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Chapter 133 40. Entering the Mountains to Search and the Eerie Ice Valley【Two in One】

The snowmobile was galloping on the ice, and Zheng Yun looked out the window sideways. The people camping on the ice had already woken up, and many people gathered around the tents, washing and having breakfast were not affected.

Look up to the north.

After my own tossing and turning, the distress bombs and flares have fallen, as if they never existed.

No one has seen it. As long as the Christmas Islands don't take the initiative to remind and there are no eyewitnesses to spread the word, this Pirate Festival should be able to go on without much hindrance.

"Master Yun, who are these people?"

Ji Dao looked at the people camping in the wild, his face was full of confusion, he couldn't figure out what they were doing, they all set up a tent to live in, and came to such a place to live and suffer when they had nothing to do?

"It's all panning for gold."

Zheng Yun explained to him.

"No wonder, barbarians like to do this. It's recorded in our history." Ji Dao sighed.

"What kind of record?" Song Wan sat in the passenger seat with a map on her lap, turned her head and asked Ji Dao.

She is not familiar with Ji Dao.

But it's not unheard of.

"That's quite a lot." Seeing Song Wan talking to him, Ji Dao quickly sat upright, looking a little cautious and a bit familiar, and spoke seriously: "It is said that..."

The long journey passed quickly in Ji Dao's narration. With his knowledgeable level, it might not be a problem to talk for a day, but now is not the right time.

"We're going into the mountains soon."

Hu Ruihua's voice sounded on the walkie-talkie.

"Okay, I'll follow you."

Zheng Yun picked up the walkie-talkie and replied, then looked at Song Wan and said, "We should also look at the map."

"Ah."

Song Wan immediately picked up the tablet, guiding the way is her old job, and she was responsible for guiding the way at the beginning.

After a while.

The vehicle in front turns left into the Glacier Mountains.

Zheng Yun kept a distance of 200 meters and followed, so as not to be hit by the car in front when it braked suddenly.

It was their first visit to this glacier mountain range, but the local rescue team chose the route very accurately. The road was basically a gentle slope, and they circled along several towering icebergs into the mountain.

Half an hour ahead.

Zheng Yun didn't feel much pressure while driving. The lighting provided by the aurora all over the sky was enough for him to drive through the wide ice valley. As long as he followed the car in front, there would be no problem.

But the deeper you go.

This way started to go wrong.

They passed through several rift valleys and narrow U-turn sections one after another, and even Hu Ruihua drove much slower.

"Master Yun, it's amazing!"

Ji Dao leaned on the seat, looked at the [-]-meter-deep ice valley to the left of the off-road vehicle, couldn't help swallowing and praised.

"Don't brag, I'm sweating profusely."

Zheng Yun had a serious expression, and his body was almost attached to the steering wheel, trying to get as much vision of the road ahead as possible.

Fortunately, this section of the road is not long, as long as you pass through these two huge icebergs, there is only one dangerous level ahead.

"Take a break."

The walkie-talkie rang again.

"Ok."

Zheng Yun replied briefly.

Everyone got out of the car and looked at the situation. There were many marks of rescue vehicles on the ground. At least two rescue teams passed in front of them, about four to five vehicles, but there were no other traces.

After a short rest, everyone went on the road again, this time they drove to the area near the distress bomb in one breath.

Just after bypassing an iceberg and entering the ice valley, they saw five snowmobiles and many rescuers in the flat area of ​​the ice valley, as if they had encountered some problem.

Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun drove over, parked the car near them, and opened the door to ask about the situation.

"It's you."

"We met here again."

When the rescuers saw the car coming, they looked back at the two cars, but Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun were recognized by the rescuers as soon as they got off.

Zheng Yun scanned around.

These are all acquaintances I met in the hospital, because I waited for someone to rescue Si Enke, and I sincerely thanked them.

Acquaintances are much easier to handle.

Hu Ruihua immediately asked what was going on, and the other party replied that they had already searched around and took aerial photos with drones, but they couldn't find the vehicle of the scientific expedition team.

The expedition team consisted of forty people and eight vehicles. The camp should be very large and must be very conspicuous, but they found nothing, and the other party did not seem to be on the surface of the glacier.

"How big is the scope of the search?" Hu Ruihua asked.

"The radius is about [-] kilometers. After we saw the light of the distress gun in the early morning, we used triangulation to locate the position where they fired the distress gun. It was nearby."

"Now there are eight directions, and there are only three directions left that have not been found. If there are any, they are in these three directions."

The rescue team responded.

