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 started a small stove for Mary.

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 sutures, some doctors will have a feeling that tightening the sutures may result in 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 at the moment, 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 and 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.

Duanmu Huai also found the captain and started his work.

"I have to say, you are lucky."

Captain Lake is a very talkative person. Even when facing Duanmu Huai, he is smiling.

"It has been calm recently, which is a rare window period. Before you, only one expedition team had this luck."

"Do you mean that someone arrived earlier than us?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows, stared at Captain Lake and asked, and the latter nodded.

"Of course, I remember that they seemed to be an expedition team from Europa. At that time, they also came to me and asked me to prepare to take them to Antarctica immediately. However, the climate at that time was not very good, and I was unwilling to take risks with my crew, so they hired another ship. Strangely enough, the weather improved not long after they left the port. If I had known that there was such a good thing, I might have made some money."

"Do you know which research station they went to?"

Antarctica in the 20th century was no longer like the 19th century, where anyone could go. At present, Antarctica has been determined to be shared by the whole world. Many countries have established research stations here, which are usually empty. They will only be activated when summer comes, and then when the window period ends, basically everyone will leave the research station - after all, staying in this icy place, without supplies and communication, is basically no different from being on an alien planet.

Generally speaking, the research team will stay in the research station of their own country. For example, the research team funded by Duanmu Huai this time will stay and be stationed at the Queen Elizabeth Station, and then continue to conduct in-depth exploration of the Antarctic continent.

So what about the expedition team?

"Well... I remember it seems to be the German Georg Station. Oh, after arriving at the South Pole, I have to contact them to confirm whether everything is normal. After all, this damn weather has a great impact on communication......"

There is no way. The South Pole is like this, just like an alien planet. Once something happens to a scientific research station, coupled with the blizzard, even communication cannot be transmitted. If you die there, no one will know.

The road to the South Pole is naturally not smooth sailing. There are constant stormy waves and the temperature is gradually dropping. Of course, for Duanmu Huai, this is not a problem. On the contrary, Lorena has a big problem---that's right, 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?

In short, the priest girl who is always energetic on weekdays is now lying in the cabin like a corpse, with a sullen face.

"Uh... Miss Lorena, are you okay?"

Looking at the pale, lifeless girl in front of her, Mary asked anxiously. Lorena turned around and looked at Mary silently.

"Wow... I didn't expect that taking a boat would be so uncomfortable... I was fine in the first few days, why did I suddenly feel dizzy and dizzy... Miss Mary, aren't you uncomfortable?"

"Uh... okay?"

Faced with Lorena's question, Mary felt a little guilty. She didn't know why she didn't have any symptoms of seasickness at all.

"Look, it seems that I haven't exercised enough..."

While speaking, Lorena struggled to get up from the bed.

"I'll go to the deck and run a hundred laps now, it will definitely improve... Ugh...!!"

"Miss Lorena, cheer up a little bit! ahhhhh!!!"

Just as Lorena was dizzy in the cabin, Orion also passed through the last ocean current and came to Antarctica, the oldest and rarely visited place completely covered by ice and snow.

"Boom!!!"

The icebreaker hit the thick ice layer, and the violent impact made the whole hull shake. The thick ice was broken, and the icebreaker moved forward again.

In the cabin, Captain Lake also breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Duanmu Huai.

"Okay, sir, it seems that everything is going well at the moment."

"Well, that's the best."

Duanmu Huai nodded, then left the cabin, and then he walked to the deck, only to see 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 Duanmu Huai.

"Haha, the real sky is really beautiful. To be honest, I have been in Master College for so long that I almost forgot what color the real sky is... In fact, many students even see the blue sky for the first time."

"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 also normal. Think about it carefully. Since they were born, they have been living under the dim sky. Unless they go abroad, it is impossible to see what the real sky looks like.

Perhaps in their eyes, the sky has always been like that.

But Duanmu Huai didn't come here to chat with Professor Parmar.

