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At the only deep-water pier on Green Island, a huge ship is parked at the moment.

This icebreaker is about 1670 meters long and more than 30 meters wide. It stands quietly on the pier like a huge steel monster.

"These bastards have a lot easier money than us."

Before entering the pier, he had to pass through a gate, and Frank swears and stuffed a few dollars out, obviously dissatisfied with this kind of car bandit behavior.

After passing the gate, Frank parked the car directly under the icebreaker, and then flashed the lights of the car more than ten times.

It seemed that he heard the sound of a car engine, and was pointed out by the headlights, and a beam of light shot down from the icebreaker.

"Hey, brothers, there are guests here." Frank rolled down the window and waved to the people above.

A ladder was lowered from the boat, Su Xiaofan and the others didn't show off, and climbed up the boat that was 20 to 30 meters high along the ladder.

"Old friend, see you next time."

Frank dropped a word, turned the car around, and drove away in a hurry. That's all he had to do, and he didn't care about the rest.

"My friend, is this your new partner?"

On the deck of the icebreaker, a middle-aged man with a beard on his face came up to hug Mr. Yang, but seeing that Mr. Yang didn't intend to open his hand, he couldn't help but said angrily: "You Chinese people are just not enthusiastic enough. , okay, let's go to the room and sit down."

As the captain of an international route, the bearded man speaks very idiomatic English, and Su Xiaofan doesn't have any problems with his voice.

"Come on, old friend, the best vodka, I brought it from China."

After coming to the captain's cabin and sitting down, the bearded man took out several wine glasses and poured wine for the three of them respectively, "Drinking such a glass of vodka in this damn weather is really a pleasant thing."

"Leonid, I need an explanation."

Old Yang gently pushed the wine glass away, "From 10,000 dollars per person, it has increased to 100,000 dollars a time, Leonid, you are a bit too greedy."

Although 10,000 and 100,000 are meaningless to Mr. Yang, he still needs to be clear, otherwise he will dare to raise it to 1 million next time.

"No, William, it's not like that."

The bearded captain named Leonid shook his head repeatedly and said, "Old friend, haven't you noticed that my ship has changed, and this is no longer the original ship."

"Um?"

Mr. Yang didn't pay attention to this. He looked at the decoration of the captain's cabin and nodded slightly, "Has your boss bought a new boat?"

"That damned vampire, he bought this ship with the hard-earned money he squeezed from us!"

Leonid muttered a few words, and sure enough, all the beaters in the world are the same, and there is no one who does not scold the boss.

"What does this have to do with us?"

Old Yang shook his head, "Leonid, you have to understand that what you earn is extra money, and changing to a new boat will not increase my comfort on board, so why should I pay more?"

"No, no, brother William, you are mistaken."

A sly smile appeared on Leonid's face, "This is a nuclear-powered icebreaker, it will reduce your voyage from six days to five days!"

"Just for a day? I don't think it's worth ten times the cost."

Elder Yang said disapprovingly, "I don't mind if you spend a few more days on the road, if the cost can be reduced."

"Well, William, I'll be honest with you."

Leonid suddenly sighed, and said: "Because of changing the nuclear-powered ship, my first mate has also changed. You know, this part of the money must be given to him, otherwise he will ask the boss trouble me."

"I'm not in the habit of bringing so much cash." Elder Yang spread his hands, but Leonid's reason was acceptable.

"Don't worry, you can transfer money this time!"

Leonid took out a piece of paper and handed it to Elder Yang, "It's an account number, as long as you put money into this account before you arrive at your destination."

"Well, I hope this kind of thing doesn't happen again next time."

Elder Yang released a little coercion, "Otherwise I will let you know what regret is."

It was obvious that the bearded captain was just an ordinary person. The coercion that Elder Yang unleashed immediately made his knees go limp, and he almost fell to his knees.

"My dear friend, there will be no next time."

Leonid finally remembered the identity of the person in front of him, and bead-sized beads of sweat immediately fell from his forehead.

For these mysterious orientals, Leonid has always maintained respect, and he feels that he has been dazzled by money today.

Anyone who lives in the Arctic Circle knows a legend.

It is said that in the extreme north, there is a mysterious place where a powerful strange beast lives.

These strange beasts can easily destroy ships traveling to and from the North Pole, making everyone extremely fearful. More than a hundred years ago, this route was blocked for a long time.

