Chapter 894 A little tail followed
the tourists who climbed up the mountain to see the volcanic lava. After admiring the most breathtaking scenery in the world, they camped at a camp dozens of meters away from the crater. Soon they were looking at the stars, listening to the sound of the wind and the volcano. The roar of lava spurting from the mouth enters my dream.
The temperature near the volcano is very high during the day and plummets in the early morning. The temperature at the foot of the mountain can drop to zero degrees. The temperature at the crater of the active volcano is high. Because of the strong wind, you can still feel the chill, and there is heat in the chill. It is a real combination of ice and fire. sky.
Waking up at one o'clock in the morning, Leyun found a dust mask and put it on, then put on the sleeves to get out of the room. There was only the sound of wind outside, and the sound of the mountain shaking slightly when the magma spewed. The temperature was very low, and the wind was blowing. , making people tremble.
After going through all the trouble to get to the crater, taking photos is a must. Regardless of the strong wind, I climbed to the edge of the crater circle and held up my camera to take pictures of the magma spewing. The island was full of insects when I got up early, but the lava spewed out in the middle of the night. , sometimes the sparks rise several meters away, and it feels like they are about to splash on your body. The magma ejected from the ground flows in the lava lake, with dancing fire and silver flowers, and red and silver light flowing. The picture is extremely spectacular.
After taking photos for more than ten minutes, I put away my camera, took out a small steel drill, and pried the frozen magma blocks very close to the crater. I collected enough black magma and hurriedly took advantage of it when no one was around. Digging for plants near the volcano, digging wildly until five o'clock and then hiding them.
Tourists who camped at the crater got up at four o'clock and ran to the crater to take pictures, hoping to capture the shocking scene of lava spewing. However, they did not wait until sunrise before the tour guide and guards took the tourists down the mountain.
There are also places where magma will erupt in the volcano. The temperature of the entire volcano rises with the rise of the sun, and it becomes unbearable around ten o'clock. Therefore, tourists must leave the volcano before ten thirty.
Le Yun huddled in the space to sort out the dug volcanic plants. When the tourists came down from the mountain, she slipped out to dig out the plants. She was wearing black clothes and looked like a piece of solidified magma from a distance, making it impossible for anyone to spot her.
The sky is getting brighter and brighter, the sun is rising higher and higher, and the temperature is rising higher and higher. Even if she can withstand high temperatures, she is covered in sweat from the scorching heat. If she persists until eleven o'clock, she feels that her whole body is about to dry out. She will go back first. Rest in the space for half an hour before continuing to dig up plants. At the hottest moment, dig out a few grasses that need to be picked, crawl back into the space and lie down like a dead dog.
Le Yun was busy in the space until about four o'clock in the afternoon. When the temperature dropped, she went to dig plants near the crater again. Yesterday's tourists had already gone to the sulfur crater in the depression, and the new group of tourists had not yet arrived. It was the last time to dig plants. Best time.
However, after only digging for a while, I saw a helicopter flying in the distance. I immediately ran to the opposite direction to the camp set up by the travel agency and lurked to observe. The helicopter flew over the desert plain and stopped at the camp at the foot of the volcano for about half an hour. Afterwards, the helicopter took off and flew towards the crater.
Seeing the helicopter flying towards the crater, Leyun immediately went back to the space to hide, quietly listening to the movement outside, and clearly heard the huge wind sound of the helicopter's propeller turning.
The helicopter flew around the volcano twice and then flew back to the foot of the mountain. There were five armed guards sent by the Ethiopian government, two foreign men, a tour guide from the parade club and a helicopter pilot.
The group got off the helicopter and rested at the camp. Two foreign men carried cameras to take pictures and often observed the volcano with telescopes.
In the evening, the group had dinner. After 6:30, the tour guide and guards accompanied the two guests to climb the volcano. The camel helper at the camp carried sleeping bags, water and other necessities.
The tour guides and soldiers accompany the tourists to the crater, rest for a while at the camp, then accompany the tourists to the crater to take photos, and then rest.
At around two o'clock in the morning, when the tour guide and the soldiers were asleep, the two tourists got out of their sleeping bags. One stayed at the camp to observe, and the other left with a camera and flashlight. He did not take pictures, but walked around. Observe near the crater.
He walked around the crater, studied several suspicious places for a long time, circled the volcano, and then returned to the camp.
When the people who stayed behind saw the people who had gone out coming back, they walked out of the camp and went to the viewing area of the crater and asked quietly: "Did you find anything?"
