Delusion Master

The plane landed in Longyearbyen on the west coast of the "Cold Coast". This is the only densely populated area on Svalbard, with about [-] residents in the city, and it is also the closest human habitable area to the North Pole.Fortunately, because the geographical location is too remote, this place has not been affected by the ancient virus gene for the time being.

However, this is not Wei Lin's destination.There are nine Svalbard islands, and the gene pool is located even further north, in caves along uninhabited glaciers.So under the diplomatic coordination of the capital command, they changed to a local helicopter and continued to fly to the tundra.

It was late October at this time, and the yellow-green lichen vegetation that can only be seen in summer in the tundra area has been covered by vast white snow.Looking down from the helicopter, you can only see the blue sea and the towering glaciers, as if frozen in the extreme north of the planet by ancient time.

A small black spot on the snow field was faintly visible, and the helicopter landed near it, which turned out to be a transfer station for storing oil barrels.The pilot told the passengers that because of the weather, they could no longer fly north, and they needed to refuel here before returning.They had to walk on foot for the rest of the journey, and the helicopter would return here 24 hours later to take them back to Longyearbyen.

So, a group of eight people wearing a full set of winter climbing equipment and carrying weapons were placed on this vast and empty frozen wasteland where the wind was howling.

Wei Lin's face protruded from the fluff of the brim of his hat, and he exhaled a white mist.His snow boots kicked something hard on the ground, and looking down, it turned out to be a few sharp gray reindeer antlers, half covered by snow foam.There is also a large group of charcoal-colored coral balls next to it. After careful identification, you will find that they are dry saxifrage and stalkless flyweed.They can also dot the desolate tundra in the short summer, blooming a few inconspicuous flowers, and now only the dead remains under the snow.

"This is not a good season to travel to the Arctic Circle." Wei Lin looked at the sun in the sky and sighed - the polar night is coming soon, and even this fiery celestial body has become weak, always hovering near the horizon, " We have to hurry up."

Bai Yuan pulled out the map and tried to determine the specific location of the gene pool on the snowy field with no reference, but it was quite difficult to operate.

"Ah——polar bear!" Luo Jinxiu pointed at several moving white shadows a hundred meters away, and exclaimed, "There are several of them!"

Wei Lin comforted: "Don't be nervous, Xiao Luo. This is the hometown of polar bears. As tourists, we don't need to disturb the aborigines, just go around."

But Wang Shengli said excitedly: "I, I'm going to communicate with them? The zoo I worked in the past also had two polar bears, but they were all locked in the pavilion with only artificial ice and snow. I was very, very unhappy."

Wei Lin waved his hand trustingly: "Go, go, in case your communication ability fails, we will rescue people from Xiong's mouth in time."

His crow's mouth did not scare Wang Shengli. The honest and dull former animal breeder showed a rare smile and ran towards the polar bear happily.

Not long after, Wang Shengli ran back panting on the soft and difficult snow, and said, "It's done! The big female bear said that she had seen 'a square flat stone slab raised high on the snow slope'" , I reckon, refers to the entrance gate of the gene pool. She is willing to take us there, but there is a condition, after leading the way, we have to give two seals as a reward, because she has to raise three little ghosts. "

Loblolly pine laughed: "It turns out that animals know how to trade! Okay, don't mention two, I can catch ten or eight for it. Do you want to roast them?"

Wei Lin nodded and said with a smile, "I agree, ask it to help guide the way."

Wang Shengli ran over again panting, and exchanged a few words with the female bear in a low guttural voice.So the king on the ice field left the snow nest and walked north with three fluffy little white balls.

A group of people cautiously kept a distance of tens of meters from the polar bear, and followed them leisurely.

Walking in the knee-deep snow is very difficult for the inexperienced, and it takes a lot of energy.After more than two hours, Lin Xiaoshi and Luo Jinxiu could hardly walk even though they supported each other, and they could only rely on Lu Fengping's assistance and use climbing ropes to pull them along.

Lin Yue's face was as pale as an ice sculpture. His physical strength and endurance were not bad, but he was naturally afraid of the cold, and he felt that the blood could not circulate to the extremities.The loblolly pine tried to ignite the air around him, creating little jellyfish-like blobs of flame to help warm him.Bai Yuan seriously reminded Tabloy Pine: her abilities are genetically mutated, if used excessively, it will seriously damage itself and accelerate mitochondrial exhaustion.But she only extinguished it for less than 10 minutes. Seeing that Lin Yue was so cold, she couldn't help lighting up the fire again. No matter how politely Lin Yue advised or refused, she stubbornly refused to give up.

