Chapter 252

Mu Sicheng was almost stunned, he couldn't accept this kind of biochemical monster at all!

It was still relatively calm for Tang Yu to call: "Then shall we go in directly now? Or call Muke and the others to report the situation first?"

"The phone was out of order when it landed." Bai Liu turned on the satellite phone and called Tang Yu, but it showed that the signal was poor and there was no way to make a call.

Tang Yu frowned.

Along the way, no matter how bad the weather is, the signal of the satellite phone is lossless, and you can make a call. Why does it start as soon as you arrive at Taishan Station...

"This should be an important point in the game." Bai Liu raised her chin, motioning everyone to get on the plane, "Hold your guns, we'll drive right in."

Tang Yuda drove the plane into the air and taxied forward, and tentatively turned on the signal light to Taishan Station, indicating that someone was about to land here. After a while, the Taishan Station also turned on the signal light, flashing a few times, indicating that there was someone landing here.

"The things in Taishan Station can communicate with us in this kind of high-tech..." Mu Sicheng saw that nothing was right now, and raised his elbow to Bai Liu suspiciously, "Should it be a human?"

"Perhaps it's because these monsters are very capable of learning and have already learned this level of communication, so they are specially used to trick us humans into landing there?" Bai Liu said indifferently.

Mu Sicheng rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, and shut up obediently - he had already realized that there was no way to get what he wanted to hear from Bai Liu's mouth.

This guy likes to scare him! !

When Tang Yu flew to the sky above Taishan Station, he looked down and saw someone waving a red flag on the ground to indicate that he could land here. He turned his head and looked at Bai Liu, and after getting Bai Liu's consent, he began to control the plane decline.

The plane's blades stopped spinning firmly, and the sled-style landing gear stuck in the landing groove in the snow.

In the wind and snow, Bai Liu and the others could see the general attire of the man waving the red flag from the transparent side door of the helicopter.

The man was wearing an orange penguin ski suit, stabilizing his body with poles in the ground in high winds, most of his face was hidden under a thick woolen cap, and his hands were pointing toward the helicopter. Xiang Xiang waved his hands, as if he was very happy to see Bai Liu and the others.

This kind of happiness made Mu Sicheng shudder uncontrollably, and shrank behind Bai Liu's shoulder: "Damn, is he a monster or a human..."

"Go down and have a look." Bai Liu said, pushed open the door of the helicopter without any pause, turned around and jumped down.

The person behind him still wanted to take a step forward to catch Bai Liu, but Tang Li, who jumped down from the other end, waved him away vigilantly: "I'll do it, thank you."

The man pushed up his hat, revealing a face that was flushed with cold, and he spoke Mandarin fluently. The man was so excited that he almost cried, jumping up and down while talking: "I am a resident of the Taishan Observatory. Personnel, you are from outside, right! This is where you landed for the first time, right?! My God! This is the first time in a year that I have seen images of my motherland other than the observation station. Humans, they are definitely not [parasitized]! They must be human!"

"Come in!" The man hurriedly led Bai Liu and the others inside, looking back vigilantly while walking, aiming everywhere with a gun in his hand.

Bai Liu and Tang Yu looked at each other silently, and a group of people walked in behind this experienced team member.

When they walked to the gate of Taishan Station, several members of the observation station, also wearing penguin suits, stood there with a straight posture and a gun at their feet, as if they were standing guard.

These "sentinels" looked at Bai Liu and the others coldly, and relaxed a little when they saw their faces - Bai Liu and the others looked obviously domestic, but soon, these "sentinels" became vigilant again and raised their guns compared to their heads.

The person who led them over excitedly explained to the sentries: "I am Fang Xiaoxiao, a graduate student in meteorology who just went out to pick up the plane. They came from outside Antarctica. Can I take them in?"

These sentries were unmoved, and said coldly: "They, including you, need to detect cell activity after leaving the station before they can enter the station."

