Beneath the Glacier

Chen Mo glanced at the data displayed on the tablet in his hand. The thickness of the ice layer, the depth at which the plane sank, and the extent of damage to the aircraft were all clearly displayed on it.

After learning about the Valkyrie Goddess's situation, Chen Mo put the tablet into his spatial storage and turned to walk towards the ice cliff where Ice Field ice field met the sea.

"Go back first, and proceed according to plan."

Chen Mo said as he walked forward.

"Yes, sir!"

John immediately stepped forward and answered.

Under his gaze, Chen Mo strode to the ice cliff, glanced at the sea below scattered with numerous floating ice floes, and then leaped forward, jumping off the more than twenty-meter-high ice cliff.

"Thump!"

Chen Mo's falling body precisely avoided the scattered ice floes and landed in the cold seawater, splashing up a high wave.

Upon witnessing Chen Mo leap off the ice cliff, John's expression remained unchanged. He immediately obeyed Chen Mo's orders and boarded the fighter jet.

The cockpit canopy slowly closed, HYDRA fighter's engines once again emitted pale blue flames, while the snow on the ground was blown up by the strong airflow and flew everywhere.

The HYDRA fighter jet slowly lifted off the ground and began to accelerate into the air. It quickly rose to an altitude of tens of meters and turned its nose back towards the direction it had come from.

Then, the vertically downward thrusters at the tail of the fighter jet slowly rotated backward, while simultaneously emitting even more intense flames, propelling the fighter jet forward at high speed until it flew into the sky and disappeared from sight.

At this moment, Chen Mo, who had fallen into the sea, continued to dive downwards along the ice cliff.

Beneath the sea, a massive blue glacier stretches out like a majestic giant wall, blocking the seawater from entering.

Below the ice wall, it extended down into the depths of the sea. Chen Mo descended nearly twenty meters along the ice layer before finally reaching the bottom.

Stopping his descent, Chen Mo turned around and swam towards the ice cap. Being under the ice cap felt like being in an upside-down world. The rugged ice surface resembled a rugged land, occupying Chen Mo's entire field of vision, with no end in sight.

Chen Mo's body moved through the seawater like a fish, swimming at an extremely fast speed towards the depths of the ice sheet.

In fact, for ordinary people, Chen Mo's actions at this moment were extremely dangerous.

The ice cap above his head was tens of meters thick, making it impossible to float directly to the surface. To breathe, he had to return the way he came, so the deeper he went under the ice cap, the greater the danger.

It's not just the increased distance; the world beneath the ice is monotonous and vast, with no landmarks to guide the way. It's easy to get lost underwater, and when you try to escape, you find you can't find your way back. Instead, you swim further and further away until you run out of oxygen and suffocate to death underwater.

Even if they don't lose their way, they must return in time when there is enough oxygen. If they go too deep into the ice sheet and only turn back when they find that there is not enough oxygen, they may not be able to make it out of the ice sheet and will suffocate on the way back.

However, Chen Mo was well prepared for this. Not to mention his own strong physical fitness, which was enough to support him to move around underwater for a long time, he also specially prepared enough oxygen cylinders in the space to ensure that he had a sufficient supply of oxygen.

After swimming several hundred meters beneath the ice cap, the monotonous scenery finally changed, and a large expanse of black metallic machines appeared before Chen Mo's eyes.

"Valkyrie Goddess!"

Back then, Chen Mo piloted the Valkyrie Goddess and crashed near a glacier, sinking into the sea and being frozen inside the ice.

However, it was not completely encased in ice. As Chen Mo could see at that moment, a huge wing, more than thirty meters long, stretched out from the ice sheet above and plunged into the seawater below.

This is part of the enormous wings of the Valkyrie Goddess.

After spotting the target, Chen Mo swam directly towards the section of the wing.

After circling the massive wing, which resembled a tall building, several times, Chen Mo quickly discovered a damaged hole beneath the wing.

Taking a waterproof, high-powered flashlight from his spatial storage, Chen Mo turned it on, and a bright, dazzling beam of light shot out from the flashlight, instantly brightening the previously dim space.

Without hesitation, Chen Mo swam directly to the hole and crawled inside.

The pitch-black interior of the plane was illuminated by the beam of a powerful flashlight, allowing Chen Mo to clearly see the scene ahead.

The interior of the wings was filled with seawater, and huge steel frames crisscrossed to support the wings.

Chen Mo passed through the sturdy steel frame and entered the aircraft, swimming along the passageway towards the upper cabin.

Soon, Chen Mo was blocked by an ice wall, and above this ice wall was the cabin of the Valkyrie Goddess.

With his path blocked, Chen Mo had no choice but to stop temporarily.

Several minutes had passed since Chen Mo jumped into the sea. Although he did not feel short of oxygen and could continue for a while, Chen Mo still took out an oxygen tank from his spatial storage and replenished his oxygen supply.

