Chapter 1241 The Expedition From 18 Years Ago
Sachus was not in a hurry to answer the question. Instead, he looked deeply at songjia. Then, he pointed at the wine bottle on the table and said, “Can I have another drink?”
“Help yourself.”
Hearing this, Sachus picked up the wine bottle again. This time, he did not pour it into the wine gla.s.s. Instead, he drank up the remaining half of the bottle in one go. It seemed that only through the tipsiness of the wine could he have the courage to tell the story of the past. “I am a native of Greenland, half Inuit and half Danish. So every year, I would return to my father’s tribe to stay for a period of time. I also hunted fish with them. Many Inuit people live on the ice field, so they are very good at dealing with the bad weather and the environment on the ice field. At that time, I did not like reading, but I was very interested in things like hunting.
“Although my marksmans.h.i.+p wasn’t very good when I was young, I learned a lot of survival skills on the ice field from the old hunters in the tribe. In addition, I learned a little English. Because I happened to be a guide for a team of photographers who were photographing polar bears, I didn’t take it to heart at that time. I just wanted to earn some extra money, but I didn’t expect them to recommend me to many friends who wanted to come to Greenland to film. At that time, I was already over 20 years old, and I was thinking about what to do, so I naturally entered this industry.
“In the eyes of others, this job was hard and dangerous, but I was born to seek excitement. This job suited me quite well. Soon, I made a name for myself in this line of work, and more and more people came looking for me,”Sachus recalled, “After leading a tour group to see seals, Dr. Baker found me.
“Oh, at that time, I had known him for more than a year. He came to Greenland for a trip and liked it, so he thought of a way to settle down here. He opened a clinic to do his old job, but his business was not very good. So, he set up an explorer club with his friends and introduced people to explore here. Then, he helped them take care of their accommodation and hired guides. It was also at that time that we started to meet.
“He came to my place the other day and said that he had a very lucrative but dangerous job that required an excellent professional guide. He asked me if I was interested. I was in need of money at that time, and the tour was a little boring. The adventure genes in my body started to stir again, so he let him continue.
“Beck said that a person named Tam had received news that there was an ancient ruin under an ice sheet in Greenland. The person who found it first would not only become famous immediately, but the discovery inside might even rewrite the known history of mankind. So he was going to set up a scientific expedition team.
“To be honest, I’m skeptical about things like ancient ruins because if there really was such a thing, the government would have taken action long ago, not to mention that there was an American military base on the island. Nothing could be hidden from them. But just as Beck said, the reward on the other side was very generous. This trip was basically equivalent to a year of my income. In addition, it sounded more interesting than taking a sightseeing tour, so I agreed. And this was also the most regretful thing in my life.”
“On the day we set out, I saw Dr. Baker on the expedition team. I couldn’t help but feel a little surprised because he was a psychiatrist, not the kind of doctor who could treat people’s physical illnesses. Although he said that he had learned some first aid and bandaging knowledge, but… you know, if you really want to take a doctor on an expedition, there are many better options than him.
“So, out of professional ethics, I went to Mr. Tam and told him about my doubts. He’s a very good person. He looks very easygoing and always seems to be in high spirits. The only problem is that he likes to eat sweets. During the exploration, he brought several bags of sweets with him. One bag a day. His mouth hardly takes any rest. Mr. Tam told me that he knows what Baker does. Bringing a psychiatrist is mainly because there are many scientists in the team.
This is the first time many people have ventured into such a dangerous place, and he’s worried that some of the team members will have psychological problems, and then Baker will have to deal with them. To be honest, that’s a bit of a stretch, but he’s the one paying for it, i need to explain the situation to the employer, but the final decision is still up to the employer. He says bring Dr. Baker, and we’ll bring Dr. Baker.
“In short, after we’re ready, we set off. There are 22 people in the expedition team, including a geologist and his a.s.sistant, an archaeologist, a biologist, a meteorologist, and two theologians. They’re a couple from China, “Sachus said, pausing, he looked at Zhang Heng with some confusion. “Are you also Chinese? What does that have to do with the Chinese couple?”
However, Zhang Heng did not answer his question. Instead, he gestured for him to continue.
“I have quite a deep impression of the Chinese couple because both of them are very polite, but the other people, Hehe… other than the few people I mentioned above, the rest of them don’t seem like good people. Even though they’ve been trying to hide it all along the way, I can tell that many of them have served in the military before and have hidden weapons with them. At one point, they made me want to give up. We’re going to a no-man’s-land, so it’s very likely that we won’t meet many people along the way. Even if we’re worried about some wild beasts along the way, there’s no need to bring so many people to protect our safety. “But Mr. Tam said that these men were hired by him to help the scientists with ch.o.r.es like finding the way and carrying the equipment, and that the reason he brought in the veterans was because they had better survival skills in the wild. What can I say? The expedition was already on its way, and it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to ask to leave now, so next we took a boat to the landing site on the east coast, which was about a third of the way from the mainland.
“We have enough food for everyone on the s.h.i.+p for two months, as well as some scientific research and drilling equipment, cameras, satellite phones, warm clothing, tents, and gas canisters. As for the water source, we don’t have to worry about it, because we can boil the snow water directly. In addition, we also brought dogs and sleds to transport supplies
“The captain of that s.h.i.+p is also an old friend of mine. He sent us to the agreed place and left. He also promised that as long as we called them on the satellite phone, they would immediately rush to the designated location to pick us up. So, so far, everything is going smoothly. The weather that day was also pretty good. It was sunny and there was almost no wind. We even took a photo together