After giving the drone a fatal blow, the earth's crust seemed to be satisfied, much quieter than just now, which also gave everyone some respite, and the team members who had just experienced life and death escape were now relaxed, and Chen Badai even simply lay on his back on the mountain.

"What's next?" Dick asked, a little frustrated.

"Wait!" Wang Xingguo replied, "Wait for it to be calmer and try to get closer to the base." ”

Equally frustrated is Mr. Min, who has always thought that the calculations according to the records are correct, but now he is trapped in this devastated place.

Wang Xingguo arranged for Xia Ruobing and the others to rest, and let the Sherpa continue to call, although he knew that the effect was minimal, but as long as there was a glimmer of life, he had to give it a try.

As the head of security, Robert Lee failed to follow the forward expedition into the field, but he has been paying attention to the situation, he received the last message from the forward expedition team that it was very close to the destination, and was resting and waiting for dawn to enter, and it was possible to temporarily lose contact, Robert Lee went to rest after receiving this message, and let the others continue to follow up, Robert Lee, who had slept for a while, got into Unimokri at this time and asked the officer on duty: "How is the situation of the striker?" ”

"There has been no new news." The watchman replied.

"Have you contacted them?" Robert Lee asked again.

"I sent messages a few times, but there was no response."

Robert Lee sensed that something was wrong, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was already afternoon.

"Maybe they're on foot, you know, I can't reach them without radio." The attendant didn't think it was a big deal.

Robert Lee doesn't think so, after dawn today, the ground trembled a few times, and on two occasions even shook off nearby stones, this is a volcanic belt, small earthquakes are common, but Robert Lee feels that the center of the earthquake is where Dick is going, and now he has not been in touch for so long, Robert Lee has to consider whether to activate the emergency plan.

"The base calls the striker, the base calls the striker, how are you doing?" Robert Lee, who was a little distraught, picked up the walkie-talkie microphone.

A squeaking of electricity was heard from the microphone, answering Robert Lee's call.

The attendant spread his hands, indicating that this was the result of his constant call.

There are only three situations that can cause such a call to be unsuccessful, one is that the radio station is artificially not answered or turned off, the second is that the radio station is separated from the personnel, and the expedition team does not know that anyone is calling, and the third is that Robert Lee is most worried - the radio station has been damaged.

Although Robert Lee didn't talk to Wang Xingguo too much, he felt that Wang Xingguo was a very experienced and skilled explorer, and in addition to technology, protecting equipment was the most important job in the expedition, not to mention the importance of communication tools in such extreme expeditions, and the communication tools at this time could be said to be a ray of life for the expedition team after being in distress!

Robert Lee didn't know what happened to Wang Xingguo and the others, and he had to prepare for the worst.

But now, even if Robert Lee activates the emergency plan, there are not many equipment to choose from, the only three small terrain vehicles have been driven away by Dick and others, and the existing vehicles cannot pass through the ice lake, if it is to bypass the ice lake, it is equivalent to going back again, taking the road blocked by Tchaikov, with the relationship between the two that Robert Lee understands, Tchaikov will never let himself pass.

Even if it could be passed, it would take at least 5 days, and a lot of things could happen in 5 days, and Robert Lee felt that it was a little tricky, so he hurried to find Dilma and retrieve the latest geological survey report.

Dilmar, who was working nervously on a number of computer screens and a pile of papers, saw Robert Lee and said excitedly: "I finally understand why the ice is so thin this year, under the glacier upstream, volcanic activity is intensifying, heating the glacier and affecting the downstream, maybe the hidden veins and mines will be turned over near the surface in this movement......"

Robert Lee wasn't interested in that kind of thing, the only thing he wanted to know was the situation in where Dick was now.

"Oh? There, the situation there is more interesting. Today we have several earthquakes, and now the satellite remote sensing images have not yet come, and in my years of experience, it is a small-scale crustal reshaping movement, a dying volcanic belt, and in another 10,000 years it will be completely silent. ”

"Small-scale? How small will it be? "Robert Lee felt that things were getting troublesome.

"For the earth, this is nothing, it's like we squeezed a pimple in adolescence, and the energy it releases is not large, about the equivalent of a megaton nuclear bomb!"

"A megaton nuclear bomb?" Robert Lee's eyes widened, if so, who would have survived at the center of the nuclear bomb explosion?

"It's an analogy that the movement of the earth's crust releases energy not instantaneously, it has a process that causes the crust to crack, volcanoes to erupt, and lava to gush out of the ground...... But it's far from a human settlement, so it doesn't have much of an impact on the climate. Dilma gave Robert Lee a bit of scientific knowledge.

