Endless route

Chapter 136 43. Ancient towers and vehicle wreckage [two-in-one]

"What's so weird about this thing? Why should it be destroyed once it appears?" Zheng Yun quickly asked.

Ji Dao spoke in Chinese, which the white-coated rescue team members couldn't understand, so he didn't cover up his questions.

"I don't know much about this. There are no detailed records in the ancient Haiwei books, but logically speaking, this thing should not exist here. It was wiped out a long time ago."

"I heard something similar about the sound, but I'm not sure because I've never heard this kind of cry before. It's just very similar to the records. Maybe my guess was wrong. It should be affected by the low temperature and extreme cold in a place like this. freeze to death."

Ji Dao shook his head repeatedly.

"Any other ideas?" Zheng Yun asked again.

"It could also be a person who has some problems with his tongue." Ji Dao quickly put forward another guess.

"This gap looks like it was made by someone, maybe it was made by the scientific expedition team." Hu Ruihua suddenly said.

Others looked towards the gap.

This is indeed the case. There are some traces of being cut by an ice saw in this gap. Although there is no broken ice on the ground, it is likely that it fell in and was pushed into the rift valley.

"It seems that they really came here, and they are obviously prepared and know what is down here."

Huzi said softly.

Everyone was silent and thinking.

The matter is complicated and confusing, and the danger is getting higher and higher. It is difficult to imagine what is in this rift valley.

"Be more vigilant. It's not easy here." Zheng Yun sighed. It's not appropriate to retreat now. He should walk forward again and retreat if there is something weird.

The archaeological team from twenty years ago had obviously gone deeper and was trapped somewhere. Now the probability of a sudden accident and death is actually not very high.

After resting for a while.

Everyone took action again.

They dug several ice nails into the ice valley, penetrated deep into the ice, then put ropes on them, and then connected them to the locks on everyone's body.

Even if something goes wrong, you can still come back.

After that, they hit the road again, slipped into the rift valley through this gap, and stepped on a narrow path with a width of only one meter.

"Isn't this the city wall corridor?" Huzi glanced around and suddenly turned to look at Jidao.

This narrow path is almost the same as the mezzanine at the top of the crevasse that I saw before.

"Left or right?" Hu Ruihua asked.

"The sound came from the left, and the sound of knocking on the ice was also from the left." Ji Dao did not decide, but just described the situation.

"Looking at the traces on the ground, it seems that it went to the left." Zheng Yun scanned the rift valley with a flashlight.

At the bottom of the rift valley is a river with slow water flow, mixed with some broken ice, and steep white ice walls on both sides. There may be rock walls inside, but they cannot be seen at the moment.

Look to the left.

This path is also winding, with no end in sight, but there seem to be several gaps and forks in the middle.

Somewhat similar to the video from twenty years ago.

After confirming the direction, everyone set foot on the road one by one and moved forward slowly towards the left hand direction. This time, the ghost general was at the front. He had already drawn his sword. Huzi was second with a pistol in his hand. He would be ready if anything happened at any time. Can take action.

They were like a string of ants strung together by a rope, moving slowly on the steep ice wall. Fortunately, there was no wind in the rift valley. Although they walked slowly, every step was steady.

We walked about three hundred meters.

The first fork in the road appears.

The footprints on the ground showed that the scientific expedition team did not take this fork in the road, but continued forward. Everyone looked to the left and saw that this fork in the road was actually a cave with a small area inside.

Keep walking.

The ghost general suddenly turned his head to look at the rift valley below. Huzi followed and looked deeper. He saw a corpse floating out of the glacier in the deepest part of the rift valley.

"look down!"

Huzi gasped and whispered.

Only then did the others react and shine their flashlights together. The corpse was wearing professional cold-weather clothing and was soaked face down in the ice water. Neither the gender nor the appearance could be seen. They only knew that he was a modern man who floated out from the front.

But it can roughly distill the information.

This man must have died not long ago. There was no ice on any part of his body. He was still holding an ice pick in his hand. He probably fell from somewhere and froze to death.

In this situation, they couldn't intercept the body at all and could only watch the body float downstream in front of their eyes.

"Be careful."

Zheng Yun warned again.

Everyone was on the road again, about three hundred meters away, when a cave appeared again on the left hand side, connecting two caves, which made people wonder whether this place was man-made.

