Foreign thrilling story "Ice Sea Adventure"

On February 3, 1983, the wind was calm and the sun was beautiful. This was rare good weather in Antarctica. Two scientists carried investigation instruments and walked happily towards a silver-gray helicopter. One of them is 46-year-old Chinese marine biologist Jiang Jialun, and the other is 29-year-old Australian bacteriologist Burke. They took a helicopter from Davis Station, Australia's Antarctic base, to visit the Alice Strait.

Just as the two scientists were about to get on the plane, Blaze, the director of Davis Station, caught up from behind, panting.

"Jialun, you forgot to bring a life jacket again!" "Life jacket?" Jiang Jialun and Burke looked at each other and smiled. They looked up at the clear sky, and their expressions clearly told Blaze Station Long, in such good weather, it seems redundant to bring a life jacket.

"No, in Antarctica, everything cannot be careless. Here, everything in two hours is unknown!" Jiang Jialun and Burke took the life jackets, put them on, and made faces at each other. Got into the airplane cockpit.

The plane rose into the sky. The two scientists looked down from the helicopter and saw icebergs of different shapes standing on the endless sea. The sun shines on the icebergs, which look like white peonies blooming on the blue grassland. Jiang Jialun, who loves photography, raised his camera and was about to press the shutter when the pilot's announcement sounded in the cabin: "Attention, we are now over the Helles Strait and the plane has begun to descend. Please be prepared and wait for landing. This is close to Davis Station is 10 kilometers away and the temperature is minus 2 degrees Celsius..." After the plane landed. Jiang Jialun and Ping Ke walked out of the cabin and said loudly to the pilot: "It's exactly ten o'clock now, everything is very normal! At five o'clock in the afternoon, please come here on time to meet us!" The pilot listened, nodded, and flew the plane into the sky. .

Jiang Jialun and Burke rushed to the red hut built alone on the rock. Clothes, food, radio transceivers and all maritime shipping tools were stored in the house.

They lifted out a special small wooden boat with a square head and a flat top and put it into the sea. 50 minutes later. They had put everything necessary in the boat, and at eleven o'clock sharp they went into the sea.

Jiang Jialun manipulated the tiller and steadily controlled the course of the boat. He looked up into the distance, feeling relaxed and happy. His eyes were full of crystal-clear icebergs and ice floes as white as jade. Sometimes seals leaned their heads to pant, and sometimes seagulls dived into the water... Burke leaned over again and again to turn the sea sounder. Put it in the sea and measure the depth of the ocean. Everything went so smoothly, everything was so beautiful, and Antarctica seemed so docile, with no sign of anger at all.

However, it didn’t take long for the clouds to accumulate thicker and thicker, pressing lower and lower, almost clinging to the sea. The clear blue sky turned gray. Jiang Jialun looked up and seemed to feel something. Suddenly, he shuddered - there was only their lonely boat in the vast Antarctic Sea, and there were only two of them in the vast white world! Moreover, they could not contact anyone! Fifteen minutes passed, and ten At about 1:20, a gray-white cloud belt appeared. Suddenly, like a ferocious dragon, it clung to the sea and rushed towards them quickly! Before they could feel anything, a huge gust of wind threw the boat towards the suddenly rising Wolf Peak Valley. The blue water suddenly turned into a terrifying black, and the white sky suddenly turned into black clouds. The wind was howling, the waves were rolling, the visibility suddenly dropped to zero, and the temperature suddenly dropped from minus 2 degrees to minus 15 degrees. The Antarctic Sea turned against two helpless people for no reason.

"Jia Lun, the stern of the boat is flooded!" Burke exclaimed in the wind and waves.

"Quick! Burke, fasten the life jacket!" Jiang Jialun stopped him.

Immediately afterwards, the tiller failed! In the blink of an eye, the engine stalled! The boat let the rough waves fight without mercy and flew towards an iceberg.

Jiang Jialun shouted: "Quick! Jump into the sea, jump into the sea!" Burke jumped in, and then Jiang Jialun also jumped into the sea. In an instant, the ferocious wind and waves swallowed them both up without mercy and knocked them unconscious. The cold sea water touched Jiang Jialun's skin, and the astringent bitter juice poured into his mouth. After entering the water for 30 seconds, he quickly regained his senses and woke up. He realized that this was a disaster! Burke Gone. The boat was probably smashed to pieces. Jiang Jialun himself was about to be thrown into the arms of death by the huge waves. He was tossed and hit head-on by the huge waves. He surfaced again and again, and he tried his best to think, he wanted to break away from the clutches of death, and he wanted to live! He looked down and saw the fiery orange-red color. This life-saving red ignited his fire of hope. He remembered that stationmaster Blaze had given him this life jacket before setting off, giving him the hope of survival. Now, he has to work hard to get out of danger and go to see Station Commander Blaze alive.

As he was thrown up by the waves again and again, Jiang Jialun searched the sea with wide eyes. Where is Burke? Suddenly, Uncle Jiang vaguely saw a figure dozens of meters away, ah... Burke is still alive! So, he waved his hands desperately and tried to shout, but the temperature was too low and he He was so cold that he couldn't make a sound, and his teeth were chattering. At this moment, the water temperature is zero degrees, and the air flow brought by the cold wind is minus 15 degrees.

