Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 823 Human Limits

valuable?

The audience was stunned. At first they thought it was just a piece of glass. Even though it was rare, it was not very valuable. Maybe it is not the case now?

【If I say this, I won't be sleepy】

【Careful, how valuable】

Well, I actually don't know too well. This one is about a thousand or ten thousand?

Bi Fang's tone was uncertain.

Point the glass meteorite in your hand to the sunlight and observe carefully, and you can still see that it is in good condition.

The impact of meteorites on the desert is an extremely intense process, which includes a series of complex activities such as high-intensity impact, high-temperature ablation, and ambient airflow surges.

After a violent meteorite impact, a large amount of blowing sand was caused to impact each other. Under the action of high temperature ablation, the embryonic form of tektite was impacted many times and under the action of strong air flow, meteorite impact, sandstone and other substances were impacted again, and Complex textures under the combined action of airflow.

And the impact of the airflow and blowing sand has acted on the ablated crystal more than once, thus forming this seemingly simple but multiple intersecting texture from the inside to the outside.

It is very difficult to counterfeit, which further increases the value of glass meteorites.

The piece in Bi Fang's hand does not have too many conspicuous air bubbles or impurities inside, it is quite clear, and it may be sold at a high price of tens of thousands in the market.

Of course, that's all there is to it, the value is not the same as the giant jade that Bi Fang found last time.

[Inflation is really getting worse, now I hear thousands of yuan, ten thousand yuan, it seems nothing (covering face)]

[Buying breakfast this morning, I found that the potato cakes downstairs have risen by two yuan, but it hurts my heart, woo woo woo]

[Look again, maybe there are more, since this thing is pure natural, there shouldn't be only one piece, right? 】

Bi Fang was deeply impressed by what the audience said, and began to search nearby for similar natural glass.

Although the value of glass itself is not high for Bi Fang now, finding them is a unique pleasure, just like finding treasure in the wilderness.

In 1932, Patrick Clayton, the Yangguo explorer who discovered the glass meteorite, decided to go deep into the Sahara Desert to find treasure.

Bi Fang stuffed the yellow meteorite glass into his backpack and began to search for gems near the oasis, while also doing some simple historical science.

In the middle of the 19th century, with the completion of the Industrial Revolution, the major capitalist countries in the world at that time moved towards the stage of monopoly capitalism and the direction of foreign aggression and expansion, followed by a mighty exploration craze.

Perhaps it is accurate to say that since the 16th century, the exploration craze has never stopped, and it has been intensified until the 21st century.

People yearn for more wealth, and in order to obtain it, the rich and nobles make a lot of investment, which drives batch after batch of navigators to appear.

Columbus and Magellan are the best of this period.

This is a relatively primitive and rough adventure, for which many lives have been filled, and the value it brings is undoubtedly rich. For the first time, human beings know the whole picture of the world.

By the 19th century, human beings at that time had a specific and detailed understanding of the world, but it was limited to the surface, and could clearly point out any position on the globe, but they still had nothing to do with certain dangerous areas. Knowing that the completion of the industrial revolution provided the basic conditions for exploring these dangerous areas.

Amundsen, Scott was the outstanding figure of this time.

The polar regions, deserts, and rain forests became the places people expected in this period.

If the polar regions began to explore the extension of the earth in the 16th century, and people tried to know what the northernmost and southernmost scenes of the earth were, then the Sahara and the rainforest were just to find something different.

Ancient temples, magnificent pyramids, mysterious totems, natural and beautiful ore crystals.

Ha, another piece. It's still yellow, but the texture is not as good as before.

Bi Fang dug out another piece of meteorite glass full of edges and corners from the sand, wiped it briefly and put it away.

Any danger may appear in the depths of the vast desert, and few people try to walk in. What attracts Clayton and others to go straight to the hinterland is the temptation of treasure hunting.

Clayton heard that there is an oasis city in the desert, which hides rich treasures. However, the expedition team did not find this oasis city that only existed in legends. Instead, they found something special.

I said it once just now, and you all know it now, it is Libyan meteorite glass.

At first, Clayton just thought the glass was novel and beautiful, so he collected them and brought them back to Europe.

