Ultra-Dimensional Technology Era

If it weren't for the attractive gold, except for the official personnel of the Great Yan Empire, it is estimated that no one would come to such a shitty place.

Suddenly, a rare column of smoke appeared in Wei Dahu's telescope.

Soon on a piece of tundra along the coast, he found more than a dozen tents and dozens of people in the camp, and the other party also found Wei Dahu's steam ship.

The two sides learned some information about each other through the flag bearers. The people in this camp were also a group of gold digging adventurers.

According to the unspoken rules among adventurers, since the opponent has already occupied this place, Wei Dahu and others naturally cannot set up a camp nearby.

Going north along the coastline, Wei Dahu and his party encountered a group of adventurers from the Three Kingdoms.

Chapter 569 Statue

The sailors of the steamship quickly pulled down the gray and white canvas. The steamships of this era still retain their sails.

Although there is a supply station near the Bering Strait, it is the nearest supply station of the empire to the Arctic Ocean, and it is located on the later St. Lawrence Island.

But ocean voyages, no matter in that era, had huge risks, let alone the age of great navigation in the seventeenth century.

Therefore, steam ships will keep sails, just in case something goes wrong with the steam engine, it can be used as a backup plan.

Wei Dahu looked at the lush green coast, which was about two kilometers away: "Mengzi, go find the way."

A strong man with a shaved head nodded, and with six younger brothers, he went down from the side of the steamship, and below was a small wooden escape boat.

Mengzi and the others had a clear division of labor, four of them rowed the boat, and the remaining three surveyed the hydrology of the bay. After all, there may be hidden reefs around the coastline.

If you don't carry out hydrological surveys, you just drive the boat to land directly. If you hit a rock, it will be really cheating.

Mengzi led people to explore the bay for more than seven hours, and initially explored a safe channel, and then slowly entered the bay with the steamer Gold.

Beside a calm coastal reef, the Gold is moored here.

After finally setting foot on land, Wei Dahu and a group of sailors dropped anchor and tied up the cables, and then began to prepare to set up the camp.

Two days later, the task of setting up the camp was very smooth, and some sea fish and seals were caught, and some berries were collected from the tundra bushes.

During long-term voyages, it is very necessary to replenish vitamins in time, otherwise scurvy can severely damage or even destroy a ship.

After two days of preparation, Wei Dahu couldn't wait to take 30 fully armed sailors and headed inland along the river.

During the advance, Wei Dahu and his team found many animals, such as arctic wolves, polar bears, and reindeer.

"Captain, the weather seems to be raining." Mengzi said worriedly.

Wei Dahu looked at the sky on the north side, and the cumulonimbus cloud was rapidly coming to the south, and it was estimated that it would reach their side in a few hours.

Lifting the watch, it was almost 14 o'clock in Snow Terrace City time: "Find a place to set up camp."

The group quickly found a mountain ridge, built a dozen tents on the gentle mountainside, picked up some hay and reindeer droppings, lit water and cooked.

Just set up the tent, less than an hour, the cold drizzle came as promised.

I hunted and killed three arctic hares, and they were roasted until they were oily. The arctic hares are at their fattest in September.

Taking out a knife, he cut off a roasted golden rabbit leg, Wei Dahu sprinkled a little chili powder on it, and began to nibble on it with relish.

As soon as he took a sip of rice wine, the drizzle subsided.

Half an hour later, the rain cleared, and the water droplets on the moss and weeds were like dazzling gemstones in the setting sun.

"Captain, captain..." A Korean sailor hurried over, tying his belt as he walked.

Wei Dahu just sat down on a rock and asked lazily, "What's wrong?"

"I found a cave over there." The Korean sailor replied hastily.

"Isn't it just a hole? What a fuss."

"Hahaha……"

The other sailors laughed.

The Korean sailor was a little annoyed, and his speech was urgent and chaotic: "The cave seems... to have traces of carvings."

Wei Dahu also became interested when he heard it, picked up the shotgun at the side, called six or seven sailors to join him, and then asked the Korean sailors to lead the way.

After walking for more than 200 meters, behind a boulder, there is a small pit dug out, which is a convenience for Korean sailors.

On the north side of the two-meter-high boulder, there was a small piece of bushes. Wei Dahu walked through the bushes and found an obvious cave, which was dark inside.

Mengzi looked at the rock at the entrance of the cave: "Huh, there are really artificial traces, could it be the stronghold of the igloo people (Eskimos)?"

"Torch, be on guard." Wei Dahu ordered concisely.

The Korean sailors quickly lit two torches and walked cautiously into the cave, followed by Mengzi with a flintlock and Wei Dahu with a shotgun.

The cave entrance is about three meters high, but six or seven meters wide.

Seeing the blazing flames of the torches, everyone was a little relieved, but they did not let down their vigilance. After all, there are very likely polar bears and arctic wolves in the large caves.

It may take about 100 meters to walk along the cave, and suddenly they came to a huge cave.

There are not a few skeletons on the ground, Wei Dahu found that among these skeletons, not only polar bears, arctic wolves, reindeer, but also humans.

But soon his gaze was attracted by a statue in the middle of the cave, sitting on a throne carved from ivory.

The statue has a nearly spherical torso with six sinuous limbs ending in crab-like claws.

On the upper end of the sphere, there is a sphere that expands forward like a bubble; the three triangle-shaped eyes staring like a fish, and the apparently soft and flexible proboscis that is three decimeters long, As well as a set of gill-like swollen skin membrane system, all indicate that this is its head.

Most of the body of the statue is covered with some kind of strange organs. At first glance, they look like hair, but after careful inspection, you will find that it is a kind of densely growing dark and slender tentacles, or immature thin Silk.

These tentacles end with a mouth, like the head of a horned viper.

On the part of the head under the proboscis, the tentacles become longer and denser, and show spiral stripes, like Medusa's traditional snake hair.

"Captain, what the hell is this?"

"Who knows it might be carved by the igloo!" Wei Dahu replied absent-mindedly.

"However, this statue is too detailed, as if it is real, and the throne made of ivory and jade feels so weird." Mengzi touched the ivory jade throne while talking.

Wei Dahu also had some imaginations. After all, this is in the Arctic Circle, and there are no elephants here. Where did the ivory on the ivory jade stand come from?

But despite being puzzled, Wei Dahu and the others did not intend to let go of the statue. They pried the statue up from the ground and carefully carried it back to the camp.

Wei Dahu and others were attracted by the ivory jade seat. After all, they were gold diggers, and this ivory jade seat seemed to be worth a little money.