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Chapter 509 Natural Salt Lake, Desalinated Salt Water

Not snow?

Netizens were taken aback, what was that white area in the distance if it wasn't snow?
Chen Ya did not answer, but smiled and said:

"Let's go and have a look, and we'll know."

After finishing speaking, Chen Ya continued to move forward, already guessing something in his heart. After all, the altitude here is high, not only the sunshine time is long, but also no snow was found along the way.

This shows that those white things are definitely other substances.

After half an hour...

When Chen Ya arrived at the target location, he saw that the ground was covered with white granular crystals, which looked like thick snow.

Under the footage of the drone, Chen Ya bent down and grabbed a handful of white particles, then stuck out his tongue and licked it, tasting the salty taste instantly.

"Salt?"

Chen Ya's eyes lit up, looking at this boundless white area, he couldn't help but excitedly said:

"Great discovery, this is a natural salt lake!"

Natural salt lake?

As soon as this remark came out, the netizens also became excited, and various bullet screens appeared quickly.

"Gentleman teaser: (Shocked) These are all salt? Damn, get rich!"

"Xue Huanhu: Hehe, I'm afraid Brother Ya will not be able to eat so much salt in this life."

"It's raining quickly: the lake salt is inedible, it's slightly poisonous!"

"Funny teaser: No way? I used to be in the Salt Lake Scenic Area, and I saw tourists collecting 'pure natural' salt grains and taking them home for consumption."

"Heishan Zhiqiu: Damn it! This salt contains a lot of impurities, so it's not edible salt."

"Baby in the countryside: It's strange, since it's a natural salt lake, why didn't you see the lake water?"

……

Chen Ya noticed the barrage, nodded and said:
"That's right, the salt in the salt lake, commonly known as 'lake salt' is somewhat similar to sea salt, but this kind of coarse salt is not salt that can be eaten..."

There are a lot of blah blah. To put it simply, lake salt is unprocessed coarse salt, which more or less contains certain impurities, some of which may be harmful to the body.

Therefore, it is not recommended to eat lake salt, and the salt we eat in our daily life is actually refined salt that meets the national table salt standard.

There is a difference between the two. Refined salt is processed fine salt, which not only removes impurities, but also facilitates the absorption of the human body.

At this moment, Chen Ya spoke a few words briefly, then looked at the salt lake and said:
"Let's keep going, we should be able to find the lake."

With that said, Chen Ya strode into the salt lake area, stepping on thick white particles, like sand, although he hasn't seen the lake water yet, but he believes he will see it soon.

At the same time, after entering the dry salt lake, Chen Ya turned his head to look back, and he saw the seven alpine wolves still following him like a dog's skin plaster.

"It's really haunted."

Chen Ya let out a cold snort, and continued walking towards the depths of the salt lake. It didn't take long for the snow-white ground to gradually become damp, and even water seeped out of the footprints he walked on.

"Sure enough, there is lake water."

Chen Ya was very excited, and immediately quickened his pace. Fortunately, he was wearing a pair of riding boots, so he didn't have to worry about his boots getting wet. As he moved forward, the salt lake became more and more watery.

In just a few minutes, a clear, translucent lake appeared on the ground, about ten centimeters deep, just submerged up to the heels, which made the netizens in the live broadcast room collectively excited.

Found water!

"Although these are salt water and cannot be directly drunk, I can find a way to desalinate the salt water."

At this moment, Chen Ya also smiled, and did not rush to desalinate the salt water, but looked at the vast natural salt lake.

call! ~
The breeze blew, and the clear lake surface was rippling with ripples. Since the bottom of the lake was white salt crystals, Chen Ya stood on it, like a mirror standing on the sky, where the water and the sky lined up.

The entire sky was printed upside down in the lake water, and it was impossible to tell the real from the fake.

"This...maybe it's heaven."

Chen Ya felt a little emotional, then took out the frying pan, bent down to fill a pot of lake water, then turned around and walked back to the dry area again.

