Chapter 65: The Ice Worm (Continued)
As mentioned above, Xiao Wang and Xiao Feng dug a passage from ten meters underground with only two shovels and returned to the surface.
The two left the area along the gap between the funnels, walked a long way, and looked back, in the distance, a dozen hourfunnels had merged into a huge hourfunnel, and after a while, a hole with a diameter of nearly thirty meters appeared.
The two quietly leaned over, looked inside, and couldn't help but take a cold breath.
OMG! Just now...... That's where we came from?
Xiao Wang thought that not long ago, he had drilled out of the top of this big hole, and he was afraid for a while.
Well, it looks like we're in luck, okay, let's go, it's better to contact the base quickly.
Xiao Feng had never seen a big hole like this, but the oxygen content had reached the warning line, and he had been reminded that there was not much time left.
The search and rescue team on the other side, after a long time, dug down more than ten meters, and finally found Xiao Wang's Mars rover, but there was no one inside, but, on the side, they found a small hole, guessing that they might have left here, so they returned to the ground and reported the situation to the base, and then they learned that Xiao Wang had contacted the base, and now the specific location was told to the search and rescue team.
Yes! Finally saved!
From a distance, Xiao Wang saw the search and rescue team driving over, quickly ran over, hugged the tires of the stopped Mars rover, and kept stroking.
Returning to the base again, Xiao Wang, who had regained his life, hurriedly took a shower and withdrew a lot of delicious food. After eating a lot, I found that lunch had begun, and looking at the dishes on the table, Xiao Wang had no appetite, so he could only watch Xiao Feng gnaw on the chicken legs.
After lunch, Xiao Feng sent a report to the stationmaster, which described in detail what happened, and wrote in rich ink how Xiao Wang drove underground and how he went crazy in the car like a child. One sentence of the four or five thousand word report mentions him, and that was when he came up with the idea of digging a hole.
The stationmaster flipped it over casually and threw it aside, looking at Xiao Feng who was being paged with his chin on his lean.
There's good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?
The stationmaster spoke.
Let's just say it together in one go.
Okay, the good news is that their instruments and equipment have been debugged, and they can leave tomorrow morning, and you don't have to worry about it all day, and the bad news is, cough, even that Xiao Wang will go with him.
After finishing speaking, the stationmaster stared at Xiao Feng's facial expression.
Sure enough, as the stationmaster expected, as soon as he heard Xiao Feng, he stood up and yelled: What?
The stationmaster leaned back in the swivel chair, looked at Xiao Feng with his fingers crossed, and asked him to accept this fact with a reassuring expression on his face.
After blasting Xiao Feng away, the stationmaster stood in front of the window of the base, looking at the surface of Mars outside, he was homesick after not being home for five years.
With a bang, Xiao Feng pushed open the bedroom door, which really startled Xiao Wang.
Why don't you talk to me about it?
Xiao Feng stood behind Xiao Wang angrily, looking down at him.
Business...... What to discuss? Oh no, the webmaster told you? Oh, the webmaster told you. Ahem, yes, when they were having lunch, I knew that they had already debugged the equipment and were going to leave tomorrow morning, and I thought about it, anyway, I was not in a hurry to go back, so I proposed to go with them, and by the way, see what they were working on. It's just curiosity.
Xiao Wang tilted his neck to explain, and finally added in a low voice.
Xiao Feng was speechless, turned around and left.
Hey, where are you going?
Xiao Wang hurriedly got up to chase after him, ran to the door and looked out, but he couldn't see Xiao Feng anymore.
Damn, he's not going to be angry, is he? Alas, if you don't forget it, it seems that I should not go, so as to save him trouble.
Xiao Wang's heart moved for a while, and he decided not to go.
Before going to bed at night, Xiao Wang told Xiao Feng that he would go back tomorrow morning, and he would not be involved in going to the North Pole.
Xiao Feng, who had prepared for an afternoon of eating and drinking, heard Xiao Wang say this, and suddenly felt that he had been tricked again, and he was busy again, and he had prepared the weight of two people, but when he thought of it, he didn't know when the next meeting would be after Xiao Wang left, and he suddenly felt a little reluctant.
Every night, Xiao Wang will tell Xiao Feng about the news happening on the earth, some of which are more detailed than those things on the Internet, and Xiao Feng can always fall asleep in Xiao Wang's gushing voice, which Xiao Wang doesn't know.
Early the next morning, Xiao Wang got up early and packed his luggage, and Xiao Feng didn't know when Xiao Wang left, when he had already set off with the team.
