Start a Core Pod

  Chapter 534 A place further than the universe

  Luckily, this time around, what Lorena feared didn't happen, as if there wasn't going to be a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express. The airship left the fog city and headed south all the way towards Tierra del Fuego.

  Leaving the fog city covered by dark clouds, many people, including Mary, saw the clear blue sky outside for the first time, and they were naturally amazed by it. It's just that they didn't have much time to spend on it. Soon, Mary began to study hard.

Although Professor Palmer is engaged in academics, he is not the kind of fool who is completely ignorant of the world. Although he is still unclear about the relationship between Duanmuhuai and Mary, Professor Palmer is very clear that his investigation and research The reason why the trip was possible was due to Duanmuhuai's support, and the purpose of Duanmuhuai's support for himself was for Mary.

  In that case, he certainly wouldn't throw Mary aside—a fool would blow his nose and stare at his benefactor!

  Professors and doctors who blow their beards and stare at rich people in movies and TV shows are all idiots, so what about geniuses? Even if you are a genius, you can't print the funds for the experiment, can you? Without money, even if your IQ is 320, it is useless.

Of course, Professor Palmer is not that kind of idiot, so after boarding the airship, he first restrained his students and asked them to be polite to Mary—well, this actually doesn’t need Professor Palmer’s nonsense, a person like geoarchaeology The occupations that run outside in 365 days a year are basically men, and there are very few women. Now only a girl, Mary, joins Professor Palmer's research club. Those men are naturally excited, and they must dare not Mary is messing around.

   Then, Professor Palmer gave Mary a little treatment.

   This can’t be helped. Professor Palmer’s major is geological archaeology, while Mary’s archeology is more inclined to text analysis, and she doesn’t have a deep understanding of geology. And now that she has joined Professor Palmer's research association, the latter is of course unwilling to let his subordinates produce a fool, so he also tries his best to teach.

  The result surprised Professor Palmer.

  Geology and archaeology in geoarchaeology are equally important. Mary did not study geology too deeply. At first, Professor Palmer thought it might be more laborious. But what he didn't expect was that Mary seemed to be quite talented in this area. In many cases, just by observing a piece of strata ore or soil traces, she could almost guess the approximate age of the other party, and the difference was not bad.

  This also made Professor Palmer very excited, thinking that Mary is very promising in geoarchaeology. After all, knowledge can be accumulated and learned the day after tomorrow, but talents and feelings are innate.

  In fact, in many cases, this invisible and intangible thing is the symbol that determines whether a person can climb to the pinnacle of his career.

  For example, when a doctor sutures, some doctors will have a feeling that maybe it will be better to tighten it a little bit. Most of the doctors just follow the steps, and the patients treated by those doctors who have feelings are much faster than ordinary doctors.

  Or in terms of scientific research, sometimes faced with several different choices, some people feel that it is easier to go this way, so they choose this direction. But other people don't have this kind of feeling, they can only fool around - in the end, the one who has the feeling often succeeds in the end.

  Similar things happen in every industry, like a gut feeling, instinctive reaction. The same plant may be a weed in the eyes of ordinary people, but maybe some people instinctively feel that something is wrong, and if they touch it and dig it, wow! It's a new species!

   Talent, inspiration, instinct, intuition, no matter what it is, in a word, people with feelings will get twice the result with half the effort when conducting research and learning.

  Professor Palmer himself is not a top scholar, but he is also very envious of this talent. Now that he finds out that Mary has this talent, he is naturally very cheered up, and starts teaching her with all his heart.

Of course, if Duanmuhuai knew, he wouldn’t be surprised. After all, Mary has golden pupils that can see through everything in the world. Even if you put an unfamiliar ancient relic in front of her, even if Mary doesn’t have any basic knowledge, you probably won’t be surprised. Can guess an approximate time frame because of the golden pupil...

  Of course, if you have knowledge, you can understand it more thoroughly.

  Mary is naturally not the kind of proud and complacent young lady, and she also knows that it is a rare opportunity for her to be tutored by such a big professor alone—after all, they are taking an airship right now, so Mary will have time to receive tutoring from the professor. On weekdays, in the master's college, the big boss is either concentrating on hosting scientific research projects, or answering students' questions, how can he give you a small talk alone?

  So Mary also studied very hard and didn't relax at all.

  In this way, time passed day by day. After one planet, the Full Moon and Stars arrived at Tierra del Fuego smoothly, and met the icebreaker "Orion" waiting there, and finally embarked on the last journey to Antarctica.

