Crossing the Western Tianshan Mountains

The Hasa boy stared at Ye Minglang coldly, looked at Ling Fengxi with the same gloomy eyes, and then said something. Ling Fengxi and Ye Minglang couldn't understand what he said at all. They just felt that he seemed very angry and then left cursing.

Ye Minglang looked at the Hasa boy's back blankly, "Secretary, this guy seems very dissatisfied with us."

Ling Fengxi was also a little confused, but he didn't understand why for a moment, so he just returned to the camp with Ye Minglang.

The construction site was still very quiet that night. Due to Wu Yongjie's drastic changes to the construction time, fewer workers dared to go down the mountain to play without reason. Most of them stayed in their tents to make milk tea, play cards or go to bed early. The temperature seemed to have dropped a bit in the past few days.

The temperature has dropped, but the insects that should have survived did not hibernate again due to the drop in temperature. Instead, they tried hard to drill into warm places.

So the tents that everyone lives in now are somewhat similar to insect nests. There are mainly two kinds of insects, mainly cockroaches, ground dogs and a kind of nose beetle.

The workers now dare not lift the bedding under their bodies, otherwise insects will really run away from under the bedding. There is even a very small stone scorpion in it, which can sting people. If you are stung, you need to go to the medical team to get anti-allergic and anti-poisoning medicine.

In short, even though most of the workers are rough people and are used to the harsh environment, they can hardly bear it these days. What's going on?

Are you going to be eaten by bugs while doing your work?

Some workers even told everyone very seriously that there is a kind of insect that likes to drill into people's ears and then into the brain, and then the person will die.

These rumors were plausible and caused some workers to have trouble sleeping. One reason was that after going to bed at night, the insects would sense the human body temperature and crawl into the quilt. Therefore, many people could feel the tingling and terrifying feeling of the insects crawling against their skin, and they would often suddenly sit up in the middle of their sleep and tidy up their bedding.

If one person in a tent gets up to tidy up, the others can't sleep either... It's impossible to sleep peacefully without tossing and turning for two hours.

The male workers are like this, not to mention the delicate girls in the medical team.

I've made several girls cry recently...

Pan Xiaoyu, in particular, was crying her eyes out because a local dog (cricket mole) climbed onto her legs while she was sleeping. She woke up in shock and started jumping and screaming like crazy, making her hair disheveled and looking miserable. Not only did she wake up everyone in her tent, but even people in the neighboring tents heard her screams.

When Fang Ya rushed over, Pan Xiaoyu was held in Cheng Yue's arms. It was a real hug, where she refused to let her feet or any part of her body fall on the chair or bed.

Cheng Yue is a good girl and she is quite strong. She held Pan Xiaoyu in her arms like a child with an embarrassed look on her face, but she did not force Pan Xiaoyu down.

Fang Ya looked at Pan Xiaoyu's panicked and confused eyes, and quickly asked several other people to lift Pan Xiaoyu together. Using these girls as human cushions, they finally sat down.

Fang Ya comforted her for a long time before Pan Xiaoyu came back to her senses. Seeing this, she said with shame, "I'm sorry, I put pressure on you."

Having said that, she had no intention of getting up, and no one else forced her to.

Finally Fang Ya said, "Come and fall asleep with me. I'll hold you and everything will be fine."

In the end, Pan Xiaoyu followed Fang Ya to Fang Ya's tent. In fact, there was no guarantee that there were no insects, but it was just that she was seeking a sense of security psychologically.

The next day at breakfast, Fang Ya sat next to Cheng Yue and said, "You did a great job last night. Xiaoyu was in a bit of trouble. If you hadn't been holding her, she would have been frightened and had a problem."

Cheng Yue's eyes narrowed with a smile when she was praised, "Xiaoyu is timid, we all know that."

"She may have to leave the medical team. I've agreed to let her take sick leave for a while, but she won't leave her job. After this, our tasks will become heavier, but the number of people will decrease."

Cheng Yue was stunned for a moment, "She's going back to Shanghai?"

"Yes."

Cheng Yue's expression was complicated. She found an excuse to go to Wu Yongjie's engineering team camp and met Lin Jinghui. She handed Lin Jinghui the tea she had brewed with Chinese patent medicine and said, "I have a colleague who is going back to Shanghai this afternoon. She is afraid of insects and probably won't come to Xitianshan again after she returns."

Lin Jinghui hummed, "I understand. The environment here is too bad. It's not a place for girls to come."

Cheng Yue added, "It suddenly occurred to me that when the construction of the West Tianshan Tunnel is completed, all of us will be like Pan Xiaoyu now, leaving West Tianshan and going our separate ways."

Lin Jinghui said "oh", and he roughly understood what Cheng Yue was talking about. In fact, at this moment, Cheng Yue really wanted to hear Lin Jinghui say, "Even if we leave Xitian Mountain, we can still be together. Communication is so advanced nowadays."

But Lin Jinghui said nothing, just smoked silently.

Cheng Yue looked at him with a disappointed look on her face, and muttered, "If only a medical team was needed for every project, we could always work together."

"The presence of a medical team means the project is difficult. Do you want every project to be difficult?"

Cheng Yue choked for a moment and finally stopped talking.

Just as the two were stunned, they suddenly saw thick smoke billowing out of the 14th site. At the same time, a worker ran and shouted, "Come and help! Those Hasa are trying to burn the hole!"

Lin Jinghui abandoned Cheng Yue and rushed to the 14th site. He found several men and women in thick sheepskin coats standing in front of the tunnel entrance, their faces fierce, trying to stop everyone from passing. They were holding strange, long knives, like the kind used to butcher cattle. Behind them was a strange altar with some items on it, including yellow paper. Inside the cave, a large pile of yellow paper was burning.

"What are you doing?" Lin Jinghui asked.

"Maybe they're performing a sacrifice!"

The one who answered him was Wu Yongjie.

Wu Yongjie had arrived a long time ago, but faced with this situation, he seemed to have no way out. He only continued to say to Lin Jinghui, "They may be offering sacrifices, so we can't disturb them."

Lin Jinghui was stunned. "Captain Wu, we can't interrupt them? Just let them make a scene?"

"Then what should we do? This mountain originally belonged to them. We are outsiders. Now the owner wants to do something, and we don't let him do it?"

Lin Jinghui then understood why so many people came, but everyone was just watching. No one went up to reason with these Kazakhs, and no one argued with them or tried to stop them. It turned out that Wu Yongjie was there and approved of their behavior.

Wu Yongjie said, "We had a groundbreaking ceremony when we started construction. We are so superstitious, so why can't we allow the locals to be superstitious too? We have to follow local customs and respect their habits."