Chapter 434 Oil
Camp Alett provides too few ingredients. Before the Smith Strait was completely thawed, their supplies could only rely on planes. So the most ingredients here were flour, rice, deep frozen meat and dehydrated vegetables. Although there were many styles, if they ate these things almost every day, even the delicacies would have faded out of their mouths.
What Yang Jing and the others brought were undoubtedly a delicacy for the people in the camp.
Not to mention, the hundreds of kilograms of fresh vegetables alone have become the most popular thing in the camp, even more popular than Australian beef and Dongtao Chicken.
Especially after these guys saw the red tomatoes, green broccoli, rapeseed, purple-red onions and fresh cabbage, they all looked like Arctic wolf who had been hungry for a cold season, and they wished they could emit a foot-long green light in their eyes.
These vegetables were supplemented by Andre and Lindan in Nuuk, but some vegetables cannot be stored for too long even at the most appropriate temperature, so these vegetables are cheaper for campers.
In fact, most of the ingredients brought from the Blue Whale are mainly fresh vegetables, followed by frozen seafood, and very few meat-eating. The Alett camp does not lack meat, they lack fresh vegetables and seafood.
Fresh vegetables are understandable, after all, even in the hottest summers, there will be no vegetables. However, seafood is also extremely lacking here.
There is no way. Although Alert is on the verge of the Arctic Ocean, there is no pier or fishing boat here, so he has no way to go out to sea to catch fish. If you point to fish with a fishing rod, then you will starve all these people to death?
So seafood is also very popular here.
The ingredients brought by Yang Jing and the others were 200 kilograms. This was what Andre said when he was in Nuuk that he wanted to stop from Alert. After the people there liked these ingredients the most, Yang Jing specifically told Lin Dan to add more vegetables and seafood.
For these people, these ingredients are only two meals at most. But it doesn’t matter. The Blue Whale has more supplies. Even if Yang Jing and the others stay here for a month, they can afford the consumption here.
"Albert, thank you very much. If it weren't for you, we would have to wait at least twenty days before we could eat fresh vegetables." Old Kyle walked to Yang Jing with a glass of wine, and stood side by side with Yang Jing and watched the people dancing happily by the bonfire. Dozens of Alaska sled dogs ran around excitedly in the crowd, making waves of screams from time to time.
These cute dog babies were brought by the four guys who walked across the North American continent. There were more than 60 in total. If it weren't for these brave dog babies, four of them would not have been able to walk across the North American continent. At least in the Arctic Islands in winter, if they were not sledding, they would not have been able to walk these thousands of miles away without dogs.
These dogs are obviously well-cared, and they are fat and strong, and they are very familiar with the people in the camp. With their existence, there is also a lot of anger in the camp.
"It's nothing, Kyle, you are doing scientific research here, which deserves the respect of people all over the world. I just happened to pass by here and did what I should do." Yang Jing turned his head and looked at this respectable old scholar sincerely.
"So, how long are you going to stay here? I heard Andre say that you went out to sea to have a vacation with your fiancée. If so, I suggest you stay here for a while. Now and in the future, it is the most beautiful time near Alert. Here you can see walruses and seals, and of course polar bears are indispensable. If you are lucky, you can also see whales. The Arctic Ocean in the warm season is still very interesting. If you are willing to go to the Kutinil Park National Park in the west, you can enjoy the permanent ice up close, and if you are willing, you can also start hunting activities there. This season is the time when the Arctic wolf follows the Arctic rabbit and the Arctic fox head north, and those cruel guys need to use hunting rifles to deal with it."
Yang Jing asked: "Do you don't need a hunting license to hunt here?"
"NO! Of course not, I can't even see a personal shadow here. Why do you use that thing? Moreover, these Arctic wolf is very dangerous. Every year, some Arctic wolf will touch the camp. Fortunately, we have guns here, and there are several real soldiers in the north. Second Lieutenant Rodman hunted seven Arctic wolf one by one last year. It's a pity that the wolf meat is not delicious..."
Yang Jing smiled, raised his glass and clinked Old Kyle, "I'm really going to stay here for a few more days, of course, if you don't think we're bothering me."
