72° north latitude, Greenland Sea.

In the dark of night, the crimson ship broke through the broken ice, leaving behind a 20-meter-wide black waterway.

This is already within the Arctic Circle, although it is now spring, the temperature has risen, and the sea surface has not been completely frozen, but as the saying goes, the spring cold is expected to be steep, and the temperature here is still about minus twenty or thirty degrees, and the ice floes are all over the sea.

Probably only a monster-class icebreaker would dare to continue to rush towards the North Pole at this time.

The YAAL, the world's largest nuclear-powered icebreaker, was built in the pre-Red Union era and is equipped with two heavy-water nuclear reactors, capable of providing almost endless power, and the outer heavy armored bow can easily smash six-meter icebergs.

What is the concept?

Have you heard of the Titanic?

If Jack and Ruth were not on the Titanic, but on the YAAL, they would not have sunk because of the impact on the iceberg, and they would even be able to enjoy a different kind of ship shock.

You can imagine two people shaking on the boat, the boat shook, the people also shook, and they passed through the middle of the iceberg with a shock.

That's probably what it means.

As a direct consequence, his crew was never hired by other cruise lines – because they didn't want to hide from the iceberg when they saw it, they just thought about how to hit it.

Whose good guy drove a cruise ship to hit the iceberg?

So the ship's crew members have a 99 percent unemployment rate after they retire — not 100 percent because some of them have hired car crash engineers.

It can be said that the profession is quite appropriate.

It is precisely because of the monster-like performance of the YAAL that among the icebreakers in the world, except for a few military-grade monsters whose identities cannot be disclosed, only this ship has sailed to the North Pole.

It's a pity that by the time it was built, that great country had already disintegrated into a.

It sat idle in the Arctic fleet for a few years before being leased to a European cruise line, which converted it into a luxury cruise ship that sailed the Arctic Ocean all year round.

Many wealthy people will call it this ship – if nothing else, just to experience the joy of hitting an iceberg.

It's not something that everyone can experience.

The ship departs annually from the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Barents Sea to the North Pole, with a long voyage along the way, as well as passing through Greenland.

At this time, Gu Bei was standing on the bow of the ship and looking out.

In fact, there is nothing to see, only a white expanse of solid ice as far as the eye can see, the misty fog envelops the entire sea, and the waves wrapped in ice floe crash against the side of the ship with a thunderous sound, which makes people shudder.

Gu Bei had been standing here for half an hour.

This is Gu Bei, but if you change someone to stand here, don't say if it will freeze into a popsicle for half an hour, the surrounding scenery alone is enough to make people feel boring, and there is sea fog wrapped in salt grains, if ordinary people don't wear masks and are directly exposed to the sea fog, they will be scratched by salt grains and their faces will be covered with blood in a moment.

This is also the reason why Gu Bei is the only one on the entire deck.

It's not that other people don't want to come out and see the view, it's really unblessed.

Of course, Gu Bei is not standing here to pretend to be forced - he is looking for something.

A tall man like a polar bear came out of the cabin, approached Gu Bei's side, and stretched out his hand to hand Gu Bei a kettle: "Here, I didn't expect there to be such a good thing on this boat."

Gu Bei took it, opened the lid and smelled it, the liquid in the pot was still a little warm, it should have been scalded: "It's just wine, as long as it's a cruise ship, there is no shortage of this kind of thing, not to mention providing it to tourists to drink, even sailors can't lack this thing, what kind of good thing is this?"

"Tsk, I don't know the goods."

Fingal pulled an identical flask from his waist, opened it and took a sip, then carefully tightened the lid and put his hand up.

His physique was not as good as Gu Bei's, and it was a little cold standing here.

Gu Bei shook his head: "No

It's vodka, so it's a mystery."

As he spoke, he opened the cap and took a sip.

Gu Bei is not a good drinker, for him, wine is more like a concoction, just like Coke Sprite Menita, nothing special.

After all, the Liuku Immortal Thief can decompose all substances, and Gu Bei's drinking is just a taste—but there is one thing to say, and the taste is not good.

"A hundred knives." Fingal said suddenly.

Gu Bei didn't react: "What do you mean?"

"The sip you just drank is almost worth the price, a hundred dollars."

Gu Bei: "...... Are you kidding?"

Fingal shrugged his shoulders and didn't explain, just carefully pulled out the flask and took another sip.

But that's the best explanation.

Gu Bei's jaw almost didn't fall.

