Antarctica, the continent with the highest average altitude in the world.
The continent is almost entirely covered by glaciers, accounting for more than 80% of the world's modern ice sheet area.
The continental glaciers extend from the center to the sea, forming the huge Ross Ice Barrier, with icebergs floating on the surrounding sea.
Two icebreakers and a research vessel carefully passed between the two icebergs.
There is no way. Even the most advanced sonar equipment cannot guarantee 100% effectiveness against icebergs.
The most frightening thing about an iceberg is not the part that is exposed above the surface, but the fact that you never know how huge the iceberg is hidden under the sea.
Tang Song stood on the bow of the icebreaker, leaning on a cane, looking at the vast expanse of white Antarctic snowfield.
Including this world, he has been a human for three lifetimes, but he has never been to places like the South Pole and the North Pole, which are completely covered with ice and snow.
It is very spectacular, with a sense of thousands of miles of ice and thousands of miles of snow.
Behind Tang Song, several bodyguards were quietly guarding various places on the bow. When they arrived at the Antarctic, they didn't need to cover up at all and just put on their equipment directly.
He was wearing the Dark Lord armor, a fully enclosed helmet, and holding the latest assault rifle from Stark Industries.
Although they are in Antarctica with a temperature of dozens of degrees below zero, because their Black Magic Armor has its own temperature regulation function, they do not have any bulky coats on their bodies except for the armor.
As for Tang Song, he was still wearing his white suit, and the biting cold wind didn't seem to have any effect on him.
Crash!
A row of chubby penguins on the iceberg tilted their heads to look at the passing icebreaker, and then lined up to jump into the cold sea.
The leading penguin dived into the sea, looking for krill and small fish to fill its stomach. The next moment, the penguin almost flew out of the water, making a shrill scream.
Then the group of penguins rushed out of the sea as if their nest had exploded, and crawled directly back to the ice.
Amid the noisy chirping of a group of penguins, a black python as thick as a bucket swam under the ice.
“Hiss!”
A black python with a huge sturgeon in its mouth was swimming under the ice sheet. When it swam across the ice where the group of penguins were, a hint of evil humor flashed in the black python's eyes.
A thick snake tail slammed heavily on the ice surface. With a loud crash and the sound of the ice sheet cracking, the group of penguins fell into the sea in panic amid the chirping of others.
Wow…
The penguins kicked up their short legs and swam desperately towards the ice around them, finally climbing onto the ice.
The sea was calm, with only occasional ice floes floating by, and there was no trace of the black python.
"Chichi..."
A fat penguin stood angrily on the ice, chirping and spitting in the direction of the departing icebreaker.
hiss!
A blue light suddenly shot out from the sea in the distance and hit the fat penguin directly.
The unlucky fat penguin was electrocuted and his entire body went numb.
"Chichi..." He screamed and a wisp of white smoke came out of his mouth.
… …
"Oh! Naughty!"
Tang Song "saw" Xiao Hei's naughty behavior and smiled.
"Anna told me that your Cobra base is under the Arctic ice cap!"
The white ghost in a white ninja suit stood behind Tang Song holding a samurai sword. There was a faint golden light flashing in the depths of his heart.
Those were the traces left after the demon curse was planted in one's heart and one was converted.
After he "voluntarily" signed the snake skin scroll, under the influence of the Heart Demon Curse, he has become Boss Tang's most loyal guard.
Hearing Tang Song's question, Bai Youling nodded.
"I followed the commander to the Arctic base. It is indeed under the ice cap and can only be accessed by submarine!"
"Is the base very large?" Tang Song "watched" Xiao Hei shuttling among a group of krill, swallowing them in big mouthfuls.
As Xiao Hei's blood and food increased in the past few days, his body became larger and larger. There were even two bulges faintly appearing in front of his snake body. Those were his newly formed claws, a sign of transformation into a dragon.
Generally speaking, snakes and pythons transform into dragons and dragons, unless they are lucky enough to eat natural treasures or have inherited a method.
If it is not a natural alien species, an ordinary wild snake or python would need to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon for at least a hundred years to transform into a dragon.
Although the little black snake is the product of Boss Tang's genetic blending, it has swallowed a lot of blood pills condensed from vampire blood during the time it has followed him.
He eats all kinds of essence-nourishing pills and qi-invigorating pills as if they were candy beans, and even drinks the spiritual liquid condensed in the cave where Tang and Song practiced as if it were water.
It hasn't been long since then, but this guy is almost transforming from a black python into a black dragon.
A Qiu is a small dragon without horns!
In the world of Yama, not to mention black snakes, even dragons are not rare. In some deep mountains, ancient pools, and large swamps, dragons and snakes are everywhere.
