Chapter 1061 Best File 1: Eclipse Ice Core (Part 1)

November 23, 2003, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.

In the Glacier Square outside the Blue and White Society's Antarctic No. 1 Containment Base, the wind and snow were roaring like blades.

On the land covered with ice and snow, everything was white as far as the eye could see. The wind was twisting the snow, and the snow was flying in flakes, blurring the entire field of vision in an instant.

A strong and muscular young man, shirtless and cheerfully performing various extremely difficult training movements in the freezing cold wind and snow of minus 46 degrees Celsius.

A few meters away, another man smiled and said: "Xiao Gou, training that is too extreme will not improve your physical fitness."

Different from the young man, this man wore a thick fleece jacket and a jacket, and a large down jacket on the outer layer, which was extremely warm.

The young man trained himself and said with a smile: "I know, I'm just doing routine training. I don't expect the ice and snow to make my body stronger. I just hope that this cold blizzard can make me retreat and return to the warmth." in the base.”

The man raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? Then you won't go back?"

The young man Xiao Gou laughed and said: "I also want to go back to the warm indoors, but unfortunately, the wind and snow of this level are not worthy!"

The man’s heart says that’s how it is, tempering his will?

"Then what level of wind and snow will make you flinch?" the man asked.

Xiaogou finished the last action carefully and then said: "Uh, I don't know, sorry, I can't imagine."

"Huh?" The man laughed and said: "The research department is developing a virtual reality device, and a test machine will be available soon. I heard that priority will be given to pain simulation to temper the will of the members. Xiaogou, wait for the machine to come out, Can you sign up and give it a try later?"

Xiao Gou said: "No problem, I will be the first to volunteer."

"Haha, it is said that the intensity will be very scary! Xiaogou, I don't want you to collapse." The man laughed.

Xiao Gou said excitedly: "I'm looking forward to it even more!"

"Also, Mr. Qi, how many times have I told you not to call me Xiaogou? My nickname is 'Crazy Devil'."

As he spoke, he was still exercising vigorously, consuming his own physical energy while also maintaining his body temperature.

The man named Qi Ye sneered: "How can you give yourself a nickname? Didn't you just get it? You are so crazy. If you keep practicing like this, you will give yourself rheumatism."

Xiaogou grinned and said, "I'm not making this up. Many of my brothers on Extreme Island said that I fight like a madman!"

Mr. Qi clicked his tongue and said, "What? Do you think I'm complimenting you?"

Xiao Gou smiled and said: "I take it as a compliment. Members of the club must move forward courageously and dare to make sacrifices."

Mr. Qi kicked out Xiao Gou five meters away.

"Why are you talking so much? Going forward is the final decision. If you don't let it go, just go forward and leave a way out. Who likes to dig into a dead end?"

If there is no way out, you should move forward without hesitation, but members should try their best to prevent themselves from falling into a situation where there is no way out.

Xiaogou also understood this truth, otherwise the instructor would not let him graduate.

But you should understand that although Xiaogou passed the assessment during the internship period as a member, he was not good at strategy.

It's not that he's not smart, it's that at critical moments, he always prefers a strategy of sacrificing himself.

Sometimes, this is a necessary sacrifice. But sometimes, it's not necessary.

Obviously there could be a smarter way to complete the containment and achieve zero casualties, but in the end they were replaced one by one.

"You have graduated, Xiaogou. Do you think you can be 'resurrected' just like your internship?"

"Sacrifice is an important quality for community members, but it is not the only one."

"The biggest difference between outstanding members and ordinary members is not the gap in ability and belief."

Xiao Gou thought: "What is it?"

Mr. Qi's lips curled up slightly and he said, "It's alive."

"Ah?" Xiao Gou was stunned.

Mr. Qi said seriously: "Who is worse than who can become a member of the society? Whether it is wisdom, strength, or talent, they are all the best."

"When you are a club member, you cannot be a mediocre person. As long as you can continue to grow, anyone can be the president."

"The thing that prevents ordinary members from becoming outstanding members is death and whether they can live until that time. As long as they live long enough, anyone can be the best."

Xiaogou struggled with his facial features, always feeling that what Master Qi said was a bit too 'greasy'.

He's just a Beta member, so naughty. Could it be that his energy has been sapped by the containment?

Seeing that he didn't listen, Mr. Qi frowned and said: "You only have one life, and you only have one chance to grow. How many members do you know who died in the first mission?"

