Chapter 46 Section 45 Pengjiamu Cemetery

In the hinterland of Lop Nur, near Luozhong, Du Xin and her staff are nervously completing the finishing work of the documentary "Looking for Peng Jiamu". They have arrived here since they broke up with the expedition team of Chu Feng and others.Although the earthquake caused a certain degree of shock to everyone, they were generally doing well. This is the tomb of Peng Jiamu. In front of the tombstone are the mineral water and food left by many people who came to the Lop Nur area for investigation or exploration. The food here is not perishable, and it is life-saving water and food that everyone intends to leave behind for future generations.At the beginning, the director of the TV station didn't know the meaning of these things, because they affected the picture, and people almost lost all these things.

It was Liang Wu from the Xinjiang Institute of Biodiversity who stopped him. In Lop Nur, people who are investigating or exploring often encounter accidents. If they find Peng Jiamu's cemetery at this time, it means they have found a chance to survive, because there are water and food left by the predecessors here.These things are the hope of life left by the pioneers for the latecomers.How can it be lost? As Liang Wu spoke, his voice was choked up. Those who did not enter Lop Nur would never understand what the water and food represented in this endless saline-alkali desert that was more dead than the desert.

This oasis of life that once had herds of cows and horses, surrounded by green forests, and clear rivers, has now become an endless saline-alkaline wasteland, without a single grass, a stream, and summer temperatures as high as 70°C. No birds dare to cross it, and no living animals Life dares to live in it, even the psammophytes that are often seen in the Taklamakan Desert, and even the so-called most tenacious life - Populus euphratica, can't be found here at all.It has become a frightening complete death Jedi.Someone once described it like this: This is the only place on earth that is more desolate than the back of the moon!

There is life among the Jedi!Although this place is just a tomb, it has become a holy place in the minds of people who often go in and out of the Lop Nur area; a holy place to pass on the hope of life, love and dedication!It is an oasis in people's hearts! After hearing what he said, the people on the TV station thought about the boundless silence they had seen along the way, and then looked at the food and water in colorful plastic packaging in front of them, and they were collectively silent for a long time! Du Xin, after hearing this allusion, felt ashamed of his previous behavior.She has never paid much attention to this show, because she thought that Peng Jiamu was already an old topic, so how could it not be the same when filming?Unexpectedly, it was this old-fashioned topic and this old-fashioned spirit that moved her, who felt that she was not easily moved, to tears.

What happened next touched everyone even more. The three-day filming was coming to an end, and everyone was exhausted, but at this moment a small black spot appeared in the distance.There seems to be something wrong with that black spot, staggering, but it seems to be circling for this place.Liang Wu was the first to find out, he took a closer look, and immediately ran out with a big change in expression! Du Xin also noticed all this, and she quickly stopped the shooting. "what happened?" "What happened?" Everyone who was filming stopped and looked over there. Soon, a few young men ran out to help.

"Water! Water!" Liang Wu had already arrived in front of him at this time. This little black dot was indeed a person. Judging from the equipment, he should be a hiker. a word. "Hurry up! Bring water!" Liang Wu yelled, Du Xin reacted immediately, took a bottle of mineral water from the tombstone and ran over, seeing the man fell into a deep sleep quickly under the nourishment of the whole bottle of water.Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief. The doctor accompanying the team rushed over and did an examination on him—he was seriously dehydrated.After giving him an injection of nutritional supplements, the doctor told everyone that the man was fine.

"This person must have fallen into a psychedelic, that's why he circled our camp. In the Lop Nur area, such things often happen. Some corpses were found only a few meters away from the water source. However, the traces are always going around in circles. Many people fall forever at the place where they are only one step away from being born!" Seeing him being carried to the car, Liang Wu subconsciously explained to the people around him. The people around him watched the unconscious hiker silently. For a long time, no one made a sound! Filming is finally complete.At this time, the people from the TV station had already put away all the machinery and equipment and loaded them into the car.Except for the sleepy hiker who stayed in the car, everyone spontaneously walked to Peng Jiamu's tombstone, sorted out the food and water in front of the tombstone, took away the expired or soon-to-be-expired food, put it down, etc. Quantities of fresh food.Led by Du Xin and the director, everyone spontaneously bowed to Mr. Peng Jiamu three times before getting in the car and leaving silently.

