Three hours later.

With the help of submarines, Qi Lin and others successfully crossed the Bering Strait and successfully landed in Alaska.

This land once belonged to Russia, but in 1867, not long after the end of the Civil War, Alaska was sold to the United States by Russia for seven million two thousand dollars, which can be said to have successfully promoted the industrialization process of Russia at that time, and the United States also obtained this territory that occupies one-fifth of the country's land area.

Alaska is the largest state in the country, more than one-third of the land is located within the Arctic Circle, and the main landform is dominated by tundra like the Siberian region, while the landing site of Qi Lin is located on the south shore of Norton Bay, near the mouth of the Yukon River.

The group dragged their frozen bodies to the beach, gathered behind a leeward boulder, took out dry food and water from their backpacks, and began to chew on them.

"To be honest...... Harvey swallowed a mouthful of food and said to Qi Lin, "I thought that even if we could come out this time, there wouldn't be a few people left in the end...... I mean, I thought so from the very beginning when I set out at Noah's Ark Stronghold...... I didn't expect to survive so much. ”

Except for Cheng Yanqiu, who never appeared, and Bruce, who was killed by Qi Lin before the operation began, they only lost seven people in this operation - Lin Que, Jiang Shanyan, Akon and Harvis's four men, and the number of people who arrived in Alaska alive was as many as six - Qi Lin, Ayakui, George, cyborg 0592, Harvey, and Qin who was rescued by them.

Given the difficulty of the rescue operation, this result was undoubtedly a success......

Merely......

"We haven't really entered the safe zone yet, and the operation is not over yet, so don't say that too soon." Qi Lin stared at the compressed biscuit in his hand and said, "Judging from the importance of Qin, Xia He's mastermind will not give up the search so easily, if they can't find us in Chukoqi and the Bering Strait, they will definitely further expand the scope of the search, and soon, their traces will also appear here." ”

"So where are we going now? I don't know anything about the follow-up, but you should know more than we do...... The 'boss' claimed response can't it be that there is only such a small unmanned submarine, right? Harvey asked, staring at Qi Lin.

"Honestly, what's the response...... I don't know, but I do know where the safe base is in Alaska, and I think we'll have to go there ourselves. Qi Lin said, spreading out the waterproof map on the rocks, most of their electronic devices were lost or destroyed in the swirling rapids, and the electronic map was also included.

"So far?!"

Harvey only glanced at it, and his face was already a little ugly.

The safe base given by this mastermind is located in Anchorage, the largest city in the whole of Alaska, and Qi Lin wants to go here, that is, there are only two routes.

One is to walk south along the coastline through the Alaska Peninsula, and the other is to climb the towering Alaska Mountains.

The first route is extremely dangerous, and it is likely that the mastermind and organization will send drones to search along the coastline, and the risk of detection in coastal areas is much higher than in inland areas...... The second route, although relatively low in terms of exposure, is very difficult to follow.

The Alaska Mountains are one of the largest mountain ranges in North America, and the main peak, Mount Denali, is the highest peak in North America.

In the old days, due to the influence of the Pacific Ocean Current, the snow line in the Denali Mountains area could be more than 1,800 meters high, but after the nuclear war, the global climate changed drastically, and the Pacific Ocean Warm Current no longer passed through this area, and the radiation clouds absorbed a lot of heat that should have been projected from the sunlight to the ground, resulting in the average temperature in Alaska much lower than the old era, and those places that should have been in the temperate zone now completely show the appearance of a polar region.

The temperature at Qi Lin's landing site alone was more than ten degrees below zero, and as far as the eye could see, there was a snow-capped glacier that stretched out of sight in front of them—that was the Alaska Mountains that they had to climb on this trip.

"How much do we have left?" Qi Lin asked, because of the Shaped Energy Vortex, he was not too afraid of the low temperature environment, and there was no such thing as the Frost Dragon in this area, Qi Lin had no need to suppress the Concentrated Energy Vortex, so he could jump around in the ice and snow even if he was wearing a short-sleeved shorts...... But the others are different, escaping from the undersea prison has consumed a lot of their physical energy, and the cold sea water has taken away a lot of heat, although their combat suits can be used as diving suits, and they also have good thermal insulation performance, but in this case, they are indeed a little thin.

0592 has a thermoregulatory system in his body, so the cold is not too bad for him, but Ayakui, Harvey, and George's bodies are already trembling slightly involuntarily at this time.

George's transformation into a werewolf, or Ayaao's use of her mind to form a vacuum around her, is indeed an effective way to keep out the cold, but the cost of this way of keeping out the cold is too exaggerated to outweigh the benefits......

"There are only three winter suits...... Harveys has already lost his backpack when he was in the undersea prison in order to carry Qin, while the backpacks of Aya Aoi and George were washed away in the whirlpool, and now there are only Qi Lin and 0592 who are still carrying backpacks, 0592's backpack is relatively large, and it is stuffed with twice as many materials, even so, they only made up three winter suits.

One of them must be for Qin who is in a coma, his body functions are now in a state of near stagnation, plus he has been out of the life support cabin, if he does not take good measures to keep warm, his body will soon die due to low temperature, and even if Qi Lin and them reach a safe base, I am afraid there will be no way to wake him up.

As for the remaining two, they were assigned to Harvey and George.

"Is your sister okay?" Harveys asked, holding a winter suit in his hand, as he glanced at Ayakui...... Although he didn't know the true relationship between Aya Aoi and Qi Lin, it was obvious that these two people had known each other before, and looking at the kind of intimacy and tacit understanding between them, it would not be appropriate to say that they were ordinary teammates and friends, and it would not be considered a couple if they were a couple......

