16 years

Chapter 178 "Found someone!"

The helicopter crossed the border and headed in the direction of Wrangel Island.

Feng Lei has already set up the landing point markers in advance, and made double insurance on the ground and the coordinate points to welcome Fu Yan and his team.

Fu Yan received the data transmitted by Feng Lei in real time, and then centered on it, he and He Feng tacitly separated above the coordinate point, drew a large arc to both sides, and began to carry out the survey on the outer circle of [-] kilometers around. air cruise.

After entering the airspace of Wrangel Island, Fu Yan lowered the height of the helicopter very low, Liu Ruosong leaned on the cabin, and could easily see the situation on the ground from the small window next to it.

Thousands of miles of frozen ice sheets refracted the sunlight into colorful prismatic lights, and some beasts in the distance keenly heard the roar of the engine, so they fled into a safe place under the ice.

The ingenuity of nature is completely different from the art of human excavation. Liu Ruosong has not seen such a magnificent scenery of no man's land for a long time, so he couldn't help but look out several times.

Under the clear ice layer, everything was clearly visible, Liu Ruosong swept his eyes and saw a frozen stuffed fish in the ice shell.

Fu Yan activated the scanning equipment carried with the helicopter and began to conduct low-altitude investigations.

The screen on his right side lit up, dense data flashed out quickly, and then scrolled up one by one.

Liu Ruosong's dynamic eyesight was not as good as that of Fu Yan's. He only felt that several pieces of data flashed by in a second, which made people dazzled, as if a bunch of bugs were flying in front of his eyes.

Fu Yan, on the other hand, focused on two tasks. While manipulating the plane, he was also distracted by paying attention to the data on the display screen, and then conducted targeted investigations based on abnormal data.

As expected, the lines are separated by mountains, Liu Ruosong couldn't help thinking.

In the past few years, Fu Yan occasionally went to the laboratory to help him.Colonel Fu was very careful about those expensive sample medicines, and every time he was asked to hand over a test tube rack, he felt like he was facing a formidable enemy.

Liu Ruosong took this scene as an eye-catching material, looked out of the window, and turned his eyes back when he found that he was dazzled, and stared at Fu Yan's silhouette.

Fu Yan's psychological quality is extremely high, and he didn't panic when he looked him up and down so nakedly. He continued to do his work as usual, occasionally clicking on the data screen to check and record.

An hour and a half later, Fu Yan and He Feng reunited at the coordinate point and landed at the predetermined location one after the other.

Feng Lei led people to meet them at the landing point. Seeing Fu Yan walking down, he quickly greeted them with a smile.

"Thank you." Feng Lei said, "How is the surrounding situation?"

"There is no gathering of people." Fu Yan said: "Infrared rays only scan a bunch of wild animals."

Feng Lei and the others had set up a temporary camp at the landing point in advance, set up communication equipment, people came and went in and out of the cold-proof tent, and the external ports of several boxes of precision instruments fell outside the tent, wrapped in a thick quilt. layer.

The people around Feng Lei held a few portable thermos cups and trotted to hand them out one by one.

The wind was strong on the ice field, even though I wore two layers of winter clothing, the wind still made people feel lingering.The collar of Fu Yan's winter jacket was not tied tightly, and the cold wind blew the zipper of his collar back and forth, and a small piece of exposed skin turned white.

As if he didn't know the cold, he talked to Feng Lei with his usual expression, unaware of his state.

Liu Ruosong glanced at him several times, endured it again and again, but still couldn't hold it back, walked over and tightened his neckline.

"That's good, our geologists have conducted preliminary surveys, and the results—"

"It's okay, you continue to talk, don't worry about me." Liu Ruosong nodded at Feng Lei, fastened the zipper for Fu Yan without any explanation, and stuffed the thermos cup into his hand, and then took a few steps back to leave space. To the two commanders.

"——The result report has come out." Feng Lei smiled indifferently, and continued calmly: "This island is mostly covered with ice. Although the ice is thick enough, it is still a little bit reluctant to make a foundation, which is suitable for building large buildings. There are not many places. The experts have made an assessment based on the geographical conditions of the island, found a few suspected construction sites, and are going to try to check it from the sky after you arrive."

Fu Yan nodded and said hello.

He unscrewed the water glass and took a sip of water. The warm liquid flowed down his throat, leaving a bit of warmth in the ice and snow.

Fu Yan and Feng Lei stood at the height of the landing point and turned their heads to look into the distance.

The ice sheet that spreads thousands of miles is endless, and under the frozen soil is a secret that has been buried for thousands of years. The cold wind whistling past, Fu Yan slightly squinted his eyes, suddenly aware of a sense of fate.

His blood was still hot, as if it was the only bright color in the vast ice and snow.

"Don't stand outside." Feng Lei said: "Come inside, it's warm and warm, there are still tough battles to fight."

The logistics personnel of the C Department military region are quite reliable, and they have prepared a rest point in advance.The brazier is set inside the cold-proof tent, and the inside and outside of the tent are separated into two seasons by a simple means.