  Captain Lake of Orion is quite famous in this industry, and he is also a very experienced captain. He has led expeditions and survey teams from various countries to Antarctica hundreds of times, and he is very familiar with the climate and ocean currents here. After loading the required instruments on board the ship in Tierra del Fuego, Orion also set off from the port and continued Heading to Antarctica.

   And Duanmuhuai also found the captain and started his own work.

   "I have to say, your luck is good."

  Captain Lake is a very talkative person, even when facing Duanmuhuai, he still has a smile on his face.

   "The recent period has been calm, which is a rare window period. Before you, only one expedition team had this luck."

   "You mean, did anyone else arrive earlier than us?"

  Hearing this, Duanmu Huai frowned, stared at Captain Lake and asked, and the latter nodded.

"Of course, I remember that they also seem to be from Europa's expedition team. They also approached me and asked me to prepare to take them to Antarctica immediately, but the weather was not very good at that time, and I was unwilling to take my crew. To take the risk, they hired another ship—strange to say, the weather improved shortly after they were out of port. If I had known such a good thing, maybe I would have made a profit of it. "

   "Do you know which research station they went to?"

  Antarctica in the 20th century is no longer like the 19th century. Anyone can go there. At present, Antarctica has been determined to be shared by the whole world. Many countries have established scientific research stations here, and these scientific research stations are usually empty. It will only be activated when summer comes, and when the window period is over, basically everyone will leave the scientific research station—after all, staying in this icy and snowy place, without supplies and communication, is basically the same as being on an alien planet .

  Generally speaking, the expedition team will stop at the scientific research station in the country. For example, the expedition team funded by Duanmuhuai this time will stay and station at the Queen Elizabeth Station, and then continue to explore the Antarctic continent in depth.

   So what about the expedition team?

"Hmm... I remember it seems to be the Georg Station in Germany. Oh, I have to contact them after arriving in Antarctica to confirm whether their situation is normal. After all, this **** weather has a great impact on communication... ..."

  No way, Antarctica is like this, just like an alien planet. Once something happens to a scientific research station, and even the communication cannot be transmitted in a snowstorm, it will really die and no one will know there.

  The road to Antarctica is naturally not smooth sailing. There are constant storms and the temperature is gradually dropping. Of course, for Duanmu Huai, this is not a problem. On the contrary, Lorena has a big problem-yes, the little girl is actually seasick!

   This is also the first time Duanmuhuai knows that Lorena is actually seasick!

   But thinking about it carefully, Lorena has traveled so many places with him, and she has been on everything, as if she has never been on a boat?

   All in all, the priest girl, who is always full of energy on weekdays, is lying in the cabin like a corpse, her face livid.

   "Uh...Miss Lorena, are you okay?"

   Looking at the pale face in front of her eyes, looking like a girl who has been pouted, Mary asked anxiously beside her. Lorena turned her head and looked at Mary silently.

   "Woo... I didn't expect that the boat ride would be so uncomfortable... It was fine in the first few days, but why did I suddenly feel dizzy and dizzy... Miss Mary, don't you feel uncomfortable?"

   "Uh... okay?"

   Facing Lorena's inquiry, Mary felt somewhat guilty. She didn't know why, and she didn't have any symptoms of seasickness at all.

   "Look, it seems that I still don't exercise enough..."

   While speaking, Lorena struggled to get up from the bed.

   "I'm going to run a hundred laps on the deck now, and it will definitely improve... Uh...!"

   "Miss Lorena, cheer up!!"

   Just as Lorena was dizzy in the cabin, Orion also crossed the last ocean current and came to the Antarctic—this is the oldest and rarely visited land completely covered by ice and snow.

   "Boom!!"

  The icebreaker hit a thick layer of ice, and the violent impact shook the entire hull. The thick ice was broken, and the icebreaker pushed forward again.

  In the cabin, Captain Lake also heaved a sigh of relief and looked at Duanmuhuai.

   "Okay, sir, so far, everything seems to be going well."

   "Well, this is the best."

  Duanmu Huai nodded, then left the cabin, and then he walked to the deck, where he saw Professor Palmer standing there, staring at the blue sky and white clouds in front of him.

   "It's so beautiful..."

  The old professor turned his head to look at Duanmuhuai while feeling emotional.

"Hehe, the real sky is really beautiful. To be honest, I have been in the master's college for a long time, and I almost forgot what the real sky is... In fact, many students even saw the blue sky for the first time. Woolen cloth."

"I understand."

Duanmuhuai nodded. Of course, he also saw the expressions of those students when they left Wudu and saw the blue sky. Even Mary looked shocked and surprised—this is also normal. Thinking about it carefully, since birth, they have been Living under a dark sky all the time, it is impossible to see what the real sky looks like unless you go abroad.

