No one knows when the drift ice will appear today or how long it will be around.

In the morning, before dawn, people began to wake up and start making breakfast.

Hailuogou Glacier is not entirely bare icebergs, and there are many trees on it, most of which are tall cedar trees, mixed with a few pine trees, so there is no shortage of firewood for cooking.

By six o'clock, the sky has already seen the light and the sun is showing its head, and the early morning sun is scattered on the icebergs, the scenery is particularly spectacular, if everyone here is busy in their own way, to be honest, watching the sunrise here is actually a good choice.

At seven o'clock, the sky was already completely bright, and after everyone had breakfast, most of them took out the binoculars they had brought with them, and used the binoculars to look around for clues to the drift ice.

Although they were dressed very thickly, some of their exposed skin was painful from the wind. But in this way, no one dares to be careless, for fear that if they are not careful, they will miss the time when the drift ice appears.

Three or four hours have passed in the blink of an eye, and people still have not found the shadow of drift ice, and the young people are better at firepower, but many of the archaeologists in their fifties and sixties are obviously a little unbearable, and some have begun to burrow into tents to keep warm.

Dr. Guo Wanjun Guo, after observing the surroundings with the telescope, put away the telescope and came to Li Jinyuan's side, and said with a not very good-looking face: "Dr. Li, are you sure that the drift ice appeared today?" It's almost noon, why hasn't the drift ice appeared yet? ”

"Don't worry, you can't miss the time." Although Li Jinyuan said so, he was actually playing the drum in his heart, whether the drift ice appeared today or not, this matter was told to him by his father Li Zhanjun, as for whether it was today or not, he was actually not sure, but when he saw the people of the four families, his heart suddenly relaxed, "Those people are not here to travel, if the drift ice didn't appear today, they wouldn't have come all the way here to suffer." ”

"yes, then let's wait." Guo Wanjun glanced at the people of the four families, picked up the binoculars again and began to observe the surroundings.

Another hour passed in the blink of an eye, and the drift ice still did not appear, and the leaders of the four major families had already begun to order their subordinates to start making lunch.

After the people brought by Guo Wanjun finished the meal, they walked over and prepared to call him and Li Jinyuan to eat, but at this time, Li Jinyuan suddenly pointed to a mountain peak below and shouted excitedly.

"Hahaha, there is, there is!"

"Something, it can't be drift ice!" Guo Wanjun thought like this, picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of Li Jinyuan's finger, only to see a river dozens of meters square appeared on the ice between the trees, and the river was coming quickly along the ice to their place.

The people of the four great families have seen a lot of things, but they have never seen this phenomenon, and they can't help but begin to sigh at the size of the world, where the ice surface of the river comes, the ice surface will melt and become a part of the river, and when the river moves over, those places will re-condense into ice.

"That's right, it's the same as we've seen in fifteen years!" Guo Wanjun was very excited, put away the binoculars and began to command the people behind him, "Hurry up and pack up your things, put on the oxygen helmet for me, the drift ice will move to us soon." ”

Li Jinyuan ran back to the tent, put his belongings on his back, and then walked out with an oxygen helmet, he glanced at Han Zhaoting's team, and saw that they had already put on the oxygen helmet he had sent over, and smiled and put the helmet in his hand on his head.

The leaders of the Ma family, the Ouyang family and the Xiao family were very curious about why the Han family and the archaeological team wore helmets at first, but after thinking about it, they guessed the reason, they were not stupid, and they knew a little bit about drifting ice.

They were all clever people, and they quickly came up with a solution, and instructed the people they brought with them to wrap their heads in excess clothes, leaving only the part of their eyes exposed, but when they entered the drift ice later, they would wrap their eyes as well.

When everyone was fully equipped and the drift ice was less than a hundred meters away from them, Ma Teng, the leader of the Ma family, suddenly took action, and he led his people to rush up quickly in the direction of the drift ice.

Seeing this, the people of the other three families secretly cursed the old treacherous and cunning, and then led people to chase after them, obviously not wanting the people of the Ma family to lead them into the ice city.

Li Jinyuan looked at the four big families who kept rushing into the drift ice, shook his head secretly, and followed Guo Wanjun and the others unhurriedly.

The first batch of Ma family members who were swallowed by the drift ice, at this time one by one was complaining, they thought that as long as they were not invaded by the drift ice, they would be fine, but they didn't expect that the pressure inside would be so great, although the drift ice looked like water, but it had nothing to do with the water at all, after they went in, the drift ice began to squeeze their bodies constantly, and the squeezing force was very great, not to mention moving their bodies, pressing on their bodies, making it difficult for them to breathe.

