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After Ding Peng and Li Kun entered the hinterland of Qinghai, they found an indigenous guide, and under the guide's guidance, they crossed the vast Qinghai Lake and entered the Qaidam Basin. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Qaidam Basin is located in the northwest of Qinghai and the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Surrounded by the Kunlun Mountains, the Qilian Mountains and the Altun Mountains, "Qaidam" is a Mongolian word meaning "Yanze".

As the name suggests, most of the Qaidam Basin is a salt land, many places have been turned into salinized deserts and salinized deserts with weathering, and they are not suitable for human habitation.

Although the environment is harsh, but this kind of condition is just suitable for Ding Peng's low-key meaning, under the guidance of the guide, Ding Peng secretly marked a few good places, and after preparation, he will have a good selection.

At this point, Ding Peng was no longer ready to move on, but in a casual conversation with the guide, he inadvertently said that there were some grasslands on the edge of the basin, which were also vast and sparsely populated, but the environment was better than here.

Ding Peng was a little moved, he was ready to rebuild the sect, in addition to the base should be secluded and remote enough, it was best to have some population around, so that on the one hand, it could solve the problem of disciples, and on the other hand, it could also solve the supply of materials for the base.

So at Ding Peng's insistence, the three of them continued on the road, and they soon crossed the Qaidam Basin, and at the edge of the basin, where it meets the Kunlun Mountains, they did see a vast grassland, but they immediately encountered an unexpected danger.

A group of hungry steppe wolves stared at them, Ding Peng and Li Kun abandoned the carriage and rode two Tibetan horses to escape in a hurry.

In order to avoid the wolves chasing, Ding Peng and the others rushed all the way, and when they reached the back, they had already lost their way, only to run wildly, and unconsciously came to a magical place where no one was found.

Ding Peng and the others passed through a mountain peak, and suddenly saw the southern foot of the mountain, and the stars were shining within a radius of 100 miles. Ding Peng was greatly surprised, looked out with his eyes, and saw that the light came from hundreds of large and small lakes, as scattered as a star, like stars in the Tianshan Mountains, dotted on the open basin plain in front of him.

For a while, Ding and Li couldn't help but be fascinated by the beautiful scenery in front of them, and after half a sound, Li Kun sighed: "This, is this the legendary place of the West Queen Mother Yaochi?"

Ding Peng shook his head: "Yao Pond, also known as Tianchi, should be located on the top of the mountain, and here is a low concave basin, such a beautiful scenery is not blocked by these two stretching peaks, I am afraid it has already become a nomadic place for herdsmen, and there is no figure in sight in front of you, so it should be called a paradise." ”

Li Kun patted a sycophant: "The master is right, the four characters of this paradise are suitable for such a beautiful scenery." ”

Ding Peng looked at the scene in front of him, remembered the guide who was buried in the wolf's belly, the three of them got along for many days, and then suddenly the heavens and people were separated, it was really a little gloomy, and sighed: "Let's run day and night, the wolves have already been thrown off, since there is no danger, let's not rush back, let's go to this basin to see the situation." ”

Li Kun nodded yes, along the way, he had seen that Ding Peng seemed to be picking a place, but he couldn't guess what he was going to do, but he didn't dare to say much, anyway, Ding Peng ordered to do something.

Ding Peng took Li Kun, rode slowly, after three days, walked all over the basin hidden in the hinterland of the mountain range, this basin is not big, but it is not small, there are countless large and small lakes distributed in it, the most strange thing is that these lakes have salt water lakes, freshwater lakes, and several alpine hot springs, which are scattered and mixed, and the wonder of nature's creations is really amazing.

There is only one exit from the basin, which is a narrow canyon formed by the extrusion of the two peaks that Ding Peng and Li Kun entered, which is in the south of the basin, and the east and west sides are full of towering and steep peaks, which cannot be climbed at all, while the north side is higher and higher, and the terrain is suddenly uprooted at the very edge, the height is at least several thousand meters, becoming a peak of the mountains in the north, and there is also no road feasible.

