Survival male god

Chapter 248 Ancient Life

"what are these?"

In the cold cave, there are black rocky beaches, sedimentary seawater, floating flammable ice, and densely packed luminous lines all over the field of vision.

Everything looks so dreamy, as if you are in an alien country.

What's more important is that all those glowing lines are constantly squirming.

"There is no doubt that they are a kind of creature. Can anyone tell me what these are?"

Whether in the water or on the shore, these "things" have even penetrated into the solid ice, and they are everywhere.

【"Are you asking me?"

"The devil knows what it is!"

"It looks like a bug."

"Please, if it doesn't look like a bug, then it is a bug. It could also be a miniature arthropod, a coelenterate mollusk, or some kind of invertebrate."

"Will it become brighter if it is swept by light?"

"Is it because of the absorption of light? But many things that were not illuminated also became brighter. How to explain this?"

"There are many strange things in the sea. If people from the scientific expedition team are here, they might know them."]

The audience was naturally more confused about what Chen Jing didn't know, but their discussion still gave the former some inspiration.

Lin Jiaying is a biology expert. In previous scientific expeditions, she often accompanied the fleet to collect samples of various polar marine organisms.

If I could collect some of these "things" and give them to the other party, maybe she would get the answer.

Chen Jing thought for a while, and used his water bag to fill some ice water under his feet. He felt a little creepy watching the squirming light pouring in following the liquid.

"This water bladder will definitely not be usable in the future. It looks like some kind of parasite, but they will glow."

"It's smaller than a grain of rice. If it weren't for the luminescence, it would be almost completely invisible to the naked eye in a dim environment."

"I can't say too much, I have to get out of here quickly..."

The low temperature and lack of oxygen made Chen Jing feel that he was becoming weak and drowsy.

If he hadn't had a great feast and eaten a lot of mussels, it would be doubtful whether he would have the strength to continue moving forward.

Meanwhile, the outside world.

Zhou Hui and the others looked at the nameplate in captain Xue Gang's hand with solemn expressions.

It belonged to another member of the scientific expedition team. The other person died under the bear's claws, his shoulder was bitten to pieces, and his neck was also torn open with a big hole.

Chen Jing lured the polar bear away. When they arrived, Xue Gang was dragging the body of the team member and hiding in the ice crevices.

The thick thermal clothes were covered with frozen bloodstains. Xue Gang looked extremely haggard, and his eyes were filled with self-blame.

Of the three people stationed at the station, one team member was missing and the other died in front of him.

He is still young, in his twenties, in his youth, and has devoted everything to the motherland and people.

But just like that, he died anonymously in an extremely cold place.

"Old Xue..."

"It's not your fault!"

Gao Lei patted Xue Gang on the shoulder. The latter raised his head and glanced at the faces of the three people, still unable to get rid of the torment in his heart.

"I'm sorry for them..."

Xue Gang is the oldest member of the scientific expedition team, he is 46 years old.

In his mind, young guys like Zhou Hui and Lin Jiaying, who are in their twenties and have just graduated, are no different from his own children.

On weekdays, he is always very strict. Whether it is work or life, he always requires everyone to perform their duties and adhere to their duties unswervingly.

Anyone who slacked off or was lazy would inevitably be bluffed by him, but after being trained, he would always try his best to give everyone a holiday, and then he would quietly stick to his post and do everything within his power properly.

Everyone always jokes that Lao Xue is a serious polar pacesetter and a model of the times. He should be awarded the title and cannot always be taken by the Feitian group.

Every time he heard it, Xue Gang looked sullen on the outside, but deep down he was always happy.

But now, he can no longer hear those words, and can no longer discipline those children.

"Xiao Hai was dragged away by a bear in order to save me. By the time I detonated the detonator and scared off those beasts, he was already..."

"I can only watch helplessly and can't do anything."

"I can't do anything!"

Xue Gang's eyes were red and his fist hit the ground heavily.

Seeing the old captain like this, the other people felt uncomfortable.

Who knew something like this could happen?

After a long period of peace, or in other words, too little experience, even being in the Arctic glacier will make you numb, and you will subconsciously feel that this place is no different from ordinary human gathering places.

