Chapter 159 Chapter 18 Quanhua

"Third guide..." I looked at the sad third child, and wanted to ask him if he was my father, but the words fell silent. "Hehe, did I scare you? It's like this when you're old, just ignore me." The third child smiled wearily, and then sent me aside. Our group stopped and went, and finally found another spring, but the taste was dry, and the mineralization exceeded the national standard for drinking water.Even so, we had to make do with it. Many people in the team finally adapted to the plateau environment, but they had diarrhea because of drinking these spring water.On the way we found the group of poachers again. They came from a country that probably borders Tibet. This time they didn’t attack us, they just took another route from a distance. Maybe they thought we were the police last time, but this time they knew we were not. The police, so it is better to have one thing less than one more thing.However, Professor He Kai told us not to relax our vigilance, there must still be someone on duty in the camp, and more than three people should go out.

We walked for more than ten days and arrived at a place with a very strange scenery.There are many ravines here, and there are still white mist and water vapor in them. There are many gray-white stones erected in the ravines, just like the Yunnan stone forest, but the Yunnan stone forest will not be surrounded by hot water vapor, making it like a fairyland. .The terrain here is scattered and uneven, and the stones are of strange shapes and sizes. Some are like mushrooms, some are like stone towers, some are like bamboo shoots, and some are like old people.It seems that they are alive, and they seem to be moving around in the next second, and then attack us outsiders.

"This is Quanhua, because there are hot springs in this place, so there is such a landscape." Professor He Kai explained, and everyone stared at it in amazement. I have heard of Quanhua, which is similar to what people often say about sublimation.All hot springs contain calcium carbonate substances, which are precipitated by factors such as reduced external air pressure, dry air, and strong evaporation, and have accumulated over tens of millions of years to "grow" upwards.This kind of calcium carbonate precipitation related to hydrothermal activities (that is, hot springs) is also called travertine, and it is a very common one in springs.This kind of spring is very precious, even more precious than stalactites. They are all precipitates during sublimation, and the formation time of tens of millions of years is short.

There are a large group of springs in front of us. Professor He Kai said that there are at least 300 springs here, and the water temperature is above 40 degrees, and the highest is 72 degrees.The terrain here has exceeded 4,800 meters, so 72 degrees is already close to the boiling point, so this is a high-temperature hot spring area, and there are actually 300 springs. If it is in a plain area, it must become a tourist attraction.Most of the Quanhua stone pillars are about 3 meters long, and the tallest one is 7 meters long, with a diameter of more than one meter.The tops of the stone pillars are all in the shape of steamed buns, and the spring mouth is on the top of the stone pillars. The spring water gushes down from above and continues to settle, so the springs continue to grow.

Because of the stable crust and weak hydrothermal activity inside the Qiangtang Plateau, there are very few spring areas.If there are faults, especially where there are several groups of faults with different orientations, affected by magma activities deep in the crust, groundwater will overflow the surface along the fault cracks, often forming high-temperature hot springs like the one in front of you, and the number is considerable.The hot spring in front of me is just at the junction of the northeast fault and the northwest fault, so there is such a large-scale spring spectacle. "Aunt He, you are very familiar with this spring, how do you know that there are at least three hundred springs?" I asked curiously.

"This place...we stopped here last time," Professor He Kai didn't smile this time, but replied sadly, "Aren't you looking for those words, right in this spring." I have always been amazed by the beauty of Quanhua, and I was not mentally prepared at all, so when I heard what Professor He Kai said, my heart was surging.In other words, the answer I'm looking for may be in this spring. If there is no answer in this place, and the third child refuses to reveal what he knows, I really have no choice.The camp was arranged near Quanhua, and Professor He Kai took me to stand beside Quanhua and told me everything.

"Actually, there were two reasons for our suspension of operations last time. One is that in 1976 there was a disaster in China that shocked the world. Do you know what it was?" Professor He Kai looked tired. "In 1976... what happened in China that year..." I shook my head, expressing that I didn't know, and Professor He Kai mentioned it last time and didn't want to talk about it, so I didn't dare to mention it to her along the way. "You young people are really good. Fortunately, you are still an archaeologist. You need to know more about history!" Professor He Kai was very disappointed. "It was the Tangshan earthquake, do you understand?"

"The Great Tangshan Earthquake, I know about it, but what does it have to do with Qiangtang far to the west?" I asked in confusion. "Because our Tangshan earthquake affected the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan area, all of our team came from there. When we received the bad news that day, everyone decided to leave. My parents disappeared in that earthquake, and even the dead body was never found. , I don’t know whether it’s life or death, so many years have passed, even if I didn’t die back then, I’m no longer in this world.” Professor He Kai was very sad, “When something like this happened, who can continue to investigate as if nothing happened, of course Go back right away."

"Aunt He, don't be sad, I can understand your feelings, but..." I hesitated for a while, and said, "Didn't you say that there are two reasons, and the other is..." "There's something weird here!" Professor He Kai suddenly changed his tone, which sounded like anger and grief. "Weird?" I pretended not to understand, but I knew in my heart that there must be something weird about this place, otherwise I wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to come here, and it's not that there is no place to play. "It's late now. Tomorrow I'll take you to see the places with those words. You and Zou Xinhong and the others will get some fuel back first." Professor He Kai dismissed, and then stood on a high place by himself, staring at the Quanhua Stone Forest in a daze. , I don’t know what happened to the strange thing that year.

