Chapter 6: The Souls of the Dead under Lake Baikal
Lu Haitian and the others began to explore the cave, and they were very familiar with such a task.
As a super soldier of the Academy of Eden, most of the anomalies are in the deep mountains and forests or the underground world, and some will be in the abyss of the deep sea.
They went in from a cave, then out of it, and then through the next cave, and came out with a disappointed face.
It's been a dozen times, and even the best ones have run out of patience.
Fortunately, Lu Haitian had marked it at the beginning, and the caves they entered would be marked with red ×.
"I'm so tired! Why are there only half of the tunnels here, and it's okay to walk for a few minutes and reach the end, but I'm afraid that after walking for ten or twenty minutes, I finally hit a wall, and I really want to smash that wall on the spot!"
Turner sat on the ice and couldn't help but start complaining, and Lu Haitian patted Turner on the shoulder.
"Let's go! there doesn't seem to be any danger here, there are a few left, and a way will be found, or this place will lose its meaning of existence. ”
Turner sighed heavily, and very reluctantly got up from the ground and patted the ice slag on his buttocks.
The trio hit a wall a few times in a row, but they were lucky, this time they didn't have the kind of ice cave that walked in the middle of the teens and twenties.
Until they reached the end, they looked at a relatively small ice cave, the last one left.
The three of them looked at each other, and if they couldn't find anything this time, then this time the operation would be fruitless.
"I'm ready to go home empty-handed!" Turner reluctantly spread his hands.
Lu Haitian was also a little disappointed in his heart, he was going to exhaust fifty caves, and the last one couldn't get through, which was really shocking.
They walked towards the relatively small cave, and walked for more than ten minutes, but they did not see the end of the cave.
Suddenly, Lu Haitian's eyebrows raised, Turner opened his mouth, Lime's eyes widened, and the three of them all made different looks.
It's not that I've seen anything incredible, or I've encountered any unknown monsters, but...
There was another forked cave in front of it, and this time it was estimated that there were more than a hundred or so of them.
"I... Huh..."
Turner didn't know what to say, did he really think cave adventures were fun?
Lu Haitian's face was also full of bitterness, the dozens of caves just now had taken them several hours, this hundred or ten...
Sorry for the interruption...
"What should I do?"
Turner looked at Lu Haitian, and Lu Haitian groaned, "Let's try it and see if we can try our luck!"
"Lime, are you still moving?" Lu Haitian looked at the girl, and Lime nodded.
Although she is a girl, she is not squeamish at all, and she is very different from those girls who can only be cute and cute, which is why Lu Haitian likes her very much.
"Then I'll have to be together!" Turner sighed as he moved his muscles.
This time, they were heading towards a cave, which didn't seem to have only one passage like just now, it was full of passages, and many passages were connected together.
It is not said that there is a situation of entering and exiting together, which makes Lu Haitian a little happy.
Lu Haitian sketched the structure of this ice cave in his mind as he walked, this ice cave tunnel is like a bifurcated vine, very long, blocked in some places, intertwined in some places, very complicated.
They walked around and around, and finally came to a huge cavern, which looked very large, the entrance of the cave was more than ten feet high, and it was large enough to accommodate the giant creatures that had always lived.
"It's finally here!"
Lu Haitian's eyes lit up, even if it was a giant creature, Lu Haitian was not afraid and wanted to see it.
It's not that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, Lu Haitian is capable, even if it is a Keter-level SCP, if he wants to engage Lu Haitian, Lu Haitian can find a way to escape.
Especially with an assistant like Lime by his side, it's not a problem to run away or something.
"Let's go in and have a look! We've all come here, I'm sorry if we don't go in, we've been wandering around here for hours!"
Lu Haitian was the first to step into this ice cave, and the two followed.
The walls of the tunnel gradually smoothed out, as if they had been polished, quite regular, as if they were entering a semicircular subway tunnel.
Lu Haitian walked and stopped, and the lime followed closely, crashing into Lu Haitian's body and letting out an exclamation.
"What's wrong? Why did you stop all of a sudden?" asked Lime, dissatisfied.
Lu Haitian's eyes were like torches, and he squinted his eyes and pointed at the tunnel wall, the tunnel wall was hazy, but he could see that there was an outline inside.
Lime stepped forward with some curiosity, sighed, and wiped the ice slag on the tunnel wall with her little hand.
A pale face appeared in front of Lime, and the death was extremely ugly, and Lime burst back in fright.
Lu Haitian grabbed her hand and rubbed it, "It's okay, I'm here!"
Lu Haitian slowly approached the grimace, in fact, it was mostly a human face, but because he had spent too much time underwater, half of his face was corroded by the bubble.
Turner also found similar bodies in the surrounding ice, and there were many of them.
Even they seem to be used to decorate the entire tunnel wall, which can be seen everywhere and extends into the depths.
