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Chapter 105 Crazy Mountains: The Peak Human Power, and the Doomed Rescue

After some contact, Xia Ren briefly learned about the other party’s situation.

This is a rescue team composed of eleven people. In this ice and snow polar region, mechanical equipment is very prone to failure. It is also because the ice crystal storm will occur at any time. No matter what kind of aircraft, it is impossible to travel too long under the huge ice clouds. So the tool they ride is a sled, with eight units, full of various materials, and even some scientific research equipment, pulled by 60 vibrant huskys.

The leader of the team was a professor in his fifties, with his surname Qin. Under his thick insulation suit, he showed his gray beard and looked bad-faced.

After hearing Xia Ren and Lanaya telling the story of their experience, Professor Qin did not hide his disgust:

"Do you treat this place as a joke?"

He yelled in the cold wind.

Lanaya was startled by his reaction and unconsciously leaned against Xia Ren.

Although Xia Ren didn't understand why this old man got so angry at strangers, the hope of their survival was now all on each other. He just laughed and explained: "We didn't see the mirage clearly. We were chased by the storm behind us. Fortunately, we met you, otherwise we really didn't know what to do."

In just a moment, Xia Ren and his current wife Lanaya were already trembling with cold, and a thin layer of ice crystals fell on their hair.

Professor Qin's expression calmed down a lot. He looked at the surrounding environment, then looked at the companions behind him, frowned, and said, "You can't go back now, right?"

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

Xia Ren nodded repeatedly: "Yes, our car cannot start normally, and there is no way to grasp the direction. He has been trapped for several hours."

When she said this, because of the cold, Lanaya had already leaned up, grabbed his arm, put it in her arms, and echoed: "If possible, can you please help us? We can accept it no matter how much it costs!"

The wind seemed to be stronger. Every time they breathed, the cold air poured into their lungs, it brought a strong stimulation. When they came out, they were wearing ordinary cotton coats, which was a little too late to withstand now.

Professor Qin hesitated for a while and said loudly: "It is not easy for us to prepare for this action, and it is impossible for you to return just because of you!"

"But……"

Lanaya said anxiously.

Professor Qin continued: "It is impossible to send you back, but I can let you follow the team and walk in. If you don't agree, no matter how kind I am, I can only throw you away. Let's decide, you only have two minutes to consider."

Only death can be left to stay wherever you are. Following this rescue team, you can still have a chance to survive. Xia Ren and the others can't help but choose the situation. He agreed without thinking: "No problem!"

"Okay. Since I decided to follow the team, I will make an agreement in advance and listen to me. If you dare not obey orders and act without authorization, I will still leave you behind!"

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

Things settled down. A team member named Xiaowen took out two sets of special clothes from the supplies on the sled for them. From underwear to warm clothes, jackets, thick coats, there were five or six layers. Including shoes, etc., there were a lot of things to wear, but the team was full of men, and the underwear was much thicker than ordinary ones, and there were no women, all of them were big shorts.

Although it was an emergency and there was no need to care about so many details, Lanaya was a woman after all, and it was impossible for her to change her clothes in front of everyone.

Xia Ren and she returned to the car and changed their clothes. Lanaya also stuffed the three packs of biscuits into the pockets of the inner clothes before she came out.

Then, the team headed towards the depths of the Wuji Ice Field!

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"Husband, you can eat half of mine too."

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

Xia Ren looked at the cans in her hand and her weak face, hesitated for a moment, and reached out to scratch her nose. In my memory, this was the frequent interaction between Lin Xiao and her.

"You are feeling uncomfortable during this period. If you can't eat it, I'll feed you."

According to Lin Xiao's original memory, Lanaya's menstrual period was just these days. When she was camping tonight, she insisted on living alone with herself and could tell. In order to save resources, they all slept together. Professor Qin was a cold-faced and kind-hearted person. After seeing it, she agreed.

The two of them have been following the team for two days, and have seen nothing except the vast ice and snow.

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

There is no such thing as sanitary napkin in the team. Lanaya can only tear her clothes she had changed before and put them on first. You can imagine how uncomfortable she felt.

