"Mr. Tyme didn't move, but when the monster appeared, a retired soldier ran to his tent and took out the large rectangular box he always carried with him. The box was more than two meters long, and it was placed with a set of drilling equipment. No one knew what was inside.
"It wasn't until that night that Mr. Tym opened the box and revealed the mystery. There was a sickle in the box. Its shape was very exaggerated, and the hilt was extremely long. It looked very funny when matched with Mr. Tym's slightly plump body. After he took out the sickle, he muttered, 'I'll just have to make do with it. Who asked this thing to belong to me in modern times?' After he said that, I didn't see how he swung the sickle, but the ugly monster's body suddenly split in two. It split down the middle, like a piece of butter that had been sliced by a hot knife.
Mr. Time took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the red, blood-like substance on the scythe. Then, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Since you're here, don't hide and watch the show." I noticed that after he said that, two figures flashed on a small iceberg not far away. I didn't know if my eyes were playing tricks on me, because the two figures looked like two walking octopuses.
"Mr. Tyme's body still didn't move, but this time, I noticed that in addition to his sickle, there was some dark green liquid on his clothes. During this time, my eyes didn't leave him at all. God knows how the dark green liquid appeared there."
He sighed and mumbled, 'I don't like to fight in front of other people's houses. That's why I've endured until now. You guys have to force me. Why do you have to do this? Fortunately, I'm fast enough. I don't think I'll be noticed by that guy down there.' Then, he put the sickle back into the box and resumed his smiling face. He turned to us and happily announced that the danger was over. We didn't need to worry about being ambushed anymore.
"Then, without waiting for us to answer, he asked four retired soldiers to carry the monster's body on the ground. They poured fuel on it and lit it on fire. After they burned the thing, I saw two more soldiers carrying fuel and walking to the iceberg. Soon, a column of smoke rose from there.
"Who wants some more grilled octopus tentacles tonight? Okay, I was just kidding. I could tell that Mr. Tym was in a good mood, and he was still in the mood to tell a lame joke. In fact, the previous scene had scared most of us out of our wits. Even now, we still hadn't recovered from the shock, especially the biologist. The dead monster must have brought back some bad memories, and he was so scared that he peed his pants.
"However, no one in the camp laughed at him because we all felt the same way. Of course, maybe the Chinese couple was the exception. I noticed that the way they looked at Mr. Tym became a little strange, as if they were looking at a rare species. I felt that they were even more interested in Mr. Tym than the monster. They even whispered their opinions to each other. Once again, I was annoyed that I had never learned Chinese before.
"So, I could only beg the doctor to ask them for more information. Unfortunately, this time, they didn't reveal any useful information. But as Mr. Tym said, after the monster and the things hiding in the dark were dead, no one came to stop us. Since we didn't have to worry about them anymore, the efficiency of the search increased. Finally, we found the entrance to the ancient ruin two weeks later.
"It's located under an iceberg, and it took us ten days to find it. At that time, I couldn't believe my eyes because we couldn't find any trace of it after such a long time, and we lost the geologist along the way. At one point, I suspected that we might never find it again. Speaking of which, it's all thanks to Mr. Time that we were able to find this place. He was the one who pointed the way for the expedition.
"After the last attack, I suspected that Mr. Tym had discovered something from the two things hiding in the dark. Before that, we were running around like headless flies, trying our luck. After that day, he firmly told us to go this way. Even when we encountered an iceberg and suspected that we were going in the wrong direction, he simply told us to prepare tools and equipment to break the ice.
"We used a lot of explosives. One of the retired soldiers seemed to be an expert in explosives. Every time, he was the one who blew up the ice first before we started digging. In ten days, we dug about two hundred meters down. Finally, through the ice, we could vaguely see a strange city below.
"The city had huge stone pillars and twisted buildings. The structure of the buildings was often very inconsistent with Euclidean geometry. Whether it was the spatial structure or the size of the buildings, it brought a strong sense of discomfort. Just one look at it would make people anxious and nauseous. What made us even more uneasy was that the scene below was very similar to what we saw in our dreams.
"After we saw the city under the ice, Mr. Tym forbade us from using any explosives. Everyone could only use ice picks to dig bit by bit. Although we were still quite a distance away from the city, even Mr. Tym joined in, so the others had nothing to say. I could feel the excitement and urgency in his eyes. It was as if he was afraid of disturbing something below.
"After that, we dug for a week. My hands were so sore that they had blisters. Finally, we dug an ice tunnel that was wide enough for one person to pass through. The amazing thing was that I didn't see any buildings that looked like a dome, but it was as if there was something separating the city from the layer of ice above. There was no more ice below the stone pillar.
"I even saw moss on the pillars. It's just that everything here looks deathly still and full of a damp and gloomy aura. Mr. Tym looked around at the people around him, then looked at me, Dr. Baker, the Chinese couple, and the climatologist. He then asked, 'Who is willing to help me go down there?'
"Seeing that none of us said anything, he explained, 'I want to go down by myself, but for some reason, I can't do that. It's the same for my men. So I hope that some of you can volunteer to go down and take some samples for us. I will reward you handsomely after it's done."
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