Chapter 209 Glacier Forbidden Zone
The icebreaker did not leave overnight as Su Xiaofan thought, but stayed at the pier all the time.
For this reason, Captain Leonid came up and explained that they need to wait for the scientific research ship heading to the Arctic Circle.
It was not until the third day that the icebreaker sounded its whistle and slowly left Green Island.
The weight of nearly 100,000 tons makes this icebreaker extremely stable, Su Xiaofan and others hardly feel any shaking when the ship starts.
After sailing dozens of nautical miles in the sea, a fleet of three scientific research ships waited at sea.
The whistle was sounded, and the icebreaker took the lead in driving ahead, followed by the three scientific research ships keeping a certain distance.
Nuclear-powered icebreaker, the power is really very strong, and the sailing speed is also very fast.
Several high-power headlights on the bow can illuminate thousands of meters away, dispelling the night at sea.
But at noon the next day, a bright light appeared in the sky.
As the icebreaker moved forward, the bright light gradually enlarged. The icebreaker, which had been sailing in the dark, suddenly came to a bright world.
Although the temperature is still so low, the sun in the sky makes people feel a little warm psychologically.
The sea waves and some standing glaciers are all in sight. The glaciers are covered with white snow. To Su Xiaofan, this is a completely new world.
The weather on the sea is exactly like a woman's face, changing as it says.
In just a few hours, Su Xiaofan actually saw the violent storm and heavy snow.
The torrential rain was pouring, and the huge waves caused by the strong wind were more than ten meters high. Even the icebreaker weighing hundreds of thousands of tons was sometimes thrown high.
Su Xiaofan has really seen the power of nature. This scene is even more shocking than the Skynet Thunder in Devil's Valley.
Captain Leonid kindly sent someone to deliver seasickness medicine, but this level of turbulence will naturally not cause discomfort to Su Xiaofan and others.
After the torrential rain stopped, snowflakes fell in the sky again.
Luochuan, where Su Xiaofan lives, also snows in winter, but this is the first time he has seen palm-sized snowflakes, so he couldn't help taking out his phone to take a few pictures.
But after sailing here, the mobile phone has lost signal, so Su Xiaofan who originally wanted to send it to his sister had no choice but to give up.
It was rare to see the scenery of the Arctic Circle, Su Xiaofan didn't bother to practice, so he sent some good wine, and dragged Yang Xiu to simply stay in Yang Lao's room.
"Old Yang, this is the extreme day sky, right?"
Su Xiaofan knows that there are polar day and polar night phenomena in the North Pole, and it is now in July and August, which should be the time when polar day appears.
"Well, it has entered the latitude of polar day, and it will be daytime for the next six months."
Old Yang nodded. He was lucky this time. Otherwise, if he encounters a polar night sky phenomenon, he will be blinded all the way and won't be able to see anything.
"Grandpa, are there polar nights and polar days in the glacier restricted zone?" Yang Xiu asked.
"No, the latitude where the glacier forbidden zone is located is very unique."
Old Yang shook his head and said, "The forbidden area of the glacier is just at the critical point of northern latitude, so the sunrise and sunset there are normal."
"That's okay, otherwise it would be uncomfortable to be blind for half a year."
Yang Xiu heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words. A cultivator's eyesight is very good, but if he sees things in the dark for half a year, it will take a long time to get used to seeing the light again.
"The weather in the polar night, even these creatures in the North Pole can't bear it, and they will all move south."
Old Yang took a sip of wine and said, "The only thing different from the outside world in the Glacier Forbidden Zone is the coldness. It's cold all year round. You have to be mentally prepared."
"Why are you afraid of being cold?" Yang Xiu was somewhat disapproving.
"How would it feel to fall into the sea?" Old Yang said slowly.
"Grandpa, I really didn't fall." Yang Xiu's old face couldn't help turning red.
"Old Yang, what is the general temperature in the restricted area of the glacier?"
Su Xiaofan asked seriously, since Mr. Yang said so, the temperature there will definitely affect the cultivators.
"Usually it's twenty or thirty degrees below zero, sometimes it's sixty or seventy degrees below zero."
