Blue and White Society: Best File 1: Eclipse Ice Core (Part 1)
November 23, 2003, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
On the glacier square outside the Antarctic No. 1 containment base of the Lanbai Society, a blade-like snowstorm is whistling.
On the ice-snow-covered land, all eyes are white, the wind blows the snow, and the snow is scattered in pieces, instantly fascinating the entire field of vision.
A strong and muscular young man, in such a severe cold and snowstorm of minus forty-six degrees, with his upper body shirtless, enthusiastically performed various extremely difficult training exercises.
A few meters away, another man smiled and said, "Little Gou, extreme training will not improve your physical fitness."
Different from young people, this man is wearing a thick fleece jacket and a jacket, and a large down jacket on the outside, which is extremely warm.
The young man smiled while training himself: "I know, I'm just doing routine training, and I don't expect the ice and snow to make my body stronger. I just hope that the blizzard will make me shrink back. Go back to the warm base."
The man raised his brows and said, "Oh? Then why don't you go back?"
The young man Xiaogou laughed and said, "I also want to go back to the warm room, but unfortunately, this level of wind and snow is not worthy!"
The man's heart says that's the case, do you want to temper your will?
"Then what level of wind and snow will make you flinch?" the man asked.
Xiao Gou finished the last movement seriously, and then said: "Uh, I don't know, sorry I can't imagine."
"Huh?" The man smiled and said: "The research department is developing a virtual reality device, and there will be a test machine soon. I heard that the pain simulation will be given priority to temper the will of the members. Xiaogou, wait When the machine comes out, why don't you sign up and try?"
Xiao Gou said: "No problem, I will be the first volunteer."
"Hehe, it is said that the intensity will be terrible! Little Gou, I don't want you to collapse." The man laughed.
Xiao Gou excitedly said: "I look forward to it even more!"
"Also, Lord Qi, how many times have you said, don't call me Xiaogou, my nickname is 'Crazy Demon'."
As he said, he was still exercising vigorously, consuming his physical energy while maintaining his body temperature.
The man named Master Qi sneered and said, "How could anyone give himself a nickname? Didn't you just get it? You are still crazy, if you continue to practice like this, you will become rheumatism for yourself."
Little Gou grinned and said, "I'm not just making it up. Everyone on Extreme Island said that I fight like a madman!"
Master Qi clicked his tongue and said, "What? Should I praise you?"
Xiao Gou smiled and said: "I take it as a compliment, the members of the commune must go forward bravely and dare to sacrifice."
Master Qi kicked the little dog five meters away.
"Why are there so many flirtatious words? Going forward is the final decision. If you don't let you go forward at every turn, you can leave a way out. Who the **** loves to go to the dead end?"
If there is no way out, one should go forward without hesitation, but members should try their best not to let themselves fall into a situation where there is no way out.
Xiao Gou also understands this truth, otherwise the instructor would not let him graduate.
It's understandable. Although the assessment of the internship period of the members has passed, Xiaogou is not outstanding in terms of strategy.
It's not that he is not smart, but that at critical moments, he always prefers to choose the strategy of sacrificing himself.
Sometimes, this is a necessary sacrifice. But sometimes, it is not necessary.
Obviously there could be a smarter way to complete the containment and achieve zero casualties, but in the end they changed one for one.
"You have already graduated, little dog, do you think you can be 'resurrected' just like the internship period?"
"Sacrifice is an important quality of members, but it is not the only one."
"The biggest gap between excellent members and ordinary members is not the difference in ability and belief."
Little Gou thought: "What is it?"
The corners of Master Qi's mouth curled up slightly: "It's alive."
"Huh?" Xiaogou was stunned.
Master Qi seriously said: "Who is worse than anyone who can become a member? Whether it is wisdom, strength or talent, they are all the best choices."
"When you become a member, you can't be a mediocre person. As long as you can keep growing, anyone can be the president."
"What prevents ordinary members from becoming excellent members is death, and whether they can live to that time. As long as they live long enough, anyone can be the best."
Xiao Gou struggled with his facial features, and always felt that what Master Qi said was a bit too oily.
He's just a beta member, so slick, could it be that his energy has been worn down by the contents?
Seeing that he didn't listen, Master Qi frowned and said, "You only have one life, and you only have one chance to grow up. Do you know how many members of the commune died in the first mission?"
"It is undeniable that most of them are too unlucky, but some of them could have survived, but in the end, the choice... Listen clearly, it is a choice! A choice! A sacrifice!"
