Chapter 9: A Thousand Brilliant Suns (2)
"White feather, white feather...... Don't tell me you slept outside all night!It's so cold, aren't you afraid of getting sick?" Early in the morning, Xiao Baiyu, who was still asleep, was woken up by Xu Minhan.
"I don't know, I couldn't sleep for a while last night, so I went outside to look at the stars, and I fell asleep when I looked at it. Xiao Baiyu rubbed his eyes, he seemed to have a dream last night, it seemed to be a very important dream, but he couldn't think of anything.
"Don't squander your body just because you're young, you don't know how to maintain health, you will suffer when you get old. My dad used to teach me that. Xu Minhan patted Xiao Baiyu on the shoulder.
"I know......" Xiao Baiyu stood up, "It was really an accident last night, I don't even know how to fall asleep." ”
Xiao Baiyu can't raise his interest to pay attention to health preservation now, he only feels that a certain part of the brain has been unlocked again, and there is no corresponding stimulation, so he doesn't know what to use for a while.
In the next half a month, the two climbed several mountain peaks, but not every evening they could be lucky enough to meet the temporary residence left by the Tibetans and poachers, so the two slept in the open for several nights.
"Hopefully I'll come across a wooden house tonight, the closer you get to the Nepalese border, the higher the altitude and the cooler the temperature, the air here is already very thin. ”
"We've been lucky enough to find a makeshift hut almost half the time, but the road behind is more difficult. Xiao Baiyu is not worried about himself, but Xu Minhan, a "city man" who came to Lhasa from Zhejiang, has never had altitude sickness.
Now their position is more than 5,000 meters above sea level, to such a place there is no green mountains and green waters at all, almost all year round covered by wind and snow, with Xu Minhan's physical fitness, it is obviously unbearable, now he is just unable to pull down the bottom of the gritted teeth to hold on, in two days, they must climb more than 8,000 meters of Xixia Bangma Peak, at that time, the high school graduate's physical function may have already reached the limit......
"Do you breathe well, if not, let's take a detour. If you take the original route to climb over the Xixia Bangma Peak, up to 8,027 meters, and this area is the highest altitude on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there are many giant peaks of six or seven thousand meters, you are already struggling at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, and I am afraid that there will be problems if you go higher. Xiao Baiyu was really a little worried, after all, he just received the favor of a jar of realgar wine, even if the two of them chatted very well later, but it was not something ordinary people could do if they could insist on accompanying him here.
"There should be no problem, I should be dragging you down during this time, I can see that you are in a hurry, we can't take a detour anymore. ”
"No matter how fast you go, you have to protect your life......
"It's okay, Allah will bless me......"
"If you feel like you're in a physical condition, you have to tell me. ”
"Good!"
Two days later, the two came to the foot of the peak of Shisha Bangma, where the altitude is more than 6,500 meters, fortunately, if you want to climb over it, you don't need to really climb to the top of the mountain of more than 8,000 meters, you only need to climb to a ridge of more than 7,300 meters to climb over this mountain.
At this time, Xu Minhan was no longer as relaxed as in Lhasa, his red cheeks really became "plateau red", and he had to gasp for breath if he couldn't walk a few steps, and the two of them were dressed like Eskimos, who were originally thin figures, but now they looked like two big stupid bears.
"You said that we will take a group photo now, and show the children of relatives when the time comes, will we recognize the two of us as Xiong Da and Xiong Er. Xu Minhan gasped, looking at the image of himself and Xiao Baiyu, he couldn't help but be a little funny.
"Now you don't even have the strength to climb up, and you still have the strength to take pictures?"
"As far as you have the strength, don't you know this guy from Jiangsu, why are you still so adaptable here, like a person who has nothing to do. Is your body anatomy different from mine? Xu Minhan complained with some distress, and said that Xiao Baiyu needed him to take care of him some time ago, but for a while, Xiao Baiyu has been taking care of him.
Xiao Baiyuxin said You are right, I just have a different body structure from you, once when he was in the school physical examination, he quietly blew the instrument, and the lung capacity blew to more than 30,000 and did not stop, and then in order to prevent the performance from being too amazing, under normal circumstances, he blew to more than 5,000 and stopped. Since then, he has felt that his body structure is different from that of a normal person.
"Don't talk less, the oxygen you consume every word you say now is a waste of the current situation!" Xiao Baiyu reminded solemnly, he who was still lamenting that there was no one to walk with him on the way, but now he regrets that he met this guy, and he can't be sent away, and it is too cumbersome to follow him, and now he must let him follow him forward, because even if he can be sent away, he is not very relieved to return to Xiao Baiyu the same way.
At an altitude of more than 6,500 meters, the only threat is the harsh climate, if it is one or two thousand meters lower, there are many threats of wild animals, after all, that area is still a nature reserve, if you encounter a big cat such as a snow leopard, Xu Minhan's thin arms and legs can only be a decoration.
The most bizarre wild animal they encountered during this time was the clouded leopard, which was a medium-sized cat, generally seventy or eighty centimeters long, with beautiful and precious fur, and they saw it from a distance, and they didn't have time to stay.