"Judging by the contours of these people's faces and their costumes, it seems that they were from 3 centuries ago, and at that time, it seemed that it was still the time of the Tsar!"
Lu Haitian carefully looked at the specific faces and clothes of these people and came to a conclusion.
"Is there a problem?" asked Turner, turning his head.
"They seem to have froze to death, you can see that they don't have any special injuries on their bodies, there are no broken bones, and their clothes are intact. ”
Lu Haitian pointed to a corpse in front of them and analyzed it carefully.
"Those who freeze to death, even if the tsar is mediocre, he shouldn't freeze to death so many people, judging from the small number, there are at least about 100,000!"
Turner touched his chin and estimated, of course, he just felt that he didn't know the exact number.
"The exact number should be two hundred and fifty thousand!"
Lu Haitian pointed out the specific figures in an earth-shattering manner.
Turner and Lime were dumbfounded at the same time, how did he know the exact number, could it be that he had traveled from the Tsarist era?
"Hehe! Look at this gold bar-like thing, with the words Russian and Tsarist era engraved on it!"
Lu Haitian pointed to a gold bar suspended in the ice, the small print on it was faintly visible, and there were a large number of gold coins around.
"What does that have to do with the number of people you said?" Turner asked.
"In the Tsarist era, once the Tsars were defeated by the revolutionary army, they began to make strategic migrations. Lu Haitian took a deep breath.
"They took the last funds for the restoration of the tsars, 500 tons of gold and silver treasures left behind by the Romanovs, and fled towards Lake Baikal in wagons pulling grain. ”
"It was a long migration of 8,000 kilometres, and the winter in Siberia was bitterly cold, with temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius dropping the number of people fleeing from 1.25 million to 250,000. ”
"And then?" said Turner and Lime stared at Lu Haitian.
"Eventually, the 250,000 people came to Irkutsk. In front of them was the frozen Lake Belga. At that time, the thickness of the ice on Lake Baikal was more than 3 meters, so it was no problem to walk, and after crossing the lake, it was possible to get rid of the pursuit of the revolutionary army and walk to freedom. ”
"Then they look like they've failed miserably!" Turner glanced at the corpse beside him, a little sympathetic.
"The people tried their last strength to plan to cross Lake Baikal, and just as they were staggering, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and the snow was wrapped in a cold air.
The temperature around me plummeted to minus 70 degrees Celsius. 250,000 people were quickly frozen and frozen to death in these extreme temperatures, everything that would have been moving was now frozen and the lake was covered with corpses. ”
Turner and Lime gasped at the same time, and more than 200,000 lives were gone in an instant, and it was such a coincidence.
"Then as Lake Baikal melted, those corpses fell into the lake, and finally froze again in winter, and they became what they are now!" Lu Haitian sighed.
When the tragic scene of hundreds of years ago is displayed in front of people, they will feel what kind of tragic picture it is.
"Hey, it's a pity! I guess that Shipkin guy knows about it, and he must be digging for gold coins!"
Turner teased, Lu Haitian smiled, and they continued to move towards the frozen outstretch.
The further you go inside, the more you will find that it is freezing inside, and the temperature is almost close to the temperature of the blizzard outside.
How can the temperature be so low at the bottom of a frozen lake, this is also too unscientific.
"Lime, are you cold?" Lu Haitian looked at the girl whose little hands were already red from the cold.
Lime nodded a little tremblingly, Lu Haitian put the coat on her body, and only left a sweater on her body, the girl's eyes flashed, and her heart was warm.
"Don't look at me like that, you know I'm not afraid of the cold, after all, the strength I use is the ultimate cold power!"
Lu Haitian touched her head and scratched her little nose that was red from the cold.
As for Turner, he has a chain of fire attribute gods, and he is also not afraid of the cold.
Lu Haitian is relatively conservative, wearing an overcoat and a sweater, while Turner only has a gray vest in his jacket.
This makes others see it, maybe they will say what kind of freak it is, and if it is seen by some MTF team members who don't recognize him, it is estimated that he will be included in the SCP for study.
They walked and walked, and finally came to the end of the tunnel, where there was nothing but a thick wall of ice.
"Ahh
Turner looked disappointed, but he didn't expect to get nothing in the end.
"Wait, there's something in this ice!"
Lu Haitian took a few steps closer and wiped the scum on the ice wall with his hand, revealing the face of a baby.
"It's just a kid who has froze to death, it doesn't seem like much!" said Turner, who walked in and took a look.
"It's not like he was frozen to death, you can see the water around him is even flowing, he forms a narrow space and constantly supplies him with oxygen underwater!"
Lu Haitian's gaze was very sharp, and he observed a subtle change in the flow of water, which made Turner look away and twist his eyes again.
"This treats Lake Baikal like amniotic fluid, it's a monster!"