"Just trust me, senior. If I hadn't started a company, I would definitely be a scientist."
Xia Yu comforted Xiao Jiang.
"Well, I believe this."
Jiang Baiying has more confidence in Xia Yu than in herself.
"That's it, here we are."
Slowing down and braking, they stopped on a patch of white snow.
If you drill 800 meters down from here, you can reach the subglacial mountains. The thickness of the ice in other places varies, and the thickest can reach more than 3,000 meters. It may not be possible to penetrate it even after half a year of drilling.
We got off the car to unload the equipment. Three of the five sleds we brought were fully loaded with drilling equipment, and one was loaded with fuel. Food and other items were placed in the car.
Unload and get back on the vehicle. Their snowmobile is multifunctional and can help dig a large snow pit.
Xia Yu did not study excavator technology, but he had a talent for mechanical operation and learned it quickly.
After quickly digging out a snow hole of suitable size, Xia Yu took out a new tent and set it up with the help of Jiang Baiying.
This is the drilling workshop. Open-air drilling is too cold, so it would be much better with a tent.
The tents they live in are farther away, after all, drilling makes noise, and the deep ice core room at Kunlun Station is also located a few hundred meters away.
"Buzz~~"
After setting up the drilling tower, Xia Yu controlled the drill to drill deep into the guide hole. The collision of ice and iron made a sharp sound, but soon the only sound was the roar of the machine and the numbers that kept going deeper on the controller screen.
He won this drilling rig in a lottery. Ordinary drilling rigs are not so fast, but since it is a rare trip to Antarctica, efficiency is what we need.
Jiang Baiying didn’t understand, she just thought it was amazing, just like digging a well in the countryside when she was a child.
Well, it seems similar, but he is very fast, especially when it comes to geological structures like ice.
Within a day, the ice core was dug up from 100 meters.
The thickest ice layer is 3,200 meters, which covers the climate changes of the earth over the past 1 million years. Each "old popsicle" is a sealed time capsule.
Xia Yu looked at it for a long time before putting it into an insulated sealed tube and wrote detailed information on the tube.
The ice layer here is 800 meters thick. He plans to take an ice core every 50 meters after 100 meters, which means he needs to take 15 cores.
Back on the ship, I was busy. Fortunately, I found a full-time captain for the Polaris, otherwise I would definitely be overwhelmed.
After finishing this, he put the drilling rig back down, set up the 150-meter sampling and recovery function on the machine, and then Xia Yu returned to the living tent 100 meters away.
Xiao Jiang is the one who prepared dinner today. Frozen dumplings don’t require advanced cooking skills, but a pressure cooker is needed at such a high altitude.
"Senior, the dumplings are almost ready, go wash your hands quickly."
Seeing that it was Xia Yu coming in, Jiang Baiying greeted him naturally.
Why do I suddenly have the feeling that my husband comes home from get off work and his wife is preparing dinner?
You know what, Xia Yu quite enjoyed it, even though dinner was just the simplest frozen dumplings.
I used a basin of hot water to wash off the grease on my hands, and the dumplings were cooked.
It was divided into two plates. Xia Yu ate more of the portion, but he didn't eat it in a hurry. He opened his laptop and found a movie to watch with his meal.
It’s called “Antarctic Diary”, a suspense film made by Koreans. Watching this film in Antarctica feels a bit like watching “Sky Disaster” on an airplane.
But it’s fine as an afterthought with food, as they were watching “Alien vs. Predator” yesterday!
It is said that there really is such an abandoned whaling station in Antarctica. I wonder if there is a pyramid underneath and whether there is an alien queen inside the pyramid.
If there is one, Xia Yu would really like to catch one, and his Poké Ball would come in handy.
Of course, it would be even better to have an Iron-blooded Warrior. He could capture the person and torture him to find out where the spaceship is. He could also go for a ride in the universe without relying on the system.
It’s a nice thought, but unfortunately reality is not a movie, so he should just eat his meal!
"Senior, there are so many weird Korean movies!"
After eating, washing the dishes, and watching the entire movie in bits and pieces, Jiang Baiying complained.
"If nothing else, they're good at making films that expose human nature, but it can be quite depressing for the audience."
Xia Yu is the boss of a film and television company after all, and he has a certain understanding of the film culture of various countries. He is the most daring to shoot in South Korea, but it is of no use.
"Shall we watch another movie?"
Watching a movie every day is a way to relax after scientific research work. Jiang Baiying also enjoys watching movies with Xia Yu.
"Okay, tell me what you want to see."
The satellite Internet speed is still very fast, and Xia Yu doesn’t have to find resources himself. Just say it and someone will download it and send it to him.
"Let's watch 'The Spy Who Came From the Republic of China'. I haven't seen the second or third part yet."
This is not a movie, it's a TV series. But since Xiao Jiang wants to watch it, they can just watch it. It just so happens that he hasn't seen it either. By the time this trip to Antarctica is over, they will have almost caught up.
"Okay, we'll watch it tomorrow. Now, wash up and go to bed!"
"Well, senior, I want to take a shower tomorrow."
Jiang Baiying said somewhat shyly.
They had been on shore for almost a week, and although she didn't sweat much, she still felt a little uncomfortable and wanted to take a shower.
"It's my fault. I even forgot such an important thing. Let's boil some water tomorrow and take a good bath."
Taking a shower in Antarctica is a luxury. Before the completion of the second phase of Kunlun Station, a scientific expedition mission lasted two months, which means that you couldn't take a shower for two months, and washing your hair was something to celebrate.
There were only two of Xia Yu's group, and they carried enough fuel, so taking a shower every day was not a problem, but it was a bit troublesome.
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