Chapter 535: A Place Further Than the Universe
Fortunately, this time, what Lorena feared didn't happen, just like there won't be a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express. The airship left the Fog City and flew south, towards Tierra del Fuego.
After leaving the foggy city where the sky was shrouded by dark clouds, many people including Mary saw the clear blue sky outside for the first time, and were naturally amazed by it. It's just that they didn't have much time to focus on it. Soon, Mary began to study hard.
Although Professor Parmar is an academic, he is not the kind of fool who is completely ignorant of the world. Although he is still unclear about the relationship between Duanmu Huai and Mary, Professor Parmar knows very well that his investigation and research The reason why the trip was possible was because of Duanmuhuai's funding, and Duanmuhuai's purpose of funding him was for Mary.
In this case, he would definitely not throw Mary aside - only a fool would blow his nose and glare at his sponsor!
The kind of professors and doctors in movies and TV shows who glare at rich people and look like they are too powerful to be humbled by wealth and cannot be slutty are all idiots, so what if they are geniuses? No matter how genius you are, you can't print out the funds for experiments, can you? Without money, your IQ of 320 is useless.
Professor Parmar was certainly not that kind of idiot, so after boarding the airship, he first restrained his students and asked them to be more polite to Mary - well, Professor Parmar didn't need to talk nonsense, geology and archaeology. Those who work outside three hundred and sixty-five days a year are basically men, and there are very few women. For example, Professor Parmar's research group only has a girl named Mary who has joined. Those men are naturally very excited, and they definitely don't dare. Get messy with Mary.
Then, Professor Parmar gave Mary a little start.
There is nothing that can be done about it. Professor Parmar's major is geoarchaeology, while Mary is more interested in text analysis in archeology and does not have a deep understanding of geology. And now that she has joined Professor Parmar's research association, the latter is of course not willing to let a fool come out of his hands, so he also tries his best to teach.
The results surprised Professor Parmar.
Geology and archeology in geoarchaeology are equally important. Mary has not done too in-depth research on geology. At first, Professor Parmar thought it might be more laborious. But what he didn't expect was that Mary seemed to be quite talented in this area. In many cases, just by observing a piece of stratum ore or soil traces, she could almost guess the approximate year of the other party, and the accuracy was pretty good.
This also made Professor Parmar very excited, thinking that Mary was very promising in geoarchaeology. After all, knowledge can be accumulated and learned, but talent and feeling are innate.
In fact, many times, this invisible and intangible thing is the symbol that determines whether a person can climb to the top of his career.
For example, when a doctor performs suturing, some doctors will have a feeling that perhaps tightening the stitches will provide better results. But most doctors just do it step by step, and the patients treated by those doctors who are sensible are much faster and better than those treated by ordinary doctors.
Or in terms of scientific research, sometimes when faced with several different choices, some people feel that it will be easier to go this way, so they choose this direction. Others don't have this feeling, so they can only pretend to be stupid - in the end, the one who has the feeling often succeeds in the end.
Similar things happen in every industry, similar to an intuition, feeling, and instinctive reaction. The same plant may look like a weed to ordinary people, but some people may instinctively feel that something is wrong. When they touch it and dig it up, wow! It’s actually a new species!
Talent, inspiration, instinct, intuition, no matter what it is, in short, people who have feelings will get twice the result with half the effort when conducting research and learning.
Although Professor Parmar himself was not a top scholar, he also envied this talent. Now that he discovered that Mary had this talent, he was naturally very excited and began to teach her with all his heart.
Of course, Duanmu Huai wouldn't be surprised if she knew about it. After all, Mary has golden eyes that can see through everything in the world. Even if you put an unfamiliar ancient cultural relic in front of her, even if Mary doesn't have any basic knowledge, it's probably Being able to guess a rough time range because of the golden eyes...
Of course, if you have knowledge, you will understand it more thoroughly.
Mary is naturally not the kind of proud and complacent young lady, and she also knows that it is a rare opportunity for her to be tutored by such a powerful professor alone - after all, they are taking an airship now, so Mary has time to receive tutoring from the professor. On a normal day in a master's school, the boss would either focus on conducting scientific research projects or answering questions for classmates. How could he possibly be able to work on his own for you?
So Mary also studied very hard and did not relax at all.
In this way, time passed day by day, and one planet later, the Full Moon Stars successfully arrived at Tierra del Fuego, and after rendezvousing with the icebreaker "Orion" waiting there, it finally embarked on the final journey to Antarctica.