"I just want to know, what will happen to Dick when the earth's crust cracks, volcanoes erupt, and lava gushes out of the ground? Let me be clear, will he be able to survive in such an environment? Robert Lee said with some annoyance.

Dilmar now feels that he has put the cart before the horse, and since he has probed the water temperature of the ice lake, he has been trying to solve the mystery of the ice lake, but he has forgotten the main task.

"Even if the earth's crust cracks, there will always be a place to stay, and if they hadn't fallen, they would have been alive." Dilma is not sure, after all, it is a megaton nuclear bomb to release energy, and people are so fragile that a stone that erupts can kill a person at will.

"I knew you people couldn't be trusted!" Robert Lee cursed in a low voice, he had to find a way to confirm Dick's condition, "From now on, you take your attention off those damn glacial lakes and glaciers!" ”

Dilma had no choice but to agree, after all, it was Dick who was missing now, and this was a big problem involving his vital interests.

"I'll tell you as soon as the satellite remote sensing images arrive." Dirma said.

"Can you find the location of people in other ways?"

Dirma shook her head. Satellite remote sensing can only obtain a wide range of stratum infrared signal images, and the resolution is in units of 10 meters.

Now, Robert Lee has some sense of Dick's complaints—these experts have little awareness of the risks to the team, to others, and their attention can easily be turned to the topics they are interested in, and in the face of this rare dying volcanic belt, he has forgotten what he was hired for, and they will only come up with a bunch of data and analysis, but they will not give a feasible advice.

Robert Lee is now the top person in charge of the base, so he doesn't expect anyone to make this decision for him, he calculates the resources at hand, calculates all the accidents that may occur, but now he does not have the means of transportation to reach Dick quickly. According to Dilma's calculations, lava is developing under the glacier upstream, so the ice on the lake will only get thinner and thinner, making it impassable for existing vehicles.

But in any case, the first thing was to determine whether Dick was still alive and where he was, and the radio communicator could only call into the sky in vain on Unimog, constantly increasing the power, but as expected, two hours had passed, and there was still no news of the Striker expedition on the radio.

Robert Lee was at a loss for what to do with this tricky situation, he was a soldier, but he was not an explorer, no one had ever told him what to do when he encountered such a problem, and he did not know what else to do but wait passively.

The situation of the Striker expedition was not optimistic, although the movement of the earth's crust was slowing down at this time, but it was far from the time to leave the safety island, and the problem of water shortage was always hanging over their heads, and now the surface temperature reached 50 degrees, and the air with a strong smell of sulfur irritated everyone's respiratory tract, which accelerated the consumption of water. Usually at such a surface temperature, each person needs at least 2-2.5 liters of water per day to ensure a certain amount of activity, for this, Wang Xingguo is very clear that if it is consumed again, then waiting for him is only to die of heat stroke.

But the earth's crust is still giving vent to its aftermath, tearing and twisting the earth from time to time, spewing out a stream of magma like celebratory fireworks. After Sherpa called for two hours, his mouth was dry and still did not answer, Wang Xingguo looked around and felt that he could take a risk and leave the safety island at this time.

When you are in the wild, it is important to ensure that there is enough water, which is the basic rule of survival in the wild. Although there are many ways to get water, and even clean water can be obtained from sewage, all these skills are completely useless in this twisted land - because there is no water in the air or anywhere! The lava-heated surface had already evaporated the water, and the red-hot smoke had turned the snow into steam before it had even fallen to the ground and was driven back into the air, and the only water had to be carried by the expedition team.

Wang Xingguo did not expect that there would be a shortage of water here, in fact, water accounted for a large proportion of the supply, Mr. Min did not help when Sherpa rescued supplies, Dick's terrain vehicle carried the most water, but was swallowed by magma, and when he finally escaped up the hillside, Chen Badai threw down the supply bag and the backpack with water in order to free up his hands to drag Dick, which caused the current situation.

"We have to leave." Wang Xingguo compared various risks and felt that it was hopeless to stick to this matter and wait for help.

"Are you crazy? Leave? In such a situation? Dick exclaimed, pointing to the cracks and lava of the earth.

"Yes, we have to find a way here, or we will have to wait for death here," Mr. Wang said, "and we are seriously short of water." ”

"We should hold on a little longer, maybe ......" Dick looked at the ground below the mountain, and he didn't want to go back there even if he died.

"No, Dick, we don't have a radio, we can't connect to the base, even if the base knows that we are in danger and will come now, it will be a day later, and by then, we are already roasted dry," Wang Xingguo said calmly, "We need to walk more than 10 kilometers to reach a place where the temperature is lower, where our chances of survival will be high." ”

"Okay. You're the expert. Dick was reluctant, but there was a chance to venture back into the devastated land than to be roasted alive here.