Chapter 236 Exploring the Ten Thousand Years Glacier 06
Chapter 236 Exploring the Ten Thousand Years Glacier 06
After sailing for about 15 minutes, Wu Xiajiu watched the snowstorm outside gradually stop, and the speed of the ship also slowed down, and a cold and pale color loomed ahead.
"Where is that...?" Professor Zheng Yu leaned to the window and murmured, "Why is there a piece of land at the end of this route?"
After the research station was built in polar Iceland, the personnel in the station explored the surrounding sea area and drew many routes.
But Professor Zheng Yu has never seen this route before, and of course he did not expect that another land would suddenly appear in this sea area.
As the ship sailed closer, the people on board also saw clearly the true appearance of the land.
——It was a glacier floating on the ocean, endless and endless.
The glacier is towering, with blue and white colors, just one glance, it makes people feel empathy, it feels extremely cold, and I don't know how it was formed.
This is where Professor Smith, Professor Zhang and others landed?
Before everyone came back to their senses, the ship belonging to the research station slowly docked on the shore of the glacier, and the screen on the console went out.
It seems that this ship came here just to carry them, and now, it is quietly waiting for them to disembark.
And they... don't know what they will encounter on this glacier after getting off the boat.
After a while, Professor Zheng Yu looked away from the glacier outside the window and said, "Let's get off the boat."
You can't stay on the boat all the time, that's not the way.
Wu Xiajiu and others followed Professor Zheng Yu out of the cabin, and when they stood on the deck, there was no other shelter in front of them, and they could feel the towering and vastness of this glacier even more.
In particular, the edges and corners of the glaciers are sharp. Even if the scenery is rare and magnificent, it still makes everyone unable to simply appreciate it.
After a while, they stepped off the ship.
Professor Zheng Yu couldn't help frowning: "Where should this go?"
Wu Xiajiu had sharp eyes, looked ahead, and said, "There seems to be footprints over there, go and have a look."
Looking at it in the past, it really is a series of footprints leading to the front.
Not surprisingly, it should belong to Professor Smith, Professor Zhang and others. They may be able to find out where they are by following this series of footprints.
But following the footprints, it turned out to be an ice cave that obviously entered the glacier.
"Shall we go in?" Xiao Xiao asked.
Yu Ze heard the words and said: "If you don't go in, there is no other way to go. It is estimated that the people at the research station explored the surroundings before they found this ice cave."
Along the way, there are scattered footprints in other places, but they are not as messy as here.
Apparently, the two professors went inside with other personnel from the research station.
What's more, this piece of glacier really has no other roads except for the ice cave in front of you.
So, they walked into the ice cave. As soon as they entered, the temperature around them seemed to be even lower. Someone shivered and wrapped their clothes tightly.
Wu Xiajiu couldn't help but look around the ice cave. The light outside was dim, but the inside of the ice cave felt bright.
I don't know where the front leads, and the left and right sides are translucent ice sculptures and ice walls. When you get closer, the silhouettes of people can be seen very clearly.
On the other hand, there are ice edges hanging on some places above the head. Although it looks thick and not easy to fall, you still have to be careful when walking and avoid it.
Otherwise, who knows if it will be unfortunate.
Other than that, there's nothing fancy about the inside of the ice cave.
Wu Xiajiu glanced at the time, it was almost noon.
They kept walking, walking forward for nearly 20 minutes, but the passage in the ice cave seemed to have no end.
It is still impossible to see the side at a glance, and there is no trace of Professor Smith, Professor Zhang and others.
After all, the inside of the ice cave is relatively smooth, unlike the outside covered with snow, which can leave footprints.
After walking like this for another 10 minutes, Professor Zheng Yu said to stop and take a rest.
Wu Xiajiu found a place to sit against the ice wall, and so did the others.
Xie Pang couldn't stay idle, and said he wanted to go for a walk further, so Zhong Nan went with him.
Fang Zi sat cross-legged beside Wu Xiajiu, propped his chin with one hand in boredom, and said in a low voice, "Brother Jiu, do you think we will go deep into the glacier?"
"You can go in, but you can't get out."
"It's hard to say." Wu Xiajiu said: "If you can't get out, you have to look for the missing person at the research station."
This is the task given in the information prompt of the world under the car.
Before they sat down for a long time, Xie Pang and Zhong Nan, who had been strolling forward for a while, ran back at this time.
Before he got close, he heard Xie Pang shout: "There is a fork in the road ahead."
Wu Xiajiu heard the words and stood up.
Professor Zheng Yu said to go and have a look.
A fork in the road means that there are two roads ahead.
Because the light in the ice cave is dim after all, and there are translucent ice walls around, refracting their figures or reflecting each other on the opposite side, it is difficult to see the situation clearly.
