Chapter 1 Dragon Pole

August is the warmest month in the Arctic.

The sun lies at the end of the horizon in an almost eternal posture.

The Arctic research vessel Longji was moving slowly on the endless glacier, and the harsh sound of icebreaking from the bow continued.

At noon, the temperature rose to minus 7 degrees Celsius. Unlike the previous days, there was no cold wind. First mate Zhao Meng notified all the scientific expedition team members to go to the deck to get some fresh air.

Zhao Meng is Li's only senior brother. He practiced boxing and palm for six years in his early years, and later joined the navy. He was promoted to a school officer step by step and has rich sailing experience. This time he set off with the research ship and was responsible for personnel management and hull maintenance on board.

After being stuck in the cabin for several days, everyone was excited to be on deck.

Some opened their arms and breathed freely, some shouted loudly, and some picked up the ice and snow that had not been cleared on the deck and threw them far away.

The accompanying reporter is recording the broadcast materials.

Meteorological researchers launched a sounding balloon.

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"Auspicious snow frightened thousands of miles away, and clouds darkened the sky."

"The ground seems like a bright moon night, and the mountains seem like white clouds in the morning."

Among the seven or eight students who walked out of the cabin with Professor Xu, a short man was moved by the scene and recited a poem loudly in public, with white mist coming out of his mouth. No one laughed or felt embarrassed, but everyone felt the same and was in high spirits.

I was selected to go on polar scientific expedition while I was still in college, which naturally added a highlight to my life resume.

Li Weiyi sat alone on the stairway at the stern, totally out of tune with the laughter, playfulness and passion over there.

He had a handsome face, a high nose bridge, and slightly cracked lips from the cold. He had just finished his freshman year and was much younger than the group of master's students led by Professor Xu.

He pulled out an antique ornament hanging around his neck from the collar of his thick orange winter coat and stroked the patterns on it. Feelings of longing surged up in his mind, and bitterness and sorrow filled his face.

This ancient ornament, named "Taozu Taiji Fish", is a token of the leader of the Chan School and is said to have been passed down from the time of King Wen of Zhou.

The heads and tails of two bronze fish are spliced ​​together to form a Tai Chi seal.

The fish scale carving is clear, but one of the fish's eyes is missing.

The eyes of the two fish are the Shaoyin and Shaoyang in Tai Chi. The only one left is slightly green, the size of a bean, and made of a very special material, like jade, stone, and bone, with a strong ancient charm.

The old sect leader said that it was the Taoist's brow bone.

Two months ago, when the old sect leader was dying, he passed the Taoist Tai Chi Fish to Li Weiyi, and he naturally became the new generation sect leader of Chan Sect.

Having lost his parents when he was young, Li Weiyi grew up with the old sect master, and they were as close as grandfather and grandson.

The death of the old sect leader was a great blow to him.

At that time, Zhao Meng happened to come back to the mountain to visit his master. The old master entrusted Li Weiyi to him before his death. Zhao Meng saw that Li Weiyi was trapped in grief and couldn't get out of it for several days, so he suggested taking him out to relax.

It was only when Li Weiyi boarded the research vessel that he realized the place his senior took him to relax was the distant North Pole.

"Weiyi, are you thinking about the old master again?"

Zhao Meng walked over from the deck.

He is 1.86 meters tall with a burly figure, a square face, big ears, and a thick beard. He is wearing a loose winter suit, and his arms are as thick as pillars, making him look as manly as a mountain.

Li Weiyi quickly calmed down, raised his head, and revealed a pair of clear and bright eyes: "Brother, don't worry, I'm fine. It's been two months. Anything can fade away and be accepted with time."

He is strong inside and can face the storms in life alone. He is not someone who likes to pass on negative emotions to his relatives and friends.

"That's good."

Zhao Meng sat down next to Li Weiyi, took out a cigarette, took out a cigarette and lit it, saying, "Talk to everyone more, don't keep it to yourself. Want a puff?"

