Chapter 27 Chapter 27 The First Rain

At that moment, I thought in a daze that I was going to die, and I had already accepted my fate, thinking that death was like this feeling, and that was not bad. I was so confused, and I don't know how long this blurred state lasted. Slowly, I felt as if something was slapping my face. This feeling was very far away, but it became clear bit by bit. stand up. Then consciousness began to recover, and I gradually regained consciousness.At first, it was just a vague feeling that my body had come back. Later, when my consciousness became clear, I gradually felt my surroundings. The first thing I felt was cold, very cold. Walking all the way in the Devil City, the mental depression and the low clouds made me very stuffy. The coolness around here is very comfortable, as if I was immersed in a bathtub of ice water .

Then I found that the feeling of chapped lips was gone, and my lips were cool, as if something cold was drilling into my mouth.I took a sip, then another lick, and another lick, only to find that it was water! Is someone saving me!I was ecstatic in my heart, my body had responded at this time, I sucked desperately, moved my lips with my greatest strength, little by little, I felt a coldness begin to enter my internal organs. After drinking the water, I fell into a deep sleep again. The moment I lost consciousness, I seemed to hear a few familiar voices talking, but I couldn't hear them clearly, and I didn't have the strength to pay attention, and I lost consciousness again in an instant.

When I woke up again, I felt that I had slept for a long time, and all kinds of senses came back together, hearing, touch, my strength began to recover, and my consciousness became more and more clear, and finally I opened my eyes. The first thing that caught my eyes was a big rough face, very familiar, smirking at me. When I saw this face, I immediately felt that something was wrong, and I couldn't figure out why I felt this way.Who is this?I closed my eyes and thought for a while, searching the faces of those Tibetan drivers, who drove the 876?no.The one who drives the water truck?Nor is it.

After much deliberation, I couldn't figure out who this person was from the team, and then I was shocked, and immediately realized why, no, this is not someone from the team, this is... huh?Isn't this face Fatty Wang? My mind tightened a bit, huh?Fatty Wang?How could he appear here?impossible?He has already returned to Beijing. Am I dreaming?Hallucinating? He opened his eyes again, and it was still the familiar fat face with stubble, a little older than when he was in Beijing, just staring at me, and getting closer. I closed my eyes again, feeling abnormal, no, no, it couldn't be Fatty Wang, even if I dreamed, I wouldn't dream of him.

I gritted my teeth hard and opened my eyes for the third time. At this time, my mind was very clear. I saw that it was indeed Fatty Wang. He lit a cigarette and turned his head to say something behind him.My ears were still unclear, so I couldn't hear what he was saying. Then, I saw another person poking his head over, which was also very familiar. It turned out to be Pan Zi. What's going on, I frowned, thinking that I didn't enter the Gobi at all, or was I in Hangzhou?Everything before was just a dream of mine? Recalling the things we encountered, a lot of memories flooded up, we encountered sandstorms, cars broke down, people disappeared, shipwrecks embedded in the mounds... everything is very real, absolutely impossible to be a dream.

At this time, my ears regained their hearing, and I heard Pan Zi say: "Little San Ye, how do you feel?" I arched my back hard and wanted to sit up, but Pan Zi came up to help me.I sat up and breathed a sigh of relief, and saw the surrounding situation. It seemed to be a cave with a bonfire inside. I saw several sleeping bags and equipment thrown around. It was dark outside the cave, and it was obviously already night. At the same time, I saw Poker Bottle sitting on the edge of the bonfire, cooking something, while Aning was lying in a sleeping bag on the other side and hadn't woken up yet.

I gradually realized that I was not dreaming. "What's going on here?" I massaged my temples and asked Pan Zi, "Why are you here? Am I dreaming? Am I dead?" "It's not dead, it's almost dead." The fat man said beside him, "If it wasn't for your fat man and my sharp eyes, I wouldn't be able to see this thing. By then, you would already be stinking." I saw the fat man playing with a few copper coins, and I knew it was Aning's mark, but I still couldn't figure it out. "Then why are you here?" I wondered. "We have been following your team." Pan Zidao, pointing to Poker Bottle, "You don't know, in fact, after you entered the Gobi, the third master's team immediately followed. Every campsite of yours, this little brother If you leave a mark to guide us, we will maintain a one-stop gap with you and stay behind."

