Chapter 20: The Contest on the Ocean

Bypassing Hokkaido, we continue north into the Arctic Ocean, where it is said that the depths of the ocean are also home to intelligent marine creatures that can withstand the cold of the polar regions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion listened to Mike's narration www.biquge.info Mary shook her head undeniably.

Mike said, "Do you know the Loch Ness Monster? In fact, it was not like that, but it was hyped into big news and the whole world paid attention. And on the eve of Henry's installation of radar electronic eyes on the biological robots, we went to the Kepari Glacier Lake, as the Eskimos say;

According to the Eskimos, deep inside the lake lived a monster that resembled a man with a total fin.

Henry said: If we can find something strange in the Arctic lake, whether it is a ghost or some other water monster, it will be big news. ”

"The Loch Ness Monster is purely for tourism!" Mary smiled, "So the locals made something out of nothing, and they had noses and eyes." Not many people want to travel here in the Arctic, and there shouldn't be tourism here, because if a large number of people flood into the Arctic, the environment here will be destroyed. Mankind has the space ladder of 'Galaxy 2' or directly to the Tiangong space station。。。。。;

Another example is the landing on Europa 2 in the North Pole, where there is a large ice sheet covering an area of 3,000 kilometers, according to scientific research, there may be microorganisms under the ice sheet?! Or is there an ice monster that is more ferocious than the polar bear of the earth。。。。。。 ”

Is it? Henry said that he had taken the super-intelligent biological robot clock man he invented to land on Europa-2 on a spaceship;

It was a starry night sky, and when Henry and the Robot Clockman had just activated their moped and flew towards Europa-2, Silent Sea Peak, something unusually strange blocked their way in front of them. "Suddenly, to the left of the monster, or ghost, on the ice peak, stood a huge, glowing white skeletal like a pterodactyl. Its wings stood in front of the ship, about forty feet in one wing. It had a long, spine-like neck, and a large beak, and its whole body was covered with bones, and its eyes glowed green like light bulbs; It turned its head to the front of the walker and looked at us through the lithium steel windshield. It began to turn its head rapidly up and down, from side to side. We were scared to death! We stopped there, and about five minutes later, the thing appeared in front of us and turned its head again. We went to check if the headlights of the aircraft or something else was playing a prank, but in the end it turned out that it was impossible. Could it be that this is a ghost from outer space? ”

Isn't it? Sometimes people encounter something very strange, and it's unbelievably weird. We can't help but beat the drum in our hearts: is it real or hallucination? Can science explain it? I met a ghost, right? We panic about some paranormal phenomena because no one can give the right answers, all because we know too little about the paranormal.

Henry studied the paranormal, and in the future he recorded many strange events. "Henry said that Europa 2 has a very similar harsh environment to the Earth's north and south polar ice sheets; However, no intelligent life has yet been discovered on Europa。。。。。。 The planet was too cold, at minus 279 degrees。。。。。。

Scientists predict that as the sun burns hydrogen fuel, it will become hotter and faster at burning the rest of the fuel, with the result that the sun will brighten by a factor of 10 percent every 1.1 billion years. In 1 billion years, as the sun's radiation output increases, the habitable zone of the solar system will move outward, and the surface of the earth will be so hot that liquid water can no longer exist on the surface of the earth, and all life on the surface will be extinct. Of course, a certain amount of groundwater will remain and, in some places, seep out of the surface, becoming a valuable new source of water. Water vapor from the atmosphere can sometimes pour down in the form of torrential rains, creating short-lived lakes. But much of the surface will become a sweltering desert, most of the creatures will go extinct, and most of the surviving species will go to cave-dwelling. If humans had still existed on Earth at that time, they would have joined the cave-dwelling with the help of technology. At that time, Europa 2's geography and climate were as suitable for human life as the Earth is today。。。。。。 ”

"--So you went to the North Pole?" Mary asked.

"Of course I went!" Mike glared and said loudly, "Once Henry decides something, he must do it, even if he risks his life, he will break the kettle and make a desperate bet." Out of nowhere, he got a boat, an amphibious landing craft with movable wings and good equipment, with a seabed sounder on it that could detect what's going on in the water. We bought some food, enough for three people (including the bio-clocker) for a week. I suggested that he hire a few Eskimos as guides, but he disagreed. He said that the Eskimos did not understand anything, and that following would only get in the way. That guy is always dictatorial and never takes advice from others. ”

"He probably had other considerations in mind." Mary analyzed, "For example, for confidentiality. ”

"Yes!" Mike agrees with her, "He doesn't want to go out and is afraid that others will compete with him." Anyway, I don't care, it's up to him to decide, I'm just a part-time worker - not as smart as a lander; I remember one morning in mid-July, we drove the airship into the Arctic Ocean and followed the route drawn on the map to find the Kepari Ice Lake. ”

"Ahh Mary regretted, "If I hadn't been pregnant at that time - how nice it would have been here!" I'll go with you! ”

"You're glad you were pregnant and didn't go!" Mike smiled wryly and shook his head, "That expedition was very dangerous, and I almost died several times, and I can't come back!" "Why?" Mary asked, "You met polar bears?" ”

"Worse than a polar bear!" Mike had just picked up his coffee and put it on the table, gesturing with his hands, and talking about their experience with excitement and anger.

