At first, Ji Yuqian was not worried, what age is this, how could he lose contact, but the follow-up report that followed made him panic, all means, including ordinary radio stations, have been tried, but he still can't get in touch.

Satellite phones and GPS positioning belong to high-tech equipment, but the radio is the simplest and most primitive communication tool, all countries have retained radio equipment, is to prepare for a rainy day, to cope with the communication needs after the nuclear war, so this thing will not fail, the team is equipped with a radio station as a supplement, but no one has received a distress signal from them.

Ji Yuqian retrieved the real-time photos of Google satellites, and the Ali area was white, and there was no trace of it at all.

Along with the two star teams, there was another Lanzhou University scientific examination team, but the global audience only cared about the safety of the former, and even had no idea that the scientific expedition team was missing.

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People from the mainland finally know the terrible thing about the word heavy snow closing the mountain, the snow that is more than one meter thick will trap people in place, unable to save themselves, can only wait for the outside rescue, but this is not the mainland, it is a vast Ali no man's land, and it will take time for the rescue team to find it, and before being discovered, to ensure that it does not freeze to death and starve to death is the most urgent problem at the moment.

Fortunately, everyone is a smart person, and no one will mention any games at a critical moment, the two teams will be combined into one team, the wartime communist system will be implemented, all fuel and food will be uniformly distributed, and everyone must take action, build shelters, and wait for help.

Because the time is already the beginning of spring, no one expected the sudden change in the weather, so the tent carried can not withstand the severe cold, even the diesel fuel label added to the truck can not match the low temperature, in order to ensure the temperature, can only idle at all times, once the engine is turned off, it is difficult to start again.

Although everyone brought warm clothing, it was not enough to cope with this extreme weather, and it was easy to die in your sleep because of hypothermia during sleep at night, coupled with the lack of oxygen in the alpine area.

Li Ming frightened everyone and said that there was once a group of soldiers camping in a certain place, and the next morning, all the people in this group died, and from then on that place was called Dead Man's Ditch, some people thought it was a joke, but several people who had been to Tibet confirmed that Li Ming was telling the truth, and Dead Man's Ditch was a famous landmark on the Xin-Tibet Highway.

There are more than 20 people in the two teams, including technicians and drivers and guides, but none of them have as much experience as Li Ming, who has often wandered in the uninhabited area of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so everyone elected him as the temporary commander-in-chief to save everyone's lives.

The snow is still falling, and most of the vehicles in a circle are flooded with snow, and it is necessary to send people to constantly dig up the snow to ensure that the exhaust pipe is smooth, so it is not a way to go on, the fuel will soon run out, and the body temperature alone will not be able to support it for too long.

At the critical moment, Ji Yufan contributed a method to imitate the Eskimos and build a snow house with inexhaustible raw materials, this suggestion was immediately approved by everyone, but the question is, who will build the snow house, the Eskimos' thousand-year-old wisdom is not something that can be learned by talking.

"We have computers. Ji Yufan snapped his fingers, "The computer will give detailed drawings and construction steps, and even the data of each snow brick, just do it." ”

Ji Yufan is right, the Eskimo snow house is very technical, the construction material of this dome snow house needs to have a certain arc to fit perfectly, so that the house is solid and warm, and it really can't be built out of thin air, fortunately Ji Yufan's computer has this software, otherwise the network can't be connected, and the computer is in vain.

The men quickly took action, took the snow at the air outlet with moderate hardness and softness, and cut it with a chainsaw, and they had to build a snow hut for thirty people, which was a huge workload, but fortunately the weather was fine at this time, and there was no wind, so they took turns to go into battle and sweat like rain.

The main force of the work is not those Tibetan driver guides, but the core of the two teams, two stars, Liu Kunlun and Ji Yufan in pairs, with tacit understanding, the work efficiency far exceeds that of other groups, Jian Ai held a camera to faithfully record the picture of their labor.

Li Ming stood on the roof of the car, taking turns using several satellite phones to try to contact the outside world, what a hell, all the satellite phones failed, and the radio station sent a distress signal, but no one answered.

This is very abnormal, as abrupt as this sudden blizzard, Li Ming looked at the fast-moving dark clouds in the sky and fell into deep worry, but he didn't plan to tell the team.

It is said that a skilled Eskimo can build a snow house for four people in an hour, everyone is a novice, naturally not so fast, they first try to build a small snow house, after mastering the skills, according to the unified specifications to build two large snow houses, a large snow brick spiraling in a circle, no cement mortar, no brick knife line drop, so by artificial build into a dome snow house, the last snow brick is octagonal, Ji Yufan from the inside of the house to hold out the snow bricks, and finally complete the capping of the first big snow house before the sky。

The blizzard came again, and everyone took refuge in the snow room, because the entrance of the snow room is underground, cold air cannot enter, and the entire snow room is free except for the top ventilation hole, so it can maintain the temperature well, this big snow room that can only accommodate fifteen people is squeezed in twenty-six people, and it suddenly becomes crowded, and the oxygen on the plateau is thin, so many people are crowded in a narrow space, and they can't breathe.

