Chapter 121: Shennong's Secret Realm
After finishing the day's party, they rested for a day, and the next morning, that is, on Monday, Han Ming, Shen Hu, Lao Su, and Lao Li, a total of four people, rode Shen Hu's red off-road Highlander and drove to Shangri-La.
It was already evening when they arrived at Shangri-La County, and because it was late, several people decided to study the search route first, so everyone looked up and downloaded relevant information about the Yunnan meteorite fall on the Internet.
"Wow, this meteorite is estimated to be a bit big, the Internet said that this meteorite had an air explosion when it was more than 40 kilometers above the ground, and its explosive yield was equivalent to 540 tons of TNT, and the debris also caused a small earthquake of magnitude 2.1 when it hit the ground", Lao Su said with a surprised face after checking the Internet on his mobile phone for a while.
"Nonsense, it must be big, if it wasn't big, it would have burned out in the air a long time ago, how could it fall to the ground? Everyone should hurry up and find the range where the meteorite fell, I found here that it seems to be about 40 kilometers northwest of the county seat", Shen Hu raised his head and said.
"I found a map of the suspected meteorite falling place made by a netizen, judging from the map, the meteorite was divided into three pieces after the air explosion, and they fell to different places, let's take a look first", Han Ming said as he handed the mobile phone to Shen Hu beside him.
"Well, from this map, there are three locations, one is the flight trajectory and impact point provided by NASA, and the other two are the fall points witnessed by local Tibetans, all of which are very likely," Shen Hu handed the phone to Lao Su after reading it.
"Since there is a picture, then let's look for it all, or let's go to this Niding village near Benzilan first, doesn't it say on the Internet that some tourists have seen meteors in Benzilan, and there is an obvious tremor? Since there is a tremor, it means that the impact point is not far from Benzilan", Lao Su said his thoughts, and handed Han Ming's mobile phone to Lao Li.
"It's hard to know if the meteorite is really divided into three pieces, anyway, we have to go to all three places, and we can go wherever first", Lao Li said.
"Okay, then let's go to the village of Nidin near Benzilan tomorrow to look for it, then turn around to this impact point provided by NASA, and finally go to search for the area of Balagezong", Han Ming also felt that the meteorite was the most likely to fall near Benzilan.
Early the next morning, everyone drove back to Benzilan from Shangri-La County, and passed through Benzilan to Niding Village, which is closest to the meteorite impact point on the treasure hunt map made by netizens.
Although it began to slowly enter the no-man's land, the plateau meadow scenery is magnificent, everyone along the way to watch the flowers, laugh and play, from time to time also stop to pat the scenery with the mobile phone to send a circle of friends, all the way smoothly but do not feel tired, until the march to the evening when the sky is getting dark, everyone decided to stop to rest, began to camp and stay.
Taking advantage of the gap between everyone setting up tents, Han Ming looked at his mobile phone and found that the mobile phone had no signal, but fortunately, he had already saved the screenshot of the meteorite falling to the ground made by netizens before, so there was no big problem with whether there was a signal.
After a few people sat around and ate some quick food, they went back to the camp to rest, and then they were okay all night and continued on the road the next day.
"I said Lao Ming, have we already entered the meteorite fall range on the map, or let's start searching from here", after walking for more than half a day, Shen Hu felt that he had entered the meteorite fall range marked on the map, so he suggested to Han Ming.
"Well, it seems that we have already entered, but this area is too big, if the four of us search together, the scope is too small and too time-consuming, otherwise, let's go to the top of the hill opposite first to set up a temporary camp, and then search in pairs from different directions, and return to the camp before dark to gather, do you think it's okay?", Han Ming asked everyone's opinions.
"OK, I also think that we should build a camp first, and then find a high place to see if the surrounding trees and flowers have been burned by meteorites", Shen Hu immediately agreed with Han Ming's proposal.
Coming to the small hill opposite, everyone quickly set up tents and set up a temporary camp in a flat field, and then several people stood together on the highest part of the hill and began to look around.
"That's it, time is running out today, Shen Hu and I will go to the left side of the hill first, Lao Su and Lao Li will go to the right side to have a look, and come back before dark", Han Ming looked at his watch and said to everyone.
"Okay, then let's try the water today, try all kinds of search methods, and wait for tomorrow to find a larger area", Lao Su was very excited, he also bought a metal detector for this meteorite treasure hunting operation, and he couldn't help but be eager to try it.
