Chapter 125 32 Strange Dead and Survivors [Two in One]
Chapter 125 32. Strange Dead and Survivors [Two-in-One]
After several hours of trekking, three snowmobiles entered the vicinity of the bow iceberg. Because of Zheng Yun's words, the atmosphere in the car became a little strange. Hu Zi also pulled out a jade plate from his neck with a tiger carved on it.
It was a desperate attempt.
Because this tiger was not a tiger coming down the mountain or something like that, but the zodiac jade plate his parents bought for him when he was just born, which was a tiger in the twelve zodiac signs.
This is a big difference.
If it was a tiger coming down the mountain, there would be nothing to say, but at least it was quite social, but the twelve zodiac tigers were the wishes of parents for their children, which could be said to be completely useless.
"Don't think too much, we have no reason to go in, and it may not be." Zheng Yun patted him on the shoulder.
"Yeah." Hu Zi nodded.
"There are new car prints on the ground, it should be the car of their rescue team." Hu Ruihua spoke very calmly.
The snowmobile moved forward along the tire tracks on the ground. After a short detour, it arrived at the destination of the last time, the ice lake between the icebergs, and saw the car that had been in trouble last time.
This ice lake was in the shadow of the iceberg, and it was very dark all around. Hu Ruihua just turned the front of the car around, and the headlights shone on the car. The front car window was broken, and the bodies of the co-pilot and the back seat could be clearly seen, with some frost hanging on them.
Because of the light and shadow.
When the headlights shone on the car, there was a texture of an old photo. The surroundings were dim, and the car in trouble was bright, as if the car suddenly appeared from another world.
Hu Ruihua took the lead to stop the car.
There were many new tire tracks on the ice lake, but no other cars were seen. The rescue car that was in trouble was likely to have gone to the crack.
Hu Ruihua, Zheng Yun and his party got out of the car, and the rescue team behind them also stopped immediately. Captain Si Enke got out of the car and walked towards Hu Ruihua and his party, asking the team members to fire a flare.
Whoosh.
A white and yellow light source rose to the sky.
Their flares are more expensive, and they instantly illuminate the iceberg as if it were daytime, and everything is very clear.
"Is it in front?" Si Enke asked.
"Yes, there is a crack in front." Hu Ruihua nodded. After walking here, their leading mission has ended, and then he looked at Zheng Yun: "Speak to them?"
"Speak." Zheng Yun nodded.
Hu Ruihua told them about the hell and the various abnormalities found last time.
"We roughly know that we have watched the video. We can only blame our team for not paying enough attention. They have lost their respect for icebergs and nature." Si Enke sighed.
A few simple words.
Si Enke got in the car again, and the two cars went up the ramp and entered the narrow valley where the ice crack was located. Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua followed behind, intending to act according to circumstances.
This valley is very narrow and long.
To the north is a vertical ice wall with a height of more than 100 meters. The crack is in the corner of the ice wall, like a naturally formed irregular mine cave, which is dark, deep and silent.
Zheng Yun and his team saw the environment here through the drone, but it was different from standing under the ice wall in person.
The ice wall and the crack should be squeezed out by the movement of the glacier. It feels unstable. Anyone who dares to drill into this crack is indeed a qualified explorer.
Bang bang.
The sound of doors closing one after another.
Everyone got out of the car.
The rescue team's car was parked at the entrance of the crack. Not only that, the car parked deep in the crack was also dragged out by them. Both cars were parked in the same direction.
Si Enke and his team ran over immediately, but there was no one in the rescue vehicle. There were two bodies on the towed car. Obviously, all the members of the rescue team went into the cave.
Observe carefully.
The rescue team's car was accompanied by a trailer. There was a rope winch on the trailer, which released a thick and long rope extending to the depths of the crack. There were reflective strips flashing every ten meters.
This is for the trailer.
There should be another car at the end of this rope. Xiao Hu didn't see this car last time with the drone. It is estimated that it is very deep and may even fall into the pit.
Seeing these clues, they can roughly guess the route of the rescue team in distress.
This rescue team came in along the tire tracks and navigation. Instead of stopping at the ice lake outside, they went directly into the valley and entered the crack to drag out the first car.
The body of the man in red was also brought out by them, put in a body bag and placed in the back seat of this car.
Later, they found the second car, or when they were going to find the second car with a rope, they encountered some problems, which led to their failure to successfully drag the car out.
