In myths and legends, there is often a "Devil's Hollow" or something like that, and most of the humans who have wandered into the Hollow have never returned.
There is no such thing as a ghost in the human world.
In fact, "Devil's Hollow" is a term that has existed since ancient times, and the Nalangrad Canyon in Xinjiang, China, has been called "Devil's Hollow" by the locals.
Na Linggele Canyon is located in the Kunlun Mountain area of the Tibetan Plateau, from the east of Qinghai Buluntai, west to Shashan, 105 kilometers in length, about 33 dry meters wide, altitude of 3200 ~ 4000 meters. The specific location of the Devil's Valley, is in the eastern end of the Altunshan Nature Reserve, Qimantag Mountain and the Kunlun Mountains between the broader valley area.
Narangrad Canyon was formed 15 million years ago, due to the late Tertiary crustal changes and the emergence of closed mountain basins, canyons south of the Kunlun Mountains into the sky, north of the Qilian Snow Mountains blocking the cold winds of the north, the entire valley in the Narangrad River in the upper and middle reaches of the zone.
The canyon is also distributed around the mid-alpine belt composed of purple-red sandstone barrier, snow-capped mountains majestic, lakes, rivers and marshes microwave ripples. In summer, the valley is rich in water and grass, birds and flowers, the scenery is very beautiful and spectacular.
However, the local has been circulating such a legend:
people or animals as long as into the "Devil's Valley" will never come out of the valley, there is a kind of beast, specializing in eating people or a variety of animals.
If only the legend, "Devil's Valley" is not so famous. In fact, the valley does have a lot of difficult to solve the mystery:
According to the herdsmen who have lived here for a long time, every summer and fall, just O or wind and sunny days, blink of an eye between the wind will be wild, flying sand. Immediately after, "Devil's Valley" over the black clouds, rolling thunder, deafening. The rain poured down like a flash flood.
After the rainstorm, a strange phenomenon occurred, the hillside and the ravine is full of antelopes, wild asses, wild yaks and birds of prey carcasses, and the carcasses are accompanied by some yellow withered grass and scorched earth. Therefore, although the "Devil's Valley" fertile land, water and grass, but the local herdsmen never dare to this grazing.
How can the devil be linked to such a beautiful mountain?
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In May 1998, the Xinjiang Geology and Mining Bureau of Regional Geological Survey of the third team of the Na Linggel Canyon organized a multidisciplinary investigation, and finally unveiled the "Devil's Valley" of the mystery veil.
The investigation team from the western edge of Qinghai's ChaiDaMu Basin BurenTai westward, arrived at the origin of more than 6000 meters high in the Kunlun Mountains on the Nalenggele River Valley, the legendary "Devil's Valley" is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Nalenggele River area.
The investigation by the researchers confirmed that the "Devil's Valley" strata in addition to a large area of Triassic volcanic eruption of the formation of strong magnetic basalt, there are large and small more than 30 magnetite veins and quartzite bodies, these strong magnetic rock and magnetite produced geomagnetic anomaly zone.
Geomagnetic anomalies caused by the "Devil's Valley" of the magnetic field strength is very high, the peak is actually as high as 1,000 ~ 3,000 gauss, a huge magnetic force can lead to compass malfunction, inaccuracy of measuring instruments.
In summer, the Kunlun Mountain ridge blocked by the main, east-west distribution of clouds along the valley, under the influence of humid air, are gathered in the Narangal Canyon here.
And the charge generated in the clouds, usually the bottom layer of negative charge, the top layer of positive charge, but also in the ground inductively generated positive charge, so that it follows the clouds as a shadow to move.
Under the influence of Devil's Hollow's super-strong magnetic field, rare lightning strike zones are formed in this area.
Because the movement of the clouds in the strong magnetic field creates a voltage, positive charges on the ground collect on top of hills, trees, and even the bodies of animals and humans. When the voltage between the gathered positive charge and the negatively charged cloud is large enough, it can break through the insulating air, creating a "lightning strike" that kills people and animals instantly.
The team also discovered the cause of another strange phenomenon in Devil's Hollow, which is why they couldn't find the bones of dead people and animals.
It turns out that the Narongrad Canyon is also one of the distribution areas of China's perennial permafrost layer. The thickness of the permafrost layer is often as high as tens of hundreds of meters, thus forming a huge underground solid ice reservoir.
When summer comes, near the surface of the upper layer of permafrost melting, the formation of underground diving, and even dark river. But the surface is still covered by a bright green grass, not easy to be found at all. When people and animals mistakenly enter, once the grassy ground collapses, the underground dark river will soon pull people and animals into it, causing them to drift far away with the rapids, which leads to corpses and bones.
Previously people simply can not explain these magical natural phenomena, are thought to be the "devil" in the strange, had to avoid far away, simply dare to easily wade into this place again.
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But there is a man who does not believe in this evil, his name is Zhao Ziyun, Caoxian people in Shandong Province, geologists, served as a senior engineer in Xinjiang Geology and Mining Bureau.
Zhao Ziyun knew Xinjiang's geography, landforms, and climate like the back of his hand, and had a lot of experience surviving in the wild. He not only discovered many mineral deposits and the ruins of the ancient Western Region, but also always managed to turn dangers into opportunities by virtue of his rich experience when the research team was in trouble; therefore, he was known as "King of the Desert", "Lop Nor Map", "Compass of Life", "Compass of the World", "Compass of the World", "Compass of Life", "Compass of the World", and so on. Compass of life", "three men of desperation", "crazy professor" and other super titles.