Zero degrees, minus 15 degrees, such water and air temperatures can swallow his life in the blink of an eye. What to do! Jiang Jialun has developed good water skills since he was a child in the green Zajiang River in Zhejiang Province. At this moment, he was swimming desperately, trying to find land. Although it was futile, he swam on. The wild waves were playing with the struggling Jiang Jialun with a cruel smile, and seemed not to stop until his internal organs were thrown out. Jiang Jialun did not despair. He felt that there was still a possibility of survival. He did not want to stop paddling his arms.

Finally, Jiang Jialun found himself washed up by the waves to the sea only more than 100 meters away from the shore. He swam hard towards the shore, but it took him a long time to reach 30 meters. This short 100 meters, if he were in the river in his hometown, he could swim it in a few strokes, but this was in Antarctica, and the zero-degree sea water made his limbs unable to function. His body gradually became stiff, and his hands twitched. Spasmodically, the tight fingers loosened.

His weak physical strength has been exhausted, but he is still sixty or seventy meters away from the shore. He looked at the coast that was close in front of him but far away in the horizon, and he had a painful premonition that he would not be able to swim to the shore... Suddenly, a huge ice floe approached him. Like a white life-saving boat, the ice floe slowly drifted toward Jiang Jialun, who was about to faint from the cold. This was the God of destiny waving to him. He gained strength and confidence again and pounced on the ice floe desperately. He hit the edge of this huge ice block several times and was cut on his hands, feet and calves, but he failed to grab the ice block. He felt that the fuel of his life was almost exhausted. Even if he caught the ice floe, he would never have the strength to climb up. At this moment, a big wave lifted him very high, and he was thrown down from the top of the wave. When he was falling, he found that the ice floe was tilted towards him due to the waves. He seized the opportunity. , with the falling waves, suddenly climbed up the white ice.

He lay motionless on the ice. It took him a while to remember that he should move his limbs quickly, but his limbs were frozen. He tried to stand up but couldn't. His gloves and boots were long gone, and the broken ice scratched his hands and feet, causing excruciating pain. In this desperate situation, he had no choice but to grit his teeth. With his bare feet, he lay on the ice covered with white snow, letting the ice edges continue to tear his clothes and cut his skin like knives, and let the blood flow out. The only thing that comforted him was that this huge block of ice was moving towards the shore with the waves, one meter, two meters... carrying him slowly towards the shore of life... Jiang Jialun stared at the coast eagerly, and suddenly I saw Burke who had climbed ashore. He was grinning from the cold and rubbing his body constantly. Jiang Jialun couldn't shout, so he raised one hand and waved vigorously.

But Burke didn't see Jiang Jialun. Jiang Jialun used his last strength and shouted hoarsely: "Burke..." Burke heard the shout, raised his head and found Jiang Jialun. "But before he could shout out the word "Jialun", a big wave knocked Jiang Jialun off the ice, and he was swallowed up by the waves again.

Afraid that he would be frozen regardless of himself In danger of death, he jumped into the sea and swam towards Jiang Jialun.

Burke rescued Jiang Jialun and swam to the shore. The two climbed ashore and hugged each other tightly.

Jiang Jialun was trembling all over and was too cold to speak. He could only express his gratitude to Burke with his eyes

He raised his wrist and looked at the water-soaked gold watch. The pointer pointed at eleven o'clock. Fifty minutes on. He thought that they had been immersed in zero-degree water for 30 minutes, and another piece of data was added to the Antarctic expedition record.

Just as Jiang Jialun was immersed in life. In the midst of joy, Burke suddenly shouted: "Jia Lun, Jia Lun, we are finished, the helicopter... It is finished, we are finished... This is not the beach where our helicopter landed!" Jiang Jialun's mind was buzzing. He said, ah, there is no small house for heating and shelter, no food storage room, no equipment to send out a distress signal, nothing. The helicopter will not come in 5 hours, and even if it comes, it will not be found here... all this is very important. For Jiang Jialun, who was on the verge of freezing, it was really worse. He suddenly felt dizzy and lost consciousness... Burke wanted to stand up, but his lower limbs were like sticks and could hardly move. He crawled towards Jiang Jialun and shook him desperately. , rubbed his hands, feet and body, and shouted: "Jia Lun..." After an unknown period of time, Jiang Jialun regained consciousness. He calmly considered the current situation and thought of a way to escape. When he was able to speak, he said to Burke: "Burke, we can't lie here, we have to get out of here, even if the plane comes, it can't find us." Burke nodded and said, "Ah, yes, Jialun, what do you think we should do?" Jiang Jialun said, "Climb, you have to climb to the highest rock!" The two scientists encouraged each other and climbed. Toward the hillside in the distance, their wounds cut by the ice rubbed against the sharp rocks. Their feet, which had turned black from the cold, oozed a long trail of blood behind them. The blood stains were so red on the white snow.

