Survival male god

Chapter 239 The second stage goal
The side of the ark is more than four meters long, and the entire frame is made of fir wood. Chen Jing is not worried about the stability of the structure or the durability of the materials.

Aside from other things, this wood is not a big problem after being soaked in sea water for a month or two.

The real problem is the load capacity!
In any case, it is just a raft. Although the buoyancy of seawater is slightly greater than that of fresh water, it is extremely limited, and it is not a water body with extremely high salt content like the Dead Sea.

According to Chen Jing's estimation, the maximum load-bearing capacity of the ark cannot exceed one thousand catties.

This is the result calculated by the formula based on the weight of the raft itself, plus the area and displacement.

If a weight of more than half a ton is placed on it, the raft's hull structure will be completely submerged in the water. In this case, not only will the raft be unable to move forward, but all objects on it will be in danger of falling into the sea.

The progress of the mission was displayed as 2/5. If nothing unexpected happened, 2 of them refers to the rescued Lin Jiaying and Zhou Hui.

In the most ideal situation, he found the remaining three people, then including himself, there were six people on board.

Calculating the weight of each person at 420 kilograms, it is already [-] kilograms, plus other miscellaneous items, such as backpacks, food, tools, etc...

It has almost reached the limit load capacity of the ark, which is absolutely impossible.

After drifting quietly for two hours, Chen Jing woke up first. The tent itself was not big, only about [-] meters in shape, and was in the shape of a pyramid.

The three of them sat inside, looking very cramped, and Lin Jiaying's clothes were dry and needed to be changed.

Just wearing bear skin, the temperature is not enough, Chen Jing is afraid that her body will be weak, and if she gets sick from the cold, it will be troublesome.

Fortunately, the opponent is also a strong man who has been stationed in the Arctic for many years. Apart from anything else, his physical fitness is very good. Otherwise, he would not be able to survive for such a long time when food is cut off.

Chen Jing pulled Zhou Hui out of the tent, and it was the southeast wind blowing from the Siberian highlands.

"We have to pull up the bear skin and raise the sail. No one is needed to row, which can save a lot of energy. I am responsible for observing the surrounding situation. You come to fish. We must collect food resources at all times now."

Zhou Hui is young, and his physical fitness has recovered well. In this situation, he can also be competent for some jobs.

Human resources are also resources, which should be used as needed.

Even if you share a small part, you can relax a little bit.

As for Lin Jiaying, she can also help out, but not yet, at least until tomorrow, when she has almost recovered.

Zhou Hui is not very confident in his fishing skills, not to mention that he is also afraid that he will not be able to hold the fishing rod if he encounters a big guy.

Chen Jing shook his head, comfortingly said:

"The temperature here is low and food is scarce. In Arctic waters, except for special circumstances, you will not encounter particularly large marine life in the shallow sea."

"There's a high probability that it's all kinds of fish, jellyfish, sea hares, etc... You can definitely pull them up."

Zhou Hui slapped his head and said in embarrassment:
"Fortunately, I'm still on the scientific expedition team. I forgot even this. When the fleet drove the icebreaker and trawled the net down to a depth of hundreds of meters, sometimes they could only bring up some small fish and shrimps, as well as fish from the mud Shellfish, it's really hard to get big fish."

"Are we heading northwest now?"

Zhou Hui thought of the wind direction that Chen Jing said before, the southeast wind blows to the northwest, and the direction of the raft is also along the wind direction and ocean current.

"That's right, the approximate location should be directly above Svalbard, south of the center of the Arctic Ocean."

"By the way, do you have a way to contact the workstation?"

Chen Jing thought curiously that if he could find the location of the workstation and use the materials there to rebuild a real sea ship, it would not be impossible.

Hearing his question, Zhou Hui shook his head.

"When we usually come out, we rely on FM signal receivers and walkie-talkies for communication. The source of the signal is the electromagnetic wave signal sent by the workstation. This must meet two conditions."

"First, the workstation equipment is functioning normally, and second, our machines are not lost."

"Both conditions are not met now..."

Chen Jingjing nodded. The message from Zhuo Ziang indicated that the Polar Research Center, which is also called the "workstation" by the scientific expedition team members, lost contact with the headquarters the day after the distress signal was sent out.

