Endless route

Chapter 126 33. The iceberg among the icebergs and the ancient ships of the Ming Dynasty [two in one]

After a brief discussion, Senko and others decided to continue moving along the reflective tow rope on the ground, bypassing the strange corpse and see what was behind the curved ice crack hole.

Their rescue team had no objections to this. After all, they found the heat source and confirmed that there were survivors, probably their team members. No matter how dangerous it was, they could still be saved.

Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua can understand.

Anyone else would choose this way.

Fortunately, it wasn't one of their people who got into trouble this time, so they didn't need to take the risk and could wait and see what happened.

"Actually, that's not quite right. The wound on the girl we rescued was in her abdomen. It was stabbed from the front. If she was stabbed by these ice picks, then she slipped out while lying down?"

Sister Wang raised a question.

This incident is also quite unbelievable. How did the girl get stabbed by an ice pick?

"Generally speaking, ice cones cannot form horizontally, nor can they form upwards from the ground. Even if they do, such ice cones are usually not sharp." Xiao Hu followed.

"Not necessarily, it could also be the vertical ice spikes squeezed out by the movement of the ice." Hu Ruihua shook his head.

When everyone is talking.

Senko had already led people into the left-hand passage. He looked up with a flashlight and looked at the ice pick above his head.

It's very high in here.

For example, there is an inverted rift inside the glacier. The top may be a hundred meters high. If the ice pick falls off, they may be stabbed to death at any time.

Fortunately, the probability is not high.

Because there aren’t many broken ice picks on the ground.

Senkodu sighed to his teammates in a low voice, saying that he had not seen this kind of terrain a few times in so many years.

The distance of 100 meters is reached quickly.

Senko and others walked along the right side of the passage, only a few meters away from the corpse. They could clearly see his expression before death. His eyes were full of fear, as if he was running away.

Everyone outside looked at the screen.

Start a discussion about this image.

"It seems that when he was rolling and crawling to escape, he accidentally stabbed the ice pick." Hu Ruihua said.

"What's inside? Could it scare him like this?" Huzi asked.

"Then let's see what they turn around and see." Hu Ruihua stared at the screen.

Senko and the others carefully bypassed the corpse and began to go right along the curved passage. The further they went, the fewer impurities in the iceberg, and the entire ice crack passage turned blue.

Wherever the flashlight shines, there is transparent and clear ice. The entire 100-meter-high ice wall is as light blue as sea water, forever solidified inside the iceberg.

This kind of ice is old ice.

No bubbles at all.

Some marine life can be seen frozen everywhere. I don’t know how long they have been frozen, probably tens of thousands of years.

"It should change."

The members of Senko opened their mouths, and they kept moving forward along the reflective rope on the ground, always circling this arc, almost 180 degrees, but the arc still did not stop.

At first they were walking to the left, but now they are walking to the right, making a big circle.

It should stop.

Otherwise, if we continue to go around, they will come out.

"Be careful, it might be downhill."

Senko warned.

He was the first to go. The camera footage showed that he took out an ice ax and pushed out the iron spikes on the bottom of his boots. Even if he encountered a downhill slope, he would not slip down.

Other teammates followed suit.

Moreover, their clothes, such as their elbows and knees, have a kind of fabric that can stick to the ice. Even if they roll down the slope, they can quickly stop and save themselves.

It is indeed a very professional rescue team.

"Let's go." Senko continued to move forward.

The camera footage moves with him.

After going around to the right for a while, the ice crack channel turned downhill. The slope was not high, but it was very straight. It was estimated to be two to three hundred meters away, and it seemed to be an ice chamber at the end.

"There is a car."

The flashlight swept towards the entrance of the ice room.

A snowmobile was parked on the right, and two or three people were lying beside it. They had no heat source and were corpses.

Senko and others were more cautious. They left two people waiting on top. Senko and the blond young man slowly slid down the gentle slope, shining their flashlights into the depths.

See more clearly.

The car had been attached to a tow rope by the previous rescue team, but it was not pulled out. The bodies on the ground were probably collected by the rescue team and were not members of the rescue team.

Where did the rescue team go?

They found the car and collected the bodies, but the people were missing, and six of them disappeared at the same time.