"What?" I didn't understand Pan Zi's words, "Mark? Behind us...he..." Pan Zidao: "This is the plan of the third master. This little brother and the black blind man were both arranged by the third master to cooperate with the foreigner. The purpose is to sneak into the team. Because the third master said that the matter has reached this point, and he wants to figure out Jude Kao. The real purpose is no longer possible, he can only use this method, like what Jude Kao did back then, to break into the interior to understand the situation. I really didn't expect that you would get in too. If I knew this, the third master would just invite you directly. "

I was still a little confused, and it took me a long time to understand Pan Zi's words: "Wait, wait, what, my third uncle? You mean my third uncle has planned all these? Then...you?" "We were ready in Golmud, and our people in Dunhuang have been preparing for nearly half a month. As soon as your team set off, we followed behind. At that time, this little brother left a message telling us that you were in the team , the third master was taken aback. Little third master, you are really serious, didn’t the third master tell you not to wade into this muddy water again? Why are you still here? "

I took a deep breath, and suddenly felt very weak. Damn, I said to myself that this time I really didn't expect that... that black glasses came all the way to take care of me like this... It seems that it is my third uncle's face... Pan Zi continued: "You are inside, and the third master has to worry about your safety, so he asked the black blind man to remind you. This time the scene is very big, Jude Kao is still missing, thinking that this time he will get rid of the third master. , I didn’t expect that we had already planned it.” "What about my third uncle?" I looked around, but there was no sign of my third uncle.

