Chapter 186: The Tree Line and the Glacier
The wind and snow are howling, the sky and the earth are confused, and even the scenery a few meters away cannot be seen clearly.
A group of fifty or sixty people stood at the top of the mountain, looking at their feet.
"Down the mountain!"
No one dares to stay here anymore, after all, if you stay here for a minute longer, it will be colder.
Wang Yang could see clearly that under his feet, it was also a gentle downhill, and the slope was covered with snow, completely submerging the steep part, which was a good passage.
He lifted his foot and landed his first step.
But when his foot sank less than a centimeter, he suddenly stepped on a hard place, which was a thick piece of ice, and he didn't pay attention, his body lost his balance, and he fell to the ground.
The crowd was taken aback, and the chasers immediately grabbed his hand and tried to pull him up.
It's just that Wang Yang's body has been completely uncontrolled, falling rapidly, driving the snow under the feet of the chasers and falling together.
"Oh~~"
The mouths of the two suddenly opened into an "O" shape, and they quickly slid down the mountain.
Everyone rushed to the edge of the mountain peak to watch, but the snow had just fallen, and it was very soft, causing the place to collapse directly, and slide down one after another.
"Damn~~!!" Wang Yang's eyes widened, and he only felt like he was sitting on a slide, the ice was extremely smooth, and he was slippery down the mountain.
Vaguely back to the kindergarten period.
He quickly shook his head, this is not a slide, he is sliding at a very fast speed, if he hits a rock on the way down, he must not go to God in advance!
He grabbed to the side, trying to catch something that would save his life, but only to catch a thin layer of snow. Snow or ice.
He was depressed, and his eggs hurt. I prayed while scolding the gods in my heart.
Beside him, the Exorcists were more unlucky than him. Anyway, he slid down while sitting, and the chasers slid down with his face to the ground because they went to pull him, and he didn't know how many mouthfuls of snow he ate along the way, and he couldn't even scream.
"Mamma Mia, I'm glad to have a comfort." Seeing that the exorcist was worse than himself, he suddenly felt that God was not too bad for him.
"Bang!" Suddenly, Wang Yang felt that he had reached the edge of the ice road, and there was a strong friction with the snow.
"I'll go. This ice road also has a turn! Wang Yang scolded, it's so dark, where does this ice road plan to take him?
"Flicker~bang!" At this moment, Wang Yang's two feet crashed into a pile of snow, and his whole body leaned forward for a moment, and then returned to normal.
He stopped.
Beside him, the Evasor crashed headfirst into the snow and stopped.
"Lucky not to hit the rocks. Nor is it as tragic as the Exorcists. ”
If I'm not mistaken, this is the second time in today that the dog has eaten, and it's funny to think about.
He wanted to stand up. Pulled the chaser up, but at this moment, there was a sudden shout behind him. He turned his head suspiciously, only to see Xiaohong rushing towards him at a rapid pace.
His pupils narrowed. Before he could make a move, he was knocked down by Xiaohong. I plunged headlong into the snow, well, I finally ate it.
He shook his head, and just got up, there was a strange scream behind him, and he saw dozens of clansmen sliding behind him like Xiaohong.
"Oh~no, poof!" Before he could shout, he was knocked out by the force behind him, and his head fell into the snow.
Gotta eat it again.
They all slipped down and stopped here, and they felt strange that they could hear the wind whistling and whining, but they could not feel the wind at all.
They stood up and found themselves in a natural large ice cave, which had exits on both sides, like a large arch bridge, and they were standing at the bottom of the arch bridge.
Patting each other on the snow, they quickly counted the number of people, and soon, they realized that something was wrong.
It seems like...... Two less.
"Woo~" Everyone shouted in panic, and they found that Wang Yang and the exorcists were gone!
Xiaohong scolded angrily, telling everyone not to panic, and then ran to a few meters away with a few adults and pulled Wang Yang out.
Wang Yang's face was covered with snow, his face was blue, his eyelashes were frozen, he whimpered twice, pointed to one place and said, "Hurry up...... Fast...... Exorcists. ”
Only then did everyone realize that the chasers had been knocked into the snowdrift like nails one by one in the impact after another, leaving only a pair of feet exposed.
The exorcist was pulled out, apparently, he was knocked unconscious, and after pulling it out, he looked at Wang Yang and smiled.
It's a great shelter, with large openings on the left and right, but it's able to withstand the strong winds behind you, and it's no problem to stay through the night.
They snuggled up to each other to keep warm, and gradually got some temperature, Zhang San felt that it was not hot enough, so he thought about building a bonfire, Wang Yang immediately stopped him, this is an ice cave, if you make a fire, the ice above will turn into water, and a lot of rain will leak.
It's just a trifle, if the whole ice cave collapses, and the large ice cap of several hundred tons falls down, no one will survive.
