Go through the underground passage and find the caves. Reptilian underground cities

Connor's adventures in Assassin's Creed 3 take place in two major cities in America, Boston and New York, as well as outside them, in the Frontier and the Davenport estate. Assassins help to overcome huge distances fast travel points, which replaced the "travel stations" from the previous parts of the game. Now you don't need to pay for their use, but another problem has appeared - finding and activating. Initially, all fast travel points are hidden from the global map of cities and surrounding lands, which prompts the exploration of unfamiliar territories. Of course, you can do without them, but then, in order to cross the territory, you will have to use the transitions between locations, which are usually located at the edges of the map, and this is extremely inconvenient when you need to quickly get to a certain area.

All fast travel points in Assassin's Creed 3, they open after visiting dungeons, that is, they cannot be activated outside. Each dungeon has several exits in different areas of the location: in Boston - 10, in New York - 11, in the Frontier - 4, in the Davenport estate - 1. Some of the exits are closed with locks that are to be found, others are protected by more advanced mechanisms - magic lanterns (Freemasons' puzzle) and iron doors. Flashlights are hacked by choosing the right combination of four lenses. Books (collections of Masonic texts) with descriptions of the device and the rules of organization, which lie on tables or on the floor in the same rooms where the mechanism is installed, protecting the exit from the dungeon, are used as tips when hacking the magic lanterns. When correct lens combination will be picked up, the door will become available for interaction.

When exploring dungeons, you need to pay attention to rats, walls, manholes, elevators, levers, barrels of gunpowder (to clear passages to inaccessible places); all these tips will help you find the right path and activate fast travel point... The barrels of gunpowder are hidden in secluded places, to blow them up and clear the way, you need to aim at the barrel (key [F]), and shoot (key [Q]). Do not forget that eagle vision can help you see marks in the form of arrows on the walls. Also remember to light the lights on the walls of the dungeons along the way for easier orientation in narrow corridors. For the first time, it will be possible to get into the underground part of cities during the development of the main plot of Assassin's Creed 3.

Boston dungeon map with fast travel points in Assassin's Creed 3:

Solving magical lantern puzzles in Boston's dungeons in Assassin's Creed 3:

  1. : north - globe; east - steering wheel; south - scales; west - cross.
  2. : north - crown; east - Vitruvian man; south - a compass and a ruler with the letter "G"; west - a branch of a fern.
  3. : north - compass and ruler with the letter "G"; east is a male symbol; south - scales; west is a female symbol.

New York City dungeon map with fast travel points in Assassin's Creed 3:

Solving magical lantern puzzles in New York City dungeons in Assassin's Creed 3:

  1. : north - a pyramid with an eye; east - crown; south - a compass and a ruler with the letter "G"; west - eagle.
  2. : north - sun; east - a compass and a ruler with the letter "G"; south - scales; west is a masculine symbol.
  3. : north - a pyramid with an eye; east - scales; south - jester; west - cross.
In the Frontier, points for fast travel are the three village shops and Connor's home village (after liberating the forts, they can also be used for fast travel). Markers sometimes fail at shops. To correct misbehavior, you need to go inside the store and exit. If this does not help, then you need to update the game with a patch to the latest version.

Film: "Underground Silence". Search for treasure in the cave. What can be found in the cave. Search with a metal detector in the Hunting Cave, near the village of Goloustnoye, Irkutsk region. What finds were made in the cave. Written by Rudolf Kavchik.


During the study of underground labyrinths, traces of human presence were found. At the beginning of the last century, the shores of Lake Baikal were densely populated. Buryat uluses and letniki were adjacent to Russian fishing villages. Now from many of them only the lower rims and the remains of the cellars remain. The study of these areas of metal detectors, as a rule, did not lead to significant finds.

Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the surrounding villages vied with each other about the exceptional wealth of those who once lived in this territory. Where has the wealth disappeared? On this score, the local population has its own version.


The dashing times of dispossession of hardworking men have come to distant Siberian corners on the shores of Lake Baikal. Without waiting for people in leather jackets and with Mauser to take away the good they had acquired, the man loaded two carts early in the morning and went into the forest. He returned in the evening with empty carts. The neighbors whispered, but they could only guess what the neighbor could take and where. The further fate of the man is unknown. Where he went is now a legend.


