Chapter 135 42 Deep Into the Rift Valley and Tongueless Thing [Two in One]

Chapter 135 42. Going Deep into the Rift Valley and the Tongueless Thing [Two-in-One]

The crowd continued to explore forward, moving slowly forward in the winding passage. Every few steps, they wiped the ice walls around them to see if there were any changes in the ice layers on the left and right.

The ice layer under their feet turned into a downhill slope.

But the slope was very small, just enough to be felt, and the ice sled could not slide down automatically.

"We have walked two kilometers, and the angle is getting smaller and smaller." The person from the white rescue team spoke.

"It should be close to the intersection."

Hu Ruihua shone his light to his right hand. Just now they were hundreds of meters away from the impurity layer, but now they are only more than a hundred meters away. It is estimated that they will intersect in a short time.

Whether it is another road or not, we will know after walking forward. It is meaningless to guess now.

Zheng Yun focused on several data.

They are now two kilometers deep into the ice crack, but the direction of advance is still almost due north.

Meaning, although this ice crack is winding, it is straight as a whole, with not much difference.

Look up to the top of your head.

The 'sandwich' at the top of the ice crack is becoming more and more obvious. It's pitch black and the flashlight can't shine in. I don't know how deep it is. I only know that it's one person's height and can be walked.

It's still hard to judge.

When the crack is formed naturally, it means collision or splitting. The crack is A-shaped, but it's not impossible to form a T-shaped sandwich at the top.

The most important thing is the oxygen concentration. Bai Yi and his team all brought oxygen detectors, but it seems that the oxygen here has not changed much, and it's higher than the earth.

This clue may prove that this place is not the same place as the ancient ship chain before.

Everyone continued to walk deeper.

The sound of footsteps on the ice echoed around, the sound of the ice sled sliding on the ice was a bit harsh, and the ice crack was quiet and dead, even their breathing was clearly audible.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of light sources, otherwise walking in such a narrow environment, most people might have a phobia.

"It's already 2.5 kilometers." The captain in white would report their progress every once in a while.

Snap.

Hu Zi, who was walking in the front, suddenly slipped and almost fell to the ground. He danced and walked on the ice in a space walk, and it took him two or three seconds to stabilize his body.

"What happened?"

Hu Ruihua went up immediately.

Everyone was startled and quickly scanned the ground with a flashlight, but there was only a very obvious tire mark on the ice under Hu Zi's feet, which was left by the expedition team's car.

"I slipped."

Hu Zi scratched his head, readjusted the rope on his back, and looked around the ground with a puzzled face.

After searching in vain, everyone moved forward carefully again, but they always felt that these cracks, which were exactly the same as when they first came in, had some vague wrongness.

"What is the purpose of the expedition team driving the car in? How dare they be so bold?" Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun. They had walked so far and there were still tire marks on the ground.

"Not sure."

Zheng Yun shook his head. The only information he had now was that the archaeological team burned the snowmobile 20 years ago.

Walked another 500 meters forward.

The unchanging cracks finally changed.

They saw a huge ice room in front of them, about 600 square meters, and it was divided into two branches, one to the left front and the other to the back.

Everyone walked in cautiously, and Hu Zi raised his flashlight and looked at the dome of the ice room.

It was uneven, but there were no ice spikes.

Ji Dao also looked up. He was mainly looking at what he thought was the "wall corridor", but he found that the corridor went deeper into the left front branch.

Hu Ruihua walked to the right and swept the flashlight back. It was indeed an ice crack, and this crack passage was even wider than the way they came.

"Shall we go forward?"

Hu Zi looked down at the tire tracks on the ground. The tire tracks were facing the left front, but the passage in the left front was obviously shorter.

"Let's go. This ice room only has tire tracks and some equipment placement marks. The scientific expedition team should have stopped here." Hu Ruihua walked around and concluded.

"What can you hear?"

Zheng Yun turned his head and looked at Ji Dao.

Ji Dao took a deep breath and frowned as he walked to the intersection of the two forks. He waved his hand to let the others be quiet, and then listened carefully.

After a while.

Ji Dao looked at Zheng Yun: "The sound that sounded like a human voice was cut off, but the sound of knocking on the ice wall was still there, coming from the passage in the left front, but the strange thing is that there are also some sounds in the fork behind, which are not very clear."

"What about the sound of water? Is it far away?"

Zheng Yun nodded and asked. As long as there is running water, it means that the ice structure is unstable, and they need to be warned in advance.

