Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Starting Again

The next morning, the convoy set off again. Leaving this small village called Lanco, and going deeper into the Gobi, there is no man's land on the map, that is to say, there are no basic roads that have been run over by cars. The land and road conditions that no one has visited for ten or even hundreds of years, or even worse, the so-called off-road vehicles are also trembling when driving on such roads, because you don’t know whether there will be stones under the sand and dust of the Gobi Or pits.And the one who decided to be Zhuoma had to rely on wind-eroded rocks and river valleys to find the sign ahead, which made the team have to approach the steep slopes near those rocks.

The scorching sun, coupled with the extreme bumps, those who were very excited at the beginning were almost immediately overwhelmed. One by one, they were sunburned by the sun. In the so-called exploration and geological exploration activities, activities in the Gobi desert are completely different from jungle or ocean exploration. There are a lot of available resources in both the ocean and the jungle. That is to say, as long as you have the skills to survive You can survive for a long time in these two places.But the Gobi Desert is the complete opposite. Here, there are only sand. Even if you have three heads and six arms, you can't find anything in the desert that can continue life by yourself. This is why almost all the Gobi Desert is called "death". place" reason.It was the first time for Aning and the others to enter this kind of place, and they were inexperienced. At this time, such setbacks were predictable.

I was also dizzy from the sun, and looking at the yellow dust billowing outside, I was already thinking of quitting, but the message from Dingzhu Zhuoma to me and Poker Ping yesterday made me force myself to make up my mind.Thinking of what happened last night, I felt an unspeakable pressure again. It is among you. Who is it? In Wen Jin's notes, he mentioned many times that he has been evading the search for "it" for the past twenty years. What exactly is this "it"?And what bothers me is, why use "it" instead of "he/she"?Is this "it" among us, not a person?Really uncomfortable speculation.

Just entering the no-man's land route, we walked along a dry river.The Qaidam Basin was originally a place where rivers gathered. Most of the rivers originate from the snow peaks of Tanggula and Kunlun. However, due to climate change in the past ten years, many large rivers have turned underground, let alone small rivers. We are at the bottom of the riverbed. After driving through, we found wormwood that is half a person's height everywhere. It is estimated that there will be no water passing through here for two or three years. In a few years, this river will also disappear. After reaching the end of the river in three days, the Gobi will turn into a desert, but the desert in the Qaidam Basin is not big, they are like spots one by one, dotted in the center of the basin, ordinary herdsmen will not enter the desert, because Devils live, and there is no pasture for cattle and sheep.Dingzhu Zhuoma said to go around the desert, which is the Yanshan Pass where she and Wenjin's team separated. There is a large strange stone there, like a huge city gate, so it is easy to find.Further inside is the place where the desert, the lake, and the salt marsh meet. These things devour each other, and the landscape changes every day. Even the most experienced guides dare not go in.

But Ah Ning and the others were carrying GPS, so they were not worried about this, although Tashi kept reminding them that the machine would break down.Especially in the Gobi where the temperature difference between day and night is more than 50 degrees. After driving along the river for two days, a strong wind blew up. If it was in the desert, this wind would definitely be a murderous trade wind. Fortunately, on the Gobi, it could only raise a large cloud of yellow sand. The distance had to be increased by more than 100 meters, the visibility was almost zero, and the speed of the car reached the minimum standard. After driving against the wind for half a day, the car and the driver reached the limit at the same time, and they could neither see nor hear anything. However, the radio could not be contacted, and it was no longer possible to drive on.

The Caucasian didn't give up, but in the end, we had no way of knowing whether the car was moving or where it was going, so he had to stop, turn to the side and face the wind to prevent sand and dust from entering the engine, and wait for the strong wind to pass. The car was almost shaken by the wind, the windows were rattling with sand, and we didn't know what was going on with the other cars. It was a scary feeling.I looked out the window, and it was a surging black, and you could tell it was thick dust outside, not dark, but there was no way. After waiting in the car for more than ten minutes, the wind suddenly picked up again, and I felt the whole car vibrate, as if it was about to fly.

The Caucasian looked terrified, looked at me and said, "Has this ever happened to you before?" I wondered how it was possible. Seeing his panicked appearance, I comforted him and said, don’t worry, the weight of the Land Rover can definitely protect us. But just after I finished speaking, there was a loud bang, as if something had hit the Land Rover. The whole car shook and the siren went off. I thought that a car behind couldn't see the road and hit us, so I quickly put my eyes on the window, and the Caucasian man also came to watch. The black outside is more intense than before, but because the dust is solid, it will leave a silhouette when it scrapes over things. If there is a car, you may also be able to see the headlights of the car.

