Chapter 26 Chapter 24 Mountains of Ice

Everyone bypassed this huge ice cave and continued on their way.There are more and more such huge ice caves on the ice sheet.A few days later, a huge crack appeared in front of everyone, with no end in sight on either side of the crack.The ice sheet is divided into two pieces by this crack.According to Cao Cang's visual inspection, the crack was at least seven or eight meters wide, and it was bottomless. This problem was before everyone, everyone gathered together to discuss, and finally decided to walk eastward along the edge of the crack and reach the end of the crack.Because the current wind direction is northwest, it is suitable for sledge movement.

So everyone changed direction. This crack is very long, and after walking for a day, there is still no sign of closing the crack. When resting at night, Cao Cang was awakened by the slight shaking of the ice layer in his sleep.He hurried out of the tent to see what happened.The ice sheet is indeed moving, albeit slowly.Sister Zhou is right, the ice field is moving. Everyone was awakened by the sound, and they all came outside the tent one after another. However, the visibility in the dark night of Yihai is very low, and everyone does not know what kind of changes have taken place in the ice field under their feet.

Cao Cang shouted: "Get out of here, the farther away from the crack the better." In the dark, everyone began to tidy up the tents in a panic. The shaking of the ice sheet continued until dawn. In the early morning, everyone was shocked to see that the huge crack disappeared without a trace, leaving only a ridge with a drop of more than ten centimeters. Everyone is not happy about this change. Although we can continue to move forward smoothly, we all know that the road ahead will be even more difficult.According to Sister Zhou, the ice field ahead will be more active.This is by no means a good sign.

After the activity, the ice field began to become rough. Because of the sled, the route of everyone was no longer a straight line, but they had to keep bypassing the bumps on the ice to move forward.But as time goes by, there are more and more similar protrusions on the ice sheet, and the ice sheet has a slope.Unfortunately, everyone was headed in the uphill direction. Joshua, Cao Cang and Ivan discussed together, and the three finally decided to give up the sled.The people carried as much supplies as possible on the sled and walked on foot. This is the only way. It is impossible for everyone to camp on this vast ice field and wait for death. Everyone can't turn back.Cao Cang thought for a while, then called Karin, Ximei and Zhoujie.

Cao Cang asked Karin: "If everyone spends time here, when the ice melts, is there any problem with the source of food?" Carlin's answer is yes. When the ice melts, countless creatures will float to the surface of the sea. Judging from everyone's survival skills, there should be no problem.But there is one decisive factor—without ships, we are all human beings, not marine creatures. If we can’t find land, we will all die at the bottom of the sea sooner or later. Joshua asked Sister Zhou: "When will the ice layer melt?" Sister Zhou's answer is very direct, there are still two months at most, and everyone must find that place within two months, which is the place Ximei said.

Now the most critical issue is focused on Ximei. All five looked at Ximei eagerly, hoping that her answer would not disappoint. Ximei didn't speak for a while, she used a hard ice pick to draw a chart on the ice.This chart is different from the maps and charts Cao Cang knew, and even Ivan, a senior officer of the Soviet Navy, could not understand it. "Is this the "Water Road Book" of your Dan clan?" Cao Cang couldn't help asking. Ximei didn't seem to hear Cao Cang talking to her.She pointed at a point on the chart with the tip of the ice pick, "We should be in this area now." After speaking, Ximei looked at Sister Zhou.Sister Zhou began to translate.

"I started to calculate the straight-line distance." Ximei began to analyze, "Because the sea chart handed down by our family, the marked sea areas are all sea water. At most, it only takes into account the influence of wind direction, so I always follow the Consider the time we travel in the direction of a straight line. According to my calculations, the speed of the sled on the ice is slightly slower than that of the sailboat, and we have been delayed for more than 30 days. But according to the established speed, we will arrive in 20 days that place." "Where?" Everyone was curious.Ximei has never made it clear what this place is.

