Chapter 436

Chapter 436 Underground Lake, Age of Giants

In the ice cave, Yang Lin boasted that he was not a coward, but after sliding in a narrow and closed pipe for several minutes, he still felt serious discomfort both physically and psychologically.

If there really was such a slide in the world, most people would not want to challenge it.

More importantly, this slide was in danger of breaking at any time.

Once it broke, he would fall into the Arctic Ocean.

Fortunately, what he was worried about did not happen.

After sliding for a few more minutes, he could clearly feel the flow of air.

This means that the most terrifying slide in history is about to end.

Sure enough, not long after he had this idea, an exit appeared in front of him.

Yang Lin tightened his body core at the first time to avoid collision after landing.

But what he did not expect was that what was waiting for him was not solid ground or mud on the seabed, but a splash.

That's right, he fell into another body of water after falling from the Arctic Ocean.

When the cold water soaked through his clothes, he felt as if someone had peeled his skin with a knife.

He shuddered and immediately put the little Arctic fox on his chest on his head.

After putting it there, he took out a waterproof flashlight from his pocket.

When the strong light of the flashlight illuminated the water, the scene in front of him immediately stunned Yang Lin.

Looking around, there was water all around, and there was something like a rock layer above his head.

This means that his current location is an underground cavity, an underground cavity located under the Arctic Ocean.

As if thinking of something, Yang Lin tasted the surrounding water.

The next second, his expression changed subtly.

"It's fresh water, this is a freshwater lake."

Although he had learned about this through the legends of the Inuit before, when the facts were in front of him, he still felt it was a bit fake.

There is a freshwater lake hidden under the sea, who would believe it if they told others.

However, thinking of the inference in the Nature magazine, Yang Lin guessed that this might be the most primitive Arctic Ocean, which is the North Sea mentioned in Zhuangzi.

Due to some special geological changes, this lake called the North Sea changed from above ground to underground, and the water of the Atlantic Ocean flowed above it and became the later Arctic Ocean.

"The world is really big, and there are all kinds of wonders. If a writer came here, I'm afraid he would write a science fiction work that is not inferior to Journey to the Center of the Earth."

While sighing, Yang Lin was looking for directions in this underground lake.

However, because the lake was too vast, he didn't find it after searching for a long time.

In the end, he placed his hope on the little Arctic fox above his head.

"Little guy, tell me where to go, and I'll go there, okay."

Hearing Yang Lin's words, the little Arctic fox just turned his eyes and pointed his front paws to somewhere in the underground lake.

"Okay, just go in the direction you said!"

As soon as the voice fell, Yang Lin swam in the direction pointed by the little Arctic fox.

After a period of adaptation, his body gradually adapted to the cold lake water, so he swam quickly.

Fifteen minutes later, when he shone his flashlight forward, a black land appeared in his field of vision.

When he saw this black land, Yang Lin's mood changed again.

First, there was a lake that was the same as in the legend, and now there was an island in the lake that was exactly the same as in the legend.

This made him doubt whether the ancestors of the Inuit had really been here, otherwise how could they be so accurate.

"This couldn't really be the palace of the goddess of the sea, it wouldn't be so mysterious."

While admonishing himself to believe in science, Yang Lin's heart was beating.

However, the current focus is obviously still on the island in the lake, and his lost parents are likely to be there.

So he couldn't care less at the moment, and swam desperately towards the island with his arms.

Another five minutes passed, and when his legs stepped on the land again, the long-lost sense of security returned again.

At this time, two lines of footprints on the land immediately caught his attention.

These two lines of footprints, one large and one small, one deep and one shallow, obviously came from two people with very different body shapes.

The large one is about size 45, and the small one is about size 38, which is exactly the size of his parents' shoes.

The moment he realized this, Yang Lin became excited.

From the way here until the second before, he had been worried about his parents' accidents. Now seeing the footprints of the two, his heart can finally be put down a little.

"No, we have to find them quickly. It should have been many days since they landed on the island, and they are injured again."

After the excitement, Yang Lin quickly returned to reality and searched on the island in the middle of the lake along the footprints left on the ground.

Unlike the islands outside, the islands here are bare everywhere, without any plants or animals, only gravel and soil, just like the original appearance of Blue Star.

That's why the footprints left by his parents are particularly obvious.

After walking for more than ten minutes, two tall pale stone pillars appeared in front of him.

Looking at these two towering stone pillars with a slight arc that did not seem to be naturally formed, Yang Lin immediately began to wonder.

"Why are there two pillars here? Could it be that there is an ancient human civilization here, or that the ancestors of the Inuit lived here?"

This conclusion was immediately overturned by him as soon as it came out.

The geological changes in the Arctic occurred more than 20 million years ago.

20 million years ago, the blue planet was still in the Miocene, and the North and South Poles were not covered by ice and snow at that time.

The oxygen content on the blue planet is not comparable to that of today. The entire planet is full of giant beasts, and the ocean is the most. It is not an exaggeration to call it the era of giant beasts.

At that time, the ancestors of human beings might have been picking bananas on a tree. If they dared to get off the tree, they would be caught by giant birds in the next second.

Just when Yang Lin was about to study what the two huge stone pillars were made of, his peripheral vision swept behind the pillars.

He almost lost his grip on the flashlight with just one glance.

Following his gaze, he saw two rows of identical stone pillars that were symmetrically distributed not far behind the stone pillars, extending from his current position to a place where the flashlight could not reach.

Looking at these two neat rows of more than ten meters high and curved stone pillars, Yang Lin realized that these were not artificially carved stone pillars, but two rows of ribs of some super-large vertebrates.

Judging from the skeletal fossils within his current field of vision, he could not imagine the size of this super-large vertebrate when it was alive.

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