After Gu Jun received new clues, the Secret Bureau immediately teamed up with the Russian National Security Service to investigate the Inuit people.
However, the Inuit are a race composed of many tribes and are widely distributed in the Arctic Circle. Different tribes have different customs and legends. At that time, the boat of immigrants came from a small tribe in Chukotka. Others were familiar with the matter.
We don't know much about their beliefs. We only know that they worshiped an ancient god, but it was just a primitive and ignorant idea. No one took it seriously at that time, and because the tribe was closed, there was a lack of records.
Some of the Inuit of this tribe were later forcibly immigrated to Wrangel Island, some died, and some left the sea and no trace could be found.
Therefore, the Tianji Bureau could not find any information about their pagan worship for a while.
And Gu Jun and others found nothing else in Uhakovskoye Village, except that the photo told the strangeness of the past, that they were just a group of ordinary Inuit people. But Gu Jun thought that the festival was
It actually existed, and the death of Vasily Petronov may be one of the results of the festival.
Only by reaching the sea cliff where the ceremony is held can we get closer to the truth.
After determining the target, the Arctic Wolf team immediately prepared for action.
Different from the southern plain where the base is located, the sea cliff is located at the eastern end of the Central Mountains. The terrain is quite complex. This kind of wind and snow weather is not suitable for helicopter flying. Similar crashes are not unheard of. Only by driving nearly 40 kilometers first
It's a plain journey, and then you get to the foot of the mountain and then climb up. The altitude is 635 meters. It's not high but it won't be easy, because the road up the mountain has already been blocked by ice and snow.
The conditions are very harsh, but the plague is still spreading in Dongzhou, and managing the patients separately is a huge test of manpower. They must hurry up here.
On the morning of the second day when Gu Jun and the others arrived on the island, the weather was quite in line with expectations, and the joint forces of the two countries set off as planned.
"The polar bear led us to this place." Gu Jun told everyone at the beginning of the plan, "I feel that this business will not go smoothly."
They still don't know what that polar bear is. They couldn't track it yesterday, and the satellite didn't photograph it.
But everyone saw it at the time, and now everyone can only explain it as a group hallucination...
But that sea cliff might be a trap, so you have to be prepared.
The wind was howling with the snow, and in the vast snowfield under the polar night, a convoy of snow armored vehicles was moving forward. This was a joint force composed of 30 people from the Ross Kingdom, 30 people from the Arctic Wolf Team, and five people from Gu Jun. At this time, it was already
After driving 16 kilometers, everyone saw that the surroundings were covered with ice and snow in the dark.
If it were summer, this would be a tundra with many plants found nowhere else in the world, but now they are all covered in ice and snow.
Originally, in order to avoid mental stress and the Ganzfeld effect, the team members were not supposed to look out the window, and the driver was allowed to move forward based on the radar.
However, what Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu rely on is their super-sense, and mental stress is sometimes the source of their super-sense.
So Gu Jun kept looking out the window in the car, sometimes putting on night vision goggles to look, sometimes looking with the naked eye to feel if it was in this direction. And his spirit became more and more fluctuating with the falling patches of ice and snow...
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Just so suddenly, with just a blink of an eye, he saw some huge mountains appearing in front of him.
The highest mountain on this deserted island is located in the center of the island, with an altitude of only 1,096 meters. However, the mountain range reaches straight into the sky and looks higher than Mount Everest.
"Have you seen the huge mountain in front of you?" Gu Jun immediately asked everyone through the communicator, "It appeared suddenly."
"No, Jushan?" "Everything is as usual." Xue Ba, Yu Xiaoyong and others could only respond with doubts, and even Wu Shiyu didn't see it.
Any of Gu Jun's hallucinations now is not simple. Yu Xiaoyong immediately reported the situation to the command center.
"There is no change in the satellite image." The command center responded quickly. The base on the island, the Tianji Bureau headquarters and Dongzhou are all connected to communications.
Hallucination? Gu Jun frowned and looked at the huge mountain range that had not disappeared... Although it was hazy, it was still there, exuding grandeur and strangeness...
"This island is producing a lot of hallucinations." He could only be sure of this, but he doubted whether this place might overlap with the dream world?
When the convoy advanced to more than 30 kilometers, the wind and snow began to get heavier, the sound was rumbling, and the communication signal became unstable. But this was not the worst weather on the island. In February and March, the snowstorm speed was
It can be as high as 140 kilometers or more, and even the car and people will be overturned.
At this time, the convoy could at least complete this section of the road smoothly and reach the snowfield at the foot of the mountain where the sea cliff was intended.
When it arrived here, the convoy stopped. Most of the joint force members got off the armored vehicles with various equipment and firearms, and braved the wind and snow to climb the mountain in groups.
"Here, come with us." From the Russian side, Mstislav personally led the team. The Russians did not know the significance of this trip. The reason why Mstislav personally led the expedition obviously had a different mission. Then
Just to figure out the true purpose of the Secret Bureau.
The Russians walked in front and behind, and more than 20 people including Gu Jun, Xue Ba, and Yu Xiaoyong walked in the middle.
Due to the ice and snow blockage, everyone could only climb up with difficulty. Blocked by the mountains in front of them, Gu Jun could not see the huge mountain range at this time. But halfway through the climb, he saw that this time Yu Xiaoyong and the others also saw it.
, Mstislav and other Russians also saw it.
In the dark sky beside the mountain, various northern birds were circling and flying, including eagles, gulls, shearwaters... They were in dense flocks, flying around without making a sound.
But the birds on the island have long left here to spend the winter...
"Command center, we saw a large number of birds." Yu Xiaoyong reported immediately again, while Mstislav also reported hurriedly in Russian.
"The satellite has not detected any birds at your location, not found."
At this moment, Xue Ba, Lou Xiaoning, Zhang Xiaoqi and others all felt their hearts sinking. Was this another group hallucination? It was always in front of their eyes.
"There are more birds, and they seem to be...looking at us." Yu Xiaoyong added.
But what they got was a surprised and worried response from the command center personnel: "The satellite didn't take any pictures. There are no people or animals on the top of the mountain."
Gu Jun couldn't tell what those bird shadows were, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense...
The situation in Dongzhou did not allow them to turn around and go back. Every member of the team was selected through a mental state project. This illusion could not knock them down. At that moment, everyone calmed down and continued to climb up. But
The wind and snow hit my face, making my skin sting very much.
It was very fast to climb several hundred meters in altitude, but the closer they got to the top of the mountain, the more they heard a strange sound coming down.
That was not the cry of birds, it seemed like the frantic cry of human beings.
Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu looked at each other, and they recognized that it was the cry of the Inuit people during the ceremony.