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Chapter 126 33. The Iceberg Among the Icebergs and the Ancient Ship of the Ming Dynasty 【Two in One】

After a brief discussion, Senko and the others decided to move forward along the reflective tow rope on the ground, bypassing the strange corpse, and see what was behind the curved ice crack.

In this regard, their rescue team did not object. After all, they found a heat source and confirmed that there were survivors, most likely their team members. No matter how dangerous they were, they were saved.

Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua can understand.

Whoever it is, will choose this way.

Fortunately, it wasn't theirs who had an accident this time, they didn't need to take the risk, they could wait and see what happened above.

"Actually, that's not right. The girl we rescued had a wound on her abdomen, which was pierced from the front. If it was pierced by these ice picks, then she slipped out while lying down?"

Sister Wang asked a question.

This incident is also quite unbelievable. How did that girl get stabbed by the ice pick?

"Generally speaking, ice cones cannot be formed horizontally, nor can they be formed upward from the ground. Even if there are, such ice cones are usually not sharp." Xiao Hu followed up.

"Not necessarily, it may also be the vertical ice thorns squeezed out by the movement of the ice layer." Hu Ruihua shook his head.

When everyone is talking.

Sienke had already led people into the left-hand passage, and raised his head with a flashlight, looking at the ice pick above his head.

It's high up here.

It seems that there is an inverted rift inside the glacier, and the top may be [-] meters high. If the ice cone above falls, they may be stabbed to death at any time.

Fortunately, this probability is not high.

Because there are not many broken ice cones on the ground.

Sienko sighed to his teammates in a low voice, saying that he had not seen this kind of terrain several times in so many years.

The distance of [-] meters will be reached soon.

Sienke and others walked along the right side of the passage, only a few meters away from the corpse, and they could clearly see his expression before death, his eyes were full of horror, as if he was running away.

Everyone outside looked at the screen.

Start a discussion about this picture.

"It seems that he accidentally stabbed the ice pick when he was rolling and crawling to escape." Hu Ruihua said.

"What's in it? Can it scare him like this?" Hu Zi asked.

"Let's see what they find when they turn the corner." Hu Ruihua stared at the screen.

Sienke and others carefully bypassed the corpse, and began to circle to the right along the curved passage. The further they went, the fewer impurities in the iceberg, and the entire ice-cracked passage was blue.

Wherever the flashlight shines on, there is a transparent and clear ice layer. The entire ice wall at a height of [-] meters is as light blue as sea water, and is forever frozen inside the iceberg.

This kind of ice is old ice.

No air bubbles at all.

You can see some marine life frozen here and there for an unknown amount of time, probably tens of thousands of years.

"It should change."

The members of Sienke spoke, and they kept moving forward along the reflective rope on the ground, always circling this arc, almost 180 degrees, but the arc still didn't stop.

At first they were going left, but now they are going right, making a big circle.

It should stop.

Otherwise, if you continue to circle around, they will come out.

"Be careful, it may be downhill."

Sinko exhorted.

He was the first one to walk, and the camera footage showed that he took out an ice ax and pressed out the iron spikes on the bottom of his boots, so that even if he encountered a downhill, he would not slip down.

The other teammates did the same.

Moreover, on their clothes, there is a kind of fabric that can stick to the ice on the elbows and knees. Even if they roll down the slope, they can quickly stop and save themselves.

It is indeed a very professional rescue team.

"Go." Sienke continued to move forward.

The camera screen moves with him.

After going around to the right for a while, the ice-crack passage turned downhill. The slope is not high, but it is very straight. It is estimated that there is a distance of 300 meters. The end seems to be an ice room.

"There is a car."

The flashlight swept towards the ice room entrance.

A snowmobile was parked on the right, and there were two or three people lying beside the vehicle. There was no heat source on their bodies, they were corpses.

Sienke and others were more cautious. They left two people waiting on it. Sienke and the blond youth slid down the gentle slope slowly, with the flashlight shining into the depths.

See more clearly.

The car had been attached to the tow rope by the previous rescue team, but it was not pulled out. The corpses on the ground should have been collected by the rescue team, not members of the rescue team.