Fang Xiaoxiao smiled apologetically at Bai Liu and the others: "You may not know when you first arrived. Something happened here in Antarctica. Every time we go out, we have to observe the cell activity before entering the station. This is to protect the people in the station. Safety."

As he spoke, he opened his mouth as usual, and the sentry put on gloves, carefully scraped off a small piece of mucous membrane from Fang Xiaoxiao's oral mucosa with a cotton swab, and put it into a small test tube.

The sentries took out a new cotton swab and signaled Bai Liu and the others to open their mouths.

Bai Liu calmly held down Mu Sicheng who was about to lift the gun, obediently took off his hat, stepped forward and opened his mouth slightly, letting the other party scrape off a piece of his left oral mucosa.

Mu Sicheng and Tang Yuda also had their mucous membranes removed.

Fang Xiaoxiao said to them: "Send it for testing, it will be soon, if there is no problem, we will be able to go in in ten minutes, please give me a little more time."

Bai Liu took advantage of the situation and asked gently: "What happened, are you so vigilant?"

Fang Xiaoxiao sighed: "We have to talk about August, a year and a half ago. I don't know the details. At that time, it happened to be around the polar summer shift change."

"Summer shift?" Bai Liu asked.

Fang Xiaoxiao explained: "The team members at the Polar Observatory basically have one round a year, because the weather in Antarctica is too extreme, and there are four months of polar nights in the cold winter from April to October."

"Staying in the dark for four months is very harmful to people's spirits. It is easy for people to become insane and suffer from T3 syndrome. Therefore, the team members who are wintering in Antarctica will basically leave in the summer of the following year. At that time, the icebreaker will Carrying a new batch of team members to hand over."

"But we've been here for a whole winter." Fang Xiaoxiao smiled wryly, "Our observation station team members should have been rotated out in the summer of the year before last, but no one has come to hand over the food. Almost gone..."

When he said this, he stopped suddenly, as if he had talked about some unspeakable topic, which made the young graduate student feel stuck in his throat, not knowing where to start.

Bai Liu expressed his appreciation in a timely manner: "We are very powerful, and we can survive until now with one year's supplies."

Fang Xiaoxiao fell into a rare silence, he closed his eyes, tears oozed from the corners of his eyes.

The faces of the two sentinels next to him were also serious, but they patted Fang Xiaoxiao's shoulder as if they couldn't bear it: "——it's all for survival."

The cell test results came out in good time at this time, and everyone's cell activity was within the normal range.

Fang Xiaoxiao heaved a sigh of relief, and happily led Bai Liu and the others in: "I'll take you to the living quarters here. You've trekked for a long time from outside, so take a rest first and get a good night's sleep."

Bai Liu noticed that Fang Xiaoxiao regarded them as the summer team members who came to rotate with them from outside, but he didn't point out this point, but pretended not to know anything, and asked: "We are trapped here, Why don't you take the initiative to contact the outside world?"

"Because I can't get in touch." Speaking of this, Fang Xiaoxiao's smile became more bitter, "We have been trapped here for a year and a half, and we have made various attempts to ask for help from the outside world, such as the Internet, such as satellite phones, but the Internet has long been It’s gone, and there seems to be a problem with the external receiving station, and there has been no response. We have waited for a year and a half, and we have not received a call back from the external receiving station.”

"We even took the risk of sending military biplanes and helicopters out directly, but as soon as the aircraft flew out of Antarctica, the radar detection was interfered with by the magnetic field, and they all ended up crashing on the glacier."

Fang Xiaoxiao shook his head, muttering to himself with straight eyes: "If you don't come again, maybe we really have no way to integrate into human society again, and everyone will go crazy in the polar night..."

Mu Sicheng saw Fang Xiaoxiao's sad and dazed expression, and couldn't help but whispered in Bai Liu's ear: "This npc is so miserable, it seems that he has been trapped in Antarctica, and he doesn't know that there is also a world outside." It's getting colder, the people at the external receiving station he said are probably frozen to death..."

