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On a hot August day, the majestic and majestic Aramaxay Mountains.

A geological exploration team of eight people is slowly moving along the steep mass of the Yalamsa Mountains. The average altitude here is more than 6,500 meters, the air is very thin, the oxygen is extremely deprived, and the environment is extremely harsh.

The people who crawled along the mountain carried oxygen cylinders on their backs, ice axes stuck in their waists, and pulled snow ropes, panting for breath. Every foot they take is stuck in knee-deep snow, each brief movement requires a great effort, and they are constantly exposed to avalanches, ice avalanches, hurricanes, and other dangers.

Although it was a hot August, it was extremely cold, with temperatures ranging from -30 to 40 degrees Celsius.

"Come on, you must be careful, if you are really tired, you can breathe oxygen. The geological captain who was at the forefront stopped and gasped heavily, with a thick heat coming out of his mouth. He turned around and said to the team behind him, "Hopefully we can get something out of it today." ”

Li Guozhang is the captain of the first geological brigade of Caikang Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Exploration and Development.

"If you find a gold mine, you'll have everything!"

"When the time comes, give you ten kilograms of gold, and you can marry ten wives!"

"Ten wives? Where do you get such good physical strength? I'm not a yak, hahaha. ”

"The mountain gods bless us from hurricanes and ice avalanches. I'm going back to hug my grandson!hahaha. ”

Everyone, you say a word, I say a word, make fun in suffering, comfort yourself, stop and go, stop and go, and move forward step by step.

In the dazzlingly bright snow not far away, two goats emerged out of nowhere, stretching their necks and looking curiously at the group of people who were trying to climb. Farther away, two young leopards pounced on me, I bit you, chasing and rolling on the snow, playing happily.

The sun overhead shone on this endless snow-capped mountain, and also on each of them. Looking at the magnificent natural scenery and lively animals, Kuri Kuozhang felt very happy.

"Hey, little ones, hello," Li Jingzhang stopped, took out the digital camera on his waist, took a few pictures of them, and greeted them, "Go back quickly, don't be greedy, you will be in trouble in the event of an avalanche." ”

From the first day he stepped into this plateau glacier area, he named this mysterious area, which was not even marked on the map, "Tianjie Ding", expressing his great ambition to exhaust all efforts to uncover the mystery of the heavenly treasures on earth.

Geological work in the glacial areas of the plateau is extremely difficult.

Because the oxygen content of the air here is very thin, in addition to breathing through the nostrils, the team members also need to gasp for air with their mouths, and after a long time, their lips will ulcerate, and then they will cause mouth ulcers, throat inflammation, and they will not be able to drink water or eat. Strong altitude sickness also causes headaches, increased heartbeat, and sometimes vomiting and sleepless nights.

The water here boils at 70 degrees Celsius, and for a long time, they ate raw rice, and most of them suffered from serious gastrointestinal problems. In order to avoid pulmonary edema and ultraviolet skin caused by colds, the team members could not wash their hair and wipe their faces for two months, let alone take a bath.

On this day, Li Kuangzhang led the team members who were born and died with him, carrying heavy instruments, and crawled on the smooth and steep rocks step by step.

After a difficult climb, they finally reached the top of the mountain.

For the next two days and nights, they measured and recorded, calculated data, and organized relevant information. When fatigue hit, they slept on the top of the mountain, with their backs to the stone piers. And a few dozen meters ahead, there is an unfathomable abyss.

This time the weather was very strange.

Before dawn, a sudden hailstorm fell on the top of the mountain, waking up the sleeping team members one by one.

"Brothers, get up quickly, pack your things, and get ready to go down the mountain, you can't catch a cold!" Li Guozhang took the lead in getting up from the snow, dragging his stumbling steps with great difficulty, and walked in front of the team members one by one, pulling them. "Go back to the camp and rest for a few days, recuperate and come back. ”

"Yes, Captain. Let's pack it up. The youngest member of the geological team, Azeliso, got up from the ground. He was sleepy-eyed and yawned as he carefully rubbed his eyes.

