Chapter 134 41 Man-Made Traces and Ancient Book Confidentiality Level [Two in One]
Chapter 134 41. Man-made traces and confidentiality level of ancient books [two-in-one]
After a while, everyone got in the car and drove the snowmobile down the slope of the ice valley. They fired a flare into the sky and drove deep into the gloomy ice valley.
Under the bright yellow light.
The entire ice valley was in full view. The east and west sides were narrow and curved with no end, like a dragon vein, but they were in the valley and could not see the whole picture.
They drove along the tire tracks on the ground for a long time.
Several cars drove carefully to the bottom of the ice valley.
Hu Ruihua and others got off the car and carefully checked the thickness of the ice layer in the ice valley, fearing that this place would be like the ice valley where the white rescue team went, and it might break into an ice lake at any time.
"This looks like a river."
Xiao Hu said to Zheng Yun in front of the car.
"Is there water below?" Zheng Yun looked back at Ji Dao. He said before that he heard the sound of water, but when he asked him to listen just now, he didn't mention it. I don't know if there is any.
"Yes, but it's very deep inside." Ji Dao nodded and pointed to the direction of the ice crack.
Zheng Yun nodded and waited for Hu Ruihua and the White Rescue Team to come back with the detector to share the detection results.
"The ice layer is very thick, enough for the snowmobile to go up." Hu Ruihua said briefly, and everyone got in the car, drove the snowmobile into the ice valley, and found a suitable place to camp.
The next step was a series of detections.
They and the White Rescue Team were fully equipped, and the White Rescue Team was more professional and brought a lot of instruments.
But the scientific expedition team was suspected to be twelve kilometers away from this ice crack, and no instrument could detect it.
People must go in.
After everyone discussed it, they decided to send some people in first, with ropes on their bodies, to explore the way first.
Twelve kilometers is too far.
If the road conditions are good, they can also choose to drive a car in and go deep into it along the tire tracks on the ground.
"Get ready to go in." Zheng Yun asked Ji Dao and the others to make some preparations. They must go in this time. Ji Dao and the ghost generals are brought with them so that they can deal with anything that happens.
After a while.
Zheng Yun brought six people with him, leaving Xiao Hu and Sister Song Wan to watch the car, and the White Rescue Team also sent out five people, a total of eleven people, ready to go into the cave.
The White Rescue Team brought two ice sleds, which can be dragged on the ground, and other equipment can be put in.
Counting the equipment carefully, it can be said that everything is available, several oxygen cylinders, a lot of emergency food and supplies, and a large number of detection equipment, which fills the ice sled.
"Let's go."
Everyone walked towards the ice crack.
The ice crack is very high, like an ice cone placed upside down, 60 to 70 meters high, but only 5 to 6 meters wide.
When people stand in front of the crack, there is an indescribable sense of fear, mainly from the worry about the stability of the iceberg structure, and partly from the unknown in the depths.
It's too dark.
The flashlight can't shine very deep, and it is blocked by the tortuous crack folds, and it is impossible to see directly to the bottom.
"The temperature is minus 34 degrees, but there is basically no wind in the rift valley, and the humidity is good. The perceived temperature is about minus 20 degrees." said the captain of the white rescue team.
"That may be warmer than outside." Hu Zi answered, raising the flashlight and shining it on the top of the ice crack.
"What are these balloons?" Hu Ruihua squatted in front of the balloons on the ground, wearing a mask and asked.
"It should be used for detection. I have seen similar things before." The captain of the white-clothed team squatted down and took a look.
Without staying too long at the crack mouth, everyone walked into the crack front and back, divided into two teams, and were connected with ropes and live rope locks on their bodies, and the rope ends were left on the snowmobile side.
You have to release the rope while walking.
At the end of the team on the white-clothed side is a strong man of Viking descent, two meters tall and weighing more than 300 kilograms. Even if the person in front falls into the crack, he sits on the ground and smashes the ice sled on the ground, which can pull all the people in front back.
Zheng Yun does not have that condition. Hu Zi wants to explore the way, so he can only let Ji Dao and Gui Jiang follow behind. The two of them are also amazingly strong, and the final effect should not be much worse than the other side.
"After entering, the temperature has actually become higher, minus 33 degrees." Captain Bai said.
"There may be underground rivers inside, and there may be volcanoes underground. Are there any nearby?" Hu Ruihua asked.
"There should be no volcanoes. Most of the volcanoes in the glacier mountains are scenic spots, so there should be no omissions, but there may be magma underground." Captain Bai shook his head.
