Chapter 166 Whale Dance
The next day was Zhou Cheng and Su Qingyan's solo trip. After following Aiden to the bay, they boarded a zodiac. For the sake of comfort, they hadn't taken a cruise to experience the Drake Passage's black devil waves, and of course, they hadn't seen the various spectacular sights of the Antarctic waters.
As soon as the assault boat set off, Su Qingyan shouted excitedly when he saw the huge iceberg standing on the sea.
"Keep your voice down." Zhou Cheng patted his shoulder to quiet him down.
"There's no one else here, who am I being reserved for?"
Instead of listening to Zhou Cheng, Su Qingyan asked him to learn how to release his emotions. Of course, Zhou Cheng would not follow his lead, as everyone has different ways of relieving stress.
Seeing that the two of them were still flirting with each other, Aiden did not interrupt and drove the speedboat towards the sea where whales often appeared.
Everywhere you look, you're greeted by icy cliffs formed by endless ice shelves. In the sunlight, the ice and snow gleam a dazzling silver, while the shadows cast a mysterious icy blue. Covered in thick layers of ice, the rocks have lost their sharp corners, taking on unusually rounded curves.
As the number of icebergs increased, Aiden slowed down the speed of the speedboat. Icebergs of all sizes floated slowly and silently around them.
"The modeling at the edge of the world is so sloppy. It doesn't look like the real world at all." Su Qingyan sighed as he looked at the strange-shaped caves and arches formed by the impact of sea water and sea breeze.
"There's a seal on the ice floe over there." Aiden changed the direction of the assault boat and pointed it out to them.
Following his finger, they saw a seal that had just come ashore on a small piece of ice.
"I want to see whales." Su Qingyan whispered to Zhou Cheng. There was nothing interesting about seals.
"It's not that easy to encounter whales." Zhou Cheng comforted him.
In fact, Zhou Cheng didn’t have much expectation of seeing whales. He always felt that with his luck, he would not encounter whales.
After the speedboat had been sailing for a while, Aiden said there was a blue ice tunnel ahead and we could go ashore to take a look.
Su Qingyan was depressed because he didn't encounter a whale. Zhou Cheng kept comforting him and told him that some things can only be encountered by chance.
"Next time, let's go somewhere else to see whales. Whales are not only found in Antarctica." Su Qingyan said angrily.
As soon as he finished speaking, Aiden suddenly signaled them to be quiet, then stopped the speedboat and looked down at the sea.
Zhou Cheng and Su Qingyan also followed him and looked down.
Beneath their speedboat, several humpback whales swam slowly.
"They're feeding on krill," Aiden explained to them.
"Did they hear what I said and want to overturn our speedboat?" Su Qingyan said jokingly while looking at the whales close at hand through the clear sea water.
"Avoid prophecy and don't talk nonsense." Zhou Cheng hugged Su Qingyan's shoulders tightly.
Several whales soon swam to a place not far in front of the speedboat. There might be a large school of krill there. They swam their huge bodies back and forth, occasionally exposing their backs and tails, and making bursts of jet sounds.
After a string of bubbles, a humpback whale gradually emerged from the depths of the sea, then gracefully leaped up and slowly dived. The huge tail fin was coated with a layer of golden light by the sunlight, leaving a string of glittering golden pearls on the sea surface.
Zhou Cheng and Su Qingyan were so shocked by the scene that they forgot to speak.
In Antarctica, humans seem incredibly small.
Aiden's camera never stopped filming, recording these once-in-a-lifetime moments.
Su Qingyan held Zhou Cheng's hand and felt that time had been paused. This moment seemed to have become eternal.
It took a while for three or four whales to slowly leave.
"Why do I feel like crying?" Su Qingyan felt his nose sour.
Before Zhou Cheng could say anything to comfort him, Su Qingyan suddenly turned around and hugged him, looking into his eyes and saying seriously: "I love you, Zhou Cheng."
Zhou Cheng's heart was beating wildly, even more violently than when he saw the whale leaping out of the water just now.
"I love you too," he replied.
Su Qingyan now regrets very much that he did not bring the ring with him. The emotion was there, but the object was not.
"I understand what you said." Aiden looked at the two of them expressing their affection and couldn't help but speak.
Zhou Cheng started to feel embarrassed again. How come this foreigner has no sense of boundaries at all?
They continued on their journey towards the blue ice tunnel and met another expedition team of more than 10 people near the tunnel.
Su Qingyan actually likes traveling with a lot of people, but he also knows that Zhou Cheng is completely different from him, so he went up to Aiden and discussed keeping some distance from them as much as possible.
This requirement is not difficult to meet. Although the blue ice tunnel is a very famous landscape, it is also very large and narrow. If more than a dozen people go in, they will soon be separated from each other.
"Was this the place where your WeChat avatar was before?" Su Qingyan looked around, feeling very oppressive.
The surroundings are surrounded by huge blue ice blocks, which bulge inward irregularly and have a round and smooth texture.
"About the same." Zhou Cheng touched the clear blue ice with his fingers.
"It seems like I will travel through time if I walk over there." Su Qingyan began to imagine again.
They spent most of the day touring the Antarctic ice shelves and began their return journey in the evening.
Su Qingyan was afraid of the cold, and the outdoor activities during the day made him feel a little wilted. He leaned on Zhou Cheng as if his battery was exhausted.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Cheng remembered that Su Qingyan had a fever when they went to see the aurora last time. Now he was even more nervous and took off his gloves to test the temperature of his forehead.
"It's okay, just a little tired." Su Qingyan took the energy bar handed to him by Zhou Cheng. Although it tasted like wax, he still took a big bite.
"Go back, take a hot bath and go to bed." Zhou Cheng was still a little nervous. He didn't want Su Qingyan to fall ill in Antarctica.
After returning to the camp, Su Qingyan obediently went to bed early. He had to fly to the South Pole the next day, and he couldn't let himself fall behind.
After a dreamless night's sleep, Su Qingyan regained his spirits, and Zhou Cheng finally felt relieved.
The plane carried six tourists to the South Pole, 90° south latitude, the southernmost point on the earth.
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