Captain Lake of Orion is quite famous in this industry, and he is also a very experienced captain. He has led expeditions and research teams from various countries to the Antarctic hundreds of times, and is very familiar with the climate and ocean currents here. After loading the required instruments on the ship in Tierra del Fuego, Orion also set off from the port and continued Heading towards Antarctica.
Duanmuhuai also found the captain and started his work.
"I have to say, you are very lucky."
Captain Lake is a very talkative person. Even when facing Duanmuhuai, he always smiles.
"The recent period has been calm, which is a rare window period. Before you, only one expedition team had this luck."
"You mean, is there anyone else who arrived earlier than us?"
Hearing this, Duanmuhuai raised his eyebrows, stared at Captain Lake and asked, and the latter nodded.
"Of course, I remember that they were also an expedition team from Europa. They also approached me at that time and asked me to immediately prepare to take them to Antarctica. However, the climate at that time was not very good, and I was not willing to take my crew. To take risks, they hired another boat - strangely enough, the weather had improved not long after they left the port. If I had known about such a good thing, maybe I would have made a lot of money. .”
"Do you know which scientific research station they went to?"
The Antarctic in the 20th century is no longer like the 19th century, where anyone can go. Now Antarctica has been determined to be shared by the whole world. Many countries have established scientific research stations here, but these scientific research stations are usually empty. It will only be activated when summer arrives, and then when the window period ends, basically everyone will leave the scientific research station - after all, staying in this ice and snowy place with no supplies and communication is basically the same as on an alien planet. .
Generally speaking, expedition teams will stop at scientific research stations in their home countries. For example, the expedition team funded by Duanmu Huai this time will stop and be stationed at Queen Elizabeth Station, and then continue to conduct in-depth exploration of the Antarctic continent.
What about the expedition team?
"Hmm... I remember it seems to be the German Georg Station. Oh, after arriving at the Antarctic, I have to contact them to confirm whether their situation is normal. After all, this damn weather has a great impact on communications. …………”
There is no way, the Antarctic is like this, just like the alien planet. Once something happens to a scientific research station, and even the communication cannot be transmitted during the snowstorm, it is really possible to die without anyone knowing there.
The road to Antarctica is naturally not smooth sailing. There are constant stormy waves and the temperature is gradually dropping. Of course, for Duanmuhuai, this is not a problem. On the contrary, Lorena has a big problem - yes, the little girl is seasick!
Duanmu Huai also knew for the first time that Lorena was seasick!
But think about it carefully, Lorena has followed him to so many places, and has been on everything, but it seems that she has never been on a boat?
All in all, the priest girl, who was always in high spirits on weekdays, was lying like a corpse in the cabin with a livid look on her face.
"Uh...Miss Lorena, are you okay?"
Looking at the pale girl in front of her, her eyes dull, as if she had been pouted, Mary asked uneasily next to her. Lorena turned her head and looked at Mary silently.
"Ugh... I didn't expect that riding on a boat would be so uncomfortable... I was fine in the first few days, but suddenly I felt dizzy and dizzy... Miss Mary, aren't you feeling uncomfortable? ?”
"Uh... are you okay?"
Facing Lorena's inquiry, Mary felt a little guilty. She didn't know why, but she didn't have any symptoms of seasickness at all.
"Look, it seems I haven't exercised enough..."
As she spoke, Lorena struggled to get up from the bed.
"I'm going to run a hundred laps on the deck now. I'll definitely be able to improve... ugh...!!"
"Miss Lorena, cheer up!!!"
Just when Lorena fainted in the cabin, Orion also crossed the last ocean current and arrived at the Antarctic - the oldest and rarely visited place completely covered by ice and snow.
"Boom!!!"
The icebreaker hit the thick ice, and the violent impact shook the entire hull. The thick ice was broken, and the icebreaker moved forward again.
In the cabin, Captain Lake also let out a sigh of relief and looked at Duanmuhuai. "Well, sir, so far, everything seems to be going well."
"Well, this is perfect."
Duanmuhuai nodded and left the cabin. Then he walked to the deck and saw Professor Parmar standing there, staring at the blue sky and white clouds in front of him.
"It's so beautiful..."
The old professor sighed and turned to look at Duanmuhuai.
"Haha, the real sky is indeed beautiful. To be honest, after staying in Master College for a long time, I have almost forgotten the color of the real sky... In fact, many students even saw it for the first time. Where is the blue sky?”
"I understand."
Duanmu Huai nodded. Of course, he also saw the expressions of those students when they left the foggy city and saw the blue sky. Even Mary looked shocked and surprised - this is normal. Think about it carefully. From birth, they I have been living under the dim sky. Unless I go abroad, it is impossible to see what the real sky looks like.
