Chapter 93 Chapter 5 Luna

The golden desert stretches as far as the eye can see, except for the sand, which is still sand, and there are not even half a wolf.Looking back, I can still see some huts in the distance behind me, but they are all as small as grapes.We were a little scared at first, but Uncle Chen assured us that it would be fine. Maybe Uncle An didn't feed the camels enough, and now they want to go on strike.Zhao Shuai also took the opportunity to tease, saying that the camel must have reached the estrus period and might want to mate. I was afraid that what Zhao Shuai said would become more outrageous, so I hurriedly interrupted him and asked Uncle An to comfort the two flustered camels.The camels are so difficult to take care of even after a day's journey. If this continues, it won't be possible to get out of the desert for a month.The little cousin was also in a hurry, running out of ammunition in the desert was no joke, so she urged Uncle An to hurry up.How could this matter be rushed, and after more than ten minutes of dawdling, the camel was willing to obediently obey.

In the desert, you can still see some gray dead trees, as long as you press it lightly, it will break.In addition, we also saw a few golden Populus euphratica, all of them slanted and kept in one direction, and they seemed to be galloping leopards, but their movements were frozen forever.The waves of sand dunes are like crumpled yellow rice paper. We walked slowly on them, as if the whole desert had become an ancient picture scroll. On the first day of departure, we could still see some dead plants, but on the second day, all we could see was yellow.All of our water has been allocated, and no matter how thirsty we have to drink it sparingly, Mu Qingxiang didn't say more than ten sentences along the way, and drank less water than us.The little cousin had already drank all the water, and she couldn't take it anymore, so she went to ask Mu Qingxiang if she could drink her share.Before Mu Qingxiang agreed, I asked my little cousin to talk less, otherwise everyone's water would not be enough for her.

At this time, Uncle An said to the sky, "The weather is a bit strange." In the desert, weather changes are very important, often related to the safety of life.I heard that Uncle An's tone was wrong, so I hurriedly asked what was wrong.After Uncle An pointed out, we discovered that the sun and the moon appeared in the sky at the same time.If this matter is changed in the Central Plains, it is a symbol of auspiciousness, and fortune tellers will add embellishments to say which newborn baby has the emperor's fate.But it is different in the desert, the sun and the moon shine together, and there may be rare torrential rains.

Zhao Shuai didn't believe it, and said that he had read the weather forecast last night and said that it would be sunny here for a month.At this time, ordinary meteorology is no longer needed. The weather in the desert is already changing, and the pace of weather forecasting can't keep up.We have thought about everything, including sandstorms, but we did not expect to encounter heavy rain in the desert. The little cousin was very optimistic: "Just now you blamed me for drinking too much water. Look, God will send water right away." I looked at the sky hesitantly, except for a few white clouds, the sun, and the moon, I didn't find any dark clouds.I was worried that Uncle An was wrong, so I asked: "Who did you hear that the sun and the moon shine together and there will be rain, but rain is not a bad thing, right?"

Uncle Chen couldn't listen to the words, we chattered, and he got bored, so he said fiercely: "You guys dare to come to the desert even if you are afraid of this or that. If you see a sand wolf, don't you want to scream?" Zhao Shuai hated Uncle Chen very much, and snorted, "What is a sand wolf? If it dares to come, I will treat it as a drink and a dish. I will also peel off its skin and wear it as clothes like you!" Uncle Chen's eyes were red, and he raised his gun to fight Zhao Shuai. Fearing that the gun would go off, I hurriedly followed Uncle An to persuade him to fight.During the period, Uncle An said that it doesn't matter if it is half of the heavy rain, but it is not good if it is torrential rain.Besides, it either doesn't rain or it rains heavily in the desert.The desert is soft everywhere, and the water storage capacity is not strong, so it is easy to cause floods. People who don’t know how to water are likely to drown in the desert. When the time comes, it will be embarrassing to mention how you died on the tombstone.

Uncle An is right, there is indeed little rain in the desert, like the Atacama Desert in Chile, which has only rained once in 400 years, and is known as the "dry pole" in the world.But it is really going to rain in the desert, which is more terrible than other places.For example, in the summer of 1988, the rain in the Taklamakan Desert forced a small river ditch more than 10 meters wide to 1,000 meters wide, and the oil production equipment at the oil base was soaked in the flood. I have been walking for two days now, and I can't see the hut behind me, only the boundless desert.We wanted to turn back, wondering if we could run through the storm, but the sky still didn't look like it was going to rain.After talking dry, I pulled Zhao Shuai aside, and Uncle An also persuaded Uncle Chen to leave.In fact, Zhao Shuai has a very good temper, but he just can't bear the arrogance of others, and Chen Yepeng's aggressive attitude, who can bear it.If it weren't for the fear of bumping into sand wolves, we would have dumped Chen Yepeng long ago. In principle, having a guide is enough.

Mu Qingxiang has been standing aside without making a sound, I thought she was frightened, so I told her not to worry, no one will make trouble anymore.However, Mu Qingxiang shook her head and said that she never worried about this, but she remembered the legend of the Moon God in the Guishuang Empire.In other cultures, the impression of the moon is almost always beautiful. There are few scary legends about the moon representing Chang'e, a beauty, and family reunion.But in the Guishuang Empire, the image of the moon is very gloomy, and their moon god is not a woman, but a man. At least in my understanding, the moon gods are all women. Chinese mythology, Greek mythology, and Norse mythology never say that the moon god is a man.We must know that the sun is yang and the moon is yin, which is recognized by everyone.According to legend, there were two sun gods in the Guishuang Empire at the beginning, one was a male god and the other was a goddess, and there was no moon god, let alone night.One day, the male sun god wandered in the desert, not wanting to be confused by the evil darkness, so he lost the dazzling light of the god of heaven and became a relatively dim moon.