Senko also realized this, and he and the blond young man took out the oxygen masks and walked down more carefully.

Everyone above also watched with bated breath.

If nothing else happens, Senko should be able to get the truth of the matter when he walks into the ice room.

You may also encounter danger.

This is a test for everyone.

Zheng Yun took the time to look up and saw that the towering iceberg illuminated by the flare was white and emitted dazzling golden light, like a holy mountain standing in the vast aurora snowfield.

Flares hung in the air.

Other tourists within dozens or hundreds of kilometers can see this golden and glowing iceberg in a distant place. They may stop to look at it or take photos with friends.

Look back at the screen.

Senko had reached the bottom, and the scene inside the ice room appeared on the screen. As soon as the flashlight light entered, it was refracted in all directions, making the entire ice room look blue.

The last five meters.

The two of them slowed down.

A panoramic view of the ice room appears in front of you.

This is actually a natural crack in the iceberg, with a width of more than a hundred meters, extending irregularly to the north, with a length of more than a thousand meters, and there are two cliffs halfway.

Very huge.

The height has exceeded 100 meters.

The wide and closed space is all blue, and the ice cones above their heads are like the spire of a Western church. Every move the two make will create an echo, which is extremely loud in the space.

The snowmobile is on the right hand side of the entrance. The bodies of four victims are neatly placed in front of the car. The trunk is still open, with corpses and many strange equipment inside.

"Farke."

The blond young man trembled.

Senko quickly raised his head and looked at the place where the blond young man's flashlight was shining, and the camera screen moved at the same time.

Four hundred meters ahead, on the right hand side, two cliffs bifurcate and extend in both directions, surrounding another iceberg.

In this iceberg.

About six meters high.

An ancient ship is frozen in ice.

This ancient ship is an open ship, more than a hundred meters long, completely sealed in the air. The front half of the ship can be clearly seen, but the back half is covered with a faint black shadow.

It can be vaguely seen.

There seems to be a shadow of a boat behind.

It is difficult to describe the scene presented on the screen, the rift valley within the iceberg, the cliff within the rift valley, and the iceberg within the iceberg.

The iceberg that had frozen the ancient ship seemed to have drifted into this huge rift valley, or it seemed that the ancient ship was driving the iceberg, sailing within the ice, and squeezed in here.

"It's actually a bright ship."

Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun said nothing. It was not unexpected to see an ancient Ming Dynasty ship here. After all, there were pirate ships not far away and they could all squeeze in here.

The crux of the matter is.

What does the death of these victims have to do with this open boat? Did this boat kill them?

Senko and the blond young man scanned carefully and soon discovered more details:

On the cliff leading to the ancient ship, a soft bridge was built artificially, consisting of several ropes and rope ladders.

The rope ladder is nailed two meters below the ancient ship.

A hole was drilled in that location.

Someone must have accidentally discovered this ancient ship and had some ideas. They built a bridge here and drilled holes in the ice. They wanted to dig holes up and enter the ancient ship to find things.

It is currently unclear when this hole was dug out, but it should not have been dug out recently.

This is a hole that existed a long time ago.

The purpose is to steal everything in the ancient ship.

What happened recently is that a group of tourists accidentally discovered this place while exploring. Then they had a similar idea, so they changed the rope ladder and wanted to go in through this hole to see what was inside.

As a result, all died.

Only one girl survived.

What is strange now is, where did the last rescue team go? Did they also get in through this hole?

And now that we have reached the end, they have not seen any ice picks on the ground. Where did the wound on the girl's abdomen come from? Inside the ancient ship?

Senko also had the same question. He led people into the ice room and looked around, but did not see their players.

"Under the cliff?"

The blond young man was confused.

Senko didn't say anything and strode towards the cliff. He made a new discovery. This cliff was very shallow. It was a hundred meters deep but only a dozen meters deep. It was as if water was dripping down the cliff. Fill in a gentle slope.

The flashlight scanned along the cliff.

Senko swept all the way forward.

The more he looked, the more frightened he became, because there were at least twenty corpses in this cliff, all from various ages, and there were also some dark holes at the bottom of the cliff.