Subsequently, they began to pack their things.

When going down the mountain, Aze took the initiative to carry the heavy instrument box and walked down the mountain with difficulty with sour steps.

The hail in the early hours of the morning fell for a whole hour, and the rocks were wet, and the moss on the rocks became soft and slippery, and the team members had to be very careful with every step.

Aze was hunched over by the instrument, stretching his neck, panting, and the beads of sweat on his forehead dripped down one by one, dripping into the rocks and looming snowdrifts.

Suddenly, Aze's feet slipped, and the instrument box on his back hit the cliff beside him, and Aze's whole body was bounced to the edge of the cliff, and he was about to fall.

If you don't stop the retreat in time, you are likely to fall off the cliff and immediately break your bones.

At this moment, another geological team member Ah Tu shouted: "Be careful!" Immediately after, he stepped forward, firmly grasped Aze with both hands, and pulled back hard.

Aze and the instrument were saved!

However, Ah Tu lost his balance and fell into a cliff several hundred meters deep. His body rolled in the air, falling down the snow-capped hillside below, and then continuing to roll down.

Sooner or later, sooner or later, an avalanche happened!

The huge snow made a piercing sound as it moved and collided, and it roared down, engulfing Atu's body in an instant.

At this moment, in the face of teammates like Ah Tu who forgot to die, all the team members couldn't help but burst into tears, as if something was stuffed in their throats, and they couldn't speak.

The sun is about to go down.

At this time, they faced a new threat: if they did not return to the camp at an altitude of 5,000 meters that night, they could freeze to death on the road. On the way back, there are two steep ridges more than 30 meters high, and once you stumble and roll down, you will have to be crippled if you don't die.

The younger players sent the equipment down the steep hill in three times and then climbed back to pick up the other older players. When descending the steep ridge, they worked in pairs, not daring to stand, so they could only squat. They rubbed their buttocks little by little with their buttocks at a distance of less than a meter or so, at a snail-like speed, and searched for a downward movement.

There is only one purpose for this: if the player behind him makes a mistake, the player in front can block it for him!

In the midst of great hardship and danger, Li Guozhang and his team members endured hunger and cold, trekked for nearly 18 hours, and finally rushed back to the camp in the second half of the night.

"Thank goodness I didn't freeze to death on the road!"

"God bless, we are back safely. ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and celebrate another day in the midst of extreme danger and hardship by shaking hands, hugging and beating each other.

Looking back on the days and nights of these two days, the thrilling scene is still vivid. They all know very well in their hearts that doing geological work in such a harsh environment as plateau glaciers and snow is like dancing on the "death line", and any member of the team will die because of all kinds of unexpected misfortunes.

Death, to them, is already a commonplace.

No one knows who tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or on the next day, will be the next Atu.

Two years have passed, and the camp is stacked with nearly three tons of core. After laboratory analysis of these cores, the results were still astonishing: worthless, a pile of waste rock!

How many dangers have been experienced, how many difficulties have been overcome, how many lives have been lost, and now in exchange, this is the result!

Li Guozhang was disappointed, devastated, and finally fell ill. After returning to the unit, after active treatment, his condition did not improve, and he was dying soon.

In accordance with Li Guozhang's request, the unit sent him back to his hometown, Qingshan Village, Thanh Son Town, Da Long County, Cai Kang Province.

Ten minutes before Xie died, Li Guozhang called his wife and three sons to the bed, and instructed his son, Lao San, who was still studying at the University of Geosciences, to drag out a box from under the bed, and take out a large bundle of drawings and a large pile of yellowed notebooks.

