Living body

As Shen Li said, the icebreaker released everyone after passing through an ice floe area, and everyone followed him to the first supply station on foot.

The person in charge of the supply station knew Shen Li and gave him a bear hug as soon as he came up.

It was not the first time for Shen Li to enter the Arctic Circle. He had been involved in various survey projects a few years ago and was quite experienced in polar operations. However, the purpose of entering the Arctic Circle this time was not simple.

Compared with country R and country A, country C started the polar circle scientific research later. When these two big countries continued to build scientific research stations on the frozen soil of the Arctic Ocean, country C just realized the value of this ice sheet.

Somewhere in the polar circle there is a forbidden zone sealed off by these two countries, and scientific research activities have been kept secret.And the destination of Shen Li and his party this time is very likely to be in this restricted area.

Their team consisted of six people. Besides Shen Li, there was also a biologist, a mechanic, a materials scientist, a cryptography researcher, and a young man in his twenties.

Cryptographer Lu Mi, who is said to have the top ten brains in country C, can crack a key in 10 minutes and a 24-digit hexadecimal password string in half an hour.However, at present, it seems that he is the most extroverted among all the people, and he has already shared the gossip of the three generations of his ancestors within three days.

The biologist with the highest status is relatively the most silent and introverted one, almost always shutting himself in the cabin, occasionally appearing at dinner parties, always blocked by a pair of gold-rimmed pedantic glasses, eating in silence After finishing things, he returned to the cabin immediately. So far, he has not even told everyone his name, only that the captain called him "Sir".

The mechanic is Huang Ji, a returning technical talent who has lived in Germany for seven years. He once participated in the production of the internal mechanical components of the No. 11 spacecraft. However, he is gentle and kind, neither noisy nor out of the ordinary.

The material scientist is called Song Liao. He has won many international materials science gold medals and holds the title of national academician. Showing a bit of contempt for Shen Li and the others.

There is also a young man in his 20s who is mainly responsible for the safety of the other five people. He does not use his name for the sake of confidentiality. He only has a number: 27. All clothes do not have epaulettes and collar flowers.

However, according to Shen Li's observation, this young man is not so much maintaining the safety of the entire team, but more like maintaining a team structure centered on biologists.

At the same time, the thick calluses on the man's jaw and index finger also showed that he was a gun-handler.

When Shen Li signed the non-disclosure agreement, it didn't say clearly what the purpose of this time was. It only vaguely mentioned a research institute, and only the person in charge of the supply station knew the way to that research institute.

The stationmaster of the supply station didn't show any surprise when he saw that it was Shen Li who came, he just glanced behind him, and then signaled for him to prepare the sled.

"You have to get there before dark." The bearded station master said with a glance at the sky. "There will be a snowstorm soon."

The station master drove the dog sled so fast that Shen Li had almost no chance to take out the instrument to check his position along the way, but the wind and snow still caught up before they reached their destination.

After a while, the flying snow and dust completely blocked their road, and the station master could only stop the sled and look for a shelter on the spot to set up camp.

"This kind of weather is very rare." Although hiding inside, the raging wind and snow outside seemed like a pair of giant hands trying to destroy the tent set up by nylon poles.

"Yes." Shen Li took the jug handed over by the station master, took a sip to warm himself up, and passed it to the next person.

"If I knew it was such a ghostly weather, why didn't I wait for it to pass before setting off?" Lu Mi stuck out his tongue and immediately passed the flagon out.

"I don't know when it will come and when it will stop, but the order I received is to send you there as soon as possible."

"Instructions?" Lu Mi immediately approached, "Then do you know what's going on where we're going?"

"How much do you think he knows more than us?" Song Liao, who was sitting beside him, was trying to dry his clothes soaked in frost and snow, when he heard this, he interjected coldly.

However, the station master's sharp gaze peeked out from under the thick brim of his hat, looking at the disapproving Song Liao, the expectant Lu Mi, and the unaware Huang Ji. The young officer was packing his backpack with his head down. Jia sat behind him and wiped his snow-stained glasses.

He finally looked at Shen Li in front of him, and said with a strange expression: "Where you are going... there is something there."

"thing?"

Huang Ji raised his head, the young officer held down his backpack, the biologist stopped cleaning his glasses, and everyone looked at the station master who was speaking.

His sentence pattern is very strange. Most people might say "there is something there..." or "there is such a thing there", but his simple sentence "there is something there" makes people feel unreasonable. The ambiguous word "something" gave birth to a somewhat strange meaning.

"...I said he didn't know either." Song Liao sneered.

"But……"

While everyone was talking, they suddenly heard a burst of intense dog barking mixed with the blizzard.

"Is the stake loose?"

Generally, sled dogs have a strong ability to survive and do not need special care when encountering general snowstorms. The ropes and fixed stakes are just to maintain the formation.

However, the voice outside continued for a while, becoming more anxious and urgent.

With a sharp mournful cry, the station master and Shen Li stood up at the same time.

"Go out and see."

The station master placed the dogs under another snowy slope that was blown by the wind. At the moment, the wind and snow were not small, but they could still be seen clearly. There were no problems with the stakes and chains, but all the sled dogs were facing the same direction. barking.

"Quiet! Quiet!"

Vigorous barking consumes a lot of energy, which is not good for resisting the wind and snow or for the following journey. The station master tried to stop them.

"What's going on, why are they so nervous?"

As Shen Li said, he looked in the direction of the barking sled dogs, tried to open his eyes wide and tried to see what was in the wind and snow in front of him, but when he saw what was in front of him, he froze for a moment——

In the wind and snow that raged so hard that they huddled together, stood a man, a tall and straight man, standing motionless five steps away.