Chapter 247: Ice Age

After saying this, Spades closed the door, and when Bai Liu opened it again, he had already disappeared in the snow.

...... This is probably meant to be a fair fight with him?

Bai Liu raises an eyebrow, closes the door, squeezes his frozen-to-numb fingertips, gathers his punching bag, and turns around to see Tang Er hitting them.

Tang Er Ta, also wearing a thick jumper, let out a puff of white air as he opened his mouth, "- the power in the house is off, we need to overhaul the insulation or we'll all freeze to death."

"Do you know how to overhaul it?" Bai Liu asked.

Tang Er nods, "I've trained in similar extreme environments, and I know how to use all the basic equipment, but the overhaul is going to have to go outside to inspect it, and the winds are too strong here, and it's going to take someone holding my safety harness, or I'll be blown apart by the wind."

"I'll follow you." Mu Sicheng dryly donned his protective clothing.

The two men moved quickly to tighten the safety harnesses around their waists, opened the door to the room, and after a few hard moves through the snow and wind that raged so hard that they could barely close the door, headed outside.

Not long after, Mu Sicheng and Tang Er hit the two men pulling the safety rope back, Bai Liu, who was guarding the door, immediately closed the door.

Just for a short while, the snow blowing in through the crack of the open door had frozen and stuck to the back of the door, and Mu Sicheng's teeth chattered as he tried to take the safety rope off the hook next to the door, but because his hands were too cold, he failed to take it off several times, and Mu Ke helped him to take it off.

"It's ...... too Damn it cold!" Mu Sicheng's feet jumped in the cold and he huffed and puffed and gasped into his hands, trying to warm himself up.

Bai Liu noticed that Mu Sicheng had simply gone outside, and in less than ten minutes, his hands were already frozen red and purple, and his knuckles couldn't even bend, looking like a piece of gangrenous flesh.

It was only when the light bulbs came on in the room as the power was restored that Bai Liu could really see where they were.

In front of them was a very narrow and low ventilation duct, the walls were strong containerized shingled boards, a material generally used to build temporary living places on the construction site, a bright incandescent bulb hung overhead, and the windows on both sides of the wall were embedded with seals around them, through which the half-frozen windows could see the incessant whistling blizzard outside the house.

The eye falls to the end of the ventilation shaft, where a sign is pinned crookedly, reading, [Edmund South Pole Station (Edmund South Pole Observation Scientific Research Station)].

Bai Liu looked at the sign for a few seconds before he looked down and opened his system panel, which was a sliver of notifications he hadn't yet checked.

[System alert: Welcome to the game "Ice Age"]

[System Alert: Player obtains the game's main quest - Global Warming]

[Background hint: A year ago, a sudden and never-ending snowstorm swept the world from Antarctica, accompanied by meteorological problems such as lower temperatures, shifting ocean currents, and thickening clouds, and everywhere began to freeze ......]

[...... It's as if the Antarctic ice cap has turned into a pervasive disease that has begun to spread throughout the world, with meteorologists claiming that we've been forced into yet another major ice age since the fourth Ice Age due to some sort of force majeure, and that unsuspecting human beings are dying in large numbers due to food shortages and excessively cold weather... ...]

[Subsequently, all scientific research on the Antarctic was forced to stop, and you, an explorer with insider information, were told that it was all related to a shady scientific research activity on the Antarctic, and you, keen on exploring, assembled your own team, and, after receiving funding from United Antarctic Glaciers, traveled to the Antarctic, wanting to explore the frigid secrets under the layers of the icecap].

[You took a plane to Antarctica, but got lost in a blizzard, and in a moment of urgency, you found this abandoned observatory in the snow, and forced a breakthrough to get in to escape the blizzard.]

[ - Players are asked to remember that you are a great explorer! Please be brave enough to explore and discover to find out the truth and make the globe warm again!]

[Current progress of the main mission: 0%]

[Player's current geographic location: Edmund Antarctic Polar Observatory Scientific Research Station]

At this time Mu Sicheng also finished reading the game's introduction and couldn't help but spit out, "What's this? Isn't the real world in the midst of global warming? What the hell is entering an ice age?"

Liu Jiayi, who is trapped in a thick down jacket, is more sensitive to temperature than adults like Bai Liu, and as soon as she entered the game, she found all kinds of clothes for herself and wrapped herself up like a ball.

After reading this game introduction, she wrinkled her eyebrows and reminded, "Bai Liu, the game pool simulates a league, in the game pool our store trading system is closed, we can't buy any items from the store, if this is the background, food and warm clothes are the first thing we need to solve."

"Or we won't be able to stay for more than a few days before we have to take it and voluntarily quit from this game."

Bai Liu couldn't agree more with Liu Jiayi's statement, he nodded and gave orders, "Mu Ke go search the warehouse for food reserves, Tang Er fight and Mu Sicheng go to overhaul the whole building and make it the base point for our expedition, Jiayi and I will go to the control room to find out if there are any black boxes or journals to record what happened here a year ago. What happened here a year ago."

"Good / OK / Got it!"

After receiving their orders, Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi dispersed, and Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi searched for the base's control room - luckily, the base wasn't particularly large, and they soon found it.

Unfortunately the door to the control room was open, and it was filled with snow clumps that were now slowly melting under the blow of the resumption of the functioning warm air system.

Looking at the frosty and snowy console, Liu Jiayi rubbed his hands together and sighed old-fashionedly, "It looks like the black box is going to have to wait for Tang Er to hit them to see if it can be serviced."

