Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Sand Sea Shipwreck

In the tens of seconds after the signal flare, we were all stunned.Everyone looked at the huge thing, and their minds went blank.We didn't react until the signal flare went out, and then all the flashlights shone in that direction. Fragmentary light cannot reveal the whole picture of that thing. Under the light of the flashlight, we can only know that there is something there, but it also looks blurry.If there was no impression from the signal flare just now, we would definitely not notice something strange when the flashlight swept across it.And we can't really see clearly from the bottom up.

"What is this?" Tashi said to himself. No one can say what it is, I can only be sure that it is the remains of an ancient wooden object, just the remains of no one knows what.At first glance, it looked like a huge coffin, but upon closer inspection, it was found that the shape was wrong, and it seemed to be the wreckage of a building.However, I have never seen such an oddly shaped building. "Climb up and have a look!" We didn't know who said it before we realized it.A few of them wanted to climb up the slope, so I quickly stopped them and said, "Don't mess around, calm down, it's so high, and it's a mound, so you can't just climb up it casually. It would be bad if there was an accident." gone."

Aning also nodded and said: "Yes, those three people haven't been found yet. We've searched down here and found no clues, so it's very likely that they are up there. There is no movement at all. There must be something wrong. Maybe there is something wrong up here If there is any danger, we have to be careful. Let me go up first to see if it is easier to climb, then you can go up again." As she spoke, she put the flashlight in her belt and asked us to light her up, and she prepared to climb up. At this time Tashi stopped her and said, "Don't move, I'll do it. There's no reason for a woman to do this kind of thing. I've climbed a lot of this kind of mound before, and I'm definitely more experienced than you." Ning responded, bit the dagger, jumped up the mound, then used the dagger as a climbing pick, and began to climb up.

He moves quickly, and his posture is as agile as a monkey.We shone our flashlights on him with little effort.We just watched him crawl under the huge object.He found a place to stand firmly, and gestured to us, meaning that it was not difficult to climb, and then he used his flashlight to shine on that thing. Below we can only see his movements, and we can't see what he showed. I was very anxious, and the team doctor asked: "What is that?" "I don't know." Tashi's voice came from above.I saw him scratching his head on it, uttered a sentence in Tibetan, and then said, "God, this... seems like a boat."

"Boat?" We looked at each other.Tashi yelled again: "It's really a boat! Climb up and see for yourself." As soon as he finished talking about Aning, he climbed up. I moved clumsily and followed Aning.The team doctor was too fat, and slipped down after climbing a few times.We let him stay below, don't mess around, and it's over when he falls to his death, and then moved closer to Tashi. The soil slope is really not difficult to climb, it is a bit steep, although the soil is very soft, but the top is very uneven, and there are many places where you can stay.We imitated Tashi's use of a dagger as a climbing pick, and leaned over after three strikes, five divisions and two.

I crawled to Tashi's side on all hands and feet, it was very cold up here.I stepped on a few protruding dirt bumps, slipped a bit, stood firm, and looked at the thing.But I was far away, and my sight was covered by Tashi, so I couldn't tell whether the boat was real or not. I moved a bit to squeeze out a place for myself, and then I could see clearly.Under Zhaxi's flashlight, an ancient wreck was embedded in the mound, only half was exposed, and the other half was deeply inserted into the mound. Judging from the shape, it was indeed an ancient shipwreck. Aning lit a cold firework and threw it on the sinking ship.At this time, the surrounding area lit up, and I found that the degree of disintegration of the sunken ship was extremely eye-catching, almost fused with the mud, and the wooden hull was completely broken and charred.There was also a huge crack on one side of the wooden boat, which seemed to be empty, and I could see the mud in it, but the deepest part was dark and hard to see.

I turned my head and looked at the surrounding landscape, thinking this was a big discovery.This place used to be an ancient river channel. This shipwreck sank in the ancient river channel and was wrapped in mud.Unexpectedly, in the vicissitudes of life, the river in ancient times turned into a Gobi, and the mound surrounding the shipwreck was so much higher than the ground. Aning climbed to the side of the ancient boat and shone a flashlight on the crack, revealing a lot of mud and things wrapped in the mud.In the mud, you can also see many things like clay pots. Aning said: "This seems to be a cargo ship going to the Western Regions for trade. These are their goods. This is a shocking discovery. Many people still believe that there is no waterway transportation in the Western Regions."

