Chapter 9: Aurora

The ice cream slowly melted in his mouth and gradually became unpleasant, and Carrivan was not exaggerating that his Bismarck could be said to be the strongest warship in the world at the moment, but for some reason he was panicking in his heart.

The mission was codenamed "Icebreaker", which means to break a glacier or break a glacier.

The so-called glacier refers to Peterman Glacier, which is a glacier located on the island of Greenland in North America, located in the northwest of Greenland to the east shore of the Nels Strait, and is the northernmost glacier in the world.

Three years ago, the Peterman Glacier suddenly split, splitting a huge iceberg with an area of about 260 square kilometers, this iceberg took away a quarter of the ice floes of the Peterman Glacier, equivalent to four Manhattan Islands in New York, and reached a thickness of 160 meters, half the height of the Empire State Building in New York, and people named it "Peterman Iceland".

Iceland began to drift south at a speed of 9 knots per day from Baffin Bay, and its size decreased dramatically, and 14 months later, it was still visible in Canadian waters, but by this time Iceland had melted away enough to pose a threat to passing ships.

Although this was the largest glacial split in the Arctic in nearly 50 years, Iceland's float caused no casualties, and as the glacier melted, no one paid attention to whether the splitting was due to the greenhouse effect or something else.

After three years of ice and snow accumulation, the area of Peterman Glacier increased by more than 100 square kilometers compared with three years ago, and it was this new ice floe shelf that broke down again, breaking into an iceberg of 92 square kilometers and an iceberg of 24 square kilometers. The two icebergs followed the same route as the "Peterman Iceland" drifted three years earlier, and scientists named it "Icelandic α and Icelandic β".

However, this time it was not as lucky as it was three years ago, when a Canadian drilling rig in the southwest of Baffin Bay was α by Iceland, destroying the facility and killing and wounding countless people, and finally using naval battleships to expel Iceland.

The fragmentation of such a huge glacier is not normal in itself, but it has continued to split twice, and if the problem is attributed to the greenhouse effect, then Antarctica should have melted. The school realizes that something is wrong, so it sends out the Enforcement Department, and uses the Bismarck only because it is the only warship in the school that can currently sail on ice.

For Carrivan, it's still a bit of a fuss. What grade was the Bismarck? I think it could handle the Black Ghost Harbor back then, let alone the Dead Sea storms, and it was overkill to detect glaciers.

He said this to the principal at the time, and the principal just took a deep breath of cigarette and smiled, "Quan should go out and walk around." ”

What do you mean by that? Treat his Bismarck like a cat or a dog? "That's a child, boy, you know?" he looked at the headmaster with a cold look on his face, and roared in his heart.

When the crystal cup bottomed out, he rubbed his stomach with satisfaction, and a thousand dollars went down, feeling that his whole stomach had become heavy.

He looked at the boys and girls coming and going, the boys were gentlemanly and polite, the girls were gentle and beautiful, full of youth, and remembered the time when he was young, he dedicated his entire youth to the mechanical career, and now he really regrets it, after all, he can only wait and see if he misses such a good time.

The door was suddenly opened, and the cold wind slammed down on him, and he felt that his newly revived body was instantly dead, and he looked at the stupid-looking boy at the door, eager to strangle him with his own hands.

"Aurora! it's Aurora!" the boy blushed with excitement, as if he was even more excited than Copernicus' discovery of the New World.

Karewen just wanted to mock that he had never seen the world, what is there to be excited about the aurora, isn't it often the North Pole and the South Pole, and he didn't see your mother, what kind of excitement was there.

"Really? Aurora?"

Young Master Kuler rushed out in three steps and two steps, and it seemed that his mother was really waiting for him outside.

Carriwen scratched his head, even if ordinary people are fine, Young Master Kuler is so rude and unheard? Are all the children so homely now? He obviously didn't realize that who would be so bored and deliberately went to the North Pole and the South Pole to see the aurora.

Then the boys and girls in the entire cabin went out one after another with anticipatory faces, completely ignoring their thin clothes and the cold outside, and he was left alone in the room that had just been bustling.

He was stunned for a moment, then slowly moved to the window, his green sleeves wiping away the mist, and his vision was perfect. He looked around and picked up a piece of black chocolate cake.

……

It was dark at night, and there was nothing around but the lights of the ship. The night sky was bright, with countless stars twinkling, and the sea was dark, but the sky was incomparably blue. A blue-purple light swept half of the sky, connecting the sea and the sky from top to bottom.

It is difficult to describe its beauty, it grows softly from the distant horizon, surrounds the spherical sky, wisps, like a green vine wrapped in brocade flowers and leaves, like the colorful sleeves on a girl's clothes fluttering in the wind, like a green flame burning at the end of a rainbow, and like a stream that winds after the thick colored ink is smeared in the water, like smoke and mist, swaying.

Although he had seen it many times, he couldn't help but admire it, it was truly the most beautiful wonder in nature.

The Eskimos once called it a torch for the spirits of the dead to guide the souls of the dead, but Carrivan thought it was more like a flame that accidentally burst out when the gates of hell were opened.

The boys and girls looked up at the sky, motionless, as if on a pilgrimage, their eyes reverent and sacred, their eyes reflecting the blue light, and their frozen reddened faces with happy smiles.

The white lace skirt danced in the cold wind, and the temperature outside was at least minus ten degrees, and some girls even had their fair legs exposed, but they stood in the wind and shivered and had no intention of coming back.

Suddenly, the microphone in the house played high music, and the silence of the world was broken at that moment. Carriven was so frightened that the cake in his hand almost fell, this passionate trumpet, this dynamic four-note rhythmic pattern, this familiar and annoying rhythm, this is Mendelssohn's "Wedding March"!

The music became more and more cheerful, and a gorgeous and grand wedding picture gradually took shape in Carrivan's mind, and he stared blankly at the boy and girl who suddenly became agitated outside the window, what is this going to do?