There are many ways to desalinate salt water, but Chen Ya used the 'distillation method'. First, he took out all the equipment, including Li Congming's relics.

However, Chen Ya picked up the horns he collected yesterday and said:
"This horn is hollow. I need to cut a hole at the tip so that it can be used as a drainage tube."

After finishing speaking, use a wild knife to cut off the sharp corners. Anyway, you need to cut them to make horns in the future, so it can be used here.

Under the footage of the drone, Chen Ya quickly started working, using plastic wrap to wrap the surface of the pot, and then connecting the bottom of the horns. After simple winding, the two pieces of equipment formed a simple still.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ya took some time to build a stepped stove using thick lake salt on the ground, and the interior is hollow to facilitate the placement of the fire.

After the production was completed, Chen Ya put the still up, the pan was at the highest point, the horns were angled downwards, and the sharpest notch was facing the steel cup.

"It should be noted that the cow's horn used as a diversion tube should preferably be lower than the pan, so that the water vapor can flow into the cup more easily after being liquefied."

After Chen Ya finished speaking, he took out a piece of cow dung cake, stuffed it into the lake salt stove, and then lit it with a magnesium rod. When the flame appeared, there was a trace of green smoke immediately.

The orange flame began to heat the salt water in the pan. Due to the low boiling point on the plateau, it only took about ten minutes for the salt water in the pan to boil gradually, and a lot of heat appeared.

However, the plastic wrap was covering the surface of the pot, and the water vapor could not evaporate, so it could only enter the diversion tube along the passage, while Chen Ya's eyes were fixed on the horns.

About 1 minute...

When a drop of crystal water flowed out from the gap at the tip of the bull's horn, Chen Ya immediately reached out to touch the water drop, and then licked it with his tongue, immediately shocked.

"It's fresh water! I succeeded!"

Chen Ya was overjoyed, and quickly put the steel cup on, and as the flame continued to heat the pan, more water droplets gradually appeared in the horn diversion tube.

Tick...tick...tick...

The sound of fresh water dripping into the cup was simply wonderful to Chen Ya's ears!Such a picture also made netizens very excited.

It seems that Brother Ya has finally passed the fresh water crisis.

an hour later...

At 15:12 p.m., Chen Ya boiled several pots of salt water in succession, and finally desalinated a pot of water through a self-made still.

woohoo! ~
Chen Ya shook the military kettle, finally feeling at ease in his heart, and then directly dismantled the still and extinguished the fire.

Such a scene made netizens feel surprised, shouldn't the salt water continue to be desalinated?After all, in this case, more fresh water should be stored.

"Don't worry, everyone. In addition to distillation, there is also freezing, which can also obtain fresh water resources."

While packing up his things, Chen Ya continued:
"At night, the cold temperature on the plateau will freeze this salt lake..."

Simply put, although salt water is not drinkable, if it is exposed to low temperature for a long time, the fresh water molecules in salt water will condense into ice.

And Chen Ya only needs to take out the ice cubes and melt them. Obviously, as long as he gets through tonight, there will be endless fresh water tomorrow.

After listening to this speech, the netizens suddenly realized, and Chen Ya packed up his things, and said with a smile:

"Okay, let's move on and see how big this salt lake is."

After finishing speaking, Chen Ya entered the humid salt lake area again, and soon waded through the shallow lake water, and began to walk in this paradise on earth.

blah blah... blah blah...

Every time Chen Ya took a step, the lake surface would startled with ripples, but the seven wolves following behind stopped in front of the clear lake water.

Woohoo! ~
However, the seven alpine wolves all raised their heads and let out a long howl. When Chen Ya heard the sound, he couldn't help turning his head to take a look, and couldn't help laughing immediately:
"They seem afraid of water?"

pity……

Chen Ya was totally wrong. In fact, the seven mountain wolves were not afraid of water, but the things in this salt lake.

In other words, in this lake with a depth of only ten centimeters, there is likely to be some kind of mysterious creature inhabited, which even makes the alpine wolf feel scared.

……

[PS: Next, it will be scary! 】

(End of this chapter)