Chapter 253: The World of Ice

The man quickly came over with a gray bag and opened a corner, revealing countless detonators inside.

However, the power is only ordinary explosives, and in the dangerous area of the glacier, the most worrying thing about the large-scale blasting is the occurrence of an avalanche, once the critical point is exceeded, it will be buried alive here.

"Retreat, irrelevant personnel spread out for two weeks, and the farther away the better." Considering the worst-case scenario, the people had to be evacuated temporarily.

Just listen to the sound of Peng, the snow and thick ice were blown everywhere, the earth shook, in the blink of an eye, a small area of snow still rolled down, and the thick school above the snow mountain shook several times at the same time, rolling down a distance to stop.

Everyone snorted softly, fortunately it was all expected, if there was a few more explosives, the consequences would be unimaginable.

After waiting for a long time, fearing a second avalanche, he took out a small shovel from his bag, folded the shovel and began to work.

Finally, a hole was opened, several people looked at each other, and one person tied a bright flashlight to his forehead and crawled inside.

Unexpectedly, at the southern foot of the Himalayas, there is an ice cave formed by the interaction of ice and water after tens of millions of years.

There are many forks in the ice cave, and the ice walls that wrap around the cave are sometimes thick and sometimes thin, and they are like ants walking through the maze of anthills.

After a while, they slowly came to a crack in the ice, and the ice walls at each end of the cave suddenly thickened, like a huge ice stone, from which the giant axe cleaved, leaving a wedge-shaped passage for only one person to pass through.

The ice crevin in front was noticeably narrower, and everyone had to turn sideways to pass, and the roof of the cave was hung with ice cubes, and the stone walls were abruptly craggy.

Some of them with big bags obviously can't get by, so they can only hold the bags with both hands and move over, many long hanging ice cubes are broken by the backpack, and ice beads drip on the neckline from time to time, even Zhuo Lei is also affected, and he can't help but say: "Be careful, these things are stuck on the body, and it is more uncomfortable than the whole person falling into the ice hole." ”

The ice in the ice cave is cooler than ordinary ice, and it hurts like a pinprick when you fall into your clothes.

And every word he said echoed in the empty cavern. It is inevitable that people will have goosebumps in their hearts.

Squeezing out of the ice crevices, the cave suddenly opens up, and countless pillars of light penetrate through the top wall, allowing people to see inside the cave without the help of the light of a flashlight.

The dome resembles a lid on a buttoned pot, the highest point nearly 100 meters from where they are, and a crust of ice about one to two meters thick wraps around the inner surface of the rock wall, and the rock wall itself has countless holes through which the sunlight reaches the hollow belly of the mountain.

Inside this ice sheet, countless huge icicles stand towering in the sky, and many icicles hang upside down in the dome, like swords pointing to the earth.

Rather than icicles, they are more like mineral crystals, with regular quadrangulation, pentagonal, hexagonal and other forms, the high ones are like spears and spears reaching the dome, the low ones are like spring shoots breaking through the ground, and they are also like the first bloom of flower buds, and there are many pyramid-shaped icicles that are pointed at the tip of the heaven and earth, and are transmitted by the sun's rays, and they are transformed into seven-colored rainbows.

The permafrost was covered with a thick layer of ice, and the ground on which they stood seemed to have been whipped with a leather whip by an immortal, and what should have been a smooth piece was divided into pieces by countless huge chasms and cracks, and the situation made people imagine the runway of the airport after the earthquake.

Now, they were standing on a protruding ice platform that resembled an eagle with its tail in the cliff, and they were standing in the beak of the eagle.

It only takes two or three steps forward to reach the edge of the ice cliff, those cracks are small one or two meters wide, and the big ones are more than ten meters wide, and the bottom is not deep, and the slightest cold air rises, and you can only hear the sound of a roar similar to that of a fierce beast.

And between the platforms, there are not no roads, countless ice beams, ice bridges connect them, but at first glance, it seems that there is nothing on it.

The ice here is crystal clear, clean without a trace of impurities, some icicles are several meters in diameter, but through the icicles, you can clearly see the interior of the cave behind the icicles, as if only separated by a layer of cellophane.

The cave is colorful, ice beams, ice bridges and icicles are all over the cave like spider silk, and the snow-white cold air under the cracks is surging around the ice bridge like waves, and it is like a rainbow being erected, so that everyone seems to be in a dream, and can't help but sigh: how can human beings imitate the miracle of nature?

Everyone breathes carefully, this masterpiece of nature always makes people feel the wonder of the world, its own insignificance, and the wonders of the ice cave are like holy snow-capped mountains, which make people unconsciously get the purification of their souls, in front of them, everyone is willing to bow their noble heads, and make pious confessions and prayers in their hearts.

