"Huh," as soon as I finished speaking, Pedro sneered.
Even in the seemingly frank conversation with me last night, I didn't feel any obvious changes in his mood. Therefore, he just showed his dissatisfaction with Andrew so unabashedly, which really made me sad.
I was a little shocked.
"Zhou, maybe you have also felt it. The closer you get to the bottom of the valley, the lower the temperature is." Andrew did not answer my question directly. Although I couldn't understand what they were just talking about, this sentence made me feel that he was a little careless.
In terms of his suspicion.
I glanced at Pedro to see if he would give me some hints, but Pedro looked at the bottom of the valley solemnly and had no intention of paying attention to me.
Good guy, he tried his best to invite me to join his team last night, but today he can pretend that he has nothing to do with me. The Oscar really owes him a Best Performance trophy.
"We suspect that the bottom of this valley is likely to be covered with glaciers." Probably because I didn't speak, Andrew paused for a while and continued.
"Glacier, how is this possible? Even if the temperature at the bottom of the valley is lower than that at the top of the mountain due to the lack of sunlight due to the towering trees on the edge of the cliff, it won't freeze," I said.
"Zhou, after our discussion just now, we feel that Pedro's conjecture just now is probably correct. Look at the vegetation here. It is obviously not as dense as the places where we were discussing the soil in the morning. It is already close to alpine shrubs.
It looks like a clump of trees." Andrew said.
I have never been interested in plants, so Andrew's words are basically talking to a cow. To be honest, I really can't see any difference between the tree in front of me and the one just now.
Probably because he saw that I had always been confused, Andrew said, "Zhou, let me tell you this, according to the vertical distribution pattern of vegetation, alpine shrubs generally grow at an altitude of more than 4,000
meters of place.”
Although Andrew explained it, I still didn't feel the key point.
At this time, Pedro seemed to finally be able to hold it in no longer, and spoke quietly: "You don't have to worry about what kind of plants grow at high places, you just need to know that the distribution of vegetation here is actually quasi-vertical.
The altitude distribution is regular, just~"
When Pedro said this, he suddenly stopped.
"Just what?" I asked a little anxiously. After all, so far, my trust in Pedro is higher than that of Andrew.
"It's just that the general altitude distribution pattern of vegetation is because as the altitude increases, the temperature and moisture conditions change, so the types of vegetation also change in strips. This phenomenon is just like when we are on the flat land.
As observed above, the changes in vegetation are the same when moving from south to north. Normally, when
The lowermost vegetation zone of the mountain is a typical local vegetation zone. As the altitude gradually increases, the types of vegetation will also appear: tropical rainforest, tropical monsoon forest, evergreen broad-leaved forest, alpine shrubs, alpine grassland, and alpine grassland.
Types like snow glaciers." Pedro said here, stopped, and then looked at me.
"However, the distribution of vegetation types in Shentang Bay is contrary to the normal vertical distribution of vegetation at altitude. It changes with the decrease of altitude. Is this true?" I suddenly realized that such a simple thing
, it took so many people to explain to me for so long.
"Yes, but we just discussed it and think it shouldn't be that simple." Andrew suddenly interrupted.
"Is there anything else wrong?" I asked.
"The height is wrong. If you reluctantly accept the distribution pattern of the vertical altitude of the vegetation here, then there will be another problem. These vegetation belts are too small. Normally, in high mountain areas, a vegetation belt needs to last for several times.
It takes hundreds or even thousands of meters for the plant species to change due to changes in temperature. But if you look inside Shentang Bay, plant species will appear at a distance of about a hundred meters or even tens of meters.
Change, this is not normal." Andrew continued to explain.
"I don't know the types of plants. I just feel that the most obvious sensory change in Shentang Bay is the temperature. It seems to be getting colder as you go to the bottom of the valley." I said.
"Yes, it seems you have discovered it," Andrew said. For some reason, Pedro stopped talking since Andrew interrupted. "Theoretically speaking, for every hundred meters of elevation, the temperature will drop.
0.6 degrees, but look at us, we have only walked less than 300 meters, but we are already feeling a little chilly. I estimate that the temperature around us now should be around 25 degrees."
"Twenty-five degrees, how is this possible? If so, it has dropped almost ten degrees." I said with my eyes wide open.
"Zhou Cang, I have a vague feeling that the opponents in Shentang Bay are much stronger than Wawushan and Poyang Lake. We may have gradually approached the center of the astrolabe." Pedro finally spoke.
But he just did it without making a sound, and he made a big splash.
"What does it mean to be close to the center of the astrolabe?" I asked in confusion.
"Didn't you notice? At this point, it seems that our opponents are no longer as simple as those weird mythical beasts. They seem to be the irreversible laws of nature and our original man-made ones." Pedro said.
"Pedro, what do you mean by this? Do you mean that the astrolabe can reverse the laws of nature?" I asked with some disbelief, thinking this was too incredible.
"It's not the astrolabe, it's the power behind the astrolabe, the power that makes all of us desperately want to rush to snatch it." Pedro said, glanced at Andrew, and then turned his eyes back.
I felt that these few words from Pedro suddenly contained too much information, and it seemed difficult to digest them all at once.
"Zhou Cang, I say this to remind you, don't underestimate Shentang Bay. It looks calm on the surface, but on the ground, it may be thousands of times more dangerous than the Wawu Mountain and Poyang Lake you have walked through.
." Pedro said.
"Yes, in addition to the distribution of vegetation that is opposite to what we see in ordinary mountains, there are also animals," Andrew suddenly said mysteriously: "Listen, it is quiet all around, there is no sound at all.
,Is this normal?”
This is indeed unusual, because the primeval forest is a paradise for birds. It is only a few hundred meters away from the top of the mountain, so it is impossible that there are no birds or animals.
Suddenly, being reminded by Andrew, I thought of the sanatorium at the foot of Sangpu Mountain. That night, we also found that there was not a single summer insect in it.
Is there any intrinsic connection between Shentang Bay and Sangpu Mountain Sanatorium?
At this time, Geely, who had been quietly listening to us, seemed to have suddenly gone crazy, and muttered a lot of unknown words to Andrew.
"What's wrong with him?" Seeing Geely's face flushed with excitement, I couldn't help but ask.
"Andrew concealed the fact that there may be glaciers at the bottom of the valley, which resulted in us not having much equipment to keep warm after making preparations in advance, so Geely was particularly angry." Pedro still said in a slow, half-dead manner.
.
"Zhou, please believe me. If I knew it a long time ago, why didn't I tell you in advance that we are a team. In these places, if someone in the team makes a mistake, it will not be of any benefit to me.
, why should I do such a thing that is harmful to others and not beneficial to myself?" Andrew explained with a look of grievance.
"What should we do now? Do we have to retreat halfway?" I asked.
"We have special emergency warm clothing in our backpacks, but we did not expect that there would be glaciers at the bottom of the valley, so everyone only prepared one set and no snow boots. It is still a bit dangerous to go on like this." Pedro explained.
road.
"However, if we turn back now, we don't know if those cats and foxes are still there, as well as those giant white rats, so it's not a good choice." Andrew said.
Just when we were hesitant, another beam of light suddenly came up from the bottom of the valley.