Putting away the oxygen tank, Chen Mo looked up at the ice above again, and at the same time stretched out his right hand, the King's Sword instantly appeared in his hand.

Next, Chen Mo began to chisel through the ice. Under the incomparably sharp King's Sword, the hard ice was sliced off in large chunks as if it were tofu. Chen Mo then stored the slices in his spatial storage and quickly dug out a passage with a diameter of more than one meter, continuing to go deeper into the ice layer.

The ice layer inside the Valkyrie Goddess was very thick. Chen Mo dug upwards for nearly ten meters before finally reaching the end.

As Chen Mo cleaved a large chunk of ice with his final sword strike, the passage was finally opened. However, there was no seawater on this thick layer of ice.

When the Valkyrie Goddess sank into the sea, its overall airtightness was not greatly compromised. Seawater rushed into the aircraft through the damaged parts such as the wings, but it did not completely fill the aircraft. Instead, it formed an air chamber in the upper cabin.

Later, after the plane was frozen in the ice, the seawater below the air chamber froze, forming the ice wall that Chen Mo had just encountered, completely sealing off the cabin area.

Seeing that the passage was open, Chen Mo put away the King's Sword, climbed up from the entrance, and entered the cabin.

The beam of the powerful flashlight illuminated the interior of the cabin. Chen Mo carefully surveyed his surroundings, confirmed his location, and then walked on the smooth ice surface beneath his feet in one direction.

Upon reaching the edge of the ice, Chen Mo was confronted with a slope of nearly thirty degrees. This was the original floor of the cabin, but due to the plane's tilt after sinking into the sea, with one wing raised and the other sinking, the floor inside the cabin also formed a slope of about thirty degrees.

Having been frozen in the sea for seventy years, the bulkheads and the ground were covered with a thick layer of ice. Combined with the tilt of the plane, it was not easy to navigate, but it posed no challenge for the agile Chen Mo.

But instead of walking straight ahead, he stopped in front of the slope.

After removing his soaking wet combat uniform and storing it in his spatial storage, Chen Mo changed into Adamantium Armor and a black combat uniform bearing the marks of battle. He also put on his original M1911 pistol, Vibranium Shield, and other equipment, completely restoring himself to the state he was in when he left.

After confirming that nothing was missing, Chen Mo stepped onto the slope and walked along the passage towards the aircraft control room of the Valkyrie Goddess.

The icy, sloping ground slowed Chen Mo's progress, and it took Chen Mo several minutes to finally reach the control room.

The scene was not much different from the one we had just come from. The entire control room was completely covered in frost. The trap that Baron Strucker had set to imprison him was still there, but the original steel cage had now become an ice cage, and the steel pillars that he had cut off were frozen to the ground.

After surveying the familiar yet unfamiliar surroundings, Chen Mo carefully approached the control panel.

A thick layer of frost had formed on the spacious driver's seat.

Chen Mo cleared all the frost off the chair and put it into his storage space before sitting down.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Mo took out a black box the size of a backpack from his spatial storage and casually tossed it into the air.

After being tossed into the air and a meter away from Chen Mo, a blue light suddenly appeared on the top of the box. Then, its four corners quickly stretched outwards, extending four arms.

As it stretched out, pale blue flames began to shoot out from the ends of its four arms, propelling it to hover steadily in the air.

It turns out that this is actually a foldable small aircraft.

After throwing out the aircraft, Chen Mo took out a tablet computer from his spatial storage and started operating it.

The hovering aircraft, under Chen Mo's control, changed direction and flew back along the route it had come from, quickly returning to the ice cave that Chen Mo had carved out.

As Chen Mo gave the order, a scanning device slowly extended from below the aircraft, emitting a red light net that swept across the ground below.

Then, a folding mechanical arm extended from the front of the aircraft, and after unfolding, it reached into the ice cave below.

Within minutes of Chen Mo leaving, the seawater in the ice cave began to freeze again, and a thin layer of ice had formed on the surface, though it was slightly lower than the original ice surface.

The aircraft's slender robotic arm extended to the point where the thin ice met the ice surface, and the front end immediately began to spray out a white plume of cold air. Upon contact with the thin ice, the air quickly condensed on its surface, gradually increasing its thickness until it was level with the adjacent ice surface.

Subsequently, the robotic arm moved continuously across the ice hole, quickly repairing and smoothing the entire ice hole until it was completely level with the surrounding ice surface.

But it didn't stop there. Next, the cold air emitted from the front of the robotic arm changed and condensed directly into frost in the air, which then fell onto the new ice surface.

When the aircraft finished repairs and flew to Chen Mo's footprints to begin scanning, the ice cave had completely disappeared, leaving no trace on the surface.

Sorry for the lateness, something came up today. I've finally finished writing, time to go to sleep.