"The third master is behind us, and we have a short way to go. This time we have a lot of people, and there are so many people that it is difficult to follow. Fatty Wang and I will lead the way, follow you all the way, and then leave marks for the third master along the way." , I just didn’t expect that something would happen when you got here.” Only then did my thinking become clear, and I immediately remembered that when I had a long talk with Poker Face that night, he said that he was on my side and told me not to worry, so that was what he meant.It turned out that this was Uncle San's plan. This, I really didn't think of this level. It seems that the old fox is really an old fox, and I am really not qualified to fight with the third uncle. "It's your fate, we've been with you all this time, or you'd be dried out now." The fat man next to him said, "You still want to do this job with your physique, I think you should go back and work hard. Your little business." I asked Pan Zi, "Why is he here?" Pan Zi said that Changsha's buddies and masters all went to other people's homes, and now the third master has brought in a new batch of newcomers, who don't have enough experience, so inviting him to support the scene is also an old price. The fat man said: "What? You don't like me anymore? Tell you, I got you back." I quickly waved my hands, and my heart suddenly felt at ease. After all, the third uncle's people are like family members, they are my own people, and I don't have to be on guard for everything.Moreover, I am used to working with these people, knowing their abilities, the happiest thing is that Poker Bottle is really on our side, then everything will be fine. Just now the fat man was feeding me water, I gradually regained my strength, so I drank a few sips by myself, they didn't let me drink more, they said they needed to replenish water slowly. Seeing that Aning didn't respond, I didn't know what was going on, so I asked Pan Zi if she was okay. Pan Zi said: "Don't worry, your lover's physique is better than yours. You have woken up once, and now you have eaten something and fell asleep again. This is not a desert, you just passed out from dehydration, not sunburn, add some salt water, Get some sleep and get some sleep." Pan Zi teased me, probably because he saw that Aning and I were disheveled, and I didn't have the strength to refute him, so he ignored it.Although my body was a little weak at this time, my spirit was quite good. I got up and ate something, and asked what kind of hole it was, and how they found us at that time. Pan Zi told me that this place is still in Devil City, in a cave in a rocky mountain, which was discovered by Fatty.After the accident happened, Tashi and the others fled to the place where the car broke down outside. After we waited for a long time and didn’t come out, Tashi thought that Aning and I didn’t know how to look at the Arabian stone piles, and now we don’t know that we were killed. Still lost. Immediately, Poker-Face sent a signal to them with the mirror, and they rushed up, leaving behind the black glasses to take care of the rest, and Poker-Face came in with Pan Zi to find us. I asked how they found us in such a big place. Pan Zi said that this place is a bit evil. The order of these stone mountains seems to be designed. They just followed their feelings. In fact, the route they took was exactly the same as ours. Ning's mark, all the way to find us down in the sand. Speaking of this, I felt lingering fear, and nodded hurriedly: "Indeed, it seems that no matter how you go to this shitty place, you can't reach the end, but it's not like you're going back. I don't know what's going on." I felt nervous again, and said So now we are still in the devil city, no, we still can't get out? "We're not as stupid as you. We left marks along the way, so don't worry." Pan Zi said. The fat man also said: "The marks I put up are all such big stones that can be seen from a distance of one kilometer, and I can see the reason why I can't get out." "Oh." I breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Why is that?" Pan Zi said, we didn't know at the beginning, but the fat man was really powerful, and he really saw it. Let me tell you the truth, we are no longer in the original devil city, here is at least one hour away from the original devil city. One hundred and fifty kilometers.This is a huge Yadan landform group, composed of more than a dozen small devil cities, with the Gobi in the middle, and all the devil cities are connected by rocky mountains, connected end to end, forming a huge chain of devil cities.You just follow this chain, which is 3,600 square kilometers. Can you go out? I shook my head: "Impossible, how could it be such a coincidence? I just walked in any direction, and there was no deviation at all?" The fat man said: "If you say you are stupid, you still don't admit it. Which direction you go is designed by others. That's because there are a lot of stones in this devil city, and these stones are placed very carefully. When crossing a rocky mountain, there are many stones on one side and few stones on the other side, but because the stones are disorderly, you can’t tell which side is easy to walk and which side is difficult to walk in an instant. direction, and the conditioned reflex chooses that direction. As a result, you have been walking in the direction designed for you by others in this devil city. Moreover, this is the case at almost every intersection. Even if there is a wrong judgment at one intersection, you take There are still countless opportunities to be corrected. This kind of tactic was very common in ancient times, and it was named by a very simple working people, and it was called Qimen Dunjia." After speaking, he looked at Poker Bottle, "Brother, I Are you right?" Poker-Face looked up at us, ignored him, and looked at the fire, as if he had something on his mind. I laughed and said, "Since when did you understand Qimen Dunjia?" The fat man said that there are many things you don't know, and the expression on his face is quite smug.I thought to myself that this guy might be learning and selling now, so he retracted the topic and asked the fat man, "Then you mean, in this devil city, someone used these broken stones to put on a trick?" The fat man nodded: "That's the thing, but it's not a high-level formation. If you meet someone who is careless or has a particularly careful observation ability, you will definitely be able to find it. Seeing that these stones have been here for a long time, it is estimated that this was a battlefield. The Queen Mother of the West should be a master of spells, and these stones are for defense." Speaking of this, Aning's voice came from the sleeping bag, and she said softly: "You are not right, the Queen Mother of the West is the creator of the Qimen Dunjia. The divine book that the Yellow Emperor got back then was given to him by the Queen Mother of the West. When it comes to Qimen Dunjia, she is the ancestor." It turned out that this woman was not asleep, we were all taken aback, and I immediately remembered the legend of the Nine Heavens Profound Girl, and my heart was horrified.This is indeed the case. The legends and some historical records of the year all say that the Yellow Emperor unified the Central Plains at that time with the great help of the Queen Mother of the West. Thinking about the ancient boat again, I thought that this place must have been a shallow lake back then. These rocky mountains were exposed on the water, and the underwater rocks would ground the boat, so the boatman would choose places with fewer hidden reefs in the water, and it would be easier to get lost. It may also be the reason why the Queen Mother of the West has not been discovered for so many years. Thinking of this, my