C2064 Dive into the nest of the iceberg
In Xia Lei's initial plan, he would return to the Snowball Tribe with snowwhite teapot and then take care of Fu Tianyi and his men, as well as the ice breaker and whaler fleet that had rushed over and destroy the "Jump Plan". Afterwards, he would return to the south, and search for the place where Ixtab came from by himself.
However, he did not expect that on the way back to the Snowball Tribe, he would run into the ice breaking ships and whaling ships, and kill the white whales in front of him and the snowwhite teapot. He decided to advance the plan and save quite a bit of time. If there was anything wrong with the whole operation, it was only that he had taken the wrong medicine.
He had brought three pills with him on this trip to the North Pole, but he still took the wrong medicine.
However, this did not affect his current movements.
The cold wind whistled. A figure tore the howling wind apart and dived into the rolling snowy mountain. After breaking up with the snowwhite teapot, using the sleigh, Xia Lei spent only an hour to reach the southern side of the group of ice mountains. At this time, the snowwhite teapot probably hadn't returned to Snowball Tribe yet.
When the snowwhite teapot returns to the Snowball Tribe, they will follow his instructions and tell Maria, Scarlett and Jin Dazhu, what kind of reaction will they have? He didn't know, but he didn't care. He and they had no true love, only a relationship of desire. They had too much greed for him, and he had a desperate desire to "take medicine" for them.
This relationship should be severed, it must be severed.
His heart only belonged to the mistresses of Peaceful Mansion, as well as Lan Ji'er, Hundred Spirit, Lie Rushui, Santissima, Mother and Kangtu Nana who were on the Star of Hope. The wives of the two worlds, the children born and the ones not born, he could not bear another woman in his heart.
And that mission, the mission that relates to the fate of both worlds.
If his messy emotional world was a mistake and he had to pay the price in the end, then that would be after he completed his mission.
Let the dust settle.
Another hour later, Xia Lei climbed up a very high ice mountain. Around it, the icebergs appeared to be much smaller. He looked around, taking in everything he could see.
He was looking for a route that a car could take.
The ice mountains here were one after another, continuously undulating. The convoy that the snowwhite teapot saw couldn't possibly cross over mountains to reach a very distant place. There must be a route in this iceberg that would allow him to drive a car. As long as he found that route, he would be able to follow the vines and find that ice cave.
It would save him a lot of trouble to let his soul leave his body to scout, but he was unwilling to take even one percent of the risk of being discovered by Ixtab.
After a few minutes of observation, a pass on the west side of the iceberg came into view. He compared it to the surrounding terrain. It was the only thing that could allow the caravan to pass through this area. Furthermore, it extended towards the depths of the iceberg, with no end in sight.
Xia Lei untied the sledge on his back, put it on, and then glided towards the pass from the peak of the iceberg. His speed was extremely fast, like a wisp of black light in a white world.
Arriving at the entrance, Xia Lei stopped his sledge, squatted on the ground, and began to dig at the snow on the ground with his hands. When he dug to a depth of half a meter, he discovered the tracks of wheels being crushed, and the corner of his mouth curled into a smile. "Ixtab, I caught your fox tail."
After passing through the entrance, a valley surrounded by ice mountains appeared in front of Xia Lei. The cold wind here was much weaker, and snowflakes the size of goose feathers were falling down from the clouds. The cloud hung low over the peak of the iceberg. The light was weak and it was difficult to see the target in the distance.
Xia Lei slid deeper into the ice valley, intentionally slowing down his speed to make it easier to observe.
Ice mountain after ice mountain passed by him, gradually disappearing into the distance. The ice valley was sometimes extremely wide and sometimes narrow, but the road beneath their feet never stopped, continuing on.
A few hours passed.
The light in the sky grew stronger, and the snow stopped. There was no true meaning of day and night in the Arctic. There were only polar days and polar nights. However, the difference between the two was only the difference between the light rays and the intensity of the light rays. In such an environment, people would always distinguish between day and night according to their own way of thinking, but the change was not obvious.
Xia Lei felt that the sky had brightened up, the snow had stopped falling and the light had become brighter. The area that he could see had become wider. Just when he felt that it was "daybreak", a towering iceberg entered his line of sight. There was no ice cave, but it was the end of this narrow valley.
Along the way, Xia Lei did not miss a single ice mountain. No matter where it might have been, he did not find it. He was already at the end of the valley, but he had yet to find the cave. He suddenly felt discouraged and thought to himself, "Could it be that it's not here?" The convoy entered the glacier just to avoid the blizzard? "If so, then I will have to go back to the pass and look for the tracks of the wheels. Do I have to start again?"
