Mr. Li felt rather unlucky. These meteorite hunters seemed to hate the rich, or perhaps because of the Ford brothers, they hated him as well. These people did not have a good impression of him.
After all, the hunters had been in Antarctica for some time. According to Steve, the Ford brothers had come at the end of this year's polar season, but they had found nothing.
Usually, the Ford brothers were dissatisfied with these hunters.
Now that Steve had only been here for a few days, and Li Du had helped him get a meteorite, the Ford brothers must be even more dissatisfied with the hunters.
It was for this reason that the hunters hated Li Du a little. After all, the main reason they had been criticized for the past two days was that Li Du had found the meteorite.
That was what he thought, but it was not so simple. Another reason was that, because of the harsh climate in Antarctica, meteorite hunters were rare, and these people came here and regarded the surrounding meteorites as their own.
Now that Li Du had taken the biggest piece of the meat on the plate, how could they like him?
Facing the hostile eyes of the hunters, Li Du smacked his lips and said, "You seem to have misunderstood me. We are companions. Shouldn't we be more friendly to each other? "
The bearded hunter sneered at him and waved his hand. "Don't say that, noble rich man. We are workers. You spend money, we work. We are not companions."
Brother Wolf frowned and whispered, "Boss, should we teach them a lesson?"
Li Du shook his head and smiled. "No, I know what I'm doing."
The unruly nature of these people reminded him of Aubrey, Holiday, and the others who stayed at Lightning Ridge to dig for opals. They were not bad people, just rude, and relatively easier to get along with than the Ford brothers.
However, it took some means to make friends with them. First, they had to dispel their hostility.
The place where Li Du found the meteorite was very close to the sea, where some emperor penguins lived. According to the plan, they had to search along the sea first.
He paid attention to the location of the meteorite hunters, picked up a coil of rope from the sleigh, and put it on his shoulder.
A young hunter next to him noticed his behavior and laughed in a low voice. "Are you going to go down the mine? Unfortunately, the meteorites in Antarctica are not in mines or pits. "
When a meteorite hit the ground, it would inevitably create a crater. Some of the craters were flattened by time, wind, and water, but some were still there. Searching for meteorites in the craters was the focus of this job.
Li Du looked at him and said, "Why are you guys so hostile towards me? Can't you be more friendly? "
The young hunter snorted and said, "F * ck your friendliness. Give me the meteorites you got yesterday, and I'll be friendlier to you."
Li Du smiled and said, "Wishful thinking. You will only make me despise you if you do that, understand? If you have a problem with me, you can say it out loud. Why are you sneaking around like this? Like a mouse. "
The young hunter was angry, but he didn't lose his temper. He glared at Li Du, then left resentfully.
Big Beardy was right. After all, they were workers hired by the Ford brothers. There was a class gap between them, so they didn't dare to go too far.
The hunters had a lot of tools, most of which were metal detectors, which were a bit like the mine detectors used in military movies. Li Du had seen engineers use them to find mines in movies and TV shows.
In principle, the two tools were very similar. Both relied on the electric current in the coil to generate a magnetic field. Once metal impurities entered the magnetic field area, the magnetic field was disturbed and an alarm signal was sent out.
However, these people were more advanced. The detector could automatically eliminate non-target signals. It had an additional detector with three sets of coils distributed inside the detector. The central emitting coil was connected to an oscillator, which could generate a high-frequency variable magnetic field. Different metals had different effects on the magnetic field. The detector would eliminate the changing magnetic field and only sense the predetermined magnetic field.
Meteorites were often rich in metals such as iron and nickel. Different contents had different effects on the electric field.
Some hunters brought out a radar oscillator, which worked by sending radar waves down from the surface of the ground through slight vibrations and receiving feedback.
Because the vibration waves traveled through ice, earth, stones, and meteorites, the feedback signals could be used to determine what was underground.
Li Du was empty-handed, with only a coil of rope over his shoulder.
Seeing this, the meteorite hunters showed mocking expressions.
The strong bearded man walked past him and said, "What do you rely on to find meteorites? I guess you have X-ray vision and can see through the ice sheet, right? "
The meteorite hunters roared with laughter, and Newman Ford shouted, "All right, lads, enough with the witticisms. Can't you get down to work? Can't you find a meteorite? "
Myron Ford came over, put his arm around Li Du's shoulder and said, "You have the nerve to laugh at my friend? He doesn't have the tools you have, but he found a meteorite. How can you have the nerve to talk to him?! "
The hunters' faces darkened, and they looked at Li Du even more unfriendly.
Li Du had been smiling and saying nothing. The Ford brothers were not as kind as Steve. They were the elite descendants of a big family, and they had a lot of tricks up their sleeves.
The Ford brothers seemed to be standing up for him, but in fact, they were putting him on the fire and pushing him out to get the hunters to work, like a whip to a cow or a horse.
Cows and horses certainly did not have a good attitude toward whips, which explained why the hunters were so hostile to him.
But it didn't matter to him. He was waiting for an opportunity.
The opportunity soon came. The hunters walked along the coast. The warm season had arrived, and the ice on the coast had melted to expose the land, but in some places it had not yet reached this point, and the sea was still covered with ice.
The bearded man walked to a bulge in the ice and put the detector deep into the water to see if he could find anything.
Seeing this, Li Du immediately released the little bug to absorb the time energy in the ice under his feet.
The ice had melted a lot, and its carrying capacity had been reduced sharply, and with the little bug absorbing the time energy, it quickly became fragile.
The bearded man weighed at least 120 kilograms, and when he walked on it, the ice could not bear his weight.
With a cracking sound, the layer of ice cracked. The bearded man didn't have time to jump to the side. He let out a cry of surprise and fell into the icy water with a splash.
Although it was the warm season, it was the coldest place on earth, Antarctica, and falling into the sea was no laughing matter.
The people next to him dodged instinctively and then shouted for help, "Come here, Hankway fell into the water!"
The bearded man reached out to pull at the ice and tried to climb up, but the ice was slippery and he had no leverage.
In addition, the ice was very fragile. He stuck his hand in a crack in the ice and tried to pull himself up, only to pull the ice away.
The hunters who had wanted to help were shocked by the scene. They subconsciously stopped and became hesitant.
Seeing that the situation was getting more and more dangerous, a rope flew out and landed precisely in front of the bearded man.
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