Chapter 53 fourth quarter

At that time, Danny had already taken out the map, but it hadn't been unfolded yet. When I heard his words, Danny and I looked at each other and were very puzzled. We suspected that the old man might have misunderstood what we meant, because No matter what, he had no reason to know where we were going. Danny's hand holding the map was frozen in the air, and his eyes were full of suspicion, and he kept looking at the old man. "Do you know where we are going?" I asked in a daze. The old man smiled kindly, but did not answer my question. He just drew a circle on the sand, and drew a winding thin line intermittently on it.

I looked at it for a long time but didn't understand the meaning of his painting, so I couldn't help looking up at him questioningly. "Polypop!" The old man uttered these five weird syllables, and looked at me with a smile. I turned my head and shot a questioning look at Ningxue, Ningxue gave me a wry smile, and said in a low voice: "This should be a place name, I don't know what it means!" I pointed to the pattern he drew and asked, "Where is this?" "Where you are going!" The old man looked at the pattern on the ground thoughtfully, "It is also where we came from!"

While listening to Ningxue's translation, I thought about the meaning of his words, but I still half understood. The old man glanced at us with a smile and nodded slightly, as if he understood that we really knew nothing about this place, so he picked up a strange pipe and stuffed dark tobacco leaves from a simple small basket next to it. In the cigarette den (I tried to let him smoke the cigarettes I carried with me, but he refused), with an attitude of starting from the beginning.Following the strange smell of tobacco, he also opened his mouth, and his voice became farther away. "Many years ago, Polipolipu was an oasis. It was the largest oasis in this desert, with a radius of more than a hundred miles. There was a rushing river called Tuotuoye River. It looks like a winding and stretching python. Towering trees grow everywhere where it flows, and even the vines on the branches are as thick as human thighs. There are countless zebras galloping, swimming in the river The fish is... so long!"

The old man gestured in the air with his hands. The distance between his hands was about one meter. I imagined the length of the swimming fish he described in my mind, and I was secretly surprised. "At that time, the pastures were lush there, and we lived a carefree nomadic life there. We lived with lions, trained cheetahs to fight against wolves, and protected our harvest. But one night, the Tuotuoye River flowed silently. It disappeared, as if it was really a living python, it abandoned us, and that night, a strong wind and sand swept in, completely buried this oasis in the sand, together with all the creatures there!"

"All the gods?" Danny rolled his eyes and asked in a strange voice. "Yes, all living things!" the old man repeated. It looked like he didn't understand the meaning of Danny's words, but he kept repeating. "Then how did you escape?" I cleared my throat and scratched my head. "At that time, there was no me. My grandfather told me that my ancestors were all buried under the gravel, but for some reason or when, a very small number of them died again. appeared here." The more I listened, the more confused I became. I exchanged glances with Danny Ningxue with a bitter face. Although it seemed disrespectful to question a respected old man further, as if deliberately exposing his lies, his words clearly Going against logic, if you don't ask clearly, you won't be reconciled.What's more, if the place he said is exactly where we are going, figuring out the reason may help us in our next actions, so he tentatively asked: "You mean you suddenly appeared here?"

The old man nodded: "My people all know that this is the will of God. The reason why he wants to release some people from hell back to the world is to let us guard this area, because it has become the territory of God. Aliens invaded." "You mean that oasis still exists?" Danny asked, raising his voice. The old man looked at the void with a serious face, and said: "Yes, but not everyone can see it, only kind-hearted people can see it." A sentence came to my mouth immediately, but I still didn't ask it right away, because it was: Have you seen it?That's about as unreasonable as asking him if you're a kind person.

The old man glanced at me with a smile, and immediately guessed my thoughts, and puffed out a puff of smoke into the air: "Yes, I have seen it before, and that oasis appeared in front of me. I said exactly the same!" "That's a mirage!" Danny exhaled. "Yes, that's a mirage, and it's real." "How can you tell it's that place? Maybe it's just the reflection of a similar place thousands of miles away. The oases are almost all the same." Danny retorted. "No!" the old man insisted with absolute certainty, "there won't be anywhere else . . . never!"

"What?" These two words were almost asked by the three of us in unison. There was an imperceptible panic in the eyes of the old man, but it was fleeting. He took two puffs of cigarettes and said solemnly: "No one in that kind of clothing will wear it, and no one from the Teda tribe will wear it." Wearing that costume, it's just us!" I suspect that he was deliberately prevaricating, because if it was just because of the clothes, he didn't need to smoke to cover up his panic. "Although now we look like other Teda people, at that time, we dressed completely differently from them."

"What's so special?" This sentence was the question Ningxue asked after finishing the translation. Of course, it was also the question I was about to ask. "A long gown embroidered with strange patterns, which is similar to the clothes worn by the Mongolians when they ride horses." The old man frowned slightly as he described it. It seems that this place is not as closed as we saw, or the knowledge he has is not as we thought, a person who knows the costumes of a minority in the far east will not be what it seems on the surface. It is not surprising that there are many similarities in the costumes of the two different nationalities, because from what he said above, it can be seen that their ancestors who lived there should have been nomads on horseback, which is similar to the occupation that the Mongols engaged in, the same Occupations certainly produce similar attire.

"What kind of pattern is that?" I asked softly. The old man shook his head: "It's hard to describe, and the ancestral precepts left by the ancestors are not allowed to be revealed to outsiders." Since it is a national secret, I naturally can't ask it to the bottom, and even if I ask him, he won't tell me. Danny asked as if asking for my opinion, "Is that so? The scene that was there was preserved and then re-flashed in a specific environment, like the boat?" Although a mirage is a spectacle in nature, it is not very mysterious, but as far as I know, these spectacle are still moving in azimuth. Because of the clouds and weather, what is happening thousands of miles away will appear in front of us , have not heard of mirages that appear time-shifted.But just because I haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's impossible, so I nodded to Danny and said, "It's possible."

The old man looked at me, then at Danny, and then at Ningxue, who then translated our conversation to him. After listening to the old man with a smile, he shook his head: "How is this possible! How can the scene thousands of years ago appear in the millennium after?" "Thousands of years?" I asked in surprise. The old man nodded: "Yes, this history is at least a thousand years ago, because these things are passed down orally, one generation after another." Mirages separated by thousands of years are as incredible as we see ancient people now, and this possibility is really extremely rare. "Don't worry too much about it, how do you know that the place we're going to is something ordinary, or we're not talking about the same place!" Danny asked with a sigh. The old man had already sucked the tobacco leaves in his pipe, and smiled while smoking the pipe: "Of course it is a place, because someone once asked me about this place, and he looks similar to you, I think you are all for the same purpose as him." This place just came here!" He said and glanced at me, obviously saying that he looks a bit like me. I was startled, could it be that the person he mentioned was Roque we have been looking for?Although I know that Rock and I look different, what the old man said should not refer to specific physical features, but some commonalities, such as skin color. From this point of view, people of yellow race are indeed similar.Rock has indeed been here, which can already be proven, but judging from our encounters along the way, Rock has been deliberately hiding his whereabouts. If the person the old man said is Rock, it will be us Most inspiring news so far. "What's his name? Is his name Luo Ke?" Before I could speak, Ningxue had already asked. I couldn't understand her words, but I could distinguish the pronunciation of the word Luo Ke. The old man shook his head and said: "I don't know what his name is, he is a very honest young man, he did not listen to my advice, he insisted on going to that place... hey, but he never came back."