Chapter 1373 Can You Hear Me?

The situation was quite dire.

There are only three choices left for Fan Tong.

One is to use flesh and blood to fight against the collapsed and approaching rock formations, and the other is to climb up a deep pit of more than 20 meters in five seconds...

Or, cut the rope and fall.

It only took him a second to make a decision, and immediately undid the lock on his waist.

In fact, his judgment was very correct.

The closed rock walls didn't leave him five seconds at all, he counted up to three seconds before and after, and the solidly bumped rock formations cut off the light from the top of his head...

However, although it seemed at the time, that was already the best decision.

But after only half an hour, Fan Tong regretted it a little.

The situation I am facing now, apart from being able to leave a whole body, seems to be no better than being squashed on the rope. He has been walking for almost half an hour, and the cave seems to have no end, making people see no hope.

"Damn it...it's like a maze here."

Sure enough, I should have been safer at the time, but it is useless to say these things now.

There was a slight tremor on the ground.

Guessing that the place where he fell before was buried by the collapsed rock wall, Fan Tong took a deep breath to calm himself down as much as possible.

In order to make himself less depressed, he tried to convince himself that this was just a scientific research activity.

"The silty quartzite...it's not hematite. I didn't expect to find such an interesting thing here,"

"What is this again? Bioclastic rock?"

This is a remarkable discovery.

The frustration in his eyes was gradually replaced by excitement. Fan Tong used the multi-purpose shovel in his hand to carefully knock off a bit of rock debris without damaging the rock mass.

Looking at the baby in the sample bag, the excitement in his eyes grew stronger.

"...It would be great if the half-life test could be done here, so that I can determine the age of the sedimentary layer in this area."

If it weren't for the current situation that is not optimistic, and there is only continuous noise in the communicator, he really wants to share this happiness with other scientific researchers in the base.

Packing up his tools and samples, he started walking down the cave.

Although doing these things will not increase his chances of surviving, at least...if he dies unfortunately, these precious research materials will become a valuable scientific research legacy.

Of course, the premise is that someone can collect his body for him...

The road ahead is getting harder and harder.

Sometimes he encountered a fork in the road, and he had to try in and out several times before he found the real entrance.

During the period, he rested for a while on the road and ate some liquid food. Looking at the few supplies left, Fan Tong couldn't help feeling a little depressed.

But what is interesting is that he noticed a very interesting phenomenon along the way. It stands to reason that the core of Mars has cooled down, but as he went deeper into the tunnel, the surrounding temperature increased by about 5%.

Although the surrounding environment is still very cold, it at least brings a little comfort.

After recording these bits and pieces of discoveries, Fan Tong, who took a short rest, got up and continued to move forward.

The passage ahead became narrower and narrower, and it took a lot of effort to squeeze through.

Just when he gradually began to doubt whether he had gone wrong, a deep pit about five paces wide suddenly appeared in front of him.

Laser ranging showed that the depth below should be about 10 to 20 meters, which was exactly the same as what he encountered just now.

He stopped on the edge of the deep pit, and a look of embarrassment appeared on Fan Tong's face.

what to do?

Should I go down, or step back and find another way out?

If you continue to go down, the position you are in may become deeper and deeper, and the hope of someone collecting the body for you will become even slimmer.

However, even without groping down, it would be unrealistic to expect the people at the base to dig themselves out from a depth of more than 20 meters with limited conditions.

Recalling the forks in the roads he passed by before, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

Thinking that the situation couldn't be worse than it is now anyway, he finally gritted his teeth and made a decision. With a slap in the face, he bravely slid down towards the deep pit in front of him with the help of the multi-functional shovel in his hand.

Slide down a nearly vertical passage.

This time his feet touched the ground, but unexpectedly he got to know a lot better than before.

perhaps……

Is this the real "bottom"?

The moment Fan Tong thought about it and stood up to look forward, the whole person suddenly seemed to have lost his mind, and stood there dumbfounded.

Looking at the almost steep corridor in front of him by the light from the flashlight, it took him a long time to digest the shock in his heart, and slowly squeezed out a sentence from his lips.

"Fuck!"

"Here...what the hell...it's a fortress!"

Reddish-brown steles about two meters high stand on both sides of the corridor, like stone pillars standing along the corridor, connecting the ceiling and the ground. The complex patterns are exposed on the surface of the stele. Although it has been blurred to the point where its original surface cannot be seen clearly, traces of carving can still be seen from above.

Everything in front of me can no longer be explained by simple geology.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a natural formation.

They are like works of art...

A collection of works of art nestled in ancient ruins...

Muttering excitedly to himself, Fan Tong pointed the flashlight and the camera on his helmet at the row of cultural relic-like sculptures, and frantically pressed the shutter.

If it wasn't for the lack of signal, he really wanted to report everything he saw here to the base.

All the discoveries along the way before were not as good as what he discovered here.

There are traces of civilization activities in the underground of Mars!

At least it used to exist!

Human civilization is not the only one in the universe!

They are not alone!

He could almost imagine what kind of sensation this news would cause on Earth if it were made public. The excitement of discovering the treasure made him almost unable to bear the desire to shout out loud.

"The material is the same as the sand outside, basically it has been weathered into hematite!"

"A totem of the Martian civilization? Or some kind of utensil for religious ceremonies? Or some kind of handicraft..."

"etc……"

There was a slight sigh in his mouth. When he groped to find a stone tablet with a relatively high degree of damage, and tried to knock off the oxide layer on the surface with the multi-function shovel he carried, he found that the inside of the entire stone tablet was not in harmony with it. As he imagined, it was made entirely of hematite.

Or even the exact opposite...

The material included is the calcium carbonate mineral, which contains almost no iron.

"Calcium carbonate minerals... No, this should be some kind of biomass fossil, and it may have been formed very long ago. It looks older than the trilobite fossils on Earth."

Muttering to himself, Fan Tong carefully sampled five rock particles of equal size from inside, and put them into the sample bag for safekeeping.

"...I didn't expect that one day I would have to play a guest role as an archaeologist."

The outside is hematite, and the inside is biomass fossils. Going back to the time before it was completely weathered, he deduced that the shell of this thing should be some kind of iron-based alloy material, sealing some kind of living thing inside like a coffin.

Intuition told him that this might be a place similar to a cemetery.

Although other understandings exist, this is undoubtedly the most likely one.

Tightening the multifunctional shovel in his hand, Fan Tong continued to move forward along this ominous corridor. Although the guy in his hand can't bring him more sense of security, it's better than nothing.

Contrary to the previous situation, as he continued to move deeper into the corridor, the road ahead suddenly became wider.

Especially when he stepped into a spacious "main hall", he felt suddenly enlightened.

However, just when he was about to move forward, he unexpectedly discovered that his knee seemed to be against an invisible wall, and he could not take another step forward.

Just as he was groping on the invisible wall in front of him in confusion, a strange scene happened suddenly.

The sign showing the signal on the wrist-mounted computer suddenly changed from a cross to a full space.

Wei Wei was stunned for a moment, noticing the flashing signal light, Fan Tong subconsciously restarted the communication module.

A series of noisy electric tones soon came from the communication channel.

Just as he was looking at the signal on the wrist-mounted computer in disappointment, guessing that it was probably some kind of naturally formed electromagnetic wave, an intermittent sound suddenly sounded from his ear without warning.

"Cough cough."

"... Can you hear me?"

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(Mathematics is already three stars, everyone don’t forget to compare your hearts~)