The icebreaker did not set off overnight as Su Xiaofan thought, but stayed at the dock.
For this reason, Captain Leonid came up to explain that they needed to wait for the research ship heading to the Arctic Circle.
It wasn't until the third day that the icebreaker blew its whistle and slowly sailed away from Green Island.
The weight of nearly 100,000 tons made the icebreaker extremely stable. Su Xiaofan and others could hardly feel any shaking when the ship started.
After sailing for dozens of nautical miles in the sea, a fleet of three scientific research ships was waiting at sea.
The whistle was sounded, and the icebreaker took the lead and drove at the front, followed by three scientific research ships keeping a certain distance.
Nuclear-powered icebreakers are really very powerful and can sail very fast.
Several high-power headlights on the bow can shine thousands of meters away, dispersing the night on the sea.
But at noon the next day, a bright light appeared in the sky.
As the icebreaker moved forward, the bright light gradually expanded. The icebreaker, which had been sailing in darkness, suddenly came to a bright world.
Although the temperature is still so low, the sun in the sky makes people feel a little warm psychologically.
Everything you see is waves and some standing glaciers. The glaciers are covered with white snow. For Su Xiaofan, this is a completely new world.
The weather on the sea is exactly like a woman's face, it changes at any time.
In just a few hours, Su Xiaofan actually saw violent storms and heavy snowfall.
There were heavy rains, and strong winds stirred up huge waves more than ten meters high. Even the hundreds of thousands of tons of icebreakers were sometimes thrown high into the air.
Su Xiaofan has truly experienced the power of nature. This scene is more shocking than the Skynet Thunder in Devil's Valley.
Captain Leonid was very considerate and sent him seasickness medicine, but this level of turbulence would naturally not cause discomfort to Su Xiaofan and others.
After the heavy rain stopped, snowflakes began to fall in the sky again.
Luochuan, where Su Xiaofan lives, also snows in winter, but this was the first time he saw palm-sized snowflakes, so he couldn't help but take out his phone and take a few pictures.
However, when we arrived here, the signal on the mobile phone was gone, so Su Xiaofan, who originally wanted to send it to his sister, had no choice but to give up.
It was rare to see the scenery of the Arctic Circle. Su Xiaofan was too lazy to practice. He asked someone to bring some good wine, and took Yang Xiu to stay in Mr. Yang's room.
"Mr. Yang, has this entered the extreme daylight phase?"
Su Xiaofan knew that there are celestial phenomena of polar day and polar night in the North Pole. It is now in July and August, which should be the time when polar day appears.
"Well, we have entered the latitude of extreme daylight, and it will be daytime for the next half year."
Mr. Yang nodded. He was lucky this time. Otherwise, if he encountered the polar night celestial phenomenon, the whole journey would be dark and nothing could be seen.
"Grandpa, are there polar nights and polar days in the restricted area of the glacier?" Yang Xiu asked.
"No, the latitude of the Glacier Exclusion Zone is very unique."
Mr. Yang shook his head and said: "The location of the Glacier Exclusion Zone is just at the critical point of northern latitude, so the sunrise and sunset there are normal."
"That's okay, otherwise it would be uncomfortable to be blind for half a year."
Yang Xiu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. A cultivator's eyesight is very good, but if you see in the dark for half a year, it will definitely take a long time to adapt when you see the light again.
"Even the creatures in the Arctic can't stand the polar night weather, and they will all move south."
Mr. Yang took a sip of wine and said: "The only difference between the Glacier Restricted Area and the outside world is the cold. It's cold there all year round. You have to be mentally prepared."
"What are you afraid of?" Yang Xiu was a little disapproving.
"How would it feel if you fell into the sea?" Mr. Yang said slowly and leisurely.
"Grandpa, I really didn't fall." Yang Xiu couldn't help but blush.
"Mr. Yang, what is the average temperature in the glacier restricted area?"
Su Xiaofan asked seriously, since Mr. Yang said so, the temperature there will definitely affect the cultivators.
"Usually it's 20 or 30 degrees below zero, but sometimes it's 60 or 70 degrees below zero."
Mr. Yang's face became serious, "With our cultivation level, when the temperature is fifty degrees below zero, the movement of spiritual energy in the body will be affected, so don't take it seriously."