Although there was only a short distance ahead, they didn't find a fork in the road.
However, at this time, it was a bit difficult to find out.
Two roads, which way should I go?
To be precise, Professor Smith, Professor Zhang and others may have chosen which way to enter.
Tang Yunsi said: "It is possible that the two professors also left separately."
"Then we might as well go separately." At this moment, Wei Guan said suddenly.
Wu Xiajiu couldn't help but glance at Wei Guan.
The members of these whaling teams had nothing to do with the research station at first, but because they got out of the research station and boarded the ship together, they were forced to take them to this glacier, and they had no choice but to embark on the journey to find the two professors together. distance.
Seeing that Wei Guan's temper was not very good, he didn't say anything all the way.
However, now that he said to leave separately, Professor Zheng Yu couldn't help showing a thoughtful expression on his face after hearing this.
It is indeed faster to search for people separately.
Professor Zheng Yu asked for their opinions.
"Then leave separately, we have no objection." Ivy said.
But she changed her voice again, looked at Wei Guan, and said coldly: "But we don't go with them, we are not on the same road, we can't go together."
Ivy still remembers how Wei Guan forced her two team members to leave the research station, if Xiaoxiao and Zigua were not lucky.
It might be a corpse by now.
Wei Guan scoffed, not taking Ivy seriously.
Professor Zheng Yu thought it would be better to have less than more, so he agreed.
The next step is to assign who goes which way.
Wu Xiajiu and others joined Ai Wei's team, plus Nie Su, Lao Xiao, and Mi Zheng.
For the rest, Professor Zheng Yu and others, Kuang Xun and Yu Ze, Yang Gonghe, and the prophet were with Wei Guan.
Wu Xiajiu and the others chose the road on the left to enter. Before they parted, Professor Zheng Yu proposed to come up with a mark and carve it on the ice wall every time they walked.
I don’t know how many forks there are in the back of this ice cave, maybe we will meet again later, and there is a mark to look for.
They separated after making a mark on the ice wall next to the fork.
When there were fewer people, the surroundings became even more silent, and there was only the sound of footsteps on the ice for a while.
After a while, Xie Pang couldn't help asking: "How do you say such a large glacier floats on the surface of the sea?"
"Will this glacier drift with the sea water, and will the glacier crack?"
Ivy glanced at Fatty Xie, but she didn't speak because she didn't know.
Furthermore, they were not familiar with each other, so there was no need to answer Xie Pang's question, and they were not asked.
Wu Xiajiu said: "Don't look at the towering glaciers on the sea surface and the vast area, in fact, the volume under the sea surface is even bigger."
"The huge glacier that we see before our eyes is just a little bit exposed to the sea."
To give a simple example, the whole arm is submerged in the water, and the palm is floating above the water, which can be seen.
But in fact, the arm under the water is connected to the palm, but it is bigger and longer than the palm.
"As for whether it will drift with the sea, or whether the glacier will crack." Wu Xiajiu said, "It's all uncertain."
"Don't look at the huge glaciers, but compared with the vast and boundless sea, it is still the ratio of ants to elephants."
"We are on the glacier, but we can't feel whether the glacier will drift with the current..."
Before Wu Xiajiu could finish speaking, Zhong Nan suddenly stopped and looked down at the panda brooch on his chest.
Wu Xiajiu noticed it, and stopped, frowned slightly, and then looked around vigilantly.
"What's wrong?" Ivy was a little puzzled.
Zhong Nan said: "It's dangerous, be careful."
He touched the panda brooch, a red light flashed just now, indicating that danger might be near them.
But there are ice walls all around, and there are passages in front and back.
Zhong Nan couldn't help looking forward.
At this moment, Wu Xiajiu suddenly pulled Zhong Nan to his side, and looked at the ice wall next to where Zhong Nan was standing without blinking.
I saw that there was a very small white spot dangling and slowly enlarging.
The ice wall is blue and white, and this white spot is integrated into the ice wall. If you don't observe carefully, you can't see anything abnormal.
But Wu Xiajiu found out.
Ivy and the others saw that he had a strange expression, and they also started to follow his eyes to stare at the ice wall.
They didn't find anything at first, but the ice wall was still, but the white spot was swaying, and the dynamics were always more eye-catching than the static ones.
So it didn't take long for Ivy and others to notice.
"What is that?" A Miao couldn't help but ask.
Tang Yunsi: "Who knows what it is, be careful."
He touched the bracelet with one hand while Wu Xiajiu gave the talisman paper in the other hand.
At this time, Wu Xiajiu said: "There is more than one white spot, there are also over there."
Wu Xiajiu said and pointed.
Tang Yunsi, Ai Wei, Nie Su and others looked along Wu Xiajiu's fingertips, squinting their eyes to look carefully—there were indeed many, and they gradually gathered towards them in this ice wall.
