Chapter 355: Lakes, Boulders, and Springs.
Why does Chengxin have to come to the other side of the Troubled Stone Valley?
Is there something here that attracts him?
And so it is.
The last time he entered Yin Valley, he and Zhong Tao just walked around.
After going back, after a while, he saw the Rocky Valley on a high-definition satellite map.
I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.
The rocky valley, which was originally barren and had nothing to eat, actually had a lake at the other end.
And it's quite large, even bigger than the lake formed by the small river ditch in the village.
This made Chengxin a little strange and curious.
From childhood to adulthood, I have heard from the old people that there is no water resource in the Rocky Valley.
It was only when the village went down to the rocky valley that a lake was formed because of the small river ditch in the village.
But the lake was always that big, it never grew in size, and the water was absorbed by the surrounding sand and rocks.
So how did this lake come to be?
To this end, Chengxin also deliberately looked through the satellite maps of previous years.
I've been watching it for years.
The further back you go, the smaller the lake becomes, until you see that six or seven years ago, the lake disappeared completely.
It seems that the lake was formed in these years.
Could it be that more than eight years ago, the great earthquake caused the groundwater to bubble up here?
But the earthquake was more than 400 kilometers away from the Rocky Valley, and they didn't feel the tremor much!
Now, the two brothers finally reached the edge of the lake, and as far as the eye could see, the lake was full of water vapor. I can't see far.
The surface of the sand on the shore that is not soaked in the water also forms some white substance.
The two brothers did not dare to get too close to the edge of the lake, and set up camp at a distance of about 20 meters from the lake.
I don't dare to go near the lake because it is surrounded by sand, which absorbs the water in the lake and is very easy to sink.
The two of them don't know how thick the sand layer is, and if it is one or two meters thick, this will have to be finished if it sinks.
It may seem like an ordinary sandy area, but it may not be a swamp.
But it's still going to be close.
The two brothers rested for a while, took out a rope, and Chengxin tied it to his body.
Zhong Tao pulled the rope at the back, and Cheng Xin held a bamboo pole in his hand and a rope tied to his waist.
Then I found a sandy place that seemed to be relatively dry, took a step with the bamboo pole in my hand, and cautiously approached the lake.
Don't ask where the bamboo pole came from, if you ask, you brought it from home.
At a distance of twenty meters, it took Chengxin a few minutes to complete the whole journey, and he did not encounter any problems along the way.
"Spit on, blah, blah, blah."
Chengxin arrived at the lake, stretched out a finger, and tried the water of the lake.
As a result, the mouth of the room is full of bitter and salty tastes.
So Chengxin hurriedly spat out.
And I am afraid that the water is poisonous, so I quickly return to the restoration road and rinse my mouth with the water I brought.
"What, does it taste good?"
Zhong Tao gloated and laughed on the side.
is also Chengxin stupid, who in the village doesn't know, the entire chaotic stone valley, even the sand is bitter and salty.
I don't know how much sand is soaked under this lake, can it not be bitter?
"It's sweet, it's delicious, why don't you try it?"
Cheng Xin glanced at Zhong Tao.
As a result, what replied to Chengxin was Zhong Tao's idiot-like expression.
"He's meowing, I'm not a second force, if you want to drink well, you'll be like eating poison?"
After rinsing his mouth, Chengxin was not close to the lake, just to test whether the water in the lake was water, and now he got the answer, bitter and salty.
However, he also has another idea, is the water of this lake underground water, because it is soaked in the saline sand in the valley, it will be bitter?
Also, where does the water come from? The bottom of the lake or somewhere else?
There is no way to see the bottom of the lake.
Without a wetsuit and oxygen tank, you would be looking for guilt.
And it is not known if there are any special cases underwater.
However, you can't find it underwater, but you can take a look at it from the shore.
So the two brothers left Xiaobai and Xiaobudian two dogs, and after explaining that they were guarding the camp, they rode around the lake on an all-terrain vehicle.
The lake is quite large, and it is estimated that there are still one or two square kilometers.
Around the lake, the two drove slowly, one after the other.
On the right is the land in the middle of the Troubled Stone Valley, and the two brothers Chengxin drove in the opposite direction together, and they didn't find anything along the way.
But when they had ridden a long distance, and when they had made a quick turn, they came to a place where they were still a few hundred meters from the middle land, and the two stopped.
Why park?
That's because Chengxin saw a small ditch in front of him, and this small ditch blocked their way.
The water flow of the small river ditch washed the ground that was originally full of sand into a waterway that was more than one meter deep and six or seven meters wide.
Seeing this small river ditch, Cheng Xin's eyes lit up, and he immediately stopped the car, then got out of the car and looked towards the front of the small river ditch.
However, because it is on flat ground, you can't see far.
The flow of water is much higher than that of the small river in the village.
The two brothers didn't say much, turned over into the car, and rode along the edge of the small river ditch to the source.
After riding for three or four hundred meters, the small ditch disappeared.
What appeared in front of the two brothers was a pile of boulders.
The water of the small ditch flowed from under this pile of boulders.
Much of the sand had been washed away from the boulders, creating a puddle of several square meters.
Now the puddle is gurgling and splashing, and there must be water coming out of the ground all the time.
The two brothers did not get out of the car, but rode around the boulder pile on a terrain vehicle and returned to the place where the water was bubbling up.
The whole boulder pile has an area of several thousand square meters.
Not one boulder, but several.
After walking around, Chengxin also knew where this boulder came from.
Perhaps a long, long time ago, there was also a huge mountain of towering stone pillars that I saw when I came here.
However, I don't know that in a certain year, this giant stone pillar mountain collapsed, so it formed this huge boulder push of thousands of square meters.
These rocks are large and small, gravel is not counted, the small ones are dozens or hundreds of square meters, and the largest one is two or three thousand square meters.
The height is also more than ten meters.
And this largest boulder is located just above the water outlet.
Cautiously came to the bubbling place, Cheng Xin stretched out his finger to dip a little bit of the water that came out like he had been by the lake before, and then put it in his mouth.
He still wanted to see if it was water, after all, the water had only just come out, and it had not been polluted by salty sand.
The result is no different, the same bitter and salty.
It was another sound of a jolt and a gargle.
"Hehe, or salty?"
Fortunately, Zhong Tao did not laugh this time.
"Well, it tastes pretty much the same, it's not water."
Cheng Xin nodded.
"What do you say? Back to camp or? ”
Zhong Tao asked.
"Dig on the edge and see how thick the sand is in the ground."
Chengxin didn't know what to think, and planned to dig up the sand.
Zhong Tao didn't say much at this time, returned to the side of the all-terrain vehicle, took a small shovel, and then the two brothers dug up next to the boulder more than 20 meters away from the spring.
The sand pit is not easy to dig, and if you dig deep, the sand around it will flow down.
After an hour of waiting, the two brothers dug profusely and sweated, and after digging for more than a meter, they finally saw the stones in the valley.
After looking at it and touching it, Chengxin didn't get any useful information.
Reluctantly, they climbed out of the bunker, returned to the car, took a bottle of mineral water, and then took a bottle of water from the spring, and then the two brothers rode around the boulder and returned to the camp on an all-terrain vehicle.