Just as Zhang Fu expected, the snow in Doka Village showed no sign 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 Zilangna.

This road was made by villagers when they went up the mountain to pick snow lotus and cordyceps. Although the road condition is still very poor, the advantage is that the route has been properly planned and the overall elevation does not rise quickly.

The physical fitness of the members of the survey team is generally better than that of ordinary people. At an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, altitude sickness is not strong. Except for a slight sense of hypoxia, everyone in the team is in good condition.

Being in the vast scenery of snow-capped mountains, the survey team members' emotions were as high as ever. Even though there was constant snow falling in the sky, their pace was not slow.

It only took the team members 6 hours to board Zilangna, and it was only three o'clock in the afternoon. After a short rest, the group continued walking north for three hours, taking advantage of the fact that the new snow was not yet thick, and the old snow was already freezing.

During the hard window period, we crossed the middle ridge between Zilangna and Chamuna, and then went down to camp at an altitude of 3,600 meters.

At this time, they were 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 lit to prepare the first hot meal of the day.

During this gap, Qing Hao led 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 and studied, but he did not ask questions and just listened quietly to the discussion of several people.

"...The place surrounded by the three mountains of Zhibalongba, Chidan and Xina is the best place to build a dam. The drop in this area is very large and the mountain pass is very narrow, less than one kilometer in length. If you use

With a gravity dam, the amount of earthwork that needs to be consumed 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 of the dam body."

"Can we build a natural dam? You see, the mountain on the east side of Zhibalongba slopes outward, 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 up the mountain pass.”

"Then we will build a dam and strengthen the structure 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 explosions is too low. To blow up such a big mountain, the explosive yield required is huge, and the selection of explosive points is also very demanding. Of course, it doesn't mean it can't be done. It all depends on the construction.

The risk and the reliability of forming the dam body have been reduced.”

"I personally think it's very difficult. To achieve the amount of earth required for a natural dam, you basically have to blow up a mountain. It can't be that easy."

"Can we use a nuclear bomb?"

Zhang Fu on the side interrupted, and everyone else turned to him with somewhat surprised eyes.

"... To be honest, it is an idea, but the higher-ups may not agree with it."

"Exploding mountains and building dams is already outrageous enough, but if we use nuclear bombs again..."

"But nuclear bombs can indeed solve the problem - a small kiloton nuclear bomb is placed on the west side of Zibalongba Mountain. The shock wave generated by the explosion can directly cut off the entire mountain, allowing the mountain to naturally slide eastward to the mountain pass.

,Isn’t this much more reliable than the directional blasting we are talking about?”

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

Qinghao nodded noncommittally, and then replied:

"Write it down first. Tomorrow we will camp at the Chidan-Chamuna Ridge, and then go to the Chibalongba Peak to take a look, measure the mechanical structure, collect the data, and hand it over to the rear to demonstrate the feasibility."

"clear!"

After the discussion, these professional surveyors got into the intense surveying and mapping work. Zhang Fu couldn't get involved, so he returned to the camp and planned to help with cooking. But the moment he turned around and looked at the camp, a strong violation occurred.

The feeling suddenly came over me.

Everything was normal. Everyone in the team was performing their duties, making fires and setting up camps. Even if they had nothing to do, they would stay quietly and record the progress of the day's tasks in a notebook.

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

The harmony was broken by this element. From Zhang Fu's perspective, everything he saw was like a realistic oil painting. There was a surreal object hidden in this oil painting, but he couldn't find it.

arrive.

Zhang Fu walked step by step to the camp, observing everyone calmly, looking at the entire survey team as if he was playing "Let's find fault". Finally, five minutes later, he found the one who made him extremely uneasy

point.

It was a pair of slender palms that were white and red.

"Where are your gloves?!"

Everyone in the camp was stunned for a moment. Everyone subconsciously looked at their hands, and then they discovered that 6 people in the team had taken off the heating gloves specially designed for high-cold areas.

Before they could answer, Zhang Fu reprimanded angrily:

"Did I tell you before I came here?! All thermal equipment cannot be taken off when outdoors! Do you know what the temperature is now? Your skin is exposed to the air, and it won't take long for your hands to lose feeling. Do you want to

Will the number of personnel be reduced before the mission even begins?”

The players who were not wearing gloves lowered their heads in shame, and one of them retorted with some reluctance:

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

"Get some air? How long have you been taking it off?"

Zhang Fu took off his gloves and rushed forward to hold the opponent's hand. Just as he expected, his hand was cold.

In fact, it has begun to become a little stiff.

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

Li Rui stepped forward with a solemn expression and shook the man's hand, then nodded and said:

"There are already signs of frostbite... put on your gloves quickly! Who told you to take off your gloves?"

"There is no one... We just watched someone take off their clothes first, and then they followed suit."

"Who took it off first?"

Zhang Fu asked.

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

At the same time, Qing Hao and 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. You have emphasized the precautions many times before going up the mountain. How can this kind of problem still occur?"

"The high altitude cold is no joke, put your gloves back on!"

After 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.

As Zhang Fu said, frostbite in high-cold environments sometimes occurs in an instant. The exposed skin cannot withstand the cold wind at an altitude of 4,000 meters. If he hadn't discovered it in time, in a few minutes, these people would have died.

The palms of the hands are likely to be severely frostbitten.

And they won't have any awareness of it.

The storm subsided temporarily, but Zhang Fu became extra vigilant.

In his opinion, this matter was too abnormal. As Qing Hao said, the team was full of old people with many years of field experience, and many of them had worked in plateau areas. How could they not respond at all to this?

?

Even a novice with no experience cannot take off gloves in sub-zero temperatures.

This does seem to be an accident caused by negligence, but the probability of such negligence happening... is too low.

Instead, it was as if someone was deliberately guiding me.

Who was the first person to take off his gloves?

Zhang Fu quietly found Li Fang, the guard accompanying the team, and asked him to be more vigilant. The latter nodded solemnly, and then conveyed the order to Liu Chu.
Chapter completed!