Jiang Jialun couldn't stand it any longer. He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and moved bit by bit. In any case, at least one of him and Burke had to climb onto the high rock. But not long after, he passed out again.

Jiang Jialun opened his eyes and felt that his body temperature was getting lower and lower. He saw the blood stains left by Burke and knew that he had crawled forward. Perhaps, he had reached the hillside. However, now he is almost dying and can't move a step. He understood that death was approaching him and he could not wait until the five o'clock plane to rescue them.

He closed his eyes in pain and thought a lot. As a scientist who visited Antarctica, he knows how severe the cold is. Cold can kill people! When the human body encounters extremely cold temperatures without protective measures, the blood in the limbs will flow to the body cavity and gather around the heart, making the person feel numb in the limbs and then tremble. When a person's body temperature drops below 30 degrees, he will die and all rescue measures will be of no avail... Jiang Jialun was really unwilling to die like this. He searched hard in his mind to see if he could think of any way to get himself out of danger. territory. Finally, he remembered that he had learned Qigong in China. Give it a try, maybe you can maintain your life for a while! He silently lucked out and strengthened his blood circulation. He intends to guard the Dantian and use Qi to increase heat and maintain life. He eliminated all distracting thoughts from his mind and put aside the issues of life and death. In this way, he continued to move his energy, allowing the blood to continue circulating, so that the weak fire of life would not be extinguished. He held on for hour after hour, and finally lost consciousness.

At this time, a sharp siren echoed at Davis Station in Antarctica. People were stunned, this was a signal that someone was in distress! Stationmaster Blaze looked at the weather cloud map that had just been sent with a tense face. He understood that there had been a rare storm in the Alice Strait. He asked a staff member: "Did the helicopter indeed find no target on the sea?" The staff member replied categorically: "Yes, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the plane arrived at the agreed location on time. No one was seen and no target was found. Ship." Blaze waved his hand and said, "Order the plane to lower its altitude, search the coastal areas of the Alice Strait carefully, and report the situation immediately!" But he knew in his heart that this rare storm would swallow up all life. Want to escape bad luck, unless a miracle occurs.

Suddenly, the voice of the helicopter pilot came from the wireless telegraph phone: "Davis Station, Davis Station, the target was found on the rocks on the west coast of the Alice Strait!" Station Commander Bretz rushed to The operator came forward, grabbed the live cylinder, and loudly ordered: "Land immediately and rescue people quickly! Please tell me the details..." The pilot replied: "There seems to be only one person lying on the rock, wearing an orange life jacket. ..." Stationmaster Blaze asked anxiously: "A person? Who is it?" The pilot said: "Burke... is afraid of Burke! It seems that he is still conscious..." Stationmaster Blaze asked again: "What about Jia Lun? After rescuing Burke, continue to search for Jia Lun. We must find him!" After an unknown period of time, Station Commander Blaze heard the report again: "Davis Station, Davis Station, find Jia Lun." Lun, he is unconscious, his hands and feet have turned black...".

Station Commander Blaze said decisively: "Rescue people immediately and return to the ship quickly!" Soon, the two scientists in distress were sent to the Davis Station Medical Clinic. The medical clinic is built with two layers of iron sheets sandwiched with thermal insulation sponges. In order to calm the emotions of the wounded and facilitate the recovery of those who have been frostbitten, everything here is red, red walls, red roofs, red medicine boxes, red The medicine bottle... Burke and Jiang Jialun's frozen clothes had been torn off, and they were soaked in a bathtub filled with warm water.

Burke escaped quickly. After all, he was young and physically strong.

Jiang Jialun has been unconscious and his body temperature is only 30 degrees.

Dr. Peter said anxiously to the scientists around him: "He is very dangerous, very dangerous. 30 degrees is the dividing line between Lord and death." Jiang Jialun was surrounded by his foreign colleagues, and everyone was anxious Staring at this brave Chinese man.

Dr. Peter comforted people and said: "I hope a miracle will happen, and I hope his body temperature will no longer drop in the warm water." Half an hour later, Jiang Jialun opened his eyes, and he was squirming slightly. Mouth, said: "Where is Burke?" Everyone told him that Burke had been saved and was in better condition than him. Jiang Jialun closed his eyes again with relief.

For several days, Jiang Jialun was still on the verge of death, and comrades from China's National Science and Technology Commission, State Oceanic Administration and other units were anxiously waiting for news about him.

A miracle happened. Jiang Jialun, who was in danger but very clear-headed, suddenly remembered that he had Chinese Yunnan Baiyao in his backpack. He knew that the red pill inside was a life-saving pill. He asked Dr. Peter to feed him and swallowed it. Two hours later, Jiang's vomiting stopped. After a while, he felt better.

The motherland’s panacea showed its magical power in Antarctica and saved the Jiang family and his life. He finally escaped.

Soon, the severe winter season in the polar regions arrived. Jiang Jialun stayed in the Antarctic. With tenacious perseverance, he overcame frostbite and avoided amputation.

On a warm spring day, he returned to his motherland with his Antarctic expedition report and thesis. The motherland awarded this Chinese Antarctic expedition warrior second-class merit.