Perhaps in their eyes, the sky has always looked like that.
But Duanmu Huai came here not to chat with Professor Parmar.
"Professor, now that we have arrived at the Antarctic, there are some things I want to make clear to you first."
Duanmuhuai walked to Professor Parmar and said calmly.
"What happened?"
"I think you may have noticed that we came to Antarctica not to see penguins, let alone geological archaeology. In fact, we have more important things. The reason why we chose the archaeological team to go with us is simply for convenience. But next, we will most likely do what we should do, so if you find that we are missing, please don’t worry and just concentrate on your own things.”
"This..."
Hearing this, Professor Parmar couldn't help but frowned. Antarctica is a very dangerous place, and generally speaking, people are not allowed to travel alone. Indeed, as Duanmuhuai said, if they leave without saying a word, then maybe Parmar will think that they are missing, and maybe he will come looking for them.
But what does Duanmu Huai mean now?
"Do you know why I chose to sponsor you?"
"This...I really don't know."
In fact, Professor Parmar himself also has this question. Although he is a professor of geology and archaeology at the Royal Masters College, he is not the strongest among them. There are many more powerful and famous than him, and there are many who are not as good as him but more obedient than him. , so Parmar was also curious as to why Duanmu Huai chose him.
"I read one of your articles - "Proposals for Phased Excavation in Geological and Archaeological Work"... You believe that even if you encounter very important relics, you should not excavate immediately, but start from the surrounding areas, first Understand the basics and then proceed step by step, right?”
"That's right."
Professor Parmar nodded and looked at Duanmuhuai doubtfully. That was indeed an article written by himself, but it just explained some of his own practices and ideas. Why was it chosen by this person?
"Then Professor Parmar, let me ask you, if there are relics in front of you that can subvert the entire world and the entire human history, as long as you excavate these relics, you can obtain valuable knowledge and experience that ordinary people can never obtain, and it may even make history possible. Leave your name, will you still stick to your approach, or will you try your best to be the first?”
"This.........I don't know."
Upon hearing Duanmuhuai's inquiry, Professor Parmar thought for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile.
"After all, in my life, although I have achieved some results, I have yet to encounter the kind of relics that can subvert human history like what you said, Mr. Duanmu. I can't guarantee that I will be able to keep a clear mind in the face of such temptation. But I think we should proceed with caution when it comes to excavation work for archaeological research..."
"Very good."
Duanmuhuai nodded. As Professor Parmar said, in fact, the problems faced by human beings in this world are not so serious. But many times they end up on the verge of destruction, and the biggest reason is that they want to take shortcuts.
As a human being, we suddenly want to ascend to a higher dimension and become an advanced creature.
As a human being, we suddenly want to gain the wisdom of the entire universe and then dominate the world.
Or perhaps an ancient ruin was discovered, and after testing it, it was discovered that it could subvert human cognition and history, so they excitedly started digging.
This is just like in a horror movie, where the protagonists go on an adventure and find that a certain place is sealed off, and then excitedly open the sealed iron door to release the monster inside.
Even though there are bloodstains and wreckage everywhere outside, and you are reminded everywhere that "it's dangerous here", you still have to open the door with your hands weak... Who's to blame?
Of course it's your fault.
The same goes for most things about evil gods and ruins in this world.
Archaeologists dug up the remains of a certain old ruler. When they took a look, wow, it turned out that such powerful and advanced intelligent creatures existed in ancient times! We must also follow their path!
Then I went straight to study excitedly.
I don’t even think about it, if they really succeed, will it be humanity’s turn to be the master?
Why did it disappear in the end?
It must have overturned!
In fact, most of the players in the game are very mature, and the reason is very simple. After all, in the game, when players encounter the relics of various civilizations, their first reaction is to think about how this civilization got rid of themselves.
It's like the police seeing the victim's body and immediately starting to think about whether he was shot, poisoned or committed suicide.
Thinking of this, Duanmuhuai retracted his thoughts and looked at Professor Parmar.
"All in all, I am very optimistic about you. Come on, if you are lucky, I will tell you something interesting when I come back."
"Here, Mr. Duanmu, what on earth are you..."
Professor Parmar was not a fool. Of course he heard some hidden meanings in Duanmu Huai's words, and he looked at him in disbelief.
However, before Professor Parmar could finish his words, Captain Lake walked out of the cabin, interrupting their conversation.
"Hey, you two, you'd better come over and take a look!"
(End of chapter)