Li Jinyuan didn't expect such a situation, the last time he was accidentally swallowed by drift ice, and it didn't take long for him to faint, but this time he didn't faint immediately, but really felt the strong pressure, he didn't know how long it was, and finally he was really pressed out of breath, and his eyes fainted as soon as his eyes were black.

The situation of the others is almost the same, even the mercenaries that Guo Wanjun spent a lot of money to invite, in the end, they all fainted one by one. No one knew how long it had been, and when someone came to his senses, he found himself in a passage surrounded by thick ice, which was so translucent and so hard that it could not be easily chiseled into it even if he had chiseled it with a hammer.

Such hard ice, want to dig a channel I don't know how long, you can imagine how difficult it is, and this is dug more than a thousand years ago, the tools at that time were not as high as now, the difficulty is greater than now I don't know how many times, I have to sigh, the wisdom and perseverance of the ancients are far from being comparable to modern people.

After they came here, they appeared in different places, some appeared in the middle of the passage, some appeared at the exit or entrance of the passage, of course, there was far more than one passage, they did not know which passage they were in, what the end of the passage would be.

Li Jinyuan: They were the last to enter the drift ice, and the place where they appeared was not very far from the exit of the passage where they were.

"Dr. Guo, wake up, we're here." After Li Jinyuan woke up, he found Guo Wanjun from more than 20 people who were unconscious.

Guo Wanjun took off his helmet, patted his groggy head vigorously, sat on the ground and observed the surroundings, "Is this what you said, the passage to the thousand-year-old ice city?" ”

"Probably not." Li Jinyuan shook his head and explained: "I made a mark on the ice of the passage at the beginning, and the passage we are in is not the one I walked through, I think there should be other passages here." ”

"In this case, without further ado, wake up the others, and let's do it." Guo Wanjun glanced at the other unconscious others in the passage, then got up and came to one of them, reached out to help the other party up and took off his helmet, shaking the other party's body, and shouting over and over again, "Dr. Fang Jing, wake up." ”

Li Jinyuan looked at it when he heard the sound, only to find that Fang Jing was also here, Fang Jing was also one of the people who left alive with them before, before he only knew that there was a woman in the team, but he didn't know who the woman was, because Fang Jing was covering his face with a scarf and wearing a pair of sunglasses, he didn't pay attention.

"She's here too." Li Jinyuan smiled and muttered to himself, "This woman's curiosity and desire for knowledge are much greater than herself, and it is normal for her to come." ”

After waking everyone up, Li Jinyuan looked at the time on his watch, and he didn't know if the watch was broken or what, the time stopped at 3:16 in the afternoon.

"Dr. Guo, my watch seems to be broken, look at what time it is."

"Okay, I'll take a look." Guo Wanjun pulled the coat in his right hand out, revealing a watch, he looked at the time on it, and found that his watch was not gone, and the time stopped at 3:15, "Mine seems to be broken, you can look at other people's." ”

Li Jinyuan nodded, and successively inspected five or six people's watches, only to be surprised to find that their watches had also stopped, which was nothing surprising, but the time on the watch was stuck at about 3:15, and the difference between up and down was no more than five minutes.

It can be seen that their watches are not broken, but that they stopped for some reason after arriving here. As for the time stuck at around 3:15, which means that they were carried by the drift ice for at least two and a half hours, and when they first entered the drift ice, the time was about half past twelve at noon.

The moving speed of the drift ice at that time was not very slow, at least about ten meters per minute, and their watches stopped after entering here, that is to say, they were carried by the drift ice to move up and down for two and a half hours, if they moved fifty meters per minute, then two and a half hours is 7,500 meters, which is equivalent to the height of the highest iceberg in Hailuogou Glacier.

If the drift ice has been taking them down, it means that the place they are in is on the Hailuogou Glacier, the bottom of the mountain where they were before, but if the drift ice is moving around with them, it is difficult to deduce where they are, and it is not possible to guarantee the speed at which the drift ice is moving, whether it has always maintained the same as they first saw, and if the speed increases or decreases later, it is even more difficult to infer where they are now.

The height of the Hailuogou Glacier is more than 7,500 meters, not to mention the width, if you want to find this place in such a large glacier, I am afraid there is only one way, that is, to dig down little by little from top to bottom, this is not a year or two can be completed, I am afraid that decades and hundreds of years can not be done, of course, even if you can do it, I am afraid that the country will not let you do it......