"This vehicle has a top speed of 220 kilometers per hour and a maximum load capacity of 3,000 tons; it uses special axle and shock absorption designs, making it highly adaptable to permafrost plains and various rugged road surfaces."
The improved engine and antifreeze system allow it to operate normally in extremely cold temperatures; the fuel it uses requires special processing, and a full load allows it to travel approximately 1000 kilometers with a full load...
Wang Lei calmly explained the car's features.
He was already used to these features.
But Lu Deshou. and the others present felt increasingly uneasy as they listened.
Is this still a truck?
A load capacity of three thousand tons?
How can it possibly travel a thousand kilometers like this?
Is this car from outer space?
Moreover, a 30-meter-long carriage can carry 3,000 tons, which means that on average, one meter of length can carry 100 tons?
That must be pulling out stones, right?
The people's gazes grew increasingly strange.
Anyone could clearly see the strangeness of this car.
Putting aside the fact that its performance is exaggerated, the key issue is that there is simply no use for this type of truck in the world right now.
The group whispered amongst themselves. Although a preliminary inspection of the vehicle had been conducted and everyone knew that the technology used was indeed very advanced, no one believed that the car could truly achieve the performance Wang Lei had described.
This is clearly made up!
Of all the people present, only Lu Deshou took Wang Lei's words to heart.
He looked around the car and quickly discovered many unusual traces—
Those are traces of life.
Some miscellaneous items that had inadvertently fallen into the cracks, a few strands of hair in the corner, and even the lingering smell from the car...
Evidence and experience told him that this was indeed a car that had been used for a long time, and that the driver was driving long distances.
Lu Deshou Jr. remained calm and quickly surveyed the cockpit.
Finally, after ten minutes, he walked up to Wang Lei again:
"Let's go back and continue taking statements."
Wang Lei nodded, and without saying anything, followed them back.
Lu Deshou remained silent on his way back to his room. Once inside, he immediately turned around, gestured for Wang Lei to sit down, and then sat opposite him.
Would you mind telling me about your situation?
Wang Lei rarely showed a smile, "That depends on what you want to know."
After a moment's thought, Lu Deshou. said, " Mutual Aid Society."
" The Mutual Aid Society is a cross-temporal organization founded by President Zhang. Its purpose is to unite and help each other, and to overcome difficulties together. Its goal... you can understand it as saving people, saving as many people as possible in disasters."
Lu Deshou closed his eyelids slightly, "And who is this President Zhang?"
Wang Lei gave him a strange look. " President Zhang is indeed President Zhang."
"Um... where is he from? Do you know anything else about him?"
Wang Lei shook his head, indicating that he knew nothing about it.
"Okay then, what do you mean by rescuing people in a disaster?"
As Lu Deshou said this, his eyes kept scanning Wang Lei, because if he remembered correctly, this man had just said that he was the captain of some kind of Cross-Spacetime Rescue Team.
This term, combined with the previous statement, always evokes some unpleasant thoughts.
Wang Lei said, "It means exactly what it says. We will arrive in a time or space where a disaster is about to occur, or has already occurred, and then help the people there overcome the disaster and rebuild order and their homes."
Lu Deshou listened to these words with an expressionless face, calmly continuing to ask, "So, according to you, a disaster is about to occur in our timeline?"
Wang Lei nodded.
Lu Deshou. smiled. "Then why don't you predict our fate?"
This time, Wang Lei shook his head.
"Then tell me, what disaster will happen here next?"
Wang Lei shook his head again, but this time he added, "I know, but the rank isn't high enough. Your rank isn't high enough, and neither is mine. Bringing this up will only create unnecessary variables for the plan."
Seeing his calm expression, Lu Deshou didn't press the matter, but instead moved on to the next topic:
"So what do you mean by No. 3 Spacetime?"
"We are the third timeline to join the Mutual Aid Society."
"So, you were also helped by the Mutual Aid Society before?" Lu Deshou had completely substituted his own logic into Wang Lei's words and quickly uncovered the hidden information.
"Yes."
"Would you mind telling me about the situation in your timeline?"
"Okay, this isn't confidential information..."
Soon, Wang Lei began to talk about his experience of Wandering Spacetime.
Throughout Wang Lei's account, Lu Deshou maintained a calm expression, only his pen constantly jotting down information on paper, occasionally asking questions in return.
