After waiting in the hotel room for less than four hours, the bedside phone rang again. Eric, who had been waiting impatiently, grabbed the phone and briefly communicated with the person on the other end of the phone in Norwegian.
Then he put down the phone.
"My cousin's car has arrived downstairs," Eric said as he grabbed the hiking bag with his name on it and put it on his back. "We are going downstairs now. He will take us to eat. After eating, we will leave immediately.
Bear Island”
Wei Ran and Professor Jonas looked at each other, quickly picked up his mountaineering bag and put it on his shoulders, and then he and Eric carried the heavy and huge wooden box out of the room.
The three of them walked out of the hotel with a lot of luggage. At a glance, they saw a vintage van parked at the door. In the cab of the van, a man who looked to be in his early thirties was greeting them enthusiastically.
Say hello.
"That's my cousin Leo, let's get in the car!" Eric enthusiastically greeted Professor Jonas to get in the car, and then he and Wei Ran carried the wooden box into the car.
When the three of them finished closing the car door in turn, Leo, who was in charge of driving, immediately stepped on the accelerator and took them towards the dock. At the same time, under Eric's translation and introduction, he briefly talked with Wei Ran and Professor Jonas.
Got to know each other.
Leo led us to a seafood restaurant on the pier to eat two king crabs that were as big as our faces and a lamb soup that tasted pretty good.
After filling their stomachs with a sumptuous meal of seafood, Leo led them to the edge of the pier, pointed at a fishing boat more than 20 meters long, and said something that looked not old.
"My cousin said that this is the only boat that can take us to Bear Island at present." Eric helped translate after listening, "There are not many boats that dare to go to Bear Island during the polar night. This boat's
The captain is only willing to send us there because he is a friend of Leo."
"Then let's use this boat." Professor Jonas, who didn't seem to like talking very much, didn't choose. He happily followed Leo who led the way and was the first to step onto the deck of the fishing boat.
On the deck of this ship, in addition to some frozen crates, on the middle deck covered with pine needles, there were four sturdy reindeer lying side by side, and beside them,
They were two sleighs tied to the deck with ropes.
Each of the two sleighs is the size of a deck chair, and one of them is filled with various supplies. The other empty sleigh is not only covered with thick reindeer skins, but also has a snow-white sheet hidden under the reindeer skins.
bearskin.
Leo touched the bear skin, then quickly covered it with the reindeer skin and said something proudly.
Seeing Jonas and Wei Ran looking at him, Eric shook his head helplessly and translated, "Leo said that bear skin comes from an adult male polar bear he caught this year. If any of you like it, he can sell it."
.But I advise you not to have this plan, unless you want to be sent to jail by the customs."
"Forget the bearskin, when will we set off?" Professor Jonas asked rather urgently.
Eric turned to ask Leo, who was standing aside and lighting a cigarette. The latter immediately untied the cable and waved to the cab.
Amidst the roar of the engine, the small fishing boat sailed away from the dock lightly, turned around, and sailed alone to the depths of the sea with some floating ice. Under the leadership of Leo, Wei Ran and others also walked shoulder-to-shoulder.
The bearer carried the luggage and got into the dark cabin.
The captain of this fishing boat is a fat man with a height of 1.9 meters, and his full beard makes him look very much in line with the image of the legendary Viking pirate.
But unlike Leo, the tall and fat captain didn't seem to like talking. He just nodded in greeting, and then pointed to the passenger cabin, which was only separated from the cockpit by a corridor.
The area of this cabin is also small. There are four high and low bunks arranged end to end in a circle. On the table in the middle are some erotic magazines and a candy box filled with bullets. On the wall on the side of the entrance
Above, two civilian shotguns with scopes were hung.
Leo gestured to everyone to find a place to sit, and he turned around and left. Not long after, he brought everyone a pot of scalding coffee.
Although the language barrier required Eric to help translate, both Wei Ran and Professor Jonas could tell that Leo really liked chatting, or in other words, liked to show off the results of his hunting and what he had discovered over the years.