Li Ming said: "Everyone sit in a circle, don't move, don't talk, and try to minimize oxygen consumption. ”

Ji Yufan opened two more ventilation holes on the roof, and at the same time it can ensure that the indoor temperature will not be too high and cause the snow to melt, even so, the air is still not enough to breathe, fortunately, everyone has been prepared, brought a lot of oxygen tanks in, just take a sip if it's okay, don't care if it's useful or not, at least psychologically down-to-earth.

Outside, the wind and snow are mixed, the snow house is as warm as spring, even the cold clothes can not be worn, everyone took off their coats, only wearing the fleece lining inside and was busy cooking, there are a lot of self-heating dry food in the supply, the package with a heating agent, adding water can be turned into hot food through a simple chemical reaction, this kind of rice is usually not even eaten by dogs, but now it has become a delicacy.

With hot food in the stomach, the mood improves, and someone proposes to tell a story to survive the long snowy night.

"Brother Ming is welcome to come. Jian Ai coaxed and received applause and support from everyone.

Li Ming said: "Then I'll tell a story of a snowman, let's come this time, isn't it just to find the traces of the snowman, there is a legend that there is a great lama with great virtue and boundless power who can summon a snowman, and he has a magic flute left by his master's master a long, long time ago......"

"What kind of motorcycle? Is it the kind of three-wheeled motor vehicle driven by the disabled, it has long been banned. Someone quipped, causing a burst of laughter.

Li Ming didn't smile: "The magic of magic, the flute of the musical instrument, the magic flute is made of human bones, and the sound of blowing can be transmitted far and wide, but the great lama will not blow it casually, only at the most difficult moment he will take out this human bone magic flute, blow out a long note, at midnight, the snowman will come down from the high mountain and come to the lama temple." ”

Jian Ai shuddered: "What are you going to do?"

Li Ming glanced at her: "Don't I say it, the most critical moment will the great lama summon the snowman, the last time the call, was in 1888, the British invaded Tibet for the first time, a British and Indian army team came to the temple, trying to rob the temple of gold, the great lama sounded the magic flute...... Later, the Anglo-Indian squad disappeared forever. ”

In order to relieve the tension, a Tibetan driver named Tashi told a witty story related to the snowman, he said that it was better for beautiful men not to go out and hang around, because there are many females and few males in the snowmen, and the female snowman specializes in robbing beautiful men to go up the mountain to be husbands, and he will not stop if he does not give birth to seven or eight little snowmen, he has a nose and eyes, and his second uncle's cousin was captured by the snowman, and he will not come back after 20 years, and he will not say anything.

"The female snowman is three meters tall, and the big NAI is so big. Tashi gestured, and it was fifty centimeters long, causing a burst of laughter, "Commander Li, you don't have to be afraid, you are old, and the female snowman doesn't like it." Tashi looked at everyone, and his eyes fell on Liu Kunlun and Ji Yufan, "You two have to be careful." ”

Another burst of laughter, Tashi doesn't know the big stars, and he doesn't choose his words, and he would definitely be reprimanded in normal times, but in this moment of sharing ups and downs, anything that can make people feel relaxed will not be taken offended.

Everyone laughed at the lack of oxygen, and quickly took out the oxygen tank and inhaled it violently, but he still felt uncomfortable, Ji Yufan said I will go out to have a look, maybe the snow is too big and the vent is blocked.

"I'll go with you. His assistant said.

Ji Yufan's face was embarrassed: "It's better for me to go alone." ”

Tashi said: "Let him go alone, the young man is going to pee." ”

This time, everyone couldn't laugh, and one by one they were weak, watching Ji Yuqian crawl out of the underground passage, and he didn't come back for a long time.

The snow has stopped outside, and a round of the moon hangs in the sky, perhaps because of the plateau, the moon is very large, the galaxy is brilliant, the moonlight is scattered, the snow is reflected, and the whole world is bright.

Ji Yufan took out a small copper box, the box was engraved with Tibetan, opened, purple velvet lining, and a miserable white human bone flute was placed on it.

The snow-capped mountains are majestic, the heavens and the earth are quiet, Ji Yufan blew the bone flute, he was blowing hard, but he couldn't hear the sound, because the frequency of the bone flute is not the band that the human ear can receive.

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Ji Yufan hasn't come back yet, and Tashi jokes that even if it's, it's time to finish, I'm afraid it's constipation.

No one laughed, and the assistant hurried out to check, and soon came back, saying with a look of horror: "Jimmy is gone, and huge footprints have been found in the snow." ”

Li Ming did not panic in the face of danger, stopped everyone's blind movement, and assigned a few people with good physical strength to go out to find people with weapons and shooting equipment, while the others were on standby.

Liu Kunlun was also in the small team, he saw deep footprints on the snow, more than normal human footprints, measured with a ruler, the foot is forty centimeters, converted into a shoe size is seventy yards of big feet.