After some contact, Xia Ren briefly understood the other party's situation.

This is a rescue team composed of eleven people, in this ice and snow polar region, the machinery and equipment are very prone to failure, and because of the ice storm that will appear at any time, no matter what kind of plane, it is impossible to travel too long under the huge ice cloud, so they are riding in a sled, a total of eight, loaded with all kinds of supplies, and even some scientific equipment, pulled by 60 energetic huskies.

The leader of the team was a professor in his fifties, surnamed Qin, who looked unkind under a thick thermal suit with a gray beard exposed.

Hearing Xia Ren and Ranaya tell what happened to them, Professor Qin made no secret of his disgust:

"Do you treat this place as a child's play!"

He yelled in the cold wind.

Lanaya was taken aback by his reaction and unconsciously leaned closer to Xia Ren's side.

Although Xia Ren didn't understand why this old man was so angry with strangers, their hope of surviving was now all on each other, so he just smiled and explained: "We didn't see the mirage clearly, and we were chased here by the storm later, and we had to meet you, otherwise I really don't know what to do." ”

It was only a moment of effort, and Xia Ren and his current wife Lanaya were already shivering from the cold, and a thin layer of ice crystals had fallen on their hair.

Professor Qin's face softened a lot, he forgot to glance at his surroundings, looked at his companion behind him, frowned, and said, "You can't go back now, can you?" ”

Being able to ask this sentence means that he has ideas to help the two of them.

Xia Ren nodded repeatedly: "Yes, our car can't start normally, and we don't have anything to grasp the direction, and we've been trapped for hours." ”

When she said this, because of the cold, Ranaya had already taken the initiative to lean up, grabbed his arm, hugged him in her arms, and echoed: "If you can, can you please help us, no matter how much money we can accept!" ”

The wind seemed to be stronger, and with every breath, the cold poured into the lungs, bringing a strong stimulus, and when they came out, they were only wearing ordinary cotton clothes, and now they were a little unbearable.

Professor Qin lowered his head and hesitated for a moment, then said loudly: "It is not easy for us to prepare for this operation, it is impossible to return because of you!" ”

"But ......"

Lanaya said anxiously.

Professor Qin continued: "It's impossible to send you back, but I can let you follow the team and go inside together, if you don't agree, no matter how merciful I am, I can only leave you behind." Decide, you only have two minutes to think about it. ”

Staying where you are is only dying, following this rescue team, you can still have a chance to survive, the situation can't help but Xia Ren and them choose, he agreed without thinking: "No problem!" ”

"That's good. Since you have decided to follow the team, then say in advance that everything must be listened to me, and if you dare to disobey orders and act without permission, I will still leave you behind! ”

Professor Qin probably admired Xia Ren's decisiveness, waved his hand to the team members behind him, and said, "Xiaowen, find them two sets of clothes, gloves and shoes, and explain the precautions, I don't want them to slow down the team's march!" ”

The matter was settled, and the team named Xiaowen took out two sets of special clothes from the materials on the sleigh and gave them them, from underwear to warm clothes, coats, thick coats with five or six layers, counting shoes, etc., there were a lot of things that needed to be worn, but the team was full of men, and the underwear was much thicker than the average, and there were no ladies', all of them were big pants.

Although it was an emergency and she didn't have to worry about so many details, Lanaya was a woman after all, and it was impossible to change her clothes in full view.

Xia Ren returned to the car with her, changed her clothes, and Lanaya also stuffed the three packs of cookies into the pocket of the inner layer of clothes, and then came out.

Then, the team headed towards the depths of the Infinity Ice Field!

……

……

"Husband, you can eat my half of it."

Inside the tent, Lanaya handed the canned food box that was still steaming faintly hot in her hand to Xia Ren.

Xia Ren looked at the can in her hand and her weak face, hesitated for a moment, and reached out to scrape the bridge of her nose, in memory, this was a frequent interaction between Lin Xiao and her.

"You're not feeling well during this time, if you can't eat, then I'll feed you."

According to Lin Xiao's original memory, Lanaya's menstrual period was also in these days, and when she camped tonight, she insisted on living alone in a tent with herself, which could be seen that in order to save resources, they were all five or six people sleeping together, Professor Qin was a cold-faced and kind-hearted person, and when he saw it, he agreed.

The two had been following the team for two days, and had seen nothing but the vast expanse of snow and ice.

