Volume 1 Chapter 88: Altitude Sickness
In the third stage, the average fear was already more than 4,000 meters, and the power of the V8 engine was also affected.
The undulating mountains and rivers, Shi Hui has been chewing gum, the purpose of this is to adjust the pressure on the eardrum, Xing Yu began to chew too, and later found that it was too easy to bite his tongue to study in this way, so he gave up...... Xing Yu's myopic sunglasses also have a small problem, and he can't see the content of the road book clearly through the light, and if he wants to see the road book clearly, he can only choose to shed tears under the dazzling sun.
Small problems with the vehicle also continue to burst out, there are too many gravel, it is easy to splash up and cause damage to the vehicle, and there are already several cars that have no choice but to retire because they cannot be effectively repaired.
In the base camp, chest tightness, shortness of breath, dry cough, headache, toothache, dizziness, fatigue, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, insomnia, various symptoms occur every day, and the team members who can't stand it and leave halfway during the game have it every day.
The most bitter is the repair and maintenance technicians, the plateau consumes physical strength, dozens of times that of usual, and it is already very tired to repair their own fleet vehicles, and then to repair other people's vehicles, many repairmen feel weak limbs.
Shi Ningxia helped fix the car once after the race, and almost fainted during the next day, after which many drivers would rather give up than trouble him.
The high anti has such characteristics: bullying the high does not bully the short, bullying the man does not bully the woman, bullying the fat does not bully the thin, bullying does not bully the quiet, bullying the strong does not bully the weak. It is said that the reason is that the stronger the person, the greater the lung capacity and the higher the demand for oxygen, so it is more likely to have altitude sickness.
These guys, who can usually carry an engine for two people, are now like frosty eggplants, and they have to pant for a long time when they dismantle the engine......
Xing Yu, who has never had motion sickness, vomited twice in the car because of bumps and lack of oxygen, drank more hot water, not the care of a straight man, and such voices often came out of the organizer's radio.
For mild altitude sickness, drinking plenty of hot boiled water can still help alleviate altitude sickness.
In addition to the common wearing parts and spare gasoline in the car every time I set off, the most I bring is water and oxygen packs.
The biggest benefit of the plateau may be that it can make people quit smoking, some masters can usually smoke two packs of cigarettes a day, and now they feel dizzy when they smoke one......
When the fourth stage departed, it had already reached the territory of Delingha, this stage had to cross the Kunlun Mountain Range, and pass through the Bayankala Pass at an altitude of more than 5,800 meters, although it belongs to the Qaidam Basin, but the average altitude is more than 3,000 meters.
The loss of vehicle power and the physical strength of the personnel, Shi Hui saw the surrounding situation after winning a stage championship and had the urge to win a championship.
"Xing Yu, you can't do it, you young man, your body is not as good as mine. Shi Hui also got a little upset after Xing Yu vomited on the track again.
Saying this, Shi Hui still took a bottle of mineral water and patted Xing Yu's back and handed it over.
After retching a few times, Xing Yu took off his helmet and wanted to flush his head with water, he hadn't taken a shower for three days, and his hair was greasy and greasy.
Shi Hui snatched the water bottle: "What do you think, this baby, why don't you listen to persuasion." ”
It is best not to take a bath for a week after entering the plateau, mainly to prevent altitude sickness. Because the air in the plateau area is thin, the oxygen content of the human body is reduced, and if you take a bath just after going to the plateau, the blood vessels in the body will dilate and aggravate the lack of oxygen in the nervous system.
Of course, if you catch a cold because of bathing, it will be even more troublesome, there used to be such a legend, do you want to commit suicide? Then please feel that you have a plateau, 50% mortality, 30% mental retardation, 20% permanent dizziness, 10% permanent vomiting. Pleural effusion, pleurisy, pleural adhesions, and pleural thickening are easily caused by colds in plateau areas. A cold plus a plateau is tantamount to suicide.
"When I was a little younger than you, I worked as a car soldier on the Xinzang Road...... Shi Hui, who usually talks very little in competitions, now saw that Xing Yu was a little dizzy, and began to tell his previous story to help him refresh himself.
Xing Yu looked at the road book and listened to Shi Hui tell the previous story, the exciting game, and the exciting story, which made Xing Yu slowly feel a lot more comfortable.
The Xin-Tibet Highway, which hovers over the "roof of the world," is like a white Hada, tethered to the Gangdis Mountains on the Ali Plateau in Tibet and falling on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, with a total length of more than 1,400 kilometers. The average altitude here is more than 4,500 meters, the oxygen content of the air is only 44% of that of the plains, and the average annual temperature is minus 20 °C......
Every inch of the road here is stained with blood, and Shi Hui will write a suicide note in accordance with the regulations every time he receives a task.
Once I drove to deliver important supplies, I encountered a landslide on the road, Shi Hui was already the squad leader at that time, he asked the people in the car to go down, he got into the car hard, followed the gestures of his comrades, stared wide-eyed, stared ahead, and drove the car slowly.