Xia Lei squatted on the ground again and dug at the snow with his hands. Half a meter deep, he found tracks in the snow, where the tracks of the wheels were clearly made by the weight of the vehicles.
The tracks of the treadmill wheels extended toward the iceberg at the end of the glacier valley.
The worry and suspicion from before disappeared as Xia Lei made his decision. He removed the sledge from his feet, buried it in the snow, and walked to the iceberg.
There were no tracks in the snow at the base of the icy mountain. There was no entrance to the cave, only snow and ice.
This seemed to be another indication that he had found the wrong place, but Xia Lei had another way of thinking. The marks on the ground could be removed and the entrance to the cave could be sealed with water. She would definitely do something after Ixtab left Syria, including Xiaoqian's reconnaissance satellite. Then it would not be strange to block the entrance of the cave and turn into a hibernating snake that would come out after his death.
As expected, after walking for a distance at the foot of the mountain, Xia Lei realized that there was a difference in one of the mountain slopes. Its slope had traces of being taken in, giving the impression that a piece had been dug out. He scraped the snow away from the edges of the tracks. There was a clear crack in the ice beneath the snow. The color of the ice was also different. On one side was crystal clear ice, and on the other was turbid ice. This was already very obvious. The crystal clear ice was created by someone using water to water it, and the color of the muddy ice was naturally formed.2
The same ice, tens of thousands of years of ice and a few days of ice are certainly not the same.
At this point, Xia Lei had already determined that he had found Ixtab's hiding place. Then, he climbed up the hill.
Ixtab was a pure energy individual, she did not need to breathe, but the people who worked here needed oxygen. Unless there was oxygen equipment in the cavern, there would be air vents.
The possibility of it being the former was very low, because according to the memories that Kirsten had downloaded, the entrance to the ice cave was open. There wasn't any oxygen production equipment inside, and Ixtab wasn't here at that time either. Therefore, the air vent definitely existed. As long as he found the vent, he would be able to enter this ice cave.
Climbing up the mountain, Xia Lei recalled the memory images that he downloaded from Kirsten's brain. His brain quickly determined the most likely location and went to find it.
It was an ice cliff, almost ninety degrees in the air.
Standing under the ice cliff and looking up, a circular dark area entered Xia Lei's line of sight.
"I've finally found it." The corner of Xia Lei's mouth rose into a smile. He stood at the bottom of the ice cliff, placed both of his palms on the smooth ice, and released her energyetic root. The energyetic root in his palm allowed him to gain a sort of gecko like ability, allowing him to climb vertically on the ice as though it was flat ground.
A few minutes later, Xia Lei climbed up to the circular dark area. That was not the color of the painting, but a hole. The ice around it refracts light, and it absorbs light, which is why it has a dark, circular area.
The hole in the ice extended downwards diagonally, and he could not see the end of it. It had a diameter of 50 centimeters, and there was a suction force coming from it. The air outside endlessly poured into the mountain.
There was no doubt that this hole was the air vent for the ice cave.
Xia Lei went into the ventilation hole, and then crawled towards the inside of the mountain. His speed was not fast, was very slow, and he was very careful. Although they had found out where Ixtab was hiding, they only needed to make one mistake and Ixtab would be able to detect it and escape. And with the pure energy individual's almost unrestricted movement speed, he might already be standing in the sun in Africa before he could even crawl out of the pipe.
About fifty meters down, a light appeared in front of him. It wasn't natural light, but light. Faintly, a person's voice could be heard echoing within the cave.
"I'm finally done!" "Haha!"
"This is a miracle. I can guarantee that even a casual photo can be sold for a good price."
"Be quiet, our employer is not an ordinary person. He is the CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corp, and I bet that there is an even bigger person behind him. "You better not provoke someone of that level. Otherwise, you won't even know how you died."
"I was just casually saying it."
"Right, can that thing even fly?"
"I don't know, but I don't think so."
When these voices reached Xia Lei's ears, his heart was filled with surprise and curiosity, "Can that thing even fly? What the heck is this? Aircraft? "Or ?"
He suddenly thought of a problem that he had never thought about before, and that was how Ixtab came to this world.
He knew that Carcia Ruiz was brought here by the Origin City, but how Ixtab came to this world had always been an unsolved mystery.
Since Kirsten came here to dig, he definitely did not want the rare earth resource, but the only person who could order him to do so was Ixtab. Combined with the conversation he had just heard, he couldn't understand why Kirsten would be so confused to dig out the ice mountain at the North Pole. The reason he was digging the ice mountain here was to dig out the ship Ixtab came to this world to pilot!
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