The icebreaker is two hundred meters long and forty meters wide. The deck area is close to two standard football fields, and the island area accounts for less than one-tenth. If it weren't for its special appearance, this strange icebreaker would be considered a light aircraft carrier.
Zhao Fei has directed everyone to move all the important equipment in the base onto the icebreaker, including most of the solar power generation equipment, the only wind power generation equipment, electronic equipment, etc. Even the kitchen has been moved to the icebreaker, and many useless sundries on the icebreaker have been thrown into the sea.
Only one member, Ouyang Ji, was left at the Ice Dragon Base. As an invertebrate zoologist and genetics expert, Ouyang Ji has a strong interest in various mutated marine organisms, and decided to find suitable mutant genes among them for research and benefit mankind.
Although Zhao Fei is also an expert in biological genes, she is only interested in the natural evolutionary advantage genes of pure humans. Of course, she will occasionally accept advantage genes that are compatible with humans, such as the recovery genes provided by Ouyang Ji.
Ouyang Ji, who wanted to move the laboratory to the icebreaker, was unanimously disliked by everyone. Zhao Fei couldn't stand Ouyang Ji's heavy taste and resolutely stopped Ouyang Ji's actions. So Ouyang Ji became the only permanent staff member at the Ice Dragon Base.
In addition to the cultivation of grains, which remained at the Ice Dragon Base, Zhang Le also moved the vegetable cultivation to the deck of the icebreaker.
In addition to eating and sleeping, the daily routine of several women is sunbathing and planting some vegetables and flowers.
In addition to guarding and keeping watch, the security personnel either chatted or caught fish. Catching fish is Ouyang Ji's task. After all, the personnel of the Ice Dragon Base have to serve scientific research activities, which can be regarded as leisure and work. Several people handed over the strange fish they caught to Ouyang Ji for research.
The temperature of the sea water is getting higher and higher, and there are more and more creatures in the sea water. It is estimated that because the marine life is more dense, the creatures in the sea water are becoming more and more aggressive.
Everyone can often see huge splashes in the sea water on the side of the ship, and at the same time, they are also glad that they are riding on a heavy and tall icebreaker.
Another afternoon, Zhang Le saw an octopus with tentacles of six or seven meters entangled with a three or four-meter-long bottlenose dolphin. The waves of the two big guys fighting in the sea were enough to overturn the small fishing boat.
Zhang Le understood why there were no fishermen and boats in the sea. Even if there were humans living on the land nearby, they would not dare to come to the ocean, because the huge ocean has become a hunting ground for mutant creatures to fight.
It is obvious that this dolphin has not mutated. One of the food of dolphins is squid, and they are very experienced in dealing with these tentacle monsters. However, this is a mutant octopus, and the tip of the tentacles seems to have barbs like cat claws. Soon, the dolphin's skin was scratched with bloody wounds.
Zhang Le likes dolphins, especially bottlenose dolphins, which are not only gentle, naughty and cute, but also friendly to humans.
In addition to some ordinary hot weapons, the Ice Dragon Base also has many cold weapons such as crossbows and fish spears. These cold weapons have barbs on the weapon ends, and a carbon fiber rope is tied to the handle end. After hitting the target, it can be retracted, which is a good helper for fishing.
Li Jun and his security guards like to use crossbows the most, while Zhang Le, who is amazingly strong, prefers javelins.
Seeing that the dolphin is gradually losing to the octopus's attack, Zhang Le roared and shot the javelin when the octopus and the dolphin staggered.
A low roar came, and the root of the octopus's tentacles was pierced by the thick javelin. There was no way, Zhang Le's strength was really too great.
Zhang Le had controlled his strength, but he didn't expect that he still miscalculated a little. Carbon fiber is not only slender, but also tough. If the prey struggles to break free, it may cause the prey to be directly cut by the carbon fiber. If it is not a fatal position, the prey will easily escape.
Fortunately, Zhang Le was quick-witted and immediately grabbed the handle at this end of the carbon fiber and quickly pulled the javelin back. The handle is hung on the railing of the ship's side, the purpose is to prevent the prey from taking the javelin.
The javelin hooked on the octopus again and was quickly put away by Zhang Le. The bottlenose dolphin broke free from the octopus's entanglement, but did not leave. Instead, it circled around the hooked octopus in a big circle. Except for a few predators at the top of the food chain, the naughty dolphins are not afraid of other creatures in the sea.
Although the giant octopus is extremely powerful, it cannot match Zhang Le's brute force. The poor octopus was dragged by Zhang Le and finally was dying. The dolphin spinning in circles chirped with joy.
Zhao Fei, who had been watching the show on the side, asked Cha Xiaoxia to get a set of blowpipe anesthetic needles from the laboratory on the icebreaker.
Zhang Le hit the target with one move, and the octopus that was blown with the anesthetic needle really calmed down.
The sleeping big octopus was thrown to the ground of the Ice Dragon Base by Zhang Le, and he informed Dr. Ouyang Ji about the capture of the mutant octopus through the intercom.
After a while, Ouyang Ji came over with a small laboratory cart with an excited look on his face.
Although the icebreaker has advanced detection equipment, the Lizhi icebreaker will stop to rest every night.
The people who had just finished dinner were watching the sunset at the junction of the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic in the gentle sea breeze.
Suddenly, Ouyang Ji's urgent roar came from Zhang Le's walkie-talkie: "Xiao Zhang, you guys quickly turn on the alarm of the icebreaker's detection system. I'm afraid we have provoked a big guy." Ouyang Ji's shouting quickly attracted the attention of Li Jun and others.
Zhang Le asked curiously: "Are you talking about that octopus? Does he have a companion?"