After relieving himself, he didn't know how that section of the road had come about, the collapsed mud and gravel filled most of the road, and when the vehicle passed, the tire on one side might be only a few centimeters still on the cliff, and there was an abyss next to it.
This is not the end, when going down the mountain, I stepped on the brakes, but I didn't feel it, and I stepped on it again, but there was still no response. "It's not good, the brakes are out of order!" Shi Hui clenched the steering wheel, staring at the front with his eyes tight, and asked his comrades next to him to quickly pull the brakes, but the car still rushed down like flying.
"Squad leader, what should you do?" shouted the comrade-in-arms next to him nervously.
"Grab the handrail and lean back. At this time, Shi Hui couldn't care about so much, and decisively ordered everyone to protect themselves......
Hearing only a "bang", the comrades in the car opened their eyes after a while, and turned around to find that Shi Hui was not sitting in the car, and the car plunged into a pile of sand on the side of the road.
got out of the car and found Shihui who had passed out in a coma.
"Brother Shi, you brag. How big is the windshield before liberation, and ...... of your figure" Hearing this, Xing Yu interrupted Shi Hui's narration, Shi Hui was very tall, more than one meter eight, and his weight was not light, Xing Yu found it hard to believe how such a figure could fly out of a narrow windshield like Jiefang CA10.
"You still don't believe me, I wasn't as fat as I am now. Didn't you ask me before why I was missing a few fingers? Since then, I have realized the importance of seat belts, which were not available in the car at that time, and we often had to wear a straw rope when we ran...... This straw rope has saved many people's lives and harmed many people's lives, sometimes there is danger, and I want to jump out of the car, because I don't have time to untie the rope, I can only fall off the cliff with the vehicle......" Shi Hui said calmly, and let go of the steering wheel to show his disabled palm.
As for why it was crashing into a mound of dirt and not falling off a cliff. Shi Hui said later: "It's very simple to drive on the road, but it's complicated to learn to recognize the road, and it will be used at critical moments." ”
"Xing Yu, remember that you are my eyes now, I just drive, the direction and route, you give me the command, now the vehicles are almost the same, and we are not professional racers, if you become a professional navigator, then I will run with half the effort. Shi Hui didn't know if he really dug out his heart, or if he said this simply to encourage Xing Yu.
"Little meaning, Brother Shi, you can run with confidence, even if you run wrong, I can bring you back the right path. Hearing Shi Hui praise himself, Xing Yu temporarily forgot about his dizziness and nausea, and patted his chest to reassure.
Talking and laughing all the way to the race, it is something that I have never experienced before, and the results have always been valued by Shi Hui, this stage, too many people have withdrawn, which has made Shi Hui relax a lot, seeing that Xing Yu has been so uncomfortable, and I don't want to put too much pressure on him, so I said so many things for the first time in the competition.
Back at the base camp, Shi Hui and Xing Yu were surprised to find that they had won another stage championship...... This made Xing Yu want to jump up excitedly, and we didn't use any strength to win!!
The next day was the first and only rest day for the competition. Ling Hao has already started his journey of playing soy sauce due to his own physical reasons, and Manni already wants to give up the game considering Ling Hao's physical condition.
"Leave me alone, let's run slowly, and at the end of the push, we have to finish this race. Ling Hao also lost his temper at this time.
After several people took turns to persuade them to no avail, they could only give up. The organizing committee of the racers' rest day is organized to travel activities, but everyone is too tired, only some of the team visitors go to play, and the maintenance technicians also want to take a holiday, but this day can fully check the status of the vehicle, and there is little time to visit because of the problem of time constraints before the maintenance.
During this time, Fei Long pulled Wei Xiao and Ma Duo to see the beauty, and it took two days to catch up with Qinghai Lake from the earliest, and the team of the base camp, Fairy Bay, Keluk Lake, Kunlun Mountain, Regong Art, and Qingshui Bay even wanted to go to the source of the Yellow River if time did not allow.
When Xing Yu was half-spread on the folding bed, Wei Xiao also ran over: "My husband will rest tomorrow, let's go play together, there are aliens in the back, Chaka Salt Lake, and Dulan Temple There are many places to play." ”
Xing Yu gasped: "Why don't you sing me a song on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?"
"What are you doing singing such a high note, doesn't it mean that there will be a lack of oxygen?" Wei Xiao was confused by Xing Yu's words.
"You still know that there will be a lack of oxygen, your husband is going to be tired to death, and if he doesn't go anywhere, I have a headache and nausea......" Xing Yu wanted to have a little strength to say this sentence loudly, but did Xing Yu have the strength? No, Xing Yu could only slap Wei Xiao weakly.
"No, are you reverse? Why don't I have anything to do at all?" his eyes widened, and Wei Xiao found that Xing Yu was so listless as he usually behaved the next day after drinking too much.
Xing Yu nodded weakly, on the one hand, this is not the kind of desert section that he has run before, the desert is very soft, the bumps are not so violent, the past few days are mostly Gobi road sections, the bumps make the seat belt have been strangled on the upper body, and the breathing is already poor, and I am strangled by the seat belt, and I feel even more hot in my lungs.
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