As long as there is a large lake with some spiritual energy, it should be no problem to find a dozen powerful dragons and snakes.
Not to mention the sea outside Jambu, some real dragons are spreading their seeds in large numbers, and there are at least tens of thousands of dragon seeds in the sea.
But in the Marvel Universe, a black dragon is truly unique.
Tang Song casually scattered a handful of blood-colored balls. As the icebreaker passed by, countless fish swam under the boat, scrambling for the blood balls like crazy.
The sea water instantly turned blood red, and the blood was surging. A thick black python swam back and forth in it, feasting on the food.
"The base is about the size of four or five football fields, with six floors, each floor is about three meters high, and it is all built on the seabed!"
"Oh?" After Tang Song scattered the blood pills, he clapped his hands and turned back in surprise.
"How long has the Cobra organization been established? I heard from Anna that it is no more than five years.
An undersea base of this size is not something an organization that has only been established for five years is capable of building!"
"I have not been in Cobra for long, but this base was definitely not built by Cobra itself," White Ghost shook his head.
"I heard from the commander that this seems to be an abandoned base of a mysterious organization during World War II. The name Cobra comes from the diagram left by this organization in the base!"
"Hydra!"
This was the first name that came to Tang Song’s mind after hearing Bai Youling’s description.
During World War II, there were not many organizations capable of building such a large base, and it was abandoned during World War II, which obviously showed that it had experienced a major change.
There are not many forces that meet this standard, and Hydra is the most suitable one.
But whether it is Hydra or not, this Arctic base has to change its name.
Not only this underwater base, but also the nanoworm medicine developed by Cobra.
With two undercover agents, Bai Youling and Anna, for Boss Tang, a small cobra can be easily defeated.
… …
The working principle of an icebreaker is to rely on the powerful power engine on board to move its bow onto the ice surface when it starts moving.
When the bow emerges from the water, it regains its full gravity, and this huge gravity can crush the ice.
The underwater part of its bow is tilted greatly to facilitate icebreaking. At the same time, in order to strengthen the force, the water tank at the bow is sometimes filled with water - liquid ballast.
When encountering ice blocks that are more than half a meter thick, the ship's impact force is used to subdue it. At this time, the icebreaker will retreat and then use its entire mass to slam into the ice blocks.
At this time, it is no longer gravity that is at work, but the kinetic energy of the moving ship;
The ship seemed to have turned into a cannonball with low speed but huge mass, and became a battering ram.
However, when arriving in the Antarctic waters, there are icebergs that are often more than ten meters high. The icebreaker needs to use its sturdy bow to violently hit them several times, or even more than ten times, to break them.
As we went deeper into the interior of Antarctica, there were more and larger floating icebergs on the sea surface. In the end, even with the two icebreakers running at full speed, they could only travel less than 30 nautical miles a day.
The three ships sailed on the ice for five days and five nights before reaching their destination - Bouvet Island in Area 14 of Antarctica.
"It's been such a long time!"
Jacob pushed the wheelchair, and Charles Weiland sat in the wheelchair, overlooking the deserted island covered with ice and snow in the distance, and sighed.
"Have you been here?" Tang Song stood aside, leaning on his cane, watching a group of mercenaries unloading supplies from the ship.
"It was many years ago!"
Charles Wayland looked as if he was overwhelmed by the past.
"Tang, you should know that you are not the only one who needs to complete the test to join the Brotherhood of the Shield!"
As if he was getting closer to his destination, Charles Weiland spoke a little more, which was rare.
"These aliens?"
Tang Song tilted his head and asked.
"No, there are some more difficult things. They use the earth as a testing ground! Ahem."
It seemed that the cold wind he inhaled irritated his lungs. After just a few words, Charles Weiland nodded towards Tang Song apologetically, and Jacob beside him quickly put on an oxygen mask for him.
The mercenaries under Charles were very fast in transporting supplies.
In less than an hour, most of the supplies on the three ships were unloaded.
More than a dozen tracked snowmobiles look like snow tanks. The thick ice in Antarctica is enough to withstand these big guys weighing several tons.
"boss!"
In front of the snowmobiles, Fox and Anna walked towards the one Tang Song was riding in.
Fortunately, a snowmobile can accommodate up to five people, which is more than enough to accommodate the three of them, excluding the driver.
On the snowmobile, the driver was driving intently. It was dark outside, and only the lights of a dozen snowmobiles illuminated the road ahead.
"Um?"
Tang Song felt that the Baroness, who had tasted the sweetness of the food, was a little dishonest, so he drew talismans in the air. A sound-proofing talisman and a blinding talisman covered the carriage and the cockpit.
