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Chapter 119 26. The Strange Story and the Ancient Oriental Ship【Two in One】

Zheng Yun took a look.

The rescue form is densely packed.

"The annual reception of tens of millions of tourists is almost one in ten thousand accident rate, which is not high, right? This kind of place is inherently dangerous, and there are still many half-hearted people who want to go to the mountains to have fun." Liu Ming interjected and asked. .

"It depends on how you analyze it. If you regard this place as a snow-capped mountain with a very high altitude, then the accident rate is relatively small, and the accident rate of one-tenth is not zero."

"But this place is a mature tourist area, and there are only a small number of people who can disclose the news of the deaths. This number is only the number of people who are currently missing. The real accident rate should only be counted by the local officials of the Christmas Islands, but they have never made it public, so That number shouldn't be low."

Hu Ruihua has a serious expression on his face. He has always been quite serious when dealing with matters related to human life.

After a short pause, he looked at Zheng Yun and asked, "There are many rescue teams stationed in the Christmas Islands. They should know some information. Shall we inquire?"

"It's best to inquire about it."

Zheng Yun nodded, this is definitely a good idea, it can quickly grasp the strange things nearby.

"Then I'm not in a hurry to take on the task. I'll get a general understanding of the environment first and then look at the situation." Hu Ruihua nodded.

"Brother Hu, show me what tasks are around here." Huzi leaned his head over and read:

"July 7.12, Kate, 27 years old, Caucasian male, drove a snowmobile to the glacier at the bow of the ship, carrying emergency supplies for [-] days, disappeared and never returned, with four people."

"Snowmobile positioning: North of the bow glacier..."

"July 7.11, Hood, 34 years old, Caucasian male, went to the unnamed glacier on a large snowmobile, with six people, carrying supplies for ten days, suspected of falling into a rift valley."

"Radiolocation: Northwest of the ice-capped lake..."

"July 7.09, Corinna, 26 years old, a white female, disappeared with the pilot while riding a gliding aircraft, suspected to have fallen into the Humm Rift, three days of supplies."

"Signal Location: South of the Um Rift..."

"It's all in the glacial mountains of the north."

"Why do these locations only have directions and fuzzy distances, but no latitude and longitude coordinates?" Liu Ming interrupted and asked.

"W-08 is poor in resources, and compared to other planets, it is more difficult to exploit resources, and the investment cost is too high. There are only some scientific research base stations and weather satellites, and the approximate location can only be found through signal sources and triangulation."

Hu Ruihua explained.

"This is the case again, this time even the satellite phone is useless, right?" Liu Ming recalled the same thing last time.

"There are several famous scenic spots that have signal, but there is no signal in other places." Hu Ruihua replied.

Zheng Yun also looked through it roughly. These disappearances seem to be accidents, and there is nothing weird about them, especially the gliding aircraft, which is a high-risk behavior in the first place.

"The bounties for these missions are quite high, wouldn't they be paid by the insurance company?" Hu Zi sighed.

It's millions at every turn.

And the numbers are still close.

"Indeed." Hu Ruihua nodded.

After they chatted for a while, Huzi took Zheng Yun into his room. It was on the second floor of the hotel. It was quite large and well decorated, with an independent bathroom and windows facing north.

Typical snow style.

Warm color room with cool color view.

"Brother Zheng, take a rest first. When the meal is ready, I'll come up and call you." Huzi closed the door and left.

"Ah."

Zheng Yun just didn't want to go skating with them, and he didn't feel tired, so he put down his backpack and looked around.

There is a huge 'bearskin' carpet in the center of the room, a desk lamp in the shape of a 'deer head' is placed on the bedside table, and many travel picture books are placed on the shelf next to the TV.

Pick up a naturalist magazine.

Zheng Yun lay on the bed and looked through.

Many questions have been answered.

The 'bear skin' on the ground is actually not a bear. Although it is also a carnivore Ursidae, it is a giant amphibious dog-shaped creature called Graham bear. It hibernates for six months every year and has a life span of up to 180 years. .

The creatures here are all long-lived species.

Randomly flipping through it, it is basically hibernation plus longevity attributes, and local canids can live for 80 years.

W-08 is too far away from the earth, so that the terrestrial biota gap is too large, and there are many unseen creatures.

For example, there is a kind of amphibious creature here, called Luodu Giant Snake, which lives at the bottom of Crook Ice Sea and can live for 800 years. The name of the famous pirate Luodu is taken from here.

There is also a kind of Kirk Snowman, with slender forelimbs standing on two feet, snow-white hair all over the body, a real primate, and a life span of more than [-] years, which is longer than humans.

The same goes for other creatures, especially marine creatures, such as snails, worms, and jellyfish, all of which have a lifespan of thousands of years.

