Chapter 606: The City
Mr. Tim stood still and didn't move, but when the monster appeared, a retired soldier ran into his tent and took out the large rectangular box he had been carrying, which was more than two meters long, and had been placed with a set of drilling equipment, and no one knew what was inside.
"It wasn't until this night that Mr. Tamme opened the box and revealed the mystery, and in that box was a sickle, with an exaggerated shape, and a very long handle, which looked funny with Mr. Tham's somewhat fat figure, and he took out the scythe and muttered a makeshift look, who made this thing belong to me in modern times, and I didn't see how he wielded the scythe, but I saw that the ugly monster's body suddenly split in two, and split in the middle, as if a piece of butter had been cut by a hot knife.
Mr. Tam took a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the red blood-like thing on the sickle, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Now that you're here, don't hide from the sidelines." I noticed that two figures flashed away on a Xiaoice mountain not far away after he said this, and I don't know if it was my eyes, because those two figures looked like two walking big octopuses.
"Mr. Tair's body still didn't move, but I noticed that this time in addition to his scythe, there was some dark green liquid on his clothes, and my eyes didn't take any off him during this time, and who knows how the dark green liquid was there.
He sighed and muttered again, I usually don't like to fight at the door of other people's houses, so I have endured it until now, you have to force me, why bother, fortunately I moved fast enough, it shouldn't be felt by the guy below, after saying that, he took the scythe back into the box, turned back into the previous smiling appearance, turned his head and happily announced to us, the danger has been lifted, and there is no need to worry about being attacked in the future.
Then, without waiting for us to answer, they let four retired soldiers carry away the corpse of the monster on the ground, pour fuel on it, and light a fire, and when they burned it, I saw two more soldiers carrying fuel and walking towards the iceberg, and soon a column of smoke rose on that side.
"Who wants some more grilled octopus whiskers tonight? Well, I'm just kidding. It can be seen that Mr. Tam is in a good mood, and he is still trying to tell cold jokes of unknown meaning, in fact, the scene just now has scared most of us stupid, and we haven't reacted until now, especially the biologist, the dead monster probably brought back some bad memories for him, and directly scared him into peeing his pants.
"And no one in the camp laughed at him, because we were all in the same mood, except, of course, maybe the Chinese couple, and I saw them look at Mr. Tam a little strangely, as if they were looking at some rare species, and I felt that their interest in Mr. Tam even overpowered the monster, and they whispered their opinions, and again, I was annoyed why I hadn't studied Chinese before."
So I had to beg the doctor to go to them again to inquire about the news, but this time they didn't give any more useful information. But as Mr. Tam said, no one stopped us after the monster and the thing hiding in the shadows were dead, and because there was no more to worry about it, the search became more efficient, and we finally found the entrance to what appeared to be the ancient ruins two weeks later.
"It was under an iceberg, and we had been there for ten days to find it, and I couldn't even believe my eyes at the time, because we hadn't been able to find it for so long, and because we had lost a geologist along the way, I suspected that we might never find it again, and we were able to find it thanks to Mr. Tym, who showed the way for the expedition.
"Just after the last attack, I suspect that Mr. Tim has found something from the two things hiding in the shadows, because before this time we had been scurrying around like headless flies, trying our luck, and after that day he told us to go here, even when we suspected that we were going in the wrong direction when we encountered an iceberg, he simply told us to prepare tools and equipment to break the ice."
"We used a lot of explosives to blast, and one of the retired soldiers seemed to be an expert in explosives, and each time he had blown it up before we started digging, and in ten days we dug down about 200 meters, and finally through the ice, we could see a strange city faintly below.
"The city had huge stone columns and twisted buildings, and the construction of the buildings in it was often very inconsistent with Euclidean geometry, both the spatial structure and the size of the buildings brought a strong sense of discomfort, and the first glance made people feel anxious and disgusting, and what made us even more disturbing was that the scene below was very similar to what we had seen in our dreams before.
"After seeing the city under the ice, Mr. Tyme forbade us to use any more explosives to explode, and we all had to use only ice axes to dig a little bit, although it was still quite a distance from the city, but even Mr. Tym joined in, so the others had nothing to say, and I could feel the excitement and urgency in his eyes, as if he was afraid of making a noise about something below.
"We dug for a week, and my hands were blistered, and at last we dug a tunnel of ice for one person, until it reached the top of the pillar, and the amazing thing was that I didn't see anything like a dome, but there was something separating the city from the ice above, and there was not a single block of ice under the pillar.
"I even saw moss on the pillars, but everything here seemed dead and dark. Mr. Tim looked around at me, Dr. Baker, the Chinese couple, and the climatologist, and asked, "Which of you would like to help me get there?"
"Seeing that we didn't speak, he explained again, I want to go down by myself, but for some reason, I can't do it, and so do my subordinates, so I hope that some of you can have enthusiastic volunteers to go this trip for us, go down and take samples, and I will be grateful when I am done."