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Chapter 135 42. Deep into the Rift and Tongueless Things 【Two in One】

Everyone continued to explore forward, slowly moving forward in the winding passage, and at intervals, they wiped the ice walls around them to see if there was any change in the left and right ice layers.

The ice underfoot turned downhill.

But the slope is very small, and just to the extent that people can feel it, the ice sled cannot slide down automatically.

"We've already walked two kilometers, and the included angle is getting smaller and smaller." The white-clothed rescue team said.

"Should be approaching the intersection."

Hu Ruihua glanced at his right hand. They were hundreds of meters away from the impurity layer just now, but now they are only more than 100 meters away. It is estimated that they will intersect in a short time.

Whether it is another road or not, you will know if you go further, and guessing now is not very meaningful.

Zheng Yun paid attention to several data.

They are now two kilometers deep into the crevasse, but the direction they are heading is still almost due north.

It means that although this ice crevasse is twisted and twisted, it is straight as a whole without much gap.

Look up to the top of your head.

The 'interlayer' at the top of the ice crevasse became more and more obvious, it was pitch black, and the flashlight couldn't penetrate it. I don't know how deep it is, but I only know that it is as high as a person and can allow people to walk.

Still hard to tell.

When cracks are formed naturally, they represent collisions or splits. The cracks are A-shaped, but it is not impossible to form a T-shaped interlayer at the top.

The most important thing is the oxygen concentration. Both Bai Yi and them have oxygen detectors, but it seems that the oxygen inside has not changed much, and it is higher than the earth.

This clue may prove that this place is not the same place as the previous ancient ship chain.

Everyone continued to walk in the depths.

The sound of footsteps stepping on the ice reverberated around, the sound of the sled sliding on the ice was harsh, and there was a dead silence in the ice crevasse, even their breathing could be heard clearly.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of light sources, otherwise walking in such a narrow environment, ordinary people may have phobias.

"It's already two and a half kilometers away." The captain in white would report their progress every once in a while.

slap.

Hu Zi, who was walking in the front, slipped suddenly and almost fell to the ground. The whole person danced and walked in space on the ice, and it took two or three seconds to stabilize his body.

"what happened?"

Hu Ruihua went up immediately.

Everyone was startled, and quickly scanned the ground with flashlights, but on the ice under Huzi's feet, there was only an obvious car mark, which was left by the scientific expedition team's car.

"I slipped."

Huzi scratched his head, readjusted the rope on his back, and looked around on the ground with a puzzled face.

After searching to no avail, everyone moved forward cautiously again, but they always felt that these cracks were exactly the same as when they first came in, and something seemed to be wrong.

"What is the purpose of the scientific expedition team driving the car in? How dare they be so courageous?" Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun. They had traveled so far and there were still car marks on the ground.

"not sure."

Zheng Yun shook his head. The only information he has now is that the archaeological team burned the snowmobile 20 years ago.

Walked another 500 meters.

The same cracks finally change.

They saw a huge ice room in front, about [-] square meters, and it was divided into two forks, one facing the left front and the other facing the rear.

Everyone walked into it cautiously, and Hu Zi immediately raised the flashlight to look at the dome of the ice room.

Uneven, but no ice picks.

Ji Dao also raised his head and looked up. He was mainly looking at what he thought was the 'City Wall Corridor', but he found that the corridor went deeper with the fork in front left.

Hu Ruihua went to the right hand, and the flashlight swept back, and it was indeed a crack in the ice, and the crack passage was actually wider than the way they came from.

"Shall we go forward?"

Huzi looked down at the car mark on the ground. The car mark was facing the left front, but the passage on the left front was obviously shorter.

"Let's go, this ice room only has car marks and some marks of equipment. The scientific expedition team should have stopped here." Hu Ruihua concluded after going around.

"What can you hear?"

Zheng Yun turned to look at Ji Dao.

Ji Dao took a deep breath and frowned, walked to the intersection of two roads, waved his hands to silence the others, and then listened carefully.

After a while.

Ji Dao looked at Zheng Yun: "The sound that seemed to be a human voice stopped, but the sound of hitting the ice wall was still there, coming from the passage in front left, but the strange thing is that there are also some sounds in the fork towards the back , I can't hear you clearly."

"Where is the sound of water? Is it far away?"

Zheng Yun nodded and asked, as long as there is running water, it means that the structure of the ice layer is unstable, and they need to warn in advance.

"Very far away." Ji Dao nodded.

