Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Heading to the Oasis (Part 1)

The scene in front of us is so spectacular that words can't express it. We were all dumbfounded. Although Wen Jin mentioned such an oasis in his notes, it shouldn't be like this in my impression. The basin is very large, and it looks very neat. Speaking of Fatty, it looks like a crater.Looking down from the cliff, you can only see the dense smoky canopy below, and you can't see the specific situation. This should be Tamu Tuo. Unexpectedly, we discovered it in such a way. It seems a bit too simple. Pan Zi reversed the car back, and we looked at the basin with a telescope while wondering what was going on.

Pan Zi said: "It seems that the rocky mountain that Dingzhu Zhuoma and Wenjin left when they separated has indeed disappeared. This is the Yangai area. Maybe it was a rocky mountain. After several decades, a few rains will leave a bag of dirt. However, Following the direction of the river, we can still find this place.” It was not written in Wenjin's notes, so it is impossible for me to know, but now that we have discovered this oasis, we are a little at a loss, so I asked Pan Zi what his plans are. Pan Zi said that he must go down to have a look first. He heard me say the notes and the message from Dingzhu Zhuoma, and he knew that Wenjin must be below. Jin is the teacher's wife. If he missed the teacher's wife because he was waiting for the third master, he wouldn't have to be a buddy anymore. Time is running out.

I thought to myself that you are really a man of twenty-four filial piety, but I also think so, time is running out, and counting, ten days is almost in front of me, I asked a few people, and they didn't have any opinions, so they let me see, this How should the basin get in. Wen Jin's notes have a detailed description of the route. They entered the basin through a canyon.However, the landform here has completely changed. According to her route description, it seems that the canyon cannot be found. We can only drive around the basin to find it. After several twists and turns, we finally found a wide canyon.

Pan Zi made a big circle, and found the intersection of the canyon about four kilometers away in the basin. The first section can be driven, and we went all the way in until the rocks blocked the way. Then several people got out of the car, picked up their equipment and walked forward.He didn't stop to rest until he saw the trees.I picked up Wenjin's notes and carefully read the records inside. After reading the notes, I couldn't help but feel a little guilty. From the things recorded in Wen Jin's notes, I deduced that this canyon is very dangerous.Going further in the canyon, because the altitude is lower, tropical vegetation is overgrown, and miasma is pervasive, our gas masks may not be able to cope with such a humid environment, and this is the only entrance to the Palace of the West Queen Mother. The things I encountered along the way made me Feeling that the West Queen Mother's Palace is very strange, it is expected that this road will not be so easy.

But in contrast, I am most worried about things after passing the canyon.The end of the canyon is the core area of ​​the oasis, where the rivers converge, and the dense canopy under the valley is full of wet swamps. The peculiar landform here almost forms a tropical rainforest in the Gobi.Although we know that the ancient king's city of the Queen Mother of the West is somewhere within the swamp, searching inside is almost a desperate task. In the shade of the canyon, we read in detail the approximate route drawn by Wenjin in his notes. Because we did not enter the swamp, we were confused in many places, and Wenjin had question marks in many places. We don't know what these question marks represent, which makes us very embarrassed. In the end, we can only decide to take one step at a time.

Afterwards, we each made preparations. When searching, we knew that the road ahead was long, and we had to control our material consumption. Now that we were about to enter the backyard of the Queen Mother of the West, we naturally couldn't take care of so many, such as flares, cold fireworks, matches, medicines, etc. We packed in everything we could. Pan Zi fought in Vietnam and is now our consultant. He said that from the cliff, the situation here should be similar to the tropical rainforest in Vietnam.The swamps in this humid area are the most dangerous. The top is the broad-leaved canopy of the primitive rainforest, which almost covers the entire valley bottom. Such dense vegetation must not be able to see through the sun. It is dark and full of miasma under the canopy. It is the world of mosquitoes, leeches and poisonous insects.Even though the temperature here exceeds 30 degrees, we must wear long-sleeved trousers, otherwise you will definitely not have a good piece of meat on your body within an hour.

Ah Ning said I have mosquito repellent, is that okay? Pan Zi said that you drive away mosquitoes, but that thing will attract other things, don't use too strong smell in the rainforest.Otherwise, even if you didn't meet any wild beasts, they would still follow you all the way. This time, I'm the only one with a gun, so even if you meet wild boars, it's enough. He concluded by saying that once in the swamp, don't wade in the water or touch the mud unless absolutely necessary.One of his comrades had his foot stuck in the swamp during an ambush, and it took less than a minute. When he pulled it out, his entire leg was full of holes, which were hollowed out, and he didn't know what it was bitten by.In the current environment, if this kind of thing happens, it is tantamount to death, maybe it is better than death.

