"So where is this place?"

In the wooden house that smelled of meat, Dr. Cross suppressed his excitement and asked in a low voice in Latin.

"Queen Maude Land, this is probably still within the scope of Queen Maude Land, but it is definitely not ten kilometers inland from the Schirmacher Oasis. We are much further away from the coastline, or more eastward, otherwise the magnetic declination

It won't be that big, unless I calculated it wrong."

Carsten put away the small stone and continued to whisper, "The specific location still needs to be measured, especially enough reference terrain needs to be found to determine our current location."

"So last summer, the place we went to was not there either..."

Before Dr. Cross could finish his words, Hanno sat up from his sleep with an exclamation.

"What's wrong with you?" Wei Ran, who was pretending to be busy by the stove, was the first to ask with concern.

"It's okay, damn, I had a nightmare."

Hanno rubbed his face vigorously, looked at the watch hanging on the bedside, and then asked, "Did the radio ring?"

"No"

Carsten answered his question, "Hanno, do you want to get up and eat something or continue to sleep? Today's breakfast was cooked by Victor, and his cooking skills are much better than Dr. Jörg."

"I'm not going to sleep anymore." Hanno yawned, "Let me try Victor's craftsmanship."

"it's here"

Wei Ran pointed to the lunch box that had been hanging by the stove, "It's been keeping it warm for you."

"Thanks"

Hanno had already stood up and walked over while he was talking, took off his lunch box and returned to his sewing machine. While eating, he asked, "Have you tried the jumpsuit I modified for you?"

"I tried it, Hanno, your skills are really good."

Dr. Cross immediately praised, while Carsten put the small stone and the pointer that was originally sucked on it into different pockets.

Hanno was obviously very happy under the compliments of the two people. After finishing breakfast in three or two mouths, he immediately stepped on the sewing machine and started making sleeping bags with the roll of silk fabric he got.

Seeing this, Dr. Cross and Mr. Carsten also stopped chatting in Latin, and each of them started busy with their own work.

Seeing that he could no longer hear any valuable news, Wei Ran poured the broth that had been prepared in the pot into the iron bucket that had been prepared in advance, put on a brand new one-piece thermal insulation suit, and also returned the

I forgot to take off the mountaineering expert badge from the old thermal suit and pin it on the inside of this new suit, and then I carried the broth to feed the new sled dogs.

While the dogs were eating, Wei Ran also lit a cigarette and hid in the wind-sheltered kennel while serving the small stove while secretly pondering the Latin conversation he had just overheard and the secrets revealed in the conversation.

.

So there won’t really be a 211 base, right?

Inevitably, he once again had doubts about this matter that had already been concluded in history.

Almost as soon as the dogs were filling their stomachs, Schubert and Dr. Jörg also rushed back one after another. In the sled driven by the latter, what they pulled back this time was a seal with a gunshot wound to the head.

"Get rid of it"

Major Schubert ordered Wei Ran, "Remember to peel off the skin and let Hanno take care of it."

"I know" Wei Ran nodded and agreed.

"Let me help you!"

Dr. Yog took the initiative and said, "Victor, you'd better change into some old clothes."

“That makes sense”

Like a brainless puppet at the mercy of strings, Wei Ran accepted Yog's suggestion and followed Schubert into the cabin.

"Any news?" As soon as Schubert entered the room, he asked Hanno who was working on the sewing machine.

"No," Hanno replied, stopping what he was doing, "it's been quiet on the radio channel."

Hearing this, Schubert nodded expressionlessly, walked to his bed, picked up a gas cylinder and a weather balloon from under the bed, and started working alone.

A little later, Wei Ran, who had changed into old clothes, also left the cabin and began to decompose the seal with the help of Yog.

"Where did you catch it?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

"Coastline." Yog whispered an unexpected answer, "The direction of the coastline."

"Did you see the coastline?"

Glancing at Schubert who was releasing a balloon in the distance, Yog gently shook his head and said, "Stop discussing this dangerous topic."

Before he finished speaking, he had already helped Wei Ran pull off the seal's skin, "I'll give it to Hannuo, and I'll leave the rest to you."

Watching Dr. Yog leave as if he was running away, Wei Ran's inner doubts became more serious.

Obviously, as Carsten said, this Dr. Jörg seemed to know something.

So, if this isn't Queen Maud Land, then where is it?

Even though there were more and more questions in his heart, he did not stop what he was doing. Instead, he quickly dismantled the seal's internal organs, cut them into pieces, and threw them to the dogs who had just eaten.

Give them some vitamin supplements.

He casually threw the much reduced seal carcass into an oil drum, but Wei Ran didn't even look at Major Schubert, who was releasing the weather balloon, and got into the wooden house to continue his work.

In the next few days, Wei Ran was like a nanny or servant, being busy with various tasks at will by various people in the cabin.