"No." The person who went out to conduct reconnaissance replied softly: "There are only normal traces left by tourists. There is nothing suspicious. Her purpose may not be here. The higher-ups may have guessed wrong." "I speculate that it is in the animal and plant protection area
. It's more likely to be on the other side."
"My guess is also on that side. It's too desolate here to come without a team. Her oriental face is too obvious, and it's easy to be recognized if she sneaks into the team. Have those people said it? You can’t go wrong if you’ve seen similar people.”
“Even if you haven’t been here before, you still have to go to Dallol Volcano and Salt Fields tomorrow to look for it.”
The two of them chattered for a while, then quietly returned to the camp and lay down. After sleeping, I returned to the cage.
They fell asleep, and Le Yun, who stayed in the space, wanted to curse her, but damn, someone was trying to do something evil to her again!
Originally, when I saw the helicopter, I just paid more attention, so except for meditating and practicing, I did not give up scouting outside at any other time. I detected someone moving in the middle of the night, so I paid 120% of my attention to detect. When I detected the person walking away, I quietly He crawled out of the space to study what the man was doing in the middle of the night, and found someone wandering around the place where he had dug plants with a flashlight. He thought that person was just like him, coming just to dig up plants.
She said nothing, lurking behind the pile of magma that solidified into a rock, watching silently. When the man walked away, she stalked again until he was not far from the camp. For the sake of safety, she crawled back to the space to eavesdrop. He was close enough to hear the two whispering.
Even if the two little mice didn't specify their names, she knew in a second that they were definitely looking for her, and they weren't the friendly kind. If Mr. Ferrari really sent people to protect her, then they wouldn't use helicopters to search for them in Ethiopia. Mr. Ferrari has a wide network of contacts. It is impossible not to know that Ethiopia is an African country that China provides key assistance to. Generally speaking, the Ethiopian people are very friendly to the Chinese people. Her security in Ethiopia is far higher than that of Yemen. times, so there is no need to send bodyguards to look for her traces.
Some people are looking for themselves because they want to stay in Africa forever.
Le Yun curled her lips in disdain, trying to make a little trick, ah, if she hadn't disguised herself to sneak into the traveling party to dig up medicinal materials, they wouldn't have known her even if she met face to face with the little scumbags.
I originally wanted to catch the little slags and throw them into the crater of the volcano, letting them melt until there was no slag left. But after thinking about it, catching the little scums is very simple. Just go to the limelight and sprinkle some medicine to solve the problem. It would be very troublesome if the scumbags were killed. After all, they came with travel agencies and soldiers. If tourists disappeared inexplicably, Ethiopia might suspect terrorists and impose martial law on the Bunakir Valley. She temporarily I couldn't walk for half a while, which was like trapping myself.
She couldn't kill the scumbags, and she was in a bad mood. Fortunately, she remembered the smell of that scumbag, and she could find them next time as long as they appeared within her smell range, unless they would never appear in her future. At present, otherwise there will be a time when "a gentleman takes revenge, it is not too late in ten years".
For safety reasons, it was not convenient to dig plants in the middle of the night, so Le Yun fell asleep and woke up on time to listen to the sounds outside again.
The tour guides and soldiers sleeping in the crater camp still woke up the tourists at the agreed time to watch the magma movement in the crater in the morning and watch the sunrise. They did not go down the mountain until 6:30, and went to the camp at the foot of the mountain to have breakfast and see the salt ponds and salt ponds in the desert. Dallol volcano.
Before they left, the helicopter circled the crater from a high altitude before leaving. However, the volcanic area was not quiet. Towards evening, another group of tourists arrived, with a total of five vehicles.
Knowing that the little scumbags were looking for her, Le Yun did not go out after the little scumbags came down the mountain. If the scumbags had telescopes and discovered her whereabouts, it would greatly affect her plan. Who told her to go there again? A trip to the Dallol geothermal volcano.
She stayed in the space, digging for plants when Zhazha really left. At dusk, she found a new travel group and sighed silently. Why was it so difficult for her to dig for medicine?
She arrived at the Erta Ale active volcano crater on the 6th and stayed there all night. On the evening of the 7th, Xiao Zhaizhi came, causing her to waste a night and half a day, and it was already the 8th.
Tourists came one after another, and Le Yun had no choice but to take advantage of the time before dark to dig up plants, and help some plants spread their seeds in places with volcanic ash and soil, so that they could multiply.
When the tourists climbed the mountain, she avoided it. When everyone fell asleep in the early morning, she started digging wildly for plants again. She waited until the tourists got up to see the scenery before avoiding them. When the tourists came down the mountain, she also went down the other side of the volcano, and then went around. From a distance, follow the secluded road opened by the travel agency and rush to the must-see Dallol volcano.
