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Chapter 1008 Montenegro

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Because of the obstruction of the sheep, Liu Dong and the others had to stop temporarily, and soon a middle-aged man wearing a slightly shabby white sheepskin jacket, a cloth bag tied around his waist, slightly ragged clothes, holding a human shepherd whip in his left hand, dark skin, and a simple and honest face full of years marks strode over from the flock.

Adili probably knew each other, and after a few words of laughter, the shepherd glanced at them, and then drove the sheep out of the way.

Because the road was not wide, they had to get off their donkeys and go forward with their two donkeys.

In the middle, Liu Dong has been looking at this simple northwest herdsman family, just like the herdsman he occasionally met in the Tianshan Mountains before, his life was not satisfactory, but from their faces, Liu Dong also saw a kind of satisfaction with life!

Although it was very hard, I lived a very happy life!

Especially when he noticed the Uyghur woman who offered some goat's milk and flatbread when everyone left, Liu Dong once again felt the ordinary happiness of this ordinary person!

And this happiness triggered a lot of thinking in his heart, and also made him mature as soon as possible!

This maturity refers to mental maturity rather than mental maturity!

"Hey, Xiaodong, what do you think?

"Oh, it's nothing, I think about some family affairs occasionally!" Liu Dong replied with a smile.

"Hehe, young people like you should be homesick, but the most important thing for young people is career. Especially at your age. We must be self-reliant and self-reliant!" Yang Shang imparted some of his life experience.

"I know Uncle Yang. Don't worry!"

Liu Dong didn't say anything about his own situation, so Yang Shang didn't know much about his current achievements, and even thought that Liu Dong stayed in the role of setting up a stall in the Quancheng antique market. Because two years is too short for a person's life, it is hard to believe that an otherwise inconspicuous young person can make a drastic change in two years.

"Well, I've known you kid for almost three years, and I'm not worried about perseverance, perseverance, and self-motivation, and I'll work hard in the future. If you encounter any difficulties when you return to Quancheng, come to me. As long as I can help when the time comes, I will not refuse!"

Facing Yang Shang's caring eyes, Liu Dong was deeply grateful in his heart, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Uncle Yang!

"Haha, that's good! Let's go, keep up, we still have a long way to go today!"

After patting Liu Dong on the shoulder with a smile. Yang Shang clamped the donkey's abdomen between his legs and caught up with the team in front!

"Drive!"

Soon. Liu Dong also drove the donkey to chase after him!

After the previous episode of encountering the shepherd, Liu Dong never met anyone except the eight of them in the middle, no matter how far he walked, it was full of mountains, all of them were black and yellow barren mountains with the slightest trace of color, and the mountains were connected with mountains and water, and the mountain roads became more and more rugged.

Fortunately, except for Liu Dong, who came for the first time, among the eight people, everyone else was an old horse, and they were all lost, otherwise they might be lost in the mountains.

As night fell, because it was particularly dangerous to travel in the mountains, especially in the dark, so when the sky was just dark, several people found a flat mountain valley and set up camp!

Liu Dong, who has been wandering in the Tianshan Mountains for more than a month, is already very skilled in how to set up camp and how to set up tents, so he is very efficient, but Yang Shang and them are a little surprised.

After everyone laughed and asked a few words, they divided their labor and worked together to prepare dinner!

The content of the dinner is very simple, in one sentence it can be described as 'drinking wine in a big bowl and eating meat in a big bowl'! Eight northern men gathered together around a campfire, and the atmosphere was warm and full of arrogance among men!

However, the center of the discussion this time is indeed Liu Dong, and the news that he gambled on the stone to get a top-grade sheep fat jade worth 45 million is really envious, even jealous!

But envy is envy, but there are no bad words!

The humidity in the mountains was heavy, and the temperature difference at night was very large, so after dinner, after half past nine, they went back to their tents!

The night passed quickly, and by the next day, when the sun had not yet dispelled the frost in the mountains, the group had already eaten breakfast, packed up and prepared to continue on the road!

One day or two, and on the third day, Liu Dong finally saw the jade dragon Kashgar River that meandered and flowed like a jade belt!

The Yulong Kashgar River originates from the Kunlun Mountains. After flowing into the Tarim Basin, it joins the Karakash River and becomes the Khotanese River, the river is 325 kilometers long, there are many tributaries, the basin area is 14,500 square kilometers, the river is rich in white jade, green jade and black jade, it is the main river of Khotan jade since ancient times. People pick jade mainly in the middle reaches, and the upper reaches are difficult to reach due to the treacherous terrain.

However, Liu Dong and the others walked deep into the mountains for more than three days, traveling more than 100 kilometers, and had already passed the middle reaches and approached the upper reaches.

