It is not an easy task to conduct an archaeological expedition in a vast primeval forest like the Shennongjia Mountains.
More than ten years ago, Professor Lai Sheng, a famous paleoanthropologist from Great China, led an investigation team of hundreds of people and spent more than two months to cover the entire Shennongjia Mountains.
But they have also never gone deep into the true hinterland of the Shennongjia Mountains, because in the depths of the Shennongjia Mountains, especially the hundred miles in the center, there are towering ancient trees, layer upon layer, and extremely steep peaks everywhere. It is difficult to penetrate at all.
So when he left, Professor Lai Sheng was very sorry, because from a scientific point of view, the evidence in his later paper was incomplete.
But if Professor Lai Sheng had lived a few years later, perhaps he would not regret it, because helicopters appeared in this world.
With the advancement of science and technology, those forbidden areas that were previously difficult for humans to set foot on will eventually be conquered by humans one by one.
Xu Chuxiang agreed to send two helicopters to Professor Holt, so this time, it may be the first time in human history that we can see the entire Shennongjia Mountains.
Of course, it was impossible for Holt and others to drive a helicopter directly from Jingcheng to Shennongjia.
The straight-line distance from Jingcheng to Shennongjia is more than 400 kilometers.
The helicopter Xu Chuxiang purchased from Mei Lijian through his connections is currently the most advanced Bell-4 helicopter in the world, with a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour and a regular cruising speed of about 100 kilometers per hour. When fully fueled and fully loaded, the Bell-4 helicopter can continue to sail for two hours at conventional cruising speed.
In other words, if you fly a helicopter from Jingcheng to Shennongjia, you will consume all the fuel before halfway through the journey.
Therefore, it is still necessary to establish a temporary camp on the edge of Shennongjia for refueling and supplying supplies.
At Han Biao's suggestion, Xu Chuxiang chose the location of the base in a small town named Pingqian on the edge of the Shennongjia Mountains.
Han Biao is the personal bodyguard of Xu Chuxiang's father, Xu Pingxi.
After knowing that his daughter was going to explore Shennongjia, Xu Pingxi did not stop her and just asked his personal bodyguard to go with her.
"Normally, when everything is fine, you make your own decisions, but if you are in danger, you must listen to your Uncle Han in everything."
This is what Xu Pingxi told Xu Chuxiang at that time.
In addition, Xu Chuxiang also hired a platoon of soldiers from her father to transport two helicopters to Pingqian Town and establish the temporary base at the same time.
Nine days later, everything was ready.
Xu Chuxiang brought Holt and others to this base. After resting at this base for a night, he drove two helicopters into the depths of the Shennongjia Mountains early the next morning.
There were a total of seven people on the two helicopters, namely Xu Chuxiang, Han Biao, Professor Holt, assistant James Potter, and three security guards brought by Professor Holt from the Injili Empire. .
Xu Chuxiang didn't know their full names. He only knew that one was named Carl, one was named Larson, and the other was named McGraw. These three were retired soldiers and had participated in the war that almost swept the entire Western Continent ten years ago. After the war, he has been working as a mercenary since he retired.
According to Professor Holt, McGraw, the leader of the three, used to serve in the British Empire's most elite Third Highland Corps. He is an out-and-out jungle warfare expert, and Professor Holt also They have cooperated several times and helped Holt solve many dangers, so this time when he came to Great China, Howett directly asked McGraw to protect him.
The two helicopters were driven by Xu Chuxiang and McGraw.
As a well-known mercenary in the Western Continent, flying a helicopter is naturally a no-brainer for McGraw.
Xu Chuxiang learned to fly a helicopter while studying abroad in the Yinjili Empire.
Xu Chuxiang is such a woman who is born with a boyish personality. She doesn't like music, chess, calligraphy and painting. What she likes is horse riding, swordsmanship, shooting and other sports that can make people's adrenaline rise.
When she was young, her father always wanted to train her to be a quiet, well-educated lady. Unfortunately, she had gone through countless battles and dangerous battles in her life but was undefeated. Xu Pingxi, the famous general of China, was not defeated by his children. On the issue of education, they failed miserably.
When Xu Chuxiang was twelve years old, she once left the teacher who taught her to play the piano in the room and went to the training ground of the guard camp to shoot.
After hearing the news, Xu Pingxi felt furious and felt the training ground. He snatched the gun from Xu Chuxiang's hand and raised his other hand high on the spot.
Xu Chuxiang held her neck up stubbornly, her eyes were red. The twelve-year-old girl was still a bit sharp-tongued at the time.
"Xu Pingxi, you gave birth to me, a dragon gives birth to a dragon and a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix. Do you think you can give birth to a beautiful lady?"
In the end, Xu Pingxi's palm did not fall. He sighed, turned around and left. From then on, he never cared much about what Xu Chuxiang liked to do.
But when Xu Chuxiang recalled this incident later, he always felt that his father's last sigh was not filled with disappointment, but rather with a hint of pride.
…
Two helicopters and seven people set off early in the morning. According to Professor Holt's plan, they just flew around the Shennongjia Mountains today. They did not expect to find the goal of the trip so quickly.
Wait until tomorrow, then lower the flight altitude and search carefully.
Because there are legends about savages in Shennongjia, the area on the edge of Shennongjia has actually been explored countless times before, so the two helicopters flew towards the center of the primeval forest from the very beginning.
After flying like this for an hour and more than a hundred kilometers deep into the primeval forest of Shennongjia, Xu Chuxiang was ready to return.
Because there was only half the fuel left, we had to go back to refuel before taking the second flight today.
However, just when Xu Chuxiang was about to turn around and return, Professor Holt suddenly exclaimed, pointed to the side and said:
"Go over there and have a look."
But there was a strange mountain peak more than ten kilometers to the side.
It's strange because they flew all the way and saw vast jungles, and every mountain was covered by a sea of forests. However, the peaks they saw now were empty with no trees growing. To be extremely abrupt.
Such a group of peaks is naturally very strange.
Xu Chuxiang glanced at the fuel indicator and felt that it should be enough to return home, so he steered the helicopter towards the strange mountain peak.
A few minutes later, they saw the valley surrounded by many strange peaks, the village in the valley, and the peach grove next to the stream.
At that moment, both Xu Chuxiang and Professor Holt knew that perhaps they had found the valley mentioned in Shi Zibin's manuscript.
…
"Do you know where this place is?"
Professor Holt held up a picture of a Taoist temple and asked Wang Erniu excitedly.
At the edge of the grain drying field, Shu Guan, who was sitting on the bench, narrowed his eyes and his heart skipped a beat. Then he stood up and walked over there.
Just as he walked over, Shu Guan inevitably had a flash of doubt.
The place where he was sitting just now was about thirty meters away from Wang Erniu. How did he see clearly the content of the photo in the old white man's hand?
But at this time, he didn't have time to think about it.
