After saying goodbye to the three women, Charlie runs alone across the Antarctic ice sheet under the light of the aurora borealis.
The reason for not using snowmobiles is the concern that they would make too much noise. Furthermore, it has been proven that snowmobiles are completely incapable of evading US aerial surveillance.
In this extremely cold weather with temperatures dropping to minus sixty degrees Celsius, the engine and exhaust fumes of the snowmobile will be the most conspicuous light sources in the darkness under the thermal imaging system.
In addition, vehicles on snow are noisy and may disturb the elders of the Corrupt Qing Society.
Although the area the other party could sense with spiritual energy far exceeded Charlie’s range, Charlie knew in his heart that no cultivator would waste spiritual energy so much as to sense everything around them at all times. It was like a radar with a wide detection range, but if the power supply was unlimited, it would have to reduce its power to conserve electricity.
The other party’s current situation may not be so good, so the possibility of them continuing to pay attention to their surroundings is getting smaller.
Currently, Wu Bolin’s situation is not good.
In fact, it could be described as downright bad.
He dug for over a thousand meters before finally reaching the rock layer and the mysterious entrance, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t even take a step inside.
He knew that what was blocking his path was a very profound formation.
He poured all his energy into the flying sword, trying to penetrate the invisible and intangible array. But the flying sword, usually as sharp as cutting iron, was now completely unable to penetrate the void.
If this formation were likened to the entrance of a fortress made of high-quality steel, then my cultivation and strength would be nothing compared to it, not even as good as a toothpick.
He would probably be frustrated if, after digging through more than a thousand meters of ice, he discovered that it was all just a hallucination.
However, after digging for over a thousand meters and confirming that this was a legacy left by a sage before the end of the Dharma era, he found that he could no longer get any closer. This feeling was far worse than frustration, and even made him almost faint.
Wu Bolin was extremely anxious. In his search for a possible mechanism, he mobilized his spiritual energy to expand the space around the cave entrance. Now, the bottom had been carved into a slanted-roofed space like a giant tent, completely exposing the dark rock layers.
He tried cutting and carving around it with his flying sword, but to his surprise, although he could easily cut through the surface rock, once he reached the plane parallel to the cave entrance, the rock became a thousand times harder than steel.
He had tried his best, but his flying sword couldn’t even leave a scratch on the flat rock.
This formation protects not just one entrance, but the entire field starting from that entrance.
Although he didn’t know exactly how large the craft was, he knew that the enemy formation must be a three-dimensional space, like a large square box. Outside this square box, the rocks were just rocks, but once inside the square box, the rocks were just illusions.
In addition, the defensive capabilities of this formation are very strong.
Although Wu Bolin’s cultivation level wasn’t as high as Victoria’s, Victoria wasn’t that strong in front of him. If he killed Victoria, and she didn’t fight back but simply defended, he wouldn’t be able to survive his flying sword attack unscathed.
It’s like humans, even though they are much stronger than mosquitoes, mosquitoes can still penetrate human skin with their proboscises.
But this situation has completely changed Wu Bolin’s understanding.
Wu Bolin even felt that even military missiles might not be able to shake the area protected by this formation.
After all, his flying sword, if used at full power, could easily penetrate any modern military armor, but it was nothing but an ant in front of this stone.
Therefore, it is clear that even if an atomic bomb were to be detonated on this rock surface, nothing beneath that plane would likely be harmed in the slightest.
Trying to break in? You can’t even get a single hair in.
Outsmarting them? The entire formation was impenetrable, with only one surface entrance and no visible mechanisms, so there was absolutely no chance of outsmarting them.
Someone capable of creating such a formation must possess powers approaching that of a god. How could a cultivator like me, who hasn’t even opened the Niwan Palace, possibly shake it? It’s as if humans are gods, and I’m just an ant!
Wu Bolin also considered giving up.
However, he sadly realized that whether he kept trying or gave up, it had nothing to do with the formation.
Persistence is just a one-man show, not related to team building, and giving up now would be futile.
There’s nowhere else to go outside, so even if I give up, I still have to stay here.
However, previously they were in an ice cave tens of meters deep; now, they were in an ice cave thousands of meters deep.
Realizing his own insignificance, Wu Bolin sat on the cold stone in deep despair, feeling completely helpless and on the verge of tears.
His hand touched the smoothed stone, and a serious problem that he had previously ignored suddenly crossed his mind.
When the Japanese research team reported to him, they told him about the geological structure of Antarctica.
Under the ice layer, at a depth of one thousand to two thousand meters, there is rock, but these one thousand to two thousand meters are not entirely ice.
Due to geothermal activity beneath, there are actually lakes and rivers beneath the ice sheet.
But when I dug down to the rocks, they were all solid ice, without a single drop of water flowing.
The rock layers that should have geothermal activity are also very cold.
A terrifying thought suddenly occurred to him: Could this formation not only be impenetrable, but also protect against the heat of the Earth’s core?!