Chapter 218: Ice Age 1 (Part I)

Under the auspices of Wang Xingguo, the convoy moved again, the Angel number explored the way in front of the convoy, because it was equipped with a hand-held small detector, the transmission power was not large, so it could not fly too high, the Angel was almost attached to the ground, and the highest flight height did not exceed 3 meters, Wang Xingguo looked intently at the underground picture transmitted back by the Angel in real time on the flagship, and also observed the surrounding environment, and found the possible underground cavity and the surrounding landslide in time. Fortunately, Xia Ruobing also helped on the side and shared part of the work.

Dick enjoyed the service of others, he only interjected a few words occasionally, and most of the time he half-lay on the comfortable seat of the flagship, chatting with Xia Ruobing without a pair.

Although the convoy restarted, but the speed was not much faster, which was mainly dragged down by the snow plow, the whole convoy only Unimog No. 1 had a snow shovel, after turning into the ice lake area, the snow here accumulates all year round, thicker than the original snow on the plains, and the snow in some places even exceeds two meters, even if it is the inheritance of excellent German quality, the Unimog is proud of its durability, and it is inevitable that there will be some mechanical failures under such a full power and long-term work.

In order to ensure that the convoy can not stop moving, the mechanical group strictly stipulates that Unimog 1 must stop for two hours to let the engine recover for half an hour, and at the same time overhaul, and according to Dick's requirements, the car can be parked but not stopped, and at this time almost everyone will use the most primitive way to open the road, but even if even the security team is added, half an hour can only shovel out less than 100 meters of the road.

When Unimog 1 needed to stop for maintenance for the third time, Chen Badai overheard the conversation of the mechanical group, the power of Unimog 1's engine was seriously depleted, in order to find the problem, the mechanical team asked to stop moving forward for 2 hours, and they had to overhaul Unimog 1 well.

"Nope! Two hours? That's an exaggeration! Dick rejected the suggestion, "If Unimog 1 can't walk, let it stop at the rear for maintenance, and change the snow plow to Unimog 2 and 3...... In short, I don't care what method you use, we must keep moving forward, forward! ”

Replacing the snow shovel was not an easy task, and now that Dick had spoken, the mechanics had no choice but to remove the heavy snow shovel from the Unimog 1 and then find a way to install it on the Unimog 2, while the Unimog 1 was parked behind, and when it turned off the engine, it was found that there was no way to start it again anyway, and the maintenance team frantically tried to keep it running again.

"Where is this where people should be?" Chen Badai muttered. At the moment of changing the snow shovel and overhauling the engine, only manpower could clear the snow, Chen Badai looked around, and a chill couldn't help but come out of his heart.

In the cold winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and it is already completely dark at this time, and people have already burrowed into the warm quilt at this time, but Chen Badai is wielding a shovel and exposing himself to the wilderness at minus 40 °! It's not a comfortable experience.

Wang Xingguo scanned the two kilometers of road ahead with the angel number back and forth 3 times, until now, the glacier subsidence that Dilma is worried about has not yet appeared, the echo of the angel number shows that the stratum is very solid, all of them are some permafrost layers, this kind of stratum cannot be cultivated, and even it is difficult for an electric drill to make a hole, although some cavities are also shown in some places, but as long as the ground thickness is more than 1 meter, there is no problem with passing through tanks, let alone vehicles.

The convoy travels at a speed of about 8 to 10 kilometers per hour on the road with snow plows, and as long as it passes through this most difficult part of the glacial lake and enters the core area, the snow will cause much less trouble for itself, so that the speed can be lifted.

Wang Xingguo uploaded the route detected by the angel number on the electronic map, and the vehicles could move forward strictly according to the marked route to avoid making mistakes, and all the vehicles stopped at this time. When the time for "exercise" came, Wang Xingguo saw that there was nothing on the flagship, and was ready to get out of the car to shovel snow.

Seeing this, Xia Ruobing also prepared to get out of the car.

"Honey, let someone else do that rough work, I don't want your delicate hands to be rough." Dick stretched out his hand and pulled Xia Ruobing, without the slightest scruple about Wang Xingguo's presence.

"No, I need to get some air." Xia Ruobing rejected Dick's kindness, and she felt that it made her uncomfortable to be alone with Dick.

"He's really golden and amorous!" After getting out of the car, Wang Xingguo took a shovel from the shelf behind the car and said.

"Wang Xingguo, what do you mean?" Xia Ruobing's face was gloomy.

"I'm not interesting." Wang Xingguo said curtly, the hand holding the shovel stopped in mid-air awkwardly, he just wanted to find a topic casually.

