Relbacco said calmly: "It seems that our power supply system has not survived the impact of this ice storm. ”

"How long will it take to repair it in the fastest?" Schneider was also calmly asking.

"I think we can get it back to normal within an hour, but the exact time depends on the damage." Relbacco looked at the first mate next to him, who nodded knowingly and slipped out of the captain's room in the dark, apparently leading the crew to the front line of repairs.

Professor Mance cursed in German, not sure if he was scolding the paper tiger icebreaker or the damn ice storm.

In fact, this level of ice storm does not pose a threat to the normal navigation of the YAMAL, the movement of the front line is very fast, the general crew only needs to drink vodka and eat some canned food for two days, and when the storm passes, most of the decommissioned equipment can be repaired and restored, and they can sail on the Arctic Ocean without worry.

Considering that an ice storm of this magnitude had an almost devastating effect on the smaller ships, and crashing into the big ship they were riding on was only a temporary deactivation of some equipment.

But no one in this room who knows anything other than Relbacho would have the idea of "nothing more than that", because a second attack followed one after another, which had to make one suspect that the matter had been premeditated for a long time.

"EVA broadcasts the last piece of information before it is deactivated, and it is also very valuable." Mance Rundstedt tapped on the console: "Mr. Relbacho, do we have a way to detect targets outside the ship?" ”

The Russians shrugged their shoulders: "If we sail normally in the polar day now, there are many methods--- drones, lookouts on the deck, and even we can send a team of people to disembark directly to investigate, our people don't mind disembarking activities." ”

"But now," Relbacco pointed to the dim and flying ice crystals outside the captain's cabin window, "our people will be blown away by the wind even if they are on deck, and the drones will not work with radio disconnections, and we are blind now." ”

Everyone was silent, the enemy was not terrible for the swords-sharpening embryos of the Executive Department, but the problem was that they couldn't even know what the enemy really was, which was unacceptable to Schneider as a minister.

Elizabeth, who had not been involved in a conversation since entering the cabin, said softly: "Depending on the intensity of the storm, we may be able to send people to the deck watchtower with certain fixed measures. ”

Relbacco immediately shook his head: "Impossible, the temperature outside the cabin is too low, not to mention the storm temperature is enough to freeze people, and we don't know the change in wind, even if there is a fixture, the wind may tear people apart, there are ice crystals in the storm that can cut people, once there is blood outside the cabin, people will quickly lose consciousness." ”

Both Schneider and Mance heard his warning, but neither responded. Mance shook his head slightly, Schneider knew what he meant, the danger that Rearbacho said was not alarmist but real, and this was also a certain risk for half-breeds, Mance was not a resident of the Executive Department but a professor of the Academy, and he couldn't be as indifferent as Schneider, not to mention that there were many of his former students among the commissioners of the Executive Department.

But who has ever had a student or not?

Schneider walked out of the captain's room with firm steps, Mance did not stop him, he knew that there was no point in blocking, the commander of the executive department was Schneider not him, not to mention that there was no risk on the battlefield of dragon slaying.

Relbacco watched Schneider go away in surprise, and Mance followed after a brief hesitation, the major of the Alpha Special Forces was a little dazed, he looked at himself and the young lady who was noble at first glance, hesitated for a moment and said, "Are they really going to send people to the deck?" No one wants to die on their own. ”

"It's us, Major Relbako." After speaking, Elizabeth kept her eyes closed, and did not open her eyes until the Major asked a question, and her eyes had turquoise eyes, beautiful and pure, like two flawless emeralds, and there seemed to be a little golden light in them.

The girl asked herself: "They know, but they have faith and hope." ”

The major sat there stunned, as if he understood something, and as if he didn't understand anything, the country that was enough to make people pay for their lives had been dead for more than ten years, he had heard the stories told by the old man, but those two words were just old things buried in the past for him, what did it have to do with these black trench coats going to the deck to find death?

The Russian watched a blonde lady who looked a little childish talk about the past of Russia in front of her, and she didn't know how to describe her mood for a while, and the girl also knew that this middle-aged man was not a person with dragon blood, and the hidden meaning behind his words was not known, so she closed her eyes.

Seeing that the girl opposite him had no desire to continue talking, the major walked outside the cabin to see how these mysterious people in black trench coats were going to get out of the cabin and ascend to the lookout, and then the two commissioners came up to him.

"The minister wants you to stay in the room or go to the ground floor with the first mate to repair the circuit, and we will take care of the exit."

Raybako didn't say anything, nodded silently, didn't ask what he shouldn't ask, knowing that the more he died, the faster he died, this was one of the truths he learned during his many years in the special forces, when the tasks assigned by the top were a little dirty and disgusting, but do it or die.

He saw in the two men today a temperament similar to that of the supreme commander, the new captain with the iron mask, and ...... The girl was a little ridiculous to say, but he still trusted his own judgment.

Relbacco is becoming more and more worried about the safety of this voyage, he really needs money, but money can be earned again, there is only one life, he has experienced the rain of bullets, but the right thing is not as materialistic as bullets.

Instead of overhauling the circuit with the first mate, he returned to his cabin, drank some vodka and collapsed on the bed, but even the high spirits did not put the thoughtful Russian to sleep.

He lay dazed and dazed, and he didn't know how much time had passed, maybe half a day or half an hour, when he suddenly jumped up from the bed, and pulled out a painting wrapped in a cloth from under his bed, and he gently tore open the cloth that wrapped the painting, and the painting behind the cloth was very strange and full of artistic sense, and it was worth it at a glance.

The painting depicts the blue sea and the blue sky, the sky is flowing with wavy clouds, and the mysterious light shines through the clouds on the distant stone island, which is in the center of the picture, looking a little lonely, and there is not even a shadow reflected on the sea, but the painting style is very realistic, making people wonder whether the artist has forgotten the shadow on the painting or there is no reflection in the first place.

