Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 367 Communication and Action

Because of this Irishman's note, everyone quickly determined the first target, which is the coastline in northern Canada.

Although more than 100 years have passed, Liang En and the others believe that given the natural conditions there, they should still be able to find some clues if they search there now.After all, the cold climate is more conducive to the preservation of various items.

After a long 12-day voyage, everyone is getting used to life on board.At this time, their ships sailed smoothly into the port of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, located in the south of Baffin Island.

According to the plan, they will meet up with the shooting team and Nelson at this place, and then go to the selected destinations to start the search.

This is a small town with only more than 5000 people. It is also the youngest capital of Canada and an emerging city with a history of less than a century.

The appearance of this city is related to World War II, when Americans and Canadians built an airport in this place in order to prevent the German U-boats from blocking the Atlantic route.

However, the real development of the city was during the Cold War. In 50 years, a long-range warning radar system was established here to provide early warning of possible nuclear weapons attacks by the Soviets, and because of the various services required by this large radar station, it gradually gathered. population.

Although this place is now equivalent to the capital city of China, it looks very desolate overall, which is completely different from those bustling big cities. At the same time, the temperature of six to seven degrees Celsius makes people feel the desertedness of the place.

Fortunately, they didn't wait too long here. On the second day, when they were replenishing supplies, especially fuel, the filming team and Nelson arrived here almost at the same time.

It's just that Nelson came here on his own boat, while the filming team rushed over on a plane with a lot of equipment.

Just after lunch, everyone gathered in a conference room at the port for the first exchange.And the one who presided over the meeting was the program director who was in charge of shooting this time.

Since everyone has agreed to the Discovery Channel to film this operation, there are many things that they need to communicate in advance.

"Okay, this is your first meeting. I believe you already have something you want to search for at this time." The director with the cool haircut like Prince William looked at the people sitting on both sides of the table. Both sides said.

"If possible, I hope that you can give a general description of your plan, so that we can better arrange the shooting work in the future."

"Of course, we don't need to know too many details, but we just hope that we can roughly figure out which direction your next actions will generally take."

"Let me talk about it first." After a few seconds of silence, Nelson with short brown hair said. "We will go to Beech Island next, because according to the records of my ancestors, the expedition team that year probably established a winter camp there."

Although everyone is divided into two exploration teams this time, it seems that there is competition, but in fact, each party has its own things to do in such a scientific expedition, and there is not much energy spent on competition at all.

In particular, the area to be searched this time is very large, and it is simply not something that one or two scientific expedition teams can handle. Therefore, when facing such a large area, cooperation is obviously more valuable than confrontation.

Exchanging some information with each other is the best way to show friendship at this time, so after Nelson's side disclosed his plan, Liang En also stood up and informed the other side of the same level of information.

"Then we can just split up. We will go further south to King William Island and the mouth of the Buck River. According to the information we have collected, some aborigines have seen some of the expedition team."

"Have you confirmed the news?" Nelson showed a look of surprise, "The information I collected also said that the aborigines once discovered that thirty or forty crew members appeared in places farther south, but there is not much detailed evidence to be more sensible. .”

"This is the information we found from the National Archives of Ireland. It is the content of the notes sent back to his hometown by an Irish explorer who died of illness on the road." Liang En said to the opposite colleague who looked about the same age as himself. nodded.

"If you want, we can exchange the information we have with each other, so that the next exploration work will be much less difficult to advance."

"No problem. After we go back, let's each make a list, and then exchange lists to see if there is any information we need on the other party's list." Nelson nodded and said.

"That's good, I'm happy to share with you the part of the information I have." After hearing what Nelson said, Liang En and the others all smiled.

The first meeting ended in a harmonious atmosphere, and after returning to the ship, both parties gave each other a list full of documents and information titles before dinner.

"How's the list? Is there anything we want?" After Liang En read the list and looked up, Scudder, who was sitting on the side summarizing the preparations, put down half a cup of coffee in his hand and asked eagerly.

"There are more than 70 kinds of information on the other party's list, but most of them are duplicated with the information in our hands." Liang En said with a regretful tone.

"This is within our expectations. After all, most of the information about this scientific expedition is public information, so it is normal for people who want to carry out scientific research work in this area to inquire about the intersection of information."

"However, each of us has some relatively personal information that the other party does not have, so we can exchange information with each other after dinner."

"After reading this Nelson is also an upright person." Scudder nodded at this time and said approvingly. It is obviously a joy to be able to cooperate with an upright person.

The other party's willingness to cooperate did not exceed Liang En's previous expectations, because Nelson participated in this search mainly for his own interest and to make up for the regrets of his ancestors. It did not conflict with Liang En's basic goals, and even complemented them.

Most of the conflicts in this world are caused by conflicts of basic interests, and when there is no conflict in the core interests of the two parties and cooperation can benefit, everyone will often choose cooperation instead of hostility.

After completing the information exchange and resting for one night, the two sides temporarily formed a fleet early the next morning and sailed towards their destination in the west.

This paragraph seems to be obviously much easier than expected. Compared with the era of a hundred years ago, the current situation in the northern sea area is obviously much better than the records they read before.

Although the overall wind and waves are stronger than those in the North Atlantic Ocean before, the degree of shaking of the ship is better than the best situation they had imagined before, and even seasick people like Joan of Arc did not spit out because of this degree of shaking.

"We will go west all the way through the Fox Strait, then go north through the entire Fox Bay longitudinally, then go west into Busia Bay and then go all the way to the northernmost end of the entire sea area." Mr. Skold said the itinerary on the chart .

"When we get to the north, we will split up with Nelson and the others. Nelson will stay in the north to go to his goal, while we will go south through the McClinto Strait and into the Victoria Strait, and start exploring the northern and northern parts of King William Island. West Coast."

"We have to thank global warming for melting the large ice floes in that area, so this sea passage, which used to be very dangerous, is now much safer. At least for a professional team like ours, it shouldn't be a problem to stay vigilant. .”

(End of this chapter)