Endless route

Chapter 125 32. The strange dead and survivors [two-in-one]

After several hours of trekking, three snowmobiles entered the vicinity of the iceberg on the bow of the ship. Because of Zheng Yun's words, the atmosphere in the car became a little weird. Huzi also pulled out a jade plaque from his neck with a head carved on it. tiger.

It was because he was seriously ill that he sought medical treatment.

Because this tiger is not a tiger that goes down the mountain or something like that, but the jade zodiac sign his parents bought him when he was just born, which is the tiger in the twelve zodiac signs.

The difference is huge.

If it is a tiger that descends from the mountain, there is actually nothing to say, but at least it is quite social. However, the tiger in the Chinese zodiac is the wish of parents for their children, which can be said to be completely useless.

"Don't think too much. We have no reason to go in, and it may not be." Zheng Yun patted him on the shoulder.

"Yeah." Huzi nodded.

"There are new car prints on the ground. It should be their rescue team's car." Hu Ruihua said very calmly.

The snowmobile followed the car tracks on the ground, and after a short detour, it arrived at the last destination, the glacial lake between the icebergs, and saw the car that was involved in the accident last time.

This glacial lake was in the shadow of an iceberg, and it was extremely dark all around. As soon as Hu Ruihua turned the front of the car, the headlights shone on the car. The front glass was shattered, and the bodies of the co-pilot and the back seat could be clearly seen. Hang some frost.

Because of light and shadow.

When the headlights shine on the car, it has the texture of an old photo. The surroundings are dim and the car in distress is bright, as if the car suddenly emerged from another world.

Hu Ruihua took the lead to park the car.

There were very new car prints on the ice lake, but no other cars were seen. The rescue vehicle that was killed probably went to the cracked hole.

Hu Ruihua, Zheng Yun and others got out of the car, and the rescue team behind them also stopped immediately. Captain Senko got out of the car and walked toward Hu Ruihua and the others, asking the team members to fire flares.

Whoosh.

A white-yellow light source rose into the sky.

Their more expensive flares instantly illuminate the iceberg as if it were daytime, making everything very clear.

"Is it in front?" Senko asked.

"Yes, there is a hole in front." Hu Ruihua nodded. After arriving here, their task of leading the way was over. Then he looked at Zheng Yun: "Tell them?"

"Tell me about it." Zheng Yun nodded.

Hu Ruihua told them about hell and all the abnormal situations discovered last time.

"We probably know that. We watched the video. We can only blame our team for not paying enough attention. They lost their respect for the iceberg and nature." Senko sighed.

Have a few simple conversations.

Senko got in the car again, and the two cars went up the ramp and into the narrow valley where the ice cave was located. Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua followed behind, planning to act according to the opportunity.

This valley is very long and narrow.

To the north is a vertical ice wall with a height of more than a hundred meters. The crack is in the corner of the ice wall, like a naturally formed irregular mine. It is dark, deep and silent inside.

Zheng Yun and the others have seen the environment here through the drone, but the feeling is different from standing under the ice wall in person.

The ice walls and cracked holes should have been squeezed out by glaciers. They look unstable. Anyone who dares to drill through this cracked hole is indeed a qualified explorer.

Bang bang.

Doors slamming one after another.

Everyone gets out of the car.

The rescue team's car was parked at the entrance of the cave. Not only that, the car parked deep in the cave was also towed out by them. Both vehicles were parked in the same direction.

Senko and the others immediately ran over, but there was no one in the rescue vehicle. There were two bodies in the vehicle that was pulled out. It was obvious that all the members of the rescue team had entered the hole.

Take a closer look.

The rescue team's car was carrying a trailer. There was a rope winch on the trailer, which released a thick and long rope that extended deep into the cave. Reflective strips flashed every ten meters.

This is for towing.

There should be a car at the end of this rope. Xiao Hu didn't see this car last time using the drone. It was probably very deep and might even have fallen into a pit.

Seeing these clues, they can roughly guess the action route of the rescue team in distress.

The rescue team followed the car tracks and navigation in. Instead of stopping at the glacial lake outside, they entered the valley directly and entered the cracked hole to drag the first car out.

They also took out the body of the man in red, put it in a body bag and put it in the back seat of the car.

Then they found the second car, or when they were trying to find the second car with the rope, something happened that prevented them from successfully pulling the car out.