"It is undeniable that most of them are unlucky, but there are still some who could have survived, but in the end, the choice... listen clearly, it is a choice! Choice! Sacrifice!"

"This is the flaw in member selection and the shortcomings of the belief in containment."

Xiaogou was stunned. Are there any drawbacks to the belief in containment?

Mr. Qi stared at him and said: "When there is no way to retreat, we must contain them even if we die. This is our belief. And the reason why we have no way to retreat lies in our mission and responsibility."

"It is wisdom to avoid falling into a situation where there is no escape as much as possible."

"Wisdom, responsibility, and sacrifice are the three basic qualities of a cooperative member. Every qualified member has these three qualities, but the fact is that many members do not grasp the ingenious balance among them."

"Too strong a belief will eventually overwhelm the members' rationality, turning the sheltering operation into the realization of their own personal values... Let the members who could have survived eventually exchange their lives for sheltering. What a fool."

"Xiao Gou, learn to control your beliefs. When you should go forward, go forward. When you should leave room, leave room."

"Maintain the perfect balance between sacrifice and survival, gamble and steadiness, win even if you die and survive no matter what."

"In extreme desperate situations, those who can still grasp a glimmer of hope are excellent members."

"Sheltering is for living, not for death."

Xiao Gou nodded. He understood it. It must be said that it makes sense.

However, he smiled and said, "Of course it would be better if everyone survived. Unfortunately, reality is not so perfect."

"Okay, okay, I understand, don't say anymore."

Qi Ye didn't know whether Xiao Gou had listened to it. As a team leader, he could only say this much.

Xiao Gou graduated with a very excellent evaluation. Both his physical fitness and willpower were top-notch, far beyond the full score level.

The only drawback is that his strategy is mediocre, and he has an overly vigorous and reckless drive.

In Qi Ye's eyes, as long as Xiao Gou learns to control his beliefs and grows steadily for another ten years, he may become a member of Gamma.

If he is extremely lucky, it is not impossible to become the top member.

However, there is only one life, and it is hard to say whether he can live to that time.

The three qualities are all top-notch, and it is easier said than done to cleverly grasp that balance. Even Qi Ye himself did not do it, and he could only talk about it.

The growth of members still depends on themselves. After all, every member is extremely confident.

Confidence is a good trait, but sometimes it can also become an obstacle to growth.

"Where is there a perfect shelter in the world." Qi Ye sighed.

"Well? Aren't the presidents of all generations the most perfect shelters?" Xiao Gou said with a squint.

Mr. Qi shook his head and said, "The president may be the best member, but he will not be the most perfect. The Blue and White Society itself is also growing and advancing with the times. The original president may have strong beliefs, but his wisdom may not be as good as ours."

"Hey, hey, hey!" Xiao Gou's dream is to become the president. Seeing Mr. Qi say this, he was a little dissatisfied.

Mr. Qi smiled and said, "Don't be dissatisfied. The original Blue and White Society system was not perfect. It was also the efforts of generations of predecessors to correct it and adapt it to today. The second generation of presidents began to improve the mission and system, and the third generation of presidents systematically established the training methods for members. The fourth generation continued to improve and constantly correct the mistakes of their predecessors and some outdated concepts."

"What about the fifth generation?" Xiao Gou asked.

Mr. Qi looked at the snow and wind, and said nostalgically, "The fifth generation president is a real genius. You haven't seen him, and you don't know the golden smile when he led us to fight against the Zerg!"

There is no doubt that he admires the fifth generation president very much. In his eyes, the fifth generation is amazing and has an indescribable charm, as if he can always give everyone confidence.

"So according to you, the Blue and White Society has been improving and perfecting, and it will become stronger and stronger as time goes by. The fifth generation is the most perfect president?" Xiao Gou said.

Qi Ye shook his head and said, "I respect the fifth generation president, but I still have to say that he is not the most perfect."

"Your requirements are too high, right?" Xiao Gou curled his lips.

Qi Ye said, "It's not that I have high requirements. I ask you, what is the goal of the Blue and White Society?"

"Eliminate all the shelters?" Xiao Gou said.

Qi Ye said, "That's right, so those who can't do this are not the best. Although each generation is stronger than the previous one, before the ultimate ideal is realized, there is no best, only better."

"The best president must be the last generation of president!"

Xiao Gou's eyes lit up and said, "So that's it, you are right. I have decided..."

"Hmm?" Qi Ye looked at him.

Xiao Gou said, "I want to be the last Blue and White president!"

