"Buzz~~~" A team of field vehicles were driving in the mountains and forests, with half-meter-wide tracks pressing on the thick snow. If it weren't for the average thickness of one or two meters of snow, there would be no roads in the mountains. Not easy to drive.
The trees in front of us gradually became sparse, and after turning a corner, a clear view suddenly opened up. Ahead is an endless expanse of white, with a frozen lake beneath the white snow.
The field vehicles driving out of the forest formed a long queue, with snowflakes flying between the wheels, and they rushed to the edge of the ice lake like a rainbow.
But if you look at it from a high altitude, compared with the endless glacial lake in front of you, it looks like a group of ants.
"keep going!"
The convoy paused for a moment and then set off again. On the flat ice, their speed increased to about 100 kilometers per hour. This is already the top speed of the car. The driver never thought that he would have to drive at high speed. In the past, field service vehicles could only drive up to fifty yards at the base or in the tunnel.
The sun had just risen in the sky, and around 9 o'clock, Shihan and the others arrived at their destination.
"Reconnaissance!" Shihan ordered. This time they also brought a newly developed detection radar, which also used new communication technology.
"Report to Commander, there are no signs of biological activity in the surrounding fifty kilometers."
"What about under the ice?"
"There are no obvious signs of biological activity under the ice, and no creatures exceeding 20 meters in size have been detected."
Shihan was wearing tight cold-proof clothes, with a communicator on his head, and no part of his body was leaking out. He connected to Wu Han who was waiting at the base, and Wu Han's nervous voice came to his ears.
"Shihan, are you here?"
Shi Han opened the view sharing and said: "According to the map, we estimate that we have arrived at the location. We have completed the investigation and are preparing to get off the car."
Since there is no positioning system yet, they can only estimate their location based on maps and their own itinerary. However, Chongqing is so big that the deviation is not very big.
As soon as the car door opened, the howling wind blew the flying snow into the car. Shihan got out of the car despite the strong wind, and his feet slipped. It turned out that there was only a thin layer of snow on the ice on the lake.
Looking at the glacial lake in the distance, I saw that the snow on the ice surface was rolled up by the strong wind into deep and shallow patches. Where the snow was shallow, the sapphire blue ice surface was exposed.
"Clean up the place!" Shi Han said. This time they came with twenty cars and one hundred people. Each team of 5 people is equipped with a communicator. At this time, they had opened the regional group channel, and the group leader could hear Shihan's words.
They first surrounded the cars to form a temporary safe and wind-proof area, and then used the prefabricated parts they brought to build a barracks of more than 500 square meters.
After the barracks were set up, they started cutting the ice 200 meters away from the barracks. Five cutting machines started working at the same time, cutting out pieces of ice that were 1 meter long, 30 centimeters wide and 30 centimeters high. These ice blocks were then piled outside the barracks to serve as outer walls to strengthen the camp.
The thickness of the ice exceeded Shi Han's imagination, and the deep blue lake water did not emerge until the groove was more than three meters deep. It wasn't until evening that a huge ice cave 10 meters long and wide was opened.
After nightfall, the temperature had dropped to minus 40 degrees. Although there was not much difference between day and night under the ice, Shihan still ordered to rest first and wait until tomorrow to start diving operations.
Early the next morning, Shihan and the others had breakfast early and worked again for half an hour before breaking open the hole that had been frozen again last night.
"Big dragon, is it okay?" Shi Han knelt down and stroked the dragon's bare head. I heard that snakes hibernated hundreds of years ago, but after the snakes mutated, they no longer hibernate. Anyway, dragon pythons and other snakes can always be seen in the beast tide in winter.
The little dragon python is now as thick as the mouth of a bowl, its scales are shining with a dark yellow light, and its body is chubby due to sufficient food.
"Hiss~" The little dragon python stretched out his mouth as if in response. Although it was not as active as before, there was no abnormality due to the low temperature.
Shi Han patted its head and gently warned: "Protect them for me! Warn them in time if there is danger."
The little dragon python twisted and slid towards the ice pit first, followed by ten soldiers in diving suits.
"Check comms!"
"No. 1 is normal!"
"No. 2 is normal!"
"No. 3 is normal!"
…
"Let's go!" Ten people slid into the ice cave.
Shi Han originally planned to go into the water himself. After all, the little dragon python was his pet, but he could not overcome the unanimous opposition of everyone. The little dragon python was also very obedient, and in the end Shi Han stayed in the camp to command.
A screen in the camp showed the perspectives of ten warriors. Someone looked back and saw that the blue lake water above them was extremely clear, like a blue gem. Looking back, there was no bottom below, and the blue water bottom was like the deep night sky.
There is a composite cable on the waist of the diving warrior, which is only as thick as a finger, but can withstand a pulling force of 200 tons. The searchlights above their heads shone on the deep bottom of the lake, and the silhouette of the small dragon python flashed from time to time.
The image that came back soon was no longer a single blue, and there were large ruins under the water. After hundreds of years of immersion, corrosion, and ravage by various mutated fish. The old world under the water no longer looks like a bustling city.
Most of the buildings have collapsed, and the ruins are covered with various mutated water plants. The few tall buildings that are still standing are also covered with green water plants, swaying with the water waves, like a ragged beggar swaying in the wind.
"Report to Commander, the underwater world is seriously eroded! There are not many complete buildings visible anymore, the road signs and landmarks are completely inconsistent, and our electronic map is completely useless!"
The first news that came was not good. The electronic maps from hundreds of years ago that they specifically searched for in the database were of no use at all.
In the camera, a soldier swims to the top of a tall building, where there is a device like a signal tower. He reached out and grabbed a pole as thick as his arm and broke it hard!
Unexpectedly, the metal pole was broken off like a dead branch. The soldier raised his hand. It could be seen in the camera that what he held was not metal at all, but something like a hollow branch.
There were some scraps of what looked like metal left in the hollows of the branches.
"Report to the commander, there should have been exposed metal here, but it has been corroded. These are just the remains of some plants that were originally wrapped around it."
"Continue to explore and see if there are any rebar in the concrete of the building."
"yes!"
The soldier fell towards the building at his feet and stamped his feet vigorously, shaking up a pile of accumulated powder and debris. I found a broken pillar and actually found steel bars!
The soldier swam over and stretched out his hand, and the steel bars snapped like a crispy shark.
"Report to Commander, the exposed steel bars in the building are also severely corroded. However, they can still be used as raw materials."
"Received!" There was no joy on Shi Han's face, because such fragile metal could not be salvaged in large quantities. If people just fished it up bit by bit, it would not be able to meet the needs of the base.
