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Chapter 431: Alter

At this time, the correspondent on the ship said loudly: "Captain, we have contacted Alet, and they welcome us very much."

Princess smiled and nodded at Captain Andre, her face full of expectation. As for Yang Jing, he just shrugged his shoulders. His attention was not on this at this moment, because when he searched for "Arett" on his mobile phone, he suddenly found that the location of this northernmost settlement of mankind actually coincided with the position of the black hexagram in the nautical chart drawn by "Sea Snake" Boardman.

"Chandler, left rudder 108, speed five knots, we must advance along the coastline on the left, and then get off the anchor after we reach the designated location."

Chandler is the pilot on the ship, and the captain does not control the ship himself.

Yang Jing whispered to Princess: "You can play here first. I want to go back to my room. Something needs to be confirmed."

The princess was in high spirits and nodded, while Yang Jing turned around and walked out of the cockpit and returned to his room.

Back in the room, Yang Jing took out the pirate navigation chart from the space and compared it with a Canadian map. This is really the case.

Isn’t this nautical chart drawn by Mr. Boardman more than 300 years ago, the position that marks the black hexagram, at the northeast end of Elsmere Island?

Of course, the navigation chart drawn by Boardman is very simple and simple. The most basic things he draws are relatively accurate, such as the North American continent, Greenland, and the Smith Strait between Greenland and Elsmere Island.

The area covered by this black hexagram on the nautical chart is relatively large. If compared with modern precise maps, the area covered by this hexagram not only includes Cape Shelleyton at the northeast end of Elsmere Island, but also includes most of the Kutinil Park National Park.

The small hexagram is not big, but the area covered by this navigation chart is too big. According to Yang Jing's estimate, the area covered by the hexagram drawn by Mr. Boardman must be at least several thousand square kilometers!

It’s a scam! This guy, Bodman, is really scamming his scam!

You said that you would leave such an unknown navigation chart, but you would have to draw such a black hexagram for Mao? Why don’t you mark a dot? Why do you use his sister’s hexagram to mark it?

You can draw smaller ones at least. Are you afraid that people won’t see it or why?

Yang Jing did not consider this before, but now that the matter is approaching, he realized that the navigation chart left by Boardman is really a bit tricky!

Even if you have the Sky Eye skill, it is not easy to search such a large area.

The door was knocked, and Yang Jing said without looking back, "Please come in, we are not locked."

The door was pushed open, and Chris Patton and John Bruno walked in together.

"Oh, I'll just say it, the boss must be here." John Bruno said to Chris with a smile, and Chris explained: "Boss, we came here if we didn't see you in the cockpit just now."

"It's okay, there's no need to be so nervous on the boat. We are in the Arctic Ocean now, and there is no ship within a few hundred nautical miles around. What are you worried about? By the way, you two are here just right. I think we have encountered a problem. I need you to help me with some advice."

Chris and John walked over and saw the parchment sailing chart placed with a map of Canada.

"What's wrong with the boss? Is there anything that makes you so embarrassed?"

Yang Jing shook his head helplessly, pointed at the black hexagram and said, "The area covered by this hexagram is too big. If it is converted into the actual area in reality, it will be thousands of square kilometers. How can we find the real place represented by this hexagram?"

Yang Jing pointed out the window, "Although it is July now, the temperature here is still too low, and there will be a blizzard from time to time. It is difficult for us to find such a large area."

Chris also frowned and stared at the two maps. After a long time, he shook his head and said, "BOSS, this is indeed a problem. If we use crawler snowmobile, it will take at least twenty days to search such an area. And in this weather, snowmobile may not be used on land."

The temperature of land is much higher than that of the ocean, so although there is still nearly half a meter of freezing in the Arctic Ocean, the tundra has begun to turn green in some lower altitude areas on Elsmere Island. The snow has melted in most areas along the coast. In this case, it is naturally impossible to use tracked snowmobile.

Bruno said with his arms around, "Chris, have you forgotten that we have a big guy? That thing can fly."

