Chapter 140: She Plans to Burn the Ice with Fire?

In the following days, the investigation team carried out the same content every day.

They got up early and set off from the Polaris icebreaker. After searching for a whole morning, they chose a thick area to land, or simply circled in the sky.

After a break at noon, they carried out the search work in the afternoon until they returned to the Polaris around 6 pm.

During this period, the Quinjet fighter driven by Lainie and others would regularly refuel and restore power on the Polaris.

However, Captain Morgan and the crew did not know the actual endurance of this fighter, and only thought it was some black technology developed by SHIELD.

In fact, most of the time, their fuel supply was completed outside.

With Lainie's void warehouse, the number of fuel barrels that can be stacked infinitely only occupies one grid in the warehouse, and she can take as much as she wants.

If it were not too unbelievable not to refill at one time, Lainie and her team would not even need to use the fuel provided by the Polaris.

Then, thanks to Lainie, the members of the investigation team quickly adapted to the bumps on the ship.

And now they can basically sleep at night, although sometimes they will be woken up by the ups and downs of the ship.

But as long as the speed of the Polaris is not too fast and the ice is not so solid, they don't need to worry about rest.

At worst, they can have another [Shining World Instrument] the next morning.

...

Ding~!

"Wait a minute! I seem to have found something new!"

Fitz was operating the large metal detector under the fighter plane as usual, and was thinking about whether to let Skye take over for him for a while so that he could rest a little.

However, the sudden prompt sound made him stunned, and then he realized that the detector had responded!

This thing has been silent for more than ten days. If he didn't know that this is the North Pole, Fitz almost thought that this thing is broken.

Everyone was stunned when they heard it, and Mester came over and stretched out his hand to enlarge the control panel and cover it on the radar sonar map.

As the three panels overlapped, Mester showed a complex expression of both joy and disappointment.

"This should not be the plane that gentleman was flying, but I guess it should be another piece of wreckage from that plane."

Coulson pinched his chin and looked at the size and shape of the metal object detected by the detection device on the hologram.

"What do you think this is?"

Everyone shook their heads. Just looking at the appearance would not give any useful information. You have to see it with your own eyes.

Several people couldn't help but look at Lainie in the co-pilot seat.

"I'll go down. Coulson, help me prepare the rope. Melinda, lower the altitude a little bit."

As she spoke, Lainie stood up from the co-pilot seat.

The ice cover in this area is not solid, and most of it is even floating ice. They can't land directly on the ice.

So they can only lower the altitude of the plane as much as possible, and Lainie will wear a safety rope to go down to the ice to perform the recovery operation.

Everyone put on their down jackets and helped Lainie put on protective gear and ropes.

Melinda controlled the fighter to open the door at the rear of the cabin.

The cold air poured into the cabin, making several people shiver.

Melinda controlled the plane to slowly descend to a height of only two or three meters from the ice surface, and then gestured behind her to indicate that it was time to start.

Lainie nodded, came to the edge of the hatch, and gave everyone a thumbs up.

Then she came to the edge of the hatch and slid down along the safety rope hanging above the hatch.

When they stepped on the ice with their feet, everyone was relieved. It seemed that the situation of the floating ice was optimistic.

Pulling the safety rope, she signaled Coulson to lower the rope a little so that she could step closer to the target.

Actively turning on the radar system, Lainie focused her attention on the radar data fed back by the system, and then slowly approached the metal object step by step.

This piece of metal debris was frozen under the ice layer. Lainie estimated that it should be one meter deep.

Take out the chainsaw from the void and start it, preparing to cut off the ice cover on its surface.

However, when she cut a square on the ice surface, she realized that she could not put it all into the warehouse.

Limited by the length of the chainsaw saw, Lainie could not detach the entire piece of ice from the ice surface.

However, she did not bring any mining tools such as hoes and picks, so she was really at a loss for the time being.

Putting the chainsaw back into the void, Lainie rubbed her chin and thought carefully.

Finally, she decided to use a more direct method - roasting with fire.

Untying the safety rope around her waist, Lainie said to Melinda in the communicator:

"Melinda, raise the fighter a little higher. The ice here is very solid. Don't worry about me. I have to use some unconventional methods to dig this thing out."

Melinda turned her head and looked at Coulson and others. After getting Coulson's approval, she raised the fighter and flew away from the original place.

After making sure that the fighter had kept a safe distance from her, Lainie stepped back a little, and a stream of light flashed between her hands.

An exaggerated flamethrower appeared in her arms. The red gas tank of an American football was matched with a thick metal nozzle, which attracted everyone's attention as soon as it appeared.

"What is that? A flamethrower? Is he going to melt the ice?"

Simmons found it unbelievable that Lainie had such a deadly thing hidden on her body!

Fitz and Skye were also very surprised, especially Skye. At this moment, she finally remembered what kind of person Lainie was.

The usual playfulness almost made her forget that Lainie was a superhuman with golden eyes!

Only Meister finally showed a look of realization when he saw the big guy in Lainie's hand.

Boom!

As Lainie pulled the trigger of the focused flamethrower, a thin and hot high-temperature flame sprayed out.

And as the temperature of the flame continued to increase, the outer flame began to show a terrifying blue color.

The high temperature of thousands of degrees instantly melted the ice along the flame, and skipped the step of melting into liquid water, and directly vaporized into water vapor.

Even the water vapor in the middle did not have time to rise, and was evaporated by the flame.

This is much faster than using any chainsaw or pickaxe, and a big pit was baked out of the ice surface in minutes.

Receiving feedback from the radar system, the ice layer on the surface of the metal object has been melted.

Lainie put the flamethrower back into the arsenal, took a look at her masterpiece not far away, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Your thing... shouldn't be used against humans, right?"

Coulson said somewhat melancholy in the communicator.

If this kind of weapon is really used on the battlefield, it will probably be a hellish scene.

Think about the soldiers who died in the hands of napalm bombs in World War II and you will know what a miserable scene it would be to be burned to death by such high-temperature flames.

"Don't worry, I don't like this thing very much. This time it's just a coincidence."

Laini gave a thumbs up in the direction of the fighter plane, and then waited for a while.

After making sure that the temperature of the ice surface had dropped to normal levels, she slowly approached the metal object again.