Where did the rescue team go?
They found the car, they collected the body, but the man was gone, and all six of them disappeared at the same time.

Sienke also realized this, took out the oxygen mask with the blond youth, and walked down more carefully.

The people above also watched with bated breath.

If there is no accident, when Sienke walks into the ice room, he should be able to get the truth of the matter.

There may also be dangers.

This is a test for all.

Zheng Yun took the time to look up and saw that the towering iceberg illuminated by the flares was all white, exuding a dazzling golden light, like a holy mountain standing in the vast aurora snow field.

Flares hang in mid-air.

Other tourists within dozens of hundreds of kilometers can see this golden glowing iceberg in a distant place, and may stop to look at it, or take a photo with friends.

Look back at the screen.

Sienke had already reached the bottom, and the scene of the ice room appeared in the picture. As soon as the flashlight entered, it was refracted in all directions, making the whole ice room dark blue.

The last five meters.

The two went down slowly.

The panorama of the icehouse appeared in front of my eyes.

This is actually a natural crack in an iceberg, with a width of more than [-] meters, extending irregularly to the north, with a length of more than a thousand meters, and there are two cliffs in the middle.

very huge.

Already more than [-] meters high.

The wide and closed space is all blue, and the icicle above the head is like the steeple of a western church. Every step the two take will create an echo, which is extremely loud in the space.

The snowmobile was on the right hand side of the entrance, and the bodies of four victims were neatly placed in front of the car. The trunk was still open, and there were still corpses and a lot of weird equipment inside.

"Fake."

The blond youth shook.

Sienke quickly raised his head and looked at the place where the blond youth's flashlight was shining, and the camera screen moved at the same time.

On the right hand 400 meters ahead, two cliffs diverge and extend left and right, encircling another iceberg.

In this iceberg.

About six meters high.

An ancient ship is frozen.

This ancient ship is a clear ship, more than [-] meters long, completely sealed in the air, the front half of the ship can be clearly seen, but the back half is covered with a faint black shadow.

Can vaguely see.

There seems to be a shadow of a boat behind.

It is difficult to describe the scene presented on the screen, the rift within the iceberg, the cliff within the rift, and the iceberg within the iceberg.

The iceberg that had frozen the ancient ship seemed to have floated into this huge rift valley, and it seemed that the ancient ship drove the iceberg, sailed in the ice layer, and squeezed here abruptly.

"It turned out to be a bright ship."

Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun didn't say a word. It was not an accident to see the ancient ships of the Ming Dynasty here. After all, there were pirate ships not far away, and they could squeeze in here.

The point is.

What does the death of these victims have to do with this open ship? Did this ship kill them?

Sienke and the blond youth scanned carefully, and soon discovered more details:
On the cliff leading to the ancient ship, a soft bridge was artificially built, consisting of several ropes and rope ladders.

The rope ladder is nailed two meters below the ancient ship.

A hole was drilled in that position.

Someone must have discovered this ancient ship by accident and came up with some ideas. They built a bridge here, drilled holes in the ice, and wanted to go up the hole and enter the ancient ship to find things.

At present, it is not possible to determine when the hole was dug out, but it should not be dug out recently.

This is a hole that existed a long time ago.

The purpose is to steal everything in the ancient ship.

What happened recently should be that a group of tourists found this place by mistake during their exploration, and then they also had a similar idea, so they replaced the rope ladder and wanted to go in through this hole to see what was inside.

As a result, they all died.

Only one girl survived.

Now the strange thing is, where did the last rescue team go?They got in through this hole too?
And now that the end has come, none of them have seen any ice picks on the ground. Where did the wound on the girl's abdomen come from?Inside the ancient ship?

Sinko also had the same question. He led people into the ice room to look around, but he didn't see their team members.

"Under the cliff?"

The blond youth wondered.

Sienke didn't speak, and strode towards the cliff, and made a new discovery. The cliff is very shallow, with a depth of [-] meters, but the shallow part is only more than ten meters, as if there is water dripping down the cliff. Fill out a gentle slope.

The flashlight scans along the cliff.

Sienko swept forward all the way.