A few words, to delve deeper into understanding.
After a while, Wang Lei stopped to take a sip of water, indicating that he had finished speaking.
Lu Deshou put down his pen, looked at the several pages of information he had written down, and couldn't help but applaud.
"A very engaging story."
"The content is novel, the logic is rigorous, and it can be described as wildly imaginative." xS12
Whether his words were Lu Deshou or sincere, it was unclear. After speaking, he tidied up the papers and left the room.
After closing the door, Lu Deshou didn't rush to leave. Instead, he stood there for a while, still tightly clutching the transcript in his hand.
His emotions were far from as calm as he appeared in front of Wang Lei.
This is so strange; it's shrouded in mystery.
He went to other rooms to ask other members of the task force, and the answers he got were all pretty much the same; everyone's answers were highly overlapping.
"These people are treating us like fools!"
"Are they writing novels for us here!?"
The members of the task force were all indignant; it was the first time they had ever seen such an "arrogant" person.
Lu Deshou listened silently until the end before stopping the others from talking.
"Alright."
"That's all for today's work. Take these people to rest. You need to keep a close eye on them tonight; I have other tasks to attend to."
Everyone was a little stunned.
Should we take them to rest?
"Aren't we going to keep them up tonight?"
Everyone was surprised by the decision; they were prepared to chat with those people until dawn that night.
Lu Deshou. shook his head and emphasized again, "No need. There's a high probability that there's no foreign involvement here. Let them go and rest."
"Oh well."
The crowd had no choice but to disperse at Lu Deshou.'s command.
Lu Deshou Jr. did not go home to rest.
As he just said, he does have other jobs.
With the information he had just written down, Lu Deshou returned to his office, tidied it up a bit, and then gave a prior report by phone.
After receiving permission, Lu Deshou Jr. left the office building by car without having time to compile the information he had just received into a complete document.
Antarctica.
Jack has arrived at the mission location and planted his national flag in the fierce wind.
Gu Song then joined Jason and another old colleague Frank, to set up the drilling site, preparing to install various machines and their own tents.
They only have a few days to carry out this mission.
During the mission, Frank suddenly looked up, exhaled a puff of hot air, and said, " Jack, look over there, those are the people from earlier, they're going the same way as us."
Jack looked up in the direction Frank was pointing and, sure enough, spotted the black convoy on the snow-white ice field.
"That's quite a coincidence."
Jack didn't dwell on it and focused on his mission.
Frank watched from a distance for a while, then, finding it uninteresting, he returned to his task.
He and Jack were old partners, having worked together for over twenty years. They had a great understanding of each other, and with Jason's help, they quickly set up the camp.
Then the installation of the ice core drilling rig began.
Jason, who had only been working with Jack for two years, had almost no experience in this area, so he could only watch the two of them operate from the sidelines.
The machine began assembling at a slow pace.
Behind them, Liu Chunshi was also organizing people to quickly take samples from the ice surface.
In this respect, Jack has it much easier.
The meteorological department in the Wandering Spacetime has a dedicated ice field sampling vehicle. The operators don't even need to get off the ground; they can operate directly from inside the vehicle.
Moreover, the entire process, from drilling to sampling to testing, can be completed inside the vehicle.
Liu Chunshi and other meteorological experts sat in the car, enjoying the heater and holding teacups, quickly comparing the differences between Antarctica in two different times and places.
Zhang Tianyuan waited quietly on the side, occasionally glancing through binoculars from the car at the mission site of Jack and his team not far ahead.
At the same time, be mentally prepared to move at any time.
Although they should theoretically be in a safe zone, it's better to be safe than sorry...
He was engrossed in thinking.
Suddenly, Liu Chunshi's voice came.
"President, the initial comparison is complete."
Zhang Tianyuan turned around and just then saw Liu Chunshi closing the document.
"What's the situation? Can we find theoretical support for polar melting?"
Liu Chunshi shook his head. "I'm afraid it won't be that fast, but we've discovered that the temperature rise in Antarctica in this timeline is several times greater than in our timeline at the same period."
"In our timeline, Antarctica temperatures have only increased by about 2 degrees Celsius compared to the previous fifty years, but in this timeline, the temperature has increased from the previous fifty years to the present."
Antarctica temperatures have risen by a full 6...
"So, the rising temperature is the main reason?"
