Chapter 99 Chapter Eleven Bloody Footprints

After the rainstorm, we met an oil prospecting team member in the desert. According to his statement, he saw the moon god Kaku on the night of the accident.This incident can be called the Arabian Nights. We asked the team member if he did something special that night, which caused him to burn himself.In fact, I meant to ask, they will not take drugs anymore, so they must have hallucinations. The prospecting team replied solemnly that they would rest when they were full that night. Unexpectedly, one said that they were tired of eating and wanted to have a sip of wild hemp tea.As they drank and drank, this group of intellectuals became poetic, holding teapots and inviting the moon to drink.No one was worried about this matter. When everyone fell asleep on their stomachs, the night watch team members discovered the abnormality.But it was too late, things happened quickly and suddenly, everyone was dispersed, and no one knew how many players were still in the desert.

It was just an unintentional move. We asked, and the prospecting team remembered it, but they can't be sure if it really has anything to do with it.After all, it was not their first initiative to invite drinks to the moon. Li Bai had done it 800 years ago.If you just yelled at the moon twice, the gods would fly down, and the world would have been in chaos long ago. After asking these questions, we realized that we didn't know the name of the prospecting team member, and we found out that his name was Nan Gongxiong after asking again.Nangong Xiong insisted on following, and it was inconvenient for us to turn back. Maybe it only took one day to walk forward to get out of the desert, and it would take more time to go back.Nangongxiong can't be left behind, if he encounters Sand Wolf again, he will definitely become a meal on the plate.Besides, Nangongxiong had no water or food, even if the wolves didn't eat him, he would starve to death.

"Time is running out. If he wants to follow, just follow him. Don't worry about it until he goes out." Uncle An looked at the sky, and night fell soon. "Alright, then let him follow." After I finished speaking, I thought, if Juan sends people back, wouldn't we have no guide?It's better to follow them if you don't gain more than you lose. At worst, I will drink a few pots of water and share them with Nan Gongxiong. At this time, the little cousin and Zhao Shuai had already divided up their luggage, and each of them had to carry a little bit, because a camel died.I thought that Nan Gongxiong was going to die, so I simply recited it all for him, as long as I don’t want him to recite it.According to the plan, we still have to go forward for five hours, but it was delayed by the heavy rain.

Walking out of the black stone house, I remembered that there used to be a string of bloody footprints in the desert, but now they have been covered by yellow sand.Nan Gongxiong couldn't remember who was around at that time, so he didn't know who stepped on the bloody footprints, but he immediately thought of his girlfriend.I roughly remember the direction of the blood footprints, which is basically the same as the route we are going to take.The yellow sand stretches as far as the eye can see, and there is no one else to see except us. In a short period of time, the people who stepped on the bloody footprints have disappeared.

I even thought I was hallucinating, the bloody footprints did not exist, and there are often mirages in the desert, and this is not the first time I have heard of it.Everyone looked forward feebly. There were no road signs in the desert. We all relied on a compass and Juan, a living map, to guide us.From north to south, people are walking against the wind, and the speed of walking is slower than that of a camel. As soon as the sun went down, the temperature of the entire desert changed, as if being stuffed into a refrigerator, and the teeth kept chattering.I pulled a coat and put it on, but it didn't help much. I wanted to wear a few more. It was bulky and inconvenient to move around, so I had to endure it.Mu Qingxiang walked much slower than before. Her calf was cut by an unknown object when the flood came. I thought she bandaged it herself, but when I looked back, I didn't do any treatment at all.

I stopped and asked Mu Qingxiang behind me, "Don't be brave, if you get infected, Hua Tuo can save you, but you can't go into the desert right away, do you understand?" "A little injury, it's okay." Mu Qingxiang said indifferently. In fact, that kind of scratch is really irrelevant. I used to play basketball in Wuhan, and injuries from falls and rolls were commonplace.I saw that Mu Qingxiang was ungrateful, so I simply went to find anti-inflammatory drugs and asked her to wipe the wound herself.But when I opened the pannier bag and looked through it, there were only two bottles of the three bottles of anti-inflammatory drugs prepared in advance.

