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Chapter 145 The Cave of Eternity
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On the ground, there are some irregular ice cones with smoke rising from them.

"From a geographical point of view, this is called the Erebus Volcano Ice Tower, which is a unique landscape in the world."

"Before ancient times, the ice layer on the earth cracked, and the volcanic water vapor kept rising, condensing into water in the ice crack, and then freezing into ice. In the endless years that followed, the water vapor continued to condense, and the ice tower continued to grow taller. In the end, such a spectacle was formed, in the whole world, the hollow ice tower can only be seen here, it looks like a chimney chafing dish.”

"My gun brother never leaves his line of business in three words."

Professor Wang looked at the ice towers on the ice sheet: "These ice towers are inaccessible. We have to enter from the big crack in the ice cave, and we may have to judge where to go in, so that we can go further."

Fang Hong shrugged: "This is the job of you professionals. I can only take you down."

"no problem."

The scientific expedition team had to leave two people on the ice, and the other five had to go down.

Not long after, the most famous crack in the ice of Mount Erebus was found.

Professor Wang sighed: "In the past, when we visited here, we always lacked professionals to lead the way. Now no matter what investigation we do, we can find top experts in China."

Fang Hong smiled awkwardly: "I'm not very good either..."

At the ice crack, the ice sheet is no longer smooth, but almost steep vertically downward, about 20 meters from the ground, and the oblique ice layer slopes downward.

Fang Hong found a place on the ice sheet to drive in expansion nails, and then poured the water on it, and the water began to freeze when it hit the ground, and it was frozen together with the ice sheet after a while.

Fang Hong made two buckles back and forth in this way, and fastened two ropes: "Now our country's scientific research in Antarctica is at the forefront of the world. In the past two years, we have drilled from Ice Dome A to record climate change in Antarctica for millions of years. These icicles not only help us understand the climate change in Antarctica, but also infer the climate change of the entire earth in recent years, and even the distribution of volcanic ash in it can also infer which volcanoes erupted in those specific years. Accurate climate change on Earth by year. Of course, these data are top secret information."

This is actually very simple. The top of the drilled icicles is snow, and then there is white opaque ice formed after the snow is compacted, and then there may be ice melting caused by climate warming and large-scale volcanic eruptions. The global volcanic ash deposition, and so on, until the bottom of the original ice.

In theory, Antarctica has recorded climate change every year from the ice age when the ice sheet formed to the present.

Fang Hong was looking for a way down on the ice slope: "During a certain Erebus volcano eruption, the magma melted the snow, and the snow instantly turned into spring water, and the water flowed down, entered the ice crack from here, and was quickly frozen , and finally formed a hard ice layer that even bombs can't blow through, and it is also the way down to the ground."

Of course, Fang Hong himself can use the downhill rope to drag the cool downhill, but considering that Professor Wang and others have not used downhill equipment in the natural environment, they are a bit old.So Fang Hong has been looking for an easier place to go down.

Although the ice slope is almost vertical, due to its weird and changeable shape, there are still many gentle slopes and bumps that can be stepped on. Fang Hong tested it once until he got down to the ground. He felt that Professor Wang and the others should be able to do this. When I got down, I shouted: "Close the rope buckle and slide down slowly. If you feel that there is no place to step on it, release the switch and stick the rope in the air for a while. Slow down, not too fast."

Professor Wang was the first to set off. On the one hand, he wanted to set an example. On the other hand, if there was any problem with the rope equipment, a few middle-aged people would be left at the top, and they would have the strength to rescue them.

Professor Wang almost stuck his butt under the ice.

Fang Hong is still in shape: "Don't lean your back against the ice, be careful that you are too fast and your spine will be injured by the ice."

In 1 minute, Professor Wang got down to the ground and stepped on the ground, Professor Wang smiled: "Now we are in the cave between the ice cap and the ground.

Ice caves are rare in the world, except here, only Iceland has them.

However, the scale of the ice cave in Iceland is far less than here.

The experts came down one by one, and Fang Hong stood under the icefall to pick them up one by one.

"It's really rare to see the real thing in the Antarctic interior."

"I don't know why, but the environment here always reminds me of combustible ice—the black chimney environment. On the seabed, the ecosphere near the combustible ice relies on the heat of the combustible ice to survive. Every creature is almost transparent and does not need sunlight. Irradiation can also survive. Here, the hot gas of the underground lava should have the same function, maybe, in the long biological evolution, there will also be a small ecological circle that does not need the sun."

When the team was about to move forward, Professor Wang's radio equipment rang: "Professor Wang."

"Zhao Shu, what's the situation above?"

"The Americans just came and invited us to spend the night at their little station."

Professor Wang thought for a while: "I don't know if our investigation can end today. If it can end, we will return to the ship. If not, we can go to their scientific research station."

Fang Hong explained on the side: "We went up the mountain from another direction. There is a small scientific research station at the southwest foot of the mountain - McMurdo Station, which is used by the Americans to monitor the activity of the Erebus volcano. There are permanent residents in summer.”

"Americans are such dicks, they get involved in everything."

Fang Hong is helpless: "Australia is a pro-American country. It is very convenient for US planes to come from Australia. Unlike us, we don't borrow Australian airports very often. Of course, there are times when we borrow them, but not so frequently."

After all, Australia is a country of the Commonwealth of Nations, and the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations have been transformed into the second legs of the United States in modern times, but they are not very close to the mainland of England.In the past 200 years, whenever the United States participated in wars, Australia Pidianpidian would take the initiative to participate in the war, probably to reflect its sense of presence.

Australia is also a part of the so-called three-island chain.

Finally, I have the time to take a closer look at the whole cave under the ice.

The distance between the ice cave and the ground is huge.

In the current range of visual inspection, the lowest place is about four meters from the ground, and the highest place must be more than 15 meters.

That is to say, the upper layer of ice at such a high position is very thin. If you drive by, it is easy to fall directly and be smashed to pieces.

On the ice cave, there are some icicles similar to stalactites.

"Volcanic steam and hot gas come out of the fissures, melting the ice, and the melted water droplets flow down the lower part and condense at the lowest place, so these icicles are formed much faster than the stalactites."

Beside, Hua Bo, a climatologist and aerologist, looked at the instrument in his hand: "There is no poisonous gas leaking, so we can probe a certain distance deep."

Professor Wang: "Then let's go."

Fang Hong consciously walked in the front, that's why he came here.

The ice above the head is weaker in some places, and the sunlight filtering through the ice makes the ice appear light blue, and the sunlight passing through the ice also gives the cave light.

But more places are dark, Fang Hong turned on the headlights and searchlights: "Everyone, be careful, after all, I have never been to this place before."

Walking in a dark place, the white is water, because the water reflects light, and the black is the ground, because the surrounding is black, if you can see the mud or stone with the naked eye, then it must be convex, otherwise it will not reflect light .

However, under the powerful searchlight, the cave suddenly became brighter.

Especially when walking into the huge cavity under the high ice layer, it gives people a dreamlike feeling.

Fang Hong sighed: "If there really are underground elves or underground worlds in the world, then it must be such a place."

(End of this chapter)