Although the YAAL is a huge cruise ship, they are not traveling this time.
In Gu Bei's words, even if he travels, he should choose a place where birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, instead of going to the Arctic Circle where birds don't poop.
What can you see here?
White snow, white ice, white arctic foxes and polar bears.
This shabby place looks like a funeral is about to take place, and it looks ominous at first glance.
Fingel didn't understand the aesthetics of the Chinese people, but he agreed with Gu Bei's words. After all, in his memories, this place was not a very beautiful place.
"Now I will tell you the contents of the mission."
In a conference room on the cruise ship, Schneider's image was projected on the screen, and behind him was the scene of the Kassel College Executive Department Command Center.
Obviously Schneider's physical condition is not able to adapt to the severe cold of the Arctic, so he can only be responsible for remote command, and the instructor who follows the students on board the ship is...
"Guderian! Didn't you turn on the microphone? I can't hear your voice!" Schneider's stern voice came from the speaker.
The curly-haired old professor sitting at the front seat jumped up from his seat, holding a red lobster in his hand.
Gu Bei: "Where did the lobster come from?"
Fingel: "He's from Australia."
Gu Bei: "...I didn't ask you about the place of origin."
Fingel: "The restaurant prepared it for lunch. You know, this ship was originally a cruise ship, so the ingredients in the restaurant are all high-end goods, such as the Jordanov I brought you before..."
"Wait a minute!" Gu Bei noticed the problem, "Have you had lunch?"
"Um."
"Why didn't I?"
"Because you were outside at the time."
"Why didn't you come and call me?"
"I'm eating Australian lobster."
"...You deserve to die!"
Schneider, who was at Kassel College, also saw the scene in the conference room through the camera, and his face darkened: "Guderian, I will let the principal carefully consider the score assessed by your professor this year."
"NO!" Guderian quickly put the Australian dragon into Fingel's hand, "Schneider, I wasn't eating just now, I was just stopping Fingel from eating when he was so serious. You have to believe me! "
Schneider: "...If you have something to say, then turn on the microphone first."
Guderian quickly took Fingel to tinker with the equipment.
Feeling a little bored, Gu Bei turned his head and looked out the window.
Eriyi also lay on the porthole and looked out.
At this time, the YAAL happened to pass by a medium-sized iceberg with a height of more than 25 meters. The wall-like ice cliff slid against the hull, showing a dazzlingly beautiful blue color. White waterbirds stood on the top of the iceberg. He stared blankly at this huge red ship passing by.
Anyone who knows about icebergs must know that only 1/10 of the volume of an iceberg will surface, and 9/10 will be underwater.
A 25-meter iceberg means that the height of the entire iceberg is almost 250 meters, of which more than 200 meters are below the sea surface.
It's just that the YAAL is not much shorter than this iceberg.
The YAAL has a total of 11 cabins, five of which are below deck and six above deck.
As a cruise ship, it is natural to implement a stage pricing method, so the cabins on this ship become more expensive as they go up.
However, the cabins on the top floor are not for sale.
The cruise company's explanation for this is that the floor is filled with various communication equipment, but the real reason is...
"I have a question."
After Guderian and Fingel debugged the equipment, Gu Bei asked Schneider before he could speak.
"speak."
"Why didn't we just charter the ship instead of boarding it as tourists?"
Schneider shook his head: "First of all, we need to
I want to correct one thing, your status is as a scientific expedition team member and not as a tourist. Secondly, it is not that the academy is unable to charter this ship, it is just that we cannot do so. "
"Can't?" Gu Bei wondered, "Why?"
Schneider pinched the bridge of his nose with a headache: "Commissioner Gu, I need to remind you that if you read the mission information carefully, you should know that the crew on this ship is also one of your mission targets this time."
Uh... is there still such a thing?
Isn’t their mission just to investigate the Greenland ice incident seven years ago?
Gu Bei turned to look at Fingel: Didn't you say it's because the college has no money for you?
