Chapter 14: Exploration
Zhang Le wanted to take a look at Ouyang Ji's experiments, but when he thought of the various insects in Ouyang Ji's laboratory, he still retreated, not to mention, Ouyang Ji was a scientific research madman, Zhang Le rashly disturbed, Ouyang Ji was likely not to open the door.
Although the inspection work in the last two days has not found any dangerous situations, many problems have been discovered.
The Lychee is high and thick-walled, with smooth sides, which is both safe and stable, and there are no safety hazards. However, there are many problems in the Ice Dragon Base, and some of them are very serious.
One problem is that the protective walls of the Ice Dragon Base are too low, and as long as the wind reaches level 6 or higher, the waves may enter the base.
At present, the leaky hole filter of the base has been replaced with a tighter fine sieve, so you don't have to worry about strange creatures crawling in through the leaky holes, the only thing to worry about is the sea life carried by the waves when they hit the base.
Another problem is that when the Ice Dragon Base and the buildings on it were originally designed, the environment was the Arctic ice, but now the Ice Dragon Base has become a completely mobile base at sea. In order to reduce the bumps of the waves, the connection between the four basic modules that make up the ice dragon base should not be in the form of simple buckles, but should be connected with spare giant bolts.
Some time ago, because the Ice Dragon Base was too bumpy on the sea, some buildings were damaged.
Fortunately, these problems were detected and solved in advance.
Now the focus of the inspection is placed in the Ice Dragon base, and only at the beginning and end of the inspection, will the Lychee go around.
It takes Zhang Le about half an hour to inspect the Ice Dragon Base, and he will inspect every two hours, and the rest of the time he will stay at the observation station of the Ice Dragon Base.
By the end of the second inspection, the island was only about 1.5 kilometers away from the icebreaker, which was the closest distance it took. Because Zhang Le found that the icebreaker had adjusted its course, I don't know if it was adjusted by the intelligent computer or Zhao Fei.
Zhang Le looked at the direction of the ship's island, because Zhang Le's current position is relatively low, and the observation station is currently only less than ten meters above sea level, and he can only see the top two layers of the ship's island, and the rest of the island can't be seen.
There are seven floors on the island, and the lowest floor is a dormitory for several girls. Part of the second floor is a temporary spare item storage area, the third floor is a temporary kitchen, the fourth floor is a temporary living activity area for several men, the fifth floor is the wheelhouse, that is, the console, the sixth floor is temporarily empty with some miscellaneous items placed in it, and the seventh floor is a watchtower.
It was getting dark, and it was already past dinner time. Zhang Le didn't know what everyone was doing, but everyone must have seen such a big island, and according to Zhao Fei's personality, there is definitely no need to board this kind of island. After all, returning to China is the most important thing for the Lychee now, and any other unexpected factors must be ruled out. The speed of the Lychee has been adjusted to the state of night, only about one section.
Zhang Le suddenly had a whim and wanted to go to the island to have a look.
When Zhang Le was a child, because his parents were teachers, he was quite smart, so he skipped several grades, and took the college entrance examination just after his first year of high school, so he graduated in his early twenties.
Although he is not very old, he has been working in the Ice Dragon Base for more than three years. If you don't count the brief trip to Iceland during the intermediary, he hasn't lived on land for almost four and a half years, so Zhang Le has always had an obsession with going to land.
Zhang Le also found another reason for himself in his heart, there are many plants on the island, and as an agricultural expert, he can collect some plant samples and seeds on it, maybe he can find some new ingredients to enrich the food at the research station.
After passing his psychological barrier, Zhang Le began to take specific actions, the flight equipment was always carried in the canvas bag on his body, and the leather pants were also worn on his body, but a wide white long lab coat was put on the outside.
Zhang Le found that since he became "Superman", his personality has become a little bold.
In the past, I always believed in the principle of "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall", but now I like to challenge a little.
Zhang Le only planned to go quietly, not wanting to alarm the people on the Lychee, so he ran to the very end of the Ice Dragon Base and prepared to take off from here.
The distance from the ship island here is about six hundred meters, except for Zhao Fei and Zha Xiaoxia, two people who have fully strengthened their genes, only Zhuge Chen, a sharpshooter, can see himself clearly.
But now with the protection of the night, without the help of telescopes, even genetically enhanced vision is only the vision of ordinary people during the day, and the distance of 600 meters is enough for them to not see anything.