"My grandma told me that that place is a fairy mountain." Ximei said, "Now I know that there are fairy mountains no matter whether it is the earth or the different seas. But what is certain is that people can live in that place." Everyone was silent, waiting for Ximei to continue. "But I didn't expect the sea to freeze. Our family has no record of this phenomenon. What makes me even more unexpected is that this ice sheet is not flat, and there are icebergs." "It's not just that simple." Sister Zhou interjected, "There are icebergs, which means there are deep valleys and huge cracks."

After hearing this, Ximei continued, "We can only continue walking in this direction, and we can't make detours, otherwise we won't be able to get to that place within two months." "Then we have only one choice," Joshua said, "walk in a straight line." "What should I do if I encounter a place that cannot be passed?" Sister Zhou asked. "We did everything we could to get there," Joshua said. "We had no choice." After everyone had a full rest, the next day, the sleds were dismantled and the loads were distributed among them.Everyone started to walk forward.Everyone's face is very solemn, this is a race, a race against time.The stakes are simple, all lives.When everyone participated in this experiment, the gamble had already begun.

Cao Cang thought, maybe this is not just a gamble for everyone in front of him, but a gamble for the entire human race.Professor Pang hinted to Cao Cang before his death that the earth's prospects are not very good, and several big countries are frantically amassing resources and carrying out exploration experiments in different seas. A group of people walked slowly on the ice field. On the vast ice field, this group of people seemed extremely small.Cao Cang was completely unable to judge whether the team was moving forward from the monotonous environment. Everyone's heart was very heavy, and they were silent when they walked.The boundless world has become extremely quiet.This is even more depressing.

The difficulties ahead are more difficult than imagined.The slope of the ice sheet is increasing, and now everyone can clearly feel the slope of the ice under their feet.Although everyone put on the spiked shoes that Joshua had brought from that boat, some people kept falling down. In this environment, women finally show their physical disadvantages.Ximei can no longer bear the weight, and the supplies on her body are shared among others.To make matters worse, Ms. Zhou severely sprained her foot after falling down once.So Cao Cang and Nicholas could only distribute the load to others, and carried Sister Zhou on their backs in turn. However, what comforted Cao Cang was that no one expressed his intention to give up.Everyone's eyes are firm.No matter how difficult it is now, they are the same as themselves. Since they came to Yihai, they cannot let go of the mission they carry, and they don't even have the right to give up their own lives. After walking for a few days, there was another gully lying in front of everyone, which was very wide and tens of meters long. There is only one way for everyone to pass - to grow wings. At this moment, everyone's spirits were on the verge of collapse. Sister Zhou asked Cao Cang to let her down. She sat by the crack, looked at it for a long time, and then suggested to everyone: "Walk along this crack to the east." Now there is no time to discuss whether sister Zhou's suggestion is feasible.The crowd began to walk east along the crack.Everyone no longer hopes that the cracks will close on their own, and good luck cannot always follow them. But after the team walked for a day, the crack gradually narrowed, and at the narrowest point, it was only two meters wide.But further east, the chasm began to widen again.The reason why the crack in front of him is so narrow is because the ice layer on the opposite side protrudes an arc-shaped headland to this side. Ivan, Nicola and La Bellia jumped over first, followed by Karin and Joshua.They unloaded the load first, and then had a long run-up before they could barely jump over.Then Cao Cang, Allen, Joey and others threw the load to the opposite side. The problem now is that Ximei dare not dance.She doesn't have the stamina.Ximei is short in stature and wears thick clothes. She is already clumsy when walking on the ice. Now it is really difficult for her to jump a distance of two meters. But Ximei's situation is not the worst. Sister Zhou's foot is injured, let alone jumping. So everyone rested in place.Cao Cang jumped over the ravine and discussed with Ivan and Joshua. Everyone planned to inflate the kayaks and lay