Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 267
While searching for an exit, Ke Lan thought about the connection between these clues: the double moon eclipse and the water that suddenly poured into the stone chamber... The combination of these two points made him think of the gravitational tide between celestial bodies Could it be that part of the mechanism of this stone room is controlled by the tidal force between Double Moon and Alpha Star?
But the amount of calculation involved in these data is too huge, let alone Ke Lan, even if a professional astronomer is here, without the help of a computer, it may be difficult to figure out all the details .

And trying to use these data to reverse the organizational structure of the ruins is even more impossible.

At this moment, the hound's shout came from another direction——

"Found it! The exit is here! Stone Room No. [-]!"

……

In the northeast corner of the No. [-] stone room, an opening about one meter square appeared below the water surface. This opening was connected to a horizontal passage. The material of the passage wall is similar to that of the stone chamber, the only difference is that the surface is covered with a layer of greasy scale.

Ke Lan dived down to take a look, but with the naked eye alone, he couldn't see the end of the passage at all.

"I have already used lasers to measure the length of the underwater channel." Layton said, "It is exactly 460 meters. At the other end of the channel, there is also an upward opening. From the analysis of the path of light refraction, the upper part should be empty. no water."

The exits and passages are very narrow. If they want to pass through this passage, they have to take off the powered exoskeleton, and burly men like Zoligetu and Layton even have to shrink their bodies Get up and barely squeeze in.

"This... I'm going to get into this place... I can't even move." Zhuo Ligetu gestured towards the entrance of the passage, showing his face in embarrassment.

"It's not a big problem," Layton said, raising his mechanical arm and shaking it, "There is a propeller device in my mechanical arm, which can be used as a power source for underwater propulsion. If everyone is connected in series, I can take everyone through this passage... the time required is estimated to be around 3 minutes."

"3 minutes..." The hound glanced at the breathing mask in his hand, "For us, holding our breath for 3 minutes is not a big problem, but what should they do?"

Naturally, he was referring to the three Ivans who were still in a coma.

The hound continued: "There are only two breathing masks. This passage is so narrow that people are squeezed in like sardine cans. There is no way to turn around to help them breathe."

"Then can we seal their mouths and noses with duct tape? As long as they can survive these 3 minutes." Layton suggested.

"No." Ke Lan shook his head, "They have all been injected with Mengzao preparations and neutralizers, and their current state is the same as a deep coma. If you put them in a state of suffocation, their brains may suffer from hypoxia. 3 minutes is too long for irreversible damage.”

"But I have a way." Ke Lan took out a roll of textile fabric made of polymer from his backpack. When he unfolded it, everyone discovered that it turned out to be a body bag.

Although the name of this thing is not very auspicious, many hunters who work in a team will still add a few body bags to the equipment list... Even if the original function has no chance to play, disassembling the bag can also be used as a full body bag. As a waterproof material or a bandage, it can be said to be quite versatile in field survival and relic exploration.

"The body bag... This is indeed a solution. This thing is waterproof, as long as you inflate it with some air, it won't be a problem to last for 10 minutes." The hound nodded and said.

Soon, Ivan, Asano Akira, and Cao Feng who were sleeping were put into the body bag. As for the two breathing masks, they were left out for emergency use.

The people connected the three pieces of cables and fixed them with the safety buckle on each person's waist respectively, and then connected the three body bags head to tail, and strung them to the ropes. As for the exoskeleton and other equipment that had been taken off, was dragged at the very end of the cable.

Led by Layton, everyone took a few deep breaths, and then got into the underwater passage one by one.

Ke Lan was in the second place in the queue. After entering the underwater passage, the people at the front of the queue crawled forward for a certain distance, and Layton opened it only after everyone came in together with the three body bags. The propeller in the machine dragged everyone along the passage to accelerate.

Everything went smoothly, there were no additional organs in the underwater channel, and there were no accidents when the team passed through it. Even the passing time was exactly the same as Layton's estimate—at the time of three minutes and nine seconds, the team was in the middle of the tunnel. Layton at the head reached the end of the channel first, and at 38 minutes and [-] seconds, the equipment bag hanging at the end of the cable had also been dragged out of the water.

But when Ke Lan saw the scene at the other end of the underwater passage clearly, he couldn't help holding his breath, an inexplicable chill spread from the depths of his bone marrow, and climbed up his back little by little.

The spacious and regular space, the passageway enough for three "Junius" off-road vehicles to pass in parallel, the black ice as dense as steel...

They are back again, back to the weird ice road under the glacier!

"This place...we seem to have been here before..." Layton took a step back subconsciously, and Ke Lan could clearly hear the clashing sound of his teeth chattering...it was not because of the cold, but because of fear.

The hound put his hand on the holster silently, and if he shined the light of the flashlight, it could be clearly seen that his fingers were trembling involuntarily.

Among the four, only Zhuo Ligetu's situation is better, but it is only "better".

If this is really the original ice road, if the things Ke Lan has seen are not hallucinations... They are very clear about what kind of "things" they may encounter next...

The only ones who didn't figure out the situation were Qin Zhao and Martin.

"You have been here before? But... isn't the deepest ascertained distance of the tiankeng less than 500 meters? What is this place?" Qin Zhao asked softly. She felt that the emotions of Ke Lan and others were very strange. Driven by this atmosphere, even she herself became a little nervous.

"This is not a sinkhole..." The hound spit out a few words with some difficulty, "This is... No. A-087...the glacier remains..."

(End of this chapter)