High grade gold deposits.
As for how much content there is in these words, Wei Ran had already guessed at least 70% just by looking at the helpless and embarrassed expression on his cousin Eric's face.
"Eric, ask Leo, has he prepared weapons for us?" Jonas asked while Leo was picking up the coffee cup.
Hearing this, Leo quickly put down the cup, bent down and pulled out a wooden box from under a bed, opened it and placed it on the table. At the same time, he was talking very fast.
Eric on the side rolled his eyes and translated helplessly, "Leo said that there are no bears at all on Bear Island, and the only animals are Arctic foxes and Arctic lemmings. Only when you are lucky can you encounter one."
Two walruses, so they just prepared some pistols for us as a token gesture."
"It's better than nothing, at least it's a psychological comfort."
Although Professor Jonas didn't talk much, he was good-tempered. He took out a 1911 pistol made in Norway from the box, grabbed a few magazines and stuffed it into his pocket without even looking at it.
inside.
Seeing this, Wei Ran also casually took a pistol and two loaded magazines from the box. Eric, on the other hand, did not raise his hand at all, obviously trusting his cousin's words.
"Eric, how long does it take for us to get to Bear Island?" Wei Ran asked with the same casual attitude while casually checking the pistol and magazine he just got.
After hearing this, Eric asked Leo a few questions, and then replied, "It will take about 20 hours. If nothing happens, we should be able to land on Bear Island by this time tomorrow."
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He glanced at Professor Jonas who was playing with the radio. Wei Ran wisely did not speak again and casually picked up a book from the table to read.
I picked up the latest pornographic magazine, lay half on a bed covered with fluffy reindeer skins, and critically appraised the clothes of the girls in the magazine that were made of too much material and didn't even have masks.
Seeing that the two people who needed an interpreter to communicate had something to do, Eric was relieved. This translation job was not easy to do, especially when there was a chatty person around, which made it even worse.
However, his cousin Leo didn't intend to shut up. He reached out and pulled out a bottle of wine from the box under the bed, opened it, raised his neck and took a sip, then pulled Eric, his distant cousin, to continue drinking with only the two of them.
What to talk about in Norwegian that people can understand.
I waited patiently for a whole day on the floating fishing boat. During this period, except for less than four hours of daylight, the rest of the time was completely covered by the dark night, the occasional aurora and the falling snow from time to time.
Filled to the brim.
Of course, in addition to this, there was the increasingly louder snoring mixed with the roar of the engine, the increasingly pungent smell of stinky feet and body odor, and the long-lasting disgusting smell of Eric's vomit after he became seasick.
After finally suffering, a small stretch of dark coastline appeared directly in front of the fishing boat's searchlight. Everyone became energetic. Even Eric, who was about to vomit out his gall, struggled to get up and watched with excitement.
The closer to Bear Island.
More than half an hour later, seeing that the fishing boat had docked near a man-made simple dock, Leo immediately slung the shotgun hanging on the wall over his shoulder and took the initiative to help carry the huge wooden box out of the cabin.
.
While everyone was busy, the luggage of the three people, the two sleighs, and the four particularly honest reindeer were all safely transferred to the pier illuminated by the searchlights.
Before setting off, Leo gave everyone a compass and two flares from unknown sources, and then hung a lit kerosene gas lamp on the raised backrest of the two sleighs.
Only then did he get on the vacant sleigh, and after Eric and Professor Jonas wrapped themselves tightly in polar bear skin blankets, they skillfully shouted at the reindeer and started running.
Behind him, Wei Ran waited for a moment, also called to the two reindeer, and pulled him and the sleigh cart filled with various supplies under his buttocks to follow. Amidst the clear ringing of bells, the two sleigh carts took two people with them.
A group of bright lights quickly sailed towards the depths of the desolate Bear Island.
Behind them, the tall and strong captain Martin, after observing them with a telescope for a long time, showed a greedy smile full of expectation on his fat face.
