I became incredibly cute after dressing up as an animal!

Chu Yi instinctively swam towards that strait.

Other whales avoid it at all costs, staying as far away from straits and coastal waters as possible, but Chu Yi is the only orca that swims against the current in the deep sea.

……

The blizzard lasted for three days, leaving the Arctic Circle deathly silent.

China’s new Arctic research station in the Ross Sea stands as a red building amidst a world of ice and snow.

A large drone took off.

This is a polar reconnaissance drone that can bring back high-definition images in real time.

The professor led the students to observe the landscape under extreme weather conditions in the Arctic Circle, the changes in mountain and sea topography, and the animal population.

The students took notes diligently and listened attentively to the professor's lecture.

Being able to attend lectures at an Arctic research station is an extremely rare opportunity, and they all cherish it.

After the blizzard, some snow-capped mountains were clearly affected by avalanches. Apart from groups of penguins huddled together for warmth, almost no other animals could be seen.

"The penguins take turns standing in a circle, with the penguins in the middle slowly moving to the outer edge, and the penguins on the outer edge slowly moving closer to the center..."

"We can't go into this mountainous area. The snow is too thick, and even the slightest movement could cause an avalanche."

"Sampling permafrost is very difficult."

The professor controlled the reconnaissance drone to fly towards the coastline. "As you can see, the sea is more severely frozen, and there are almost no gaps in the nearshore waters."

"What if some seals get frozen under the ice?" a student asked innocently.

The professor nodded: "That's possible, but most of them should be on ice floes. We should be able to see them if we fly a little further ahead."

Sure enough, as the drone flew forward, it spotted quite a few seals lying on the ice, and they all looked alright.

After the professor finished his lecture, he simply handed them the drone controller.

"Come on, you take control. You can watch whatever you want."

After a few rounds of refusing, the girls in the group were the first to take the remote control and operate the airplane.

"This is the most advanced reconnaissance aircraft developed in our country. It is adapted to polar weather, so you can control it with confidence. It won't crash, and if it does, you won't have to pay for it," the professor said with a hearty laugh.

Suddenly they weren't so nervous anymore.

The drone flies over the frozen sea.

The vast sea was filled only with the sound of its fan blades turning.

Lan Xiaoxiao didn't know how much longer she could hold on. Her tail fins were aching. The blizzard had stopped, but the weather was cold, and she didn't know how long it would take for the ice to melt.

Thanks to the combined efforts of the orcas and beluga whales, the air vent has not been completely closed, but it is now only seven or eight meters wide. More than twenty whales are crammed into this tiny hole, and they bump into each other every time they surface to breathe. It's a case of whales jostling whales.

As Lan Xiaoxiao inhaled, the wind swirled ice particles into her vent, choking her and making her uncomfortable, but she dared not stop swimming.

The orcas were all comforting the baby, even stopping her from moving and snuggling close to her for reassurance.

Just when Lan Xiaoxiao thought her fate was about to end.

She heard the sound of a drone, DJI?

Where did the DJI drones come from in the Arctic Circle?

I was hallucinating.

But the sound continued. Lan Xiaoxiao looked up and immediately saw a black dot in the distance that was moving!

It really is a human-made drone!

That should be able to transmit the image back!

Why did it fly off to another place?!

No! Fly this way! Save the whale!

The baby orca suddenly became very agitated, and the other whales had no idea what was going on.

Lan Xiaoxiao took a breath, straightened her body, opened her mouth, and let out a long, sharp whistle towards the gray sky!

The sound of orcas is very cute.

But the cry was very sharp; you could tell from the sound that it was a cry for help.

Advanced reconnaissance equipment can transmit sound simultaneously.

In the monitoring room of the Antarctic research station, the young people heard this sound.

What was that sound?

"It looks like a whale."

"If that endless expanse of ice were a whale, wouldn't that be...?"

Wouldn't that mean being trapped under the ice with nowhere to breathe?!

Everyone realized this.

The girl calmly controlled the flight direction, searching for that figure. She stared at the screen, where a vast expanse of white ice covered the surface, with a small patch of dark water at the edge that was swaying slightly.

She pressed the zoom button, squinted her eyes, and then suddenly sat up straight: "Teacher, look."

The professor leaned over to look at the screen. There was a small black hole moving on the ice surface, with a curved line along the edge of the hole, like a dorsal fin.

"Orcas, and a pod of beluga whales?!" the professor exclaimed.

