"This is not a dream"
Eric pointed to Leo sitting next to him, "My cousin knows about a treasure buried by the Germans, but he can't find the specific location. That's all."
"What treasure?" Professor Jonas and Wei Ran were all aroused.
Hearing this, Eric turned around and communicated with Leo for a few words. The latter reluctantly took out a silver cigarette case from his pocket and threw it to Eric.
The latter took the cigarette box, first took out a few cigarettes and distributed them to everyone, and then took out a very familiar photo of Wei Ran.
"This was found in an abandoned mine when my cousin first started working."
Eric took advantage of Professor Jonas to look at the photo in detail. Explained, "At that time, he found a long-decomposed body in the mine. He also found a camera and some film near the body. This photo was developed from the film found. Leo suspected This is gold buried by the Germans."
"Where was this found?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask, and Jonas next to him also pricked up his ears.
Eric spread his hands helplessly, "Other than showing off this photo, he never said where he found it."
"I hope he can find these. Gold." Jonas handed the photo to Wei Ran, who waved his hand simply and then gave it back to Eric.
Putting the photo back into the cigarette case and handing it to Leo, who was still wiping his weapon, everyone's conversation once again returned to the Equator 2 weather station they had been looking for.
Unfortunately, just as Leo refused to reveal where he found the photo, Jonas clearly didn't want to reveal how he found the weather station.
During the chat, everyone drank a pot of coffee. After their bodies were completely warmed up, Leo also started to prepare meals for everyone.
After Jonas promised to give him a gasoline pie stove after the expedition, everyone had a particularly sumptuous first meal on Bear Island.
From the very Norwegian Söder lamb soup and lamb stewed with cabbage, to the smoked pickled herring that made three people frown, to the potato wine that Eric called Norwegian blood, in short, this After the meal, everyone was full of praise for Leo's cooking skills, and at the same time, they also ordered not to take out the pickled herring next time to affect their appetite.
As for Leo, while enjoying everyone's praise for his cooking skills, he also sneered at everyone's requests. Although the pickled herring he ate was not the sensational canned Swedish herring of later generations, the weird smell was definitely not much better after undergoing genetic mutation in the steaming tent.
After filling their stomachs, everyone decided to take a nap first at Leo's request. According to him, there will be a short period of dawn in about five or six hours. Rather than searching in the dark now, , it is better to take a nap first to recuperate, and then continue to look for clues after dawn.
Leo is their guide after all, Professor Jonas and EricIf there is no opinion, Weiran will naturally not have any opinion either.
After a brief discussion between the four, Jonas chose to live in the same tent with Eric on the pretext that he couldn't stand Wei Ran's snoring. However, Wei Ran could see clearly that this cautious professor made it clear that he did not want Eric to have any private exchanges with his cousin that he did not know about.
However, Leo seemed not to notice. He enthusiastically entered another tent with the gas stove, lit the gasoline stove to warm up the tent, and then set the alarm clock and placed it in the center of the tent. On the sleigh, he lay down on a furry bearskin blanket, covered his head with an equally furry reindeer skin, and soon began to snore.
Seeing this, Wei Ran also took out a sleeping bag from his backpack and spread it on his reindeer skin blanket. After getting in, he covered himself with an extra blanket.
In the middle of the two tents, after filling their bellies, the four reindeer huddled on their mats and buried their mouths into the warm thighs.
When the crisp sound of the alarm clock woke up Wei Ran from his deep sleep, outside the circular vent in the center of the tent roof, the sky had turned gray, and Leo on the other side of the sleigh, He had already stretched himself and climbed up.
He greeted Wei Ran enthusiastically. After realizing that the latter could not understand what he was talking about, Leo pointed to the outside of the tent and said "Eric". After that, he turned around and got out of the warm tent.
When Wei Ran also put on his clothes and chased him out, Leo and Eric were already dismantling another tent.
"Victor, Leo just discussed it with me."
Eric stopped what he was doing and said, "We will accompany Professor Jonas later. How about finding a weather station and staying at the camp?"
"You're not changing positions?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.
"No need to change it yet."
Professor Jonas took over and said, "Leo said that this is almost the center of Bear Island. No matter where the weather station is, It's only less than ten kilometers away from here. Leave the supplies here so the reindeer can run easier and faster."
"We will be back after dark"< /p>
Eric said with an envious look, "You can just prepare some food and drink for us in advance. To be honest, if I hadn't been needed to translate, I would have wanted to stay."
