Chapter 248: Ice Age

Mu Ke spreads the black book out for all to see, a faxed report card clearly taped to the top of the left side of the book.

Mu Ke pointed to the numerical code drop in the lower left corner, "The number here is the year, month, and date, which you should be familiar with."

"0807." Liu Jiayi read it out, and as if she realized something, she looked to Bai Liu , "This is the date when we entered this game."

Liu Jiayi was already vaguely familiar with such a routine, she remembered the design of the last game, and was even more certain of what Bai Liu had told her about the speculation-

--The designers behind the game are intentionally targeting Bai Liu by having a copy of him log into the real world after he enters the game, in relation to him, or those around him.

This feeling of being backstabbed ...... Liu Jiayi upset pursed his lips.

Bai Liu's eyes fell on this faxed report card from a year ago - the English words on it were relatively simple, and he could understand them.

The fax was sent from another base, this one is called Taishan, which is obviously a Chinese name, and it's supposed to be a fax from the Domestic Observatory to this Edmund base.

The approximate content of this fax was:

[I'm sorry this sad thing happened when our plane landed on an icy airport while transporting hazardous materials ...... The five escorts on the plane also died on the spot ......]

[This ending is sad, but not unexpected, and surviving in the ice is a nightmare for all of us.]

[And the only meaning of our existence here is to study more past and future meteorological trajectories, to slow down the rate of global warming, and to fight for a better harmony with nature for all mankind until we die, which is the meaning of the life of each and every one of us Antarctic people. ......]

All of the Observatory was involved in the search for the plane, but when we did the count, we found three sealed boxes missing from the warehouse of the crashed plane, which didn't match the original number, and while I don't want to speculate on you guys like this, in Antarctica, dark metal boxes disappearing in the whiteout, without human intervention, that's not easy. That's not an easy task ......]

I know that long-time researchers in Antarctica, under such extremely boring conditions, are always curious about mysterious foreign things. You always want to explore and analyze everything, always thinking that there is a key to saving mankind and slowing down global warming hidden inside ......].

Edmund, I have to warn you seriously, those are some pretty dangerous boxes, I can't tell you anything about the boxes, it's not allowed to be public, I can only tell you that those boxes were supposed to be buried under the Untouchable Pole, not to be touched by anyone... ...]

[But Edmund, there are always dangerous things in this world that are worth keeping in awe and not touching to study, not everything is only objectively harmful like the weather ......]

[If you find any tracks of those three missing boxes, please do let me know, I need to seal them under Ice Dome A immediately.]

The inscription reads [Your Friends - Tarzan Observatory].

"This is a fax that was sent to all the observatories as a group, it shouldn't just be sent to the Edmund Observatory." Bai Liu came to a conclusion after reading it, he raised his eyes and looked around the circle, "Those three boxes containing them should have been secretly hidden by the researchers of other observatories."

"According to the main line of this game, we should just have to find the box first, and then figure out the cause of global cooling based on that box, and this Edmund Observatory should be hiding one of them."

Bai Liu looked to Mu Ke: "Mu Ke, you and Liu Jiayi stay at the original station and search to see if there are any other clues, Tang Er and I will hit Mu Sicheng to collect and bring food, and get ready to go to the other nearby observatories to look for other boxes."

Everyone nodded in agreement and spread out.

Bai Liu leveled his gaze onto the face of Tang Er who didn't say a word with a somber look, "Captain Tang, please come over here for a moment, I'd like to talk to you alone for a moment."

Tang Er hit the side of his head as he was about to turn away, and he turned around, silently following Bai Liu into one of the living compartments.

Bai Liu closed the door behind him.

In the small five square meter cabin, the two people were silent for a while. Although Bai Liu said that he wanted to talk to Tang Er, he did not have any intention to open his mouth first, but he just held his arms and closed his eyes flatly, as if waiting for Tang Er to open his mouth first.

So Tang Er hit spoke first, he looked sullen and his voice was raspy, "...... I'm sorry for my lapse in judgment, I shouldn't have allowed you to submit the body parts to the Heresy Authority, I didn't think it would be ...... "

After receiving this apology, Bai Liu took Tang Er's words this time without slowing down, "The fault is not all on you, this decision was also considered by myself, objectively, I do not have as perfect preservation conditions as the Heretic Authority, that's why I decided to put the body parts there in the flower field, letting the Heretic Authority excavate and seal them. "

But on a subjective level, while Bai Liu knew that there was someone behind this situation doing the pushing, which was inevitable anyway, the Heretic Authority did its best.

However, after learning that Sheta's body had actually ended up in such a situation, Bai Liu's mood was still a little, slightly unpleasant.

Sheta's body, Bai Liu, was originally intended to be preserved by himself in the real world, but considering the influence of this body and the fact that Bai Liu doesn't have his own place of residence in reality, and is now living in a low-cost apartment, he finally compromised after discussing with Tang Er Fight and decided to leave the body parts where they are, to be taken over by the Heresy Authority.

