Chapter 161 The isolated island blocked by ice and snow
It was noon on December 3, but the polar night sky was strangely dark and full of untimely stars.
Wrangel Island is located at 71°14' north latitude and 179°25' west longitude. The island once had a military airport runway, military radar facilities, and even a mine, but they were all abandoned shortly after they were established.
The village of Khakovskoye is on the southern coast, and the naval base is adjacent to this former small settlement.
The base consists of a complete set of 34 prefabricated modular buildings, and hundreds of people from two countries are currently working in it.
Gu Jun and the other five arrived at the Messchmidt Military Base yesterday. When the weather conditions allowed today, they took a helicopter over, successfully flew over the distance of more than 200 kilometers, and landed on the base's apron. Now the sea is almost covered with ice.
The ice is no longer suitable for ships to sail, and icebreakers are needed to clear the way.
The strong wind howled, and the five people stepped off the helicopter one after another. They were all wearing thick warm adventure suits and each carried a bag of luggage.
The remaining temperature in the helicopter cabin had been destroyed by the strong wind. As soon as Gu Jun stepped on the ice and snow of the island, he suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill. His face, which was covered by a hood and mask, was still aching from the cold wind.
I can barely open my eyes.
It's so cold. Didn't he grow up in the north? Is this the first time in his life to feel such coldness, more than 20 degrees below zero...
But it’s not just cold here, the humidity is also very high, and it’s often foggy, giving it the nickname “Kirishima”.
The cold mist moisture seemed to have penetrated through the thick thermal clothing, penetrated into his skin, and also penetrated into his lungs through the respiratory tract. He breathed harder and harder after a few breaths, and it was a bit difficult to breathe. There was tightness in the chest, nose and respiratory tract.
Feeling a faint tingling sensation.
"Ah..." Uncle Dan next to him had already shivered a few times from the cold. When he arrived here, he felt even more uncomfortable than he had been in the stone path for several days.
"I really need to drink some vodka." Lou Xiaoning muttered. It's not a place where people live. It's dark and cold. It's 7,600 square kilometers. It will only get worse the further north you go.
"It's so white." Wu Shiyu looked at the bright ice and snow around him under the night sky, feeling like he was looking at a field of colors during global training.
If you stay in this environment for a long time, you will experience the Ganzfeld effect and see hallucinations and mental changes.
"If you feel uncomfortable, please don't hold on." Xue Ba told everyone, flexing his muscles, but his square face with beard was already red from the cold.
Activities in the Arctic Circle in winter are very challenging mentally and physically. If there is enough time, they all need to receive some training first. And people like Gu Jun who are terminally ill should not set foot on this land. But now everything is impossible
Follow the routine.
Just in front of the helicopter, there was a group of about ten people waiting to greet them.
Among them are the "Arctic Wolf", the expedition team of the Tianji Bureau here, Captain Yu Xiaoyong, and Deputy Captain Zhang Xiaoqi. The "Arctic Wolf" is a large-scale temporary mobile task force formed just to cope with this task. Each member of the team
All kinds of personnel are available, and professional Arctic expedition personnel are indispensable.
Next to Captain Yu are the personnel from the Russian National Security Bureau. They are the hosts here, and all the members of the Secret Bureau are guests.
The leader of the Russian team is Ivanov Mstislav, a middle-aged Russian whose beard and muscles are even more exaggerated than Xue Ba's, resembling a brown bear.
“Captain Yu.”
Although they are not all proficient, Xue Ba knows how to speak many languages.
"Captain Xue!" But Mstislav, who was called, responded in less than standard Chinese. This big brown bear didn't lose in language either.
Now everyone got to know each other, and when Gu Jun was introduced, everyone looked curious, especially Yu Xiaoyong and the others.
For no other reason, Gu Jun is too young, but the order passed down from the bureau is to ask them to cooperate with him in starting work, which is to focus on Gu Jun. However, Xiaoyong and the others have read some information about Gu Jun and know that he
What is extrasensory perception, "special spiritual power".
"I'll take you to the dormitory building first." Mstislav greeted warmly, "Go in and have a drink to relax."
Although Gu Jun wanted to take a look around anxiously, he knew that he still had to go through the procedures, and settling in the dormitory was one of them.
And there is no need to rush. They already knew what was going on here before setting off. The island is so big and the weather is so bad that the Arctic Wolf team doesn’t even know which area to search for, so the work is getting bogged down.
In stagnation.
The dormitory building is the largest barracks here. There are separate barracks-style dormitories for men and women. They have electricity and heating supplies, but these energy sources must be used sparingly.
The supplies stored in the base are enough for them and thirty Alaskan Malamutes to survive for a month, and support can also be provided from the opposite coast, but nothing is certain.
After settling down, Gu Jun immediately asked to start exploring. Captain Yu and others took the five of them out and boarded a group of snowmobiles to head to the west.
Not long after, the desolate village of Ukhakovskoye appeared in the snow ahead. Captain Yu introduced: "It has been like this for many years. The Russians don't clean it up themselves, and they don't let others clean it up."
Gu Jun knew this was the case after reading the information.
Under the light of the car lights, I could see some dilapidated telephone poles on the snow that were about to collapse, and messy wires connected to some dilapidated low wooden houses. The snow had not yet completely covered up the various garbage on the ground.
, especially those abandoned oil barrels that have long been stained and stained.
The surroundings are still white, connected to the undulating mountains in the distance, extending endlessly.
"There's a polar bear there." As soon as the snowmobile convoy stopped, Wu Shiyu pointed the direction to everyone, and Gu Jun turned to look.
Sure enough, they saw a strong polar bear walking beside a broken house less than twenty meters away. It glanced at them and turned away.
Why... Gu Jun frowned and had a strange feeling, as if the polar bear had already been waiting there, waiting for him to come...
The wind was rumbling, and there was only silence around them. He could hear the sound of his own blood flowing. Has his spirit been affected?
"Captain Yu, I want to go over and have a look at that house." He still said.
The polar bear had already run away, and there was no need for anyone to chase it away. The next group of people walked over and saw that it was a very ordinary old rotten wooden house, less than thirty square meters, and the roof was about to collapse under the weight of snow, but it
It has been here for decades.
The door of the wooden house was ajar. Gu Jun reached out and pushed it open, looking into the house with a flashlight.