Chapter 12 Under the Ice

Zhang Shaoyuan and his six team members are advancing along the inclined excavated tunnel.

The billowing steam has long been recondensed under the icy temperature of this planet. Even with deceleration measures, their descending speed is still quite fast. The entrance behind them has become a small circular light hole, and they seem to have become A frog in a well.

But in fact, this process is like riding a slide.

This reminded Zhang Shaoyuan of the 300-meter ice slide that he once sat in the Ice City Ice and Snow World.

At that time he still had a wife and children.

Under the holographic mask, the corners of Zhang Shaoyuan's mouth curved inexplicably.

Because he remembered the gentle smile of his wife and the excited look of the child that day.

At present, the thickness of the ice layer is 130 meters, and the slightly inclined direction of the excavation makes the length of the tunnel reach nearly 200 meters, but it is still not as good as the ice slide in the ice and snow world.

Just too dark.

If a pure human enters here, then this gliding process will be an extremely dark and terrifying journey, just like people suddenly stumbled in their sleep, but Zhang Shaoyuan and his team are equipped with the most advanced personal nightstand in the Xinjing Fleet. With the help of visual equipment and their own lighting devices, for them, the brightness of this slide was sufficient, but it was deep and endless, as if they were sliding towards the giant mouth of some unpredictable terrifying creature.

And when many people had the same idea, they came to the end.

Suddenly, there was nothing under him, and the feeling of sinking came quickly.

There is a big hole under the ice layer, and if you pass through the ice layer, you will naturally fall.

Zhang Shaoyuan and others had been prepared for a long time, and immediately activated the thrusters of their space suits, and slowly stabilized their figures in midair.

It was only then that they noticed that the underground was not completely dark, but some kind of strange crystals grew on the frozen upper layer of the "ice cap".

The blue light is actually very weak, and there are not many blue crystals, so it can only illuminate a small area. Looking down from here, it is still dark. At such a distance, the lighting equipment on their bodies also illuminates a small area. do not wear.

The height is at least two hundred meters.

Zhang Shaoyuan made a simple judgment, but they did not descend immediately: "Xie Wenbo, Chen Jia, you go to collect samples of that blue crystal, pay attention to protection, that crystal is likely to have radiation. The others and I disperse vigilance, Turn on the bio-radar, the thermal radar, watch out for anything."

The temperature under the ice layer is even lower. At this moment, the surface temperature of this planet is around minus thirty degrees, but the temperature here exceeds minus forty degrees.

Further down, the temperature seems to get a little lower.

Zhang Shaoyuan thought that the volume of this frozen planet was several times larger than that of the earth.

At this time, he noticed that the signal was slightly poor, whether it was their internal communication or the signal from the outside.

Under Zhang Shaoyuan's order, the two fighters flew towards the nearest blue crystal.

Before they came down, they had already made sufficient preparations, bringing all kinds of things they could bring, including small material collection and storage devices.

And as the only blue crystal that is suspected to be the "rock" of this planet so far,

Of course sampling is necessary.

And the picture here was also sent back to the frigate where Xu Youyang was at the first time. As the ice layer was dug deep here, Xu Youyang also mobilized some resources and manpower to keep an eye on the situation here.

Xu Youyang tapped on the armrest of his captain's seat, looked at the slightly flickering picture, and said, "Captain Zhang, there seems to be a strong magnetic field underground, which has caused interference to our communication. If there is a situation, withdraw immediately."

"receive."

Zhang Shaoyuan responded immediately.

At this time, the two warriors had already started collecting blue crystals.

The blue crystal is not big, about the size of the fists of two adult men. Its body is crystal clear blue, like the crystal of raw ore, but there are no impurities, and it seems to grow in the ice layer. , half of which are connected to the ice sheet.

"Could this be some kind of fluorspar?" On the frigate's bridge, a relevant expert asked a question.

At present, the radiation indicators on the two soldiers have not issued an early warning, which means that the radiation of this blue crystal has not reached the level that can cause harm to the human body.

Xie Wenbo and Chen Jia looked at each other, and after a brief exchange, they planned to chisel off the blue crystal and a small part of the surrounding ice in accordance with the instructions of the frigate expert group.

This process took a lot of time.

Fortunately, the ice layer is as thick as 100 meters, and it has existed for an unknown number of years. It is strong enough, and cutting only needs to worry about not damaging the sampling target.

After the sampling was completed, Xie Wenbo opened the metal backpack behind him and put the sample that had been locked in the containment box into it.

Zhang Shaoyuan gestured towards them from a distance, signaling them to follow, and he began to descend.

The six-person exploration team began to descend slowly.

The cave under the ice seems to be endless. Looking left and right, there is endless darkness.

"The scale here seems to be comparable to the hole under our Arctic ice."

Chen Jia who came up couldn't help but say something.

In this team, he is the youngest, only 21 years old, and he is always more vigorous and talks more than others when he comes to a strange planet.

Unfortunately, no one responded this time.

The underground cave was extremely empty, and they fell vertically. Because of caution, this process still took nearly a minute and a half, and the height of the cave where they were currently located was calculated to be 237.65 meters.

In the process of descending, the interference to their signal became more and more serious, and when they were about 70 meters away from the "ground", the communication with the frigate was almost cut off.

They stayed at this position for a while. After reconnecting with the battleship and discussing it, Zhang Shaoyuan's team decided to continue descending to the ground.

At this time, neither their internal communication nor the communication with the frigate had been interrupted.

Zhang Shaoyuan ordered the team to turn on the sounding device of the combat uniform, preparing for direct communication, and at the same time rechecked whether their cameras were working well, so as to ensure that the recorded ground data could be consulted and studied by the fleet after returning.

But at this moment, Chen Jia who was at the back suddenly saw a flashing shadow: "There is a situation!"

Everyone immediately entered a state of alert, and the lighting equipment scanned the surroundings.

"Infrared thermal radar did not detect the target."

"Biological detection radar did not detect any targets."

"The motion detection radar has detected an unknown object moving around us!"

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