The owner of the store has white hair, is very young, and is very fashionable in clothes. When someone comes in, he greets him enthusiastically and asks: "Handsome sir, young and beautiful lady, do you want to participate in the motorcycle trip tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow? Not today?"
"Today's tour group has gone out. We can only gather one tour group here every day. You should know that although there are many tourists coming to Longyearbyen, most of them do not know how to operate snowmobiles.
, although they seem to be so simple, by the way, I haven’t asked you yet, you should be able to drive it, right?”
"We will."
"That's great." He clapped his hands. "Are you sure you want to participate? If you want to participate, come to the back of the store to take a test."
Han Qi paid attention to this store.
In addition to the service desk where the boss is sitting, there are a large number of photos on the walls here, including polar bears and posters. Some brave tourists even dare to get close to the polar bears and take photos twenty or thirty meters away.
Fortunately, they were riding snowmobiles, otherwise the polar bears would not be easy to mess with if they went crazy.
Bears, whether polar bears or brown bears, are scary. However, since they are animals, they have their own unique personalities and tempers. Only by following an experienced guide can you go further and see more scenery in this dangerous place.
In addition to the photos plastered everywhere, there is a sofa and table on the right, with a coffee machine on top and a small black basket for umbrellas at the door.
After following this person into the store, you can see a large yard with two snowmobiles on the side.
"Let's try it. Sorry, this is a process that you must go through. If you don't know it, we can teach you here. If you have experience riding a motorcycle, you can quickly learn to use a snowmobile, and the fee is not high."
Ingrid went over first, as if I was already a veteran.
She was indeed a veteran. She went up to light the fire and left. She circled the venue twice and stopped next to Han Qi.
Han Qi also got in the car and drove for a while.
"The car is okay, so that's good, right?"
"Okay, no problem." The handsome white-haired guy gave a thumbs up.
Entering the store again to sign, the white-haired boy sorted out the information and said to the two of them: "The convoy that will leave tomorrow morning plus you already has six people. If four more come tonight, we can leave early tomorrow morning. The time will be about
It’s five o’clock in the morning, any questions?”
"Five o'clock in the morning?" Ingrid asked, looking at Han Qi.
She can get up at this time, which is similar to her daily wake-up time anyway, but Han Qi can't. She knows her man's habits. If she can wake up naturally in the morning, she will never get up early.
However, she rarely traveled with Han Qi. She didn't know that Han Qi would have no problem getting up at three in the morning when he was traveling.
Habits developed from the early days of travel are not easy to break.
After all, it is to make money, not to be shabby.
Han Qi was still signing. When he saw Ingrid's eyes, he said, "Don't worry." Then he asked White Hair, "What if no one comes in a while?"
"Then wait until ten o'clock." He said, "We will notify you tonight anyway, so don't worry about coming too early tomorrow."
"Okay." Han Qi handed him the list.
White Hair took it and said: "Okay, we will call you later. Regardless of whether there are ten people or not, we will set off at ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
"good."
After walking out of the store, the two of them strolled around the street.
There are shotguns sold in the store. The so-called guns here are actually this kind of shotgun. When everyone goes out for a walk, you can tell that they have left the city just by looking at someone carrying a shotgun. There are also those that Han Qi saw in front of those stores before.
Black basket.
He thought it was for umbrellas, but when Han Qi entered the mall, he discovered that it was actually for guns.
Okay, very punishing.
Back at the hotel, Ingrid threw herself on the bed as soon as she entered the room.
"Are you tired?"
"It's okay." She said. After looking at her phone for a while, she read out loud:
"A male polar bear weighs 300 to 700 kilograms, a female polar bear weighs 150 to 250 kilograms, and a newborn polar bear cub weighs 600 grams. An adult polar bear can smell the breath of a seal 32 kilometers away or 1 kilometer away.
The smell of seals can be smelled under 1 meter of ice..."
Han Qi stuck his head out of the bathroom.
"What are you doing?"
"Looking for information about polar bears. We are going to see it tomorrow. Ah, I am so happy. I wonder if we can see the little bear."
Han Qi rolled his eyes and continued taking a shower.
Thinking too much.
You should be able to see it, but animals with babies are generally more aggressive. Han Qi saw some dangerous scene not far away. He was fine by himself, but Ingrid was also following him.