them across the cracks as a temporary bridge.But the first kayak was damaged and could not be inflated, so we had to give up.Another kayak opened, self-inflated, and lay across the crack.But the kayak was too soft to support people walking over it, and the sharp ice surface cut the kayak, and the kayak also began to leak air. After a while, the kayak fell through the crack.This method is not only unfeasible, but even the kayak is lost. In the end, everyone decided to drag Ximei and Zhoujie over with climbing ropes.However, there is only one climbing rope. Cao Cang took the climbing rope, jumped back to the original place, carefully tied the climbing rope to Ximei, and then threw the other end back to the opposite side.On the opposite side, Ivan and the others placed a piece of wood near the gully under the rope to prevent the rope from being cut by the sharp ice when it was pulled upwards.The wood was originally intended to be used to light a fire for warmth when the kerosene ran out. All the people over there grabbed the rope tightly and made a circle around their wrists.Joshua signaled that they were ready. Cao Cang asked Ximei to take off her coat, firstly to reduce weight, and secondly to allow Ximei to be more flexible. Cao Cang put two arms through Ximei's armpit, and hugged Ximei to the edge of the crack. Ximei's body was shaking, shaking very badly. Cao Cang said to Ximei, "Don't think too much..." "How can you not think about it, this is a bottomless abyss." Ximei was very frightened, and no longer kept her relationship with Cao Cang. "Don't look down, don't think about the abyss." Cao Cang said fiercely, "Remember, once I let go, you must keep your balance. You must use your feet to step on the opposite ice surface, remember!" Cao Cang sent Ximei's body forward, and Ximei volleyed in the crack.Now, under Ximei's feet, there is a bottomless abyss. Cao Cang knelt down and sent Ximei's body down as much as possible.He said in his mouth, "I'll count one, two, three, and let go. Remember what I said, put your feet on the opposite ice first." "Can you not let go?" Ximei begged Cao Cang. "One!" Cao Cang said. "Please, don't let go." "two!" Ximei stopped talking, her body tensed up. "Three!" Cao Cang let go of Ximei. Sister's body suddenly fell downwards.The suddenly weightless Ximei let out a shrill cry. In the process of falling, Ximei's body was pulled by the rope and suddenly brought to the opposite side.However, Ximei still remembered Cao Cang's instructions and tried her best to maintain her body's balance. She kicked her feet on the ice first, and then swayed her body left and right in the air. Ximei slammed into the ice wall a few more times, and finally held the ice surface with her hand to keep it stable. The man on the opposite side immediately pulled the rope hard, and quickly pulled Ximei up, and then quickly put the clothes on Ximei. Ximei sat on the opposite ice field, unable to hold back her emotions any longer, and burst into tears. Joshua threw the rope over again, and Cao Cang walked towards Sister Zhou, ready to do the same. Sister Zhou obediently asked Cao Cang to help her up, and said with a wry smile, "I'm injured, but I'm not as flexible as Sister Xi." Cao Cang said, "It's better to be injured than to freeze to death here." "It's the same as Ximei just now." Cao Cang said, "It's actually very simple, just try to keep your balance." As before, Cao Cang sent Sister Zhou down as far as possible, and let go after counting one, two, three. Not surprisingly, sister Zhou also let out a scream.When Sister Zhou slammed into the opposite ice wall rapidly, she kicked up with one foot, but due to lack of strength, her body still hit the ice wall hard.Sister Zhou's yelling stopped abruptly. She must have passed out. Cao Cang hurriedly shouted to Ivan and the others: "Pull her up quickly!" The people on Ivan's side worked hard at the same time, and the wood that was placed on the ice surface, but the force was uneven due to the sudden force of the rope, it slid away on the ice surface, and then tilted up. "Wait!" Cao Cang shouted hastily. Everyone was stunned, the wood bounced away, and the rope fell on the ice. This time, the sharp edges and corners on the edge of the crack came into direct contact with the rope. "Stop!" Cao Cang shouted, "Stop!" Without Cao Cang's reminder, Yiwan and the others also knew that if they pulled the rope with brute force, the possibility of the rope being broken by the ice edge was very high. Cao Cang hurriedly jumped over and carefully checked the place where the rope touched the ice edge.The rope as thick as a finger has sunk deep into the ice.Cao