Old Yang's face became serious, "With our cultivation base, when the temperature is minus 50 degrees, the movement of spiritual power in the body will be affected, so don't take it seriously."
"Is there any way to keep out the cold?" Su Xiaofan continued to ask.
The Yin God Realm cultivators in the glacier restricted area are the mainstream. Their defense is far worse than that of the Yang God Realm cultivators, and they must not be able to withstand the severe cold.
"Get some supernatural creatures' fur to make clothes and put them on."
Old Yang said with a smile: "But it's better to make it into an inner armor, don't wear it on the outside, otherwise it will be seen by those Chaofan of the same race, and they will fight you desperately."
"Grandfather, what kind of creatures are the Chaofan in this restricted area?" Yang Xiu also felt that he was a little arrogant, so he also asked from the side.
"There are mainly three ethnic groups."
Old Yang said: "The most powerful population is the supernatural polar bear population. It is estimated that there are at least four holy-level polar bears. We suspect that there are transcendents beyond the holy level in this population."
"Four saints?"
Su Xiaofan's scalp felt a little numb when he heard that, he and Mr. Yang had to go all out to deal with one Xiong Wei before, but now four of them appeared at once.
Of course, Su Xiaofan's attack and defense power are not the same as before, but the four superhumans of the same level still make Su Xiaofan feel Alexander.
"At least four, they have occupied the core of the inner circle for more than ten years, and it is very likely that a new holy class will appear."
Old Yang corrected Su Xiaofan's words, and continued: "The second largest species is the arctic fox. This kind of creature comes and goes like the wind and has a cunning temperament. Human cultivators often suffer from the arctic fox."
"The third population is the arctic wolves. Unlike the previous two populations that have internal struggles, the population of arctic wolves is very united, and they are often unstoppable when they fight..."
Mr. Yang analyzed the characteristics of the three major populations for Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu.
Polar bears are powerful individually, but they are not considered social creatures. The four holy-level polar bears each bring two or three female polar bears and live in the core of the inner circle of the restricted area, occupying a large area.
But polar bears often fight among themselves, and they will only unite during camp battles. According to Mr. Yang's estimation, the extraordinary number of polar bears in the glacier forbidden area should be between forty and sixty.
Arctic foxes are not herd creatures either. They live together as a pair of couples. When their children grow up and evolve into supernatural beings, they will be driven out.
However, the individual strength of the arctic fox is also very strong. Among the known arctic foxes, three pairs are holy-level, that is, there are six holy-level arctic foxes, and the number even exceeds the population of polar bears.
It's just that the number of arctic foxes is even rarer, there are only about thirty in total, and they also occupy a small part of the inner core.
The last extraordinary population is the arctic wolf. This kind of cruel creature is the most numerous among the three extraordinary populations, with a total of about 250 to 300.
But because there can only be one wolf in the wolf pack, there is only one saint-level extraordinary in this largest extraordinary population.
The lack of individual strength makes the population of arctic wolves only occupy the area slightly outside the core of the inner circle.
Of course, the arctic wolf population has also challenged the inner circle, but each time they suffered heavy casualties. If it weren't for their amazing fertility, it would be difficult to maintain the strength of the population.
The Arctic wolves who fight the most with humans are extraordinary. This group is cruel and easy to kill, and they often hunt and kill human cultivators collectively.
However, most of the extraordinary cubs that human cultivators like to steal are arctic wolf cubs. As long as they meet together, human cultivators and arctic wolves will often fight.
"Grandfather, this restricted area is full of carnivorous Chaofan, what do they eat?"
Yang Xiu thinks that the formation of the restricted area of the glacier is not very reasonable. A group of carnivores are mixed together. Could it be that they kill each other and hunt each other for food?
"You have enough aura, do you still need to eat?" Old Yang and Su Xiaofan looked at Yang Xiu at the same time.
"Well, I'm still used to eating something."
Yang Xiu found himself asking a very stupid question. With his current cultivation level, he can indeed live without food. As long as he has some clean water, it won't matter if he doesn't eat for a few months.
In this way, the body will become more pure. On the contrary, some harmful impurities in the food need to be eliminated during cultivation.
