Chapter 133 40 Entering the Mountains to Search and the Gloomy Ice Valley [Two in One]

Chapter 133 40. Entering the mountains to search and the gloomy ice valley [two-in-one]

The snowmobile was speeding on the ice, Zheng Yun turned his head to look out the window, and the people camping on the ice had woken up. Many people gathered in front of the tent, washing and eating breakfast without being affected.

Look up to the north.

After all this tossing, the distress bombs and flares have fallen, as if they had never existed.

People didn't see it. As long as the Christmas Islands don't take the initiative to remind and no witnesses make a big fuss, this Pirate Festival should be able to go on without much hindrance.

"Master Yun, who are these people?"

Ji Dao looked at the people camping in the wild, his face full of confusion, wondering what they were doing, all of them set up tents to live, and they had nothing to do to come to such a place to suffer?

"They are all gold diggers."

Zheng Yun explained to him.

"No wonder the barbarians like to do this. There are records in our history." Ji Dao sighed.

"What kind of records?" Song Wan sat in the co-pilot with a map on her lap, looking back at Ji Dao and asking.

She and Ji Dao were not familiar with each other.

But it was not that she had never seen them before.

"That's quite a lot." Seeing Song Wan talking to him, Ji Dao sat up straight, looking a little reserved and a little shy, and began to tell the story seriously: "It is said that..."

The long journey passed quickly in Ji Dao's story. With his erudition, it would not be a problem for him to tell the story for a whole day, but now was not the right time.

"We are about to enter the mountain."

Hu Ruihua's voice came on the intercom.

"Okay, I'll follow you."

Zheng Yun picked up the intercom and replied, then looked at Song Wan and said, "We should also look at the map."

"Yeah."

Song Wan immediately picked up the tablet. Pointing the way was her specialty. She was responsible for pointing the way at the beginning.

A moment later.

The car in front turned left and entered the glacier mountain range.

Zheng Yun followed at a distance of 200 meters to avoid being unable to stop and crashing into the car in front when it suddenly braked.

This was their first time to this glacier mountain range, but the local rescue team chose the route very accurately. It was basically a gentle slope all the way, and it circled into the mountain along several towering icebergs.

Half an hour ahead.

Zheng Yun did not feel much pressure while driving. The illumination provided by the aurora was enough for him to drive through the wide ice valley. As long as he followed the car in front, there would be no problem.

But the deeper he went.

Something was wrong with the road.

They passed through several narrow rift valleys and narrow U-turn sections in succession. Even Hu Ruihua drove much slower.

"Master Yun, you are amazing!"

Ji Dao held the seat and looked at the 100-meter-deep ice valley on the left side of the off-road vehicle. He could not help swallowing and praising.

"Don't praise me, I'm sweating profusely."

Zheng Yun had a serious expression and his body was almost attached to the steering wheel, trying to get as much view of the road ahead as possible.

Fortunately, this section of the road was not long. As long as they passed these two huge icebergs, there was only one dangerous checkpoint ahead.

"Take a break."

The intercom sounded again.

"Okay."

Zheng Yun replied briefly.

Everyone got off the car and looked at the situation. There were many tracks of rescue vehicles on the ground. At least two rescue teams had passed in front, about four to five vehicles, and there were no other traces.

After a short break, the group hit the road again. This time, they drove to the area near the distress bomb.

Just after bypassing an iceberg and entering the ice valley, they saw five snowmobiles and many rescuers in the flat area of ​​the ice valley. It seemed that they had encountered some problems.

Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun drove over, parked the car near them, and then opened the door to ask about the situation.

"It's you."

"We met here again."

When the rescuers saw the car coming, they turned back to look at their two cars, but Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun were recognized by the rescuers as soon as they got off.

Zheng Yun looked around.

These were all acquaintances he had seen in the hospital. Because he and others rescued Si Enke, he sincerely thanked them.

Acquaintances are much easier to deal with.

Hu Ruihua immediately asked what was going on. The other party replied that they had searched around and used drones to take aerial photos, but they couldn't find the expedition team's vehicles.

The expedition team had 40 people and eight vehicles. The camp should be very large and must be very conspicuous, but they found nothing. The other party didn't seem to be on the glacier.

"How big is the search range?" Hu Ruihua asked.

"About 20 kilometers in radius, we saw the light of the distress gun in the early morning, and used the triangulation method to lock the location of their distress gun when they fired it."

"Now there are eight directions, only three directions have not been found. If there is any, it is in these three directions."

The rescue team gave an answer.

"Was the distress bomb in the sky fired by the scientific expedition team?" Zheng Yun interrupted and asked, this is an important information.