Then the road began to turn, turning to the left with the trend of the rift valley. Just as they turned, Zheng Yun and the others heard the sound of tapping on the ice wall, right in front!

Shine the flashlight towards the source of the sound.

A city wall suddenly appeared in front of them!

This city wall is thirty to forty meters high, lying across the rift valley. It is entirely made of huge rocks. There is also an oriental tower above the city wall, which is somewhat damaged but is completely intact!

This scene is too scary.

Such an ancient oriental building was quietly hidden in the dark rift valley, and they suddenly illuminated it with flashlights. Without any psychological preparation, everyone's heart trembled.

The flashlight light source cannot illuminate the whole scene, but by scanning from left to right, it can be roughly seen that the city wall is in the style of the late Ming Dynasty, no more than two hundred years ago!

In addition, the gate of this city wall is wide open. It is like a dam at this time, and the broken ice river flows out from the gate.

"What's going on?" Huzi looked back at Zheng Yun. He had never heard Zheng Yun say that there was a city wall.

"Jidao, what do you think?" Zheng Yun looked at Jidao. He still had to speak first.

"I've never heard of it. Why was a city wall built here? Is there anything in this place that needs a city wall to protect it?" Ji Dao frowned. It seemed that he really didn't know and was very confused. .

"Then let's take a closer look."

Zheng Yun asked the ghost general to stride forward.

The people in front of them continued to move forward, and the people behind them could come around the corner. As soon as the three people from the white-clothed rescue team saw the city, they softly exclaimed that they did not expect this scene.

Just a moment.

Everyone walked to the top of the city wall. The city wall was about 150 meters below their feet. It stretched across the rift valley. It was more than 90 meters long and 20 meters wide. It completely sealed the rift valley, leaving only the city. The gate lets the glacier pass through.

The tower on the city wall has four floors, with pointed cornices and a solemn style. It is a very high-level tower in the late Ming Dynasty style.

Looking at the city wall up close, they were even more shocked because it was hard for them to imagine where these huge stones for building the city wall came from. Could it be that they were quarried from the ground?

"There are no traces of fighting. This tower seems to have never experienced war. So what is it used for?"

Ji Dao murmured in his mouth.

If he couldn't understand it with his knowledge, others would be blind, but Zheng Yun had a vague feeling.

The previous speculation was confirmed.

There must be a shocking secret in this place, and its importance is so high that even the ancient Tiangong books cannot record it. As for the map of the Immortal Palace of Immortality, it should be from a different era.

But the age difference does not mean that the Immortal Palace Map is useless. At least it records the underground aperture and Hanxian Cave.

The ancient people's large-scale construction of city walls in this place must be related to the Hanxian Cave in the Earth's Aperture. It may be to protect against something, but it may also be to take advantage of the Earth's Aperture and the Hanxian Cave.

Recalling that Zhang Kuixi, the traitorous sea guard, was able to use the characteristics of Yuxun to command the sea monsters to build a monster pregnant tower in the fog-shrouded sea islands.

Let’s talk about the Hades Pavilion. The size of the ground pavilion plus the attic is not much smaller than the city wall. It was built in the tropical rain forest without any waste of manpower and material resources.

These people can.

A serious Triton must be able to do it too.

And if Triton really wants to guard against or take advantage of a certain magical place, it means that this place is anything but ordinary.

However, it is still uncertain whether this place was built by a serious Triton, or maybe it was a traitor or a vassal king. It can only be said that the ancient Easterners had this ability.

"There should be more than one tower in this city, and there should be one in front of it." Jidao raised his flashlight and swept forward.

But I can't see clearly.

There is nothing for at least a kilometer ahead.

"Let's go." Zheng Yun asked the ghost general to move forward again. Everyone connected the ropes and moved forward cautiously.

There are obvious footprints on the ground along this way. The people of the scientific expedition team wore ice spikes, and the white spots on the ground are the marks.

After going hundreds of meters deep.

A gap appears on the left hand side.

This is another man-made gap, but it is very old and was broken in from outside.

Everyone walked out of the gap and looked around.

It is still an open-air ice valley with steep sides on three sides, and there is a gap at the end of the ice valley. This is obviously a 'robber's cave', and it is more accurate than the scientific expedition team.

They came directly to the city wall.

