Inside the "warehouse" cave, after some discussions between Wei Ran and Dr. Yog to determine the general direction, they invited Dr. Hanno and Dr. Cross over. The four of them sat around the red oil barrel fireplace burned by charcoal fire and began planning.

How to spend the next winter.

"Hannuo, is there any response from the radio?" Wei Ran asked first.

Hannuo shook his head when he heard this, "No, there is no response. I suspect two possibilities."

"What two possibilities?" Dr. Cross asked.

"Either the other party cannot receive our telegram at all due to signal strength or distance, or...or the radio station at the whaling station may have been completely destroyed,"

After a pause, Hanno continued, "Considering that we have been trying to re-establish contact with the whaling station while the major was alive, I guess the second possibility may be higher."

"Hannuo, we use medium wave communication, right?" Weiran asked abruptly, "80-watt medium wave transmitter."

"That's right"

Hanno subconsciously replied, "Whether we communicate with the whaling station at the outpost or we communicate with the whaling station here in the summer, we use an 80-watt medium-wave transmitter and supporting medium-wave transmitter.

Wave Receiver.”

"Can we communicate with the whaling station?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"sure"

Hanno, the radio operator, was obviously aware of Weiran's intention to ask these questions, but he still answered truthfully, "But the signal strength is not very good, and many times it is necessary to go to the top of the mountain to complete the transmission."

"Thank you for sharing this information"

Wei Ran said gratefully, he really needed to be grateful, because his conversation with Hannuo just now actually hinted at a crucial thing - the straight-line distance from the whaling station on the coastline must be within 300 kilometers!

The reason why he is so sure is related to the characteristics of the medium wave channel. Although this band can also communicate through ionospheric reflection at night, the communication distance is not particularly far most of the time, especially the one that was heavily equipped in Germany during World War II.

80-watt transmitter for reconnaissance vehicles.

Although radio is difficult to measure in terms of communication distance, even under ideal conditions, its communication distance is generally not used for communications exceeding 300 kilometers.

Undoubtedly, this is enough to prove that their straight-line distance from the coastline must be within 300 kilometers.

In other words, the reason why they are equipped with this medium-wave radio communication device instead of a five-watt global short-wave radio station is that such a station is less affected by the ionosphere, but it prevents them from communicating with other countries outside the Antarctic continent.

It is probably one of the purposes to prevent them from communicating with people further away.

Seeing that Wei Ran seemed to have nothing more to ask, Dr. Yog cleared his throat, took the pen Wei Ran lent him, and wrote on a piece of light yellow wrapping paper while saying, "No matter what the possibility, restore communication.

How about leaving the work to Hanno? Even if there is no way to communicate, at least we can listen to the broadcast, any channel."

"I will try my best to meet everyone's needs." When Hannuo said this, he couldn't help but glance at Wei Ran who was thoughtful.

"In addition to restoring communications, don't forget those sleeping bags."

Wei Ran, who noticed the other person's eyes, reminded him jokingly, "Those sleeping bags smell too bad, so if you have time, you might as well find a way to get rid of the smell of those sleeping bags."

"This job sounds much simpler than restoring communications," Hanno replied with a smile, accepting the extra job.

"Now that we've found a job for Hanno, who's next?" Dr. Jörg raised his head and asked.

"Let me be responsible for digging the cave."

Dr. Cross said impatiently, "If Carsten can...recover his health, he will definitely be willing to participate in the work of digging the cave."

"In this case, this hard work will be left to you."

After writing a few strokes on the thick wrapping paper, Jorg asked, "Victor, it's your turn. You also need to find yourself a job."

"My cold was cured by you"

Wei Ran said as if he was cheating, "So I'm willing to admit defeat and leave the job of chef to me. By the way, I will also repair the ugly and leaking fireplace, and find a way to make the cave warmer."

"What about you, Dr. Yoger, what kind of job are you going to find for yourself?" Dr. Cross asked.

"I can do some carpentry work"

Dr. Yog smiled and said, "I will make some furniture for you. In addition, leave those sled dogs to me to take care of."

“Sled dogs are a big problem”

Hanno frowned and said, "Although we have hundreds of kilograms of frozen meat in reserve, we have more than sixty sled dogs. The meat is probably not enough for them to eat for a long time."

"Is there a penguin colony near here?"

Wei Ran and Dr. Yog almost subconsciously asked two identical questions, "Are there weapons here?"

"Are you really not ready to let the penguin go?" Dr. Cross looked helpless.

"Those sled dogs are our hope of survival"

Yog reminded calmly, "No matter when, we must ensure that those sled dogs survive. Only if they survive can we survive.

