Chapter 104 Thousands of Years Ago
[Which university did Lao Fang, a geography professor, run away from? Can the president bring him back? ]
[I have to give this one 94 points. Don’t ask why, because I watched the live broadcast on the highway and was deducted 6 points! ]
[Too strong, too strong, I would like to call this wave of analysis the strongest! ]
【Lao Fang really knows a lot. 】
"It's not that I know more, it's just that I knew it before you." Bifang shook his head, "Now you know it too."
【Ah, high emotional intelligence! 】
[Why do I feel like I've heard of this before? ]
[Lao Fang said this during his first live broadcast, and I remember it very clearly! Let me put it this way, just for this sentence, I am a fan of this person! ]
Bifang's analysis was so impressive that it attracted another wave of comments and gifts. Pan Wei was so envious that he shouted even harder, with sweat pouring down his face.
"Turn the air conditioner down a bit!" he turned to the fat man and said.
"It's the lowest." The fat man turned the button and it reached the end.
We feel hot now, all because of the sun. The temperature itself is not high, but the faces of the four people in the car have begun to glow red.
Bifang can walk in the shadow of the sand dunes because he is small in size, but the jeep cannot go there and it will easily overturn if it goes up, so it can only follow under the sun.
Sunburn.
Sunburn is caused by overexposure of the skin to ultraviolet rays, and symptoms and signs appear within one to 24 hours.
Skin changes range from mild erythema with scaling to pain, edema, tenderness, and bullae.
In severe cases, it may be accompanied by systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, palpitations, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting.
Bifang looked at the people with red and swollen faces in the car, tightened the white hood on his head, and walked towards a huge rock in the distance.
It was already eleven o'clock, but Bifang did not stop but continued walking.
They said these people must be admitted to the hospital within one day, not even a minute later!
While on the journey, Bifang kept telling some experiences and stories to fill this boring time.
"Humans have lived in the harsh environment of deserts for a long time, but they have never conquered the desert. They can only face it."
"The person who taught me this was a friend of mine from the Kirghiz tribe. I met him when I went to XJ."
[Wait, Kirghiz people? Is there such a people in our country? ]
[Does the name sound like a foreigner? Does Fang Shen have such a wide range of friends? 】
[Shouldn't it be? ]
"Of course not. Where do I get foreign friends?"
Bifang shook his head. He encountered it by chance when he went to the desert to investigate the number of red foxes.
"The Kirghiz people belong to the Uighur ethnic group, a rather legendary local nomadic tribe, but few people know about it."
"In January 1896, Swedish explorer Sven Hedin followed the Keriya River in the Tarim Basin to the end of the desert. He wanted to know where the last few drops of water would end..."
"He continued walking along the river bank lined with ancient trees into the depths of the Taklamakan Desert. He discovered that there were not only herds of wild camels running around, but also a paradise for large numbers of wild boars."
“What surprised him even more was that there was a herdsman community here!”
"This picturesque, isolated desert oasis is called 'Darya Buyi' in Uyghur, which means 'by the river' in Chinese. The people who live here are the Kirghiz people."
"It is said that the Kirghiz people are a branch of the ancient Loulan people who lived 2,000 years ago. They have lived in the desert since ancient times. Of course, this statement is unfounded, so just listen to it ."
Bifang swallowed and got back to the topic.
"That man lived in the desert as a child, and he said something to me that really stuck with me, he said, 'Why fight and expend energy battling something you can't change?'"
"From then on, I knew that if we want to survive in the desert, we must adapt our bodies to its harsh environment instead of trying our best to find water and catch prey. Here, saving money is much more important than increasing income!"
Bifang pointed at the vast desert in front of him and said proudly: "Do you see this? This desert? It's the fifth largest desert in our country! Do you know when it was formed?"
"50 million years ago! The Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate! The uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau created this vast desert!"
The north wind blew across the earth, and the yellow sand flew.
"Here, mountains and basins appear alternately. The Kunlun Mountains, Altun Mountains, and Qilian Mountains in the south. The Pamir Plateau in the west. The Tianshan Mountains and Altai Mountains in the north. The Helan Mountains and Yinshan Mountains in the east surround this place completely!"
Bifang stretched out his palm and clenched it suddenly.
The scene of the rising mountains thousands of years ago appeared in front of all the audience, as if the gods had descended and turned into a natural moat, turning this place into an eternal wasteland!
It's far from the ocean.
Warm and humid air currents travel long distances.
Most of the water vapor has already dissipated.
It was also blocked by mountains and plateaus.
As air currents pass over mountains, this loss of water vapor is exacerbated.
It was already extremely dry when we got here.
Dry and little rain.
However, drought alone is certainly not enough.
Where does such a vast amount of sand come from?
On the high mountains surrounding the basin.
There used to be glaciers much larger than the ones we have today!
As the ice and snow gradually melt.
A large amount of water flows along the foothills and converges into the basin.
Forming many rivers and lakes.
The flowing water carries with it sand and gravel "scavenged" from the mountains.
Or create vast alluvial plains.
Or it gradually settles at the bottom of the lake.
Eventually, a sedimentary layer hundreds of meters thick was formed inside the basin!
After Bifang described these words, everyone was shocked.
It turns out that such a monotonous desert has such a magnificent history?
"Even today, the Hotan River carries about 6 million cubic meters of sediment a year, which means that in one million years, there will be a 120-meter-thick sand layer in the river basin, equivalent to a 40-story building!"
"In fact , the sediments in the Tarim Basin farther away are even deeper than this! These sediments have also become the main source of sand in our country's deserts!"
"To conquer such a desert, you can't just rely on a jeep and carry a few boxes of water." Bifang said in a light tone, but everyone knew what he meant.
[Strange, I’m reading my ID card! ]
[It seems that those people are not as good as Fang Shen. ]
[Based on my clinical medical experience from my undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies, they are already sunburned! ]
[By the way, it's already twelve o'clock. Didn't Fang Shen say that we should avoid this period of time? ]
"Ah, is it twelve o'clock?" Bifang pretended to realize, "I feel that the situation is okay, so I just kept walking. It seems that I need to find a place to rest!"
Upon hearing this, Du Chuan and the others' faces turned extremely bad.
They felt the other party did it on purpose.
How could a wilderness master not be able to judge time correctly?
But it was finally time to take a break, and they wanted to drive to a shady place as it was too sunny here.
Pan Wei rubbed his face, and tiny flakes of skin like fish scales kept falling off, which made him jump with fear. He quickly took out a bottle of water and wiped it on his face.
"This is the second box. Use less." The fat man's voice came from the side again.
"I know, I know." Pan Wei said impatiently.
But when they saw Bifang running into a place where cars could not enter and there was no shadow anywhere else, they were all dumbfounded.
I have finally found this place. If I don’t kill you with the sun, I wouldn’t be named Bi.
Wait, where are we going?
Holding the drone and diving into the narrow crack under the huge rock, Bifang sneered at the people outside the cave.
If you don't stay for three full months, can it be called hospitalization?
