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Come on, man. One, two, three, say Cash.

Cash.

Let's take a selfie.

Come on.

Get closer.

One, two, three, Cash!

Cash!

Jing Ru Yi.

Interesting collection.

They are from different stations.

So many stations, a real veteran!

What do you study?

Aeronomy.

Things in the sky.

I study things happening on the ground

like this guy's upcoming wedding in Antarctica.

This is my brand ambassador, Chubby.

In two days at the Qian Jin Station

there will be a live stream of a signing ceremony

between me and the Russians

celebrating the public offering of my company, Forever Wedding Service.

It's me, Wu Fu Chun.

Call me Fortune.

Natasha.

Nice to meet you. Na... Hey sister!

My project

has passed a strict and comprehensive environmental evaluation.

So many people in my business want to do this

but I am the only one who could actually pull it off.

See, it's a world full of ice and snow.

Fourteen million square kilometers of spotless purity.

What will it be really good for?

Wedding vows!

This place has a magic to it, it can turn any old thing into a vow.

With two penguins as your best man and bridesmaid

you don't even have to worry about a tuxedo or gown.

You gals hit the jackpot today.

I'll give you flight on me.

I chartered this plane.

All the other flights were canceled, right?

Penguins!

Chubby, I see your buddies!

Ru Yi, is this guy starting

a wedding ceremony business in Antarctica?

One step on the moss

means hundreds of years to rehabilitation.

I bet their next goal is gonna be Mars.

That is our Chinese nouveau riche.

Oh, Tu Hao.

984, 984, a storm is forming ahead of you.

It's a big boy.

This is 984. I got it from my radar.

Tower, 984 request 30 miles left of track.

984, deviation approved, keep watching.

What is wrong with you?

Hey, what's wrong with you! I didn't mean to!

Buckle up!

984, 984! The storm is too strong, return immediately.

Repeat, return immediately!

Roger, returning now!

Attention, we need to climb immediately!

What is going on?

The storm's become severe. It's too fast!

What did he just say?

984, 984, do you copy? Do you copy?

You are off my radar.

Report your position immediately!

984, 984!

Severe icing! Losing control!

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

984, force landing, request all assistance!

Do you even have a license!

Help!

Help us.

Help me.

Pull out your leg.

Pull harder!

Come back!

Help me.

Hurry!

My boot!

What!

My boot's stuck!

No signal here.

The black box!

Shouldn't there be a black box in the plane?

The average sea level is under 3,000 meters here.

The black box won't work.

Someone is gonna rescue us, right?

What time is it?

10 p.m.

According to the flight schedule,

it should've been impossible for us to land here.

We must have been severely off course before the crash.

No one will find us.

I can't find anything useful here.

What are these for?

All for my study of Aurora

Aur-what?

We can't leave her here alone...

She's dead.

Not with the darkness and cold down below.

Wait!

Listen!

It's completely silent, when the wind stops.

Sounds great.

Hurry!

A snowstorm's coming!

We should stop here now!

Or we will get lost!

What?

It's the antarctic blizzard wind!

We have no time to waste.

We have to dig a hole, right here, right now!

What?

Dig a hole!

Here you go!

Hurry up!

Temperature keeps dropping.

You need to be faster!

Can't be more!

Excuse me.

I can draw a huge SOS in the snow.

You really think someone's gonna see it?

I might get a signal on one of those hills, right?

What if?

Do you have common sense?

Where are we?

The Antarctic.

You will get no signal no matter where you go.

You shot down everything.

So what can we do?

Stay here and wait till we die?

We weren't supposed to take off today.

No one would be dead

if your plane could've waited for a better day.

I didn't ask you to get on board!

Antarctica, big deal!

I am not dying here!

Why are you doing this to me now?

I've been working my ass off for years!

My company is finally going public tomorrow!

No signal...

but I found a house.

Abandoned, though.

Let's go.

There are a few hills up ahead.

It's midnight right now.

Why is it still light out?

This is the polar day.

There won't be a night.

This place sucks.

How far is it?

One hill left.

I can't take it anymore.

My leg is broken.

It's torturing me.

I can't bear it.

Get up!

Get up!

No.

Now what?

My shin is fractured.

We need to set it.

Oh.

Wait, setting a bone?

You really think I can do that?

You must be kidding.

If we don't do it now,

it will lead to mass muscular necrosis

followed by internal organ failure.

Then I'll die.

No.

I'll be in this bed for a long time,

long enough to get bedsores.

I have to take off my pants.

Wait.

I can't do it myself.

Ready?

Hang in there.

Hey, wake up!

What's next?

What?

Use your words.

What is it?

I need to urinate.

Nobody will know.

Salmon, beef, soybeans,

a pile of Russian cans,

braised bamboo shoots,

and canned mackerels.

This is from Shanghai.

Date?

April 24, 1998.

