Chapter 104: The Lost Continent
Under the deep blue water, six figures spread out in the spherical water curtain pushed by the water avoidance charm.
"Detect communication connections. Lin Chong inquired in the communicator.
"The communication connection is normal. After some inspection, Hua Feng responded.
"Stay connected at all times, turn on the deep-water camera, and record the whole process. Lin Chong explained according to the task procedure.
After a while, Hua Feng found a flat square area, and several people slowly descended.
"Hua Feng, do you know what happened in the Atlantis Continent before?" In the communicator, Lin Chong's voice came.
"I don't know, but I probably know that it's a vanishing civilization, and a lot of things are just hearsay. Hua Feng responded.
"Yes, we were only given a brief explanation. Wang Yue said.
"Don't be in a hurry to make a move, build an underwater camp centered on the Jiaolong submarine, and while you are busy with your work, I will introduce you to Atlantis in the official information. β
"Task Force understands. β
Immediately after that, several people began to be nervously busy, and Lin Chong's voice in the communicator continued:
"In the summer of 1898 a ship was laying cables between Brest and Cape Cod. Suddenly, the submarine cable broke, and the ship's workers immediately rushed into the repair work. The site of the accident is 900 kilometers before the Azores, at a depth of 3,100 meters.
It was found that the seabed has the characteristics of a terrestrial mountain range, the surface of which is free of silt except for the valley floor, and the top of the rock is sharp and pointed. The crew brought back a rock, which has been kept in the School of Mines.
"Basalt glass" aroused great interest in the French geologist Pierre Termière. This basalt rock has not hardened in the water, but it has hardened in the air. Termiers therefore concluded that the rock had been subjected to atmospheric pressure, since the rocks on the seabed had been exposed to the water in the past as in the surrounding area, that it had apparently sunk 3,000 metres by a cataclysmic change in the earth's crust, and that there had been a land mass between Europe and the Americas that had disappeared during the drastic geological upheaval of the region.
At the beginning of the 20th century, at the Library of Alexandria in Constantinople, Turkey, a map of the ancient world was found, on which the location and outline of the whole of America and Antarctica were clearly described, and the next one was noted: "Refer to the original ancient map, drawn in the 14th century." β
It wasn't until Columbus discovered the New World in 1492 that people knew about America. And this 14th-century world map copied from the ancients actually drew the whole picture of the world's continents and oceans, and at that time, the accurate compass positioning device had not yet been invented, and it was impossible to sail far, and it was not even known that the earth was round!
There is no doubt that the original of the map was drawn by prehistoric man, rediscovered in the fourteenth century and based on it a map of the ancient world.
Scholars have found that on this ancient map, the outline of Antarctica is quite different from that of the Antarctic continent, while the shape of the American continent and the Americas is almost identical. The mystery was not solved until the advent of satellite remote sensing technology, which photographed the Antarctic continent beneath the ice.
When we compare the Antarctica on an ancient map with the satellite map of the Antarctic continent under the glaciers, we find that the two are strikingly consistent! That is, prehistoric humans were drawing Antarctica without snow and ice, and the Antarctic continent was a warm land.
Antarctica was a warm, humid continent millions of years ago. Because Antarctica is rich in coal resources, and the discovery of fossils of ancient terrestrial animals and plants on the edge of Antarctica, it shows that dense forests and a large number of animals grew millions of years ago.
Since Antarctica in prehistoric times was a living world, there must have been humans living there, at least they were able to accurately chart the world's navigation. So some scholars boldly asked: is Antarctica the legendary Atlantis?
This has not attracted much attention. Because the Antarctic continent is on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean, it is too different from the location of the legendary Atlantis, and people did not know the reason for the rapid cooling of the Antarctic continent at that time, so that a developed "Antarctic civilization" disappeared without leaving any traces. β
After listening to Lin Chong's introduction, everyone felt that they had broadened their horizons a lot. The underwater camp had been completed by a third of the way with the concerted efforts of several people, and at this time, Li Long suddenly spoke:
"I know of one hypothesis that the map suggests, and based on the climatic characteristics of Antarctica in prehistoric times, we can actually have another hypothesis. That is, the axis of the earth in prehistoric times is not consistent with the present. If the Earth's axis of rotation was not stable at that time, or that it had not entered an orbit that could produce a constant rotation, then the laws of climate change in prehistoric times would not be able to be correctly explained by the current climate change theory.
If this assumption is true, then the poles were not bipolar and the position of the equator may not be the same as it is today. Assuming that the climate zone in which Antarctica was located in prehistoric times was at relatively low latitudes, it is not surprising that Antarctica had temperate and even hot climate characteristics, and that the highly developed civilization that arose was possible.
At the beginning of the 19th century, large numbers of frozen remains of large mammals, mainly giant mammals, such as mammoths, rhinoceros, and hippos, were found in Siberia near the Arctic Circle and in the permafrost of the Novosibirsk Peninsula across the Arctic Circle. These animals are all temperate species, so why did they gather together and rush to the North Pole to "kill themselves"? Scholars analyzed the food in the stomachs of animals and found that there were undigested temperate herbs.
Animals underwent a process of "quick-freezing preservation", which is conclusive evidence of the great changes in the global climate in ancient times. This suggests that there was a global climate upheaval β from a temperate climate to a polar climate β 11,000 years ago.
The heat of the Earth's atmosphere is relatively balanced, and there is no such thing as a purely local climate change. The other side of the globe, Antarctica, also has a warm and humid climate, confirming this judgment. β
Wang Yue also said some information he knew: "Since 1968, people have been discovering huge stone buildings lying under the ocean in the area of Bimini, such as streets, docks, city walls, door openings, etc., which are very similar to the prehistoric relics of Salisbury in the south of England, Stonehenge and Tyrint megalithic walls.
According to the fossilized mangrove roots that grow on these structures, they are at least 12,000 years old. The seabed buildings are well-structured and majestic, and the stone streets are wide and flat, and the pavement is arranged in various patterns by some rectangular or regular polygonal stones.
In 1967, the U.S. submarine USS Alumino discovered an "undersea road" off the coast of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Equipped with two special wheels, the Alumino can run like a car on a flat road. In 1974, a Soviet scientific research ship "Warrior" successfully took eight seabed photos at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Strait of Gibraltar. It is clear from the photographs that in addition to the decaying seagrass, there are submarine mountains, the walls of ancient castles, and stone staircases. These photographs are enough to prove that this area was once land and inhabited by humans. β
Shuang Ning took over: "At the same time, American and French scientists found a huge submarine pyramid in the western waters of the Bermuda Triangle, which is 300 meters long and 200 meters high, and the spire is 100 meters above the sea surface.
Studies have shown that it is older than the Egyptian pyramids. All of this suggests that there was once an ancient continent and its civilized societies buried under the ocean. There are various indications that these stones are most likely Atlantean ruins.
If this is the case, the Atlantean civilization was once highly developed. Biologists, ethnographers, geologists, anthropologists and archaeologists have shown that the vast remains found at the bottom of the sea, from the Azores to Bermuda, were once exposed to the water. β
"It seems that everyone did a lot of homework before coming. Yes, it deserves to come out of the Flying Dragon Battalion!" Lin Chong praised.
"Okay, it's done!" Hua Feng finally finished reinforcing the last pile with Yun Meng and Bai Feng.
At this point, a simple camp with the Jiaolong as the supply center, coordinate points and warning equipment set in all directions around the area was finally built, and several people returned to the Jiaolong to wait for the next move.