Chris said: "I haven't forgotten, but that thing can only fly in the sky and cannot search the ground carefully. It will be very fast to make that thing, but it is also impossible to find the exact location represented by this hexagram."

When Yang Jing heard Bruno's words, his eyes lit up and slapped his forehead. Why did he forget the helicopter?

For others, it is almost impossible to use a helicopter to search a hidden place on the ground. However, for Yang Jing, it is relatively easy to use a helicopter to search the precise location that may be the hiding point of the pirate treasure at high altitude.

After thinking a little, Yang Jing spoke out and stopped the argument between Chris and John, "No need to say anything about you two, this matter has been settled. We searched with a helicopter. First determine a general location, and then conduct a ground search."

Hearing Yang Jin say this, John lifted his chin at Chris, and Chris surrendered with both hands, "Okay, John, you won this time."

After confirming the search method, Yang Jing became in a good mood. Only then did he realize how reliable it is to rent a polar scientific research ship with complete equipment. If he rents ordinary ocean freighters, these ocean freighters will usually not be equipped with helicopters, and then he will be caught in this situation.

Not only here, but also the search for treasures of the last tsars later is also inseparable from this helicopter. The treasure map of the last tsar drawn by Kuvaevich Antonov only marked a general position. If you want to find an accurate treasure hiding point, it is really difficult to use ordinary methods, and it is not even rare to return empty-handed.

Now that this helicopter is a surefire thing to find the exact location.

Yang Jing was in a good mood and brought a group of people to the cockpit and watched the operation of the Blue Whale getting off the anchor and stopping the boat throughout the journey.

The full load displacement of the Blue Whale is as high as 18,500 tons, and the draft is 8.9 meters. Although the Blue Whale is not fully loaded, its draft is close to 8 meters, so this large ship can only dock at sea level a few kilometers away from the coastline.

Here, the phenomenon of seawater freezing has disappeared. The closer the seawater is to the land, the faster the freezing melts.

However, because they cannot dock, some vehicles such as off-road vehicles cannot be transported to land, and they can only send personnel to the shore through assault boats and helicopters.

In addition to the pilot and three crew members, the first assault boat was filled with various ingredients. Since they were going to visit Alert, they could not go empty-handed.

The second assault boat was filled with people. Except for the people left behind on the Blue Whale, the others could handle all of them, one assault boat and a helicopter.

In fact, from here, you can already see the Canadian flag flying high above Alter, and on the shore, more than a dozen people are standing there waiting for the arrival of the assault boat.

The sea surface of a few kilometers was at the speed of the assault boat. It took only a few minutes to arrive. After the second assault boat that Carl Morris and others also boarded ashore, Yang Jing, Gege and four bodyguards flew directly to Alert camp in a helicopter. It is worth mentioning that the helicopter pilot was Chris. He was worried about handing over the helicopter to someone else to drive.

As the northernmost settlement of humans on this planet, Alert covers a small area, with only about one hundred meters in size and less than twenty buildings of all sizes. To the north of the camp, about 150 meters away from the camp, the camp's oil storage area, with eight large oil tanks standing there. About 1.5 kilometers north of the camp, is Alert's simple airport.

The airport was opened from the tundra, with a runway of 1,500 meters long, which is enough for a large body like the C-130 transport aircraft to take off and land.

Alett has no port, and if you usually transport supplies or personnel here, except for the plane, there are only primitive dog sleds. However, dog sleds are now mostly used by some people who come to take risks. Aircraft is also Alett's main means of supply transportation.

However, Alett is too north. The climate here, especially in the cold season, is very harsh, and it is not so easy to use aircraft to replenish supplies. It is said that since the establishment of this base, two aircraft have caused plane crashes due to transporting supplies to the camp, killing a total of fourteen people.

Therefore, although Alet Airport is the northernmost airport on the earth, the utilization rate of this airport is very low. Unless there is something necessary, this airport will almost never be opened.

In this case, the ten crew members on the Blue Whale, including Captain Andrei Mirakinov, and Yang Jing and his group of fifteen people, came to the northernmost human settlement in the world!
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