Seeing this, Ding Peng is very satisfied with this place, the only regret is that it is too remote, and there may not even be people since its formation, so even the grassland herdsmen on the other side of the mountain do not know that there are natural water sources and grasslands here.

Now Ding Peng is thinking about the rebuilding of the sect all the time, since the sect is to be established, some cost factors also need to be considered, if this place is too far away from the human town, the cost of many places may be doubled.

Ding Peng sent Li Kun out of the mountain pass to search for any traces of human settlements in the vicinity, and it was best to find some people to ask for the specific location of this place, while he stayed and continued to survey the terrain of the basin.

On the second day of Li Kun's departure, Ding Peng discovered a somewhat strange lake.

This lake is not big or small, it is probably medium among thousands of lakes, and the strange thing is that half of this lake is light salt water, and half is Qingshui Lake, this magical situation really makes Ding Peng a little confused.

Ding Peng's water is good, he decided to go down to the lake to see, after entering the water, he found that the lake is not deep, and the bottom of the lake presents the characteristics of low in the south and high in the north, Ding Peng closed his breath and sank to the bottom of the lake, first in the shallowest north of the lake, he found that the bottom of the lake was full of white crystalline particles deposited, and took out a handful of them to the surface, after careful observation, Ding Peng suspected that this was sodium salt crystals, and added a little with his tongue, and it was really salty, which proved that his judgment was correct, a large number of coarse salt crystals were deposited at the bottom of the lake in the north, so the lake water in the north was salty.

But this still doesn't explain the previous problem, because the water is flowing, if the lake in the north is salty because of the integration of salt crystals, then according to the principle of water flow, the south should also be salty, how can it be freshwater?

Ding Peng went ashore from the north, walked to the south shore, and re-entered the water, at this time he found that the lake in the south was much deeper, just walked a few steps from the shore, the lake water had submerged his head, Ding Peng stepped on the water and swam forward, swimming about a few hundred meters, and then held his breath and dived to the bottom of the water, the lake here is about ten meters deep, Ding Peng felt that the surrounding lake water brought a slight pressure to the body, and the soles of his feet had been stepped on and touched the bottom of the lake.

Ding Peng opened his eyes slightly, fortunately it was noon, the sun was shining directly on the surface of the lake, and the light entered from the water, although it was more than ten meters deep, it was still barely able to see, Ding Peng observed the bottom of the lake, the bottom of the lake in the south was not like the north at all, there was no white salt crystals at all, but there were large stones, some stones were even more than one person high, and the bottom was buried in the silt at the bottom of the lake, and I don't know how big it was.

Ding Peng also discovered a phenomenon, he found that the surrounding water flow is not as calm and waveless as in the north, but slowly flowing, which caused his doubts, because the lake water is different from the river water, generally the lake water is extremely calm when there is no wind, even the lake surface has few ripples, and the bottom of the lake is impossible to flow on its own for no reason, since it flows, and it is in one direction, there must be a reason.

Ding Peng followed the flow of water, groped forward, the further he went, the lower the terrain, Ding Peng guessed that he should move in the direction from east to west, it may not be a complete straight line, but there is no problem in moving west.

The farther west he went, the deeper the lake became, and the water flow became more and more turbulent, Ding Peng could even feel the momentum brought by the flowing water, and he secretly said the reason for the underwater fluctuations, because his body was now in the water, which could make him feel the obvious momentum at such a deep bottom, and it was conceivable how fast the water flow was at this time.

Ding Peng was doubting, suddenly the water that was pushing him backwards suddenly disappeared, Ding Peng was not bad for a while, the body that had been pushing forward suddenly stumbled and fell forward, what is even more strange is that after the water flow that was pushed backwards disappeared, a whirlpool of forward pushing was formed behind him, under the dual action of his own strength and water thrust, Ding Peng's body floated forward quickly, he hurriedly poured his legs with internal force, and made a thousand catties of kung fu, his body sank down, just touched the bottom of the lake, the silt at the bottom of the lake collapsed, Ding Peng was completely defenseless, and suddenly fell。