"You don't know what kind of person I am?" She bared her teeth at Lin Yue, laughing with chest tightness and shortness of breath, "I just can't bear to see the beauty suffer. Do you have an opinion? I don't accept it."

Lin Yue knew what she had decided, and no matter how much others tried to persuade her, it was useless, so she closed her mouth with a gloomy face.

With a climbing rope tied around his waist, Lu Fengping still had enough strength to drag the two girls behind him, so he took off Lin Yue's mountaineering bag and carried it on his chest to help him reduce the burden, and at the same time said in a low voice: "I think Ah Song is talking nonsense I'm a bit careless, but I really care about you. Do you have any interest in her? If so, don't keep avoiding her. After all, she is a girl, so you have to take the initiative."

After Lin Yue tried to get the backpack back but failed, he replied with some annoyance: "I really don't know. We are too familiar, and we talk and get along easily. That's because I completely regard Ah Song as a buddy. If you want to fall in love... ...hey, I feel like I'm being gay."

Lu Fengping was at a loss for words, and after a long while, he said helplessly: "Just do it, you see, Bai Yuan and Wei Lin are doing well, and there is a couple of girls behind - besides, that is your illusion, man According to the chromosome, Song is a woman after all."

Lin Yue subconsciously wanted to look back at the taede pine, but held back at the end, and replied with a sad face: "Let me get used to it. In my imagination, when she is a soft girl who is a little bird, maybe I can really deceive my hormones." past."

Lu Fengping felt sorry for him, and sighed: "This is not a good atmosphere in our team. There is no regular teaching material on love for you to refer to. Forget it, I won't force you anymore, just let nature take its course."

Lin Yue asked back, "Why don't you set an example and show me a girlfriend?"

Lu Fengping waited for Ai Ai for a long time, and choked out a sentence: "I don't know how to talk."

Lin Yue raised his thumb and pointed at Wei Lin's back, jokingly said, "Let Vice Captain Wei teach you? He looks like he knows how to do it."

"—Who wants me to teach?" Wei Lin vaguely heard a few words from the cold wind, and turned around to ask, "What do you mean I know so well?"

"It's nothing." Lu Fengping answered immediately in embarrassment.But Lin Yue meant something: "Say you are a master of love, even icebergs can be melted."

Wei Lin proudly said, "That's right, Brother Wei, I have a lot of experience, and I can easily talk about flirting with a girl."

Bai Yuan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly turned his head, and said lightly, "How rich is your experience? You might as well tell me."

Wei Lin felt that his expression was not good. Although only a pair of eyebrows and eyes were exposed on the brim of the windproof hat, it seemed that he was about to exude a dark hostility. He couldn't help swallowing, and said with a sneer: "What's there to say, personal privacy, Just don't pursue it."

When Bai Yuan heard this, his expression became even uglier.Then I thought about it again: he flaunted his rich experience in front of me, did he deliberately make me jealous?How important is it in my mind to test myself in this way?It's really... a little cute.

Although he didn't make up his mind to accept Wei Lin's feelings, Mr. Bai still couldn't help substituting himself-not to mention that this guy always said nothing, even if there was some old love history, it was before he met me. If you care about those, wouldn't it be a disappointment to his deep affection for me?Indeed, there is no need to pursue it, just let the dust of Wei Lin's past settle, as long as you are devoted to me from now on.

So his face softened, and he patted the other person's shoulder reassuringly: "Only by abandoning the wrong past can we win the best future."

Wei Lin was caught off guard and poured a bowl of incomprehensible chicken soup. It was a bit baffling: Bai Xiansen has never been in this kind of literary style, why is he suddenly emotional now?But in order to establish the image of both parties in front of the team members, they still smiled very cooperatively: "Well said. Every word is very level."

"See? The white team and the guards have such a good relationship," Luo Jinxiu recovered from his strength with the help of Lu Fengping, and shook Lin Xiaoshi's arm when he saw this, and said coquettishly, "Why are you not here? Praise me in front of others, hum."

Lin Xiaoshi pinched the small tip of her frozen red nose: "I don't want others to hear your good points, they are my private property, no matter how much you have, you can't share it with others."

Luo Jinxiu was immediately filled with joy: "What about my shortcomings?"

"That's my treasure. Rare things are more valuable." Lin Xiaoshi said dotingly.

Luo Jinxiu was so happy that she was about to burst into pink bubbles.

Wei Lin glanced back at them inadvertently, and was almost stunned by the [-] volt high-voltage love electricity. He turned his face and complained to Bai Yuan: "These days, how can you fall in love with different genders!"

Unaware that in the eyes of the team members, Mr. Bai, who has already formed a pair with Wei Lin, thought for a moment, and answered painstakingly: "Don't discriminate against heterosexuality. Although it doesn't accept you, it doesn't hinder you."