Hello, let me introduce myself formally, I'm Xiao Chen, a doctor of biology, and of course, there is a doctor of psychology that I don't often mention to others.
The female scientist stretched out her white hand and waited for Xiao Feng to shake it.
Oh, I'm Xiao Feng, and I'm the meteorologist at the base.
Xiao Feng glanced at Xiao Chen, then continued to keep his head down, not interested in chatting with Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen looked at the other biologist sitting next to her, who was also her husband, Xiao Chu, who was often ridiculed by her as a piglet.
Xiao Chu spread his hands, indicating that I didn't know what to say.
Seeing that Xiao Feng on the other side was not interested in chatting, Xiao Chen felt that the atmosphere was a little too quiet, and he felt that the road to the North Pole might be colder than in the North Pole.
Xiao Feng had been intently looking at the meteorological data about the Arctic region, and he had no intention of ignoring the two people opposite, but he felt that time flew by, followed behind the two biologists, and said softly: Wow, it's here so soon?
Xiao Chen stopped and glanced back at Xiao Feng, with the color in his eyes that you know.
The first stop of the Martian North Pole expedition is a crater located near the Arctic Circle, in which various instruments are first installed, mainly to detect the temperature of the Martian atmosphere, wind speed, and whether there is a sense of earthquake in the ground.
Xiao Feng has been on Mars for so long, and he has never been to the North Pole, so he took more than a dozen photos, mainly some pictures similar to mountains.
After installing the equipment, starting the equipment and confirming that there were no problems, several people got into the car and continued to the interior of the Arctic.
The farther he went, Xiao Feng had clearly felt that the temperature of the air was dropping very quickly, or rising very slowly, the highest temperature during the day was usually ten or twenty degrees, but now it was not even 0 degrees, if it weren't for the spacesuit and the function of keeping out the cold, maybe he would have frozen.
Along the way, Xiao Feng vaguely remembered the forward route, which was an S-shaped route, mainly because the rover was afraid of too steep slopes, so it could only go around the corner. Along the way, Xiao Feng has taken no less than 100 photos, and he will name each photo so that he can know where it was taken when he looks at it later.
It was already dark outside, so a few people stopped for the night.
Mars at night is not quiet, on the contrary, very noisy. All kinds of strange wind sounds, the ground rumbling sound from time to time, always feel that something is about to come out of the ground. Originally, Xiao Feng didn't like to sleep directly on the ground, how good it was to sleep in a warm car, but Xiao Chen told him that if you want to really understand a place, you have to contact it, experience it, feel its temperature, its vibration, and everything about it. This made Xiao Feng feel inexplicable, but even the driver who came over slept on the ground with them, and Xiao Feng was embarrassed to sleep in the car alone, so he had no choice but to lay a mat on the ground and prepare enough oxygen next to him.
Oh, by the way, when you sleep, you have to open the delivery valve a little smaller to help you sleep.
Before Xiao Chen got into the quilt, he showed his head and looked at Xiao Feng who was tightly wrapped over there.
Xiao Feng looked at Xiao Chen, thought about it, and replied: Okay.
The place where a few people slept was a natural cave, and the lowest temperature inside was only about ten degrees below zero, which was more than ten degrees higher than the outside, which was simply a paradise.
After a while, several people had fallen asleep, and as for what they dreamed of, only they knew. However, outside the dream, in the innermost part of the cave, a very small stone moved, and a very thin and white tentacle quietly stretched out, without eyes but like eyes, swaying from side to side, as if probing the surrounding environment, Xiao Feng over there turned over, and this small tentacle sucked back and pulled it back.
Before dawn, Xiao Feng was woken up by the sound of talking outside, to be precise, the voice in the communicator. One night, Xiao Feng slept comfortably, and he didn't encounter anything terrible in his dreams. He hadn't looked closely at the cave when he came in last night, and now he had time to take a few pictures.
Taking advantage of the fact that a few people over there were packing up their things, Xiao Feng walked to the innermost part of the cave, looked at the mountain wall above, and took a few photos. Suddenly, he felt a limp under his feet, and he sank like a swamp, and soon his entire left leg sank in.
Yes!
Xiao Feng shouted in horror, but no one came to help.
Just when his head was submerged, Xiao Feng suddenly opened his eyes and saw Xiao Chen squatting beside him and looking at him, it turned out to be a nightmare.
Is it really just a nightmare?
To be continued......