It was through these few days of contact that he gradually realized that Hanno's and his own "status" were not much different, and they both belonged to the "lowest level" in this cabin.

The only thing he is better than himself is that he seems to have more trust from Schubert than himself.

What made him even more concerned was that Hanno also had a mountaineering expert badge on the inside of his thermal suit.

If you include yourself, half of the six-member team have obtained mountaineering expert badges. This configuration is too luxurious.

However, during the past few days of observation, he found that apart from reading books, reading newspapers and playing penguins, people rarely did any serious "scientific research" work. At most, the radio station Hannuo was in charge of was turned on at a scheduled time every day to listen, and that was just for one day.

Only four hours of rest are used for radio station maintenance.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! On the other hand, this young man who seems to have no intention of taking good care of the radio station and the wooden house itself. In the past few days, he also used a sewing machine to give everyone

Everyone made a mummy-style sleeping bag.

Although these sleeping bags with silk fabric lining and tarpaulin outer layer are a bit linted and have a vague fishy smell, they are still warm enough.

Unfortunately, the cabin was also warm enough, so although everyone received this gift, no one, including Hanno himself, used the prepared sleeping bags when sleeping.

Compared with Hanno, who is the only one who has serious work to do and has an extremely rich spare time life, Dr. Jörg seems to get along with everyone and become a good friend who talks about everything - whether it is Schubert, who has the highest status, or Wei, who has the lowest status.

Burn.

The two scholars often got together when Major Schubert was away and chatted quietly in Latin that Wei Ran could understand or in some language that he did not understand. They obviously had secrets in their hearts.

However, from those few words, Wei Ran could tell to some extent that they did not seem to have the idea of ​​"escape", but instead were just speculating about something.

As for Major Schubert, just as the impression left on Wei Ran at first was that he was an avid Nazi and hunting enthusiast.

Listen to the radio and hunt at fixed times every day, and when a telegram is sent, everyone is asked to leave the cabin and use the Enigma machine alone to translate the content of the received telegram.

In addition, he also maintained a vigilance against everyone. Even after being invited out of the cabin several times to wait for the translation telegram to be completed, Wei Ran once noticed that his supply box and bedside suitcase had been rummaged through.

sign.

As he got to know these "colleagues" better, the week passed in a blink of an eye, and Wei Ran finally took advantage of these days of chef work to fill the oil drums containing coffee powder and sugar cubes with boiling hot water.

It was exactly at two o'clock in the afternoon that he entered this historical episode for a week, when a telegram was sent via radio that broke everyone's preparations and little thoughts hidden in their hearts.

"Half an hour's time"

Schubert stood at the door of the wooden house and said hurriedly to the people who were helping Wei Ran and Yog feed the dogs, "We will leave here in half an hour."

"Leave? What happened?" Yog asked subconsciously.

Glancing at Dr. Jorg, Schubert hesitated for a moment before explaining, "Just now, the British began to besiege our whaling station, and they are likely to touch here. For safety reasons, we must now

Transfer.”

"Where are we going?" Dr. Cross asked excitedly, "We are going...is that where we are going?"

After glancing at Dr. Cross, Major Schubert nodded and replied, "We don't rule out this possibility. Now hurry up and pack your luggage. Take away the necessary things and leave the unnecessary ones. Each person is responsible for one sleigh."

Before the others could say anything, Major Schubert continued, "Victor, you are responsible for carrying the generator and at least two barrels of fuel, and also the receiver.

Hanno, you are responsible for bringing the transmitter, a barrel of fuel, and some food along the way. You two must ensure that the radio system can be activated normally at any time. That is the key to our survival.

Yog, Dr. Cross, and Mr. Carsten, you are responsible for bringing medicines, medical equipment and your personal belongings. If there is still free weight, try to pack as many vegetables and meat pieces as possible.

If everyone has no problem, please take action as soon as possible!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran and others looked at each other, immediately hooked up the sled dogs to the sled dogs who had just eaten, and then started busy loading the sled dogs.

With Hanno's help, he put the generator that had just turned off and the boxed receiver on the sled with some difficulty, and Weiran loaded two more barrels of fuel on it.

After pushing it for a while, he reluctantly put a medicine box that belonged to Yog and a box of jam on the sleigh.

He ran back to the cabin and put on the one-piece thermal insulation suit that Yog had processed for him a few days ago, and then rolled up the sleeping bag he made himself, along with the mountaineering bag on the bedside and the suitcase already filled with film.

They were stacked in the sled and tied with tarps and ropes to make them very secure.

Seeing that the others had not finished their work, Wei Ran ran into the wooden house again, poured all the remaining bottles of gin into the oil drum specially used to hold wine, and at the same time, he also stuffed two large bottles into his arms.
To be continued...