The center of the stone island in the painting is covered with towering trees, so big that they do not conform to the law of plant growth, and the periphery of the island presents a bizarre semicircle, like the ancient Roman Colosseum that has been cut in half, and the audience of the Colosseum is a stone cave, and each stone cave contains a coffin.

There was also a small boat on the island near the island, with a coffin in the bow, it seemed that the coffins on the island were brought up one by one, and there was a strange passenger on the boat, only a human figure wrapped in white, and it was impossible to see what it was.

Raybacho hated this painting from the bottom of his heart from the moment he saw this thing, there was something hidden in the painting, which made people feel a sense of unrealistic fear from the bottom of his heart, it was something that the captain gave him when he left, it was a parting gift, and it was also a talisman, Sukabule, how could anyone use this kind of ghost thing as a talisman? But he accepted the painting anyway, not for the friendship he had cultivated with the crazy captain, of course, but because he knew the value of the painting.

Arnold Böcklin's "Island of the Dead", one of which is still in the Kunsthalle Basel, can retire and return to Moscow to live peacefully with the silly woman who has become a vegetative person.

However, the captain made a condition before giving him the painting, and the old man said that when he sold the ship, he had also sold them as the crew of the YAMAL, and that they were to work for the deep-pocketed patron for a while, and that they would not leave until they had familiarized their men with the ship, and of course the wages would remain the same, and he still remembered the treacherous smile on the old man's face.

When the ship reached the port, the crazy old man did not know where he had slipped away, and while he was still hesitating whether to leave his brother behind him and leave, the black trench coats got on board.

He didn't think much of it at the time, but now he gradually felt a little panicked, was this painting an amulet or a curse? Should this priceless weird thing be left around?

Relbacco glanced at the painting and wrapped it back, then began pacing back and forth in the room.

However, the knock on the door interrupted his hesitation and reflection in time, and the black trench coat behind the door conveyed Schneider's notice.

So he hid the painting in time and went to the captain's room again.

..................

Schneider was well aware that this was a risky operation, but also a necessary one, and what he had to do was to minimize the casualties among those involved.

At this level, the risk is not too big for a half-blood, there are enough executive elites on the ship, and a reasonable combination of words and spirits can greatly reduce the risk.

So two A-class, one B-level team was quickly screened out by him, the executive department does not have the powerful "Jun Yan", but the more controllable "blazing" is undoubtedly a better choice in the cold, such a mobile heat source can solve all kinds of risks caused by low temperatures, from the human body to the equipment.

The reason for the choice of "Immortal" and "King's Servant" is even simpler, "Immortal" can greatly strengthen its own flesh and hardness, the owner will use the power of the blessing of the spirit to carry all the equipment to reduce the burden of the other two people's continuous speech, and "King's Servant" can strengthen the team's body to cope with the work in the storm environment.

Schneider's team was very well set up, and the results were equally encouraging, and after the initial familiarization with the stationary equipment, the three commissioners advanced to the watchtower at a slow pace, and after a series of intense work, they managed to set up the equipment on the high platform and in the cold wind, but the results were not satisfactory.

Relbacco, who walked into the cabin, got such an answer.

"Nothing."

Schneider repeated it again.

"There's nothing on the ice near us."

The person pacing back and forth in the room at this point was Professor Mance, who said, "There can be nothing wrong with EVA's sonar, so those unknown targets should exist under the ice." ”

"Under the ice." Everyone in the cabin repeated these two words in their hearts.

Mance continued: "I took note of the speed that was already shown when the EVA showed the sonar, and the previous out-of-cabin operation took a lot of time, and the nearest red dot would hit it in five minutes. ”

Relbacco couldn't remember how many times this was today's surprise, so much so that he didn't show any unusual expressions, and the projection only appeared in front of them for thirty seconds at most, but the half-bald middle-aged man in front of him who was a little pedantic actually wrote down all of them and even accurately calculated the time of the collision!

What he didn't know was that Mance Rundstedt was a professor of magic mechanics in Kassel, and it was 10,000 times more difficult to memorize the drawings of those precision mechanics than to memorize them.

He calmed down and began to think about what would be under the ice in the Arctic.

Wait a minute!

He turned to Schneider and said, "Whale! ”

All eyes were on this ordinary person.

"You said earlier that you bought this ship for whaling, and I was wondering what kind of whale needs an icebreaker like the YAMAL."

Schneider shook his head inwardly, the so-called "whaling" was just a code name for dealing with the crew, and they were always here for the noble and violent dragons.

"Did you buy this ship to catch Leviathan?"

Schneider's face suddenly tensed, Leviathan is a terrifying monster recorded in the Apocrypha "Book of Enoch" and the Bible, a beast created by God himself, these gods and strange legends all point to the dragon clan in the eyes of the secret party, a pure-blooded dragon clan in the Leviathan secret party's guess! It could be a secondary species, or it could be a more noble primary species!

In the records of mythology, there are many images of Leviathan, a sea serpent with twists, a giant whale with scales and sharp teeth, and even a chaotic dragon, many years ago, the secret party determined that there was a hidden dragon king in the Arctic Ocean, but there was no news in the follow-up, Schneider decided to buy this ship is waiting for this mortal enemy!

Because of hatred, he devoted himself to the cause of slaying dragons, and his iron-fisted style was to have as much power as possible in his hands at this time!

Schneider didn't get carried away by hatred, he slowly released his clenched fist, and asked as quietly as possible: "The rumored Leviathan is a giant beast created by God, this is a mythical thing, do you really believe that this thing exists?" ”

Sasha Ryrbako shook her head: "I don't believe it. ”

"But I think you do."