Lao Shao danced wildly at the translator's hand, he also stretched out two hands, counting one finger at a time, of course, he continued to shake his head, and shook it even more.

The translator looked at Zhang Jianwen with a embarrassed expression.

"You turn it as it is!"

"He said, let you spit out the raisins, dried apricots, almonds, honey, lamb jerky, and roasted naan and vodka......

"You have to settle accounts, huh? Don't live together anymore, right? Zhang Jianwen yelled at Lao Shao. After a while, the two old men grabbed each other's clothes and quarreled.

Compared with the two hot-tempered captains, the surveyors on both sides were much calmer.

In fact, they were also scared at first, and then the two captains quarreled almost every day, blushing and tearing their necks during the day, but at night when they drank and hugged each other and sang - they had long been used to it.

Lin Shan found a stone and sat down, and usually there was a solution after the two captains quarreled.

The wind was strong, but the sky was always blue. Lin Shan sat on the top of the mountain, looking out at the Muztag Mountain in the distance. At this time, a girl walked over.

The girl's name is Dakhmina, and everyone in the team calls her "Mina". Mina, 26 years old, studied surveying and mapping engineering in Xi'an, and she can also speak Chinese, so she was recruited into Tafang's boundary survey team.

"Want to go home?" Mina asked him with a smile.

Lin Shan shook his head, they had been out for three and a half months, and Mina's face was tanned and red like him, but when she bent over to sit beside him, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of Mina's snow-white skin in the collar.

Tajik girls usually wear headscarves, but surveying is a special job, so Mina usually wears only a sun-shielding hat – almost all of the team members wear this hat because the ultraviolet rays in the Pamirs are so strong.

She pointed to the disputed nameless mountain and said with a smile: "Look, there is green in that valley, there should be a water source." ”

Located in the hinterland of Central Asia, the Sarekole Mountains are largely fed by snow melted by icebergs, so most of the area is a dry Gobi mountainous area. The few peaks they had climbed over were barren—there was not a hint of moisture in the wind, and he felt like his lips had peeled twice.

Therefore, the team members usually like to look at the Muztag iceberg from afar, just like Cao Mengde Wangmei quenched his thirst during the Three Kingdoms period.

"It's been so noisy, and it's delayed again today." Mina said with a sigh.

"Anyway, it's an overnight thing, and my superiors said before I came, I don't care about the progress, but I must not make mistakes."

"Then you say, what is right and what is wrong?" Mina asked.

"Right is right, wrong is wrong." Lin Shan replied.

"So, is this nameless mountain in front of you taller or shorter?"

"Tall is tall, short is short, where is right or wrong in tall and short?"

"There is no right or wrong in height, but there is right and wrong in the hearts of different people." Mina said again.

"In that case, why don't we send two people on both sides to measure it?" Lin Shan slapped his thigh.

The two captains searched for their hats and gloves scattered on the hillside, listening to Lin Shan's and Mina's advice.

"This will work, the mountain will be empty first, let's go and survey the next boundary post. Which of you went to the field to measure the elevation of that mountain? ”

"Done!" Lao Shao spat out another sentence in Chinese.

"However, the mountains are many and the mountains are deep, after you finish surveying, immediately return here the same way, and then follow the original planned road, and we will meet at the next boundary marker." Zhang Jianwen said.

"Fortunately, there are barren mountains here, the slope is gentle, and the field of vision is quite wide, you bring your equipment and don't get lost." Lao Shao also advised.

"Bring your satellite phone." Zhang Jianwen gave them the only two satellite phones in the team, and he looked ahead, as if estimating the distance, "Ten days later, let's meet at the next boundary mark." ”

In this way, Lin Shan and Mina separated from their teammates, and the two of them carried their equipment on their backs, and descended from No. 3203 to the east, heading towards the nameless peak.

Mountains are like this, they seem to be close in front of you, but they are far away when you walk on them. Fortunately, the slope of the mountain is gentle, so you don't need to use climbing equipment, but Rao is like this, and it took the two of them a day and a half from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley.

Because it was summer, the two were afraid of flash floods, so they did not set up tents at the bottom of the valley, but chose to camp on a piece of high ground on the hillside here.

The Pamirs were still cold on summer nights, and the two lit a bonfire at night, put canned beef and dried vegetables in, put the seasoning packets, and put instant noodles in the pot. In a few moments, the smell of incense filled the entire valley.

Lin Shan felt his stomach gurgling, and he hurriedly picked out the noodles and put them in two bowls.

"Wait!" Dahmina remembered something. She returned to her tent and pulled two bottles of Coke from her backpack.

"What I asked for from your captain, just two bottles, save a little to drink." She said.

Lin Shan was so excited, he hadn't drunk a sweet drink for a long time.

It was a windy night, the moon was scarce, and Lin Shan and Dakhmina lay in their sleeping bags in the tent and talked a lot, and then fell into a deep sleep.

The night on the plateau is very quiet, except for the sound of the air flowing through the valley for a long time, and in addition, there are occasional inexplicable echoes in the valley. This echo sometimes resembles rumbling thunder, sometimes like a clattering knock.

When he first came to the boundary survey team, Lin Shan was still very sensitive to this kind of silent night sound. Every time he was awakened late at night by such strange noises, he sat up, nervously pulled out the tent, and looked around. But as long as you look outside, you will find that outside is just an empty and lonely mountain wind, except for the yellow sand, which is stone.

"What the hell is going on with this voice?" He couldn't help but ask Zhang Jianwen once.

Zhang Jianwen glanced at him and said, "This is the voice of the earth." ”

"Earth?"

"Yes, it looks like a beautiful place here, but in fact, it was a sea a long time ago, the ancient Mediterranean.

"Then the Indian plate crashed into the Asian plate, and it grew up at a rate of seven centimeters per year, and after hundreds of millions of years, it finally grew into what it is now, but it didn't stop and continued to grow every year.

"So it's possible that a certain mountain here will be a little taller or a little shorter after a certain year." Zhang Jianwen explained.

"However, the geological age is too long, and the lifespan of our humans is only a moment. Since it's a moment, then we have to do a good job in front of us, and as for the afterlife, future generations will naturally handle it better than us. He said.

He is not wrong, maybe in the depths of the earth's crust, the two major plates are playing and fighting every day, maybe the "sound of the earth" we hear may really be the sound of the earth's crust colliding and growing.

But on the night of camping on the hillside, Lin Shan was suddenly awakened again by a sound around the tent.