Endless route

Chapter 118 25. Accident rate

A few days later.

The cruise ship is close to the Christmas Islands.

Zheng Yun looked far away from the window and saw a string of islands, large and small, protruding from the endless ice, with an average height of three or four meters above the sea. The scenery was very strange.

View from the boat.

Those islands are brightly lit and dotted in the sea of ​​ice. There are a large number of buildings on the islands, like cities built on ice. Combined with the aurora in the sky, it gives a dreamy feel.

The main island of the archipelago is huge and can accommodate millions of people. It is almost a big city. The buildings on the island also fit the theme, like Neverland in a crystal ball.

After all, it is a tourist city that receives millions of tourists. The scenery is indeed very good, and it is the peak tourist season now, and the entire archipelago is lit up with lights and bonfires.

There are people everywhere on the ice.

Densely packed like ants.

Soon after, the cruise ship slowly came to a stop. The tourists on the ship all put on warm clothes and disembarked with their luggage in turn.

The temperature is not too low here.

No need to wear cold goggles.

The further north you go, the colder it gets. Firstly, the altitude becomes higher and the ice layer becomes thicker. Secondly, the latitude also becomes higher. There is a temperature difference every hundred kilometers, and the temperature is even lower in the glaciers and mountains.

Put on your ski clothes and go out.

Some very fine snow velvet seemed to be floating down from the sky. I don’t know if it was the water vapor condensed in the archipelago city, or blown out from the glaciers and mountains in the north.

Go down the gangway.

Stepping on the ice.

Not far ahead is the transit island of the Christmas Islands. There are sleighs dragging dozens of sleigh carriages, like small trains, waiting to carry these new tourists.

Zheng Yun carried his backpack and randomly found an empty carriage to sit in. He looked around and enjoyed the scenery, but he was also slightly worried. The climate in this place was indeed extreme.

Look up to the northwest.

There are many sleds driving towards the glacier near the main island, like black spots crawling on the white paper. Compared with the huge and terrifying glacier mountain, it seems too small.

Snap.

Several girls got into the carriage.

They were all wearing various ski suits, large woolen gloves and earplugs, and their faces were covered with hats. They glanced sideways at Zheng Yun through their fully reflective snow goggles.

"are not you cold?"

One of the girls asked loudly. She spoke English and must be a tourist from a Western country.

Zheng Yun shook his head slightly.

He wasn't even wearing a hat.

The whole face is exposed.

After a while, the three girls tentatively took off their full armor one by one, felt the temperature, and found that it was really not that cold.

"Maybe it's because we're around the city. There doesn't seem to be any wind right now. A little bit of wind can't blow away the heat."

"That glacier can also block the wind, right?"

"No wonder this is a tourist area."

Several girls discussed quietly.

Soon after, the sleigh train approached the main island. Those who booked a room here could get off the train and stay in a big hotel. If you go deeper, there are various pirate-style island hotels.

Zheng Yun didn't get out of the car.

The sleigh train continues on.

The ice in front of the main island is surrounded by tourists coming out to skate, and there are ice trucks responsible for smoothing the ice surface.

Deep down is a row of simple buildings built on the ice, selling drinks and food. There are also a large number of tourists who bring their own tents and camp in the corners of the island's rock walls.

Passed several more islands.

Zheng Yun got off the car in front of a small island.

Then he took out his cell phone and made a call.

Hu Ruihua and the others arrived in the morning and rented a family hotel on the island. The entire four-story cabin with an ice view facing the north could accommodate twenty-five or six people.

The price/performance ratio is very high.

Family travel is much more cost-effective than staying in a hotel.

Zheng Yun walked up the long steps to the island. The island was more than ten meters above the ice. The island was full of family hotels, each of them exquisite small houses with very comfortable colors.

He left not long ago.

Huzi and Liu Ming ran to pick up Zheng Yun from the front. Their faces were flushed. They were probably playing outside.

"Brother Zheng, are you the only one? No one else is coming?" Huzi looked behind Zheng Yun.

"Yes, they have other things to do and live on the main island." Zheng Yun gave an excuse with a calm expression.

"Brother Hu is still looking for a job. We are skating. Will Brother Zheng go?" Huzi asked.

"I'll go back and rest."

Zheng Yun is not very interested in skating.

"Sister Wang, Song Wan, and Xiao Li's fiancée are all here, going to the main island to buy food and drinks." Liu Ming hooked Zheng Yun's shoulder and said: "I asked Song Wan to bring a best friend, who is also our school girl. You have to help your brother this time and show your face."

"Are you trying to save your face again? How?" Zheng Yun couldn't hold back his smile, Liu Ming was doing this again.

"Let's see what happens." Liu Ming sighed.

"How come today's college students have so much free time, and Song Wan and her best friend don't need to go to class? There is a huge gap between them and us." Zheng Yun sighed.

"It's July in Fu'en City, and it's summer vacation for college. You don't even know this?" Liu Ming looked shocked.

"Brother Zheng, they all brought their female companions, why didn't you bring your sister-in-law?" Huzi asked, rubbing his nose.

"I don't have a girlfriend, you misunderstood." Zheng Yun patted Hu Zi and said, "Why didn't you bring one with you?"

"Me neither, haha, then I can sleep in the same room with you." Huzi suddenly became happy.

"This won't work." Zheng Yun's expression changed.

"Captain Hu said he would rent equipment when you come over. Do you need anything this time?" Liu Ming changed the subject.

He made a gun shape with his hand.

Huzi made a rifle-shaped gesture.

Zheng Yun looked up to the north. The trend of those glaciers and mountains was similar to that of mountains on land. He looked at it with a sense of danger. Who knew what was inside.

High mountains.

Continuous ups and downs.

Magnificent and sacred.

Zheng Yun had also done his homework before. There are many native creatures in the iceberg of W-08. Regardless of the ice and snow, there is an ecosystem inside, and it is very extreme.

There are rift valleys in the iceberg.

There is marine life beneath the rift.

There are also hardy ecology within the Rift Valley.

This thing is also very complicated. The warmth from the extreme day zone passes through, and the temperature at low altitudes is not that high. And I heard that there are many volcanoes there.

The formation of glacial mountains is very complex. Over the course of tens of thousands of years, the ice moved southward and accumulated with the subglacial ocean currents, and merged with the continental shelf, which finally led to this.

It's extremely cold in that place.

But it is definitely not a restricted area in life.

After watching for a moment, Zheng Yun nodded and looked back at Hu Zi: "Is it easy to do it here?"

"Short ones are easy to deal with. I can't help but get short ones here. I have to ask about the long ones. There are several islands around. The local residents should have shotguns." Huzi said with a smile.

Several people walked into the hotel they rented while talking. Hu Ruihua, who was sitting at the dining table in the lobby on the first floor, immediately came over with a tablet and sat on the sofa with Zheng Yun:

"There's something wrong with this place."

"The local rescuers association has so many tasks. There are 3,000 tourists who have been missing in the past three years and have not been found yet, and there are hundreds of them in the past month."

"On average, there are a thousand a year, and more than a hundred disappear every month, not counting those who have been confirmed dead."

Something happened to the author. I had to take one more day off. When I was moving things, I hit my foot. Most of my nails were smashed off. It hurt like hell.

The author never lies to people. I lie to people that I am everyone’s son.