Chapter 1038: Regret 19 Years Ago
There were four members of the expedition team.
The one with a burly build, physique and temperament that looks a bit like Schwarzenegger's is the captain, named Bruce.
A short, blonde boy of similar stature to Qin Fan, named Paul, is a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania's Antarctic Climate Institute.
There is also a person named Jason, who is also a staff member of the school's research institute.
As for the only woman in the scientific expedition team, the blonde haired and blue-eyed, rather beautiful girl is called Bei Lin, who is also from this research institute, and is about the same age as Qin Fan, but she has already graduated from graduate school, and she is a scientific researcher in the statistics of the severe climate in Antarctica.
After listening to Ying Junyao's translated introduction, Qin Fan looked at Belin and couldn't help but secretly sigh, people are more dead than people, and goods are more than goods to be thrown away......
Since the expedition team had already advanced $300,000 in advance for the voyage expenses, Qin Fan directly handed over the cash he carried with him to the icebreaker captain Blanco, and the remaining balance needed to be paid after they arrived at Antarctica.
Everything was ready, before departure, Belin took Qin Fan and Ying Junyao to buy a few down jackets and warm equipment, and everyone boarded the boat on the road, and set off from Nanqiao Yazhi on the same day, and went straight to the Antarctic Circle Mi National Research Station.
This is not a trip, and everyone has a task on them, so they did not get together to chat and get acquainted with each other after getting on the boat, but went back to their own rooms, rested separately, and did not interfere with each other.
Although the icebreaker looks a little simple on the outside, the facilities inside the ship are still readily available.
There was hot water, a bed connected to the ground, and even a table, chair, and bench, except that it all seemed cold, welded to the hull and would not be scattered with the rocking of the ship, and the rest of the place did not look much different from the outside world.
"Do you really believe these people? How do I feel that those foreigners look like they were invited by the ship's boss. ”
Qin Fan closed the door and sat on Ying Junyao's bed, slightly tangled.
"To?" Ying Jun Yaodai frowned slightly, "You think too much, I have seen their documents, they are all true, the Antarctic Climate Institute of the University of Pennsylvania is originally a holy place for global Antarctic climate researchers, they will send people every year before the worst weather in Antarctica arrives, find a way to enter Antarctica, conduct statistics and analysis of the bad climate in the Antarctic Circle, and make great contributions to global climate data. ”
Ying Junyao said this, and Qin Fan naturally didn't want to say anything more.
If things are really what she said, then this chance coincidence did bring them a great opportunity.
Not to mention the astronomical savings, not only can they successfully board the icebreaker heading to the interior of Antarctica, but if the voyage is smooth, they can also arrive one step ahead of the "Royal" icebreaker that departed in advance, and with the help of the scientific expedition team, the success rate of the mission will be greatly improved.
"After we go, if the weather conditions permit, we will follow the scientific expedition team to the United States supply center on the edge of the Antarctic interior, take their special snowmobile for Antarctica to the interior of Antarctica, break up at the domestic land research station in Mi, and walk into the no-man's land based on our country's scientific research station to find the whereabouts of the fragments of the 'greedy wolf'. Ying Junyao said.
"Is it far?" Qin Fan said curiously, in his impression, Antarctica is vast and boundless, covered by ice and snow all year round, and it may be easy to walk with someone from the United States scientific expedition team before, but after breaking up with them, to find the national scientific research station in the vast snow, just this part of the journey, with only the two of them, I am afraid it is not so easy.
"Not far, there are only seven countries in the world that can establish scientific research stations in the Antarctic interior, and my country is among them, and the distance between the seven inland scientific research stations is not very far, and there are also contacts and exchanges between the stations. ”
Obviously, as one of the planners of this time, Ying Junyao has a more detailed grasp of the situation in Antarctica than Qin Fan expected.
At the same time, she also told Qin Fan that in fact, as long as she was not swept by a snowstorm on the sea road, there would be no risk before reaching the Antarctic no man's land, and the road was safe.
The point is on no man's land.
The seven major Antarctic inland research stations have built unmanned monitoring points in uninhabited areas, and used aerospace and satellite technology to record and detect uninhabited areas, and the major event 19 years ago occurred in uninhabited areas.
It was Wang Meng and others who drove to the detection point to record on-site data after the geomagnetic anomaly was transmitted from the monitoring point in the no-man's land, but unexpectedly, they were directly smashed into the bottomless ice by a meteorite falling from the sky, and no one in the group was killed except Wang Meng.
And the focus of their plan this time is to look for traces of the accident at the site of this abandoned uninhabited area, hoping to have the latest discoveries and make up for the regret of hastily leaving the site before.