Meet up, put on equipment, and then set off as a team!

A group of four people, wearing down jackets and goggles, set out on a small snowmobile in the cold wind of dozens of degrees below zero.

Soon we arrived at the edge of a glacier cliff in a small valley.

"Snowmobiles can't go down here!"

"Nothing unusual was found."

"Want to go down?"

"We have to go back to get the equipment. We can't go down now."

"Why don't you just give them a reply and say that you didn't find anything unusual? It's also geological movement. I don't see that the surrounding snow has dispersed. Where did the geological movement come from?"

Another person nodded in agreement, "Kunlun Station is so close to here, and the detector didn't detect anything. Is there something wrong with the satellite?"

Only the leader shook his head and asked in a deep voice, "When did we receive such a clearly directed mission from China?"

"Um?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment before they came to their senses.

We often exchange news with China on weekdays, but they are all about exchanges on various experimental tasks. Even if there are task requirements, the specific content is mostly left to the people here to figure out how to do it freely.

This kind of sudden exploration mission, especially with the location specified, is really the first time.

"What did the satellite above find?"

Someone asked in surprise, "Isn't it dangerous?"

"Probably not. There is no mention of safety in the notice."

"Hey, that's weird."

"Even ordinary geological movements may cause danger."

"No matter, let's go down and take a look first. Lao Liu and I will make preparations here first. You two go back and get the equipment."

"okay!"

…

It took three hours for the group of four to descend into the small valley.

The captain opened the tablet, then compared it with the theodolite in his hand, and walked towards the north.

"I have to say that the accuracy of today's satellites is indeed getting higher and higher." The captain shook his head and said as he walked, "In the past, the range delineated was several kilometers, but now the exploration range given is only a few hundred square meters."

"But the question is, what kind of geological movement affects only a few hundred square meters?"

Following the captain, a young scientific examiner couldn't help but complain, "Is it an underground water fountain?"

This is really a cold joke. Although there is underground water under the Antarctic glaciers, it can never reach the highest point of Dome A.

"Let's spread out and explore, turn on all the detectors, and take a look at the geological structure below."

"OK."

Complaints are complaints, but now that you have started working, you still need to do the work that needs to be done.

A group of four people turned on their detectors and walked around while looking around at the surrounding ground conditions.

"Snow, snow, snow, ice, ice..."

"Is there anything else? Oh, yes, there are footprints."

"Hahaha!"

"Hey, by the way, I heard that the supplies are already on the way, and there's a snowstorm."

"Well, I heard it's quite big, but the supplies haven't been damaged and it won't affect the transportation mission."

"Good luck."

"In that case, the few portions of fish-flavored shredded pork we left that were almost frozen into ice lumps can be thawed?"

"Okay, okay, let's eat it tonight."

"Captain, I want to eat minced meat and eggplant."

"Eat, eat, eat! I'll give you some of the stinky tofu that Lao Cai left behind before he left."

"Forget it."

Several people chatted and worked at the same time, and quickly checked most of the areas given in the task.

"I'll just say it's nothing. It wasted our entire afternoon and delayed my experiments at least three times."

"I heard that we are asked to explore this time because it is a request for assistance from the relevant meteorological department."

"When we go back, we should at least give Professor Cai a good meal. Isn't this too much?"

"It's definitely not too much. Call me when the time comes."

"How about Quanjude? It doesn't matter if it tastes good or not, the important thing is that it's expensive."

"Hahaha...huh?"

One person suddenly shouted in surprise and then stopped.

"What's wrong?" The other three people all turned around.

Liu Lifeng looked at the detector, then at the place in front of him, hurriedly took a few steps forward, then squatted down, handed the detector to his left hand, and used his right hand to push aside the surrounding snow on the ground in front of him.

Then, before his eyes, a dark hole appeared.

"There is a hole in the ground."

Liu Lifeng held the detector and said with some disbelief, "It's so deep. The detector can't see the depth of the cave entrance."

"What?"

The other three people immediately came to Liu Lifeng's side quickly, and then they also saw the hole in the ground.

The hole is twenty centimeters in diameter, irregularly circular, and can fit a person's fist.

Captain Wang Haoyang pointed the infrared geological detector at the entrance of the cave, and could only see a long hollow passage appearing in the detector's disappearing device.

But the specific depth is unknown, because their handheld detectors can only detect conditions very close to the surface.

"What's going on? Why is there a hole?"

"And this hole is very straight." Wang Haoyang stared closely at the detector in his hand, "It doesn't look like it was formed naturally."

"Ah? Did someone do it?"

"Is someone secretly drilling here?"

A person next to me said in surprise, "But it's impossible, why?"

The four of them couldn't help but look around.

"Hoo-ho-ho-"

There was only the howling cold wind around, but when I looked around, there was not a single ghost.

"Well, is this the geological movement discovered by remote sensing satellites?" Liu Lifeng asked.

"What did the satellite find? And what kind of geological movement is this?"

"No matter, Li Tingxuan, go back and tell everyone to bring equipment. Let's first determine the depth of the hole."

"yes!"

"The three of us will continue to explore the surrounding area to see if we find anything else."

"yes!"

…

It turns out that the only anomaly within the scope of exploration is this unreasonable hole.

Not long after, Li Tingxuan arrived with a large army and more powerful equipment.

Everyone gathered around the entrance of the cave and watched team leader Wang Haoyang operate the equipment and start detection.

Everyone was shocked when they saw a straight passage appearing on the display screen.

"how long?"

"It's over a hundred meters!"

"Two hundred meters away!"

"Five hundred meters away!"

"What the hell? How did this hole form?"

"Judging from the corrugated shape of the cave wall, it seems to be formed by condensation after evaporation."

"Evaporation? Condensation?"

"It's eight hundred meters! There's not even a turn, and the path is straight without any inclination."

"It's really... I've seen a ghost..."

"A thousand meters away!"

"Fifteen hundred meters...two thousand meters...three thousand meters...four thousand meters..."

"The results came out, 4,752.33 meters, my God!"

"What's going on? This is..."
Chapter completed!