Unlike ordinary cars, tracked snowmobiles do not slip when driving on ice, and even if there is some movement inside, there is no shaking or vibration.
… …
Half an hour later, more than a dozen snowmobiles drove into Bouvet Island.
"It's right below. Below that abandoned whaling station is our destination!"
Tang Song pushed open the door of the snowmobile and played with a white jade box in his hands behind his back. Two strands of translucent green light were floating around and he casually pressed them into the box.
"The pyramid is right below that whaling station, 2,000 feet under the ice!"
Tang Song walked on the thick snow to Charles Weiland's side and followed his gaze towards the abandoned buildings in the depression.
"Mr. Weiland said you've been here before? Now that we're here, we should explain some things clearly so that the people below can be prepared!"
"Ahem," Charles Weiland coughed a few times, "That was more than a decade ago. At that time, my satellite detected a thermal reaction in this area.
Through echo detection, it was discovered that there is a pyramid ruin under this glacier, which is suspected to be left by extraterrestrial life.
So I organized a group of elite scientific expedition teams to come here to investigate the situation!"
Charles Weiland seemed to be thinking of some painful memories, and his face looked a little ugly.
"I didn't expect that there was an altar and a hunting ground below. A group of aliens used humans as sacrifices to cultivate aliens as a trial for their coming-of-age rite!"
"After we entered the pyramid, we activated the altar and released a large number of alien eggs. Most of the elite members of the scientific expedition team I brought with me became embryos of the hatched aliens!"
"The large number of hatched aliens triggered the signal transmission device in the pyramid, attracting those alien creatures!"
"In the end, only three people from the entire expedition team survived!"
"What is the purpose of your visit this time? Revenge?" Tang Song put his hands behind his back and the jade box turned at his fingertips.
He believed Charles Wayland's account of what had happened, but only half of it.
"No, of course not," Charles Wayland said, not disguising his indifference:
"Although many people died back then, I compensated their families with sufficient pensions! I don't owe them anything. I came here just to get the things at the bottom of the pyramid!"
Charles Weiland turned his wheelchair and looked at Tang Song.
"Tang, you should have heard West say that I don't have much time left. There is a way in the pyramid that can help me prolong my life. I need your help!"
"As long as you can get that thing for me, I will help you join the Holy Shield Brotherhood. In addition, I will give you 5% of the shares of Weyland Industries!"
"What is it?" Tang Song held the jade box, a little curious about what kind of thing would make Charles Weiland offer such a high price.
"A copy of the genetic map is at the base of the pyramid!"
Charles Weiland pointed to the whaling station in the distance and gestured to Tang Song.
… … …
Several snowplows shoveled away the snow on the ground, revealing a smooth layer of ice. Looking through the ice, this piece of ice had a clear color difference from other places.
"It's right here, get it open!"
The big black man Jacob commanded the mercenaries to aim a huge assembled laser device at the ice surface.
The ultra-high-power thermal laser was aimed at the ice surface. After more than ten minutes of cutting, a circular hole with a diameter of seven or eight meters was quickly cut out on the ground.
Several snowmobiles worked at the same time to pull a cylindrical ice block three or four meters thick out of the hole, revealing a bottomless circular tunnel.
Tang Song stood in front of the tunnel, looking at the bottomless tunnel, and touched the black jade ring on his thumb.
2,000 feet below the glacier, and they were able to break through such a long ice surface. Weland Industries really has something.
"White Ghost, you and your people go down first. Tang, please come with me!"
In front of the tunnel, dozens of fully armed soldiers blocked the tunnel leading under the ice.
Three sets of pulleys have been set up on the ice. The assembled pulleys extend to a whaling platform. On the pulleys, which are several meters thick, are rolls of special ropes.
Charles Weiland sat in a wheelchair, covering his mouth with his fist, coughing as he assigned the order of going down the tunnel.
"Mr. Weiland, you want to go down too? With your current physical condition, I'm afraid it's not suitable! Why don't you stay up there and I'll get the genetic map back and give it to you!"
Tang Song looked at Charles Weiland with concern.
While Charles Weiland was having his men replace his equipment, he said to Tang Song with emotion:
"Tang, I'm getting old now. I have to take risks in life. Some things can only be achieved by taking them with my own hands!"
Tang Song smiled and agreed with Charles Weiland's words, but he already understood in his heart.
This pyramid is definitely more than just a so-called genetic map. There must be things in it that he must go down in person to get, or things that he can use immediately.
After thinking for a while, Tang Song stroked the black jade ring. When he raised his hand again, his hand was empty except for a string of white jade bones.
Charles Weiland, who was wearing a metal prosthesis, had an inconspicuous black thread on the outside of his cold-proof protective suit, under his armpit.