Li Jingzhang said to the third child: "Third child, just now, I dreamed that an eagle was flying around my soul, and said four words to me, I vaguely remember the first two sentences, and I forgot the last two sentences, I will write it to you." ”

Chestnut Suo immediately brought paper and pen. Li Guozhang wrote crookedly on the paper: meteors and rain flew all over the sky, falling into dust for thousands of years.

"This eagle is dressed in navy blue feathers, and has a round ruby on the top of its head," said Chestnut Palm's eyes, which suddenly glowed with surprise, "This ruby is blood-red, and strangely enough, there are two pieces of gold in the shape of a crescent moon on its outside, which tightly enclose this ruby in the middle." ”

Li Guozhang didn't know why he seemed particularly energetic at this time, his thinking was particularly keen, and if he moved his pen with divine help, everyone saw the old man shake his wrist a few times, and a figure appeared on the white paper upright.

Everyone's eyes widened in astonishment, and they listened to the old man talk about his dreams.

"This Condor told me that your sons are very good, and only your family can develop the heavens, protect the earth, and ...... What else? Yes, to be able to protect the Liujing Realm. ”

When Li Jingzhang said this, he glanced at everyone, and then solemnly grabbed the hand of the chestnut board rope, accentuated his tone, and continued: "Brothers work together, and their profits are golden. There must be a lot of articles in Tianjieding, and you have to work hard! You have to develop Tianjieding, protect the earth, and protect the Liujing realm. ”

Li Guan looked at the chestnut board rope for a few seconds, closed his eyes slightly, and suddenly opened them, and said very seriously: "After you get married, your first child is a girl, and she will have great achievements in the future, you must cultivate it well, and in the future, she will definitely be able to help you develop Tianjieding." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Everyone was confused, just thinking that the old man was talking nonsense in the dark, but they had to nod their heads vigorously.

Li Guo's palms were dark, and he glanced at everyone in turn, suddenly smiled, and said loudly: "Just now, three big golden characters floated in front of my eyes. ”

"Dad, what's the word?" asked Chestnut Suo softly.

"Li Hanmei!" Li Jingzhang's eyes were blazing, and his expression was radiant. He squeezed the chestnut cord's hand hard, "This is the name of your daughter, my granddaughter." ”

"Huh?!" everyone's faces froze, their mouths opened in surprise, and their pupils dilated.

"You've been with me all your life, and you haven't lived a few happy days," Li Jingzhang seemed to forget everything he had just said in an instant, and instead grabbed his wife's hand tightly, and choked up several times with old tears. "I may have to go first, I have three sons to take care of you, I'm relieved, wife-"

Then, Li Guozhang coughed a few times, let go of his wife's hand, and said to the third child: "To develop Tianjieding, your strength alone is far from enough, you three brothers want to go together, you must find out the resources of Tianjieding." You want to develop the heavens, protect the earth, and protect the Liujing realm. ”

What do you want us to protect the earth? What else do we need to protect?

The more the three brothers listened, the more confused they became, just thinking that the old man was talking nonsense, and they didn't ask anything, only nodding vigorously and saying "yes".

The mother didn't say anything, secretly wept and sobbed, and kept wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with an old handkerchief.

Suddenly, Li Guo struggled to hold his palm, straightened up, leaned on the shoulder of the bed, his cloudy and dim eyes were misty, he slowly turned his head to look at his sons in a very small arc, and said, "You guys...... All three of you brothers ...... Do you remember everything?"

"Remember, please rest assured!"

"We'll definitely take care of Mom!"

"We will definitely work together to find out the resource situation of Tianjieding!"

The three brothers stood in front of the old man's bed with their hands down, weeping bitterly, grief-stricken, and whimpering.

Li Jingzhang looked at them affectionately, his face was ruddy, radiant, and his eyes were shiny, kind, peaceful, and happy.

"Hahaha, I can go! ”

In the end, he tilted his palms and fell obliquely into his wife's arms, with a smile on his face, slowly closed his eyelids, his limbs gradually soothed, and he walked away easily.