Chapter Thirteen New Discoveries
It happened that the weird man was squatting on the ground and eating compressed biscuits with a slut. Ershu wanted to come over and broke it into five or six parts.
The complete compressed biscuits are printed with a large five-pointed star pattern, and she gathers the parts printed with the patterns in order to reunite.
In this way, the five corners of the original pattern were scattered, and the five-pointed star could not be seen.
"We are standing on the messed puzzle pieces, the iceberg, the body of the car, and the ground at the forbidden entrance are on different biscuit blocks! When we walked from one piece to the other, the puzzle pieces disrupted the order again. The plates we walked through and the plates we were about to step into in front were random! We didn't spin on the spot when we saw the fragments of the car just now, but the first puzzle piece moved to our front twice!" The little prince slapped his shiny forehead and quickly pushed the snowmobile away from the iceberg. "They must be moving now!"
Finally, it wasn't a magical ghost to hit the wall, but I saw that I put the biscuit pieces together in a random way, and there were many gaps between them, which was not enough to match the number.
"I didn't notice any cracks along the way. It always felt like a complete piece of ground. How can I know where the edge is?" I wondered.
"You forgot the sounds you heard just now, and the edges cannot be found here." Ermao smiled and used a little effort to squeeze the uncorrelated biscuits together. In this way, even if the outer contours of each piece cannot be spliced together, the rough faults on the edge will still merge in pairs, complement each other, and some dregs will fall out, and then turn into a slightly smaller whole biscuit block.
"Understand?"
She paused for a while, disrupted the order again, and at the cost of reducing the edge area, she re-sorted another complete biscuit with a chaotic pattern but no gap!
We almost understood what she meant, but immediately became worried. According to this idea, no matter which direction we go, whether we follow the sled dog or not, the road ahead is constantly changing. Maybe we are still standing together now, and after a while, we will scatter to other areas with the plates under our feet!
Everyone was a little at a loss. We could hear the buzzing sound of the ice squeezing, but we couldn't detect which plate it would change, and we couldn't even find the edge of the plate.
The forbidden area of the Ari tribe is indeed prohibited from entering. The movement and combination of plates are random. We are not gods. No one can understand the laws of nature. If you break in rashly, you will probably be trapped here and never get out.
In the stand like a wooden pile, we can finally see that the wreckage of snowmobile is indeed getting farther and farther away from us, and a plate with low icebergs has also replaced its position bit by bit with the friction of the ice.
Since Lai Pi will run excitedly on some roads, but hesitate here, this means that Dr. Lin has been here but has no way to where we are now.
In other words, in the puzzle of the forbidden area, we will repeatedly walk through certain roads, but there are still some that have not been stepped into.
If you take Lai Pi to another new ice layer, maybe it smells something and will run wildly. But the problem is that we have to come up with a way to avoid getting lost in the ever-changing forbidden area, and also avoid going back again.
After moving a few steps slowly, the forbidden area puzzle changed again. I saw a dirty mottled corpse lying across the ice that appeared in my sight!
Fortunately, it has fur and cannot be human.
Perhaps because of the temperature, it hardly rotted, but it did not know what kind of sin it suffered. A layer of skin was tightly wrapped around the prominent bones. I felt that before it died, there was no fat on its body.
Ermao said that judging from the size of the skeleton, it should be a polar bear that accidentally entered the forbidden area.
I looked at it and felt cold as the soles of my feet. Even this overlord who lived in the Arctic ended up like this. If a human who had no reference or auxiliary tools broke into this place, would he have to keep spinning in the maze of the puzzle until he died exhausted?
What about Dr. Lin? He wants to leave but can’t go out!
Everyone tried to shout a few times and found that these not-so-majestic icebergs were quite sound-absorbing, and the sound could not be transmitted far. All we could do was a carpet-style search.
How can I find every piece of the forbidden area? Brother Mouse found a pretty good method:
The ground here is covered with a light mixture of ice and snow. Our weight is not enough, our footprints are very shallow, and it is difficult to leave any footprints. However, the snowmobile full of supplies pushed by the little prince was so heavy that it could definitely press the ice and snow firmly.
Looking back at us, there was a very obvious wheel track on the ground.
Although we can't figure out how much the range of a plate is, the icebergs of all sizes in the forbidden area have not broken through the middle. Then we assume that the two nearest icebergs in a clearing are bounded. If there are rut marks here, it means that we have walked through this ice layer. Next, we will lead Lai Pi away from here to check for the next new ice layer without car marks.