Under Xia Ren's supervision, Lanaya finished eating the remaining canned food. Xia Ren took the underwear she had changed and walked 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 red, as if they were not his own.

There was still a thick layer of ice clouds above my head, and there was no starlight. The Husky next to me had been working hard for a day, but was still full of vitality and was playing in the snow.

A husky suddenly raised his head and let out a wolf howl towards the sky.

"Aowu--"

Immediately afterwards, other huskys followed suit.

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

"Go to sleep."

Xia Ren returned to the tent, touched Lanaya's head, and did not have a fever, and he retreated into his sleeping bag with confidence.

The light went out, but he couldn't fall asleep for a moment.

In the past two days, he had slowly figured out who the team was rescued. By the way, he also recalled a major historical event mentioned by the teacher in geography class when he was in school.

Due to the extreme climate and huge area, the Wuji Ice Field has always been shrouded in front of the world with a mysterious veil. There are countless ancient biological fossils and rich minerals in it. However, from ancient times to the present, almost all those who dare to take risks have been buried here because of the ice clouds above their heads.

With the development of human science and technology, until 20040, the Supreme Alliance government organized a large number of scientific research experts from various majors gathered to find out.

This includes paleontologists, geologists, physicists, meteorologists... No matter which one is taken out, it is a leading figure in the academic world. It is conceivable what kind of uproar will be caused when these people gather together.

Even though it is extremely dangerous, countless scholars still signed up to participate in this exploration operation, but in the end, only eight professors, plus twenty assistants. Eighteen of these twenty assistants can fly most vehicles including aircraft, ships, etc. Sixteen are proficient in various equipment, eight are professional knowledge of survival in the wild, and three are competent for communication problems.

Among the equipment they carried were two assembled aircraft designed and manufactured by the sound wave company. Each aircraft could carry two people to fly together, and had the most advanced vertical lifting technology, and did not require a runway, and could also be used in polar environments. In addition, there were drilling machines and various detectors used to detect ore veins and fossils. To ensure contact, they used communication base stations that do not rely on satellites and various camp materials to enter the ice field through two-stage travel. That is, two special trucks weighing enough 20 tons to drive into a long distance with equipment, one of which was loaded with equipment, and the other was loaded with oil, and then left enough oil for the return journey, abandoned the vehicle, turned into a sled and carried the equipment to continue moving forward. When they came back, they abandoned the oil truck and most of the unnecessary loads, and returned with only the results.

Just collecting these personnel took more than half a year for the Supreme Alliance government. Such a strict plan was almost foolproof.

Everything was going well, and the team set up a communication base station while moving forward and finally arrived at a mountain range. However, the scientific research team lost contact with the outside world and the communication base station was damaged for some reason.

According to the news Xia Ren has obtained in the past two days, this famous scientific research team has set off two months ago and has been missing for half a month.

The rescue team he is currently staying at does not belong to the official one, but was prepared by Professor Qin, a geologist. It will take another week for the rescue team that really comes from the official one to set off, and he can't wait for so long.

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

There are three members of this team who are Professor Qin students. As they said, Professor Qin strongly opposed it when Master Qu was about to participate.

Because the situation of the Wuji Ice Field is really special. Even if global warming has lasted for two hundred years, the overall average temperature of Blue Star has risen by nearly one degree, and the Wuji Ice Field has not been affected at all. This means that at the center of it, there is definitely an environment that can affect a large-scale temperature. Before humans can thoroughly understand the reason, any attempt is absolutely dangerous.

This is probably the reason why Professor Qin got angry with him and the others at the beginning.

Facts have proved that Professor Qin is right, because just over 60 years later, the Wuji Ice Field is still shrouded in ice clouds, and humans have no record of successful exploration.

In history, this scientific research team, which once represented the top scientific and technological power of mankind, has permanently frozen into the Wuji Icefield.

In the following five years, the Supreme Alliance government carried out a total of eight rescues, and countless civil rescues of all sizes, but the results were always the same.

No one survived.
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