However, without two brushes, how could one become an explorer? This is not a career that can be achieved only by courage and boldness. With his keen geological experience, Clayton felt a little strange, that is, how could there be such a thing in the barren desert? Such a fine glass?

However, due to the development of the times, he has not been able to find the answer. It's just that in the next two years, he traveled back and forth between the Sahara Desert and Europe many times, collecting many such glass samples.

Two years later, Clayton meticulously sealed the collected glass in a whiskey bottle. Along with the glass, there was also a small note that recorded the collection records of these glasses.

“This bottle of Libyan desert glass sat for 50 years until it was discovered in 1984 by an Italian archaeologist, Giancarlo Caniello.”

He was also amazed by the beauty of the glass and the mystery of unknown origin, and the detailed notes collected gave him a bold idea.

A year later, Caniello organized an expedition to retrace Clayton's path. He was not looking for treasure that Clayton hadn't found, but specifically looking for desert glass.

And then it was 1996. I just said that the gems on the Pharaoh's head were found to be glass. Probably since then, Libya's meteorite glass has become famous and gradually became more valuable.

After searching a lot around the area, Bi Fang only found three pieces in total, of which the first piece was the best, and the last two pieces were not so good.

It may add up to about 30,000 yuan?

It's been too long since glass was formed. The sand dunes in the Sahara Desert are constantly moving, not to mention the meteorite glass hidden in the desert. I don't think it's strange that they appear anywhere in this desert.

Bi Fang happily put the three pieces of glass into the backpack, and deliberately separated them to avoid friction and collision with each other, resulting in scratches or bumps.

Thirty thousand yuan, in the past, was already a lot of money for him, and their commemorative significance was far greater than their actual value.

The emerald was ruined last time, and this time I finally brought back some valuable minerals, which can be regarded as fulfilling my treasure hunting dream.

After distilling some fresh water, Bi Fang moved on with Alpha.

After Libya is Chad. This is the trip I am most looking forward to, the death heart of Africa.

Chad, a landlocked country in central Africa, has more than 200 ethnic groups, a staggering number.

Its territory is mainly divided into three geographical regions: the desert region in the north, the arid Sahel region in the center, and the Sudan grassland region in the south.

Because most of it is a desert area away from the ocean, and it is hot and hot all year round, it is also known as the Death Heart of Africa.

Much of it, sparsely populated except for the daily camels and herders, is one of the least tourist-visited countries in the world.

The Ennidi Plateau, located right in the middle of the Sahara Desert in northeastern Chad, is not only one of the most remote and beautiful deserts in the world, but also a hidden jewel of the planet, untouched by tourists and crowds, almost intact.

After taking a sip of water, Bi Fang re-judged the direction.

Before going to Chad, he had another place in Libya that he wanted to check in.

That is Lake Ummai in Libya.

Umm Mai, which means Mother of Water, is one of the largest oasis lakes, embedded deep in the sand dunes deep in the Sahara.

But for those brave and adventurous travelers, these are not reasons to stop them, they can even be regarded as preconditions for rewards, and the final reward is the oldest oasis in the Sahara Desert, a surreal landscape .

The Sahara has only two permanent rivers and a handful of lakes, but it has a large number of underground reservoirs or aquifers.

Its permanent rivers are the Nile and the Niger. The Nile originates in central Africa south of the Sahara, flows north through Sudan and Egypt, and finally flows into the Mediterranean Sea.

The Niger River originates in West Africa, located in the southwest of the Sahara Desert, flows northeast into Mali, then turns southeast, passes through Nigeria, and flows into the Gulf of Guinea.

It doesn't have many permanent lakes. There are only about 20 lakes, and only one of them has drinking water. That is the vast and shallow Lake Chad. You can tell from the name that it is in our next destination. Lakes that keep expanding and shrinking. Other lakes are filled with undrinkable brine.

Ummai is one of the best, and it's on my route, so it's a must-see anyway.

