Alien Relic Hunter

While Ke Lan was searching for an exit, he was thinking about the connection between these clues: the double moon eclipse and the sudden influx of water into the stone chamber... The combination of these two points made him think of the gravitational tide between celestial bodies. , could it be said that part of the mechanism of this stone chamber is controlled by the tidal force between the twin moons and Alpha Star?

But the amount of calculations involved in these data is too huge. Let alone Ke Lan, even if he were a professional astronomer here, without the help of a computer, it would be difficult to calculate all the details. .

And it is even more impossible to use these data to infer the structure of the ruins.

At this moment, the cry of the hound came from another direction——

"Found it! The exit is here! Stone Room No. 7!"

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In the northeast corner of Stone Chamber No. 7, an opening about one meter square appeared under the water. This opening was connected to a horizontal passage. The length and width of the passage were also one meter, and the direction was from south to north. The surrounding The material of the passage wall is similar to that of the stone chamber. The only difference is that the surface is covered with a layer of greasy scale.

Ke Lan dived down and took a look. He could not see the end of the passage with his naked eyes.

"I have used a laser to measure the length of the underwater channel." Leighton said, "It is exactly 460 meters. At the other end of the channel, there is also an upward opening. Based on the analysis of the path of light refraction, it should be Empty, no water.”

The exits and passages are very narrow. If they want to pass through this passage, they must take off their powered exoskeletons. And burly men like Zhuoligetu and Layton even have to tighten their bodies. Only when you get up can you barely squeeze in.

"This...I got into this place...I can't even move." Zhuo Ligetu gestured towards the entrance of the passage and said with a look of embarrassment.

"It's not a big problem," Layton said, raising his robotic arm and shaking it. "There is a propeller device in my robotic arm, which can be used as a power source for underwater propulsion. All it takes is a rope to move it. If everyone is connected in series, I can lead everyone through this passage...The time required is estimated to be about three minutes."

"Three minutes..." Hound looked at the breathing mask in his hand, "For us, holding our breath for three minutes is not a big problem, but what will they do?"

Naturally, he was referring to the three Ivans who were still in a coma.

The hound continued: "There are only two respirators. This passage is so narrow that people are as crowded as sardine cans when they get in. There is no way to go back and ventilate them."

"Then can you seal their mouths and noses with tape? As long as they can survive these three minutes." Layton suggested.

"No." Ke Lan shook his head, "They have all been injected with Mengzao preparations and neutralizers, and their current state is the same as a deep coma. If you put them in a state of suffocation, their brains may suffer from lack of oxygen. And three minutes is too long to cause irreversible damage."

"But I have an idea." Ke Lan took out a roll of polymer fabric from his backpack. When he unfolded it, everyone discovered that it turned out to be a body bag.

Although the name of this thing is not very auspicious, many hunters who work in teams will still add a few body bags to their equipment list... Even if the original function has no chance to be used, disassembling the bag can still be used as a full bag. Used as waterproof materials or bandages, its versatility can be said to be quite extensive in wilderness survival and ruins exploration.

"A body bag... this is indeed a solution. This thing is waterproof. As long as you put some air in it, it will last for ten minutes." Hound nodded.

Soon, the sleeping Ivan, Asano Akira and Cao Feng were put into body bags. As for the two breathing masks, they were set aside for emergency use.

Everyone connected the three cables and fixed them with the safety buckles on each person's waist. Then they connected the three body bags end to end and strung them on the ropes. As for the exoskeletons and other equipment that had been taken off, It was dragged at the end of the cable.

Led by Layton, everyone took a few deep breaths and then got into the underwater passage one by one.

Ke Lan was in the second place in the queue. After entering the underwater passage, the people at the front of the queue crawled forward on their hands and knees for a while. After everyone came in together with the three body bags, Layton opened the The propeller in the machine dragged everyone along the passage to speed up.

Everything went smoothly, there were no extra mechanisms in the underwater passage, and there were no accidents when the team passed through it. Even the passing time was exactly the same as Layton estimated - at three minutes and nine seconds, the team was in the same position. Layton, who was at the head, reached the end of the channel first, and at three minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the equipment bag hanging at the end of the cable had been dragged out of the water.

But when Ke Lan saw the scene at the other end of the underwater passage clearly, he couldn't help but hold his breath. An inexplicable chill spread from the depths of his bones and climbed up his back bit by bit.

A spacious and regular space, a corridor big enough for three Junius off-road vehicles to pass in parallel, black ice as dense as steel...

They are back again, back under the glacier, in that weird ice road!

"This place... we seem to have been here before..." Leiton subconsciously took a step back, and Ke Lan could clearly hear the sound of his teeth chattering... It was not because of the cold, but because of fear.

The hound silently put his hand on the holster. If you shine the flashlight on him, you can clearly see that his fingers are trembling involuntarily.

Among the four, only Zhuoligetu's situation was relatively better, but it was only "better".

If this is really the original ice road, if the things Ke Lan has seen are not hallucinations... They all know what kind of "things" they may encounter next...

The only ones who didn't understand the situation were Qin Zhao and Martin.

"Have you been here? But... isn't the deepest distance of the tiankeng less than 500 meters? What is this place?" Qin Zhao asked softly. She felt that something was wrong with Ke Lan and others' emotions. , driven by this atmosphere, even she herself became a little nervous.

"This is not a sinkhole..." The hound uttered a few words with some difficulty, "This is... No. A-087... glacier ruins..."