Chapter 56 Section VII

After his reminder, I noticed that the two camels carrying food, water and necessary luggage were missing behind us. Before we entered here, Danny and I tied them one by one to the camels we were riding with thick ropes for safety, but now the ropes are still there, but the camels are gone. We didn't realize when they were lost at all, and we didn't even make any abnormal sounds. This is called dredging the bottom. If you want to let others die in pain in the desert, stealing their water and food should be the most vicious method. Who wants to put us to death?I suddenly remembered the words of Chief Teda: ...there has become the territory of the gods, no outsiders are allowed to invade!Yes, only gods have such magical powers, they can make two large living creatures disappear so silently, without leaving even a trace.

Ningxue and I both jumped off the hunchback and looked at the two reins that used to tie camels—our hope of survival—in panic. The reins were obviously not cut by humans. It's like biting it off yourself. I looked up again at the shifting clouds above us, suspicious. Danny was already pointing at the dark clouds, bouncing and yelling.I was so quarreled that I couldn't figure it out, so I stopped angrily and said, "Okay, okay, are you still going to finish? It's useless to clean it up. If you have strength and no place to vent, you can go back and find the camel." return!"

"That's right!" Ningxue also complained, "It's all because of you, people told you that this is the territory of the gods, and you don't know how to restrain yourself. Tell me, what should we do now?" "I..." Danny was choked back, rolled his eyes angrily, and finally looked like a deflated ball, "It's all my fault...it's all my fault! Well, what do you think we should do now? Bar!" The situation is very clear. If we continue to move forward, it may not be long before we lose our energy due to hunger and thirst. At that time, I am afraid that we will only be trapped here to death.However, even if we look back now, will we be able to go back?If it is true what Chief Teda said, this is an area controlled by the gods, then our trespassing has obviously angered him, will he let us go back so easily?Of course, the most important thing we should do is to look back for the lost camel according to the way we came from, but as I said before, this desert is as smooth as a flat mirror, and we can see far away at a glance. On the road at that time, we should be able to see it at a glance, but there is not even a black spot behind, so where can we find it?

"Danny, you really didn't see anything weird last time you were here?" I asked. Danny shook his head: "My last time was completely different from this time. We flew over directly from Monrovia. We just glanced at it briefly, and didn't go down to the ground at all." "Now we have only two options. The first option is to go back immediately. Although there is no water and food, I think nothing serious will happen if we persist for a day and a night. But my worry is whether we can find the way back. road, especially when it’s nighttime in a few hours!” I worriedly analyzed the predicament we were facing, “The second option is to keep going and look for other clues, but to be honest, I don’t know the possibility of finding clues. How big is the sex, or the three of us will be stuck here forever!"

"That's needless to say!" Danny said first: "Of course we will go back first, we won't be so stupid as to go to the end!" Ningxue has been pondering, I don't know what she was thinking, I glanced at her and asked: "Ningxue, what do you think?" "This is a bit strange." Ningxue analyzed slowly, "I don't think the camel disappeared for no reason. There must be some reason. I think we should go back and pay attention to the traces that may be left behind. , if we really don’t find anything, let’s leave here again. Besides, this is the same direction as leaving, but it will take a little more time.”

"That's right!" Danny echoed repeatedly, "Then let's go back quickly, maybe it won't be long before the traces of our walk will be wiped out by the wind and sand." We walked away as soon as we said, we pulled the camel around, and walked back slowly along the footprints left when we came, like a defeated rooster. This is really a bad start, just stepping into this dead desert, we are forced to turn back, each of us is extremely depressed, we just lead the camel and pay attention to the hoofprints left by the camel under our feet, no one speaks. At the beginning, there were only the two-finger-deep hoofprints of the twelve camels left on the ground, extending forward in a slightly curved straight line. After walking for half an hour, the hoofprints had become very faint, like the legendary grassland. It was left behind by the masters of flying lightness skills.

The further we walked, the fainter the hoofprints on the ground became, and the hope in our hearts became more elusive. After another ten minutes, the hoofprints finally completely disappeared.But there are only twelve hoof prints from beginning to end, as if the two camels never existed. Looking back, the footprints we left when we walked back also disappeared not far away. In fact, the entire desert has undergone significant changes during this period of time. The wind and sand are several times larger than before. It hurts. I don’t know when the scorching sun on the head has been hidden. The cloud that was only palm-sized at first shrouded our heads like bacteria that can spread infinitely. It's coming.

The camels should feel the breath of the coming rainstorm. They struggled terribly under our restraints. In the end, if you didn't hold them tightly with both hands, they would break free from the reins and run for their lives. "Is the weather in the desert always changing like this? I can't think of it! This is called house leakage and continuous night rain, right?" Whenever there is danger, Danny's talent for humor will always be displayed inappropriately. I even think that Danny must be sick, a special "panic syndrome", which is about the same as crying with joy and laughing with anger.

"I don't know how such a large amount of water gathered together so quickly." Ningxue looked up at the sky that was getting darker and darker. As I rolled onto the camel, I said loudly: "Don't worry about it, it's not a good thing to encounter heavy rain in the desert. Let's see if the camel can help us!" Without the shackles of external force, the three camels seemed to suddenly go crazy, and ran wildly. I don’t know if they were frightened by the sudden arrival of dark clouds and ran wildly, or because of their natural understanding of the desert. , avoiding evil, all three camels ran towards the place we had just come from, which was the center of Polipop, where we were trying to escape!