Everyone stopped talking, simply rested in the ice room, and continued on the road, along the fork in front of the left, this time walking two kilometers in one breath, and then walked into an ice room.

This ice room is obviously bigger, and there are several forks, like a naturally formed maze of cracks, with no rules at all. Fortunately, they don't need to choose, the goal is fixed, and they just need to follow the car marks on the ground.

"The situation is not right. We have penetrated very deep into the iceberg, but the altitude has not dropped too much. Now the altitude is 330 meters, and it has only dropped 70 meters."

The captain in white spoke.

As soon as he finished speaking, Huzi who was walking in front exclaimed, turned his head to Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun and said, "There is a cliff in front of the right! And it is very deep and pitch black."

Everyone ran over quickly.

After checking, they were all shocked.

Because the cliff Huzi mentioned was not on their road, but at the foot of their right hand side. Huzi saw it through the iceberg, and it was pitch black over there.

The flashlight went on at the same time.

This cliff is also oriented north-south, about 400 meters away from them. The strong flashlight can directly shine on it, and the beam of light penetrates the ice layer and shines into the cliff.

Very deep.

Unfathomable.

And the length is also unknown.

It was like an underground rift, not at the level of a crack at all, with a width of more than 20 meters, and it became wider as it went down. It looked weird when it was dark.

"Falke, this place is too complicated, why is there such an ice rift valley below?" The captain in white yelled strangely.

"I'm a little dizzy." Huzi clutched his forehead. He felt like he was stepping on glass. Although the cliff was on the right hand side, he still felt like he would fall into it.

"Maybe the goal of the scientific expedition team is this rift?" Hu Ruihua was also a little worried.

"Go ahead, our progress is a bit slow." Zheng Yun sighed silently and let everyone speed up.

If nothing else happens, the rift below is the place where the archaeological team that died in an accident 20 years ago was finally trapped, and there may be a river connected to the Broken Ice Lake.

Then everyone speeded up and encountered several ice houses and fork roads on the way, and they all walked along the car mark.

After accumulating about ten kilometers, it suddenly opened up in front of my eyes, a gap appeared in the crack, and aurora light came in.

Everyone hurried to the gap.

But what is unexpected is.

Outside this gap is an open-air ice valley, with towering and steep icebergs in all directions. There is no way out, but the area is very large, with a length of thousands of meters.

on the edge of the gap.

They saw snowmobiles, but there were only two of them, and they couldn't tell whether they belonged to the rescue team or the scientific research team.

"no one."

Hu Ruihua scanned around.

Zheng Yun also looked around. This ice valley is very similar to the place where the car was burned in the video. The environment is a bit similar, but it doesn't seem to be the same. Maybe there is a similar gap in the depths.

"This place is very nice, how many cars should they bring in?" Hu Ruihua looked back at Zheng Yun.

"Yes." Zheng Yun nodded.

Driving the snowmobile here, even if they encounter any special circumstances, they can return here to get supplies and support, which is more convenient and faster than the ice valley ten kilometers away.

After some discussion, the rescue team in white came out with two people to go back, and they would drive in two cars to set up camp.

Others move on.

Holding a notebook, Hu Ruihua wrote down all the forks and gaps along the way, and said to Zheng Yun: "We deviated from the direction of the Broken Ice Lake, and we are still four kilometers away from the Broken Ice Lake, and the altitude difference is still more than 200 meters. "

"It seems that there is still a long way to go."

Zheng Yun nodded. They probably had to circle around this place for a long time, and they would be able to get around in a while.

After reaching this conclusion.

Everyone continued to move forward quickly along the car marks on the ground, almost running, and after going deeper for a few kilometers, the situation finally changed again, and the passage became obviously much steeper.

In the following section of the road, their altitude dropped by a full 100 meters, but two forks appeared in front of them, and there were car marks of the scientific expedition team on the two forks.

The real maze begins.

Zheng Yun looked back at Ji Dao, and then it was up to him. If he could choose the right one, he would choose the right one, and if he chose the wrong one, he would go in vain.

"There is a voice on the right."

Ji Dao pointed to the fork in front of the right.

Without hesitation, everyone chose the right front. This road is facing northwest. In theory, it is indeed closer to the Broken Ice Lake, but just after walking not far, the crack suddenly turned around.

A very sharp triangular ice chamber made the road turn around and head southwest.

"Get out of my way." Hu Zi had a headache.