-- Running in the Arctic is really difficult, full of dangers, accidents can happen at any time, and life can be in danger at any time. On the day of departure, the dinghy started its motor from a small pier at Point Barrow, gradually accelerated, and sailed forward against the wind and waves at sea. You know, that pier is in a big lagoon. There is no ice floe in the lagoon, and it is separated from the ocean by an intermittent sandy bank. Henry drove the dinghy, and I stood in the gunwales and watched the sea, clinging to the channel in the lake and heading out to sea. We crossed a gap in the sandy bank and sailed into the vast Arctic Ocean. As the saying goes, there is no wind and three feet of waves, and this is especially true in the Arctic Ocean, although the wind is not strong, but the waves are rolling and the cold is pressing. Due to the evaporation of water vapor, the fog is very large, the clouds are shrouded in fog, hazy, surging waves, looming, the seagulls are flying, and the motor is roaring, which makes people feel nervous, exciting, and a little mysterious.

Henry likes to brag and calls himself a veteran of drag racing. He said that when he was younger, he had a very good driving technique, he had a movable biplane express, and he used to race on the highway with a group of friends in the middle of the night, and was caught by the police several times, and almost thrown into prison. At this time, he saw that the Arctic Ocean was vast, unobstructed, and his hands were itching again, and suddenly he increased the throttle, and the dinghy jumped forward like a wild horse, and galloped wildly, and galloped past the crest of the wave, almost throwing me out. As soon as I saw that something was wrong, I grabbed my seat belt and warned him to drive carefully and not to get carried away. But Henry didn't listen at all, got carried away, grinned, and continued to speed up, taking my words as a deaf ear. As a result, while it was open, there was a sudden "boom", and the dinghy spread its movable wings and soared into the air, tilted, and flew out of the water, piercing through the clouds and fog, like a cannonball.

"Wow!" Henry yelled, like a madman, "Haha! We're flying! What a pleasure! "However, that guy did have two blows, and when the airship began to tilt in the air and was about to turn upside down, he suddenly shook his body and pulled it back. At this moment, only a "click" was heard, and the airship landed and fell heavily to the sea. Henry had already prepared, fastened his seatbelt, leaned against the driver's window, and clutched the lever tightly, so he didn't move. I stood in the cabin, my body was hanging in the air, I had nothing to rely on, I could only hold on to the seat belt, I couldn't use my strength, and I was bounced out all of a sudden, like a bird, "Plop!" With a thud, it fell into the icy water.

--And there were polar bears preying on the nearby seas, and what was even more infuriating was that Henry not only did not come to save me, but gloated, driving a dinghy around me, watching me struggle and struggle with polar bears in the cold water; He laughed until I was exhausted and about to sink to feed the polar bears, when he and the machine clock pulled me up. Back in the boat, I was so angry that I couldn't bear it anymore, and I kicked him into the air and fell into the sea. This time it was my turn to laugh, and as I watched him struggle desperately in the water, I slowly changed my clothes until he was almost frozen and was about to sink to the bottom, and then I dragged him up with the clockman. He shivered with cold, sneezed, and punched at me. I flashed to the side and kicked him again. He fell heavily and collapsed in the cabin, rolling around, unable to get up.

At this, Mike was silent, staring blankly at the ceiling, still looking angry, suppressing the anger in his heart, and Mary did not interrupt him. It was a moment before he continued.

Henry's guy is a bully and a fear of the hard, showing his teeth and claws in front of the weak, and once you subdue him, he will bow down. I hate this kind of person the most, and that's why I don't like that guy Henry so much. However, since then, he has tasted my strength, and no longer dares to show off his might in front of me, and always gives me three points in everything.

Later, we changed our clothes, warmed ourselves up and moved on. It didn't take long to drive, and I was lucky to meet a middle-aged Eskimo. I know this person, his name is Mikov, he is a very nice person, very simple. He is driving a small boat with his beloved female robot cat N (a replica of his ex-wife) to the hunting grounds. And their hunting grounds, right on our way to Kepari Glacier Lake. We stopped the dinghy and exchanged greetings.

"Where are you going?" Mikov asked.

