Chapter 204 Ice City S City
Chapter 204 Ice City S City
After circling over S City for most of the day, Lu Yuan finally remembered a place that had been sealed in his memory for a long time—the S City Aerospace Research Institute.
As a child, Lu Yuan had a close playmate who loved watching old American movies with his father and aspired to explore space when he grew up. When they took the college entrance exam, he applied to a university in City S, saying he would work at the City S Aerospace Research Institute after graduation.
Although Lu Yuan couldn't be sure if the S City Aerospace Research Institute and the South China Space Research Institute were related, he still decided to go there to take a look.
This research institute is a government secret unit, and under normal circumstances they shouldn't be able to find it. However, Lu Yuan's starship system actually found a complete Earth map in the starship's database, with the time period being around the present. Therefore, the probability of the map positioning being incorrect is very small.
This map not only clearly marks the addresses of many secret units in China, but also those in other countries. Basically, for Lu Yuan and his team, it's like having a top-secret map.
"Didn't your system say you're a PhD in Earth history research? Could this be part of your data?" Yang Xiao couldn't believe it after the system shared this map with him.
"Maybe. After all, we historians keep all the original versions of the materials." As Lu Yuan spoke, he restarted the new helicopter in space according to the coordinates on the map. The fuel of this helicopter was almost exhausted. They had used up the fuel of three helicopters in the past few days, and Lu Yuan planned to find a place to refuel them.
They teleported to the new helicopter, which then flew towards the S City Aerospace Research Institute according to the predetermined coordinates. However, just as they had anticipated, the area was already submerged by seawater.
The S City Aerospace Research Institute was originally built in a coastal area of S City. After the outbreak of the virus, the Earth's temperature also began to rise rapidly. G City, where Lu Yuan and his group were at the time, was known as a cool city, with temperatures usually reaching over 40 degrees Celsius.
The temperature in other parts of the world is even more unimaginable. The sharp rise in temperature has directly led to the accelerated melting of glaciers in the North and South Poles, so many coastal countries and coastal cities have been hit by tsunamis at the same time.
After the extreme cold that followed, almost the entire city of S was frozen under ice. The buildings that Lu Yuan and his group can see now are some of the world's tallest buildings in S City.
"Damn, even if this place really is the South China Space Research Institute, we can't get in." Zhong Qiang looked down from the helicopter. Compared to the city center where you could still see the silhouettes of tall buildings, this place was just a thick layer of ice.
"Just as we expected." When they arrived over S City, Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao had already guessed that this trip might not be fruitful. After all, if a city was buried in snow like Beijing or other places, there was still a high probability that the buildings would be empty. But if a city was flooded by seawater, there was almost no such possibility.
"Looking back now, when my dad changed my college application, didn't he save my life?" Lu Yuan looked at the ice below with a helpless expression.
Although he wasn't very interested in space back then, his good friend had that as his ambition, so as a good brother, Lu Yuan initially planned to apply to the same university and apply to the same university as his friend.
"If you had gone to university in S City, you probably would be long gone by now." Zhong Qiang said foolishly, looking at the faintly visible human face in the ice.
"Can't we say something nice?" Yang Xiao flicked Zhong Qiang's head and sighed. "We can't just stay up in the sky like this forever. Either we go down and set up tents, or we'll have to find a place to stay in another city."
“I just checked, there’s a mountain under the ice over there. If we set up tents there, we won’t have to worry about a zombie running out when the ice melts, even if we just need to keep warm.” Although he had been punched by Yang Xiao, Zhong Qiang still responded positively to Yang Xiao’s suggestion to set up camp. After all, he had been drifting in and out of the helicopter all day and felt like he was in a daze.
"Let's go take a look first. If it doesn't work, we'll look for another place." After Lu Yuan finished speaking, the group quickly packed up their things, put on their backpacks, and then, under Lu Yuan's guidance, the three of them successfully landed.
"Ouch!" Because the ice was too slippery, Zhong Qiang fell flat on his face as soon as he landed.
"Hahahaha!" Before coming down, Lu Yuan had the system scan the surroundings to confirm that there were no people or zombies nearby, so the three of them were quite relaxed. When they saw Zhong Qiang's big fall, Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao laughed so hard they couldn't stand up straight.
Because they were relaxed, the three of them skated on the ice for a while. This kind of activity is not something children from the southwest region are good at, so all three of them inevitably fell and tumbled on the ice. After playing around for a while, they finally released all the pent-up frustration of the past few days.
After they had played and made a fuss for a while, they found a relatively solid and thick spot where the ice underneath looked quite flat. Lu Yuan then released the RV that they were all very familiar with.
However, because the ice was very slippery, although it looked flat, it was actually a bit sloping. Yang Xiao asked Lu Yuan to find ice picks and hammers in the space, and directed Zhong Qiang to hit the ice with ice picks to reinforce the RV a little.
"Let's have hot pot tonight. I feel like I haven't had extra spicy hot pot in ages. They always have a half-and-half pot, and I feel like I've lost my soul." After reinforcing the RV, Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang got in and saw Lu Yuan taking food out of his spatial storage, so they suggested it.
"I second that!" Zhong Qiang had been craving chili hotpot for a long time, and his mouth was watering just looking at it.
"Don't worry, everything's ready. But it's still early, so I'm thinking of grabbing some snacks to relax for a bit." After all, they had nothing to do, so Lu Yuan decided to completely unwind.
"Well done!" Yang Xiao smiled, lay down on the bed in the RV, and then directed Zhong Qiang to hand him snacks and drinks.
“I used to really want to go to Northeast China to see ice and snow sculptures, but my dad was really unreliable. He would always promise but never deliver.” Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang sat on either side of the dining table, looking at the snowy world outside the window, and couldn’t help but think of themselves when they were children.
"I was terrified of the cold when I was a child." Although Zhong Qiang looks like a northern man now, he was very weak and afraid of the cold when he was a child. Later, his grandfather took him to exercise, and he accidentally became an athlete.
"Lu Xiaoyuan, do you really have no memory of your rebirth at all?" Yang Xiao, lying on the bed, continued while eating fries. "I have a very strong feeling of rebirth right now. I remember the feeling of each knife I slashed at the zombies, and I also remember the appearance of every person who fell in front of me."
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