Lu Mingfei Returns from Monster Hunting

Chapter 281 Mixed Blood Essence (4K)

"We just walked aimlessly, when will we reach the sunset that the little girl said?"

In the cabin on the second floor below the deck, only a man and a woman stayed here at this time.

Originally, as Nuonuo, she could act freely on the ship, but because Caesar didn't want her to participate in these risky things outside, she could only stay with the trash Fen in a relatively safe position on the deck.

Fingel didn't care about it, and even enjoyed it. After all, the last thing he wanted was to rush ahead and do dangerous things.

He giggled strangely, and took out a few pieces of copy paper from his trouser pocket: "I knew you would ask this question, I went to have a drink with the sailors last night, and I brought you a copy of the nautical chart!
Leaving the Franz Josef Land archipelago, and sailing to the North Pole, there is no land.

The voyage route they are currently planning is completely following the footsteps of the previous expedition team, but the Arctic Circle was not frozen when they went, and they were much faster than us.The closer the North Pole is to this ghost weather, the thicker the ice layer is. The current average thickness of the ice layer is close to one meter. Our maximum sailing speed is 7 knots per hour. A rough calculation will take about six days to reach the place that the little girl said. . "

Nuonuo glanced at the copy paper: "But there is no record of that place on the nautical chart."

"It should be a Nibelungen, and the aurora is its door." Fingel rubbed his hands, "We have to meet the skirt of that goddess first, and then get into the skirt."

"It was a good sentence, but why is it so obscene when you say it?" Nuonuo frowned.

"Isn't it to make you sound more vivid~" Fingel spread his hands, and then asked in doubt: "But the polar night hasn't come yet, the sun doesn't set yet, so can we see the aurora?"

Nuonuo also didn't understand, they also watched that video after Schneider.

Seeing the aurora at the Arctic Circle in summer is one of the most difficult points in Snow's story.

When the expedition team arrived at the setting sun, it was also the polar day, no matter how grand the aurora could appear in the daytime?

But no matter how much Chu Zihang asked later, Xue was unwilling to say more, and the matter was left alone. Looking back and thinking about it carefully, there were many doubts.

The ear-piercing siren sounded suddenly, and the yellow light at the door of the cabin turned on and turned on.

On this icebreaker, from the captain's cabin to the entertainment place to the small rooms of the most ordinary sailors, such sirens echoed. It was like crows full of trees starting to howl at the same time, which made people panic.

All ship alert.

This highest level of alarm is usually issued when there is an unavoidable iceberg ahead, or when the watertight compartment is seriously leaked, and the ship is difficult to avoid sinking.

No one on board can ignore this alarm, because it is closely related to your life and death. If you are not careful, the ship will sink in the high seas of the Arctic Ocean, and even gods will be hard to save.

Nuonuo lowered the fork in her hand and looked out the window vigilantly.

This one glance was enough to answer all doubts. At the end of her vision, in the blurred area where the ice sea and the sky meet, a bright silver line appeared.

It was an ice storm that was approaching rapidly, and the storm's front line was still about ten kilometers away from them, but with its speed of expansion visible to the naked eye, it might come to this ship in a few minutes.

For a moment of staring, the thin silver line still formed a high silver-white wall, tumbling like a raging sea wave.

When the alarm sounded, many crew members were watching on the deck. At this time, they were yelling at each other in Russian, and fixed things on the deck that had not had time to be fixed with iron chains.

The tall tower cranes were also folded up so as not to be broken by the strong wind.

The real blizzard has not yet arrived, but the ice crystals have already covered the glass window at a speed visible to the naked eye, like a piece of crystal flower specimen, reflected in their eyes.

It was originally a low temperature of many degrees below zero, but it dropped by more than ten degrees in a short time.

The sudden storm darkened the surrounding sea of ​​ice, because the high white wall had grown enough to block sunlight.

This scene is a bit scary, the haze is dim as if the end is coming.

"Go and see what's going on." Nuonuo rolled up the pasta with a fork and gave Fingal an instruction.

"Order!"

Fingel got up and shook his sleeves, gave a fairly standard blow, and ran away lively, seemingly not affected by the abnormal weather at all.