Mr. Yang said: "There are millions of reindeer in the restricted area, as well as many arctic rabbits and musk ox lemmings. Reindeer and musk ox are the prey of polar bears and arctic wolves, while arctic hares and lemmings are the favorites of arctic foxes." food.
Of course, we humans will also hunt and eat these creatures, and there is a sea cave in the restricted area, there are many sea lions and seals in it, which are the rations of our cultivators..."
The number of creatures in the restricted area of the glacier far exceeds the imagination of Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu, but under the suppression of the three extraordinary populations, these creatures can only tragically become the food of the extraordinary.
This is a typical law of the jungle. There are less than a thousand extraordinary creatures and human cultivators, but tens of millions of ordinary creatures rule.
However, in the restricted area, there is plenty of aura, and the reproductive ability of these ordinary creatures is extremely strong.
In the case of those extraordinary polar bears eating thousands of reindeer every day, the number of reindeer has not decreased but increased, and the population is still expanding.
"Well, it's time to break the ice, do you want to take a look?"
Old Yang suddenly looked to the outside of the boat, "The frozen area ahead is not small, I guess we can't go far today."
The reason why those scientific research ships and ships donated to them spend a lot of money to hire icebreakers is that there are too many frozen seas in the Arctic Circle.
Just like the sea area they encountered now, Su Xiaofan unfolded his consciousness and found that the sea surface twenty to thirty miles ahead was completely frozen, without icebreakers, ordinary ships could not sail normally at all.
As Elder Yang said, after hitting the ice, the speed of the icebreaker suddenly dropped.
Relying on the propulsion generated by the powerful nuclear power, the icebreaker easily slammed into a channel on the ice.
However, when it reached the center of the ice surface, the thickness of the ice surface increased a lot, and it was impossible to break through the ice surface smoothly by relying on this brute force.
But the function of the icebreaker is obviously more than just relying on brute force. Since the draft of the bow is relatively shallow, when it is fully powered, the giant ship can easily drive onto the ice.
For an icebreaker weighing tens of thousands of tons, the hull will squeeze the ice below into pieces, and then the icebreaker will back off to disperse the ice again, allowing the channel to continue.
However, in this way, the speed of the icebreaker also decreased a lot, and it took more than three hours to pass through this frozen sea area.
In non-icy seas, icebreakers can sail four to five hundred nautical miles a day, but when encountering icy seas, they will often be delayed for a long time.
After sailing in this way for four days, the distance from the glacier restricted zone is getting closer and closer.
These days Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu have also been eye-opening. They have basically seen all the creatures in the Arctic Circle.
Su Xiaofan even hunted and killed a polar bear yesterday.
In the words of Old Yang, as long as you encounter this thing in the North Pole, you will be killed without mercy. Don't mention any animal protection laws to him.
The polar bear was about three meters high, the bear meat was thrown into the sea by Su Xiaofan, and the bear skin was hanging on the balcony at the moment, frozen hard.
Captain Leonid came up in the morning and wanted to spend 20,000 dollars to buy this bear skin.
But Su Xiaofan rejected it, so putting such a complete white bear skin at home is definitely a matter of face, much more domineering than hanging a tiger skin.
The bear skin Su Xiaofan stayed on the boat, and he planned to take it with him when he went back. At that time, he asked the country to make arrangements to bring it back through diplomatic channels.
On the fifth day, Su Xiaofan saw an iceberg appearing in front of him from a distance.
Different from the icebergs I have seen before, this iceberg stretches for hundreds of miles, like a continent.
In the words of Captain Leonid, this is the largest iceberg in the Arctic Circle, and it has existed for tens of millions of years.
And this is also the destination of Su Xiaofan and others. When it was three or four nautical miles away from the iceberg, a speedboat was put into the water.
The person driving the speedboat seemed to be quite afraid of approaching this place. After putting Su Xiaofan and the others down, he turned around and drove away, without daring to delay for a moment.
"How do we go back?" Su Xiaofan was a little dumbfounded seeing the fleet going away.
"The icebreaker will go back and forth here once a month. Just calculate the time. Leonid will make a circle here."
Mr. Yang said disapprovingly: "If you come early, you can wait here. As long as you see the icebreaker, you can just get on the boat."
The distance of three to four nautical miles is nothing to a high-level cultivator, just cross the sky directly.