"This is the defect in the selection of members, and it is also the defect of the containment belief."
Little Gou was stunned, there are still drawbacks to the belief in containment?
Master Qi stared at him and said: "If there is no way to retreat, even if you die, you must take him in. This is a belief. The reason why there is no way to retreat lies in your mission and responsibility."
"It is wisdom to avoid falling into a situation where there is no way out as much as possible."
"Wisdom, responsibility, and sacrifice are the three basic qualities of members. Every qualified member has these three qualities, but the fact is that many members have not grasped the ingenious balance among them."
"Too strong beliefs will eventually overwhelm the rationality of the members and turn the containment operation into a realization of their own personal value... Let the members who could have survived finally exchange their lives for containment. What a fool! .”
"Little Gou, learn to control your beliefs. If you should go forward, you will go forward. If you should leave room, then leave room."
"Maintain the perfect balance between sacrifice and survival, gamble and prudence, between winning even if you die and surviving no matter what."
"In extreme desperation, those who can still grasp a chance of life are excellent members."
"Containment is for living, not for death."
Xiao Gou nodded, but he understood, and I have to say, it makes sense.
However, he said with a smile: "It's better for everyone to survive. Unfortunately, the reality is not so perfect."
"Okay, okay, I understand, don't talk anymore."
Master Qi didn't know if Xiao Gou had listened to it. As a team leader, he could only talk about it.
Xiaogou graduated with a very excellent evaluation, both in terms of physical fitness and willpower, he is extremely outstanding, far exceeding the full score level.
The only shortcoming is that the strategy is relatively mediocre, and it has an over-exuberant, reckless drive.
In Master Qi's eyes, as long as Xiaogou learns to control his beliefs and grow steadily for another ten years, he may become a member of the Gamma Club.
If you are lucky, it is not impossible to become the top member.
However, there is only one life, and it is hard to say whether he can live to that time.
The three major qualities are all top-notch, and skillfully grasping that balance is easy to say but difficult to do. Even if Master Qi himself didn't do it himself, he can only talk about it.
The growth of members still depends on themselves. After all, every member is extremely confident.
Confidence is a good trait, but it can sometimes become an obstacle to growth.
"There is no perfect shelter in the world." Master Qi said with emotion.
"Huh? Isn't the president of past generations the most perfect shelter?" Xiaogou squinted.
Master Qi shook his head and said: "The president may be the best member, but he will not be the most perfect. The Blue and White Club itself is also growing and advancing with the times. The original president may have strong beliefs, But its wisdom may not be as good as ours."
"Hey, hey, hey!" Xiaogou's dream is to become the president of the company, and he is a little bit dissatisfied when he sees Master Qi say that.
Master Qi smiled and said: "Don't be dissatisfied. The original system of the Blue and White Society was not perfect. It was the efforts of generations of predecessors to correct it and adapt to today. The second generation of presidents began to improve the mission and system. The third generation of presidents It was only then that the training methods for members were systematically established. The four generations continued to improve, and constantly corrected the mistakes of the predecessors and some outdated ideas.”
"What about the Five Dynasties?" Xiaogou asked.
Looking at the wind and snow in the sky, Mr. Qi recalled: "The fifth generation president is a real genius. You have never seen him before, and you don't know that golden smile when he led us to fight against the Zerg!"
Undoubtedly, he admires the fifth generation president very much. In his eyes, the fifth generation is amazingly talented and has an unspeakable charm, as if he can always give everyone confidence.
"So according to what you said, the Blue and White Society has been improving and perfecting, getting stronger and stronger, and the fifth generation is the most perfect president?" Xiaogou said.
Master Qi shook his head and said, "I respect the fifth generation president, but I still have to say that he is not the most perfect."
"Isn't your request too high?" Xiao Gou pouted.
Qi Ye said: "It's not that I am demanding, let me ask you, what is the goal of the Blue and White Club?"
"Destroy all the contained objects?" Xiaogou said.
Qi Ye said: "That's right, so those who can't do this are not the best. Although one generation is better than the next, but until the ultimate ideal is realized, there is no best, only better."
"The best president must be the last generation president!"
Little Gou's eyes lit up and said: "So that's the case, you're right. I've decided..."
"Huh?" Master Qi looked at him.
Xiao Gou said: "I want to be the last president of Lanbai!"
"Hehe, don't be the last president of the Blue and White Club that has come to an end!" Master Qi laughed.