In the early winter of November 2003, Zhao Ziyun, nearly seventy years old, hiked through about 90 kilometers of the "Devil's Valley", and through scientific research for the first time to get the "Devil's Valley" geomorphology and history of the legend of the first-hand proof! The first time the "Devil's Valley" geography and historical legends through scientific research to get first-hand proof of information.
For Zhao Ziyun, who traveled to the "Devil's Valley", it was an unforgettable day. Although the temperature was minus 20 degrees Celsius, the towering snowy peaks on the Altun Mountain were radiant, like a beautiful piece of jade.
Before entering the valley, Zhao Ziyun said to the two temporarily hired camel workers:
"This time into the 'Devil's Valley', I am not planning to go back alive, you can be sure to think about it ah, it's not too late to turn back."
The camel worker Liu Jiangdong and his son Liu Xinwen are born and raised in Arjinshan, and may be accustomed to walking on the line of life and death for many years, full of concern, said:
"Zhao Gong, you're so old are not afraid of, we're afraid of what?"
So, they were a group of three people, each riding a camel, from Subash to the "Devil's Valley".
Early winter in Altunshan, grass and trees withered, a killing, from an altitude of 6000 meters along the river and down to an altitude of 4000 meters, can not see the trees, only small bushes and yellow pasture grass. Occasionally, there is a group of Tibetan donkeys, sheep and goats, standing far away from the mountain mount.
The further into the valley, the harder the road becomes, and everywhere there are thorny bushes, red willows, and sharp-toothed rocks, making people and camels jump with every step, but this is exactly what Zhao Ziyun wants to see.
Because he has been working in the field for years, his greatest fear is not danger, but loneliness.
The first day into the "Devil's Valley", only seven or eight kilometers, has been 66 years old Zhao Ziyun fell more than 20 heels. When the night camp, Zhao Ziyun took off his clothes to bake, camel workers took a look, shouted:
"Zhao Gong, you are injured and bleeding."
"This is just the beginning." Zhao Ziyun smiled at the camel worker and said, "The worst is yet to come!"
On the third day, while crossing the river, the camel suffered a sudden fall, and Zhao Ziyoon was thrown so hard into the rushing river that he barely escaped drowning in the cold water!
At this point, because the road is no longer suitable for camel walking, the three left the camel in an open area with water and grass, and began a more difficult trekking.
On the second day of the trek, Zhao Ziyun suddenly realized that there were many large footprints radiating on the ground, and a huge puddle of frozen feces.
With years of experience in the western wilds, Zhao Ziyun decided that it was the bears that had left the tracks.
Although bears are extremely dangerous beasts, but Zhao Ziyun into the "Devil's Valley" is not just the purpose of exploration, but for scientific research.
They followed the footprints and droppings, climbed up a loess cliff, in a piece of yellow reeds underneath, really found the bear hibernation cave.
It seems that the legend of the Devil's Hollow with its man-eating beasts did not come out of nowhere.
The next morning, they just ate breakfast, and suddenly found a nearby mountainside, a snow leopard covered with spots, is chasing a disk sheep.
Three people watched in fear, the atmosphere did not dare to take a breath, because the tiger and leopard class beasts have the habit of protecting food.
As they went deeper into the valley, Zhao Ziyun witnessed several red-backed, snow-bellied Tibetan foxes chasing after a snow-white animal, and when the animal was bitten to death, Zhao Ziyun drove the foxes away and realized that the animal carcasses under the ground were actually "sweeping snow".
"Sweeping snow" is also known as the stone sable, slender body like a skunk, generally in the 45 ~ 50 centimeters, tail length of about 30 centimeters. Ear short and wide round, limbs are slightly longer than the skunk, thick white fur.
The stone marten and the Tibetan fox are national second-class protected animals, but also carnivores. The stone marten is probably sick or injured, and was killed by the Tibetan fox.
The eighth day after entering the "Devil's Valley", they followed a yellow sheep trampled into the path, using a rope to climb up a 100-meter-high cliff with a waterfall, Zhao Ziyun proudly said:
"If there is no rope, we may have died a few times! a few times over!"
When Zhao Ziyun finally climbed to the top of the cliff, he saw a majestic stone city in front of him.
The wall around the stone city is built with big stones, although it is already broken, but you can imagine the spectacular scene at that time. Zhao Ziyun after measuring, measured the city length of 300 meters, the remaining wall is 3 meters high, 2 meters thick, there is a city gate. The city has masonry houses (caves), scattered on the ground heaps of stone chips, pottery (red and black with sand pottery), and smelting iron, copper residual slag.
"This is a military camp." Zhao Ziyun said with certainty.
Standing on this stone city at an altitude of 2,000 meters, looking out, you can only see Ruoqiang County at the bottom of your eyes, and all around, except for the yellow sheep trail, are all hundred feet deep abyss.
"This is the real Yifu Dangkuan, Wanfu Mu Kai ah!"
Zhao Ziyun could not help but beat his heart to marvel at the architecture of ancient military facilities.
After returning to Urumqi, after reviewing the information and consulting relevant experts, they learned that this stone city has historical records, is more than a thousand years ago, the 36 countries of the Western region of the "stone town".
After 17 days of difficult trekking, Zhao Ziyun three finally out of the "Devil's Valley". This time, Zhao Ziyun also unveiled the legend that once you enter the "Devil's Valley", you can't get out:
This is a region infested with fierce beasts.
In addition, Zhao Ziyun also has a bigger discovery, that is, the "Devil's Valley" is rich in treasures, not only full of red granite, but also gemstones, jade, mica, copper, zinc and lead and other mineral deposits.
The nearly seventy-year-old with personal action to tell us, only the first to forget about life and death, in order to curtain the sky, uncovering the mystery of the myths and legends of heaven and earth.
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