Li Weiyi shook his head slightly and asked, "Brother, what happened on the boat last night?"

Li Weiyi was placed in the security team by Zhao Meng, responsible for the basic safety and order of the fifth-floor cabin. Something big seemed to have happened in the cabin below last night. There were a lot of running and shouting, and even the hull shook a few times.

At that time, he wanted to go down to check, but was stopped, and he was still curious.

Zhao Meng said, "It's nothing serious! It was said that there was a fire in the 705 laboratory, but it was quickly put out."

Laboratory 705, located on the bottom floor of the cabin, conducts some secret experiments. It has a very high security level and is not under the responsibility of Zhao Meng.

Li Weiyi had heard people say that there were armed guards outside the laboratory.

"That group of people are so secretive. They don't even let us check if there are any dangerous or explosive items in the laboratory. We must make sure nothing unexpected happens." Zhao Meng looked worried and couldn't help but complain.

They said there was a fire, but the hull was clearly vibrating, so it was obvious that they were deliberately concealing something.

The Longji is more than one hundred meters long and weighs nearly 15,000 tons.

How much strength would it take to shake it? Thinking of the business of coming to see Li Weiyi, Zhao Meng's expression became serious: "Did Xie Jin and the others give you a hard time?"

"No."

Li Weiyi shook his head slightly.

Zhao Meng patted his shoulder with his big, thick hand and said, "Brother, just say whatever you want to say. The more kind and tolerant you are, the more they will push you."

Li Weiyi thought for a moment and said, "Those who can join the security team of the scientific research vessel are all elites who have been selected through layers of selection. I am a relative of mine who has just entered college, but I became a member of the security team and was assigned to the best cabin with a separate room. If I were them, I would definitely be dissatisfied. So, I don't blame them."

Zhao Meng took a deep breath, and stopped only when the line of fire approached the cigarette butt. Thick smoke poured out of his nostrils. He said, "What do you mean by connections? I don't know your strength. When we were little... I remember you were only this tall, right? When I was practicing martial arts under the old locust tree, you were beside me, humming and waving your little fists. But Master said that my talent is at most up to your knees."

Li Weiyi smiled and said, "Master, you know how exaggerated he is, don't you?"

"Don't give me that! Two years ago, when I came back to the mountain to compete with you, I was no match for you. When you were seventeen and eighteen years old, your physique and blood were growing rapidly. Do you think I dare to challenge you now?" Zhao Meng said.

Li Weiyi certainly has great confidence in martial arts, but when he thinks of what his master once said, "Martial arts, martial arts, only martial arts remain, not the Tao. In this era, even martial arts are almost gone", the confidence in his heart is inevitably frustrated.

Only the pursuit of martial arts and the extraordinary dream lingering in his mind not only did not diminish, but became even stronger.

He must make a name for himself in this era when martial arts have been abandoned.

After thinking for a long time, Li Weiyi said, "It is against the rules for me to join the security team. Brother, please don't embarrass them. I can handle it myself."

"you……"

Zhao Meng knew that his junior brother had grown up in the mountains and was a good student in school. He was too kind-hearted to understand the evil of human nature, so he patiently said, "I specially recruited you. Even if you are not my junior brother, your strength is completely in compliance. This is the rule!"

"Next time Xie Jin and the others cause trouble for you, don't be patient, just teach them a lesson."

Zhao Meng added: "Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with me. When competing for the first mate position, I had a big conflict with Xie Tianshu, and it was probably instigated by him."

Xie Tianshu is the second mate of this research vessel, responsible for shipboard security and medical care.

A member of the expedition team came running over: "Brother Meng, the captain has something urgent to deal with, so please come over quickly."

"I've mentioned your matter to the captain. You don't even have to consider yourself a member of the security team. Just think of it as a trip to relax."

Zhao Meng gave Li Weiyi a few more instructions before following the team member to the driver's cab.