Bai Liu half-squatted down, he put on a glove and took a chisel and began to hammer at the crevices of the drawers - these were also sealed solid with solidified ice, which had to be cleared away in order to open the drawers.

Fortunately, the ice in these places is not very thick, Bai Liu chiseled not two times, and then the whole piece fell off.

Bai Liu pulls open the stuttering drawer, which is not covered in accumulated dust, but rather in a shallow layer of frozen snow, which, when brushed away, reveals that some black leather notebooks are stored here.

According to Bai Liu's common sense, in a horror game, this kind of book is usually used to give the plot, that is, there must be a diary or other records inside.

But the moment he flipped it open, it was fixed.

Liu Jiayi, who was rummaging through the other drawers, saw Bai Liu holding a book without moving, and curiously probed over: "This book has material at a glance, why don't you say something ......"

The moment Liu Jiayi saw the contents of Bai Liu's book, she too paused subtly.

The book was neat and smooth, all in English print.

And Bai Liu as a social animal from society, although in doing horror games will encounter a lot of English reading, but that are relatively simple, and read this large number of, intensive, but also mixed with a lot of specialized vocabulary of the English scientific research diary ......

Bai Liu closed the book with a frank, "Show it to Mu Ke later, I can't read it."

Also unreadable Liu Jiayi : "......"

Although rationally knowing that Bai Liu can't read is a normal thing, after all, intelligence and language ability are not the same thing, but why does she find it so strange ......

The Edmund Observatory is not very large and has four floors.

The first floor was the reserve area, fuel food fresh water and out clothing were all present in different storage areas on this floor, wrapped in layers of plastic sheeting, the two helicopter hangars were exposed outdoors, simply sheltered by a shed.

The second floor is the living quarters, with a sauna, dining room, office area, and a couple of computers that have been sitting there for I don't know how long.

The third and fourth floors were dormitories, or living quarters, very cramped, less than five square meters hard packed with two bunk beds, cramped with a cowering warmth.

Judging from the dormitories and residences, the entire base should have a personnel capacity of around eighty to a hundred, and it should be quite crowded for a normal stay, but now that it was empty, there was another eerie sense of hustle and bustle.

Liu Jiayi's gaze swept over the congealed and pulled-up noodles on the dining table, the half-cut and moldy potatoes on the counter, and the gas switch turned up to high heat.

"The people here should have left in a hurry." She concluded.

Bai Liu walked down from the corner of the third floor, nuancing Liu Jiayi's theory: "--or tied to walk in a hurry."

Liu Jiayi looks up.

Bai Liu shook a pair of underwear and socks he was holding, "I found them by the bed in the dormitory, and in this cold weather I don't think anyone would panic and run outdoors without even wearing underwear and socks."

Liu Jiayi questioned, "Is it possible that these people were frightened by something and fled without even putting on their clothes?"

"Unlikely." Mu Ke, who had finished inspecting the warehouse, came up from the corner staircase on the first floor, and he looked at Liu Jiayi, "I just went to see their showroom, the personnel of the Edmund Observatory are all professional mountaineers, firefighters, and scientific researchers who have been trained quite well, and they've won a lot of honors, and they've also endured all sorts of extreme scenarios, so it's hard to scare all of them into this kind of situation in general. them all into such a fright."

Mu Ke said glancing at the food that was only half moved.

"They should know very well that running out of here without taking anything is no different than sending them to their deaths."

Mu Sicheng and Tang Er came down from the rooftop on the fourth floor, both of them having just gone to overhaul the radio station.

Mu Sicheng was so cold that his cheeks turned blue, and after he came down, he found a random dormitory and shrunk under the covers, and then started shivering like crazy.

Tang Er hit the look at the situation better, but take the gloves, Bai Liu saw his palm was also glued down a piece of bloody skin, bloody wounds exposed in the air, but a drop of blood did not flow down.

Because it's so cold, the blood is clotting.

Tang Er hit noticed Bai Liu's line of sight and explained, "The setup table was too cold, and there was no way to adjust the tight equipment through the gloves, so I took the gloves and touched it-"

"--and then a piece of skin was glued off by the metal on it?" Bai Liu picked up the second half of the sentence.

Liu Jiayi took out the antidote spray and sprayed it on Tang Er's palm, the wound slowly healed, but Mu Sicheng, who was dying of cold on the bed, couldn't get better and looked more out of breath than in.

The antidote can heal wounds, but there is no cure for the cold.

"I saw the outdoor weather thermometer." Tang Er hit gripped his recovered hand as he gruffly raised his eyes to Bai Liu, "-Fifty degrees below zero, we can't stay in this extreme weather for long, we'll freeze to death soon, we need to exit quickly- - "The game ......

Mu Ke, who was reading the black leather book Bai Liu handed him at this time, looked green and white for a moment as he interrupted Tang Er typing in a shaky voice, "--This Edmund Observatory studies the body parts sent over by the Heresy Disposal Bureau."

Tang Er beat his heart and denied without thinking, "Impossible, the Heretic Authority's stuff is stipulated in the convention, not to supply any country's to do economic, military, cultural and political scientific research use, the Heretic Authority's only scientific research purpose can only be to shelter!"

"With Sector 3 picking up this side, and five Sector 1 escorts, there's no way they're going to let anyone else work on Heretic Authority stuff!"

Mu Ke let out a long breath, the vapor misting into a layer of unreadable frost in front of his eyes, and his voice was soft:

"What if I told you that the plane transporting the corpse heretics crashed instantly on arrival at the South Pole, and that the five escorts on board the plane died violently on the spot?"