295: Chapter 295: They Discovered a City in Antarctica

In the livestream room, countless bullet comments surged in like a tide.

"What exactly happened during those three missing hours?"

"And the UFO attack seven days later must be related to this."

"Richard Byrd—the one the Antarctic research station is named after—I found him online."

"Could he have entered the hollow earth during those three hours he vanished?"

"Don't dismiss it, person above; it's actually possible."

"..."

A massive amount of speculation filled the screen.

Backstage, even Wang Shulin couldn't help but shake his head, finding it hard to believe.

Although he knew Jiang Zhe was just tutoring his sister, the thought of the potential truth behind it made his hair stand on end.

Xiao Yu took a deep breath, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Jiang Zhe. "Big brother, something definitely happened during those missing three hours, right?"

Jiang Zhe nodded slightly, took another sip of his sugar-free Sprite, and then continued speaking:

"That's right, and all of this was written by Richard Byrd in his private diary."

He opened his tablet and, with a few swipes, found the yellowed diary written entirely in English from the international web.

He began to explain while incorporating his own storytelling style:

"On the morning of February 19, 1947, Byrd was piloting a B-29 bomber, taking off from the Little America base in Antarctica to perform a routine survey mission."

Xiao Yu held her breath, listening intently.

"Besides him, there was a radio operator on the plane. Everything was normal at first until around 9:10 AM. When the plane reached an altitude of about 800 meters, Byrd noticed strange yellow and purple stripes on the ice below."

"So he turned the plane to take a closer look, and that's when the unexpected happened."

At this moment, his tone gradually became extremely serious.

"The magnetic compass and gyrocompass on the plane began to spin wildly, the needles twitching erratically. The flight direction was locked in place, completely out of his control. He was terrified and tried to call for help via radio, only to find that the radio had also failed."

"In desperation, Byrd tried to use the sun compass to determine his direction, but it was all in vain."

Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes widened as she asked impatiently, "And then?"

"At 9:15 AM, Byrd vaguely saw some mountain peaks in the distance."

"He thought it was very strange at the time. How could there be mountains on the Antarctic ice sheet? Shouldn't it be a vast expanse of ice? Moreover, he was certain that the direction he was just flying in was flat and mountainless. However, the even stranger part was yet to come."

"About 30 minutes later, at 9:49 AM, the plane flew over that small mountain."

"The moment he crossed the mountain peak, Byrd was completely stunned."

At this point in the story, he nodded slightly, his gaze falling on Xiao Yu's widening eyes.

"What appeared before him was actually a green plain, and there was even a small river flowing through it, with dense green forests on both sides."

As soon as he said this, the livestream room exploded with activity.

"What? An oasis in Antarctica?"

"Are you kidding me? Antarctica is an ice sheet!"

"Could Admiral Byrd have been seeing a hallucination?"

"Holy crap, this is a bit creepy. Could it be like 'one year in the mountains is a thousand years in the world'?"

"..."

Clearly, the viewers were shocked by this claim.

With Robert having come forward to verify things earlier, receiving this claim now gave them a spine-chilling feeling.

Inside the principal's office, all four people were shivering, shrinking their necks, finding it all inconceivable!

On the other side, in the faculty residential compound of the University of History in Kyoto.

When Professor Liu Guangyi heard this, his pupils suddenly constricted. "This... this isn't fabricated."

Professor Chen Runzhi asked with a solemn expression, "Old Liu, what do you mean?"

Professor Liu Guangyi took a deep breath and spoke very quickly. "The theory that there are oases in Antarctica has always been a mystery in the scientific community."

"Later, some ice-free zones were indeed discovered, such as the McMurdo Dry Valleys, which really aren't covered by ice and snow."

"But Byrd was flying in 1947; there was absolutely no data on this back then!"

"More importantly, the mountains and rivers he mentioned were later confirmed to actually exist."

"Beneath Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, there are indeed subglacial lakes and mountains, but how could he have known that at the time?"

Hearing this, Qian Mingyi looked surprised, his gaze filled with horror. "So you're saying that everything he wrote is true?"

Professor Liu Guangyi took a sharp breath and didn't answer, his heart in a state of turmoil.

On the large screen, Jiang Zhe's narration continued.

"Afterward, Byrd lowered his altitude to observe the scene below more closely. He later wrote in his diary: [The light seemed different; I could no longer see the sun.]"

"Then, he saw a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life!"

Jiang Zhe looked at Xiao Yu and said every word clearly:

"On the ground, a group of massive animals appeared. At first, he thought they were elephants, wondering how elephants could be in Antarctica. But upon closer inspection, it was even weirder—they were actually Mammoths!"

Xiao Yu's eyes widened instantly, and she instinctively covered her mouth. "Mammoths? Weren't they extinct long ago?"

Jiang Zhe narrowed his eyes and nodded slightly. "Yes, according to mainstream science, Mammoths went extinct thousands of years ago. But Byrd clearly saw them walking on that oasis."

In the faculty residential compound of the University of History in Kyoto.

Professor Liu Guangyi suddenly stood up. "The first time Mammoth fossils were discovered in Antarctica was in the 1980s—specifically in 1986—when an Antarctic scientific expedition found Mammoth tooth fragments in the Transantarctic Mountains."

"That was the first time humans confirmed that Mammoths once roamed Antarctica!"

Professor Chen Runzhi's eyes widened. "You mean Byrd, back in 1947...?"

"Yes!" Professor Liu Guangyi shook his head repeatedly, still finding it hard to believe. "He couldn't have known. There was no information at the time to tell him there were Mammoths in Antarctica, yet he wrote it down, and he wrote it very clearly."

Qian Mingyi muttered in shock, "In other words, everything he wrote is true!!!"

Professor Wang Shouren pursed his lips, his gaze a bit vacant, but his face was full of smiles. How interesting, simply too interesting!

Then the four professors looked at each other, their eyes filled with curiosity and madness!

On the large screen, Jiang Zhe's narration continued.

"Then Byrd continued flying forward. After another 30 minutes, at 10:30 AM, he noticed the thermometer outside the cabin read 74 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about 23 degrees Celsius."

"At that moment, the navigation instruments suddenly returned to normal, but the radio still had no signal."

Xiao Yu couldn't help but ask, "What happened next?"

Jiang Zhe smiled slightly. "At 11:30 AM, Byrd actually discovered a city ahead!"

As soon as he said this, Xiao Yu, the countless viewers, teachers, and experts all held their breath.

He discovered... a... city???

"According to the records in the diary, it was a shimmering city. The building materials seemed to be some kind of crystal, refracting rainbow-like colors in the light."

"The design style of the entire city, in Byrd's words, was just like something out of a 'Buck Rogers' science fiction comic."

"Just then, the plane's instrument panel began to fail. The aircraft felt as if it had lost its weight, floating in the air, and all controls were completely unresponsive."

Xiao Yu held her breath, forgetting to even close her mouth.

"Just as Byrd felt his life was about to end..."

"Suddenly, in a panic, Byrd saw two disc-shaped aircraft appearing on both sides of his plane. They emitted a soft light and quickly approached him."

In the livestream room, everyone's hearts skipped a beat, and their pupils constricted.

disc-shaped aircraft!

When her big brother asked Xiao Yu earlier what shape the aircraft of Atlantis were, Xiao Yu had said 'disc-shaped' with her own mouth.

It's all connected!

Flying saucers, Atlantis, Antarctica!!!"