"Zhou Cang, you are really attentive. We have been looking through these notes for so long, and we have never found anything in the cover." Xiangyu also immediately noticed something was wrong with my face shortly after seeing the photo.
So I came over curiously and said, "What photo is it? It scares you."
She came over to take a look, and then looked at me a little incredulously, "Zhou Cang, have you been here before?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Jisheng and Wang Zhishui hurriedly came over. After picking up the photos and looking at them, they both looked at me in disbelief, but no one said anything.
After a while, Wang Zhishui spoke, "Zhou Cang, I'm a straight-talking person, so don't take it off. However, from the picture of the ancient temple just now to the picture now, we really can't believe that this is your first time here.
If it's convenient, you might as well explain it clearly."
Wang Zhishui obviously had some emotions.
But I have no idea where this photo came from, so how can I tell the story behind it? I don’t know how to explain it. Should I say that I have indirect amnesia? But why do I always forget?
What about these experiences that are so important?
I have entered Wawu Mountain before? Then why didn’t grandpa and grandma tell me?
Grandpa goes out to various places every year to hunt for antiques. I can accept it if he has been here before. But in 2011, that is, four years ago, in my memory, my grandma and I never left the small town that year.
of.
If it were any other year, I wouldn't dare to be so decisive, but in 2011, I was so impressed.
It was the fourth year after I dropped out of school. At the beginning of that year, my grandfather bought back a huge number of ancient coins from a fisherman. The fisherman said they were passed down from his family’s ancestors, but we all knew that these coins were from
Caught from the sea.
The surfaces of these coins were almost covered with mud and full of rust. I spent almost the whole year cleaning these ancient coins and didn't even go out to play during the National Day.
At that time, it seemed that some coins from the Xinmang period were found among these ancient coins. Then, grandpa said that someone wanted to collect them, so he left the town for a while with dozens of coins. Could it be that during that time, he came to Wawu
Mountain?
But what’s going on with grandma and me?
"Zhou Cang, it's not convenient for you to say it, and we won't force it, but no matter what your purpose of going into the mountain is, I hope that we can work together in the same boat. No matter whether our respective goals are achieved in the end, everyone can go out safely.
"
Zhang Jisheng also seemed a little angry and thrust the photo back into my hand.
I could feel the obvious unfamiliarity in his tone, but I couldn't explain it. A feeling of annoyance rushed up in my heart instantly.
Everyone continued to read the information at hand, while the old man sat aside and smoked a cigarette. He was not interested in our behavior.
Suddenly, I remembered that look behind the sunglasses, so familiar. Could it be that I had also participated in the time when he and the professor went into the mountains?
Wang Zhishui's words interrupted my thoughts, "Professor Chen's notes recorded that the geological conditions here are very special. Underneath the Mihundang is ultra-thick basalt. One of the biggest characteristics of basalt is that it will form 'columnar joints'
, which makes their cross-sectional drawings be regular hexagonal patterns. These patterns will make people unconsciously walk along the hexagonal trajectory, so they will circle in place and return to the starting point.
"
"Basalt is rich in magnet components, so compasses and watches will malfunction here." Xiangyu added.
"Yes, that's why," Wang Zhishui said.
"If it is affected by magnets, then the compass will not completely malfunction. It should just be that the pointer has a certain angle deviation." Zhang Jisheng took out the compass and shook it up, down, left, and right. "If there is only an angle deviation, it can still work."
To guide us."
"The situation you mentioned only works when the magnets are evenly distributed." Wang Zhishui's words were like a basin of cold water.
Everyone fell silent. In such a natural environment, the distribution of magnets cannot be uniform.
After a moment of silence, Wang Zhishui suddenly stood up, pointed to a stream in front of us, and said, "I thought about it, this stream might be able to help us."
Xiangyu suddenly realized, "Yes, we saw many such streams along the way. These waters must have a source. Moreover, according to the old man, the ancient temple was built in a big river in the mountains.
, the source of these water is probably this
A big river. When the river passes through the Mihundang, it is affected by the geographical environment in the mountains, so it branches into many small streams. If this reasoning is correct, then we can get out of the Mihuntang as long as we follow the tracks of these streams.
You can also find an ancient temple by the way.”
"But, there are so many streams in this ecstasy, all flowing in various directions, which direction is the source?" Zhang Jisheng wondered.
"This is not difficult." Wang Zhishui then put down his backpack, took out paper and pen, and pointed to the stream in front of him, "First we will use this stream as a reference, and then take action, but the scope of activity should not be too large.
In order to avoid getting lost again, we then ignore all the horizontally flowing streams and only record the streams with up and down differences. Finally, we summarize all such streams and visually cut off the streams that cannot be summarized. The remaining streams can be roughly summarized.
A source.”
He was drawing pictures on the paper while explaining it to us.
"This method is feasible." Xiangyu praised.
"Then act quickly. The daylight in the woods is very short. It's past noon now and it will be dark soon." The old man who had been smoking a cigarette suddenly stood up and said to us. It turned out that this old man had been smoking
Watch us silently.
However, it is still difficult to move from theory to practice. Although it turns out that Wang Zhishui's idea is correct, it took us a very long time just to determine the macro flow direction of each meandering stream.
By this time, it was already completely dark, so we had no choice but to spend the night in Mihundang and wait for daybreak before moving on.