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Chapter 218 The Tower of Antarctica

Olina Kristoff stood on the frozen continent, the icy wind whipping across her cheeks. She exhaled, and the moisture condensed into frost inside her cotton Barakfa hat.

Amelansi's scientific expedition to Antarctica began a year ago, several months ago, when explorers who were making their first contact with Antarctica set foot on this continent, a frozen continent.

Here, everything is ruled by ice and snow and fierce winds, and even the strongest humans find it difficult to survive. Only during the summer in the Southern Hemisphere and the winter in the Northern Hemisphere can this continent find some peace and quiet.

"Just keep walking."

Behind her, a large orange-red ship was docked at the shore. Nowadays, most ships use magical engines or steam turbines, but the unique steel hull of Amelansi allows modern explorers to have a ship strong enough to withstand storms.

The use of new power technologies and radio communications has made exploration safer than ever before. Generations of explorers have sacrificed and survived, leaving behind valuable experience for future generations. Now, the latest generation of explorers is trekking through mountains and rivers, about to measure the world beneath their feet.

A member of the expedition took a bite of the dried meat patty in his hand. Chicken, beans, vegetables and spices were crushed, dried and bound together to make today's rations. It is a ration that combines local Burnian flavors and traditions with modern food science from Emerin.

If we're talking about Antarctica, this continent was originally conceived by Alice. In her imagination, the North and South Poles, being the outermost latitudes, must have vast ice-covered continents. The Amelansi planet plan that Raffarin Low dictated to Alice, along with a continental distribution map from 10,000 years ago, further proves the existence of Antarctica.

Alice didn't tell Lavinia what was in Antarctica, while Raffarin Low wanted these new humans to discover the legacy of the old civilization themselves.

"Great Discovery, this is Olina, please report the weather conditions, over."

The communication line crackled with static before ringing out: "This is the Great Discovery. The wind speed is currently 5 meters per second and is weakening. Visibility is recovering. Over."

"Received, Great Discovery. What is the status of Camp Echo? Over."

"Well, the scientists are working on it. The current conclusion is that they are all man-made structures. That's all."

After landing on the Antarctic continent, the first facility the scientific expedition team discovered was a facility named "Echo" base. When the base was first discovered, its exit was located in a pit four meters deep and about five square meters in size, and the entrance was like a hole.

But it wasn't until a team of researchers was forced to enter due to Antarctic winds that its interior was revealed—under the ice and snow was a metallic structure, so ancient that no one knew what era it was from.

However, it was precisely because of the discovery of this underground structure that the Amellan West Antarctic expedition team was able to have a small foothold on this dangerous icy continent. The expedition team renovated this small underground structure, built shelters, housed the scientific team, and erected a towering communication tower at the entrance.

However, the "Echo" camp is located on the edge of the continent, while the expedition team's goal is the depths of the Antarctic continent—in the depths of Antarctica, towering mountains gleam with metallic light, and in the boundless snowfields, the expedition team will occasionally discover more ruins. Many of these ruins are too ancient, but even so, they can still identify traces of civilization through the remaining artifacts.

"It's hard to imagine that such a dangerous place would have such a building... Sigh, I thought this was a mission to explore nature, but I never expected it to be a ruin."

The massive alloy structure pierced through the ice and snow, standing silently in the snowfield like a tombstone. Behind the unnamed alloy beam, there was a second structure buried in the snow, most of which were twisted and deformed due to external forces.

The snowstorm gradually subsided. In the summer of Antarctica, the sun hung askew on one side. Several demons wielding pickaxes and shovels dug through the snow, revealing the surface of Antarctica—a man-made structure. One after another, tightly interlocked printed blocks formed the surface of the earth. The components made by the pre-civilization had been weathered by thousands of years and were no longer recognizable, but their power was still evident.

"Great Discovery, report on the current weather conditions?"

"Uh, the wind has picked up again, the wind speed is now...14...per second, the wind...is increasing, a blizzard is expected...do you need to retreat...The End..."

The communication equipment was covered by static. Olina looked up and saw that the weather was clear, but when she turned around, she found that in the direction of the sea, the sky was dark and gloomy, as if it were shrouded in a storm.

"Do you want to go back?"

Olina frowned, but when she turned to look in the direction of the center of Antarctica, she saw a scene she would never forget.

The sled dragged along the ground. Olina lifted her goggles, picked up the binoculars on her chest, and looked into the distance—the massive mountains in the center of Antarctica were clearly visible. She looked up and saw the giant tower, buried by wind and snow, broken yet stubbornly standing there.

"Is that... a tower?"

Someone exclaimed in alarm, saying that legend had it that all the tribes had built a tower to unite them, a tower that would reach the heavens, but some people, unwilling to let the creatures on earth unite, destroyed the tower.

In the church's scriptures, they attributed the destruction of the tower to the betrayal of the demons.

In the legends of the elves, they viewed the collapse of the tower as the wrath of nature.

Among the dwarves, the collapse of the tower was attributed to a deficiency in their steel-forging technology.

All ethnic groups have this legend, but who would have thought that the tower really exists? The white tower stands there, reaching straight into the sky.

Orina's eyes lingered on the tower for a long time. She strode forward, leading the group toward the tower, which soared into the clouds and appeared as beautiful as a dazzling jewel in the explorers' eyes.

They had no idea what awaited them; the tower was beyond their wildest imagination, and could only be reached by braving dangerous ice and storms.

A line of footsteps meandered forward through the snow. Olina probably never imagined that what they discovered today would change everything. On the outer wall of the tower, buried by wind and snow, were written in a language they could understand yet could not comprehend: "Aimelan West Star Antarctic Dock Elevator Facility".