It felt like a dozen mammoths falling from the sky, and even if you treated it like Sister Lin, it would have to be smashed into meat sauce.
Today I was so tired that everyone was so cold that they fell asleep quickly.
Early the next morning, a ray of sunshine shone on Wang Yang's face from the east.
Wang Yang only felt that his eyes were flickering, shook his head, and woke up.
The wind stopped, the snow stopped, and the weather was surprisingly clear, Wang Yang stood up and decided to take a closer look at the ice cave.
As soon as he raised his head, he saw an extremely gorgeous scene.
It was an amber-like ice, with aqua blue, dark blue, and other colors of ice, and each piece of ice was mixed with these colors, like a jewel.
It is also covered with veins of different lengths, how to say, it is like a spider's web, and there are dots of blue stars in the veins, like a sky full of stars.
This scene is extremely beautiful and dazzling.
Everyone also got up at this time, looked up in shock, and exclaimed.
These things are not paintings, but they are better than paintings, they are the magic of nature, naturally formed, the color of those ice, representing different ages, and the impurities mixed with different things, together, are miracles.
After watching for a while, Wang Yang walked out of the cave along the ice road, he wanted to see how everyone slid down yesterday, and how there was a natural slide.
Walking out of the hole, the sun was in a trance, Wang Yang looked at the hillside seriously, only to see that the slope here is not big, the snow is very gentle and sliding down, in the middle, is a layer of ice belt several meters wide, the snow on the ice belt has been swept away with the slide of everyone, and the ice surface can be clearly seen.
There is a bend in the ice and there is not much curvature.
Wang Yang walked to the side of the ice, gently swept away the snow on it, and found that there were rocks beside the road, which were raised, more than ten centimeters higher than the ice surface.
Just by taking a look, Wang Yang felt his heart pounding, he crashed into the side of the ice road last night, if it weren't for the fact that the snow was very strong and thick, he would definitely be seriously injured.
At the same time, it dawned on him why there was a huge ice tunnel here.
If there is no miscalculation, this is an ancient river channel, which existed for a long time, and has been washed by water over many years, forming a large gully.
When winter comes, the river freezes and the snow thickens on the ice, but the water still flows below until it gets colder and colder, and there is no more water above, and there is no water washing, and it becomes a tunnel of ice below.
The thin tunnel is completely detached, and the thick part becomes a natural arch bridge shape.
It's very simple to figure this out, Wang Yang smiled, but he suddenly felt very strange, why did the river flow down from the top of the mountain, could it be that this was originally a flat river, but due to the movement of the earth's crust, it caused it to bulge from the middle and break the flow vein?
"Won't it?" Wang Yang muttered in his heart, it's not impossible, maybe this is really an ancient river channel, but it was broken by the movement of the earth's crust.
Thinking of the earthquake in the canyon a few years ago, it seems that it is at the active point of the earth's crustal movement.
Wang Yang was thinking about it, when there was an exclamation from everyone behind him, and he turned his head to look at it suspiciously, and in a moment, Wang Yang's pupils shrank, revealing horror.
What appeared in front of me was a white snowfield, the snow covered the vast earth, there was not a single tree, not a single weed, it was a real snowfield!
And ahead, there are many mountains, and the tips of the mountains are covered with snow.
Everyone has always lived in the forest, and how have they ever seen such a magnificent scenery is naturally extremely shocking and novel.
But for Wang Yang, it means something else.
For just behind this gentle slope is the forest, which is full of trees, and although it is now dominated by coniferous forests, it is very different from the vast scene in front of which there is not a single tree.
If Wang Yang hadn't climbed over the mountain, he wouldn't have dared to believe such a scene.
Between one mountain, two worlds.
Wang Yang quickly recalled the knowledge he had learned, and finally found a more consistent clue - the forest line.
The forest line is another wonder in nature, which runs through people's lives, but it is often overlooked, because when that shot appears, the focus of the eye is often on the strange contrast between the two worlds, and nothing more can be seen.
What is a tree line? I believe that anyone who has studied geography in high school knows that it refers to two completely different environments in a small area.
Maybe there is still a verdant grassland at the bottom of the mountain, but when you reach the mountain, there are towering trees.
Tree lines are formed because a certain plant stops spreading because it cannot adapt to another environment, and it occurs all over the world.
Wang Yang had only seen it on TV shows, and this was the first time he had seen it, so he couldn't help but be a little shocked.
But now there is a problem, although the vast world in front of us is beautiful, it looks lifeless, to put it bluntly, there are not many animals, and there may be a shortage of food.
And continue to go back, to the east, there may be more animals, but not necessarily enough, if it is a basin, it is a waste of months or even a year to come here.
So, now is it time to keep walking, or to go back. (To be continued......)