Cang raised his palm to signal everyone not to use any more force. Everyone stopped, waiting for Cao Cang's order. Cao Cang waved his hand and said, "Slow down." The rope moved slowly, tightening even tighter.At this time, a piece of ice near the rope suddenly fell, and the rope swayed and got stuck in a gap. Cao Cang knew that he really couldn't try again. "Is there any rope?" Cao Cang asked. "No more." Joshua replied, "At that time, we only took this one. At that time, we never thought that there would be icebergs in the different seas. We didn't expect that we would use this." The only way now is to let sister Zhou climb up a little distance by herself, let the rope relax a little, get out of the gap, and then put wood on it. But Sister Zhou didn't respond now, no matter how much Cao Cang yelled at her, there was no movement. Cao Cang thought for a while and said to Joshua, "Where are the ropes for tying the sledge?" "It's all left by the sled." Joshua replied, "Didn't we throw away all the useless things on the sled, don't you want to go back and look for it now?" Cao Cang thought, it would take at least a day and a night to go back and forth, and when he got back the rope that tied the sled, the crowd would have been unable to support him. "Ivan and Nicholas come here." Cao Cang ordered, "The others continue to pull the rope." Cao Cang said to Ivan and Nicholas: "You each hold my foot and pass me down. I will pull sister Zhou up a little bit." Nicholas and Ivan understood. "Xiaomei!" Cao Cang shouted, "When the rope is slack, you put the wood under the rope." In this tense moment, there is only this way.Ivan and Nicholas dragged Cao Cang's leg and prostrated themselves on the ice.Cao Cang's body was hanging upside down in the air above the abyss.Cao Cang looked down, and there was no end to the crack.Maybe there's the sea below, or maybe a criss-cross of ice. Nicholas and Ivan slowly lowered Cao Cang. Cao Cang's hand was finally able to grab sister Zhou's hair.Cao Cang saw that Sister Zhou's face was covered with blood. Her head must have hit the hard ice wall.Cao Cang stretched his arm as far as he could, and then hooked Sister Zhou's arm with his hand.Cao Cang yelled, and Nicholas and Ivan quickly lifted Cao Cang's legs up. The rope was slack, and Ximei hurriedly put the wood on it.The rope that bound sister Zhou was immediately retracted, and Joshua and others were also exerting force. However, Cao Cang and others still forgot one thing in this situation.Ice formations are, after all, ice, not rock.The edge of the crack began to loosen again because of the weight of Nicholas, Ivan, Cao Cang and sister Zhou, and it seemed that it was about to collapse. Nicholas and Ivan hurriedly pulled Cao Cang back. Cao Cang climbed onto the ice layer, but the wood on the rope and the ice fell into the bottomless abyss together. Splashing ice debris fell on Sister Zhou's body one after another.The ice at the edge of the crack continued to collapse like dominoes.People on the ice kept retreating. After waiting for a while, the ice layer stopped collapsing temporarily. Cao Cang hurriedly said to Ivan: "You send me down again. After I catch her, everyone will come to pull my legs." Everyone hasn't answered yet.Xi Mei suddenly panicked and pointed behind Joshua and the others, "Look!" Everyone looked in the direction Ximei pointed, and everyone's faces changed: the ice surface where everyone was standing was originally a headland protruding from the ice layer, but now a crack lay across the back of everyone.The collapse of the ice layer just now has already affected this headland, and if this continues, it is very likely that everyone will fall into the gap. "What?" Carlin called out. "Try again!" Cao Cang insisted. "Hurry up!" Joshua replied. Cao Cang felt a warm feeling in his heart. He thought that the Americans and the Soviets would give up, or at least argue with him.After all, this is about everyone's life. Nicholas and Ivan grabbed Cao Cang's legs again and handed Cao Cang down. Cao Cang grabbed Sister Zhou's shoulder again. Sister Zhou woke up, and the falling ice cubes hit her body, waking her up.But sister Zhou's injury was even more serious. "Hold on to me!" Cao Cang shouted. Sister Zhou's face was covered with blood, and she smiled at Cao Cang, indicating that she no longer had the strength to raise her arms. Cao Cang put his arms around Sister Zhou's neck and shouted, "Pull!" Everyone gave up the rope and came to pull Cao Cang's body. The edge of the ice layer began to collapse again, and there was a terrifying "click" sound from the ice layer. "The crack is getting longer!" Ximei shouted