The more I look at Zheng Yun, the worse I feel.

He can understand that organisms in low-temperature environments generally live longer. This is scientific, because growth is slow and metabolism is slow, so they will live longer.

The thing that worried him was, when Gu Dongfang came here and saw the long-lived creatures all over the world, how would he feel? Would he think that there was a 'secret of longevity' here?
If Triton came here more than 100 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, stabbed a bear and recorded it, and found that the bear was still alive after a hundred years, how would Triton treat it?

"It seems that this time is likely to be related to longevity again."

Zheng Yun sighed and closed the natural history magazine, and picked up another attraction introduction to read.

There are many glacier attractions here.

The glacier mountain range in the north is more than 1000 kilometers long. In the pirate era in the west, it was called the sacred mountain of Maikelenas.

In these glaciers, there are many pirate ships sealed, and there are also a few luxury cruise ships from the last century. It is estimated that they all came during the thawing period and were accidentally frozen on the waterway.

The people on board abandoned the ship and left. The ship was completely frozen during the ban on sailing, sank to the bottom of the sea during the melting ice period, and then slowly accumulated to the glacier.

The sights in the picture book are magical.

Whether it is a glacier or a glacial lake, if you pour water on the ice, you can see the complete ships of all ages sealed in the blue ice, which can be called a museum of great sailing ships.

But there are very few Ming Dynasty shipwrecks here.

It stands to reason that during the period of great voyages, there were no fewer ships in the east than in the west, and 100% of them visited W-08, but there were not many Ming Dynasty shipwrecks near the Christmas Islands.

Not long after.

Hu Ruihua came up and knocked on the door, saying that he had found the contact information of a local rescue team and could communicate by phone.

When Zheng Yun went to the living room on the second floor, Hu Ruihua dialed the other party's phone number, and the call was connected after a while.

After a brief greeting.

Hu Ruihua claimed that tourists asked questions, and from the perspective of a professional rescue team, he asked some points that need to be paid attention to when going to the glacier, especially the selection of vehicles and materials.

Then he continued to inquire about the signs before the disaster, such as the blowing of snow velvet, which means that the strong wind may be coming.

There are also snow-capped mountains in the glacier. Under the snow cover, there may be an ice rift valley thousands of meters deep. As long as you fall into it, you will have no way out. After the rescue team finds the rift valley with a signal search device, they will turn around and leave. By default, tourists will die. .

In addition, there are cracks in the ice layer. Once there are earthquakes and other situations, you must be careful about the cracks. It is best to find islands and land as soon as possible, otherwise you will fall into the ice sea.

There is a fee for this call.

Hu Ruihua spoke quickly, and he understood the difficulties and experience of local rescue and travel from a practical point of view.

Then Zheng Yun asked.

He asked a question, has the rescue team encountered any incomprehensible things for so many years.

There was a little silence on the other end of the phone.

After a pause, he said, "Are you travelers or writers? This kind of question is rarely asked."

"writer."

Zheng Yunjian replied.

"I have encountered it once in the past two years. It was on an unnamed iceberg. Before we entered, we knew that the victims had died. We went to recover the snowmobile."

"At that time, the ice melting period was coming soon. We planned to take back the snowmobile and leave, but when we found the snowmobile, we saw that the inside of the car was opened, and some strange symbols were drawn on the body and inside of the car. painted in blood."

"At that time, we were taken aback. We suspected that the person who drew the symbol was still nearby, so we quickly found a bunker and looked around. After searching for a long time, we found no abnormalities. We followed the footprints of tourists on the ground, trying to find if there were any surviving tourists."

"The precursor to the melting ice period is snow. We walked about 600 meters along the footprints and passed through an ice valley. Suddenly it started to snow. The clouds blocked the aurora and moonlight, and the surroundings suddenly became dark. We pulled the rope back to the rescue vehicle."

"And the snowmobile disappeared."

"There were footprints near our rescue vehicle. At that time, we suspected that this person had been near our car and found that it was going to snow, so he ran away in a snowmobile."

"We were also a little afraid of the heavy snow, so we drove the rescue vehicle to find a safe spot, and waited for the snow to pass in a cave on the rock wall. The rescue vehicle was protected from the wind, and we lit a fire to keep warm."

"There were six of us, and we took turns keeping vigil at the entrance of the cave. The snow fell for about a day and a half. After the snow stopped, the rescue vehicle was half buried by the snow."

"We took out our tools and planned to dig out the rescue vehicle at the entrance of the cave. As soon as we got out, we saw footprints on the snow, which were probably left when the snow was halfway down."