"Then you just shut up!" Xia Ruobing took the shovel from the shelf and glared at Wang Xingguo fiercely.

"The light egg is right, she is not good at serving." Wang Xingguo muttered in a low voice, took a shovel and followed behind Xia Ruobing.

"Dog, how long do you think this day will end?" Seeing Wang Xingguo join the team of shoveling snow, Chen Badai complained in a low voice.

"The terrain is so bad that if the vehicle can work properly, it will take about 30 hours to pass through this glacial belt, and the road behind will be easy to walk." Wang Xingguo said.

"30 hours! I wish all the cars were lying on their stomachs so we could go back. Chen Badai pursed his lips.

"Dick, we have to stop and rest, a lot of people have collapsed." Seeing that this was not a solution, Mr. Min went directly to the flagship and said to Dick.

Dick was the only one who did not participate in the snow shoveling, and he stayed in the warm flagship, whose powerful engine drove the air conditioning and kept the cabin at a constant temperature of more than 25 degrees.

"These damn guys!" Dick cursed.

"Let's rest for an hour, change to a snow shovel, and we'll set off again." Mr. Min persuaded him that he was even more afraid that the high-intensity exertion would cause people to mutiny, and that without the support of these staff, it would be impossible for them to reach their destination.

At this time, the feelings of complaint and anger spread among the staff, although Dick paid a lot of money, but the contract did not stipulate that the staff needed to participate in such manual labor, and there were many people engaged in scientific research, who were usually powerless, and it was too torturous for them to shovel snow.

"Alright, let's rest for an hour, urge the mechanical group to hurry up, the three Unimog must be able to function properly!" Dick was a little helpless, and Mr. Min's worries were unreasonable.

Unimog as an engineering and logistics vehicle, Dick is required to install all snow shovels, but first, the snow shovel components are insufficient, and secondly, the red dragon disturbance is a little unprepared, and the mechanical group can only be equipped with one set of desperate work before departure, but the reality is so, how Dick curses these mechanical group people can't change.

When they learned they didn't need to shovel snow, most people dropped their shovels on the spot and went back to their vehicles to enjoy a rare break. Since their departure, they have not rested for nearly 30 hours, and in such a harsh environment, many of them have been physically exhausted and their mental stress has reached the limit.

By the time the convoy started moving again, it was already two hours later, and in the dark of night, the Unimog 2 engine roared to the front of the convoy, squeezing the last of the vehicle's potential and pushing away the thick snowdrifts.

Everyone seems to be accustomed to the roar of the Unimock diesel engine, as a work car, this car has no comfort at all, but such a harsh terrain, even the G63 six-wheeled version of the car known for the off-road world, is not comfortable, but under extreme fatigue, people can no longer care about the bumps and noise, everyone collapsed on the seat, and fell asleep with the bumps.

Xia Ruobing didn't return to the flagship, she would rather squeeze a car with Sherpa and them, there were some things she wanted to avoid, but Dick didn't seem to care about other people's strange eyes, on the contrary, she enjoyed it a little.

Xia Ruobing was also tired enough, and fell asleep in a daze with her head tilted in her seat, with the roar of Unimog's diesel engine in her ears. I don't know how long it took, Xia Ruobing felt that the car had stopped, and the roaring diesel engine had also lowered its voice.

Xia Ruobing moved her body and heard the sound of Sherpa pushing the car door and getting out of the car, but her eyelids seemed to be glued and she didn't want to open them.

"Stand back, stand back, you can't get through here!" In front of Unimog 2, a huge rock stood in front of it.

It is almost impossible to move at high altitude in the glacial area, and you can only find the road in the ravines left by the glacier, but the geology left by the glacier is not stable, and judging from the traces of this stone, it fell from it in only a few days, and there are hundreds of tons of boulders that have smashed a deep mark on the permafrost, which happens to block this narrow road.

"Go back? How is that possible? When Dick learned that the road was not working, he was so angry that he almost jumped up.

"But...... We can't move this stone! The Technic explained.

"It's just a rock! Just a stone! Dick yelled.

"Dick, we have some explosives, maybe we can blow up a road." Robert Lee made a suggestion.

"Then do it!" Dick didn't care how he got through, as long as he could.

"A man with a bad temper, right?" Robert Lee shrugged his shoulders at Wang Xingguo and asked.

"He's not in a good temper." Wang Xingguo watched the security team carry the explosives from the vehicle, glanced at Robert Lee beside him, and replied.

"You were a soldier?" Robert Lee is interested in the young man in front of him, and now is an opportunity to get to know each other.