Gansu, Linxia.
On Guanluo Mountain in Linxia at an altitude of 2,800 meters, a hole suddenly burst out, and cold white mist spewed out. These anomalies attracted the attention of local people. After investigation by relevant experts, it was initially determined that this was an ice cave. The ice cave was formed during the fourth glacial period of the Cenozoic Era and has a history of 3 million years. The temperature inside the cave remains at minus 4 degrees to minus 6 degrees all year round.
However, according to topographic analysis, there have been several thousand-year-old fires around Guanxi Mountain. Although the capacity on the surface is not much, it has been burning for thousands of years. How can there be an ice cave nearby?
Ice and fire?
At first, people didn't pay much attention to the unexplainable strange phenomena, and even wanted to plan and develop the place into a tourist attraction.
Before the construction started, something unusual happened again in the ice cave. The temperature inside the cave dropped sharply, and there was also a faint phenomenon of fire inside.
After reporting at all levels, people from the Western Township Investigation Bureau came over for preliminary investigation and believed that there were things related to Xuanbing spiritual energy inside, and people of higher rank were required to enter.
Southwest Town Fusi, Office of the Supervisor.
Pang Yongsheng called over the two captains of the Red Lotus Knights.
"Xuanbing spiritual objects appear in Linxia, and there is fire in the ice cave. Your team happens to have members with both Xuanbing element and Binghuo physique. How about you, the Red Lotus Knights, take a trip?"
"Okay." Now that Wu Xiuying was the captain, and Xiao Yihan looked carefree, she had no choice but to agree.
Pang Yongsheng looked at Xiao Yihan, whose expression seemed to have nothing to do with him, and smiled helplessly in his heart. This guy was determined to remove himself from the post of captain and come to straighten Wu Xiuying. In this case, there will be changes in his previous plan. It turned out that his plan was to give Xiao Yihan the right medicine to see if he could keep them in his Southwest Town Fu Division within this six months.
Who would have known that after more than half the time, the Red Lotus Knights would actually change their captain. This made all his previous efforts in vain, and in the previous time, this Xiao Yihan was also very cunning, refusing to let go of his words that he wanted or wanted to stay in the Southwest Town Fusi, which gave Pang Yongsheng no clue or loophole. No, there is no way or space to operate.
"Although the scenery here is not very beautiful, it has a rustic flavor, which is quite unique."
Because this time it was just a survey expedition, everyone was in a very relaxed mood. Li Xunzui was chatting about the mountains along the way, making the atmosphere as if he was traveling.
"As the saying goes, where the soil and water nourish the people... you know, last time I asked Brother Niu about the mission, and he said 'Ding Dong Chicken' to me, which made me confused. Fortunately, I broke the casserole and asked for details, only to find out that what Brother Niu said was 'listen to the notice'. Most people would be confused by this accent for the first time."
"Another time, we had breakfast together, and I asked Brother Niu to order a dumpling for me, and he asked me, 'Do you want to have some?'... It took me a long time to realize that Brother Niu was asking me if I wanted soup..."
Everyone burst into laughter.
Niu Weiqing was embarrassed by the laughter and scratched his head in embarrassment.
Aldak suppressed a smile and said, "What are you doing? One time Brother Niu and I had a late-night snack together. Didn't he order a plate of snails? Then I saw him pick up a snail and take a few sips, and then said to himself He said softly, "This is a male", which confused me on the spot. I thought to myself that Brother Niu is so good at sucking a snail, can he tell the male from the female? Then he picked up another one and sucked it. I looked at him , he said yes, this one is also a male... I was so impressed by Brother Niu’s skills at that time!” Then Aldak couldn’t help laughing, and after laughing for a while, he continued: “Later I found out, it turns out that Niu What I said was, 'Well, this snail is empty.' Anyway, I was stunned for a moment."
"Hahahahaha..."
People from all over the world, with different accents from the southeast and northwest, often make all kinds of jokes.
