A Weekend in 2461 (Novella) Zhang Baotong 2018.9.11

Qinling Lingshan National Forest Park is a world-class forest park and an ecological park with diverse species. In this hundreds of square kilometers of park, all the residents have already been moved out, and nearly 100 species of animals, birds and thousands of plants have been moved and transplanted in this pristine and vast mountain. In addition to countless animals such as giant pandas, golden monkeys, takin, serow, impalas, wild boars, and black bears in the Qinling Mountains, as well as the world's most abundant pheasant population, dozens of tropical animals such as African elephants, lions, cheetahs, wildebeests, gazelles, zebras, bison, and rhinoceros have also been moved into the Qinling Mountains.

The cable car took them all the way to a forest garden temple in the middle of the mountain called Nanwutai, which is where the cable car ends. Surrounded by mountain peaks and dense forests, the fog has not yet cleared after the rain, and the whole mountain is still wet, but the sun is shining clearly through the clouds. He Jia and Li Mingxiu got off the cable car and walked hand in hand from the cable car terminal to the Qinling Lingshan National Forest Park Management Station opposite. Because the tourists got off the cable car and left on the tour car, there were hardly any people here. They each took out their gold cards and swiped them on the machine in front of the management station, and then sat in a small electric car for two people. The electric car was unmanned, and after they were seated, they drove down a small road towards the depths of the mountain.

The tour bus drove and introduced them to the sights and animals outside the window. After a while, the electric car came to a forest area deep in the mountains and green valleys, and heard the noise of chirping in the forest. When they looked up, they saw golden monkeys crawling on the trees. They were looking at the golden monkeys, and the golden monkeys were watching them. He Jia said to Li Mingxiu, "These little things must also treat us as strange animals." ”

Li Mingxiu smiled and said, "Yes, you look at their eyes, as if we are visitors from outside the sky and are violating their homeland." ”

The tour bus goes fast, but at each spot, it starts to slow down so that visitors can take their time. Even when driving fast, you can occasionally see a black bear, a few crested ibises, or even a herd of antelopes in the mountains and meadows on the side of the road. When arriving at the Daqing Mountain in Zhouzhi Mountain, the mountain peaks here are numerous, the mountains are like Dai, the bamboo trees are shady, the thousand peaks are stacked and green, the spring water is like a gourd, the Fengming Valley should be, the mountain path is rugged, and the grass and trees are all beings. In a bamboo forest as far as the eye can see, more than a dozen giant pandas can be seen playing around near the Rengong cave where they live. One of the mother pandas was lying leisurely on a meadow, and a cub was playing with something like a ball beside her. When the tour bus passed by them, they were like no one around, as if they were used to it all.

Further on, there is the scenic spot of Shouyang Mountain, where the mountain is peculiar, the peaks are steep, the mountains and rocks are varied, the rock peaks are exposed, and you can clearly see the rock sheep and takins on the edge of the nearby cliffs. They also saw a leopard running past their car. As the tour bus passed by a small stream, they also saw a black bear catching a large fish in the stream.

On the way from Shouyang Mountain to Taibai Mountain, they also encountered a herd of elephants. There were seven or eight in all, probably a family, two or three were adults, three or four were young, and two were young. The elephants are walking slowly on the roadway, so the electric car has to slow down and follow. It wasn't until the elephants entered a meadow from the side of the road that the electric car began to accelerate and drove towards Taibai Mountain.

At the foot of Taibai Mountain, there are patches of flat grassland and a pool of clear lake. In August, the grass is green, the flowers are varied, the mountains are embraced, the blue waves are green, the white clouds look back, and the wind and rain are surging. The tour bus passes by the edge of the meadow and you can see large herds of wildebeest, gazelles, zebras and bison grazing on the meadows. However, they did not see lions, cheetahs and wolves. However, as they were driving up a hill road, they saw a huge male lion lying on the driveway and sleeping soundly. The tour bus kept blaring sirens to drive the lions away. But the lion just glanced this way, and continued to lie there, motionless. Although they stayed in the car and the lion could not harm them, it scared them.

