Chapter 249: Ice Age

Bai Liu found a pair of scissors from a drawer in the dormitory, and covered his hand with them to warm them up for a moment before he was able to smoothly pull out the blade, which he used to cut through the tarpaulin, revealing what was wrapped up inside.

It was a neatly divided stack of lab report cards.

These lab sheets are full of specialized English acronyms, measurements and graphs, and strange black and white or color stained photos of sections, all of which are difficult to read and unlikely to be understood by the average person without the aid of appropriate knowledge.

Bai Liu briefly flipped through it, then looked up at Mu Sicheng: "Where did you find this thing?"

Mu Sicheng took his breath away and said, "The basement, just now when I went out to check the helicopter hangar, I found a zippered cellar door tucked under the docking board, and underneath was a two-story basement with all sorts of experimental equipment, and some pickled cabbages and radishes."

"Were there any lab record logs and related finished papers found in this basement?" Bai Liu asked.

The lab reports of these people's research were so raw material that Bai Liu needed at least some transition to the basics to understand what the data on these reports meant.

Mu Sicheng shook his head, "I didn't look hard enough, this bag was sitting on the desktop, I felt it was important, I took it and came up to show you first."

Bai Liu: "Get Mu Ke over here, you follow Liu Jiayi to count the food on the first floor and prepare the portions we'll need for our outing, and Mu Ke and I will go down to the basement to take a look."

Mu Sicheng turned to Mu Ke, Bai Liu gave Tang Er a sideways glance and handed him the document in his hand, "Can you read it?"

"I can read some of it." Tang Er hit just briefly flipped through it and quickly replied, but his eyes stopped on a certain chart, "This chart ...... is a pattern drawn after using dual-frequency radar echoes to repeatedly detect the thickness of the ice underneath, and after obtaining the detection data, you can see the topography of the ice underneath according to this pattern, making it easier to drill through the ice without encountering obstacles such as rocks. You can see the terrain under the ice according to this pattern, so that you can drill through the ice without encountering rocks and other obstacles."

Bai Liu noticed the difference in Tang Er's expression and asked, "Is there anything wrong with this chart?"

Tang Er hit hesitates for a moment, then points to the following note on the chart, "This chart is a very common chart for ice detection in the polar regions, but it detects the location of dome A, or Ice Dome A."

"There are only domestic observatories stationed near Ice Dome A. It belongs to the research area of the domestic observatories, and although the atmosphere between the observatories of the various countries on this side of the Antarctic is relatively peaceful, the division of the research area between them is also relatively clear, and the Edmund Observatory is not able or qualified to explore Ice Dome A. That is to say, it is impossible for the Edmund Observatory here to have any information about any first-hand experimental data."

Tang Er hit puzzled and flipped through a few more pages of experimental report data, "But they've got quite a few ice probes on Ice Dome A here, ice core research reports, that's not normal."

"One Observatory has classified research information from another." Bai Liu lightly swept a glance at the information in Tang Er's hand, "Common sense says there are only two possibilities."

Tang Er hit to look over, Bai Liu continued without a hitch, "One good possibility is that the domestic observatory, the in-game Taishan Station, took the initiative to share its first-hand experimental data with the Edmund Observatory."

Tang Er hit wrinkled his eyebrows and denied, "That's impossible, this is a serious scientific data leak."

Bai Liu glances up and smiles, "It seems that Captain Tang prefers the bad possibility as much as I do - that the Edmund Observatory somehow forced its way into the research data of Ice Dome A."

"Or worse, these guys from Edmund Observatory just killed the people from Tarzan's station and then took over Tarzan's observatory to make scientific measurements of Ice Dome A." Liu Jiayi appeared at the door.

She leaned against the door prong with her arms wrapped around her, raising an eyebrow at Bai Liu : "- I found Edmund's quarters, and I get the feeling that this guy isn't just some scientist who's as light as ice, and from the looks of what's left of the quarters, he's not exactly low on aggression."

"Take us up to take a look." Bai Liu stepped forward and took Liu Jiayi's hand, naturally exchanging his warmed gloves with Liu Jiayi's empty ones and putting them on her.

The researchers on this side of the Edmund Station are all big and tall, not a single child, so the supporting clothing is also wide, Bai Liu wears a blouse that reaches past his knees to his ankles, not to mention Liu Jiayi.

Although Liu Jiayi had the foresight to wrap herself in several pieces of clothing and looked quite neat, the gaps in her clothes inevitably leaked, such as her gloves.

But Liu Jiayi is strong and doesn't like to be taken care of. Now that her hands are freezing cold, she not only doesn't say a word, but also doesn't show it on her face, and looks much more dignified than Mu Sicheng, an adult in his twenties.

Bai Liu changed the gloves so naturally, as if he was born to change the gloves for Liu Jiayi, that the others didn't even realize what he had done.

Liu Jiayi just gave a beat and held Bai Liu's hand, "Edmund's cabin is on the 4th floor."