Jing Ru Yi... we have rice.

Exclusive offer for the Chinese Antarctic Expedition.

104 cans, a bag of rice and half bottle of liquor.

Based on the dates on the cans,

the last time people stopped by might be two years ago.

Check this out.

A real antique.

1992.

Australia.

Wu Fu Chun

maybe we are only 20 kilometers away

from the Chinese Aurora Station.

What?

Check this out.

Xue Long's first port of call is Fremantle in Australia

where it loads the supplies.

Then it sails through the Westerlies,

eventually stopping at the Aurora Station.

It must be the Chinese expedition team

which left these Australian cans and Chinese rice.

Russia Red Star Station is Aurora's neighbor,

that could explain the Russian cans.

There is an obsolete observation station

about 20 kilometers away from Aurora.

This must be it.

We are saved.

I only know the distance

not the direction.

It's gonna be like looking for a needle in a haystack

in such a huge white open field.

Just go for it!

How can you give up before giving a try?

There are only four directions.

I'll go and find it.

This type of two kilowatt generator

consumes over one liter of diesel per hour.

Even if it operates eight hours a day

800 liters of diesel can only keep it running for approximately 75 days.

About 75 days later,

the polar night will arrive.

Without fuel, we will freeze to death.

I'll find the Aurora station before that!

Nothing is impossible!

I'd rather die on the road.

It's been three days since the crash.

According to the solar orientation I observed back then,

we were on the west side.

Therefore, ocean lies to the west of the continent.

So you need to search the other three directions

the east, the south and the north.

Ok, I will go for the needle.

You stay here and wait.

There are some hard candies in my upper pocket.

Here you go.

Fifty grams of candies provide roughly three hundred calories.

These may save you from life-threatening danger.

Okay.

Tuck yourself in when I'm out.

We can only use the generator at night.

You are such an odd person

coming to Antarctica in a fur coat and tie.

This is not odd, this is optimistic.

When my wedding business sets up in Antarctica

you'll see tons of grooms walking around in full suit and tie.

Which direction do you want to start with?

The east.

The sun rises in the east.

The sun rises in the south during the polar day here.

Why does the sun change?

The sun doesn't set in the polar day.

It circles around you above the horizon.

Solar altitude is at its maximum at noon, while the sun is right in the north.

Then, it moves to northwest.

After that, to the southeast, and solar altitude decreased.

At midnight, the sun is in the south,

solar altitude gets to minimum.

It's morning, now.

The sun is moving towards southeast.

You're wasting your breath.

My phone is still working.

A smartphone's compass won't work here.

We are in a high-latitude region

where south and north magnetic poles--

Enough with the lecture.

are totally different from the south and north poles in geography.

In short, the sun rises in the south in this messed-up place, right?

I got it, chill out.

I think you should start with the south, towards the sun.

A fortuneteller told me I'd have good luck in the north this year.

So, I am betting on north.

The north.

I'm heading out!

Where the heck is the sun?

Considering the snow depth outside

your speed is about four kilometers per hour on foot.

Keep an eye on your watch.

You may walk around 20 kilometers after five hours.

If you don't see Aurora Station...

I will check around.

In the clean air,

you will have a good view reaching over 10 kilometers.

So use your eyes.

Don't wander around.

You need to conserve your strength.

- Got it. - Don't act so tough.

You'll cover 40 kilometers to make the return journey

which will take you almost 10 hours.

You are right-handed,

so your right leg is supposed to be stronger than the left one.

You think you walk straight

but you actually move in a counter-clockwise direction.

Meanwhile, you are affected by the coriolis force,

which will make the situation worse.

That's impossible.

I have a great sense of direction.

You should learn to maintain the same direction

by observing the angle between your body and your shadow.

Also, engrave every landmark in your mind,

or you will lose your way back.

Like a hill or a glacier.

Excuse me

do you know the way to the Aurora Station?

That way?

Or that way?

Don't bother.

You take care, bro.

This is not funny.

Stop staring at me, I need to focus here.

This is some real shit.

I will leave it to you, for sure.

The avalanche came down like a bolt of lightning.

I pulled my pants up and ran like hell.

Icebergs only exist in the sea,

which means the sea is also to the north.

Told you! Lucky north!

So, tomorrow, go east or south?

You should take a break tomorrow.

It's all right.

I'm good to go.

The supplies can only support you for two days out there.

If you can't make it, neither can I.

Don't say that.

If you don't come back after two days...

I have to end it all.

That fortuneteller also told me that

I will die a natural death as a wealthy man surrounded by many grandchildren.

Tomorrow I will search east.

You stay here and get your rest,

and let me worry about everything else.

But don't lie still all day long.

You need to move from time to time.

After your treatment,

my leg hurts a lot whenever I move.

Well, you have to.

Otherwise what am going to do about bedsores?

