Chapter 337: Under the Ice and Snow (2-in-1)
Above the blue sky, it seems to be extremely clean and thorough.
But Tang Chuan sensed that the sky was filled with some kind of strange field effect.
There's a big problem here in Antarctica.
At Tang Chuan's request, everyone quickly took out some components from some large boxes.
After some assembly, what appears in front of you will definitely amaze many tech fans.
The object resembles a hexagonal box, with six legs underneath it, but the six legs do not fall directly into the snow.
Underneath are three sled-like slides, with six legs falling into three tracks.
The entire box is only one meter above the ground, and the box itself is fully enclosed, 2 meters high, with hatches like firing ports on all six sides.
On the side directly ahead, a black hole was revealed, and it was a 30mm rapid-fire gun. In the front, on the left and right slopes, there are two 12.7 mm machine guns.
This six-sided box occupies an area of about 10 square meters, the front half is an automatic cannon and an automatic machine gun and a magazine occupies about 3-4 square meters, and the second half can be loaded and human.
In the upper area of the carriage was the core control center of the marching vehicle.
Originally, this six-legged marching vehicle can basically move in all terrain, but in a world of ice and snow like Antarctica, of course, it is more suitable to use a sled.
The marching vehicle is the masterpiece of the robot research team, and they saw the big robot dog developed by the US military, which is used to consign baggage for soldiers, so they want to develop a similar robot assistant for the Chinese army.
The research team designed the six-legged robotic spider, which later evolved into the current appearance of the marching vehicle due to the simplification of the core control module.
It is currently in a state of experimentation, and this time three ready-made test vehicles have been brought to Antarctica, which can also be verified in such extreme terrain and climatic conditions.
The whole hexagonal big guy is sprayed with snow camouflage all over the body, and it is still very concealed in the Antarctic snow field.
At this time, everyone assembled the three marching vehicles and put on the power armor.
A large number of luggage and supplies were loaded into the carriage, and the eleven people were divided into three cars in the ratio of four, four, and three.
With Tang Chuan's order to set off, the three marching vehicles ran on their own on the snowfield.
The power is to give the sled rails a forward thrust through six legs, and the marching vehicle gallops across the vast Antarctic snowfield.
As for steering, there is a steering knuckle at the front end of the rail, and with the change of the direction of the front end, the coasting direction of the entire marching vehicle will also change.
Tang Chuan's disembarkation location was 50 kilometers away from the location of the Snow Wolf icebreaker originally marked.
The speed of the marching vehicle on the snowfield is also 50 kilometers per hour, that is, it only takes about an hour for them to get there.
On the silent Antarctic continent, on the vast snowfield, in addition to the eternal cold wind, a buzzing motor sound was heard far away.
Looking down from the sky, three sleigh ruts stretched straight to the south.
Because the marching vehicles have snow camouflage, it is almost impossible to see clearly on a white snowfield.
Tang Chuan was in a marching vehicle in the middle at this time, sensing the situation around the convoy for 8 kilometers.
As he stepped into the Cave Xuan Realm for a longer time, the accumulated soul power seemed to have made the soul body grow somewhat, and the radius of his perception range had expanded to 8 kilometers.
After listening to Captain Thorin's warning, Tang Chuan still took it to heart, after all, this snowfield is not on the Antarctic continent.
They are just a build-up of sea ice that stretches from the continental shelf during the Antarctic winter, and there may be some kind of huge fissure hidden in it, and beneath the fissures may be the icy Ross Sea.
Tang Chuan not only sensed whether there was a collapse on the surface of the snow field, but also enhanced his soul power to penetrate about 10 meters below the snow field.
Make sure that in the event of that potentially huge crack, the convoy will be able to detour in time.
The control center of the marching vehicle can accept the transmission of information from the soul power, in other words, the personnel above the first glimpse realm with the soul power can control the marching vehicle by will.
This control method is also the standard configuration of large-scale weapon control systems in the future, and some large-scale weapons and equipment that can enhance personal strength will be adopted.
For this reason, the large mecha being developed by the Guardian Weapons R&D Department is this kind of control system, so that the mecha can be controlled like an arm and fingers, and it is extremely flexible.
With the gradual improvement of Soul Science, coupled with a group of scholars and researchers who have become spiritually strong, Tang Chuan has passed on some of the knowledge of Soul Science to them.
Coupled with the birth of graphene battery technology and Linggang, it is possible to reproduce some weapons and equipment in science fiction movies or animations.
Among them, Li Jingyu is the most enthusiastic about this, because he is the youngest of all the research project leaders, and naturally he is more fanatical about realizing these weapon designs.