Where can you hide two carts, so much so that the good does not disappear in the damp earth? One logical answer suggests itself: in a cave. There are enough of them along the shores of Lake Baikal. One of these caves is located in the village of Maly Goloustnoye. According to the stories of local residents, the children periodically climbed into it and brought either a sword or a rifle. When they brought a combat grenade, they decided to blow up the cave.

The entrance is now closed. In the same area there is a cave in which peasants dissatisfied with the Soviet regime were hiding. Only the exact place where it is located has already been forgotten - the last witnesses have died.


The cave, which we decided to visit, was discovered quite recently, in 2006. Before that, only a limited circle of local hunters knew about it. We decided to explore this cave in search of a treasure.

The cave is located between Maly Goloustnoye and Bolshoy Goloustnoye, about 8 kilometers from the road, three of which must be walked along a well-trodden path (you cannot drive to the cave by car).


The entrance to the cave is impressive in size - even if you call in by car. Upon entering the cave, you immediately find yourself in a huge hall. There is not enough light from the headlamps to illuminate the vaults of the hall. Only the powerful lamp of our camera's on-camera light illuminated the cave with an even, all-filling light. We were amazed at the beauty and grandiose scale of the hall. It is truly large, the size of a basketball court.

The bottom of the cave is covered with a thick layer of stone fragments. It is difficult to follow them. What is the depth of the rocks and where is the bottom of the cave? It is not difficult to make a cache in such a pile of stones. You can quickly and without a trace hide anything under them. No trace remains on bare stones: sprinkled with pebbles - and the treasure will be completely hidden from strangers. You can pass over it and not even guess about its existence.


We examine the bottom of the cave with a metal detector, poking the coil into the most accessible places between the stones in the hope that if there is a large volume of metal, we will find it. In such conditions it is impossible to find a small box or a handful of coins - the depth between the stones is too great, even for a modern metal detector. Two corridors lead from the first large hall into the depths of the cave. You feel like a head of cheese. Galleries and vertical fireplaces intersect at different levels, making it easy to get lost here. The moves are beautiful and tempting, but hardly anyone would hide their treasures in such a dangerous place. Here you would not get stuck yourself and not get lost.


The stone floor began to alternate with dense clay, on which the clear prints of our boots remained. Strikingly far from the entrance to the cave, a terrible hall opens - its floor is strewn with animal skeletons. Why did they get into this cave, into the dark hall of skeletons? Nobody killed these animals. They lie in the same positions in which death found them. The microorganisms of the cave destroyed the flesh alien to the underworld, leaving only bare bones.

Bats sleep peacefully on the high vault of the skeleton hall. All winter they will sleep upside down and wake up only with the appearance of the first insects. The temperature in the cave is constant all year round - about zero. So, they are not afraid of severe Siberian frosts.

Moving through the cave, I tried to detect at least some human presence: rock paintings, soot of torches on the arches of the corridors. The metal detector was silent. We did not find any rock carvings, except perhaps modern coins in one of the halls, left by visitors to the cave (probably to return to this beauty, or this is an offering to the underground spirit of the cave).


According to the reports of archaeologists conducting excavations in caves, they find convincing evidence of human life in caves: stone tools of work and life, animal bones. But there is a main difference between the work of archaeologists and treasure hunting. Treasure hunters with a metal detector are not interested in such small household finds, and it is impossible to find such small household items in the age-old layers of the cave bottom with a metal detector. And the metal detector does not react at all to the monuments of the Stone Age, and the treasure hunter will pass by them. This circumstance excludes the destruction of archaeological sites, and if treasure hunters inform scientists about their accidental finds, science will be of great benefit.

A narrow manhole, through which we squeezed with difficulty, led into a small room, which was connected to a huge hall. We looked at this hall from the upper gallery. The headlamps were barely enough to illuminate him. Looking at all this splendor, we remembered the heroes of Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who, like us, explored a mysterious cave in search of treasure.