"At that time, we couldn't understand how this person was walking in the heavy snow. I really felt a little scared. We didn't dare to follow the footprints to find clues, and we were about to pull back."

"It didn't take long for the car to drive out. As soon as we returned to the place where we found the snowmobile at the beginning, we saw that the snowmobile came back and was half buried by snow."

"We got out of the car and approached with a gun, and swept the snow off the car glass, and found that there was still no one in the car, and the door was ajar, as if it had never been driven by."

"The end of the story is that we took this snowmobile and left. Is this story unbelievable enough?"

The other party said a lot in one breath.

And the speed of speech is a bit slow, stumbling, as if remembering, and as if deliberately delaying time.

"Anything else?"

Zheng Yun frowned and asked again.

"In fact, there are all kinds of weird things in the holy mountain. We were still in a cave and saw more than a dozen corpses. They were stripped clean, and no living things ate them."

"At that time, we suspected that hibernating animals were storing food, but when we checked again the next year, the dozens of corpses were still there, melted into the ice, and returned to the embrace of the holy mountain."

"There were also a few times when we were rescued, we encountered strange creatures that kept howling in the mountains. At that time, we guarded the rescue vehicle all night, and went out the next day, and found a snowmobile inserted in the middle of the glacier... ..."

The other party kept talking.

This consultation call is paid, and it costs more than 100 yuan per minute. The other party is naturally willing to tell a story.

"Do you still ask?"

Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun.

"Forget it, there's no need."

Zheng Yun waved his hand, the person opposite is very strange, the story is indeed unimaginable, it sounds true, but it seems to be fabricated, or some details are concealed.

And it's too slow.

But there is always a feeling of unreliability.

Hu Ruihua nodded and hung up the phone. It didn't take long, but the call lasted 77 minutes and he had to pay more than 7000 yuan.

"It's a good business. It makes a lot of money a year." Hu Ruihua paid the money and sighed.

"Send me the bill later. They make money locally and spend it locally. The prices here should be quite high." Zheng Yun nodded.

"Vegetables, fruits and meat are more expensive, and others are not too high. There are several hot lakes in the south, and there is no shortage of seafood. Now the shipping fee is not expensive." Hu Ruihua put away his mobile phone.

Afterwards, the two briefly chatted about the plan.

For Hu Ruihua, snow mountain rescue is actually his job. He doesn't have much fear of this glacier mountain range. There are mountains under the glacier, similar to snow mountains.

The only difference is the ice rift.

This thing is more difficult to prevent.

But now is the ice age, if there is no snow, there will be no big problem. Combined with the detailed local map, if you just go in and walk around, you will not encounter too much difficulty.

Many tourists don't know anything and are basically amateurs. They are not afraid to drive snowmobiles into the mountains after only two days of training in the Christmas Islands.

chatted for a while.

Sister Wang, Song Wan and others returned from shopping.

They brought a lot of vegetables and meat with them this time, and they bought local specialty seafood. They started their own cooking at the family hotel, and planned to have a barbecue on the ice tonight.

Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua went downstairs.

Everyone went back to the hotel to get ready.

A group of people are busy together, it is very lively, the heating system does not need to be turned on, and the family hotel is very hot.

Zheng Yun looked at Song Wan's best friend, she was dressed very neatly, with a single ponytail, her personality was more docile but she didn't admit that she was born, and she looked good, maybe she would be quite suitable for Liu Ming.

Everyone was busy for a while.

Move the table to the ice in front of the inn, light a campfire, and set out the chairs, grill, and beer kegs.

Zheng Yun couldn't get his hands in the whole time. He sat on the recliner and watched the aurora above his head fall on the glacier in the north.

Not long after.

Everyone sat around the bonfire and started grilling skewers.

"Brother Zheng, just now when we were shopping in the city, we met a Chinese who opened a Sichuan cuisine restaurant here. After asking about it, he said that there is an oriental shipwreck site deep in the northeast."

Song Wan led his best friend and sat beside Zheng Yun and Liu Ming, then Song Wan suddenly moved a chair and sat beside Zheng Yun, creating a chance for Liu Ming and her best friend to be alone.

"Yes, we also asked."

Sister Wang on the other side also nodded in agreement.

"The location of the ruins is very dangerous. There was a major accident 20 years ago, so now the Christmas Islands dare not promote it there, for fear that tourists will go there by themselves and something will happen."

Song Wan took out her phone.

I flipped through to find the photo.

The photo was taken in a yellowed travel album. It looks like it has been around for many years. The picture in the album is what they called the Eastern Shipwreck Site.

An ancient oriental ship.

Frozen in the crevices of glaciers.

There is a sharp point on the bow of the ship protruding from the glacier, and there are several holes, it seems that people can get into it...

(End of this chapter)