Contrary to their direction, Chu Feng and others have come to a place not far from the ancient Loulan city that once shocked the world. This ancient city was marked as LA by Stein back then. Around this ancient city, for nearly 100 years, people have found many ancient city ruins related to the ancient country of Loulan, among which there is the ancient city called LB 9 kilometers northwest of it and the ancient city called LB 24 kilometers away from it northeast of it. The ancient city of Le, some scholars believe that this is the capital of Loulan.There is an ancient city of LK 48 kilometers to the southwest. This ancient city is also called Haitou.If the mysterious ancient city discovered by Chu Feng and others is indeed affiliated to the Loulan Kingdom, then the Loulan Kingdom’s ruled area recorded in the history books can be confirmed—the northernmost part of its territory has indeed been separated from the ancient Gaochang Kingdom (that is, Turpan). border.

At this time, Chu Feng and others have arrived at the ancient city of LB. The name of this city has not been fully verified, so Stein's label has been used.There are still many relics of tower-shaped buildings, temples and residential buildings here. What makes William Lin most excited is that he also saw a column-style building with the same architectural style as the underground stone palace in the mysterious ancient city. remains.It's just that here is a yellow clay structure, while the underground one is a stone structure! Seeing this, even a novice in the history of the Western Regions like William knew that the two must be related: "Brother Chu, the ancient city we visited earlier must have something to do with the Loulan Kingdom, right?"

Chu Feng nodded. That ancient city must have been built by the ancient Loulan people. He and Sangbu had reached a consensus on this point from the very beginning.This is not their destination, not only that, they don't even plan to go to the famous Loulan City.At this point, they want to change direction, go northwest, and go straight to the lower reaches of the Tarim River and the northeast source of the Taklamakan Desert. In fact, the stone tablet that Professor Ling and the others found was suspected to be the ancient river map, and its location is not far from the famous Xiaohe cemetery.It's just that everyone passed in this direction, and there was no hope of passing Xiaohe Cemetery.