"We're going to Kepari Ice Lake." I pointed ahead. Henry tried to give me a look and didn't want me to say it, but I pretended not to see it. He likes to make things mysterious, so I ignored him and said to Mikov, "We're going to find the ice monster that can eat people." ”

"Ahh It's true? Mikov and the robot cat N were visibly taken aback, their eyes widened, and they looked at each other, "Be careful! Mikov warned, "That monster is awesome!" They can drag an entire polar bear into the water and swallow it in one gulp, not to mention the two of you. ”

"That's just a legend, right? Does anyone really see it? I asked him incredulously.

"I don't know!" Mikov looked into the distance and shook his head in confusion, "However, I heard that there was a girl who disappeared on the lake, and people thought that she must have been eaten by the ice monster. ”

"Is there any other evidence?" Henry asked.

"There were also people who cast nets in the lake to catch fish, and the next morning when I looked, there was a big hole in the net. It is more than seven meters in diameter. He gestured with his hand, "But that freaks out that man!" ”

"We just want to check it out." Henry quickly separated the topic, "Is it good to go to Kepari Ice Lake?" ”

"Nope! It's not easy to walk! Mikov shook his head and then volunteered, "You can't get lost with a biplane airship and a GPS satellite navigation system。。。。。。 ”

As he spoke, he drove the boat to the front and spun around among the ice floes. The biplane followed, zigzagging left and right, and walked for about two hours before breaking out of the ice floe and into a bay, which was marked on the map as Smith Bay. There was no ice floe in the area, and Henry, presumably, wanted to shake off Mikov and began to accelerate again.

Mikov's boat could not keep up with the airship and fell far behind. -- As soon as the airship entered the low altitude of the North Pole, like the open-minded and steady character of the Eskimos, the sun in the Arctic was unhurried, step-by-step, and moved according to a specific trajectory. The Arctic steppes are wide and undulating, like an endless carpet, stretching out to meet the distant horizon. The grasslands are red and green, and the meandering rivers are contrasted, spreading under the blue sky, dotting the uninhabited wilderness of the Arctic. The river meanders and twists and turns, connecting the lakes and moistening the earth, making this short summer full of green grass and life.

"It's so beautiful!" Hearing Mike say this, Mary couldn't help but admire. She also loved the Arctic steppe, but had only been to its edge, and had never had the opportunity to go as deep as Mike.

Yes, seeing the vast prairie from the aerial three-dimensional animation cartoon and the mysterious feature of the Kepari Ice Lake made her yearn for it and had a strong attraction.

"Beautiful! It's beautiful! Mike's eyes lit up, although he was tired, and he didn't hesitate to praise her, as if he had deliberately rendered it in front of her.

"When we arrived, it was a sunny day, and the sun was turning to the north, approaching the horizon. The evaporation of water vapor from the sea turns the sunset on the horizon into a dark red, reflecting on the surface of the lake like a charcoal fire. A large flock of white swans is frolicking in the water, like a cloud of white clouds, reflected in the lake. Among them was a couple of swans, beaking each other's necks and gently combing their wings; I was physically and mentally exhausted, and I was worried about the man-eating monsters underwater, but I was still stunned by the wonderful scenery. The remnant sun is like blood, and the water is as red as fire, as if our airship is sailing between blood and fire. ”

"And then?" Mary was fascinated by Mike's description, and suddenly remembered the ice monster they were looking for, "Did you find that man-eating monster?" ”

Mike didn't speak, and for a moment his expression seemed to become odd;

It turned out that when Henry and the biological clock man were resting on the lake that night, Mike suddenly felt that the mechanical clock man began to ring very strangely.

Mike said: "The night before Henry's illness, the biological clock was ringing very abnormally. For a moment, the bell seemed very weak, and then it was back to normal; The bell sometimes rushes and then slows. Eventually, Mike couldn't resist his fear and curiosity, and he opened the door and peeked out. The clock-faced robot reflects the aurora borealis in a terrifying light. By this time, the ticking of the clock was very faint, but as I listened closely, it gradually became louder and louder. What horrified me was the giant mechanical clock man dancing violently forward and backward, swaying, and making frightening sounds。。。。。。

I couldn't imagine what would happen in the next second, so I retreated into another tent and quickly fastened it。。。。。。

Soon after he awoke, the sick Henry cried out loudly, 'Oh my God! Oh my! It's coming, it's coming'. ”

After another half hour, a black, faceless 'thing' suddenly staggered into his tent。。。。。。 Thus, Henry became the meal on the plate of the hungry man-eating machine clockman。。。。。。

So Mike believes that the robot clock man is controlled by the "Grim Reaper".

Yes, science is a double-edged sword. We have reason to believe that although there have been many similar tragedies in the history of robot development, the emergence of tragedy will not stop the pace of human progress, on the contrary, human beings will be more courageous and more careful to face the challenges of these new technologies.