"Do you know the name of the island where the real Doomsday Bank is located?" After a long time, Gu Yan suddenly turned his head and looked ahead, and then raised his hand to look at his watch.
Tang Shuxing also looked ahead, shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"Blue Island." Gu Yan smiled and said, "I have only seen photos. I really want to see it with my own eyes. I heard that every two hours, as long as it is October, for some reason, this island will turn into
Ice blue, very beautiful.”
When Gu Yan was talking, a ball of blue suddenly lit up somewhere in front of him. It was very small at first, and then the blue ball began to spread in all directions, gradually getting bigger, and then a huge ice blue island.
Appeared in front of the two of them, just a hundred meters away from them.
Tang Shuxing couldn't help but stood up and stared at the ice blue island in stunned silence. He couldn't describe the scenery he saw in words. The starry sky was reflected on the sea, plus the blue island, it was like
I saw a huge sapphire floating there in the universe.
"This..." Tang Shuxing squeezed out one word from his mouth after a long time, but after the word came out, he didn't know what to say.
Gu Yan stood at one end of the raft, nodded and said: "This is just the beginning, just keep watching."
Tang Shuxing stepped forward, and then discovered that the icy blue on the Blue Island began to shrink from the edges towards the middle, and soon returned to its original state, a mass of pitch black. However, not long after the blue island became dark, the icy blue seemed to have some
The general vitality spread from the bottom of the island, and then extended from the sea to the various icebergs. Soon several surrounding icebergs also turned icy blue, lighting up everything around them.
"I'm going -" Tang Shuxing stood on the raft, turning his body and looking around, "It's like a fairyland on earth. What's going on? How to explain it?"
"I can't explain what's going on, but such a spectacle can only happen during these few days in October. After this period, it will never happen again." Gu Yan shook his head, "Actually, the boss is also suspicious.
The real Doomsday Bank is located on this island, and it may be closely related to this wonder, but no information and documents have survived. If it weren't for that Vivian, we wouldn't know the existence of this place."
Tang Shuxing shook his head: "This doesn't make sense. That small kingdom of the Earth Emperor is so close to here. Why doesn't he know about it?"
"He knew, but he never mentioned it. I don't know if anyone knew it before, but he definitely knew it, because he banned his citizens from going to Long Island and the places north of Long Island. Although in fact no one knew it.
Go, because the place farther north is close to the depths of the Arctic Circle. No one is stupid enough to travel there to seek death. Only a small number of scientific researchers have ever been there. It is the coldest place on earth." Gu Yan finished his sentence.
After a pause, he added, "But it seems that it may no longer be the case in the future."
Tang Shuxing nodded: "Stop talking nonsense, let's go to the island quickly. I'm full of curiosity about this place now."
Gu Yan smiled: "The boss said that as long as you have seen this scene, you will definitely be curious. Of course. I am also very curious."
The two rowed towards Blue Island. After landing, the two hid the raft on one side, because if this thing was gone, they would be dead and would have to be trapped on this island. Even this
There are ships or other things hidden somewhere on the island, but they are just unknown, and they need to consider their own escape route.
There is no snow wind on Blue Island, it can be said that there is almost no wind, which is weird enough. It is like there is an invisible barrier around it, which can block the wind, but people or other things can come and go freely.
Tang Shuxing took off his gloves, put his index finger in his mouth, and then took it out. After feeling it for a long time, he turned to look at Gu Yan and said, "There is no wind, it's just cold. The two feelings are completely different. It's so weird. I can't explain it."
What is this feeling? I always feel that the air here is just slowly circulating on the island, and the air is extremely fresh."
"Wait!" Gu Yan took out an instrument from the equipment, inserted it into the snow, then unfolded it, then entered a string of characters and waited. Less than a minute later, the blue display appeared on the screen.
A list of numbers.
"The air quality here is the best according to previous levels, and the humidity is also good. It is an environment absolutely suitable for human survival, but I don't know where all this ice and snow comes from. It's so weird." Gu Yan looked at it.
Those data, "It stands to reason that at this temperature, the air will not carry
With this kind of humidity, it has reached 56%rh. Generally, the best is to maintain it between 45%rh and 65%rh. The value of 56% is already quite good. It is not easy to calculate the relative humidity of air quality in the Arctic Circle.
But in this place, this kind of value is so accurate."
Tang Shuxing stared at the machine: "There won't be any problems with this machine, right?"
"If you and I have problems, there will be no problems with this machine." Gu Yan placed the thing there, "This thing can scan for moving creatures within a hundred meters around it. Put it here and use it as a warning post.
This is something Chichen developed internally."
Tang Shuxing was not interested in this thing at all, and then he followed Gu Yan and started walking towards the center of the island. Not long after walking, they could still see the sea in the distance, which meant that the island was not big, at most it was a small island.