Just as Tang Chuan was perceiving and thinking about these recent weapon research projects, in the ever-expanding range of perception as the marching vehicle advanced, a huge ravine suddenly appeared, and as the marching vehicle moved forward, the width of the ravine finally appeared.
It was three kilometers wide, in other words, the marching vehicle had already advanced another three kilometers towards the ravine.
On top of that, the top of this large ravine is covered with more than a meter of snow and ice, that is, on the surface, a snowfield is indistinguishable from the rest.
But in reality, there is an amazing gully down there.
A meter of snow and ice is really not thick, and if an ordinary snowmobile passes over it, it will inevitably cause a collapse.
Sure enough, Captain Thorin was right, and there was an astonishing killing force hidden beneath the calm snowfield.
If it weren't for Tang Chuan, they would all be mentally strong, with a range of perception, and they could detect hidden dangers in advance.
It would be impossible to land on the Antarctic continent from such ice sheets.
When the marching vehicle was 2 kilometers away from the ravine, Tang Chuan gave the order to stop advancing with his soul power, and the control center of the three marching vehicles immediately braked the galloping marching vehicle.
The marching vehicle swirled around the snowfield and slid for hundreds of meters before finally coming to a stop.
Chen Dao, with two people on foot, went less than 2 kilometers ahead to investigate the situation above the ravine, and at the same time followed the ravine, to find out how wide it was and where it went. Remember, you can't go up and test the bearing capacity of the snow and ice layer without my command. ”
"Yes, sir. ”
Chen Dao got out of the car with the two of them and galloped forward with the power of the power armor.
Dong Zhihong also got out of the car, came to Tang Chuan's car, and asked, "Sir, I don't know how wide that ravine is? ”
Tang Chuan smiled and said, "What's the matter, haven't you practiced the flying technique I taught you to the second level?"
The second-level flying technique can allow people to fly at a low altitude of about ten meters for hundreds of meters before they need to land and borrow strength, as long as the masters of the perception realm practice diligently, they can master it.
Dong Zhihong immediately said: "This is the coolest skill that Mr. has passed on to us, of course, I have already practiced it."
But this ravine is three kilometers wide, and if we fly like this, we will definitely collapse the snow layer when we borrow force, and we can only use force once, but we can't fly this ravine. ”
"Don't worry, isn't there still me? I can be your borrowing point, a total of ten of you, and you can pass in ten times. ”
"Ahh ”
Dong Zhihong exclaimed in surprise, he had seen Tang Chuan perform flying, and that was to teach them the art of flying.
However, seeing a person flying hundreds of meters in the air without any external force, the shock still remains in Dong Zhihong's memory.
This is also the reason why he is his size, and he still practices flying desperately.
It's really the feeling of flying in the air, it's cool!
Several people waited here for about ten minutes, and Chen Dao's report had already been transmitted.
"Sir, this gully is three kilometers wide on average, five kilometers at its widest point and two kilometers at its narrowest point.
The whole ravine was winding and twisting, and the direction was from northwest to southeast, and it spread for a long time, and we had been traveling along the ravine for ten minutes, but we had not yet seen the end.
I suspect that the length of this ravine makes it impossible for us to make a detour. Sir, I suggest that we find a way to cross the past from a narrower point. ”
"Okay, then you wait for us to come and meet us in the narrowest place. ”
Tang Chuan beckoned Dong Zhihong to get into the car, and Chen Dao had already marked the narrowest place, which had been synchronized to the map of the marching vehicle control system.
The marching vehicles rushed there and arrived there in just five or six minutes.
Tang Chuan controlled the marching vehicle and carefully stopped 100 meters from the edge of the ravine.
After getting out of the car, I raised my eyes and looked into the distance.
It's August, the short day has passed, and the whole snowfield is white under the starlight of the night sky.
Tang Chuan carefully sensed the situation of the ravine here, and the firmness of the layer of ice and snow above the ravine.
Sighing, it seems that he can really only fly across the ravine, and the carrying capacity of the ice and snow layer is simply not enough to carry people wearing power armor, not to mention marching vehicles and a large amount of luggage.
If it weren't for the ordinary people who might need to be rescued, Tang Chuan wouldn't have needed to carry so many heavy supplies.
"Attention, everyone, wait a minute, I'll send the marching cart through the ravine first, and then I'll be the starting point for you to use your flying skills, so that you can also experience the feeling of flying over. ”
"Yes, sir!"
Everyone was very excited, because they had not flown since Tang Chuan taught them to fly, and they were eager to appreciate the majestic posture of Mr. flying in the air.
In particular, this time they will fly with a marching vehicle, and this experience will definitely be enough for them to go back and brag to the others.
