It took about three days of high diving to clean up the Horror.

Because the hull of the ship has been frozen in the iceberg, there is not much damage, and the ship has lost some equipment and inventory in the process of unsealing from the frozen state to rushing out of the sea, which can also be ignored.

The crew's ice corpse was also collected by Gao Di, who dug a huge ice pit on the island, filled it, poured whale oil, and burned it. The whole process was completed by Gao Qian alone, without eyes and spirits, and Jiajia was ordered by Gao Qian to stay in the hut and not allowed to come out.

The reason why Gao Qian decided to burn these ice corpses was because their death was too weird, and at the bottom of the cabin, Gao Qian also saw that only half of the corpses had been gnawed, and the skulls of the corpses had been opened, and there were tooth marks on them, the teeth marks of human front teeth.

The Horror expedition had been planned for three years, but the expedition had seven years of supplies stored on board, but the expeditionary fleet disappeared completely three months after it went to sea. In the hundreds of years that followed, countless seafarers claimed to have seen the expedition ship in the icy sea, so the Horror had another name, the Polar Ghost Ship.

However, there are some more frightening rumors.

It is rumored that the ship was trapped by an iceberg for half a year when it first entered the polar region, and the crew killed each other in extreme cold and poisoning conditions, and finally sank to the bottom of the sea with the iceberg.

It is also rumored that the expeditionary ship was attacked by a mysterious sea beast while it was trapped by an iceberg, and the sea beast visited the Horror and her flagship every day, eating the crew one by one as if they were visiting their own vegetable garden. The last remaining crew members of the ship were overwhelmed and finally sank the Horror, killing them along with the sea beasts.

However, neither the relative respect for science, nor the fantastical rumors, can explain the human incisor marks on the ice corpses.

For the sake of prudence, Gao Qian decided to burn these strange corpses, if there is really any virus that can turn people into brain-eating zombies, I hope they will also disappear with this raging fire.

During the whole process, the Eyeless Spirit did not say a word.

"Do you know what's going on?" Gao Qian asked.

The Eyeless Spirit looked at him in silence and did not answer.

Gao Qian didn't bother to ask again, he didn't plan to let Jiajia know about the strange phenomenon on this ship, so he simply didn't ask. Whatever the cause of the shipwreck of the Horror, it was more than a hundred years ago, and now the person who drove the Horror is a high diver, even if there are really any ghosts and ghosts, murderous sea beasts, he will call it a return.

Ready to go to sea, it will be ready soon. Actually, there is nothing to prepare. Gao Qian packed all Jiajia's furs and moved them into the captain's room, even if the moving work was completed.

On board there is a restaurant, there are boilers, circulating plumbing equipment, and several tons of coal. Although it was a little difficult to get the steam engine in the bottom compartment back into operation, it was no problem to keep the furnace alive and keep the temperature in the captain's cabin.

On the day of the voyage, the high diver jumped into the sea with a large iron chain and swam to the great narwhal waiting there. The whale god's huge ice-blue eyes turned coldly towards him. Gao Qian raised the corners of his mouth, smiled at the whale god, and began to tie the knot in the whale god's tusks with iron chains, and then wrapped around the whale god's head, and finally fixed it on his back.

The other of the chains, connected to the hull of the Horror, is the driving force behind the expedition of the high diver.

As for why the whale god helped Gao Qian, probably only Jia Jia can explain, but when Gao Qian asked Jia Jia how she managed to make the whale god so obedient, Jia Jia shook her head blankly, not knowing three questions.

On that day, the Horror was towed by a giant narwhal and began its return voyage, due south. After careful consideration, the high diver decided to return to the nearest land first, and then find a way to return home via land.

Once a powerful veteran, the Battle of Burning Washington, the Antarctic route, and the Horror across the Atlantic with a leaky hull is now set sail again under the leadership of the captain of the ship, the crew of the Great, and a taciturn eyeless spirit.

"Big brother, where are we going?"

"Go home. ”

"Are you going to find your mother?"

"Well, there are also Sister Lin Qian, Brother Shang Ke, and many others. ”

"Are they okay?"

"I hope so. ”

"Big brother, how long are we going to sail like this?"

"I don't know. ”

The boat ride from the North Pole to Greenland, the largest island, can take anywhere from a few days to a dozen days, depending on the weather, route, ocean conditions and the power intensity of the boat.

In front of him, there are ice fles all over the place, and the icebergs are towering everywhere, and it is estimated that the time it will take for Gao Diver to take more than twice as long.

The whale god slowly dragged the Horror through the icebergs, as if walking through the dark blue mountains. The icebergs were strangely shaped, some animal-like, some knife-edged, and some like giant arched bridges, enough for the Horror to glide through them.

Jiajia screamed with excitement at the beginning, and gradually fell silent, she seemed to understand that there was still a long, long way to go, the voyage had just begun, and the future was unpredictable.

After sailing for about half a day, they ran into a problem.

A huge field of ice blocked their way, and the ice field seemed endless, and the whale god used his fangs to break through the thick ice along the way, forcibly dragging the Horror into the ice. The Horror's hull creaked as the ice squeezed, sounding as if it was about to shatter at any moment.

However, when encountering the thick ice with a thickness of more than ten meters, even the whale god was powerless, and the ice was rapidly accumulating around the Horror, and the bow of the ship gradually surfaced.

"Jiajia, go back to the cabin. Gao Qian said hurriedly, "You, with her." High Dive waved at the Eyeless Spirit.

"Big brother!" Jiajia shouted as she watched the high dive jump into the ice slag-filled water.

The Eyeless Spirit grabbed Jiajia's arm and shook her head slowly, "Listen to your brother." ”

"But he's in danger!"

"You have to stay here to help him. ”

Dive high and quickly swim towards the whale god.

The whale god rolled under the water in a rage, trying to break through the ice overhead, the sharp fangs kept piercing into the ice, and the huge ice kept peeling off, if he continued to do this, even if it was a thick layer of ice, it would be able to be dug out of a hole by the whale god, but the whale god looked like crazy, but he didn't want to slowly break the ice like this, but he was desperate.

Avoiding the scattered ice in the water, High Dive came to the eye of the whale god and tried to reassure her, but was almost hit by the tail wringed by the frenzied whale.

What's going on? What makes the whale go berserk?

Gao Qian paused for a moment, and suddenly woke up.

Whales are mammals, and even if they have a large lung capacity, they need to ventilate every few tens of minutes. If you can't create breathing holes under the ice, even the whale god will be doomed.