The male sun god regretted it in no time and wanted to restore his identity as a god of heaven, so every time the moon was full and the sky was full, he would devour men on the ground to replenish yang with yang.In the ruins of the Guishuang Empire in Central Asia, this legend is engraved on mottled murals, and the pictures are particularly bloody.Therefore, when the moon is full, the men of the Guishuang Empire will stay behind closed doors, otherwise they will never come back. The two sun gods were already in love, and the gods were allowed to fall in love in the mythology of the Guishuang Empire, but after the male sun god became the moon god, he could no longer see the female sun god.Because the sun and the moon cannot appear at the same time, otherwise there will be no distinction between day and night, which will disrupt the operation of the universe.If the sun god and the moon god meet secretly, the wind god, rain god, and thunder god will come out to separate them, and then the sun and moon will be dark, and the sky will be destroyed.

Although this is a legend, it is not unreasonable. Maybe they once discovered that the sun and the moon shine together, and there will be heavy rain in the desert, so such a legend came into being. Although the sky was still sunny, I could not help worrying that the flood in the desert would drown our group after hearing the legend of the moon god.It's the same everywhere in the desert, and if it does rain, there's nowhere to hide.In the preparations, everything is prepared, except for the umbrella. Who would have thought that there would be a heavy rain in the desert.In fact, it's useless to bring an umbrella, and it can't be used as a swimming ring, otherwise it will sting your eyes.

Gradually, a touch of blackness really appeared on the horizon, and it tended to get worse.I couldn't help becoming anxious. No wonder the camels were anxious the day before. It turned out that they already felt that the rainstorm was coming.Uncle An said that it was too late to escape back now, and in a few hours, the heavy rain would come.We have been walking for two days, how could we run out of the desert all of a sudden. None of us had ever encountered a desert rainstorm, so we couldn't make up our minds for a while, but the little cousin suggested to look around to see if there were bigger rocks there.When the rain comes, at least I can stand on the rocks, and my legs and feet can swing flexibly.You must know that once the sand dunes are drenched by water, they may turn into mud, = the more you struggle, the more you sink, and you will definitely drown.Although rainwater evaporates quickly and can be completely dried up in half a day, if we humans drown, it only takes one minute to die.

"How can there be rocks in the desert? I can't find a place. If the rocks sink, what should I do?" Zhao Shuai disagreed. "There are stones. I remember that the ancient river was quite long, but unfortunately, only a few parts of the sand surface were exposed along the way." Uncle An sighed. Uncle Chen didn't panic at all, and said disdainfully, "Why are you afraid of floods, don't you know how to swim?" "Old Chen, it's not a question of whether you can swim or not. Hey, I can't tell you." Uncle An wanted to explain, but felt that he was playing the piano to the cow, so he just gave up. The little cousin prepared a telescope, and when she thought of it, she immediately turned it out of the pannier bag.Holding the binoculars, the little cousin searched around, and finally found five or six Populus euphratica trees and some large rocks far away.If there are plants, at least there will be no sinking, so we decided to go there for a while.It doesn't matter if you don't have an umbrella, and it doesn't matter if you get drenched in the rain. The key is to choose a place to stay. If there is a slight difference, then you have to see Max. "At least you have to be careful when you go there. Let's hurry up and stop bickering. Do you hear me?" Uncle An gave the order, and he knew from the posture that the rainstorm was serious. We nodded and agreed, and then walked towards the Populus euphratica trees. On the way, another section of the ancient river was exposed to the sand.Uncle Chen said that since we can still see the ancient river, we haven’t traveled far, at least we haven’t come to the legendary ruins of the Qing soldiers.Until the ancient river disappears, and if there is a chance, we will have the opportunity to see those ruins.But now who is in the mood to look at those things, survival is the most important thing. We were sweating profusely from walking, and when we looked around, Populus euphratica was in front of us. There were only a few sand dunes along the way, and it looked very peaceful.But Mu Qingxiang walked very slowly this time, and fell behind. I looked back and saw that she was preoccupied, and I couldn't help but feel very strange.In the past, Mu Qingxiang was very calm, almost able to avoid the knife falling in front of her eyes, why does a rain make her uneasy now. I deliberately slowed down, and when Mu Qingxiang came up, I asked in a low voice: "What are you worried about? This time we will definitely find the ancient city of Yuequan, and then we will be able to find your aunt and your home." Mu Qingxiang recalled: "I'm not worried, I just remembered one thing, and I always feel that there is a problem." "What's the problem?" I asked. "That day, when I woke up in the ancient city of Yuequan, it seemed that there was a heavy rain." After Mu Qingxiang finished speaking, she let go of her slightly frowned brows, "Maybe I'm too sensitive, let's go ahead, no need wait for me." As I walked, I wondered whether there had been heavy rain in Tengger in recent decades, but unfortunately there was no meteorological data to check.However, the heavy rain in the desert sometimes lasts for more than a hundred years, or even hundreds of years. It is impossible for it to fall frequently, otherwise it would not be called a desert.Did Mu Qingxiang wake up hundreds of years ago?This should be impossible, because she had seen the tea king Yang Chishan before she fell asleep, and it was already modern times at that time.But if it was modern times, wouldn't Mu Qingxiang have become an old woman? Just as I was engrossed in my thoughts, there was a commotion among the people in front of me, and my little cousin even yelled out in fright.