouth again.

    It''s obvious that once it gets close to three people, it''s bound to spray a deadly poison fog.

    This is a series of killing moves!

    But Renault''s face suddenly showed a happy smile.

    Because the poisonous insect jumped into the trap!

    At the moment of crossing the heat shield, the poisonous insect felt as if it had fallen into an extremely cold cave.

    Yes, the inside of the heat shield, except for the position where three people stand, has completely become a very cold area.

    When he realized that the poisonous insect might have another intention, Renault set a trap.

    When making the heat shield, he intentionally only extracts heat from the central area of the heat shield, gradually reducing the central temperature to a very low level.

    Although it has magical infrared vision, it does not mean that it can see all the infrared rays.

    Any material above absolute zero can produce infrared rays, but the temperature is different, and the wavelength of infrared rays is also different. The higher the temperature is, the shorter the wavelength is, and vice versa.

    Just like human eyes can only see 400-760nm electromagnetic wave, infrared vision is limited to a certain frequency band. The longer the wavelength is, the more difficult it is to be observed.When Renault uses [reverse heat conduction] to cool down, the infrared wavelength of the low-temperature air becomes longer and longer, which is beyond the visible range of the poisonous insect. Therefore, the poisonous insect has not noticed at all, and the area it is about to jump into has become an extremely cold ice area.

    As cold-blooded animals, insects have much weaker ability to resist cold than thermostatic animals. They have no mechanism to regulate their own temperature, and their ability to adapt to the environment is quite weak.

    Once the temperature begins to decrease, the metabolic rate and body temperature of insects that are used to living in warm environment will decrease. When the temperature reaches a certain level, they have to choose hibernation.

    What if the temperature continues to drop? What will happen?

    Before crossing, Renault was an otaku addicted to his hobbies. In a documentary called "frozen planet", he learned that there is an extremely tough life on earth, which is the Arctic moth larvae.

    To sum up the larvae of the Arctic moth in one sentence, it is to "spend all one''s life to break through the cocoon".

    When the Arctic winter comes, the larvae will be a little bit frozen, the free water in the body will freeze, the blood will freeze, and finally even the heart will stop beating.

    But the next spring, a miracle happened. After the ice thawed, it came back to life.

    In this way, after more than 10 heats and colds and repeated freezing for more than 10 times, it finally began to spin silk and evolved into an adult.

    Through the documentary, Renault learned two things, the first is that life is extremely magical, and the second is that he once again deeply understood the sentence "when the temperature is low, water will freeze".

    The natural law is irreversible. As long as the temperature is low to a certain extent, the free water in the body of the poisonous insect will also freeze.

    As Renault expected, the body temperature of the insect dropped sharply under the attack of cold, and the tissue fluid in the cell condensed instantly, and its reaction speed also decreased greatly.

    As a result, before the poisonous fog could be spewed out, it was frozen, and the mouthpiece was still in a ridiculous open state.

    With a dull bang, the poisonous insect fell to the ground heavily.

    As soon as Mu Si saw this great opportunity, he roared, and his muscles suddenly puffed up and threw another Epee in his hand.

    Almost at the moment of getting rid of it, the Epee pierced into the poisonous insect''s mouthpiece, and only half of the hilt was exposed.

    The body of the poisonous insect trembles violently and makes a slight hiss. However, most of its internal organs are destroyed by epee. Coupled with the deadly freezing, even the top-level potion is hard to save it.

    Three faces immediately appeared a happy smile.

    Renault slowly removed the heat shield, but always maintained the low temperature around the poisonous insects. He knew that a hundred foot insect would die but not be stiff, so he would rather waste some magic power than be careful.

    Angela looked at Renault admiringly and asked, "how do you know the poisonous insects are going to launch a surprise attack?"

    Renault thought for a moment and said, "it will kill us even at the risk of injury. I don''t think it''s right. In fact, animals have fixed patterns of behavior. I don''t know if you''ve heard of animal ethology..."

    Angela and muse looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other''s eyes.

    They thought the same thing: is this the devil''s wisdom? But why does the devil like to study this kind of thing instead of how to torture human beings?

    What a strange devil.

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