eyelids twitched suddenly, and I said to Pan Zi, "You mean the Devil City here is a ring?" Pan Zi nodded, and I asked, "How do you know?" Pan Zi shook his head: "That's what our guide said. What's wrong?" I excitedly drew a circle in the sand: "You don't know, I read Wen Jin's notes, she said that the Queen Mother of the West is protected by an invisible city wall, which cannot be seen by others, but if you touch it, you will definitely die. Will look back. Here, thousands of years ago, it should be full of water, that is to say, there is a water belt here, which is like a moat, surrounded by a circle. If we assume that this protection belt is that others cannot enter, it is covered The "invisible city wall" of the ancient city of Xiwangmu has been built for so many years, so the country of Xiwangmu should be within this circle, that is, in the middle of this devil city circle." After I finished speaking, everyone looked at me indifferently, as if they were looking at a fool. I was looked at inexplicably, I spread my hands and said, "I'm not right?" Pan Zi patted me on the shoulder and said, "Little San Ye, we would have guessed what you said without reading Wen Jin's notes, but if the situation were really that simple, then the ancient city of Queen Mother of the West would have been discovered long ago. Here is The Qaidam Basin is not the Taklamakan. Although it is inaccessible here, it has undergone countless geological investigations. Therefore, if the ghost town is here, the situation must be very special. It is very likely that the whole thing is buried under the Gobi, or it is located in the desert. In a situation that is difficult for others to see. You think you can see it when you are there, so stupid and naive." As soon as I thought about it, I asked them, what is their plan? Pan Zi said that they originally planned to follow Aning's team until they arrived at Tamutuo, but now that they got here, there was such a big accident.However, according to Dingzhu Zhuoma, on the west side of the devil city, walking along the ancient river bed for two days is the rock pass where she and Wenjin's team parted.After we recover, he plans to go there to rest and wait for the third uncle's team.After that, I planned to go downstream along the river, because the ancient city must be near the river, and the team must have walked in the same way back then, and we can try our luck like this. I said to Pan Zi: "But the ancient river channel has basically been mixed with the Gobi at this point, so I can't see it clearly." "Don't worry about that." The fat man said, pointing to the dark outside. We were at the bottom of the cave. We didn't know what he meant, so we walked out. As soon as we got to the entrance of the cave, a cold and damp breath rushed towards us, and then I heard a very familiar voice. It was pitch black outside, and I couldn't tell what was going on, but I was very familiar with this situation, but for a moment I couldn't believe what I thought. When I walked out of the cave, my face was hit by water droplets in an instant, and I realized that I thought, fuck it, it’s raining outside. But how is this possible?This is the Gobi Desert. It may only rain once a year here, and it is definitely not this season. I walked back and I said, "What the hell is going on, why is it raining?" Pan Zi said: "Little Sanye, you have to thank the rain, otherwise you will be a salted fish before we come over. When we found you, the rain had already started to fall, and now the outside is full of water, you can walk away Don’t go out, otherwise we will go out with you on our backs, and it’s uncomfortable to stay here. After the rain, the old river will definitely be full of water. Going downstream, even if we can’t see the river, the water can know it, so you Do not worry." At this time, I thought of what Dingzhu Dolma said to me: the time is coming, and if you miss it, you can only wait another five years. I wonder if it refers to this rain? The more I think about it, the more unreliable it becomes, but seeing that Poker Bottle didn't speak, there should be no problem, so I feel relieved a lot. Afterwards, I went to rest, and this time I didn't sleep well, and when I woke up the next day, I thought I was dreaming again. In this cave, we rested for two days, and Aning and I both recovered.Ah Ning is familiar with Fatty. After all, it was Pan Zi and the others who saved her. She didn't say anything, but she suddenly became very indifferent to me. Maybe she thought that I was also arranged by my third uncle and lied to her. I don't care either, I said in my heart that I almost died, and I still care about this matter.We set off on the third day. Following the marks, we waded in water up to our ankles. We walked in the rain for two days. We walked back outside first, and had a round with the black glasses.The people outside were already in despair. They couldn't believe their eyes when they saw that we came out safely. Pan Zi rested outside for another day, and he suggested that I stay here and wait for my third uncle to arrive before deciding whether to go in or not. However, at this time, I felt ashamed to see my third uncle, and the message given to me by the Lord Dolma made me determined to find Wenjin. Counting that we didn't have much time, I insisted on fighting with Pan Zi. pioneer. Aning on one side also arranged his own team, and most of them wanted to go back. The condition of the Caucasians was very bad. The team doctor said that when the third uncle's team arrived, they had to borrow a car and go back immediately.Aning made some arrangements and told Pan Zi that she would also join us, so her team was also the first one. There was no problem with Aning's joining, and Pan Zi couldn't resist me. Besides, we had a car on this section of the road, and it wasn't a dangerous section, so we agreed.I happen to be in the same car with Fatty, Pan Zi, Poker-Face, and Aning, and the black glasses are waiting for my third uncle here. In the next two days, we walked deeper and deeper in the Gobi along the river bed where the water level gradually increased.Because of the erosion of the rain, many tributaries appeared in the riverbed, and we searched for them one by one. However, no matter how we looked, we did not see the rocky mountain.My binoculars were cracked, and I finally began to wonder if the mountain had turned into a sea of ​​water. The rain stopped before we set off, and we finally rested on the edge of the river bed. The tires of the car were worn out very badly, and one of them was broken later. The fat man said: "Could it be that the old woman is talking nonsense, and there is no such mountain at all? Or is it not a mountain at all? Maybe it is a mound, which has been blown away by the wind for more than ten years?" I don't think so, Dingzhu Zhuoma doesn't look like a liar, maybe the direction of the ancient river has changed. "Then what should we do? If we go any further, we'll run out of gas, and we'll have enough time to walk back." "The place where drinking water can gather is the lowest part of the entire plain. There should be a lake there. Should we find that lake first? Then start looking for traces of the river course from the lake, so that we can at least narrow down the scope." Thinking about it, we had no choice but to continue on our way. When we drove up a slope, Pan Zi suddenly cursed and slammed on the brakes. We all bumped into the front cushions, the fat man yelled, and before he could finish, several of us were stunned. The other side of the slope turned out to be a cliff. The front of our car had rushed out, and two tires had been vacated. We got out of the car in fear, walked to the edge of the cliff, and found a huge basin in front of us, surrounded by smoke, a huge oasis sunken in the Gobi!