Chapter 067: Underground Water Roads
"Perhaps!" An Beimo said: "This is actually the Night Emperor's lair!" ”
Qixing nodded in response, "Very likely!" For so many years, human beings have been exploring the mystery of whether the Night Emperor really exists, but no one would have imagined that they actually live in the belly of the mountain. Even if we hadn't entered here by coincidence, we wouldn't have thought that the icebergs in the Himalayas were actually empty. ”
I asked, "Could it be that all the big icebergs we see on the outside are actually superficial phenomena, when in fact the inside of those mountains are such hollows?" That's a bizarre statement, isn't it? ”
An Beimo said: "In the nineties of the twentieth century, an international joint team used electromagnetism to conduct a deep exploration of Mount Everest, and they once concluded a scientific inference that there may be a huge space under Mount Everest, which caused a commotion at the time, but then it was slowly ignored because it was not confirmed. And we are in the underground space at this time, which means that this scientific inference is completely correct! ”
Bei Qixing continued her words and said, "If this inference is correct, there may be a lot of secrets that cannot be confirmed hidden here. The legend of the snowman and the Night Emperor is just one of them. ”
Normally, when we discuss this, Shen Hao doesn't interject, he points to the depths of the cave and says to us: "No matter what is hidden, let's go and see if we will know!" ”
Set off again, Shen Hao still took the lead, the two girls were in the middle, and I was behind. There were few fragments of wreckage, the road ahead was cleared, and we all quickened our pace.
As I moved forward, I surveyed my surroundings and noticed that the road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, and the terrain was low, which was going deeper underground.
No one knows how these deep caves were formed, but the wonders of nature have made this cave appear in various strange shapes. Some places are flat, some places have steep slopes, some holes are big enough for a plane, and some are small enough for us to shrink down one by one. But no matter how rough the road is, the magic is that there is always a road in front of us, which can keep us moving forward.
The more we walked, the more frightening it became, the underground world of the Himalayas was much bigger than we thought, and we were always going all the way down, and after a few hours of walking we didn't know how many meters we were in.
At this time, the doubts in my heart became bigger and bigger, and seeing that no one spoke in the whole team for a long time, I said to a few of them: "We have walked for so long and have not found any trace of Dr. Feng and others, only the traces of them passing through here, I don't understand where they are going." ”
Qixing was right in front of me, and she asked me without looking back, "Where do you think we are heading at this time?" ”
I was so focused on hurrying forward, I didn't pay attention to this. As soon as Qixing finished asking, he immediately answered for me: "The right place in the direction of this road is Mount Everest!" If we go any further, we will probably go to the bottom of Mount Everest. ”
Mount Everest, also known as Mount Everest, is the main peak of the Himalayas, the highest mountain in the world, located on the border between China and Nepal, and also within the 30th degree north latitude.
There are two types of heights for Mount Everest, and what is often referred to as 8,848 meters is actually the height of the snow cover used by climbers in Nepal, which is the total height of 8,848 meters (29,029 feet). In 2005, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China measured the height of the rock face, that is, the geological height, that is, the bare height, which is 8844.43 meters. Since 2010, the world has begun to recognize the measurement data of these two heights.
I could never have imagined that I would not have a chance to climb this peak, and now I would run to the bottom of it. It's like a joke of putting the cart before the horse, but I'm still doing it.
Suddenly I thought of something funny, and I couldn't help laughing out loud.
Shen Hao heard it in front of him and asked me in confusion: "Black Eagle!" What are you smirking at? You can still laugh in a place like this! ”
Seeing that Shen Hao turned around and spoke slowly at me, An Beimo pushed him behind and said, "It's a little nervous to stay in a dark place for a long time, what's so strange." Come on! ”
I said, "Dr. Feng is a well-known expert in chemistry and biology, do you say that she traveled so far so that she wanted to catch a Night Emperor and bring it back for study?" ”
This joke is quite cold, except for Shen Hao who laughed twice with "hehe", Bei Qixing didn't speak, and An Beimo said coldly: "Childish!" ”
Then fell into silence again, and after walking for less than an hour, Shen Hao, who was opening the road in front, suddenly stopped. We also stopped immediately, only to hear Shen Hao say blankly: "Why is there no road ahead?" ”
Curious, I rushed up from behind to see, and under the beam of the flashlight, there was really no way ahead, because the ground had extended into a piece of groundwater.
I thought it might just be a section of the road that was flooded, so I looked closer, and near the edge of the water, I realized that it was not what I thought, and that there was already an end in sight.
At the end was a round hole, with a low top and stone walls on three sides, and the groundwater was like a small lake, calm without a trace of waves. It also reflects a sparkling light under the light of the flashlight, like a flat round mirror.
