Chapter 2: Northern Tibet
There was a loud bang in the sky, like the explosion of a nuclear bomb of several hundred thousand tons of TNT, and a huge crater appeared out of thin air on the plateau of northern Tibet, with a diameter of tens of meters.
Gradually, the scorching ground was cooled by the cold air of northern Tibet, and a humanoid head poked out of the narrow insulation layer of more than a dozen cubic meters with a Swiss Army knife and took a deep breath. After more than a year of confinement, he was finally free, but he came to a strange era, a strange plateau, and left his beloved girlfriend forever, which is really unspeakable suffering.
This person drilled out and felt it, and sure enough, the air was very thin, and the northern Tibetan plateau was really coming, and it was impossible to confirm whether it was the late Qing Dynasty.
At the foot is the sparsely vegetated red earth, and in the distance is the majestic mountains on the top of the snow, and at a glance, there is no living thing to see, barren and cuiwei. The sky is cloudy and it seems like it's going to rain? Or snow? The clothes on the body are waterproof, but I am not afraid, what the hell is this place? Let's take a look at the loctor's answer first.
He took the locator out of his coat pocket in the cold wind and pointed it at the sky, the starlight locator was also useful during the day, when the starlight was only obscured by the sun. There was a large dark cloud overhead, but as long as a small piece of starry sky could be found, the instrument would work. The result came out -- it was really ruthless, it was actually a no-man's land in northern Tibet. ** So big, densely populated is in Lhasa, that little place, northern Tibet, that is really thousands of miles away.
Aimlessly, he walked through the desolate reddish-brown land, carrying a small backpack that he had just checked, and it contained the same equipment that the executive had promised him: a particle beam pistol, a zippo, a Swiss army knife, a snow tent, a molecular separator. Particle beam guns are meant to be carried in your pocket in case of emergencies. However, it was so desolate that he had to worry about whether he would find an animal to hunt before he starved to death.
He is 50% East Asian, and this race is characterized by a relatively short nasal passage, and the cold air is poured into his lungs before it can heat up, making him a little uncomfortable. He pulled the windbreaker, and his subconscious movements were actually useless.
He now had to decide whether to go south to a densely populated place, or east to a place with a river. One of the main rivers closer to him is the Tuotuo River, the source of the Yangtze River. Where there is a water source, there are more animals, and for him, there are more chances of survival.
It's better to go east to find a water source, survival is important, there is nothing to go to Lhasa.
Fortunately, he is only more than 10 kilometers away from the Tuotuo River, which is not far away, and the weather here is not as terrible as he imagined, it is estimated that it is more than ten degrees below zero. He also spent time in St. Petersburg, Russia, and doesn't feel that the temperature is cold now.
His nearest city was Lhasa, but he was now in Qinghai. After walking for half an hour, I didn't see a single walking animal! But, at last, he heard a wail, from the sky, too far away to see the truth, it could be a vulture. Anyway, it's good to have a living thing, it's really not good, get the vulture down and barbecue, visually see that it is more than 200 meters above the ground, beyond the effective range of 100 meters of the particle beam gun, but this is too simple, just play dead and lure it down.
He saw the vulture land in a place from afar, and his heart moved, this is the rhythm of finding food, so there are animals ahead? Very well, he hurried over and took off the gun at the same time, opened the safety and released a shot to test the performance. There was a crisp "poof" sound, and then he saw the dust on the ground that was stirred up by the particle beam, and his heart was settled.
He saw three Tibetan wolves eating a Tibetan antelope, while two vultures pecked at some scraps of meat.
Seeing that the Tibetan antelope with its slender horns had unfortunately become a meal on the plate of the wolves, someone did not sympathize, but thought of an idea. It turned out that he came to the habitat of the Tibetan antelope, which is very good, and now he doesn't have to worry about what to rely on to eat in the future, and do the fur business. The fluff of the Tibetan antelope is known as soft gold, and hunting a bunch of Tibetan antelopes is regarded as gold panning. Although it is a little cruel, a penniless person like him has to make this decision to survive in this world.
