Chapter 177: Trouble
Li Han hesitated for a moment, flew to a ravine in the glacier and landed, and began to think about how to dig the ice and how to determine which location was the thousand-year-old ice. The previous problems were all about how to get to glaciers or icebergs, but he didn't think about mining, and he didn't think that he didn't know anything about geology, and even if he did get ice, he didn't know when it was formed.
The preparation is too inadequate, is he going to violently mine and then move a piece of ice a few meters or even tens of meters thick back?
Li Han was helpless, the boat he saw had already docked, and more than a dozen people got down and down the boat, carrying all kinds of equipment, although they were far away, Li Han still recognized the Chinese characters written on their clothes at a glance.
It was the Arctic expedition team from Huang Guo, they must know how to distinguish the age of ice cubes, and they must know how to pick ice!
Li Han watched them get busy, thought about it for a while, and summoned the flying sword again to fly back to the car. He really made a mistake today, he shouldn't have rented a car, he should have gotten a boat or rented a plane or something, just to get a piece of ice, at most others looked at him with the eyes of a tyrant or a psychopath, and there was nothing to keep secret.
It's just that now he doesn't want to go back to the city to change transportation, anyway, he just needs to drive to catch up with the Huangguo scientific expedition team, and then ask them to help take a piece of thousand-year-old ice or teach him to identify the thousand-year-old ice. If you're lucky, you might be able to return to Tromsø today to meet Lydia.
When they drove cautiously to the place where the expedition team was, they had all stopped what they were doing and quietly lay behind an ice ridge to watch something. Li Han stopped the car from a distance, walked over and leaned down and poked his head out. It turned out that there was a huge ice cave more than 200 meters away from them, and an adult polar bear was climbing up the ice with a seal in its mouth, biting the ground full of blood, like a murder scene.
How can you miss such a scene? Li Han hurriedly took out the camera and started shooting. Although his camera is not a professional-level product, the pixel is not low, and the video is very clear, which is suitable for a novice like him.
Although they are all wearing thick winter coats, ordinary people still can't stand the biting cold when lying on the ice, especially the weak abdomen that touches the ice. Someone in the expedition team couldn't help but sneeze, although they covered their mouth and nose in time. It still alarmed the polar bear that was eating not far away. It drops the food in its mouth. Glancing back, he turned and fled.
"Ou ......" everyone groaned in unison, their voices full of regret. It was only then that they found a stranger in the ranks. After glancing at each other. The middle-aged man who looked like the captain of the team asked in English, "Excuse me." Is the gentleman visiting Svalbard? ”
Li Han shook his hand with a smile and said in Chinese: "My name is Li Han, and I am a Chinese medicine doctor. I came to Svalbard to mine a piece of 1,000-year-old ice, but I didn't know anything about geology. As he spoke, there was a hint of shame on his face.
"Millennial ice?" Everyone looked at him curiously, and a young team member couldn't help but ask, "Is it a medicinal herb?" It can't be a practice, right? It's like the kind written in martial arts novels, internal skills that can only be practiced on a thousand years of ice. ”
Li Han laughed and said, "I just saw an ancient recipe that needs to use thousand-year-old ice, and I happened to travel to Norway with my girlfriend, so I planned to pick a piece by the way." You know, I'm just a Chinese medicine practitioner, not a martial arts master. ”
Thousands of years of ice into medicine or something, no matter how mysterious it is, it can't compare to martial arts, hearing him say this, everyone's interest faded, and said: "The ice in the Arctic has also melted badly in recent years, at least it will be difficult to collect thousand-year-old ice in this place." You should also be careful, it is better to use a long stick to explore the way like us, the ice is so strained that you may fall into the ice cave if you are not careful. ”
Isn't it north enough? Li Han frowned: "I always thought that the entire Arctic Circle was covered with thick ice, but when I arrived, I realized that the sea area here was large enough to drive a boat." ”
Everyone smiled bitterly, the earth has warmed for so many years, the ice in this place can hardly stand people, and even polar bears can't see a few, didn't you have to use an icebreaker to come over twenty years ago.
So, should he still get a boat or a plane? Li Han thought for a while and asked, "Is there a place to rent a boat or plane in Svalbard?" ”
Everyone looked at each other, and the captain shook his head: "The inhabitants of Svalbard are only 3ooo people, the scientific expedition team has its own boat, and the tour group also stops at Svalbard, and further north, ordinary ships are likely to be frozen in the sea, which is a very dangerous thing, whether the plane is flying or landing, it is also easy to have accidents." ”
"Am I going to come for nothing?" Li Han said unwillingly. He looked at the members of the expedition team, suddenly remembered, and asked, "You should also go further north, right?" Is there any country where the expedition team is temporarily suspended? I wonder if I can rent their boat for a few days? Money is not an issue. ”
Listening to his tone of "the lord is not bad for money", it makes people envious, jealous and hateful. The members of the scientific expedition team immediately regarded him as a rich second generation who "has money and doesn't need to work, so he only needs to study some strange ancient recipes according to his own interests", but fortunately, he has a gentle personality and does not speak annoyingly, and he is just stating a fact when he says this, and he does not mean much pride.
