In Xia Lei's original plan, he would return to the Snowball Tribe with Shirayuki Teapot, and then go alone to kill Hideo Fukuda and his people, as well as the icebreakers and whaling fleets arriving, to destroy the "Jizu Plan". Then, he would return to the south and go alone to find the birthplace of Isitabu.
But he didn't expect that on the way back to the Snowball tribe, he would encounter an icebreaker and a whaling fleet, and hunt the white whale in front of him and Snow White Teapot. He simply moved the plan forward and saved a lot of time. If there was anything wrong with the whole operation, it was that he was taking the wrong medicine.
On this trip to the North Pole, he brought three medicines, but he still took the wrong medicine.
But this does not affect his current actions.
The cold wind howled, and a figure tore through the howling cold wind and plunged into the rolling snow-capped mountains. After breaking up with Bai Xue Teapot, Xia Lei reached the icebergs in the south in just an hour using a sled. At this time, Snow White Teapot should not have returned to Snowball Tribe.
After Baixue Teapot returns to the Snowball Tribe, he will follow his instructions and tell Maria, Scarlett and Jin Dazhu. How will they react? He didn't know, but he didn't care either. He has no real love with them, just a relationship of desire. They have too much greedy desire for him, and he also has a compulsive desire to "take medicine" for them.
If this relationship should be severed, it should be severed.
His heart only belongs to the hostesses in Peaceful Residence, as well as Lanjier, Bailing, Lie Rushui, Tia Sama, Mu Ma and Kangtu Nana on the Star of Hope. With wives from two worlds, and children born and unborn, his heart could no longer tolerate other women.
And that mission, the mission that concerns the fate of two worlds.
If his messy emotional world was a mistake and he would eventually have to pay a price, then it would be after completing that mission.
Let the dust settle.
Another hour later, Xia Lei climbed up a very high iceberg. Around it, the icebergs appear much smaller. He looked around, observing everything he could see.
He was looking for routes through which vehicles could pass.
The icebergs here are one after another, rolling up and down. It is impossible for the convoy that Bai Xue Chapot saw to cross the mountains and reach very far away. There must be a route in this iceberg that allows vehicles to travel. As long as he finds that route, he can follow the clues and find the ice cave.
It would be much easier to let the soul leave the body to conduct reconnaissance, but he was not willing to take even a one percent risk of being discovered by Isitabu.
After a few minutes of observation, a pass on the west side of the iceberg came into his sight. He compared the surrounding terrain and found that it was the only area in this area that could allow the convoy to pass, and it extended deep into the iceberg with no end in sight.
Xia Lei took off the sled on his back, put it on his feet, and then slid from the top of the iceberg to the pass. His speed is very fast, like a black stream of light in a white world.
When he arrived at the pass, Xia Lei stopped the sled, then squatted on the ground and dug away the snow on the ground with his hands. When he dug half a meter deep, he discovered traces of being run over by the crawler wheels. A smile appeared on his lips, "Isitabu, I caught your fox tail."
After passing through the pass, a valley surrounded by icebergs appeared in front of Xia Lei. The cold wind became much weaker here, and goose-feather-like snowflakes fell from the clouds. The clouds were low, covering the peaks of the icebergs. The light is weak, making it difficult to see distant targets.
Xia Lei slid deeper into the ice valley. He deliberately slowed down his speed to facilitate observation.
Icebergs slid past him and gradually disappeared. The ice valley sometimes becomes extremely wide, sometimes extremely narrow, but the road under your feet never breaks and continues forward.
Several hours passed.
The light in the sky became a little brighter and the snow stopped. There is no real day and night in the Arctic, there are only polar days and polar nights, but the difference between the two is only the intensity of the light. In such an environment, people will always distinguish between day and night according to their own preferences, but this change is not obvious.
Xia Lei felt at this moment that it was dawn, the wind and snow had stopped, and the light became stronger and the range he could see became wider. Just when he felt "dawn", a majestic iceberg came into his sight. There is no ice cave, but it is the end of this long and narrow ice valley.
Along the way, Xia Lei didn't miss any iceberg, and he couldn't find any place that might be an ice cave. This is already the end of the ice valley, and he still hasn't found the ice cave. A feeling of discouragement suddenly emerged from his heart, and he secretly thought in his heart: "Isn't it here? That convoy entered this ice valley just to escape the blizzard? If so, then I have to go back to the pass to look for wheel marks and start all over again. ?”
