"you go?"
Gao Chuang looked at Xiang Yang suspiciously, "Xiang Yang, it's not that your uncle Gao doesn't believe you, but you really can't control the situation in Antarctica in this snowy weather."
Xiang Yang blinked his eyes. In fact, Xiang Yang wanted to go underwater and take a look by himself.
If Gao Chuang knew what Xiang Yang was thinking, he would definitely think that Xiang Yang was crazy.
"Well, sooner or later you will come to Antarctica alone, so let you young people come with me to see it for yourself." Gao Chuang said to himself.
Gao Chuang had already said so, so Xiang Yang had no choice but to give in and said, "Okay, thank you very much, Mr. Gao."
"Come, carry this on your back first, and I'll teach you how to use it later." Gao Chuang handed Xiang Yang a small gas tank and said.
Xiang Yang was a little curious. The gas outlet of the gas tank was connected to a jet. He had seen Gao Chuang's people use it before. It was able to spray out flames several meters long, but Xiang Yang had not tried how to use it specifically.
This gas tank is actually very easy to use.
Inside the gun-shaped injector, there is a battery that can generate sparks. When you pull the trigger, the two batteries will generate sparks and then ignite the gas. It is a bit like a large lighter.
After sufficient preparation, Gao Chuang led more than 20 people and started heading towards the other section of the ice.
Walking on the ice, Xiang Yang kept looking down at his feet.
This was not the kind of floating ice that was only a few meters thick that they encountered when they first arrived in Antarctica. This piece of floating ice was hundreds of meters thick and could be called a piece of eternal land. When stepping on this floating ice, Xiang Yang always had a very subtle feeling in his heart.
The scenery on the ice floes is no longer monotonous.
Xiang Yang looked around and saw traces of ice cracks everywhere. There were various kinds of ice cracks, like negative carvings, which made people dizzy.
"These icebergs have existed for who knows how many tens of thousands of years. After so many years of ups and downs, both the inside and the surface have been completely cracked for various reasons. But because this piece of ice is so thick, even if it cracks, it cannot be divided into countless small pieces. So now we are standing on its surface and can see so many cracks." Gao Chuang explained to Xiang Yang with a smile.
Xiang Yang nodded. In fact, Xiang Yang understood all of this.
After walking forward for another ten minutes, the group finally encountered the first creature on the ice floe.
A short and skinny Adelie penguin was standing not far away, sticking its neck out towards the crowd and flapping its wings fiercely. With its distinct black and white colors, it looked like a savage messenger from hell.
"Don't pay attention to that Adélie penguin. On some new and fragile ice floes, an Adélie penguin may indeed occupy an entire piece of ice floe and become the overlord of the entire ice floe. In order to defend its territory, the Adélie penguin will fiercely attack all invaders. But on such a large ice floe, the Adélie penguin is actually a very weak existence." Gao Chuang said calmly.
Xiang Yang nodded slightly, looking behind the Adélie penguin with a serious expression.
Not far behind the Adélie penguin, a group of emperor penguins were looking over here, huddled together and snuggling up to each other for warmth.
"There are probably thousands of emperor penguins in that group. It seems that there are no dangerous creatures like leopard seals on this piece of ice. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many emperor penguins making their home on this ice floe." Xiang Yang said softly.
Gao Chuang glanced over there and said, "No matter how many emperor penguins there are, they will not pose any threat to humans."
"But let's go in a different direction and head this way. It would be very troublesome if we get entangled by this group of emperor penguins."
Xiang Yang nodded. They came out to explore the way, not to cause trouble.
Xiang Yang strongly supported Gao Chuang's proposal for a detour, but he didn't want to offend such a large group of emperor penguins.
Continuing forward, there seemed to be no other living creatures on the ice, only some seabirds circling in the low sky. It seemed that these birds did not dare to fly high in the blizzard, but had to come out to find food in the blizzard to make a living.
“Huh.”
At this moment, Xiang Yang suddenly let out a light exclamation.
"What's wrong?" Gao Chuang asked hurriedly.
Xiang Yang pointed ahead and said, "I just saw that there seemed to be waves rippling under the ice in that place, and there seemed to be a lake under the ice in front."
"Really? In which direction?" Gao Chuang asked with some surprise.
In the icy snow of Antarctica, it is indeed possible that lakes exist inside the ice.
There are even American researchers who have used satellites to compile a map of the distribution of Antarctic ice lakes.
Using satellites, humans have created a relatively comprehensive catalog of active lakes beneath the Antarctic ice.
The countless Antarctic lakes form a huge Antarctic continental pipeline system, whose complexity and activity level are even greater than scientists previously expected.
Humans have even discovered a huge freshwater lake four kilometers below the ice.
The world is a wonderful place, especially the mysterious Antarctica, which has many amazing things.
In fact, freshwater lakes are very common in any region of the world, and there is nothing much to say about them. But when a freshwater lake appears in Antarctica and is four kilometers deep under the ice, it is worth talking about.
The freshwater lake four thousand meters deep under the ice is called Lake Vostok.
It is a freshwater lake in Antarctica with an area of 15,690 square kilometers.
Such a large freshwater lake is very rare in our country, not to mention that it is in the distant Antarctica. It can be seen how surprising the existence of this lake is.
Lake Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in the world.
The entire Lake Vostok is located under the Antarctic ice.
Lakes that exist under the ice are actually very rare in Antarctica. There are actually only more than 140 subglacial lakes in the entire Antarctic, and there are none at all in other continents.
Lake Vostok is the deepest lake in Antarctica, reaching a depth of 4,000 meters. It was discovered by chance and the reasons for its formation are very complicated.
Because the lake is under the ice, Xiang Yang really wants to see it.
After all, there are more and more expedition teams in Antarctica in recent years, and there may be many tourists in the future, but the carrying capacity of Antarctica's natural environment is very low. Many world-class wonders may be destroyed or even irrecoverable if you are not careful. If Xiang Yang does not go to see it as soon as possible, he may not be able to see it even if he wants to in the future.
"It's right in front of that, but I'm not sure." Xiang Yang said.
"Let's go and take a look." Gao Chuang waved his hand and spoke directly.