In ancient times, this was the more sinister one of the seventeen Silk Roads, and the countries of the Western Regions were distributed on this barren land, which was the middle ground of the trade between Arab civilization and Chinese civilization.In the past, the countless rivers here were very busy. I don’t know how many cloths and silks reached the west through these rivers. It is said that the royal families of the Western Regions can still eat watermelons from the Central Plains.At that time, the river course here was ever-changing, and many business travelers ran aground and sank because of the diversion of the ancient river. At least a thousand desert shipwrecks were buried deep in the desert here. However, because the desert changed too frequently, it was almost impossible to find it. .

The team doctor couldn't see anything below, so he yelled anxiously: "What did you see? Are those three people up there?" Tashi yelled a few times to answer him, but the team doctor couldn't hear what he said again. At this time, I suddenly thought of the Caucasians. Maybe they also climbed up to check the sunken ship because they saw it.I've searched all over the bottom, but I didn't find anyone, so they should be on the top.But I just looked at the surrounding cliffs, and there was no one. Where did these three people go? Apart from the shipwreck, there is no other place to hide people on the rock wall here. Are those three people inside the shipwreck?

At this time, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and it became darker all of a sudden. We all found a place to stand firm.I asked Aning to turn on the walkie-talkie and look for the location of the signal. Aning took out the walkie-talkie, and as soon as he turned it on, the voice rang out very clearly.She waved it, and the signals were almost the same.Then Tashi pointed to the boat and asked her to try aiming at the ancient boat.Aning stretched over, and as soon as we approached the crack of the ancient ship, we really heard an extremely clear voice coming from the walkie-talkie. We looked at each other and felt incredible. It seemed that the signal really came from this ancient shipwreck.