I thought it was strange, I put this medicine in the pannier bag with my own hands, why was there a bottle missing, and no one used anti-inflammatory drugs.Just now the flood washed away, the pannier bag was very tight, and the anti-inflammatory medicine was placed in a small zipper bag in the pannier bag, and there was no way it would fall out.I didn't have the patience to continue searching, so I simply didn't think about it. It was just a bottle of medicine, and it wasn't anything expensive. At this time, the sky was a little dark, and the yellow sand also changed color, gray, like wood ash.I found another pot of wild hemp tea, used it to clean Mu Qingxiang's wound, and then sprinkled the medicinal powder on the wound.When Uncle Chen saw it, he said that we were hypocritical, and that we would use wild hemp tea to wash away minor injuries, and don’t beg him if we run out of water to drink.I didn't bother to pay attention to Uncle Chen's nagging, and asked Mu Qingxiang to roll up her trouser legs first, but Mu Qingxiang stubbornly refused to commit the crime.

With a hot face and a cold butt, I was about to put the wild hemp tea back on the camel, when Mu Qingxiang stopped me.I thought to myself that women are really difficult to figure out. I refused to wash your wound just now, but now I am called to stop you. What do you want to do.Mu Qingxiang took the pot, I thought she was going to wash the wound herself, but after she opened it, she just smelled it, neither drank nor washed the wound. "Strange, there seems to be something wrong with this tea." Mu Qingxiang frowned slightly. I asked in a daze, "Could someone poison the tea?"

The little cousin and Zhao Shuai who were walking in front stopped after hearing this. They were drinking tea at the moment, and their faces turned pale.Uncle An at the front also stopped in panic. He prepared the wild hemp tea, and if it was poisonous, he must be responsible.The sun has already moved its face to the end of the desert, and it is finally not so hot, and the few gusts of wind blowing are very cool.We all stopped, and the camels enjoyed themselves leisurely, standing by and watching the show. Mu Qingxiang's words caused waves, but she was neither surprised nor panicked, and even said that I overreacted.Of course, the wild hemp tea is not poisonous, but the tea water seems to have become weaker, completely different from the original thick.I picked my ears, thinking I heard it wrong, but it turned out that the tea was just getting weaker, so I thought it was a big deal.Mu Qingxiang asked me to taste the tea, I took a sip suspiciously, and a strange feeling came to my heart immediately.

The wild hemp tea really faded! The wild hemp tea we drank in the past two days was very strong, definitely not the mild taste it is now.Just now when the flood came, if the wild hemp tea seeped into the yellow sand water and diluted the tea, I would definitely be able to drink the taste of yellow sand.The problem is that the wild hemp tea still has the original taste, without the yellow sand and water, it has been unknowingly diluted.Wild hemp tea can be locked in the water bag without deterioration. Even if it deteriorates, the taste will become smelly, but it will not become weak. The little cousin took another sip, and finally said with certainty that it was indeed weak. Even Juan felt strange, and he said that this had never happened before.If it weren't for the desolation in the desert, Juan would think that the wild hemp tea had been transferred.No one could figure out what was going on, but the wild hemp tea was still drinkable and wouldn't poison people, so I didn't think about it any more.

