There are many small villages along the river, most of which have only a few families. The people here rely solely on traditional animal husbandry to make a living, which is vast and sparsely populated.

As the expedition team moved forward, more and more data and specimens were loaded onto the car, filling most of the space in the suitcase. Everyone had to carry as little as possible with some essentials and food. They often needed to find supply points to replenish drinking water and food, which gradually increased the difficulty of the inspection.

Fortunately, a few days later, everyone had already arrived at Chawu Township in Lazi County. After replenishing supplies and fuel, the convoy would move quickly. If there were no special circumstances, the convoy would enter the Mount Everest Nature Reserve along National Highway 318 and would not stop halfway.

National Highway 318 is a landscape avenue. The scenery on both sides of the road is extremely magnificent. Snow mountains, wilderness, white clouds, grasslands, lakes, and forests form beautiful pictures, beautiful and ever-changing! The quiet valley, the clear lake water, the white snow, and the vast fields all cleanse the human heart and wash away the evil of the human beings!

Walking along the way, the scenery is wilight and pleasant! Everyone is always very excited and excited. Occasionally, you can meet self-driving tours or tricycle convoys, and passers-by to Mount Everest to pilgrimage. Every time you encounter these scenery and things you have never seen before, everyone will tilt their heads and watch for a long time.

It was dusk time to arrive at the velvet guesthouse, and everyone stayed here for a night. The next day, the older professors in the team were left behind. More than a dozen young men formed a group to drive three off-road vehicles to go to the foot of Mount Everest. After all, it is unreasonable to come here without going to see the famous Mount Everest.

The temperature in the Mount Everest area changes with the altitude. Every 100 meters increase will drop by about 0.6°C. The base camp at the foot of Mount Everest is more than 5,000 meters, so everyone wears a lot of clothes, of course, except for Jiangdong.

The base camp is the only way to reach the peak. It is located in the south of Rongbu Temple. It consists of a group of tents and hotels. A national flag and a flag of Mount Everest reserve are set up in the middle. The only permanent building here is probably the two toilets. Strangely, there is actually a post office here, where you can mail some postcards to your relatives and friends and stamp them with the stamp of Mount Everest post office, which is very memorable!

Jiangdong bought a postcard with the full picture of Mount Everest, wrote down his names and He Ye, and sent it to the He Ye family to broaden the hearts of her parents so that their family members would not be cared about.

We went to the observation deck to take an environmentally friendly car. Everyone parked the car at the base camp, took the camera and put on their clothes and set off happily. Fortunately, when we went there, there was no reaction, but the wind on the observation deck was blowing very hard, and almost everyone had altitude sickness and panting very hard, so we stayed at the observation deck for less than ten minutes and then went back.

April and May of every year are the best season for mountaineering. Every time, mountaineering experts from all over the world gather here, and the base camp will be very lively. However, when Jiangdong and others came, the mountaineering team had just evacuated, and the people living here were all tourists.

I stayed in the velvet guesthouse at night, and many people had altitude sickness. Fortunately, the team had already bought Gaoyuan Kang, Fenbid, antibiotics and other drugs. After taking it, most people would be fine. Older people still had to take oxygen after taking the medicine, so Jiangdong had not rested at night and took care of everyone back and forth.

Since the temperature at night would reach minus twenty degrees Celsius, a layer of thin ice formed on the car the next morning, and there was a golden cup that could not catch fire, so everyone had to come over to push the cart. By the time everything was ready to go down the mountain, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning.

Although the road down the mountain has a lower engine requirement, the driving difficulty is even higher than when you go up the mountain, because the road here is not asphalt, and it is paved with stones. The road surface is bumpy and will be supported by accident. There are also many large pieces of stone, with sharp stone tips exposed. There is a triangle hole in the tire, and it cannot be repaired. Fortunately, the comrades at Lhasa Station have experience and each car has two spare tires so that the car will not be stuck.

People measured air pressure and temperature throughout the journey, took photos of vegetation and animal distribution and habitat along the way, and recorded and analyzed them in detail.

The subsequent work is easier and it is almost not exhausting, because the second stage of work is to go back to Lhasa along the Himalayas and do some measurement work.

The Himalayas are one of the narrowest mountains in the world. They are composed of many parallel mountains, with a total length of 2,450 kilometers from east to west and 201 to 402 kilometers from north to south. The part of the straight line that the convoy passes is only a few hundred kilometers, and then you will encounter Provincial Highway 204.

Because there is nothing else to do except take photos and measure temperature during this journey, Jiangdong plans to leave the team while he is looking for Xuelian alone. Of course, it cannot be said that it is for Xuelian, but he can only say that he has some private affairs.

Unexpectedly, this proposal was unanimously opposed by everyone, because the team would not arrange a car for Jiangdong for him to drive, and there were no roads or driving nearby for Jiangdong to ride. Just relying on his legs, he would definitely not be able to catch up with the convoy. In the end, the convoy had to wait for Jiangdong on the road.

