Survival male god

Chapter 243 Greetings from Ancient Times

Chen Jing also didn't expect that the island in the far north was only less than one kilometer away from his party.

After chasing a few polar bears over the ice hills, a few hundred meters ahead, a white and gray glacier island appeared in the field of vision.

This island is taller and larger than imagined. The edge of the island is covered with black dust and rocks, covered by mottled snow and broken ice, and stretches endlessly as far as the eye can see.

After getting excited, Chen Jing immediately fell into doubts.

This is definitely not a floating island, nor can it be a coral island.

Because it is so big, the island path is at least several kilometers long, and it is impossible to see the whole thing from this side.

"What do you think?"

Chen Jing asked towards the camera.

【"What a big island!"

"It's not that big, it looks like a small island."

"Size is relative, at least it's bigger than the previous floating islands."

"Isn't the point that this is an island that actually has land?"

"It's so strange. Teruko and the others said before that the island was only a few dozen meters long and wide at the beginning. How many years has passed before it has become so big?"

"Is it true that this island is dead?"

"Stop talking, hurry up and take a look!"]

Behind him, three scientific expedition team members followed and stood side by side with Chen Jing.

They were panting from exhaustion, putting their hands on their knees and breathing heavily.

"call……"

"We actually found him!"

"Gao Lei, is this the Extreme North Island you mentioned?"

Zhou Hui turned around and asked.

Gao Lei nodded hard, he was out of breath from running.

"Yes, that's it. This island seems to be bigger than before."

Lin Jiaying took Zhou Hui's telescope and observed it carefully for a moment.

"Chen Jing is right. This is not a coral island. Corals are suitable for growing in warm waters, and the nutrients here are not enough for them to survive. Basically, we can rule out that it is an ancient island formed by coral corpses before glaciers covered it."

"But it doesn't look like it was formed the day after tomorrow. These rocks are mostly igneous rocks. The submarine volcanoes in the Arctic Ocean have not been active for a long time."

"The formation of this island may be much older than we imagined."

Chen Jing nodded in agreement, pointed forward and said, "You go to the island first, and I'll go back and pull the raft."

"it is good!"

Perhaps they were too excited. At this moment, everyone forgot about their fatigue and strode towards the island.

Chen Jing also dragged the raft and ran all the way. After a while, he followed the three of them and landed on the island.

The ground is covered with snow, but not much, only a shallow layer, and most places are still exposed gray bedrock.

There is little water on the island. After the glaciers melted, they never condensed again. There was weathered silt on the ground. If you squat down and look closely, you can even find traces of vegetation. They are all mosses suitable for growing on the frozen soil ice sheet.

This is a rather exciting discovery.

The plants on the island will never appear out of thin air. Their migration and growth must rely on external forces.

Nowadays, you can see the traces of large areas of growth, which is enough to prove that animals visited this place many years ago.

Maybe it's a seabird, maybe it's a terrestrial creature that feeds on various polar vegetation, such as Arctic hares, reindeer, etc...

In any case, this is a good phenomenon.

With scientific research personnel by his side, Chen Jing saves a lot of trouble in popularizing science with the audience.

As talents selected and selected by national units through layers of selection, there is no doubt about Zhou Hui's professional abilities.In just a moment, they roughly analyzed the island's formation age, the main composition of the rocks, and its recent environment.

Chen Jing only needs to make a summary.

The first is the formation age of the island, by analyzing the location, the hierarchical structure of the soil and rocks, and the attribute components in the rocks and gravels.

The three people concluded that this "island" can basically be confirmed to have existed under the glacier more than 30 billion years ago.

"Their judgment is based on the fact that the broken rock structure has the characteristics of ancient mafic element bedrock. After the special extrusion, uplift and subsidence of plate movement, this ancient soil and rock composition will appear on the surface. .”

"35 billion years ago, everyone can imagine what this concept was."

"When we set foot on an island like this, we have to be very careful."

"In the rock mass under the ice, it is very likely that there are immortal bacteria from hundreds of millions of years ago. This is a severe test for the human body in today's era."

Chen Jing said with a solemn expression.

On the other side, Zhou Hui and the others also made sounds from time to time, calling Chen Jing to come forward and check.

"This is the feces of polar bears. It's still very fresh and very smelly. They eat too many fish, and the feces they pull out are usually this slimy. Polar bears are pure carnivores, and there won't be any plant fiber in their feces. .”

"The time it takes for these feces to be excreted will not exceed 48 hours!"

Lin Jiaying pointed at a pile of filth on the rocky beach and said.

Chen Jingding nodded and gathered everyone together.

"Obviously, this island is very surprising, that there is such a giant island so close to the North Pole."

"In recent years, with the melting of glaciers, it has revealed its true appearance."

"Based on the information we collected just now, can we make a judgment now?"

"This is a true island, a true island of igneous rock, formed during the movement of planetary plates billions of years ago."

"Where do you think we are now?"

Chen Jing gave in and drew a long horizontal line on the snow with a knife.

"This is where the Lomonosov Ridge is located. The average depth of the Arctic Ocean is only about 200 meters. Although the depth here is more than 2000 meters, the height of the ridge is also close to the ice shelf."

"The plate movement has never stopped. This island is most likely like this. It broke through the glacier step by step and emerged from the sea."

"But in just over ten years, it has expanded from a sharp corner to such an extent. It is really incredible."

"But this is not something we need to consider. I know you must be very excited. Such geological discoveries are of great significance to scientific researchers."

"But don't forget, we still have a mission..."

Chen Jing's eyes flashed across the three people's faces.

"We need to find the remaining missing people, search for supplies on the island, survive, and then wait for rescue."

"These two things are the most important!"

"Agree!"

"I agree."

"agree……"

Several people looked at each other, and under Chen Jing's combing, they suppressed their excitement and returned to the right track.

"Then next, we..."

Chen Jing was just about to arrange an action plan when the entire island suddenly shook violently.

Accompanied by this, there were also loud rumbling sounds.

Everyone suddenly stood up and looked into the distance.

"what happened?"

(End of this chapter)