Tashi looked at the crack and said, "What the hell, did those three idiots crawl into it?" The crack is very wide, and people can indeed climb into it, but I don't know if the space inside can accommodate them.We took photos with a flashlight and found that the inside of the boat was very deep, and the innermost part was very dark.I yelled several times, but no one answered. "what to do?" "It may be that they went in, but came out again, and then dropped the walkie-talkie inside." Aning said, "It is also possible that they had an accident inside." "Then how did that sound come from?" I asked. "No one can answer this for you, but you can find out if you go in and have a look." Aning gave me a wink, and then put down the backpack, as if to let me and her get in and have a look. Tashi is the guide, we must preserve our strength.Here, Aning and I have relatively normal body shapes, and I can't say no.She took off her coat, bit the dagger and crawled into the crevice waist first. Once inside, the mud on the boat kept falling down, but fortunately, the hull was relatively strong.After she entered, she paused for a few seconds, stabilized herself, and then Tashi handed her the flashlight.Then I also took off my coat and climbed in. The opening was just right enough for me to climb in, but it was wider inside than I thought.I went in clumsily, and found that the inside was completely a muddy world, with dry mud all over my head, and I couldn't sit up, but could only crawl forward.Originally, there should be a lot of space in this cabin, but now it is basically filled with mud. In fact, we are in a mud hole. Ah Ning was on the walkie-talkie, and at this moment he was clearly making a sneer-like voice.That voice is especially loud here.Seeing the darkness inside the cabin, my heart rose to my throat.What exactly is making that sound? Aning used a side crawling posture inside, which is the kind of movement of soldiers dragging their guns and crawling forward.She walked forward with one hand, and with the other hand she started to shine a flashlight around.Panting heavily to imitate her, I also started to use my flashlight to illuminate the mud around me. It was really all mud, except for sporadic pieces of wood embedded in the mud. I felt like I was in a tunnel battle scene. These must be the mud that poured in from the breach after the ship sank.At that time, the ship should not have completely sunk, so the mud did not fill the entire cabin.The goods under these mud should be the goods at that time. I don't know what was transported inside. After climbing seven or eight meters inside, we could hear the strange sound directly.Without the filter of the walkie-talkie, the voice sounds a little different, coming from the innermost part of the cabin, very soft.Ah Ning paused, turned off the walkie-talkie, and crawled towards the direction of the voice. I distanced myself slightly from her, giving her room to back off.Before climbing a few steps, Ah Ning screamed and stopped.I also hurriedly climbed over, poked her sideways, and saw a hole the size of a round table on the mud-covered "deck" at the end of the cabin, which seemed to have collapsed.There is still space below, and I took a flashlight to shine down, and the bottom is a mess, full of soil clods that have fallen from above, and a person is buried in it, only the upper body is exposed. I took a photo with a flashlight and found that it was one of the missing people. His face was covered in mud and his face was blue. He didn't know whether he was dead or alive.The sneer-like voice came from the mound below. "It's really inside!" I yelled, thinking that these people are too good at playing.I screamed and squeezed forward, trying to go down and dig him out. Unexpectedly, when I yelled suddenly, the sneer-like voice disappeared immediately, and the whole cabin suddenly became quiet. The silence startled me, and my hands and feet stopped involuntarily. Then I thought, just now we were discussing that the sound was their distress signal, but now I yelled, and the sound stopped, obviously someone heard my cry, so they stopped sending out the signal.There are two possibilities for this. One is that he thinks that rescue is already around, and there is no need to make such a sound to attract us; the other is that when he heard us coming, he lost his faith and lost consciousness. No matter what kind it is, we must get him out immediately, especially the latter one. I know that many people who call for help lose their will to survive just before they are saved, and their success falls short. Aning and I thought the same, she asked me to light her, climbed over, and then carefully turned over and slid into the hole.I followed, but Aning told me not to come down, but to respond from above. Tashi heard my yelling from outside and yelled at us to ask what was going on inside.I told him to wait until I see clearly. In this position, it can be seen more clearly.Below the hole should be the second storey of the ancient ship, or the hold.It is generally used to place some easily damaged things, because the shaking at the bottom will not be very violent.There is not much space in the bilge, and it is all mud, but the degree of erosion is far less than where I stay.I can basically imagine that this is the interior of a ship. I can see that there are a lot of clay pots mixed in the mud, which should be cargo. I don't know what is inside. After Ah Ning went down, he immediately pushed away the clods on the man's body, and then put his hand on his neck to feel his pulse. I hurriedly asked: "How is it?" Aning visibly trembled, turned her head and shook her head at me, indicating that it was over. I sigh.Aning started digging the clods, quickly dug out the man, and dragged him aside vigorously.At this time, I found another person appeared in the excavated soil clod.I saw hair and a hand. Aning continued to dig, but this person was buried more firmly.She dug for a while and there was no improvement. