Endless route

Chapter 134 41. Confidentiality level of man-made traces and ancient books [two-in-one]

Not long after, everyone got on the car, drove the snowmobile down the slope of the ice valley, fired a flare into the sky, and drove deep into this gloomy ice valley.

Under the bright yellow light.

The entire glacier valley had an unobstructed view. The east and west sides were long and narrow with no end in sight, winding like a dragon vein. However, it was difficult for them to get a full view of the valley.

I walked along the car tracks on the ground for a long time.

Several cars carefully drove to the bottom of the ice valley.

Hu Ruihua and others got out of the car and carefully checked the thickness of the ice in the ice valley. They were afraid that this place, like the ice valley where the Baiyi rescue team went, might break into an ice lake at any time.

"It's like a river here."

Xiao Hu said to Zheng Yun in front of the car.

"Is there water down there?" Zheng Yun turned back to look at Jidao. He had previously said that he heard the sound of water, but when he was asked to listen just now, he didn't mention it. I don't know if there was any.

"Yes, but it's very deep inside." Ji Dao nodded and pointed in the direction of the crevasse.

Zheng Yun nodded and waited for Hu Ruihua and the white rescue team to come back with the detector and share the detection results.

"The ice layer is very thick, enough for a snowmobile to go up." Hu Ruihua said briefly, and everyone got on the car, drove the snowmobile into the ice valley, and found a suitable place to camp.

What follows is a series of probes.

They and the white-coated rescue team are fully equipped. The white-coated rescue team is more professional and brings a lot of equipment.

However, the scientific expedition team suspected of being in trouble was twelve kilometers away from this crevasse, and no instrument could detect it.

Someone has to go in.

After some discussion, everyone decided to send some people in with ropes to explore the way first.

Twelve kilometers is too far.

If the road conditions are good, they can also choose to drive in and follow the car prints on the ground deep into it.

"Get ready to go in." Zheng Yun asked Ji Dao and the others to make some preparations. They will definitely come in this time. Ji Dao and Gui Jiang will be brought with them so that they can handle anything that happens.

After a while.

Zheng Yun brought six people with him, leaving Xiao Hu and Sister Song Wanwang to watch the car. Five people from the white-clothed rescue team also came out, a total of eleven people, ready to go into the cave.

The white-coated rescue team brought two ice sleds that could be dragged on the ground and other equipment could be put in them.

Taking a closer look at the equipment, it can be said that everything is available, including several oxygen bottles, a lot of emergency food and supplies, and a large number of detection equipment, which fills the sled to the brim.

"lets go."

Everyone walked towards the crevasse.

The ice crevasse is very high, like an ice pick placed upside down, sixty to seventy meters high, but only five to six meters wide.

When people stand in front of the crack, they feel an indescribable feeling of fear, which mainly comes from the uneasiness about the stability of the iceberg structure, but also partly from the unknown depth.

too dark.

Even if the flashlight shines in, it can't shine very deep. It's blocked by the twists and turns of cracks and folds, making it impossible to see directly to the end.

"The temperature is minus 34 degrees, but there is basically no wind in the rift valley, and the humidity is also good. The body temperature is about minus 20 degrees." The leader of the white-coated rescue team said.

"It might be warmer than outside." Huzi answered, raising the flashlight and shining it on the top of the crevasse.

"What are these balloons?" Hu Ruihua squatted in front of the balloons on the ground and asked aloud while wearing a mask.

"It should be used for detection. I have seen similar things before." The captain in white knelt down and took a look.

Without staying too long at the entrance of the crack, everyone walked into the crack and divided into two teams. Their bodies were connected with ropes and live rope locks, and the rope ends were left on the side of the snowmobile.

Put the rope on while walking.

At the end of the team in white is a strong man of Viking descent. He is two meters tall and weighs more than 300 kilograms. Even if the person in front falls into the crack, he will sit on the ground and hit the ice sled hard on the ground, which can destroy everyone in front of him. Everyone was pulled back.

Zheng Yun doesn't have that condition. If Huzi wants to explore the road, he can only let Jidao and Guijiang follow. They are also amazingly strong, so the final effect should not be much worse than that of their opponent.

"After we came in, the temperature got a little higher, minus thirty-three degrees Celsius." The captain in white said.

"There may be underground rivers inside, and there may be volcanoes underground. Are there any nearby?" Hu Ruihua asked.

"There shouldn't be any volcanoes. Most of the volcanoes in the glacier mountains are scenic spots. There should be no omissions, but there may be magma underground." The white-coated captain shook his head.

