Volume 1 The Death of the Earth Chapter 85 Antarctica
When Shi Hao heard Wu Yi's words, he felt that things were not simple, and immediately asked, "What happened?" ”
Wu Yi began to talk about the ins and outs of the matter.
After the global climate became extremely harsh, the ice and snow in Antarctica melted, and the average temperature there reached more than 30 degrees, and the Antarctic continent has become the largest swamp in the world.
In order to have a deeper understanding of the changes in Antarctica, Huaguo sent a scientific expedition team deep into the hinterland of Antarctica, and one day suddenly cut off contact.
The above realized the seriousness of the problem, and after discussion, it was decided to let Shi Hao lead the team to investigate the situation and act at the opportunity.
After listening to Wu Yi's speech, Shi Hao felt that things were not simple, so he rushed to Wu Yunfa to bring twenty biological charging treasures, and then went home and took Jupiter to fly towards the Panlong base on his own special frisbee, and informed Wang Youcai, Xu Wucheng and others on the way that Wang Youcai was fully responsible for the work of Haoshi Group during this time, and drafted a notice stamped with a personal exclusive electronic seal and issued to a few of them.
When they arrived at the Panlong base, Wu Yi was already waiting there, Wang Ping, Mickey, Laura, Big Man, Black Feather, Wufeng and the carrier pigeon were all ready to go.
They came to the conference room, and Lu Wei began to explain the situation in Antarctica.
"After the ice and snow in Antarctica melted more than a decade ago, the temperature has risen, and the current climate conditions are similar to those of the earth's tropical rainforests 40 years ago, which are humid and rainy."
"It is estimated that one-third of the Antarctic continent is currently a normal surface feature due to its high altitude, two-thirds of the area is partially submerged at sea level, and a large part is turned into marshland."
"From the satellite, most of the Antarctic is shrouded in dense fog all year round, and due to this reason, the Antarctic light is further reduced, and although the vegetation is gradually increasing, most of it is dwarf plants, and the number of animal species is also gradually increasing."
"Because the first scientific expedition team we sent was in danger, the Antarctic information obtained was extremely limited, and the fog also limited the effect of satellite reconnaissance, so we need to act when you get there, and the Antarctic is currently in the polar daylight period, which provides us with a lot of convenience."
After Lu Wei finished speaking, Wu Yi emphasized that Shi Hao and their actions should pay attention to safety, and they should not force anything.
Shi Hao asked the carrier pigeon to bring a sufficient amount of quantum road signs and two sets of communication equipment. Quantum road signs can display coordinate information, using high-energy polymerization batteries as power, can continue to work for several years, quantum waves are very penetrating, and obstacles or deep underground will not affect the road sign guidance function.
After the meeting, Shi Hao took Wang Ping and everyone's war pets to board a brand-new frisbee, the diameter of this frisbee is twice as large as the previous one, a small ion engine is installed, the gravity cancellation rate is 60%, it is the latest product of a military industrial enterprise in the Central Plains Theater, it can take 30 people, Shi Hao eight people with eight war pets and everyone's equipment, not crowded at all.
The frisbee rises directly to an altitude of 30,000 meters and flies quickly towards the South Pole, with a flight speed of about 3,000 km / h, this frisbee is heavy.
Shi Hao's special frisbee is lightweight, although the gravity cancellation rate can reach 60%, but the maximum speed is only about 2000 kilometers, and it is not suitable for high-altitude flight, but it is also twice as fast as the frisbee when they first established the coiling dragon team.
A little more than three hours later, the frisbee landed on a giant ship, a 15,000-ton swamp exploration ship converted from an icebreaker and powered by two nuclear reactors.
At this time, the ship was located 10 kilometers off the coast of the Antarctic continent, loaded with supplies and equipment that had just been sent by the supply ship, and also organized a team of experts composed of experts from various fields. After Shi Hao and his party got on the boat, the captain ordered to sail towards the Antarctic continent.
The expedition ship adjusted its direction slightly, and headed in a straight line towards the Antarctic continent.
In the command room, the captain was briefing Shi Hao on the situation: "We compared the quantum road signs placed by the scientific expedition team and the Panlong team after entering, most of the routes coincide, and we first followed the direction of the road signs they placed." ”
At first the water was blue, but as the boat moved along, it began to become cloudy, and water and yellow mud tumbled out from the bottom of the boat, and weeds, shrubs, and low trees gradually increased.
Frightened, unknown animals and fish in the swamp scattered or swam away, and the expedition ship moved slowly like a broadsword, leaving behind a swamp that had been split in half.
When the road ahead was blocked by more trees, the two mechanical arms in the bow of the ship reached out at the right time to uproot them and throw them into the swamps on both sides, and slowly disappeared.
The expedition team and the Panlong team chose this route as a good route for the expedition ship, but the swamp is much more complex than the ice and snow routes in Antarctica a few decades ago, and the speed is only half of the ice-breaking speed, and it can only advance dozens of kilometers in 24 hours.