Then I couldn’t see any car lights outside. I was wondering, but the Caucasian man suddenly screamed, grabbed me and looked back, I turned my head, and saw the dust outside the car window on the other side of us. At some point, a strange shadow appeared. The black shadow outside the car window was blurry, but the car window was obviously pasted very close, and it seemed to be a figure, but under such a strong wind, how could someone walk outside? Isn't this suicide? Before we had time to be surprised, the shadow moved. He seemed to be groping for the window, trying to find a way to open it, but the sealing of the Land Rover was excellent. He couldn't find the gap after touching for a long time. Then, we saw a picture His face was pressed against the window.The lights in the car illuminated his goggles.

I immediately realized that it was the kind of goggles that Aning and the others were equipped with. I immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and thought to myself, who is this bastard? Why would he get out of the car in such a strong wind?Could it be his car that hit us just now? The people outside the window also saw us in the car, and started knocking on the window, pointing at the door, as if they were in a hurry to ask us to get out. I looked at the weather outside and thought that I would not do it! Before I finished thinking, suddenly there was a shadow of a person wearing goggles on the other side of the car window. That person was turning on the lights and was also knocking on the car window, knocking on both sides very quickly.

I felt something was wrong, as if something had happened, maybe they wanted us to go down to help, so they also took out the cloak and goggles and brought them up. The Caucasian took out two miner's lamps, turned them on and handed them to me. The two of us took a deep breath, opened the car door forcefully, and a cloud of sand and dust rushed in in an instant.Although I was ready, I was blown back into the car headfirst. I pressed my foot against the car door to prevent it from closing. The second time I exhausted all my breastfeeding strength and got out with my head down. He held it and dragged it out.On the other side, the Caucasian who got out of the car was blown to the ground, and his yelling and cursing were blown more than ten meters away.Surrounded by the sound of the wind blowing the eardrums and the dust rubbing in the wind, this sound is not very loud, but it drowns out all other sounds, including our breathing.