This incident even made the members who stayed outside the crack and were responsible for controlling the winch venture into the crack.
"Take out the equipment first."
"Look for survivors."
Si Enke directed his team members to take action and took professional rescue signal receiving instruments and detectors from the car.
Others put on equipment, took the things needed for rescue from the car, and prepared to start the rescue.
"There are several signal sources inside." A blond young man in the team spoke, pointing to the data on the screen.
"About where, is there an active signal inside." Si Enke hurried over to check.
"It's very deep, no." The blond shook his head.
Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua leaned against their car, observed the surroundings, and then watched Si Enke and others busy themselves.
What needs to be said has been said. The decisions made by their rescue team have nothing to do with themselves and others. They don't have to bear moral pressure. They can help if they can, and forget about it if they can't.
"Want one?" Hu Ruihua took out a box of cigarettes.
"No." Zheng Yun shook his head. He had no desire to smoke.
"Can my drone be used?" Xiao Hu asked while holding the drone, fearing that it would interfere with other people's detectors.
"They are not lacking." Hu Ruihua shook his head.
After waiting for a while, Senko and the others seemed to have found no clues. The team members began to put on their equipment, pointed several flashlights at the crack, and began to discuss plans.
Listen to them.
Still planning to go in and have a look.
"Thank you. We brought wire cameras and ropes. If there is trouble, please help." Senko came over and said hello to Hu Ruihua.
They brought a long rope on the trailer, and four people would go down. Each person had a rope tied to his body. If he fell into the ice valley, someone outside could pull him up.
Senko's plan was to first detect whether there were any living people down there. The purpose of entering the cave this time was to put the detector deep into the cracked cave and then come back.
With wired cameras, people above can see what is happening below, and can call out if they are in danger.
"Let's go."
Senko carried equipment and led people into the cracked cave.
Their two remaining teammates turned on the monitor in the rescue vehicle, and the facts showed Senko's perspective.
Zheng Yun and others gathered around to watch.
This kind of equipment is much clearer than a drone, and as long as the line is long enough, it can send back images no matter how far away it is.
"Let's go take a look at the corpse in red? Let's see how he died." Sister Wang suddenly suggested.
Zheng Yun hesitated.
He wasn't sure the body was safe.
"Forget it, let's look here first." Zheng Yun thought for a while, but still refused the proposal.
Everyone looked at the screen.
Senko and the others were holding strong flashlights, and the anti-shake camera could clearly see that the cave was probably several hundred meters deep, and there was a man-made object at the end, not sure what it was.
But there just wasn't anyone.
The entire crack is very wide, and it is almost as smooth as a road underfoot. It is difficult to imagine that it is a natural formation, but it should be a natural formation because it is irregular.
In addition, there are some ice cones at the top of the crack, hanging from the top of tens of meters. Some are long and some are short. The longest one hangs directly to the ground. It should be formed by melting and freezing during the melting period.
Seeing these ice picks, you can understand the wounds on the abdomen of the rescued girl and the cause of death of the two corpses outside.
I hadn't noticed it before because the drone's camera was below, so I couldn't look up and see what was happening above me.
"Has the temperature changed?"
Senko asked.
Sound travels from the screen to the outside world.
"Yes, it's minus twenty-seven degrees." Another member immediately took out a thermometer and reported the answer.
"Put a vibration detector." Senko continued, asking the team members to put down the portable equipment.
"There seems to be something wrong with the air. The oxygen content has become a little lower." The blond member suddenly reminded.
Hear this.
Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua looked at each other.
The man in red clothes was suspected to have died of suffocation, but when Senko and the others reached the halfway point, they only found that the oxygen content had become a little lower, which was related to suffocation, but not completely.
Low oxygen levels will not kill anyone.
Unless the oxygen content in this crack is intermittently lower and higher, but this is impossible to happen.
"There's blood here."
Another member crouched down.
Senko looked down and saw a trail of blood on the ground, which had been frozen into ice by the low temperature. It extended deep into the crack and was pressed down by car marks.
What Zheng Yun and the others were watching outside was from Senko's main perspective. It felt like watching a disaster movie or a horror movie. Especially when they found blood stains, the sense of déjà vu was very serious.
"Keep going."
Senko looked up and walked forward.
After walking about three hundred meters, they found some equipment left on the ground, as well as some tents and daily necessities.