"The terrain in the glacier is very complex. Once before, we discovered an ice-cracked cave that was a thousand meters deep. The opening was only as big as a palm, and the depth was thousands of square meters. When we detected the depth, it was a pure rock rift. Very weird." A member of the other party said something.

"What's the current altitude?" Zheng Yun asked suddenly.

"It's about four hundred meters. The ice valley we passed just now is only ninety-three meters above sea level." The captain in white raised his watch and shook it before giving the answer.

After just a few words of communication, they were already hundreds of meters deep into the crevasse. The body temperature inside was indeed not low. Although the thermometer showed minus thirty, it didn't feel particularly cold when the face was exposed outside. Only the respiratory tract and ears were cold.

Everyone gradually reduces communication.

Looking around with a flashlight, the ground in this crack is flat and smooth, and an obvious multi-layered structure can be seen. It should be that the water flow freezes into ice, freezing from top to bottom.

Seems dangerous.

But there were indeed car prints on the ground.

The scientific expedition team seemed to have really driven in. I don’t know what they wanted to do by venturing in.

After about 500 meters in depth, everyone only saw some domestic garbage on the ground. Further forward, there were the same twists and turns and width. They didn't know how far they would go to the end.

After some discussion, everyone decided not to drive. The interior of the crevasse was too narrow. If a car entered, it would restrict people's range of activities. If something happened, they would not be able to get out. People would also be stuck inside and unable to evacuate in time.

"continue."

Zheng Yun made a decision.

The more I look at this place, the more it looks like Song Wan found it. In the latter few videos, the photographer found the frozen giant bear and the place where he took a selfie and said his last words.

In fact, other videos can also be matched.

There is a video of the archaeological team discovering a broken ice lake twenty years ago and diving down to find the ‘entrance’.

Although it is not exactly the same as the broken ice lake found by the Baiyi rescue team, this is probably due to changes in water levels, or it may be a lake from the same source within the twelve kilometers.

Yes, it can be matched.

This is even more unsettling.

Because the archaeological team twenty years ago did several things that Zheng Yun could not understand, such as burning his own snowmobile and being trapped in a place with ancient buildings.

The video Song Wan found was only part of it. No one knew what else they experienced before they were killed.

in addition.

Why does this seem to have something to do with the ‘earth aperture’? The 'entrance' is at the bottom of Broken Ice Lake. Is it possible that it is an underground hole? Can it be filled or empty by a broken ice lake?

"The passage seems to have become wider?" Huzi suddenly reminded in a low voice, but his flashlight was pointed upward.

He kept looking above his head, fearing that some huge ice block would fall down and kill them all. Fortunately, there were no ice picks above their heads, and the ice wall looked very solid.

Everyone looked up.

The ice cracks that get higher and narrower suddenly become much wider, and the layers become very complicated, like the mezzanine ceiling made by urbanites when they decorate their living rooms. It seems that there is a path to walk in the gap between the highest point and the dome.

"Why does it look like a maze? The structure is like a tunnel on a city wall." Ji Dao said suddenly. He didn't know where this place was, but his intuition was that there was something wrong.

"You've only entered a few hundred meters and you can already tell it's a maze?" Huzi was startled and said in disbelief.

Zheng Yun also looked back at Jidao.

What he said was indeed a bit scary. If there were artificial traces here, or traces of ancient people, then he could hardly imagine that there was anything here worthy of this.

"It's hard to say, it's just a bit like it." Ji Dao looked forward, and the passage was still unfathomable: "This is a dangerous area, a model of easy to defend and difficult to attack. With only a few thousand troops, hundreds of thousands of troops can be defeated." Even the horses can't attack."

"Who will attack here?" Hu Ruihua asked.

"It's hard to say. For example, what about rebelling against the vassal king? So that the court had to come and destroy him?" Jidao guessed again.

But this is a bit unreasonable. Even if some vassal king fails to succeed and chooses to flee, this endless route is very big, and he should not come to such a place where birds can't shit.

"It's a bit far-fetched." Zheng Yun commented.

"Maybe I'm overthinking." Ji Dao immediately shook his head.

Everyone continued to move forward.

After walking for nearly a thousand meters, I felt the temperature getting higher and higher, but the passage was still as narrow and winding.

The ice walls on the left and right are becoming more and more transparent, and a smooth area can be made by rubbing it with your hands. If you shine a flashlight into it, you can see far away. It looks like a light blue gemstone, and impurities can be seen.

Various instruments have still not been found.

It feels the same as when I first came in.

A group of them were walking in this ice crevasse. If they looked down from a high place, they would look very small, like a few ants. Only the flashlight beams in each person's hands were very huge, and more than a dozen light beams were sweeping around in the dark cracks.

