50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 850 On the Road
The Kharkivchaka 2 polar vehicle uses a 520-horsepower V-type diesel engine, which makes quite a racket when it starts.

Because there were several houses less than 1 kilometer away from the dock where Sun Zhiwei was located, the loud noise and vibration of the V-type diesel engine still attracted the attention of these residents.

Sun Zhiwei had already seen someone open the door and stand at the entrance, looking towards the dock in the distance.

Fortunately, it was polar night, and there were no streetlights on the shore where Sun Zhiwei was. He also didn't turn on the headlights of his "Kharkovchaka 2". The light here was not enough for people a kilometer away to see the vehicles on the ice.

However, he couldn't stay there any longer. Hearing that the engine was running smoothly, he immediately started the car and soon disappeared on the vast ice surface.

Longyearbyen Marina is located in a bay in the central Svalbard archipelago.

After driving his "Kharkovchaka 2" polar vehicle from the Longyearbyen town dock, Sun Zhiwei first had to go around the small bay and then turn south.

After rounding the northernmost point of the Svalbard archipelago, we will sail northeast towards the junction of the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea.

The estimated distance to the location where the "Komsomolskaya Pravda" sank is approximately 800-1000 kilometers.

Because Sun Zhiwei only roughly knew the latitude and longitude of the "Youth League Member" shipwreck, when he got to that area, he still needed to use space scanning of the seabed to find the exact location of the shipwreck.

The bay where Longyearbyen is located is not deep, and Sun Zhiwei soon entered the Greenland Sea.

From here, he will turn right and head towards the polar regions along the west coast of Svalbard.

The ice surface in this area is relatively flat, covered with a thick layer of snow. The tracks of the "Kharkovchaka 2" polar vehicle travel very smoothly on it, basically reaching the designed speed of 50 km/h.

Four hours later, Sun Zhiwei began to notice changes in the ice beneath the snow.

It's not that the ice layer has become thinner, but rather thicker, and the ice surface is gradually becoming uneven, sometimes even showing potholes and cracks.

This means that he has begun to enter the edge of the Arctic Ocean.

This area is a floating ice zone in the summer, and it freezes earliest in the winter. The ice layer contains old ice blocks that did not melt in the summer.

These old ice blocks sometimes have a raised section of ice surface, and sometimes they have a dent.

Fortunately, Sun Zhiwei could use spatial abilities to detect the ice surface terrain beneath the snow layer in advance and avoid those hidden pits.

At this point, Sun Zhiwei was already feeling a bit tired, which was due to the long hours of focused driving and the need to open up the space.

Seeing that the wind was picking up, he decided to rest for a while and continue later.

The journey ahead will certainly be more difficult, and just in case, he must keep his mind sharp at all times so that he can react in time if something unexpected happens.

He kept the polar vehicle's engine running at a low speed, turned off the headlights, and then returned to the rear cabin.

The thermometer showed that the wind outside had reached level 8, but the "Kharkovchaka 2" polar vehicle remained as solid as a rock, without the slightest tremor.

The outdoor temperature reached below -40 degrees Celsius, but the indoor temperature remained around 20 degrees Celsius.

Sun Zhiwei loosened the collar of his winter coat, took off his hat, made himself a cup of instant coffee, and then used the kitchen stove to heat up a pizza that had been stored in the storage space.

After eating and drinking his fill, he set an alarm for three hours before lying down on the large bed in the carriage to rest. Everyone says coffee is a stimulant, but he'd never felt that way before. On the contrary, drinking too much tea would keep him awake, so he didn't make himself any tea today.

On such a cold night, being able to sleep soundly in such a warm carriage felt especially pleasant, and he soon drifted off to sleep.

In his dream, he was lying in his rooftop office in the Empire State Building in Manhattan, surrounded by a large group of beautiful women.

Just as he was happily preparing to get things done, suddenly, an earthquake struck, and the entire Empire State Building shook violently, making loud cracking noises.

The violent shaking and loud noise startled Sun Zhiwei from his dream. His mind was still hazy from the shaking, but long-standing habit made him open the space immediately.

He was startled awake the next second. It turned out that outside the polar vehicle, there was a huge polar bear lying on top of the vehicle and pounding on the carriage.

Upon seeing this, Sun Zhiwei immediately put the polar bear into his spatial storage before beginning to inspect the polar vehicle.

Fortunately, this special vehicle lived up to its reputation as a product of the Russians; it was sturdy, durable, and of excellent quality. Even after being attacked for quite a while by a polar bear that stood up at least 3 meters tall, the outer shell remained undamaged.

However, its surface was also covered with dents, which were minor injuries caused by the polar bear's attack.

Fortunately, the beast didn't attack the antenna on top; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to use satellite navigation.

He wasn't referring to the vehicle's built-in satellite navigation system. This car came with a second-generation satellite navigation system from Russia: GLONASS, which was installed when it was purchased.

But the GLONASS system is a military system. He was on a mission to steal something, and he was too busy keeping it secret to dare use the Russian navigation system, which would be easily detected.

So, as soon as he got the car, he removed the GLONASS navigation system.

The navigation he's referring to now is the civilian navigation device he purchased in America.

He had stored quite a few sets of this equipment in his space, all of which he had purchased anonymously in New York.

After Reagan announced in 1983 that the GPS system's civilian signals would be gradually opened to users worldwide, he prepared many GPS devices to keep in space as backup.

Now it has indeed come to the point where it needs to be used.

He can receive a full GPS signal as long as he connects the navigation device's antenna to the antenna on the roof of the car.

Although the American military still limits the accuracy of civilian GPS using SA technology.

But Sun Zhiwei doesn't need overly precise GPS navigation; a general location is enough.

Anyway, the "Communist Youth League Member" account is definitely not at the location specified by the navigation. After arriving at the specified coordinates, he will still need to rely on his own cheat to find it.

He glanced at the alarm clock; only a little over an hour had passed. The danger from the polar bear was over, but he didn't have time to deal with it now, so he could only store it in his spatial storage.

He's still tired, and he needs to rest well before talking about anything else.

He didn't turn on the light, but fumbled in the dark to reset the alarm clock to 3 hours, and then went back to sleep in his warm bed.

(End of this chapter)