Yes, maybe Lin Shan will never step on this mountain or enter that valley in his future life.

This mountain has no name. It is just one of the ordinary peaks in the world that are not the main peaks, nor will it have a name. In the years to come, even Lin Shan will no longer remember its location.

There is no people here, and there are few animals. The stream at the foot of the mountain may bring some vitality, but if the stream drys up one day, this vitality will no longer exist.

But today Lin Shan stood here, and he suddenly felt that the mountain was like his own child, and he would never give it to others, even if opposite was Dahmina, who he had secretly loved for a long time.

However, the debate in front of me was obviously unfavorable to me, and this stone carved with Chinese characters became evidence that was not beneficial.

Because according to history, the entire Pamir Plateau belongs to China, and the Penchi River west of the Pamir Plateau was the westernmost end of China at that time. However, after the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Pamir was divided by Britain and Russia.

In the 1960s, our country signed a treaty with Afghanistan and abandoned Wakhan Pamir.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the disputed territory between China and Tajikistan could reach 28,000 square kilometers, accounting for one-fifth of the total area of ​​Tajik territory. Such a large proportion of territorial requests are difficult for the Tajik side to accept.

So after difficult negotiations, the Tajikan side agreed to return part of the west side of the Sarekole Ridge of the actual control line to China, which is about 1,100 square kilometers.

Therefore, for Chinese boundary surveyors, a mountain, a valley, even a stone, a cave, a grass and a tree are hard to come by.

Lin Shan naturally cherished his mission. He looked at the stone carefully and suddenly discovered a problem.

"No!" he said, stopping Dahmina, who was setting up the instrument.

"What's wrong?" Dahmina stopped and asked.

"Come on here!" Lin Shan ran over, pointed to several dents on the floating soil on the top of the mountain, and pointed to the corresponding part of the stone and said, "Here, here, and here, have you not found one by one?"

Dahmina followed and nodded.

"So what?"

"Look at these three Chinese characters again, they are all crooked, ninety degrees from top to bottom. What does this mean?" Lin Shan reminded her.

"It means the stone was placed horizontally, and later someone stood him up." Dahmina finally understood.

"Yes! So since ancient times, this stone has been lying horizontally on the top of the mountain. When carving the words, it is also horizontally. Later, I don't know who raised it up. So to measure the height, you should restore it and cross it horizontally."

"Okay, listen to you. But this is the final conclusion. The height that comes across is the altitude."

"No problem, none of us knows how high it is to cross over, so success or failure is here." Lin Shan also agreed.

The foundation of the stone was not solid. The two of them worked hard in the original direction, and the stone slowly fell to the top of the mountain.

Dahmina adjusted the instrument, and Lin Shan couldn't help but hold her breath.

"Come here, test together, don't let it be done and you won't admit it." Dahmina called him.

Lin Shan then realized that he was already stupid. He forgot that he was not a spectator, but the person who decided on history.

The two of them worked together for half an hour, and the final measurement results finally came out.

3203.19 meters!

Dahmina frowned.

"No, test it again!"

This time it was 3203.20 meters, which was only 0.03 meters shorter than the opposite high ground.

"Test it again!" Dahmina was still dissatisfied.

It is still 3203.20 meters.

This time Dahmina stopped talking, she patted the stone hard.

"Tubodid (Ta language: goodbye)." Lin Shan also walked over and patted Dahmina on the shoulder.

"If I want to revisit my hometown in the future, I will have to apply for a visa." Dahmina said with a smile.

"It's okay, I'll accompany you." Lin Shan comforted her.

Dahmina looked at Lin Shan and suddenly said, "Why don't you accompany me to a place first?"

It turned out that Dahmina was still thinking about the red willow bush.

"My father has been exploring in the field for many years, especially after returning from Chukki and Kamchatka, he fell ill. When Gorbachev announced the collapse of the Soviet Union, our family had returned to Dushanbe. But with independence, it was not hope, but war.

"After five years of civil war, Dushanbe was once in a state of war. His father was afraid of danger and kept his whole family in the house and kept his door open. He used to live on a vast land, but in those years he could only face small rooms.

"After a while, his body collapsed. After the civil war, the family still lacked food and clothing, and his father died due to malnutrition and illness.

"But in the years before his death, he studied about the 'savages' every day. He encountered many strange events in the surveying and mapping team in his early years, including a savage on the Pamir Plateau in Go State.

"This incident probably left a deep impression on him, so in the last few years, the study of the savage became his spiritual pillar.

"He left many notes, recorded all kinds of rumors about the savages, and wrote down his own experiences. The notes are still kept in a suitcase.

"I just read those notes and heard my father grow up on the wilderness. So later, I applied for surveying and mapping and applied to join the boundary survey team at Sarekole Ridge. Because in my heart, my father is like a mountain. Only when I come to the mountain can I feel that I am approaching him again.

"So, since the savage is the research object of my father's heart, how could I give up easily when I meet a savage?"

Lin Shan breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought you couldn't bear to leave that roasted lamb."

"Is the impression I leave on you just a greedy ghost?" Dahmina looked at him with a angrily smile.

The two of them took more than a day to get down the mountain and return to the green valley.

Since the ridgeline has been determined, this valley has naturally become China's territory.

Because it was still early, they walked along the stream to the north, but the stream was very long and they did not find any water source.

But they were not without gains, because they found traces of life suspected to be savages by the stream.

It was a water storage pit built with stones by the stream.

Because this stream is narrow and shallow, it is not so convenient to get water. But next to the stream, they found a "pool" with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of one meter. The pool was "built" with stones. From the pool to the stream, there was a "drainage channel" that was obviously manually excavated, just 30 meters short.

This is by no means the magic of nature, it is a real artificial excavation.

Lin Shan checked around and found some abandoned "artificial stone tools".
Chapter completed!