The logistics personnel and the main force shuttled through the camp. Feng Lei led Fu Yan and his party to the innermost conference area of ​​the camp.

In this extremely cold environment, many logistical supplies could not be delivered, and their supplies and energy reserves were only enough to live on the island for about a month.

Time is tight and tasks are heavy, no one can casually say that it is not important at all, and there is a tense and serious atmosphere everywhere you look.

In order to save energy, precision instruments cannot be turned on 24 hours a day. In the warm tent, several professionals who mainly focus on geological issues gather together, holding a temporary topographic map in their hands.

The arrival of Fu Yan and the others was mixed with the cold wind that could not be ignored, and the people in the tent couldn't help but look up at them, then nodded, and moved away from a circle around the conference table.

"This mountain range is about 300 kilometers away from us." One of the middle-aged women tapped the drawing with a pencil, and then said: "This is a solid site with an altitude of about [-] meters. It is the most likely place to hide the research institute."

Wrangel Island has a special geology and complex terrain. The mountain range the woman mentioned is the only area on the island that is not completely covered by ice. It is called Mount Hara by the locals. There are few plants in the surrounding area, but there are many wild animals. Key suspects at the institute's location.

It is precisely because of this that Feng Lei and the others chose to be stationed on the other side of the diagonal line of the mountain range.

"But it's also possible here." Another young man's pen shifted a few degrees from a point on the mountain to the southeast, and said: "If you don't consider embedded buildings, but hide the research institute under the ice, it's also possible here ——The ice layer here is more than 60 meters thick, as long as it is well reinforced, it should be able to hide a research institute."

"Hide?" Liu Ruosong carefully turned his head and whispered to Fu Yan: "What if it is built on ice?"

"No." Fu Yan said without squinting: "Since the satellite didn't capture it, it shouldn't be on the bright side."

Geologists can’t come up with a unified opinion for the time being. Wrangel Island is extremely cold all year round, and the ice layer has hardly melted. If the thickness of the ice layer is used as a reference for the outline of the building, one-third of the entire island cannot be reached. spared.

But Halla Mountain is a similar situation, although the altitude is not ridiculously high, but the mountains span almost the entire length of Wrangel Island, and the length is very impressive.

The geological experts were not sure, so they simply decided to hand over this thorny issue to the combat troops.

"Captain Feng, Captain Fu, what do you think?" the leading woman asked.

Fu Yan lowered his head and looked at the map.The woman flipped the map over and pushed it in front of him, so that he could see it more clearly.

"Where is the part of the ice that can meet the conditions?" Fu Yan asked.

The woman quickly circled a range on the map with a pencil.

They worked very carefully, and also highlighted the areas within the range where buildings could not be built, including the parts under the ice with special geological and oceanic connections.

Fu Yan took a look and found that the nearest regional borderline was only more than 500 kilometers away from their station.

"To save time, let's divide the troops into two groups." Fu Yan said: "You can try to install the detection equipment on the helicopter. The team and I will take the empty road, and if we bring our own fuel, we should be able to cover Mount Hara in one day." The situation is clarified."

"Then let's go by land." Feng Lei was very clever, and quickly caught up with Fu Yan's brain circuit: "Let's search from east to west. If we go fast, we can meet Team Fu and the others on the road."

"How's the weather tomorrow?" Fu Yan asked.

He Tang quickly handed him a weather table, Liu Ruosong took a look, and found that it was densely packed with data, almost listing the whole day's weather in units of half an hour.

"Conditions are acceptable." Fu Yan said, "It can take off after sunrise—"

As soon as he finished speaking, the curtain of the warm tent behind him was suddenly lifted, and a young man rushed in wrapped in the cold wind, and several people in the room shivered.

Feng Lei recognized the person as his bodyguard, frowned slightly, and scolded, "What's the rush?"

"Captain!" The young man breathed out white smoke, gasping for breath, almost coughing due to the cold wind.

"Outside, outside—" He tried hard to control the physiological conditioned reflex, and tried to speak clearly: "There are discoveries outside."

"What discovery?" Feng Lei asked quickly.

"We found someone!" The young man said eagerly, "But, but—"

Feng Lei and Fu Yan looked at each other, before he had time to listen to his report, they hurriedly rushed out of the warm account one after the other.

Liu Ruosong tightened his collar, and chased after him.

Liu Ruosong chased it out and found out what the young man meant by "but"—the field team captured a polar bear while patrolling, and when it was captured, the polar bear was tearing and gnawing on a dead body.

The discovery of a dead body on Wrangel Island was clearly an anomaly, so members of the field team used tranquilizers to bring down the polar bear and snatch the hapless carcass from its mouth.

The corpse had been eaten to the point where only the body was left, the dense white bones were exposed, and the bright red blood from the wound had frozen into icicles, which would fall down when touched.

Fu Yan squatted beside the corpse, and cut open the back of its hand with a knife.

In the next second, a slightly condensed red liquid slowly flowed out from the wound and seeped into the ice layer under the corpse.

This is indeed not a zombie, but a living person.