"Very far." Ji Dao nodded.

Everyone stopped talking, simply rested in the ice room, and continued on the road. Along the fork in the left front, this time they walked two kilometers in one breath and walked into another ice room.

This ice room was obviously larger, and there were several forks, like a naturally formed crack maze, with no rules at all. Fortunately, they didn't need to choose, the goal was fixed, and they just needed to follow the tire tracks on the ground.

"The situation is not right. We have gone deep into the iceberg, but the altitude has not dropped too much. The altitude is now 330 meters, only 70 meters lower."

The captain in white spoke.

As soon as he finished speaking, Huzi, who was walking in front, exclaimed, turned around and said to Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun: "There is a cliff in front of you on the right! It's very deep and pitch black."

Everyone ran over quickly.

After viewing it, everyone was shocked.

Because the cliff Huzi mentioned was not on their road, but at the foot of their right hand side. Huzi saw it through the iceberg, and it was pitch black over there.

Flashlights flashed over at the same time.

This cliff also faces north and south, about three to four hundred meters away from them. A strong flashlight can shine directly over it. The light beam penetrates the ice and shines into the cliff.

Very deep.

Unfathomable.

The length is also unknown.

It was like an underground rift. It was not a crack at all. It was more than twenty meters wide and became wider as it went downwards. It looked dark and had a strange smell.

"Fake, this place is too complicated. Why is there such an ice crack valley down there?" The captain in white screamed strangely.

"I'm a little dizzy." Huzi covered his forehead. He felt like he was stepping on glass. Although the cliff was to the right, he still felt like he would fall in.

"Perhaps the goal of the scientific expedition team is this rift valley?" Hu Ruihua was also rarely worried.

"Keep moving forward, our progress is a bit slow." Zheng Yun sighed silently and asked everyone to speed up.

If nothing else goes wrong, the rift valley below is where the archaeological team was killed twenty years ago. The place where they were finally trapped may have a river connected to Broken Ice Lake.

Then everyone speeded up and encountered several ice houses and forked roads on the way. They all followed the car tracks.

After accumulating about ten kilometers, the vision suddenly opened up, a gap appeared in the crack, and the aurora came in.

Everyone quickly ran to the gap.

But what is unexpected is.

Outside this gap is actually an open-air ice valley, with towering and steep icebergs in all directions. There is no way out, but the area is very large, with a length of thousands of meters.

On the edge of the gap.

They saw snowmobiles, but there were only two of them, and they couldn't tell whether they belonged to the rescue team or the scientific expedition team.

"no one."

Hu Ruihua swept around and said.

Zheng Yun also looked around. This ice valley was very similar to the place where the car was burned in the video. The environment was somewhat similar, but it didn't seem to be the same. Maybe there was a similar gap deep down.

"This place is very nice. How many cars can I ask them to bring in?" Hu Ruihua turned back and looked at Zheng Yun.

"Okay." Zheng Yun nodded.

By driving the snowmobile here, even if they encounter any special circumstances, they can return here to get supplies and support, which is more convenient and faster than the ice valley ten kilometers away.

After some discussion, two people from the white-coated rescue team went back. They would drive two cars in and set up camp.

Others moved on.

Hu Ruihua took a notebook and wrote down all the forks and gaps along the way. He said to Zheng Yun: "We have deviated from the direction of Broken Ice Lake. We are still four kilometers away from Broken Ice Lake, and the altitude difference is more than 200 meters." rice."

"It seems that this journey is still long."

Zheng Yun nodded. They probably had to go around this place for a long time, and they would be able to get around it in a while.

After reaching this conclusion.

Everyone continued to move forward quickly along the car tracks on the ground, almost running. After a few kilometers deeper, the situation finally changed again, and the passage became obviously much steeper.

In the following section of the road, their altitude dropped by a full hundred meters, but two forked roads appeared in front of them, and on both forked roads, there were car prints of the scientific expedition team.

The real maze begins.

Zheng Yun looked back at Ji Dao. From now on, it was up to him. If he could make the right choice, he would make the right choice. If he made the wrong choice, he would be in vain.

"There's a voice on the right."

Noriichi pointed to the fork in front of him on the right.

Everyone did not hesitate and chose the right front. This road was heading northwest. In theory, it was indeed closer to Broken Ice Lake. However, not far away, the crack suddenly turned around.

A very sharp triangular ice chamber caused the road to turn around and head towards the southwest direction from where it came.

