Those years of engaging with the system for animal insurance

This trip to Tibet is a cooperation between the Green Earth Association and the government of the autonomous region.

It aims to demonstrate the autonomous region's achievements in protecting the plateau environment over the years.

In order to save part of the funds, but also to go to Xihai Province on the way.

Li Cixin and his party did not choose to take the plane, but chose the train.It takes about two days to go to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by train.

For them, going to the snow-covered plateau is not only a novel experience, but also a challenge.

After all, many of them may have to face altitude sickness.

Because it is located in a border area of ​​ethnic minorities, the security check of the train is also relatively strict.

Everyone booked a hard sleeper, and the numbers were next to each other, so it was convenient to take care of property and shooting equipment.

The small and crowded space is full of people, many of whom are traveling.There are all kinds of smells and smells, but the taste is really not so pleasant.

The number Li Cixin was originally assigned was a lower berth, but when an old couple in the same compartment saw this, they said embarrassedly:

"Young man, can I trouble you to change the berth? When our old couple bought the tickets, the old man got the upper berth. He is old, and it is more dangerous to climb up and down. You can change the lower berth for me." He, we'll pay you the difference. Look, okay?"

The old lady who spoke had gray hair and was wearing a loose checked cheongsam.The corners of his mouth were raised, his eyes were narrowed into two crescent moons, and he looked at Li Cixin with a smile.

And the grandfather sitting next to her, wearing a black hat and a black Chinese tunic suit, also looked at Li Cixin with some expectation.

Li Cixin didn't think much about it, after all, it was just a matter of convenience when he was away from home.In addition, the lower berth is often trampled on, so he agreed:

"Ok."

"Then how much is your lower berth?" the old lady continued to ask.

Li Cixin reported a number, and the old man took some change from an old-fashioned cowhide wallet and handed it to him, and Li Cixin accepted it without hesitation.

He asked curiously:

"You two, are you traveling to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?"

The old lady nodded: "Yes, this year is our silver wedding anniversary, so the two of us made an appointment to visit the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau."

Hearing this, Li Cixin looked around and said:

"Then your children didn't come with you?"

"We don't have children?" The old man on the side answered.

Li Cixin thought he had said something wrong, so he quickly apologized:

"sorry, I do not know……"

Unexpectedly, the old couple sitting across from each other smiled at each other and said:

"No, no, we are DINK. I used to teach at a university, but now I'm retired, and I came out to appreciate the great rivers and mountains of the motherland."

Li Cixin: "Oh, so that's the case. I just thought that the two of you have different temperaments."

"Young man, you are also here to travel, right?"

"No, are you here for work?"

The old lady frowned: "Oh, what kind of work?"

"It's related to environmental protection." Li Cixin replied.

"Are you that Li Cixin?" The old man at the side seemed to recognize him and asked.

Li Cixin was also a little surprised: "You know me?"

Unexpectedly, the old man smiled: "Hahahaha, we are both retired teachers of C University, but we are not in the same school as you. I have heard of a student like you before. Although we are old, our memory is not bad .”

I didn't expect to be a teacher from my own school. On this train full of strangers, there is quite a dramatic plot of meeting an old friend in a foreign country.

Li Cixin smiled embarrassedly: "I don't have a good reputation."

"No, no, young people, it is inevitable that you will make mistakes. As the saying goes, if you know your mistakes, you can correct them, and there is nothing good about it. If you can resist the temptation of money, stop losses in time, and draw a line with evil forces, you have surpassed the vast majority. Most people!"

Li Cixin chatted happily with the couple. From poetry to astronomy and geography, the whole journey no longer seemed boring.

After more than a day, Li Cixin had arrived at the halfway destination. He waved goodbye to the two elderly people and followed the team to the Xihai Provincial Zoo.

As a plateau province, it is also the birthplace of the great rivers in China. There are plateaus, basins, wetlands, Gobi, and mountains.There are also many precious wild animals and plants.

The Green Earth Association's visit this time is aimed at the rare animals kept in the zoo.

After being received by the staff, they immediately went to watch the Snow Leopard Park, where wild snow leopards were placed under various conditions.

The snow leopard is a species of big cat and a member of the subfamily Leopardidae.For example, cheetahs belong to the cat subfamily, while snow leopards, lions, tigers, and leopards belong to the panther subfamily.

Feline subfamily and Leopard subfamily are not only distinguished by body size, but also by another point that is easier to distinguish, that is, sound.

The leopard subfamily, which is generally larger in size, basically emits a low-pitched roar, but snow leopards are rare among them.

Some people have analyzed that it may be that they live on the cliffs of the snow-capped mountains, and the loud sound is easy to expose their whereabouts and cause avalanches, so the roar of snow leopards is rarely heard by ordinary people.

In this zoo, some snow leopards ran to the herdsmen's house down the mountain because they were old or injured, and they were captured.

Those with the ability to survive in the wild will be released into the wild after their injuries recover.

Therefore, the snow leopards here are either old or weak, sick or disabled, or were rescued when they were very young.

Snow leopards are beautiful animals. In order to resist the hypoxic environment on the plateau, they have large nasal passages.In order to fight against the cold, their fur is thick and covered with silver-gray patterns, which is very beautiful.