This incident even caused the members who stayed outside the cave and were responsible for controlling the winch to venture into the cave.

"Get the equipment out first."

"Look for any survivors."

Senko directed his team members to take professional rescue signal receiving instruments and detectors from the car.

Others put on equipment and took things needed for rescue from the car in preparation for the rescue.

"There are several signal sources inside." A blond young man in the team said, pointing to the data on the screen.

"Approximately where it is, is there an active signal inside?" Senko quickly ran over to check.

"Very deep, no." The blond shook his head.

Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua leaned against their cars, observing their surroundings, and then watched Si Enke and the others busy.

What needs to be said has been said. The decisions made by their rescue team have nothing to do with themselves and others. They don't have to bear moral pressure. They can help if they can, and forget about it if they can't.

"Want one?" Hu Ruihua took out a pack of cigarettes.

"No." Zheng Yun shook his head. He had no desire to smoke.

"Can my drone be used?" Xiao Hu asked while holding the drone, fearing that it would interfere with other people's detectors.

"They are not lacking." Hu Ruihua shook his head.

After waiting for a while, Senko and the others seemed to have found no clues. The team members began to put on their equipment, pointed several flashlights at the crack, and began to discuss plans.

Listen to them.

Still planning to go in and have a look.

"Thank you, we brought a wire camera and a rope. If there is any trouble, please help." Senko came over and said hello to Hu Ruihua.

They brought a long rope on the trailer, and four people would go down. Each person had a rope tied to his body. If he fell into the ice valley, someone outside could pull him up.

Senko's plan was to first detect whether there were any living people down there. The purpose of entering the cave this time was to put the detector deep into the cracked cave and then come back.

With wired cameras, people above can see what is happening below, and can call out if they are in danger.

"Let's go."

Senko carried equipment and led people into the cracked cave.

Their two remaining teammates turned on the monitor in the rescue vehicle, and the facts showed Senko's perspective.

Zheng Yun and others gathered around to watch.

This kind of equipment is much clearer than a drone, and as long as the line is long enough, it can send back images no matter how far away it is.

"Let's go see the corpse in red? See how he died." Sister Wang suddenly suggested.

Zheng Yun hesitated.

He wasn't sure the body was safe.

"Forget it, let's look here first." Zheng Yun thought for a while, but still refused the proposal.

Everyone looked at the screen.

Senko and the others were holding strong flashlights, and the anti-shake camera could clearly see that the cave was probably several hundred meters deep, and there was a man-made object at the end, not sure what it was.

But there just wasn't anyone.

The entire crack is very wide, and it is almost as smooth as a road underfoot. It is difficult to imagine that it is a natural formation, but it should be a natural formation because it is irregular.

In addition, there are some ice picks at the top of the crack, hanging down from the top of tens of meters. Some are long and some are short. The longest one hangs directly to the ground. It should be formed by melting and freezing during the melting period.

Seeing these ice picks, you can understand the wounds on the abdomen of the rescued girl and the cause of death of the two corpses outside.

I hadn't noticed it before because the drone's camera was below, so I couldn't look up and see what was going on above me.

"Has the temperature changed?"

Senko asked.

Sound travels from the screen to the outside world.

"Yes, it's minus twenty-seven degrees." Another member immediately took out a thermometer and reported the answer.

"Put a vibration detector." Senko continued, asking the team members to put down the portable equipment.

"There seems to be something wrong with the air. The oxygen content has become a little lower." The blond member suddenly reminded.

Hear this.

Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua looked at each other.

The man in red clothes was suspected to have died of suffocation, but when Senko and the others reached the halfway point, they only found that the oxygen content had become a little lower, which was related to suffocation, but not completely.

Low oxygen levels will not kill people.

Unless the oxygen content in this crack is intermittently lower and higher, but this is impossible to happen.

"There's blood here."

Another member crouched down.

Senko looked down and saw a trail of blood on the ground, which had been frozen into ice by the low temperature. It extended deep into the crack and was pressed down by car marks.

What Zheng Yun and the others were watching outside was from Senko's main perspective. It felt like watching a disaster movie or a horror movie. Especially when they found blood stains, the sense of déjà vu was very serious.

"Keep going."

Senko looked up and walked forward.

After walking about three hundred meters, they found some equipment left on the ground, as well as some tents and daily necessities.

"Someone was stationed here."