Ouyang Ji sighed and shouted: "Companion, haha, do you know how old that octopus is? It's only three weeks old. Three weeks, I'm afraid its mother is here."
Zhang Le was so scared when he heard this that his hands trembled and he almost threw the walkie-talkie to the ground.
"A three-week-old octopus is six or seven meters long. What if it takes three years? Damn it." After cursing, Zhang Le suddenly came to his senses and shouted, "Dr. Ouyang, throw the octopus away quickly. Li Jun, you guys go help me, I'll turn on the alarm system." After that, Zhang Le rushed to the control console of the ship island like a flash of lightning.
Half an hour later, the Lizhi icebreaker started slowly again. Li Jun cut the anesthetized octopus into several large pieces and threw them into the sea.
The weather at sea changes suddenly. I don't know when, the sky is full of dark clouds, and there are occasional dull thunder.
The detection system is turned to the maximum power, and all creatures within a range of 20 kilometers are visible on the display screen. After hearing about this, Zhao Fei also rushed to the control console of the ship island and took over the command operation.
"Li Jun, Wang Daqing, Chen Zhiming, Wang Zhigao, go to the armory and get two shoulder-fired rocket launchers. The more grenades, the better. Zhang Le, prepare more spears for hunting fish. Cha Xiaoxia, go to the laboratory and get more blowpipe anesthesia needles." Zhao Fei ordered calmly.
A crackling sound rang out overhead, and a huge forked lightning illuminated Zhang Le's eyes, followed by bean-sized hail mixed with dense raindrops hitting his head.
Fortunately, the wind was not strong, only about level 4 or 5. The sea was as dark as ink under the night sky, and it rose and fell with the waves, like an ancient giant beast.
After Zhang Le fixed the handles of more than a dozen harpoons on the bolt slots of the deck base, Li Jun and several others also came up from the cabin.
Li Jun and Wang Daqing each carried a domineering rocket launcher, while Chen Zhiming and Wang Zhigao each carried a small bag of grenades.
Ouyang Ji had climbed onto the icebreaker from the Ice Dragon Base at some point, and a bunch of people were standing by the screen of the ship's island control console, waiting quietly.
The rough sea was not calm either, and the game of hunting and escaping was constantly being played out. Whenever a large creature appeared, Zhao Fei would immediately zoom in to watch, fortunately they were all sharks, whales, and the like.
Chen Zhiming was getting impatient and said, "Dr. Ouyang, isn't it a bit too much of a fuss? How many children does an octopus have? Can it take care of them all? Maybe it has forgotten about this little octopus?"
Ouyang Ji was a little embarrassed when he heard Chen Zhiming questioning his professional judgment, but he was finally well-mannered and explained slowly: "The current situation cannot be inferred by common sense. Originally, this area is not particularly suitable for octopus growth, but there are octopuses, right? Under normal circumstances, octopuses lay 100,000 eggs each time. If there are 100,000 octopus offspring this big, no other species will survive in the entire ocean, so such a big young octopus must be extremely rare. There will be female octopuses guarding the newly born octopus. Now that the little octopus is dead, the large octopus will definitely attack us. You know, the IQ of octopuses is still very high."
As if to verify Ouyang Ji's crow mouth, the alarm system once again reminded that there are large creatures nearby.
Zhao Fei zoomed in again, and the detection system outlined the shape of the creature, which looked like an octopus. According to preliminary calculations, it was more than 25 meters long.
Everyone was silent and looked at each other. Except for Zhao Fei and Zhang Le, everyone was pale.
Just then, the door was opened with a bang, and Cha Xiaoxia and Zhuge Chen walked in one after another.
Cha Xiaoxia shouted: "Sister Fei, the anesthetic needle is here, and Sister Chen also brought an explosion-proof net gun." The beeping alarm sounded louder and louder, and the giant octopus was approaching the icebreaker quickly.
Zhuge Chen saw the black shadow moving quickly on the screen and shouted in surprise: "Oh my God, it's really a giant octopus."
Ouyang Ji kept nodding on the side, as if he was very satisfied with Zhuge Chen's surprise, and said: "See, I was right, there is an octopus, there is an octopus."
Everyone looked at Ouyang Ji speechlessly, not knowing what to say.
Zhao Fei suppressed her anger and commanded: "Li Jun, Wang Daqing, you two go to the observation tower and take charge of the shoulder-fired rocket launcher and fire when the time is right. Zhang Le, you are responsible for shooting with the javelin, and you take all the grenades. Cha Xiaoxia and I are responsible for firing the anesthetic needle, Zhuge Chen, change to your sniper rifle and attack the octopus' eyes. The rest of you guard the hatch and don't make trouble. At the critical moment, close the hatch."
In more than ten minutes, the octopus was less than 15 kilometers away from the "Lizhi" icebreaker.
The observation tower is the highest position on the ship, with a rain shelter on the top. Zhang Le, Zhuge Chen, Li Jun and Wang Daqing all stayed on it, holding weapons and ready to fight.
The icebreaker has stopped, all the lights are off, and the alarm is turned off. Except for Zhang Le, Zhuge Chen, Zhao Fei and Cha Xiaoxia, everyone else wears night vision glasses.
Zhang Le wears black tight leather pants and folded bionic wings behind him.
Zhao Fei and Zha Xiaoxia stayed at the command desk and continued to track the giant octopus's whereabouts through the detection system screen.
Time seemed to be extremely long, and everyone held their breath, only hearing the sound of hail hitting the hull and waves hitting the icebreaker.
"Meow", a dull roar came from a distance, and Zhang Le felt that his heart seemed to beat along with it.
If a creature is large enough, the mere power will make people feel terrified.