"Go back and move the heat source equipment."

Chief Si En took a breath and turned around with the blond young man, intending to move down the equipment they were carrying.

This is a wise choice.

In this gap, Zheng Yun and others gathered around the monitor on the ground had time to talk.

"Brother Zheng, what do you think?"

Huzi asked with his brows knitted together.

"Something's wrong. This ship shouldn't be so powerful and be able to kill so many people."

Zheng Yun was also very confused.

After all, this place is not a tomb. These ice-sealed ships cannot have their own mechanisms and traps.

Because when ancient ships were frozen, it was either sudden or a very long process.

The probability of the former is very low.

The ancients did not have icebreakers, so they would only enter W-08 during the melting period. At that time, the ship was generally not frozen instantly. Even if it reached the ice period, the ship would gradually be frozen.

The most common situation in this situation is that the ship is squeezed or even broken by the moving ice, causing the ship to be unable to move.

In this process, everyone on the boat can escape and all valuables can be taken away. There is no need to design a bunch of killing mechanisms for a boat.

There are only a few possibilities for being instantly frozen, such as sailing a boat deep into a mountain range, hitting a rock and sinking into a glacial lake, or sinking under the ice in stagnant water.

If it catches up with the cooling.

That could be frozen within hours.

Or maybe it was a more extreme situation encountered by some pirate ships when they were trying to commit suicide. Suddenly, a burst of ice rain blew over, and everyone on the ship was instantly frozen to death and froze in place.

No matter which one it is.

The ancients had no need or need to design mechanisms, unless these ships were burial ships specially used to bury dignitaries.

The possibility is not high either.

Zheng Yun had never heard of anyone doing this, specifically sealing his body in an iceberg.

"I just saw some broken ice picks under the cliff. They were probably knocked down when they were drilling holes. If they fell down the valley, they might be punctured."

Hu Ruihua still paid attention to the girl's wounds.

"But it's hard to explain the two deceased people in the passage. The one in red was suspected of suffocation, and the one lying on the ground was so frightened that he rolled around. What happened to them?"

Xiao Hu was still puzzled.

"There is a sequence here. The one lying on the ground should die first, and the one in red should die last. This should be the order." Sister Wang made some reasoning.

This reasoning is sound.

If the person in red clothes died of suffocation first, then everyone behind him would die of suffocation, unless the person inside was carrying an oxygen tank, but the deceased lying on the ground did not.

"It doesn't necessarily mean suffocation. It's difficult to suffocate in such a large rift valley." Hu Ruihua shook his head.

"What did the guy lying on the ground see and be frightened like that?" Huzi asked.

"I estimate that the sequence of events is as follows. The girl on the snowmobile outside and the two deceased people were injured during the exploration and were sent outside. It was probably the man in red and the deceased lying on the ground who completed the pick-up and drop-off process."

"After they sent people to the car, they went back to rescue other people, and then encountered something in the process, which caused them all to die in this crack."

Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun and speculated.

Zheng Yun nodded. This part of the reasoning was no problem and very reasonable. He was thinking about the relationship between this bright ship and the extreme cold hell, and whether it was possible for the two to coexist.

if there is not.

Then this is not the ‘earth hole’.

While they were discussing above, Senko and others had moved the equipment to the ice room below and turned it on.

Luo Rui in the rescue boat received the signal and once again displayed a heat source map on the screen.

"ah!"

Rory yelled.

Zheng Yun and others also looked at the picture. They couldn't understand it, but they could clearly see that in front of Sienke and the others, there was an obvious large strip of light yellow.

In the iceberg that freezes the open boat.

"What does this mean? Does it mean there are survivors inside?" Huzi looked at Luo Rui and asked in English.

"I don't know, I've never seen this happen, but there is a heat source in the iceberg, about 100 to 300 meters away." Luo Rui shook his head, his eyes a little confused.

"How many people can create such a large heat source range? What do you think of this picture?" Xiao Hu was confused.

"The heat source is the direction in which the temperature penetrates the iceberg and is detected. It has nothing to do with the size of the range, but generally it will not have such a large range, because it means there are many heat sources, many directions, or even an entire direction."

Rory couldn't explain the picture at all.