Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-Five

The man shook his head and said, "How did we get here? We didn't come here, we are here." The man pointed to the sand dune outside the car and said, "This was originally a factory, there are Lots of houses, lots of tents. I don't know why the higher ups sent us here, it's been so long and I can't remember the details. Thirty years, I just remember we were on a mission and we belonged to this place A permanent convoy that transports supplies between another plant and here." "These are trucks, of course I know they are for transporting things." Li Cuo said.

"It's not that simple, because we are transporting in both directions. Most of the things we transport here from factories outside are living supplies and gasoline, but most of them are strange containers." The man said, "Then It's a lot of strange containers, full of rivets. When we shipped them in, they were all empty, but when we shipped them out, they were full, full of things. "There is no doubt that the things in these containers should have been produced in this desert. But I can't ask what that thing is, because when I asked, the higher-ups said that this is a top-secret mission, and we are only responsible for Transportation. Each of our cars has a security commissioner. If our car overturns in a place where there are people, this commissioner will take out a gun and prevent any people nearby from approaching. We have to wait until our own people come over. We Things are shipped out from here every day, non-stop.

"One time we shipped out a batch of strange containers from here, and when we came back again, we found that the factory here was closed, and then we were on standby at our own logistics base, and there have been no new tasks. My intuition tells I, there must be something wrong. Even if we don’t transport goods out, our resources and water will be exhausted here. We always have to go out and bring in some resources. But it’s very strange, we haven’t received the mission, and we’ve been on standby , there has been no order from above. "Our cars are an independent car company. Later, our daily supplies were gone. We were sure that we had nothing to eat, so we asked our superiors. We called the factory, and the person who answered the phone answered the phone and said nothing. Don’t tell me, we don’t know what to do. Because the matter is so important, are so many of us going to starve to death here, so we all discussed it together. At that time, I thought it was strange. What do the people in the factory eat? I didn’t see them come out to explain anything to us, and they didn’t ask for any supplies. Then our squad leader took us to the factory leader to find out what happened, and we couldn’t sit still. After looking at it, we found that we couldn't find the guard. The factory building was in good condition, and the power supply was also in good condition, but there was no guard at the door. We stood at the door for a long time and no one answered the door.

"We drove through the fence and entered the factory. It is very difficult to build a house in the desert. Usually, cement piers are embedded in the sand bit by bit, hoping to be fixed deep into the rock formation. It takes a long time to drive piles. It takes a long time, so the factory building here is not too big or high. We crashed in to find the person in charge here, looking for a person who usually communicates with us, but we couldn’t find it. We couldn’t find a living person. The whole factory building is actually empty. Didn't they already evacuated and we didn't know?

"But we have thousands of people trapped here, so many eyes, it is impossible for them to go quietly. And, there is no reason for us not to know, and no one will make such a big mistake and forget us Here. What makes us feel weird is that we found the dispatch room responsible for contacting us. After entering, we found that all the phones here were disconnected. We used the walkie-talkie to ask colleagues to call this place, and found that this phone It didn't ring at all. In other words, none of the calls we made before came from here, so where did the calls go? No one knows. "We searched the factory and found no production equipment. In other words, the factory is just an empty shell. I was very scared. I found that we seemed to be cheated, but we didn't know anyone else. Lied to us for what. All the papers here are fake and don't make any sense, so we went back to our camp. We started digging for phone wires under the sand, hoping to find out where these wires go. Digging and digging , we were surprised to find that the telephone line turned out to lead to the bottom of the dunes.

"The line goes all the way down. It's useless for us to turn it over. We can't find the end of the cable under the dune because it's buried too deep. That is to say, those people we contacted seem to be Contact us underground. Because we are just a transport convoy and belong to this factory, we don’t know who to report this to, so we sent a telegram to all the departments that knew. The departments that received the telegram felt very strange, None of them knew about it, and only one department said we could go to them to replenish supplies." This was the last time they received supplies. After the convoy transporting supplies returned, they received an order to stand by.On the third day, all their contact with the outside world was cut off. They found that they could not communicate with the outside world by telegraph, and the telephone line under the sand had no signal.They didn't care at first, since they had plenty of gas and knew the route well.But slowly, they discovered that the surrounding sand dunes began to undergo many strange changes, and the direct consequence of these changes was that many of them suddenly disappeared.

After all, they are soldiers. For them, this situation means a threat, and it also means that there are enemies operating nearby.The neighborhood has not been peaceful. They stepped up patrols and sent people around to look for clues. Several reconnaissance teams sent out soon discovered a very strange phenomenon. They found that the sand dunes here had become different from before. The white spots, the white spots are slowly expanding, it seems that the yellow nutrients in the whole sand are slowly absorbed by something under the sand.The white spots are getting bigger and bigger, and gradually the whole desert turns white.The white sand reflects sunlight more strongly, and their living conditions are even worse.

And the personnel are still disappearing, and many scouting teams are gone forever.They couldn't communicate with their superiors, and the team sent out to contact the outside world to seek reinforcements never came back, and the situation became more and more serious.Several platoon leaders began to discuss, and they found that the time when everyone disappeared was before sunrise and after dusk.It was like a spell, and many people disappeared in the tent without any awareness.They became extremely nervous, and everyone felt that they might be next. So, a platoon leader gave an order that everyone must be connected with a rope when they sleep.That night, three more persons disappeared, but this measure made the circumstances of the disappearance clear.While sleeping, the ropes on several soldiers were suddenly pulled by something. When they woke up, they found that the people around them seemed to be dragged into the sand by something. They were not completely dragged down because they were tied by the rope.This force was so great that the soldiers were also pulled towards the sand.They yelled immediately, and the others ran over when they heard the exclamation, and pulled hard together to pull those people out of the sand.Only then did they realize that something seemed to be hiding in these dunes, dragging them into the sand while they were sleeping.

The remaining people became more and more nervous. They found that they could not sleep in the tent, so they gathered the car and slept in the car. That night, there was a sound of something hitting the floor of the car under the car, and they fired guns into the sand to push it back.The platoon leader felt that this matter was too strange. He felt that under such circumstances, everyone should not stay in this place, so he ordered all members to retreat. Just when they were about to retreat, a change came that they didn't expect. The man said to Li Cu: "When our convoy started to refuel and lined up to leave, this desert came alive, and it didn't want us to leave at all."

"Alive?" Li Cu was stunned. Although the man's narration was messy, he heard it clearly. The man nodded: "The desert is alive, all signs show that this desert is alive." Then, the man pointed to Li Cuo's back, "Can you let me see your back, your back I want to see the picture above, is it the same as what I saw at the time?" "Same?" Li Cu looked at that person's eyes and felt that there was a kind of power in that person's eyes, which made Li Cu realize that if he agreed to that person's request, he would definitely get a result.

He started to take off his army coat, halfway through, he stopped suddenly, and asked the man: "No, sir, you are too slippery, why do you seem to have recited it?"