Chapter 107: Crazy Mountains: Fossil Cave
Early the next morning, Professor Qin led the team to speed up.
Last night's good news made the team members in a state of excitement, and the team that had been working hard for a month was rejuvenated, and the stiff expressions on everyone's faces seemed to melt overnight, and everyone showed happy smiles.
The atmosphere of the whole team is now like a group of huskies.
Everything seems to be fine, calculate the time, the rescue team organized by the Supreme Alliance government has been set off for half a month, they will follow the traces of the scientific research team, repair those damaged communication base stations along the road, it won't be long before they can meet with the scientific research team, and at the same time be able to get in touch with the outside world.
Thinking about the relatives I haven't seen for more than a month, even the surrounding climate doesn't seem to be so bad.
The only person who maintains absolute calm now is probably only Xia Ren.
He also wanted to be happy with everyone, but when he thought of the history he knew, the wind whistling in his ears was as urgent as urging his life, which made his mood suppressed.
"Husband, you don't seem to be very happy, are you feeling unwell?"
In fact, since last night, his mood has changed, and Lanaya has noticed it.
"It's okay, it's just that the wind is blowing a little unpleasantly."
Xia Ren smiled and disguised.
"Let me see ......"
There is no warmth in the cold wind, Lanaya said as she pulled up her and Natsuhito's hats a little, and then pressed her forehead up, the tips of her nose touching together.
Xia Ren's heart trembled.
"It's okay, it scared me to death."
Ranaya's puzzled and frightened look left Xia Ren's forehead.
The residual temperature on Xia Ren's body was instantly blown away by the harsh wind.
Just in the distance, there was another mirage, a huge city floating in the sky, and vehicles and pedestrians looming between the buildings.
In this white world made of ice and snow, the appearance of the city seems very abrupt, as if two different worlds overlap together, and those towering buildings with a strong sense of science and technology make Xia Ren feel extremely intimate.
At the edge of the city, a golden glow appeared, which was the original warm color of the sun, not as dim and cold as under the ice clouds, and a little unrealistically beautiful.
"I really want to sit down and have another barbecue......"
Lanaya looked at the mirage, her face full of yearning.
Xia Ren looked at her side face, took his hand, and held it tightly.
"Yes."
He promised.
"Damn, you two are abusing dogs again!"
Wen Yan next to him saw this scene and said indignantly.
Lanaya is the only woman in the team, due to proper maintenance, her appearance and figure are not ordinary, with Xia Ren here, they don't have any crooked thoughts, but they will still pretend to be dissatisfied and make some harmless jokes about the behavior of the two of them.
The others all opened their mouths to laugh, and they didn't care, laughing on the side, deliberately asking what the two of them were doing in the tent at night, which made Lanaya shyly lower her head and swing her fist to hammer Xia Ren to vent her anger.
The huskies run in front of them, pulling the people on the sleigh to the unknown ...... Dangerous ground.
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When it was almost dark, they finally saw what the research team called the huge glacier, which was once a vast sea, but now covered by a vast expanse of ice, and became an eternal white land.
Strong winds weave through the crevices of the azure glaciers, like the whimpering of buried creatures in distant time.
Under the command of Professor Qin, they pitched their tents in the snow hundreds of meters away from the glacier and spent an unquiet night.
The next morning, when the sky was slightly bright, the team continued to move forward, and everyone else could clearly see Professor Qin's urgency, and the distance between his wife, the biologist Qu Lanzhi, was getting closer and closer.
It took them two days to circumnavigate the glacier, and in front of the group was a mountain that turned everyone upside down!
In contrast, Xia Ren simply felt that the description of the scientific research team a few days ago was too conservative!
Everyone looked at the behemoth of heaven and earth, and was stunned, compared to which human beings were as insignificant as dust.
Xia Ren even had the illusion that this was the end of the world.
But it's not the mountain range that's even more amazing.
They had indeed reached the center of the Infinity Ice Field, and above the mountain range, the permanent ice cloud was swirling and slowly circulating.
They couldn't tell how big the vortex was, but at least it should be visible in the satellite imagery, but for some reason, even though thousands of satellites have been launched so far, none of them have ever captured it.
This is a miracle that is difficult for science to explain, and Professor Qin looked at it from afar, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart what kind of magnificent power could create such a spectacle.
The team members picked up their phones to take pictures, and even Lanaya was no exception.
They are one of the few people on the Blue Star who can see such a scene with their own eyes, and if it is transmitted back to the outside world, I am afraid that it will cause much of a sensation.
"Bear with me, and we'll be able to join the research team in two days!"
In the evening, everyone gathered in the tent, and Professor Qin made an exception to let the team camp half an hour earlier.
They were already able to see the mountains clearly, but there was still a long way to go.
At this moment, the research team sent another text message to exchange information with them:
"Yesterday our plane had returned and successfully discovered more valuable things, flying over the mountains on the edge, and we saw some peaks at a deeper level, although the naked eye may not be very accurate, but I still have to say that the main body of those peaks is even higher than the highest mountain in the world, the Maya!
The initial flight was not smooth, all the peaks were pitch black, there was no snow cover, the wind was blowing in the valleys, it was difficult to find a landing point, and just as we were about to return home, we finally found a hilly area and landed there.
The peaks here are layered, probably Cambrian rock formations mixed with other rock formations, the silhouette of the peaks against the sky is somewhat peculiar, many regular cubic sections surround the highest peaks, and even the entire ridge is in the shape of huge squares, but the slopes are almost vertical, and it looks like some kind of huge complex, so Kleiman is even more convinced of the existence of prehistoric intelligent beings, he has been thinking about this since yesterday, what a madman!
We got off the plane and found what appeared to be Permian and Triassic schist on an exposed rock face, later inferred to be hard slate coal, a discovery that much to Kleiman's dismay, who had been estimating that the fossil specimens unearthed for the expedition were at least 500 million years old.
We then found a cave at the bottom of the hill, the rocks and sand on the round edge of which were partially covered with limestone from the Paleogene period 23 million years ago, and the rock layers were covered with all kinds of small fossils, including cephalopods, corals, sea urchins, etc., and occasionally mixed with skeletal remains similar to siliceous sponges and marine vertebrates, this is the first time we have excavated marine vertebrate fossils, and this is only at the entrance of the cave, Kleiman, a madman, desperately wanted to enter the cave, but I forcibly stopped him. Due to the fact that the landing site was not well chosen, and the time was almost approaching night, the fierce cold wind blew at the entrance of the cave, making a creepy and strange sound, if we did not return as soon as possible, with the small amount of equipment we carried, it was very likely to freeze to death here.
We're making a slight adjustment and plan to set off again tomorrow, this time with camp materials and a cantonment point there for the next study. The investigation has gone well so far, and I look forward to your arrival and re-contact with the outside world. ”