Contemporary Comprehension Notes

There are many small villages along both sides of the river. Most of the villages have only a few households. The people here only rely on traditional animal husbandry to make a living. It can be said that the land is vast and the people are sparse.

As the expedition team progressed, more and more materials and specimens were loaded into the car, filling most of the luggage space. Everyone had to carry as few necessities and food as possible, and often needed to find supply points to replenish drinking water and food.

Food, which gradually made the investigation more difficult.

Fortunately, in a few days, everyone has already arrived at Chawu Township in Lazi County. After replenishing supplies and fuel here, the convoy will move quickly. If there are no special circumstances, the convoy will continue along National Highway 318 and enter the Everest Nature Reserve.

Protected area, no stops on the way.

National Highway 318 is a landscape avenue. The scenery on both sides of the road is extremely magnificent and beautiful. Snow-capped mountains, wilderness, white clouds, grasslands, lakes, and forests form beautiful pictures. They are magnificent and ever-changing! The quiet valleys are crystal clear.

The bottom of the lake, the white snow, and the vast wilderness all cleanse the human soul and wash away the sins of human beings!

The scenery along the way is endless and pleasant! Everyone is always in a high mood and excited. Occasionally, we can meet self-driving tours or three-wheeled motorcycle teams, as well as passers-by on their pilgrimage to Mount Everest. Every time we encounter these, we have never seen them before.

Everyone would tilt their heads to look at the scenery and objects that passed by for a long time.

It was already dusk when we arrived at the Rongbu Guesthouse. We stayed here for one night. The older professors in the team were left behind the next day. A dozen young people formed a group and drove three off-road vehicles to prepare for the foot of Mount Everest. After all,

It’s impossible to come here without seeing the famous Mount Everest.

The temperature in the Everest area changes with the increase in altitude. It will decrease by about 0.6°C for every 100 meters of elevation. The base camp at the foot of Mount Everest is over 5,000 meters above sea level, so everyone wore a lot more clothes, except of course Jiangdong.

The base camp is the only way to climb the mountain. It is located south of Rongbuk Monastery and consists of a group of tent hotels. A national flag and an Everest reserve flag are erected in the middle. The only permanent buildings here are probably the two toilets.

What is strange is that there is actually a post office here, where you can mail some postcards to relatives and friends, stamped with the Everest Post Office stamp, which is very commemorative!

Jiang Dong bought a postcard with a full view of Mount Everest, wrote his and He Ye's names on it, and sent it to He Ye's family to forgive her parents and avoid letting their family members miss it.

To go to the observation deck, you need to take an environmentally friendly car. We parked the car at the base camp, took our cameras, got dressed, and set off happily. When we went there, it was fine and there was no reaction, but the wind on the observation deck was very strong.

Almost everyone suffered from altitude sickness and were breathing heavily, so everyone went back after staying at the observation deck for less than ten minutes.

April and May every year are the best seasons for mountaineering. At this time, mountaineers from all over the world will gather here, and the base camp will be very lively. However, when Jiangdong and others came, the mountaineering team had just evacuated, and everyone living here

They are travellers,

We stayed at the Rongbu Guest House at night. At this time, many people suffered from altitude sickness. Fortunately, the team had already bought Gaoyuankang, Fenbite, antibiotics and other medicines. After taking them, most people will be fine, but older people will be fine after taking them.

After taking the medicine, you still need to take oxygen, so Jiangdong didn't rest at night and went back and forth to take care of everyone.

Because the temperature at night would reach minus 20 degrees, a thin layer of ice formed on the cars the next morning. One Jinbei car still couldn't start. Everyone had to come over and push the car until everything was ready to go down the mountain.

It's already past ten o'clock in the morning.

Although the requirements for the engine are lower on the way down the mountain, the driving difficulty is even higher than when going up the mountain, because the roads here are not asphalt, but are paved with stones.

There are also many large rocks with sharp tips exposed, which will form a triangular hole in the tire. It cannot be repaired. Fortunately, the comrades at the Lhasa station have experience and each car carries two spare tires.

, so as not to cause the car to sit down.

Throughout the entire journey, there were people measuring air pressure and temperature, photographing the distribution and habitat of vegetation and animals along the way, and recording and analyzing them in detail.

The subsequent work is relatively easy and requires little physical effort, because the second stage of the work is to return to Lhasa along the Himalayas and do some surveying work.

The Himalayas are one of the narrowest mountain ranges in the world. They are composed of many parallel mountains, with a total length of 2,450 kilometers from east to west and a width of 201 to 402 kilometers from north to south. Some of the straight lines the convoy passes are only a few hundred kilometers long, and then they encounter Province 204.

road.

Since there was nothing else to do during this stretch of the journey except taking photos, taking temperatures, etc., Jiang Dong planned to use this period of time to leave the team and search for Xue Lian alone. Of course, he couldn't say it was for Xue Lian, he could only say that he had some personal matters.