Black and white orcas, and white and gray beluga whales, were densely packed in this small circle, surrounded by ice, with only this small area for them to breathe.

The student asked anxiously, "Teacher, how long can they last?"

The professor said, "The temperature will continue to drop tonight, and they won't be able to leave to hunt. They probably won't survive for another two or three days."

Looking at the scene, the small body of water is full of vibrant life.

The young people's faces showed reluctance and sadness.

"Teacher, is there anything we can do?"

"Can we save them?"

How can we save him?

Actually, everyone already has an answer in their hearts.

They have the Xue Long 2 icebreaker; they can sail over and break the ice to lead these whales back to the deep sea.

But they were just trainees here for internships and had no right to mobilize the icebreaker.

Just when the atmosphere was heavy.

Without hesitation, the professor picked up the walkie-talkie: "Xuelong II, this is the research station. A large area of ​​the coastline in Zone C of the Ross Sea is frozen. A group of whales has been found trapped, estimated to be about twenty. We request icebreaking support. We request immediate departure."

The young man immediately looked up at the professor, his eyes shining.

A short while later, a reply came from the other end of the walkie-talkie: "Xuelong 2 received, preparing to set sail, expected to arrive in forty minutes."

……

Lan Xiaoxiao noticed that the drone was right above her and hadn't left.

Lan Xiaoxiao knew there was hope!

This drone has been filming them, so it must be aware of their predicament.

Drones from any country should feel compassion and save them, right?

If it were China, then it would be a lifesaver.

If they are from overseas, aren't there many well-known animal protection organizations abroad? They would definitely rescue them.

Lan Xiaoxiao waited with anticipation.

Meanwhile, Lan Xiaoxiao kept shouting at the drone above.

Waaaaah!

Eek~

Yes, orcas make a soft, whimpering sound, sometimes short, sometimes long, and their voices are quite endearing.

"Can you see me? I think I can see the camera. You can definitely see me. Help!" Lan Xiaoxiao said to the camera.

The drone has been staying for more than half an hour and has not left.

Lan Xiaoxiao became even more certain that the other party would come to rescue her.

"What country are you from?"

"This drone is quite large. How can it be remotely controlled from such a long distance, given the signal strength in the polar regions? Technology is advancing so fast."

"Oh right, what year is it this year? I died in 2026... There's no calendar when you're an orca in the sea, so I don't even know what year it is now."

This baby orca is really talkative.

Moreover, the words they spoke seemed to have many dialects, which the other orcas could only understand in a limited way.

What I could understand was that the baby orca was saying that the thing up there would come to save them, and that humans would come to save them.

The orca pod was excited and happy to hear that humans would come to rescue them.

They live in the polar regions and rarely see people, but they have seen people before, including those who come here for scientific research and tourism.

Humans look exactly like humans to orcas; they see humans just like humans see kittens and puppies—they find them adorable.

But the ship that humans were sailing was too terrifying; if you got too close, you might be torn to pieces.

The baby orca kept muttering to itself.

The sound traveled very far.

Outside the deep-sea ice, an A-type killer whale leaps and crashes against the ice, attempting to move forward.

Some even started holding their breath and swimming forward from the very beginning of junior high school!

……

When the Xue Long 2 icebreaker entered the ice floe area, the sky was still gray and the visibility was very low. The bow of the ship hit the ice and made a dull cracking sound.

The ice was very thick, and each time the bow struck, it could only move forward a short distance. Ice fragments surged out from both sides of the hull, like snowdrifts plowed out.

Standing in the wheelhouse, the captain looked at the ice ahead and said to the first mate beside him, "Slow down, don't push too hard, to avoid further freezing injuries to the whales."

The first mate nodded and adjusted the speed.

On the deck, the wind was strong. The down jacket was zipped up all the way and the brim of the hat was pulled low. The student held up binoculars. "Teacher, I think I can see them. They are about 500 meters to the left of the bow."

The professor also raised his binoculars and saw a small patch of dark color on the ice, with something churning underwater: "Hmm, those are them."

The arrival of humans and the loud sound of icebreakers breaking through the ice were heard by the whales well in advance.

Lan Xiaoxiao was overjoyed, frantically nuzzling her family members: "We're saved! We're so lucky!"

The Xue Long 2 slowly adjusted its direction and advanced along the edge of the dark water, its bow passing over the last section of floating ice.