To be honest, his current status is not low, but he has always been a little unable to adapt to such an "upper-class" life, in his eyes, it is still a small apartment, a food stall, and Qingdao snowflakes can make him feel at ease.

As for vodka for a hundred dollars......

"He's made of gold?"

"How is gold worth?" Fingal smacked his lips as if he was savoring, "Jodanov, one of the most expensive vodkas in the world, is produced in a famous distillery in the town of Koblenz, Germany. It is brewed with 100% high-quality pure wheat grains and water from the highlands of Vogel***erg after five distillations, and the price of a bottle is $4,300."

「…… I don't understand." Gu Bei grabbed his hair, and then poured another sip of wine, but he didn't taste any difference between this thing and other wines.

Actually, it's not that it's indifferent, the main thing is that he's not sensitive to this thing.

For him, at most, there is a difference between liquor, foreign wine, beer, red wine and rice wine, and as for the same type of wine, it is just a different bottle.

"Actually, there are reasons for the hype." Fingal explains, "The bottle containing Jodanov is a magnificent one-liter bottle with 14,000 Swarovski crystals ......."

"Understood, crystals are valuable, but wine is not." Gu Bei understood.

But Fingal still shook his head: "NONO, BOSS, YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WELL, THE REAL VALUE IS THE FIVE WORDS "SWAROVSKI".

Gu Bei: "It turned out to be because of the brand...... But you said it was made in Germany?"

Fingal nodded, "Hmm."

"And how did this thing end up on a Russian ship?" Gu Bei was puzzled.

Fingal spread his hands: "Although this ship was built by Chilian, it is now owned by a European cruise company, and it is said that one of the old directors of this company is a German, and there is also a stake in Yodanov."

"No wonder you can bring this wine to the ship." Gu Bei understood, then opened the wine jug and took another sip.

It's not that it's addictive, it's mainly that this thing is too expensive, and you can earn more by drinking more.

Well, although he is already a big man who can't be ignored in the whole world, Gu Bei still can't abandon his little person mentality.

He didn't hate it either—he felt good about it.

Gu Bei and Fingal stood side by side at the bow of the boat for a while, the sea breeze howling, scraping on the skin like knives.

Fortunately, neither of them is an ordinary person.

Not to mention Gu Bei's physique, Fingal's physique is also the best among the half-breeds, even if he doesn't use the Spirit Bronze Throne, Fingal's strength can also wrestle with the three generations of races, and this physique is already strong to the limit of normal half-breeds.

Of course, there is still no way to compare with an abnormal hybrid like Chu Zihang Lu Mingfei.

The cold winds of the Arctic Circle had no effect on the two men.

Fingal opened his mouth, exhaled a mouthful of white mist, and asked, "Haven't you found it yet?"

Gu Bei rolled his eyes: "If you can give me a more exact coordinates, maybe it will be faster to find it."

Fingal smiled bitterly, "Even Norma didn't record the coordinates, what about me

Is there a ...... But it should be around here...... Please."

"Even if you say that, it's not like you can find it." Gu Bei sighed, "Let's not mention that the particularity of the soul makes this kind of thing difficult to detect, even if I can clearly perceive the existence of the soul, but you have to be clear, Eva is at the bottom of the sea, I am not sonar, nor radar, and the soul at the bottom of the sea is still too far away from our position."

"And if I take 10,000 steps back, even if I can really extend my perception to the bottom of the sea, it needs a precise range, and looking aimlessly like this is not a proper needle in a haystack."

Hearing Gu Bei's words, Fingal had no way to refute it, and scratched his hair sneeringly: "Do your best...... Just do your best."

Gu Bei glanced at him and didn't say the worst.

In case, in case Eva's soul has dissipated, in that case, even if he finds a location, he will definitely not be able to perceive it.

At that point, the resurrection naturally became nonsense.

I believe that when you get here, you can also understand that the reason why Gu Bei did not stay in the cabin, but ran to the deck, was to search for Eva's soul.

The soul is a special thing, Gu Bei can indeed sense the existence of the soul, but there are too many people in the cabin, and it is easy to interfere with his perception.

And the deck is empty, so naturally it is the best place to search for souls.

It's just that if the soul is gone, then even if it can be perceived, what is the use?

Fingal obviously knew this truth, but neither he nor Gu Bei had told this most desperate guess, as if as long as they didn't say it, Eva's soul would still exist.

