But what I can't figure out is where do these incredible eternal stem cells come from?

Ye Lingwen glanced at me and said, "But my father ....."

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Wang Haiyang: "Don't worry about this!" Your father I will arrange for it, and I will put him in a place of absolute safety. It will be more than a month before he wakes up, and we will be back in less than a month. You can leave him a note and write everything you have to say. I'm in the hands of a few of you, and you're still worried about your father? ”

I summed it up with Wei Sheng Jin Ye Lingwen, and now I finally have some clues, everyone doesn't want to give up, and Wang Haiyang goes with us, which means that he is our hostage, and Ye Guangci's safety should be no problem.

So we decided to go to Kunlun Mountain with Wang Haiyang.

Before leaving, Wei Shengjin and I both put on the snakeskin vest, thinking that it would be better to wear it than not to wear it, but I didn't expect that this vest really saved my life.

The Kunlun Mountains stretch from the eastern part of the Pamir Plateau in the west, traverse Xinjiang and Tibet, and extend to Qinghai, with a total length of more than 2,000 kilometers and an average altitude of more than 5,000 meters. In many ancient Chinese myths, Kunlun Mountain is like a holy mountain, the legend says that the "Queen Mother of the West" lives on Kunlun Mountain, she is served by two blue birds, in charge of the matter of male and female cultivation of immortals, is the Taoist god.

To be honest, I never believed in these myths and legends before, and these myths were obviously just conjectures caused by the extreme lack of scientific knowledge of the ancients and the inability to explain some natural phenomena.

But since I met Ye Lingwen's father and daughter, and the tiger-headed monster in the mausoleum of Qilian Mountain, my worldview has been completely subverted, and the end of science is theology, which may be the truth of this world and even this universe!

And I found that some myths and legends, such as Nuwa's refining stones to make up the sky, Jingwei reclamation, the West Queen Mother's peach festival, the White Lady's stealing of fairy grass and Chang'e's running to the moon, etc., are all related to Kunlun Mountain, and the exaggerated descriptions of this sacred mountain by literati and scholars throughout the ages add a bit of mystery to it.

Before we set off, Wang Haiyang told us that his brother and father had disappeared near Gonger Peak in the Kunlun Mountains, so the destination of our trip was Gonger Peak.

I checked on the Internet, Gonger Peak is one of the three peaks of the Kunlun Mountain Range, with an altitude of more than 7,000 meters, and the top of the mountain is covered with ice and snow all year round. This peak is located on the west side of the Kunlun Mountains, in Aktao County, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang.

According to the prior plan, the four of us arrived at Kashgar Airport by plane and rented an off-road vehicle at the Kashgar car dealership. Wang Haiyang is very experienced in this area, he bought the local winter clothing, sleeping bags, hiking shoes, flashlights, compasses, climbing picks and many other mountaineering and exploration equipment we need, and stuffed the trunk of the car to the brim.

Then we started from Kashgar and drove along the 214 county road after more than three hours of bumps before arriving at Aktao County, along the way the sky is high and cloudy, no one is inhabited, the vast and boundless Gobi Desert outside the car window, lifeless breath, people feel like they have come to another planet. When the wind started, we sat in the cab and only heard the wind rustling on the body of the car with countless fine sand and gravel.

Occasionally, a few sparse green shrubs and a few poplar trees can be seen in the shade of some hills, all of which are also listlessly drooping. In such a harsh natural environment, we even saw a herd of wild donkeys, which really filled me with awe of the tenacity of life.

After arriving in Aktaau, we had a day of rest and some supplies, and it was very important to maintain sufficient energy before climbing.

Early the next morning, we drove in the direction of Gonger Peak. Out of the county seat, the field of vision immediately broadened, the snow-capped mountains in the distance are in full view, you can see that the halfway up the mountain is already snow-capped, the clouds and mist are shrouded, many peaks are not high, straight into the sky, disappear in the fog, and I don't know which one is Gonger Peak.

Wei Shengjin drove skillfully, and he and Wang Haiyang took turns driving all the way.

"I don't know where I learned to drive, and I drive so well," I muttered to myself.

Wang Haiyang sat in the co-pilot and carefully instructed us:

"The last time my father talked to me was in the county town of Aktao, he said that he was going to Gonger Peak early the next morning, and then he could no longer be contacted, it should be that he encountered an accident when climbing the mountain, and we had no road to drive a section further, so we could only abandon the car and hike the mountain, the mountainside was covered with ice and snow all year round, and it did not melt for thousands of years, and you will wear cold-proof clothing and bring your own equipment."

"Is there anything special about this Gonger Peak? Did your father mention it to you before he climbed the mountain? I asked.

"Oh, nothing special, it's all some ancient myths and legends, you've heard it all," Wang Haiyang said, looking at me.

I felt that he was about to stop talking, so I didn't ask any more questions.

In this way, our car continued to move forward for more than an hour, until a steep hill appeared in front of us, the off-road vehicle could no longer move forward, we could only get out of the car and walk, as soon as we opened the car door, we suddenly felt that the temperature plummeted, much colder than in Aktau County, the four of us each put on warm clothes, put on our own clothes and began to hike the mountain, about another less than an hour of walking, there were already scattered snowflakes around.

In a clearing, Wang Haiyang stopped and said to us: "This is already a mountainside, and further up, the snow will get deeper and deeper, and the temperature will be lower. Also, don't talk loudly so as not to cause an avalanche. Let's take a break here to eat something and move forward"

After resting for a while, our group of four people continued to move forward, up to 2000 meters above sea level, all around were snow-capped mountains, at this time the weather suddenly improved, the light snow that had been falling stopped, the sun shone down, and the whole snow-capped mountain was brilliant in white light, very dazzling. It is surrounded by low bushes. Climbing the mountain to the present, there is basically no road, you can only walk according to the feeling or the marks of being stepped on by animals on the snowy mountain, sometimes walking and walking, people will sink in, pull out the body hard, only to find that there is cold water below.

Listening to Wang Haiyang's explanation to us, we learned: it turned out that in July weather, the snow-capped mountains had begun to melt, but not from the surface of the snow, but from the part close to the mountain, so that many hollow traps were formed under the surface of the snow, and along the way we all fell into the water flow under the snow road, which made us highly nervous, and I repeatedly reminded myself to be careful, if something happened here, it was not only myself who suffered, but also my teammates. As a result, as we climb higher and higher, we get slower and slower.

At about 5 p.m., the three of us didn't feel too tired, and we couldn't walk anymore when we looked at Wang Haiyang, so we found a clearing next to a boulder and prepared to camp for the night.

In the evening, we lit a campfire, and the four of us sat around the fire and ate dry food while chatting about tomorrow's climbing plans.

"Let's get to the top first, and if my father and they had climbed to the top, we should have found clues," Wang said.

"This legendary sacred mountain is nothing more than that, you still have to bring the three of us together, are you afraid that those wild asses will eat you?" Wei Shengjin quipped to Wang Haiyang.