7 Act II: The Explorer's Handbook (1)

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A 10-meter-long black-gray aircraft soars in the blue sky, and its name is 'Sky Whale'.

The ripples of air brought up by the triangular wings on the left and right sides are repeated in the appearance and disappearance, and the thrusters in the tail erupt from time to time with purple flames, and the speed of the Sky Whale increases every time the flame flow erupts.

Below it is a rippling blue cloud, like a vast white ocean, and the jewel-like sun radiates endless light, under its radiance, all things in the world are grateful to it from the bottom of their hearts.

The Sky Whale has three circular windows on each side, and although it carries eight people, it does not affect its graceful posture above the sea of clouds, perhaps thanks to the female pilot in the cockpit.

The warm breeze from the vent blew the scattered black hair on Garcia's face, and she looked at the complex and sophisticated instrument panel with a serious face, and silently calculated the best flight path and flight method in her mind. Sometimes she would turn her head to look at the twenty-square-meter cabin behind the cockpit, and the aisle of the cabin was filled with a large pile of scientific research equipment.

There are small shovels, axes, sixteen glow sticks (half green and half blue), ten plant ecological storage bottles, eight belt indexers, eight smart helmets, two small generators, two metal detectors.

There is a long seat on each side of the aisle, and Lei Ming is wearing a brown mountain suit to sit on the seat, in fact, everyone is wearing brown mountain clothes, and they are also wrapped in four seasons underwear inside the mountain suits, after all, their destination this time is the cold endless ice field.

Lei Ming cut his short hair neatly, and his face with clear eyebrows was pleasing to look at. He took a handkerchief and carefully wiped a silver-white pistol, a six-millimeter caliber pistol produced by the 'Guardian' military-industrial complex with a capacity of twelve bullets, and a maximum range of an astonishing 1,500 meters. The pistol, 'Silver Feather', was given to him by Atfield for self-defense, and the rest of the cabin was tidying up their gear.

Dr. Kirkman, who is slightly chubby, is standing by the window sorting out a variety of medicines, each with concise first aid instructions at the bottom of the box. For example, the labeling of serum injection: snake, bat, green poisonous insect (one injection in the morning, noon and evening)

Of course, he did this because he was afraid that he would die unexpectedly, and he hoped that the expedition team would be able to cope with the ruthless illness without him. He was always thinking of people in this way, and this may be the compassionate heart that a doctor is born with.

Jin Yi and Yoland, two bearded special forces, sat in their seats assembling their submachine guns, their sideburns as gray as Atfield's. Although they were all middle-aged and had been retired from the army for many years, the resolute look on their brows and the excellent equipment on their bodies made the rest of the expedition team feel that this mission was very safe.

They each had a black pistol attached to each of their thighs, a twenty-centimeter-long titanium bayonet pinned to their hips, and their muscles exposed beyond their rolled sleeves were covered with tattoos of skulls, bullets, and flames.

The two intimidating 12 mm submachine guns have a magazine capacity of 36 bullets, and the camouflage pattern completely covers nearly one meter of the gun body, and the gun body is attached to the center of the four-inch display, which can turn on infrared mode and night vision mode.

Although Atfield had said that guns were unlikely to be used in the operation, they brought plenty of ammunition. They have a restrained murderous aura that wanders on the line of life and death all year round, and when this murderous aura erupts, even Lei Ming will feel palpitations.

There are three large freezers in the cargo hold of the Sky Whale, and it is very likely that werewolves will die of natural causes in the future, at least that's what everyone in the expedition team wants.

Elena and Bonita, who had just finished checking the scientific equipment, sat together, although they were about the same age, they were just eighty years old, but their fair and ruddy skin concealed their age, they both had shoulder-length blond curls, and their charming smiling faces were often full of youthful vitality, making it hard to believe that they were all over thirty-five years old. At the moment, they were discussing with relish about skin care, and sometimes they would look helplessly at Jin Yi and Youland, who were fiddling with submachine guns.

"I said you, is it necessary to be so serious, we are not going to hell." Elena said to Kim Yi and Yoland.

"Beautiful young lady, you can't slack off for a moment on the safety of your life." Yoland's expression was very serious, in fact, he had always put on such a face, and his old comrade-in-arms Jin Yi had seen him laugh so few times in decades that he could be counted on ten fingers.

