As Teacher Xiaoliang had predicted, after he released the selfies Yang Lin had mistakenly sent, they immediately caused a heated discussion among netizens.
Especially after they saw the intimate photos of Yang Lin with polar bears and arctic foxes.
In an instant, the news of Director Yang successfully entering the Arctic Circle shot straight to the trending topics.
"Just focusing on one thing, Director Yang is truly the strongest man on Earth. Is he going to find his parents or visit relatives? The polar bears and arctic foxes all look like dogs in his photos."
"I want to ask, are the animals in the Arctic so friendly? If I go to the Arctic, can I pet these animals like Director Yang?"
"What's your level that you want to pet polar bears like Director Yang?"
"Exactly. Inuit people run for their lives when they encounter polar bears alone, and you dare to pet a polar bear by yourself?"
"Don't just talk about polar bears, arctic foxes aren't as cute as they look. They are famous hunters in the Arctic, they eat meat!"
"Everyone, rest assured, in a few months, these polar bears and arctic foxes will be able to meet everyone at Xihong Zoo."
"Support Director Yang for bringing them back."
"Ah? Can you just bring them back like that?"
"Ordinary people definitely can't, but Director Yang represents our Longguo in fulfilling international rescue obligations. It's not a problem to rescue a few."
"What do you call great power responsibility, this is it."
"The bigger the zoo, the greater the responsibility."
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As Yang Lin's related selfies were spreading more and more on the Longguo internet, he himself was already hundreds of kilometers away from the coastline.
Compared to Svalbard, the terrain on the Arctic ice sheet was slightly monotonous, with no undulations.
Therefore, the four polar bears could exert their maximum speed.
Even the issue of ice cracking, which was the only concern, was not a big problem for Yang Lin.
After all, Kun Bao Bao was always there beneath the ice layer to provide escort.
Yang Lin roughly calculated that if he maintained his current speed, it would only take less than two days to reach the North Pole.
If he were to reveal this speed, no one would believe him.
However, accidents always happen unexpectedly.
When Yang Lin, traveling by sled, had gone more than three hundred kilometers from the coastline, the matter he was most worried about still happened.
On the ice sheet, what should have been a continuous ice cap of the Arctic had now broken into countless pieces.
Large expanses of gray-blue sea were exposed to Yang Lin's view.
Seeing this situation, Yang Lin's brows furrowed deeply.
"It's only March, and the surface of the Arctic Ocean has already thawed. If it really gets to summer, there won't even be ice here."
In his opinion, this was a sea area extremely close to the North Pole. According to previous years, it would usually only start to thaw during the highest temperatures of summer.
But now, equinox had just passed, and the temperature hadn't even warmed up yet.
Although the issue of global warming was not something he could personally intervene in or solve, a thick layer of gloom still covered his heart.
After a moment of silence, Yang Lin attempted to have the four polar bears go around the cracked ice and take other routes.
But after searching in several directions, Yang Lin quickly discovered a terrifying fact.
That is, the area he was currently in had been completely cut off from the surrounding areas, becoming a floating ice floe. Even the path he had come from was covered by seawater.
If he wanted to continue moving forward, the only way was by boat.
If other explorers encountered such a situation, they would probably only call for rescue and return home.
But this problem was not entirely unsolvable in Yang Lin's opinion.
Thinking of this, he immediately summoned Kun Bao Bao, who was playing not far from him.
Five minutes later, a colossal figure appeared beneath the floating ice he was on.
Through the ice layer, several meters thick, Yang Lin could even see Kun Bao Bao's pale blue body.
And the moment Kun Bao Bao arrived, the polar bears and arctic foxes on the ice floe sensed something, and their eyes immediately showed unease.
Their animal instincts told them that a terrifying presence they could not resist was nearby.
Before they could find out where this terrifying presence was, Kun Bao Bao's immense roar came from beneath the ice.
Instantly, this roar, as if from ancient times, spread across the entire Arctic ice sheet.
Even residents hundreds of kilometers away on the Svalbard archipelago and Greenland heard the sound.
With their faces greatly changed, they also began to discuss.
"What is this sound?"
"Has the ancient beast sleeping beneath the Arctic ice cap awakened?"
"It's the Kraken, it must be the legendary Kraken, only it can make such a terrifying sound."
"What kraken? What kraken in the world? I think it's the sound of a blue whale."
"Don't be silly, we are more than two hundred kilometers from the coast. A blue whale's sound can travel at most a hundred kilometers."
"The ice cap is melting, the giant beast is awakening, the apocalypse is coming!"
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This was the reaction of ordinary people to the sound. In the Inuit tribes who believed in Shamanism, as soon as Kun Bao Bao's roar sounded, many fell to their knees.
Some shamans with special patterns tattooed on their faces prayed for atonement with extreme reverence towards the statue of the deep-sea goddess they worshipped, which was in the shape of a whale.
"It is the great Nuliajuk who is enraged. Someone has intruded into Her domain."
"Immediately arrange for the tribespeople to follow the guidance of the Mother of the Deep Sea to that place."
Following the shaman's confused interpretation, soon a group of young and strong men wearing animal skins and carrying firearms, led by hundreds of sled dogs, left the Inuit tribe with a population of several thousand.
And their destination was the North Pole.
Although the Inuit did not have high-tech positioning methods, having lived there for thousands of years, they naturally had their own ways of locating.
If Yang Lin had known at this moment that Kun Bao Bao's roar would attract hundreds of Inuit, he would never have let Kun Bao Bao roar.
However, at this moment, he clearly had no turning back.
With the arrival of Kun Bao Bao, the floating ice floe, which had become an isolated island, immediately began to move slowly.
At first, Yang Lin could only feel the slight movement of the floating ice.
After only five minutes, the speed of the floating ice had become comparable to his fast running on land.
Ten minutes later, the floating ice directly transformed into a sea yacht, moving so fast that it made the polar bears throw up.
After initially adapting to this speed, Yang Lin's face once again showed excitement.
He was the first person to ride the waves on the Arctic Ocean.
He was also the first person to travel on ice.
The scene he had envisioned that day, of Kun Bao Bao carrying the continent, finally had a hint of its form.