One Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty-Three Underglacial Space

After taking a rough look at the surroundings, the team leader had a preliminary understanding of the environment under the ice. He did not rush to expand the scope of reconnaissance, but found a place near the ice cave, nailed the fixing rope to the ice layer above his head, closed the individual aircraft and hung himself under the ice.

The flight time of the individual aircraft is limited by fuel, so it is necessary to save as much as possible.

Just as the team leader fixed himself, the soldier behind him fell out of the hole. After carefully scanning the circle, he also learned to hang under the ice like the team leader.

In this way, the soldiers came down one by one and hung under the ice one by one, even Ye Han and Luo Qi were no exception.

A few minutes later, everyone arrived, and a group of people hung together like a juggler, which was out of tune with the surrounding environment.

Luo Qi poked the dry vines politely: "This thing should have nothing to do with aliens."

"Why do you say that?" The team leader asked politely.

Luo Qi said: "Do I need to ask this? It's too fragile. Look at the aliens' things. Which one is afraid of vacuum?"

"Not necessarily?" said a team leader, "Isn't the insect tree afraid of vacuum?"

Luo Qi was immediately annoyed: "That was on Earth, this is Europa, the environment is different!"

"Okay, stop talking nonsense." Ye Han adjusted the beam of the tactical light to make the light more concentrated, and the beam shot into the deep darkness, with no end in sight.

Luo Qi asked softly: "Boss, what should we do?"

Ye Han asked: "Team leader, you came down first, did you find any danger?"

A team leader said: "Except for these vines above the head, nothing was found."

Ye Han said: "According to this, this place is still safe for the time being. So, everyone will form groups of two, spread out with the ice cave as the center, expand the reconnaissance range, report immediately if there is any discovery, forget it if there is no discovery, everyone will return here to gather in ten minutes, do you understand?"

"Understood!" The soldiers said in unison.

"Let's go!"

The soldiers immediately divided into groups and determined their respective search directions. They first started their individual flying vehicles, then retracted the fixed ropes, and then flew into the abyss-like darkness. In a blink of an eye, the soldiers were swallowed by the darkness, and only Ye Han and Luo Qi remained.

Luo Qi looked around anxiously, but this place was only dead silence and darkness except for the stars. It was the kind of silence and darkness that made people feel uneasy. Even if they had experienced countless bloody storms, they could not help but feel a little anxious and uneasy.

After a while, Luo Qi really couldn't stand the atmosphere of this ghost place, so he took the initiative to break the silence: "Boss, can we find the enemy here? Should we look in the water?"

"Let's talk about it later." Ye Han was not in a hurry at all, "Let's find out the surrounding environment first."

"Then how do we look in the water? Jump directly?" Luo Qi asked again.

Power armor is not afraid of water, but the water in this damn place should be thicker than the ice layer. Power armor can only move in the shallow layer, and it can't go deep. If the aliens are hiding under the water, no one can find them even if they die.

Ye Han knew this, but orders are orders, and he must figure out the situation under the ice first: "Let's take it one step at a time..."

Just halfway through the words, a voice suddenly came from the radio: "Captain, Group 4 reports, we have reached the end, there is an ice wall that falls into the water, there is no way out."

A short video came with the communication.

After opening it, the picture shows an almost vertical ice wall covered with hanging vines. The closer to the water surface, the thicker the vines are, and the vines on the water surface are several times thicker.

Ye Han always felt that this scene was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it: "So fast? What's the straight-line distance?"

"Less than three kilometers."

"What about the left and right sides? Are they all this kind of ice wall?"

"Not sure, everywhere I can see is an ice wall!"

"Okay, I got it." Ye Han said, "You two choose a direction, left or right is fine, keep walking along the ice wall, and report anything you find!"

"Yes!"

"Group six reports, I also hit an ice wall here!"

"Same as group four... So, group four, group six, you all go right, and other groups, after encountering an ice wall, go right to see if you can encounter something different."

The soldiers continued to explore the situation under the ice, and Ye Han slowly drew a rough image of the space under the ice based on the data sent back by the soldiers. After a while, he got a fragmentary map.

Although half of it is still missing, based on the known part, it can be roughly deduced that there is an irregular space with a diameter of about three kilometers under the ice.

Ye Han felt something was wrong. If it was a normal space under the ice, the edge of the space should be gradually submerged in water, not like now, a straight ice wall.

News came back from all directions, and the map of the space under the ice became more and more complete. Then Ye Han found that a corner of the map gradually extended outward, and there was a gap on the outer edge of the space that should have been closed!

Ye Han immediately contacted the second group in this direction and asked what they had found. The second group replied that everything was normal.

The second group continued to move forward. After crossing the narrow gap, the space outside the gap became wider and wider, and it seemed that the space inside the gap was even larger.

Ye Han immediately ordered each group to move closer to the gap, and even he himself and Luo Qi rushed over. The very well-organized plan became a piece of paper.

Soon after, Ye Han rushed to the gap and carefully checked the situation here. As a result, he found that except that the distance between the top of the ice and the water surface was a little closer, there was no difference.

Ye Han suddenly thought of something. He summed up the distance between the ice cave and the gap, and the distance between the top of the ice and the water surface. After careful calculation, he found that judging from the changes between the water surface and the top of the ice, the diameter of this space under the ice should be no less than 70 kilometers. In other words, the ice wall found by each group is not the edge of the space under the ice at all.

Ye Han wanted to check the entire under-ice space carefully, but the endurance of a single-soldier aircraft was really not that long. If the people were not withdrawn, it was hard to say whether there would be enough fuel to fly back.

Ye Han made a prompt decision and ordered each group to return.

As for the problem of reconnaissance in the under-ice space, it was better to leave it to Jizhou to find a way. He had done his best to lead people into the under-ice space.

However, at this time, Ye Han suddenly saw a faint light coming from the nearby ice wall. Looking carefully, it turned out that a beam of light was drilling through the ice wall.

Ye Han was happy now, thinking that this warship really knew how to choose a place. After this laser penetrated the ice layer, the exit was just above the water surface, and the height did not exceed ten meters at most.

No, ten meters?