The contract has been signed, and Lao Maozi should implement it in accordance with the contract. Their fleet has been waiting here for a day. Looking at the floating ice floes outside, they feel very uneasy. The Titanic hit the ice floe and sank. They

I don't want to repeat that scene.

Now, where is Lao Maozi?

Just as he was hesitating, a huge ship appeared on the ice in front. It had a wide hull and many buildings on the upper floor. It looked like a cruise ship, and the buildings above were all painted brick red. On the white

It looked particularly conspicuous on the vast ice. As it moved forward, it kept pushing against the ice in front of it, directly breaking through the ice and moving forward, as if it was floating on the ice.

This icebreaker looks so cool!

Norway is close to the North Pole and has icebreakers, but they are all small and not nuclear-powered. If you want to walk on the ice all year round, nuclear-powered icebreakers are the best choice.

This kind of ship does not have to worry about running out of fuel and has almost unlimited endurance. In the cold Arctic, only this kind of power can warm every cabin!

There is ice everywhere in the Arctic, so you don’t have to worry about the source of fresh water. As for food? If the food on the ship is really exhausted, you can go hunting and get a polar bear to eat for several days.

But if there is no energy, it will soon freeze to death.

However, not everyone can build a nuclear-powered icebreaker. This thing requires too much technical content. The icebreaker needs to break the ice through impact. If it is not strong enough, the nuclear reactor may have an accident, which is fatal.

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Lao Maozi has this technology, and the East also has this technology, but other countries can only look at it with dismay.

Now, seeing this nuclear-powered icebreaker approaching, everyone became excited. Sorlot let out a long breath: "Okay, let's set off!"

The icebreaker turned around on the ice in front of them and became the vanguard of their formation.

"Hello, my friends." A voice came from the radio: "I am your team leader Zaitsev. Now, let us get on the road. According to your requirements, we will maintain a high speed of 18 knots!

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"No, no, there are several ships in our fleet that can only sail up to 15 knots!" Sollot quickly replied: "Please take us forward at a speed of fifteen knots!"

"Roger, fifteenth, let's go now!"

The call on the radio is relatively brisk, and the huge nuclear-powered icebreaker moves very briskly. Even though such a big guy can swim freely on the ice, it is as flexible as a loach. Wherever it goes, it

There will be the sound of the ice breaking, and a sea channel will appear in the originally intact ice.

The Docwise Pioneer followed closely, and the other semi-submersible ships also followed, forming a long snake formation and advancing mightily.

I don’t know why, Sorlot doesn’t feel particularly cold anymore, maybe he’s in a better mood?

Two hours later, it became dark outside.

"Damn it, this day only lasted three hours." Sollot continued to complain.

"This is already pretty good. If you continue walking inside, you will enter the Arctic Circle and enter the long dark night." The bearded captain said.

The Arctic route cannot be used in winter. On the one hand, it is severely cold in winter and the ice is too thick. On the other hand, the day is too short. In the Arctic Circle, even during the long polar night, there is no trace of daylight at all. The sun peeks out of the sky at most.

He was so big that he went down after him.

Therefore, this place is not suitable for navigation at all, but Sollot does not care at all. In his eyes, everything here is very good! It saves half the time than other routes, and they can return to Norway as soon as possible!

"I know it's the polar night, but I still hate it." Sorlot is a Norwegian and must be aware of this phenomenon. He just doesn't like it.

The bearded captain smiled: "But I like it, so I can change shifts. First mate, you drive the ship and keep up with the nuclear-powered icebreaker in front!"

Ships sailing on the sea do not have brakes. When encountering situations, they can only reverse the propeller to reduce the speed. It takes a long distance to stop. Now it is a single ice-breaking road. Therefore, in order to avoid collision, almost every two

Each ship had to be about one kilometer apart from each other, so the entire formation stretched out nearly ten kilometers. In the dark night, the navigation lights pulled out a very beautiful light strip that extended on the ice.

Ahead, on a nuclear-powered icebreaker.

"If we drive to the 18th knot now, we can get rid of them quickly." Captain Ilovic said.

"No, they have just come in now. If they find out that we have tricked them, they can go back at any time. We have to take them forward and wait for three days," Zaitsev said.

"Okay. Let's wait a few more days. How desperate they will be when they are forgotten on the ice. These poor people..." Ilovic's eyes were full of excitement.

More than twenty hours later, the sun slowly rose behind them, but as soon as it emerged from the sea, it fell again. However, the ice surface did not completely darken.

