I will use the bottomless giant sinkhole as the core scene, combined with unknown alien ecology and abnormal time and space settings, to create a short science fiction story with a full sense of atmosphere.
Sinkhole echo
The end of the Antarctic ice sheet hides mankind's most secret wounds.
In 2147 AD, an exploration team discovered this giant sinkhole with a diameter of 12 kilometers under ten thousand years of ice. It does not belong to glacial erosion, does not belong to geological collapse, or even belongs to any known landform on the earth. The walls of the pit are as smooth as polished black alloy. It plummets three thousand meters vertically and is bottomless. All detection radars will lose their sound instantly when they sink into it, leaving only a dead electromagnetic blank. The scientific community named it the "Abyss of Silence."
I am Lin Ye, the only permanent observer.
The base is built on an ice rock platform on the edge of the sinkhole, with a solitary alloy cabin wrapped in the polar winds that howl all year round. The world's top instruments have been trained on this huge crater, but they have found nothing in ten years. It is eerily quiet, with no wind, no vibration, and no radiation. It is like a black pupil embedded in the texture of the earth, staring silently into the void.
Everyone concluded that this was just an unknown ancient geological wonder with no scientific research value. Funds were withdrawn and personnel were evacuated one after another. In the end, I was left alone, an unnoticed grassroots observer, guarding this hollow and spending endless days and nights.
Until the early morning of that polar night.
The cold wind of minus 71 degrees Celsius suddenly stopped.
This has never happened in ten years. The strong winds of Antarctica are the eternal background sound, but at that moment, the world was dead silent, so quiet that I
