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Chapter 122 29. The Strangely Dead Tourist and the Ice Crack 【Two in One】

After resting for several hours, everyone split into two groups. Xiao Li and his fiancée, Song Wan and her best friend, and Liu Ming returned to the Christmas Islands together and let Xiao Li drive.

The rest moved on.

Hu Ruihua took Miss Hu Wang in a car, Huzi and Zheng Yun in a car, and Huzi, who was more experienced, drove.

The two cars rushed into the narrow entrance with full horsepower, and drove along the passage. Zheng Yun observed with a telescope, and the cracks on the left and right icebergs became thicker after they passed by.

It probably won't be long before it collapses.

Walking through the rift valley, this channel seems to be washed out by water, and the speed of the car cannot be increased due to the twists and turns. There are steep ice walls with a height of [-] meters on the left and right, and the whole body is light blue.

"How far does it take to get out?"

Zheng Yun picked up the walkie-talkie and asked.

"About three kilometers." Xiao Hu replied immediately, he was showing the way with an electronic map.

"Brother Zheng, what do you see in the ice?" Huzi suddenly pointed to the front left.

Zheng Yun turned his head to look.

The wrinkled and uneven ice surface hinders the line of sight, which is incomparable with the smooth ice wall of the scenic spot. It is hard to see what is frozen in the depths of the iceberg, but you can indeed see something faintly.

Definitely an artifact.

There is nothing like that in nature.

Kind of like an old style off-roader.

"There is really everything in this ice. I saw a few fish in a flash just now, as if I was in the bottom of the sea." Xiao Hu's voice sounded from the intercom.

"Brother Hu rented ice drilling equipment. If you find something good, you can drill into the ice and have a look." Hu Zi looked at Zheng Yun and said, he is more interested in finding treasures.

Zheng Yun carefully observed that there was something like an off-road vehicle in the iceberg, which proved that this iceberg had only accumulated here in the past few decades, overturning his previous guess.

The glacier movement in this place is far more intense than he imagined. The icebergs with a height of several hundred meters are likely to change every once in a while, and the frequency is very high.

In this way, the map of Changsheng Xianfu may be inaccurate again, and the road map of the adoptive father may be displaced during the glacier movement, thus losing accuracy.

The two vehicles continued on.

The routes are more and more complicated and dangerous, but most of them are in valleys or on solid ice, without the danger of cracks.

after an hour.

The two vehicles turned on their headlights, and under the illumination of the aurora, they went from a gentle path to a flat-topped iceberg. Wherever the lampposts shone, they were snow white and light blue intertwined.

Vehicle stopped.

Everyone got out of the car to check.

This place is very dark, because there is an extremely high iceberg in front of it, which partially blocks the aurora, making the platform in the gap almost like night.

"That's the bow glacier."

Hu Ruihua pointed forward to the right, about three kilometers away from them, there was a slightly higher glacier, located in the west of a huge icy lake.

The ice lake is very flat.

There are obvious car marks on it.

They now need to drive down the mountain, across the icy lake and then reach the bow glacier, and then go north.

Kate, who disappeared the day before yesterday, took four companions and drove to the north of the bow glacier before disappearing.

But looking at the car prints on the frozen lake, it seems that other rescue teams have also come here. Recently, there are three car prints.

"I didn't see the car coming out on the way here, so they should still be inside." Hu Ruihua took a look through the binoculars.

There are no vehicle lights or light sources in the north of the bow glacier. It is dark like a normal valley, giving people a feeling that something is wrong.

After roughly observing the environment and going down to confirm that the ice lake is thick enough, everyone got in the car and drove on to the ice lake.

Chuantou Glacier is a self-driving 'high-end scenic spot'. It is a place with general scenery but very challenging. Few people have been there. It has unique characteristics and is suitable for taking pictures.

But until the two cars circled the bow glacier and followed the car marks on the ground, Zheng Yun didn't see where the 'bow' was.

"Some signals have been received."

"It's an international distress signal."

Xiao Hu used the walkie-talkie to pass the message from the car in front.

Zheng Yun raised his head and looked forward, and then he was going uphill again, heading towards the extremely tall iceberg. This mountain gave people a sense of oppression, and it was so dark and eerie.

"No voice?"

Zheng Yun picked up the walkie-talkie and asked.

"I just asked, but no one responded for the time being. This distress signal may be fixed." Xiao Hu replied immediately.

Everyone remained vigilant, the snowmobile slowly climbed up the icy road, and the tracks were unable to grasp.

Just climbed the first gentle slope.

The car in front suddenly stopped and turned around to make room for Huzi's rear car, and at the same time let Huzi's headlights shine forward, and a pool of red blood appeared on the ground.

This red is very eye-catching.

It was shockingly red under the headlights, but as soon as the tiger turned around, the pool of blood turned crimson again.