Even the powerful Master Ula is silent, and in front of nature, no one dares to claim to be invincible in the world.

Suddenly, someone looked at the churning ground crack under the white mist under the ice bridge, and the roar was incessant, and he asked carefully and in a respectful tone, "What's down there?" ”

"Underground undercurrents, to put it bluntly, are groundwater, and in this way melting glaciers transport their water to their tributaries, which then converge into lakes on the plateau, and many glaciers are formed in this way. We can't figure out how deep it is, but I know that once you fall into those glaciers, it only takes three minutes to freeze you permanently. Zhuo Lei's face was solemn, and falling down meant that it was time to say goodbye.

The water of the glacier is below zero degrees Celsius and does not freeze, which is also a natural phenomenon that cannot be explained by traditional physics, it only takes three minutes to soak all your clothes, and the pores and blood vessels of the skin that come into contact with the ice water immediately constrict.

All the superficial veins are frozen, the epidermis is inactivated, then the nerves are paralyzed, the deep muscle cells are out of control, you want to move but you can't even move a finger, you can only look at your body with helpless eyes, slowly being frozen, stiffened, ossified, and died.

"Master Ulla, please bring these two healers with you." Although Zore hopes that he can take everyone across the ice bridge smoothly, they are not subordinate.

To put it bluntly, it's to take what you need.

As he spoke, he took out his tools from his bag, some strips of cloth that looked like they could be tied to his body, some square steel rings with rope sleeves, steel rings in the shape of a figure 8, shoes that looked like hollows, things full of steel claws underneath, pointed tapered steel tools with crank handles, and so on.

He first made holes in the ice with those cones, then drove the steel bars with a hole in the back into the holes, connected them with hooks and the square objects, and then put the cloth straps on himself like clothes, and then connected his body with the steel bars nailed to the ice with ropes.

The rest of the people didn't understand, but Muge had already given each of them a large cloth belt, and helped them tie it, and put on the iron shoe cover with steel claws.

When everything was ready, Zhuo Lei said: "Follow in order, I'll walk over the ice bridge first, you guys follow one by one, let's go to the ice platform in the middle first." I have to remind you to be extra careful, when you cross the ice bridge, try to look straight ahead with your eyes, only look at the bridge with your peripheral vision, hold the lifter in your hand tightly, and once your body slips on the ice bridge, hold on to what you hold. Got it"?

Crossing the ice bridges is like walking close to death, and those ice bridges look wide and straight, as if they are solid, but you have to know that if the bridge has a slope of more than 1 degree, and you don't wear crampons, the almost absolutely smooth surface will allow you to slide down in no time.

And the colder it is, the more brittle the ice is, and the middle of the ice bridge is under tremendous pressure, and even if a hair-thick crack forms on it, it can collapse at any time.

The third person who crossed the ice bridge, he saw that Zhuo Lei and Muge were walking very easily, and wondered in his heart, why not let him see the bridge deck? Originally, this ice bridge is not easy to see, and you can only see it with your peripheral vision, isn't it easier to go the wrong way?

Halfway through, he couldn't help but glance down slightly, only to see a curious face immediately appear on the smooth mirror-like ice, he knew that it was his own face, but the parts below the face were invisible.

And the icicles and ice edges above the head are also reflected in the ice bridge, through the ice bridge, the thousands of cliffs below the ice bridge, and the ice crystals that grow out of the cliffs, the ice shoots are also at a glance, and then down, there are wisps of ice mist, hidden mountains and hidden water are entangled in half of the wall, like a white dragon soaring between heaven and earth.

For a moment, he suddenly couldn't tell whether he was standing on the ice with a solid surface, or whether he was suspended in mid-air. And in this mid-air, there is a face that is exactly the same as himself, but looks flustered, unfocused, and surprised, and there is only one face, a face floating in mid-air!

He lost his sense of direction in an instant, only felt that his body was constantly sinking downward, the dome of the sky and the earth under his feet were circling around him, he seemed to hear someone's shouts in the distance, and it seemed that he couldn't hear anything, the strength in his body seemed to be used by someone with a syringe, all of a sudden empty, his hands and feet did not obey the call, he himself had completely lost control.

Falling down softly, he fell on the ice bridge at once, leaning on the safety rope, and had not yet rolled off the ice bridge.

Zhuo Lei exhaled lightly, fortunately he had foresight, otherwise the brothers would not talk about Shambhala, I am afraid that they would have suffered heavy losses halfway.

After crossing a few ice bridges, an ice beam broke off, and a distance of one meter had to be jumped over by manpower. If it is on flat ground, anyone can jump over that one-meter distance, but under the ice beam, there is an abyss, and the person just stood on the ground and looked down, and he had already lost consciousness, how could they jump over the limit of one meter.