That is to say, Adili and Yang Shang, who have been mining jade in Kunlun Mountain for more than ten years, can walk in the vast mountains for so long, and they can also find the place accurately.

"We're here!

Adili, who was leading the way in front, looked at the Jade Dragon Kashgar River in the distance and the snow-capped peaks around him, and said with an excited expression.

"Uncle Yang, what kind of place is this, I think everyone is quite excited?"

"Hehe, of course excited, do you see the highest mountain in front of you?"

Looking in the direction of Yang Shang's finger, among the towering mountains, there was a mountain that was exceptionally tall, far exceeding the height of his companions, and the mountains above the snow line occupied most of them. At first glance, it looks like a white giant.

After noticing Liu Dong's eyes, Yang Shang continued: "...... That mountain, which was called Karangguitak in ancient times and is now called Montenegro, is one of the main peaks of the Kunlun Mountains, with a height of 7,562 meters! The place we are going to now is the Agjugai Valley at the foot of the Black Mountain, where there is a tributary that connects the Yulong Kashgar River, and jade often appears in the river. Moreover, because of the complex terrain, high altitude, and sparsely populated relationship, it is difficult for ordinary jade miners to reach here, so if we are not too lucky, there is still a great chance of mining jade this time!"

"And this kind of good place?" Liu Dong's face showed joy!

"A good place is a good place, but there are also many dangers, and I'll tell you more about it when I get there. But Xiaodong, you have to pay attention to everything, be careful in everything, otherwise once something goes wrong, it is likely to be in danger of life!"

Looking at the solemn look on Yang Shang's face, Liu Dong understood that the other party must have experienced a lot of dangers before, and might even have lost his companions, so he was extra cautious.

"Don't worry, Uncle Yang, I'll definitely be more careful!"

"Hmmm!"

After explaining a few more words to Liu Dong, the team became silent among themselves.

The fatigue of the long journey has made everyone lose interest in talking, and it is more about how to conserve limited physical strength, and then rush faster.

At this time, the altitude of the eight people was already quite high, almost no less than 5,000 meters, and everyone's breathing was extremely heavy except for Liu Dong.

And the surrounding vegetation has also changed from the original shrubs, sand dates, and red willows to clumps of wild grass, and a limited number of dwarf shrubs!

Originally, Liu Dong thought that Adili's 'front is almost there' is a maximum of one or two hours away, but after thinking that it was actually half a day, he still didn't mean to stop.

Just when Liu Dong was about to step forward to ask, a series of loud 'boom' noises suddenly sounded in his ears! It felt like a thunderstorm roaring in summer, the sound shook the valley, and the ear drums still vibrated from a long distance!

"Xiaodong, hurry up, the front is it!"

Seeing that after hearing the roar, whether it was Yang Shang, Qiu Yuan, or Adili, almost everyone showed joy on their faces, and changed the fatigue on their faces, and led the donkey forward quickly with joy.

Seeing them like this, Liu Dong couldn't help but be confused, but after rushing forward for a while, the roaring sound of water became louder and louder.

After they turned around the foot of a mountain, a mountain river with a width of more than 20 meters appeared in front of Liu Dong's eyes, the river was surging and surging, and from time to time mixed with some ice floe rolling down! Both sides of the river were covered with large and small pebbles, which reflected a dazzling light in the afternoon sun!

Looking at Yang Shang and the childish joy on their faces, Liu Dong understood that this time they were on the ground!

"Kala, boom......!"

It was another loud sound that Liu Dong was familiar with, like thunder, and this time Liu Dong, who was closer, felt it very strongly.

As the sound came from, I saw a huge tongue of ice hundreds of meters high on the snow-capped peak of the opposite river, which could not bear the excessive weight and broke apart because the weather was warmer and the ice and snow melted.

The huge house-like giant ice and snow fragments rolled down the hillside as if Mount Tai was on top, and the posture that seemed to crush everything, accompanied by the roar of the sonic boom in the sky, made Liu Dong, who was standing a few hundred meters away, a little frightened!

Because the ice will encounter some rocks or ice blocks protruding from the mountain in the process of falling, so under the huge interaction force, the ice blocks continue to break, and finally like an avalanche, hundreds of large and small ice blocks, rocks roll down, and then fall into the mountain river, especially the largest, more than 5 meters in diameter of the giant ice block is even more like' Mars hit the earth' and set off a huge wave of dozens of meters, and the whole river filled the entire valley like a rising tide in an instant, and the huge impact force even washed a lot of ice that had just fallen into the river to the shore.

After the river reluctantly retracted and returned to its original state, both the valley and the river returned to the state Liu Dong had first seen, but the ice on the bank of the river reminded him that everything just now was so real......!