0p0 Chapter 136 The Return Journey
Chapter 136 The Return Journey
Liu Jia and his group were very fast. Just as Ji Lang and the others carried Li Minze to the small dock where Liu Jia had mentioned holding the wedding, Wang Sanhai arrived with the first group of people.
There were some people in the base who didn't want to leave. The relatives they had painstakingly protected had almost all frozen to death. Most of these people had lost their will to live. Liu Jia was worried that Ji Lang and the others would think they didn't want to give up the base and leave with them, so he first had Wang Sanhai bring out those who were willing to leave directly. He stayed in the hotel to try to persuade everyone, since at least they could survive once they arrived at the South China base.
It was called a dock, but he only judged it by a flower stand emerging from the snow. Before the outbreak of the virus, a wedding should have been taking place here. Pei Sihao swept the snow off the stand, which was already the top of the wedding arch flower stand. Even after sweeping off the snow, it was not noticeable.
The snow layer was thick, but everyone could still faintly hear the sound of the waves. Gu Nanfeng closed his eyes and sensed the sea for a while with his mental power. "We need to walk forward for about ten minutes. The sea is below us. Everyone needs to move together. This kind of snow is very unstable."
Although almost everyone present was from the south, they had all seen educational videos about the North and South Poles. They knew that such ice and snow layers could be very hard, or that one step into them could send them tumbling into the sea.
To ensure that nothing goes wrong, Lin Yun and Gu Nanfeng both agreed that everyone should move together and be guided by safety ropes. The next question was how to proceed and who should go first.
Just as Lu Yuan steadied himself outside the crowd, he saw Gu Nanfeng and Ji Lang waving at him from the middle of the crowd. Thinking that he would probably need to take something from his spatial storage, Lu Yuan could only tiptoe carefully toward them. Just as he was about to reach them, perhaps because he suddenly relaxed his guard, he suddenly rushed out.
"Hey, why is his equipment so hard to control?" In just over ten minutes, Qin Yuan had already witnessed Lu Yuan's amazing maneuvers several times.
They were still going downstairs when Lu Yuan, somehow controlling his mecha, suddenly launched himself up, smashing through the floor plan and rushing back up two floors. Luckily, he went up quickly and came down just as fast, smashing a hole in the stairs. At least he made it to the second floor; otherwise, they wouldn't know what to do.
“I want this too…” Li Minze, who was being carried on Ji Lang’s back, was extremely envious. He had watched an old movie when he was in elementary school and had always dreamed of owning an exoskeleton like this. When he finally managed to build one in college, he was overjoyed. But when he saw Lu Yuan’s set, he realized what a dream was and what reality was.
Fortunately, Lu Yuan didn't rush too far this time, and he didn't accidentally spit out flames or destroy the ice and snow layer they were on with a powerful kick. Relieved, Lu Yuan carefully moved back.
"What do you need to get?" Lu Yuan was very clear about his position now, and after arriving at his destination, he had already opened the spatial panel in his mind.
"Let's get the safety ropes first. We need to move forward a bit, and it'll be safer if everyone is holding onto each other with the safety ropes." Although she was trying not to laugh, Lin Yun still explained a little to Lu Yuan.
“Why not a hovercraft? It can drive directly on ice and snow, hmm…” Lu Yuan said while looking at the hovercraft description on the space panel, “One can seat 20 people.”
"This is even better." Ji Lang had never seen Lu Yuan take out a relatively large item from his spatial storage before, so he still felt a little incredulous as he approached.
"Hovercrafts are fine, and we should also get a few snowmobiles. We need to get there first. You need to find a place to park the passenger ship first," Gu Nanfeng mentioned to Lu Yuan, thinking of the snowmobiles they had ridden before.
"Understood." Lu Yuan said as he began to operate the system. One after another, hovercrafts appeared out of thin air on the snow. As soon as the hovercrafts appeared, Qin Yuan and Lin Yun began to call on Wang Sanhai to arrange for their people to board the hovercrafts first.
While they were having a great time, Liu Jia successfully brought out the remaining survivors from the hotel. The remaining less than three hundred survivors from the base boarded the hovercraft that Lu Yuan had built.
Actually, they could have gone back to the previous dock to sail out to sea on yachts and cargo ships, but that would have scattered the people, and they would have had to go through security checks one by one when they reached the base's waters, which would have been a waste of time. Moreover, given the current situation, if they went back to the previous dock, it might be frozen over there as well. In the end, after discussing it with Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng, Ji Lang decided to set off from this coastline.
After all the hovercrafts were started and pulled up with safety ropes, Gu Nanfeng, Pei Sihao, and Yang Xiao each took a snowmobile and set off first with Lu Yuan, Zhong Qiang, and Wei Cheng. The remaining Lin Yun, Qin Yuan, and Ji Lang followed on the hovercrafts, one at the front and one at the back, following the main group. This was their habit as soldiers.
Not long after, Gu Nanfeng, who was at the front, stopped.
"Next time, I want to ride by myself too..." Zhong Qiang followed Gu Nanfeng off the motorcycle, feeling quite annoyed. How come Yang Xiao in their team could drive and ride motorcycles by himself, while he rarely had such opportunities? How could a tall guy like him, who was over 1.9 meters tall and from the sports department, tolerate this?
"Next time, next time." Lu Yuan got down from behind Pei Sihao and overheard Zhong Qiang's mutterings. He wanted to pat him on the shoulder to comfort him, but stopped halfway down. He wasn't sure if Zhong Qiang would be alright after that slap.
“The sea is just ahead. Snowmobiles might break the ice if they go over there. Now…” Gu Nanfeng was about to ask Lu Yuan if he had any flying vehicles in his space when he turned around and saw that Lu Yuan was already hovering in mid-air, flying towards the sea.
"Holy crap, this equipment, I hope everyone in the organization can have one in the future." Yang Xiao hadn't been too envious of Lu Yuan's exoskeleton before, since Lu Yuan didn't seem to be very good at operating it. But now, just because it can fly, even if it's not easy to operate, he really wants to have one.
"Don't even think about it. I've asked many times before, and there isn't one. This is the only one available." Pei Sihao had asked Lu Yuan about this exoskeleton mecha many times when he first saw it. After all, given Lin Yun's condition at the time, having this mecha would have been the best thing for him.
"Tsk, what kind of technology could possibly produce such equipment?" Yang Xiao looked at Lu Yuan in the distance. He had only hovered for a short while when a passenger ship appeared on the sea below. It was much larger than the yacht they had come on, but still smaller than the warship they had traveled on before.
"But how are we going to get on the ship?" Zhong Qiang looked at his feet. The ice was already very thin, but Lu Yuan's cruise ship couldn't sail over there. If the cruise ship came over, the ice would definitely break.
Just as Zhong Qiang asked this question, they saw Lu Yuan fly back with two long, unidentifiable things trailing behind him.
"I figured it wouldn't be realistic for you to walk there. This is something I saw in the space, called something like the Heavenly Ladder. I don't know if it's any good." After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he carefully controlled himself and landed gently. Then he gently touched the two extra-long sticks in his hands together, and a dazzling light appeared between the sticks. Then some unknown substance filled the space between them. It looked like the kind of elevators commonly seen at airports. This one was laid from the passenger ship and must be at least a hundred or two hundred meters long. It was definitely not the kind of material they usually saw.