"Is there any way to keep out the cold?" Su Xiaofan continued to ask.
The Yin God Realm cultivators in the Glacier Restricted Area are the mainstream. Their defense is far inferior to that of the Yang God Realm cultivators, and they will definitely not be able to withstand the severe cold.
"Let's get some furs from extraordinary creatures and make them into clothes."
Yang Lao smiled and said: "But it's best to make it into inner armor and don't wear it outside, otherwise the extraordinary ones of the same race will see you and fight you tooth and nail."
"Grandpa, what kind of extraordinary creatures are in this restricted area?" Yang Xiu also felt that he was a little arrogant, so he also asked from the side.
"There are mainly three ethnic groups."
Mr. Yang said: "The most powerful one is the extraordinary polar bear population. It is estimated that there are at least four saint-level polar bears. We suspect that there are extraordinary ones beyond the saint level in this population."
"Four holy ones?"
Su Xiaofan's scalp felt a little numb when he heard this. He and Mr. Yang had tried their best to deal with one bear scorpion before, but now four of them appeared at once.
Of course, Su Xiaofan's attack and defense power now are not the same as before, but four extraordinary beings of the same level still make Su Xiaofan feel like Alexander.
"They are at least four. They have occupied the core of the inner circle for more than ten years. It is very likely that a new holy level will appear."
Mr. Yang corrected Su Xiaofan's words and continued: "The second largest population is the Arctic fox. This creature comes and goes like the wind and has a cunning temperament. Human cultivators often suffer from the Arctic fox."
"The third group is the Arctic wolf. Unlike the previous two groups, which have internal fights, the Arctic wolf group is very united and will fight to the death..."
Mr. Yang analyzed the characteristics of the three major populations for Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu.
Polar bears are powerful individually, but they are not considered social creatures. The four holy polar bears each bring two or three female polar bears, living in the core of the restricted area, occupying a large territory.
However, fights often occur between polar bears, and they only unite during camp battles. According to Yang Lao's estimate, the extraordinary number of polar bears in the Glacier Restricted Area should be between forty and sixty.
Arctic foxes are not social creatures. They live together as a pair. When their children grow up and evolve into extraordinary beings, they will be driven out.
However, the individual strength of Arctic foxes is also very powerful. Three pairs of known Arctic foxes are all Saint-level, that is, there are six Saint-level Arctic foxes, and their number even exceeds the population of polar bears.
However, the number of Arctic foxes is even rarer, with only about thirty in total, and they also occupy a small part of the inner core.
The last extraordinary group is the Arctic wolf. This cruel creature is the most numerous among the three extraordinary groups, with a total of about 250 to 300 individuals.
But since there can only be one alpha wolf in a wolf pack, there is only one saint-level transcendent in this largest group of extraordinary beings.
The lack of individual strength means that the Arctic wolf population can only occupy an area slightly outside the core of the inner circle.
Of course, the Arctic wolf population has also challenged the inner circle, but each time it resulted in heavy casualties. If not for their amazing fertility, it would have been difficult to maintain the strength of the population.
The ones that have the most fights with humans are the extraordinary Arctic wolves. This species is cruel and easy to kill, and they often hunt and kill human cultivators en masse.
However, most of the extraordinary cubs that human cultivators like to steal are Arctic wolf cubs. Whenever they meet together, human cultivators and Arctic wolves will often break out into war.
"Grandpa, this restricted area is full of carnivorous extraordinary beings. What do they eat?"
Yang Xiu felt that the structure of the glacier restricted area was not very reasonable. A group of carnivores were mixed together. Could it be that they were killing each other and preying on each other as food?
"You have enough spiritual energy, do you still need to eat?" Mr. Yang and Su Xiaofan looked at Yang Xiu at the same time.
"Well, I'm still used to eating something."
Yang Xiu realized that he had asked a very stupid question. With his current level of cultivation, he could indeed live without food. As long as he had some clean water, not eating for several months would have no effect.
On the contrary, this will make the body purer, but some harmful impurities in food need to be eliminated during cultivation.
"Actually, there are many other creatures inside, but none of them have evolved into extraordinary beings."
