Yes, maybe Lin Shan will never set foot on this mountain again, and will not walk into that valley again in his later life.

This mountain has no name, it is just one of the thousands of ordinary peaks in the world that are not the main peak, and will not have a name, and in the years to come, even the forest cedar will no longer remember its position.

There are no people, not even animals, and the creek down the hill may have brought some life, but if the creek dries up, it will be gone.

But today, Lin Shan stood here, and he suddenly felt that this mountain was like his own child, and he would never want to give it to anyone else, even if it was Dakhmina, whom he had secretly rubbed and liked for a long time.

However, the controversy in front of him was clearly not in his favor, and this stone engraved with Chinese characters became evidence that it was not beneficial.

Historically, the entire Pamir Plateau belonged to China, and the Penchi River west of the Pamir Plateau was the westernmost point of China at that time. But after the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Pamirs have been divided between Britain and Russia.

In the sixties of the last century, our country signed a treaty with Afghanistan and abandoned the Wakhan Pamir.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the disputed territory between China and Tajikistan reached 28,000 square kilometers, accounting for one-fifth of the total territory of Tajikistan. Such a large proportion of territorial claims is difficult for Tajikistan to accept.

Therefore, after difficult negotiations, Tajikistan agreed to return to China a part of the western side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), which covers an area of more than 1,100 square kilometers.

Therefore, for the Chinese boundary surveyors, a mountain peak, a valley, or even a stone or a cave, a grass or a tree are not easy to come by.

Lin Shan, of course, also cherishes his mission. He looked at the stone and suddenly noticed a problem.

"That's not right!" He stopped Dakhmina, who was setting up the equipment, and said.

"What's wrong?" Dahmina paused and asked.

"Come and see!" Lin Shan ran over, pointed to a few dents in the floating soil on the top of the mountain, and pointed to the corresponding part of the stone and said, "Here, here, and here, don't you find a one-to-one correspondence?" ”

Dahmina spun around and nodded.

"So what?"

"If you look at these three Chinese characters again, they are all crooked, at 90 degrees from top to bottom, what does this mean?" Lin Shan reminded her.

"It shows that the stone was originally placed horizontally, and later someone erected him." Dahermina finally understood.

"That's right! So since ancient times, this stone has been lying horizontally on the top of the mountain, and when the words were engraved, it was also horizontal, and later I don't know who erected it. So to measure the height, you should restore it and turn it sideways. ”

"Okay, well, listen to you. But this is the final conclusion, the height of the cross is the altitude. ”

"No problem, none of us know how high it is, so it's a matter of success or failure." Lin Shan also agreed.

The foundation of the stone was not strong, and the two men exerted two efforts in the original direction, and the stone slowly fell sideways on the top of the mountain.

Dahemina adjusted the instrument, and Lin Shan couldn't help but hold his breath.

"Come here, let's test together, don't admit it after you finish the test." Dakhmina called him.

Lin Shan realized that he had been stupid, he forgot that he was not a spectator, but the one who decided history.

The two of them tinkered with each other for half an hour, and finally the measurement results came out.

3203.19 meters!

Dahmina frowned.

"No, try again!"

This time it was 3,203.20 meters, just 0.03 meters shorter than the opposite highland.

"Test again!" Dahmina was still unconvinced.

It is still 3203.20 meters.

This time Dahmina stopped talking, and she patted the stone vigorously.

"Tubozidede." Lin Shan also walked over and patted Dahmina's shoulder.

"If I want to visit the old place again in the future, I will have to apply for a visa." Dahermina said with a smile.

"It's okay, I'll come with you." Lin Shan comforted her.

Dahemina looked at Lin Shan, and suddenly said, "Why don't you go to a place with me first?" ”

It turned out that Dahmina was still thinking about the red willow bush.

"My father fell ill after years of field exploration, especially after returning from Chukotka and Kamchatka. By the time Gorbachev announced the collapse of the Soviet Union, our family had already returned to Dushanbe. But with independence, instead of hope, war was ushered in.

"The civil war lasted for five years, and Dushanbe was also in turmoil for a time. Fearing danger, my father shut the whole family in the house, he was once a man who lived in a vast and distant land, but in those years he could only face a small room.

"As he came and went, his body collapsed. After the end of the civil war, the family still lacked food and clothing, and my father died of malnutrition and illness.

"But in the years before he died, he studied every day about the 'wild man'. In his early years in the surveying team, he encountered many strange incidents, including an encounter with wild men on the Pamir plateau in Goo.

This incident probably made a deep impression on him, so in the last few years, the study of wild people became his spiritual pillar.

He left behind many notes, including anecdotes about the wild man, and his own experiences, which are still kept in a suitcase.

"I grew up reading those notes and listening to my father talk about his experiences in the barren mountains and mountains. So later, I applied for the surveying and mapping major and applied to join the boundary survey team in the Sarekole Ridge. Because in my heart, my father is like a mountain, and it is only when I come to the mountain that I feel that I am close to him again.

"So, since the wild man is the object of my father's heart's research, now that I have met the wild man, how can I give up so easily?"

Lin Shan let out a sigh: "I thought you were reluctant to roast the sheep." ”

"Did I leave you with the impression that you are a glutton?" Dakhmina looked at him with a smirk.

It took more than a day for the two of them to descend the mountain and return to the green valley.

Now that the ridgeline has been determined, this valley has naturally become Chinese territory.

Because it was still early, they walked along the creek to the north, but the stream was so long that they did not find a source of water.

But they were not without a harvest, because they found traces of suspected wild life by the stream.

It was a puddle made of stones by the side of the stream.

Because the stream is narrow and shallow, it is not so easy to get water. But right next to the stream, they found a "pool" about two meters in diameter and one meter deep, and the pond was also "built" with stones, and from the pool to the stream, there was a "drainage channel" that was obviously dug by hand and was only 30 meters long.

This is by no means a miracle of nature, it is a real artificially excavated thing.

Lin Shan looked around, and he found some abandoned "artificial stone tools".