Fingel smiled.
Okay, it seems that this guy didn't read the long and smelly mission information, but that's right. If something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences has to be written in eight or nine pages, only a fool would read it.
As for this situation, Schneider has long been used to it.
In the entire execution department, few people would read the mission information carefully. Everyone would directly ask for the time, person, location, whether to capture alive or to kill, and then went to carry out the mission. The efficiency was very high.
However, Gu Bei's mission this time was quite special, so they did not inform them of the mission goal in advance.
"I thought there was a problem with the college's funds." Gu Bei smacked his lips and glanced at Fingel, "The rumors that Kassel College went bankrupt turned out to be false."
"No, there are indeed some problems with the college's funding chain." Schneider did not shy away from this aspect, but told the truth, "However, this will not affect the progress of the task. All funds required for the task are the first priority. , if you only need the YAAL for this mission, the academy will also buy this ship."
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Gu Bei: "The college is bankrupt but still so rich?"
Schneider: "It's actually a little overstated to call it bankrupt. It's just because the funds can't be turned over temporarily."
"Can't you make money?" Gu Bei was a little curious, "What did you do with all your funds?"
Schneider looked at Gu Bei with strange eyes: "The principal is collecting funds and preparing to buy a dragon bone cross from someone."
Gu Bei: "...Okay, let's skip this topic and talk about the mission content."
Fingel snickered on the side: "Actually, it's good to talk about the funding issue."
Gu Bei slapped Fengel on the head: "Shut up!"
There was a bit of banter, and then we got to the point.
"You have two tasks." Schneider's image disappeared from the projection and was replaced by a man's information.
"First, investigate the purpose of the YAAL."
Gu Bei rubbed his chin: "This man is..."
"Sasha Rybalko, whose real name is Alexander Rybalko, was a major in the Alpha special forces of the Russian Federal Security Service."
Schneider said slowly in a low voice.
"He is the captain of the YAAL - at least the captain on the surface, because he can't sail a ship at all. His strengths are shooting and unarmed combat. In addition, he is proficient in using almost all military equipment. You can use him As a breakthrough."
"Oh!" A lightbulb seemed to light up in Eryi's head, "Just like in the game, this person is the clue NPC!"
Schneider: "...It can be understood that way."
"Wait a minute!" Gu Bei frowned, "We are talking about investigating the other party in the conference room on the other party's ship... What kind of operation is this?"
"You can rest assured on this." Schneider looked at Fingel, "Although this guy's character is not very good, his skills are trustworthy. With him here, not a single word of our conversation will be leaked."
Gu Bei glanced at Fingel and agreed with this statement.
The most powerful artificial intelligence in the world is Eva, and the programmer who is more powerful than Eva is Fingel.
With him here, many secrets will be absolutely safe
Complete, but these secrets do not include what style of Kucha you are wearing today.
So the meeting continued.
"According to the information we have, he was hired to be the captain of the YAAL in the fifteenth year, and the person who hired him is the mission target you are really looking for - Vincent von Ludwig. "
Realbacco's photo disappeared from the curtain, and Schneider reappeared on it, introducing the information they had to everyone.
"Vincent is a German-Argentinian. Although his name has never appeared on the Forbes rich list, he is actually one of the richest people in Argentina. No one knows where he earns his money. We It was only found that in 1995, he leased the YAAL from the Russian authorities to be used as an Arctic sightseeing ship."
Schneider felt very awkward when he was talking. Because of what Eriki had just said, he now felt as if he had become an NPC issuing tasks in the game - similar to the feeling of the leader of a novice village.
Gu Bei raised his eyebrows: "No photos?"
Schneider shook his head: "Apart from this information, we don't have anything useful. Vincent hides himself very well, but you can try to find him on the top floor of the YAAL - I heard that he is basically there. "
"So?" Fingel interrupted and asked, "What do we need to investigate? There has to be a direction, right?"