The last president who realizes the ultimate ideal, and the last president who is going to perish, although both are the last president, but the concepts are completely different.
Xiaogou said angrily: "I must show you."
Master Qi turned around and walked towards the base, and said with a smile, "The president didn't do it for anyone to see."
The two returned to the warm base. In the lounge, Master Qi happily lit a cigarette and started smoking.
Then handed it to Xiaogou and said, "Have a cigarette."
But Xiaogou waved his hand and said, "I never smoke."
"Try it! The tobacco I cultivated by myself has special ingredients, and our physique can easily degrade its effects on the body without harming the body." Master Qi coaxed.
Xiao Gou shook his head stubbornly, and said: "Members shouldn't have any bad habits. Although it won't hurt the body in the long run, it will take time to degrade, and there will still be short-term damage."
Master Qi chuckled and said, "It's not okay to be too tight at a young age. You have to have some bad habits to vent your pressure."
"Where's the fallacy? If I say I don't smoke, I won't smoke." Xiaogou was very stubborn.
Master Qi loosened his shoulders and did not force himself. He happily smoked his cigarette and turned on a computer at the same time.
"The handover will be handed over tomorrow. You can choose these tasks yourself. Or do you want to stay in Antarctica for another half a year?"
The job of the two of them is to conduct routine defense at the Antarctic No. 1 base, and containment tasks are not always available. Newcomers like Xiaogou often follow the old members to defend at various bases to prevent accidents.
Xiaogou asked to go to a place with harsh conditions, so the two came to Antarctica.
It has been half a year since graduation, and they will be able to go to other places to perform tasks after the handover is completed tomorrow.
As soon as tasks were mentioned, Xiaogou became interested and carefully examined the various 'non-urgent tasks' on the computer.
Since it is not an urgent task, there is no doubt that it seems that they are all defensive tasks, **** tasks, or training tasks.
"Why isn't there even a survey task!" Xiaogou muttered.
Master Qi took a look, and said happily: "That's not a coincidence, I saw three investigation missions yesterday, but unfortunately they were all in the northern hemisphere, so I didn't pick them up. It seems that they were all picked up." /
The little dog nestled on the sofa, feeling that he couldn't exert all his strength. The investigation mission is a potential containment mission. Although most of the time, some anomalies are just hype or natural phenomena, but once it is found that it is the work of the containment object, it will immediately switch from investigation to containment mission. It's a pity that it's relatively peaceful recently, and I can't even receive investigation tasks.
"Don't always think about having storage objects, you should be happy if you don't have them. Isn't it good to live in peace? The containment mission is to kill people." Qi Ye said with a smile.
"Whatever, you choose one yourself, I'm going to train." Xiaogou closed the computer, took a big mouthful of hot soup, and planned to continue working hard in the severe cold.
Master Qi stood in front of the window with a cup of hot tea, watching Xiaogou train in the wind and snow.
In terms of hard work, Xiaogou is simply a machine, he can train all day long except for sleeping.
Anyway, his physical strength is supplemented by the seafood soup in the club, so in the past six months, except for routine inspections, Xiaogou has been training himself crazily every day.
Whether it is cold, windy, snowy or calm, his enthusiasm for training remains the same.
It didn't take long before he took a sip of soup and went out again.
Gradually, the wind and snow stopped.
Master Qi walked out leisurely, stood under the not-so-warm sun, and watched with a thermos.
There is a kind of calmness of an old man basking in the sun and watching his grandson exert all his energy.
Suddenly, it got dark.
Master Qi was stunned for a moment, this kind of darkness was different from the darkness under the wind and snow before.
It is winter now, the North Pole is white night, and the South Pole is daytime, so it shouldn't be so dark.
He raised his head, only to see that the sun was being obscured, and there was a solar eclipse, which was about... a solar eclipse!
"Hey, I haven't seen the solar eclipse in Antarctica yet." Xiaogou finished the last movement of a set of training and looked up to watch the solar eclipse in novelty.
Qi Ye said: "Don't say you haven't seen it... This is the first time in human history that a solar eclipse has been observed in Antarctica."
"That's right!" Xiaogou said with a smile, "I'm lucky, I've caught up with this."
"Your luck is really 'good'! This is abnormal..." Master Qi frowned.
Xiao Gou was puzzled and said: "A solar eclipse can occur in Antarctica. There was no observation record before because Antarctica is uninhabited. What's unusual about this?"