  Perhaps in their eyes, the sky has always been like that.

  But Duanmu Huai did not come here to chat with Professor Palmer.

   "Professor, since we have reached the Antarctic, there are some things that I need to clarify with you first."

   Duanmu Huai walked up to Professor Palmer and said calmly.

"What's up?"

"I think you may have noticed that we didn't come to Antarctica to see penguins, let alone geological archaeology. In fact, we have more important things. The reason why we chose the archaeological team to go together is purely for convenience. But in the future, we are likely to do what we should do, so if you find that we are missing, please don't worry, just concentrate on doing your own things."

"this………"

  Hearing this, Professor Palmer couldn't help but frowned. Antarctica is a very dangerous place, and generally speaking, it is not allowed to act alone. Indeed, as Duanmuhuai said, if they leave without saying a word, then maybe Palmer will think they are missing, and maybe he will come to find them.

  But now what does Duanmu Huai mean by this?

   "You know why I chose to sponsor you?"

   "This... I really don't know."

In fact, Professor Palmer himself has this question. Although he is a professor of geology and archaeology at the Royal Master's College, he is not the strongest among them. There are many people who are more powerful and famous than him. Not as good as him, but there are also many obedient ones. , so Palmer is also very curious why Duanmuhuai chose herself.

"I read one of your articles - "Proposals for Staged Excavation of Geological Archaeological Work"... You think that even if you encounter a very important relic, you should not dig it immediately, but start from the surrounding area and understand the basics first. Then move on step by step, right?"

   "Exactly."

  Professor Palmer nodded, and looked at Duanmuhuai suspiciously. It was indeed an article written by himself, but it only expounded some of his own practices and ideas. Why did he fall in love with it?

"Then, Professor Palmer, let me ask you, if there are relics that can overturn the entire world and the entire human history in front of you, as long as you dig out these relics, you can gain valuable knowledge and experience that ordinary people will never be able to obtain, and it may even make history If you leave your name, will you still stick to your own approach? Or will you try your best to take the lead?"

   "This... I don't know."

  Hearing Duanmuhuai's question, Professor Palmer thought for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile.

"After all, in my whole life, although I have made some achievements, I haven't encountered the relics that can subvert human history like what you said, Mr. Duanmu. I can't guarantee that I will be able to keep a clear head in the face of such temptations. But I think we should proceed with caution when it comes to excavations for archaeological research..."

"very good."

  Duanmu Huai nodded. As Professor Palmer said, in fact, the problems encountered by human beings in this world are not so serious. But many times they end up on the verge of destruction, and the biggest reason is that they want to take a shortcut.

  As a human being, I suddenly want to upgrade to an advanced creature.

  As a human being, I suddenly want to obtain the wisdom of the entire universe, and then dominate the world.

  Or they discovered an ancient relic, and after testing, they found that it could subvert human cognition and history, so they immediately excavated excitedly.

   This is the same as in a horror movie, where the protagonists go on an adventure, and then find that a certain place is closed, and then excitedly open the closed iron door to release the monster inside.

  There are bloodstains and wreckage everywhere outside, and everywhere reminds you that "this place is dangerous", but you still have to open the door with your hand... Who is to blame?

   Of course you are to blame.

  The same is true for most of the things about evil gods and relics in this world.

  Archaeologists have dug up the ruins of a certain old ruler. When they saw it, wow, it turns out that there were such powerful intelligent creatures in ancient times! Let us walk in their way too!

   Then I went to learn excitedly.

   I don’t even think about it, if they really succeed, will it be human beings’ turn to be the masters?

  Why did it disappear in the end?

   It must have overturned!

  In fact, most of the players in the game are very mature, and the reason is very simple. After all, in the game, when the players encounter the relics of various civilizations, the first reaction is to think about how this civilization got rid of themselves.

  It's like when the police saw the victim's body, they immediately began to think about whether he was shot, poisoned or committed suicide.

  Thinking of this, Duanmuhuai withdrew his thoughts and looked at Professor Palmer.

   "All in all, I am very optimistic about you, come on, if you are lucky, I will tell you something interesting when I come back."

   "Here, Mr. Duanmu, what on earth do you..."

  Professor Palmer is not a fool, of course he heard some hidden meanings from Duanmuhuai's words, and now he is looking at him in disbelief.

  However, before Professor Palmer finished speaking, Captain Lake came out of the cabin, interrupting their conversation.

   "Hey, you two, you better come and see!"

  (end of this chapter)