While flying in the sky on a helicopter from the Iceland Coast Patrol, Dr. Mahn and Ryan were staring at the complex data on the screen with serious expressions.

"Dr. Maien, look..."

Looking down along Ryan's finger, Main frowned immediately.

Not far below the helicopter, a large area of ​​glaciers appeared in depressions, which in Dr. Maihan's eyes meant that there was a crack below the glacier.

"Is this happening before?"

“This happened six years ago.”

Ryan nodded.

A crack appears below the glacier, which means that the heat energy is gradually dissolving the ice layer. There is only one possibility in this situation, and the volcano is about to erupt.

"It should be the latest."

Dr. Maihan sighed.

"... Do you need to notify the Meteorological Bureau? Let them issue a warning and evacuate nearby people urgently."

"We still cannot grasp the specific time, which may be tomorrow or the next week, but the evacuation is imminent, the faster the better."

"Wait, what's the sound?"

Suddenly, Ryan's ears stood up.

Maien also heard it immediately, a bit like a dull drum sound, and a bit like someone covering his ears. Before he could think too much, he suddenly saw a rift between two glaciers two miles away in front of the helicopter. In just over a dozen seconds, the rift that tore through the glacier reached hundreds of meters long.

"No, let's leave here quickly."

Dr. Maihan was shocked and shouted loudly.

The pilot also realized something was wrong, and nodded when he heard the order from Dr. Maihan, and wanted to deflect and leave here.

Unfortunately, this order came a little late.

As soon as Dr. Mai's speech fell, an orange-red magma exploded and erupted to a height of hundreds of meters. Stones and fiery magma poured down like rain, falling on the surrounding glaciers and snow.

The power of the magma erupted from this jet is equivalent to the T·NT explosion of thousands of tons. The helicopter is more than a mile away and feels the shock wave turbulence that follows. The fuselage shaking, as if it will lose control and fall down the next moment.

Fortunately, the pilot's driving skills were very superb. He held the rudder tightly and his big face was covered with cold sweat.

"boom!"

Another magma erupted from the ground and into the glacier crack. The magma exploded almost 200 meters high. The black mushroom clouds formed rapidly and soon formed mushroom-shaped volcanic ash clouds at an altitude of more than 7,000 meters.

The cracks on the ground were still extending, and in a few blinks, the cracks extended to as many as two thousand meters.

The magma erupted underground, like a champagne wine breaking out of the cover under high pressure. It seemed extremely gorgeous, but it revealed countless dangers. Helicopters dared not get close to the location of the volcanic explosion. Not to mention the shock wave of the explosion almost made the helicopter lose control. Even the countless tiny volcanic ash floating in the air have the effect of causing the engine to malfunction.

After the helicopter flew seven or eight miles away, looking back, he could see the mushroom cloud in the sky. Everyone looked pale, and they felt that it was too exciting to contact the god of death for the first time in their lives.

Soon, within an hour, after reporting the situation here, the entire Iceland entered a state of security, especially the people in the danger zone of volcanic eruption, even in their morning sleep, were awakened by the rapid phone ringtone, warning them to evacuate immediately.

Farms, towns, and houses, tens of thousands of people in danger zones quickly packed up their belongings and evacuated them quickly.

Perhaps volcanic magma cannot threaten the people outside, but this eruption of 900 tons of volcanic ash erupts every second, which will make the ash in the dangerous area reach 15 cm thick within a few days. Such heavy ash may even crush the house and cause huge danger. Not to mention that the ash will completely shut down the airplanes, cars, and motorcycles. Even ordinary walking will be like walking in cement, and the evacuation will become very slow.

Countless floating volcanic ash that is sucked into the lungs can also cause diseases such as pulmonary edema. The tiny volcanic ash is actually tiny rocks with sharp edges. It is conceivable what kind of terrible outcome will be caused by inhaling into the lungs.

This volcanic eruption came too quickly, and the power of nature could not be stopped by anyone. Dr. Maihan sighed at the evacuated people.

"Dr. Maien, we have no other way."

Ryan said disgustedly.

"If we can make accurate predictions earlier, it may be possible to reduce the losses for everyone as much as possible."

Now, in order to evacuate urgently, many things have to be abandoned, such as so many cattle and sheep will have to be lost regretfully.

"Dudu..."

The phone suddenly rang, Mahone frowned and looked at the caller ID, and answered the phone in confusion.

"Who are you……"

“…”

"Okay, I get it, I will come as soon as possible."

"What's wrong, Dr. Maihan?"

Seeing that Mahone's expression was not right, Ryan said worriedly.

"Ryan, I may have to leave tomorrow, so I'll let you deal with it here."

"Well, are you going back if you have something to do?"

"No, I'm going to Canada."

"Canada?" Ryan looked at the worried Dr. Maihan in shock. This was the first time he saw Dr. Maihan's expression so abnormal.

...

Two days later, Mahone took a local car to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada after flight turnover.

This fifth largest city in Ontario is famous for its nickel ore production. It has a long winter here, and it starts snowing in November until April of the following year. Even the summer temperature remains at around 25 degrees Celsius, which is very suitable for summer vacation here.

This is not the first time Mahone has been here. He has acquaintances here, but he hasn't been in touch for a long time. It's not a good thing to contact him this time.

On the side of the road, there are lakes. In addition to nickel ore, there are many lakes in Sudbury, giving people the feeling of lakes surrounding it, but the climate is not humid, but it is very dry.

Mahone drank two bottles of water along the way. In addition to the dry climate, he also had uneasiness in his heart.

He was relieved inexplicably when he finally saw the SNO Sudbury Neutrini Observatory from the car window.

An old acquaintance who has not met for five or six years, Held, who is nearly fifty years old, is standing outside the observation station at the gate to welcome Maihn's arrival.

"I haven't seen each other for a long time, my old friend."

The two hugged each other as soon as they met.

"You're much older."

Helder sighed as he looked at Mahone's face.

"That's what people who haven't seen each other for a long time."

Maien smiled bitterly.

"Oh, after hearing what you said, where have you been recently?"

"Iceland, have you seen the latest news?"

"Is it when I called you?"

"Yes, the volcano had just erupted not long ago."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mahn saw a hint of unnaturalness on Helder's face.

“Is the situation bad?”

Mahn asked silently.

"I don't know what to say, but it's definitely anomaly."

"Please come with me, Maihan."

The Sudbury Neutrini Observatory was officially opened in May 1999, but it was closed ten years ago in 2006. However, data analysis is still in progress and has not been truly abandoned.

When the two walked into the observation station, Helder had already introduced the situation of the observation station to Mahone, including him, and seven others were working here.

"It was about two weeks ago that there was an abnormality in our survey data."

"At that time, I thought it might be a data error or a photomultiplier tube failure, but after troubleshooting, these possibilities were eliminated..."

The elevator the two of them slowly settled down and landed towards the underground, which was 2,100 meters deep.

"In the past 1850 days, we had no problem with our survey data, but starting two weeks ago, we surveyed five times the neutrinos we used to..."

"How is this possible?"

Mahn changed color slightly.

"Is it caused by solar activity?"

"Well, two weeks ago, the sun's sun spots and flares increased by 5%, which is unusual, especially associated with the neutrino anomalies detected."
Chapter completed!