Master Qi said seriously: "The abnormality is not the location, but the time. In fact, this solar eclipse has been calculated by the agency and has been forecasted. You usually don't read much internal news, so you don't know."
"The predicted Antarctic solar eclipse is tomorrow, not today."
Little Gou pondered: "Is that so? A misprediction? Or... a containment incident?"
It is normal to make mistakes in predicting this kind of thing, but the error of a full day is outrageous.
The error is as long as one day. It is no longer a question of which day the solar eclipse is, but a question of whether there is a solar eclipse.
The formation of a solar eclipse is very subtle, and any error may directly cause a total solar eclipse to become a partial solar eclipse, or even no solar eclipse at all.
The two looked up at the sky, and they could see that the solar eclipse was taking shape rapidly, and it was very positive. Judging from this trend, it should be a total solar eclipse.
Qi Ye said: "The solar eclipse should occur on Shuo Ri, which is the first day of the lunar calendar."
"Today is November 23rd, October 30th of the lunar calendar. There must be some special reason for the solar eclipse to appear on this day."
No matter where the earth rotates, there will always be a meridian on the earth facing the moon. When the moon is in the full moon position, the same longitude on the earth is facing the round moon.
The longitude runs from one pole to another, passing through both the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere, so according to the lunar calendar, no matter whether it is the southern hemisphere or the northern hemisphere, the full moon is seen on the same day on the earth.
Because the subjective feeling of "circle" is different, the moon at fifteen can be round at sixteen.
But the new day is different. The moon moves between the earth and the sun, and the day when it appears and disappears almost at the same time as the sun is called the new day.
This is the most basic condition for the formation of a solar eclipse. Therefore, all solar eclipses occur on the first day of the lunar calendar.
Of course, it is not absolute, because the human calendar is not perfect, and there will be errors if the time is too long, and the new moon may also occur on the 30th day of the month.
But the problem does not lie in this. Even if there is an error in the lunar calendar due to the resetting of the new moon, it is impossible for the Lanbai Club to make a mistake.
The solar eclipse predicted by the research department according to the observatory is tomorrow, that is tomorrow. This is not a matter of calendars, but of calculations.
It happened today, either because the agency made a mistake, or the moon arrived at the expected position ahead of schedule.
Master Qi didn't believe that the club made a mistake, so he realized that this might be an abnormal event.
"Drip drops."
Master Qi's bracelet rang quickly, and he quickly turned on the computer. As expected, the Containment Department sent an investigation mission on its own initiative.
"It has been confirmed in the club that it is not the moon that covers the sun at this moment, but the projection of the moon." Qi Ye said.
Xiao Gou quickly asked: "Projection?"
Master Qi said: "Let's put it this way, the moon has a 'split' where it will pass in the future. You can understand that there are two moons. The real moon is still in its normal position, moving silently. "
"The newly-appeared false moon is just a phantom. It has no mass and cannot be touched. It can only reflect and block the sun's light. It seems to exist only to create solar eclipses."
"It appeared in the position where the moon should be in the future, triggering a solar eclipse in advance."
Two months!
One true and one false, both can be seen, but one has quality and the other has no quality.
It has no mass and can surround the earth. The detectors launched by the society can't touch it, but it can block the sunlight. This is definitely a contained object or a derivative.
"Is this containment with us?" Xiaogou has already rushed into the house, changed his clothes, and is ready to leave at any time.
Qi Ye said: "It's just possible, and we're still investigating. The main investigators are the space crew on the moon base, and they're investigating the phantom and whether there's anything contained on the moon."
"In addition, this solar eclipse can only be seen in Antarctica. To be precise, only Wilkes Land and Queen Maud Land in Antarctica can see a total solar eclipse."
"The rest of Antarctica, plus southern Australia and other places, can only see a partial solar eclipse."
"So both Australia and Antarctica have members investigating this incident, and we are just one of them."
The fact that the moon splits into a phantom does not necessarily mean that the containment is on the moon.
Because the phantom caused the solar eclipse in Antarctica and Australia, it is very likely that some kind of containment object appeared in these areas, and its certain characteristics, unreasonably, forced the phenomenon of solar eclipse in the area where it is located.
Similar to this situation, several investigation teams are investigating this phenomenon at the same time in different regions.
Xiao Gou and Master Qi are in Queen Mao De's land. There was an abnormal total solar eclipse in their jurisdiction, so they were naturally asked to investigate nearby.
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