After some time, we were blocked by a small, 5-meter ledge with a negative angle of inclination, which descended into the next hall. It was impossible to descend into it without a rope. After overcoming this obstacle and going into the next hall, we heard a lingering signal from the metal detector, which made everyone flinch with surprise. The signal is long and inconsistent. Looks like something long underground. A gun or a knife? I cannot find the object with the pinpointer. And I can't understand why. There is not enough pinpointer sensitivity. But he can detect a target at a depth of 10-15 centimeters. What is this? I am lost in conjecture. I hope this is at least a flintlock left by the hunters. Unfortunately, we were disappointed: someone scattered a handful of aluminum rivets in this place, so the signal was unstable and over a large area.

Moving further along underworld, we ended up in a small room, which was given a tasty name - Condensed. Not otherwise, once upon a time there flowed rivers of milk with jelly banks. It is impossible to resist not to taste and make sure that this is really not condensed milk. After walking a little more along the high corridor, we found ourselves on the threshold of a huge hall, the size of a small football field. Even the powerful on-camera light could not illuminate this entire hall.

A small lake in the recess of the hall was filled with clean, transparent water. And the water is not ice cold at all, but quite normal, 25 degrees. So it seemed. Examining this hall with a rocky floor, I did not even expect any finds - it was too far from the entrance, at least 40 minutes walk, if you know the way.

The loud signal of the metal detector echoed in this stately hall. Rather curiosity guided me than the hope of finding treasures. Rather, it is a bank or batteries left by cavers. But the find amazed not only my companions, but also me. It turned out to be a silver coin the size of a small coffee spoon, at the end of which was attached a silver dozen of the 19th century; it was not possible to make out exactly the year. How did she get here? Maybe these are the remains of that same man's treasure? Who knows…

Our expedition is coming to an end. What other secrets will the hunting cave reveal to future explorers? Perhaps someone will find the man's treasure in one of the well-camouflaged secret rooms or open another cave, hitherto hidden from human eyes.

Rudolf Kavchik,

Newspaper "Treasure hunter. Gold. Treasures. Treasures", November, 2013

On Sunday we went with the guys to Diyevka - a remote residential area of \u200b\u200bDnepropetrovsk, built up with private houses.
This village has been known since the Cossack times. Among the locals, there are even legends about underground passages, in which ancient treasures are hidden.
Here we went to the Dieva dungeons on Sunday. True, we were not looking for treasures, but an ice cave, discovered there during one of the night car quests a couple of winters ago.
The entrance to the dungeons is located near the railroad embankment, among the trees and bushes that grow on the sides of a large wasteland, used as a football field during the warmer months.
A small hole in the ground, lined with granite stones on the sides.

Right next to the entrance, there is a pile of rubbish lying at the bottom - traces of the life activity of the Diy population. But, as soon as this barricade is overcome, you find yourself in an underground passage.

It is also lined with granite stones and steps downward.

Back view

Its length is under a hundred meters, and it goes into a large underground room, part of the city's hydraulic communications.
Here is the ice cave with a waterfall!

True, despite the fierce winter weather that has been in Dnepropetrovsk for the last month, the ice there is very thin, fragile, you cannot stand on it. There, of course, it is shallow, but all the same it would not be pleasant to have wet knee-deep legs in mid-February.
So I had to admire the frozen artificial waterfall only from a distance.

However, our friend, who lives not far from these places, offered to approach him from the other side. He knew the approaches there. So we moved to the other side of the railroad and ended up on the edge of a beam.

View of Diyevka

We went down and found ourselves at the entrance to the tunnel.

The ice on this side was thick enough.

But we managed to walk along it just under a hundred meters. Only a little bit remained to the waterfall, but it was impossible to go further - the ice became thin again.

We returned to the air, got up, got into the car and went to warm up at McDonald's.
We will return to Diyevka in the spring. There is something to see and something to show!


E.V. Kovrizhnykh


CAVE SEARCH METHODOLOGY
(work experience of Leningrad cavers)

Of the 20 expeditions conducted in the Arkhangelsk region by the Leningrad section of speleology (LSS) from 1966 to 1974, 12 expeditions were exploratory, i.e. such, the main task of which was to search for previously unknown cavities and to draw on a topographic map of the discovered entrances to the caves.