Besides, Ayakui looks like a junior high school student's age, and Qi Lin doesn't look like someone with that special fetish.

In view of this situation, Harvey subconsciously regarded Ayakui as Qi Lin's sister, and Qi Lin and Ayakui also acquiesced to his opinion.

"It's okay, I'll use her as a human heater." Qi Lin said, and Ayakui was already wrapped around Qi Lin's body like an octopus, her body clinging to Qi Lin's chest and abdomen, relying on the heat converted by Qi Lin from the concentrated energy vortex to maintain her body temperature.

Since Ayakui can use her mental power to keep herself in a state of floating, Qi Lin will not feel any additional burden, at most, holding a person on his chest will slightly affect his actions.

"Okay...... Harveys looked at them a little strangely, and slipped his thick winter suit on his body.

They've been resting here for half an hour, and if they don't leave, it's likely that the mastermind and organization will expand their search here.

"Let's go, let's go." Glancing at Ayakui, who had shrunk her little head in her arms and closed her eyes to recuperate, Qi Lin gave the order to leave, wrapping Ayakui's waist in one hand and walking forward with an ice axe in the other.

"I don't want to stay in this place at all, to be honest, this place has no shelter at all, and my heart is really unsteady - I always feel that the pursuers will come from the sea at any time......" George said as he followed Qi Lin closely and kept looking back at the sea.

0592 hasn't spoken much, his language ability is still inferior to that of normal humans, and in his mode of thinking, he can't speak without speaking, and superfluous, meaningless language is not necessary, especially in this situation.

Qin's was transferred from Harvis's back to 0592's...... To be precise, it should be 0592's backpack, the big backpack is much larger than other people's backpacks, not only can it put double the supplies and supplies, but it is more than enough to stuff one person.

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"This is Denali National Park, but you have to walk several kilometers to get to the bottom of the mountain." After passing through a rocky beach and an ice field, Qi Lin and the others finally walked in front of a forest.

Merely...... This is a dead forest, even the hardy coniferous forests cannot tolerate the extremely low temperatures, and the water in the permafrost has turned to ice, which cannot be absorbed by the roots of the trees, and the forest died years ago, leaving only countless crooked withered branches standing in the snow.

Denali National Park, the second largest park in the country after the famous Yellowstone Park, once had vast grasslands and lush mountain forests, but after being swept away by almost endless snowstorms and extreme cold of minus tens of degrees, these landscapes that attracted countless tourists in the past are gone, and only snow and ice, ice and snow and ice remain.

In order to prevent snow blindness, the team members all wore a pair of brown windproof goggles, and on their feet, they stepped on snow equipment similar to sleds, and struggled to move forward on a white snowfield.

This kind of polar scenery can't be said to be spectacular, but now, Qi Lin and they are not in the mood to appreciate it at all.

The weather is barely clear...... But know that snowstorms are a common occurrence here, and they have to get to the base of the mountain before the blizzard arrives...... Qin's state was not optimistic, and the longer he delayed, the less likely it was that his consciousness would recover.

Qi Lin didn't want the people he had desperately brought out of that undersea prison...... In the end, he will be a vegetative person who will never wake up - if this is the way it ends, then all the efforts made before that are pointless.

In addition to the blizzard, they also need to watch out for predators that hide in the snow and ice - the cold kills most of the wildlife that once lived in Denali National Park, but those who do survive are made stronger......

During the war, Alaska once became the largest advance base of the US army in the Arctic Circle, and the military significance here is self-evident, and as a key target, hostile forces also dumped a large number of nuclear and dirty bombs on this land...... Therefore, it would not be surprising what kind of mutated creature Qi Lin could evolve here...... Of course, don't come across anything of the Frost Dragon's level......

"It looks like it's getting dark...... George walked and looked up at the sky, only to see that the sky that had been a leaden gray color had now become very close to black, although it was only less than three o'clock in the afternoon, but the night on the wasteland had already begun to fall.

Coupled with the fact that it is close to the Arctic Circle, the days will get shorter after the autumnal equinox, and the nights will be the opposite.

"I recommend resting." 0592, who had not made much noise, said in a muffled voice, the night temperature on the wasteland is extremely low, and in this ice field area, it can reach below minus 50 degrees casually, plus some mutated creatures that like to lurk at night, the night is obviously more dangerous than the day.

"I agree." Qi Lin nodded, and although Qin didn't have much time left, after weighing and comparing it with the risks of moving on, Qi Lin decided to rest in place for the night and wait until dawn the next day to continue his journey.

Although Harvey was a little reluctant, he also knew how risky it was to walk at night, so he didn't say anything, but took off the shovel behind his back and began to dig in the snow.

A rectangular snow pit two meters deep, five meters long, and two meters wide was quickly dug out by several people, and Qi Lin covered a canvas on top of the snow pit, which was erected with tree branches underneath, and covered with a thick layer of snow and stepped on it with his feet, and a temporary shelter had begun to take shape.

All six of them have burrowed into this snow pit, where the heat loss from their bodies will be greatly reduced enough to sustain them through this deadly night.

The only remaining small marching pot was placed on the induction cooker, Qi Lin took out a few large pieces of chocolate that were as hard as stones from his pocket and threw them into the pot, and as the temperature rose, the chocolate began to melt slowly, exuding an attractive fragrance.

"Hah...... At this time, you can actually drink a cup of hot cocoa, which is not a loss. Although his body was very tired, George seemed to be in a good mood now, and even Harveys's tense face relaxed a lot.

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