OBS Chapter 920
Chapter 920
Zhou Shuwan nodded and said nothing more.
After the fleet stopped, Qi Mingyu sent people to the mother ship to inquire about the news. After hearing about this, he immediately volunteered to join the team to protect Zhou Shuwan.
Everyone on the mothership knew about the relationship between the couple.
Moreover, Captain Shang felt more at ease knowing Qi Mingyu's ability to protect Zhou Shuwan.
He agreed.
When Qi Mingyu came in front of Zhou Shuwan, her brows furrowed slightly, with a hint of helplessness and worry in her eyes: "You don't have to take risks with me."
Qi Mingyu smiled, reached out and gently held her hand, his tone relaxed but firm: "I'm worried about you going alone. If the positions were reversed, you definitely wouldn't let me go alone, right?"
The corners of Zhou Shuwan's mouth rose slightly, revealing a helpless smile.
She lowered her head, nodded slightly, and said nothing more.
The fleet slowly stopped, and the team led by Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu prepared to head to the crack.
Once they disembarked, the mother ship led the fleet back to avoid being threatened by the instability of the rift.
The crack was about two kilometers away from the fleet, and the cold wind from the ice field was howling past.
Zhou Shuwan's space contained a winter coat, which he had obtained when he was ambushed in the new base.
But the Zhou family was used to using air-conditioned clothes, so they never used it.
After so many years of use, the air-conditioning suit has been worn out and is basically unusable.
So Zhou Shuwan took out her winter clothes and put them on.
Winter clothing is an improvement on air-conditioning clothing. It is lighter and has better cold-proof performance, but the amount of electricity consumed is the same.
There are more than a dozen winter clothes in Zhou Shuwan's space.
Thanks to the absolute stillness of time in this space, these winter clothes still look as if they were placed there.
Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu both changed into winter clothes.
Her eyes were fixed intently on the front, and the ice beneath her feet trembled slightly from time to time, as if it would crack at any time.
She didn't dare relax at all, her fingers tightly gripping the safety rope around her waist, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.
Qi Mingyu walked beside her, his eyes equally serious.
He tilted his head slightly and whispered a warning: "Be careful, the cracks on the ice may expand at any time."
Zhou Shuwan nodded, her voice low but clear: "I know, everyone stay together and don't separate. Listen to my orders at any time."
The team members nodded and moved a little closer.
Everyone held their breath and focused their attention, afraid of missing any sign of danger.
The tremors of the ice became more and more frequent, and the ice under their feet seemed to be silently warning them that it was not safe here.
As the team continued to advance, the outline of the crack gradually became clearer.
It was a crack that was about thirty or forty meters wide and bottomless, like a hideous wound torn on the ice field.
The ice at the edge of the crack is irregularly jagged, as if it was torn apart by some huge force.
Zhou Shuwan stopped at the edge of the crack and stared down into the dark abyss.
And this depth is several hundred meters.
Looking from the angle Zhou Shuwan and the others were from, one couldn't help but feel dizzy.
It was as if I saw a bottomless black abyss.
It was pitch black inside and they could not see anything with their naked eyes.
Only Zhou Shuwan, with his spatial perception ability, could sense that at the bottom of the abyss, there was an undercurrent flowing quietly.
When he arrived above the crack, Zhou Shuwan sensed it more clearly.
She could clearly feel the undercurrent below the abyss. It was not the small undercurrent she had seen before. It was more than one meter wide and flowed slowly.
With her current ability, she couldn't judge the temperature of the undercurrent, but since the width of the undercurrent had expanded, it meant that the temperature had risen beneath the ice sheet.
He squatted down, holding a small detector in his hand. To the team members, it looked like he was taking measurements with this small machine.
In fact, her other hand was supporting the ice surface, carefully sensing the situation below the ice abyss.
After a while, she withdrew her hand, frowning.
The safety rope around her waist was tied together with Qi Mingyu's.
The latter observed the movements around him, ready to retreat with Zhou Shuwan at any time.
When she stood up, Qi Mingyu asked her about the details.
Zhou Shuwan shook his head: "This is not the source. I can only vaguely feel that something is wrong below, but to be more specific, we still have to go to the source."
She had a vague sense that something very bad was happening.
But she needed to be 100% sure.
She turned to look at the rest of the team. "Let's go. We need to follow the cracks to find the source of the undercurrent. We're too far away to detect anything right now."
Their group consists of two teams. One team came specifically to investigate the cracks, and the other team came to protect Zhou Shuwan's safety.
Everyone agreed, tied their safety ropes together, and headed west along the crack.
That is the starting direction of the undercurrent.
"This will greatly delay our return time." The captain of the team whispered.
Zhou Shuwan was leading the way and nodded, "Yes, if everything goes well, we'll need to postpone it for at least a day."
The undercurrent is formed beneath the ice sheet. The source is unknown, but we can only find it by following the direction of the water flow.
The geology around the crack was very unstable, so everyone left the crack and slid far to the west.
The sound of ship horns could be heard from time to time behind me. I turned around and saw that the mother ship had moved to other places with dozens of ships of all sizes.
Zhou Jianghai, Zhong Tiyun and Mu Mu were all up there.
After accepting this task, Zhou Shuwan did not tell them.
She thought she would be able to go back in a day or two, so she didn't want to worry them.
However, in the next one or two days, I hope the fleet will have a safe journey and be able to wait for them at the agreed location.
Qi Mingyu followed Zhou Shuwan's gaze and glanced back. Knowing what she was worried about, he held her hand and said, "Let's go. The sooner we finish here, the sooner we can go back."
Zhou Shuwan nodded.
They walked and stopped from time to time, matching Zhou Shuwan's speed throughout the whole process.
Zhou Shuwan squatted down from time to time to detect the situation below.
After walking for a whole day and about 30 kilometers, Zhou Shuwan finally made a new discovery.
Beneath the abyss, an inky black undercurrent, carrying rock debris that has not seen the light of day for thousands of years, flows silently through the dark cracks in the rock strata.
And deeper underground in this undercurrent, violent geological activities are tearing apart the ancient crust.
The dormant fault suddenly awakened, and the rock layers made a dull "creaking" sound under the pressure of thousands of meters of ground, like the shifting of bones when a giant beast turned over, shaking the undercurrent into a chaotic vortex.