from above. Sister Zhou said to Cao Cang: "Forget it, there is no need to die here." "Grab me hard!" Cao Cang shouted. "You know I'm from there." Sister Zhou said weakly, "You still save me?" Cao Cang could not answer Sister Zhou. The ice layer began to shake violently. Cao Cang knew that there was no time to rescue Sister Zhou, and Nicholas and Ivan also knew this. "Cao!" Ivan said, "let go." Cao Cang had no time to hesitate, he couldn't put everyone in a desperate situation for one person. Cao Cang let go of his arms.Sister Zhou's body fell down, but stopped after falling a few meters, because the rope was stuck in the gap in the ice layer during the fall, which slowed down the speed of the fall. Cao Cang's body was dragged back by Nicholas and Ivan. Sister Zhou raised her head and said something to Cao Cang, but Cao Cang didn't hear her. After Sister Zhou's body paused in the air for a few seconds, she finally fell down and disappeared instantly. Cao Cang was pulled onto the ice by Nicholas and Ivan. Without delay, everyone packed up their things and ran towards the ice field ahead. After running for tens of meters, the headland suddenly collapsed. Cao Cang faced the direction of the collapse and said nothing. Even if Sister Zhou is a representative of the power on the other side of the strait, she is also Chinese.Of course, this is not the main reason why Cao Cang rescued sister Zhou. In this case, no matter who is in danger, Cao Cang will do it. Cao Cang now also believes that everyone around him thinks the same as him. No matter what the final outcome of the experiment is, everyone must work together during the experiment. After Sister Zhou's death, no one can make a correct judgment on the climate of Yihai, and no one knows the ice field ahead, and what dangers are waiting for everyone. The ice was moving and everyone felt it.The entire ice surface was temporarily calm, but a huge force was slowly released deep in the ice layer under his feet. After walking for a few days, everyone finally saw the iceberg ahead—not the iceberg floating on the sea on the earth, but a real mountain, a mountain of ice. Now everyone finally knows the most serious consequences of ice movement, which causes large ice plates to squeeze each other, so that very tall icebergs are formed. There is no end to this high mountain in sight, the highest point is more than two hundred meters high, and the shortest area is also tens of meters high. Everyone stopped and discussed whether it was the same as before, and walked along the icebergs until they found the gap in the icebergs. However, time has not allowed everyone to try this, and there is another possibility - this iceberg should have no end.If the entire Yihai is an ocean, the force on the ice layer at this latitude is uniform, so the same phenomenon will occur. There is only one option now, to forcibly cross the iceberg. But everyone's equipment does not allow everyone to climb this steep and smooth iceberg. Ximei said: "We are already very close to the place we are looking for, but unfortunately, we are trapped here." Cao Cang, like Joshua, was helpless. In the end, everyone decided: rest in place and wait for a miracle to appear. Half a month has passed, and the time for the ice to melt is getting closer and closer. Everyone knows that if we can't find the place Ximei mentioned, the melting of the ice means that everyone will die. In the evening, everyone sat around and stopped talking to each other.Now everyone can't think of a way to climb over the iceberg, so they don't even think about discussing it. After such a long time, everyone can finally communicate with each other without being stagnant. English has become the main way of communication. Cao Cang also cleverly made others think that he is also gradually learning English, but at certain moments, talking to Ivan , Cao Cang still uses Russian. As for Ximei, she basically doesn't talk to Cao Cang alone.Cao Cang knew that ever since Ximei saw the pocket watch, she had a grudge with him.Cao Cang has no chance to ask Ximei why.Even if I asked, Ximei wouldn't say anything. "Is there anyone among us who can't swim?" Joshua asked. No one answered, but fortunately, it seems that everyone can swim. "So what if you can swim?" Carlin said, "When all the ice here melts, we can only last fifteen minutes in the sea water at most." Everyone felt heavy again when they heard what Karin said.It looked like everyone was going to freeze to death in the sea. Suddenly, Cao Cang thought of something and immediately became excited. Everyone looked at Cao Cang. "If the ice layer melts, what kind of process will it