The more he looked at him, the more frightened he became, because there were at least twenty corpses in this cliff, all from different ages, and there were some dark holes at the bottom of the cliff.

"Go back and move the heat source equipment."

Section Chief Sien breathed a sigh of relief, and led the blond youth back, intending to move down the equipment they were carrying.

This is a wise choice.

In this gap, Zheng Yun and others surrounded the monitor on the ground had time to talk.

"Brother Zheng, what do you think?"

Huzi frowned and asked together.

"Something is wrong. This ship shouldn't be so powerful and kill so many people."

Zheng Yun was also very puzzled.

After all, this place is not a tomb. These frozen ships cannot have any mechanisms and traps.

Because when the ancient ship was frozen, it was either sudden or a very long process.

The probability of the former is very low.

The ancients did not have icebreakers, and would only enter W-08 during the thawing period. Generally, the ship would not be instantly frozen at that time.

The most common such situation is that the ship is squeezed or even crushed by the moving ice layer, making the ship unable to move.

During this process, everyone on board can escape, and can also take away all valuables. There is no need to design a bunch of killing mechanisms for a boat.

There are only a few possibilities for being frozen instantly, such as driving a boat deep into the mountains, hitting a rock and causing the boat to sink into the icy lake, and sink under the ice layer in stagnant water.

If you catch up with the cooling.

That could be frozen within hours.

Or it was the more extreme situation some pirate ships encountered when they were trying to die. Suddenly, a burst of icy rain blew over, and the entire ship was instantly frozen to death and froze in place.

Either way.

The ancients didn't need or need to design agencies, unless these boats were funeral boats, which were dedicated to burying dignitaries.

Not very likely.

Zheng Yun had never heard of anyone who would do this to seal his own body in an iceberg.

"Just now I saw some broken ice cones under the cliff. They probably hit them when they drilled the hole. If they fall into the valley, they may cause a puncture."

Hu Ruihua was still paying attention to the girl's wound.

"But it's hard to explain the two dead in the passage. The one in the red dress was suspected of suffocating to death, and the one lying on the ground was frightened and crawling. What happened to them?"

Xiao Hu was still puzzled.

"There is an order here. The one lying on the ground should die first, and the one in the red dress should die later. It should be in this order." Sister Wang made some reasoning.

This reasoning is sound.

If the person in the red clothes died of suffocation first, then everyone behind would have to die of suffocation, unless the person inside had an oxygen tank, but the dead person lying on the ground did not.

"It doesn't have to be suffocation, it's hard to suffocate in such a big rift." Hu Ruihua shook his head.

"The one lying on the ground, what did he see that made him frightened like that?" Huzi said.

"I guess the order of things is like this. The girl on the snowmobile outside and the two deceased were injured and sent outside during the exploration process. It is likely that the man in red and the deceased on the ground completed the pick-up process."

"After they sent people to the car, they went back to rescue other people, and then encountered something in the process, causing them all to die in this crack."

Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun and speculated.

Zheng Yun nodded. This part of the reasoning is fine and reasonable. He was thinking about the relationship between this bright ship and the extremely cold hell, and whether there is a possibility for the two to coexist.

if there is not.

That's not the 'ground hole' here.

While they were discussing above, Sienko et al. had moved the equipment to the ice room below and turned it on.

Rory in the rescue boat received the signal and presented a heat source map on the screen again.

"what!"

Rory yelped.

Zheng Yun and others also looked at this picture. They couldn't understand it, but they could clearly see that there was a large strip of light yellow in front of Sienke and the others.

In the icebergs that freeze the open ship.

"What does this mean? It means there are survivors inside?" Hu Zi looked at Luo Rui and asked in English.

"I don't know, I haven't seen this before, but there is a heat source in the iceberg, about 100 meters to 300 meters away." Rory shook his head, his eyes were a little confused.

"How many people can produce such a large range of heat sources? What do you think of this picture?" Xiao Hu was puzzled.

"The heat source is the direction in which the temperature penetrates the iceberg and is detected. It has nothing to do with the size of the area, but generally it will not have such a large area, because it means that there are many heat sources, many directions, or even a whole area."

Rory couldn't explain the picture at all.

(End of this chapter)