Chapter 21: A Man Who Is Willing to Walk Into the Fire for You
Xiang Sheng finally found his destination, which he found with a pair of legs based on coordinate data and satellite navigation.
It is almost the southernmost part of the earth, and sure enough, as the data shows, it is a huge lake, the water of which has been frozen and surrounded by mountains covered with white ice, the distance of which is quite far away, but you can still feel the steepness of the mountain when you look at it from the center of the lake. It can be judged that the bottom of the lake should be very deep, which is quite consistent with some satellite measurements.
If the lake is really deep, this will of course make it more difficult to excavate Xiangsheng, but under normal circumstances, no matter how thick the ice is, there will inevitably be water in the inner layer, because the living water under the ice layer will make it impossible to completely freeze.
But now the lake at the feet of Xiang Sheng is likely to be the only exception, because although this lake is large, it has become stagnant water when it was formed, especially when Xiang Sheng found that there is heavy salt in the lake ice, he can guess that it may be due to crustal changes and become an isolated inland sea, and the existence of this inland sea, after tens of millions of years of severe freezing, except for the sea water that is extremely close to the seabed, because of the warmth of the geothermal heat and has not frozen, most of the water here has become the largest single "iceberg" in the world.
When Xiang Sheng used his spiritual power to probe the bottom of the lake, his spiritual power penetrated 30 meters below the surface of the lake, and he still only felt a piece of ice, and there were many creatures and plants frozen inside.
Xiang Sheng confirmed the coordinates again, and found that the place where he was standing was just in the middle of the ice lake, and this is probably the deepest part of the ice lake.
Xiang Sheng thought that he had avoided everyone in the Antarctic and came to this no-man's land, and if those scientists and explorers knew that there was a person here at this moment who was planning to drill through the ice and explore to a depth of several hundred meters, they would definitely not think so, because in doing so, they would not have unearthed any valuable information at all, except for the frozen seafood in this lake.
Xiang Sheng is not ignorant of the situation of Lu Dao Lotte and the organization of a support group online, but he is a calm and almost cold person. He is also a warm-hearted and almost hot-blooded person.
As for the matter of Lotte, Sky Eagle has not put Xiang Sheng out of the incident, and some of Sky Eagle's plans have been copied, and Xiang Sheng coldly used the "marginal theory" to measure his whereabouts, and found that if the support group can successfully rescue Lotte, in fact, there will be no need for his own existence at all; On the contrary, even if he took his own life again, he couldn't change the result, so he "assigned" himself to Helena, who couldn't live without himself.
Xiang Sheng wants to find the "Ice Spring" to restore Helena's soul consciousness! No one will do this for her but him! Helena once said that Xiang Sheng is the only person who is really interested in her, so in order to maintain the dignity of this man, she does not hesitate to sacrifice everything to destroy herself!
Thinking of this, Xiang Sheng clenched his fists. A woman who can go to the fire without hesitation for the sake of your dignity, will you take your last breath for her? The fire in the heart of the incense is burning.
Xiang Sheng camped in the middle of the frozen lake, he built a Xiaoice house with a shovel, surrounded it with tents, lit a small stove in the center, and began to make butter and bread fried meat, etc., and then fell asleep, and woke up and ate again. After his body and mind were full, he took out a Luoyang shovel that looked like the one used in Chinese tomb robbers and began to dig at the lake.
As a modern soul master, he can really be said to be an all-powerful hero, and all professional skills have "applications" for adoption, and since Xiang Sheng knows in advance the problems that he will face in this mission, he can find the relevant applications as soon as possible. For example, this time to dig a hole into the ground, unless there are professional equipment, such as a drill for drilling wells, Xiang Sheng believes that the tools used by tomb robbers are the most reliable and practical, so he not only found this tomb robbery application called "ghost blowing lamp", but also made a special trip to order such a "Luoyang shovel" on the way to the trip. He didn't use bigger and more specialized instruments, the most important thing was that he only trusted his own hands in such an important matter.
Xiang Sheng began the day's labor. The hole he dug did not go vertically into the ground, but diagonally into the ground, and after ten meters into the ground, he turned back and inserted it diagonally into the ground in the other direction, so that he spiraled forward, and at each corner he left a fluorescent lamp, which was disposable, and could be hung on the ice wall to emit a cold light, and would automatically extinguish when the fuel ran out.
The biggest advantage of this roundabout advancement is to prevent the "hole" from being re-sealed by ice, because as long as a snowstorm in Antarctica comes, it will be easy to fill any vertical hole into flat ground, and it is better to transport ice blocks to the hole under the ground diagonally, but even so, Xiang Sheng still has to re-clean the hole on the first floor every day, after all, the snow will often pour in, and it will freeze into ice overnight.
The glacial lake accumulates over time, and the ice is much harder than the rock. Xiang Sheng only dug a distance of 60 meters on the first day, and this zigzag is not too efficient, if calculated in terms of vertical depth, it is only about 30 meters.
If the current pace is maintained, it will take him at least a month to dig to the bottom. Xiang Sheng didn't dare to use explosives, for fear of affecting the existence of the ice fountain, and he didn't want to alarm others, so he thought about it, but he couldn't think of any other better way, fortunately, the materials he brought were enough for him to consume, and fortunately, his skills became more and more proficient, and his speed increased significantly in the next few days.
However, when he reached the bottom of the lake for more than 100 meters, the hardness of the ice increased significantly, making his excavation even more difficult.
Fortunately, he felt that he had reached a place where he could dig a hole vertically, so he took out the solution he had prepared in advance, poured the solution into the bottom of the hole, so that he could start digging again, and this solution would break down the ice, helping him to save some effort when digging.
In this way, he dug for almost a week.
Even if there is a soul application, it still requires a certain level of practice when using any spiritual arts, which is like the computer progressing from DOS to Windows, and then to IOS or Android, it is indeed getting easier and easier to use, but basic learning is still needed.
On this day, Xiang Sheng realized that he was already about 400 meters at the bottom of the lake, and the width of the hole he had dug was getting smaller and smaller, and now only one person was left with a width that could barely move.
He needed to use his spiritual power to move the excavated ice outside, and it became more and more difficult for him to feel the moon, and the supply of oxygen underground was also extremely poor, and the hole in the lake had to be cleaned many times to keep it open. without being sealed by wind and snow.
But until now, he has not found the water at the bottom of the lake, proving that this glacial lake is indeed unfathomable.
To be continued......