"You're going to fool me." Huzi had a headache.

"No wonder they drove." Hu Ruihua also nodded. After walking so far, their physical strength was also exhausted.

"The most incredible thing is that there is no car now. Where did they drive the car? How deep is it here? Is the ice-cracked lake also a gap?"

The captain in white also complained repeatedly.

But there was no other way. They could only continue to move forward, letting Ji Dao lead the way with his voice, and kept moving up and down in circles in this maze-like ice crevasse.

until the rope runs out.

Hu Ruihua and the others' ropes have long been gone.

However, the white rescue team brought twenty bundles of ropes and connected them one by one. The cumulative length reached 20,000 meters, but they were still used up.

During this period.

They encountered another gap. Outside the gap was a very small open-air ice valley. It was the Death Valley that no one could reach. They could not get out from inside, nor could they enter from the outside.

The complexity of this place is unbelievable. It completely stuns people. It is even difficult to understand. How can such a large crack running through the glacier mountains remain stable?

Another breath and a long walk.

They finally found some clues and found a vehicle abandoned by the scientific expedition team in a small gap.

Four cars in total.

No one.

But there are traces of a distress gun on the ground, which means someone fired a gun here some time ago and sent out a distress signal.

"There's something wrong with this car. All the oil has been drained." Hu Ruihua walked around the car and discovered something unusual.

"No gas?" Zheng Yun frowned.

This is completely opposite to the burning cars of twenty years ago.

"There is a gap on the opposite side." The captain in white had sharp eyes and shined his flashlight into a dark corner, revealing a gap on the opposite side, which was also a crevasse passage.

They walked over immediately.

As soon as they took a glance, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed, because there was actually a narrow path with a width of only one meter under their feet, hanging in the air on the ice wall of an ice chasm valley.

Flashlight swept down.

This rift valley is at least 200 meters deep. There is running water at the bottom. The river surface is more than 90 meters above sea level. It is likely that it goes down to the deepest continental rock layer of this glacial mountain range.

This is what they saw at the beginning, the unfathomable ice chasm. After circling for a long time, they still entered it, and the scientific expedition team was inside.

There are obvious marks on the ground.

And Ji Dao heard the sound immediately. There was an obvious abnormal noise in the north of the rift valley.

"Let's take a rest."

Zheng Yun looked back and glanced around. The ghost general was in good physical condition and his face was quite rosy, so he should be fine.

"Eat a meal before leaving." Huzi turned around and sat on the ground in the ice valley, taking out food from his backpack and preparing to cook.

"Looking at the map, it seems that this place is getting further away from the Ice Cracking Lake." Hu Ruihua took out his notebook and sighed.

Everyone felt tired, so they took out the gas stove to boil water, cooked some hot soup and pasta, and ate together without saying a few words, and then sat on the ground to rest.

Then they began to discuss plans.

This rift canyon is very difficult to navigate. The one-meter width requires professional preparation. You must find a place to lay ice spikes.

Woohoo...

at this time.

There was a sudden sound in the rift valley.

Everyone heard the sound, but none of them heard it clearly. They only felt that the sound was like the sound of wind or the howling of some kind of animal. It was very abrupt and strange.

Everyone's backs trembled when they heard this.

Huzi and the others even drew their guns directly, pointed their flashlights in the direction of the rift valley, and stared into the darkness with their guns in hand.

Zheng Yun's expression was solemn. He couldn't tell what the sound was, but it was definitely not normal. He subconsciously looked back at Ji Dao, only to see that the latter also had a strange expression.

"What's wrong?"

Zheng Yun was startled.

Jidao's face was full of disbelief at this time, as if he didn't believe that he heard such a sound here, and he was froze in place. Zheng Yun asked him and he came to his senses, then stretched out a few fingers and pointed at the crack. Direction:

"Master Yun, this is a human barking, but this is not a normal person. It is more like a tongueless thing in the records."

“What is a tongueless thing?”

Zheng Yun's scalp went numb and he asked quickly.

Hu Ruihua and Hu Zi also looked back at Jidao, with goosebumps all over their bodies, and stared at Jidao nervously.

"There are three taboo living creatures recorded in the ancient books of Triton. Once these three living creatures are born, they must be notified immediately. Triton will use all their resources to destroy and slaughter them at all costs."

"The tongueless thing is one of them. It should be regarded as a kind of monster. It looks somewhat similar to humans, but it has no tongue and can only make this whining sound."