[No, there are only more than twenty people in the oasis that Fangshen met before? That doesn’t seem to be a saltwater lake]

[That's not a lake, is it? 】

【It can only be regarded as a pool】

The definition of a lake is a water area surrounded by land on all sides. Although no one has ever defined how big it is to be a lake, the small oases we have experienced obviously cannot be counted.

Bi Fang explained with a smile.

It is now the end of July, and the temperature of the sand in the Sahara Desert can exceed 70 degrees at its highest, and there is no trace of water left on the surface of the sand.

Just thinking about seeing a big lake will inevitably make people excited.

That night, Bi Fang made a rare choice to rush on the road overnight.

Under the starry night, billions of tons of sand particles slide, accompanied by a humming sound that echoes many kilometers away.

Ming dunes, one of the characteristics of the Sahara, have experienced constant sand avalanches over the years.

Accompanied by the somewhat terrifying background music, Bi Fang saw his destination in sight early the next morning.

Big is indeed big, nothing compared to the completely small ones that Bi Fang had encountered before.

Contrary to imagination, although there are also green grasslands around Ummai Lake, there are not many animals here. It is not a vibrant scene at all, and there are only endless flies.

【Depend on. . . What's so cool about this thing. . . 】

[I vomited, a little nauseous]

[There are too many flies here]

[This thing is the mother of water? I'm a little skeptical about life]

Hahaha, I never said that Ummai is full of life. Maybe it was a long time ago, but it is not now.

Bi Fang rode a camel, looked at this huge lake, and couldn't tell whether he was feeling emotional or something.

Umm Mai is a very special dead lake. After tens of thousands of years of high-temperature evaporation, the lake water here contains a lot of salt, plus the rotting corpses of various animals. The lake water contains a lot of toxins and cannot be drunk at all.

Most of the animals that died near this lake died of thirst or were poisoned by drinking the lake water by mistake. Their death further strengthened the toxicity of the lake water.

There are also 16 lakes around it, some of which dry up and disappear from time to time, while others remain in the desert's embrace. This saltwater lake used to be a well-known trading center for the local population.

However, as the lake gradually became dirty, it gradually became abandoned.

One thing that is interesting is that the salt concentration of the lake here is very high, even comparable to that of the Dead Sea, so it is very easy to swim in it.

【I threw up, who would swim in it?】

【Go down and eat flies? 】

[When did Fang Shen become so disgusting]

The audience couldn't accept Bi Fang's heavy taste.

Just kidding, I don't want to eat flies either.

Bi Fang shrugged, then pointed to the lake.

It's a pity that it's not October, otherwise we could see a lot of swallows here.

【swallow? 】

[I remembered, there seemed to be birds in Fang Shen's oasis just now]

Yes.

All migratory birds in the world migrate at certain times of the year, and the routes they migrate have remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Just like some fish migrate to their birthplace every year to spawn, even though the journey is far away and the road is extremely dangerous, they will still insist on migrating.

Swallows are one of these migratory armies, and European swallows fly thousands of miles south every winter, cross the Sahara Desert and enter Africa, where they spend the cold winter.

When crossing thousands of miles of desert, the most difficult thing to solve is the problem of supplies along the way. Although they have strong endurance and light bodies, the consumption of thousands of miles of raids is also huge, and they also need sufficient food and water to replenish their physical strength. Complete the migration.

Although there are not few water sources in the desert, as I said, birds will not easily change their migration routes. There is only one source of water on their migration routes, and that is Lake Ummai.

It is obviously impossible to drink it directly. It will be poisoned to death in minutes. It will be the same as the corpse of a nearby animal.

【Damn, I already know】

【Stop talking anymore, let Yanzi save some face】

[I have tasted enough. 】

But we can't ignore one important creature, the ubiquitous fly.

The constant buzzing of the flies above the water seemed to answer.

As the decomposers of nature, flies will filter the toxins contained in the lake water. Therefore, flies can replenish water and energy for swallows. No matter how small the legs of flies are, they are still meat.

Hundreds of flies are eaten, and the swallows are full of energy again. They flutter their wings and continue southward to the destination of migration.

The audience in the live broadcast felt nauseated, and Bi Fang laughed.

If you really can't hold on in the desert, and you can't drink salt water, can you also challenge the limits of human beings?