Landing on the Antarctic coast is only the starting point of the journey.

Antarctica is a vast continent with countless iceberg islands, and the Antarctic coast is thousands of kilometers away from the Antarctic inland mountain range at the very center of Antarctica.

In Antarctica, there are only a handful of countries that can establish research stations in the interior of Antarctica, such as the United States, Russia, Japan, Germany, and France...... The Kunlun station is one of the few scientific research stations established at the highest point in the Antarctic interior, "Ice Dome A".

There are four most important points in Antarctica: the pole, the freezing point, the magnetic point, and the high point.

The first three points are occupied by the United States, Russia, France.

The last high point belongs to Kunlun Station.

Therefore, the Kunlun scientific expedition group that Gong Siyu and Ji Younai followed this time is a top polar scientific expedition group, but in addition to Kunlun Station, there are also Great Wall Station and Zhongshan Station in China.

The final area where the frozen lake is located is in the Antarctic inland mountain range, not far from the "Ice Dome Point A" of Kunlun Station.

It's just that Kunlun Station is located in the interior of Antarctica, which is more than 4,000 meters above sea level, where the oxygen content is only about 60% of that of the rest of the world, and not only that, the temperature of the "Ice Dome Point A" is very low, even in summer, the average temperature is around -30 °C.

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Before disembarking from the ship, Gong Siyu and Ji Younai, who landed on the Antarctic coast, collectively changed into polar cold protection equipment, carried bags and supplies, and carried satellite communication telephones, remote sensing detectors and other high-tech equipment.

There are special personnel on the icebreaker who are responsible for unloading the supplies, and there is also a snow material delivery team stationed at the South Pole to transport all the materials to the Kunlun Station in the interior of the Antarctic for the scientific expedition team, but Gongsiyu and their personal materials are carried by themselves.

More than 600 tons of supplies were transported by 12 snowmobiles to the Ice Dome A Kunlun Station.

Each snowmobile pulls 4 to 6 sleds, and the entire convoy is two kilometers long, like a train.

"Mr. Gong, we have to go to Zhongshan Station first, where there are fixed-wing planes that can go directly to the interior of Antarctica, otherwise if we hike and snow, it will take us at least 10 days to reach the inland ice field mountain range."

Zhongshan Station is another domestic Antarctic research station.

From Pei Tianning's mouth, Gong Siyu learned that the inland environment where Kunlun Station was located was too harsh, so after the completion of Kunlun Station, it will rely on Zhongshan Station, 1,280 kilometers away, as a support base to transport materials.

In the snowy fields, the movement is very slow, because the slightest mistake can cause the ice sheet to crack, form huge glacial fissures, or encounter avalanche disasters.

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Time passed quietly before you knew it.

In the blink of an eye, Gong Siyu and Milk gave them came to Kunlun Station in the interior of Antarctica to stay temporarily, and it has been seven days a week.

During the Antarctic Polar Day, the sky here is not dark, even at night.

From the first three days of coming, everyone has an extraordinary desire to explore this uninhabited snow land, driving snowmobiles out for a lap every day, or following the scientific expedition group to the ice field where the frozen lake is located.

Until today on the seventh day.

Ji Yunai and A Luo no longer want to go out of the comfort zone of Kunlun Station.

Because the Antarctic Inland Ice Dome A, where Kunlun Station is located, is a no-man's land within a radius of thousands of kilometers, and the landscape is extremely monotonous, all white and expansive, giving people a feeling of isolation, and what is even more annoying is that the strong light of the polar day will make people snow blind, that is, temporary blindness, but fortunately, Ji Younai is not an ordinary person, and there is no such problem.

Bai Feiran agreed to borrow Pei Tianning's laser drilling equipment, which was expensive, and was originally a new high-end equipment equipped with a private oil mine owned by the Gong Group in the Atlantic, but during Gong Siyu's trip, this equipment was transported by sea and air, and finally on the tenth day, it was successfully transported to the top of the deep ice drilling in the frozen lake ice field.

The quantum laser equipment originally used to drill deep-sea oil fields was transported to Antarctica to drill ice.

The frozen lake, located 3,262 meters below the ice, is a prehistoric lake.

And the last 500 meters are still 500 meters away from drilling through the ice at 3,262 meters.

Bai Feiran not only brought the laser equipment, but also equipped with engineers who are professional in operating the machines.

On this day, seven o'clock in the evening.

Under the polar day, the sky is cloudless, clear blue, there is no wind on the ice sheet, the temperature is minus 36 degrees, and the air is thin.

Gong Siyu was wearing a black snow suit, wearing snow goggles that were windproof and anti-glare, and Ji Yuno was wearing a bright phosphor polar suit, standing on the ice of the frozen lake, silently watching the engineer installing laser drilling equipment.

All around were the scientific expedition personnel from Kunlun Station, led by Pei Tianning, who were all very excited.

Because this equipment is like charcoal in the snow, they can get a glimpse of the true face of the prehistoric frozen lake.

However, compared to the scientific expedition group.

Gong Siyu, Ji Younai, Ji Ruchen, and Liuyun are much calmer.

All wearing windproof goggles, standing on the side, Liuyun sitting on the ground, Ah Luo was lazily lying on the snowmobile, Angelica was playing with Yunxiao, Feng Jinxuan was holding Aru and waiting for it to pee, Gong Youen kept taking selfies, and Bai Wuwu and his men were standing in a circle, standing around the ice drilling, knowing that the heart of the Tibetan Sea was under the frozen lake, just waiting for the ice to be punctured, find a time, and dive.

On the surface of the frozen lake ice is a circular ice well with a diameter of 1.5 meters.

Today, this ice well is more than 2,700 meters deep.

"This hole has been drilled for years! It has not penetrated the ice of 3200 meters, and now the technology is becoming more and more developed, and the speed of quantum laser equipment is not known to be many times faster than our ordinary drilling equipment, but I don't know how stable and unstable, the ice field where we are currently located is quite stable, but once it is fluctuated, the ice field will produce cracks, if you fall into the cracks, it is not a joke. ”

Pei Tianning was careful and cautious, and constantly told the engineers to be careful.

"What's under the icefield?"

Ji Youno asked curiously.

"There are glacial rifts and glacial mountains in the Tertiary period, but they have been permanently frozen under the ice and can only be seen by detection and scanning, but the inland cracks, once they fall, they will lose their lives as if they fall into the abyss, and they can't be saved."

As soon as Professor Pei Tianning's voice fell, the engineer in charge of drilling the deep ice well turned on the quantum laser drilling equipment, and the dazzling blue laser formed countless rays, and began to carry out laser drilling with the picture of the ice underground transmitted back by the detector, without a little hesitation.

Not far from Professor Pei Tianning's left-hand side, there was a snow research vehicle parked with a military tent outside the vehicle.

As the laser continued to penetrate deeper into the ice, out of curiosity, Ji Yuno entered the tent and saw the engineer who was remotely operating, manipulating the drilling equipment to detect the computer screen transmitted back by the equipment and observe the depth and situation of the ice drill.

It is hard for Ji Younai to imagine that the thickness of the ice is more than 3,000 meters, and the depth of the frozen lake may be even deeper, so what method do they have to use to dive into the depths of the frozen lake? Find the inner realm hidden in the depths of the frozen lake?