"The terrain in the glacier is very complex. We once found an ice crack cave that was a thousand meters deep. The opening was only the size of a palm, and the depth was thousands of square meters. When we probed deep, it was a pure rock rift valley, which was very strange." A member of the other party took over and said.
"What is the current altitude?" Zheng Yun suddenly asked.
"About 400 meters. The ice valley we just passed is only 93 meters above sea level." Captain Bai raised his watch and shook it, giving the answer.
After a few words of communication, they had already gone hundreds of meters deep into the ice crack. The body temperature inside was indeed not low. Although the thermometer showed minus 30, the face was exposed and did not feel particularly cold. Only the respiratory tract and ears were cold.
Everyone gradually reduced communication.
Looking around with a flashlight, the ground inside the crack is flat and smooth, and you can see a very obvious multi-layer structure. It should be that the water flow has frozen into ice, from the top to the bottom.
It looks dangerous.
But there are indeed car tracks on the ground.
The scientific expedition team seems to have really driven the car in. I don’t know what they want to do by taking the risk to come in.
After going about 500 meters deep, everyone only saw some household garbage on the ground. The road ahead was still the same in twists and turns and width. It was unknown how far they would have to go to reach the end.
After some discussion, everyone decided not to drive. The ice crack was too narrow. If a car entered, it would limit the range of people's activities. If something happened, they could not get out, and people would be stuck inside and could not be evacuated in time.
"Let's continue."
Zheng Yun made a decision.
The more he looked at this place, the more it looked like the place where Song Wan found it. In the latter few videos, the photographer found the frozen giant bear and the last selfie.
In fact, other videos can also match.
There is a video of the archaeological team twenty years ago discovering a broken ice lake and diving down to find the 'entrance'.
Although it is not exactly the same as the broken ice lake found by the white rescue team, this is probably due to changes in water levels, or a lake of the same origin in these twelve kilometers.
It can match.
This makes people even more uneasy.
Because the archaeological team twenty years ago did several things that Zheng Yun could not understand, such as burning their own snowmobiles and being trapped in a place with ancient buildings.
The video Song Wan found was only part of it. No one knew what they had experienced before they died.
In addition.
How does this seem to be related to the ‘ground hole’? The ‘entrance’ is at the bottom of the broken ice lake. Could it be a ground hole? Can it be filled or vacant by the broken ice lake?
“The passage seems to have widened?” Hu Zi suddenly whispered, but his flashlight was facing the sky.
He kept looking up, fearing that some huge ice block would fall and kill them all. Fortunately, there were no ice cones above their heads, and the ice wall looked very solid.
Everyone looked up.
The ice cracks that were getting narrower and narrower suddenly became much wider, and the layers became very complicated, like the mezzanine ceilings made by urban people when decorating their living rooms, as if there was a path between the highest point and the dome.
“Why is it like a maze? That structure is like a corridor on the city wall.” Ji Dao suddenly spoke. He didn’t know where this place was, but his intuition was a bit wrong.
“It’s only a few hundred meters in, and you can tell it’s a maze?” Hu Zi was startled and said in disbelief.
Zheng Yun also looked back at Ji Dao.
His words were indeed a bit scary. If there were traces of man-made things here, or traces of ancient people, then he could hardly imagine what was there here that was worth this.
"It's hard to say, it's just a bit like that." Ji Dao looked forward, and the passage was still unfathomable: "This is a dangerous place, a model of easy defense and difficult attack. Only a few thousand soldiers can prevent hundreds of thousands of soldiers from attacking."
"Who will come to attack here?" Hu Ruihua asked back.
"It's hard to say, such as the rebellious vassal king? Forced the court to come and eliminate them?" Ji Dao guessed again.
But this is a bit unreasonable. Even if there is a vassal king who chooses to flee after failing to rebel, this endless route is very large, and he should not come to such a remote place.
"It's a bit far-fetched." Zheng Yun commented.
"Maybe I think too much." Ji Dao shook his head immediately.
Everyone continued to move forward.
After walking nearly a thousand meters, the body temperature was getting higher and higher, and the passage was still as narrow and tortuous as before.
The ice walls on the left and right became more and more transparent. A little hand rubbed out a smooth area. When the flashlight was shone into it, it could be seen far away, like a light blue gem, and impurities could be seen.
Various instruments still did not find it.
It felt the same as when they first came in.