Lynxes, rock sheep, and snow hares were also encountered, but brown bears and large cats were fortunate not to be encountered. The scenery of this area is single, the road is difficult, and the speed of the two of them is so slow that it can be described as "climbing", Xu Minhan has never complained about the boring journey.
At an altitude of more than 7,000 meters, there are no large wild animals to survive, in fact, it is not as quiet and tranquil as people imagine, but the air is very thin, and there are a large number of anaerobic bacteria in the atmosphere, every breath of air is harmful to the body, the air here is not clean, and the oxygen content is very low.
"Do you have a fever?!" When he stopped to rest, looking at Xu Minhan's weak appearance, Xiao Baiyu subconsciously touched his forehead, and then touched Xu Minhan's forehead, and found that Xu Minhan was already sick.
"It's a bit bad!" Xiao Baiyu thought to himself.
Sick in this place where there is no village in front of him and no shop in the back, he has no way, even if he wants to rest, it is impossible to rest on this mountain peak of more than 7,000 meters. Due to the thin oxygen and the air with a huge amount of bacteria, once a person gets sick, it is likely to cause pulmonary edema and die, and the less time you stay in such a place, the better.
"Take two pills of amoxicillin, wait until an altitude below 6,000 meters, and rest for two days to recuperate. Hold on a little longer, we have already turned over this mountain, and the descent behind is much easier. Xiao Baiyu fed Xu Minhan two antibiotics, got up to observe the terrain, just now he was just comforting Xu Minhan, the mountains here are steep, and the way down the mountain has to be walked out by himself, and with such a patient, I don't know how long it will take to go down the mountain. Although it seems that the drop of more than 1,000 meters will go down a few kilometers away, but to really go down, I am afraid that it will take three or five days of experience some time ago.
Looking at Xu Minhan, whose lips were purple and he was almost about to fall asleep, he sighed, looking at the cliff with a drop of hundreds of meters, could it be that he walked directly from here? The moment this thought flashed, his left eye flashed with a pale golden light, and a series of strange thoughts came to mind.
He seemed to be able to directly control certain cells in the body to produce special functions, and in the cytoplasm, some strange DNA fragments resonated at the same time, and he suddenly felt as if he could call for some special abilities in his genes with just a thought.
So, he subconsciously slowly carried Xu Minhan on his back.
"Don't say it......"
......
A day later.
"You're finally awake, and if it weren't for the fact that you're still breathing, I'd be going to find a place to bury you. As soon as Xu Minhan opened his eyes, he saw Xiao Baiyu with a warm smile.
"I'm sorry for your trouble. Xu Minhan said apologetically, and at the same time, his face was ugly, and he had a splitting headache as soon as he woke up.
"Don't talk, you need to rest, it's dusk again, although you have slept for a day and a night, but I guess your head is not clear, I'll go find you some wild vegetables, you need to eat some hot food, anyway, you have a small iron basin in your bag, why don't you say it earlier, you have to chew dry food for the past two days." Xiao Baiyu muttered. However, if it had been two days ago, even if there was a small iron basin, Xiao Baiyu would not have used wild vegetables to cook vegetables.
A day ago, when Xiao Baiyu was on the peak of more than 7,000 meters, he inadvertently stimulated some neurons, and some memories flooded into his mind.
Now, he has been able to use some of the taboos, he had heard his uncle say how powerful the taboos of the Protoss were before, and now he used a "self-evident weight", and found that it was indeed a little wonderful.
The education of the descendants of the Protoss is naturally different from that of humans, before the age of twelve, it is to learn language and writing, geographical knowledge and religious mythology, at the same time, the most important thing is to lay a solid foundation for the physical fitness of the day after tomorrow for the use of various weapons, instruments and various means of transportation......
Of course, physical exercise is a long-term habit, so even if Xiao Baiyu's memory disappeared for a few years, his uncle asked him to exercise for more than an hour every day before going to school.
Similar to Xiao Baiyu's learning ability is not uncommon in the Protoss, at the age of eight proficient in three foreign languages, he has a full understanding of world geography, religion and culture and even customs, so he began to learn various fighting skills at the age of nine, and learned swords, bows and crossbows at the age of ten. Operating most conventional firearms, he later trained for more than three months in the wilderness to survive, but after the age of twelve, until a day ago, he knew almost nothing......
"This, it seems that Aunt Olivia taught me the 'Thor'," Xiao Baiyu, who had recovered some of his memory, muttered to himself, vaguely remembering that this was a taboo created by a guy who watched the sun all day long. So after carving the spell on the book next to Xu Minhan's tent, he carried the evil coffin on his back and went around to find food......
The technique is not magic, but uses a superconducting liquid to draw a circuit with a specific schema, and then input bioelectricity at a specific frequency, and manipulate the circuit to make the schema operator's biological wave energy supply to trigger a reaction to achieve a special purpose.
The altitude here is more than 4,000 meters, although it is still cold relative to the coastal area, but there is no ice and snow cover, the surrounding is the grassland area, of course, it is not the endless emerald green world on the Inner Mongolia prairie, but presents a desolate complexion, the grass leaves are not all green, even in summer, some have withered yellow, the cold grassland and the temperate grassland are not a concept.