"Don't... answer?"
The people gathered around the communications device looked at one another. Weren't we at the North Pole? Where the hell did this take us?
And what was that about not answering? This wasn't some sci-fi movie set.
Yet the director of the Yellow River Research Station seemed to have noticed something. He exclaimed in surprise, "That voice... I remember that voice. It's Old Liu's!"
"He's the director of the Yanhuang Research Station!"
Old Liu was an academic friend of the Yellow River Research Station's director. One had become the director of the Yellow River Research Station, while the other had taken a post at the more distant Yanhuang Research Station.
Coincidentally, the Hope expedition ship exploration team's destination, led by Shi Wei, was the Yanhuang Research Station!
The Yellow River Station director's words made the atmosphere around them grow even more stifling.
He Wen, hiding behind the crowd, had already gone pale with fear.
It was not that he was being excessively cowardly. This string of events was simply far too bizarre.
From Su Hao, they had learned that many research stations on the Arctic Continent had lost contact. It was unlikely that a situation like the Yellow River Station's had coincidentally occurred at every single station, so the most likely explanation was that those research stations had encountered some unknown danger.
—Otherwise, Su Hao, a Champion, would not have made a special trip to the North Pole.
At least, that was how the Yellow River Station researchers saw it.
Just now, the Yellow River Station had tried to contact the Yanhuang Research Station through a signal relay station, but there had been no response at all.
Yet not long after they ended the call, the Yanhuang Research Station sent them such a bizarre encrypted message. It was