Zhang Le took off his white lab coat, opened the canvas bag, took out his wings, and buckled them on himself. Because the exoskeleton bracket part is very close-fitting, Zhang Le will also wear it when he is on patrol, and once something happens, it will be faster to install wings.
The harpoon was too long to carry, so Zhang Le chose a long dagger with a handle that was 35 centimeters long, and inserted it into the scabbard of his calf leggings.
There are also a lot of cold weapons in the Ice Dragon Base, all of which are the standard weapons of the army, since Zhang Le wasted two bags of grenades to blow up the octopus last time, Zhao Fei began to strictly restrict everyone's use of hot weapons.
This dagger is a little longer than an ordinary military dagger, it is black and heavy, it can not only be used as a dagger, but also as a machete, Zhang Le likes it very much.
As for the night vision glasses, Zhang Le thought about it and still wore them on his eyes. Under normal circumstances, Zhang Le doesn't actually need night vision glasses, but night vision glasses have thermal imaging function, which makes it easier to see some animals with protective colors in unfamiliar environments.
The color of the wings is gray bionic color, and the leather pants on the body are black, both of which are inconspicuous, and Zhang Le's figure is hidden to the greatest extent in the night.
Zhang Le glanced in the direction of the Lychee again, no one paid attention to this side, one accelerated and ran, he flapped his wings quickly, and headed towards the island.
Zhang Le's flight altitude this time was only about ten meters, and even if someone looked at him, his figure was integrated with the sea, and it was extremely difficult to be discovered.
Five minutes later, Zhang Le came to the edge of the island. The island is very small, only less than 0.5 square kilometers, there is a low hill, there is a height of about 50 meters, the island is densely forested, but the trees are not high, the highest is only a dozen meters, it should be a relatively new island.
The island is surrounded by strange rocks, all of which are coral reefs, Zhang Le turned around for most of the circle, only to find a beach of about 50 meters.
Aside from a few birds in the treetops, no new heat sources have been found in the entire outer area of the island.
"Aren't there mammals?" Zhang Le is a little unsure, logically speaking, although this island is not big, it is not small, and it can form a small population of mammal families.
Zhang Le landed on the beach, folded his wings, pushed them behind his back, and then took out the dagger from the calf gaiters and carefully walked towards the interior of the island.
It's the end of the lunar month, and there are stars in the sky without a moon. The whole island was silent, except for the faint sound of waves and the rustle of leaves blowing in the wind.
Zhang Le walked along a relatively sparse grass and trees that looked like a path.
Everything seemed perfectly normal, but everything was so unusual, it was so quiet.
At the fork of the "path", Zhang Le also saw a row of collapsed straw huts in the jungle, and it seemed that this small island was once inhabited.
Zhang Le walked cautiously forward, scanning around with night vision goggles, and there was still no sign of small animal activity, not even a small mouse.
In ten minutes, Zhang Le gradually approached the top of the hill.
The top of the mountain is a very abrupt boulder, full of large and small holes. A large area around the boulder is thigh-deep grass, and there are no trees, so the view is very open.
Zhang Le breathed a sigh of relief and walked forward quickly, wanting to climb to the top of the mountain to see the whole picture of the island.
"Shell lala", Zhang Le stepped on something. There was very little gravel on this small island, and he knew very well all the way that it felt a little wrong.
Curiously pushing aside the grass, Zhang Le was startled, the grass was full of all kinds of bones, some large and some small, the ones that could be identified were goat skulls, and there were human skulls, and the others were unknown, mostly palm-sized flaky fragments.
Zhang Le felt his scalp tighten, and he didn't dare to look closely, he quickly inserted the dagger into the leggings, threw off his arms, and turned around and ran frantically.
As soon as he ran a few steps, Zhang Le felt a gust of wind behind him, and his body was stunned, and he couldn't run.
Looking back, a gray-white slender thing more than three meters long and fleshy wrapped around his wings, and in a daze, another huge pull came, and Zhang Le found that it flew up.
Now Zhang Le saw clearly, this is a huge lizard more than five meters long, the color is the same as the surrounding environment, half is the color of the reef, half is the color of the grass, just now the lizard should be lying on the side of the boulder.
That slender thing is the lizard's tongue. Needless to say, all the animals and humans on this small island were eaten by this mutated lizard, which is why the whole island is so quiet.
Between the electric sparks, Zhang Le figured out everything, but it was useless, and Zhang Le's body was still quickly swept into the lizard's mouth.