The previous white dots appeared first, but now, a group of white dots followed.
"What..." Mi Zheng couldn't help saying.
But before the words were finished, the white spot at the beginning moved forward quickly, and soon appeared in the ice wall closest to them, almost as if they could just get out.
Of course, let them see clearly what this "white spot" is.
It turned out to be a curled up human skin.
——The hands, feet and body are curled up, so it looks small before, but the face is stretched, a human face, with two holes where the eyes are, the nose, and the mouth.
This piece of human skin still had old dark brown blood stains on it, and it was unknown how long it had been peeled off.
Wu Xiajiu, Ai Wei and the others couldn't help being surprised.
They couldn't help but think of the story Professor Zheng Yu told about the people of your tribe when he was on the boat.
—living in glacial regions, skinning for warmth.
The slaves who lost their skins wandered out every night looking for skins.
But what was in front of their eyes at the moment was the peeled skin.
Before Wu Xiajiu waited for someone to think about it, the skin in front of him gradually stretched out, his hands and feet stretched out, like a person standing on an ice wall.
And the pair of empty eyes seemed to have light, obviously without eyeballs, but they seemed to be staring at them sinisterly.
Wu Xiajiu, Ai Wei and others couldn't help feeling a bit cold from the bottom of their hearts, a chill ran up their backs, and their scalps were numb.
Because not long after the skin was stretched, the "white spot" behind it also came to the front of the ice wall.
Their eyes are full of skins that have been peeled off, and they are all stretching.
At this moment, Mi Zheng turned his head inadvertently, and an exclamation sounded.
"Behind, there are also in the ice wall behind us!"
Wu Xiajiu looked back, as expected, they were only paying attention to what was in front of them just now, but they didn't realize that there were also many skins in the ice wall behind them.
Without waiting for their reaction, the skins in the ice wall began to move their hands and feet like a human being, twisting and crossing, and unexpectedly drilled out of the ice wall in their surprised eyes.
"Come on, get out of here!"
Wu Xiajiu shouted almost at the same time as Ivy.
The others didn't dare to delay, and ran forward immediately.
There are too many skins drilled out of the ice wall, and there are still some that have not drilled out. When they ran forward, they gave up drilling out of the ice wall, and instead followed them in the ice wall chasing them in one direction.
The hell knows what's going on.
The inside of these ice walls does not seem to be empty, but the skins can come and go freely in it, and they are still floating, which is twice as fast as them.
Soon, the skin in the ice wall caught up with Wu Xiajiu and the others.
One of the human skins came out of it quickly, and then quickly fell to Ayan, Ivy's teammate.
Ah Yan ran at a slower speed, and was also the one closest to the ice wall.
She didn't have time to dodge, and was immediately wrapped tightly by the skin that suddenly drilled out of the ice wall.
As if someone was hugging her from behind, she wrapped Ah Yan in from the beginning to the end.
However, this skin should be peeled off from the body of a member of your tribe. The height of your tribe is two to three meters, and the human skin is of course long and big.
Ayan was wrapped inside, and she seemed to disappear all of a sudden, only the sound of humming could be heard coming from inside, revealing panic and fear.
"Ayan!" Ivy yelled, and wanted to turn around to save Ayan, but after a while, two or three skins emerged from the ice wall and came towards their mat.
Ivy was restricted in her movements and didn't have time to pass.
And Ayan's terrified voice was muffled inside the skin, getting lower and lower. After a while, a puddle of blood seeped out from the gap wrapped in the skin, and the glaring color was particularly obvious in the place where the eyes were full of blue and white.
Ah Yan's voice disappeared.
In this little time, she died without even having time to use the props.
Wu Xiajiu and the others couldn't help but become more vigilant.
The skins of these You people are a bit powerful.
A skin has no heart, which is a bit of a disadvantage to Tang Yunsi.
He was holding the prop "Devil's Scepter", and the sharp tip of the knife at the end could not cut open these skins easily.
However, Lu Nan's prop "Dragon Scale Dagger" can deal with these skins with ease.
The two stayed together, and for a while, these skins could not threaten them.
However, this is only temporary, no matter how fast they run, they are not as fast as the skin in the ice wall.
After a while, in front of Wu Xiajiu, Ai Wei and others, many skins suddenly drilled out of the ice wall, blocking them unexpectedly.
Wu Xiajiu, Ivy and others had to stop.
And just when he had to stop, Xie Pang was wrapped in a skin without paying attention.
Unfolding the two-meter-high leather bag, he wrapped Xie Pang tightly, but fortunately, Xie Pang was still clever, stretching his arms as hard as possible, barely leaving a gap in his face, so as not to be smothered to death.
However, this tiny gap could not save Fatty Xie.