The size of half a football field. The weirdest thing is that they can see some plants on this island from time to time, and they are iron trees.
Tang Shuxing stopped in front of an iron tree, took a deep breath and looked at Gu Yan.
Gu Yan also looked at the iron tree and nodded: "Do you think this is true? In the Arctic, there are evergreen woody plants, and they also belong to the cycad species. This kind of plant only grows in the tropics and subtropics.
, how could it grow in such a cold place?”
Tang Shuxing squatted down and fiddled with the leaves of the iron tree with his hands: "It looks like an iron tree, but it doesn't look like it. It's just that we call it iron tree in China, right?"
"Almost all of my knowledge about plants is theoretical and memorized. You know, when I started learning, the world was collapsing and there was no chance for me to practice." Gu Yan stood there and watched.
Tang Shuxing stood up: "Now is a good opportunity, you can start practicing."
"There is nothing I need, so I can only cut some leaves and take them back." Gu Yan said and walked forward, "Let's talk about it when we leave. Now we need to find the entrance. According to Vivian's words, the entrance
There is a cave in the center of the island. The outside of the cave will be covered with snow, but due to the temperature inside the cave, the outer layer of snow will look like an ice and snow slide."
Tang Shuxing looked around and finally saw a hill in the distance, then pointed over there and said: "According to your description, it should be only over there."
Gu Yan nodded and followed Tang Shuxing as he walked over to the foot of the hill. Sure enough, he saw the scene described by Vivian. There was a sloped ice road. The reason why such a thing was formed was entirely because
The temperature inside the cave melted the snow on the surface, turning the snow into ice, thus creating what it looks like today.
"Let's get to work!" When Gu Yan took out his ice pick, Tang Shuxing had already pulled out the Longlin Blade and inserted it into it to test the depth.
Gu Yan had no choice but to put away the ice pick, and then Tang Shuxing dug a hole big enough for one person to go in. He stretched out his hand to explore and said: "The temperature above zero looks very warm. I'll go in first, and then you can put it away."
Put the equipment in."
After Tang Shuxing got in, he saw that nothing had changed around the cave, except that the ground had been re-paved. He didn't know what material it was made of, but the heat transfer effect was good. It seemed to be geothermal. The heat rose and caused the snow on it.
Melts, slides down layer by layer, and turns into ice.
Tang Shuxing took the equipment handed in by Gu Yan, helped him in, then put the equipment on his back and started walking towards the cave.
The cave looked diagonally downward at 35 degrees and was very large, like the mouth of a giant strange fish. And the most incredible thing was that after they walked about ten meters deeper into the cave, they discovered that there was a stalactite cave inside, and
The temperature is slightly lower than at the door.
"What are you doing? Is there a stalactite cave in the North Pole?" Gu Yan turned on his headlight and began to move forward slowly, because the ground was too slippery and he would fall if he was not careful. Tang Shuxing walked in front and looked at the ground carefully.
Although it is slippery, it has been renovated.
"I guess there will be changes if we go further down." Tang Shuxing continued to walk downwards. Sure enough, after dozens of meters of stalactite cave, there was another cave, similar to the cold cave, with a lot of ore in it.
The crystals reflect the light source of unknown origin, illuminating the entire cave extremely brightly.
Gu Yan couldn't understand it now. He looked at the cave in front of him in surprise and just kept shaking his head.
"This cave is not naturally formed, including the road on the ground. It cannot be built by the United Nations or the late great powers. I guess even Shangdu does not have this kind of technology now." Tang Shuxing looked closely at a huge piece of cave.
There seemed to be something else in the crystal. After the refracted light source gradually decreased, Tang Shuxing could clearly see that it was a small plant, as if it had been deliberately sealed and preserved in some way.
Gu Yan understood what Tang Shuxing meant, stepped forward and whispered: "You mean, this was built by ancient humans?"
"Yes, that's what I speculated." Tang Shuxing nodded, "Because ancient humans also experienced a period of mass extinction, and they might have built something like a doomsday bank somewhere like us to preserve what they wanted.
Everything needs to be left behind, and the topography of each section of this cave that goes deep into the ground is different, as if it is simulating different environments on the earth. Maybe we can see more peculiar things if we go further."
Gu Yan nodded and continued walking with Tang Shuxing who had left. At the same time, he asked: "But judging from the age of ancient humans obtained from the data in my hand, it was already very long ago. What was the earth's crust like at that time, especially under our feet?"
No one can produce accurate drawings or data of the land we tread on."
Tang Shuxing responded: "Indeed, what the North Pole looked like at that time and whether there was such a place was still a question. Therefore, the island we are on may be something of another form."