"The emergency bombs in the sky were fired by the scientific research team?" Zheng Yun interrupted and asked, this is important information.

"I'm not sure about this. Before us, there was another rescue team that came nearby, but we can't contact them at the moment. We haven't found where their rescue vehicle is."

The opponent shook his head.

Through several rounds of conversations, Zheng Yun and the others learned what had happened. The white-clothed rescue team set off and came here immediately after learning of the situation in the early morning. They have been here for two hours, and the emergency rescue team next to them just arrived.

They don't know much.

No clues have been found so far.

"The situation in front of us is a bit troublesome. They may have entered an ice rift valley or an ice cave, and the car has also driven in. We may have to follow the car prints to find it slowly."

The rescue team in white sighed.

There are car marks all over the place. The eight vehicles of the scientific expedition team wandered around for half a month, leaving many marks in all directions. It was very messy and difficult to distinguish.

"Look slowly."

Hu Ruihua nodded.

After discussing with each other, the three teams decided to split up and take charge of one direction, focusing on finding the entrance to the iceberg.

Zheng Yun got on the car again, and they chose the northeast direction, because it pointed to the center of the adoptive father's circle.

"You can't even see through the telescope."

Huzi complained on the walkie-talkie.

In this icy and snowy environment plus the polar night environment, even if flares are fired, there will be heavy shadows between the big and small icebergs.

They need to use binoculars to look for cracks or dark openings on the iceberg, which is really hard to find.

Zheng Yun could see it directly.

Huzi held a binoculars, poked his head out of the rear window of the car in front, and stared at the halfway and top of the iceberg.

"You don't need to look up, it can't be that high." Zheng Yun picked up the walkie-talkie and said, Huzi is too foolish.

"Master Yun, let me go down and take a look? I can hear the movement around me." Ji Dao suddenly volunteered.

"Alright." Zheng Yun stopped the car.

Ji Dao's hearing is different from that of ordinary people, maybe he can really hear something, such as the voice of help from deep underground.

As Zheng Yun and Ji Dao stopped, Hu Ruihua, the car in front, also stopped immediately. Seeing this, Zheng Yun said through the walkie-talkie: "Keep quiet and let Ji Dao listen to the surrounding sounds."

The door opening movement of the car in front stagnated, Hu Ruihua put out the car, and everyone remained still and absolutely quiet.

Zheng Yun also destroyed the car.

Watching Ji Dao listening in front.

The ice valley is very quiet, but there are always some small winds blowing in my ears, and the sound of the wind blowing the glacier in the distance, and there are no other sounds.

Ji Dao couldn't hear anything, so he simply knelt on the ground, put his ear against the ice, and listened carefully again.

After a while, Ji Dao got up and said in embarrassment:
"There seems to be running water down here."

"Where is it?" Zheng Yun asked.

"I don't know, it feels like it's in a very deep place, there is some water sound, like a river." Ji Dao scratched his head.

"Okay." Zheng Yun nodded.

It seems that he didn't hear any information, but no information itself is the key information. He can even hear the sound of water, but he can't hear anyone moving, which means there is no one around.

The two vehicles hit the road again.

After walking more than ten kilometers in the northeast direction, there are still traces of car marks on the ground, but there is no official map. Wherever I can go, I rely on the aerial map in my hand and Hu Ruihua's experience to move forward.

But this time they found something.

They drove the car to the edge of a very deep ice valley. This ice valley is probably two to 300 meters deep.

The car prints on the ground went down the gentle slope of the ice valley. Just 30 meters down, there was a shadow, and you couldn't see the five-finger-level darkness. It looked so gloomy and scary.

Everyone got out of the car and scanned with flashlights.

This ice valley is long and deep, and the deepest point faces north. There is also a huge ice crack on the mountain, which is enough for cars to get in, but it looks very dangerous.

"Will the scientific expedition team get into this kind of place?"

"Should I come here to check around and then leave?"

Huzi asked puzzledly that if he wanted to go down this kind of ice valley, he would have to walk along the gentle slope for at least half an hour, and they didn't know whether the car marks on the ground were from the past or the latest.

The question is complex.

The scientific expedition team may not have died in the early hours of this morning, and the car marks on the ice are not easy to disappear. The car marks of more than two days but less than a week all look similar.

"The drone went in and took a look."

Hu Ruihua said to Xiao Hu, this is the end of this route, if it is not here, he can only turn around and go back.

The latter immediately took out the drone, turned on the screen, let the drone fly into the ice valley, and took pictures with the camera.

