Crossing the Western Tianshan Mountains

After waking up, Fang Ya also asked about Ling Fengxi, but she didn't expect Wu Yongjie to look confused. It turned out that Wu Yongjie called Ye Minglang, and Ye Minglang said that Ling Fengxi had not returned to the camp.

Fang Ya asked doubtfully, "Captain Wu, did Lao Ling go to the county government? After all, he hasn't been down the mountain for so long, he might have some reports to submit to the government."

"You can't not answer the phone, right?"

Fang Ya also called Ling Fengxi, but the voice from the customer service desk said, "The number you dialed is turned off."

For a moment, Ling Fengxi seemed to have disappeared, but they couldn't be sure he was really missing. Wu Yongjie jokingly said, "How about we report a case? Say that our dignified Secretary Ling is missing?"

Fang Ya seemed to have thought of something. "Captain Wu, could you please go to the nurses' station and ask which ward a comrade named Ling Fengxi is staying in?"

Wu Yongjie was startled and nodded quickly, "I'll go ask now."

Five minutes later, Wu Yongjie found out where Ling Fengxi was in the ward. Without notifying Fang Ya, he went to visit him. He was in the intensive care unit, but Ling Fengxi looked fine, resting quietly in bed. A nurse came over, checked the EKG, and other items, then asked Wu Yongjie, "Are you a family member?"

"Oh, yes, him, how is he?"

"His heart wasn't very good. He was overworked and nearly died. But he's passed the critical period now. Now we need your family to pay the medical bills and handle other related procedures. He needs to be hospitalized."

"Oh, well..."

After Wu Yongjie came out, his mind was a little fuzzy.

Then he asked the nurse, "He was sick, but he went to the hospital for emergency treatment. Why didn't we know?"

The nurse rolled her eyes at him. "You're a family member, and if you don't know the cause, how could we possibly know? He collapsed in the hallway, and it was our nurse who found him in time and rushed him to the emergency room. If we had been a few minutes later, he might have died."

After hearing this, Wu Yongjie was filled with fear.

After completing the formalities, he sat on a chair in the corridor and finally muttered, "This damned Western Tianshan Mountain is really problematic. No one who stays there is healthy. The workers are sick every day, the herders are sick, the sheep are sick, the leaders are sick, the doctors are sick, and I am sick too..."

The problem of building the West Tianshan super-long tunnel is not even a technical problem, but rather that the living conditions are too harsh. Can this tunnel really allow everyone to come and go safely and securely?

When he returned to the ward to see Fang Ya, Fang Ya already knew that Ling Fengxi was ill and asked, "Is he okay?"

"You know it all?"

"Since you haven't come back yet, I went to the nurse's station to ask."

"He was sleeping. The nurse said he was exhausted. He looked fine. Nothing was wrong."

"That's good……"

"Aren't you going to see him?"

"Haven't you seen it?" Fang Ya said curiously.

"What I mean is that you should go and see him yourself." Wu Yongjie didn't know what he wanted to say.

"Let's wait until he's better before going to see him. He's sleeping now. It would be weird if I went to see him sleeping."

Wu Yongjie thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case.

Then he said, "Is it okay for you to stay here alone? I have to go back to the camp on the mountain soon."

"I'm fine, I'm just tired. I can take care of myself. Go ahead and do your work."

Wu Yongjie nodded, "Okay."

Wu Yongjie said he was leaving, but he didn't actually leave the hospital until noon, after having lunch with Fang Ya, and then return to Xitianshan. Ling Fengxi was ill and couldn't stay at the camp, so the camp needed someone to take charge. The camp had so many people, so much equipment, and so much work, and it couldn't work without someone to keep it together.

On the other hand, Ye Minglang also took on the important task. Together with Gulinar and her siblings, they brought medical staff, government rescue workers, medicines, injections and other supplies into the depths of the mountains to deal with sheep epidemics. During this period, they indeed encountered many sick herders.

Their conditions were also very serious, but they did not know how to go down the mountain to seek help and just waited to die in the mountains. Some of them had mild symptoms, so medical staff provided on-site assistance and distributed medicines. Some of them had more serious symptoms, so Ye Minglang organized people to send them down the mountain.

It was still snowing during the period, and the team leaders organized the workers to clear the snow on the road frequently. In fact, the workers rarely took a rest.

At Fang Ya's request, Cheng Yue also returned to the medical room on the mountain, because many workers were also sick and needed intravenous drips and medicine.

Wu Yongjie immediately began to organize glacier exploration deep into the mountains.

On the third day, the final crew was determined. The men in the survey department of the engineering team who had the ability and experience to survive in the wild were included in the list. Li Jianguo was thin, and Wu Yongjie didn't want him to go, but he insisted on going, so Li Jianguo and Yan Zhuoyu were also included in the list.

Of course, Wu Yongjie himself was among them.

Lin Jinghui volunteered and was also on the list. In addition, local "tour guides", Portela, Yerlan and Ayiboli, were also invited.

Nurlan also wanted to go, but she had no choice but to follow Ye Minglang to deal with the epidemic. They also needed a tour guide, and Gulinar was obviously too busy to handle it alone.

The two teams were basically formed in this way.

Before leaving the camp, they also made a large sled out of wood that could pull things, which was also suggested by Portela and Ayiboli.

When they set out, it was breakfast time. Wu Yongjie and his team didn't even eat breakfast, fearing the workers' interrogation. They each drank a bowl of milk and ate a piece of naan before heading out. To maintain their strength, Li Jianguo and Yan Zhuoyu each brought plenty of lishi bars, candy, and other types of chocolate.

Fortunately, I usually like to store snacks, and these were all bought from the foot of the mountain.

A group of people, pulling a large sled, walked from the east side of the camp, where there was no road, into the depths of the mountains, because only from this direction could they reach the place they wanted to survey in the shortest distance.

Ye Minglang noticed them. He stood on the high ground in front of the camp, watching Wu Yongjie and his team leave. Then, a government worker named Xiao Lin called him, "Comrade Xiao Ye, the weather is really too cold, and there are too many sick sheep. Do we have to stay there to treat them?"

"I'm afraid so."

Ye Minglang walked down the slope and approached Xiao Lin. "Many sheep are very sick, so you may need to stay in a herder's home for treatment. Fortunately, there aren't many herders here. There are only eleven families infected in this area. There may be more, but we can't find them deeper in the area."

Although Xiao Lin had only been in Xitian Mountain for a few days, he was already exhausted and looked like a ghost. His hair was as disheveled as a chicken coop, and his hands were red from the cold, with some parts swollen.

When giving injections to sheep, he often took off his gloves to work in order to be quick and accurate. As a result, after giving injections to dozens or hundreds of sheep, he felt that his hands were useless.

Although he was not the only one giving the sheep injections.