"There is a car!" Huzi suddenly ran to the corner, pulled out the ice ax and pulled Bai Xue away, revealing several iron frames.

This is actually a burned off-road vehicle! Most of them were frozen in the ice, with only the small frame exposed.

Take a quick look around.

There are as many as seven or eight cars!

Zheng Yun's pupils shrank, this was the place where the archaeological team burned their snowmobile twenty years ago! If you scan around, you can still see some traces of life in the Ice Valley.

"How did this car get in? How did it get burned?" The people from the rescue team in white were even more confused.

"Driving in from the gap on the other side?" The captain in white held a flashlight and walked towards the gap on the other side.

Hu Ruihua and the others followed immediately. This issue was also critical. If there was an exit, they could retreat in time.

But the result is very strange.

That gap turned out to be a deep ice cave with a dead end inside, connected to the entire iceberg. It was impossible to break it through or allow a car to drive in.

"Fuck, what's going on?"

Huzi's scalp went numb and he immediately looked around, trying to find another way out of the mountain, but no matter how he looked, three sides of this triangular ice valley were too steep.

The ice valley is very large.

But this terrain is obviously a gap between several icebergs. Unless the snowmobile rushes almost vertically from the mountain, it is impossible for any vehicle to get in.

"Could it be hoisted in by a helicopter?" Hu Ruihua also made a rare guess without any reason.

It's really weird.

The rock path they entered was only one meter wide, and it was impossible for me to drive the car in even if the King of Heaven came.

And there is absolutely no such thing as saying that this road was originally several meters wide and later became one meter wide.

Because the wall is dead.

The width of the city wall limits the width of the rock path, and who dares to drive on such a steep rock path?

"It makes no sense what the helicopter crane is doing here. Did the car fall off the mountain?"

Huzi looked up at the iceberg.

"No need to guess, it must have been blocked by someone, and the gap was filled later." Zheng Yun suddenly said.

He had seen videos of car burnings from 20 years ago. The group of people didn't say a word, holding torches and hurriedly burning cars, even using gasoline, hoping to make the fire bigger.

Although no one spoke in the video.

I don’t know why they did this, but their desperate expressions and demeanor can be seen in the video. They definitely chose to burn the car because they had no way out.

Based on what Song Wan said before, some people suspect that the accident twenty years ago was related to the Orientals. It was the Orientals who killed them and left them to die in the valley.

If this is true and a third party really intervened in this matter, then a simple conclusion can be drawn.

The gap on the opposite side was originally opened. The archaeological team 20 years ago opened the gap on the opposite side very accurately and drove in through this gap.

Then they made another gap on this side, hitting directly inside the city wall, and for some unknown purpose, got off the car and entered this gap to explore.

The result is when they come back.

But they found that the gap on the opposite side was blocked.

They must have tried to open the gap again, but after fighting for a long time, they could only find a deep cave. The previous way out disappeared inexplicably, and they could not get out.

Then the snowmobile is useless.

And if this is the case.

Then their only way out is to go through the rift valley, follow the narrow rock wall path, and return in one breath.

They're probably lost.

Or maybe they were trapped here deliberately by 'some people'.

In the end, what happened was that a group of people squatted in a small ice cave, relying on burned wood from ancient buildings to keep warm, and had a fierce argument. The photographer left a painful video of his last words.

Zheng Yun remembers it very clearly.

There were a dozen people in the last video.

It was pitch black outside the ice cave, and the people in the cave built bonfires and quarreled around the bonfires. What was burned in the fire were the beams and columns from the oriental buildings, as well as brackets and carved beams.

When they quarreled, they said that their group had been trapped in the ice cave for more than ten days with no hope of getting out. The three groups of people who went out to explore the way have not come back, and they may be dead.

Basically everything is right.

But what they demolished may not be the ancient city tower. The place where they finally died is likely to be deeper.

"It was patched up?" Huzi was stunned. How could this thing be patched up and built up with a brick wall?

"This is not important." Zheng Yun shook his head. It didn't matter whether the gap was blocked or not.

The problem now is that history has repeated itself again. Today, twenty years later, another scientific expedition team of forty people came, like a "robbery hole", breaking through a gap and entering here.

And they were in distress again.

But this time there was no 'Oriental' to 'interfere' with them. I and others had just arrived, but before they could do anything, they had stopped eating, and the corpses were flowing out along the glacier...