Knowing this, William and Ling Ning were very disappointed.William has been in love with Loulan City for a long time, but Ling Ning wants to see the place where Loulan beauties are produced.It's just that everyone has something on their minds now, and they don't have the time to go to the sidelines. But Chu Feng couldn't resist Lin William's begging, so he stopped here for a while, allowing William to look at the tower of the ancient city of Loulan from a distance, and comfort his fragile and injured heart a little. The ancient Loulan City is the most exposed ancient city in the entire Loulan area. Its tall earthen pagoda, large fence, and three rooms have almost become the symbols of the ancient Loulan Kingdom. They are featured in many film and television works, especially documentaries. There are close-ups.Although it is still 9 kilometers away from there, fortunately, the terrain is flat, and you can still see a little bit of the shadow of the pagoda when you look from a high place. Under the urging of the driver Wang Cong, William reluctantly got into the car and left. Sitting in the car, he turned his head again and again, brooding over the fact that he missed the ancient city of Loulan, which he had admired for a long time. Wang Cong didn't have time to pay attention to his little thoughts.After entering the Lop Nur Lake Basin, the road is either easy or difficult.It is easy to walk because the terrain here is flat, there are no obstacles, and there are roads everywhere, so you can walk casually. It is difficult to walk because the saline-alkali content of the soil here is too high, forming a thick layer of alkali shell.The alkali shell is extremely hard. Once a car tire is driven on, it becomes commonplace to blow out. Therefore, it is the consensus of every driver who enters Lop Nur to prepare enough tires.This kind of alkali shell is everywhere here. Experienced drivers will follow the ruts of their predecessors. Once they find that the ruts in front are gone, they have to turn around immediately and find the ruts again.Today, they have been on the edge of this lake basin a few times, and even old drivers like Wang Cong and Feng Xiang got lost twice. It's strange to say that the GPS system of Bailing is unreliable once you enter the Lop Nur area, and it doesn't work from time to time.Here, nothing can be relied upon, not even your own eyes can deceive you.This is one of the few regions in the world where magnetic bias exists.For example, your eyes tell you that you are walking in a straight line, but in fact, your direction has deviated by ten or twenty degrees from when you first started. one of the behaviors. Moreover, several archaeological team members who have entered the Lop Nur area many times here have such experiences. Sometimes the car is clearly parked there, and everyone collects some cultural relics clues nearby, and when they come back after a while, the car is gone!Don't panic at this time, because maybe one or two hours later, or three or four hours later, the car will be found there again, completely untouched.Wang Cong has encountered this kind of thing more than once. Once he was in the car, and the car stopped there without moving.In his opinion, Team Sang and the others had only left for more than ten minutes, but Team Sang later saw him and scolded him, asking him where he had gone and why everyone had been looking for them for more than two hours. Don't mention that grievance! This place is a bit of a ghost!When Wang Cong talked about it with others, he always said this sentence.Therefore, he sneered at William's petty bourgeois sentiment that he was not afraid of death. While driving, he told everyone in the car about his personal experience, but everyone in the car, except Chu Feng and Da Qi, listened to it as a story.Wang Cong saw the disapproval on the faces of William and Ling Ning from the rearview mirror, and he didn't care about it, but thought in his heart: Humph!do not trust me!It's time for you to suffer! In addition to getting lost and these mysterious things, the most dangerous thing in Lop Nur has to be the black storm!When William, who had experienced it not long ago, heard this, his face immediately changed.This Lop Nur area is only suitable for entering in May and October every year.Especially in October, relatively speaking, the safety factor of entering at this time is relatively high, and it is okay in May, but the wind is relatively strong.At other times, especially in June and July, entering it is mostly courting death!Due to the delay of the investigation team, it was already the end of May when they set off, and now it has entered June.If the investigation cannot be completed within a few days, the danger index will be greatly increased.Therefore, everyone's original plan was to try to arrive at the field in one day, investigate for three days, and withdraw quickly after finishing. But even so, the possibility of encountering a black storm in the Lop Nur area in early June is not small, so everyone should be very careful about it. The devastating storm last time really left everyone with lingering fears . Therefore, when he heard that he might encounter a black storm if he stayed here for too long, William, who had been feeling reluctant after getting in the car, didn't say anything anymore. Now Chu Feng couldn't help wondering whether Captain Sangbu had the blood of the Rob people. It wasn't that he suddenly wentssip, but that Sangbu's sense of direction was too strong!So strong that Chu Feng could not help but associate him with the Rob people who claim to have the strongest sense of direction in history. Rob people, it is said that no matter where you drop him in the desert or the Rob wasteland, he can find his way home!It is because of this strong sense of direction that each of the Luobu people is a natural guide. More than 100 years ago, the