Chapter 134: Walking in Antarctica
"Those cursed Japanese, they deserve to hell in their next life!" Under the gloomy night sky, the captain of the Fang, holding a telescope in his shoes, stared nervously at the seemingly calm, but in fact hidden danger of the sea, and with his words, the white haze drifted away with the cold wind and disappeared into the air.
While cursing and scolding those poachers in all kinds of vicious language, he said this to Hao Shen and Zhao Ran next to him: "The Japanese are simply the most evil existence, even if it is not for this incident, I will say so, to be honest, I have always been on your side." The Japanese during World War II were the devil, they committed crimes in Asia that even the devil did not dare to approve of, and they did not repent after the war, and those judges must have been blinded, because God will never forgive these miscellaneous! They are evil, filthy, vicious, filthy and inferior human beings who should not exist in this world! ”
Under his angry scolding, Hao Shen didn't bother to say anything: the old shoelace was purely just venting his anger, he was Italian, his ancestors belonged to the Axis camp with Japan during World War II, and according to the values of today's world, he is no different from the current Japanese......
The reason why the old shoelaces were so excited was because the appearance of the previous Japanese whaling ship completely disrupted their scheduled route, because due to fuel problems, they could only force themselves close to the Antarctic continent and slow down along the coastline towards their intended destination.
The coastline of Antarctica is rugged and inhospitable, and the arrival of the polar night makes the sunlight completely disappear from Antarctica, which causes the temperature to plummet and the waters of the coastline to freeze.
An inch of ice can't stop the Sharptooth from advancing, but that will greatly slow down the speed, so the Sharptooth must move along the freezing line, but this has a new problem - because of the proximity to the Antarctic glacier, there are a lot of large ice floes floating in the sea, and often under the surface of a small exposed ice corner above the sea surface is a large ice block of dozens or even hundreds of tons, and the Sharptooth can not withstand this kind of impact at all. Think of the Titani back then, if it weren't for the old shoelace experience, they could always find the hidden danger from hundreds of meters away, they might have said goodbye to this ship.
Either way, they finally arrived at their destination - the Sharptooth had turned around half an hour earlier, its bow pointing straight to shore, and GPS positioning it was heading towards its intended destination.
The China's bow is typical of the flying scissors, and this large ship converted from an ordinary distant-water fishing vessel does not have too strong ice-breaking behavior, but it is still easy to deal with these ice layers that are less than a foot long. All the ice that stood in the way of the bow was crushed and shattered, and large chunks of cracked ice were pushed aside by the curves of the Fang, and sharp ice ballast slashed across the steel hull with a muffled clatter and the occasional cacophony of scraping.
Ignoring the curse of the old shoelaces, Zhao Ran was making the final preparations for landing at the moment.
The old shoelace was a very stubborn old man, and he refused to go any more than Zhao Ran coerced and lured, so he strictly followed the contract and sent the two to an abandoned whaling station about ten kilometers away from Davis Station. However, the 10 kilometers from here to Davis Station are not so easy to walk, the ice field environment is complex, and the walking is enough for two people to walk for a day.
Of course, Feller would not really ask them to walk so heartlessly, but prepared the same basic means of transportation for the two of them: skis.
Well, tandem skiing in Antarctica, that's a great idea.
In addition, there are various necessary equipment such as GPS trackers, lighting, food, and warm clothing. Zhao Ran stuffed them with two large backpacks.
Hao Shen looked at Zhao Ran's serious appearance, and it was not easy to say that having himself was not a necessity in these things, anyway, the journey before entering that alien base was like fun for him, and it was good to cooperate with Zhao Ran. And he would never think that Zhao Ran would not be able to think of his own ability, and the reason why he did it might be that he wanted to try not to rely on himself, the true god.
"Well, then, I wish you all a smooth journey, and may God continue to bless you!"
When the Fangs finally stopped in front of the thickening ice, the old shoelace ordered the rope ladder to be lowered, and then pointed in one direction, "Go in that direction, and you will know the way when you see the whaling station." Hopefully we'll see you again. ”
"Hopefully." Hao Shen took one last look at the old shoelaces, pouted, and then followed the silent Zhao Ran to climb down the rope ladder and stand on the solid ice. Good bye? I guess I'll never see you again, who will have nothing to do with you, the captain of the smuggling ship?