The Kashmiris of northern India have maximized the commercial value of the Tibetan antelope, who call the Tibetan antelope's fluff "Shatush", which means the king of cashmere. Weighing only 100 grams after being made into a shawl, the shatoosh can be kneaded together to wear a ring, and the traditional fur trader used it to check that the shatoosh is genuine, and its value is comparable to that of a middle-class car.
As a PhD student at MIT, he loved to study the history of science and studied engineering and scientific progress, but he couldn't imagine how to make this Shatoosh shawl. There is always a kind of inertia in the world's business, and the European noblewomen represented by Napoleon's Empress Josephine like the style from Kashmir, they know the ins and outs of this product, so they will consume, if the Shatush shawl you make is not a style made by Kashmiris, maybe it will not sell well. As soon as he thought of this, he changed his mind and collected sheepskins first, and then went to Lhasa, where there were perhaps leather merchants from India, and he went to Kashmir to learn how to make shawls, at least to see the style, imitate it, and then go to Europe to sell it himself.
It's a tough road to business.
In the late Qing Dynasty, it was the darkest era in China, and he was neither powerless nor so noble to change the reality and have such noble aspirations to go to Europe to be a businessman.
The three big bad wolves were full, but they just yelled at the humans twice, and did not chase them, and because the humans did not run at all, they had particle beam guns in their hands, and these wolves were similar to Chihuahuas in his eyes.
He climbed a small hillside, looked into the distance, found a herd of Tibetan antelopes, marked on the handheld device and walked towards the sheep without hurry, this is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, "running" this sport is best not to do, even if you want to do it, it is to adapt to many days before trying, not now.
Finally approaching the range that can be shot, and when it is about forty meters, some Tibetan antelopes begin to flee vigilantly, and the muzzle of the particle beam in the hunter's hand spews out a small purple light flame, accompanied by the sound of "poof" breaking through the air, because the particle beam is in electric acceleration mode, there is no such fierce explosive power as gunpowder bullets, so the recoil is not large, and the hunter can easily shoot continuously. In the screams of the Tibetan antelope, the sheep finally understood that the catastrophe star was coming, and they all ran wildly, and at this time the hunter had fired 10 shots, 8 shots hit, 7 Tibetan antelopes fell to the ground, 1 was injured and still had the ability to escape, a hunt ended with the number 7, and the last Tibetan antelope ran out of 100 meters away.
The results are not good or bad, anyway, it is enough for him to keep busy for a while. He unfolded the mushroom tent upwind and dragged the hunted Tibetan antelope to the downwind to work. All weaving is nothing more than spinning cashmere into yarn, then into thread, and then into all kinds of clothing, so he only needs to shave off the cashmere lightly, and although the lamb is also valuable, he can't take that much with him alone, so he has to cheapen the wolves or vultures. (http://)。
The all-purpose Swiss Army Knife mentioned earlier came in handy, he set the variable end to electric razor mode, and then he could dehair the Tibetan antelope, very fast, he looked at the clock attached to the locator, and he could get one in two minutes.
The second step is to peel off the sheepskin and make a wrap so that the cashmere can be placed in it. This is where the sharp side of the Swiss Army knife comes in handy, and this nano-sized super blade is easily up to the task of peeling.
When he peeled off the sheepskin, the vultures came to make trouble, and the hunter had no mercy to shoot the early guests, lest they stain the cashmere.
After removing the threat of vultures, he began to implement the third step - drying the sheepskin with a molecular separator, which is the basic function of the separator, and sterilizing it with strong ultraviolet light only takes twenty seconds to make the sheepskin usable.
After dehumidification and sterilization of cashmere into the sheepskin baggage, resting on the side of the tent, the skinner went to the next step, so cycle, in less than 10 minutes, actually packed up the 7 Tibetan antelopes, it seems that the hunting link is the short board, because the sheep run away, the pursuit takes a lot of time.
After collecting the cashmere, he extracted a second baggage, this time to place the air-dried lamb. He had already thought that using the radiation energy of the separator to cook mutton was no longer a problem for eating, the problem was that there was no water source. By the way, the separator apparently obtains a small amount of distilled water during the dehumidification process, which is enough to sustain a person's livelihood.
The only device that didn't work was actually a zippo lighter.