"Professor, since we have arrived in Antarctica, there are some things I want to make clear to you first."

Duanmu Huai walked to Professor Parmar and said lightly.

"What's the matter?"

"I think you may have figured it out. We came to Antarctica not to see penguins, let alone for geological archaeology. In fact, we have more important things to do. The reason why we chose to go with the archaeological team is simply for convenience, but next, we are likely to do what we should do, so if you find that we are missing, please don't worry, just concentrate on doing your own things."

"This............"

Hearing this, Professor Parmar frowned. Antarctica is a very dangerous place, and generally speaking, it is not allowed to act alone. Indeed, as Duanmu Huai said, if they left without saying a word, then Parmar might think they were missing, and might even come to look for them.

But what does Duanmu Huai mean by this now?

"Do you know why I chose to sponsor you?"

"This... I really don't know."

In fact, Professor Parmar himself also had this question. Although he was a professor of geological archaeology at the Royal Master's College, he was not the strongest among them. There were many who were more powerful and famous than him, and there were also many who were not as good as him but more obedient than him, so Parmar was also very curious about why Duanmu Huai chose him.

"I read one of your articles - "Suggestions on the Phased Excavation of Geological and Archaeological Work"... You think that even if you encounter very important relics, you should not excavate them immediately, but start from the periphery, first understand the basics and then proceed step by step, right?"

"That's right."

Professor Parmar nodded and looked at Duanmu Huai in confusion. It was indeed an article he wrote, but it only expounded some of his own practices and ideas. Why was it favored by this person?

"Then Professor Parmar, let me ask you, if there are relics in front of you that are enough to subvert the whole world and the entire human history, and as long as you dig these relics, you can obtain valuable knowledge and experience that ordinary people can never obtain, and it is even possible to leave your name in history, then will you still stick to your own way? Or will you try every means to get ahead?"

"This... I don't know."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, Professor Parmar thought for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile.

"After all, although I have achieved some results in my life, I have not encountered the kind of relics that are enough to subvert human history like Mr. Duanmu said. I dare not guarantee that I will be able to keep a clear mind in the face of such temptations, but I think that we should act cautiously in the excavation work of archaeological research... "

"Very good."

Duanmu Huai nodded. As Professor Parmar said, in fact, the problems encountered by humans in this world are not so serious. But many times they eventually reach the brink of destruction, and the biggest reason is that they want to take shortcuts.

As a human being, suddenly want to upgrade to a higher dimension.

As a human being, suddenly want to obtain the wisdom of the entire universe and then unify the world.

Or maybe they found some ancient ruins, and after testing, they found that it could subvert human cognition and history, so they excitedly started digging.

This is just like in horror movies, the protagonists go on an adventure, and then find that a place is closed, and then they excitedly open the blocked iron door to let the monsters out.

There are bloodstains and debris everywhere outside, reminding you everywhere that "it's dangerous here", but you still want to open the door... Who can you blame?

Of course, you blame yourself.

Most of the things about evil gods and ruins in this world are the same.

Archaeologists dug up the ruins of some Old Ones, and when they saw it, wow, it turned out that such powerful and intelligent creatures existed in ancient times! We have to follow their path!

Then they excitedly went to learn.

Don't you think that if they really succeed, it will be the turn of humans to be the masters?

Why did they disappear in the end?

It must have been a failure!

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 ruins of various civilizations, their first reaction is to think about how this civilization has messed with them.

This is just like when a policeman sees the body of a victim, he immediately starts to think whether he was shot, poisoned, or committed suicide.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai retracted his thoughts and looked at Professor Parmar.

"In short, I am very optimistic about you. Come on, if you are lucky, I will tell you something interesting when I come back."

"This, Mr. Duanmu, what are you..."

Professor Parmar is not a fool. Of course, he heard some hidden meanings from Duanmu Huai's words, and now he is looking at him in disbelief.

However, before Professor Parmar finished speaking, Captain Lake came out of the cabin and interrupted their conversation.

"Hey, you two, you'd better come and see!"