Yang Lao said: "There are millions of reindeer in the restricted area, as well as many Arctic hares and musk ox lemmings. Reindeer and musk ox are the prey of polar bears and Arctic wolves, while Arctic hares and lemmings are the favorites of Arctic foxes.
food.
Of course, we humans will also hunt and eat these creatures, and there is a sea cave in the restricted area. There are many sea lions and seals in it, which are the rations of us cultivators..."
The number of creatures in the restricted area of the glacier far exceeded Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu's imagination, but under the suppression of the three extraordinary groups, these creatures could only tragically become extraordinary food.
This is a typical law of the jungle. There are less than a thousand extraordinary creatures and human cultivators, but they are the rulers of tens of millions of ordinary creatures.
However, there is abundant spiritual energy in the restricted area, and the reproductive ability of these ordinary creatures is extremely powerful.
Even though those extraordinary polar bears need to eat thousands of reindeer every day, the number of reindeer is increasing instead of decreasing, and the population is still expanding.
"Well, it's time to break the ice. Do you want to take a look?"
Mr. Yang suddenly looked outside the ship and said, "The area in front of us is quite frozen. We probably won't be able to go far today."
The reason why scientific research ships and ships for maintenance spend a lot of money to hire icebreakers is because there are too many icy waters in the Arctic Circle.
Just like the sea area they were encountering now, Su Xiaofan unfolded his consciousness and discovered that the sea surface twenty or thirty miles ahead was completely frozen. Without icebreakers, ordinary ships would not be able to sail normally.
Just as Mr. Yang said, after hitting the ice, the speed of the icebreaker suddenly dropped.
Relying on the propulsion generated by the powerful nuclear power, the icebreaker easily smashes a channel on the ice.
However, after reaching the center of the ice surface, the thickness of the ice surface increased a lot, and it was no longer possible to successfully break through the ice surface with this brute force.
But the function of the icebreaker is obviously more than relying on brute force. Since the bow of the ship has a relatively shallow draft, when it is driven at full strength, the giant ship can easily drive onto the ice.
The hull of an icebreaker weighing tens of thousands of tons will squeeze the ice below into pieces, and then the icebreaker will retreat and break up the ice again, allowing the waterway to continue.
However, as a result, the speed of the icebreaker was also reduced a lot, and it took more than three hours to pass through this icy sea.
In non-icing seas, icebreakers can sail about four to five hundred nautical miles a day, but when encountering icy seas, they are often delayed for a long time.
After sailing like this for four days, we got closer and closer to the restricted area of the glacier.
Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu have also had an eye-opening experience in the past few days. They have basically seen all the creatures in the Arctic Circle.
Su Xiaofan even hunted and killed a polar bear yesterday.
In Mr. Yang's words, if you encounter this thing in the Arctic, you will be killed without mercy. Don't mention any animal protection laws to him.
The polar bear was about three meters tall. The bear meat was thrown into the sea by Su Xiaofan. The bear skin was hanging on the balcony, frozen and hard.
Captain Leonid came up in the morning and wanted to buy the bear skin for $20,000.
However, Su Xiaofan rejected it. Putting such a complete white bear skin at home would definitely be a more honorable thing, and it would be much more domineering than hanging a tiger skin.
Su Xiaofan stayed on the ship with the bearskin, and he planned to take it with him when he went back. At that time, the country would make arrangements and bring it back through diplomatic channels.
On the fifth day, Su Xiaofan saw an iceberg appearing in front of him from a distance.
Different from the icebergs I have seen before, this iceberg stretches for hundreds of miles, just like a continent.
In the words of Captain Leonid, this is the largest iceberg in the Arctic Circle, and it is unknown how many millions of years it has existed.
This was also the destination of Su Xiaofan and others. When they were still three to four nautical miles away from the iceberg, a speedboat was put into the water.
The person driving the speedboat seemed to be afraid of approaching this place. After putting Su Xiaofan and the others down, he turned around and drove away without daring to waste a moment.
"How are we going back?" Su Xiaofan was dumbfounded as he watched the fleet go away.
"The icebreaker will go back and forth here once a month. Just calculate the time and Leonid will make a circle here."
Mr. Yang said disapprovingly: "If you come early, just wait here. As long as you see the icebreaker, just get on the ship."
The distance of three to four nautical miles is nothing to high-level cultivators. They can just cross the void directly.
