Chapter 587 Tiankeng
In 1971, a geological team from the Soviet Union came to the Hekun Desert in Turkmenistan. They were here to conduct oil and gas resource exploration.
There is a nomadic village in this desert called Darvaza. Local people told the geological team that the northwest corner of this village is soft and has a strange smell all year round.
The captain was very excited. He knew that this place must be a natural gas field with abundant reserves. If the exploration was successful, a huge natural gas mining and processing plant would be built here.
He told the villagers that soon, this place will not be a barren village, and many people will come here and you will make a fortune.
So he took the team members to the village and began to explore on the spot.
The villagers naturally came over to join in the fun, but while the geological team was exploring, an accident suddenly happened.
The seismic exploration method is generally used to survey oil and gas reserves, which is to drill holes underground, bury explosives, and then fire a shot, which artificially stimulates seismic waves. The staff then determines the geological composition by analyzing the wavelength.
But just as the firecracker was set off, an accident suddenly happened. With a loud bang, the feet of the geological team members collapsed and three huge sinkholes were exposed.
The largest pit has a diameter of nearly 70 meters and a depth of more than 30 meters. Fortunately, the pit is still a distance away from the village, otherwise even the herdsmen's house would have been swallowed up.
What's even more terrifying is that the sinkhole is still sizzling, and the underground natural gas emerges from the cracks in the soil and constantly radiates into the air. The entire Darvaza Village is covered with a foul smell.
Natural gas in nature contains impurities, which not only smells bad, but is also harmful to the human body. However, the volatility of natural gas on such a large area cannot be stopped. In desperation, the geological team had to ask their superiors for instructions. They threw a fire into the sinkhole, and then the natural gas in the entire deep pit started to burn.
Since there is no way to stop it, just burn it.
But the geological team members thought it too simple.
More than 40 years have passed, and even the team members involved in this matter have passed away, but the natural gas in the sinkhole is still burning. If you fly over the desert at night, you will see a round pit like a fire, embedded in the surface of the ground with red flames.
This is the famous "Gate of Hell". It burns 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. However, the captain's words were finally fulfilled. Tens of thousands of tourists and curiosity hunters come here to visit and tour, and even brave people try to go down to explore.
But Darvaza Village did not make a fortune. In 2004, due to its deep penetration in the desert and lack of water and resources, the village was no longer suitable for human habitation, and the villagers were relocated by the government. The depressed village finally became a ruin.
Leitan District is located in the northwest corner of Weiyang, and to the north is Weishan Mountain. There is a village called Paoleng Village at the foot of Weishan Mountain. Leitan Tiankeng is located in the farmland two kilometers outside Paoleng Village.
Now, I stand on the edge of this sinkhole and look down at the bottomless black hole, and I can't help but think of the story of Darvaza.
Because compared with Darvaza's sinkhole, this pit is more like the "Gate of Hell".
No matter how deep the sinkhole is, it must have its depth.
But the Pooleng Tiankeng is a bottomless place. Although it was not clear, the special team members had already set up searchlights around the Tiankeng, and the entire foothills were illuminated as bright as daytime, but even so, they still couldn't see the bottom of the Tiankeng.
"Captain, there is a black ball inside. We just put down the drone and flew down for a kilometer and didn't reach the end. And..."
"Don't hesitate!" Lin Ying said anxiously.
"And when going down, I feel that the magnetic field is very disturbing and I can't continue to explore." The team member had no choice but to say helplessly.
"This is the Mystery of Morro." Hua Yan suddenly sighed beside me.
"Teacher Shen, what are you talking about?" Lin Ying turned around and asked her.
I was about to hide it for her, but who knew that Hua Yan took a big step forward in a daze. Because it was too close to the edge of the sinkhole, the soil under her feet suddenly collapsed. Fortunately, I quickly got my hands and eyes, and grabbed her.
"Be careful!" I reminded her loudly.
I know that she is Hua Yan and Princess Asura. Even if she falls down, she will probably jump up. But her condition is really bad today, and she is completely different from the energetic Hua Yan.
"Captain, come here." A team member came over, and he pulled Lin Ying aside, whispering something.
I looked at Lin Ying and turned around to ask Hua Yan.
"Is it okay? Do you want to go back and take a rest?"
Hua Yan shook her head, and she took two more steps forward, stretched her head and looked deep into the sinkhole.
"Do you know what's underneath?" I asked her, "What is Morale, why haven't I heard of it?"
"Asura's statement." Hua Yan's words were concise.
Seeing that I was still staring at her, she had to continue saying: "Asura believed that there was Moluo living under Mount Sumeru where she lived. She lived in the deepest and deepest space. The place was conveniently called "The Abyss of Moluo".
"Moro is extremely huge, it is the world itself. The surface of our residence is just her shell. Every tens of millions of years, Moro will open a skylight from the underground and look up at the living creatures on the ground."
"What then? Will it cause disaster?"
"I can't say it." Hua Yan shook her head, "because no Asura has ever seen Moluo."
"How could the legend of Morro be passed down?"
"Have you humans seen ghosts?" Hua Yan asked back, "Why are there legends of ghosts left?"
I was stunned. She was right. To put it bluntly, this thing has the limitations of the times. Human beings believed that the sky was round for thousands of years, but later "Dangdang" was shattered by facts.
"The range you can see is too small, and the time you can experience is too short." Hua Yan sighed, "Now everything is on Gu Baotian, he is the small key that opens the door to all doubts."
She didn't say much, because Lin Ying had already walked over quickly.
"What happened." Lin Ying said, "It really started a chain reaction."
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"I have to doubt that you are the center of all events." Lin Ying shrugged.
"I? Are you kidding?"
“Yes, because now there are problems, almost all the people around you.
"If you weren't there on call and followed by your side for a long time, I would have suspected that you were the mastermind behind all strange events. I just called me and asked me to be wary of you."
I was furious: "Are they crazy?! I have been born and died for so many times, and I have worked hard without credit! I even have to doubt it?!"
Chapter completed!