I Survive in a World of Unlimited Flow by Repairing Air Conditioners

An Huai, air conditioning repairman Worldview: Overthrow and start over— --- 1. The real world: a city eroded by the White Disaster The White Plague is not a virus. It's a "reality leak" - the physical rules of another world slowly seeping into this one. The manifestations are: white powdery sediment, abnormal cooling, spatial structure distortion, and "abnormal noise from the air conditioner". Because the thinnest part of the "membrane" between the two worlds happens to be those things that operate all year round and create temperature differences - refrigerators, cold storages, and especially air conditioners. The hot and cold cycle generated when the compressor is running will cause the space membrane to vibrate slightly, like a drum skin being beaten repeatedly, which will crack after being beaten for a long time. The white plague seeped in through those cracks. Ordinary people cannot see the full picture of the White Disaster. They only saw "the air conditioner at home is broken", "copper pipes are frosted" and "there are noises in the middle of the night". The White Disaster Management Agency is responsible for covering up and sealing off the disaster, but no one really knows where the source of the white disaster is. Only An Huai's mother - a woman who has been repairing air conditioners for thirty years - discovered the truth: there was a door welded under the base of each "defective air conditioner". --- 2. That world: "Cold Realm" The place where the door under the air conditioner base leads to is called the cold area. Approaching a "forgotten" world - it was once the same as the real world, but was cut off at a certain moment. From then on, the temperature became lower and lower, time became slower and slower, and everything that remained there seemed to be frozen. The rules of the Cold Realm are different from reality. The flow rate of time is different, the physical logic is different, and the most important thing is that the "alive" things in the cold environment are different from the understanding of the real world. There are many layers to the cold realm. Each air conditioning door leads to a different depth. The window machine at Aunt Chen's house leads to the shallow layer - the edge of the cold zone, like a newly frozen lake. It only takes two steps to get to the bottom. But An Huai's mother kept going deeper. From the first channel to the 47th channel, she was looking for the door leading to the deepest part of the cold realm. She wrote "closed" on the 307 machine. She blocked something from the depths of the cold realm. --- 3. Anhuai 28 years old, air conditioning repairman. Her mother disappeared six years ago, leaving behind a shop and an iron box containing five notes - all her mother's records of Lengjing in the past three years. An Huai originally didn't touch those notes. She just repaired air conditioners and lived an ordinary life until she picked up the window unit at Aunt Chen's house. What's special about her is that she is born with the ability to "hear" the sounds of cold environments through her skin - she does not wear gloves when repairing the air conditioner. The temperature of the copper pipes, the vibration of the compressor, and the curvature of the iron casing will be transformed into a "picture" on her fingertips. Her mother also has this ability, so her mother can see the door. An Huai is a little stronger than her mother because she can not only "see" but also "touch". The white on her hands is the trace of exposure to the cold environment. Every time she went through a door, the whiteness went down a little bit. From fingertips to knuckles, from back of hand to wrist. According to Shen Xi, when she reaches her shoulders, she can't come back. --- 4. Shen Xi Member of the "Equipment Supervision Section" of the White Disaster Management Department. On the surface, she is an archivist, but in fact she was one of the first people to come into contact with the cold environment six years ago. She's been in there. Three years ago, the White Disaster Management Bureau discovered the iron door during a blockade operation - the warehouse door leading to the first floor of the Cold Realm. Shen Xi was one of the first group to enter. She reached halfway and stepped back, but she was left with white on her hands. She found someone waiting for her in the cold. The person never showed up, but the voice came out—intermittently between the sounds of the compressor, in the silence as she walked down a section of the corridor. It was no coincidence that it took Shen Xi three years to find An Huai - Leng Jing was "guiding" her. An Huai's mother "closed" something in the depths of the Cold Realm. After that thing was locked, she was always looking for the next person to open the door. It found An Huai through a signal sent by Shen Xi. Shen Xi knew that she was being used. She doesn't care. What she is looking for is the person who has been waiting for her in the cold environment for three years. She wasn't sure who it was, but she was sure that person had stood outside the iron door and said to her, "Don't open it from the outside." --- 5. That thing in the cold environment An Huai's mother wrote "Locked" in 307. What she locked up was not a monster or a virus - she locked up the "core" at the deepest point of the cold realm. The reason why the cold environment is getting colder and emptier is because its "core" has been taken away. The original core is an extremely hot thing that burns like the earth's core, responsible for supplying energy to the entire cold realm. Someone stole it, the cold environment began to cool down, and all living things began to "hibernate", like frozen specimens. An Huai's mother found that core position. She couldn't put it back—but she built a wall around it to keep out anything that might try to eat away at its remaining warmth. Those things have been wandering in the cold environment for a long time, like hungry animals that rush towards them when they smell the residual warmth in the core. She "closed" them with her own body. An Huai inherited her mother's abilities. After walking the path of forty-seven machines, she will reach the deepest part of the cold realm and face the stolen core. What she has to do is simple: either put it back, let the cold environment warm up, and repair the "membrane" between the two worlds - in this way, the white disaster will disappear and all air conditioners will return to normal. Either destroy it completely, the cold realm will die completely, the membrane between the real world and the cold realm will burst, and the white disaster will spread to the entire reality. What Shen Xi wants is the third option: to enter the deepest part of the cold realm and find the voice that is still speaking after being imprisoned. She wanted to confirm who that person was and then bring her back. If she couldn't come back, she didn't plan to come back. --- Republic of China·Anji Repair Shop An Huai repairs everything that is broken. Cold place, a place where time sinks. Intention: aaaaa