However, their fur also brings them a lot of trouble. This kind of thick, warm and beautiful fur has always been the target of many rich people.

For plateau animals such as snow leopards and Tibetan antelopes, poaching has always been the biggest factor threatening their survival.

The main purpose of this video is to call on the public to advocate the environmental protection concept of "no sale, no killing". "

The team collected materials at the zoo for two days, and then they packed up their things, caught the train, and headed to higher ground.

Their destination is Lhasa, which is known as the Sunshine City.

This is one of the highest administrative centers in the world, and it is also a holy place in the minds of many literary youths and religious believers.

Except for Li Cixin, the other members all suffered from altitude sickness more or less.Li Cixin quietly chose to convert hemoglobin into hemocyanin to improve the ability to transport oxygen.

However, it also turned his complexion into a blue tone again, which made others think that his altitude sickness was too severe.

Above the plateau, the water vapor in the air is thin, and the ultraviolet rays are particularly strong.Everyone wears sunscreen when they go out.

The association has contacted relevant departments early and will drive to the habitat of Tibetan antelopes to photograph the migration of Tibetan antelopes.

Tibetan antelopes generally breed in summer, when they start heading north ahead of schedule to Hoh Xil in Xihai Province.

This time, the association is tracking and photographing the breeding and migration of Tibetan antelopes.

The convoy consisted of six off-road vehicles. With enough equipment and food, the group drove to the only way for the Tibetan antelope.

On the first night, Li Cixin and his convoy were attacked.

In the guide team, one person is in charge of sentry at night, while the others sleep in the car with their clothes on, so there are still many days before they can't lie down and sleep.

In the middle of the night, the man in charge of the night watch blew his whistle and fired several shots into the sky.Successfully awakened the sleeping people.

Relying on his modified night vision ability, Li Cixin spotted the beast running towards us through the dark car window.

Many people think that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a natural forbidden zone where life is rare, but not only is this not the case, but there are a lot of carnivores distributed on it.

For example, wolves, Tibetan horse bears, golden eagles, etc. The existence of these animals is very dangerous to humans.Especially the Tibetan horse bear, which is a kind of brown bear, has a huge body, thick hair, and great strength.

Soldiers guarding the frontier often encounter them.

As an omnivore, Tibetan horse bears basically do not refuse anyone who comes to this resource-poor snowy plateau, and they are fully capable of killing a single adult.

The Tibetan horse bear in front of him ran towards this side with malicious intentions, and stopped the car suddenly after hearing the gunshot.

However, as a cunning animal, the bear first raised its head, sniffed the air with its nose, and then walked towards this side in a zigzag route.

The girl in the same car as Li Cixin turned pale with fright.

Everyone held their breath, hoping that the beast would leave quickly.

Half of the time, even large carnivores should run away immediately when they see people, especially convoys.But this Tibetan horse bear was uncharacteristically, sniffing back and forth around the car, but never attacked.

When he smelled the car where Li Cixin was in, he suddenly started biting the door.

Li Cixin immediately thought of various reasons. The cassock suspension incident in the Neon Kingdom before, the man-eating brown bear, was because he liked to eat women's flesh.

Could it be the same with this Tibetan horse bear?After all, the only girl in the team is in this car.

The night watchman still used a whistle on the roof of the car to warn the Tibetan horse bear that he cannot shoot easily now, because it is very easy to accidentally injure the car next to him.

Seeing that the Tibetan horse bear became more and more irritable, its teeth were biting on the door of the car, making a rattling sound, and the car body shook as a result.If this continues, it is estimated that the car will be gnawed, and it will be troublesome at that time.

Li Cixin, who was sitting by the window, actually rolled down the window in front of everyone.This action scared the souls of the people in the car to fly into the sky.

"You're crazy!" the driver yelled, just as he was about to close the window with the master switch.

I could only hear Li Cixin's voice not too loud, saying to the Tibetan horse bear outside the window:

"roll!"

Miraculously, the Tibetan horse bear, like a mouse seeing a cat, quickly ran away into the distance with its buttocks between its legs, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Everyone was dumbfounded, what's going on?

Li Cixin suppressed the aura of natural enemies, closed the windows, looked at the stunned people in the car, and said calmly:

"Fortunately, it scared away seeing so many of us."

You are all battle-tested personnel, and they have all been in contact with situations that cannot be explained by nature, so let's take this time as a small probability event.

After confirming that the brown bear was far away, the guide got out of the car to check the condition of the car. Fortunately, the problem was not serious and did not affect the use.

In the afternoon of the second day, the convoy continued on a deserted provincial road.

In the car, everyone just finished lunch, some beef jerky, bread and milk.

Suddenly the first car said through the summoner:

"Attention, attention, everyone, we have found the target!"

Originally, he had just finished eating, and it was the same vicious afternoon.Everyone's drowsy heads were completely awakened by these words, no less than pouring a basin of cold water on them in hot summer.

The convoy found a place to stop, and through the glass, everyone saw a herd of Tibetan antelopes migrating on the grassland not far away.