Chapter 41: Icebreaker
I'm sorry that there was a little problem.,It seems that the part-time job here will be delayed...... Uh, this week's lessons? Is the attendance already red-lighted? Even if you say so, there is still no way to do it, at most, you can stay in school for an extra year after hanging up. ”
"What? How did I become such a man? Wronged, now I'm working hard to become a more responsible man! What the? Noisy around? Of course, now I'm on the helicopter and I'll tell you when I get back, dear. ”
"Ahhh......h Player? No, absolutely not! I swear in my father's name! Okay, I'll go to work, I'll call you later, I love you, Mifeng! ”
Yihao hung up the phone in a panic, then shrugged his shoulders and exhaled a long breath. This appearance fell into the eyes of onlookers, and Hong Ling couldn't help but show a gloating expression.
"It's really hard for a man with a family, but your hard work is also double for others, I don't know how many men will envy your situation......"
"Yes, anyway, this kind of hard work has nothing to do with a woman like you who no one loves." Yihao responded to Hongling with a poisonous tongue.
"Who do you say is a woman that no one loves! Miss Ben is also very popular in the organization! But I'm more interested in my career! Hongling responded angrily.
"Yes, you can just marry the institution, and I will give you a single bed as a congratulatory gift."
"You...... You're trying to provoke, aren't you? ”
"No, I just want to pay tribute to you for dedicating your life to world peace."
"That's it! Yihao. Say less. And Hongling, don't be like him. ”
Arashi, who couldn't take it anymore, interrupted the bickering between the two and reminded them. "It's going to land soon, and we're not here to play."
"Yes! Guru. ”
"Tsk got it......"
After the incident of the smuggling freighter, Lan has established an unshakable prestige in the hearts of everyone, not only Hongling changed his expression on the spot when he heard this, but even Yihao had to obediently turn his head to the window next to him. Looking through the glass at the sea below.
They were on a special plane to investigate the salvage of the sunken freighter. During his mission two days earlier, Yihao defeated the outlaws among the terrorists, and before he died, he detonated explosives on the freighter, and the entire freighter sank in a storm. Yihao and others also escaped by luck. Since the sunken freighter was carrying dangerous nuclear material, it was impossible to leave it unattended, regardless of the agency, to send a team to investigate the site of the sinking of the freighter and prepare to salvage the nuclear material. But until now, there has been no spot ship, and the wreckage of the sinking ground has to be said to be an incredible thing.
Lan and others were invited to assist in the investigation and confirm the location of the wreck as witnesses that night.
Looking down from a height of hundreds of meters, Yihao saw a huge ice floe floating on the sea below. It was the ice field that had been their refuge during the storm that day. Even after two days, the ice field appears to be so large in size, with no sign of decreasing. According to the agency's speculation. In the cold season. It will take at least two months or more for such a huge ice floe to completely melt. The base of the investigation team is set up on top of the ice floes, and there is even a temporary pier next to it. The five working boats thought that they were searching for traces of the sunken ship day and night.
Yihao had wondered if the huge ice floe would drift away with the currents, but it is said that the survey team had laid twelve anchors on the ice floe and fixed it to the seabed, so there was no need to worry about that. The flat and open ice provided a good environment, and the helicopter landed next to the investigation base, and Yihao, who stepped off the helicopter, was unexpectedly pulled to the base by the investigation team.
They were greeted by several members of the investigation team, one of whom was a middle-aged man with old glasses on his face and a beard on his chin.
Led by the glasses man, the three of them went to the makeshift conference room in the base area, where the glasses man briefed them on the situation. In the course of two days, the team had searched the seabed for several nautical miles. Originally, it was logical that the metal reaction of the large wreck was strong and should be easy to see, but so far they have only found a few broken containers and a few fragments of the ship's hull on the bottom of the sea, and the main body of the wreck seems to have disappeared completely.
"There's no trace of it at all......" Lan flipped through the information in his hand and asked the man in glasses to confirm. How did you analyze it? ”
"Honestly, we've never been in this situation...... Whether it's a sudden frozen sea or a shipwreck that has disappeared without a trace, it's something that can't be considered with common sense......" The man in glasses scratched his head and showed a confused expression, as if it was difficult to say what was going on. "So, can we think that just as this ice field appeared without warning, the wreck suddenly disappeared for some incomprehensible reason?"
“…… Are you going to give up searching? Lan frowned when she heard this.
"But even if I want to continue the investigation, I will continue to expand the scope
There are other means. We've searched all the possible sunken sites, and if we continue to expand the search area, we won't be able to determine whether the wreck is ......," the man in glasses suggested in a way that made sense of the word.