In the case of global cooling, it is difficult for people trapped in the extremely cold environment of the polar circle to perceive, because the climate here is extreme, it is difficult to survive, and it is difficult to communicate with the outside world, so Fang Xiaoxiao and Taishan station It is very likely that people feel that there is something wrong with the communication equipment, and they have not yet thought about the direction of the Ice Age.

But Bai Liu is not going to tell this npc who seems to be very fragile in his heart for the time being, the outside world he said has long been a wasteland of ice and snow, just like Antarctica.

After all, this npc doesn't seem to be able to bear the news at the moment.

Bai Liu's eyes slid from Fang Xiaoxiao's open coat pocket inadvertently—he saw two small bottles of medicine inside, which happened to be one of the medicines that Mu Ke had mentioned to him, for treating severe mania and Depressed.

"One year's supplies, we have lasted for two and a half years, how did we do it?" Bai Liu brought up this topic with great interest.

"There is a very low solar energy reserve here, and the daily energy supply is barely enough. As for fuel..."

Fang Xiaoxiao covered his forehead, and let out a long breath of discomfort: "I know that the Antarctic Convention stipulates that wild animals here cannot be attacked, but the number of krill here has increased rapidly throughout last year. It was abnormal, and in October last year, it almost dyed the offshore waters on the Ross Sea side orange."

"Penguins, seals, and whales here are a large number of polar animals that feed on krill. Sufficient food makes these animals reproduce at an abnormally fast rate. The number has doubled in just one year, and these Animals are rich in fat..."

Fang Xiaoxiao pursed his lips, and a pain that violated moral principles appeared on his face: "I also know that when early humans explored Antarctica, they would hunt these penguins without sufficient food and oil. and seals..."

"So you ate penguins and seals?" Mu Sicheng couldn't understand Fang Xiaoxiao's pain, but he probably understood that these Antarctic scientific research team members probably respected these animals.

Mu Sicheng patted Fang Xiaoxiao's shoulder sympathetically: "If you want to survive, it's normal to eat animals when there is no food..."

When Fang Xiaoxiao heard Mu Sicheng say the word "food", she couldn't help but tremble all over, and her face turned pale and blue.

"No, he didn't eat penguins and seals." Bai Liu said lightly, "In the early Antarctic expeditions, penguins and seals were not used as the main food because of their rich fat, but as firewood."

Bai Liu looked up at Fang Xiaoxiao: "If I'm not wrong, they hunt seals and penguins in large numbers, not for food, but for refining the fuel that runs the entire observation station, otherwise you will be killed." Freeze to death, right?"

Fang Xiaoxiao bit his lower lip, hummed softly, and tears glistened in his eyes: "Oils purified from animals cannot be directly used as fuel, but after some technological transformations, they can be easily burned for power supply... ..."

"...But the observation station is not short of food or fuel at present." Fang Xiaoxiao's eyes burst out with a burst of light for survival. He stepped forward and firmly held Bai Liu's hand. Drugs! We lack drugs for psychotherapy! Everyone suffers from severe T3 syndrome, unable to control their emotions and behaviors, unable to distinguish between reality and illusion, and they are going crazy!"

Bai Liu looked at him unhurriedly, her tone remained calm: "So your food doesn't come from these seals and penguins, where does it come from?"

Fang Xiaoxiao looked at Bai Liu's expressionless face, her hands seemed to be stung by a bee, she retracted her hands in panic, her eyes dodged, her breathing was short.

"I guess, our food is frozen in the ice crevasse outside, right?" Bai Liu said calmly.

"After conducting various experiments on these biochemical monsters that have differentiated into humans, they were originally planning to throw them away as waste products, but the lack of food made them determined to recycle these waste products. They were used, so they were stored in the natural [refrigerator] outside."

Bai Liu's voice was very soft, as if he was talking about an irrelevant conclusion: "Our food is people, right?"

Fang Xiaoxiao screamed with red eyes: "They are monsters, animals, not humans!!"