"That's it, everyone pay attention to safety, let's see whose luck is better, hehe", Shen Hu smiled after speaking, then picked up his backpack and descended from the high place of the hill to the slightly desolate ground, and began to walk to the left.
Two hours later, the sky was getting dark, Han Ming and Shen Hu returned to the camp, and it didn't take long for Lao Su and Lao Li to return.
"Let's go, don't look for it, the meteorite here has been found, we're late", there was still some distance from the camp, and Lao Su shouted at Han Ming and Shen Hu from a distance.
"What, what have you found?, have you found the meteorite?", Shen Hu didn't hear Lao Su's words, and asked loudly.
"We found a hair, the meteorite has been picked up", Lao Su and Lao Li finally walked to the front of the camp.
"Ah, it's been picked up by someone, what's the situation, how do you know?", Shen Hu looked confused when he heard this.
"We just met a few netizens who also came to find meteorites, and they told us," Lao Li said.
"Netizen, netizens, you also believe it, what if they just want to take you away, and then look for it slowly?", Shen Hu was a little unconvinced, he finally came here, how could he be found by others.
"Nonsense, do you think Lao Li and I are stupid? We definitely didn't believe it at first, but then when Lao Li and I went to see the scene where the meteorite was picked up, we believed that the meteorite had really been dug up", Lao Su looked disappointed.
"Oh, what is the situation? can you tell me in detail", Han Ming was also a little surprised when he heard this, so he hurriedly asked.
"Lao Li and I walked for more than two hours, and found a few tents on a small hill, so we went over to take a look, and found a group of travelers from other places, and later asked to know that these people also watched the news to find meteorites, and they have been here for three days", Lao Su said this, opened the thermos kettle he carried with him and took a sip of water.
"They also have our meteorite map downloaded from the Internet, and they also brought drones, according to them, they have used drones to cover the impact point in the map, all of them, they found in the video taken by the drone that two people were digging near here and rushed over, but when they came here, the meteorite had been dug up by those two people, alas, ......", Lao Su said here with a long sigh.
"Ah, was it really dug up? It's just that how can these people be sure that the two of them are digging meteorites, maybe they are digging artichokes there", Han Ming heard Lao Su say this, and suddenly asked.
"Dig my artichoke, your artichoke will be planted in a no-man's land? I went to see that place with Lao Li, the meteorite seems to have fallen on a small dirt bag, there is a fresh soil ditch several meters long in front of the small soil bag, and the wild grass on both sides of the soil ditch has traces of being burned by fire, and the small soil bag has been dug into a large pit with a diameter of two or three meters, and there is also a smell of fire in the pit", Lao Su continued.
"Those people were not reconciled at first, so they dug in the pit again, but there was nothing, so they were sure that the meteorite here had been dug up by those two people", Lao Su finally finished telling what happened.
"Oh, it seems that our luck is not very good, so what should we do now?", Han Ming was slightly deflated.
"What should we do, hurry up to the next place, the people we met are also preparing to rush to the next place, I think the people who came to find the meteorite this time are experts, we can't leave behind them", Lao Su said a little anxiously.
"Mmmm, yes, yes, let's hurry up to the next place, there are only three meteorites in total, if they are all picked up first, then we will be too embarrassed", Shen Hu also felt a trace of urgency.
"Okay, then we'll go to the impact point announced by NASA tomorrow, oh yes, Lao Su, did those people say who the two who dug up the meteorite were?Or did those two people have anything special?", Han Ming suddenly felt that those two people could easily find the meteorite, it must not be that simple.
"I asked, and those people also felt strange, saying that the two people didn't seem to be carrying any equipment in the video shot by the drone, but seemed to have known where the meteorite was, and went there directly and started digging", Lao Su also felt strange.
"Huh, this is a little strange?", Han Ming suddenly had a faint premonition.
"They said that those two people didn't seem to be locals and were dressed very strangely," Lao Li, who had not spoken, suddenly added.
"Oh yes, the group of people said, those two people look very strange in the video, they are definitely not locals, let alone travel friends, saying that those two people seem to be shirtless and bald heads wearing animal skins", Lao Su immediately added when he heard Lao Li say this.
"What?, a bald head shirtless and wearing animal skin?", Han Ming was stunned when he heard this.