Professor He Kai said that the fuel is wild yak dung, because there is not even a tree in the vast Qiangtang, and cow dung is the main fuel used by the Tibetan people. In this uninhabited Qiangtang, there are wild yaks everywhere. Dung left by yaks.After being exposed to the wind and sun, they become flat and round. They are odorless and flammable when burned. They are really more convenient to use than firewood.I was assigned to look for fuel, so I went out with Chen Jing and Yuan Yu to look for excrement. Xinhong was pestered by Tashi Cuo all the time, so I didn't call him.There is a lot of yak manure here, and there will be a lot of it if you pick it up casually.I love cleanliness, and I wash my hands every time I finish picking up fuel. Seeing the hot water in Quanhua, I couldn't help but slipped down, planning to wash my hands with the long-lost hot water.

The hot air in the Quanhua Stone Forest is boiling like a sauna, and the sunlight passes through the clouds, rendering the Quanhua place colorful.Because the water vapor here is overflowing, as soon as there is sunlight, it will be surrounded by rainbow colors, which is very beautiful.I looked fascinated, but felt that this place also felt a little familiar. Isn't this kind of scenery just the colorful light at the end of the darkness in the dream?Maybe it was just a coincidence, but when I thought about my parents, I lost interest in continuing to play.When I was about to go back to the camp, I saw the third child looking at the Quanhua stone forest melancholy, and kept moaning and sighing, as if he had countless sorrows.I saw that everyone was busy doing scientific investigations and records, so I took the opportunity to talk to the third child alone. "Third guide, do you have something on your mind?" I asked tentatively. "She died in this spring. I never thought that would happen. I really shouldn't have left her alone at that time." The third child blamed himself very much. "Third guide, you seem to be talking too much to an outsider, don't you?" I said deliberately, but I knew he was talking about his wife. "Young man..." The third guide looked at me meaningfully, as if he had something to say but kept it in his stomach, which made me nervous for a while. "Third guide, just tell me, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, how uncomfortable it is to hide it like this." I don't like talking so obliquely, so I said like this. "I want to tell you, but I'm afraid you won't be able to accept it." The third guide hesitated. "I can bear it, my heart has more vitality than a yak, don't be afraid, just tell the truth." I was so excited that I flew out of my body. "It is true that I brought you up, but I gave you to someone else soon, because in this way you will have a future, and it will be very painful to follow me." When the third child spoke, his eyes turned to the right, and I knew he was telling the truth , because people's habit is to tell the truth, and when recalling the past, the eyeballs will look to the right, and when lying, they will unconsciously look to the left.In fact, from the bottom of my heart, I think this is the truth. I have waited tens of thousands of days for this to be said. Even if it is a lie, I think I will think it is the truth. "So, you admit it!" I said happily, the third child is indeed my father!Knowing the name Chen Lin, you can recognize me at a glance, and you can also know that I have a birthmark on my back, and I also have a grudge against Xuanniao, and my wife's death is also related to Xuanniao. Who else can this be if it is not my father?I was overjoyed and shouted, "Daddy! I finally found you! You finally admitted it!" "Wait," the youngest was stunned, he didn't know how to speak, "wait, what did you say?" "Dad, do you want me to scream more? Why have you left me for so long, why have you always denied me?!" My heart was like a fire, and I was extremely excited. "There is fire, Xiao Li is on fire, look!" The team member suddenly shouted, and he also interrupted our conversation. The third child and I, it should be Dad looked in the direction pointed by the team members, and the place where the accident happened was in the spring.The water vapor in Quanhua doubled unconsciously, and it was very blurry from a distance. We only saw a person covered in fire, and he fell to the ground after a while.I squinted my eyes and took a closer look, and saw a group of golden flames leaping in the spring a few times. Could it be that the bird is in the spring now? !Does spontaneous human combustion have anything to do with that bird?The team members rushed down one after another to see what happened, and the third child also rushed down. I was just about to follow up to have a look, but my eyes flickered suddenly, and a strange scene appeared in my sight. I rubbed my eyes and rushed down after recovering.I ran hard, but I didn't know that there was another collapse, and I fell on all fours.I really didn't expect that after walking for so many days, the tunnel actually followed this place. It is too long, and it can be called a wonder of the world.Because it is next to Quanhua, the tunnel is very damp, and my clothes are dirty again, and I feel extremely depressed. However, this place is very strange. The tunnel does not look a hundred years old in this place. Compared with the tunnels I saw earlier, it is older, and a lot of the soil has been petrified. Gray hornfels are hard and small stones, which are obviously different from general gravel and naturally disintegrated rock debris. The surrounding stones seem to have been artificially struck and processed, with sharp edges in the shape of blades, and retain the original Undoubtedly, these are stone tools such as stone flakes and scrapers made by the ancients. After I checked carefully, I was surprised, because according to the characteristics of stone tools and the fact that they did not coexist with pottery, they actually belonged to the remains of human culture in the Mesolithic or early Neolithic age. The geological age is about 7500 to 5000 years. Early Epoch Period, slightly earlier than the Yangshao Culture Period in eastern my country. "Strange, the tunnel is so long, where does it lead to?" I wondered in my heart. However, as soon as I turned around just now, I immediately found the answer.