The small light on the drone can only dispel the darkness within 50 meters, but it makes the ice valley look weirder, with black shadows everywhere, and the black and blue color makes people uncomfortable.

"Go down a little bit." Hu Ruihua said.

Xiao Hu immediately followed suit, and the drone quickly descended, sticking to the ground of the ice valley, and flew towards the deep rift valley.

Just flew not long ago.

An artifact appeared on the screen, red in color, what looked like a fragment of a tent.

The crowd cheered.

The drone continues to penetrate.

Soon there were traces of being stationed. There was some household garbage on the ground, which should have been bagged but not taken away, and was blown everywhere by the wind.

"The quality of this scientific expedition team is worrying." Hu Zi frowned.

"Probably not. They may have entered from here. Even if the scientific expedition team doesn't want to take the garbage away, the local guides they hired will definitely take the garbage away."

Hu Ruihua looked back at Zheng Yun.

"It's possible." Zheng Yun nodded. These rubbish are indeed very suspicious and shouldn't exist here.

The picture on the screen is still changing.

The drone has already drilled in front of the ice crevasse, which may be 70 meters high, shaped like a dagger, with a sharp top and a narrow bottom, which is very dangerous.

"What's that on the left?" Hu Ruihua's eyes were sharp, and he suddenly pointed to a white shadow in the upper left corner of the screen.

The drone flew over immediately.

The white shadow was inside the ice crevasse, and I could only see it when I was close. It was actually a broken white balloon, not only here, but there were many broken balloons of various colors on the ground.

"..."

The crowd was silent.

Why are there so many broken balloons in the crevasses?Does it float in from the outside, or float out from the inside?

"Is this a research balloon?"

Hu Ruihua asked puzzledly.

Zheng Yun didn't know either, so he could only look at Song Wan, who was the only one present who was still studying in college, hoping that she would know.

"Maybe." Song Wan also hesitated.

The drone went deep again and drilled into the area where the signal was unstable in one breath. There were no other discoveries, making it difficult to decide whether to go down to this ice valley to find it.

"Ji Dao, it's your turn."

Zheng Yun turned to look at Ji Dao.

The latter nodded immediately, walked to the front of the crowd alone, turned around and made a quiet gesture, and then began to listen.

Everyone stood there motionless like a wooden man, not daring to gasp for breath, waiting for Ji Dao to listen.

After a while.

Ji Dao suddenly said decisively: "There are living things in here! I heard some movement, it may be people."

"Describe?" Zheng Yun frowned.

"It seems that someone is calling, and someone is smashing ice, but I can't hear it clearly. The distance is very, very far away. I don't know why I can hear it." Ji Dao also frowned.

"Ask where the other rescue teams are, Ji Dao, let me ask you, is this the Hanxian Cave?" Zheng Yun asked Xiao Hu on the side, and looked at Ji Dao seriously.

"No, Hanxian Cave is an ice cave, it should be round, not this pointy." Ji Dao shook his head.

"Row."

Zheng Yun nodded.

Xiao Hu drove to the open area to contact the rescue team, and the others immediately started to act, using radio to receive equipment, and went down the gentle slope to detect the ice cave entrance.

But no signal received.

I don't know if it's too far away, or there is no signal at all.

After a while.

Xiao Hu suddenly ran back in a hurry, got out of the car and said to them: "The rescue team in white has found something. They saw a few used emergency guns in an ice valley in the northwest, and they also saw some tents in the depths."

"But at the bottom of their ice valley is a huge lake of crushed ice. The scientific expedition team's car didn't enter from there, but detoured there from somewhere."

"If you look at it from the map, it's probably our place." Xiao Hu took out the map and unfolded it.

The tent that the white-clothed rescue team found was about twelve kilometers northwest of them, and the direction was right.

"Are they planning to go into the ice valley?" Hu Ruihua asked.

"No, they plan to come to our side and want to act together. It will be safer if there are more people." Xiao Hu shook his head.

"Okay, then wait for them." Zheng Yun nodded.

After a while, the two vehicles of the white-clothed rescue team took the lead to detour into the gentle area where they were.

Their captain held a tablet and showed the photos they took with high-definition cameras and drones. It was indeed the same as Xiao Nonsense said, with used tents and emergency guns.

The ice valley in the picture is also very deep, even two to 300 meters deeper than the current ice valley, and off-road vehicles cannot go down.

Moreover, the cracked ice lake was also very narrow and long, hundreds of meters long and wide. Even if they went down, they couldn't get through it. There was no place for helicopters to land, and they couldn't even fly in the valley.

The only way now.

Just look in through the ice crevasse here.

(End of this chapter)