The method of covering one's ears and stealing the bell is still very effective when it comes to comforting oneself, at least in this way, Fingal's spirit can still hold on without collapsing.

"Anyway...... Why are we going to act with those ordinary people?" Gu Bei had a headache, "Obviously, you can directly charter this ship and start the operation, won't it get in the way of acting with ordinary people?"

Fingal's heart was still worried about Eva's soul, and when he heard Gu Bei's question, he replied absentmindedly: "On the one hand, because they are old sailors on this ship, they will know more about the situation of this ship than we do compared to our own people, our mission requirements are relatively relaxed, we can reveal the existence of half-bloods to them if necessary, anyway, someone will be responsible for clearing the memories afterwards, and on the other hand, ...... I've heard that there is a problem with the college's funding, but I don't know the exact situation."

"There's something you don't even know about!?" Gu Bei was surprised, "I thought you knew everything that happened in Kassel Academy."

"It's Norma, not me, who knows these things." Fingal's face was calm, "And I know if it's not what happened in the academy."

Gu Bei raised his eyebrows: "For example?"

"It's you who gave Nono a leave of absence, and for that you also used your professorial privileges."

「…… Do you gossip about me behind Eva's back every day?"

"It's Eva who is gossiping, I just accidentally overheard it."

"Accidentally heard it from Eva's computer room?"

"Occasionally, in the ice cellar."

"Didn't you do this on purpose!?"

"Don't think that you can spew blood with your big fists, I've always been honest and reliable."

「…… What day bitter tea are you wearing today?"

"Inoue Orihime."

"Aren't you a group of teachers printed on your bitter tea?"

"The second element teacher is also a teacher."

"Inoue Orihime is a hairy teacher!?"

"Count as a nurse."

"Is this your favorite subject?"

"Actually, the Investigator can do it too."

「……」

Gu Bei clenched his fists: "What should I do? I want to throw you into the sea now to accompany Ev

a."

Fingal's eyes froze, then slowly softened.

It was the first time Gu Bei had seen such a gentle expression on this slippery man's face.

He pursed his lips and smiled, "That's ...... It's actually pretty good."

Yes, maybe such a death would be a good thing for him.

Faced with this kind of answer, Gu Bei didn't know what to say for a while.

After a long time, Gu Bei sighed: "It's indeed a good choice, but before that, at least help him avenge it yourself."

"Hmm." Fingal nodded, his eyes cold.

The two of them fell silent in the cold wind.

After a while, a girl's voice broke the dull atmosphere: "Brother Gu Bei, Fingal, what are you doing here?"

Eri also stepped out of the cabin.

She was wrapped in a thick fox coat, wore a fluffy wool hat on her head, and blushed a little.

Behind her, followed Sakura, who was dressed in an overcoat.

Eri Yi jumped up to Gu Bei's side and took Gu Bei's hand: "Wow, it's so warm!"

Then the whole person leaned on Gu Bei.

Gu Bei's body temperature is adaptively adjusted, and the colder the outside, the higher the temperature on his body.

Fingal glanced at the two of them with envious eyes, and then rolled his eyes: "Boss......

"If you fart, let it go."

"I'm ...... too."

"Roll the calf!"

"Gotcha."

Fingal failed to get his hands on the humanoid air conditioner and stood aside.

Gu Bei rubbed Eri Yi's hair: "Why did you come out?"

"It's not fun in the boat," Eri buried her head in Gu Bei's arms, "There's not even a game console, it's not fun at all."

Actually, it's not fun.

Because it is a luxury cruise ship for the rich, there are quite a lot of entertainment facilities on board, such as casinos, swimming pools, billiard rooms, dance halls, restaurants, and KTV, which can meet the needs of eating, drinking and playing.

It's just that Eri doesn't feel very interesting.

Of course, the most important thing is that in such a strange place, without Gu Bei by her side, she was a little at ease.

Gu Bei also sensed the little girl's mood, and comfortingly stroked her hair over and over again.

Fingal and Sakura stood aside, looking at the two with envy.

Who did they remember at this point?

"Jingle Bell ......"

A sudden ringing rang on the silent sea, and Fingal quickly took out his mobile phone, and the caller ID was "Professor Schneider".

The phone was connected, and Professor Schneider's hoarse voice came out of the earpiece: "The leisure travel time is over, the satellite has detected that you have entered the target sea area, and now everyone has it, put on the equipment assigned by the equipment department, and wait for the instructions."

It was then that everyone remembered that they had come to the North Pole on a mission.