Adapting to the cold weather wasn't easy, and as a member of the team, they also needed to help with the work, which added to Lanaya's discomfort.

There was no such thing as sanitary napkins in the team, and Lanaya could only tear them with the clothes she had changed before, and put them on first, so you can imagine how uncomfortable she was.

Under Xia Ren's supervision, Ranaya ate the rest of the canned food, Xia Ren took her changed underwear and walked out of the tent, there was no hot water here, he could only wash it with snow, and after a while, his hands were red from the cold, as if they were not his own.

Overhead, there is still a thick layer of ice, and there is no starlight, and the huskies on the side are still full of vitality after a tiring day, playing in the snow.

A husky suddenly raised its head and let out a wolf howl at the sky.

"Whew"

Soon after, other huskies followed suit.

In the cold wind, the howling of dogs came and went, bringing a trace of life to this desolate ice field.

"Go to sleep."

Xia Ren touched Lanaya's head, there was no fever, and retracted his sleeping bag with confidence.

The lights went out, but he couldn't fall asleep for a while.

In the past two days, he has slowly figured out who the rescue object of this team is, and by the way, he also recalled that when he was in school, in geography class, the teacher mentioned a history of the big **.

Due to the extreme climate and huge area, the Infinity Ice Sheet has always been shrouded in a veil of mystery in front of the world, and it is rumored that it is frozen with countless fossils of ancient creatures and rich minerals.

With the development of human science and technology, until 1040, organized by the Supreme Union government, a large number of scientific research experts in various specialties gathered to find out.

These include paleontologists, geologists, physicists, meteorologists, all of whom are leaders in academia, so you can imagine what kind of uproar it will cause when these people come together.

Even though the danger was extremely great, there were still countless scholars who signed up to participate in this exploration operation, but in the end, only eight professors remained, plus 20 assistants, of whom 18 were able to fly most of the vehicles including airplanes and ships, 16 were proficient in various equipment, 8 had professional knowledge of survival in the field, and 3 were competent in communication problems.

Among the equipment they carried were two assembled aircraft designed and manufactured by Sonic Company, each capable of carrying two people together, with state-of-the-art vertical lift technology, which did not require a runway and could be used in a polar environment, as well as drilling machines and various detectors for the detection of mineral veins and fossils, satellite-independent communication base stations for communication, and various camp materials. Entering the ice field in two stages is to use two special trucks weighing 20 tons to carry the equipment for a long distance, one of which carries equipment and the other is full of fuel, and then leaves enough fuel for the return journey, abandons the vehicle, turns into a sled and carries the equipment to continue the journey, and returns with only the results of the vehicle.

It took the Supreme Alliance government more than half a year just to gather these personnel, and such a meticulous plan was almost foolproof.

Originally, everything went well, and while placing the communication base station, it moved forward, and finally arrived at a mountain range, but then, the scientific research team lost contact with the outside world, and the communication base station was damaged for some reason.

According to the news that Xia Ren got in the past two days, this well-known scientific research team had set off two months ago and had been missing for half a month.

And the rescue team he is staying in now does not belong to the official, but is personally prepared by Professor Qin, who is a geologist, and the rescue team that really comes from the official will take another week to set off, and he can't wait so long.

Because one of the researchers is none other than Professor Qin's wife, a biologist who is one of the eight scientists, Qu Lanzhi.

In this team, three members are Professor Qin's students, and as they say, when Qu Shiniang wanted to participate, Professor Qin strongly opposed it.

Because the situation of the Infinity Ice Sheet is so special, even if global warming has lasted for two hundred years, the average temperature of the Blue Star as a whole has risen by nearly one degree, and the Infinity Ice Sheet has not been affected in the slightest, which means that in its center, there is absolutely something that can affect the temperature of a wide range of environments, and any attempt is absolutely dangerous before human beings have completely figured out the cause.

This is probably the reason why he was angry with the two of them in the first place.

It turns out that Professor Qin is right, because even now, more than 60 years later, the Infinity Ice Sheet is still shrouded in ice clouds, and there is no record of successful exploration by mankind until now.

In history, this scientific research team, which once represented the top scientific and technological strength of mankind, was permanently frozen in the Infinity Ice Field.

In the five years that followed, the Supreme Union government carried out a total of eight rescues, and there were countless civilian rescues of all kinds, large and small, but the results were always the same.

No one survived.

Professor Qin's team is probably one of the countless losing teams.