Chapter 22: The Upper Glacial Lake
"What's that?" I looked at the flashlight light in Liang Ruoyi's hand and saw a yellow cloth bag on the ground not far away!
"Cloth bag?! I was taken aback: "The cloth bag of the cloth bag monk?!" Could it be that even he has suffered an accident?! ”
My astonishment echoed in the empty cave, Liang Ruoyi walked over cautiously, bowed from the ground - picked up the cloth bag, turned it over, and there was nothing in it: "The master of the cloth bag usually does not throw his cloth bag around, but in the whole valley, is there anything that can force the master into such an embarrassment?" ”
I walked over: "Chai Lao Wu, the key is that Sun Miaomiao." ”
"Hmm." Liang Ruoyi nodded, and was about to say something, when suddenly there was a "gurgling" sound from the pool on one side, I subconsciously thought it was a dead man's vine, and hurriedly took a step back, but because the road was very narrow, I almost fell into the pool on the other side.
Liang Ruoyi almost laughed, took a sip of me, and looked at the bubbles that "gurgling" in the pool with a wary face.
After a few seconds, I heard a "poof", and a black thing jumped out of the pool, jumped on the shore a few times, and landed in front of me and Liang Ruoyi.
When I looked closely, I saw that it was a small black fish more than two inches long, with no scales on its body, a bulging head, and it looked a little cute. It's just surprising that this little black fish also has three small legs under it, two behind it and one in front of it, which looks a bit like a Tyrannosaurus rex with a front leg missing.
"Snake?!" Liang Ruoyi said softly.
"That's right! It's fish! I turned my head and looked at Liang Ruoyi with a puzzled expression: "What is it not a fish?" ”
"It's not a fish!" Liang Ruoyi slapped me: "It's a dragon!" ”
"Oh, you say fish are fish...... I still haven't figured out what she's talking about.
"This thing is aggressive." Liang Ruoyi didn't bother to explain to me: "I have underwater stones in my mouth, and I will shoot out when I encounter danger." I didn't expect to see you here. ”
"Can you eat it?" I asked, clutching my stomach as I was rushing for dinner.
Liang Ruoyi gave me a blank look: "If you can catch it, you can eat it." ”
Seeing that there was no hostility between the two of us, the stinger wandered away and disappeared into the darkness.
By this time, the rain had poured in a lot, and the water began to overflow slowly in the pool, so we didn't stay long and continued to walk.
It didn't take long for two forks in the road to appear.
"The next day is almost over, which means we're probably halfway there." Liang Ruoyi frowned slightly: "I can't wait any longer, take one step at a time." ”
With that, she walked towards the path to the left.
When we walked in, we found that it was really a "path" - it was a small hole that had been cut out by force, about six feet high and no more than five feet wide, just enough for us to walk in front and back.
After about five minutes, the road beneath my feet suddenly began to rise, and the slope was about 40 degrees. Liang Ruoyi stopped and turned to look at me: "It's six o'clock, let's eat something and then go." ”
"Good!" I took out the food from my backpack and handed it to Liang Ruoyi: "Beauty, do you know what I think is the most beautiful moment for a woman?" ”
Liang Ruoyi raised his eyes and looked at me: "When?" ”
"Two moments!" I nibbled on the ham sausage and said, "First, it is the moment when I wake up naturally every morning when I hold my beloved and am lazy and coquettish!" ”
"And the second?"
"Second, it's the moment when my husband has a need and hasn't spoken it yet, so I speak up first! Oops! I didn't say anything! ”
Where would Liang Ruoyi let me take advantage of this, and kicked my calf, almost making me kneel directly on the ground.
"Do you know when a woman is happiest?" Liang Ruoyi ignored my aching teeth and asked rhetorically.
I was stunned for a moment, thinking to myself that you, a girl who may not have even been in love, are now asking me such things?
I put the flashlight on the ground, covered my calf and shook my head: "I don't know, you know? ”
"Of course I do!" Liang Ruoyi looked proud: "It's when you conquer all the men in front of you and see them all show yielding expressions!" ”
Obediently, I really thought too much! And only when you feel that a woman is happiest is this kind of time! However, I still endured the pain, and the painful expression on my face instantly changed to relaxation and pleasure, grinning at Liang Ruoyi, and continued to nibble on the ham sausage.
There was still no signal on the mobile phone, and after a hasty dinner and a little rest, Liang Ruoyi and I set foot on the path in the dark again.
After walking uphill for a while, the temperature around me suddenly began to drop slowly, and when the path stabilized again, I already felt that the temperature had dropped by about ten degrees, although it was just a few days after the beginning of spring, and it was raining heavily outside, but the temperature in the cave was also about ten degrees above zero before, and now it has definitely dropped below zero, Liang Ruoyi and I are tightly hugging our arms to keep warm.
"Ice?!" Liang Ruoyi exclaimed with a flashlight shining in front of him.
I looked over and saw that not far away was the exit of this path, and when I looked through the exit, I could only see a large piece of ice and rock lying on the ground.
Liang Ruoyi walked out with his feet raised, and I hurriedly followed.
When we walked out of the path to see the whole picture, we were somewhat shocked: this place was similar to the previous pool, but the water in this pool had been frozen into ice, and there seemed to be a boulder in the center of the pool, which had also frozen into a large ice stone at this time.
"Microclimate?" I said with a frown.
"What microclimate?" Liang Ruoyi looked at me with a puzzled expression.
"I watched a science demystification show in the United States before." I jumped on the ground with my shoulders crossed to keep warm: "In the Rocky Mountains they found a very strange river that ran through an 'S' shaped canyon, and the strange thing was that the river split into three parts as it passed through the canyon. The upper reaches are glaciers, the middle reaches are normal temperature river water, and the downstream is hot water with almost 100 degrees of heat. Crucially, the canyon is only ten miles long! ”
"What is the reason?"
"Underground." I laughed and said, "Underneath the riverbed, the soil characteristics, combined with the climate of the Rocky Mountains, create a natural microclimate at a certain time. So it results in the upstream glacier, the middle reaches are at room temperature, and the downstream is hot. However, this phenomenon only happens once every five years or so, and each time it lasts only three days, and it seems to be related to the El Niño phenomenon, and I am not a geography student, so I don't remember very well. ”
Liang Ruoyi nodded and looked at the ice lake in front of him: "Do you think this will be a microclimate?" ”
"No, I just remembered it all of a sudden." I smiled wryly and scratched my head: "It's winter now, and it doesn't feel abnormal to be frozen like this here!" ”
Liang Ruoyi glared at me, took a flashlight and walked around the dark lake, and found that there was no other intersection here, so he had to go back the same way.
I sighed in my heart, to be honest, I was really tired, I barely slept for long every time, and if I continued like this, I would really have a nervous breakdown.
When you get back to the water's edge, be sure to take a break!
I turned around and was about to go back the way I came, but I heard a "click" behind me, like the sound of ice and stone breaking! We hurriedly turned to look, but saw that at the edge of the pool, some places began to steam, as if something was baking this huge ice stone, and the ice stone in the middle, which was about half a foot high, had already appeared a crack.
"Did you really make me guess right?!" I was amazed to see that the ice at the edge of the pool had begun to melt and overflow some of the pool, and I couldn't help but think that my guess might be true.
"Let's go!" Liang Ruoyi called me: "When it melts, it will be difficult for us to get out!" ”
Yes, obviously, when the ice rocks in this waterhole melt completely, a lot of water will be produced that the waterhole cannot bear, and it will gush out a lot at that time, which is not good news for us who are going downhill.
I answered the call and walked away, and the flashlight in my hand passed through the crack in the ice stone, but I saw something black!