Apocalyptic black technology system

Chapter 12 Under the Ice

Zhang Shaoyuan and his six team members are advancing along the inclined tunnel.

The billowing steam has already re-condensed under the icy temperature of this planet. Even with deceleration measures, their descent speed is still quite fast. The entrance behind them has become a small circular light hole, and they seem to have become Frog at the bottom of the well.

But in fact, this process is like riding a slide.

This reminded Zhang Shaoyuan of the three-hundred-meter ice slide that he once took once in Ice City Ice and Snow World.

At that time he still had a wife and children.

Under the holographic mask, the corners of Zhang Shaoyuan's mouth were inexplicably curved.

Because he remembered the gentle smile of his wife and the excited look of the child that day.

At present, the thickness of the ice layer is 130 meters, and the slightly inclined excavation direction makes the length of this tunnel nearly 200 meters, but it is not as good as the ice slide in the world of ice and snow.

It's just too dark.

If a pure human enters here, then this gliding process will be a very dark and terrifying journey, like people suddenly fall in their sleep, but Zhang Shaoyuan and his team are equipped with the most advanced personal night of the Xinjing fleet. Visual equipment, coupled with their own lighting device, for them, the brightness of this gliding is enough, but the depth is invisible, as if sliding towards the huge mouth of some kind of unpredictable terrifying creature.

And when many people have the same idea, they come to the end.

Suddenly the body was empty, and a sense of sinking came quickly.

There is a large cavity under the ice layer, and it will fall naturally if it penetrates the ice layer.

Zhang Shaoyuan and the others had been prepared for the first time, activated their spacesuit's thrusters and slowly stabilized their figure in mid-air.

Only then did they notice that the underground was not dark, and some kind of strange crystals grew on the frozen upper "ice sheet", and there was one at a long distance, glowing with blue light.

The blue light is actually very weak, and there are not many blue crystals, so it can only illuminate a small area. Looking down from here, it is still dark. At this distance, the lighting equipment on their bodies also shines. Don't wear it.

The height is at least two hundred meters.

Zhang Shaoyuan made a simple judgment, but they did not drop the altitude immediately: "Xie Wenbo and Chen Jia, you should collect samples of the blue crystal, take precautions, that crystal is likely to have radiation. Other people and I were distracted. Turn on the biological radar, thermal radar, and be careful of anything."

The temperature below the ice layer is even lower. At this moment, the surface temperature of this planet is about minus 31 degrees, but the temperature here is over minus 40 degrees.

Further down, the temperature seems to become lower.

Zhang Shaoyuan thought that the volume of this frozen planet was several times larger than that of the earth.

At this time, he noticed that the signal was slightly poor, whether it was their internal communication or external signals.

The two soldiers flew to the nearest blue crystal under Zhang Shaoyuan's order.

Before coming down, they had made adequate preparations, bringing together all kinds of things that they could bring, including small material collection and containment devices.

As the only blue crystal that is suspected to be the "rock" of this planet, sampling is of course necessary.

And the picture here was also transmitted back to Xu Youyang's frigate for the first time. As the ice layer began to deepen here, Xu Youyang also drew part of the resources and manpower to keep an eye on the situation here.

Xu Youyang knocked on the armrest of his captain's seat and looked at the slightly noisy stroboscopic picture, and said: "Team Zhang, there seems to be a strong magnetic field underground, which has interfered with our communication. If there is a situation, we should withdraw immediately."

"Roger that."

Zhang Shaoyuan responded immediately.

At this time, the two soldiers had already started collecting blue crystals.

The blue crystal is not big, about the size of two adult male fists. The whole body is a crystal clear blue, like the crystal of the original ore, but there are no impurities, and it seems to grow in the ice. , Half of them are connected to the ice.

"Will this be some kind of fluorspar?" A related expert asked in the bridge of the frigate.

At present, the radiation indicators on the two soldiers have not issued warnings, which means that the radiation of this blue crystal has not reached the level of harm to the human body.

Xie Wenbo and Chen Jia glanced at each other, and after a brief exchange, in accordance with the instructions of the frigate expert group, they were ready to chisel off the blue crystal and a small part of the ice around it.

This process took a lot of time.

Fortunately, this ice layer is up to 100 meters thick, and it is not known how many years it has existed. It is strong enough to cut and only need to worry about not damaging the sampling target.

After sampling was completed, Xie Wenbo opened the metal backpack behind him and put the sample that had been sealed in the containment box into it.

Zhang Shaoyuan gestured to them from a distance, beckoning them to follow, and he began to descend.

The six-person exploratory group began to slowly descend.

The cave under the ice is quite endless. Looking left and right, it is a darkness with no end.

"The scale here seems to be comparable to the cavity under our Arctic glacier."

Chen Jia who followed up couldn't help but say something.

In this team, he is the youngest, only twenty-one years old, and he is always more vigorous than others when he comes to a strange planet and talks more.

Unfortunately, no one responded this time.

The underground cave was extremely empty. They fell vertically. Because of caution, this process still took nearly one and a half minutes. The height of the cave at their current location was calculated to be 237.65 meters.

In the process of descent, the interference to their signals is becoming more and more serious. When the distance from the "ground" is about 70 meters, the communication with the frigate is almost interrupted.

They stayed in this position for a while, and after re-establishing contact with the battleship and discussing them, Zhang Shaoyuan's team decided to continue descending to the ground.

At this time, both their internal communication and the communication with the frigate had been interrupted.

Zhang Shaoyuan ordered the team to turn on the sound device of the combat uniform and prepare for direct communication. At the same time, it re-checked whether its camera is working well to ensure that the recorded ground data can be reviewed and studied by the fleet after returning.

But at this moment, Chen Jia at the back suddenly saw a shadow that flashed away: "There is a situation!"

Everyone immediately entered a state of alert, and the lighting equipment scanned the surroundings.

"The infrared thermal radar did not detect the target."

"The biological detection radar did not find any targets."

"The motion detection radar has detected an unknown thing moving around us!"

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