After turning over several sand dunes, it was finally dark, and the stars trembled in the darkness, which made people tremble involuntarily.The desert is very cold at night, but it is still autumn, and it is like winter in the desert.After the sleeping bag was soaked in yellow sand and water, it was not warm no matter how you slept, and you had to burn a bunch of bonfires to resist the cold.Is there any firewood in the desert? Firewood and gasoline are carried into the desert by camels. Without it, it would be no wonder that we would not be crushed to death by so many heavy objects. In the evening, Uncle An is going to cook to satisfy his hunger, which is actually a pot of hot soup and a few flatbreads that are harder than stones.I was so tired, I took a nap before Uncle An caught fire, and I died after sleeping.I curled up whirringly, even if the sand wolf was going to eat me, I didn't want to move anymore. Uncle Chen didn't want to sleep at all, he looked around with bright eyes, wishing that hundreds of sand wolves would come running at once, so that he could kill him to his heart's content.The little cousin and Zhao Shuai were not tired, they babbled endlessly, and were not worried about running out of water at all.Nangong Xiong didn't talk much, maybe he was frightened or worried about his girlfriend's safety.To be honest, his girlfriend must be dead. The gods will arrest people casually. It must be the devil. If the devil catches someone, there will be no way to keep them alive. Mu Qingxiang was sitting next to me, and I was sleeping next to me, a light scent came into my nose, just like the smell of green tea.I had the cheek to sleep alone, and after an unknown amount of time, Mu Qingxiang woke me up.I rubbed my eyes and asked if it was time for dinner, and I happened to be hungry. After my sight was clear, I found that there was only Mu Qingxiang by my side, and everyone else was gone.The bonfire was still burning, and the camels were there, but the others were gone.I muttered, maybe the moon god Jiafu took them all away, that's fine, leave me and Mu Qingxiang... "They have all passed by, you should go and have a look too." Mu Qingxiang interrupted my wild thoughts. "What's wrong?" I asked anxiously. "A few more bloody footprints were found over there, and they haven't dried yet." Mu Qingxiang told me that just now, the little cousin ran to a distance for convenience, only to see red footprints on the ground.Others found it strange, so they all went to have a look, Nan Gongxiong insisted that it was left by his girlfriend.Previously, I saw bloody footprints, and almost no one believed it. This time they know that they have wronged a good person. However, the desert is dry, and when water falls on the sand, it will be sucked up in an instant, leaving no trace.This person has stepped on so many bloody footprints, and he hasn't done it yet. It is very likely that he has just stepped on it, and he hasn't gone far.But if a person bleeds so far, even if there is more blood than a pig, it should be wiped out.Curiously, I crossed the sand dune with Mu Qingxiang and walked to its back. In the light of the flashlight, I really saw a series of intermittent bloody footprints. The bloody footprints were incomplete, and it was impossible to tell whether the person stepped on was old or young, male or female, or even human.Nan Gongxiong wanted to follow the footprints to chase people, but the footprints were quickly broken, and there was no way to chase him.I knelt down and looked at the bloody footprints, but I couldn't smell the smell of blood, which might be covered up by the smell of sand and dust. "It's strange, we burn such a big fire, if someone walks by, he should come to ask for help?" I questioned. "Maybe he is blind?" the little cousin nonsense. "Will a blind man come to the desert?" Zhao Shuai disagreed. "Could it be a human? Can a human bleed so much blood?" Uncle An felt something was wrong, "I've been walking in the desert for a long time, and I've never seen such a strange thing. I'm afraid this road is not easy to walk." Uncle Chen didn't express his opinion, but just watched quietly. He found that we all ran over to watch the excitement, so he told us to go back quickly, or the sand wolf would take everything away if no one guarded the camp.In fact, the burning camp is more than ten meters away, and unless mosquitoes fly by, you can detect even a little movement.It was pitch black all around, and Uncle Chen was worried that there were sand wolves in ambush, so he urged us to go back. Nan Gongxiong wanted to find someone, but it was dangerous to walk in the desert at night, and he knew it himself, so he had to give up.Uncle An finally cooked the hot soup, we took a few sips from the bowl, it was saltier than pickles.Uncle An just went to see the bloody footprints and forgot to add salt once, so he added it a second time.I was afraid that the more I drank, the thirstier I would become, so I put down the bowl and wanted to take a sip of wild hemp tea to relieve the salty smell.Mu Qingxiang didn't even take a sip, she probably smelled too much salt in the hot soup, but she didn't tell me about it. The moon is not yet full, but it is very bright, and the few stars can't compete for brilliance at all.Zhao Shuai and my little cousin were the same as me. They poured some wild hemp tea, and then imitated the oil exploration team, facing the moon to invite the moon god Jiafu down.They have never believed what Nan Gongxiong said, in fact, I don't believe it either, but I can't take the initiative to find trouble, what if it really works. Nan Gongxiong and I wanted to stop it when we met, but felt that there was something wrong, so we looked down at the bowl of wild hemp tea, and we were immediately stunned.