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Across tens of meters, someone shouted from the opposite side.

Chapter 1 Mountains of Madness: Humanity's Peak Power, and the Doomed Rescue

After some contact, Xia Ren briefly understood the other party's situation.

This is a rescue team consisting of 11 people. In this ice and snow polar region, mechanical equipment is very prone to failure, and because of the ice storm that will appear at any time, no matter what kind of aircraft, it is impossible to survive the huge ice cloud. The distance traveled was too long, so they used sledges, eight of which were loaded with various materials and even some scientific research equipment, pulled by 60 energetic huskies.

The leader of the team was a professor in his 50s, surnamed Qin, with a grizzled beard and a grizzled look under his thick thermal clothing.

Hearing Xia Ren and Lanaya finished talking about what happened to them, Professor Qin made no effort to hide his disgust:

"Are you treating this place like a joke!"

He roared in the cold wind.

Lanaya was taken aback by his reaction, and leaned closer to Xia Ren unconsciously.

Although Xia Ren didn't understand why the old man was so angry with strangers, but their hope of surviving now rested on each other, he just smiled apologetically and explained: "We also didn't see the mirage clearly. Those who were chased here by the storm will meet you, otherwise I really don’t know what to do.”

In just a short while, Xia Ren and his current wife, Lanaya, were already shivering from the cold, and a thin layer of ice crystals fell on their hair.

Professor Qin's complexion eased a lot. He forgot to glance at the surrounding environment, and then looked at his companions behind him. He frowned and said, "You can't go back now, can you?"

Being able to ask this sentence means that he has the idea of ​​helping the two of them.

Xia Ren nodded again and again: "Yes, our car can't start normally, and there is nothing that can control the direction. It has been trapped for several hours."

When she said this, because of the cold, Lanaya had already leaned forward, took his arm, put it in her arms, and echoed: "If it is possible, can you help us, no matter how much money we have? All acceptable!"

The wind seemed to be getting stronger, and every time they took a breath, the cold air poured into the lungs, which brought a strong stimulation. When they came out, they were only wearing ordinary cotton clothes, and now they couldn't bear it anymore.

Professor Qin lowered his head and hesitated for a while, then said loudly: "It is not easy for us to prepare for this operation, and it is impossible to return because of you!"

"But……"

Lanaya said anxiously.

Professor Qin went on to say: "It's impossible to send you back, but I can let you follow the team and go inside together. If you don't agree, no matter how kind I am, I can only leave you behind. Make a decision. You only have 2 minutes to think about it."

If you stay where you are, you will die. If you go with this rescue team, you will still have a chance to survive. Xia Ren and the others can't help but choose. He agreed without thinking, "No problem!"

"That's good. Since you have decided to follow the team, you must agree in advance that everything must be obeyed by me. If you dare to disobey orders and act without authorization, I will still leave you behind!"

Professor Qin probably admired Xia Ren's decisiveness. He waved to the team members behind and said, "Xiaowen, find them two sets of clothes, gloves and shoes, and explain the precautions. I don't want to slow down the team because of them." !"

The matter was settled in this way, and the team member named Xiaowen dug out two sets of specially-made clothes from the materials on the sled for them. There were five or six layers of clothes from underwear to thermal clothes, coats, and thick coats, including shoes, etc. Wait, there are a lot of things to wear, but the line is full of men, and the underwear is much thicker than usual, and there are no women's underwear, they are all big pants.

Even though it was an emergency and she couldn't care about so many details, Lanaya was a woman after all, so she couldn't change clothes in full view.

Xia Ren and her returned to the car and changed their clothes. Lanaya even stuffed the three packs of biscuits into the pocket of her inner clothes before coming out.

Afterwards, the team marched towards the depths of the Infinity Ice Field!

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"Husband, you can eat half of my portion too."

Inside the tent, Lanaya handed Xia Ren the canned box that was still steaming slightly.

Xia Ren looked at the can in her hand and her weak face, hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand to scratch the bridge of her nose. In his memory, this was a frequent interaction between Lin Xiao and her.

"You are not feeling well these days, if you can't eat, then I'll feed you."

According to Lin Xiao's original memory, Lanaya's period was just these few days. When camping tonight, she insisted on living in a tent alone with herself. It can be seen that in order to save resources, they both Five or six people were sleeping together. Professor Qin was a cold-faced and kind-hearted person. He saw it and agreed.

