Godly Fisherman

"My dear, I feel like a dream now." Emilia leaned on Xiao Peng's shoulder.

Xiao Peng laughed: "Stop talking about you, I feel that way now."

"Are you okay to drive the plane out like this?" Emilia asked.

Xiao Peng smiled and said, "You said this plane? Hey, this is already ours. The scientists at the Argentine scientific research station are very happy to sell this plane to us."

Emilia blinked: "Are they willing to sell such a precious vehicle?"

"What's the reluctance? They suffered a mechanical failure and the plane crashed into the ice after a forced landing. The pilot was rescued by the Chinese expedition team who happened to pass by, showing that in Antarctica, everyone has no distinction of nationality, race, or extension. The international spirit of helping." Xiao Peng said.

Emilia: "...and you picked up this plane?"

"Yes." Xiao Peng nodded.

Emilia: "Ahem, honestly, how much did it cost?"

Xiao Peng grinned: "For $150,000, the driver is going back to China. As you know, Argentina's economy is not very good now. He wants to save himself a pension, right?"

Emilia snorted coldly: "What scientist, this is obviously a borer."

Xiao Peng laughed and said, "Do you think that the people in Antarctica are all scientists? There are also ordinary workers, such as maintenance workers, gardeners, drivers, etc., have you seen the chefs at our scientific research station? Thought that was a chef with a doctoral degree? Is it possible?"

The composition of each scientific research station is composed of scientific research personnel and staff, don't underestimate the staff here, all of them are expensive! Just like the chefs in their scientific research stations, with an annual salary of more than 300,000 yuan!

Of course, this is accompanied by danger, and most of them are not guaranteed. Just like the Argentine pilot who sold the plane to Xiao Peng, the income here is really good, with an annual salary of 80,000 US dollars, but in places like Antarctica, he has worked for three years, and crash landings have happened five times! And there is no guarantee after retirement.

He actually wanted to spend a few more years in Antarctica, but it turned out. . . . . . He is suffering from snow blindness and cannot continue to do this job.

There are many people suffering from snow blindness in Antarctica, which is a symptom of temporary blindness caused by strong light stimulation of the retina. Especially in the snow, the snow has a high solar radiation rate. People looking at the snow is almost equivalent to looking directly at the sun, so it is easy to cause snow blindness. Those who stay in the snow must wear sunglasses to prevent snow blindness. .

But here is a problem: Inuit people in the Arctic and other indigenous people live in the snow every day, and they don’t have sunglasses. Why do they rarely suffer from snow blindness?

So there is another saying that the main factor that triggers snow blindness is that there is nothing in the snow. Human eyes are always tirelessly exploring the surrounding world. If you search continuously for a long time, you can’t find any. If it falls, it will become blind because of tension.

Many people believe this statement, ahem, but this is actually a rumor from Reader's Digest. The Akismo people do not suffer from snow blindness because they have experience, never look at the snow face, and know how to use face towels and other items to block the sun.

Snow blindness is generally speaking, a few days’ rest will restore vision, but people who have had snow blindness if they don’t

Note that it is very easy to get snow blind again, and it becomes more severe one after the other, and eventually leads to serious problems with people’s vision and even permanent blindness.

As an airplane pilot, suffering from snow blindness is tantamount to sentence of death for his career. So that driver had to retire and then make a fortune for himself before retirement.

Emilia asked puzzledly: "How did you find him?"

Xiao Peng grinned: "Lao Li in the scientific research station is a big carrot. He ran to Antarctica to use Tinder. Well, you know."

Tinder is similar to Huaxia's Momo, well, it is a dating software, not a dating software. This software is very marketable in Antarctica. Since a few years ago, a star-stripe country scientist used this software and a beautiful Eagle country scientist used this software for an appointment. This software has become a connection between various scientific research stations in Antarctica. Important tool.

Emilia was taken aback: "He contacted a man?"

Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Don't criticize other people's orientation problems. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be able to buy this plane? Without this plane, we wouldn't be able to go to such a fun place, right?"

Emilia nodded: "This is a miracle of nature."

It is no exaggeration for him to say that, he and Emilia are now on the famous ‘Deception Island’ in Antarctica.

The location of'Deception Island' is not far from Tierra del Fuego. The South Shetland Islands are the first to go through the Drake Strait, and the'Deception Island' is an island in the South Shetland Islands, located in Foz. The northern end of Tawan. It is a U-shaped volcanic island.

The reason why this place is called Deception Island is because more than a hundred years ago, a few fishermen stumbled upon an island in the fog, but the island disappeared as soon as the sea rose, and it seemed that it didn’t exist at all, so “deception island” Hence the name.