These animals and beasts that originally belonged to the African savannah have undergone a long adaptation to survive in the Qinling Mountains. After all, the temperature in the Qinling Mountains is very different from the temperature in the African savannah, but the natural conditions in the Qinling Mountains are much better than in the African savannah. In fact, there were many such animals and beasts living in the Qinling Mountains, but because of the expansion of human beings, these animals and beasts gradually died out in hundreds or thousands of years. And these wild animals from Africa are only wild in spring, summer and autumn, and in winter they return to artificial living environment, where there are caves with the right temperature and food, and they will not be subjected to the harsh winter of northern China. And the herbivores return to the greenhouse canopy built for them to spend the winter. It can be said that these wild animals are in a semi-wild ecological environment, and they are not strangers to people, so they are not afraid of people.

After a moment of the siren, the lion became a little impatient, got up from the ground, wagged his tail and left unhurriedly, and walked towards the meadow in the distance. The tour bus drove quickly towards the side of Taibai Mountain, getting closer and closer to the sun-lit summit. On the roadside, you can see alpine meadows and pristine glaciers, and colorful rhododendrons blooming all over the mountains, which is very spectacular and beautiful. Flocks of birds and pheasants fly from the meadows and flowers, bringing the silent mountain to life.

When they got to the top of Taibaijin, they got out of the car, and there was no one else on the top of the whole mountain. Because tourists usually take the subway from Xi'an at 9 o'clock in the morning, the levitating magnetic subway will send them to Nanwutai at 9 o'clock, and they start the tour by electric tour bus from Nanwutai. The tour time is generally about two and a half hours. By the time they were done, it was almost 11 a.m., and the tour bus would drop them off at the Meiwu subway station by 11:30, and the subway train would take them back to Xi'an in just 10 minutes. Another time period is to take the subway train to Nanwutai at 1 o'clock at noon, and return to Meiwu subway station from the golden summit of Taibai Mountain at 3:30. And they took the high-altitude cable car to Nanwutai, which was nearly an hour slower than taking the subway, so when they came to Taibai Peak, it was already more than four o'clock. At this time, only the two of them were left on the entire Tai Platinum Roof.

They stood on the top of the peak and looked around, and saw that the sun was shining brightly on the mountains and the horizon, and the blue sky, white clouds, peaks, and valleys were very beautiful and magnificent, while they themselves seemed so lonely and small. They stood on the top of the hill and watched, and kept taking pictures. The camera is the button at the bottom of their clothes. After the photo, they sat on a meadow at the top of the mountain, looking affectionately at the sky where the sun was heading west, and it felt like a dream in front of them.

After a while, the tour bus issued a warning: Hello tourists, the last subway from Meiwu to Xi'an today will depart within half an hour, please get on the train in time. Hearing the warning, He Jia looked at the table below, it was already 4:30 in the afternoon, and there were still three hours before dark. He knows that tourists must leave the Qinling Mountains by 4:30 p.m., because if you miss the last subway, you will have to spend the night with the animals in the mountains. In addition, there are tigers, leopards, lions, black bears and wolves at night in the mountains, which is very dangerous. Last year, an acquaintance had to lie on a bench at the Meiwu subway station overnight because he did not return to Xi'an from the mountains in time until 8 a.m. the next morning.

He hurriedly pulled Li Mingxiu into the tour bus. The tour bus began to descend the mountain, at a very fast speed, until it headed towards the Guanzhong Plain. It only took about ten minutes for the tour bus to send them to a subway station called Meiwu. They got out of the tour bus and went down from the subway entrance to the subway station. A four-car levitating magnetic train is parked on the edge of the platform. They swiped their cards in front of the train door and entered a carriage. Most of the seats in the carriage are empty. They chose an empty row of seats and sat down. After about another three to five minutes, the train started, and ten minutes later the train took them to Xi'an.

They got off the car, first came to the high-altitude cable car station to retrieve the leather bag stored by Li Mingxiu, and then went to the imperial dining pavilion where they went at noon, and one of them asked for a bowl of red bean porridge and a small plate of fried green bamboo shoots with eggs, and ate it.