我在無限遊戲裡封神 (Eng)

80. Ice Age mission

Chapter 262

Mu Sicheng looked down, searched through the thick pile of temperature records Bai Liu had handed him for thirty-three years, and found the coldest spot on the tenth of August the year before.

The records clearly indicate the latitude and longitude of this location, which is exactly where Bai Liu and his team are now.

Tang Erda moved the radar detector onto the ice, exhaled a hot breath, straightened up and turned to Bai Liu: "The usual, probe first then drill?"

Bai Liu nods.

Tang Erda moved the weighing hydraulic hammer onto the ice and, after carefully checking that there were no ice crevices in the vicinity, climbed into the helicopter and began operating the instrument.

Liu Jiayi went back to the helicopter with him.

The wind was so strong in this part of the world that it almost had the power to flatten her out, forcing her to return to the helicopter.

Liu Jiayi has his hands on Tang Erda's driver's seat and his feet are padded as he strives to look at the radar screen on the dashboard.

The instrument scanned down, layer by layer, and finally, at over a thousand meters, it found a regular metal object, a discovery that made her frown: "That deep? How long will it take to dig?"

"A conservative estimate is that we'll be working for more than six hours." Tang Erda rubbed his frozen hands from carrying the instruments and frowned, "It's a bit of a problem, it's so cold in here that even if a few of us work in shifts, there's no way for the resters to get warm, because the fuel is running out too."

"It would be dangerous to force the excavation."

Liu Jiayi looked at the thermometer hanging by Tang Erda's hand and looked up to ask him, "But it's not that cold here, it's only about -30°C. Haven't you worked safely in the -50°C environment at Taishan Station before, so why is it more dangerous to work here?"

"Because the winds are so strong here." Tang Erda explains stonily, "In Antarctica, the wind is something colder than the snow."

"Cold temperatures will only slowly take away a person's heat, but high speed winds will take away a person's body temperature much more quickly, working in that kind of wind speed all the time, and with imperfect equipment and warmth like we have, we could easily be taken away from a lot of heat by the gusts and just freeze to death by the wind."

Tang Erda looks over at Bai Liu and the others outside the helicopter, who are stabilising the equipment.

Within minutes Mu Sicheng and Muke were turning purple from the cold and kept moving lightly on the snow to keep warm, and Tang Erda showed some rare concern: "I'll go down and replace them."

"But you won't last long in these gales, you'll freeze to death all the same." Liu Jiayi thought clearly and hit the nail on the head, "Even if each of us took turns freezing and forcing our hearts to dig, it's just a matter of time before we freeze to death - because we're out of supplies to warm back up, and we're already running low on fuel, right?"

Liu Jiayi paused again and again, but could not resist speaking out.

"We don't need to play Spades in this game for now, it's only natural that we can't win against him now, we can convince Bai Liu to log out first."

"Both this task of excavating a heart a kilometre below, and, still, winning Spades, is too much bravado for us!!!"

Liu Jiayi was clinging to the side of the helicopter, her eyes red with some very faint tears, her voice almost sounding weak in the snow and wind, like a real helpless little girl's.