Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 368 Expand the search
The whole journey was as easy as Mr. Scudder had judged before, and when everyone drove to the place where King William Island could be seen, they quickly gathered in the conference room to analyze the next plan.

"Mr. Scout." After gesturing at the map for a long time, Liang En raised his head and said. "I think we can start the search from this Cape Felix on the north side of the island later."

"This search process does not necessarily require going to the island, as long as it can reach the coastline and conduct a simple search on the coastline, some things need on-site evaluation."

"You want to check the northern coastline of King William Island?" Scudder asked with a look of surprise, and at the same time his voice attracted the attention of everyone in the conference room.

"Before we got information that the location of those suspected victims was at the mouth of the Buck River, which is on the southern coastline of King William Island and further south—"

"Yes, you are right, but based on the newly obtained information and my analysis, there is a high possibility that there are also relics in the north of the island." Liang En explained.

"The most valuable of the previous new clues is the original plan of action of the Franklin expedition. Based on these materials and the clues we obtained before, we can roughly infer the following analysis."

"First of all, when the opponent's entire army was annihilated, there should have been a problem with the ship, and the ship had to be abandoned. As a result, he accidentally died in the harsh environment. And if we combine the temperature records of several places in northern Canada that year, we can basically infer that the opponent's ship was stuck. On the ice."

"This inference is reasonable." After looking at the data summarized on the big screen in Liang En's conference room, Skold nodded, "But there is a problem that the other party brought enough food for five years, why only insist on it?" two years?"

"This can't be confirmed for the time being, because we don't have any more information at hand." Liang En shook his head. Although he knew what was going on from another world, he couldn't say it now.

"However, when technology was not yet developed in the mid-19th century, various situations may cause the expedition team to make a decision to abandon the ship. For example, an infectious disease broke out on the ship, or the reserve materials were destroyed due to accidents."

"Well—it makes sense, please continue." Scudder nodded, and then let Liang En continue to explain why the plan was temporarily changed.

"The second important point is that, according to the records in the Irishman's notebook, the local Inuit saw only twenty or thirty white people at the mouth of the Buck River, but the expedition team originally had more than 130 people."

"I believe that there should be more than this group of people when they chose to flee, so that place is not the place where their ship sank."

"If you look at the local ocean currents, the distribution of islands, and the climate data of the year the ship disappeared, then the location where the other party's ship disappeared should be further north." Liang En pointed at the map on the screen with a stick in his hand as he spoke. Speaking of.

"Considering that these people are veterans of operations in the Arctic, they will avoid walking on the ice as much as possible if there is land, and the only place where they can settle in the entire area is King John Island."

"That's right, we should bring them into the thinking of those explorers." Scudder snapped his fingers, and at the same time showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

"If I were an explorer who was forced to abandon ship after encountering danger, there might be something left behind after landing to prevent my discoveries from being buried forever-you are right, there is value in searching the coastline. "

Liang En had to admit that although Scudder's previous exploration activities could be said to be a mess, he still has two brushes in terms of exploration. He should have been unlucky before.

Because if he remembers correctly, explorers in another world found some important records left by the surviving crew in a camp near the coastline.

After the decision was made, the ship immediately drove towards the offshore area of ​​King William Island, and the people on board were mobilized to prepare for the helicopter to take off.

King William Island is a large island with an area of ​​more than 1 square kilometers, about 170km long and 160km wide. Even if they only need to search the coastline area, it is a huge project, so air search is essential.

Although Liang En also prepared a raven, the raven is more suitable for accurately searching for targets in a small area when the target is determined, rather than such a large island.

Soon, an EC135 helicopter rose from the tarmac, and then drove towards the coastline of King William Island, while Liang En and the others stayed on board and quickly analyzed the patterns captured by the cameras carried by the helicopter.

According to their guess, the group of refugees wanted others to discover their whereabouts, so they would definitely not hide their whereabouts, so this kind of aerial reconnaissance is likely to find traces of the target.

And unlike other places, there are no trees on this island at all, not even a single grass. The only plants are lichens and mosses, and the terrain is flat, so aerial reconnaissance can be said to be clear at a glance.

"The season we came out this time is also relatively good. The weather is clear and the wind is not too strong, so this light helicopter can show its talents." Scudder looked at the screen divided into nine squares.

Helicopters are indeed a very useful means of transportation, but they are also among the most vulnerable among normal means of transportation. For example, the last time Skold went to the Sinai Peninsula, he did not dare to take them with him because he was worried that this kind of light civilian helicopter would not be able to carry them. Live in the local wind and sand.

As for why Scudder didn't use a more durable and weather-adaptable helicopter similar to the Ka 32, the reason is also very simple, that is, the helicopter platform on his ship cannot bear it.

After all, this yacht was refitted with an ocean-going icebreaker. The helicopter take-off and landing platform and hangar added later are not original designs, so there are naturally limitations in many aspects.

After spending most of the day, the helicopter returned to refuel several times and successfully photographed the coastlines of the west and north of King William Island. It was only when the helicopter finished its mission that everyone’s real work began.

"Okay, then everyone will look for possible human traces in this video." Liang En quickly cut this long video into half an hour with a computer, and then distributed it to all the staff for everyone to start together search.

"How do we judge whether the things we see are artificial traces?" Because this matter continues to mobilize as many people as possible, the logistics personnel on the ship are also mobilized, and these people have not been trained in this area. training.

"It's very simple, as long as you see the regular graphics, you can take a screenshot and send it to us." Liang En said after thinking for a while, "Because most things in nature are irregular, any regular thing is possible It's an artifact."

"Understood." Liang En's explanation was very common, so everyone could easily understand his explanation, and then got busy together.

A lot of work moves quickly when you get the hang of it, so before dinner even started, they found several obvious artifacts.

(End of this chapter)