At this point, the only hope lies with Chen Jing.

Although the country is also organizing rescue operations, as expected, the procedures for sending an aid team are extremely complicated. They must first declare, wait for approval, submit information to the international embassy, ​​and then continue to wait for a reply.

Because the Arctic region, on the basis of fact, still has the airspace and territorial waters of many countries. Even if all the approvals are passed, it will be ten days and a half months before the actual departure.

Officials have been issuing announcements in real time to keep the masses informed of the latest developments in the rescue operation.

But everyone knows that it is this triangular raft floating in the depths of the polar ocean that really determines the fate of the missing people.

……

On the morning of the 28th, it was the fourth day of entering the Arctic Ocean.

After two days of rest, Zhou Hui and Lin Jiaying's physical fitness and condition have returned to normal.

The daily work of the three, in addition to collecting food, is to constantly land on various floating Icelands, hoping to find more missing team members.

But after a lot of hard work, no one was found, but a lot of dead animals were found.

On the surface of the sea, there are densely packed carcasses of seals and even polar bears, most of which have decayed, and the entire sea is stinky.

If they had died on Iceland, their bodies might have been preserved for a long time if they were dry at low temperatures and tightly frozen.

But not in the water, the temperature is not low enough, and the microorganisms will quickly decompose the corpse, starting from the inside.

The seal's corpses were like swollen big balls, which would explode if poked lightly, and then spray pus all over the sky.

The three of them just wanted to escape here quickly, but Chen Jing had an idea.

"Get the dead polar bear, and get some seals."

"We towed them to the island and disposed of them. Well, there was a small island there."

"Not for meat..."

Under the puzzled looks of the two people, Chen Jing explained, of course, he was also talking to the audience in front of the screen.

"Of course you can't eat this meat!"

"What I want is the polar bear's skeleton, its tendons, and its and seal's fur..."

"It can be turned into a small tent, sleeping bag, cold-proof leather jacket, and various tools. Each bone rod, plus fishing line and hook, can be made into a fishing rod, which will greatly increase our ability to obtain food. speed."

"Don't feel disgusted. We may also collect the meat maggots on it. You will definitely not be able to eat them. They can be used as bait."

“We have to find ways to use every resource available to us.”

"Give me some rope, I'll jump down, tie their bodies, and drag them away with a rowboat."

Chen Jing glanced at Lin Jiaying, who took out the rope from the fishing box.

"Are you sure?"

"All I can say is, you are awesome!"

Zhou Hui pinched his nose and stayed here for a few minutes. The rancid smell was blown into his nostrils by the sea breeze, and he was really about to spit it out.

What I didn't expect was that this guy was actually willing to jump into the sea and have close contact with those rotting animal carcasses.

To be honest, just thinking about it makes people a little unacceptable.

"Of course, give it to me!"

Chen Jing was already taking off his clothes, Zhou Hui could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, and said to the camera:

"Your Jingshen is really a monster. I think if he hadn't considered the two of us, he would even dare to eat the smelly maggots growing on it."

"Ugh, stop talking..."

Lin Jiaying stuck out her tongue, leaving aside work, she is actually a girl in her 20s, and she has a natural resistance to these things.

But what Chen Jing just said is indeed necessary from the perspective of survival.Survival is more important than anything else, the worst thing is to wash it a few times.

Soon, Chen Jing jumped into the water with the rope.

On the raft, Zhou Hui talked to the camera.

He has now fully adapted to the live broadcast mode. When Chen Jing is busy doing things, he will often help him take care of the audience. Lin Jiaying, on the other hand, is not very willing to appear on camera.

Because she is good-looking, although she has short hair, she is not neutral at all, instead she has a sense of Xiaojiabiyu. Every time she shows her face, there are always abstract audiences, wives and wives shouting non-stop.

"So many carrion corpses will definitely have some impact on the surrounding water quality, but in fact, they are all biological waste, which can be cleaned and purified by the water soon."

"When they die, all kinds of small fish and shrimps in the sea, including plants, are so happy that they can't finish eating them for a whole year."

"But it is a heavy blow to the polar ice terrestrial ecosystem."

"Seals, which are high in fat and calories, have always been the most important food source for polar bears."