Lan Xiaoxiao had just surfaced for air when she saw the red and white icebreaker and the five-star red flag flying on it.

"Chinese scientific expedition team!"

really!

To be able to arrive so quickly, you must be from the same hometown!

Having been trapped here for three days, Lan Xiaoxiao was exhausted, but seeing this splash of red filled her with immense excitement!

She saw the bow of the ship smash through the ice overhead, white foam cascading down from both sides like a waterfall, the seawater beginning to flow, a force pushing apart the ice that was about to close.

Lan Xiaoxiao sank down, swam to her mother's side, touched her mother's head with her body, then turned around and swam towards the extending waterway.

The pod of orcas followed the icebreaker in a loose line.

The beluga whales followed, their greyish-white forms forming a line in the deep blue sea.

Icebreakers led the way, carving a "sea highway" through the sea, and the two groups of whales followed this path, heading towards the deep ocean.

Lan Xiaoxiao was in the middle of the group. When she surfaced for air, she saw several people wearing red down jackets standing on the deck of the icebreaker. Some were holding cameras, and some were standing at the stern with walkie-talkies, as if they were reporting something.

She sank again and continued swimming. The seawater gradually deepened, and the floating ice receded from above, turning into scattered pieces.

She glanced back and saw the beluga whales obediently following behind, which was excellent.

And so, the sun came out, shining on the ice and casting a soft, warm glow.

The orca pod and beluga whale pod followed the Xue Long 2 icebreaker for two hours.

The waterway is getting wider and wider, the ice layer is getting thinner and thinner, the sea is gradually opening up, and you can see the ice-free water surface in the distance, which is much darker in color than the shallows.

The orca pod sped up, and Lan Xiaoxiao followed her family, swimming out of the last stretch of ice floes and into the open sea.

She surfaced and took a deep breath.

The clouds overhead were thin, and sunlight leaked through the gaps in the clouds, falling onto the water and breaking into pieces.

"Waaaaah!"

Lan Xiaoxiao shouted loudly, "Thank you, humans!"

Meanwhile, other killer whales also began to call out, and even the beluga whale pod was making noise.

Lan Xiaoxiao immediately performed a dive, her big tail swishing and the seawater churning.

On the ship's deck, professors and students recorded this scene with their cameras.

"They are so cute."

"They understand that we saved them, and these cries are their way of thanking us, right?"

"Look at that little orca. I took pictures of it the whole way, and it made eye contact with my camera several times. It has a great sense of the camera."

The girl who used to control drones said with a smile, "That initial distress call must have been from it."

"So tiny and cute."

The professor said, "It's just smaller compared to its family members."

Having successfully returned these sea creatures to the ocean, the Xue Long 2 turned back.

"Hey! There's another orca over there!" a sharp-eyed young man pointed into the distance and said.

Everyone else was observing with binoculars.

The professor also saw it and immediately explained, "This is a type A killer whale, not the same one as the others in this pod..."

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he crawled out from under the broken ice floes.

It held its breath and swam a long distance, but still failed.

When it retreated, it had originally come from the south, and after passing through a section of broken ice, it heard the sound of the icebreaker's engine, so it surfaced to take a look.

Just then, I saw the red and white ship emerging from the ice floes, and on the channel at the stern, a line of killer whales and beluga whales were swimming toward the deep sea.

On the first day, it sank down, bypassing the icebreaker's path, and approached from the side.

It followed silently the whole way, very quietly, and was almost always underwater, so no one or whale noticed it along the way.

Chu Yi didn't speed up; he just swam quietly, following the group at a distance.

The icebreaker moved away.

Beluga whale pods also venture into the deep sea.

The orca pod is still celebrating their good fortune today.

The elders became wary when they spotted a passing whale lingering nearby.

After all, some transient whales have bad tempers and will kill their own kind.

As Lan Xiaoxiao was swimming with her head down, she suddenly felt a slight change in the water flow to her side—an unfamiliar, slightly swaying disturbance.

She glanced to the side and saw a huge orca swimming parallel to the water a hundred meters away, moving slowly with its side fins gently paddling.

The seawater was very blue, and the sunlight shone through the water, illuminating the black and white skin of the orca. When Lan Xiaoxiao first saw it, she thought it was so handsome.

"Eek~"

It's huge, and its body lines are so beautiful.

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Author Dragon: Hehe, just a rough chapter! Goodnight.