Although the white-haired man said that their travel agency has not had any safety incidents since they came here five years ago, it is a wilderness after all. After leaving Longyearbyen, the place outside is like a desert without people, and there will be
Nothing is surprising.
After dinner, there was news from the travel agency.
"Mr. Han? We are all here, but there is a customer who doesn't want to get up at five o'clock. We would like to ask for your opinions. When do you think you would like to come over? You can do it at any time. Our car is ready outside the city.
.”
"What time are they going to go?"
"The customer said he could come to our store at seven o'clock at the earliest."
Han Qi and Ingrid discussed it for a while and said to him: "We are also at seven o'clock. You can ask other people and then call me to inform. We can come at any time."
"Okay, thank you for supporting my work."
After hanging up the phone, Ingrid said: "What's wrong? Someone can't get up in the morning."
Han Qi nodded, "Probably, I don't know what kind of friends I will meet tomorrow. I hope there won't be too many things. When you come to a place like this, just listen to the tour guide."
If you are just wandering around by yourself, you can get up at any time, but as long as you enter a travel agency, you must trust the tour guide. People from the outside world will never have local people who understand this place. What Han Qi wants now is to go later.
You will miss some attractions.
After exporting the photos from the camera, the two of them started to rest early.
………………
Han Qi and Ingrid arrived at the travel agency on time at seven o'clock.
Yesterday it was empty except for the white hair, but today it was lively. There were several cars parked at the door, and it was also bustling inside. More than a dozen people packed the small shop tightly.
Han Qi looked and saw that he was the last one to arrive.
It's not even seven o'clock yet.
Gu Yan
When the white-haired handsome guy saw the last two people coming, he said: "Now that everyone is here, let me introduce to you. This is Halifax Carey, the leader of your trip this time. You call him Carey."
That’s fine.”
Carey walked out of the crowd.
He is in his thirties and looks like a native of Norway. He is wearing a down jacket, a jacket outside, and a gray shirt underneath. His figure cannot be seen, but his neck muscles are very obvious.
Judging from his appearance, he is also a fierce man.
White Hair continued:
"As long as you go out, Longyearbyen is a danger zone. All wild animals outside are dangerous. If you encounter them, don't scream loudly and don't touch wild animals. No matter how cute the animals are, don't touch them anyway. Motorcycles are not allowed on the road.
Turn off the engine, not even for a moment, and just listen to Kaili for the rest. Do you understand? If we understand, we will set off."
"Understood." Everyone shouted in confusion.
Han Qi also looked at the people traveling together this time.
Two Asians, maybe Western Chinese, two Latinos, and the others are all European and American whites.
Although there are many people traveling here, recently there are still more Europeans. Chinese people generally focus on traveling to England, France, Germany, Norway, and Iceland. Unless you are someone who has an impression of Longyearbyen, they will not come here specifically.
Travel here.
Even if you want to see polar bears or the aurora, Tromsø, where Han Qi built a library, is more suitable for travel than Longyearbyen.
"Gogogo!!" someone shouted.
Beautiful Chinese people, Han Qi thought to herself.
Bai Toufa waved, and Kaili said: "Then let's get in the car first."
Ten tourists and several men with guns filed into the cars parked outside. Han Qi and Ingrid were sitting in the back seat. In front of them was the only Asian other than Han Qi. A man with a gun on his back drove the car.
, the Asian said to Han Qi as soon as he came in:
"Hello? Are you Korean?"
"Chinese people."
"Yasi... I heard the boy with white hair say yesterday that there was a man with black hair. I thought he was Korean."
“Are many Koreans traveling here?”
"It's okay. There was a very popular commercial on TV recently about Longyearbyen, so a lot of people came here. Speaking of which, I came here with my friend. He had something to do and went home first in the morning."
"oh."
This Korean guy talks a lot, and he always wanted to chat with Han Qi Ingrid.
But the car only drove for about ten minutes and stopped at a place with relatively deep snow outside the city. There were a bunch of snowmobiles lined up neatly outside the car window. They all looked better than the two cars behind the store.
It's newer and the lines are prettier.
We each chose a car first, and they were all quite skilled. There was not a single novice on the scene.
Captain Lin Kaili drove the car in front of everyone and asked again: "The car cannot be turned off on the road. Even if I ask you to stop and take pictures, you cannot turn off the car. Be prepared to drive away at any time. Do you understand?"
