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Chapter 469 The Survey Team's First Accident

Just as Zhang Fu expected, the snow in Doka Village did not show signs of stopping until the next day. After packing up all the equipment, the survey team left the village as planned and embarked on the road to climb Zidongna.

This road was stepped by the villagers when they went up the mountain to pick snow lotus and Chinese caterpillar fungus. Although the road condition is still very poor, the route is well planned and the overall elevation rise is not fast.

The physical fitness of the members of the survey team is generally better than that of ordinary people. At an altitude of more than 4000 meters, the altitude sickness is not strong. Except for a slight sense of hypoxia, everyone in the team is in good condition.

In the midst of the vast snow-capped mountains, the emotions of the survey team members were even higher than ever. Even though there was constant snow in the sky, their pace was not slow.

It took only 6 hours for the team members to board Zidongna, and it was only three o'clock in the afternoon. After a short rest, the group continued to walk northward for three hours. During the hard window period, we crossed the middle ridge between Zidongna and Chamuna, and went down to 3600 meters above sea level to camp again.

At this time, they were only less than 4 kilometers away from Chamuna, and their progress was even faster than Zhang Fu planned.

There is no fuel on the mountain, but in addition to the fuel blocks just delivered, the survey team also carried some compressed fuel blocks. At this time, a fire was started to prepare the first hot meal of the day.

In this gap, Qing Hao brought a professional survey team to the edge of the ridge, and began to survey and map the basin surrounded by three mountains below. Zhang Fu naturally followed to study, but he didn't ask any questions, just quietly listening to the discussion of several people.

"The place surrounded by the Zhiba Longba, Chidan, and Shana mountains is the best place to build a dam. The drop in this area is very large, and the mountain pass is very narrow, with a length of less than one kilometer. If a gravity dam is used, it will consume a lot of energy. The amount of earthwork can also be controlled.”

"The problem now is that the temperature in this area will drop below zero in winter, and the upper ice layer is likely to impact the dam body, which requires high strength for the dam body."

"Can we build a natural dam? You see, the mountain on the east side of Zhiba Longba slopes outwards, and its structure is unstable. Use directional blasting to blow up the entire mountain and let it fall into the canyon naturally. , just enough to fill the mountain pass.”

"Then we will build dams and strengthen structures based on this barrier lake, which will save a lot in terms of engineering difficulty and cost."

Hearing this, Qing Hao shook his head slightly.

"Your understanding of explosion is too low. To blow up such a large mountain, the equivalent of explosives required is huge, and the selection of explosive points is also very strict-of course, it does not mean that it cannot be done, it depends on the danger of construction and the reliability of forming a dam.”

"I personally think it is very difficult. To achieve the amount of earthwork required for a natural dam body, it is basically to blow up a mountain. How can it be so easy?"

"Can you use a nuclear bomb?"

Zhang Fu on the side interjected, and the others all turned to him with surprised eyes.

"To be honest, it's also an idea, but the higher-ups may not agree."

"Exploding mountains and building dams is already out of the ordinary, if you use nuclear bombs."

"But nuclear bombs can indeed solve the problem—a small kiloton nuclear bomb is placed on the west side of Zhiba Longba Mountain. The shock wave generated by the explosion can directly cut off the entire mountain, allowing the mountain to slide eastward to the mountain pass naturally. Is it more reliable than the directional blasting we talked about?"

"Although it seems a bit reckless, you have to admit that this is the safest solution we have seen so far."

Qing Hao nodded noncommittally, and then replied:
"Record it first. Tomorrow we will camp at the Chidan-Qamuna ridge, and then go to Zhiba Longba Peak to take a look, measure the mechanical structure, collect data, and hand it over to the rear to demonstrate the feasibility."

"understand!"

After the discussion, these professional surveyors started the intense surveying and mapping work. Zhang Fu couldn't intervene, so he went back to the camp to help with the cooking, but the moment he turned to look at the camp, a strong sense of disobedience The feeling came up suddenly.

Everything is normal, everyone in the team is performing their duties, those who light the fire, those who set up the camp, even if they have nothing to do, they stay quietly and use their notebooks to record the progress of the day's tasks.

There is no problem with this division of labor, and everyone's actions are extremely capable and professional, but Zhang Fu clearly feels that there is definitely an element that should not belong to this scene in the picture.

Harmony was broken by this element. From Zhang Fu's perspective, everything he saw was like a realistic oil painting, and there was a surreal object hidden in this oil painting, but he couldn't find it anyway. arrive.

Zhang Fu walked to the front of the camp step by step, observing everyone calmly, examining the entire survey team as if playing "find faults", and finally, after 5 minutes, he found the one that made him extremely disturbed. point.

It was a pair of slender palms that were rosy in white.

"Where are your gloves?!"

Everyone in the camp was stunned for a moment, and all of them subconsciously looked at their hands, only to find that six people in the team had taken off the special heating gloves for the alpine region.

Before they could answer, Zhang Fu reprimanded angrily:

"Did I tell you before I came here?! You can't take off all the thermal equipment outdoors! Do you know what the temperature is now? Your skin will be exposed to the air, and your hands will lose consciousness in a short time. Do you want to Do you reduce the number of staff before the task begins?"

The team members who didn't wear gloves lowered their heads in shame, and one of them retorted unwillingly:

"Xiao Zhang, these gloves are too stuffy, I just want to take them off to get some air"

"Break air? How long have you taken it off?"

Zhang Fu took off his gloves, rushed up and grabbed the opponent's hand, just as he had imagined, it was icy cold.

Even, it has begun to become a little stiff.

"Come on, Li Rui, tell him how cold his hands are now!"

Li Rui walked up to shake the man's hand solemnly, then nodded and said:
"It's a sign of frostbite. Put on your gloves! Who told you to take off your gloves?"

"No one. We just watched someone take it off first, and then took it off."

"Who was the first to take it off?"

Zhang Fu questioned.

"...I really didn't pay attention to this."

At the same time, Qing Hao and the others who had completed the surveying and mapping also returned to the camp. Seeing Zhang Fu's performance, he also frowned.

"What happened? You are all old people with many years of field experience, and you have emphasized the precautions many times before going up the mountain. How can this kind of problem still occur?"

"Alpine cold on the plateau is not a joke, put your gloves back on!"

Hearing Qing Hao's order, the surveyors in the team put on their gloves one after another, and within a few minutes, they all felt the tingling sensation from their palms.

Just like what Zhang Fu said, frostbite in the high-cold environment sometimes happens in an instant, and the bare skin cannot withstand the cold wind at an altitude of 4000 meters. The palms are likely to be severely frostbitten.

And they won't be aware of it.

A turmoil subsided temporarily, but Zhang Fu became extra vigilant.

In his opinion, this matter is a bit too abnormal. As Qing Hao said, the team is full of old people with many years of field experience, and many of them have worked in plateau areas. How could they not respond to this? ?
Even a novice without any experience would not be able to take off gloves in sub-zero temperatures.

This really looks like an accident caused by negligence, but the probability of such negligence happening is really too low.

On the contrary, it seems that someone is deliberately guiding.

Who was the first person to take off the gloves?

Zhang Fu quietly found Li Fang, the guard with the team, and asked him to strengthen his vigilance. The latter nodded solemnly, and then conveyed the order to Liu Chu.

At this moment, the three of them had vaguely sensed that something was wrong in this seemingly normal survey team.

(End of this chapter)