From Senko's perspective, he could clearly see signs of life around the tent. There were many gas cans and mineral water bottles on the ground. These people had stayed here for more than two or three days.

"There is a sports camera." The blond young man picked up a blood-stained camera in the corner near the tent.

"Take it back and take a look." Senko nodded.

The few people walked deeper again, and the flashlight could already see the end. The ice-cracked cave suddenly turned around in the depths, and the reflective rope of the rescue team stretched inside.

They decided to go to the end and put their instruments there.

They walked very carefully on the last part of the road, and the people outside were shocked to see it, but no one said anything.

Until Senko reached the end, the flashlight shone on his left hand, and an extremely terrifying scene suddenly appeared.

The left hand side is also a long and narrow ice cave passage, but it is curved, like the corner of a very large arc.

The light of the flashlight can only illuminate a hundred meters, because a hundred meters away is an arc to the right, extending into the depths.

But just at the end of the hundred meters.

One man was stabbed to death with an ice pick.

Senko and others suddenly saw this person when they knelt down and scanned the depths with a flashlight.

This man died in a very strange way. He was wearing white warm clothes and lying on the ground with his arms on the ground, but his head was pierced by a hanging ice pick, which was probably quite serious.

This ice pick is very thick.

The visual impact is very strong.

Because of the stab wound on the top of his head, the deceased's pale face was covered with blood, and his white clothes were stained red by the blood. His chin was slightly raised, and his eyes were still open, looking straight at Senko.

"Farke."

Senko whispered.

People outside were also shocked.

The deceased's posture was so weird and full of movement, as if he was kowtowing to someone just now. After kowtowing for a few times, he was stabbed in the head with an ice pick and was killed on the spot.

Of course, there are other speculations. For example, he climbed under the ice pick, but did not pay attention to the situation above his head. When he suddenly looked up, he accidentally stabbed himself to death.

"Are they your team members?"

Hu Ruihua looked at the rescue team members beside him.

"Probably not." The latter shook his head slightly.

In the video, Senko and the others were squatting on the spot, pointing several flashlights at the body.

See clearly.

If I had to compare it to a metaphor, the deceased's posture was like that of a frog, and the blood on his clothes was like some kind of weird striped petals, matching his unbending eyes.

It has a very evil smell.

Anyone who sees it will feel numb.

"Could it be that he was tying his shoelaces and then hit an ice pick when he raised his head?" Huzi suddenly guessed.

His words actually dispersed the weird atmosphere.

Zheng Yun glanced at Huzi with a strange expression, but saw that his eyes were wide open and his expression was serious, and he seemed to be serious.

"Do you get down on all fours to tie your shoes? It's obvious that you crawled out, and then for some reason, you suddenly raised your head and stabbed yourself to death." Xiao Hu retorted.

"Then why did he crawl out?" Huzi was puzzled.

But no one could answer his question. The ice pick was obviously immovable. The man could only climb out on his own initiative, but no one knew why he did this.

in the video screen.

Senko and three teammates were also discussing this matter in a low voice. The deceased was far away from them, but the persuasion effect was obvious, so they decided to put down the equipment at this place.

Several people took action immediately.

I put down a sound wave detector and a heat source sensor, which are very useful equipment in cracks.

"Lori, can you receive the data?"

Senko picked up the headset and spoke to the outside world.

"Yes." Luo Rui, who was sitting in the rescue vehicle, answered immediately, then adjusted the screen and started processing the data.

After a while.

A picture appears on the screen.

Zheng Yun and the others could also see that the heat source screen showed that there was a radioactive heat source at the feet of Senko in the northeast direction, about 120 to 500 meters away.

The temperature is above minus twenty degrees.

This thermal sensor is not thermal imaging. It can penetrate walls and detect long distances, but the image is diffuse and cannot tell what the source is, nor can it display the specific temperature.

It's about finding direction.

But this data can prove that there must be living things in this crack, and there must be survivors still alive.

Rory immediately transferred the data into the cave.

Senko and others were greatly refreshed, and they all cheered quietly for the good news, because this meant that their team members were probably still alive, but just trapped below.

Contrary to them.

It was the expressions of Zheng Yun and everyone else.

They were not unhappy, but worried, because this ice-cracked cave looked like a maze. The more naturally formed it was, the more complex and irregular it was.

Even if there is direction.

It's also hard to find people.