be?" Cao Cang asked. "Of course it won't suddenly melt into sea water." Karin replied. As soon as this sentence was said, Joshua and Ivan both said "oh". Karin also understood what Cao Cang meant: since the melting of the ice layer is a process, the iceberg lying in front of everyone will of course melt slowly.When the iceberg melts, it will not be able to maintain the current height, and it will collapse. When the iceberg collapses, it is the opportunity for everyone to climb the iceberg! Another month passed. There was a "rumbling" sound everywhere on the ice sheet.Everyone knows that this is the sound of the ice layer melting.Everyone began to get nervous, and the moment of life and death is coming. The iceberg began to separate, and huge chunks of ice were caving off of them.The ice also started to melt, shaking everywhere.Suddenly, a crack extended from a distance, and everyone hurried to avoid it. "One way!" Joshua yelled. But it was too late, Beria and Joey ran in the opposite direction from the others, and they were separated to the other side by the extended crack. "Jump over!" Ivan yelled. However, the ice layer where Beria and Joey were standing suddenly sank down.It's an instant thing.The huge ice layer collapsed, raising ice fog all over the sky, and everyone saw a vast expanse of whiteness. When the ice fog cleared, the ice layer opposite the crack had disappeared.On the other side of the crack that was displayed in front of everyone, there was already a difference of tens of meters from the ice field where everyone was located, and it was a mess, all of which were messy ice and stone debris, and Belia and Joey could not be seen at all. silhouette.They have been buried deep in the ice. Both the Americans and the Soviets stood on the edge of the ice, silently crossing themselves across their chests. "Run!" Cao Cang found danger again. Everyone hurriedly left the place where the ice broke.Just after leaving, the ice surface also separated from the ice layer and fell down. The entire ice sheet and icebergs were shaking violently.As Cao Cang expected, the iceberg blocking the way collapsed, only a dozen meters high, and turned into jagged debris, no longer a smooth surface. Now without anyone's reminder, everyone frantically climbed towards the collapsing iceberg.The ice behind him is melting fast.Everyone tacitly let Cao Cang go at the forefront, followed by Joshua. In the process of everyone climbing up the iceberg, Nicholas was delayed because he helped Ivan climb a steeple and fell down.Ximei was stuck by an ice crevice, and Cao Cang knew that Ximei would not be able to climb up either.Cao Cang became ruthless, turned his head and continued to climb. But when Cao Cang turned his head again, he saw that Ximei had already crawled over, but Ailun was swallowed by a gap that suddenly widened. The fastest climb is the monkey.It also realized the danger and ran desperately to the other side of the iceberg. Cao Cang followed the monkey over the top of the collapsed iceberg, and then jumped down quickly.Now there is no time to think about whether the foot is dangerous. If there is any further hesitation, everyone will be swallowed by this rapidly collapsing iceberg. In the end, those who survived all climbed over the iceberg.Cao Cang looked forward, and his heart suddenly turned cold - there was still an iceberg lying in front of everyone. We are still a few miles away from the iceberg.The range of these few miles is still a wide ice field.The ice sheet here isn't beginning to collapse, but it's shaking.Now Cao Cang knows that the force that caused the ice to collapse came from the south.The iceberg that just crossed temporarily blocked this force from continuing to extend. Cao Cang and the others stood quietly on the ice field, looking at the messy iceberg behind them.After losing several teammates one after another, everyone felt very sad. Now only Joshua, Ni Ximei, Cao Cang, Ivan, Karin, and a monkey are left. The rest of the people were unable to speak, and just escaped from the line of life and death, everyone was still in shock. Suddenly everything calmed down and the shaking of the ice stopped.The whole world was very quiet again.This is not a good phenomenon. Suddenly, the monkey screamed "Zhizhi" and then ran forward.Everyone knew that there must be a greater danger at hand. When everyone was panicking, a shocking phenomenon happened: all the ice layers on this side of the iceberg suddenly rose high and were crumbling in the air. "Run!" Cao Cang and Joshua shouted at the same time. Five people ran desperately across the ice field. The iceberg behind him fell heavily, hitting the