ancient Loulan City and the Jingjue Ancient Kingdom were rediscovered. I don't know whether it is God deliberately making it difficult for them or Wang Cong really has a crow's mouth. At this time, a group of fuzzy gray shadows appeared in the distance in the sky, moving slowly towards this side. "No, the black storm is coming!" Wang Cong, who was holding the steering wheel, saw the image of that day, and his face turned pale instantly! This is the world-famous black storm, the black storm in Lop Nur, the black storm known as the death storm! It is said that for thousands of years, anyone who has encountered a black storm has a very small chance of surviving!When Faxian, an eminent monk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, he described its horror: "There are many evil ghosts and hot winds in the sand river. Those who meet will die, and none of them will be perfect..." Wang Cong and captain Sangbu have already encountered a black storm, and he still has lingering fears about the experience at that time, but although that time was very embarrassing, they survived after all.This time? ——Trust Captain Sambu, he will lead everyone to hide there!At this moment, Wang Cong only had complete trust in the captain. "Attention 02 and 03, there is a black storm ahead, we must change the direction of travel, you must follow closely, repeat, follow closely!" Sang Bu's voice was very calm.He didn't seem to take the threat of the black storm seriously. The center of the storm has a powerful power to destroy everything, and it is impossible to resist it.Sambu predicted the route of the center of the storm, and decided to take the convoy to avoid places where the center of the storm might pass, and tried his best to avoid it. His car turned quickly, and now he couldn’t follow the ruts of his predecessors. The danger of a flat tire was greatly increased, and the storm was behind him. 20,000 was very energetic, trying to avoid the hard saline-alkali shell, and take everyone away from the center of the storm as soon as possible. The black storm came faster than everyone imagined, and after only a few minutes, the edge of the storm had already caught up.Sitting on the back seat, Chu Feng felt as if the back half of the car had been lifted up, causing his body to lean forward and shake violently from side to side. Wang Cong felt that the steering wheel in his hand was becoming more and more uncontrollable, as if it had come to life and had its own consciousness, making troubles for him. "Hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up!" Wang Cong cheered himself up in his heart. Captain Sangbu in front had already gone far away. He was so nervous that his fingers turned white, and his eyes were fixed on the ruts of the Sangbu car in front of him. Try not to overthink yourself. Ling Ning wanted to vomit a long time ago, but she stubbornly held back.At this time, I can't make trouble. Everyone has taken good care of her because she is a girl. If I want to not be "discriminated against", I have to live up to it first!But she felt as if she had become a ping pong ball, being thrown into the air from time to time!The wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the car seems to be overturned at any time!Her stomach churned so badly that she couldn't help it. She hurriedly took out a plastic bag and vomited. 15 minutes have passed since the discovery of the black storm. Originally, the convoy was heading west. In order to avoid the storm from the southwest, Sambu turned around and drove north. However, there are no large dragon piles or sand dunes to shelter from the wind. What should I do? While trying to maintain the balance of the car, Sambu quickly thought about the terrain that could be used to shelter from the wind. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he saw the hope of life! With a destination, the speed will be faster. Sang Bu looked back at the two cars behind. Feng Xiang is okay, but he is following closely. What happened to Wang Cong, he gradually tended to fall behind! "02, 02, speed up, speed up." Originally, Wang Cong's car should be in the middle, but due to Lin William's delay in LB City, they fell behind.At this time, Wang Cong's inexperience and lack of mental quality were exposed.The more he lagged behind, the more anxious he became, and the more anxious he was, the less he could speed up.Just as Sambu was urging him to speed up, his car was almost overturned. "Ah!" William Lin's heart was beating wildly. At this time, their car was like a flat boat in the sea in a stormy sea.The rollover that tilted at an angle of 45 degrees just now almost made him think that his life was over! Fortunately, the place Sambu thought of was not far away. It was a big trench, which might also be left by a big earthquake.The trench is very deep, but from this direction, there is a small narrow soil slope protruding from the ground, allowing the convoy to hide there.It's below the ground, so it should be able to escape the storm! After Sangbu parked the car, he immediately jumped out of the car. Sure enough, the wind here was much less windy, and Feng Xiang's car drove in crookedly at this time.But he exposed half of his head and looked at the ground for a long time, but he didn't see the shadow of Wang Cong's car. Wang Cong really felt that it was difficult for him to walk. Because he was a few steps behind, he was swept by the edge of the storm. The car flew sideways for several meters. Fortunately, there were many people in the car and the weight was not light. When it landed, the car did not overturn. Everyone was false alarm After a game, he stopped urging him, but his own face flushed instantly. "Damn it, fight!" Wang Cong was no longer afraid at this time, and he no longer cared about the balance of the car. He had only one thought, and quickly brought everyone to the