So the east side is also surrounded by the sea.

We are in a peninsula,

and Aurora is somewhere to the south of this place.

So let's divide it into three directions to search,

southwest, south, and southeast.

We can render a detailed search plan for each direction.

Okay.

Here.

Skull bone soup, calcium supplements.

Smells good. Stinky.

Can I have one of the cans?

Thrift is a virtue.

Have a sip.

Don't spit it out!

Such a waste.

I cooked these bones especially for you.

You have to eat, you know?

You need calcium.

It's good for your...

A quick question.

Which one tastes better?

A seal or a penguin?

Both are protected by the Antarctica Treaty.

The Antarctic Treaty!

I've violated so many treaties in my life

but I never expected to get to violate this one.

I have to remind you,

we don't have enough fuel

to fully cook seal or penguin.

We could cook some small fish at best.

Those poor cold-water fish

can only grow a few millimeters every year.

A fist-sized fish can be a really old one.

Poor fish?

Who's gonna pity us?

Still awake?

Yes.

Then tell me about the Aurr... something.

Do you really want to know about to that?

No, I don't.

But my growling stomach does.

In the upper atmosphere, about 100 kilometers above the Earth's surface

high-energy electrons from solar wind

strike atoms or molecules.

These excited atoms and molecules return to the ground state

and emit the light, aurora

also called the polar light.

We will see it in the polar night about two months later.

Which we will be dead for, I know that part.

Some people say that

aurora was a big whale who flew into the sky

leaving a giant wave behind.

Another story said that

aurora is the soul of a missing girl.

How much do you get paid for your hard work?

All about money...

What else do you want to talk about besides money?

What's the most valuable thing in Antarctica?

Meteorites.

How much are they worth?

They are priceless.

Neat.

So where could I find one, will you tell me?

Such a Scrooge.

How can you be such an old fool.

I confess!

It was me.

I killed these maybe hundreds-of-years-old fish.

I see the karma.

But they could've also been eaten by a seal, a skua, or a penguin.

What's the difference?

It has been two days.

If I die

what will happen to her?

Fu Chun.

Fu Chun.

Namo Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.

Namo Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.

Ru Yi!

I'm back!

I can't finish it.

Antarctic fish soup.

Try some.

I fell into an ice crevasse.

Ru Yi

let's survive together, alright?

I am going now.

If you get tired of waiting

or if I can't make it back

at least use up the diesel,

and finish all the canned food.

Ru Yi

now I am scared when the wind stops.

Then the only thing left is the dead silence.

But I am also scared of the wind as well.

When the wind blows

it wipes off all the footsteps behind me.

How about you?

What are you scared of?

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Fu Chun!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Ru Yi!

Fu Chun!

Fu Chun!

Fu Chun, here, right here!

Fu Chun.

Fu Chun.

Fu Chun.

Ru Yi...

I can't see anymore.

The snow field reflects nearly 95 percent of the sunlight.

You go outside everyday

which is almost the same as looking directly at the sun.

How long will it last?

Two or three days.

Now it's your turn to take care of me.

Fu Chun.

We will survive.

Stop.

Turn left.

Turn right.

Stop kicking.

Here.

Slow it down.

Why are you still here?

Don't you need a hand?

No. Get out.

I'm blind.

Out.

Step forward.

Turn left.

Did you know that

10,000 years ago

there were big trees growing on the riverbanks here.

2.5 million years ago

this was a vital land covered by an enormous forest.

You can see me!

Not very clearly...

The snow field doesn't dazzle any more.

Remember the saying,

with a larger rack, comes a larger stage.

We are running out of the cans.

I will go fishing.

Then walk towards this direction.

It should be near this place.

Did you get it?

I will be waiting here for you.

I will be back!

Ru Yi,

be with me.

You will say yes, right?

That's right, I am a little bit male chauvinistic.

But I mean what I say.

Every day, I come back alive.

To be honest

you are nice, too.

Big eyes, small face.

You even know things that happened in the sky.

Just a little bit rigid.

After we go back, we'll go to movies

and eat at fine restaurants every single night.

We can have well-cooked food as much as we like.

You are so skinny.

Fu Chun.

You are back.

Fu Chun.

Fu Chun.

Hey sister.

Ru Yi's boots.

They don't fit.

Who's there?

No one.

It might be the wind.

It must be the wind.

Check again, please.

No one is there. I am sure!

Maybe you should give her back her boot.

I paid her!

What are you doing?

Cooking.

Yes, go right into your boiler.

Do you like steamed penguin?

If you steam it, I will braise you.

We're out of soy sauce.

Wu Fu Chun!

How dare you!

Such a cutie!

So yummy.

We can't afford to feed it.

I can share my food with it.

You barely eat.

Fu Chun.

Let's give it a name.

How about Xiao Hei?

Well, I prefer Chubby.

