It was noon on December 3, but the sky of the polar night was eerily dark and full of untimely stars.

Wrangel Island is located at 71°14 north latitude and 179°25 W longitude, and the island once had a military airfield runway, military radar facilities, and even a mine, but it was abandoned soon after it was built. The village of Ukhakovskoye is on the southern coast, and the naval base is next to this former small settlement.

The site consists of a complete set of 34 prefabricated modular buildings, in which hundreds of people from two countries are currently active.

Yesterday, Gu Jun and the five of them arrived at the Metzschmidt military base, and when the weather conditions allowed today, they came by helicopter, successfully flew over the distance of more than 200 kilometers, and landed on the tarmac of the base. Now that the sea is almost frozen, the ship is no longer suitable for navigation, and icebreakers are needed to open the way.

The wind howled, and five people stepped out of the helicopter one after another, all dressed in heavy warm expedition suits and carrying a bag of luggage.

The temperature that was still maintained in the helicopter cabin had been destroyed by the strong wind, and as soon as Gu Jun stepped on the ice and snow on this island, he suddenly felt a blast of cold to the bone, and his face wrapped in a hood and mask was still painful from the cold wind, and his eyes could hardly be opened.

It's cold. Didn't he grow up in the north, and it was the first time in his life that he felt such a cold, more than minus 20 degrees......

But it's not just cold, the humidity is also very high, and it's often foggy, so it's nicknamed "Kirishima".

The cold mist and moisture seemed to penetrate through the thick thermal suit, seeping into his skin and also penetrating into his lungs through the respiratory tract, and he had to work harder and harder after a few breaths, and his breathing was a little difficult, his chest was tight, and his nose and airways felt a faint tingling.

"Ah......" Uncle Dan next to him has been shivering a few times with cold, and when he first arrives here, it seems that he is even more uncomfortable than being in the stone road for a few days.

"I'm really going to have some vodka." Lou Xiaoning muttered, it's not a place where people live, it's dark and cold, 7,600 square kilometers, and the further north you go, the worse it will be.

"It's so white." Wu Shiyu looked at the ice and snow around him at night, and felt like looking at a piece of color when he was training in the whole area.

Staying in this environment for a long time leads to the Ganzfield effect – seeing hallucinations and mental changes.

"Whoever is uncomfortable must not hold up." Xue Ba said to everyone, puffing out the muscles of his whole body, but his bearded square face was already cold and red.

Winter in the Arctic Circle is a great test of spirit, but also of the body. If they have enough time, they all need to get some training first. And a terminally ill person like Gu Jun should not set foot on this land. But now everything can't go as usual.

Just in front of the helicopter, there was a group of more than a dozen people waiting to greet him.

Among them, there are several "Arctic Wolves" from the exploration team of the Tianji Bureau here, Captain Yu Xiaoyong, and Deputy Captain Zhang Xiaoqi. The Arctic Wolves are a massive mobile task force formed on an improvised basis to cope with this mission. There are all kinds of personnel in the team, and professional Arctic explorers are indispensable.

Next to the captain and the others are the personnel of the Rus' National Security Bureau, where they are the hosts, and all the members of the Tianji Bureau are guests.

The leader of the Rus' side is called Ivanov-Mstislav, a middle-aged Rus's man, with a beard and muscles on his face that are more exaggerated than Xue Ba, like a brown bear.

"Captain Yu." Xue Ba took the lead and walked up again, calling out in a not-so-standard Rus's language, "kaпntahctncлaвa." ”

Although he is not proficient, Xue Ba knows how to speak many languages.

"Captain Xue!" But Mstislav, who was called, responded in a non-standard Chinese, and the brown bear hunk did not lose in language.

At the moment, everyone knew each other, and when Gu Jun was introduced, everyone's eyes were quite curious, especially Yu Xiaoyong.

For no other reason, Gu Jun is too young, but the order passed down from the bureau is to ask them to cooperate with him to carry out work, which is centered on Gu Jun. However, Yu Xiaoyong has seen some information about Gu Jun and knows what kind of extrasensory perception he has, "special spiritual power".

"I'll take you to the dormitory building first." Mstislav greeted him warmly, "Go in and have a little wine to slow down." ”

Although Gu Jun was anxious to take a look around, he knew that the procedures that should be taken still had to be taken, and going to the dormitory building to settle down was one of them.

And they can't be in a hurry, they already knew what the situation was here before they set off. The island was so big and the weather was so bad that the Arctic Wolf team didn't even know where to look, so the work came to a standstill.

The dormitory building is the largest barracks in the area, with separate barracks-style dormitories for men and women, with electricity and heating, but these energy sources must be saved.

The base had enough supplies to survive a month with thirty Alaskan Malamutes, and they could support the opposite coast, but nothing was certain.

After settling down, Gu Jun immediately asked to start exploring. Captain Yu took the five of them out and took a team of snowmobiles to the west.

After a short time, the deserted village of Ukhakovskoye appeared in the snow ahead, and Captain Yu explained: "It has been like this for many years, and the Rus' people do not clean it up themselves, nor do they let others clean it up." ”

Gu Jun has seen the information and knows that this is the case.

In the light of the headlights, I saw some dilapidated telephone poles hanging down on the snow, and the messy power lines connected to some dilapidated low wooden houses, and the snow had not yet completely covered all kinds of garbage on the ground, especially the discarded oil drums that had long been eroded by rust.

The surroundings are still snow-white, connected to the rolling mountains in the distance, stretching endlessly.

"There's a polar bear." As soon as the snowmobile convoy stopped, Wu Shiyu pointed out the direction for everyone, and Gu Jun turned his head to look.

Sure enough, when he saw a strong polar bear, he lowered his head and walked next to a dilapidated house less than twenty meters away, and it glanced at them and turned away.

Why...... Gu Jun frowned, and had a strange feeling, as if the polar bear had been waiting there for a long time, waiting for him to come......

The wind was rumbling, except for the silence around them, he could kind of hear the sound of his own blood flowing, was his spirit affected?

"Captain Yu, I want to go over and see that house." He said anyway.

The polar bear had already run away, and there was no need to chase it away. The next group walked over, it was a very ordinary old rotten wooden house, less than 30 square meters, the roof was about to collapse under the snow, but it had been here for decades.

The door of the wooden house was half-rotten and half-hidden, Gu Jun reached out and pushed it open, flashlight, and looked inside the house.

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