The climate here is warming rapidly.
More specifically, in this massive enclosed space that feels like a cruise ship floating in the sea, the temperature is rising from minus 18 degrees when he just came over and has now broken above zero.
So, as a sea cucumber, he was frozen solid earlier, with ice shards on his spines, but now the ice has fully melted, and his body is gradually thawing, becoming soft.
Although Wen Nan now looks like a sea cucumber, he is not a real sea cucumber after all. He firmly believes that his true form hasn't changed and that he is still a Little White Dragon.
Therefore, with a humble tone, he asked Jun Beibei beside him:
"If the temperature rises too high, what are the downsides for seafood?"
Jun Beibei didn't immediately answer his question. Instead, she turned her head and looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze, then after a moment of silence, countered:
"You noticed it too?"
Wen Nan was confused, "Huh? What?"
"Seafood." Jun Beibei replied very softly.
"Oh, yes, otherwise, why do you think Lady Peony Shrimp asked me to come to the office?" Wen Nan said shamelessly.
Jun Beibei smiled slightly, lowered her eyes, savoring the words of the person beside her, "Peony Shrimp... indeed."
After savoring, she looked back at the sea cucumber beside her, and suddenly there was a bit of that familiar "one of us" look in her eyes, returning to the previous topic,
"I'm not sure what will happen either, after all, this is my first experience with such a drastic temperature rise.
"Currently, from the body's perception, the shift from below zero to above zero has thawed us, making us more nimble in our movements and thoughts, which is a good thing.
"However, if the drastic warming continues, the consequences might be difficult to predict.
"I will observe further. If there's any news, I'll notify you immediately."
Wen Nan, just a sea cucumber, stood there dumbfounded, didn't respond, simply looked at the white shell beside him with a somewhat ambiguous smile.
Jun Beibei, feeling uneasy under his somewhat strange gaze, turned her head to look at him, "What's the matter?"
She was a bit worried that he, like other students, felt there was something strange about her words, like she was a weirdo.
But the sea cucumber opposite finally said, "You don't recognize me?"
Jun Beibei furrowed her brows slightly, "You're Ye Shenshen, transferred from the transition class."
Wen Nan shook his head with a wry smile.
Indeed, she really didn't remember him.
Wen Nan should have thought of it. After all, this is inside Test Space #1, a little world custom-made for Yu Shujun, just like the room of the faceless woman created previously to extract Yu Shujun's Fear Value.
Now this world is much larger and richer in elements compared to that room. In this world, Yu Shujun seems to be deeply immersed in a more vivid and deeper dream, completely integrating into the dream and forgetting who she originally was, and why she appeared here.
On the other hand, Wen Nan, the intruder who accidentally broke into this world due to a bug, once again retained his original consciousness.
However, Wen Nan is not entirely clear-headed either.
Perhaps due to the fusion of the test space, Wen Nan's current state is very similar to when he first entered the Divine Staff Sheath, in a half-drunk, half-awake state.
Moreover, the longer he stays, the more "drunk" he becomes.
In this world, probably because it incorporated some of Wen Nan's memories, it made adjustments, causing certain characters, scenes, and dialogues within to always give Wen Nan a "deja vu" feeling.
This makes Wen Nan's sense of immersion stronger the longer he stays here, and his consciousness sinks deeper.
Wen Nan reasonably suspects that if he continues to stay here, he will soon believe he is indeed a native sea cucumber here.
Besides, there's another issue—
There's a problem with the time flow here.
Comparing the countdown of Wen Nan's system and his experiential time here, the time flow in this space is less than one-tenth that of the outside world.
That is to say, the 12 hours of test time given by the Divine Staff Sheath system could be equivalent to 120 hours in this space.
This time should be enough for them to generate the obsession value and then completely clear it out.
The only problem is, staying too long, there is a certain risk of Wen Nan himself forgetting whether this space is the test's illusory world or the real world in his memories.
But it's not a big issue. Wen Nan excels at distinguishing reality from illusion, even if there might be occasional short moments of confusion, he will always pull himself back on track, having battled wits and courage with the chief physician in Taoyuan for ten years, with solid practical experience and rich theoretical reserves in this regard.
As for now...
Wen Nan turned to look at the white shell beside him, squinting his eyes, carefully scanning it from head to toe, finally seeing a very discreet system prompt among the dazzling, built-in particle special effects on the shell—
[Candidate: No. 1; Test Phase: First Stage; Obsession Value Accumulation Progress: 15%.]
While he was lost in thought, a cold voice sounded beside him: "It's natural."
"Hmm?" Wen Nan withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Jun Beibei's eyes, "What?"
The shell beside him said again: "My shell, strange as it is, it's natural, I'm not wearing bizarre costumes nor am I wearing makeup."
"What's strange about it, it's very beautiful." Wen Nan subconsciously replied.