As soon as my feet landed on the Gobi outside, I felt something was wrong. How did the ground rise?I bowed my body hard to avoid being blown down by the wind. I shone a miner's lamp on my car. I was dumbfounded when I saw it. Fuck, half of the wheels of the car were gone. Part of it has not reached the sand under the river bed, and the car is still sinking slowly. It seems to be a quicksand bed here.No wonder the car couldn't move no matter what. Without the car, we're screwed.I panicked and hurried up to lift the car, but found that as soon as I stepped on the edge of the car, there was a force pulling my feet down, like a vortex in the water, and I quickly jumped back.At this time, the person who knocked on our window just now stopped me and gestured to me with difficulty, saying that the car has no way to go, let's get out of here, otherwise we will sink. He's fully wrapped, his mouth is wrapped in a cloak, and I know he's talking at the same time, but I can't hear anything, and I don't know who he is, but what he's gesticulating is the truth.So I nodded and asked him where he was going with gestures.He pointed to our rear hood, told me to grab something, and then made a forward motion with both hands. This is the sign language of diving, which means search. It seems that if many people in the car don't get out of the car, they must not know that the car has driven into the quicksand bed. We must go all the way to inform them, otherwise these Land Rover will become what they are worth. More than a million iron coffins. I nodded to that person, made an OK gesture, opened the back cover of the car and took out my equipment, almost hunched over and finished this simple thing like a hunchback.At this moment, in fact, my ears were numb, and there seemed to be no sound around me, and there was a complete silence. It was a bit like watching a silent movie, a three-dimensional silent movie. When I closed the car cover, I saw that the back cover of our car had been sunken, as if it had been wiped by some huge object. I remembered the vibration in the car, so I used a miner's lamp to illuminate the surroundings, but I couldn't see anything. No, only the shadow of the Caucasian urging me to go fast. I restrained my mind, thinking that maybe it was hit by a blown stone, so I curled up and walked behind those shadows. After walking for more than 80 meters, I feel that the 80 meters in my mind may be far more than that, and we will see the headlights of the next car.The front of the car had tilted up. We went up, jumped on the front of the car, and found that the people inside had run out.We found them more than ten meters behind the car. One person's goggles fell off, his eyes were full of sand, and he cried out in pain. We formed a wind wall and wrapped his eyes with towels. We helped him up and moved on, and soon another car was called out. Three guys in the car were playing cards. We jumped on the roof for a long time and they didn't respond. Finally, I cracked their legs with a stone. Glass, at this time half the car is already under the river bed. After dragging them out, the wind was so strong that even the stones on the ground were blown up, and hard bullet-like lumps flew past our eyes from time to time, and they were finished with one hit.A person's goggles were hit by a flying stone, and the bridge of his nose was covered with blood. Someone made a gesture saying that it was impossible, and that it would be dangerous to continue, so we had to temporarily stop searching and lay down to avoid the burst of stones. Several people took out hard things from their equipment. I took out a stainless steel lunch box to cover my face, and the Caucasian took out his Bible, but before he could put it in place, the wind rolled away the pages, and all at once All the paper shredded into paper wadding and disappeared, leaving only a black fragment of the cover in his hand. I laughed at him, and raised my voice and shouted: "Your book must be a pirated copy!" Before I finished speaking, a stone hit my lunch box, and sparks flew everywhere.The lunch box was already under the force of the wind, so I couldn't catch it at once, and it disappeared without a trace. I was frightened half to death, if it hit my head, blood would splatter everywhere, so I could only squeeze my head tightly and stick to the ground with all my strength. At this time, suddenly there was light all around, and a scorching and flashing thing flew past us, we were all shocked, and I thought to myself, what the hell is so fast.Before I could react, there were three bright lights flashing in front of us, speeding towards us, and passing by us again.Then I smelled a familiar smell, which is the smell of burning magnesium at high temperature.I immediately knew what the flash was—it was a signal flare wrapped in the wind. I couldn't help being furious, thinking which bastard was it, which pig was putting a signal flare on the upwind vent in this moderate weather, afraid that the wind would not kill us, did we want to burn us to death?The thousand-degree high-temperature fireball with a speed of more than 160 kilometers per hour may kill you immediately if you hit it. But after thinking about it, I knew something was wrong. This group of people were well-trained, so how could they act recklessly.In expeditions, sending signal flares is a communication method that is only used in emergencies, because its spread range is too wide and ammunition consumption is large, and it is generally only used when encountering great danger or when the communication object is too far away. Will be used.Now under such harsh conditions, they even used signal flares, which should be due to something going on ahead. I glanced at the people around me, and they all had the same idea as me, so I made a gesture and asked the three uninjured people to stand up, and we are going to have a look there.If they need help, or if someone gets hurt, they won't be without help. This is not an easy job, or a personal heroic errand, I just stood up and a stone hit my shoulder, we all carried our bags forward as a shield, adjusted the compass, and flew towards the signal flare direction to go.At the same time, beware of the sudden appearance of signal flares. After walking for a while, we didn't know whether our direction had gone astray, but we saw three cars surrounded by more than a hundred meters away, but there was no one in the center of the car, and they had already left.We searched around the car and found no one, but the equipment in the car was not taken. The car was sinking, and we opened the back of the car, thinking we should at least salvage things, but just as we were about to climb into the car, another flare flashed and passed us far away.With this flash, we found that the place where the signal flare was fired was on our left, not very far from us.It seems that our direction is indeed crooked.Or the person who launched it is moving by itself. We carried our equipment on our backs. Although we were very tired, the wind could not move us much. We were able to stabilize our pace and walked to the place where the signal flare was fired.Walking, walking, we were suddenly surprised to see the silhouette of a huge monster appearing in the billowing dust in front of us. In the strong wind, we bowed our bodies, supported each other through the sand fog, and looked at the huge silhouette. We were all very surprised, and suddenly forgot whether we should continue to move forward. The Caucasian next to me gesticulated and asked me what it was.This guy has a habit of thinking, that is, he is in China now, so I am Chinese, and I should ask me about everything in China. I shook my head to tell him not to be stupid, and I didn't know what to do. Generally speaking, there is no doubt that less than 200 meters in front of us, if it is not a fat middle-aged Ultraman, it should be a huge rock, which anyone can immediately think of. But the way we came here was Yimapingchuan, and we didn't see such a tall mountain rock. Where did this rock come from?Could it be that we collectively lost our minds and didn't see it?I said in my heart, and I knew it was impossible. The first and most important thing is that we are looking for this kind of rock all the way, because we need a shady place to rest. The shady side of this kind of rock is a must-choice resting place for any expedition team.In the usual Gobi, there are not many such isolated rocks, so we will definitely pay attention to them if there are. But now I can't control so much, such a big rock is a good place to shelter from the wind, and those signal flares may be telling us that we have found a shelter from the wind. I started to take the lead in running towards the rock, and soon I clearly felt that the closer I got to the rock, the lower the wind, and the more I used my strength. When I ran halfway, I saw five people in front of me. The lights of six miner's lamps flickered. I was ecstatic, and ran towards the light, facing the strong wind, with one foot deep and one foot shallow.However, after running for a long time, the light didn't seem to be approaching me at all, it was so fucking far away, I thought to myself, I was exhausted, slowed down, greeted the people next to me, etc., I felt something was wrong. But when I looked back, I couldn't help being dumbfounded. There was no one around me, only rolling sand and endless darkness.