Xia Lei squatted on the ground again and dug the snow with his hands. Half a meter deep, he found traces of tracked wheels in the snow, and the traces of the vehicle's load were very obvious.
The tracks of the tracked wheels extend towards the iceberg at the end of the ice valley.
The worries and doubts just now disappeared immediately, and Xia Lei also made a decision. He took the sled off his feet, buried it in the snow, and walked toward the iceberg.
There are no traces of tracked vehicles in the snow at the foot of the iceberg. The slopes that can be seen are covered with ice and snow, and there is no entrance to the cave.
This seemed to be another reminder that he was looking in the wrong place, but Xia Lei had another judgment. Traces on the ground can be removed, and the entrance to the cave can be sealed with just water. After Isitabu leaves Syria, she will definitely do something, including Xiaoqian's satellite reconnaissance. Then it wouldn't be strange to block the entrance to the cave, turn into a hibernating snake and wait until he dies before coming out.
Sure enough, after walking for a while at the foot of the huge iceberg, Xia Lei discovered that the hillside was a little different. Its slope is slightly indented, giving the impression that a piece of it has been dug out. He dug away the snow at the edge of the trace, and there was an obvious crack in the ice beneath the snow. The color of the ice is also different. One side is crystal clear ice, and the other side is turbid ice. This is already obvious. The crystal clear ice is created by watering, while the turbid ice is formed naturally.
It's the same ice. Ice that's tens of thousands of years old is definitely different from ice that's just a few days old.
At this point, Xia Lei was sure that he had found Yixitabu's hiding place. Then, he climbed up the hillside.
Isitabu is a pure energy body. She does not need to breathe, but the people who work here need oxygen. Unless there is equipment for producing oxygen in the cave, there must be a vent.
The possibility of the former is very small, because in the memory downloaded from Kerstin's brain, the entrance to the ice cave is open, and there is no equipment for producing oxygen inside, and Isitabu was not here at that time. . So, the vents are definitely there. As long as he finds the vent, he can enter the ice cave.
Climbing up the hillside, Xia Lei recalled the memory images downloaded from Kerstin's brain. His brain quickly determined the most likely location, and then he went there.
It was an ice cliff, nearly ninety degrees vertical.
Standing under the ice cliff and looking up, a circular dark area came into Xia Lei's sight.
"Finally found it." A smile appeared on the corner of Xia Lei's mouth. He stood under the ice cliff, placed his palms on the smooth ice, released energy roots, and then crawled towards the circular dark area. The energy roots on his palms gave him a gecko-like ability to climb vertical ice surfaces with ease.
A few minutes later, Xia Lei climbed to a circular dark area. It was not a painted color, but a hole. The ice around it refracts light, and it absorbs light, so it appears as a circular dark area.
The hole extends diagonally downward in the ice cliff, with no end visible at a glance. Its diameter is about fifty centimeters, and it has a suction force. The air from the outside is continuously poured into the interior of the mountain.
There is no doubt that this hole is the vent of the ice cave.
Xia Lei got into the vent and crawled inside the mountain. His speed is not fast, he is very slow and cautious. Although Ixitab's hiding place has been found, it only takes one mistake for Isitab to notice it and escape in advance. And with the almost unlimited movement speed of a pure energy body, before he climbed out of the pipe, she might have been standing under the scorching African sun basking in the sun.
After about fifty meters down, a bright light appeared in front of us. It was not natural light, but a lamp. There were also faint voices of people talking, echoing in the cave wall.
"Finally done! Haha!"
"This is a miracle. I can guarantee that even if you take a random photo and take it home, you can sell it for a good price."
"Keep your voice down, our employer is not an ordinary person, he is the CEO of Lockheed Martin, and I bet there are bigger people behind him. Don't provoke people of that level, otherwise what will happen? They don’t even know they’re dead.”
"I'm just talking casually."
"By the way, can that thing still fly?"
"I don't know, but I guess I can't."
These sounds reached Xia Lei's ears, and he was filled with surprise and curiosity, "Can that thing still fly? What kind of thing? A plane? Or..."
He suddenly thought of a question he had never thought about before, that is, how did Isitabu come to this world.
He knew that Cassia Ruiz was brought here from the City of Origin, but how Isitabu came to this world has always been an unsolved mystery.
Kerstin came here to dig holes. What he wanted was definitely not rare earth resources, and the only one who could instruct him to do things was Isitabu. Combined with the conversation he just heard, the confusion about why Kerstin was digging icebergs in the North Pole was suddenly solved - he was digging icebergs here to dig out the engine that Isitabu drove into the world. spaceship!