"Especially when the captain of the expedition team is our captain," Jin Yi turned his gaze to Atfield, who was sorting out his backpack, his gaze full of awe, "I really miss the days when I fought side by side with the captain, and your name made the enemy fearful back then." ”

Atfield was attracted by Jin Yi's words, and he said to Jin Yi with a self-deprecating expression, "That's all old times, and now I don't even know how to detonate a grenade." ”

Elena looked at Atfield, who was laughing at herself, and she judged by the latter's words that the rumors were true, rumors that the former Raider was a special forces soldier before becoming the head of the Geochemical Institute.

Thunder also knows a little about Atfield's past. Perhaps because he had no children under his knees, Atfield made him the object of his past recounting.

During his nearly a month with Atfield, he learned that this middle-aged man, who was sometimes cheerful and sometimes melancholy, had an extremely wonderful life experience. They all had similar childhood experiences, being trained as agents in the Bright Empire and later rescued by the Peace Nation.

In this regard, Garcia is the same as them, except that she also worked as a minor spy before escaping the Free Army completely.

As a teenager, Atfield joined the army of Peace after being freed, and he longed to save more people who shared his fate. After years of brutal training, he joined the Peacemaker, the special operations unit of the Peace Nation

As a special soldier, he often shuttles through the battlefield as the vanguard of the national game, and he has experienced too many life and death partings. Whenever the blood of his comrades stained his body, he always asked himself in confusion what he was living for, and finally he found the answer, that is, to live to reduce the killing.

Seeing through the essence of the war, he chose to retire from the army, and a special forces soldier in the military world began to disappear from the eyes of the world.

Later, he entered the Institute of Geochemistry of the Peace Country, and ten years later he became the director of the Institute of Geochemistry. One day, on a whim, he wanted to enrich his life experience, so he chose to run for the surprise trial in his own name. Perhaps it was his status as the director of the Localization Institute that won the votes of the people, or perhaps it was his experience as a special forces soldier that won the support of the Albertan royal family. So he successfully defeated all the competitors and became a peaceful country, and this was done for another ten years.

Now, ten years later, he chooses to embark on a journey full of adventure again, and some people are like this, destined not to spend a mediocre life, because their bodies are full of adventure genes.

The 'Sky Whale' gradually sailed into the clouds, and the course ahead could no longer be seen clearly through the intelligent tempered glass, so Garcia turned on the automatic flight mode. The 'Sky Whale' was still descending, gradually emerging out of the sea of clouds, and below it was a continuous mountain range, the peaks of which were silent with ice and snow all year round, and sometimes the cold wind would bring a large snowflake to sweep away into the air, like a dancing fairy eager to stand on the sea of clouds and perform her dance.

This is the northern part of the Eurasian continent, known to the world as the Infinite Ice Field!

The ice age caused by the nuclear explosion has advanced and subsided several times over 13,000 years, and it is difficult to compare the ice sheets with continents because there are many local divisions. If we divide the countries according to the ancient period, then the principle of boundless ice covers such ancient countries as Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Finland, etc.

The airspace below the Sky Whale is not the center of the ice field, which is not completely frozen, and the limited local ice sheet only covers some of the higher mountains, like an ice cap on the top of the high mountains.

When you descend to an altitude of about 2,000 meters above sea level, you can see the rivers and mountains below. A group of white creatures in the shape of a diamond hovered high in the air, with a slender whip-like tail with white feathers and a wide mouth with many thin teeth. The abdomen is densely covered with suction cups, which sometimes emit air to help them land or take off. The wings are each flanked by three retractable claws, which resemble bats, except that they have no legs and have a flat head that fits perfectly into their bodies.

The sunlight shining through the clouds reflects a crystal clear light on them, sometimes making it seem like these manta ray-like behemoths are moving crystals.

In fact, their ancestors were indeed manta rays, and the evolution of life has always been the world's greatest mysterious force, especially with the help of nuclear contamination.

Far below the ocean, manta rays have evolved over the past 10,000 years to become the air supremacy of the vast ice fields. As they soar through the air, they flap their triangular wings and drag a soft, slender tail.

Scientists have agreed on why they chose to come inland to inhabit. Some people say that they chose to inhabit the vast ice fields according to the air currents, while others say that it was because the nuclear explosion caused a particularly large tsunami, forming a sea lake in some low-lying areas, and their ancestors were washed into the sea lake with the tsunami, and with the change of the environment and the passage of time, they gradually evolved into air dominance.

But these theories have not been proven so far, most of the species on the infinite ice field have their own unique evolutionary process, and it will take countless years for humans to uncover these evolutionary secrets, but the earth will one day become no privacy in front of humans, and if humans do not do this in the future, then it can only show one problem, that is, humans have destroyed the earth.

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