"This is uncertain. Before us, there was another rescue team nearby, but we can't contact them yet, and we haven't found where their rescue vehicle is."

The other party shook his head.

After several rounds of conversations, Zheng Yun and others knew what happened. The white rescue team set out immediately after learning about the disaster in the early morning. They have been here for two hours, and the rapid rescue team next to them just came.

They don't know much.

No clues have been found so far.

"The situation in front of us is a bit troublesome. They may have entered an ice rift or ice cave, and the car has also driven in. We may have to slowly search along the tire tracks."

The white rescue team sighed.

The ground around here is full of car prints. The eight vehicles of the scientific expedition team have been wandering around for half a month, leaving many marks in all directions. They are very messy and difficult to distinguish.

"Look for it slowly."

Hu Ruihua nodded.

The three teams discussed it and decided to split up, each responsible for one direction, focusing on finding the entrance to the iceberg.

Zheng Yun got in the car again, and they chose the northeast direction because that direction pointed to the center of the circle drawn by his adoptive father.

"You can't even see through a telescope."

Huzi complained over the intercom.

In this world of ice and snow coupled with the polar night environment, even if flares are used, there are many shadows between icebergs of all sizes.

They need to use telescopes to look for cracks or dark openings in the iceberg, which are really hard to find.

Zheng Yun can see it directly.

Huzi held a telescope, stuck his head out of the rear window of the car in front, and took a sharp look at the mountainside and top of the iceberg.

"Don't look up, it can't be that high." Zheng Yun picked up the walkie-talkie and said, Hu Zi was too fooling around.

"Master Yun, let me go down and take a look? I can hear what's going on around me." Jidao suddenly volunteered.

"Okay." Zheng Yun stopped the car.

Ji Dao's hearing is different from ordinary people. Maybe he can actually hear something, such as the cry for help deep underground.

As Zheng Yun and Ji Dao stopped, Hu Ruihua, the car in front of him, also stopped immediately. When Zheng Yun saw this, he used the intercom and said: "Keep quiet and let Ji Dao listen to the surrounding sounds."

The opening movement of the car in front stopped, Hu Ruihua turned off the car, and everyone remained still and absolutely quiet.

Zheng Yun also destroyed the car.

Watch Noriichi listening from the front.

It was very quiet in the ice valley, but there was always the slight sound of wind blowing in my ears, and the sound of wind blowing on the glacier in the distance, but there was no other sound.

Ji Dao couldn't hear anything, so he simply knelt on the ground, put his ear against the ice, and listened carefully again.

After a while, Ji Dao stood up and said awkwardly:

"There seems to be living water down here."

"About where?" Zheng Yun asked.

"I don't know. I feel like there is some sound of water in a very deep place, like a river." Ji Dao scratched his head.

"Okay." Zheng Yun nodded.

It seemed like he didn't hear any information, but the lack of information itself was critical information. He could even hear the sound of water, but couldn't hear anyone moving, which meant there was no one nearby.

The two cars were on the road again.

After walking for more than ten kilometers in the northeast direction, there were still traces of car prints on the ground, but there was no official map. I could walk wherever I could, relying entirely on the aerial map in my hand and Hu Ruihua's experience to move forward.

But this time they found something.

They drove to the edge of a very deep ice valley. This ice valley was probably two to three hundred meters deep. It was pitch black and covered with shadows, and nothing could be seen clearly.

The car marks on the ground were along the gentle slope of the ice valley. Just thirty meters down, there was a shadow. It was so dark that you couldn't see the five fingers of your hand. It looked eerie and scary.

Everyone got out of the car and scanned with flashlights.

This ice valley is long and deep, and the deepest point faces north. There is a huge ice crack on the mountain, which is big enough for a car to drill into, but it looks very dangerous.

"A scientific expedition team will get into a place like this?"

"Should we come here for a survey and then leave?"

Huzi asked in confusion. If they wanted to go down this kind of ice valley, they would have to go around the gentle slope for at least half an hour, and they didn't know whether the car marks on the ground were from before or the latest.

The issue is complex.

The scientific expedition team may not have been killed in the early hours of this morning, and car marks on the ice are not easy to disappear. Car marks that are more than two days old but less than a week all look the same.

"The drone goes in and takes a look."

Hu Ruihua said to Xiao Hu, this is the end of this route, otherwise we have to turn around and go back.

The latter immediately took out the drone, turned on the screen, let the drone fly into the ice valley, and captured the footage with the camera.