Nuonuo sat by the window, feeling more and more uneasy in her heart.

The high wall formed by the ice storm completely covered the line between the sea and the sky.

In the eyes of all the people on board, only the overwhelming snowstorm can be seen.

The storm front and the ship inevitably came into contact. At that moment, it was really like a huge ice brick slapped hard on the deck.

With the tonnage of their icebreaker, it also tilted by almost 30 degrees.

Although the weather was not clear originally, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can still see the sea level dozens of kilometers away. At this moment, there is only a whirlwind of wind and snow.

It seemed that the whole world was surrounded by this blizzard, shivering under the ravages of the blizzard, and in the stern wind, it seemed that there were ancient beasts or angry souls roaring.

Panting, Fingal ran into the library on the first floor below the deck, which was currently transformed into a conference room and command room, where most of the ship's decisions were made.

This is the nerve center of the whole ship. When he came, Schneider, Kaiser, Chu Zihang and Rebalco had all arrived ahead of schedule.

This place is currently full of "three high-level people" with high technical ability, high combat effectiveness and high execution ability. He, a "vulnerable group" who can't stop panting after running for tens of meters, has an indescribably strange feeling when he walks in.

Of course, with Fingel's real strength, he wouldn't even have a red face after running this distance, let alone panting.

But in life, if you can compete in acting skills, why should you strive for strength?
Seeing his terrified eyes and trembling legs, Caesar had no choice but to treat him as an old, weak, sick and disabled person, and stretched out his hand to help his arm with the compassion of a nobleman, and comforted him that it was nothing serious, but something small happened. Just the storm.

Fingel nervously grabbed Caesar's shoulder, saying that it was great, otherwise the ship sank, and they, the civil servants, would be the first to belch.

Chu Zihang did not comment on this.

And Schneider, who may be the only one who knows Fingal among all the people, is staring at the Arctic Circle projected by Eva.

The people in the equipment department not only transformed the library into a conference room, but also made it into a simplified version of the central control room. Through the satellite network, they can maintain a connection with Eva at all times.

But the storm was not shown in the satellite projection, and they should be sailing on a sunny day.

"Eva, why didn't we receive the storm warning in advance?" Schneider asked with a frown.

Both Eva and her other side, Norma, are designed as old mother-type artificial intelligence-she can always arrange every task properly, including various equipment and terrain personnel.

Even if the climate of the destination changes slightly, the commissioners will receive a message from her before they get off the plane, reminding them to add or subtract clothes.

For this reason, Manstein once suggested to the school board of directors that the service details of the college secretary should be reduced, so as to prevent the elites who were born to save the world from developing a habit of relying on her reminders and becoming a group of mothers.

But for such a big storm, Eva didn't warn at all, which is very rare.

Eva's cold voice sounded in the meeting room: "I'm sorry, because so far there is no synchronous orbit satellite capable of monitoring the climate of the Arctic Circle. blind spot."

"How could such a huge ice storm suddenly appear?" Caesar asked.

"The North Pole is located in the polar easterly wind belt. This is a kind of 'planetary wind belt'. The deflection force of the earth's rotation creates a strong northeasterly wind." Eva replied, "Although it came suddenly, it is also within the scope of normal natural phenomena Inside."

Schneider exchanged glances with several elites from the executive department. Eva would always use lingo when speaking with outsiders present.

And the hidden meaning of this sentence is that this ice storm may not be caused by some super-speaking spirit, but a "natural phenomenon".

"Can we sail in this level of storm?" Schneider asked, not Eva, but Rebarco.

The ice storm is terrifying, but Kassel College trains desperadoes, so of course they don't want to give up this operation because of a natural disaster.

Rebalco shrugged: "Of course, no problem, this ship was built for this purpose."

The other senior crew members were talking in Russian in a low voice, and the expressions on their faces were probably "You called us to a meeting for such a trivial matter? Are these people Sabi?"

The elites on the college side couldn’t help but sigh a little. It turned out that compared with the heroism of “Thousands of people, I will go there”, there is also a kind of fearlessness called “What? This is also a war?”