Although the sun does not shine within the Arctic Circle, there is still diffuse reflection due to ice and snow everywhere. Therefore, the sky at this time looks like a cloudy day, the kind that is about to rain, but it doesn’t.

The way it was at that time.

This light lasted for less than two hours, and then the entire ice surface fell into complete darkness again.

However, the scenery is still very good. For example, if you look to the right side of the ship and look at the sky, you will occasionally see special lights.

This light is not green, but slightly milky white. This is the unique aurora in the Arctic. Under the camera lens, as long as the exposure time is slightly longer, it will be green.

The photos are beautiful, but the actual scene is even more beautiful. At this time, looking at the sky, Sorlot was in a better mood.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Today is a very good day, sailing normally at a speed of fifteen knots. Humph, that Qin Haiyang is really a liar, trying to trick himself into taking a normal route.

Spend more time!

Although hiring nuclear-powered icebreakers costs a lot of money, these eight ships can save almost half the fuel and save a lot of transportation costs by going this way, which is almost no extra money.

However, time is saved! By saving half a month of time, they can exploit oil and natural gas half a month earlier. The recent energy prices are very good, and they will make more money!

With beautiful fantasies, Sorlot went back to sleep. When he was sleeping soundly, there was a knock on the door outside.

Boom, boom!

"Mr. Sorlot, something happened!"

"What happened?" Sorlot got up in a daze, opened the door, and saw the nervous look on the bearded captain's face.

"The petrel semi-submersible ship at the end of our fleet is frozen!"

"What?" Sollot said in surprise: "How is it possible? The route opened by the icebreaker can be maintained for three hours!"

The ice surface broken by the icebreaker will freeze. This is for sure. The key is time. According to general rules, it will freeze after three hours after breaking. Therefore, their eight semi-submersible ships can definitely follow them, even if they are pulled apart.

The distance of thirty nautical miles can be covered in just two hours, so there won't be any major problems.

Now we have only closed a distance of more than ten kilometers, and the last ship is actually frozen?

This is unscientific!

"Please ask the Fifty Years Victory ahead for help."

"Call not available!"

"What? The call can't be answered? Why?"

"I don't know. It may be that here in the North Pole, the magnetic field is strong and radio communications are interfered with."

"Then how can we contact the Haiyan?"

"We all use the same radio station, but the one they use is different from ours."

"Damn it!" Sollot gritted his teeth: "Then what should we do?"

If there was a way, I wouldn't come to you! The bearded captain looked helpless.

"Connect with light!"

In the era before radio, maritime communication was carried out by using lights. Now there is a series of commonly known light languages. In this case, the only way to communicate is by using lights.

Soon, the three long, three short and three long light signs were flashed over.

Nuclear powered icebreaker.

"They started sending out lanterns asking for help, what should we do?" Ilovic asked.

"Humph, this has nothing to do with us." Zaitsev said: "We are just leading the way normally according to the provisions of the contract. Their last ship was frozen. This was an accident and we will need to pay extra!"

Zaitsev did not expect that it would go so smoothly. He originally planned to take action in two days, but unexpectedly, the opportunity came like this!

Under normal circumstances, the route opened by the icebreaker needs to be maintained for three hours, but there are also accidents. For example, if a cold wave appears somewhere, this part of the sea will naturally freeze faster. There is no doubt that this is what we are encountering now.

Such weather conditions are definitely force majeure!

Ilovic's eyes lit up: "Yes, there will be extra money! Now let's reply to them! But, what should we use to reply to them?"

Lantern language can only express simple messages. It is absolutely impossible to say more money, let alone bargain. Do we need to restore radio communication? When the other party called just now, we ignored it. If the call is restored now, will it happen?

It seems a bit hypocritical, and it is easy for the other party to know that one is intentional?

Zaitsev didn't care and picked up the radio.

"This is the 50-year-old Victory nuclear-powered icebreaker. One of the tubes in our radio burned out just now, so we lost contact for a while. Now that the radio has been restored, could you please describe what happened?"

The electronic tube is burned out? What age is this, and you still have this kind of excuse?

The people behind were also a little stunned: "Your radio still uses vacuum tubes?"

"Yes, only electron tubes can block the effects of various rays in the Arctic region. Other radios are prone to failure. Now tell us, what happened?"

"Our last semi-submersible ship, the Petrel, is frozen and needs rescue!"

"What, frozen? This is impossible! Today is not April Fool's Day. The route we opened can be maintained for three hours, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless we encounter a special cold current, this kind of cold current may exist in the sea area we are in now. Therefore, if we turn around and go back to rescue this unlucky semi-submersible ship, other ships may also be affected.

Freeze!”
To be continued...