On the 28th day of his trip to Antarctica, Shao Zifeng finally saw land again.
Standing on the narrow front deck, wearing short sleeves and enjoying the summer wind in the southern hemisphere, looking at the land on the sea level, Shao Zifeng felt his longing for land for the first time.
Not far away is Christchurch, the middle station of the trip.
Christchurch, also known as Christchurch, is a garden city located on the east coast of Zealand Island. It is also one of the five gateways to the Antarctic. The starting point for humans to set foot on the Antarctic continent for the first time in history is Claes. The port of Tchurch Tilton.
For scientific research ships from various countries, this is the middle station of the Antarctic trip, and the Xuelong will also replenish fuel and materials here.
It's a pity that even if you can already see Zealandia appearing on the sea level, it still takes nearly a day to arrive.
"Senior Brother Zifeng, come and help."
When Shao Zifeng was contemplating the land at the end of the horizon, Yang Qi's voice suddenly came from behind.
Shao Zifeng turned around and saw Cang Haiyuan wearing beach shorts, sunglasses and sun hats. Everyone was carrying something in their hands, as if they were coming to the beach for a vacation.
Seeing their exaggerated outfits, Shao Zifeng's mouth twitched: "What are you doing?"
"What else can I do, sunbathing in such a good weather, if we don't sunbathe, we will have mold, come and go."
The man who spoke was Yang Qi, tall and thin, with a fluffy Mianyang roll that looked hot.
During this period of time, Shao Zifeng and these people have also gotten to know each other well, because Chen Yixin claimed that Shao Zifeng was her younger brother, and these people affectionately called him a junior.
After taking the bucket handed over by Yang Qi, he felt a coolness blowing his face. He saw a chubby little seal lying on the ice cubes in the bucket, with several bottles of iced drinks sticking out from under its body, when he saw Shao Zifeng. The little seal greeted happily.
"Ow!"
Suddenly, the Greenland Seal's expression changed to a terrified expression, and the ball, which ran out of nowhere, was lying on Shao Zifeng's shoulder, rubbing his claws expectantly.
"Qiuqiu, don't scare it." Shao Zifeng turned his face and looked at Qiuqiu reproachfully.
"嘤嘤!" (Dan Dan, you've changed!)
Qiuqiu looked at Shao Zifeng pitifully, revealing a small appearance that was about to cry.
You little showman.
You can act!
Obviously it's your greedy body.
Shao Zifeng felt a bit of a headache. Since getting acquainted with these people, Qiuqiu has been staring at the chubby Greenland seals, and every time the seals are toyed with, he screams.
But that's not all to blame.
Shao Zifeng looked at the shivering Greenland seal. Who told this little guy to be chubby, sometimes he couldn't hold it back.
Several beach chairs were lined up between the jokes, and there was a small parasol behind the beach chairs.
Shao Zifeng and others lay on the beach chairs, each with a bottle of iced drink, sunbathing comfortably.
Qiuqiu's limbs were wide open, and he lay comfortably on Shao Zifeng's stomach, with a pair of sunglasses on his little head, which they prepared for Shao Zifeng.
"Brothers, this is our last unrestrained day before entering the Antarctic Circle, come and go." Cang Haiyuan held a glass bottle full of water droplets, and filled half a bottle with tons of water.
Qiu Qiu glanced at him contemptuously, holding the drink bottle with his little paws, sipping the drink inside with a straw happily, his long tail twitched and itchy.
Several people were sunbathing and chatting, and the topic slowly reached the sea fog they encountered before.
Since that time, the Xuelong has encountered two more times during the voyage, but both times the fog has been hiding far away.
When the balls pass, the fog will disappear without a trace, as if watching them.
"By the way, didn't you help with the research before, did you research anything?" Cang Haiyuan asked carelessly, shaking his legs.
Several researchers glanced at each other and hesitated to speak. Finally, Yang Qi said, "Then let me tell you about the research results of our group. This is not a secret."
When Shao Zifeng heard the words, he suddenly became spirited, and he has always been serious about new knowledge.
Otherwise, another time and space will not collect more than 140 G of learning materials.
Yang Qi cleared his throat: "First of all, this thing has been determined to be the product of the nuclear radiation of Ori Island, but after research, it was found that although it is the product of nuclear radiation, as the second generation, they are not infectious. Autonomous evolution, academically speaking, they can already be identified as another evolutionary path.
"Later, we combined the radiation detection reports of Oli Island over the years. As the radiation in the Oli Island radiation area gradually decreases, these fission gene species will not cause much impact on nature."
"No?" Cang Haiyuan pulled down his sunglasses and rolled his eyes at Yang Qi.
"Don't worry, we later studied the test reports sent from all over the country, those that were artificially transformed by the Shengyuan Society."
"After analysis, we found that the difference between them and Orly Island radiation products is that their fission genes are not simply due to nuclear radiation, but injected with other substances including nuclear substances. This fission gene has a strong infection. sex."
"What we are most worried about now is that if this secret is discovered by other countries, there is no guarantee that they will do the same. If it reaches that point, it will be a fatal blow to all mutant creatures."
After Yang Qi finished speaking, the atmosphere was a little silent.
Most of those present were obsessed with mutating biodiversity and devoted themselves to research careers.
If in the near future, because of human greed, there will be only mutant organisms with fission genes left in the world, just thinking about it makes them feel unacceptable.
Seeing this, Cang Haiyuan hurriedly said: "Forget it, these are too far away from us, let's talk about Christchurch, I heard that this place can be known far and wide as a city of gardens, maybe it will stay during this period of time. You can meet a beautiful young lady. Hehe."
Shao Zifeng looked at Cang Haiyuan with a face of silver bullets with contempt: "This is the city of gardens, not the city of nightclubs."
"Hey!" (That's it!) Although Qiuqiu didn't know what the city of nightclubs was, he felt that what Shao Zifeng said was very reasonable, and looked at Cang Haiyuan with contempt.
Canghaiyuan: . . .
These two guys are still so annoying.
I want to kill them.
With their interruption, the mood of several researchers improved a lot, and they all expressed their yearning for the mutant creatures in Christchurch.
A few technical nerds chatted happily.
"Woo~"
The setting sun gradually subsided into the sea level, and the Xuelong sounded its whistle.
Several people packed their bags and stood on the deck looking at the exotic European-style buildings from a distance.
A splendid sunset floated on the clear sky, and several bright stars dotted it.
From a distance it looks like a painting.
Christchurch.
arrive!
(End of this chapter)