An Beimo checked the ground situation, and the traces of Dr. Feng and the others also disappeared when they reached the water's edge. However, the footprints on the ground were very messy, indicating that they had been here for some time.
Needless to say, they're diving.
I secretly thought that Dr. Feng's people are not simple, a bit of a "road to the mountains and rivers to build bridges" style, as if no obstacle can stop her from moving forward, in order to escape from here is enough to fight.
In fact, even if we found Dr. Feng before, we would not be able to escape from the underground for the time being. It's impossible to get out of the whirlpool, not to mention the danger, there are enemies outside. Maybe we'll end up here eventually.
Then there was no need to discuss anything, and we began to prepare for the launch.
We took the diving equipment from our backpacks, and Seven Stars threw a small object in the water to probe the underwater situation and the water temperature.
After a while, Seven Stars took the results of the detection and said to us: "The water temperature is very cold, below freezing. Visibility is very high, and general lighting is sufficient. The underwater is a straight passage down, at a depth of about 30 meters, and then turns gentle, and the back is undetectable. However, it is estimated that after the smoothing down, it will turn upward, and the exit should not be far away. ”
According to Seven Stars, there should be a "U" shaped underground waterway below, but this is only speculation and can only be used for reference.
We put all the guns in the waterproof bag, and the weapons were changed to the water poison nail gun worn on the arm, which is also our D.R.T. unique underwater weapon, which can fire ten long nails containing toxin by internal pressure, and the effective distance can reach 20 meters.
I thought about it and took out the mechanical arm with the electric drill and put it aside, this equipment is waterproof, in case there is any obstacle, it can be used to open the way.
We took out a translucent white coverall, which looked like a plastic bag, put it on, and pulled a string on it, and the white translucent dress was like a vacuum bag that was pulled out of the air, tightly wrapping our whole body and the backpack behind us.
After that, we equipped ourselves with water mirrors, compressed oxygen cylinders, weapons, etc.
This time it was changed to me first, and I saw that the other three were fine, so I turned on the spotlight above my head and walked into the water first.
After five or six steps, my feet were empty, and I dived into the underwater passage downward. I swam a few meters down and took in the surroundings. The water is clear, the visibility is good, and the spotlights can clearly illuminate the long distance.
Followed by An Beimo, Qixing, and Shen Hao, they all went into the water, and I signaled to them to follow me, and then turned on the thruster at the end of the nail gun on my arm. There was a tumbling bubble on my arm, and I began to dive down.
The vertical cave was about forty meters in diameter, and thanks to the good line of sight, we dived smoothly, and the other three followed me a distance of a meter or two, advancing in a diamond-shaped formation.
After less than forty meters of diving, the cave began to turn parallel, but the width of the sides also began to increase, and after swimming forward for less than twenty meters, I could no longer see the edge of the stone wall. Compared with the previous downward water conditions, the space here has become larger, but the water quality is slightly turbid. I used to be able to see twenty meters away, but now it's ten meters.
I looked back at the three people who were following me, and they knew that things had changed, and they were a little closer to me. Shen Hao raised his vigilance even more, holding a nail gun to search around from time to time.
Probably half a body ahead of the others, I was still moving on, and it seemed that this parallel waterway was longer than we expected, and I had swam nearly a hundred meters, and I had not found a way to go up.
I keep an eye on the water in front of me and above, and maybe the exit will appear at any time and I can't miss it.
Just as I looked up and continued to walk, I suddenly noticed something strange in the water flow in front of me, and the impurities in the water slid from the bottom to the top in front of my eyes, as if there was a fountain in the water below that was spraying upwards.
I was a little curious and was about to look down. As soon as I lowered my head, a black shadow suddenly came up from in front of my eyes, and the distance was so close that it almost grazed the tip of my nose. I was so startled that I was about to duck backwards, and the black shadow didn't know what it was, but it wasn't big, and before I could make a move, it had already scurried past me and ran over our heads.
Frightened by the sudden attack, I almost let go of the oxygen cylinder in my mouth. I cursed in my heart, and immediately looked up to see what it was.
The thing stopped its momentum and stopped not far above us, and I was startled again when I saw it, and immediately aimed the nail gun in my hand at the other party.
That's a person!
Not only me, but the other three teammates also aimed their weapons at the uninvited guest who suddenly appeared. But I could see clearly with the light, although the other party was a person, but more precisely, it was a dead person.
The sudden appearance of this dead man made us all feel a chill, because this person's death was too terrifying.
We can be sure it's a person, but it's a completely distorted person.