It's nothing more than information blockage, supplies arriving only once a year, and life being boring.

But the crisis came so suddenly that even the big brother, who was always considered the most emotionally stable member of the team, seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

Gao Lei took a deep breath. Except for Xue Gang, he was the oldest among everyone.

Over the past few days, he learned a lot from Chen Jing.

Now is the moment when we need to stabilize the mood of the team. Someone must stand up and point the direction for everyone. No more time is wasted needlessly.

"team leader!"

"During this period, it has not been easy for everyone. Everyone has experienced hardships that were unimaginable before, and they have even been on the verge of death several times."

"But you know, why we survived?"

"Including you, have you ever thought about why we found ourselves here?"

Xue Gang looked stunned and shook his head with a blank look.

Gao Lei said seriously: "Do you still remember that after we lost contact, the workstation sent a distress signal to the headquarters?"

Xue Gang nodded.

Of course he remembered that Zhou Hui, Gao Lei and Lin Jiaying were out on missions and had no contact with the base for more than 24 hours.

It was he who issued the instruction to request communications from headquarters.

But he didn't understand why Gao Lei mentioned this matter at this moment.

He did not think that the rescue from above could arrive so quickly, otherwise, the other two team members would not have died or disappeared.

Xue Gang was not resentful, he only blamed himself for being incompetent and failing to protect his little brother.

Of course, he was also very smart. He immediately realized that the three team members who had lost contact were now standing in front of him.

Could it be that they were not in danger, or that the organizational rescue operation came much faster than he imagined!

Facing Xue Gang's confused gaze, Gao Lei explained:
"Because there was a man who risked his life, crossed the restricted area of ​​the Siberian wilderness alone, built a raft with his bare hands, worked tirelessly and went through all kinds of hardships in the vast sea, and saved us."

"Me, Zhou Hui, and Jiaying, the three of us were all saved by him."

"Including you, if he hadn't diverted the polar bear away, we wouldn't have been able to get close to it."

"Now his condition is unknown and he is very likely to be in trouble. We have no right to feel sorry for ourselves here."

"Captain, please..."

"cheer up!"

Zhou Hui and Lin Jiaying on the side also subconsciously turned their attention to the Bingfeng in the distance.Several polar bears were still roaring wildly, their cries filled with indignation.

Xue Gang opened his mouth, and after a long time, he finally woke up.

"Is everything he said true? Who is this person?"

"Chen Jing, his name is Chen Jing. He is a very powerful adventurer. He is the most awesome person I have ever met in my life!"

Zhou Hui answered first, while Lin Jiaying and Gao Lei on the side also nodded silently.

Obviously, all three of them agreed with this statement.

In fact, as a senior intellectual, he is a scientific researcher with extremely high consciousness and devoted himself to work that benefits human society.

Everyone is more or less arrogant in their hearts.

Xue Gang knew how difficult it was to make them all recognize and believe in one person so much.

Therefore, in his daily work and life, he has very high requirements for himself, so that he can truly become a leader among others.

He suddenly became very interested in the person named Chen Jing in Zhou Hui's mouth.

At the same time, he also understood the real intention of Gao Lei's words.

Yes, in the face of crisis, how could he get caught up in his personal emotions and ignore the overall situation?

Taking a deep breath, Xue Gang said:
"You're right, I shouldn't be depressed. Can anyone tell me what happened before?"

Understand the situation and then make decisions. Xue Gang may not be an excellent strategist, but he understands that as the leader of the team, he must not mess up his position.

Seeing him regain his senses and become calm again, Gao Lei and the other two looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is such that……"

The four people gathered together and summarized the situation.

The more Xue Gang listened, the more frightened he became. He really couldn't believe that someone could be so brave and use himself as bait to lure away the polar bears.

But what gave him another headache was that besides waiting, they seemed to have no other way to deal with each other.

unless……

"We are going back to the camp now. In addition to instruments, there are also many tools to deal with emergencies."

"Although we left in a hurry and there is no such thing as spray, there are still many electronic detonators, as well as flares specially used for field exploration."

"Gao Lei, you are an engineer. You can transform them into homemade blasters. As long as you kill one or two more, you don't have to worry about them not leaving."