"clear,"
"Also, don't talk loudly while traveling. There may be wild animals hidden in the snow. They may be frightened and run out of the snowdrifts to hurt people. There are precedents for this."
Everyone nodded.
Two beautiful Chinese people who seemed to know each other among the tourists had rented a shotgun. Their expressions were very excited, as if they were going hunting. Kaili also said: "Hello, friends, the gun you brought is a flare handle? If you encounter
When there is danger, we always set off flares first, and we cannot shoot polar bears with live ammunition unless absolutely necessary."
One of them said: "Yes, we understand that we only carry guns for self-protection and will not cause trouble for the big bear."
Another beautiful Chinese also nodded in agreement.
If it was just for hunting, they would have gone to Australia a long time ago. There are overflowing wild animals there, and they are inviting tourists from all over the world to travel there and experience the feeling of hunting wild animals. Even kangaroos are already within the range that can be hunted.
Inside.
Feeling that there was no problem, Kaili led the team and set off.
A group of people lit the engine, and the rumbling sound resounded throughout the world. Han Qi thought to himself, could polar bears be seen with such a loud noise? The animals would have run away long ago after hearing such a loud noise.
Whoever is fierce will have a loud voice.
Animals do not have high IQs, but their fear of loud things seems to be an innate conditioned reflex. There is even such a record in an ancient Chinese short article "The Tiger and the Donkey". Such a powerful tiger will be afraid of loud sounds.
of donkey.
Ingrid didn't think too much and drove and walked side by side with Han Qi, smiling happily.
There is snow everywhere here. Although I don't know how deep it is, Han Qi's feeling when driving is that it is at least 30 centimeters.
This environment is very suitable for snowmobiling.
Since there was no precise road as wide as the highway, everyone drove their own way, no one followed the other, and they all scattered in all directions.
The last ones followed were hunters hired by several travel agencies.
Han Qi asked an ordinary travel agency when he was shopping yesterday. The snowmobile is four times more expensive than them. In fact, you get what you pay for. An ordinary travel agency can have 20 tourists at a time, including the tour guide.
There are only five local people protecting it.
There are ten guests in this convoy, but there are six experienced hunters, so safety has been taken to the extreme.
Entering the valley, the terrain was undulating, but the lines and colors were extremely soft. We drove for more than two hours in the cool breeze, passing through snowfields and troughs, and arrived at the dividing line between the east and west of the island.
Looking around, real glaciers and distant fjords suddenly appeared. The ice fields were vast, and the sea seemed to be close in front of you and yet boundless. Going further, the glaciers gradually became clearer and changed into infinite tones under the sunlight, blue.
The light ripples on the unmelted ice and snow...
Kaili stopped, told everyone to take a break, and asked two people to go look for polar bears.
"Be careful." Carey said, "This is a place where polar bears often move. There is no need to wander around."
Ingrid breathed out, she was exhausted.
She had never experienced driving for three hours in a row. She had never driven a car for three hours at a time, let alone a motorcycle. It was also cold. When the speed was high, the cold wind was like an ice knife, scratching her face.
It hurts.
Ingrid pouted and came over to Han Qi and said, "I can't even feel my face..."
Han Qi took off the mask, kissed it, and said, "Do you feel it?"
"……kindness!"
After a while, someone came over and said that the polar bear had been found, and everyone got in the car and followed.
A dozen people were lying on a hillside, and a group of polar bears were resting two hundred meters away. They were either active or walking slowly on the thick ice in twos and threes.
A pair of polar bear mother and child suddenly appeared not far away. Han Qi adjusted the focus of the camera and looked over. The big bear was lying motionless on the ice, as if it came just for the camera. The little bear was the complete opposite, sometimes rolling and sometimes kicking, very lively.
.
What was even more exciting was that not long after, another big bear actually appeared. After walking on the ice for a while, it jumped into the ice water, stuck its head out and swam away.
There are reports that as the climate warms, the reduction of sea ice, which serves as a hunting platform and migration path for animals, is threatening the survival of polar animals such as polar bears. Carey joked: "Because the Arctic sea ice is melting, polar bears have lost weight quickly.
It doesn’t look like a bear anymore, the bears in the past were much bigger than these.”
