Chapter 86: Climbing the Mountain
Looking at the familiar scenery along the way, Chen Ziyang had an illusion, as if he felt that Touliu Mountain was Linhai City.
Touliu Mountain, which is basically the same latitude as Linhai City, also belongs to the Changbai Mountain Range, and the vegetation on the mountain and the shape of the mountain are generally similar, no wonder Chen Ziyang has this feeling.
Turning around and looking at the mighty team, Chen Ziyang was full of emotion in his heart. It was unexpected, as a semi-laid-off worker, to have the opportunity to participate in such an international archaeological action.
The Chinese scientific expedition team has only 13 people in total, which is really small compared to the number of troops in the Eastern Dynasties. The North Korean side dispatched a total of more than 200 people and 5 platoons this time. Two of the platoons have been stationed in the camp where Chen Ziyang and his team rested yesterday, responsible for the follow-up of the follow-up supplies.
And the soldiers of the other three platoons, in addition to the two platoons of loaded guns and ammunition as escorts, there is also a platoon of engineers. More than 100 soldiers in these three platoons had to follow the expedition team throughout the process.
Looking at the AK74 in the hands of the soldiers of the Eastern Dynasty. Yang Lei remembered the five-shot shotgun he had been decomposed by the corpse demon.
"Oops, there is no gun in this hand, it's really awkward, there is no bottom in my heart, Chairman Mao and his old man are right, it's better to have a father and a mother than to have it in your own hands!" Yang Lei sighed.
Yang Lei was attracted by the guns in the hands of the soldiers of the Eastern Dynasties, and similarly, the two titanium alloy sapper shovels on Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai also attracted the attention of more than 40 engineers of the Eastern Dynasties. The dark and shiny shovel body, the oddly shaped shovel head like a trident, and the unique pattern on the shovel body give Yang Lei the capital to show off.
Camp Commander Jin and Lin Xueping were talking while walking, and from time to time, Lin Xueping passed the news she got from Camp Commander Jin to the members of the scientific expedition team. According to Camp Chief Jin, the destination this time is in a ravine behind the main peak of Touliu Mountain.
If you want to get there, you have to climb Touliu Mountain first. There is a col about 1,700 meters above sea level. Climb to the col, turn over the head of the mountain from the col, and then go down the hill to reach the ravine.
It stands to reason that the mountain road at an altitude of about 1,700 meters can be played back and forth in a day if the speed is fast. However, according to Camp Commander Kim, this time it will take about two days to go alone.
There are no roads in the mountains here. The environment of the entire mountain range is basically in the state of primeval jungle. In some places, the fallen leaves of the pine trees alone are more than one person thick. That's why the expedition was only able to carry out the operation in the autumn when it was dry. In the summer, the decaying leaves of these woods are soaked in rain to form swamps, which are not only difficult to pass through, but also release toxic miasma.
If it weren't for the previous work carried out by the army of the Eastern Dynasty here, the mountain road leading to the ravine would have been almost completed, otherwise this road would have taken three or four days.
As soon as I heard that such a steep and difficult mountain road would take two days. Yang Lei chattered again: "Er Yang, you said that we are also guests, this Eastern Dynasty can't use us as livestock, can't they send a helicopter or something to transport us directly to the place?" ”
"Don't make two mistakes, and say that I am lazy and possessed by cancer all day long, I think you should really exercise more, such a steep mountain, there is not even a flat land, even if you take a helicopter where to stop, is it difficult to give you a hanging rope and slide down from the helicopter like a special soldier?"
"Hey, too. Let's be okay, this backpack is only thirty or forty pounds, you look at the two people in front of you, they are as tired as their grandsons, why am I so happy in my heart! ”
Looking in the direction pointed by Yang Lei, Chen Ziyang saw that the two big bald heads of the Xu brothers were shiny and shiny, moving up and down with the footsteps of the two people. The Xu brothers brought the most equipment this time, in addition to the two people each carrying a so-called arc gun, there were many other instruments.
The two arc guns look a bit like electric pickaxes, with an iron rod pickaxe more than a foot long in the front, connected to something like a battery in the back. This arc gun should have been made by the two brothers themselves, and looking at the way they were struggling to hold it, it was estimated that this thing was not much lighter. Coupled with the backpacks on the two people, Chen Ziyang estimated that the weight of these two people should be at least about 100 pounds.
Looking at the arc gun in the hands of the Xu brothers, Chen Ziyang felt that these two people were a little unreliable, according to his estimates, this arc gun should be under the action of the battery, which can release current through the pickaxe in front of the arc gun.
There is a certain reason for using electricity to drive away ghosts, and there was also a record of the five thunder spells in the Maoshan classics, but unfortunately no one can draw it now. The strong electric current can directly make the ghosts scatter, and this time, the scientific expedition team mainly has to deal with the blood corpse and the head spirit, whether the current has any effect on the blood corpse Chen Ziyang does not know, but he is sure that the current is useless to the head spirit at all.
The head spirit does not belong to the soul, but is just a mass of resentment, and no one can explain what such a thing as resentment is. Chen Ziyang only hopes that this Xu brother can have some real materials in addition to this arc gun, otherwise, this scientific expedition operation will really be more auspicious.
Some of the other instruments carried by the Xu brothers were carried by the sappers of the Eastern Dynasty, and some other equipment brought by the same scientific expedition team, such as heavier and larger equipment such as oxygen cylinders, were also carried by the sappers of the Eastern Dynasty.
But whenever you go to a closed place for archaeology, an oxygen cylinder is indispensable. In the perennial closed cave, the air is not circulated, the oxygen content for people to breathe is very small, and the gases produced by the corpse gas and decay in the tomb are harmful to the human body, even if there is enough air for people to breathe in the cave, but the inhalation of these toxic gases alone is enough to make people hallucinate or die directly.
A group of more than 100 people climbed the mountain for a day, everyone was tired and tired, and according to Yang Lei, he felt that his feet had at least three blisters, just when everyone's physical strength reached the limit, the scientific expedition team finally arrived at today's destination, a temporary camp located at an altitude of about 1,500 meters.
Although it is a temporary camp, the scale of this camp is much larger than the camp at the foot of the mountain, and the conditions are much better. The houses here are made of wood from felled trees, and they are very hidden in the woods. The number of houses was large and spacious, but there were not many soldiers in the camp.
Because I got the news before, the Eastern Dynasty military was carrying out some kind of project here, only to accidentally dig a cave, after the accident, many soldiers were missing, Chen Ziyang estimated that this station is the station of a soldier of the project they carried out before, and it is estimated that it is also a transfer station for materials.
It's just that because of the accident in the cave, this project has now been suspended. So the number of soldiers who remained here was also very small.