ice sheet, and then the ice sheet began to collapse. "We were wrong." Cao Cang yelled as he ran, "The ice layer started to melt from the bottom. The entire ice layer had already melted, and the bottom of the ice layer was empty." In the huge rumbling sound, Cao Cang's words could not be heard by others. The ice where the five of Cao Cang were on was already on the verge of collapse, but now it suffered a huge impact and began to collapse from the side of the iceberg. The continuously collapsing ice field chased Cao Cang and the others, almost catching up to the five of them several times and obliterating them. Everyone ran desperately, temporarily saving their lives. After that, the collapse of the ice sheet slowed down a bit, but it didn't stop.Cao Cang and the others ran to the foot of the iceberg ahead, losing their minds for a while. Stand here or die? Almost at the same time, everyone discovered that this iceberg was a little different from the ones we had encountered before. This iceberg had many holes.The five people looked at each other, and they had no choice but to find the biggest hole first and get in to escape.It may be more dangerous to enter the hole, and there may be a chance of survival. No matter what, everyone does not want to sit still. There is no time for discussion now.The five people ran quickly into the hole, hoping that the iceberg here would hold up temporarily.Then they climb out again, looking for a way out. Not long after, all the ice sheets collapsed, and the icebergs began to tremble, but they did not collapse for the time being. Joshua said, "We can't go back, let's go inside." The idea was too bold, and no one responded for a while. "There are holes in the iceberg here, which proves that this place began to melt locally a long time ago. These holes are likely to pass through to the other side." The iceberg began to shake.The five people nodded firmly to each other, only this choice. Joshua was the first to crawl deep into the hole, and then he let out a cry.Cao Cang leaned over and saw that the hole suddenly tilted in front of him, and Joshua had already slipped down. Cao Cang didn't know what to do for a while, but the iceberg shook more and more.Can't think about it anymore.Cao Cang gritted his teeth and slid down the inclined hole.Cao Cang slid down more than ten meters, and there was darkness in front of his eyes, but he still felt that he was sliding at a high speed, and couldn't help shouting. After falling for nearly half a minute, Cao Cang felt a huge impact.Cao Cang felt extremely cold, and he found himself sinking in the icy sea water. Cao Cang suddenly regained consciousness, swung his limbs vigorously, and surfaced. This is a piece of unfrozen sea, behind is the huge iceberg, at this time Ximei also poked her head out of the sea. Cao Cang didn't dare to delay, and swam to Ximei.But before she swam there, Ximei shouted to Cao Cang: "I saw Joshua is still below, I'll go rescue him. You wait to save the people behind." Ximei has lived in the sea since she was a child, and her water skills are much better than Cao Cang's. Ximei dived into the water all at once.Cao Cang dived towards the bottom of the iceberg. Cao Cang dived into the water and saw that Karin was already drinking water and sinking.It took Cao Cang a lot of effort to grab Karin, but Karin was almost unconscious and it was difficult to pull him up.At this time, a man came to help Cao Cang. His water skills were also very good. It was Ivan, who came last. Yiwan and Cao Cang dragged Karin out of the water.Ximei also lifted Joshua up. Five people swim close to each other. "Is Joshua okay?" Cao Cang asked Ximei. "I'm fine." Joshua answered proactively. But Karin was still unconscious. He must have choked on the water, but his life should not be in danger.The other four people are very familiar with water, and they took turns supporting Karin to float on the sea. "Why doesn't the sea water here freeze?" Cao Cang asked. "Some sea areas are ice-free all year round." Ivan replied, "For example, there are warm ocean currents. However, there should be geothermal heat on the bottom of the sea here." Cao Cang stopped asking, now is not the time to discuss this issue. The four looked forward on the sea, and Ximei exclaimed, "That's right there!" Cao Cang also looked over, there was a faint land a few miles ahead, it was really a small island!Moreover, there are dozens of boats around the island, and there are still crude buildings on the island! Cao Cang couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart, tears were about to flow down. In Yihai, human beings really exist! (End of the book)