Chapter 341: The Spire
"Huh?" Clara stared at Aurora suspiciously, taking a few glances at her. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Any questions?" Sensing Clara's suspicious gaze, Aurora asked suspiciously.
"I just saw a fly fly out of you." After a moment's hesitation, Clara said.
"Flies?" Aurora said in disbelief: "How is it possible, you are dazzled, right? ”
"Well, maybe."
Looking left and right, she couldn't find the fleeting black dot just now, and Clara was a little suspicious if she was dazzled.
After a while, everyone took off their protective suits.
Breathing directly into the air of this alien planet, in fact, everyone didn't feel much difference from the air on the earth, and if they had to say it, it was a little cold.
But soon, in a matter of minutes, they each felt a dullness in their chests and a dizziness in their heads.
"Everybody quicken."
Babs struggled to pick up the device and secure it with rope.
Every ten minutes, they have to temporarily stop their work, enter the armored vehicle to breathe fresh air, and relieve the physical fatigue caused by the excessive carbon dioxide, if it is not for the excessive carbon dioxide, the abundant and appropriate oxygen content will make them more energetic.
In this way, a group of seven people worked for more than two hours one after another, barely transporting the required equipment and materials to the fault, and then pulling people up with ropes to complete the preparations for departure.
"The planet's rotation time is about 26 hours, and we still have 7 hours of daylight ......"
Looking at the time, Babs announced the number to the crowd.
Although it was indeed very dark, it was not to the point of darkness, and it was still much more convenient than complete darkness. In the past month, there have been thick dark clouds covering this area, and at night, it is really so dark that you can't see your fingers, and you can't see anything clearly with the naked eye, and there is no starlight or moonlight from the sky to illuminate at all.
"Then let's hurry up and hit the road."
Hearing the words from Babs, Nicky picked up his spirits and walked forward.
Leaving one soldier here to guard the two vehicles, the remaining six then set out on their way to the Black Spire.
It may seem like a few miles away from the minaret, but in fact, when walking with heavy supplies, a few miles away is a heavy number that should not be overlooked. Babs and the other two physically fit soldiers were able to hold on, and of the other three, Clara lived in the wild as a zoologist and was in good shape, while Aurora and Nicky were not.
Only a small portion of the supplies were shared, but after less than half a mile in his bloated hazmat suit, Nicky waved his hands in exhaustion and shouted, "Can you take a break?" ”
"Can't hold on?"
Babs, who was walking at the front, heard his shout and turned to look at him.
"Take a break, oh my God, it's been a long time since I've exercised this long distance."
Nicky gasped: "The things I carry are so heavy, they are like an Olympus pressing down on me, and my heart is beating violently with every step. ”
"Alright then, let's all rest for a while."
Seven hours is generally enough for them to go back and forth, and the most important thing is that on this kind of alien planet, you must conserve your physical strength, otherwise when you don't have the physical strength to save yourself at the critical moment, then no one will really be able to save you.
He knew this, and as soon as Ich looked tired, he ordered him to rest.
After two consecutive breaks, they saw that they were getting closer and closer to the man-made building, and the discussion between them began.
"What do you think this spire looks like?"
Clara asked curiously.
"Lighthouse?" Aurora spat out a word.
"Lighthouse? Wait, you say like a lighthouse, the kind of lighthouse on the sea? ”
"Hmm." Aurora nodded, looking at the spire as it got closer, her expression puzzled.
"I don't think it's like a lighthouse."
Nicky interjected, "Don't you think it's more like a sword?" A sharp sword emerging from the ground. ”
"No need to guess, we'll be there soon, let's save some effort."
Babs interrupted the conversation, leaving the discussion to end for now.
Indeed, as Babs had said, they were approaching the Spire, and the distance of several miles had taken them more than three hours.
It's here.
It was less than a few dozen meters away from the black minaret.
When they looked at the black minaret from a long distance, they felt that the man-made structure was already very grand and towering, and when they reached a few tens of meters away, when they looked up, they felt that they were standing at the bottom of a skyscraper. Compared with the conventional shape of the skyscraper, the black minaret has brought a heavy pressure to everyone because of its strange shape, and even the eyes of the minaret will be attracted by the minaret after a few more glances.
"It's weird, how I feel like my heart is beating faster." Touching the part of her heart, Clara withdrew her gaze from the spire and muffled a little.
"I'm a little uncomfortable too." Aurora frowned, not looking like Clara's personal delusion.
"89.2ngy/h, radiation background within the normal range......"
Holding the radiation dose detector, Nick reported the radiation background values for the current environment.
This radiation level is normal and does not cause any harm to the human body.
The air detector that Aurora was carrying did not alarm, which means that the nearby atmosphere has been in the normal range, except for a slightly higher carbon dioxide, everything is indistinguishable from the road from which it came.
"Maybe you're too tired."
Babs didn't feel much, his eyes were fixed on the spire, and he walked forward without looking back.
Seeing that Captain Babs walked over like this, the rest of the people had to follow.
If the minaret building had a lot of radiation, or emitted other toxic gases, they would have detected it a long time ago, and since the environment was normal, they had to breathe a sigh of relief and continue to approach the minaret.
"What's that?"
Finally at the bottom of the spire, everyone looked up, and suddenly found the parallel stripes engraved on the surface of the minaret, mixed with unknown symbols, gradually spreading towards the spire, and finally converged at one point.
"What are these symbols?"
Everyone looked at each other, not expecting that there would be stripes and symbols on this dark minaret.
"It's like obsidian."
Nicky took a closer look, and he took a deep breath: "It's incredible that such a large piece of obsidian. ”
Obsidian is formed by the cooling of magma flowing from volcanic lava, and it is generally impossible to have such a large whole, which is a little surprising to Niki.
"Captain, get closer and take pictures of all the symbols on it."
Inside Babs's headset, an order from General Hunt suddenly came.
"Okay, I got it."
Babs answered, turned to the crowd and said, "Take out the camera and connect it to the Internet, the general needs a clearer image." ”
While everyone was busy, a fly began to rise rapidly, circling around the strange spire.
Roughly in the shape of a basic cylinder, about two meters in diameter and at least over one hundred and ten meters in height, the material of this minaret may be a large amount of obsidian, at least on the outside, as Nick said.
And on the outer surface of the minaret, the circular stripes have no color, but are deeply recessed, even those symbols, because everyone is far away, they can't find these strange stripes and symbols, and only when you get closer, you will find these deep stripe symbols that are recessed in.
The group was busy trying to photograph these stripes below, but due to the limited equipment they carried, they could only photograph the stripes and symbols below, while Lu Yuan controlled the fly robot to constantly surround the spire, shooting all traces without any omission.
Although it seems to be a spire, at least at least there is no passage to enter at the base position, and the fly robot has risen fifty or sixty meters around, and has not found any passage entrance, so it is possible that this spire may be solid. (To be continued.) )