In short, when you come, you buy the ticket first and then get on the boat. When you go back, you first get on the boat and then pay for the ticket.
As for those who have no money, they either go to the dock to work as coolies, or they hide on the ship.
As long as they are not discovered, no one will ask them for money. Of course, this kind of thing has been done before, but no one has ever said anything about it. It is a bit too embarrassing.
"As you get used to moving on the ice, you'll probably be stepping on this kind of ground in the future."
Mr. Yang did not rush to take them deep into the iceberg, but asked Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu to exercise on the ice.
Walking on the ice is different from that on land. Standing on the ice, Su Xiaofan got used to it a little bit.
But for cultivators, it was not a big problem. After half an hour, Su Xiaofan was already walking very steadily.
"Mr. Yang, are we going to the restricted area now?"
Su Xiaofan could not wait any longer. Thinking of his mother whom he had not seen for more than ten years, Su Xiaofan couldn't help but feel his heart beating faster.
"Xiaofan, meditate!"
Yang Lao glanced at Su Xiaofan, "The overseas restricted area is no better than the outside. It can be said that there are dangers at every step inside. Don't be upset or angry, otherwise you will lose your judgment..."
"Yes, Mr. Yang, I am impatient."
Su Xiaofan nodded, took a deep breath, and suppressed his impetuous mood.
"Grandpa, when should we go to the restricted area?"
Seeing that Su Xiaofan had regained his composure and his ancestor still looked unhurried, Yang Xiu couldn't help but ask.
"Why are you so anxious? I'll tell you about the situation in this restricted area. It didn't sound intuitive to you before..."
Mr. Yang waved his hand and said, "This restricted area is very large. Unlike ordinary restricted areas, which usually only have one entrance and exit, the glacier restricted area has a total of six places that can be entered and exited.
However, three of the six entrances and exits are occupied by extraordinary creatures, and human cultivators can only enter and exit from the other three places. I will tell you the locations of the three entrances and exits later."
While talking, Mr. Yang led the two of them deeper into the iceberg.
To be honest, if you didn't know that there is a large forbidden area where extraordinary things run rampant, just looking at the scenery, this iceberg would undoubtedly be extremely beautiful.
The seemingly heatless sunlight from the sky shines on the glacier, illuminating the entire iceberg in colorful colors.
Pure and holy, the world of ice and snow is like a fairyland, existing on this sea that has been forgotten by mankind.
Su Xiaofan originally wanted to take some photos with his cell phone and keep them, but when he took out his cell phone, he found that it had been shut down due to the low temperature.
Su Xiaofan felt that there was a high probability that this thing would be unusable, so he immediately took out the mobile phone sim card and threw the phone into an ice cave.
Maybe some kind of extinction event will happen to the earth tens of millions of years from now, human civilization will be reborn, and maybe someone will discover the prehistoric technology they threw away.
With random thoughts in his mind, Su Xiaofan followed Mr. Yang and kept marching deeper into the iceberg.
After walking for more than a hundred kilometers, Mr. Yang stopped. His lips did not move, but his voice sounded in the minds of Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu.
"This is one of the places where human cultivators come in and out. Then follow this entrance and exit for four hundred miles to the left and right. There are two more entrances and exits, which are relatively safe."
Yang Lao said in a message: "The other three entrances and exits are all on the sea and are controlled by extraordinary beings. However, these three places cannot be missed by human cultivators. If you encounter extraordinary creatures blocking the entrances and exits in the future, you will also have to take action... …”
"Okay." Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu both nodded. Su Xiaofan released his spiritual consciousness and found that the entrance and exit were still seven or eight hundred meters away from him.
But when Su Xiaofan's consciousness came to the entrance of the restricted area, it seemed to be isolated by an invisible layer of space, unable to detect the situation inside the restricted area.
Of course, you can also visually see the entrance to the restricted area with your eyes.
From the outside, it seems to be no different from the outside world, but upon closer inspection, Su Xiaofan discovered some differences.
Although the scenery of the ice and snow world outside is beautiful and spectacular, it is a very pure place, that is, there is no color except ice and snow.
However, within the entrance to the restricted area, Su Xiaofan could see some green plants.
Although it is a very inconspicuous vegetation, it adds a touch of bright color and vitality to this simple world of ice and snow.
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