"I have encountered this situation before." Li Xunzui said with a smile: "When I was in high school, there was a day student who came to Nanjing from other places. When we met him in the dormitory on the first day, several of us locals Asked him which province he was from. The guy asked us to guess. We said China is so big, so how could we guess and asked him to give some hints. He said the first word was lake, 'drinking pot lake'. We thought to ourselves, That’s easy, it’s either Hunan or Hubei, but he said it was neither.”
"We were confused at that time. Do we still have provinces called Hudong or Huxi in our country?"
"Where do you think he is from?" Li Xunzui asked everyone with a smile.
"Where?"
Seeing that everyone's expressions were the same as his back then, he laughed loudly, and then began to imitate the expression and tone of his classmate back then, pretending to say: "You can't even guess that I was built by 'Hu'?"
Perhaps it was Li Xunzui who learned Wei Qiaoweimiao, but his accent sounded like southern Fujian, which made everyone stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter...
Jiao Yijiao even laughed to the point of tears. She made a fuss about beating Li Xunzui and called him "disgusting". It was a lively scene.
Xiao Yihan smiled slightly and said: "Actually, there is an allusion to the Fujian accent. It is said that when the famous detective novel "Sherlock Holmes" was introduced, the translator was a Fujianese. The English word for Holmes is Holmes. Logically speaking, the translation should It is pronounced as Holmes or Holmes. It is precisely because of the Fujian accent that 'Hu' was translated into 'Fu', so it was translated into Sherlock Holmes. And precisely because of this self-defeating mistake, the use of The more aesthetic name 'Sherlock Holmes' has made this detective novel even more popular."
"Hahahaha, is there such a thing?"
"Okay, okay, stop making trouble, we're at the place."
Standing at their destination, the Red Lotus Knights were immediately shocked by the sight in front of them.
It was a cave entrance that could be entered by two people side by side. It was more than two meters high. Before I could get closer, I saw white cold air coming out of the cave entrance.
In order to ensure safety, Wu Xiuying decided that she, Jiao Yijiao, and Xiao Yihan, the deputy captain who had many tricks, would go in first to find out what was going on, and then call others in after confirming that it was safe.
Wu Xiuying thinks this way: she herself has a constitution of five elements and three fires, and is not afraid of cold; Jiao Yijiao is a spiritual power user of the black ice element, which can be said to be her home court; and Xiao Yihan, if there is really a problem, he will freeze to death. .
But they still prepared for the cold, put on thick cold-proof clothes, and the three of them walked slowly into the ice cave like rice dumplings.
After entering, the first thing I felt was the sudden drop in temperature.
When the light of the flashlight shined through, I found that it was completely filled with ice. Thick icicles, ice stalagmites, ice grapes, ice walls, ice flowers, and "ice sculptures" were basically in the shape of a vertical oval. The deeper you go, the thicker the ice. There are all kinds of shapes, all kinds of strange, a bit like the wonders of the caves in the stalactite scenic area.
Under the reflection of light, the ice bodies looked white and delicate, and there were even purple flashes shining inside.
Miraculously, the ground in the passage going down was actually dry. Xiao Yihan took off his gloves and felt it, and it turned out to be warm.
According to the information provided by experts, the local environment of this place is simply not suitable for freezing conditions, and it is obvious that the ice inside this ice cave does not melt all year round. After investigation, experts determined that the ice cave was formed during the fourth glacial period of the Cenozoic Era and has a history of 3 million years.
Four hundred meters away from the ice cave, there is an active volcano. According to data, the volcanoes here have been burning for more than a thousand years. A few dozen meters along this area, a total of five volcanoes are burning, and light smoke can be seen in the distance. The diameter of the flames was more than ten meters. Apart from the fire, all that could be seen around them were gravel and sand, with not a single blade of grass growing.
Thousands of years of fire, not volcanic eruptions.
This is spontaneous combustion of coal.
Because in this area, the sulfur content is relatively high, and more importantly, the coal seam is relatively thin. When exposed to sunlight, it will spontaneously ignite due to the optical reaction between sulfur and sunlight.
In the final analysis of experts, there are different opinions, including the "glacier movement theory", the "air convection theory", the "geothermal negative anomaly theory", the "self-shape theory"...
Xiao Yihan felt that everything the experts said was wrong.