Decades ago, a group of magicians from the East fought with those alien beasts and drove them out of the route, allowing countries to investigate in the North Pole.

Later, these magicians will take their ships and go to that mysterious place.

Of course, in Leonid's view, there was nothing where they disembarked, but a glacier.

But these people were able to survive there, so in Leonid's eyes, they were mysterious and powerful.

And Leonid also knew clearly that these things were not legends, because he had seen with his own eyes that those magicians could fly directly to his ship.

"Okay, take us to where we live, you know the rules, don't let people disturb us."

Elder Yang flicked the piece of paper in his hand, "The money will be transferred to this account before we disembark, Leonid, remember that proverb in your country, greed can blind people..."

"Yes, my most honored guest."

After being beaten up by Mr. Yang, Leonid's attitude was obviously much more respectful, and he personally led a few people to the top of the icebreaker.

Anyone who has been on a cruise ship knows that usually sailors and crew members live on the negative floor below the deck, while the upper cabins are for tourists.

Of course, icebreakers are not cruise ships, so naturally there are no such rules.

But there is no doubt that the view from the upper floor is better. Leonid has converted it into several rooms with balconies, which are specially provided for people like Mr. Yang to live in.

The pitch-black seascape is of course nothing to see, and staying overnight on a boat is a new experience for both Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu.

The two simply ran to Elder Yang's room, sat on the balcony and chatted.

If they were seen by the crew on the ship, they would definitely think that these people were out of their minds, because the temperature on Green Island at night was already below zero.

"Old Yang, how many kilometers can this icebreaker travel in a day?"

Su Xiaofan took a few bottles of vodka from the room, at this temperature, drinking some strong alcohol makes people feel very comfortable.

"At most three hundred nautical miles a day, about five or six hundred kilometers."

Elder Yang is not very sure, "Anyway, there should be a distance of three to four thousand kilometers from here to the restricted area of ​​the glacier, which is already deep in the Arctic Circle."

"Actually, don't think this ticket is expensive."

Elder Yang smiled and said, "Leonid needs to take a detour to send us to the forbidden area of ​​the glacier. This distance is several hundred kilometers, so we don't have much money to pay."

"Grandpa, in fact, it's three or four thousand kilometers away, so it's not impossible for us to go there by ourselves."

Yang Xiu said, "Since what we are doing is an icebreaker, there will definitely be icy seas along the way, and we can rest our feet, and we can reach the restricted area of ​​the glacier in at most two days."

Although he is several dozen years older than Su Xiaofan, Yang Xiu has been cultivating in the restricted area where his family is stationed all these years, rarely contacting the outside world.

So in terms of knowledge and temperament, Yang Xiu may not be much better than Su Xiaofan, a young man in his early twenties.

Thinking of floating on the sea for five or six days in a boat, and paying the bearded man a hundred thousand dollars, Yang Xiu was somewhat reluctant.

Hearing what his nephew said, Mr. Yang said noncommittally: "There is no one around now, you go out and try, run thirty or fifty nautical miles and come back."

"good!"

After sitting on the plane for so long, Yang Xiu also felt a little aggrieved, and jumped out of the balcony immediately.

Exerting body skills, Yang Xiu's figure quickly merged into the darkness. With the strength of a cultivator in the Yin God Realm, it is no problem to run for hundreds of kilometers without touching the ground.

"If you don't suffer a little, you won't grow."

Elder Yang sighed, glanced at Su Xiaofan beside him, and couldn't help but shook his head again, this is really annoyed.

Su Xiaofan's age is more than half that of Yang Xiu's, but he is able to hold his breath, and he never uttered a word of complaint during the journey.

"Old Yang, you won't be at a disadvantage."

Su Xiaofan released his spiritual consciousness, but compared to being in the forbidden zone, Su Xiaofan's spiritual consciousness seems to be under some shackles, and it can only extend forty or fifty miles at most.

At this moment, Yang Xiu has not run out of the range covered by Su Xiaofan's spiritual consciousness, and is walking very fast close to the sea surface, and there seems to be no danger around him.

"You will know later, wait for him to run farther."

After a while, Su Xiaofan's spiritual sense could no longer detect Yang Xiu, apparently he had already run fifty miles away.

"Xiaofan, this earth is not simple. No matter how powerful a cultivator is, he is actually nothing in front of a planet."