As long as we survive this winter and wait until summer comes, even without rescue, we can return to the coastline through them."

"There's no way no one will come to save us," Hanno said almost subconsciously.

"So is there a penguin colony around here?"

Wei Ran had to ask the question again, "There are also weapons. Are there any weapons here? Weapons that can hunt penguins."

"Because Major Aigner, who was delivering supplies, gave Major Schubert a new shotgun, so the latter left his most used rifle here."

Hannuo had already stood up while speaking, and explained as he walked towards the airdrop box not far away, "As for the penguin habitat, when I went hunting with the major in the summer, I found many eggs left in the winter.

shell, but not sure if there are any penguins there now.”

"Do you know the road?" Wei Ran took the weapon that the other party took out from an airdrop box and asked while looking at it.

This is a VZ24 made in the Czech Republic. If it were a Chinese, it would be called the Mauser short rifle "Ma Si Huan".

"Leave the mountainous area and walk to the left while facing the mountainous area. When there is no wind, it only takes about an hour for the sleigh to find that area."

As Hannuo said, he took out another ammunition bag from the box and handed it to Wei Ran along with the only hiking bag for the five of them.

"Are you coming?" Wei Ran looked at Dr. Yog.

"I'll leave the hunting to you. My marksmanship is not that good, and I don't want to fall into the ice crevice again."

Doctor Yog waved his hand and said, "But if you need help, you can call me."

"Then it's settled"

As Wei Ran spoke, he threw the rifle, which was covered with strips of cloth, and the ammunition bag back into the airdrop box. He also put down his mountaineering bag and rummaged through the airdrop box.

Unfortunately, except for some miscellaneous items such as axes, hammers, nails, oil lamps, etc., there are no personal belongings here.

Although they have agreed on their next work, Wei Ran is not in a hurry to work. The next time may be long, so there is no need to rush at this moment.

"Why don't we take a group photo?"

After rummaging through and finding a kerosene gas lamp, Wei Ran suggested, "I forgot to tell you that I secretly brought a camera. Although there isn't much film, it's enough for us to take a group photo."

"It's really worth taking a group photo if we can escape here." Dr. Yog was the first to respond to Wei Ran's suggestion.

With the support of the first person, there will naturally be a second one. By the time Weiran lit the brighter kerosene lamp and placed it on the stacked airdrop boxes, Hannuo had also turned off the noisy generator and joined the rest of the people.

People gathered around Carsten's hospital bed.

Let Wei Ran take a group photo of them, Wei Ran handed over the task of pressing the shutter to Yog, and he stood where Dr. Yog was standing just now, and asked the other party to take a photo for him.

"We first need a door with good enough sound insulation."

After taking the photo, Dr. Jörg walked towards the wooden boards piled on the edge and said, "Whoever it is, help me guard Carsten. Now I have to make a door as a carpenter."

As he spoke, he had already pulled out a saw and an ax from a box full of tools, and then dug out a box of nails.

"In this case, I will make a new stove that does not leak smoke, so that we will not all be smoked to death in the cave after Dr. Yog fixes the new door."

After saying that, Weiran looked at Hannuo, "We still have empty oil drums, right?"

"If I remember correctly, there are only two empty barrels with a capacity of 200 liters, but there are quite a few empty iron barrels with a capacity of 100 liters. Those were previously used to hold flour."

Hannuo also became more energetic and said as he walked towards the entrance of the cave, "If you need it, I will go and bring you all the empty barrels."

"Pack flour?" Wei Ran looked at Hannuo doubtfully, "Does a lot of flour be consumed here?"

"It was used as a container when the coal was transported here from the mine."

Hanno stopped and explained, "Of course, last summer, the people in the mine also sent a few barrels of flour. These are not in the record books. The major paid for them with wine."

“This is really good news”

Wei Ran smiled and said, "Five, bring me five watertight flour buckets. Also, where are the flours you just mentioned?"

"It's buried in the coal pile."

Hanno pointed to the pile of coal not far away, "I don't know why the major exchanged those flours, but they must be in those piles of coal."

"It seems we have bread to eat again, Hannuo, go move the oil drums." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already walked to the side of the pair of coals.

"Since you all have jobs, I will take care of Mr. Carsten." Dr. Cross passively chose the laziest job.

"Victor, have you determined our location just now?"

Dr. Yog waited until Hannuo left the cave, then approached Wei Ran and asked while helping to shovel away the coal. Obviously, this smart doctor had realized something.

"Unless we can determine which coast the original outpost was..."
To be continued...