Summarizing the experience of the LSS search expeditions in the Pinega Territory, a number of useful conclusions can be drawn about the peculiarities of these expeditions, about the most probable locations of the entrances to the Pinega caves, about signs indicating the possibility of an entrance to the underground cavity at this point.

The main karst rocks of the Pinega region are gypsum and anhydrite, they contain all the caves found in this area. Therefore, it is natural that the first condition for planning an active search for underground cavities in a particular area of \u200b\u200bthe surface was the presence in this place of a more or less thick gypsum-anhydrite strata. The greatest probability to penetrate into underground cavities is in those places where the mass of karst rocks is exposed, comes to the surface, opening underground passages.

Outcrops of gypsum-anhydrite strata can be found along the banks of the Pinega River and its tributaries (Sotka, Belaya, Sia, Letniy Gbach, Portyuga). Outcrops of 43% of the caves known in Pinega were found in the coastal outcrops. These include the caves of the Pinega rivers (B. Golubinskaya, M. Golubinskaya, 23 caves of the Bereznikovsky region), Sotki (S-1-S-15), the Pinega-Kuloi canal (K-1-K-10), etc.

Very often Karst rocks are exposed in the sides of the ravines that go out to the river and interrupt the line of coastal cliffs (Tarakaniy, Pershkovsky, Karjala, etc.) or in the sides of blind logs that do not have direct access to the river, located in the interfluve of the Pinega and its tributaries (Gorodische ravine , Iron Gate, Sukhoi, Svyatoy brook, etc.), in which 54% of the caves were found.

Coastal cliffs of lakes, which are scattered in large numbers around the edge, can also give a number of outcrops and be the location of the entrances to the caves. For example, in the southwestern part of Lake Shchelennoye, at the base of a 20-meter plaster outcrop, an almost completely filled up entrance to the cave was found, in which a stream flowing from the lake disappears. Sometimes gypsum outcrops are observed in the sides or at the bottom of numerous karst funnels, which in some cases open underground cavities (Leningradskaya, Pinezhskaya named after A. Tereshchenko, GB-2, etc.).

Most often, entrances to underground cavities are located at the base of plaster outcrops. For watered caves, the inlet is usually the place where the water flow directly goes underground or appears on the surface. Cave entrances found at the base of gypsum outcrops along river banks and ravine sides are usually covered with talus and rubble. In such cases, the entrances to the caves (their number is 58%) are located at the contact of the talus and the bedrock wall, as a result of which the entrance of the caves has a slit-like shape and is hidden behind a ridge of talus. In such cases, the boundary between the talus and the main wall of the outcrop was most carefully examined, since it was most often there that a passage into the cavity could be found. In the case of a powerful stream flowing out of the underground cavity or undermining of the main bank by the river, the gypsum talus is washed away by water and the entrances open directly at the base of the outcrop. The same arrangement of inlets is found in caves formed by flood waters coming from the river (an example of such caves can serve as 23 underground cavities of the Bereznikovsky outcrop) or when the log is flooded with spring waters (Gorodische log).

The streams flowing in the logs, as shown by a large number of observations (the logs of the Holy Brook, Gorodishche, Tarakaniy, Golubinsky, etc.), repeatedly change the direction of the current, moving from one wall of the log to another, going deep under the outcrop wall and leaving the previous channel, shifting to the side by 10-50 m. Therefore, observing the channel of the brook passing in the center of the ravine, one must always take into account that in the past the stream could flow at the sides and form underground passages at the base of the outcrops. An example of underground cavities, worked out by a stream, which later left these passages and moved to another place, are the caves found in the logs listed above.

A number of caves have been discovered while trying to trace the path of a stream flowing along the bottom of a log and then appearing on the surface, then disappearing underground. A section of a dry channel on the surface leading to the side of a valley or ravine indicates an underground channel developed by water. Caves, which are underground sections of streams or rivers flowing on the surface, were found on Pinega about 60 (caves of the Karjala logs, the Iron Gate, the Holy Stream, etc.). It was possible to penetrate into them directly at the place where the stream left the ground or when the watercourse exits from the ground, as well as through the holes in the ceiling of the underground channel.