It is possible to be blind in glacial mountains.

But it was different in the rift valley. There was light blue everywhere. When the flashlight was placed on the ice wall, the entire ice wall emitted blue light, like a huge luminous sapphire.

This method of lighting is actually stronger than direct flashlights. Five or six flashlights can illuminate the entire passage so that it glows from within, like walking in a dreamy luminous cave.

It's a pity that they are not here for tourism.

"The road has turned downhill." Hu Ruihua, who was the most basic, spoke first, and there was a short downhill road ahead.

"About how many meters is it?" Zheng Yun asked.

"One point five kilometers, one-eighth of the way." The captain in white replied immediately. The rope in his hand was marked.

"Have a rest and maintain your strength." Hu Ruihua said, and then asked everyone to eat, drink and get some oxygen.

"Is it always like this all the way?" Huzi scratched his scalp through his winter hat, feeling a little worried about this situation.

"There seems to be a fork in the road over there." Ji Dao suddenly said. He had just used his gloves to rub a smooth surface on the ice wall, like a window, and used a flashlight to go in and observe.

Then he really saw something.

After hearing this, everyone immediately walked around him and started rubbing against the ice wall, wiping off the roughness and hoarfrost on the surface. They even used ice blades to cut off part of it and make several 'sections'.

This section of ice was extremely transparent. Jidao put his flashlight against the ice wall, and everyone else could see through the ice a hundred meters away without the need for a light source.

There are many impurities in the ice wall, including frozen marine life, some weird cracks like ant holes, and some bubbles and broken ice, but these do not affect the view.

Everyone could vaguely see that at the end of the light blue ice layer, where the flashlight could not illuminate clearly, there was another rough outer layer about a few hundred meters away.

Just saw the end.

Vision cannot penetrate this layer.

The rough layer of the problem is a complete block. Everything they can see up, down, left, and right is covered with this layer.

This is something that shouldn't happen. If the ice layer is whole or continuous, then they should be able to see other places anyway, and the line of sight will extend out.

Since there is no.

Then there are only two possibilities. One is that there is an impurity layer in the middle of the iceberg that runs through the entire iceberg. The other is that this layer is actually another ice crack, just like the current one.

The possibility of the former is too low. This is an iceberg. How could there be an impurity layer growing vertically? Or a whole vertical section? Unless the icebergs are accumulating and squeezing, but if so, then to put it bluntly, it is still a crack, it is just a matter of size.

"I'm afraid it's really a misunderstanding, but how this came about is very unreasonable." Huzi trembled.

Jidao's previous words were still ringing in his ears. He suspected that there were traces of human activity in this place, which might have something to do with the ancients.

Are these crevasses man-made?

How could this be possible?

"Keep going." Zheng Yun looked back.

He was also suspicious of this matter. There was no record of this place on the Immortal Mansion Map. Logically speaking, if the ancients came here to do something, it would be recorded on the Immortal Mansion Map.

But it’s not written on the map of the Immortal Mansion.

Whether it is the Earthly Aperture or Hanxian Cave, they only record the 'discovery process' and do not record the subsequent events.

The priority of the Immortal Palace Map should be higher than that of other ancient books. Ji Dao has been guarding the Heavenly Palace for more than ten years and has nothing to do. He has read countless ancient books about the land of gods and ghosts.

But he didn't know there was an orifice here.

Previously, the Hades Pavilion and Three Demon Islands were recorded in the Tiangong ancient books, but this time, the Tiangong ancient books were not complete.

This is very strange.

In fact, a similar situation occurred in the Pregnant Demon Tower last time. The ancient Tiangong books did not record the truth. They only knew about the Qianzhou Strait and the Three Demon Islands, but did not know about the Pregnant Demon Tower at all.

That time may have involved the level of 'confidentiality'. Places like the Pregnant Demon Tower were related to Triton's rebellion and the vassal king. It was probably that Triton deliberately concealed the information.

Now they are also missing information.

The chain of ancient ships on the bow glacier must be man-made. The archaeological team 20 years ago used ancient buildings to burn fires to keep warm. This means that there must be man-made structures deep here.

The ancients did do some things.

But there is no record of it anywhere.

Is it because of the age? When was the picture of the Immortal Mansion of Immortality compiled and drawn? If Triton or the ancients did something, it would be later than the time when the Immortal Palace Map and the Tiangong Ancient Books were compiled.

Then these ancient books will indeed become invalid.

Or is it because of the ‘confidentiality’ level again this time? There are some things involved here, not only the ancient books of Tiangong, but also things that cannot be recorded even in the map of Immortal Palace of Immortality?

What must this be?