It looks exactly like my Chubby.

Okay, then Chubby it is.

Chubby.

Chubby.

Fu Chun

you are actually a nice person.

What's the value of being nice?

Nice people

will be blessed.

Come on! Chubby!

Hurry up!

Come on!

Chubby!

How are you?

I am fine, and you?

Have some of this.

It's expired.

What's the most valuable thing in Antarctica?

Meteorites.

How much are they worth?

They are priceless.

Neat.

So where can I find it, would you tell me?

Well, we need to start with the glacier movement.

The moving glacier which is blocked by mountain begins to melt

then the meteorites hidden inside the glacier will crop out.

Ru Yi, we are rich!

It seems like a genuine one.

Definitely!

Absolutely!

Here you are!

It's probably from Mars.

Mars it is.

But it looks a little bit different from what I have seen before.

They must look all different.

Perhaps it's from Mercury.

Must be Mercury.

Then it's more precious.

Of course it is.

It's priceless! No kidding!

Have you ever seen a family heirloom? This can be one.

Which way is north?

Northwest, the direction of fortune!

It should be placed in that place.

My precious...

Ru Yi.

Still, it looks odd.

Nonsense!

Not odd at all.

It looks great, made in Mercury.

It's a piece of shit!

What a meteorite!

A piece of melting shit!

Almost fooled me!

I've seen shits from all types of local animals,

and this one definitely belongs to a human.

From whom?

Why don't you let me know.

Sepsis

is caused by Vitamin C's deficiency.

How to cure it?

I need vegetables.

What will happen next?

Next,

I will lose my teeth one by one,

and my fingernails.

Fu Chun

do you know about Zhuang Zi?

One day, Dong Guozi asked Zhuang Zi,

you always talk about Tao, where is it?

Zhuang Zi replied,

Tao is in feces.

Fu Chun, you brought me hope, twice.

For the first time, you took the stool out

for the second time, you brought the stool back.

Fu Chun

you are getting so close to the Aurora station.

What else did this bro Zhuang Zi say?

Rather than leave them to moisten each other with their damp and spittle

it would be far better to let them forget themselves

in their native rivers and lakes.

In modern Chinese, please.

Two fish were trapped in a dried-up lake

so they used their saliva to keep each other moist.

However it would be much better

if they could just forget each other

and go back to their rivers and lakes

to seek their own happiness.

For worse, for better,

for richer, for poorer,

in sickness, and in health,

no matter if you have beautiful teeth

no matter if you are going to limp

no matter if you can clean yourself

no matter if you smell good or nasty

I will always take you as my beloved one

till death

do us apart.

Jing Ru Yi

right here, at the end of the world

do you take Wu Fu Chun,

for your lawful wedded husband,

regardless of his insincere attitude

that he used to show toward eternal love

regardless of his ignorance

of everything that you told him in your professional view

regardless of what a fool he used to be

to make a religion from money

before he met you.

I believe it should be the other way around.

Rather than let them forget themselves

It would be far better to leave them to moisten each other with their saliva.

Wu Fu Chun

Thank you.

But, I don't.

I want you to take care of yourself and live a happy life.

This is the Antarctica Survival Guide Book I made for you.

You dummy,

how am I supposed to read a book when there's an avalanche.

It's important.

Just read it.

I like whales.

They sing beautiful songs

while stretching out their graceful fins.

It reminds me of how powerful life can be.

Bang, and just like that,

they leap out of the ocean.

The polar night is coming

but don't give up.

You can see polar light

on a clear day.

Take the chance and keep searching.

Catch more fish and store them

because the ice is getting thicker.

Do not let your boots and socks get wet.

When fuel is running out,

you can use furniture as substitute.

When everything is used up,

you set out with the sleds,

and take everything you can take with you.

You need to walk 20 kilometers southward and keep searching.

Don't come back.

As you said,

you'd rather die on the road.

Ru Yi once said,

life can be powerful, just like you.

I thought I was powerful.

But I have tried everything.

What should I do without her?

I remember it was for surviving that you dug a hole last time.

I am exhausted.

I cannot go any further.

You must keep going.

Like the fortuneteller said,

you will die a natural death

as a wealthy man surrounded by grandchildren.

I won't allow you to stay here with me.

I like it here.

But there is no place for you.

This is my destiny, not yours.

I want to read a poem to you

I want you to live

while I wait for you

asleep.

I want your ears still to hear the wind

I want you to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together...

Help!

Anyone?

Help...

Stop it!

Stay here!

Let me go!

Let me go home...

Ru Yi.

I like it here.

But there is no place for you.

This is my destiny,

not yours.

I want you to live

while I wait for you,

asleep.

I am back.

I want your ears still to hear the wind,

I want you to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together

to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.

I want what I love

to continue to live,

and you whom I love

and sang

above everything else.

To continue to flourish

full-flowered.

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