She doesn't like these very aggressive males, they always make her think of something bad, and seeing them makes her subconsciously a bit repulsed and agitated, but Bai Liu is also a ridiculously aggressive male, it's just that it's not obvious at all ......

Liu Jiayi shook Bai Liu's warm and wide gloves, covered his face and exhaled a mouthful of vapor, pursed his lips and looked much calmer.

Although Bai Liu was also quite annoying, she just accepted the man well for some reason.

Liu Jiayi led Bai Liu all the way to the corner, where there was a room that was about a square meter wide compared to the other cabins, and Bai Liu looked up to see the wind coming in through the cracks in the window seals, whistling through and taking away all the temperature.

Around the seal there are drops of condensed ballpoint pen thick ice prisms, in the dim light dense light.

Liu Jiayi stuffed his gloves into his pocket, "I didn't realize at first that this habitation cabin was the one of Edmund, the boss, because it was located in the windy part of the country and was the first to be blown away in any stormy weather, it was too dangerous for a base administrator to live here, and there was a good chance that he could have frozen to death in his sleep."

"But I found this behind the door." Liu Jiayi kicked the door of the frozen room.

The ice-stained door clicked with a crunch and then slammed shut under the wind, and on the door hung iron hooks, on which neatly hung a row of modified rifles about 70cm long, with the same ice prisms on their muzzles.

"None of the other rooms I found signs of gunfire, basically books and computers, drugs and such, only this one had a gun and quite a few reserve bullets."

Liu Jiayi hooked a box under the bed with her toes and yanked it outward with a strong tug at her waist, she exhaled a long breath and sneered as she stomped on the neatly arranged 7.62mm bullets in this box with her toes:

"I thought at first it belonged to some military guy at the observatory, but I turned up purchase invoices for reimbursement under this case of ammo, and the gun and/bullets were purchased in Edmund's personal name, which would make this his living quarters."

Tang Er frowned, "The Antarctic Convention prohibits the use of gun-type military weapons by those in the Observatory, and the storage of similar items is strictly forbidden here."

Liu Jiayi shrugged, "But he just used it, and when I look at the date of purchase and notes on the invoice, it's still the same one that he had already arrived in Antarctica and then asked the helicopter transport crew in Antarctica to purchase and ship it for him on the grounds of self-preservation."

"And he's supposed to live here alone, I've found no sign of a second person having lived here, and I guess no one but him knows about him having a gun."

Bai Liu glances over the pile of rifles and stands again at the doorway of the room, simulating an empty raised gun pose, looking halfway up the floor through the non-existent sniper holes:

"So this Edmund buys cartridge rifles and hides them in his room in the name of self-defense, preferring to live alone and risk freezing to death in the bitterly cold, windswept habitation at the end, where he raises his rifle every day in the cold, and the only people he can point it at are the people in the other habitation cabins on this cloister-- "

Bai Liu put down the "gun" in his hand and said with some interest, "It seems that this Dr. Edmund is afraid of some other people in the Observatory attacking him, and has become so afraid that he has to buy a gun to protect himself."

Mu Ke walked up from the corner of the third to the fourth floor, followed by Mu Sicheng.

They saw Bai Liu at the end of the corridor, and Mu Ke walked over with a slightly gloomy expression, took out a large stack of lists and handed them over, explaining, "When Mu Sicheng and I were making food preparations for your trip, we saw that a large amount of fresh food in the warehouse had rotted, and a large amount of canned food was left untouched, with the outer seals not even being opened. removed."

"Mu Sicheng and I both felt that something was not quite right, so we went to check the running list that records the consumption of food and medication here, and just now I took a brief look at it, and at first I didn't find anything wrong, but then I realized that the amount of food consumed and the amount of food retained on the item [Consumption of Necessary Intake Items] written on the running list didn't match up. "

"But then I double-checked the consumption of food and medication, and realized that although all that was recorded on [Consumption of Necessary Intake Items] was the name of the food, the various food items on it didn't represent real food, and that these food items actually referred to a wide variety of medications, such as bread referring to [Lithium Carbonate]."

Mu Ke stared intently at Bai Liu : "The people in this observation are taking the drugs like a meal, serving them three times a day, and there are people who are forcing them to take these drugs."

Bai Liu asked, "Any idea what kind of drugs?"

"Lorazepam, Desitin, Chlorpromazine, Olanzapine ......" Mu Ke reported the long list of drug names without pausing for a single word, and then gave his conclusion, "Mostly anti-severe depression, severe anxiety, and mania-type psychotherapeutic drugs."

"The people at the Edmund Observatory are ingesting so much of these drugs on a daily basis that they don't even eat much food anymore." Mu Ke took a deep breath, "If that's true, then this place is the equivalent of a psychiatric hospital on the very ground, and these are still very physically fit, aggressive and seriously ill people at the onset."

Bai Liu shifts his gaze to the floor of Edmund's room, where a whole box of cold bullets sits.

"I can probably understand why Dr. Edmund is buying guns and bullets." Bai Liu said softly, "He's trying to imprison and control these dangerous patients."