"Someone was stationed here."
From Senko's perspective, he could clearly see traces of life around the tent. There were many gas cans and mineral water bottles on the ground. These people had stayed here for more than two or three days.
"There is a sports camera." The blond young man picked up a blood-stained camera in the corner near the tent.
"Take it back and take a look." Senko nodded.
The few people walked deeper again, and the flashlight could already see the end. The ice-cracked cave suddenly turned around in the depths, and the reflective rope of the rescue team stretched inside.
They decided to go to the end and put their instruments there.
They walked very carefully on the last part of the road, and the people outside were shocked to see it, but no one said anything.
Until Senko reached the end, the flashlight shone on his left hand, and an extremely terrifying scene suddenly appeared.
The left hand side is also a long and narrow ice cave passage, but it is curved, like the corner of a very large arc.
The light of the flashlight can only illuminate a hundred meters, because a hundred meters away is an arc to the right, extending into the depths.
But just at the end of the hundred meters.
One man was stabbed to death with an ice pick.
Senko and others suddenly saw this person when they knelt down and scanned the depths with a flashlight.
This man died in a very strange way. He was wearing white warm clothes and lying on the ground with his arms on the ground, but his head was pierced by a hanging ice pick, which was probably quite serious.
This ice pick is very thick.
The visual impact is very strong.
Because of the stab wound on the top of his head, the deceased's pale face was covered with blood, and his white clothes were stained red by the blood. His chin was slightly raised, and his eyes were still open, looking straight at Senko.
"Farke."
Senko whispered.
People outside were also shocked.
The deceased's posture was so weird and full of dynamics, as if he was kowtowing to someone just now. After kowtowing for a few times, he was stabbed in the head with an ice pick and was killed on the spot.
Of course, there are other speculations. For example, he crawled under the ice pick, but did not pay attention to the situation above his head. When he suddenly looked up, he accidentally stabbed himself to death.
"Are they your team members?"
Hu Ruihua looked at the rescue team members beside him.
"Probably not." The latter shook his head slightly.
In the video, Senko and the others were squatting on the spot, pointing several flashlights at the body.
See clearly.
If I had to compare it to an analogy, the deceased's posture was like that of a frog, and the blood on his clothes was like some kind of weird striped petals, matching his unbending eyes.
It has a very evil smell.
Anyone who sees it will feel numb.
"Could it be that he was tying his shoelaces and then hit an ice pick when he raised his head?" Huzi suddenly guessed.
His words actually dispersed the weird atmosphere.
Zheng Yun glanced at Huzi with a strange expression, but saw that his eyes were wide open and his expression was serious, and he seemed to be serious.
"Do you get down on all fours to tie your shoes? It's obvious that you crawled out, then suddenly raised your head for some unknown reason and stabbed yourself to death." Xiao Hu retorted.
"Then why did he climb out?" Huzi was puzzled.
But no one could answer his question. The ice pick was obviously immovable. The man could only climb out on his own initiative, but no one knew why he did this.
in the video screen.
Senko and three teammates were also discussing this matter in a low voice. The deceased was far away from them, but the persuasion effect was obvious, so they decided to put down the equipment at this place.
Several people took action immediately.
I put down a sound wave detector and a heat source sensor, which are very useful equipment in cracks.
"Lori, can you receive the data?"
Senko picked up the headset and spoke to the outside world.
"Yes." Luo Rui, who was sitting in the rescue vehicle, immediately replied, then adjusted the screen and started processing the data.
After a while.
A picture appears on the screen.
Zheng Yun and the others could also see that the heat source screen showed that there was a radioactive heat source at the feet of Senko in the northeast, about 120 to 500 meters away.
The temperature is above minus 20 degrees.
This thermal sensor is not thermal imaging. It can penetrate walls and detect long distances, but the image is diffuse and cannot tell what the source is, nor can it display the specific temperature.
It's about finding direction.
But this data can prove that there must be living things in this crack, and there must be survivors still alive.
Rory immediately transferred the data into the cave.
Senko and others were greatly refreshed, and they all cheered quietly for the good news, because this meant that their team members were probably still alive, but just trapped below.
Contrary to them.
It was the expressions of Zheng Yun and everyone else.
They were not unhappy, but rather worried, because this cracked ice cave looked like a maze. The more naturally formed it was, the more complex and irregular it became.
Even with direction.
It's also hard to find people.