"No wonder they drive." Hu Ruihua also nodded, walking so far, their physical strength is exhausted.

"The most unbelievable thing is that even the car has disappeared. Where did they drive the car? How deep is it? Is the ice-cracked lake a gap?"

The captain in white also complained again and again.

But there was nothing they could do, they could only continue to move forward, letting Ji Dao lead the way with his voice, in this maze-like ice crevasse, going up and down in circles.

until the rope runs out.

Hu Ruihua and the others lost their rope a long time ago.

But the white-clothed rescue team brought twenty bundles of ropes and connected them one by one. The cumulative length reached [-] meters, but they still used up them.

During this period.

They encountered another gap, and outside the gap was a very small open-air ice valley, a death valley that no one could reach.

The complexity of this place is unimaginable, completely dizzying, and even hard to understand, such a large crack running through the glacier mountain range, how can it be kept stable?
Another breath away for a long time.

They finally found some clues. In a small gap, they found the vehicle abandoned by the scientific expedition team.

There are four cars in total.

None of them.

But there are traces of a distress gun on the ground, which means that someone fired a gun here some time ago and sent a distress signal.

"There's something wrong with this car, the oil has been pumped out." Hu Ruihua walked around the car and found something abnormal.

"No oil?" Zheng Yun frowned.

This is the exact opposite of burning cars 20 years ago.

"There is a gap on the opposite side." The captain in white has sharp eyes, and the flashlight shines on the dark corner, and a gap is revealed on the opposite side, which is also a passage through an ice crevasse.

They walked over immediately.

As soon as they glanced at it, everyone couldn't help exclaiming, because there was actually a narrow path with a width of only one meter under their feet, hanging in the air on the ice wall of an ice crack valley.

The flashlight swipes down.

This rift valley is at least 200 meters deep, and there is running water at the bottom. The river surface is more than 90 meters above sea level. It is likely that it has descended to the deepest continental rock layer in this glacier mountain range.

This is what they saw at the very beginning, the unfathomable ice rift valley, they walked around for a long time, and still circled here, and the scientific expedition team was inside.

There are obvious marks on the ground.

Moreover, Ji Dao heard the sound immediately. There was an obvious abnormal sound in the north of the rift valley.

"Take a break."

Zheng Yun turned his head and scanned around. The ghost general is in good physical condition and his face is quite rosy, so he should be fine.

"Have a meal before leaving." Huzi turned his head and sat on the ground of the ice valley, taking out food from his backpack and preparing to cook.

"From the map, it's getting farther away from the Cracked Ice Lake." Hu Ruihua took out his notebook and sighed.

Everyone felt exhausted, took out the gas stove to boil water, cooked some hot soup and pasta, didn't want to say a few words, ate it together, and then sat on the ground to rest.

Then they began to discuss plans.

This rift valley is difficult to walk, and the width of one meter requires professional preparation. It is necessary to find a place to lay ice nails.

woohoo...

at this time.

Suddenly there was a sound in the rift valley.

Everyone heard this voice, but they didn't hear it clearly. They just felt that the voice was like the wind, or some kind of animal howling. It was very abrupt and very strange.

Everyone's back shook when they heard it.

Huzi and the others even drew their guns, pointed their flashlights in the direction of the rift, and stared straight at the darkness with their guns in hand.

Zheng Yun's expression was serious. He couldn't hear what the sound was, but it was absolutely abnormal. He subconsciously looked back at Ji Dao, but saw that the latter also had a strange expression.

"what happened?"

Zheng Yun was taken aback.

Ji Dao had disbelief written all over his face at this moment, as if he couldn't believe that he heard such a voice here, and he froze in place. Zheng Yun asked him before he recovered, and then stretched out a few fingers, pointing at the crack Direction Road:
"Master Yun, this is someone calling, but it's not a normal person, it's more like the tongueless thing in the records."

"What is a tongueless thing?"

Zheng Yun's scalp tingled and he hurriedly asked.

Hu Ruihua and Hu Zi also turned their heads to look at Ji Dao, with goosebumps all over their bodies, staring at Ji Dao nervously.

"There are three kinds of taboo living creatures recorded in the ancient books of Triton. Once these three kinds of living creatures are born, they must be notified immediately. Triton will spend all they have and kill them at all costs."

"The tongueless thing is one of them. It should be regarded as a monster. It looks somewhat similar to a human, but it has no tongue, so it can only make this whining sound."

(End of this chapter)