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I jumped down to help.As soon as I touched the man's hand, my heart sank, knowing that there was no way, the man's hand was cold and dead. It took us a lot of effort to dig him out and drag him aside.Beneath the man, I saw the pale face of a Caucasian man, crouched and staring, with his hand outstretched, holding a walkie-talkie and maintaining a stiff gesture as if trying to crawl out of it come out. Looks like he was the one sending the signal, I thought, seeing the walkie-talkie. I pulled him out, Aning touched his neck again, his face changed, "he's still alive!" He immediately untied the Caucasian man's clothes, then gave him CPR, and yelled at me at the same time: "Tell me!" Tashi, ask the team doctor to prepare for rescue, someone was buried and suffocated." Then he went to give artificial respiration to the Caucasian. I hurriedly got up and yelled to the outside. When Zhaxi heard it, he immediately yelled at the team doctor under the mound.I turned my head and saw the Caucasian twitch, wince, and began to vomit at the same time, but apparently regained his breath. "Go up and take over!" Aning said to me in an unquestionable tone, the tone was very flat, but full of majesty. I froze for a moment, and was suddenly shocked by her expression, and followed her instructions like a conditioned reflex.Then Aning quickly took off his clothes, tied them to the Caucasian man, made a simple stretcher, threw the sleeves of the clothes to me, and told me to use force. I gritted my teeth on the top and pulled it up vigorously, while she lifted her feet below and lifted the Caucasian up.Then, all the way back, I yanked him out of the wreck's crevasse. Tashi outside is already preparing.As soon as the Caucasian was dragged out, Tashi put the tall Caucasian on his back, buckled it with a belt, and climbed down.I was exhausted enough, and while helping Aning out of it, I followed while panting, protecting Tashi, and then climbed down bit by bit. After a lot of effort, I saw Tashi almost fall several times. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough to hold his body with the dagger every time.After finally climbing to the bottom of the mound, the team doctor had prepared everything. We put the Caucasian on the ground, and the team doctor was ready to rescue him immediately. But as soon as he tore off the Caucasian's clothes, he suddenly twitched and grabbed the team doctor's clothes.We hurried over and held him down.The team doctor took off his coat, and I felt sick for a while. I saw that the inside of his thermal coat was already covered with blood, and it seemed that he had trauma. The team doctor used scissors to cut open his inner underwear again. When he lifted the bloody cloth, he cried out: "Oh my God." At this time, I almost threw up.On the stomach of the Caucasian man, there were tiny blood holes one after another, not much blood flowed, the holes were very small, but densely packed, there were twenty or thirty of them. "What kind of wound is this?" Tashi asked. The team doctor shook his head: "I don't know, it seems to be... pierced by something, something like a screwdriver. But why is the clothes not torn? Didn't you notice it at the scene?" We all shook our heads. In fact, it was so chaotic at the time, we really didn't notice his belly, but we can be sure that there are no holes in his clothes.It should not be the trauma caused by the collapse. Now we can't control so much, the team doctor asked us to help hold him down, bandaged him first, then checked him briefly, injected him with something, and finally took out a small oxygen bag for him to inhale.Probably because of that injection, the Caucasian slowly calmed down. After doing this, we were already sweating all over. The team doctor wiped the sweat and asked us to find a way.This man is very weak now, we can't take him out, but those relatively large equipment are in the car outside and need to be moved in. In addition, we need tents and sleeping bags to keep him warm, and we can take him out after he stabilizes. Only Tashi here knew how to look at his pile of stones, so he said he was going to get them, and called some people to come in and help.It took a long time for us to walk in, but it was much faster to get out. I said to go with him, but he said no, it was faster for him alone, and I was here to take care of multiple people. After speaking, he ran away.The team doctor untied Aning's clothes on the Caucasian and returned them to her, then took out the thermal cloth in the backpack to keep several important parts of the Caucasian warm. I lit the smokeless stove, increased the flame, put it aside, and warmed a few people. At the same time, I took out the shochu, all of which were used to drive out the cold.We were sweating all over just now, the night in the Gobi is quite cold, and it is easy to get sick. When the fire started, it illuminated the surrounding area and immediately warmed up.The team doctor continued to treat the wound of the Caucasian, and Aning and I stepped aside, and all the fatigue of several hours came out at once.I sat on a big rock to drink water, Aning put on his clothes, and we both had muddy faces, very embarrassed.I gave her a wry smile, but saw her leaning against the mound with a tired face, fiddling with the walkie-talkie, seeming quite frustrated. I thought of her aura just now, and I thought it was really not easy. She was able to be so capable on such occasions as a woman, and I guess she was forced to do so. It is really sad to think that a woman should be so strong. But it's strange to say that she doesn't look like she is short of money, and she doesn't look happy doing this kind of thing.Why on earth did she have to work hard for Jude Kao?Moreover, she has worked so hard to such an extent that I really can't figure it out. I will ask her carefully in the future when I have a chance. After drinking a few sips of water, I thought it would be convenient, so I went around in a circle and put water under the mound. This group of people in the desert is like this, and I am used to it. I was peeing, and suddenly I heard a weird sneer from behind the stone on one side. The voice was exactly the same as what I heard on the walkie-talkie just now, and it made me feel cold all over.I turned my head to look at the stone, and thought to myself, could I have hallucinated from hearing this voice all the time?