Elder Yang seemed to be a little emotional, "Although our individual strength is very strong, can our lifespan outlive a stone? Even if we are all decayed, the stone will not change a bit."

"That's why many emperors in ancient times were pursuing immortality."

Su Xiaofan nodded, but said disapprovingly: "It is enough for a person to live a wonderful life, why think so much about it."

"Oh, I might not be as open as a young man like you."

Elder Yang laughed when he heard the words, "But you will know when you live for a long time. The longer you live, the more you are afraid of death. Between life and death, there is great fear..."

Su Xiaofan didn't quite understand what Old Yang said, how old he was now, he didn't even find a Taoist companion, how could he consider the issue of life and death, so Su Xiaofan couldn't answer these words.

"Huh? Why hasn't Brother Yang come back?"

Su Xiaofan changed the subject, in fact he also felt that Yang Xiu's trip was a bit long, it was only 30 to 50 kilometers, half an hour was enough.

But it has been more than an hour since the meeting, the bottle of vodka in Su Xiaofan's hand has run out, but Yang Xiu has not yet appeared in his consciousness.

"Old Yang, nothing will happen, right?"

Looking at the dark sea in front of him, Su Xiaofan felt awe of the unknown.

There are only two places that human beings have not conquered so far, one is the universe starry sky, and the other is the sea in front of them.

The depth of the Mariana Trench is more than 10,000 meters. So far, human beings don't know what it looks like or what kind of creatures live there.

"What can I do, take a bath in the sea at most, and I won't freeze him to death."

Old Yang laughed, "Actually, I want you to experience it, but you are too cunning to be curious."

"Old Yang, have you experienced it before?" Su Xiaofan appropriately expressed his curiosity.

"I have experienced it. I almost fell into the sea and took a bath."

Old Yang didn't shy away from his embarrassment in the past, and said, "Flying on the sea, especially at night, even cultivators in the late Yangshen period dare not do it."

"So I'm not curious."

Su Xiaofan laughed like a rogue, "Cultivators in the later stage of Yangshen have to take the boat honestly, why should I be that early bird..."

If it is a road that no one has gone before, Su Xiaofan is willing to try, he is a very courageous person.

But it is obvious that the predecessors have summed up the experience, and I have to do the opposite. That is not courage, but arrears of brain IQ.

After waiting for more than an hour, the temperature of the sea surface became lower and lower. Su Xiaofan was at an altitude of 30 to 40 meters above the sea surface, and could only feel the cold wind pouring down his neck.

Even Su Xiaofan has to allocate some spiritual power to keep out the cold at this time, which shows how harsh the environment in the Arctic Circle is.

"Where did you go, you brat?"

It's not that Su Xiaofan is in a hurry, it's that Mr. Yang can't sit still. After all, Yang Xiu is the pride of the whole village, and he doesn't dare to let his nephew really have an accident.

With Yang Xiu's cultivation level, two or three hours is enough for him to run hundreds of kilometers, but there is no place to rest at sea, if the true energy in his body is exhausted, he will be in big trouble.

"Huh? You're back." Su Xiaofan's expression changed suddenly, and he found Yang Xiu's figure appeared within the scope of his spiritual consciousness.

However, Yang Xiu's condition is obviously not very good at the moment, his feet are already submerged in the sea water, and he is running on the sea with a mouthful of true energy.

This made Su Xiaofan a little stunned, for a cultivator in the state of yin spirit out of the body, it should be no problem to cross the emptiness for a hundred and eighty miles, why did Yang Xiu become like this.

Before Su Xiaofan took a closer look, Elder Yang's figure disappeared on the balcony.

A moment later, Old Yang brought Yang Xiu back to the boat. As soon as his feet stood firm, Yang Xiu couldn't help but sneezed twice.

"Brother Yang, what's wrong with you?" Su Xiaofan was dumbfounded.

Since practicing, Su Xiaofan has never slept without a quilt at night, and he has never been cold, and he has never seen a practitioner have a fever or a cold.

"Don't mention it, Achoo!"

Yang Xiu sneezed again, quickly grabbed his own bottle of wine on the table, and drank it down in one gulp.

"I'm going to change my clothes first, and I'll talk when I come out."

Yang Xiu's complexion was a little pale, obviously due to the huge consumption of real energy in his body.

"Is this really a bath?"

