Endless route

Chapter 133 40. Go into the mountains to find and the gloomy ice valley [two-in-one]

The snowmobile was speeding on the ice. Zheng Yun turned his head and looked out the window. The people camping on the ice had already woken up. Many people were gathered in front of the tent, washing and eating breakfast without being affected.

Look up to the north.

After his own twists and turns, the distress bombs and flares have fallen, as if they had never existed.

No one has seen it. As long as the Christmas Islands don't take the initiative to remind them and there are no witnesses to publicize it, this pirate festival should be able to continue without much hindrance.

"Master Yun, who are these people?"

Ji Dao looked at the people camping in the wild with confusion on his face. He couldn't understand what they were doing. They all set up their own tents to live in. How could they come to a place like this and suffer the consequences when they have nothing to do?

"They're all gold diggers."

Zheng Yun explained to him.

"No wonder the barbarians like to do this. There are records in our history." Jidao sighed.

"What kind of record?" Song Wan sat in the passenger seat with a map on her lap and looked back at Jidao to ask.

She was not familiar with Ji Dao.

But it’s not like I haven’t seen it before.

"That's quite a lot." Ji Dao saw Song Wan talking to him, and he quickly sat upright, looking a little reserved and a little aloof, and spoke seriously: "According to legend..."

The long journey passed quickly as Ji Dao recounted it. With his level of erudition, it might not be a problem to talk about it for a day, but now is not the right time.

"We're going into the mountains soon."

Hu Ruihua's voice sounded on the intercom.

"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."

"Um."

Song Wan immediately picked up the tablet. Giving directions was her specialty. She was responsible for giving directions from the beginning.

After a while.

The car ahead turns left into the Glacier Mountains.

Zheng Yun kept a distance of 200 meters and followed to avoid being hit by the car in front of him when it suddenly braked.

It was their first time to visit this glacier mountain range, but the local rescue team chose the route very accurately. It was basically a gentle slope all the way, 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 in the sky was enough for him to drive through the wide ice valley. As long as he followed the car in front accurately, it wouldn't be a big problem.

But the deeper you go.

Things started to go wrong along the way.

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

"Master Yun, you are amazing!"

Ji Dao held on to the seat and looked at the 100-meter-deep ice valley on the left side of the off-road vehicle. He couldn't help but swallow his saliva and praised it.

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

Zheng Yun's expression was serious, his body almost pressed against the steering wheel, trying to get as much view of the road ahead as possible.

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

"Let's take a rest."

The intercom rang again.

"OK."

Zheng Yun replied briefly.

Everyone got out of the car and looked at the situation. There were many imprints of rescue vehicles on the ground. At least two rescue teams and about four to five vehicles passed in front of them. 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 go.

As soon as they rounded an iceberg and entered the ice valley, they saw five snowmobiles and many rescuers in the gentle area of ​​the ice valley. They seemed to have encountered some problem.

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

"It's you."

"We met here again."

When these rescuers saw the car coming, they turned back to look at their two cars. However, Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun were recognized by these rescuers as soon as they got off.

Zheng Yun scanned around.

These were all acquaintances whom I had met in the hospital, and I had sincerely thanked him for rescuing Senko.

It's much easier to deal with an acquaintance.

Hu Ruihua immediately asked what was going on, and the other party's reply was that they had searched around the area and used drones to take aerial photos, but could not find the scientific expedition team's vehicles.

The scientific expedition team consisted of forty people and eight vehicles. The camp should be very large and must be very conspicuous, but they found nothing. 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 20 kilometers. After we saw the light of the distress gun in the early morning, we used the triangulation method to locate the location when they fired the distress gun."

"Now there are eight directions, but there are only three directions left that have not been found. If there is one, it will be in these three directions."

The rescue team responded.

"Were the distress bombs in the sky fired by the scientific expedition team?" Zheng Yun interjected and asked. This was important information.

"This is uncertain. Before us, there was a rescue team that came nearby. We can't contact them yet. We haven't found where their rescue vehicle is."

The other person shook his head.

After several rounds of conversations, Zheng Yun and others learned what happened. The rescue team in white immediately set off and rushed here after learning about the accident in the early morning. They had been here for two hours. The emergency rescue team next to them had just arrived.

They don't know much either.

No clues have been found so far.

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

The white-coated rescue team sighed.

The ground around here is full of car prints. The eight vehicles of the scientific expedition team have been wandering around for half a month, leaving many marks in all directions. They are very messy and difficult to distinguish.

"Look for it slowly."

Hu Ruihua nodded.

The three teams discussed it and decided to split up, each responsible for one direction, focusing on finding the entrance to the iceberg.

Zheng Yun got in the car again, and they chose the northeast direction because that direction pointed to the center of the circle drawn by his adoptive father.

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

Huzi complained over the intercom.

In this world of ice and snow coupled with the polar night environment, even if flares are used, there are many shadows between the icebergs of all sizes.

They need to use telescopes to look for cracks or dark openings in the iceberg, which are really hard to find.

Zheng Yun can see it directly.

Huzi held a telescope, stuck his head out of the rear window of the car in front, and took a sharp look at the mountainside and top of the iceberg.

"Don't look up, it can't be that high." Zheng Yun picked up the walkie-talkie and said, Hu Zi is too fooling around.

"Master Yun, let me go down and take a look? I can hear what's going on around me." Jidao suddenly volunteered.

"That's okay." Zheng Yun stopped the car.