Unexpectedly, this proposal was unanimously opposed by everyone, because the team would not arrange a separate car for Jiangdong to drive, and there were no roads or vehicles nearby for Jiangdong to take. With just two legs, he would definitely chase

Those who don't join the convoy will have to wait for Jiangdong on the road.

No one can stop Jiang Dong's plan, because it is related to He Ye's life, so his attitude and words are very firm.

But Jiang Dong couldn't tell everyone all about his abilities, so Wenjie finally came out to help Jiang Dong as a guarantee. In addition, Jiang Dong repeatedly promised that he would return within two days. He would meet everyone at Yanghu by then, so there would be no delay.

Itinerary, everyone agreed to Jiangdong's request.

Before leaving, Jiang Dong opened his backpack and took out the low-level talisman paper. He used a talisman pen and spiritual ink to draw a talisman paper with a yellow background and red characters according to the book. He handed it to Wenjie and told him to light it with a lighter if there was an emergency.

Jiang Dong will arrive soon with this talisman. This incident made Wenjie look at him strangely with suspicion, but in the end Wenjie folded the talisman and put it in his pocket.

inside.

Gao Yuan came to Jiang Dong silently, stuffed a piece of warm clothing he took out of the car into Jiang Dong's bag, looked into Jiang Dong's eyes, and reluctantly got in the car under everyone's urging.

Watching the convoy gradually go away, Jiang Dong put on his backpack, spread his legs and ran quickly towards the foot of the mountains without concealing his ability.

Snow lotus grows on the flowstone slopes of mountains four to five thousand meters above sea level, among the gravel near the snow line, on steep cliffs, and in ice-stained rock crevices. The climate there is extremely cold, and the snow does not melt all year round, so ordinary plants cannot survive at all, and

However, snow lotus can survive the severe cold of dozens of degrees below zero and the hypoxic environment with thin air, and grow tenaciously. This unique living habit and unique growth environment make it natural and rare, and create its unique

Due to its pharmacological effects and miraculous medicinal value, people regard Snow Lotus as the "King of Herbs" and "the best medicine".

There are many kinds of snow lotus, and there are about thirty kinds of subdivisions. The most famous ones are probably the jellyfish snow lotus, the cotton-headed snow lotus, the Tianshan snow lotus and the Tibetan snow lotus. However, no matter how many varieties and styles of snow lotus are developed, its fundamental medicinal properties are not the same.

Changing, so Jiang Dong can look for it on the snow-capped mountains east of Mount Everest.

The snow mountains here are not as lively as Mount Everest, and there are almost no people coming to play or climb. This means that there is a high chance of finding snow lotuses that have grown for thousands of years, because after all, humans have not set foot in too many areas, and many places are still there.

Keeping nature as it is, this invisibly protects the existence of the thousand-year-old snow lotus.

There is no need to worry about being seen here. When Jiangdong encounters a cliff or a deep ditch that he cannot pass, he will release his magic sword and lead him there. This also saves a lot of time. Every time he comes to a snow-capped mountain, Jiangdong will search it carefully with his spiritual consciousness.

, Fortunately, the area where snow lotus grows is only near the snow line, which is more than a thousand meters up and down, so Jiangdong's spiritual consciousness can basically cover it. The remaining task is to walk around the snow-capped mountains and explore.

There are many common snow lotuses growing on these snow-capped mountains. Jiangdong basically passes by and will not waste time on these common snow lotus. What he really needs is the snow lotus that has grown for more than a thousand years. But the lifespan of snow lotus is generally only about eight months.

, under this premise, is there really a thousand-year snow lotus? After searching for a day, Jiangdong couldn't help but have doubts about the formula of the elixir written in the book, but this doubt did not affect Jiangdong's determination, even if it could not be found in this world.

He will continue to search for the Millennium Snow Lotus! For He Ye and for himself!

At night, Jiangdong still didn't stop searching. Fortunately, he didn't need to use his eyesight to search, otherwise the dark night would definitely prevent his actions. The temperature at night dropped significantly, and the temperature near the snow line would reach minus 2 degrees.

Below thirty degrees, although Jiang Dong is not afraid of the cold, he must preserve his energy reserves to search for snow lotus, and he will not use the spiritual liquid in the kettle unless he has to, because only half of it is left.

, so I forced him to put on the thermal clothing that Plateau had given him.

The search was fruitless all night. The next morning, there was not much Qi left in Jiang Dong's body, and he was afraid that it would be exhausted by night. Jiang Dong had no choice but to rely on his own physical strength to walk more distances and use less Qi.

Expand your spiritual consciousness and drive your magic sword, and save them as much as possible for emergencies.

The snow-capped mountains are endless and winding for thousands of miles. If only an ordinary person were to search for them, it would probably take several years, not counting the time required to go back and forth for supplies.

Fortunately, Jiangdong's spiritual consciousness has become much stronger than before the foundation was built. During the exploration of Fangyuan, it extended from less than a hundred meters in the Qi refining period to three to four hundred meters now. Although it is not half of Xu Bozhi's, this has brought Jiangdong

What a great convenience!