Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 227: For Your Majesty (42)

Dragon Raja 5

However, there was a scientific explanation for this. A person’s legs are always slightly different in length, causing them to involuntarily veer to one side. While this isn’t noticeable over short distances, over long distances, they wind up in a circle, returning to their starting point. This is especially true in snowy terrain, creating hallucinations. Travelers lured to a dead end by snow elves are actually seeing the footprints of their own past.

Caesar insisted on taking Finger with him because he didn’t dare to trek alone in the snow, and his willpower couldn’t guarantee that he wouldn’t have hallucinations.

Finger was actually very strong. He always makes himself sound useless or even pitiful, but looking at his muscular body, it seems that if he really encounters a polar bear giving him trouble, he will be able to fight it out in close combat.

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The sled dogs barked again, sensing the approach of a polar bear. Thirty dogs pulled two sleds, loaded with weapons and supplies. These dogs were undoubtedly humanity’s best companions in polar exploration, far more reliable than snowmobiles.

Polar bears rarely hunt in groups, but the few polar bears following them seemed to be cooperating. After all, no single bear could eat such a large meal alone.

These seemingly silly animals are actually the top predators on the Arctic ice. They run as fast as the wind, have an incredible bite force that can easily crush the bones of their prey, and have a keen sense of smell, even able to smell prey from kilometers away. Scientific expedition members rarely dare to leave the research station alone more than two kilometers. If you think a polar bear is around, it has already set its sights on you, and all you can do is turn around and return to the research station as quickly as possible. If you don’t hurry, it will start hunting. Few humans can escape the hunting of polar bears. Even if you carry a gun, it is difficult to penetrate their thick layer of fat.

Fortunately, they are not ordinary humans after all. Caesar’s Desert Eagle should be able to blow the polar bears’ heads off, and the shotgun that Finger carries was not to be trifled with.

But just as Finger pulled out his shotgun, Caesar stopped him. “There are many stress concentrations on the ice. The ocean currents beneath the ice also create huge stresses. Air vibrations can trigger these stresses, causing the ice to suddenly crack to release them. It’s similar to the principle of an avalanche.”

“So what do I do? Sprinkle myself with some pepper and salt and wait for the bear uncles to come and eat?”

“Keep moving. As long as we don’t stop, the bears will think we’re not tired yet. Looking at the map, we’ll see a large ice shelf in a few kilometers, almost like an island.”

“Will polar bears stop eating us just because we’re on the ice shelf?”

“I’ll fire a gun to scare them first, and if they don’t leave, I’ll try to shoot one and they should retreat.”

“Why are you so cruel to Xiong Xiong?”

“If you don’t scare them away, they’ll attack other people.”

Finger was stunned for a moment, looking around, only to see the vast expanse of white snow and wind. “Others? What other people? You’d be more likely to say there’s a ghost here.”

“With your bloodline, didn’t you notice that there’s been a small group following us ever since we left the YAMAL?” Caesar tightened the collar of his winter jacket. “Don’t look back. You can’t see them. They’re more experienced than us. They’re about a kilometer away, following our footsteps.”

Finger gripped the shotgun nervously, “Boss, don’t scare me! Is there anyone else alive in a place like this?”

“The five crew members of the YAMAL are all armed and have received rigorous military training. They don’t believe us, but that’s not surprising. In their eyes, we are all monsters.” Caesar pointed to his ears.

With the Kamaitachi around, tracking him would be nearly impossible, but the crew didn’t know that.

“I’ve long seen that Rebalko is not a good person!” Finger said angrily.

“The captain had problems from the beginning. He had a small circle around him, all of whom were his subordinates in the Alpha Special Forces. Those people are different from the rest of the crew. The other crew members wanted to make a fortune, but their purpose was more than that.”

“Why don’t you expose him?”

“There are too many problematic people on the ship. The captain have problems, the Inuit girl have problems, and the deceased scientific research team have problems too. But they are fine; their bodies are now piled up in the warehouse. We didn’t have a preset destination for this voyage; we just wanted to circle the Arctic Ocean looking for Leviathan. But from the moment we boarded the ship, many guides were there to direct us on how to find Leviathan. It seemed like everyone was related to Leviathan.”

The two walked for a while in the wind and snow.

“Where is Abbas? Is there something wrong with your friend Abbas?” Finger suddenly asked.

“I don’t know.” Caesar was silent for a moment before answering.

“So do I have a problem?”

“Of course you have a problem, but I’m watching you.” Caesar patted Finger’s shoulder.

Very rarely, Finger did not refute.

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The polar bears seemed to realize that these humans were not suitable hunting targets. When they saw the ice shelf, or the mountain-like ice peak, the polar bears had already gone far away, and the sled dogs with a keen sense of smell stopped barking, which meant that they were safe for the time being.

Caesar pitched his tent in a relatively flat area in the middle of the ice peak, staring at the blizzard. After trekking for so long, even a half-blood had to rest and eat to replenish his strength.