Another one who doesn't read the mission information.
Schneider was a little tired: "You need to investigate the purpose of the YAAL."
"Purpose?" Gu Bei scratched his hair, "Isn't this a cruise ship?"
"It's actually not just a cruise ship."
Schneider pulled up a columnar statistical table, with expenses at the top and income at the bottom, with the year marked under each column.
"YAAL's income and expenses from 1995 to 2009. Vincent has to pay huge rents to the Russian authorities every year, pay wages to the crew, and perform regular maintenance on the YAAL. Even if the YAAL is a luxury cruise ship, it can bring It’s a huge profit, but at this level of loss, Vincent has no reason to continue leasing the YAAL to Russia unless he has some reason to use the YAAL.”
"YAAL...the icebreaker..." Gu Bei suddenly realized, "His goal is the North Pole!"
"That's right." Although he had a bad personality, his mind still moved quickly. Schneider finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Vincent went to the North Pole every year while renting the YAAL, even in the off-season when there were not many tourists. It will not stop. It is obvious that the losses are very serious, but it has not stopped the exploration of the Arctic. This is very abnormal behavior. At the same time, we have investigated that Vincent is actually a mixed race without a registered identity, so we have a reason. I suspect that Vincent was actually looking for something in the Arctic Circle."
"Inside the Arctic Circle..." Gu Bei seemed to suddenly think of something, and his face looked a little strange, "Is he looking for our second mission target?"
Schneider's mouth twitched: "It's not impossible. Now that we've talked about it, let me just tell you the specific content of the second mission..."
Fingel waved his hand: "Teacher, there is no need to talk about this matter. I am familiar with it. I will introduce it to Gu Bei later."
"What about me?" Guderian, who has always had no sense of presence, interjected.
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But no one paid any attention to him.
Operation Greenland Ice Sea has a high level of confidentiality. Even Guderian, who leads the team as a mentor, does not know that there is such a mission.
Because of the special nature of this additional task, the only executors this time were Fingel, Gu Bei, and Eri Yi.
On the screen projection, Schneider was silent for a moment, and then said: "Regarding the action content of the Ice Sea Mission, the principal's message is to stop it, and if an unexpected situation occurs, return immediately... Even so, I think you should not Will listen."
Having said this, Schneider sighed: "The operations related to the ice sea mission have been launched since then. Now
Full power is handed over to the execution staff. As the commander-in-chief of the operation, I have only one request - to come back alive. "
"learn."
Communication is interrupted.
"How interesting," Gu Bei yawned, "Our mission target is actually looking for our other mission target. Isn't it a coincidence?"
"It's just a possibility." Fingel shrugged, "But the possibility is quite high."
"Then it looks like we can only investigate Vincent's side first." Gu Bei thought, "First figure out what this guy is looking for. If what he is looking for is the mission target, we can The two tasks were solved together."
"Agree."
Guderian looked at Gu Bei and Fingel curiously: "Don't you think you should explain the second mission to me?"
As he spoke, he turned to look at Eriki: "Isn't it hard to talk to Uesugi-san?"
Erashi: "OvO"
Well, she didn't look very curious.
Gu Bei and Fingel looked at each other.
Gu Bei stood up from his seat and stretched: "Eriyi, do you know where the restaurant is?"
"Know!"
"Then let's go!"
"good!"
"Wait a minute, the goal of the second mission..."
Guderian tried to persuade Gu Bei to stay, but was stopped by Fingel, "Professor, I think we need to discuss the issue of Australian lobsters now."
Guderian: "..."
"Okay, I won't ask anymore."
Fingel said seriously: "You really don't want to ask anymore? I originally planned to tell you..."
"real?"
"Fake."
"...I am the leader of this operation!"
"But the suicide of the second mission belongs to the execution personnel," Fingel said with a smile, "I'm sorry, professor."
Guderian: "..."
This Kassel college takes jujube pills!