I sensed from Pan Zi's eyes that he wasn't scaremongering, and I felt a little strange, so I tied up my trousers a little tighter. It took two hours, we packed everything up, and we set off under the yelling of Pan Zi.Poker-finger led the way, and Pan Zi walked in the back of the canyon, cutting branches and broad leaves.As soon as we moved our front feet, the sky became cloudy again, and it seemed that it was going to rain.I sighed in my heart that the mysteries of nature are really inexhaustible. In the depths of the arid Qaidam Gobi, there is such a wet and rainy oasis. This canyon is not like the Yardang Canyon seen in Devil City. It is not carved by wind. It seems to be a rift valley created by geological movement. As if carved by a sharp knife.However, let me say that I agree with Fatty's statement that the terrain here is really like a crater. The rift valley is like a crack in the crust that was broken when the meteorite fell. , fill it up.Such a canyon should not be the only one around this pit valley.

The canyon is very wide. After entering the dense forest, the surrounding area became very sultry, and our bodies were drenched in sweat.There are moss everywhere on the stones and trees, making it impossible to stand, our feet are already full of wet mud and intertwined roots, walking in a web of roots like monster tentacles, each foot has a pit, and the canopy above our heads is densely packed Can't see the sun anymore.All of a sudden, I had a very serious illusion. Am I really on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau instead of the primeval jungle of the Amazon? I thought that this kind of situation would only happen at the end of the canyon, but I didn't expect that it was already like this in the canyon, and the situation in the pit valley was probably even worse.

The fat man walked out of breath, looking at the situation in front of him, he said he didn't know if there were any animals in the oasis, and it was a kind of welfare to kill a few of them to eat, otherwise it would be a waste of time to walk this way. Pan Zi said that the rainforest in this closed environment is neither small nor big, and I am afraid that there will be no large beasts, and the most likely ones will be bugs and long worms.In many of these swamps, snakes are the most common. Fatty said that snakes are also good. He even ate grilled scorpions in Guangdong. Anyway, as long as it is fresh, I am not a problem.

I remembered what Wen Jin wrote in his notes: "There are many snakes in the mud, and you are not afraid of people." I think Pan Zi is right. I don't know the size of these snakes. In many Hollywood movies, some pythons can grow to the size of old trees. Thick, even a steamroller can't kill it, but there shouldn't be such a condition here. Moreover, the ecological environment here is very special. It is a closed island on land. I think it is impossible for other things to enter here except for birds and humans. The creatures here began to multiply here when this oasis was formed.At that time, Qaidam was still a rich land with dense rivers and rich species. Maybe we can find many extinct animals and plants in this oasis, which may be more valuable than the things in the West Queen Mother Palace. After thinking about it, I said no. According to the legend of the Queen Mother of the West in the Shan Hai Jing, the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West is guarded by a group of blue birds with human faces. This must be a huge bird of prey that we don’t understand. It may be attacked in Changbai Mountain. Our kind of strange bird, this kind of thing is better to be extinct. Since the trees are too dense, and we are in the canyon, there is no detour, so we can only move forward while cutting down the old vines and broad leaves.It was very exhausting, and Fatty and Poker Bottle took turns clearing the way, and there was not much improvement.Fortunately, there is a blue sky sandwiched between the jagged cliffs on the edge of the canyon, like a sky blue brocade, the scenery is very gorgeous, and from time to time there are waterfalls formed by the heavy rain the day before yesterday pouring down, we went all the way, and it was not boring. After walking for a short time, we found that there were many grottoes on the cliff in front of us, densely packed, there were more than a hundred of them, covered with moss, and we didn't know what was carved inside. We suddenly became nervous, and the mood of watching the scenery was gone.I didn't see any relics about the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West along the way, and I always felt unreal. Now I suddenly saw it, and we really began to approach the core of this mysterious ancient country.This is an exciting thing to think about, but it is a bit scary to actually see it. Pack up the playful mood, let's go up and check.These grottoes vary in size. The big ones can drive two liberation trucks side by side. The small ones are only half a person tall, which is very different from the ones in Dunhuang. The grottoes are very shallow, and the statues inside can be seen from the outside. It's just completely covered by thick moss. I climbed up and took out the dagger, and began to scrape the covering on one of them, gradually revealing a strange stone sculpture among the moss.