It was only then that Su Xiaofan noticed that the down jacket that Yang Xiu was wearing had disappeared, and now he was actually wearing underwear.

"It's really miserable."

Seeing Yang Xiu go to his room to take a shower and change clothes, Su Xiaofan couldn't help shaking his head, he is already in his fifties, why are he still so curious.

After a long while, Yang Xiu returned to the balcony, his complexion became a little more rosy, apparently he had recovered a little.

"Brother Yang, what's going on? Have you met an enemy?"

Su Xiaofan is not curious about crossing the Arctic Circle, but he is more curious about what happened to Yang Xiu. Su Xiaofan has already moved the small bench and is ready to eat melons.

"There are no enemies."

Yang Xiu said a little depressed: "I... I'm lost..."

Facing his ancestor and Su Xiaofan, Yang Xiu didn't hide anything, and told all about what happened to him just now.

When he just jumped out of the sea, Yang Xiu didn't feel anything unusual, and ran to the depths of the sea with joy.

After running for a hundred miles, Yang Xiu realized that he couldn't find his way back.

In all directions, front, back, left, and right, all that came into view was sea water, and there was no scene for Yang Xiu to judge the direction of, and he ran too far in one breath, and the lighthouse used for port navigation would have long since disappeared.

In desperation, Yang Xiu could only find a place to go, but after fleeing tens of kilometers, Yang Xiu found that he seemed to be running in the wrong direction.

At this time, Yang Xiu was like a headless fly, scurrying around in the vast sea.

He couldn't tell the direction to go back at all. After running for a while, he would turn around if he felt something was wrong, but the more he ran like this, the more chaotic he was, and finally he was completely lost in the sea.

It's okay if you just get lost, but Yang Xiu found that the more you lead to the depths of the sea, the stronger the wind will be.

It turned out that after Green Island, the wind on the sea was almost the same as the wind above tens of meters in the air, and Yang Xiu had a hard time resisting it.

It was at this time that Yang Xiu felt that the true essence in his body was exhausted, and the vast sea seemed to be full of murderous intent.

Of course, according to Yang Xiu, he didn't get wet because he fell into the sea, but because he was wet by a huge wave.

In desperation, Yang Xiu had no choice but to throw away the down jacket that was wet and sunk tens of catties, and tried again in a direction.

This time Yang Xiu was lucky. After running for dozens of miles, he finally saw the lighthouse used for navigation in the distance. At the moment when he saw the light, Yang Xiu was so excited that tears almost filled his eyes.

"Do you know why we have to take the boat honestly?"

Looking at his embarrassed nephew and grandson, Mr. Yang felt quite satisfied. Cultivators who have never encountered setbacks are flowers in the greenhouse after all, not enough to take on heavy responsibilities.

"Understood, grandfather, I thought it was easy."

Yang Xiu gave a wry smile. The experience just now didn't feel like he was trying again. The vast sea seemed to be the only one left in the world, which almost made Yang Xiu lose his mind.

"So overseas, if you have a boat, don't run by yourself."

Elder Yang was also blamed on Yang Xiu, but told the two of his experience, "If you don't have a boat to sit on, you can find a place to stay on the frozen sea. If you are lucky, you can meet the supplies for the Arctic scientific expedition in ten and a half months." Boat."

"Old Yang, on the sea, there are two dangers, one is the strong wind, and the other is fear of getting lost?"

From Yang Xiu's narration just now, Su Xiaofan summed up two experiences.

"That's right."

Elder Yang nodded and said, "Comparatively speaking, getting lost is more terrifying than Gangfeng..."

The sea is vast, and the sea area of ​​the Arctic Circle alone covers hundreds of millions of square kilometers.

With such a large range, it is impossible for a cultivator to fly out. If he gets lost, even a Yang God cultivator will lose his skin if he is not dead, and a Yin God cultivator may not even be able to save his life.

Moreover, in the Arctic Circle, there are some extreme environments, and the temperature in some places is even as low as minus seventy or eighty degrees.

At this low temperature, Yang God cultivators have to spend a lot of spiritual power to resist the severe cold. If they are deeply trapped in it, Yang God cultivators are in danger of being damaged.

"So, don't think about what you have and what you don't have. Isn't it good to take a comfortable boat?"

Old Yang's words made Yang Xiu's face turn red and then pale. Fortunately, the lesson was very profound, and he will not make the same mistake next time.

Slept in the morning, sin sin