"Once the seal dies, the life of the polar bear will be difficult. The melting process of the glaciers is irreversible. Jingshen is right. One day, polar bears are really likely to disappear from the world."

Lin Jiaying's voice came from behind Zhou Hui.

"Didn't you take a lot of pictures of polar bears on your first day? I remember you loving them."

"Hmm~"

Zhou Hui nodded. Chen Jing had already tied the rope and was swimming back.

"how do you feel?"

Chen Jing remained unmoved.

"It's okay, it's just rancid, a small scene..."

"Let's go, row to the island!"

After landing on the shore and fixing the raft, Chen Jing immediately began to dissect the corpse.

"Don't run away, learn to adapt, you can't stand the smell, how do you survive in an extreme environment?"

"Don't forget, your comrades-in-arms, your comrades, are still waiting for rescue. If we waste one more second, it is tantamount to wasting rescue time."

This is not a moral kidnapping. At most, it allows the two of them to weigh the pros and cons.

"you're right!"

Lin Jiaying suppressed her nausea and squatted next to Chen Jing. Zhou Hui also came over.

Chen Jing smiled with satisfaction.

"Actually, the psychological level is the best to overcome. What is really difficult is the instinctive reaction on the physiological level. I will teach you a way."

"Don't hold your breath, and don't just breathe through your mouth. You have to let your nose slowly adapt to the smell. If you get used to it, you won't feel sick."

"Now focus on it, and I will teach you how to peel off the seal's skin."

Soon, the three of them were completely immersed in their work.

Lin Jiaying and Zhou Hui wanted to vomit several times, but they still struggled to adapt to the smell.

By the end, like Chen Jing, they had become completely indifferent to the rancid smell of rotten meat.

In the latter words, this is where humanity is truly powerful.

Learn, adjust, adapt!

After the peeled fur is cleaned, it is all dried on the boat board.

Polar bear carcasses are the most difficult to dispose of.

Not to mention the stench, the internal organs and pieces of meat were particularly huge, hollowing out and cutting Chen Jing wasted more than an hour.

Then it took him another two hours to work on the tendons and bones.

But just as the three of them were about to leave this stinking island, a footprint on the island caught Zhou Hui's attention.

After following Chen Jing for so many days, he learned all kinds of search and rescue methods and skills, not to mention knowing it by heart.

When the other party had work to do, he wandered around the island when he had nothing to do. He was just trying his luck, but he didn't expect to find some traces for him.

"The footprints of these shoes are exactly the same as mine and about the same size."

"It must be Gao Lei. He left the footprints. He has been active in this place."

"But no one was found on the island!"

Chen Jing squatted next to the footprints. In fact, these footprints were quite messy.

"Generally speaking, in this kind of place, people must be active during the day, right?"

"When the shoes step on the ice, they trample the snow, and the texture of the soles makes the snow form patterns, and when it freezes at night, it becomes harder."

"In this way, the shoe print becomes very strong and difficult to remove."

"This is the experience we have summarized before, right?"

"But these lines haven't hardened yet, you see, just rubbing them lightly can make them fade."

"What does this mean?"

Chen Jing raised his head and his eyes fell on Lin Jiaying and Zhou Hui.

The two looked at each other and replied in unison:

"This shows that the footprints were left during the day."

Chen Jing nodded and stood up.

"If it is said that he does not have the possibility of obtaining sea navigation tools, then the team member named Gao Lei you mentioned is most likely still on this island."

"Look carefully, he may have hidden himself."

"It is also possible that he is dying, but I think it is impossible for a dying person to still be walking around during the day."

"He is most likely hiding, let's look for him separately!"

"it is good!"

The three scattered, and the shouts resounded throughout the island.

"Gao Lei, Gao Lei..."

"Can you hear me? Gao Lei, I'm Zhou Hui."

"Gao Lei..."

At the same moment, in an ice cave in Iceland, a man whose body exuded a rotten smell stiffened suddenly, and tears immediately flowed from his eyes.

A shrill roar came from his mouth.

At the same time, the system prompt sounded in Chen Jing's mind.

[Mission progress 3/5, phased rewards have been unlocked]

[Start the second phase of the goal, find the remaining missing people, and solve the mystery of the melting glaciers]

(End of this chapter)