Chapter 14: Clues (I)
Sherpa is very efficient, the next day before noon, people told him that the information has been found, but this network problem is a little troublesome - this mountain village is almost isolated from the world, computers are still rare here, not to mention the high-end things such as the Internet, as a last resort, Sherpa and Wang Xingguo had to drive to the town outside the mountain, found a place with a network, received data, and purchased some things that should be usable in the town by the way.
When the matter is done, the sun is already in the west, Sherpa urges Wang Xingguo to rush back, Wang Xingguo sits in the passenger seat of the off-road vehicle, and looks at the satellite remote sensing data just received on a laptop computer, this kind of professional information is usually incomprehensible, and the data is represented by different colors to different terrain and forms, but the satellite is not to carefully remote sense every inch of the earth, their main task is to carry out remote sensing and monitoring in key areas, such as mineral-rich areas and natural disaster-prone areas, There are no valuable minerals here in Coffin Mountain, and it is not considered that geological disasters are frequent, and even the value of scientific research has been characterized as worthless, so naturally it will not attract too much attention, and the remote sensing map that Sherpa found through relations is not high-definition, at most it can only be regarded as high-definition, but it is far from good.
The remote sensing map of this area is about 5 years old, which is just a remote sensing point by the way when other areas of the satellite remote sensing area pass over the coffin mountain, and several maps are exactly the same no matter how you look at them, in Sherpa words, this is basically no reference material.
The stratum is the best cover, although satellite remote sensing can penetrate a certain depth of the ground, but there is no more way to go too deep now, there is indeed a large amount of hematite near the ghost gate pass and the ghost forest, on the satellite remote sensing map, a light orange is marked here, such a color means that the grade of these hematite is not good, from the perspective of mining, the reserves here are really a little shabby, but this hematite is enough to interfere with the compass and even the instrument.
Wang Xingguo suddenly remembered that the bark of many trees in the ghost forest was a little reddish, which should have been manifested by absorbing the iron element of underground hematite, and the stone walls of the ghost gate pass also had dark red rust-like patterns in some places, but Wang Xingguo couldn't remember whether the grass in the ghost gate pass had this kind of high iron content - they were all concerned about survival at that time, and this kind of detail was ignored.
Sherpa watched Wang Xingguo look at a few satellite remote sensing maps over and over for a full hour, but he didn't say a word, and asked: "I'm right, I've seen these pictures with Ruobing many times, they are too vague and have no reference value." ”
"Hmm......" Wang Xingguo replied politely, while speaking, the Sherpa didn't notice that there was a stone on the mountain road, and the car bumped when it ran over, but fortunately Wang Xingguo reacted quickly and protected his hand.
"We have provided all the information that can be provided, can you give us an accurate word now?" Sherpa took control of the car, and now the sky is rapidly darkening, although there are no cars on the mountain road, but Sherpa still turned on the headlights for safety reasons, and then asked.
After all, for the sunshine, the power of the headlights is nothing, but at this time there are no people on the mountain road, let alone the car, Wang Xingguo raised his eyes, barely saw the outline of the headlights on the road, turned his head to see, not far from the west of the mountaintop, the sun has turned crimson, at most ten minutes, the sun will completely set behind the mountain.
"We must have missed something...... Wang Xingguo said, looking at the vague outline of the headlights and then at the sun.
"Wow...... What a beautiful sun......" Sherpa also turned his head to look at the sun, did not listen to what Wang Xingguo said, and sighed.
"There must be something missing...... Wang Xingguo muttered to himself again, looking at a few vague remote sensing maps again.
"Cavity...... Well...... The development of the cavity ...... "Wang Xingguo's attention just now has been focusing on the terrain and hematite, and the underground cavity has not been carefully examined.
"In terms of geological development, twenty years is only a few seconds of human time." Sherpa reminded that he and Xia Ruobing had been studying Coffin Mountain for less than ten years, and all the materials that could be found had been read dozens of times, and he believed that he had not missed anything, and Wang Xingguo could not find more valuable information from it.
Although the 14-inch screen portable is light and easy to bring, it is indeed too small for looking at the map, Wang Xingguo stared at the geological map on the screen, the underground cavity is represented by blue, light blue indicates the depth is shallow, the darker the color, the deeper the depth, but only felt 30 to 50 meters underground, and there is no information about the depth.
"Cavity development...... Well...... Cavity development ......" Wang Xingguo muttered to himself while repeatedly flipping through a few pictures on the computer, but at first glance, there was still no difference.
"There is no large-scale ......," Wang Xingguo was a little discouraged.
"This is not an important area, and it would be nice to be able to remotely sense a map of 1:100,000." Sherpa smiled.
Wang Xingguo still did not give up, and partially enlarged the picture on the computer.
Another half an hour passed, at this time it was completely dark, the snow-bright car lights pierced the night sky, but beyond the car lights was boundless darkness, all kinds of insects dormant during the day began to be active, and the birds disappeared, Wang Xingguo listened to the insects, swaying with the bumps of the off-road vehicle, and suddenly asked: "Why is the distribution of villages here so strange?" ”
"Village distribution?" Sherpa was stunned for a moment, what is the difference between this and the distribution of villages.
Wang Xingguo could see the distribution of the villages from the remote sensing map, and at first his attention was on the coffin mountain, but after looking at it repeatedly, he was inadvertently attracted by this.
"Does this have anything to do with Coffin Mountain?" Sherpa asked, confused.
Wang Xingguo looked at the remote sensing maps repeatedly, zoomed in on Chengzi Village and nearby villages, and suddenly said, "Turn around in front, we have to go back to the town." ”
"Turn back? What to do back in town? Sherpa stopped the car and asked.
"Re-download the latest satellite map!" Wang Xingguo partially enlarged the map near the Ghost Gate Pass, flipped through a few maps back and forth, the remote sensing map was relatively blurry, and the Sherpa looked at it for a long time without seeing any situation.
"Don't you see something strange about these villages?" Wang Xingguo flipped through the map and pointed to a few points on the screen.
"What's wrong?" The vague map makes the Sherpa barely see the difference.
"The Coffin Mountain is the center of the circle, and these villages are built around the Coffin Mountain."
Sherpa smiled dumbly, the coffin mountain is a forbidden area, could the village be built in it? It's not a good place to live and live.