doomsday exile

Scientific expeditions always need to prepare multiple instruments to record the process, and miniature cameras are also essential.

This is not just in case, but sometimes you don't pay attention, something goes wrong with the petri dish or the machine, and the human eye hasn't noticed it yet.

So the two researchers who escaped from Scati Station also had it.

The official disassembly of the snowmobile door was witnessed by people from two nearby scientific research stations.

The car was very clean, and there were no too tragic scenes. A man and a woman sat in the driver's seat, wrapped in absorbent and warm blankets, with seat belts on their bodies. Later, after the front cover was hit hard, the airbags popped up to trap them. Encased, so the body is intact and undamaged.

One of them was lying back on the seat, and the other was lying on the steering wheel. There was only a distorted expression of horror and pain on his face. It was obvious at a glance that there were no obvious injuries on his body.

Naturally, everyone first guessed that it was an infrasonic weapon.

Then this guess was denied. The wavelength of the infrasonic wave is very long. Even in such a barren place as the Antarctic continent, it can definitely be transmitted to the nearby scientific research station. Since nothing was found, it is not an infrasonic weapon.

Then there is the tiny camera on the body.

Before reading it, Lu Di knew the answer.

The spirit body was hidden in the snowmobile, and it was useless for the escaped survivors to use the communicator to call for help, and the camera could not capture their death process.

Sure enough, after the storage records of these two cameras were extracted, there were only some sporadic shots inside the Scati Station—thanks to the fact that this is the Earth Federation Scientific Research Station, and the people here are basically reasonable scientists, otherwise It is not that easy to see the internal secrets of scientific research stations in other countries.

Everyone tacitly only watched today's record, skipped the normal part, and came to the time of the accident.

As the people in the video shouted that the equipment was malfunctioning, the image also appeared blurred and frames skipped.

Although the image is intermittent and the lens is always shaking because it is hung on the person, it is not difficult to sort out the result of the matter - the problem lies in the work area of ​​drilling the subglacial lake, which has obviously stopped working and the hole is temporarily blocked , The ice layer cracked from the bottom, followed by a large amount of water gushing out with pressure.

"This power..."

The expressions of the people in Russia and America changed.

That is an ice layer more than 3000 meters thick. Even though there is a pressure effect, the initial cause of the cracking of the ice layer cannot be underestimated!

"It's definitely not just ice lake creatures, there are other things!"

Everyone spoke in unison and came to this conclusion without hesitation.

If the creatures in the ice lake had such a powerful force, the ice layer above Lake Vostok would not be more than 3000 meters thick. This is a solid barrier that is absolutely insurmountable for existing creatures on the earth, even if there are drilled ice holes as passages , It is definitely not an easy task to squeeze in.

The two researchers ran all the way ahead, and with the inexplicable interference, the images they took were frighteningly blurry, and in the end there was nothing at all.

On the contrary, the camera carried by Professor Doron captured the whole picture of the right-angled Nautilus from a certain angle underwater.

The image was frozen on this ancient creature, and everyone was in shock.

It took a long time before someone took a breath and broke the dead silence.

——The true face of the attacker did not solve the puzzles in everyone's minds, on the contrary, more questions emerged.

"Why do they all have an impossible expression, as if they saw cats eating bamboo shoots and dogs hunting wolves?" Lu Di asked without understanding.

As soon as people from other scientific research stations came, Lu Di hid back in the metal ball and disguised the drone camera with Yan Long.

Lu Di was full of questions, but due to the situation at the time, he waited until he got back to the car to ask.

"Although the body of this right-angled nautilus is about seven meters long, most of it is hard-shelled and has a relatively slender body. According to the standard of biological predation, humans are not on its diet. Whether it is the digestion of internal organs, this ancient creature Ability, or the brain and nervous system, are not as developed as modern molluscs... It should hunt for smaller creatures that are easy to tear and easy to eat."

Man, it's really a little bigger.

The tentacles of the straight-shelled nautilus did not have barbs like modern squid relatives, which can cut prey, and the tentacles did not evolve a complex nervous system that can absorb the blood and meat of prey.

It is directly torn, put into the mouth and swallowed.

This is also the reason why the victims at the scientific research station were bruised, thrown out and injured, or drowned after being entangled.

"Even if the lake floods the scientific research station, it is actually not suitable for such ancient biological activities."

After the water from the subglacial lake sprayed up, the pressure changed, a large amount of oxygen and other gases were released, and the composition of the water changed.

Even though the straight-shell nautilus is huge in size and tenacious in vitality, it cannot die for a while, but will seawater fish jump into fresh water to bite the existence that is not their prey, and do their best to destroy it?

This is really desperate, tossing his own life to destroy.

"But the dinosaurs before..."

"That's different. Whether it's the dilophosaurus at the Shangdu subway station or the big-eyed ichthyosaur that attacked the ship, they were all grown in the laboratory. They are already slightly different from the ancient species. If they can't adapt to the current air and seawater , they can’t get out of the laboratory...but this right-angled nautilus did come from a subglacial lake, which is a completely different environment from the modern ocean.”

Yan Long roughly explained to Lu Di that the environment of the subglacial lake is more similar to the Paleozoic Era. Dinosaurs are creatures of the Mesozoic Era. Everyone has been separated by hundreds of millions of years. Having seen the living environment of someone, you may even feel that the other person is living in an alien planet.

Even if it is calculated according to the generation gap, the Ordovician period when the right-angled nautilus lived, the first mass extinction occurred on the earth, followed by the Devonian mass extinction and the Permian mass extinction, while the extinction of dinosaurs was the fourth, and then Called the Triassic mass extinction.

