Crossing the Western Tianshan Mountains

"No! If she marries in, she will bully me to death!" Mother Ye's face was full of stubbornness, but Father Ye just laughed and continued to shake his head, adjusted his reading glasses, drank tea and read the newspaper.

Fang Ya has been very busy in recent days. She appears in the pharmacy from time to time to check the inventory of medicines and whether some urgent medicines need to be replenished. She keeps writing things down in a notebook. She organizes many medicines herself because she has to ensure that there is enough storage of some essential medicines needed by the patients here.

Before, when Captain Wu was in the camp, he found all kinds of excuses to bother her every day. Although this brought some fun to the boring life in the mountains, most of the time she still felt that Captain Wu was childish and annoying.

But now that he was no longer in the camp, she kept thinking about his safety.

Sometimes I would even wake up from a nightmare, dreaming that Captain Wu and his group were trapped in an iceberg area, and each of them was frozen into icicles.

Before dawn, she arrived at Ling Fengxi's dormitory door and knocked. Ling Fengxi was a light sleeper and woke up immediately. He put on his clothes and opened the door. He was a little surprised to see Fang Ya with a red nose from the cold.

"How did you come?"

"I want the key to the office."

"Oh, are you worried about Captain Wu and the others?"

There was a radio in the office. Captain Wu and his men had gone too deep into the mountains, where there was no signal, so they could only communicate with them by radio. There were always staff members on duty 24 hours a day waiting for news, but when she checked just now, the office door was locked. She didn't know if anyone was there.

She suspected that the staff had neglected their duties, which made it easy to miss out on information about Captain Wu and his team.

So he came in person to ask Ling Fengxi for the key.

Ling Fengxi took the key to the office without saying a word and found that the door was indeed locked from the inside. No one answered when he knocked. After he opened the door with the key, he found that the person on duty inside had fallen to the ground with a brazier filled with coal on the ground.

Fang Ya immediately knew what was going on and said, "Gas poisoning, help!"

At this time, no one cared about Wu Yongjie. They first carried the staff member who fell to the ground out and opened the door to allow the air inside and outside the door to circulate.

The person was also sent to the medical room.

Fortunately, the condition was not very serious. After simple first aid in the medical room, the poisoned staff member regained consciousness. He only had a headache, nausea and general weakness.

Ling Fengxi felt a surge of fear. If Fang Ya hadn't suddenly gone to the office, someone might have died if the accident had been discovered a little later.

Ling Fengxi doesn't want anyone to die in Xitian Mountain.

Of course, Su Binghe is an exception.

It's possible that some information about Wu Yongjie was indeed missed. Ling Fengxi asked the staff to contact Wu Yongjie and his team by radio, but received no response.

In fact, Wu Yongjie and the others were not in the tent at that time.

There was no one inside the tents or snow rings; everyone was out. Why? Because Li Jianguo said the underground glacier might be interspersed with a relatively hard granite mountain.

In other words, the glacier zone is not entirely glacier, but is also interspersed with normal mountains. If the width, length, hardness and stability of this mountain can support the construction of a tunnel, then the construction of the West Tianshan super-long tunnel will be saved!

This is very exciting news. In order to be more certain and avoid any mistakes or errors, Wu Yongjie ordered the most detailed data survey and recording of the nearby mountains and glaciers, and the need for imaging pictures to be 100% certain.

At the same time, the current direction and position of the tunnel should be compared and the benchmark should be corrected several times.

However, the investigation of the extent of the underground glacier cannot be stopped. Even if a normal mountain suitable for tunnel construction appears within the glacier, the extent of the long-term pressure and stability damage caused by the ice zone on the mountain and tunnel must be considered. Can the tunnel withstand it?

As a result, everyone took on the task with great expectations and hopes.

Wu Yongjie began to calculate the rations...

Because the original plan was eight to ten days, but looking at the current situation, it will take at least half a month to eighteen days to complete the entire survey.

In other words, supplies need to be used sparingly.

It is not realistic to ask the camp to send more people to deliver supplies. They have already gone deep into the underground glacier area and are working above the underground glacier.

It is only because of the various professional equipment, professional talents, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles and glacier exploration vehicles that we have been able to reach this point without losing any lives.

As for dangers and difficulties, there were certainly some, but they were all overcome. However, it was too dangerous and impossible for a new team without any equipment to go deep into the glacier area.

So the best solution Wu Yongjie could think of was to "save supplies."

But Yeerlan, Nurlan and Portela had a new idea. According to Portela, "We in Western Tianshan are poor. Some freeze to death, some die of thirst, and some get lost and disappear, but no one starves to death because food is everywhere in Western Tianshan."

Wu Yongjie felt that he was too optimistic. Where could he find food in this vast mountain snowfield with glaciers full of pits with every step?

So yesterday he informed Ling Fengxi by radio that the team might have to delay their return, but there was no response from Ling Fengxi. Although the issue of supplies was not mentioned, Ling Fengxi must have thought of it. For a while, Wu Yongjie hesitated, and finally decided to start saving supplies by "saving food".

In fact, it only takes a few days to complete the task... He thought to himself that it would be okay to eat a little less at each meal and extend the time a little, and he could also lose weight at the same time.

But he also knew that this was wrong. They were working above the underground glacier, which was a great test on their physical strength. Moreover, it was a high-altitude and cold area. It was difficult for the body to maintain heat and warmth without food. Moreover, people who were not full were prone to irritability. Working in such a dangerous place tested patience and perseverance the most.

In short, man is iron and food is steel, and you cannot live without eating.

While Wu Yongjie was calculating the supplies, Portela, Nurlan, and Yeerlan had already set off. Hunting in such an area was dangerous, but they didn't care. After they arrived here with the team, the group stopped moving forward, and they were no longer needed. Without the ability to operate professional equipment, hunting seemed to give them new value.

When Wu Yongjie discovered that the three people were missing, it was too late. The three people disappeared in the vast snowfield.

Wu Yongjie was furious that afternoon and wanted to find the three men and beat them up. But at dusk, the three men returned to their camp through the vast snow and wind, each holding two or three rabbits... Portela even held the carcass of an animal that looked like a sheep...

In short, it seems that with them around, we not only don’t have to save food, but we can also have a good meal!