It's kind of like Bai Liu selling Tang Er to fight a thin side.

But I didn't expect it to hit me in the face so soon.

Tang Er fight while worrying about the reality of the five escorts, at the same time difficult to accept Bai Liu seems to be gently, but in fact, the gun with a stick inquiry, a moment of inner bitterness beyond description, are some soul, only eyes reddened lowered his head, and mumbled: "...... is my s fault, or those five escort will not send life ......"

"It's not necessarily dead yet." Bai Liu calmly stopped Tang Er from hitting the head.

Tang Er hit couldn't help but raise his head violently, he looked straight at Bai Liu : "You have a way?!"

Bai Liu felt Tang Er's ears and tail stand up in a flash.

Coach Tang is so tough on everyone during training that Bai Liu doesn't really think about the guy's original canine personality.

But after Tang Er hit himself so out of context, he seemed to look away in shame, clenched his fists hard, and said instead, "No that's fine, I'll try logging out of the game first to see if I can stop the plane from taking off ......"

Tang Er hit there, the cause of this situation is mainly due to him, Bai Liu can also be considered a victim, but now want this victim to help out ideas ......

All in all not the kind of thing Tang Er could do with a fight.

Bai Liu has already had a run-in with the man behind it in Rose Factory, and from what he knows of the man, it's not like he's going to mercifully leave them with game designers who can exploit the situation.

He reached out faintly, stopping the Tang Er from punching out his own panel, "The plane's more than likely taken off, and you logging out of the game to go back to reality is only going to speed up the passage of time, so you might as well play the route through this game first, and find out why things have gone the way they've gone and what can be done to undo it."

Tang Er hit slowly lowered the panel, "You have a game idea?"

Bai Liu nodded, "Yes, but there is still a lack of information, the game is designed with reference to the background of reality, you said before that you trained in Antarctica in reality, you should have a relatively good understanding of the situation here, tell me specifically."

"Where do I start?" Tang Er asked.

Bai Liu lifted his eyes, "Start at the beginning and go from there, like why did you come here for training?"

Tang Er hit took a deep breath, "...... I came here on duty for a year, flew helicopters for a while, and carried out The Zone 4 Program."

Bai Liu raises an eyebrow, "The Zone 4 program?"

Tang Er hit to explain, "The Four Zones Program is a program that examines whether the geography here in Antarctica is suitable for use in a new Heresy Management Zone, because this side of Antarctica is sparsely populated and is very suitable for sealing off extraordinarily dangerous heresies."

"Then why wasn't it built in the end?" Bai Liu asked rhetorically.

"Because of the large-scale construction over here, it's too hard to avoid the observation crews from other countries, the domestic observation crews slightly know something about the Plan of the Four Districts, because the matter of building a new district has been communicated with them, but these foreign observation crews they don't know everything about the heretics."

Tang Er typed with a sigh, "With a resident population of over five thousand people in Antarctica during the summer, there was no way we could risk telling everyone about the existence of the Heresy by building a new district here, and ultimately, we abandoned the District Four Program."

Bai Liu asked nonchalantly, "Then why did his body parts make you restart the program again?"

"The retention data from the Zone 4 Program shows that if a highly dangerous psychopathic contaminant heretic is to be sealed, this is the safest place to seal it." Tang Er typed.

Bai Liu turned the tables, "Do you have any impressions of this Edmund Observatory?"

Tang Er hit a slight pause, contemplating back before answering, "No, there is no such observatory in the real world."

Bai Liu: "What about the Taishan Observatory?"

Tang Er hit an honest shake of his head, "If my memory serves me correctly, the domestic observatory isn't called that either."

Bai Liu nodded knowingly - it looked like the situation was the same as in Exploding Last Train.

The people behind it referenced reality, but didn't fully substitute it to design the game.

Bai Liu asked differently, "And do you remember any observatories located near the pole?"

Judging from the Antarctic map posted on the wall of the game's Edmund Observatory, the Edmund Observatory is located a hundred meters near the South Pole.

Tang Er hit wrinkled his brow, "...... There is, an observatory in A right here."

Bai Liu then asked, "And do you know what kind of research they're mainly doing now?"

Tang Er hit realized what Bai Liu wanted to ask, he slowly, arduously replied, "...... specific unclear, the external said is the impact of special low temperature animals on the climate recovery, I stayed over here when I heard the other team members and I said, they study these special low temperature animals are include two forms, the living and the dead ......"

"Bai Liu--" Mu Sicheng, holding up a book of some sort, rushed in without knocking on the door, gasping for breath and shoving the object in his hand into Bai Liu's arms excitedly. "Look at this!"

Bai Liu drops his eyes to look up at the object in his hand - it's a package wrapped tightly in tarpaulin, four-square, with a waterproof label attached to the package.

The label is in English: [Special Cryogenic Animal Remnant Sections (Cells Still Active) and Surface Temperature Alteration Research Fact Sheet].