[Time goes back two days before the launch mission begins]

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A snowmobile was driving smoothly on the ice ground.

In the back row of the car, there were a young man and a foreign old man sitting.

"Professor Mark, I've got you offended. When I met my old friend, you said you like to eat Sichuan cuisine. I invited you for a week. You said you want to see the club in Beixia. I paid for you to have fun in the White Horse World. Why can't your sister let me go? I will be discharged from the army in one day? One day! I want to go home!!! You should hand over the task of saving all mankind to Iron Man and Superman."

"Yecheng, I ask you, do you love all mankind or your motherland?"

"Is there any difference in this matter?" Ye Cheng did not answer directly, because he could not be fooled by this old guy. He knew an eternal theorem: the old man was very bad.

(Note: Especially the learned old man.)

"Of course not!" Mark looked out the car window, turned around and continued to smile, "But Yecheng, you are a soldier, and obeying orders is your duty. Your commander has handed you over to me. Since you have not officially retired, you must obey my orders unconditionally."

"Is it right to die if you obey your order?" Ye Cheng replied angrily. He was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die in such a place without a sense of belonging.

"Don't say that. After completing this task, I promise not only will you retire successfully, but I will also ask the United Nations to award you a medal of honor. However, the premise is..."

"I can come back alive! Otherwise, the medal of honor will become a martyr's medal!" Ye Cheng gave him a blank look and found that the car had stopped. He kicked the car door and walked out of the car.

The moment he stepped on the cold ground of Antarctica, Ye Cheng felt heartbroken, cold and inexplicably wanted to cry.

Woo--

"Okay, don't look sad. Look, how beautiful the scenery is!" Mark patted his shoulder and pointed to the boundless white world in front of him.

"Beautiful, you're so beautiful. I'm sorry, can you use the funds provided by the Qing Dynasty and the people of the world to buy more pigments to color them before you."

"Pureness is also a kind of beauty!"

"..." It seemed to make sense, and Ye Cheng couldn't find a reason to refute it.

Snow is flying all over the sky, ice is frozen thousands of miles, silver snakes dance in the mountains, wax figures are galloping - taking pictures from the primitive snow scene, this is the first time Yecheng has set foot on the land of Antarctica in his life.

Located in the southwest of the Antarctic continent, between land and an iceberg that is about to melt due to global warming, a mysterious urban-like building complex surrounded by "thick fog".

About seventy kilometers away from the city, there is a camp. This is exactly where Professor Ye Cheng and Professor Mark are now - the United Nations Antarctica Scientific Survey Station, with the identification number "CITY-20XX-AN-01-MaKe". (AN, the abbreviation of Antarctica, Antarctica)

There were whistling sounds of strong winds outside the window, as if millions of wild beasts were roaring.

Ye Cheng sat in a barracks dormitory, looked at the soldiers who were fully armed and walked around with live ammunition outside, and his eyes returned to Professor Mark.

He has known this great scientist who is well-known in the global scientific community for five years.

Five years ago, Professor Mark helped Beixia conduct a confidential research. In order to ensure his safety, Ye Cheng, as the deputy instructor of a special forces, was ordered to become a guard around Professor Mark and protect him in an endless manner.

Under Ye Cheng's protection, Professor Mark escaped more than ten assassinations by foreign killers and spies, which made the two of them have formed a deep friendship.

But who would have thought that five years later, after reading N Duobingwang's novels in his spare time, Ye Cheng, who was preparing to go back and pretend to behave and find a presidential beauty or a sexy boss lady to live a petty bourgeois life with him. As soon as he received a decision from his superiors to retire, he received an order from a higher-level superior, asking him to go to the capital immediately and leave the retirement matter to shelve.

Professor Mark is already waiting for him in the capital.

Out of affirming Ye Cheng's skills and combat ability, Professor Mark expressed his willingness to the relevant parties of Beixia Kingdom to allow Ye Cheng to participate in the Antarctic investigation work led by him.

Because Beixia Kingdom owed Professor Mark a great kindness, Beixia Kingdom quickly agreed to his request, and actively dispatching manpower to participate in the investigation of these mysterious cities was the obligation of the member states of "CITY-20XX".

That's how Ye Cheng was heartfelt about the scene at the beginning of this chapter.

"Yecheng, have a good rest. I have someone bring you some of your favorite leek dumplings from the Antarctic Science and Technology Station in Beixia Kingdom. They have been specially processed and guaranteed to be very fresh. I want to eat them and cook them by myself. I will introduce you to a few friends tomorrow morning. Remember to come to me in the red house outside at 8 o'clock." Mark said fluently in English.

"Oh!" Ye Cheng also answered weakly in fluent English, then squinted his eyes as Professor Mark walked out of the house.

Although Ye Cheng was reluctant to come here, his superiors ordered him to cooperate with Professor Mark's actions. If he ran away without permission, he would be a deserter.

Such a label is a shame for Ye Cheng, so even if he is unwilling to do so, he still climbed to this snowy continent.

It’s embarrassing that you can’t throw it on the international stage!

On the way here from Beixia Kingdom, Professor Mark had already explained to Ye Cheng in advance the content of the investigation he is currently leading.

Ye Cheng was not surprised that he was organized to conduct investigations on these mysterious cities. The only thing he did not expect was that the dominance of the investigation work in Antarctica would be in the hands of a scientist.

Time:[20:37:23]

Antarctica is divided into two seasons of cold and warm every year. April-October is the cold season and November-March is the warm season.

The cold season is the extreme night near the poles, and dazzling aurora often appears near the Antarctic Circle; the warm season is the opposite, which is the extreme day, and the sun always tilts.

It is the cold season in Antarctica, and Ye Cheng sat cross-legged on the warm, self-heating bed, his eyes dazed, not knowing what he was thinking.

While eating hot wontons, I quietly admired the beautiful southern lights outside the window.

The colorful aurora is sometimes like ribbons, sometimes like bright flames, colorful and breathtaking.
Chapter completed!