In fact, Tang Chuan could also let them stay in the marching vehicle, and then he would transport them over, but in this way, Tang Chuan decided to let them try to fly by themselves when they had the opportunity to actually use the flying technique.
After all, as the level of spiritual power increases, they will also fly higher and higher, and if they don't fly at a low altitude, it is possible that they will not be able to control the consumption of soul power like Tang Chuan did for the first time.
They didn't have the same easy way to replenish their soul power as Tang Chuan.
Everyone got out of the car, began to do some preparations, and lined up, Chen Dao was the first, Dong Zhihong was the last.
This is Tang Chuan has come to a marching vehicle, I saw him stretch out his hands, making a false support, the marching vehicle slowly left the ground, and was held up by Tang Chuan with a huge telekinetic platform.
Subsequently, Tang Chuan himself also flew.
The huge telekinetic platform carried Tang Chuan and the marching vehicle and flew towards the opposite side of the ravine, and the whole scene was extremely spectacular, making Chen Dao and the others fascinated.
I'm thinking, when can I do this myself?
Tang Chuan's movements were fast, three round trips, and three marching vehicles were sent across the ravine, and then Tang Chuan controlled himself to a distance of 500 meters from the ravine.
According to the strength of the second-level flying technique of the perception realm of all people, they need to borrow strength about once every 500 meters.
Chen Dao was the first to fly, only to see him skimming over the snowfield at a low altitude and flying towards Tang Chuan, 500 meters away, and was already falling when he was about to arrive.
Tang Chuan gently held it, and a telekinetic platform was generated at Chen Dao's feet.
Chen Dao felt the feeling of being down-to-earth, and immediately exerted a little force on his feet, and his figure flew up again, flying forward.
Tang Chuan quickly caught up and repeated his old skills in the next 500 meters, allowing Chen Dao to fly again with his strength.
After letting Chen Dao borrow his strength three more times, Chen Dao fell next to the three marching vehicles.
With Chen Dao's demonstration, everyone suddenly knew in their hearts, and it was obvious that Mr. could accurately control their mental power to help them borrow their strength.
Next, it took just over ten minutes for the remaining nine people to fly over the ravine.
After everyone got into the marching vehicle, they continued to run on the Antarctic ice sheet towards the last position of the Snow Wolf.
After passing through the huge ravine under the ice and snow, Tangchuan and the others did not encounter any special dangers, and the ordinary pits and snow nests on the road were easy to avoid.
After more than ten minutes, they saw the Snow Wolf frozen in the snow at the last place where the Snow Wolf was sent back.
At this moment, there were only a few lights on the Snow Wolf, and the whole ship was dark.
I don't know if it's extinguished to save energy.
Tang Chuan's perception had already covered the entire Snow Wolf for the first time.
Qin Qinghe and Fan Irin were not on the boat!
There were probably only a few crew members on board, and the cargo hold was mostly empty.
Tang Chuan quickly came to the Snow Wolf with his people, got off the marching car, and looked at the side of the Snow Wolf, which was more than 20 meters high.
Tang Chuan said: "Dong Zhihong, your team stays behind. Chen Dao, your team will go up with me. ”
After saying that, he had already flown over the Snow Wolf first.
Standing on the foredeck, Tang Chuan shouted, "Is there anyone? We are a rescue team!"
Hearing Tang Chuan's voice, several people ran out of the cabin, and the first one to look at the costume was the captain.
When he saw Tang Chuan and the other six people wearing power armor, he immediately exclaimed.
But soon he covered his mouth, because he noticed that the six men dressed like spacesuits had a five-star red flag on their chests.
"You're from China?"
"Are you the captain? We are a special rescue team, my name is Tang Chuan, why are you the only crew on the ship?"
The captain said, "Great, have you brought the communication equipment? All the communication equipment on our ship is scrapped."
I'm Captain Zhang Dayuan. The expedition members and experts on board set off yesterday, and this time there happened to be two large snowmobiles among the supplies, and after loading the supplies, they rushed directly to the Ross New Station. ”
Tang Chuan immediately understood that it was no wonder that the warehouses were empty.
Tang Chuan immediately arranged for the new communication equipment to be brought to the Snow Wolf to leave a set, and after determining that the materials needed by the Snow Wolf's personnel for a short time were temporarily worry-free, he said goodbye to them.
However, Tang Chuan left two team members behind to protect him from unpredictable things.
Tang Chuan led the rest of the people to continue to move towards the direction of Ross New Station, at this time he could only pray that along the way, Qin Qing and their snowmobiles must not encounter any hidden ravines, otherwise the danger is self-evident.
It's just that not long after departure, in the dark night, the speed of the howling cold wind suddenly accelerated, Tang Chuan's face turned pale, and he immediately ordered the marching vehicle to stop advancing.