"That's what I said......" Lan looked at the information in his hand and showed an unwilling expression, although Hongling wanted to help Lan very much, but he couldn't think of a way for a while, so he just rubbed his hands together and rubbed them.
"No, the wreck is still there."
Just when everyone was silent, Yihao suddenly burst out with a sentence and immediately became the focus of attention.
"What do you think?" Arashi looked at him hopefully.
"I think there's a possibility." Yihao nodded.
"But just by feeling, ......" The man with glasses didn't seem to believe it.
"It's not a feeling. I certainly have proof. Yihao waved his hand and walked to the blackboard in the conference room and pointed to the ice sheet map on it. You don't expect it, of course, because people who haven't experienced it can't imagine what it was like at that time. At that time, the sea froze rapidly for a short time, and our speedboat was ...... Here's what's here, right? ”
On the right side of the center of the picture, a small hull sign appeared in the center of the picture and confirmed it to the man with glasses.
"Yes, and we've searched all the areas within the red line." The man in glasses pointed to a large circle outside the ice field, emphasizing.
"So have you searched the sea beneath the ice sheet?"
"Of course. How could we be guilty of such negligence. ”
"I remember the freighter sank not far behind us, probably at this ......location," after determining the direction of the speedboat, Yihao drew a circle in the upper right corner of the ice field. Then he turned to the crowd. "Think about it, when a freighter sinks, there is still a lot of air in it, and it can't sink as quickly as a container full of cargo, just as it slowly sinks to the ground. What about the possibility of the sea suddenly being frozen quickly? ”
"You mean......" Hongling said incredulously. That shipwreck is now sealed in this ice floe? ”
"Well, that's right!" Arashi walked over and looked at the red line on the picture, and patted Yihao on the shoulder excitedly. "Well done. Yihao! ”
"It's a possibility...... "The man with glasses stared at Yihao in disbelief. If it's in the ice, the probe should be able to confirm the location. But...... But. It's just knowing the place. So how do you get it out? Outside the wreck is more than 100 meters of ice, and with our tools, it is simply ......"
"No problem." Arashi suddenly showed a confident expression. "It's just a hundred meters of ice. It's nothing at all! ”
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Yihao felt that he had to go to the freighter again.
Not only to dispose of dangerous nuclear materials, but also to carefully identify the strange bronze ancient sword again.
The sword emitted a vast aura at that time, like a dazzling aura like the scorching sun, which made people unable to look at it directly, although Iron Fist didn't seem to feel it, he was sure that it was not an illusion. When he touched the bronze sword, there was an electric shock from the sword body, the vast aura suddenly disappeared, and the original radiant sword body also faded into a rusty appearance. Such a strange change made him feel the strangeness of the sword even more, and it was a mistake not to have time to pick it up in a hurry.
Yihao prayed that the bronze sword was still in the wreck's hold, and if it sank to the bottom of the sea, he might never see it again.
While praying, Yihao set his eyes on the ice not far ahead. Although the ice appeared to be stable on the surface, he knew that a drastic and profound change was taking place beneath the ice. According to the clues he provided, the investigators quickly settled the shipwreck, and as he had predicted, the freighter was frozen in the middle of the huge ice floe, and the depth from the ice surface was estimated to be 120 to 150 meters.
The team's advice was to wait a month or two for the ice to melt to a certain extent, or simply for the wreck to be freed from the ice before proceeding with the salvage of nuclear material. But Arashi vetoed their opinions, and said, "Why postpone what you can do today until tomorrow," as she drew her demon slaying sword and walked towards the survey site. And in the following time, the demon slayer master, who was worshiped as a god by countless soul envoys, once again showed his gorgeous and unparalleled skills.
Lan swung the Demon Slashing Sword to create a two-meter-diameter passage in the ice, and the blade infused with Gang Qi sharpened the iron like mud, and the hard ice was cut down like confetti. The members of the investigation team stared at the flying ice chips in the sky with stunned expressions, and Hongling held a camera to record the heroic posture of the demon slayer master, and his mouth continued to scream with excitement. In this way, Arashi slowly carved a passage through the extremely hard ice, to a degree that even the most sophisticated icebreaker equipment could not match.
At this time, the entrance to the passage had become the focus of the crowd, and everyone in the investigation team had put down their work and came here to witness the strength of the legendary demon slayer. Although Lan had gone down to a place beyond their sight at the moment, they still worshiped the bottomless cave entrance, as for Hongling, who temporarily served as a commentator. is even more foaming at the mouth. Yihao thought to himself, even if Lan didn't become a demon slayer that day, with this popularity, he could definitely become one
Star-rated idol.