"Haha, don't be the last generation of presidents of the Blue and White Society to the end of the road!" Qi Ye laughed.

The last generation of presidents who realized the ultimate ideal and the last generation of presidents who went to extinction, although both were the last presidents, the concepts were completely different.

Xiao Gou said angrily: "I have to show you."

Qi Ye turned around and walked towards the base, smiling: "The president is not doing it for anyone to see."

The two returned to the warm base, and in the lounge, Qi Ye happily lit a cigarette and started smoking.

Then he handed it to Xiao Gou and said: "Have a cigarette."

However, Xiao Gou waved his hand and said: "I never smoke."

"Try it! The tobacco I cultivated myself has special ingredients. With our physique, we can easily degrade its effects on the body and it will not hurt the body." Qi Ye coaxed.

Xiao Gou shook his head stubbornly and said: "Members should not have any bad habits. Although it is not harmful to the body in the long run, it takes time to degrade, and there will still be short-term damage."

Qi Ye laughed: "It's not good to be too nervous at a young age. There must be some bad habits to vent pressure."

"What a twisted logic, I said I won't smoke, so I won't smoke." Xiao Gou was very stubborn.

Mr. Qi relaxed his shoulders and did not force it. He smoked his cigarette happily and turned on a computer.

"The handover will be tomorrow. You can choose these tasks yourself. Or do you want to stay in Antarctica for another half a year?"

Their job is to do routine garrison at Antarctic Base No. 1. Accommodation missions are not always available. Newcomers like Xiao Gou often follow old members to guard at various bases to prevent accidents.

Xiao Gou took the initiative to ask to go to a place with harsh conditions, so the two came to Antarctica.

From graduation to now, they have been guarding for half a year. After the handover is completed tomorrow, they can go to other places to perform tasks.

When it comes to tasks, Xiao Gou becomes interested and carefully examines the various "non-urgent tasks" on the computer.

Since they are non-urgent tasks, there is no doubt that they are all guarding tasks, escort tasks, or training tasks.

"Why is there not even a survey task!" Xiao Gou muttered.

Qi Ye took a look and said happily: "That's unfortunate. I saw three survey tasks yesterday, but unfortunately they were all in the northern hemisphere, so I didn't take them. It seems that they have all been taken by someone."

Xiao Gou curled up on the sofa, feeling that he couldn't use all his strength. Investigation missions are potential containment missions. Although most of the time, some anomalies are just hype or natural phenomena, once it is found that they are caused by the containment, they will be immediately converted from investigation to containment missions. Unfortunately, it has been relatively peaceful recently, and even investigation missions have not been accepted.

"Don't always think about having containment. You should be happy when you don't have it. Isn't it good to have a peaceful life? Containment missions are deadly." Qi Ye smiled.

"Whatever, pick one yourself. I'm going to train." Xiao Gou closed the computer, took a big sip of hot soup, and planned to continue to strengthen his body in the cold.

Qi Ye stood in front of the window with a cup of hot tea, just watching Xiao Gou training in the wind and snow.

In terms of hard work, Xiao Gou is simply a machine. He can train all day except for sleeping.

Anyway, the seafood soup in the club replenishes his physical strength, so in the past six months, in addition to routine inspections, Xiao Gou has been training himself crazily every day.

Whether it is cold and snowy, or calm, his training enthusiasm remains unchanged.

It didn't take long for him to rest, and he went out again after drinking a sip of soup.

Gradually, the wind and snow stopped.

Grandpa Qi walked out leisurely, stood under the not-so-warm sun, holding a thermos bottle and watching.

He looked calm like an old man basking in the sun and watching his grandson exert his strength.

Suddenly, it got dark.

Grandpa Qi was stunned. This kind of darkness was different from the darkness under the wind and snow before.

It was winter now, the North Pole was in the daytime, and the South Pole was in the daytime. It shouldn't be so dark.

He looked up and saw that the sun was being blocked, and there was a lack of sun. This was going to be... a solar eclipse!

"Oh, a solar eclipse in Antarctica, I haven't seen it yet." Xiao Gou finished the last move of a set of training and looked up curiously to watch the solar eclipse.

Grandpa Qi said: "Don't say you haven't seen it... This is the first time in human history that a solar eclipse has been observed in Antarctica."

"Really!" Xiao Gou smiled and said, "I'm lucky, I caught up with it."

"Your luck is really 'good'! This is abnormal..." Grandpa Qi frowned.

