Chapter 638: Polar Regions...
"You're a good storyteller."
In the corridor of the ship, just as Bifang was about to return to his room, he ran into the bearded captain.
The captain leaned against his seat, holding a cup of hot coffee and raising it to gesture. A light mist emerged, making people feel a touch of warmth in the cold Arctic Ocean.
Bifang smiled and said, "In fact, most of my live broadcasts are about telling stories. I got used to it over time."
Having just come down from the deck, many of the tourists who were listening were reluctant to leave.
Human knowledge comes from three levels: experience, understanding and enlightenment.
Experience is undoubtedly the most intuitive way to acquire knowledge. Compared with the lazy cognitive system, gaining knowledge through experience is both natural and unquestionable - people are born to like figurative thinking.
This is also the biggest advantage of Bifang. The audience will never feel bored during the live broadcast.
Other people’s one-day wilderness survival programs need to be edited into one hour or even half an hour to ensure sufficient appeal, but Bifang can keep the audience online at a high intensity thanks to his powerful storytelling ability.
"So you haven't told me the final ending yet? The explorer's name is Meng... Meng..." The captain handed him a cup of hot cocoa. He also listened to the story halfway through and enjoyed it, but he had to return to the captain's room because of some things. Now he is curious about the ending.
"It's Roald Amundsen." Bifang took a sip of the hot cocoa and praised, "It's a good drink, but you can add a few more sugars next time."
This captain is also a wonderful person.
Bifang wanted to go to Greenland, but the place he wanted to go was farther and more remote. Large cruise ships had fixed travel routes and it was impossible for them to change their routes just for him.
Finally, Bifang found this small cruise ship which was originally converted from an ocean-going fishing boat. Although its facilities were certainly not as good as the Titanic and its comfort level was much worse, the captain readily agreed to Bifang's request and did not even charge any extra fees.
He even said that he had been watching Bifang's live broadcast for a long time.
"Three sugar cubes have been added as per your request, as well as a large amount of chocolate." The captain was speechless.
"Oh, really." Bifang shrugged, "Are there donuts on the boat? I'll have these for dinner tonight."
The captain said sternly, "You will get diabetes when you are around thirty if you keep doing this."
"Well, that's all for a while."
Bifang has been gaining weight these days. He eats several meals a day, all of which are sweets, in order to store as much fat as possible in his body in order to cope with the upcoming survival in the Arctic, which may result in him losing a lot of weight.
Thanks to the powerful digestive ability of the king fish's stomach, Bifang's weight has now exceeded 85 pounds and reached 170 pounds.
That is to say, Bifang has been live streaming these days, so the gradual change does not look obvious. If there is a break in the middle, the feeling of weight gain will be more obvious.
"So you haven't told me the end of the story yet," the captain reminded.
Even though he had been sailing on this route for more than a decade, the captain still didn't know there was such a legendary explorer, let alone the origin of the name of the strait.
He had always thought that the Fram Strait had always been called the Fram Strait, just as Yongeland had always been called Yongeland, and it had been like that since ancient times.
“The ending is that this explorer shines in the South Pole, but ends in the North Pole, the fireworks fade away, and everything returns to nature.”
The captain was a little stunned when he heard this ending.
"After returning from the South Pole, Amundsen did not revel in his victory in winning the crown jewel of the exploration world. He proposed to use air transportation to explore the North Pole very early on and made many attempts."
"In 1915, he obtained Norway's first civilian pilot's license. In May of the following year, he, together with the American Els and the Italian Nobile, took off from the Spitsbergen Islands in an airship, passing the North Pole to Alaska, a total distance of 4,000 kilometers."
"That was the first time humans flew across the North Pole. In the past, there was a legend that there was a vast land . This flight proved that the legend was wrong."
"But on May 23, 1928, Nobile flew an airship to the North Pole for an expedition. On the way back, the airship crashed. Nine people fell on the ice and six were missing. After Amundsen learned the news, he flew to rescue his former expedition partners on June 18, and then the plane crash happened."
"Plane crash?"
"Yes, on June 18, 1928, Amundsen took the French plane 'Latham' to the North Pole to try to rescue the Italian expedition team that was lost in the crash of an airship. The plane crashed on the way and Amundsen never returned."
December 14, 1928 was designated as Antarctic Day by the Norwegian government as a way to commemorate Amundsen .
At noon on this day, church bells will ring across Norway and people will observe two minutes of silence to commemorate this great explorer.
Amundsen's persistence in his ideals, his courage to challenge himself, his fearlessness of difficulties, and his indomitable spirit of progress will always inspire future generations to explore the unknown world.
After hesitating for a while, Bifang chanted leisurely.
"After completing his work, he returned to the Arctic wilderness, where he spent his holidays. He found an unknown resting place under the pure sky of the ice world, where eternal music filled the air. His name will always shine on the younger generation of Norway like the brilliant northern lights."
“That’s great.”
"That's not what I said."
"Who is that?"
"Fridgf Nansen, a navigator, Arctic explorer, zoologist and politician, was Amundsen's predecessor and idol."
"He became famous in the scientific community for his 1888 trek across the Greenland Ice Sheet and his 1893-1896 voyage across the Arctic Ocean on the 'Frem'. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in repatriating 500,000 prisoners of war and for directly helping the starving people of the White Bear Country."
"Wait? The Fram again? Didn't you just say that Amundsen took it to Antarctica?" The captain wondered if he had heard it wrong. Why did this ship appear so frequently?
"Yes, but who told you that a ship can only go on one expedition, to one pole?" Bifang blinked mischievously.
The Fram, a legendary polar expedition ship that has become famous twice.
Apart from this ship, no other ship in the world has visited both the North Pole and the South Pole.
After drinking the hot cocoa in the mug, Bifang returned the mug to the captain and walked away sideways.
Looking at Bifang's departing back, the captain seemed to be thinking about something.
Amundsen's name will always shine on the younger generation like the brilliant northern lights.
The polar regions...
I am coming.