This is probably what makes Mao Zi different.

Although many people say that foreigners are prejudiced against Maozi, they are actually not that brave. It is nonsense to fight with bears with bare hands, raise tigers and crocodiles at home, and catch any aunt on the road to subdue gangsters.

But it cannot be denied that Maozi is not afraid of death, and his spirit of adventure is even more than that of the Western Europeans in the so-called great voyage period.

"We are currently riding one of the largest icebreakers in the world. It is driven by three heavy-duty nuclear heavy water reactors and can directly smash icebergs below six meters."

Rebalco reprimanded his crew with his eyes, told them to restrain their disdainful expressions, and gave Caesar and the others a supplementary explanation.

"An accident like the Titanic will not happen on our ship. It is like a vortex that is fatal to a school of mackerel, but it is just a splash in front of a giant whale."

"So, we are giant whales?" Caesar had no choice but to use a relaxed tone.

"of course."

Rebalco pondered for a moment, touched his chin and continued: "But it is not completely unaffected. At least some facilities on the ship had to be temporarily disabled while we were crossing the ice storm."

"for example?"

"There is a high probability that the radio communication system and satellite navigation system will fail, and the compass can only be used to judge the direction... But we are very close to the North Pole now, and the compass is basically useless."

The first mate next to him helped explain: "There will also be some problems with the air conditioning and hot water systems, there will be temporary power outages, the equipment on the deck must be shut down, the constant temperature swimming pool will not work, and the water will splash out , the restaurant has to be temporarily closed, we can't use open flames now..."

"Damn it! Then what else can you use on this broken ship?" Fingel was dumbfounded.

"We can guarantee that there will be no problems with the heating system, because this ship uses mechanical heating, and the hot water is exported from the cooling water of the reactor and delivered to each cabin." The first officer showed a proud smile unique to the fighting nation.

"Is there only hot water from the waste residue from the nuclear reactor?" Fingel said with a sad face, "Can the water be used for bathing?"

"There is a small amount of radiation. If you don't mind it, it's okay to take a shower. It will definitely not mutate into Godzilla." The first officer patted Fingel's shoulder, "Believe me, brother, when sailing in the Arctic, all you need is a warm nuclear reactor and a propeller spinning forever!"

"I think your Russian brains are also nuclear powered!"

"It's a beautiful thing, too, if you can."

Fingel couldn't complain about the brain circuits of these bastards, and collapsed on the sofa like a confused Erha.

"Another system had to be temporarily disabled."

At this moment, Eva interrupted their conversation, and said a piece of news that made Kassel's expressions extremely serious.

"During your voyage in the storm, the satellite signal will be very weak, and I will not be able to continue to fear your help..."

Before she could finish her sentence, the whole ship suddenly trembled, the lights dimmed suddenly, and the library was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers.

After a few seconds, the emergency lights came on one after another, but the projected map did not recover, and Eva's voice disappeared along with it.

The first mate babbled and cursed some Tibetan words in Russian, picked up a bottle of wine and walked out.

Presumably, he was scolding the terrible power supply system, which broke down when it shouldn't, and he was going to the front line of repairs at this moment.

Schneider turned to look at Rebalco: "You have a group of smart subordinates."

"Serving the guests is our duty, and I guarantee that the power supply system will be back to normal within an hour!" Rebalco said with his right hand on his left chest.

"No." Schneider pointed to his own table, "I want to say that in such dim light, he still accurately picked the most expensive bottle of vodka on the table."

The library was quiet for a few seconds, and the originally gloomy atmosphere due to the impact of the ice storm became much more relaxed.

Rybalco smiled in relief, it's always a joy to sail with a group of guys who are interested in wine.

"I'll go take a look outside." Chu Zihang said lightly, and then left the library.

Caesar hesitated for a few seconds, then followed suit and left.

Fingel caught a glimpse of Schneider from the corner of his eye and saw the respected old professor nodding slightly to Caesar who was leaving. He immediately knew that they still had important matters to discuss.

A boatload of human elves... oh, no, it's half-breed elves.

Poor Rybalco is being played with.

(End of this chapter)