captain's side, to a safe place! Thinking about it this way, the speed of the car picked up, and the strange thing is that it was very stable, and there was no danger again, and it was smooth to see the figure of Sangbu trying to stand upright in the wind. Wang Cong stopped the car. After everyone got out of the car, he realized that he couldn't move.When Sangbu came over, Wang Cong saw his expressionless face and felt his heart pounding. He knew that his performance was terrible today, and he didn't know how the captain scolded him. "Hmm! It's not bad, I'll give you credit for bringing people out safely!" Unexpectedly, such words came out of Sangbu's mouth, and Wang Congxi was immediately stunned! "Captain! I, I'm not good!" When he came back to his senses, he returned this sentence. "Although your performance this time was not good, but with your age and experience, it's pretty good!" Sambu thought he was still guilty of falling behind.He actually said another word of comfort. "No, captain, my legs are weak and I can't move!" Wang Cong still bit the bullet and told the truth! "What?! You kid!" Sambu was speechless after hearing this! The discolored black storm did not cause much trouble to the people hiding in the ditch, but after the calm, everyone became "clay figurines" like Qin Shihuang's terracotta warriors. Sangbu looked at the sky, and he could not make it to the ground today.You might as well camp here.Let's talk about it tomorrow. The others had no doubts and quickly cleaned themselves up. Late at night, Chu Feng walked out of the tent wearing a military overcoat, and accidentally saw Sangbu standing there quietly looking up at the sky. "What? What bad weather will there be tomorrow?" Chu Feng saw that his brows were furrowed, thinking that he was worried about tomorrow's weather.Unexpectedly, Sangbu shook his head: "The weather will not be bad tomorrow, but I'm afraid I won't be able to find that place tomorrow!" Chu Feng was surprised: "Why?" "Such a big storm may change some of the landforms. I'm afraid that the road I remember will be different. Even the earth mountain where the stele is located may have been taken to another place by the storm!" Sangbu knew very well that there was everything in the desert. can happen. "That's it—" Chu Feng also lived in the desert back then, so he knows that this possibility is not impossible, "Don't worry about it, if you really can't find it, let's just assume that we have no fate with it this time! " The next morning everyone packed up and set off.After entering the desert area, the convoy did not get lost, and it went smoothly than expected. "It's right here! It's just over this hill. The car over there can't get through, and you have to work your legs." Wang Cong asked everyone to get out of the car while putting the gear on. This place is a certain distance away from the Lop Nur Lake Basin. Over this hill is an endless desert. This is a very interesting place in the Taklamakan Desert. It is called the Fascinating Desert by the local villagers. You can see a beautiful mirage!It is said that there lives a beautiful and charming goddess (some say it is a banshee), and she likes to keep people with her most.It is said that as soon as people enter, they will be so fascinated that they will lose their souls inside. Fortunately, Sambu's worry last night did not become a reality.The convoy walked around the hill from the south, and when they looked up, they saw the huge stone tablet! Looking at it on the spot here, it is much more shocking than looking at the photos. The stone tablet, which is nearly 30 meters high, is half embedded in the back of the big mountain bag that I saw when I came here.The mountain bag is located at the junction of the saline desert and the desert.The strong wind blew the yellow sand and kept attacking the hill. I don't know how many years passed, and most of the hill was wiped away. Now only half of the cliff is left, which is tightly nestled with the stone tablet. Due to the limited time, everyone quickly got used to the shock brought by the tall stele, and immediately split up. Chu Feng and Da Qi climbed up the hill, ready to hang themselves in mid-air from top to bottom, and take a closer look at the stele The words and patterns on the stele, while others worked together to start digging the arched earth bag at the bottom of the stele. At this time, the sun was westward and the temperature was still high. Chu Feng was sweating profusely after hanging in mid-air for a while, but his hard work was not in vain. Looking at it from a close distance, he really found something unusual. "Hey! William, see if you can hand me my computer!" Chu Feng shouted at Lin William excitedly after discovering the special feature of the stele.As soon as William heard this, he put down the shovel he was holding and climbed up the mountain bag. When he climbed up, he opened the notebook that Chu Feng had left on the cliff, tied it with a rope, and let Chu Feng hang it down bit by bit. Da Qi fixed the rope hanging Chu Feng down by the cliff, and saw that Chu Feng had reached down twice but couldn't reach the notebook, so he shook his head: "Get out of the way, I'll do it!" Climbing down the rope, he grabbed the notebook and handed it to Chu Feng who was swinging around: "You, trapeze player, are doing pretty well!" Chu Feng knew that he was mocking himself, and he hadn't mastered his balance for so long, but he didn't care to fight back. When he found something, he quickly scanned the computer at the stele, and then fixed his body with one leg, keeping Balanced, the other leg is crossed, put the computer on the lap, and just "crackling" the keyboard.With that focused look, it seemed that he was not suspended at a height of more than 20 meters, but in front of his own desk.Unbeknownst to him, many people on the ground broke into a cold sweat for him.