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"You know, the Arctic Ocean is the North Sea in myths and legends. In ancient times, the land was desolate and the gods, demons, monsters and other tribes were constantly fighting. After the Chiyou tribe was defeated, the remnants of the Jiuli fled into the North Sea."

"The North Sea is also known as the North Sea. It is said to be the entrance from the human world to the underworld. There are also claims that only from the North Sea can one reach the real human world."

The group of master's students led by Professor Xu walked along the passage along the side of the ship towards the stern where Li Weiyi was.

The short man who had recited the poem earlier was a community leader. He talked incessantly and told the two beautiful female students stories about the mythology of the North Sea.

We have been sailing on the sea for more than a month since we set out, and everyone has been bored to death. Hearing such a bizarre and absurd story, coupled with the endless glaciers before our eyes, is enough to give rise to endless imagination, so there was constant laughter and discussion.

A female student with very fair skin and round eyes said, "Beiming, I know! There is a fish in Beiming, its name is Kun. Kun is so big, no one knows how many thousands of miles it is. It is written in Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou"!"

Another female student deliberately joked: "If there really is a fish that is thousands of miles long, it wouldn't be able to move around even in the Arctic Ocean, right?"

Professor Xu and this group of students are responsible for the scientific research project of marine biology research and the extraction of Arctic strains and marine genetic specimens. The tasks are complex and arduous.

"The vastness of thousands of miles of silver, the endless eternity of the polar day. Such magnificent scenery can only be seen in the polar regions. Let's take a group photo?"

"Great, what a memorable moment."

"Brother, can you take a picture for us?"

Li Weiyi looked at the camera handed to him by the female student, then looked up to meet her eyes as round as the bright moon. After nodding slightly, he put the Taoist Tai Chi fish into his winter clothing, stood up and walked down the stairs to take a photo for them.

“Please take a few more pictures.”

A group of male and female students surrounded Professor Xu and posed for photos at the railing of the ship.

“Crack!”

Keep pressing the shutter button...

Suddenly Li Weiyi realized something was wrong and discovered something.

He took out the photo he had just taken, enlarged it and looked at it carefully, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

"What's wrong, brother?" the female student asked curiously.

Li Weiyi handed the camera over and let them look at it for themselves.

And he looked toward the snowy ridges in the distance.

The boundless snowy plains, the flat land as if made of silver, without any vegetation, were shocking and desolate. On the snow ridge several kilometers away, a huge purple-black figure was moving quickly.

"Bear? What a weird bear-like creature..."

The female student was very surprised and looked at the photos on the camera.

"Let me see, why is it a purple-black bear? Aren't polar bears white? Could it be that a new species has appeared in the Arctic?"

"Don't you think this bear is a little weird? It looks skinny, but its body is unusually huge."

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As they gathered together to study the photos, the strange bear-like creature in the distance was rushing down the snow ridge at an extraordinary speed towards the research vessel.

Too fast! It ran across the ice field like a car, and every time its paws touched the ground, they kicked up a lot of ice. Even from a great distance, one could faintly hear the thunderous sound of its running.

"Something's not right. How could it be so fast?" Li Weiyi narrowed his eyes, realizing the danger.

This strange purple-black bear-like creature is incredibly large, four or five times the size of an adult polar bear.

It is definitely a new species that does not exist on Earth.

In just one minute, I ran almost two kilometers.

The target is very clear, it is a scientific research vessel.

"It's coming for us."

Li Weiyi whispered, then looked towards the deck and shouted, "Everyone, hurry back to the cabin! There's danger!"

"What a terrifying speed! Even a cheetah sprinting at full speed wouldn't be able to go that fast, right?"

Professor Xu and seven or eight young students were standing nearby, some looking worried, some panicking.

The captain's voice rang out from the research vessel's broadcasting equipment: "Attention all research team members, please return to the cabin immediately. Security team members, please lock the cabin door."

"Attention all scientific expedition members, please return to the cabin immediately..."

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The shrill sound of the whistle echoed throughout the entire research vessel.

(End of this chapter)