Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Loud Noise
In the early morning, when the sky was slightly bright, a loud noise was heard outside inside the raft. The raft shook with a loud noise, waking up Heungwoo and Mia from their sleep. Xingyu immediately thought that the drifting raft had hit the rocks. Xingyu hurriedly rushed out to check, but as soon as he ran out of the door of the lifeboat, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, and the raft actually hit a huge iceberg. Xingyu looked at the iceberg in front of him in shock and roared: "Damn! Titanic's sequel! Xingyu was worried about breaking the container, so he hurriedly ran to the iceberg, wanting to check the impact site. At this time, Mia's voice came from behind him: "Don't go down! Mia was worried about Xingyu and impulsively jumped over the iceberg to check the raft.
Xingyu ran to the raft to check, but fortunately the container was strong enough and not damaged. The raft has no power and drifts against ocean currents. Therefore, the impact force is not strong, but the hollow design of the container makes the impact sound very loud. At this time, Xingyu and Miya breathed a sigh of relief and began to look at the iceberg in front of them. The two of them visually measured the diameter of this iceberg at least 3 kilometers or more, and stood on the raft to look at the iceberg, and it was almost impossible to see the edge. Mia said in surprise: "This iceberg is very big! Did we get to Antarctica? Xingyu also took a breath in surprise and replied: "If we were in Antarctica, we would have froze a long time ago if we ran out like this." But I believe this iceberg is drifting out of Antarctica. We are still some distance from Antarctica, and after the iceberg drifts away from Antarctica, it keeps melting. Floating here, it can still be so big. ”
Icebergs are irregular floating islands that drift out of Antarctica after being detached from glaciers or ice shelves in Antarctica. Usually the size of the iceberg is not large, and the iceberg with a diameter of 200 meters is already considered an extra-large iceberg. This iceberg, which has a diameter of 3 km, is extremely rare. But the largest known iceberg has a diameter of up to 16 km. This iceberg is still a tiny fraction of the largest known iceberg. When the ice breaks away from Antarctica, it slowly melts as the surrounding temperature rises.
After Mia knew that the raft was fine, it was just that the raft was stuck by an iceberg. Mia's mood began to get excited, after all, it was the first time she saw an iceberg, so she shouted to go up and have a look. However, Xingyu thought that it would be safer for them to row an inflatable boat around the island before boarding the iceberg. The only warm clothing for the two of them was a wetsuit. After putting on their wetsuits and shoes, they began to paddle around the island in an inflatable boat. The iceberg is not very tall, only about 50 meters high, and usually the height of the extra-large iceberg is more than 65 meters.
It took the two about two hours to paddle the inflatable boat to the other side of the iceberg. At this moment, Mia saw something strange outside the ice wall not far away, near the surface of the sea. When Mia looked closely, it turned out to be a climbing sickle, a hand holding a climbing sickle sticking out from the ice wall. Frightened, Mia threw herself into Xingyu's arms and shouted, "There's a corpse in front!" Mia was so frightened that she lay down and didn't dare to look again. Xingyu curiously rowed the inflatable boat over to check, and saw a corpse frozen in the ice wall in a climbing posture, this corpse was facing outward, so as the iceberg gradually melted, the hand holding the climbing sickle revealed the ice wall. If you look closely, not only this hand is exposed, but the other hand that also holds the climbing scythe and a pair of feet with climbing claw shoe covers also begin to show the ice wall. The corpse's posture of climbing the mountain is a bit weird, like climbing a mountain in a small space. Xingyu guessed that this person fell into the ice crevice from above, and was caught in the ice crevice and couldn't climb up. Finally froze to death here. In this case, there may be something on the iceberg. This folding climbing serrated sickle is a product of modern times. If there is something on it, it is estimated that it will still be usable in the near future. So Xingyu wanted to climb up to take a look, but Miya refused to let Xingyu climb up: "The ice wall is melting, and it's wet." It's too dangerous to climb like this. In the end, Xingyu had no choice but to use a killer move: "We don't have warm clothes." If you do drift to Antarctica, this wetsuit is not warm enough. Hopefully there was something we needed on it. If we don't go up, then we'll have to take off the dead man's clothes. "Xingyu and Miya are both children of ordinary families, how can they accept the act of snatching clothes from dead people. Miya shuddered when she thought about it, so she had to reluctantly agree to Xingyu to climb up.
Heungwoo removes the climbing sickle and climbing claw shoe cover to assemble himself. Xingyu wanted to take off his hiking boots, but he couldn't accept it in his heart, so he had to give up. Xingyu put on the climbing claw shoe cover and began to climb the mountain, and the mountain wall was slippery. Although there are climbing sickles and climbing claws, they are still dangerous. Xingyu carefully climbed the mountain wall, and Miya covered her chest and looked at Xingyu nervously. When Xingyu climbed the ice wall, although Mia wanted to scream happily, she was afraid that Xingyu would be distracted and slip. Mia pressed her mouth tightly to keep herself from making a sound. After Xingyu climbed the ice wall, he saw that the entire iceberg was an undulating ice field. About 500 meters away from Xingyu, there is a camp, but the fog is so heavy that it is not easy to see. Xingyu shouted to Miya under the ice wall, "There is a camp ahead, I'll go and take a look." You're waiting for me down there. Hearing Xingyu say this, Miya was anxious: "Pull me up, let's go together." Of course, Xingyu refused to let Miya take the risk, so he replied: "It's too dangerous to climb this ice wall. Just wait for me down there. Feel relieved! It's an ice field up there, and it's going to be fine. After saying that, Xingyu immediately left the edge of the ice wall and disappeared from Mia's sight. Mia had no choice but to stare helplessly at the ice wall, secretly praying that Xingyu would not encounter danger.
When Xingyu approached the camp, he saw a small camp tent in the camp, and three two-wheeled carts were parked next to the camp. Seeing these three trolleys, Xingyu knew that this trip would be rewarding. Dare to hurry up and walk towards the camp.