Chapter 175 (2/2)

Lu Chen doesn't have the habit of forcing others to do things. These Inuit people are just ordinary people. The college didn't intend to let the Inuit people take them deep.

At this time, another crew member came and said something in captain Augustus's ear. Then Augustus looked up and said, ”it has been settled. The reward has been doubled eight times and will take us 50 kilometers deep.”

Lu Chen turned around and waved to finger, ”go back and have a rest first. I'm afraid there won't be such a comfortable environment to sleep in the next few days.”

After entering the cabin, he saw Chu Zihang talking to someone he didn't understand.

The other party is a man in a thick fur jacket. He is not tall, has a wide nose, and his hair is black and straight. He is an Inuit.

In fact, there are Eskimos, but the Inuit don't like people to call them ”Eskimos”, because this statement comes from their enemy, the language of the Indian Algonquin tribe, which means ”people who eat raw meat”, and ”Inuit” is their self claim, which means ”human”.

At this time, the man also took a little girl's hand on his left hand, which made Lu Chen confused and looked at captain Augustus.

”Because these people have no fixed residence, and this gentleman lost his wife in his early years and has only such a daughter, so he has to take it everywhere. We calculate the money according to people. At first, he was happy, but now he is also unhappy, because he doesn't want his daughter to take risks with him.”

Augustus explained aside.

”Then let the children stay. We all know what we are going to do. We can't take risks with children.”

Lu Chen looked at the girl with a hairy hat and only a small face. She was about nine or ten years old. She was a little short and boyish in her eyebrows. It is estimated that she was also wild in personality at ordinary times.

At this time, Chu Zihang seemed to have finished communicating with each other and came to Lu Chen. ”After discussion, they will take us in-depth, guide the direction, and then return.”

”Well, let's have a rest first. In the evening... There seems to be no night here at the moment. We expect to start at 19 o'clock.”

Lu Chen knows that Chu Zihang has little sleep in recent days.

The icebreaker continued to move forward, but the speed was getting slower and slower. Lu Chen slept on the heating in the cabin and got up to start.

”Woof, woof -”

More than 30 Alaskans were released from the cabin by the Inuit

These large dogs are taken off the ship by their owners and roll happily on the snow. Their fluffy fur and thick fat layer can make them adapt to the ice and snow environment. On the contrary, they are not suitable in the warm cabin.

Then, with the help of the commissioners, many supplies were transported to the sled. The high calorie food was enough for four people to eat in the snow for half a month, and the fuel could keep them warm during their rest.

The Inuit picked up his daughter and said something. Then Lu Chen saw that the little girl was a little lost, but she obediently returned to the ship.

The Alaskans were tied one by one in front of the sledge, and the trained animals immediately quieted down and waited for their master's instructions.

Chu Zihang checked his belongings and took a sled. Finger teased these big dogs with a novel look, and then took another sled. All kinds of materials were bound on their sleds.

Another sled is the widest. There are 16 sled dogs in front. The bottom of the sled has been widened to balance the stress surface. This sled does not sit on people, but only pulls a black box like a coffin.

Lu Chen stepped off the ship with a pair of knives, and the commissioners behind him saluted one after another.

He went to Chu Zihang, took a sled with the other side and said, ”let's go.”

Originally, sled dogs were enough to pull four or five sleds, but because heixuan was too heavy, he was released and pulled alone.

Lu Chen originally wanted to go directly with heixuan on his back. Anyway, he has plenty of energy. It's nothing to travel long distances on the snow field, but there are some places where the snow is very thick. He carries too much weight with heixuan on his back and will get into trouble.

With the cry of the Inuit people, Alaskans ran happily, and sledges sped on the ice.

After traveling for more than an hour, the Inuit man asked the Alaskans to stop and said something Lu Chen didn't understand.

”He said the dogs needed rest.”

Chu Zihang translated.

Lu Chen looked back and pulled the black Xuan group of Alaskans out of breath. Some of them couldn't run. It was really difficult for them.

So several people stopped to make a fire, and the Inuit took out the food and water from the car and fed it to Alaska.

After all this, he went to Lu Chen and said a string of words. He knew that this was the person who talked about the ”scientific examination”.

To be honest, the man has always been surprised. This scientific research group seems very suspicious to him. The people on board are not like scientists, but like soldiers. What's more suspicious is that after arriving at the destination, they actually asked several young people to investigate.

Chu Zihang translated: ”he is introducing himself. His name is verus.”

”Verus?”

Lu Chen feels that the name is very strange.

”In Inuit, it means fluffy and warm. They are very particular about their names, which will give future generations a better vision.”

Chu Zihang explained, and then verus spoke again.

”He said that we had to rest for more than half an hour before we could start. We expected to reach the longest distance he was willing to go deep at about zero.”

Chu Zihang continued to translate.

”You tell him that when you go deep enough, you can return in his sleigh. We won't force him to lead the way.”

Lu Chen gave verus a wide and gentle smile, but the other party shrunk his neck.

After a few people had a rest, they set out again. At first, Lu Chen enjoyed the scenery of the snow field and felt very novel, but he also felt a little tired after watching it for a long time.

There is white snow everywhere. In the season after the spring equinox, there is a polar day phenomenon in the depths of the Arctic Circle, that is to say, there is basically no night here, but it is not always a bright day, but a dull white.

After watching for a long time, you will feel that this snow field is like a creeping beast, hiding some turbulent crisis, which can be eaten by people.

Until eleven o'clock in the evening, when there were seven or eight kilometers left from the previously agreed distance, verus shouted to the Alaskans to stop.

”He didn't want to go any further. He said there was a devil in front of him, and according to his experience, there would be a snowstorm ahead.”

After Chu Zihang translated, he looked at Lu Chen and waited for the other party to make a decision.

”That's it. It's not difficult for him. We go the rest of the way by ourselves. We say we are guides. In fact, it's not necessary. We just have dogs.”

Lu Chen is ready to let verus turn back. He also asked Chu Zihang about the devil verus said. It is said to be a myth spread in their small Inuit tribe.

Their tribe handed down from generation to generation that there was once a God on the permafrost, who protected all living beings. It is said that the place protected by the God is warm and snow free, but later human beings angered the God and were abandoned by the God. Since then, demons have come to this land and devoured all those who dare to find a warm hometown.