Chapter 630: Fire and Ice
Thick fat dripped down the venison, emitting an extremely tempting aroma.
Everyone who had been hungry all day felt their stomachs churning with acid, but when they heard what Bifang said about the plan, without exception, they all stopped what they were doing and pricked up their ears.
Where will your next adventure take you?
This matter is much more important than eating.
Bifang held up a whole deer leg, tore off a piece of thick tendon meat, chewed it, swallowed it after a while, faced the gazes of everyone, and said a word.
"Arctic."
“I’ll go to the North Pole.”
A gust of night wind blew by, and the fear of cold engraved in their genes made everyone shiver.
Arctic?
Bifang closed his eyes and thought. In the system panel, the new task was emitting a faint blue light.
[Mission Name: Extremely Cold Ice Field]
Mission location: Greenland
【Mission Mode: Survival】
[Mission Difficulty: T6]
[Task requirements: You are not allowed to carry any equipment other than system equipment. ]
[Main Mission 1: Start live streaming, with more than 5 million people online at the same time]
[Main Mission 2: Survive for 100 days in good condition]
[Side Quest: Self-Exploration]
[Guaranteed reward: Balance Enhancement Ticket *1. ]
【Time limit: one hundred and fifty days.】
A one-hundred-day survival challenge. Before this, Bifang had never seen a mission challenge with such a long period.
Especially since the location is in the Arctic, Greenland.
The North and South Poles are the two coldest places on Earth.
Greenland is the coldest place in the Arctic.
The North Pole and the South Pole are different. The South Pole is a continent and has Antarctica, the only continent in the world where no humans live. However, the center of the North Pole is not like this. It is not a continent, but a sea - the Arctic Ocean.
The island closest to the North Pole is actually not Greenland, but Svalbard, which means cold coast. It is a natural polar archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean with sovereignty belonging to Norway.
The Yellow River Station, one of China's Arctic scientific research stations, is located here.
Although Svalbard is closest to the North Pole, its environment is not the most extreme because there is a warm ocean current nearby.
The entire Svalbard Archipelago is dominated and influenced by the North Atlantic warm current and has the characteristics of a polar marine climate. The average temperature in summer is above zero, while the temperature in January in winter is between -16°C and -12°C. It can be seen that the impact of the warm current is more obvious in winter, which is nearly 20°C higher than other areas at the same latitude!
Judging from the temperature, it is not as cold as Mohe, where Bifang had been. Even most areas in Northeast China are colder than it.
Therefore, Greenland is theoretically the area closest to the North Pole and has the most harsh environment.
As for how bad it is, just look at the temperature. The temperature of minus 69.6 degrees Celsius measured in Greenland, Denmark on December 22, 1991 is the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere. This record had previously been held by the White Bear Country.
If exposed to such temperatures without any measures, a person will die within a minute.
Under natural conditions, steel becomes more brittle than glass.
When Bifang told everyone the news in a calm tone...
Elwan shuddered, and in a trance, he seemed to see snow flying all over the sky, and himself frozen in the snow due to the low temperature.
The soul walked closer and saw that there were icicles hanging on the snot.
"One hundred days!? North Pole? Are you crazy?"
"Charles, is there something wrong with my ears?"
"No, no, I'm fine. You heard me right."
The audience in front of the screen also gasped , that was the North Pole.
Who can stand living there for three months?
Moreover, it is survival in the wilderness, without any accumulated preparation or capital, and one has to face the power of nature when one goes there.
Even if you go there in mid-October and stay for a hundred days, it will be early January when you come back. This is equivalent to experiencing the entire winter, and it will not end until the coldest month. You know, the coldest temperature was measured in December .
[Fang Shen is not a human being again]
[Great! Even though it’s almost October, I’m already feeling cold]
[The hot sweat that just broke out shrank back in fear]
[I am most afraid of the cold, woo woo woo]
[There is a kind of cold that makes you feel cold just by looking at it]
Bifang also found this task difficult.
In the previous life, there was a wilderness program that was also about survival in the Arctic. There were people who actually persisted for a hundred days, but the environment was completely different from the one Bifang faced.
At least the contestants can still encounter trees, shrubs, and even a number of land creatures, and that's just within the Arctic Circle.
Bifang is the northernmost tip of Greenland.
There were no trees or shrubs, only snow and endless snowfields. Even the Viking pirates had to flee because after the Little Ice Age , there were no trees for them to build ships. If they stayed there, they would only starve to death.
Compared to animals, the mighty might of heaven is the most unsolvable and difficult challenge in survival.
There have been many ice ages in the history of the Earth. The most recent one was the Quaternary Ice Age, which lasted at least millions of years and is usually referred to as the Great Ice Age.
Generally speaking, during an ice age, the global temperature drops significantly, large ice sheets and glaciers form in some places with high altitudes, the oceans freeze over large areas, and the climate becomes dry and cold, which directly affects the growth of animals and plants.
During the Ice Age, there were no humans on Earth, and there has been no Ice Age since the beginning of human society.
However, the climate characteristics that appeared in some time periods were similar to those of the Ice Age, but not as severe as the Ice Age, so people called it the Little Ice Age.
It is more than 300 years ago, during the "Little Ice Age" which was at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population was reduced by half due to the cold weather.
Of course, these people did not die directly from freezing, but rather the difficulty in growing crops led to a sharp drop in grain production, and most of them actually died of starvation.
But in the final analysis, it is still caused by temperature changes.
The Ming Dynasty was a glorious era. Many time-travel novels hope to go back to the past and change everything. However, the biggest problem is not Wei Zhongxian or foreign enemies, but the temperature and nature.
Bifang stretched out his hand, feeling the heat from the flames, and looked up at the gradually setting sun.
The fundamental reason why life can be nurtured on Earth is actually because of the sun.
The suitable temperature makes the water unlike the stubborn glaciers on Europa, and also different from the sulfuric acid rain on Mars that sets the whole land on fire.
The perfect temperature turned the water into a flowing primitive ocean. Countless molecules collided billions of times inside it, giving birth to the first primitive life.
The root of all coincidences lies in the huge fireball in the sky.
Bifang raised his hand, and the setting sun slanted through his fingers, leaving several shadows on his face.
Warm.