If the entrances to the caves were blocked up, covered with sand and clay and it was difficult to notice them even close, then a number of additional factors could serve as indirect signs indicating the possible presence of an entrance to the underground cavity.

A large number of entrances to the caves (35%) were found in outcrops that looked like a semicircular fresh "circus" formed as a result of the collapse of the arches of the large entrance halls of the cave and interrupting the older and overgrown with grass and forest coastal cliffs or ravine sides. The lower part of such outcrops is usually covered with talus of collapsed boulders of various shapes and sizes, from the smallest to significant, reaching 10 m in diameter. At the bases of such circus outcrops are the entrances of the Bolshaya Golubinskaya caves, GB-2, GB-1, Refrigerator, etc.

The outcrops with streams flowing out from under them or disappearing at the base, always leaving the hope of penetrating the underground passage along which the stream flows, deserve special attention of the search groups. By the size of the stream and the flow rate of water in it, one can indirectly, although very approximately, judge the scale of the cavity in which this stream flows. So, a stream with a flow rate of 0.12 m 3 / sec. (summer 1967) flows from the largest cave Pinezhya Leningradskaya (3400 m), the flow rates of the brooks of the caves GB-1 and GB-2, each about 500 m long, are 0.04 m 3 / sec. from under the outcrop on the Portuga River, although it indicated the presence of an underground passage, the size of the entrance hole did not allow a person to enter it.

In the warm season, when approaching the location of the entrance to the cave, zones of sharp cooling and a strong current of cold air from the caves were almost always observed. By the size of such a zone and the force of the air flow, one could judge the size of the cavity. For example, in the Mal cave. Golubinskaya, the total length of the passages of which reaches 800 m, a wind blows from the inlet at a speed of 2 m / s in summer. and temperature - 2 ° С; its influence is felt at a distance of up to 50 m. Similar conditions have been recorded at the entrances of many large caves (Leningradskaya, GB-2, Zimnyaya Skazka, Severyanka, etc.). Often, near the inlet and even at some distance from the entrance to the cavity, negative temperatures persist in summer, as evidenced by the presence of ice (Severyanka, Mal. Golubinskaya caves, etc.). Very often in summer and winter, a light haze (fog) can be observed in the area of \u200b\u200bthe cave entrance. In addition, the presence of an entrance to the cave in winter is indicated by a frost-covered group of trees and shrubs located nearby, characterized by an abundance of frost.

The karst nature of the streams and the presence of an underground channel is evidenced by the low, even in the hottest season, the water temperature in the streams flowing from under the outcrops. For example, the water temperature in the stream of the Leningradskaya Cave in the summer is 2-3 ° C, while in the Sotka River, where the stream flows, the water temperature is 10-12 ° C. The low water temperature in them testifies to the karst feeding of the small rivers of the region. So, in the summer, at an air temperature of 20-28 ° C, the water temperature in the river was measured. White - 6 ° C, Si - 10 ° C, Sotke - 12 ° C. For comparison, you can indicate that for p. Pinega has a water temperature of 16-20 ° C. Similar data, linking them with the arctic nature of the relict flora of the Pinega region, are given by florists Al. and Andr. Fedorovs (1929).

In winter, the air flows of underground cavities have a temperature that is much (20-40 ° C) higher than the outside air temperature. Therefore, coastal polynyas and non-freezing river sections (near the caves of Leningradskaya, Bol. Golubinskaya, Pekhorovskaya and many others) clearly indicate the location of the entrances to the caves, through which powerful underground streams flow.

Always and not without reason, cavers have paid attention to places with names that indirectly indicate the presence of gypsum outcrops on the surface or mention caves ("cracks"). In particular, on the river. White (with white gypsum outcrops along the banks) was found Severyanka cave, in the village. Shchelya is a small landslide cave on the lake. Shchelenny - the entrance to the cave, to the Gorodische ravine - six underground cavities and a large number of grottoes.

When examining the karst funnels, special attention was paid to the funnels, on the sides of which traces of water and mud flows are clearly visible. This indicates that the funnel served as an absorbing ponor through which one can penetrate into the underground cavity (this is how the GB-5 cave was discovered).