Old Kyle took a sip of wine, "How is it possible? There are places where people live. In the past, there were 200 people here when there were the most people here. Now there are only more than 20 of us. Just find a few houses to clean up and you can stay in all of you. It's okay for you to stay here for how long you're willing to live here, no one will say anything. People here hope that the more people come, the better. We have stayed here for too long and too lonely."
Yang Jing smiled and said, "Since that's the case, then we'll bother."
Old Kyle pointed to the dancing crowd and asked, "Why don't you go down and dance together? This can make you feel more pleasant and help release some of the negative emotions accumulated during the voyage."
Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I know nothing about this, so I can only watch them dance..."
Before he finished speaking, the princess ran over, grabbed Yang Jing and pulled him into the venue.
Yang Jing had no choice but to put the wine glass aside and followed the princess out of the scene a little clumsyly.
Go to his, you can jump or not, just be happy. So Yang Jing started wandering with him like a polar bear.
It's already past seven o'clock in the evening, and the sun is still wandering in the sky. In this season, there is no such thing as night. So the temperature here is not low. As long as there is no cold wave, even when the temperature is the lowest in the day, it is only minus three or four degrees. And the high temperature can sometimes climb to above zero seventeen or eighteen degrees, even now, it is estimated that it looks like ten degrees.
So Yang Jing jumped for a while, then took off his coat outside and completely integrated into the carnival.
The party lasted until almost twelve o'clock, and many people were drunk.
Yang Jing also drank a lot, but he had the ability to feed back and forth, and could dispel the alcohol by just a little bit of it. The princess was just having fun, and she ate a lot of things, but she didn't drink much.
Originally, Princess was quite excited to hear that she could live in Alert Camp. After all, this is the northernmost human settlement in the world. Most people can't even come here, let alone live here, so Princess is still very interested in living here.
It’s a pity that I can’t live here tonight. There are indeed many free rooms in Alert Camp, and after the campers learned that the Blue Whale was coming, they cleaned out some rooms early.
But these rooms are all in there, there is no bedding...
In desperation, Yang Jing and the others had to return to the Blue Whale again and bring the bedding and other things to come over when they come back the next day.
The weather the next day was still very good. In Alet, everything was fine as long as there was no cold wave. There was almost no snowfall in Alet in the warm season, but there was only a light rain occasionally.
The next day, Yang Jing and Princess moved into a very neatly tidy room. This room was not very big, but the conditions inside were very good. It is said that this room used to be a house where a pair of settlers lived.
There is a large large bed in the house, as well as a kitchen and a bathroom. What surprised Princess the most was that there was a hot water pipe in the bathroom connected to the camp's oil-fired boiler. As long as you want to take a shower, you can take a hot bath in minutes. Not to mention that there is a huge bathtub in one corner of the bathroom...
Alert had no worries about oil in the past, but in the past two years, the government departments put the oil in the oil problem on the table because of the tight budget.
But no matter how much the oil is placed, the oil here still needs to be fully supplied. Just kidding, if you want to hold on to the settlement of Alert, sufficient oil is an indispensable thing. There are many aspects of heating, heating, power generation, etc., which cannot be separated from fuel. If anyone dares to get the oil stuck, do you still want this settlement?
Do you really think that the white Canadians are the same as the Inuits? The Inuits can live well here without oil, but if those white people don’t have oil, they probably won’t be able to stay for two weeks!
Because the Alet Camp is not short of oil, it is very luxurious to provide hot water for 24 hours!
As for tamsui, there is even more lack here.
Although Alett is near the Arctic Ocean, it is still more than ten kilometers away from the sea. Therefore, the groundwater here is very rich. In winter, the snow can be melted and boiled directly. In the warm season, after the snow covering the surface melts, the groundwater level can immediately rise a lot, resulting in almost two wells in the camp becoming self-flowing wells...
In fact, strictly speaking, in addition to loneliness, Alert's living conditions here are quite good.
For example, there is its own gym, entertainment room, bar, and even a small cinema in the camp. Strictly speaking, if it is a short vacation, this place is definitely a pretty good choice. At least after staying here for two days, the princess completely fell in love with it.
But she likes here and can play here casually, so Yang Jing can't do that.
Chapter completed!