"It's possible that in our timeline, a mere increase of 2 would cause ice shelves thousands of kilometers long to collapse, so in this timeline, an increase of 6 wouldn't be surprising."
What exactly has this world done?
How could the temperature rise so suddenly?
Zhang Tianyuan found it somewhat incomprehensible.
However, he did understand the disaster that was about to occur in the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime.
The polar temperatures have risen by 6 degrees Celsius. It may not sound like much, but if you think about the difference between 18 degrees and 12 degrees, you can understand how big the difference is.
Just as Liu Chunshi said, nothing is surprising at this temperature.
"Let's continue the probe. The more information we can gather in the next few days, the better..."
As they were talking, Zhang Tianyuan suddenly felt the whole car shake, as if it were an earthquake.
The other people in the car were also startled.
What happened?
The driver immediately checked the vehicle's condition.
Zhang Tianyuan suddenly remembered something, stood up, grabbed his binoculars, and quickly looked outside.
Then he saw that at Jack's camp, they had already set up drilling rigs and started drilling for ice core samples.
And, most importantly--
There was only one person operating the drilling rig!
Zhang Tianyuan put down the binoculars, feeling as if he could already see what was about to happen.
Jason was operating the machine, would stand there, bewildered, and then sink down with the broken ice, only to be pulled up by Jack and another colleague.
Then Jack will display his prowess, leaping twice across the cracked canyon to bring the ice core samples back to him in order to preserve them.
The story has begun!
Although Zhang Tianyuan was mentally prepared when he encountered Jack and his group, he still didn't expect it to happen this quickly.
He had initially thought there would be a few days of buffer time...
It now seems that there may not even be a few days left.
Click--
Just then, a visible crack spread rapidly across the ice surface. From Zhang Tianyuan and the others' perspective, it looked like a bolt of lightning swiftly traversing the entire ice field and passing through Jack's camp.
Then suddenly!
Zhang Tianyuan felt a jolt beneath his feet, and saw the ice surface not far away rapidly collapsing, gradually revealing a long canyon through the broken ice.
Jack's campsite had turned into a cliff. Just a few steps from the trailer was a bottomless abyss of ice, and on the other side was a massive iceberg that had broken off from the main ice shelf and was gradually moving away at high speed.
Liu Chunshi and the others stared blankly at the scene.
It was also the first time they had ever seen such a spectacular sight, but soon they all exclaimed in unison:
"Quickly, save them!"
Without Zhang Tianyuan saying a word, soldiers immediately opened the car doors and jumped out, running towards Jack's camp in their specially made icefield boots.
Zhang Tianyuan wasn't as quick, but he jumped out of the car and followed, just in case anything happened to the soldiers.
Liu Chunshi was still shaken by what he had just witnessed. Seeing Zhang Tianyuan jump out of the car, he lost all interest in further investigation and followed him.
By the time Zhang Tianyuan arrived, the situation had stabilized.
Jason simpleton, was rescued by Jack and Frank. Then Jack jumped to the other side of the crack to retrieve the ice core sample. As he jumped back, he was caught and rescued by soldiers who had rushed to the scene.
Just like in the movies, everything turned out alright, and all three survived.
What's going on?
Looking at the cracks that stretched endlessly to the left and right, and remembering how he had almost fallen into the abyss, Jason was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.
"The entire ice shelf has cracked!"
This is an unprecedented event!
Frank stood to the side, panting heavily and shouting.
Jack, meanwhile, stood there lost in thought...
At this moment, Zhang Tianyuan suddenly said, "We need to leave here as soon as possible."
This immediately enlightened the three of them.
"Yes, yes, we need to get out of this dangerous place right now!"
A East African Rift, had already opened up in front of them, and the place where they were standing could collapse at any moment.
With the help of the Mutual Aid Society, the three quickly got into the car and drove it next to Zhang Tianyuan's convoy before they felt relieved.
Only then did everyone turn back to look at the spot they had just been.
The ice sheet that has broken off is moving away rapidly, and in the process, the ice block, as large as the island, is also constantly breaking down.
Icebergs, amidst a flurry of ice chips, plunged into the sea below like dumplings being dropped into a pot. After a powerful plunge, they quickly rose back up, propelled by seawater and bubbles, creating a truly spectacular sight.
Zhang Tianyuan watched the receding iceberg and fell into deep thought.
They don't have much time left to act.