The captain thought for a while and said: "I have to ask about this, the harsh winter has just passed, and it is time for the scientific expedition teams of various countries to start working at sea, I am afraid that it is unlikely that ships can be rented." However, our ship will also go a little north in two days, so if you are not in a hurry, you can come with us. ”
Of course, Li Han would be happy to take a ride, but Lydia was still waiting for him in Tromsø. He hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to take the flying sword to figure it out, so he said: "I'd better figure it out by myself, but I want to trouble you to teach me how to distinguish the year of the ice cube, I don't know anything about this at all." ”
Since the other party insisted, they naturally no longer reluctantly, and sent someone to explain the relevant geological knowledge to Li Han, and the rest of the team members continued to work, they had already delayed a lot of time.
Li Han didn't need to learn much advanced or extensive knowledge, he just needed to distinguish what kind of characteristics were thousand-year-old ice, and it didn't take him too long. In order to express his gratitude, Li Han ran to the side of the car and pretended to take something out of the travel bag, but in fact, he took a big bag of Yali pears from the space: "There are no fresh vegetables in this place, I brought them all the way to change the taste for you." ”
"It's so well preserved." In this desolate area full of ice and snow, you can also see very fresh Ya pear, yellow and clear fragrance, very attractive. Everyone was very surprised, and thanked them without words, "Thank you so much, God knows that we want to vomit after eating frozen meat and canned food all winter." "It's not that there are no fresh vegetables and fruits, but there are really few of them, and there are few of them and there are few varieties.
Li Han waved goodbye to them, got into the car, moved the car, and drove towards the city. He had already dismissed the plan of renting a plane or a ship, but it was impossible for him to drive north in front of the scientific expedition team, so he could only pretend to go back to the city, hide the car after leaving their line of sight, and drive the flying sword all the way north.
The cold wind is biting, Li Han feels that it is necessary to study something similar to the wind shield after going back, the legendary swordsman can't be exposed to the wind and sun when he flies around every day, right? Fortunately, it's not so easy for him to catch a cold now. Although the flying sword could not catch up with the plane, after flying for two hours, it also reached an area completely covered with ice, and there were more animals such as polar bears and arctic foxes, unlike in Svalbard, where you may not see one in a day.
In fact, there is not only ice here, the harsh winter has passed, and occasionally you can still see a little lichen moss and the like, under the rock, Li Han saw an arctic fox from a distance out of the hole, ready to hunt. As the weather warms up and food increases, it's time for the Arctic animals to start having children.
Li Han was far away from the entrance of the cave, it was not easy for the small animals to survive, and he didn't want to alarm them because he picked ice by himself, especially since there was probably a newborn fox in the cave.
The thick ice on the sea surface stretched for miles, and Li Han could see some icebergs that were tens of meters thick, and the cut surface was not as crystal clear and free of impurities as he imagined. And he, a layman, can only rely on these impurities to distinguish the age of an ice cube, and he can't tell that the ice has been frozen for hundreds of years just by looking at it like an insider.
Holding the flying sword, he observed the iceberg little by little, and found a part that was at least more than a thousand years old, and Li Han began to drill holes in it with a knife. The thousand-year-old ice is harder than the rock, and if he chisels a little, he will probably get all the powder of ice, so he can only dig holes in the ice first, and use the charm as a bomb to make a fixed-point blast to blow up a large enough piece.
This is not too difficult for him, but the ice is not a rock after all, and he was happy to hold the ice cube after the explosion, and Li Han realized that he was in trouble: the iceberg actually cracked a little bit, and the crack spread to all sides.
Damn, this iceberg isn't going to crack completely, is it? It's not a cartoon, which is too exaggerated......
Li Han hurriedly flew up with his sword, like this, an iceberg that is several miles or even tens of miles long, and has been stored for thousands of years, I don't know how many animals are alive on it, if it really cracks, even if it is only partially cracked, I am afraid it will affect the survival of the animals.
What to do? Li Han lowered his height to search for animal nests that might be involved in the cracks, and the six perches and the young birds that couldn't fly were only afraid that they would suffer. (To be continued......)
ps: I went to clean my teeth today, and I feel so sour after cleaning...... I simply don't want them anymore
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