No one can stop Jiangdong's plan, because it is related to He Ye's life, so his attitude and words are very firm.

However, Jiangdong was not good at telling everyone all his abilities, so Wenjie finally came out to help Jiangdong with a guarantee. In addition, Jiangdong repeatedly promised to go back within two days. At that time, he would definitely not delay his trip with everyone in Yanghu. Everyone agreed to Jiangdong's request.

Before leaving, Jiangdong opened his backpack and took out the low-level talisman paper. He drew a yellow-bottom and red-word note paper with a talisman pen and Lingmo as shown in the book. He handed it to Wenjie. When he told him that there was an urgent matter, he used a lighter to light the talisman paper. Jiangdong would come soon. This incident made Wenjie look at him strangely and with a kind of suspicion, but in the end Wenjie folded the talisman paper and put it in his close-fitting pocket.

Gao Yuan came to Jiangdong silently, stuffed a warm clothing taken out of the car into Jiangdong's bag, looked at Jiangdong's eyes, and at the urging of everyone, he reluctantly got on the car.

Seeing the convoy gradually fading away, Jiangdong put on his backpack and spread his legs without any concealment to run quickly towards the foot of the mountain range.

Snow lotus grows between the rock slopes of mountain flowing stones at an altitude of four or five thousand meters and the gravel near the snow line, on the steep cliffs and ice-stained rock cracks. The climate there is extremely cold, and snow does not melt all year round, so ordinary plants cannot survive at all. However, snow lotus can grow stubbornly in the severe cold of tens of degrees below zero and the lack of oxygen in the air with thin air. This unique survival habit and unique growth environment make it natural and rare, and creates its unique pharmacological effects and magical medicinal value. People regard Snow lotus as the "king of all herbs" and "the best among medicines".

There are many types of snow lotus, with a subdivision of about 30. The most famous ones are jellyfish snow lotus, Miantou snow lotus, Tianshan snow lotus and Tibetan snow lotus. However, no matter how many varieties and styles the snow lotus develops, its fundamental medicinal properties will not change, so Jiangdong can only find it on the snow mountain east of Mount Everest.

The snow-capped mountains here are not as lively as Mount Everest, and there are almost no people coming to visit or climb the mountain. In other words, there is a great opportunity to find the snow lotus that has grown for thousands of years, because after all, it has not been involved in too many areas by humans, and many places have remained naturally as they are, which invisibly protects the existence of the snow lotus that has been in the thousand-year-old.

There is no need to worry about being seen here. When Jiangdong encounters cliffs or deep ditches that cannot be passed, they will release magic swords to take them over, which saves a lot of time. Whenever they arrive at a snow mountain, Jiangdong will search carefully with their spiritual sense. Fortunately, the area where the snow lotus grows is only around the snow line of more than a thousand meters, so Jiangdong's spiritual sense can basically cover it. The remaining task is to walk around the snow mountain and explore.

There are many ordinary snow lotus growing on these snow mountains. Jiangdong is basically just around the corner and will not waste time on these ordinary snow lotus. What he really needs is snow lotus that has grown for more than a thousand years. But the lifespan of snow lotus is usually only about eight months. Under this premise, will there really be a thousand-year snow lotus? After searching for a day, Jiangdong couldn't help but have questions about the elixir formula written in the book, but this question did not affect Jiangdong's determination. Even if he can't find a thousand-year snow lotus in this world, he will continue to search! For He Ye, and for himself!

At night, Jiangdong still did not stop looking. Fortunately, he did not need to search with his eyesight, otherwise the dark night would definitely stop him from moving. The temperature at night dropped significantly, and the temperature near the snow line would reach below minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius. Although Jiangdong was not afraid of the cold, he had to preserve his true energy reserves to find snow lotus. He would not use the spiritual liquid in the kettle until he had to be forced to use it, because only half of it was left, so he still put the warm clothes that the plateau had to force him on.

After searching for a night but no results, the next morning, there was not much true energy left in Jiangdong's body. I was afraid that it would be exhausted by night. Unfortunately, Jiangdong had to rely on his own physical strength to walk more roads, use less true energy to expand his spiritual consciousness and drive magic swords, and save as much as possible in case of emergencies.

The snow-capped mountains are endless and winding for thousands of miles. If you only rely on an ordinary person to find them, it may take several years to find them, and this is not the time to replenish the supply back and forth.

Fortunately, Jiangdong's spiritual consciousness has been much stronger than before the foundation building. When exploring the radius, it stretched from less than 100 meters in the Qi Refining Period to the current three or four hundred meters. Although it is not half as high as Xu Bozhi, it has already brought great convenience to Jiangdong!
Chapter completed!