So, Hao Shen and Zhao Ran stood on the ice, and watched the Sharp Fang begin to reverse without hesitation, and exited the waterway full of ice floes in a creaking sound.
Wait, it's not right to say that there is no nostalgia at all, after all, the various Italian-style delicacies and endless fruits on the Fangs are still very good, and when you go ashore, it seems that you can only eat instant noodles with compressed biscuits, after all, Antarctica, there is not even a hunting prey......
Wait!
"Zhao Ran, is polar bear a protected animal? Can you eat it or not? ”
"Where do polar bears come from in Antarctica?" Zhao Ran's body on skis tilted, and then looked at Hao Shen speechlessly, she knew what he was thinking when she looked at Hao Shen's appearance, after all, in the three-body world, Hao Shen and Ji Shen'e were not happy.
"That's right...... And what about penguins? Have you eaten it? There are also seals, Antarctic wolves ......" Hao Shen racked his brains to recall the Antarctic biology encyclopedia in the biology textbook back then, and counted them one by one with his fingers.
Zhao Ran was about to collapse, and folded his hands and said, "Great God, please, spare Antarctica!" When you arrive at Zhongshan Station, please eat hot pot! ”
"Huh? Can you eat hot pot in Antarctica? Hao Shen was extremely surprised.
"Heh, what is hot pot? Steamed dumplings, steamed buns, fried noodles, braised pork, you can eat anything you want. Don't forget that we are a big foodie empire, and the Heavenly Palace will be completed in two years, and when the time comes, we will move the hot pot up in minutes, do you believe it? Zhao Ran proudly gave a thumbs up. So decided, tomorrow at noon will eat hot pot at Zhongshan Station! go! go! go! Fight for it before dark...... Arrive at Davis Station before 8pm to pick up our snowmobile! ”
Zhao Ran turned on his headlamp, compared the GPS positioning signal, pulled down the goggles, waved his hands, and set off!
The deeper you go into the ice sheet, the more pronounced the drop in temperature becomes, and the thermometer needle quickly drops below -30 degrees Celsius and soars towards -40 degrees Celsius. This cold temperature has surpassed the iceberg that fell under the magic city of Tirfara.
They were lucky enough to see the bright stars in the sky after entering the Antarctic Circle, with cold winds blowing through the dark ice sheets, and the extremely clear air. Beneath the stars, there was a faint green glow, which was the edge of the aurora. It's not the best place to spot the Northern Lights, but you can still see the stunning scenery.
Because of the starlight and aurora, they can faintly see a series of undulating curves in the distance, which are the uneven icebergs above the Antarctic ice sheet.
Hao Shen and Zhao Ran are sliding fast on the ice, Zhao Ran's skiing skills are quite superb, but Hao Shen is a bit of a rookie, but because of today's better and better physical coordination, Hao Shen's adaptation speed is quite fast, in less than ten minutes, they maintain a speed of thirty kilometers per hour.
About twenty minutes later, they arrived at the abandoned whaling station.
This is a whaling station built more than 100 years ago during the heyday of the Antarctic whaling industry, its construction has been untraceable, a slope covered with plain white frozen snow, more than a dozen wooden houses are tightly clustered, around the house there are many whaling equipment and whale slaughtering sites left over from the original, in the outer layer of the whaling station, a small pier is piled up around various boxes and shelves, it seems that it was used for hoisting. Of course, the marina and the nearby waters are now completely frozen.
Hao Shen also saw the traces of the operation of the whaling station: there were still several whale bones piled up in the slaughterhouse, these bones were extremely huge, and each rib was more than four meters long, and walking in it was like walking in a corridor of white bones. But more bones had been reduced to splinters, piled up all over the ground.
Because of curiosity, Hao Shen collected a few intact whale ribs as a souvenir, which made Zhao Ran extremely despised, and then asked Hao Shen to help bring two as well.
“…… Such a big bone, it must be very stylish to bring it back and put it in the living room! ”
Other than that, there was nothing left at this whaling station, and the two of them corrected their direction here and continued in the direction of Davis Station!