gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 149 Frozen Amber
On January 24th, the helicopter pilot who had been busy all night, or [-] hours, lay asleep in Laomei's site.

The expert team first assessed the lava activity, and there was no danger of eruption in the near future. After confirming this, they began to send the equipment down the ice cave.

As a semi-amateur and semi-professional rock climber, Fang Hong is also confused about transporting items down the ice cave.

In the end, the expert team chose to use a car to deliver large equipment.Most importantly, send the miniature crane to the ice cave first.

The car's tracks grip the ground, and in Antarctica most vehicles have tracks.

As the car retreated, the crane continued to descend. Fang Hong used the radio or walkie-talkie from below |: "Get down, get down, stop, stop."

Fang Hong and two other staff pulled the rope tied to the crane and retreated: "Down, down, down, hey, yes, down again."

"My gun brother's moving company has a sense of sight."

"Very professional, haha."

In the end, the equipment landed, and the most painful thing is that the equipment needs to be placed deep in the ice cave.

As the equipment came down one after another, the people present were divided into three groups. One group stayed in Laomei's station for logistics, and some stayed on the ice sheet for early warning and communication. The rest of them all reached the depths of the cave.

At the moment, the students of geography and science from the three USTC universities are sitting in the square or auditorium watching the large projection screen.

Professor Wang counted the equipment, and then said: "Fang Hong, you still have to explore the way first. If there is no way to go directly down to the bottom of the cliff, forget it, and wait for a bigger machine to come."

"No problem, I'll try first."

The steel cable is released from the boom of the miniature crane, and the special steel buckle is connected to Fang Hong's downhill rope.

Fang Hong brought a pack of rope buckles, and now he is going down to use a crane, but this crane can't be here all the time, and people will have to rely on themselves to get up and down in the future.

According to Ma Fengfeng's visual inspection, the rock wall is a whole rock wall. Although the soil on the ground is soft, the bottom should be very hard. As for the rope buckle on the ground, a base can only be made of concrete.

Passing by the pitch-black cliff, Fang Hong looked very cautious.

Because Ma Fengfeng said that there was also steam coming out of the cliff below. Although the steam was not water vapor and the temperature was lower than [-] degrees, it would still burn you if it was sprayed for a long time.

Fang Hong would use the flashlight on his waist to shine on the cliff below every inch of distance.

"Brother Gun, be careful."

On the other hand, the live broadcaster used the night vision system to shoot in the air, and Fang Hong in the distant view seemed too cautious.

Of course, Fang Hong can see the road through the night vision device, but Fang Hong needs to keep this secret vigilantly.

Because the other functions of the aircraft are not much different from the high-precision aircraft made by humans, but the fact that the information is directly engraved into the brain is too sci-fi. Fang Hong needs to keep this secret.

All the way down, as expected, it still passed a tiny steam port, Fang Hong let go of the bayonet, slid down three meters, and passed the bayonet.

It can be clearly seen in the camera that there is a crack in the cliff, seven meters wide and only a few centimeters high, but it is impossible to detect how deep it is.

But judging from the amount of water vapor converted into steam, it should not be able to pass through the lava, otherwise the lava should also flow out.

After 5 minutes of sliding, Fang Hong finally reached the bottom of the ice, and sent the first-hand data to the top: "The drop is 27 meters, and the temperature is minus [-] degrees."

Fang Hong squatted down, on the ground, under the light of the flashlight, a strange scene appeared.

In the flat ice surface, there are actually a small amount of air bubbles and tree-like lava solidifications frozen.

Although it looks very similar to a tree, it should be a fugitive rock mass formed by the solidification of lava in water, and it was finally frozen.

It looks like frozen amber.

Without the influence of snow, powerful searchlights can see the lava solidification of tree stumps nearly [-] to [-] centimeters deep under the ice layer.

"The ice surface here is strong enough to bear the weight of a human body, let's put the searchlight down first."

Not long after, the searchlight came down. Fang Hong untied the searchlight, adjusted it, and finally pointed the searchlight at the crack in the cliff: "There is steam escaping from the place where the light shines, and the speed of passing here is a little faster when you come down. Qiu Qing, You have to double check their equipment before they come down."

Compared with freehand rock climbing and upward rock climbing, it is much easier to descend with downhill ropes and downhill bayonets, and does not require too much preparation, as long as the equipment is okay.

"When you reach the entrance of the cave, keep your back straight and your legs must be straight. Step down step by step, loosen the buckle on the bottom side, and don't turn your back to the rock wall."

The first ones to come down were of course Ma Fengfeng and others who had experience in using this equipment.

After they got down to the ground, they started directing more equipment down.

"It's just an ice cave. Is it necessary to mobilize so many people?"

"Now we see the ice walls on this side, the cause of which is unknown. If they are the initial ice sheets, then the research value is to determine the time when Antarctica was born. If they are the later ice sheets, then they record thousands of years of history on Earth. Tens of thousands of years of climate change data."

Fang Hong: "Currently, the highest ice core we have obtained is over a million years old. Ice cores with an older age are weak, but here, ice cores that are tens of millions of years old can be obtained without drilling rigs. This may be the biggest discovery in climatology. .”

Fang Hong looked at the ice wall: "The shell of these ice walls looks like solidified ice instead of squeezed white snow, but who knows what you can find if you drill a hole here?"

Except for three people who stayed above to look after the boom, all the others went down to the ice, including three American climatologists.

Now their difficulty is that they have no equipment, no geologists, no way to judge the age of volcanic activity, and they can't get ice cores, so don't even think about it, American scientists have already arrived by snowmobile or detoured to Australia, But at least it will be tonight.

Now, it only belongs to the Chinese scientific expedition team.

After all the people came down, Professor Wang decisively ordered the people above to expand the opening of the cave, so that the lifting arm slightly exceeded the position of the cliff, so that it was convenient for the equipment to go up and down.

Professor Wang looked at the frozen ice surface: "Ah, the rare ancient volcanic eruption has been preserved."

Hua Bo arrived at the ice wall without saying a word: "There are tens of millions of years of data stored here, even dating back to the beginning of the birth of Antarctica, a natural database!"

All kinds of equipment started up, the large searchlights and large LED lights started to work, and more parts were illuminated by the light.

This is like a huge natural ice skating rink, and its height can accommodate the Capital International Trade Center, which was completed the year before last.

Under the cold light, the whole cave is like a dream.

Ma Fengfeng pulled Shangfang Hong to the other ice cave he saw at the beginning.

"Old horse, what are you pulling me for?"

"I've seen everything that needs to be seen. Just wait for the equipment to get the real thing. There is an ice cave here, so go and observe it."

Fang Hong had no choice but to follow the old horse.

In the southeast direction of the cave, there is indeed an ice cave, which is exactly the same as the ice cave on the ground.

However, here is even more peculiar.

Under the searchlight, the beautiful scenery is amazing.

One by one, the icicles, like the beams supporting the cave, stood upright on the ice.

But everyone knows that ice caves precede the birth of icicles, which are the product of condensation and solidification of water vapor from icicles.

The old horse shined into the depths of the cave: "It seems that this ice cave is very long."

"Professor Wang, a new ice cave has been found here."

"Test the data first, Huabo, you also go there."

Qiu Qing also had nothing to do, so he followed.

The group of four walked deep into the ice cave.

(End of this chapter)