Chapter 8 The coming-of-age ceremony begins
The food on the spaceship is very good, after all, it is a coming-of-age ceremony assessment spaceship for nobles, and if the food is poor, there will always be nobles looking for trouble.
The Tribe is not short of money, but with the Predator's eating habits, Wardragon says that the difference between the food he eats for nobles and the food for commoners is whether the food is 'fresh' enough. Some of the blood-soaked food was a favorite of the aristocracy.
Anyway, he got used to it, so it didn't matter......
However, in the process of jumping, the underage iron-blooded people who stayed on the spaceship were bored, after all, the freshness of interstellar travel would only cool down in a day or two, and then there would be emptiness, but except for a few iron-blooded, most of the iron-blooded chose to hone their combat skills in the training room on the spaceship.
If it were any other time, these nobles would probably be in bars, gambling, entertainment, etc. (Iron Will's large ships have these facilities, unless they are battle ships). And now, like the greatest warriors, they seize all the time to train, hoping to get a good result in the coming-of-age ceremony and gain the appreciation of the higher-ups.
The first two trial squads completed the trials without any incidents, but the third squad, when an Predator was besieged by the Xenomorphs, but overall it went well.
The Elder Wolf was quite satisfied with this result, especially the third group, which was able to kill a teammate without panicking, but effectively cooperated with each other to kill all the remaining aliens.
This kind of calmness is very valuable, as for the iron blood who was besieged?
Since it is a battle, it is natural to go all out for the lion to fight the rabbit, and the death under carelessness is not unforeseeable.
So no one will sympathize with him, only despise him, and the iron-blooded elder who was besieged will be disgraced by it.
After a space jump, the Predator Ship arrived near the solar system.
Just seven days before the arrival of the Iron Blooded Ship in the solar system, the trial site on the source star began to operate according to established procedures, and the energy system of the pyramid began to work.
The trial place on the source star was opened in 1994, when the underage Iron Will who had undergone the trial completed the trial, he inadvertently let an alien run into the whaling station above the ice in the trial place, which almost led to the failure of the trial, and the Predator had to clear the entire whaling station, originally only captured six humans from the whaling station, after all, those humans were too weak and had no ability to resist, and the Predator did not bother to annihilate them at all.
After the transition was completed, Elder Wolf routinely conducted an all-round inspection of the source star, and found that humanity had developed rapidly in the past 100 years, and had been able to discover the trial places hidden under the ice.
Humans arrived near the island where the trial site was located, and the Elder ordered the hunt to be cancelled.
As for the hunting sacrifices of the previous three sets of trials, the Predators who participated in the trials captured some natives as hunting sacrifices.
After entering the solar system, the Celtic team entered the room to rest and prepare.
At this time, under the cold wind of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, a huge icebreaker was slowly moving forward.
Unlike the cold temperature outside the ship, which is more than 10 degrees below zero, the icebreaker uses special heating to ensure that the temperature inside the ship is at the right temperature, so that the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the ship exceeds 30 °C.
The name of the ship is the icebreaker-bagpipe maru, and it belongs to Weland Industries, which was founded by artificial intelligence pioneer Weland.
And the mission of this ship?
The target of the expedition was a special heat source discovered by a prospecting satellite owned by Weyland Industries over Bouvet Island a few days earlier.
At Weland's call, chemists, archaeologists, guides, and drilling teams arrived on the ship from all over the world, and at a small meeting, a consensus was reached: the strange heat source was emitted by a pyramid that contained the characteristics of three civilizations.
And the purpose of Weyland to gather them is to find out the truth about this pyramid and become the discoverers of human history in their eyes, although even if they return alive, they will be blocked by those who know the truth.
But driven by dreams, they come together and are ready to work for the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 21st century.
However, there was a small episode in this small meeting: Miss Lex, who had been hired as a guide, was very dissatisfied with Weeland's hasty behavior, which violated the expected professional ethics, and after the offer of three weeks of training was denied, Miss Lex chose to abandon the archaeological employment, and Weyland had no choice but to temporarily find a newcomer who was willing to take over to guide to the pyramids.
When Lex heard this, he vetoed the decision: the rookie guide was too inexperienced to completely avoid losses in the face of some unexpected situations.
But Weyland said: You good guides are all virtuous, and you don't want to run ahead in this race against time, so Lex has to give up.
Before Lex left, after being persuaded by Sebastian and Miller, Miss Lex finally agreed to lead the team to the pyramid as a guide, considering the experience of the rookie guide.
The icebreaker arrived at the intended location, and in the bitter cold wind, the main force of the expedition, the drilling team and the expedition team, began to prepare for departure with equipment.
Because Bouvet Island was in the middle of the polar night, the expedition team needed to bring enough lighting and power generation equipment, and in addition to these equipment, they also needed to bring enough supplies: it would take a week for the drilling team to dig the pyramid location, and if they didn't want to freeze to starvation, then power generation equipment and adequate supplies were necessary.
While everyone was busy sorting out supplies and equipment, Lex summoned everyone and made an appointment with everyone before setting off for three chapters to ensure the safety of everyone's lives to the greatest extent.
After everyone understood and agreed, the expedition set out towards the nearest whaling station to the pyramid on the map.
The frigid cold winds and polar nights in Antarctica made these few hours boring, and the expedition team looked for topics to chat about to pass the time.
After several hours of ice advance, the expedition arrived at the abandoned whaling station, and after a brief search of the whaling station, the drilling team was busy setting up drilling equipment and looking for the best place to drill, when Sebastian, who had nothing to do, made an unexpected discovery:
The tunnel that Scar had punched out with shipborne weapons a few hours earlier.
After a short period of 'chaos', the drill team leader set up the measuring equipment to probe the tunnel discovered by Sebastian, and under the precise measurements of the drill team leader, it was found that the tunnel was perfectly drilled according to the angle of the ground tilting down 30 degrees.
After consulting the photos taken by the satellite, Weyland came to a startling conclusion: the tunnel did not appear under the satellite scan at the same time yesterday, but now it appears in front of everyone's eyes and under the satellite scan.