The small light on the drone can only dispel the darkness within thirty to fifty meters, but it makes the ice valley look even weirder, with black shadows everywhere, and the black and blue colors make people uncomfortable.

"Go down a little." Hu Ruihua said.

Xiao Hu immediately obeyed, and the drone quickly descended, sticking to the ground of the ice valley, and flew towards the deep rift valley.

Just flew not long ago.

An artificial object appeared on the screen, red in color, and looked like fragments of a tent.

Everyone's spirits were lifted.

The drone continued to penetrate deeper.

Soon I found traces of someone having been stationed there. There were some domestic garbage on the ground. It must have been packed in bags but not taken away, and it was blown everywhere by the wind.

"The quality of this scientific expedition team is worrying." Huzi frowned and said.

"Probably not. They may have entered from here. Even if the scientific expedition team does not want to take away the garbage, the local tour guides they hired will definitely take away the garbage."

Hu Ruihua turned back to look at Zheng Yun.

"It's possible." Zheng Yun nodded. These garbage are indeed very suspicious and should not exist here.

The picture on the screen is still changing.

The drone has already drilled into the ice crevasse. This crack is probably sixty or seventy meters high. It is shaped like a dagger. The top is sharp and the bottom is not spacious. It is very dangerous.

"What's that on the left?" Hu Ruihua's sharp eyes suddenly pointed at the upper left corner of the screen, where there was a white shadow.

The drone flew over immediately.

The white shadow was in the ice crevice. It was only when I got closer that I saw clearly that it was actually a broken white balloon. Not only here, there were many broken balloons of various colors on the ground.

"..."

Everyone was silent.

Why are there so many broken balloons in the ice cracks? Did they float in from the outside or out from the inside?

"Is this a scientific research balloon?"

Hu Ruihua asked in confusion.

Zheng Yun didn't know either, so he could only look at Song Wan, the only one still studying at university, hoping that she would know.

"Maybe." Song Wan was also a little hesitant.

The drone went deeper again and drilled into the area where the signal was unstable in one breath, but there was no other discovery, which made it difficult to decide whether to go down to this ice valley to look for it.

"Ji Dao, it's your turn."

Zheng Yun turned and looked at Ji Dao.

The latter nodded immediately, walked to the front of the crowd alone, turned back and made a quiet gesture, and then began to listen.

Everyone stood there like wooden men, motionless, not daring to breathe, waiting for Ji Dao to listen.

After a moment.

Ji Dao suddenly said decisively: "There are living things in here! I heard some movements, it might be people."

"Describe it?" Zheng Yun frowned.

"It sounds like someone is shouting and someone is smashing the ice, but I can't hear it clearly. It's very, very far away. I don't know why I can hear it." Ji Dao also frowned.

"Ask the other rescue teams where they are, Ji Dao, I want to ask you, is this Hanxian Cave?" Zheng Yun spoke to Xiao Hu beside him, and then looked at Ji Dao seriously.

"No, Hanxian Cave is an iceberg cave, it should be round, not this pointed one." Ji Dao shook his head.

"Okay."

Zheng Yun nodded.

Xiao Hu drove to the open area to contact the rescue team, and the others immediately started to act, using radio receiving equipment to go down the gentle slope to detect the entrance of the ice cave.

But no signal was received.

I don't know if it's too far away or there is no signal at all.

After a while.

Xiao Hu suddenly ran back in a hurry, got out of the car and said to them: "The White Rescue Team has made a discovery. They saw several used SOS guns in an ice valley in the northwest, and also saw some tents in the depths."

"But at the bottom of their ice valley is a huge broken ice lake. The expedition team's car did not enter from there, but went there from somewhere."

"If you look at the map, it is very likely our place." Xiao Hu took out the map and unfolded it.

The tents found by the White Rescue Team are about twelve kilometers northwest of them, and the direction is also correct.

"Are they going to go into the ice valley to have a look?" Hu Ruihua asked.

"No, they are going to come to our side and want to act together. It is safer with more people." Xiao Hu shook his head.

"Okay, then wait for them." Zheng Yun nodded.

After a while, the two vehicles of the White Rescue Team took the lead to bypass the flat area where they were.

Their captain took a tablet and showed the photos they took with a high-definition camera and a drone. It was indeed the same as what Xiao Hu said, with used tents and SOS guns.

The ice valley in the picture is also very deep, even two or three hundred meters deeper than the current ice valley, and the off-road vehicle cannot go down.

And the cracked ice lake is also very narrow and long, hundreds of meters long and wide. Even if they go down, they can't get through. The helicopter has no place to land, and it can't even fly in the valley.

The only way now.

is to go in from the ice crack here to have a look.