Chapter 1402

About 20 minutes by car, the rover reached the edge of "hell gate".

Along the contour line, he found a pass that allowed the rover to pass. Fan Tong made a steering wheel and drove the rover past.

As the rover continues down the rugged, narrow path into the depths of the mountains, the signal begins to pick up intermittently, influenced by nearby hematite.

looked around the steep cliffs and rocks, feeling the depressed atmosphere, and astrophysicist Aubrey narrowed his neck and make complaints about it.

"Why is it called the gate of hell? Don't you think it's frightening to give this name here? "

Fan, the driver, said casually.

"I'm afraid you have to ask NASA about that. They named it."

As the first institution to send the probe to Mars, the slightly larger topographic relief was basically given a name by curiosity.

Perhaps at that time, the researchers in charge of naming thought that the word was more artistic bacteria, so they gave the mountain the name. It's hard to say whether there are artistic germs or not, but the image point is speechless.

"There will be some random cracks several meters long around the hell gate. These cracks are very similar to earthquake cracks, through which you can directly enter the range of relics. Of course, these cracks are not the only way to enter the interior of the ruins. When I came out of the ruins, I passed through a fixed entrance. It's probably in the middle of the Hellgate mountains, embedded in the rock wall on one side of the rift It's just ahead. Here we are. "

Pushing along the rift valley, the engine - off Rover slowly stopped beside a ridge. After getting out of the car, a group of people followed fan Tong's footsteps and came to an upright stone pillar about four or five people high.

Behind the pillar, you can see a steep downward slope.

The light of the morning shines on the back of the stone pillar, and along the track of the shadow, there is a holy light. Just like some kind of miraculous sign formed naturally, it can't be looked at without awe.

If we only look at the shape, it really feels like a trace.

“…… It's a little strange. "

There was a light noise in his mouth. Professor vernal, an archaeologist from Oxford University, frowned and went to the stone pillar to squat down. After fumbling along the surface of the pillar for a while, he suddenly continued.

"Is this the marine sedimentary environment?"

Standing behind Professor vernal, fan Tong's face showed a trace of accident and nodded his head.

"I think the same as you A few billion years ago, it was supposed to be an ocean. "

"And most of the altitude is still a little deep," Professor vernal murmured as he felt his hand along the outline of the stone pillar and felt the hard touch from the graphene fiber. "The hydrogeological environment here is unique, and there should be many major geological disasters in history. Volcanic eruptions, plate collisions, and special tectonic movements that do not exist on earth It's amazing. "

"Compared with the geological structure here, let's focus on that relic at the bottom of the earth," astrophysicist Aubrey went to the front of the group and turned to the land boat and cast his eager eyes, "what do you think? Chief. "

“…… I have no idea, but if we just stand outside, we may not be able to figure out anything, "Lu Zhou continued after thinking for a moment about the title of leader." keep going, I'll start. "

Wang Peng raised his hand, put the paratrooper rifle with the flashlight in front of him, and took the initiative to go to the hole.

"I'll do it."

Aubrey and vernal got to know each other for an odd look. Fan Tong also helplessly shrugged his shoulders and threw the stone sample in his hand to one side.

"Although I said, weapons may not be useful But since you insist, it's up to you. "

Although it is true to say so, we have to admit that having a gun in front of us brings us a lot of security.

Even if we all know that if we meet any living aliens, most of the weapons on earth will be difficult to guarantee their full retreat. But at least in the sense of heart, that dark muzzle can bring them some comfort.

Walking beside the boat, Schultz asked in a low voice.

"Are you sure those Martians have Dead? "

His eyes scanned the surrounding environment with vigilance. The boat shrugged its shoulders and replied in a casual voice, "I'm not sure But if they didn't die, we would have seen them on earth. "

Can live in this universe for billions of years

Even without occupying the Milky way, a region thousands of light-years around the solar system would have been dominated by them.

At this time, Dr. romonov, an aerospace engineer who had not spoken, suddenly jumped out of his mouth."Have you seen it, but we didn't realize it?"

Hearing this, Aubrey could not help shivering and coughing.

"Don't tell such a ghost story!"

The group continued to March deep into the tunnel.

Up to now, the expedition has been a smooth one without any setbacks.

Relying on the marks left by fan Tong when he came out, they smoothly pushed at least two kilometers to the cave. According to the data from the depth detector, they are now more than 200 meters from the surface.

As they go deeper and deeper, the sense of alienation from civilization becomes stronger. It's like a baby just cutting its umbilical cord and being thrown into a deep well.

There is less and less communication between them. No matter they are chattering or nervous, everyone keeps silent tacitly.

Just then, fan Tong suddenly stopped and looked at the fork in front of him.

"Something's wrong..."

Everyone stopped.

Looking at fan Tong who stopped, Lu Zhou cast an inquiring sight at him.

"What's the matter?"

"The mark is broken here."

When he got to the side of the rock wall, fan Tong fumbled for a while and found a cut.

This is the mark left by the multifunctional spade when it came out from the underground relics. Originally, this clue should point directly to the deepest part of the relics, but now it has been cut off.

Looking at the two crossroads in front of him, fan Tong's expression on his face became more and more solemn, muttering to himself.

"Sure enough The internal passage of the ruins has changed. I didn't see any fork in the road here at the beginning. I had to go back about a kilometer to meet the first fork. "

"But the fork came early."

"I'm afraid it's not just going out early."

Murmuring to himself, Professor vernal stepped forward and squatted beside the fork. He chiseled some debris from the rock wall with his multifunctional spade and kneaded it for a moment.

“…… It's incredible. "

Schulz swallowed, looked at him and asked.

"Incredible what?"

"Three billion years ago Or even earlier, it should have been a cave covered with alloy. "Professor vernal stood up and carefully put the cuttings into the sample bag and labeled them as" although the traces of civilization have been weathered out by time, the rocks will not lie. "

Professor Aubrey frowned.

"What are you talking about?"

"I mean, from the weathering trace, the structure of the road on the left is obviously more complicated than that on the right," said fan Tong, who was lost in thought at a glance. Professor vernal continued to look at the boat and shrugged his shoulders. "You're the captain. Which way do you choose?"

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(recommend a good book of fantasy, linyuanxing, a new work of curtilage pig, wall crack recommendation ~)