It seems that something has been eaten here, and it is temporarily uncertain whether it is a human or an animal, because no clothes are seen, and there are only car marks nearby, as many as three car marks.

"Don't get out of the car yet."

Hu Ruihua spoke on the walkie-talkie.

Hu Zili took out two pistols from the back seat of the car, handed one to Zheng Yun, and then quickly loaded it with a click, clasped both hands, and observed the left and right high ground very keenly.

Zheng Yun followed suit.

There are many glacier platforms on high places, and there is likely to be something hidden in each place, but it is not clear.

"Huzi, let's send out the flares."

Hu Ruihua spoke on the walkie-talkie.

Huzi immediately started, took out a small red gun from his backpack, opened the gap in the car door and drove towards the sky.

Whoosh!
A puff of smoke came out.

Not long after, a yellow dot exploded high in the sky, bursting out a flash of yellow light, which was extremely dazzling, dozens of times brighter than New Year's fireworks, and dispelled all the surrounding darkness.

There is nothing up there.

At least not yet.

After confirming the safety of the surrounding area, Hu Ruihua got out of the car with a gun, walked to the side of the bloodstain, touched a little with his finger, observed carefully, took out the walkie-talkie and said:
"Not sure if it's human blood."

"With such a bright flare, people within [-] to [-] kilometers can clearly see it. The distress signal hasn't changed?" Zheng Yun asked.

"Not yet, but the location has probably been measured. It is in the northwest, not far away." Xiao Hu said.

Without wasting time, everyone boarded the car and set off again.

There are overhead flares that provide light sources, and they can clearly see the car marks on the ground, as well as some sporadic drops of blood occasionally sprinkled on the side of the road.

This time it took about 3 minutes.

There is a downhill road ahead, and after going down, there is another small ice lake, which is located in the central trough of two glaciers. Apart from this entrance, the exit is also in the north.

It is equivalent to a zigzag channel.

But they didn't have to go any further because there was a snowmobile parked on the frozen lake with the interior lights on.

This car comes face to face with them.

They can clearly see what's going on inside the car.

There were three people lying in the passenger seat and the back row respectively, wrapped in a lot of warm quilts and clothes, as if they were asleep or in a coma. The small warm yellow lights in the car shone on their motionless faces, making them look very scary.

Even though the headlights of the two cars were shining, the people in the snowmobile still remained motionless and did not respond.

Snow Mountain does not honk.

Hu Ruihua chose to hit it directly with a car, using the anti-collision beam of the snowmobile to hit the anti-collision beam of this car.

Bang.

A muffled sound.

The people in the car still didn't respond.

Everyone felt that something was wrong, Zheng Yun glanced at the thermometer, the current temperature is minus 25 degrees, to be honest, this temperature can't freeze modern people to death.

Unless they suffered from hypothermia for a long time, or fell into a frozen lake, these few people should not be frozen to death.

"Get out of the car and have a look."

Hu Ruihua spoke.

Zheng Yun scanned the surroundings. There were no holes in the ice lake, and there was no danger on the surrounding high platforms.

Huzi put on a winter hat and gloves, got out of the car with a gun and approached, and Zheng Yun also opened the door and got out of the car with a gun.

Hu Ruihua was the closest. He had already walked to the side of the car and reached out to pull the door, but he didn't pull it at all, and the door was locked.

"It doesn't seem to be a rescue team. Has it been written in the mission? How many cars did the victims drive?" Hu Ruihua asked.

"One car, five people in total."

Xiao Hu immediately opened his mouth to answer.

Zheng Yun also approached the snowmobile at this time, observed carefully for a few minutes, and found that there was no ups and downs in the bodies of these people, as if they were not breathing, or their breathing was weak.

"Pry open the door to see?"

Huzi made a suggestion.

Hu Ruihua shook his head, then hit the glass of the car with a pistol, trying to wake up the people inside.

no response.

There was no response to loud noises.

The people inside were two men and a woman, both wearing hats and face scarves to keep out the cold. Judging from the exposed facial skin and nose, they were all relatively young, probably under the age of 40.

He looked down at the situation inside the car.

The warm air is turned on to the maximum, and there are not many professional instruments and equipment. It looks like a tourist.

"Why do I feel like they were rescued, put here to keep warm, and then died?"

Huzi scratched his scalp and guessed.

Everyone didn't answer, because his guess was very reasonable, but if this is the case, the location where they died should be nearby, and there are other rescue teams.

There are still three car marks on the ground.

But they couldn't see the other two cars.

"If these three people died, it was probably due to hypothermia and cardiopulmonary failure, which is a normal death."

Hu Ruihua turned to look at Zheng Yun.

"Shake the car, and leave if there is no response. This car door will not open unless it can be opened." Zheng Yun gave advice.