A group of people whispered to each other while trekking forward, and after more than an hour, they finally reached a snowy slope with a relatively gentle mountain.The dark blue and silent glaciers are not too far away, but because the altitude is more than 100 meters, even if the polar ice caps melt and the sea level rises in the future, it will not be submerged by ocean currents.

A huge building with sharp edges and corners stands so abruptly in front of everyone.The shell is made of black steel and concrete slabs, like a huge and thick book, half of which is inserted into the snow-covered mountain, leaving only a spine and vertical book corners exposed in the air, in the surrounding primitive and wild scenery, It clearly exudes the coolness and efficiency that belong to the technological civilization.

The global gene pool - "Doomsday Vault".

It was given this alias because it is located in the North Pole, which can be called the dome of the earth; second, if one day faces catastrophe, this "dome" is the last lifeline for human beings to survive; third, it is hoped that the animals and plants inside Genetic samples, like things people put on the "dome", will never be used.

However, the day to be used has come.

The entrance to the gene pool is on the spine of this half-book.Above the airtight door, translucent natural crystals are carved into square panels, and the swaying blue light is like frozen water waves, and like twinkling nebulae, coming out from under the frosted crystal panels. , adding a magnificent and mysterious color to this "dome".

Lu Fengping stepped forward in shock, touched the airtight door, and said, "This door is too strong, and it is estimated that it can resist the explosive power of several tons of explosives."

"I got the keys from the gene bank administrator in Longyearbyen." Wei Lin said, and took out a bunch of metal keys from his down jacket, which looked very ordinary and nothing advanced.There are no fingerprint iris locks, DNA verification locks, etc., because electronic products will fail when exposed to extremely low temperatures of minus [-] to [-] degrees, and only machinery can maintain operating performance for a long time.

The closed door was opened, and a gust of cold air rushed in, and it could be felt that there was an air exchange device inside, and it had been running for many years.In front of me is a dark tunnel, which extends down more than 100 meters, deep into the permafrost, and the various warehouses should be at the end of the tunnel.

Seeing that a group of people were about to enter the door, the polar bear leading the way stood far away on the snow, roaring restlessly.

Wang Shengli explained: "She asked us for two seals."

Luo Jinxiu looked around: "There is a group of seals on the shore, I can catch them, but I dare not go there alone, who of you will accompany me there?"

Lu Fengping said: "Old Wang is definitely not willing to help catch seals. To him, seals are no different from polar bears. I'll go with you."

Luo Jinxiu nodded, and walked with him to the shore of the icy ocean, captured the two largest seals with his mind, moved them to the snow, and flung them in front of the polar bear.The female bear let out a low growl, and the cubs responded happily. They killed the prey effortlessly and dragged it to a distance to enjoy.

"Okay, Bai Yuan and I hurry up and go in, you guys wait outside." The reason why the team members are not allowed to enter the gene pool is to prevent the ancient virus genes carried in their bodies from infecting the "dome". Wei Lin can only leave them at the gate Outside, the lead entered the tunnel.

"Wait, wait a minute..." Wang Shengli became more and more anxious and couldn't speak clearly. Finally, he held Bai Yuan and stumbled, "Captain Bai, I have something to report."

Bai Yuan: "What's the matter, tell me."

Wang Shengli: "Just now the mother bear told me a piece of news, saying that not long ago, she saw two-legged beasts similar to us, and several of them formed a team and wandered on the snow field."

Bai Yuan frowned and asked: "It means that there is a team that climbed onto this snowfield one step earlier than us, who are they?"

Wang Shengli answered with some shame: "I don't know."

Bai Yuan thought to himself: the surreptitious coordinator, the ulterior motives of the organization, the two Jiang Zhong who sneaked up after the plane crashed and disappeared, the mysterious team that came here first... There must be a connection between these, Our line of business is likely to be targeted.

He walked a few steps, rushed to Wei Lin's side, and whispered a few words in his ear.

Wei Lin immediately replied: "If the target of this group of people is also this gene pool, they will not be able to get in without the key, and they are likely to attack the team members guarding outside, and then sneak attack when we show up. I will remind the team members People, be extra careful and prepare for the battle."

Satisfied with his reaction speed, Bai Yuan nodded, "Don't worry, I'm here."

Wei Lin fully believes that his partner has the ability to crush the opponent, as long as they have brains.So he said with a smile: "Mr. Bai, your force value is going against the sky, it's like cheating."

Bai Yuan raised the corner of his mouth, and replied with a rare quip: "As a GM, how can I not have privileges."