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Published at 21st of April 2023 07:03:59 AM


Chapter 247

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After saying this, Spade closed the door, and when Bai Liu opened it again, he had already disappeared into the vast snow.

...This probably means to compete fairly with him?

Bai Liu raised her eyebrows, closed the door, squeezed her numb fingertips, gathered up her jacket, turned around and saw Tang Er beating them.

Tang Erda also put on a thick jacket, and exhaled a burst of white air when he spoke: "—the power supply in the house is turned off, we need to check and turn on the insulation system, otherwise we will all freeze to death."

"Do you know how to overhaul?" Bai Liu asked.

Tang Er nodded: "I have trained in a similar extreme environment, and the basic equipment can be used, but I have to go outside for inspections. The wind speed is too high here, and I need someone to hold my safety rope. Otherwise I will be blown away by the wind."

"I'll follow you." Mu Sicheng simply put on the protective clothing.

The two quickly fastened the safety rope around their waists, opened the door, and went outside after a few difficult moves in the raging wind and snow that could barely close the door.

Not long after, Mu Sicheng and Tang Erda came back holding the safety rope, and Bai Liu, who was guarding the door, immediately closed the door.

Just for a short while, the snow blown from the crack of the opened door had condensed and ice cubes stuck behind the door. Mu Sicheng's teeth chattered as he pulled the safety rope from the hook beside the door. I took it off, but I didn't take it off after several times because my hands were too cold. Later, Mu Ke helped me to take it off.

"It's... so damn cold!" Mu Sicheng jumped on his feet coldly, panting for air into his hands, trying to warm himself up.

Bai Liu noticed that Mu Sicheng simply went outside, and within ten minutes of going back and forth, his hands were frozen, blue, red and purple, and his knuckles could not be bent. It looked like a gangrenous piece of flesh.

When the light bulbs in the room were turned on one by one due to the restoration of power supply, Bai Liu was able to see clearly where they were.

In front of it is a very narrow, long and low ventilation channel, and the walls are thick with container shed boards, which is a material generally used to build temporary residences on construction sites. Incandescent light bulbs, seals are embedded around the windows on both sides of the wall, and the snowstorm that is constantly whistling outside the house can be seen through the half-frozen windows.

The line of sight fell to the end of the air duct, where there was a board crookedly nailed, which read: [edmund south pole station (Edmund Antarctic Pole Observation and Research Station)].

Bai Liu looked at the card for a few seconds, then he lowered his head and opened his system panel, and there were notifications on it that he hadn't checked yet.

[System prompt: Welcome players to enter the game "Ice Age"]

[System prompt: The player has obtained the main task of the game - the warming of the ball]

[Game background hint: A year ago, a sudden and never-ending heavy snow swept across the globe from Antarctica. With the decrease in temperature, the diversion of ocean currents, and the thickening of clouds and other meteorological problems, various places began to freeze... ...]

【…The Antarctic ice sheet seems to have turned into a pervasive disease and began to spread throughout the world. Meteorologists say that we are forced into a crisis since the fourth ice age due to some kind of force majeure Another great ice age, unsuspecting humans died in large numbers due to food shortages and extremely cold weather...]

[Subsequently, all scientific research activities on Antarctica were forced to stop, and you, an explorer with insider information, was told that all this was related to an obscure scientific research activity on Antarctica, You, who are keen on exploration, gathered your own team, and came to Antarctica with the support of the Antarctic United Glacier Company to explore the cold secrets under the ice sheets. 】

[You came to Antarctica by plane, but lost your way in the snowstorm. In an emergency, you found this abandoned observation post on the snow and forced a breakthrough to avoid the snowstorm. 】

【——Remember, players, you are a great explorer! Please dare to explore and discover, find out the truth, and make the planet warm again! 】

[Current progress of the main task: 0%]

[The current location of the player: Edmund South Pole Observation Research Station]

At this time, Mu Sicheng also finished reading the game introduction, and couldn't help complaining: "What is this? Isn't the world getting warmer now? What the hell is entering an ice age?"

Liu Jiayi was stuck in a thick down jacket. Compared with adults like Bai Liu, children are more sensitive to temperature. As soon as she started playing, she found all kinds of clothes to wrap herself in like a ball. .

After reading the game introduction, she frowned and reminded: "Bai Liu, the simulated league in the game pool, our store transaction system is closed in the game pool, we can't buy any items from the store, if With that background, food and warm clothing are the first things we need to address."

"Otherwise we won't be able to stay for a few days, and we won't be able to take it anymore, and we will quit this game on our own initiative."

Bai Liu agreed with Liu Jiayi's statement very much. He nodded and gave an order: "Mu Ke went to search the warehouse for food storage, Tang Erda and Mu Sicheng went to overhaul the whole building, and then served as the base for our expedition. Jiayi and I Go to the control room to find if there is a black box or a diary to record what happened a year ago."

"OK/ok/got it!"

Everyone dispersed after receiving orders, and Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi searched for the control room of this base—fortunately, this base is not particularly big, so they found it soon.

It's a pity that the door of the control room is open, and the surface is covered with snow, which is now slowly melting under the blowing of the heating system that resumes operation.

Looking at the console covered in frost and snow, Liu Jiayi rubbed her hands, and sighed obstinately: "It seems that the black box will wait for Tang Er to call them over to see if it can be repaired."

Bai Liu squatted down, took out a chisel with gloves on, and began to tap on the gaps in the drawers—these places were also sealed by frozen ice, and the drawers had to be cleaned before they could be opened. drop ice.