Although the forbidden area is quite large, its scope is limited after all. We have walked a lot of roads, and at least one-third of the ice surface are traces of car wheels. Using this method of elimination, we can gradually narrow the scope of search. If Dr. Lin is still here and cooperates with Lai Pi, we will always find him!
The little prince drove the snowmobile and followed the monster and the dog closely. The rest of us were divided into two groups, one group selected the range between the two mountains, and the other group observed whether there were wheel marks on the ground. Everyone did not forget to shout from time to time, and they had to keep the pace consistent. If anyone fell out of the line, they would cause big trouble.
The road surface of the forbidden area is not above the same height, and we can't detect it yet. But when we look at the curve of the little prince driving and listen to the sound of the motor, we know that we sometimes walk into the arc pit and sometimes climb the low hillside. We keep turning, detour, and stopping, but we can always find a new continent that we have never set foot on.
We have already gone from the edge of the forbidden area and into the center!
The air here is quite weird. I always feel that my eyes are blurry, and I can't see thoroughly from a distance, and I feel so depressed. Because there is a blurred milky white mist rising from the ground, it seems like it is a state of rolling heat waves, but in fact, I will be fucking crying! If I hadn't been wearing a tight velvet jacket inside, a heater all over my body, and a pure leather coat wrapped around it, this place would not have allowed humans to survive at all!
Ermazi said that the light here is too sufficient, and the ice crystals will reflect 90% of the sun's light twice. The "heat wave" we see is actually an illusion called "heat haze".
In the blurry hot haze, the new world that is revealed before us is no longer the same pure white, just as the ice and snow here have "heavy", and they have differentiated into several different kinds of light blue.
This blue is very light and is difficult to detect. Ermao is still full of things. She explained that the color on the ground is called "light water blue", which reflects a little bit of the sky color in white, while the color of the iceberg is called "light ice blue", which is superimposed on multiple layers of ice, reflecting a sea of thick feeling.
Even in such soft tones, we have no pleasing feeling at all, because the front section not only brings color, but also scattered and rotten dead bodies of varying degrees.
Most of them are Arctic animals of different shapes, with larger sizes being bears, longer figures being wolves, and particularly small ones being rats or rabbits.
There are actually human corpses among them!
I turned my head and didn't dare to walk in. One reason was that their curled up posture was so heartbreaking, and the other was that I was afraid that among these people, I would see Dr. Lin's cold eyes.
Mr. Dong and mouse silently examined the corpse. This forbidden area that was even more terrifying than a ghost hitting a wall. In the past, I don’t know how many lost people were trapped. Their identities include Arctic natives and foreign scientific expedition teams. I dare not imagine how struggle and helpless they were before their death. I could only continue to move forward and pray that Mr. Dong would find nothing on the road to the autopsy.
At this time, Gao Xiaoya and mouse suddenly screamed at the same time, and my heart suddenly shrank to my throat!
Don't...no!
Gao Xiaoya ran out from me. I turned my head and saw that she rushed to the shadow of a small iceberg and squatted there.
"Damn, don't be scary! What did you see?" Dong Huang was stunned for a moment, and hesitated when he walked over.
"It's okay, it's not his body!" The mouse quickly patted me with a frightened face, "Doctor Lin's things fell there."
Gao Xiaoya turned her face and her expression was very complicated, both thankful and anxious. She was holding a faint blue thing in her hand. When I walked in, I saw that I had that thing, which was a waist bag that was unified by all members of Donghuang team!
"Is there anything?"
The weirdo shook the bag a few times, hoping that something would fall out of it, but he reached out and pulled out two or three energy bars of wrapping paper.
"I've finished eating... I've lost one..." The weirdo smelled his waist bag in disappointment. He checked inside and out and said, "The zipper is broken, and the buckle of the strap has also fallen. This was thrown away by him."
"He has been here, what about people now?" Mr. Dong glanced around, "There are no corpses nearby, but at least when he walked here, people were still alive!"
"He must not be dead!" Gao Xiaoya burst into tears with excitement, "It's not the time yet, he can't die, let's speed up the process!"
I breathed a little relieved. The bag gave everyone a lot of encouragement. Although the temperature in this place was low, at least an iceberg blocked the hurricane. Doctor Lin lived and entered the center of the forbidden area. After eating a few energy bars, he also had the supplies of the old lady of the Ari tribe who had stolen. It should be able to last the consumption of the past few days... It should be possible!
Chapter completed!