And human exploration of Antarctica started from here.

In 1918, the Yingguo people discovered this island and occupied it, using it as a whaling base: yes, don't look at the strongest opposition of the Yingguo people against whaling by the Japanese people, but the Yingguo people were also the vanguard of whaling back then. , On this deception island alone, the people of Eagle Country have refined more than 3.6 million barrels of whale oil! There are still the ruins of the whale oil factory. This is where mankind first explored Antarctica.

Later, Chile, Eagle Country, and Argentina all established scientific research stations here, and Norway also established a whale processing plant here. It was definitely the most lively place in Antarctica back then.

But there is a problem: this is a volcanic island, and it is an active volcanic island. When the volcano erupted in 1967, the entire Deception Island was covered by volcanic ash, those scientific research stations were turned into ashes, and the whale processing plant was swallowed by volcanic ash. Since then, the island’s research stations have been closed and have never been rebuilt. .

But now it is still one of the most lively places in Antarctica.

That's because this is the only tourist resort in Antarctica where ordinary people can bathe in the sea: because of the volcano, there are many hot springs here. Xiao Peng and Emilia are now soaking in the hot spring.

This feeling is very strange. Now the sea breeze on Deception Island is still not small. The wind slapped people's faces with crushed ice foam, like ice knives. Both Xiao Peng's heads began to freeze; but they But his body was in the warm hot spring, and his body was red. This is definitely the enjoyment of both ice and fire.

Emilia does

Be nervous: "My dear, the wind won't get bigger, will we? We won't go back?"

Xiao Peng comforted her and said, "Don't worry, I deliberately inquired about the satellite cloud picture before coming. It's all small winds."

Emilia sighed: "I don't know what I am doing in Antarctica this time. You said that it's been almost two months since I came to Antarctica, and I just played with you every day!"

Xiao Peng was stunned when he heard this: "What is fooling? Are you going to follow the airport? We came to Antarctica for scientific expeditions, not coolies. Besides, the palm tree fossils you found can already let you in. Did you leave a name in the history of world science? And you also found a lunar meteorite. Tsk tsk. Amazing!"

There are currently fifty airports in Antarctica. Of course, they are all simple ice airports. After the ice and snow are compressed and leveled, you can become the captain. However, China has not established an airport here, and they all use other countries. Airport, now finally decided to build his own airport.

Emilia laughed after hearing this: "It's all luck."

Antarctica has a ‘dry valley’. If Antarctica is the driest place in the world, then the ‘dry valley’ is the driest place in Antarctica.

In fact, there is almost no snow in Antarctica.

We all know that it is easy to snow when it is cold, but there is no snow when it is too cold. How can water evaporate into steam at such a low temperature? Some water molecules were frozen into snow and ice on the ground. And the wind in Antarctica is not a joke, a little snow may also let the wind blow away.

However, there are many places in Antarctica that are extremely dry and there is no ice or snow. Such places generally exist in valleys. "Dry Valley" is one of them.

Xiao Peng and Emilia entered the "Dry Valley" while observing the emperor penguins, but Emilia, who was lucky enough, found a palm tree fossil.

Plant fossils have been discovered in Antarctica. After all, 530,000 years ago, the temperature here was above 20 degrees. But this is the first time such a large palm tree fossil has been discovered! And Emilia also found a lunar meteorite, which has to be admired for her carefulness.

It is also interesting to say that Antarctica is the place where most meteorites are found in the world. So far, more than 20,000 meteorites have been discovered here. After all, it is covered with ice and snow, and the chance of finding a meteorite will be higher.

Xiao Peng looked at the surrounding environment with a smirk: "My dear, we can do what we did in the igloo last night..."

"Here?" Emilia's eyes widened: "What are you thinking about?"

Xiao Peng said cheerfully: "Anyway, there is no one else here."

Emilia has been far away: "Who said there is no one else? What is that?"

Xiao Peng looked back, eh? I don't know when a cruise ship came. But it’s not surprising to see a cruise here. There are many tourists in Antarctica in summer, and the "deception island" is a must-visit place for tourists to travel to Antarctica.

"Yes, it's really not time to come." Xiao Peng said disappointedly.

Emilia was a little puzzled: "My dear, if I'm not mistaken, then the cruise ship seems to be a group of soldiers?"

"Huh?" Xiao Peng was stunned after hearing this, and he was really a soldier from the Star Striped Nation! What is special is the soldier with live ammunition! What are these Star Stripe soldiers doing? Came here to maintain world peace?