In short, when you come, you buy the ticket first and then board the boat, and when you go back, you board the boat first and then pay for the ticket.
As for those who have no money, they either go to the pier as coolies, or they hide on the boat.
As long as they are not discovered, no one will ask them for money. Of course, this kind of thing has been done before, but no one has said it. It's a bit embarrassing.
"After you get used to operating on ice, you will probably step on this kind of ground in the future."
Mr. Yang did not rush to take them deep into the iceberg, but let Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu move on the ice.
Walking on ice is different from land. Standing on ice, Su Xiaofan got used to it a bit.
But for the cultivator, it is not a big problem. After half an hour, Su Xiaofan can walk very steadily.
"Old Yang, shall we go to the restricted area?"
Su Xiaofan couldn't wait now, thinking of his mother whom he hadn't seen for more than ten years, Su Xiaofan's heart beat faster.
"Xiaofan, calm down!"
Old Yang glanced at Su Xiaofan, "The restricted area overseas is no better than the outside, and inside it can be said to be in danger every step of the way. Don't get upset, or you will lose your judgment..."
"Yes, Mr. Yang, I am impatient."
Su Xiaofan nodded, took a deep breath, and suppressed some impetuous mood.
"Grandfather, when shall we go to the restricted area?"
Seeing that Su Xiaofan has recovered his calm and his ancestor is still unhurried, Yang Xiu couldn't help asking.
"What's the rush, let me tell you about the situation in this restricted area. It didn't sound intuitive to you before..."
Old Yang waved his hand and said; "This restricted area is very large, unlike ordinary restricted areas that usually only have one entrance and exit, there are six places that can be entered and exited in the glacier restricted area.
But three of the six entrances and exits are occupied by those extraordinary creatures. Human cultivators can only enter and exit from the other three places. I will tell you the locations of the three entrances and exits later. "
While talking, Mr. Yang led the two of them to the depths of the iceberg.
To be honest, if you don’t know that there is a large restricted area where extraordinary people run rampant, in terms of the scenery alone, this iceberg is undoubtedly magnificent.
The sun in the sky seems to have no heat at all, sprinkled on the glacier, reflecting the entire iceberg in colorful colors.
Pure and holy, the world of ice and snow like powder makeup and jade, like a fairyland, exists on this sea that has been forgotten by mankind.
Su Xiaofan originally wanted to take some pictures with his mobile phone and keep them, but he took out his mobile phone to take a look, and it was frozen and shut down in the low temperature.
Su Xiaofan felt that there was a high probability that this thing could not be used, so he took out the SIM card and threw the phone into an ice cave.
Perhaps some extinction event will happen on the earth tens of millions of years later, and human civilization will be reborn. Maybe some people will discover the prehistoric technology they threw away.
Thinking wildly in his mind, Su Xiaofan followed Yang Lao and kept walking towards the depths of the iceberg.
After walking for about a hundred kilometers, Elder Yang stopped, his lips didn't move, but his voice rang in the minds of Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu.
"This is one of the places where human cultivators enter and exit, and then follow this entrance and exit to the left and right for four hundred miles, and there are two entrances and exits, which are relatively safe."
Old Yang said via voice transmission: "The other three entrances and exits are all on the sea and are controlled by the extraordinary. For human cultivators, these three places are not to be missed. If you encounter extraordinary creatures blocking the entrances and exits in the future, you have to take action... "
"Okay." Both Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu nodded, Su Xiaofan released his consciousness, and found that the entrance and exit were still seven or eight hundred meters away from him.
But when Su Xiaofan's consciousness came to the entrance of the restricted area, it seemed to be isolated by an invisible space, unable to detect the situation in the restricted area.
Of course, the entrance of the restricted area can also be seen intuitively with the eyes.
From the appearance, it seems to be no different from the outside world, but upon closer inspection, Su Xiaofan found some differences,
The ice and snow world outside, although the scenery is beautiful and spectacular, is a very pure place, that is, there is no color except ice and snow.
But within the entrance of the restricted area, Su Xiaofan could see some green plants.
Although it is the kind of very inconspicuous vegetation, it adds a touch of color and vitality to this pure world of ice and snow.
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