"No matter how hungry polar bears are, many of their companions will die, and they also know how to be afraid."

This is the only practical way that can be thought of at the moment.

Gao Lei nodded: "You can make it if you have the tools, but where is the camp? Can we make it in time?"

"It's not very far. 10 minutes is enough. Come with me..."

That camp was left by the previous scientific expedition team when this far north island was first discovered about 13 years ago.

It is considered a safe house, and some tools and instruments are kept here. Over the years, the workstation has occasionally secretly sent people to check on the situation.

This time the glacier disintegrated, the ice sheet in the southern part of the pole collapsed on a large scale, and the workstation sank into the ice sea. The destination for the remaining team members to evacuate was this physical island in the extreme north.

As the secret camp closest to the North Pole, it is unlikely to encounter a sinking crisis.

But what Xue Gang didn't expect was that many animals also took refuge here. After landing on the island, they were targeted by a group of extremely hungry polar bears.

Even driving a snowmobile could not escape their encirclement.

But now that someone has lured away the polar bears, they have freed up their hands to find ways to make some powerful weapons to protect their lives.

As long as the gap in strength is not too large, it is not that difficult for humans to use their own scientific research results and fully mobilize their wisdom and hands-on ability to fight against the beasts in nature.

"Brother Chen, you must hold on!"

Zhou Hui looked at the ice peaks in the distance, clenched his fists, turned around and followed the others.

What they didn't know was that Chen Jing had actually stopped tangled with polar bears for a long time.

In fact, from the beginning, the latter had no intention of fighting those guys.

One against five, even if you think about it, it is impossible.

What he originally thought was to climb to the top of the peak, find a place for the cicada to escape from its shell, secretly slide to the bottom, and then join the others. The plan was that simple.

The implementation process was also very smooth, but unexpectedly, the crazy polar bear happened to hit the fragile ice bucket and cracked it, causing him to fall into the current ice cave, which was most likely formed more than N years ago.

The deeper Chen Jing went, the more he felt chest tightness and shortness of breath.

"The air here is terrible!"

"The oxygen content is very low, and it may be filled with a lot of methane or other gases."

"They've been leaking out, but very slowly."

"Under the dusty ice cap, there are many corpses of ancient life buried. They should have been frozen into ice blocks and could not be decomposed by microorganisms and bacteria."

“But I don’t know when it started, but this situation obviously changed.”

"A large amount of methane makes the greenhouse effect in the Arctic more and more obvious, causing temperatures to rise rapidly and glaciers to begin to melt."

"I think this is actually not a sin of humanity."

"This is the overall cycle of the planet's life. It is cyclical, just like the prehistoric carbon dioxide dominated, which gave rise to oxygen life. It is a cyclical manifestation of the life process."

"Human activities are nothing more than accelerating or slowing down this cycle. Maybe...maybe we can't change anything."

"But these cycles should never be so fast. If they continue to evolve at this rate, the Arctic glaciers will completely melt in less than 100 years, and the world will usher in an unprecedented catastrophe."

"At that time, not only humans, but all life on the planet will undergo mass extinction."

"We have to stop this from happening."

"The root of everything may lie in this mysterious organism. Of course, this is just my personal conjecture."

"But to verify whether it is accurate, I must first survive as much as possible and bring these findings to the outside world."

"Guys wish me good luck!"

Chen Jing patted the water bag filled with mysterious creatures, then began to hold his breath and slowly moved deeper into the ice cave, following the gaps between them.

The process of survival has always been extremely difficult. In many cases, fighting against ferocious beasts is actually much easier than fighting against the environment.

Because of physical limitations, it is not so easy to break through.

Chen Jing's consciousness became increasingly blurred, and he felt that this time was the closest he had ever been to death.

Cold, hypothermia, lack of oxygen, body aches...

Suddenly, he seemed to be back on the Matterhorn in 2022.

Only this time, something was completely different.

He could no longer say he was tired, couldn't let go and let himself fall from the sky.

Doing that at that time could be called relief, but not now.

"You must hold on, there are still many people waiting for you, Chen Jing, wake up!"

Power once again gathered in the body, and even his thinking became much clearer.

Tens of meters ahead, there was a bright light, projected from a high place.

(End of this chapter)