Fortunately, the icicles in these places are not very thick, and Bai Liu chiseled them twice, and the whole piece fell off.

Bai Liu opened the staggering and shaking drawer. There was no accumulated dust on the drawer, but it was covered with a light layer of condensed snow. After brushing it away, some black leather notebooks could be seen here.

According to Bai Liu's common sense, in horror games, this feature is generally used to describe the plot, so there must be a diary or other records in it.

But the moment he opened it, it stopped.

Liu Jiayi, who was rummaging through his drawer, saw that Bai Liu was holding a book still, and poked her head curiously: "This book is predictable at first glance, why don't you talk..."

The moment Liu Jiayi read the content on Bai Liu's blog, she also subtly paused.

The book is neat and smooth, and it is printed in English.

And Bai Liu, as a social animal from a social background, although he will encounter a lot of English reading when playing horror games, but it is relatively simple, and look at this kind of large, dense, and mixed with a lot of professional vocabulary English scientific research diary...

Bai Liu closed the door frankly: "Let's take a look at Muke later, I don't understand."

I also can't understand Liu Jiayi: "..."

Although she knew intellectually that it was normal for Bai Liu not to understand, after all, intelligence and language ability were not the same thing, but why did she find it so strange...

The Edmund Observatory is not very big, with a total of four floors.

The storage area on the first floor, fuel, food, fresh water, and clothing are stored in different warehouses on this floor, wrapped in layers of plastic cloth, and the two helicopter storage areas are exposed outdoors, simply covered by a shed.

The living area on the second floor has a sauna, a dining room, an office area, and a few computers that have been there for an unknown period of time.

The third and fourth floors are occupied by dormitories, or living quarters, which are very narrow, and two bunk beds are crammed in less than five square meters, and there is a shivering warmth in the crowdedness.

Judging from the dormitories and residences, the entire base should have a capacity of about 80 to 100 people, and the usual living quarters should be quite crowded, but now this place is empty, and there is a strange sense of excitement.

Liu Jiayi's gaze swept over the frozen noodles on the dining table, half-cut potatoes that had become moldy on the chopping board, and the gas switch that turned on the fire.

"These people should leave in a hurry." She concluded.

Bai Liu came down from the corner of the third floor, and slightly corrected Liu Jiayi's theory: "——or kidnapped in a hurry."

Liu Jiayi looked up.

Bai Liu shook a pair of underwear and socks in his hand: "I found them by the bedside of the dormitory, I don't think there will be people who don't even wear underwear and socks and run away in such a cold weather. ‌Go outside."

Liu Jiayi raised a question: "Is it possible that these people were frightened by something, and then ran away without even wearing clothes?"

"It's unlikely." After checking the warehouse, Mu Ke came up from the corner stairs on the first floor, and he looked at Liu Jiayi, "I just went to see their exhibition hall, and the staff at the Edmond Observatory are all professional mountaineers. Firefighters, as well as well-trained scientific research team members, have won a lot of honors, and have also withstood the test of various extreme scenarios, and it is difficult to scare them all like this under normal circumstances."

As he spoke, Mu Ke glanced at the half-moved food.

"They should be very clear that here, running out without taking anything is no different from sending them to death."

Mu Sicheng and Tang Erda came down from the rooftop on the fourth floor. The two of them had just gone to overhaul the radio stand.

Mu Sicheng's cheeks turned blue from the cold, and after coming down, he randomly found a dormitory to shrink into, and began to kick his legs and tremble crazily.

Tang Er saw that the situation was better, but when he took out the gloves, Bai Liu saw that a piece of bloody skin had stuck to the palm of his hand, and the bloody wound was exposed in the air, but not a single drop of blood flowed down.

Because it was too cold, the blood was congealed.

Tang Er paid attention to Bai Liu's line of sight, and explained: "The erection platform is too cold, and there is no way to adjust the tight equipment through the gloves, so I took the gloves and touched it—"

"—And then a piece of skin stuck to the metal on it?" Bai Liu continued the second half of the sentence.

Liu Jiayi took out the antidote spray and sprayed it on Tang Er's palms, and the wound healed slowly, but Mu Sicheng, who was dying from the cold on the bed, couldn't get better.

The antidote can heal the wound, but it cannot cure the cold.

"I saw the weather thermometer outside." Tang Er shook his recovering hand, and he looked up at Bai Liu solemnly, "—the low temperature of minus 50 degrees, this kind of extreme weather can't last long Wait, we will freeze to death soon, we have to quit quickly—"Game...

At this time, Mu Ke, who was watching Bai Liu handing over his black leather book, turned blue and then pale, and he interrupted Tang Erda with a trembling voice: "——This is the heresy bureau researched by the Edmond Observatory. The body parts sent over."

Tang Er's heart skipped a beat, and he denied it without thinking: "Impossible, the things of the Heresy Administration are regulated by the convention, and are not for any country's economic, military, cultural and political scientific research. The only scientific research purpose of the Administration is to contain it!"

"The people from the third district are here to respond, and there are five escorts from the first district. It is impossible for them to let others study the things of the Heresy Administration!"

Mu Ke exhaled a long breath, and the water vapor was dense in front of his eyes, forming a layer of frost that could not see his expression clearly. His voice was very soft:

"What if I told you that the plane transporting the heresy body parts crashed on the spot when it reached the Antarctic, and the five escorts on the plane died suddenly on the spot?"




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