The two have been marching with the team for two days, and have seen nothing except the vast expanse of ice and snow.

It is not that simple to adapt to the cold weather, and as members of the team, they also need to help with work, which also aggravates Lanaya's discomfort.

There is no such thing as sanitary napkins in the team. Lanaya can only use the clothes she changed before and tear them up, and put them on first. One can imagine how uncomfortable she is.

Under Xia Ren's supervision, Lanaya finished the rest of the can. Xia Ren took the underwear she had changed out of the tent. There was no hot water here, so he could only wash it with snow. After a while, his hands were frozen It was flushed, as if it wasn't her own.

The top of the head is still the thick layer of ice, and there is no starlight. The huskies on the side are still full of vitality after a tiring day, playing in the snow.

A husky suddenly raised its head, facing the sky, and let out a wolf howl.

"Ow"

Soon after, other huskies followed suit.

In the bitter cold wind, dogs howled one after another, bringing a breath of life to this desolate ice field.

"Go to sleep."

Xia Ren touched Lanaya's head, she didn't have a fever, and retracted her sleeping bag with confidence.

The lights went out, but he couldn't fall asleep for a while.

In the past two days, he has slowly figured out who the rescue target of this team is. By the way, he also recalled a historical event mentioned by the teacher in his geography class when he was in school.

Because of the extreme climate and large size, the Wuji Ice Field has always been shrouded in a mysterious veil in front of the world. It is rumored that countless ancient biological fossils and rich minerals are frozen in it. Throughout the ages, almost everyone who dares to take risks Because the ice cloud above the head buried the bones here.

With the development of human science and technology, until 1040, a large number of scientific research experts of various professions were gathered under the organization of the highest alliance government, wanting to find out.

This includes paleontologists, geologists, physicists, and meteorologists. No matter which one is taken out alone, they are all leading figures in the academic world. It is conceivable that when these people gather together, they will What an uproar.

Even though the danger was extremely high, there were still countless scholars who signed up to participate in this exploration operation, but in the end, only eight professors and twenty assistants were left behind, and 18 of the twenty assistants were able to drive Including most of the means of transportation such as airplanes and ships, 16 people are proficient in various equipment, eight people have professional knowledge of wild survival, and three people are competent in communication issues and so on.

Among the equipment they carry, there are two assembled aircraft designed and manufactured by Sonic Corporation. Each aircraft can carry two people to fly together, and has the most advanced vertical lift technology. It does not need a runway and can also be used in polar environments. In addition, there are drilling machines and various detectors used to detect mineral veins and fossils, communication base stations that do not rely on satellites to ensure communication, and various camp materials, and enter the interior of the ice sheet through two-stage travel Even if you use two special trucks weighing twenty tons to drive a large distance with equipment, one with equipment and one with fuel, and then leave enough fuel for the return trip, abandon the vehicle, and turn it into a sled belt. Continue to move forward with the equipment, abandon the fuel truck and most of the unnecessary load when returning, and return only with the results.

It took more than half a year for the Supreme Alliance government to gather these personnel. Such a rigorous plan is almost foolproof.

Everything was going well at first, but while setting up the communication base station, they moved forward and finally reached a mountain range, but then, the scientific research team lost contact with the outside world, and the communication base station was damaged for unknown reasons.

According to the news that Xia Ren received in the past two days, this well-known scientific research team had set off two months ago and had been out of contact for half a month.

And the rescue team he's staying with now doesn't belong to the government, but is personally organized by Professor Qin, who is a geologist. The real rescue team from the government will take another week to set off, and he can't wait so long.

Because one of the researchers is Professor Qin's wife, biologist Qu Lanzhi, one of the eight scientists.

In this team, three members are students of Professor Qin. According to them, when Mrs. Qu wanted to join, Professor Qin strongly opposed it.

Because the situation of the Promise Ice Field is so special, even if the global warming has continued for 200 years, and the average temperature of the Blue Star has risen by nearly one degree, the Promise Ice Field has not been affected at all, which means that at its center, absolutely There is an environment that can affect a wide range of temperatures. Before humans have fully figured out the reason, any attempt is absolutely dangerous.

This is probably why he got angry with the two of them in the first place.