Seeing that these three people had already made their decision, Wei Ran looked at Professor Jonas doubtfully, and then agreed.
Watching the three people riding the reindeer cart farther and farther away, Wei Ran frowned. A few hours ago, Professor Jonas was secretly guarding Eric and his... Cousin, why did you abandon yourself when you woke up?
Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Wei Ran took advantage of this rare opportunity to try to take the Paizhuan out of the metal book. Unfortunately, this row of boats has also been temporarily detained.
In desperation, Wei Ran simplyHe got into the tent and lay down again on the reindeer skin blanket that was still warm. While staring at the sky above his head, he thought about the photo he saw in Leo's cigarette case yesterday.
After a short four or five hours, the sky outside the vent became dark again, and wisps of aurora surged like colorful clouds.
Wei Ran, who had regained his energy, saw that the time was almost up, so he got up, lit a kerosene gas lamp and placed it on the top of the big rock not far away as a beacon to guide the way, and then did some random things. After eating and drinking, I added some water to the leftover mutton soup and continued to cook it.
Although he had prepared meals, it took another four or five hours after dark before the sled driven by Leo ran back from the southeast with a kerosene lamp attached.
"Have you found it?" Wei Ran asked after the three tired-looking people got off the sled.
“No.” Professor Jonas shook his head. “The snow in this damn place is too thick. It’s not that easy to find a weather station left over 40 years ago.”
"And we almost fell into a rock crevice," Eric said with lingering fear.
"Leo was lucky, he shot two beautiful Arctic foxes."
Professor Jonas changed the subject at the right time and was untying the reindeer. After Leo heard the other party seem to mention his name, he immediately pointed proudly to the two white fox carcasses hanging on the side of the sleigh.
Seeing that Professor Jonas didn’t want to talk more, Wei Ran didn’t ask further questions. After helping Leo and Eric set up the tent again, he immediately greeted them to eat.
However, the dinner he made at random was naturally not as good as Leo's cooking skills. Fortunately, there was no pickled herring this time, so there was nothing left, and it was all eaten.
After four days of searching day after day, when they ushered in the fifth day, Jonas signaled without warning that Weiran would follow suit this time. Also bring all supplies.
"Professor, have you found the location?" Eric asked in surprise.
Professor Jonas nodded, put on an uncertain expression and said, "I thought about it carefully last night, and I still think that the valley we went to two days ago is the most consistent one about the equator. The location of Weather Station No. 2 is described, so I think it’s better to go there together and look for it.”
This old fox...
Wei Ran cursed secretly. He was almost certain that Professor Jonas must have found the weather station a long time ago, and he probably spent the rest of the days circling the weather station observing the surrounding environment.
However, Eric obviously did not expect this. He just excitedly called his cousin Leo to help Wei Ran pack up the camp and load everything on the sleigh.
Under the leadership of Leo, the two sleighs moved slowly and leisurely on the thick snow, and hurriedlyBefore dark, we passed through a fifty- to sixty-meter-long mountain col and drove into an oval valley with a diameter of one kilometer, surrounded by surrounding stone mountains.
When the two sleighs stopped, Professor Jonas raised his finger and pointed to a vaguely visible mountain peak in the northeast and said, "That is the highest peak of Bear Island. According to the diary records left by my father, in There used to be a radio signal relay tower on the top of the mountain, but they dismantled it and pushed it into the sea. "What about the weather station?" Rick asked rather unwelcomingly.
Professor Jonas turned and pointed to another much shorter hill about a kilometer away and said, "According to the diary, the weather station is in a valley around the highest point of Bear Island. , about a kilometer northwest of the valley, they built a small signal tower on another mountain." At this point, Jonas paused and continued with a regretful tone. "But the diary left by my father did not mention the direction of the highest peak of this weather station. However, based on the exploration over the past few days, this should be the location that best matches the description in the diary."
"So what we need to do now is to find that weather station in this area?"
Seeing Professor Jonas nod, Wei Ran simply continued to ask, "You Did your father’s work diary mention what that weather station looked like?”
“A not that big wooden house?” Professor Jonas looked around and replied, “That building. The house was built in the middle of the valley, but they demolished it before leaving." "Demolished?" Eric's eyes widened. "Since the weather station was demolished, How were those meteorological data preserved?"
"Don't worry"
Jonas waved his hand, "As long as we can find the ruins of the weather station, we will definitely be able to. If you find the meteorological data left here, I can guarantee that they must be very well preserved.”