He protected himself from poisoning.

The higher the altitude of the iceberg, the thicker the ice layer, and the more likely it is to release some deadly gases or viruses during its movement.

Everyone started immediately.

But the three people inside should be dead, no matter how shaken, the three of them staggered and didn't respond.

"Follow the car print and look for it." Hu Ruihua took out a sticker from his chest, wrote a sentence and stuck it on the car.

"The map is gone now, how about I use a drone to explore the way?" Xiao Hu asked through the walkie-talkie.

The others agreed.

Not long after, a drone took off and quickly moved forward along the car marks on the ground. In front of the large monitor, everyone watched the drone quickly fly into an ice valley.

Follow the car prints and keep moving forward.

The drone arrives at a wall of ice.

A deep crack appeared on the ice wall, with a height of 50 meters and a width of more than seven meters. The car print entered through this place, but the inside was dark and I don't know how deep it was.

wow.

The drone turns on the lights.

Red light refracted deep in the rift.

The drone flew into the hole and saw the red light coming from the clothing of a person, probably from a professional rescue team, wearing a red winter suit with reflective strips.

Fly further.

The camera is pointed at the person's face.

Male, pale, dead.

Everyone was silent. Xiao Hu controlled the drone and continued to move forward. The light shone on a car parked deep in the rift. There seemed to be people in the car, and there were instruments plugged in beside the car.

"What kind of instrument is this?"

Huzi suddenly asked.

Zheng Yun looked at the others, he thought it was some kind of rescue equipment, but Huzi didn't even know it.

"I don't know, it looks like a topographic mapper. These people don't seem to be ordinary tourists."

Hu Ruihua also shook his head.

The drone bypassed the snowmobile and continued on. The rift was unimaginably deep. They didn't see the third vehicle until the drone signaled that the signal was weak.

"How to say?"

Xiao Hu looked at Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun.

"The preliminary judgment is that they all died of hypothermia. It is a natural disaster, and poisoning cannot be ruled out." Hu Ruihua said.

"Go back and look at that corpse." Zheng Yun said to Xiao Hu.

The latter immediately drove the drone back, stopped in front of the man in red, and carefully observed his exposed skin with the high-definition camera on the drone.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't freeze to death.

This cave can be minus [-] degrees at most. They drove the car directly into it. With the car as the backing, they shouldn't lose the temperature. Even if they were, the man in red shouldn't die here.

Poisoning is also less likely.

Since they came here specifically for detection, they should know something about this place. How could they be poisoned for no reason?

"How do I feel that this person died of hypoxia and suffocation?" Sister Wang suddenly pointed to the screen.

"Suffocation?" Hu Zi wondered.

"This person is Caucasian, but his skin is a little yellow, his eyes are closed too tightly, and his movement before death seems to be gasping for breath." Sister Wang pointed out several guesses.

"He is suffocating in this position, it seems a bit strange, and these people don't bring oxygen tanks?" Huzi was puzzled, they all brought oxygen tanks and oxygen breathing devices themselves.

"Maybe the oxygen tank has already been brought down?" Xiao Hu also speculated.

"But the man died in the middle of the crack, so there shouldn't be no oxygen in this position." Huzi swallowed.

"These three people in the car are also suffocating?" Hu Ruihua looked up to the side, there were three people in the snowmobile.

"The three of them should have other reasons. They were covered with warm blankets, and they couldn't see what the cause of death was."

Miss Wang shook her head.

Zheng Yun also looked up, this matter is a bit unbelievable, whether it is the cause of death, the location of death, or even this crack, it feels very strange.

"What do you think, Brother Zheng? Do you want to go in and have a look at this crack?" Hu Ruihua turned to Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun was slightly silent, snow is their old line of work, and they know nothing about scientific principles.

But when it comes to the metaphysics of gods and ghosts, this place and its characteristics do not match the names of several places on the map of Changsheng Xianfu.

Moreover, there are quite a few tourists who have disappeared recently. They randomly chose one of the many missions and directly chose a place related to the metaphysics of gods and ghosts. The probability is not very high.

"Is there a high probability that there are survivors inside?" Zheng Yun asked them.

"Enough." Hu Ruihua shook his head.

"If you have an oxygen tank, maybe there is a chance, and there is still a car missing." Xiao Hu was more optimistic.

"Open the car and take a look. If you can't see the reason, retreat first." Zheng Yun gave his own suggestion.

Some money cannot be earned.

People are dead, and they can't make money.

If this place is too dangerous, then they have no reason to go in, and there is no need to die.

Moreover, this place is on the edge of the adoptive father's painting circle. From the current point of view, the possibility of some ghosts and metaphysics is not very high, and it probably has nothing to do with the adoptive father.

(End of this chapter)