Chapter 61: Pulling the boat into the sea

After the tank conversion is completed, Xingyu and Mia begin to move things to the drifting ship. Miya even wanted to move the mattress into the drifting boat, but Xingyu objected and said, "There is not much space in the drifting boat!" Don't use mattresses. Let's go ahead and use that civilian inflatable boat as a bed. If necessary, the inflatable boat can also be lowered into the sea. "Mia is right to think about it, it can be used for two things. So I accepted it.

In the end, Xingyu left two ice buckets to fill the soil in the greenhouse. Most of the potted plants in the greenhouse have withered, and only two pots of unknown varieties are still alive. Xingyu and Mia poured out the withered plants in pots and piled them on the ground. Then light a fire and burn it with the earth. The method of burning mud by fire restores the nutrients of the soil. After burning the dirt, Heungwoo and Mia fill two ice buckets with dirt. The two of them carried the ice bucket and the remaining two plants into the drifting boat and put them away.

After the things were moved into the cabin, Mia remembered that Xingyu had said that when the living cabin space of the raft shook in a big wave, people would roll and get injured. Although the cabin of this drifting ship is not large, people can still be injured if they roll in it. So Mia asked, "Are you going to move the ball?" ”

"I forgot, we have the Yobo Ball" Xingyu said after thinking about it: "The Yobo Ball is going to be moved over, but usually it can only be put away, otherwise the Yobo Ball will take up a lot of space." When there was danger, we pumped the ball out of the ball and hid inside. ”

After Heungwoo and Mia put everything they needed into the cabin, they went to the glacier to retrieve the ball. When preparing to leave the raft, Miya reluctantly looked at the broken raft and said with emotion: "I am so reluctant!" The raft had only been in use for three months and was about to be abandoned. Let's build another raft in the future! ”

I saw that Mia's eyes were red. Xingyu knew that Miya was reluctant, so he hurriedly hugged Miya and said comfortingly: "In the future, we will build a better drifting raft." ”

After the ball was moved back and put into the drifting boat, Mia remembered the problem they encountered when they wanted to push the observation station into the sea, and Mia asked suspiciously: "The drifting boat doesn't seem to be much lighter than the observation station!" How do we push a drifting boat out of the sea? Xingyu pretended to be mysterious and said, "Hehe! Since I wanted to use the observatory as a drifting boat, of course there was a way to push the observatory into the sea! ”

Xingyu saw that Miya looked at him with puzzled eyes, Xingyu didn't answer but pointed to the ice pier at the foot of the observation station and asked, "Do you know what is in the ice pier?" "Mia had read the instructions for the observatory, so she knew what was inside. But he was still puzzled and asked: "I know that there is a sled under the foot, which is convenient for moving the observation post." When you want to fix the observation post, you water the ice and bury the sled in the ice mound. Once you knock on the ice pier, the observation post will be able to move. But we still can't push it! Xingyu stopped selling Guanzi and told Miya about his plan.

Heung-woo prepares to connect the observatory and the two carts with a rope. The observation post and the drifting boat were then connected with long steel cables. Fill the trolley with ice and push it down the slope, using the force of the trolley to slide downhill and pull the observation post. When the observation post slides down the slope, it pulls the drifting boat to move and pulls the drifting boat into the sea.

Mia also thinks this option is feasible. So the two began to implement this plan. Heungwoo and Mia first fill the carriage of the trolley with seawater, which freezes in the trunk and increases the weight of the trolley. It takes time to freeze, so the two of them then take a hammer and knock on the ice mound. In the raft, there are still a lot of pillow cloth bags left. Originally, Xingyu wanted to use a cloth bag to melt the ice pier. However, I am afraid that the fire will not be well controlled, so if I accidentally melt the ice under my feet, my feet will sink into the ice. Then it would be impossible for them to pull the observation post. Therefore, Xingyu would rather use a hammer to knock it slowly to avoid accidents.

After the ice piers were knocked out, they then had to connect the observation post with a steel cable to the drifting boat. The observation station is designed to be pulled and moved. Therefore, on all four sides of the outer wall of the observation station, there are design clasps. Such a design is also convenient for Xingyu, and Xingyu tied the steel cable to the buckle. This is the most critical part of the whole plan. They had only one chance, if the steel cable broke under the pull of the observation post. Then after the observation post slides down, they don't have a second chance. Earlier, Xingyu saw two steel cables and a spare cable in the storage room of the power station. Xingyu guessed that the two steel cables were originally meant to be used to pull the steel cables of the observation station. So the strength of the steel cable must be enough. However, the length of the steel cable was not enough to connect the observation post to the drifting boat. Xingyu had no choice but to connect the two steel cables together, but in this way, the two were connected into one, and he was afraid that the strength of the steel cable was not enough. As a result, Xingyu also dismantled the cable connecting the power station to the observation station and used it to pull the drifting boat. Xingyu thought to himself: "One steel cable and two cables to pull the drifting boat, it should be enough, right?" Xingyu was still not at ease, and finally added a rope to help pull it.

When everything was ready, Heung-woo moved the lifeboat that had been stored in the studio to the ice field on the coast. Mia looked at Xingyu who was pumping gas to the lifeboat with strange eyes. Mia also thought that Xingyu wanted to use the lifeboat to follow the drifting boat and let the drifting boat rush out of the coast covered with ice floe. They waited until the drifting boat was safe before they boarded. But Mia then saw that Heung-woo was nailing the tent. Miya asked puzzled, "What are you doing here?" Xingyu replied helplessly: "Just in case, the trolley can't pull the observation station." When the time comes, we will still be able to live here. Mia finally understood that Heung-woo was worried that his plan to pull the boat into the sea would fail.

When everything is ready, Heungwoo and Mia are ready to start pulling the boat. They pushed two trolleys with frozen water in two carriages and pushed them down the ramp at the same time. After the trolley pulled the rope tight, there was a metallic sound from the observation station. But the Observatory was not pulled. Mia asked nervously, "What should I do?" The trolley could not pull the observation post. Xingyu replied with a laugh: "It's strange that you can pull it, the weight difference between the trolley and the observation station is too far." So I was just trying. What really moves the observatory is the storm. When the storm shakes the observation post, the trolley can pull the observation post. Mia finally really understood why Xingyu set up a lifeboat. That's to keep them out of the storm.

It's all ready, and they have nothing to do. Although there are many storms in Antarctica, they cannot predict when the wind will blow. So, when they had nothing to do, they took out their fishing rods and went to the beach to fish. In one day, the two of them caught six fish. Six fish is just what they eat in a day, so they can't store it. Antarctica, on the other hand, is so stormy that it is often impossible to fish, and there are few animals nearby. So even if there is no volcano, this place is not suitable for living.