He only felt that every part of his body was being squeezed, inch by inch, his bones were creaking slightly, and the arm he stretched out to ask for help was about to be broken.
Fortunately, Wu Xiajiu and Lu Nan are not far away.
One of the two stuck the talisman paper in their hands on the skin, and the other cut open the skin with a dragon-scale dagger.
After a few breaths, Xie Pang was rescued.
Wu Xiajiu took Xie Pang's arm, and together with Lu Nan dragged him out of the wrapped skin.
Xie Pang gasped heavily, and turned his head to see that the place where the talisman was pasted on the skin was burning with flames, and a part of the skin covering his body was also cut wide open.
"Too, too scary." Fatty Xie couldn't help but said.
Tang Yunsi glanced over and shouted, "These skins are afraid of fire."
The skin on the talisman paper ignited flames, while the surrounding skins hid far away, obviously afraid of fire.
Wu Xia heard it for a long time, raised the Dragon Soul Bone Sword in his hand, and said, "Stay away."
Ai Wei realized something and led the team back quickly.
There was a "boom", and when she raised her eyes again, a series of extremely dazzling flames erupted in front of her eyes.
The circle of flames seemed to avoid them consciously, but surrounded them, making those skins dare not approach them at all.
Ivy saw many skins fleeing into the ice wall again.
Their crisis at this moment was unexpectedly solved by the viewer for most of it at once.
……
Professor Zheng Yu originally wanted to separate from members of the whaling team like Wei Guan, but his assistant Ah Zuo whispered something in his ear, which made Professor Zheng Yu change his mind.
He said that he overheard Xiaoxiao and Ivy talking on the boat at the research station.
Xiao Xiao said that she and Zigua had boarded the ship of the whaling team before, and accidentally saw the route of the console on the ship, and found that the whaling team was sailing to the research station in the first place.
Instead of being forced to divert due to the snowstorm as Wei Guan said in the research station before.
Since the initial route of Wei Guan and the whaling team was the research station, what is their purpose?
Why don't you just keep an eye on it.
After Ah Zuo finished speaking, Professor Zheng Yu agreed to go in the same direction as Wei Guan.
They entered the passage on the right and walked for a while, about 30 minutes passed.
But the road seems to never end, there is no end.
If you keep walking, you will get tired.
Therefore, Bi You proposed to take a break.
"Don't go, I think we've all gone deep into the glacier, so we should have reached the middle."
While talking, Bi You sat down against the wall to rest, and said: "Maybe Ivy and the others have already found Professor Smith and Professor Zhang in another passage."
"Impossible." Yang Gonghe said.
The task of the world under the car is to find the missing persons who were originally stationed at the research station.
It was only a few days ago, how could it be so easy for them to find someone.
Bi You waved: "That's what I said."
"But we've all come here, and if we go on, we may have to penetrate the entire glacier. Where do you think Professor Smith and Professor Zhang can go?"
Mentioning this made him feel irritable.
Walking in this silent ice cave, there is nothing but the sound of footsteps, as if asking them to go on endlessly, it is boring.
Professor Zheng Yu shook his head and said: "You can always find someone when you walk down. Everyone, sit down and rest for a while, and we will move forward later."
After all, find a place to sit down.
Bi You clicked his tongue, folded his arms and leaned against the ice wall, closed his eyes and rested.
The others sat elsewhere.
No one noticed that shortly after they sat down, dangling white spots began to appear behind the ice wall.
These white dots approached slowly, getting bigger little by little, silently.
Because it is better to have a rest, Professor Zheng Yu and others are leaning against the ice wall. Therefore, when these white spots are purposefully hiding on the back of the person and slowly approaching, no one can Discover.
It wasn't until a member of the whaling team screamed and was wrapped in human skin that suddenly drilled out that the others stood up in surprise.
Assistant A Zuo pulled Professor Zheng Yu very quickly, and the two avoided the human skin that came out from behind to avoid being wrapped in it.
But others aren't so lucky.
Especially the captain Mark and others, they didn't escape the human skin package.
The same is true for Bi You, he accidentally tripped when he stood up, just for a while, before he could get away from the ice wall, the human skin behind him stretched out an arm from it, grabbed his shoulder tightly, and pulled him Drag it to the edge of the ice wall.
Bi You's eyes widened in horror, and he shouted, "Fuck, what the hell is this?"
Bi You quickly took out the props, and gave the human skin behind him a backhand. The human skin's arm was forced to loosen, and Bi You hurriedly turned around to be on guard.
But when he turned around, his eyes couldn't help but widen, because instead of a piece of human skin behind him, there were countless pieces of human skin overlapping each other, and those pairs of black holes had no eyes, only eye sockets. The place where the position is is staring at him.
In the next moment, all these human skins squeezed out of the ice wall and wrapped around him.
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