The Dalol volcano is only 25 kilometers away from the Erta Ale active volcano, but that is a straight-line distance. In fact, you have to camp in a camp for one night on the way, and then go to the depression, so that you can make it in time.
On the way, Le Yun did not take a bath in the salt lake on the road, which is like the Dead Sea, which can make people float. She only collected a lot of water. She used mineral water bottles she picked up on the way to the volcano, washed them herself, and filled them with water. Salt water and collect some soil.
In order to get ahead of the tour group and buy myself a little more time, I took a shortcut around the camping place and rode a motorcycle on the road to Danakil Depression. I didn’t rest until dark, walking along the tour group. Take the outgoing road.
In the middle of the night, we crossed the salt field where the Afar people mined salt.
The Afar people are a conservative nation and do not like to interact with outsiders. They are not very friendly to outsiders. There are no guards to lead the way, not to mention it is still night. Leyun did not go to the salt field, and put away her motorcycle near the salt field. Running across the salt flats by myself.
Even if the Afar people are friendly to outsiders and welcome people to the salt fields at any time to watch them digging salt, she will not go. She is in a hurry. Yesterday's group of tourists will rest in the camp that night and have to wait until tomorrow morning to set off. If she rushes early Arriving at Lor Volcano will buy you a lot of time for research.
The ground around the salt lake is cracked due to lack of water, like countless figures stitched together. Even in the daytime, the gray-white land can't be seen at a glance. As you get closer to the sulfur volcano, the gray-white salt field-like circle shapes appear. It deepens and slowly turns brown. The earth's crust, like field ridges, forms large and small circles. The ground is criss-crossed with ravines. As far as the eye can see, there is no grass and no grass. It is a truly barren land.
Then came the salt-producing area. Leyun ran across the endless salt lake, away from the worksite of the salt miners, and reached a place where there was no salt layer. She took out her motorcycle and ran away again.
In order to end her trip to Ethiopia as soon as possible, she also went all out, driving under the stars and the moon, following the traces left by the tour group's wheels, constantly approaching the volcano, the smell of sulfur and the sourness of lava, the stronger the sour smell, and soon she entered a world of Sulfur lava basin.
From a long time ago to the present, continuous volcanic activity has formed the volcanic landforms of the Dalo volcano area in the Danakil Depression. Volcanic hot spots, ground fissures, geothermal springs and steam springs, and lava gushing out of the ground contain a variety of minerals and salts. Movement occurs and salt crystals are formed, which are colorful and gorgeous. However, although they are beautiful, they are also poisonous. Whether it is sulfur and salt crystals or acid lakes, they are all highly corrosive.
The travel agency has a resting camp not far from the volcano. Le Yun parked his car very far away and walked on his own. The volcanic lava basin is full of sulfur piles like coral bushes, calcium sulfate towers, sulfuric acid pools and salt flower terraces, with colors and shapes. Beautiful and moving.
Not moved.
Looking at the various shapes of sulfur piles that looked like works of art, Leyun was not moved. She got closer and found that no one was stationed at the travel agency's camp. She was immediately delighted, put on a headlamp, and headed towards the volcano. center.
It is said to be a volcano, but in fact it does not have the shape of a mountain. It is just a few relatively tall lava piles, surrounded by large and small sulfuric acid pools, sulfur piles, and Yanhua Terrace. The brilliant colors make it as beautiful as an alien planet. The thick The smell of sulfur, fire, and rotten eggs are mixed together, which is very pungent, and the heat hits your face, making people feel like they are in a sauna.
The closer to the central area, the stronger the corrosion. In order to prevent the shoes from being scrapped, Le Yun took out anti-corrosion high-top rubber shoes and put them on, jumping and walking among the piles of sulfur rings like field ridges. Because the smell and heat were too strong, she reached the reality. Where you can't go any further, take out a container to hold the strong acid liquid, knock out the lumps on the sulfur pile, get a few pieces of each color and store them in a spare container.
When I walked out, I moved a few beautiful salt towers, salt bamboo shoots, and a few towers that had faded like dirt mounds for research. I collected enough raw materials to make poisonous items. I patted my butt and quickly Get away.
Leaving the volcanic area full of sulfur pools and wandering around the salt mountain for half a day, she still couldn't find any lizards or other insects or plants. Le Yun once again expressed her deep regret and picked up some salt mountain blocks while there was still a day before dawn. After many hours, we rode the night road back to Mekele city.
(End of chapter)