Chapter 1338: Dig a Hole
The Ancient Culture Research and Analysis Archives convened an emergency meeting.
"Lu Zheng went to Antarctica?"
"He wants to help us drill a hole at Kunlun Station?"
"Something this good actually exists?"
"What is there to discuss? Just agree already! Once you miss this village, there won't be another inn!"
"Don't rush. We still have time. Let's discuss whether there could be any negative repercussions."
"What negative repercussions could there be? Could losing Antarctica's drilling needs somehow affect our related technological research?"
"Not to that extent."
"But we still need to think about how to explain this to the scientists at Kunlun Station, and..."
"Handle the questions from other countries?"
"Yes."
"Going from less than a thousand meters straight to five thousand meters—anyone would know something was wrong."
"If we could handle the Red Chess River, could we not handle a deep borehole at Kunlun Station?"
"I'm not saying we can't handle it. I'm saying we need to come up with an excuse first. Even if we aren't in a hurry to deal with other countries, we still have to deal with our own people first."
"How do we deal with them?"
"Tell them a few immortals happened to be sightseeing in Antarctica, saw how pitiful they were, and decided to lend them a hand?"
"The Antarctic Immortal Elder?"
"Or we could say we were testing a space-based weapon, using Kunlun Station as the test site. We'd help them drill a deep hole through the ice sheet, making it easier for them to obtain ice cores beneath it?"
"Do you think we're having too easy a time in the court of public opinion?"
"A space-based weapon capable of drilling five thousand meters beneath the ice sheet would put every nuclear weapon and nuclear shelter buried