Ji Dao's hearing is different from ordinary people. Maybe he can actually hear something, such as the voice for help deep underground.

As Zheng Yun and Ji Dao stopped, the car in front of them, Hu Ruihua, also stopped immediately. When Zheng Yun saw this, he used the intercom and said: "Keep quiet and let Ji Dao listen to the surrounding sounds."

The opening movement of the car in front stopped, Hu Ruihua turned off the car, and everyone remained still and absolutely quiet.

Zheng Yun also destroyed the car.

Watch Noriichi listening from the front.

It was very quiet in the ice valley, but there was always the slight sound of wind blowing in my ears, and the sound of wind blowing on the glacier in the distance, but there was no other sound.

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 stood up and said awkwardly:

"There seems to be living water down here."

"About where?" Zheng Yun asked.

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

"Okay." Zheng Yun nodded.

It seemed like he didn't hear any information, but the lack of information was key information. He could even hear the sound of water, but couldn't hear anyone moving, which meant there was no one nearby.

The two cars were on the road again.

After walking for more than ten kilometers in the northeast direction, there are still traces of car prints on the ground, but there is no official map. I can walk wherever I can, relying entirely on the aerial map in my hand and Hu Ruihua's experience to move forward.

But this time they found something.

They drove to the edge of a very deep ice valley. This ice valley was probably two to three hundred meters deep. It was pitch black and covered with shadows, and nothing could be seen clearly.

The car marks on the ground were along the gentle slope of the ice valley. Just thirty meters down, there was a shadow. It was so dark that you couldn't see the five fingers of your hand. It looked eerie 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 a huge ice crack on the mountain, which is big enough for a car to drill into, but it looks very dangerous.

"A scientific expedition team will get into a place like this?"

"Should we come here for a survey and then leave?"

Huzi asked in confusion. If they wanted to go down this kind of ice valley, they would have to go around the gentle slope for at least half an hour, and they didn't know whether the car marks on the ground were from before or the latest.

The issue is complex.

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

"The drone goes in and takes a look."

Hu Ruihua said to Xiao Hu, this is the end of the route. If you don't go here, you 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 captured the footage with the camera.

The small light on the drone can only dispel the darkness within thirty to fifty meters, but it makes the ice valley look even weirder, with black shadows everywhere, and the black and blue colors make people uncomfortable.

"Down a little." Hu Ruihua said.

Xiao Hu immediately followed the instructions, 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 artificial object appeared on the screen, red in color, and looked like fragments of a tent.

Everyone's spirits were lifted.

The drone continued to penetrate deeper.

Soon I found traces of someone having been stationed there. There were some domestic garbage on the ground. It must have been packed in bags but not taken away, and it was blown everywhere by the wind.

"The quality of this scientific expedition team is worrying." Huzi frowned and said.

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

Hu Ruihua looked back at Zheng Yun.

"It's possible." Zheng Yun nodded. These garbage are indeed very suspicious and should not exist here.

The picture on the screen is still changing.

The drone has already drilled into the ice crevice. This crack is probably sixty or seventy meters high. It is shaped like a dagger. The top is sharp and the bottom is not wide, making it very dangerous.

"What's that on the left?" Hu Ruihua's sharp eyes suddenly pointed at the upper left corner of the screen, where there was a white shadow.

The drone flew over immediately.

The white shadow was inside the ice crevice. It was only when I got closer that I saw clearly that it was actually a broken white balloon. Not only here, there were many broken balloons of various colors on the ground.

"..."

Everyone was silent.

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

"Is this a scientific research balloon?"

Hu Ruihua asked confused.

Zheng Yun didn't know either, so he could only look at Song Wan, 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. No other findings were found, making it difficult to decide whether to go down to the ice valley to search.

"Jidao, it's your turn to take action."

Zheng Yun turned around and looked at Jidao.

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

Everyone was like wooden figures, standing motionless on the spot, not daring to take a deep breath, waiting for Ji Dao to listen.

After a while.

Ji Dao suddenly said categorically: "There are living things in here! I heard some noises, maybe they were people."

"Describe it?" Zheng Yun frowned.

"It seemed like someone was shouting, and someone was smashing ice, but I couldn't hear clearly. The distance was very, very far away. I don't know why I could hear it." Ji Dao also frowned.

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

"No, Hanxian Cave is an iceberg cave. It should be round, not pointed like this." Ji Dao shook his head.

"OK."

Zheng Yun nodded.

Xiao Hu drove his car to the open area to contact the rescue team. Others immediately took action, using radios to receive equipment, and went down to the gentle slope to detect the ice cave entrance.

But no signal was received.

I don’t know if it’s because the distance is too far or if there’s 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 several used rescue guns in an ice valley in the northwest, and also saw some tents in the depths. "

"But at the bottom of their ice valley is a huge lake of broken ice. The scientific expedition team's vehicle did not enter from there, but took a detour from somewhere to get there."

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

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

"Are they going to take a look at the Ice Valley?" Hu Ruihua asked.

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

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

After a while, two vehicles from the white-coated rescue team took the lead in going around 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 Hu said, with used tents and rescue guns.

The glacier valley in the picture is also very deep, even two to three hundred meters deeper than the current glacier valley, and off-road vehicles cannot get down.

Moreover, the cracked ice lake is also very narrow and long, hundreds of meters long and wide. Even if they go down, they will not be able to get through. The helicopter will have no place to land, and it will not even be able to fly in the valley.

The only way now.

Just go in and take a look through the crevasse here.