Not only the shape of the continents, the composition of the air, and the composition of the sea water, but they are different everywhere anyway.

Although it is the same earth, it has been restarted four times.

"Dinosaurs and us are only separated by a mass extinction, and the right-angled nautilus is different..."

The Ordovician seawater where the right-angled nautilus lived is completely different from the modern seawater. In addition, it has been frozen for so many years and the environment has changed drastically. It may not be able to adapt to survival, let alone the experimental organisms that have been recovered through biological restoration.

If it can be done, this technology is enough to transform other creatures and engage in interstellar colonization.

The Earth Federation can't do it, the United States can't do it, and other countries can't do it, so can Delta do it?

This is not the same as simply cloning dinosaurs.

"...But this ancient creature is obviously manipulated, and the spiritual body cannot control creatures across species, unless its brain is equipped with a chip." Lu Di also has his own opinion. If Delta captures this ancient creature, think It is also impossible to install a chip on it, because this thing will not last long outside, how did Delta do it.

"Is it really, as Richard said, a secret organization that has always been hiding among humans, planning how to make canned food and engage in its own power?"

Lu Di found it incredible.Attacking the Antarctic scientific research station first is an unreasonable action. If the Huaxia Taoyuan station discovered some secrets and brought destruction, what about the Scati station?

"I'm very concerned...it's the kind of undisguised malice towards human beings! Not only Richard's behavior, but also all aspects of coming to Antarctica this time... This makes me have a bad feeling." Lu Flute said softly.

Yan Long's metal ball rolled half a circle and moved to Lu Di's side.

He didn't speak, just stayed with him.

Lu Di inexplicably understood what Yan Long meant. They really knew too little about Delta and lacked information, but there was no rush for this matter.

If you are in a hurry, it is easy to fall into the trap.

This is also the principle that Lieutenant Colonel He did not speak clearly.

Anyway, Delta and the spiritual body's guesses were revealed to the Earth Federation around the Spring Festival, but they didn't take it seriously, and the countries didn't believe it.Waiting for their own people to find out the problem is willing to think this way, which is much better than trying to explain it.

Lieutenant Colonel He couldn't take people to stay in the ruins of Skadi Station all the time. His serious mission was to go to Huaxia Taoyuan Station. Hand over the person over there, and after some discussion, they drove away.

Of course, before leaving, Lieutenant Colonel He hinted that the people who died on the federal snowmobile had suffered brain attacks. Regardless of whether it was an infrasonic weapon or not, he asked everyone to wear a protective helmet and wear isolation protection that can resist infrasonic resonance. Clothes.

In other places, it would be quite difficult to find these two things, but in Antarctica, they can be found at hand.Although it is used to fight against bad weather, it is not a serious combat equipment, but it also has some functions in this area, which is enough for emergency.

Everyone bumped along the way with heavy thoughts, and finally arrived at Huaxia Taoyuan Station three hours later.

The polar day time in Antarctica has not yet passed, so even though Yanjing time is already ten o'clock in the middle of the night, work can still be carried out.

Even after leaving Skadi Station, I was worried that I would be attacked, and everyone took a shift to rest and couldn't rest well. Coupled with the influence of jet lag, I was very tired.

Lu Di didn't have this trouble, and immediately took two metal balls to explore the ruins.

They are all existences that do not touch the ground, and are not afraid of destroying traces.

Taoyuan Station is not half the size of Skadi Station, and there are only three permanent staff members, all of whom are now buried under the ice of the ruins.

Lieutenant Colonel He gave a heavy salute to the ruins, led everyone to mourn for 3 minutes, and then began to arrange the excavation work.

After Yan Long finished measuring the specific conditions of the ruins, he applied to restart the mechanical exoskeleton, then turned on the normal working mode, and led Chen Yan and Liu Chang to search.

Everything went smoothly, plus there was a ghost Lu Di who could pass through the gaps in the sundries and check the situation from the broken ice cracks. It didn't take long to determine the location of the corpse. Lu Di was also carrying a drone The camera captured the traces that the interior of the scientific research station was destroyed by the expanding ice and the right-angled nautilus.

The scientific research station was soaked in water, and many instruments were basically scrapped. Only some useful ones must be properly preserved, and the logs of the scientific research personnel must be checked to find clues.

This is not Lu Di's job anymore. He followed Chen Yan and the two back to the car for a rotation break.

Lu Di watched Yan Long's work on the computer terminal for a while, but didn't understand it. Facing the pass time Yan Long had prepared for him—biology and geography courses, Lu Di decided to go out and blow some air to refresh his mind.

Yan Long didn't stop him either.

Lu Di is equivalent to a danger predictor. With his presence, everyone is more at ease whether they are working or sleeping.

Following the howling wind, Lu Di circled around the "camp" and the ruins, suddenly felt something, and looked into the distance.

It felt very faint, almost nothing, but it was still too difficult to hide in a blank Antarctica.

"... Right behind the Taoyuan Science Research Station, is there a mountain far away?" Lu Di rushed back to the car and asked Yan Long.

The metal ball turned half a circle, and replied in a deep voice: "It's not a mountain, it's the Hengduan Mountains in Antarctica, which is actually very far away...Why do you ask this?"

Lu Di said seriously: "Are there any volcanoes in the Hengduan Mountains?"

"No, the nearest volcanoes are on islands in the Ross Sea."

"That's weird." Lu Di said to himself, he felt the warm red over there from the resonance of the wind.

Although it was far away, the red was too conspicuous in such a cold place.

"Wait, the Taoyuan station's log... said that in the latest detection, the proportion of thermophilic bacteria found in the subglacial lake increased, and other scientific research stations were notified."