Yihao went to the workstation next to the cave entrance, where the investigators were monitoring Arashi's work with a deep well camera, and their task was to make sure that Arashi was opening the tunnel in the right direction. The man with glasses for the survey captain was also here, staring intently at the remote sensing map on the screen, with a numb look on his face.
"Don't worry too much about time, there are a lot of things that can't be explained by reason." Yihao patted the glasses man on the shoulder sympathetically. "Also, I would like to ask the master what progress he has made now?"
"Already...... It's over a hundred meters......" The man with glasses seemed to answer Yi Hao and muttered to himself. "That's just the ...... And. Won't she get tired from swinging her sword for two hours straight...... Lord, what the hell am I talking about......"
"Over a hundred meters? Isn't that going to the depth of the wreck soon? ”
"Yes...... Yes. The man in glasses snapped back to his senses. Ah, the master is coming up! Feed. Hurry up and start the winch machine and pull the master up with a cable! ”
"No, no, no." Yihao pressed the excited glasses man. "The master himself has a way to come up, and you meddle indiscriminately. The master will be angry. ”
"Yes...... That's the case, then ......," the man in glasses looked back at the surveillance screen, and saw that the red dot representing Lan was rising rapidly. "Really...... Really! ”
The man with glasses and the other investigators looked dejected, and Yihao didn't bother with them. Slowly walked to the entrance of the cave and folded his hands together in front of someone inside. He bowed three times reverently.
When he bowed down to the third earth. Arashi just jumped out of the hole. Seeing his watch, he couldn't help but look puzzled.
“…… Yihao. What are you doing? ”
"No, it's just ...... Uh, that's just a tribute. Like a prank, the little ghost who was caught replied in a panic.
"Really......" Arashi frowned visibly. You're not going to think of me like one of those simple-minded women with big limbs, are you? ”
"Nothing like that!" Yihao hurriedly swore to heaven. "In my mind, the master is as noble as a god!"
The answer of "......" seemed to make Arashi feel even more unhappy, and she walked towards the base without saying a word, and Yihao hurriedly followed behind her.
"Has the master already found the wreck?" Feeling that Lan was really angry, Yihao tried his best to provoke the topic.
“…… Yes, I found it. Arashi looked at him with the rest of her gaze. I'll go down later, and you'll come with you, but there's more important things to do now. ”
"Yes, the more important thing is ......," Yihao asked cautiously.
"Filling your stomach, of course." Arashi turned and stared directly at Yihao's majestic declaration. "How can you fight on an empty stomach!"
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It took Lan two hours to carve out a tunnel more than 100 meters deep in the hard ice, perhaps to replenish her body, and she also ate several times the usual amount of food. Looking at the empty plates that were constantly piled up on the table, everyone's hearts swelled up with deep awe again, but this kind of Lan did not make them feel that their image was shattered, this unpretentious straightforwardness made people feel unusually close, Yihao watched with inexplicable emotion, and the personal guard of the demon slayer master was expanded again.
When Lan finished his meal and was about to go down again, nearly 100 members of the investigation team rushed to follow the master to the front line, and the man with glasses even stood at the front in full diving equipment. As a senior member of the pro-guard, Hong Ling pressed them down, and when Lan said that he planned to go down with Yihao to investigate first, everyone's faces suddenly showed a look of mourning. However, they quickly prepared two sets of underwater equipment to ensure that the master was foolproof.
Since it was impossible to take all the equipment with them, Lan and Yihao chose a simple combination of oxygen cylinders, breathing apparatus, and searchlights, and then prepared to go down from the cave to the wreck.
At first, Yihao was still wondering how Lan climbed up from under the ice, but at this time, he noticed that Lan deliberately kept a bump every meter or so, and it was through the bump that he jumped left and right in the tunnel, so he quickly returned to the ice. And now they want to go down, naturally, they will take the same approach.
Although it was almost unimaginable to ordinary people, the family heirloom talent allowed Yihao to barely keep up with Lan's pace, and the two soon reached the bottom of the ice more than a hundred meters in a near-vertical fall. The light set from overhead was no longer visible, and Yihao used the light of the searchlight to distinguish the outline of the cargo ship ahead. Probably because the power of the ice has gradually diminished to the depths, and there are holes in the ice, and the cargo ship is sealed in these empty ice, and the hull of the ship is tilted at 90 degrees, half of the hull is in the ice, and the other half of the hull is exposed, and there is a little melting sea water underneath.
“…… I always feel as if we are doing something very dangerous...... "Looking at the lifeless freighter in front of him and being locked in the ice, and then looking at the not very solid ice around him, Yihao suddenly worried that if the ice could not withstand the water pressure of more than 100 meters and burst, it might be a hundred times more dangerous than during a storm...
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