They walked in this ice crack. If they looked down from a high place, they looked very small, like a few ants. Only the flashlight beams in everyone's hands were very huge, and more than a dozen beams of light swept everywhere in the dark crack.
It might be blind in the glacier mountains.
But it was different in the rift valley. There was a light blue everywhere. The flashlight was placed on the ice wall, and the entire ice wall emitted blue light, like a huge sapphire that could glow.
This lighting method was actually stronger than direct flashlight. Five or six flashlights could illuminate the entire passage from the inside, like walking in a dreamy glowing cave.
It was a pity that they were not here for tourism.
"The road turned downhill." Hu Ruihua, the least, spoke first, and a short downhill road appeared in front.
"About how many meters?" Zheng Yun asked.
"One and a half kilometers, one eighth of the way." The captain in white replied immediately, and the rope in his hand had a scale.
"Take a break to maintain your strength." Hu Ruihua said, and then asked everyone to eat, drink, and breathe some oxygen.
"Is it like this all the way?" Hu Zi scratched his scalp through his cold-proof hat, a little worried about this situation.
"It seems that there is a fork in the road over there." Ji Dao suddenly said. He just rubbed a smooth surface on the ice wall with his gloves, like a window, and used a flashlight to observe.
Then he really saw something.
Everyone immediately walked around him after hearing this, and began to rub on the ice wall, wiping off the roughness and white frost on the surface, and even used ice knives to cut off a part of it to make several "sections".
This section of ice is extremely transparent. Ji Dao put the flashlight on the ice wall, and everyone else can see through it without a light source. A hundred meters away.
There are many impurities in the ice wall, frozen marine life, some strange cracks like ant holes, and some bubbles and broken ice, but none of them affect the vision.
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.
That's the end.
The line of sight can't penetrate this layer.
The problem is that this rough layer is a whole block. All the places they can see up, down, left, and right are all this layer.
This shouldn't happen. If the ice layer is whole or continuous, then they should be able to see other places anyway, and their line of sight will extend out.
Since there is no such thing.
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, and 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 can there be an impurity layer that grows vertically? Or a whole vertical section? Unless the iceberg is piled up and squeezed, but if so, then it is still a crack, just a matter of size.
"I'm afraid it's really a fork in the road, but how it was formed is very unreasonable." Hu Zi shuddered.
Ji Dao's previous words were still ringing in his ears. He suspected that there were traces of human beings in this place, which might have something to do with the ancients.
Could this ice crack be man-made?
How could it be made?
"Keep going forward." Zheng Yun retracted his gaze.
He was also suspicious of this matter. The Immortal Palace Map of Changsheng did not record this place. Logically, if the ancients came here to do something, the Immortal Palace Map would definitely record it.
But it was not written on the Immortal Palace Map.
Whether it was the Earth Hole or the Cold Immortal Cave, they only recorded the "discovery process" and did not record what happened later.
The priority of the Immortal Palace Map of Changsheng should be higher than other ancient books. Ji Dao has been guarding the Heavenly Palace for more than ten years. He has nothing to do and has read countless ancient books involving the land of gods and ghosts.
But he didn't know there was an Earth Hole here.
The Underworld Pavilion and the Three Demon Islands were previously recorded in the ancient books of the Heavenly Palace, but this time, the ancient books of the Heavenly Palace were incomplete.
This is very strange.
In fact, a similar situation occurred last time with the Pregnant Demon Tower. The ancient books of the Heavenly Palace did not record the truth. They only knew that there were the Submerged Boat Strait and the Three Demon Islands, and they didn't know about the Pregnant Demon Tower at all.
That time may have involved the "confidentiality" level. The Pregnant Demon Tower was related to the rebellion of the Sea Guard and the vassal king. It is estimated that the news was deliberately concealed by the Sea Guard.
Now they are also missing information.
The chain of ancient ships on Chuantou Glacier must be man-made. The archaeological team twenty years ago used ancient buildings to burn fires for heating, which means that there must be man-made buildings deep here.
The ancients did do something.
But there is no record anywhere.
Is it because of the age? When was the Immortal Palace Map compiled? If what Haiwei or the ancients did was later than the compilation of the Immortal Palace Map and the ancient books of the Heavenly Palace.
Then these ancient books will indeed become invalid.
Or is it because of the "confidentiality" level this time? There are some things involved here that cannot be recorded in not only the ancient books of the Heavenly Palace, but even the Immortal Palace Map?
What is this thing?