In many cases, an important exploratory feature was the discovery of zones of "shallopnyak" (blocky karst), fields of karst sinkholes confined to the sides of ravines and coastal outcrops. Chains of sinkholes on the surface generally indicate the probable existence of a large underground cavity to which these surface karst forms correspond. In particular, many caves of the Golubinsky cave region, Leningradskaya cave and others are very clearly traced along the chains of craters above the caves.

A number of cavities found in the Pinezhie were laid along the cracks of the onboard resistance (for example, many caves in the Kulogorsky and Golubinsky regions). Therefore, when examining coastal outcrops, such cracks and the entire zone along the edge of the outcrops were carefully examined.

The experience of search expeditions shows that the expedient number of a separately working detachment should not exceed 6 people when conducting route trips in groups of 2-3 people. The trip to the expedition is preceded by acquaintance with the literature, maps, aerial photographs of the future search area in order to clarify its geological features, the most probable locations of caves and ways to approach the area under study.

It is very important to determine the correct tactics for the group's actions, depending on the characteristics of the task assigned to it. When examining the coastal outcrops along the rivers, first of all, the most convenient and shortest way of transferring the group to the distant point of the route (the upper reaches of the river) is outlined. The transfer is carried out on foot or by helicopter, then the group goes down the river to inspect the outcrops and search for caves. River banks are usually difficult to pass, you have to go along steep scree or through dense thickets and windbreaks, so a search with a backpack on your shoulders is practically impossible. As they move along the river, the group arranges 2-3 base camps with radial exits to search in small groups.

A similar scheme of prospecting works is also used when examining vast blind logs located in the interfluve of the main rivers of the region and having no access to these rivers (Karjala logs, Iron Gate).

If the length of the route along the river is long enough, and the nature of the river allows it, then the most convenient rafting is with a visual inspection and a thorough examination of the coastal outcrops in the presence of the indicated search signs. The rivers of the Pinego-Kuloi region are most often shallow, with a large number of rifts, shoals, rubble, therefore, rafting on them can be carried out only on small rafts designed for 2-3 people with a load. Often, this method of organizing the search fully justifies itself, since the presence of coastal zones of silkworms and the sheer nature of coastal outcrops with steep talus falling right into the water makes the hiking option unacceptable. All the caves on the Sotka and Siya rivers were discovered by rafting from the headwaters.

In some cases, boats with an outboard motor turned out to be an indispensable transport. They significantly speed up the travel time, but, unfortunately, where the boats could pass, there were not always outcrops, and where there were outcrops, most often boats could not pass. Undoubtedly, the use of motor boats is most effective during the work of an expedition of significant numbers in a vast area with a single main river, since it allows coordination of work and the prompt transfer of small groups as work is completed in certain areas.

When examining the fields of karst sinkholes, first of all, it is necessary to limit the surveyed area to find out the full scope of work, and then, if possible, carefully comb the limited area, trying to identify patterns in the location of the sinkholes. Particular attention should be paid to the elongated chains of funnels extending from the outcrops into the depths of the massif.

Local residents who know the area well can be of great help in finding the caves. Especially valuable is the information of hunters, foresters, fish protection workers, who are well aware of the largest outcrops, disappearing rivers and streams, large caves. The locals, who had actively assisted the cavers in the search for caves, indicated the entrances to such cavities as the Golubinsky Proval, Mal. Golubinskaya, Pinezhskaya them. A. Tereshchenko, Ozerkovskaya, Sompolskaya, caves on the Holy Stream, etc.

Out of 12 exploratory expeditions organized by Leningrad cavers, 6 were carried out in the summer, since summer is the most favorable time of the year for searching for caves due to the availability of convenient transportation methods, the most suitable conditions for examining outcrops and highly rugged karst terrain.

Despite the harsh field conditions in winter and the presence of a deep snow cover hiding the inlets of a number of cavities, in winter, the possibilities of penetrating into caves significantly increase due to a decrease in the water level and freezing of stagnant water bodies. In addition, in winter, it becomes possible to use skis and horse-drawn vehicles when moving along rivers and roads, as well as winter roads that operate only in the cold season.


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