Chapter 1348 Leaving (2/2)

Li Du wouldn't keep the GPS and electronic maps that automatically recorded his route. If he kept them, the route of his voyage would be completely exposed to Bobby Blodwen.

Since he went to check these two items first, it meant that he wanted to know exactly where Li Du had been.

Li Du was not stupid and saw no reason to share his private maps with Blodwen.

Bobby Blodwen was thinking about what to do with Li Du when a little red dot appeared in the sky in the distance. The red dot grew bigger and bigger. The propeller's sound was heard and a helicopter flew towards them.

When he saw the MI-171, Blodwen's eyes turned the same color as the helicopter. Someone beside him said happily, ”This is great, boss. They are going to return the helicopter too.”

Blodwen thought that was too good to be true, and sure enough, as the helicopter landed on the ground, Li Du and his men hurried to board it, and the helicopter flew away.

Steve waved to Blodwen from the cabin door with a big smile on his face.

Blodwen bellowed, ”Give my helicopter back, you thieves!”

The helicopter had already taken off, but he still had some hope it would return to him eventually as the icebreaker did.

In the meantime, Steve and his men had left Bolshevik island for the October Revolution Island.

”How is the harvest going?” asked Li Du.

Steve laughed loudly and said, ”Not bad, man. We joined forces with the police and caught the poachers. We took their transport ship. It was a tough fight!”

”Any meteorites?”

”Well, we didn't find any more, but we got plenty before, didn't we? When we first came to Severnaya Zemlya, we didn't expect to get so many meteorites!” Steve said contentedly.

Then Li Du mentioned his main concern. ”When are you going to leave these islands?”

Steve's answer, to his delight, was, ”In the next few days we'll pack up and go. The first chapter of the Arctic adventure ends here, and we can leave soon.”

Li Du sighed in relief. Finally, he would be able to leave this boring place.

Back at camp, he gave the Ford brothers a gift of ice from the Arctic, sealed in a polyethylene compound that could last for hundreds of years without melting.

The Ford brothers accepted his gift with a smile, and then Li Du told them Dunford's story and asked them to help move the hapless man out of the Arctic.

After resting for a few days, most of them returned home. Hankway and the other Nenets remain on the island. They were professional meteorite hunters and felt they hadn't exhausted the resources of Severnaya Zemlya yet.

The cars and the tents remained, and Li Du and his men took the MI-171 to Vorkuta, where there was an airport, and then flew across Siberia to Alaska.

Finally, this trip to the North Pole was over.

When they emerged from the customs, Li Du looked back at the sky in the distance.

The sky was blue and spotless. When he reflected on his life in the past few months, it no longer seemed that it was very boring but rather memorable.

However, he decided he would not travel to Siberia and the Arctic again. He would find someone to retrieve the narwhal tusks.

Of course, he would only take the tusks and would not touch the narwhals' carcasses. He would do his best to protect the invisible graveyard.