Now it is in the Antarctic polar daylight period, but because of too much water vapor, the sky you see when you look up is always gray, the rain is coming, when it rains, the fog is everywhere, the visibility is only a few meters, when it is not raining, the visibility is very good, you can see one or two hundred meters away.
When visibility is good, the expedition ship moves at full speed, and when visibility is bad, it slows down or stops for safety.
According to the calculation of 24 hours a day, this is the third day they have come in, and on this day they discovered a strange phenomenon, there is a quantum road sign that has deviated greatly from the direction they are now going, and the bow of the ship needs to be turned 90 degrees to sail, and after weighing it, the captain still decides to follow the road sign.
When turning the direction and moving forward, the surveyor kept calculating the route, and found that there was a slight deviation after each calculation, and after checking it several times, there was no mistake, and then he wondered if there was a problem with the road sign, so he stared at the road sign and continued to observe, and found that the road sign was moving slowly at a very low speed.
At this time, there was a heavy rain, and the visibility immediately decreased, and the captain instructed the ship to stop and stand by, and the surveyor continued to observe the road sign, which was still moving slowly, and after a few hours of stopping, the distance the road sign had moved was clearly visible.
The captain explained the situation to Shi Hao and discussed the next plan, Shi Hao thought for a while and said: "We came out this time to find out the situation in Antarctica, and the other is to save people, and we have to understand the reason for the abnormal phenomenon." ”
After deliberating, the expedition ship continued towards the sign, only slowing down.
"Stop the ship, stop the ship—"
"There's a big obstacle ahead, we're about to hit it, stop the boat." The observer shouted.
A thick fender at the front of the expedition ship, which had been diagonally upward, was now lowered directly and slowly inserted in a vertical position in the swamp, and the same was true for the back, and the expedition ship soon began to slow down, and by the time it came to a complete stop, the bow was already on the verge of hitting the obstacle.
Shi Hao fixed his eyes and saw that there was a horizontal hill in front of him, about 20 meters high and forty or fifty meters long, after a few seconds Shi Hao felt that the hill moved, and after careful observation, it was confirmed that it was right, the hill was moving slowly.
He immediately went out of the command room to the bow of the ship, only to see that the middle of this thing was thick, and the two ends were slowly thinning, like a big flesh * worm, at this time a circle of ripples appeared from the outer skin of the head, and this circle of ripples was slowly transmitted from the head to the tail, and the whole body of the big meat * worm moved forward a little, and the cycle continued, and the big meat * worm slowly wriggled forward.
Shi Hao asked for a holographic camera and carefully recorded the big meat * worm, at this time the bow of the boat was about ten meters away from the big meat * worm, he asked the others not to act rashly, he jumped on the back of the meat * worm with force, took out a dagger and cut a palm-sized piece of meat on the meat * worm, and then immediately jumped back to the boat.
After a few seconds, the body in the middle of the big flesh* insect flicked up violently, as if it was about to bounce off the things on its back, and the whole body shook together.
For a minute or two in a row, the head of the flesh* insect did not fluctuate, only to see its head slowly turn back, the head was bare, very smooth, about two meters in diameter, the upper part of the head had two eyes the size of a car lamp, and there was a wide mouth below, and there was no nose or ears.
It swayed its head backwards and stared at the back, then turned back and continued to emit waves, squirming forward.
The captain and crew didn't expect Shi Hao to be so bold, and the atmosphere didn't dare to come out when the big meat * worm turned his head.
Shi Hao felt that the skin of the big flesh* insect was a little hard, but the toughness and ductility were very good, and it was more laborious to cut it with a dagger, and ordinary people might not be able to cut it down.
It was clear that the big flesh* worm was an ancient creature with high research value, and he put the cut in a special container for the ship's biologists to preserve.
Afraid of alarming the flesh * worm, the boat stopped there quietly, and after more than 20 hours, the body of the big meat * worm slowly crawled from the front of the boat, leaving a deep ditch filled with water where it climbed, and all the weeds and dirt were swallowed up by the big meat * worm, and the quantum road sign was estimated to be just placed on its passage path and swallowed into the belly.
After the big flesh* worm disappeared, the expedition ship adjusted its direction and headed towards the next quantum signpost.
After following the road sign for another two days, there was no danger in the middle, and when there were only two road signs left in front, Shi Hao asked the carrier pigeon and the Panlong base to keep the communication open at all times, and if there was a communication interruption, report it immediately, and start to place new quantum road signs from here.
They had already arrived near the place where the expedition team and the Panlong team were in danger, and everyone began to get nervous from the inside.
The pet of the carrier pigeon also flies one out to explore the way a kilometer in front of the ship, and the expedition ship travels at a turtle speed, if the speed is too fast, it cannot stop at any time when it encounters danger, and it will be troublesome to rush into the danger zone.
In this way, after a few hours, they reached the penultimate road sign.
The expedition ship crossed the road sign and continued to move forward, and the pigeon's pet continued to fly forward, when suddenly the pigeon found that it had lost contact with the pet and that there was no signal back.
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