Xiao Gou was puzzled and said, "There can be a solar eclipse in Antarctica. There were no observation records before because no one lives in Antarctica. What's unusual about this?"

Qi Ye said seriously, "It's not the location that's unusual, but the time. In fact, the agency has already calculated this solar eclipse and made a forecast. You don't read much internal news, so you don't know."

"The predicted Antarctic solar eclipse is tomorrow, not today."

Xiao Gou pondered, "Really? Prediction error? Or... containment incident?"

It's normal to make mistakes in predictions, but the error of a full day is outrageous.

The error is as long as a day. It's no longer a question of which day the solar eclipse will occur, but whether there will be a solar eclipse.

The formation of a solar eclipse is very subtle. Any error may directly cause a total solar eclipse to become a partial solar eclipse, or even no solar eclipse at all.

The two looked up at the sky and saw that the solar eclipse was taking shape quickly, and it was very positive. Judging from the trend, it should be a total solar eclipse.

Qi Ye said: "The solar eclipse should appear on the first day of the lunar month."

"Today is November 23, the 30th day of the 10th lunar month. There must be some special reason for the solar eclipse to appear on this day."

No matter where the earth rotates, there will always be a meridian on the earth facing the moon. When the moon is at the full moon position, the same meridian on the earth faces the round moon.

The meridian runs from one pole to another, passing through both the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere, so according to the lunar calendar, the full moon can be seen on the same day in both the southern and northern hemispheres on the earth.

Because the subjective feeling of "round" is different, the moon on the 15th can be full on the 16th.

But the new moon day is different. The day when the moon moves between the earth and the sun and appears and sets almost at the same time as the sun is called the new moon day.

This is the most basic condition for the formation of a solar eclipse. Therefore, all solar eclipses occur on the first day of the lunar month.

Of course, it is not absolute, because the human calendar is not perfect, and there will be errors if the time is too long. The new moon day may also occur on the 30th day of the month.

But the problem is not this. Even if the yin-yang calendar has errors due to the re-calculation of the new moon, the Blue and White Society cannot have made a mistake.

The research department predicted that the solar eclipse would be tomorrow according to the observatory, so it would be tomorrow. This is not a calendar problem, but a calculation.

It happened today, either the society made a mistake or the moon arrived at the expected position ahead of time.

Mr. Qi did not believe that the society made a mistake, so he realized that this might be an abnormal event.

"Ding ding ding."

Qi Ye's bracelet soon rang, and he quickly turned on the computer. As expected, the containment department took the initiative to issue an investigation task.

"The society has confirmed that it is not the moon that is blocking the sun at this moment, but the projection of the moon." Qi Ye said.

Xiao Gou hurriedly asked: "Projection?"

Qi Ye said: "Let's put it this way, the moon has appeared in the place where it will pass in the future. You can understand it as having two moons. The real moon is still in its normal position, running silently."

"The newly appeared fake moon is just a phantom, without mass, and cannot be touched. It can only reflect and block sunlight. It seems to exist only to create a solar eclipse."

"It appeared in the position where the moon should be in the future, triggering a solar eclipse in advance."

Double moon!

One real and one fake, both can be seen, but one has mass and the other has no mass.

It has no mass and can still orbit the earth. The detectors launched by the society cannot touch it, but it can block the sunlight. This is definitely a containment object or a derivative.

"Is this containment object here with us?" Xiao Gou has already rushed into the house to change clothes and is ready to go at any time.

Mr. Qi said, "It's just a possibility, and we are still investigating. The main investigators are the space crew on the lunar base. They are investigating the phantom and whether there are any containment objects on the moon."

"In addition, this solar eclipse can only be seen in Antarctica. To be precise, only Wilkes Land and Queen Maud Land in Antarctica can see a total solar eclipse."

"Other areas in Antarctica, plus southern Australia, can only see a partial solar eclipse."

"So there are members in Australia and Antarctica investigating this incident, and we are just one of them."

The splitting of a phantom on the moon does not necessarily mean that the containment object is on the moon.

Because the phantom caused the solar eclipse in Antarctica and Australia, it is very likely that some kind of containment object appeared in these areas, and some of its characteristics unreasonably forced the solar eclipse to occur in the area where it is located.

In a similar situation, several investigation teams are investigating the same phenomenon in different areas at the same time.

Xiao Gou and Mr. Qi are in Queen Maud Land. An abnormal total solar eclipse occurred in their jurisdiction, so naturally they were asked to investigate nearby.

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p.s: Sorry.