As soon as Fang Linyan spoke, Vulture immediately tied the safety rope and took the lead to climb down this deep trench.
The edge of the trench wall here was indeed a lot of weathered rocks. Some looked solid, but they couldn't bear the weight at all. After stepping on them, they would roll down.
However, Vulture now had high agility and perception, which was far beyond ordinary people. Even the world champions of Olympic-related events would be easily defeated by him, so they reached the bottom without any danger.
As soon as Vulture moved, Ma Xier immediately followed. It could be seen that he was really good at rock climbing, and his technique was in place.
His behavior of "follow me" instead of "attack me" made the unruly fellows behind him follow him obediently.
After coming to the bottom of the rift valley, the bottom was indeed a bit desperate. At a glance, there were only dust after removing the rocks.
However, Ma Xier told Fang Linyan that according to his previous experience, he could pay more attention to the traces on the rock wall next to him.
He had read an expedition report on this planet before. The explorer had said that there would be bark-like cracks on the side of the mountain near the water source on this planet.
After exploring about a few hundred meters at the bottom of the deep trench, these people around him also had some complaints — Of course, they were only at the stage of complaining silently.
However, Ma Xier soon seemed to have found something. He took out an instrument the size of a lighter, inserted it directly into the ground, then pressed the button and said to the person next to him,
"30 seconds countdown, prepare for an explosion."
Morris, the team member next to him, immediately said,
“YESSIR！”
Then he took out a high-explosive grenade from his waist and stuffed it under the rock next to him, then he waited for Ma Xier to count down and prepare to pull the ring.
Soon, the grenade exploded directly, and the shock wave generated by the explosion spread out along the rocks and soil. The instrument Ma Xier took out could accurately record the feedback of the shock wave, then accurately map the nearby geological structure.
Soon, the instrument began to buzz, then the indicator light on it began to shine.
"It's out, it's out!" A person next to him said nervously.
As the data collected by the instrument was transferred to the portable A.I., the powerful calculation program began to play its role. The A.I.'s screen immediately displayed a topographic map of the nearby area. The solid lines represented rocks, and the dotted lines represented possible cavities.
Then, the group immediately looked at the left side of the rock wall 30 meters away with anticipation in their eyes. From a geological point of view, they could see that the terrain here was actually similar to a funnel.
On the left side of the rock wall, there was an obvious hole and depression. Everyone present had rich wilderness survival experience, so at a glance, they knew that there was a high possibility of a water source here.
Now that he had a target, it was easy to search for it. Soon, Ma Xier found a well-hidden crack in the mountain.
This crack was originally blocked by a few stones, so it was impossible to see it from the outside. However, after moving the stones away, they discovered that there was an obvious path underneath the crack.
After discovering this point, the group became even more excited. Because this was a very basic reasoning. If there wasn't a water source below, how could the animals trample out a path?
After entering the crack, they discovered that the first few meters were very narrow, but the passage behind became more and more spacious.
Moreover, the passage spiraled downwards. As they walked downwards, they could clearly feel the temperature dropping. A wave of moisture hit their faces, and a faint rotting smell wafted into their nostrils.
After walking down for more than 20 meters, Tucker's headlamp shone on the reflection below. He immediately stopped, pointed his gun at the sky, switched to a flare, and fired a shot at the top.
Instantly, this underground space was illuminated by the rising flare. They could clearly see that 10 meters below them, there was a small pond with a diameter of 30 to 40 square meters. From the geological structure, it could be seen that if there was precipitation, then the accumulated water within a few kilometers would eventually converge to this place.
The pond was roughly 10 square meters, and the water inside was incomparably clear. Even the gravel below could be seen clearly. Of course, this was impossible!
In fact, this pond's surface was covered with a layer of peculiar fish eye duckweed. Its color was a withered yellowish green, giving off a feeling of despair.
And on the surface of the fish eye duckweed, there was even a layer of black mosquitoes and flies hovering. Once a person approached, they would fly up, directly pouncing on his face like a black cloud.
Fortunately, this adventure had the support of a big financial backer, and the adventurer party was fully equipped. They immediately sprayed out the insecticide, instantly rustling the ground.
These dead insect corpses swiftly attracted several gecko-like creatures. They were over 30 centimeters long, but their tails were like scorpions with black barbs. One look and one could tell they weren't to be trifled with. They completely ignored the existence of humans, and directly started to gobble up the insect corpses.
As they neared the pond, the rotting smell became stronger. The vultures in front discovered several snake-like creatures slithering around the pond, one of them even coiled up and hissed.
In view of the fact that they might have the ability to spit poison, Tucker decisively took out the tactical dagger from his waist and greeted them one by one. Finally, Tucker also collected the corpses of these snake-like creatures and said that he would roast them at night. Obviously, this guy's taste was slightly heavy.
In addition, there were some strange creatures that looked like bats hanging on the walls of the cave. When they spread their wings, the area of their wings was at least the size of a washbasin. When they saw the humans enter, they became restless and made a threatening hissing sound.
But the people behind had obviously been on guard against their movements for a long time. After killing 2 of them with bullets, the rest of them obediently admitted defeat, flapped their wings and flew away directly. Fang Linyan turned over the corpses. They had sharp mouthparts like mosquitoes and cicadas, and their claws were also very sharp.
After successfully approaching the water source, everyone still remained vigilant. A team member found something to scratch the water surface and removed the fish eye duckweed on the surface.
They immediately found that there were many rotten small animal corpses soaked in the water source. Some were lizards, some were similar to skunks. These guys most likely ran here to drink water, then they were killed by the predators entrenched here.
If Fang Linyan didn't guess wrongly, the murderer was those bats with spider mouthparts. They could inject venom into the prey's body to paralyze it to death, then soak it in water to accelerate the decomposition. They could use their mouthparts to pierce into the rotten corpse and suck the fermentation juice and spoiled blood in it.
For scavengers, their digestive system had been used to rotten corpses. Fresh flesh and blood would cause them indigestion. This was their processing kitchen.
Tucker seemed very active and cooperative at this time. Obviously, it was because Mahier really found the water at this time. Once he complained to Deacon, he would be in big trouble, so he wanted to make up for his mistake at this time.
So he took the lead to lean down and began to take the water sample with a bucket. Ugh, this water doesn't look much different from the Yellow River water.
The water of the Yellow River was a bowl of water and half a bowl of sand. The water source here was a bowl of water with half a bowl of larvae, parasites, humus, fish eye duckweed, and mysterious floccules …
Fang Linyan looked at this thing and felt that if it wasn't a last resort, he would never drink it.
But at this time, Tucker directly began to take off his shoes and socks, then he hastily scrubbed the socks and soaked one end in the water of the small bucket, while the other end went around the rim of the bucket and laid on top of it in the shape of a "few".
Due to the siphon effect, droplets of water fell from the sock that was suspended in the air. The water droplets looked very clear. However, Fang Linyan was still not interested at all, not only because he didn't believe in this simple filtration method, but also because that was the sock that Tucker had worn for 3 days!
Because he only needed to test the water quality, he only took about a glass of water before stopping. Then, after Tucker added a little special purification agent into it, he began to use the instrument to test the relevant index. Soon, he cheered and said,
"OK, chroma < 5, turbidity < 3, no harmful substances detected, reaching the III standard, qualified!"
Then Tucker did something that surprised Fang Linyan. He picked up the glass of water and drank it, then he said to Morris who was recording next to him,
"Write it down, there is no taste."
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