Chapter 13 Chapter 12 Journey to the Desert of Death

And if I can get Yige's help, success is just a matter in front of me. But now, will Yig help me?He and Lomono, speaking that strange language, no doubt felt closer to him and Lomono. In that case, did he leave me instead of doing me any favors? I was very anxious, but I couldn't interrupt the conversation between Igor and Lomono, because I couldn't understand their words at all.Yige and Lomono talked for five minutes, Yige suddenly shook his head and said a word several times, looking at his condition, it seemed that he was saying "no".A look of anger appeared on Lomono's face. He looked at me, switched to English, and said, "Wesley, this man said that he promised to take you to the seven secret sacrificial rooms in the Great Temple?"

Professor Lomono suddenly turned to deal with me, and he cut straight to the point, never turned around, and his attitude was extremely tough. This really surprised me. I bowed my body and said, "Exactly." Professor Lomono said coldly: "I want you to give up this request to him." I took a breath, knowing that conflict was inevitable, but Lomono would adopt such a brutal method, which was quite beyond my expectation. Does he have any certainty of victory?With a quick thought in my head, I shrugged: "I don't see why I should give up." Lomono said loudly, "Because I want, I want to take him to the seven sacrificial rooms, but this donkey says he has already promised and you can't promise me any more."

Before I could speak, Ig protested: "Sir, I'm not a donkey, I'm Sopamicheboig!" I remember that Wang Jun explained to me that the so-called "Sopa Mitchbooig" means the eagle on the Mitchboo Peak of the Sopa tribe. Yige is obviously very conceited about this name, and he certainly doesn't want to be called "donkey".Lomono was insulting him, and as you can imagine, there must have been a lot of people insulting him, because no one regarded him as the chief of a nation. But I regard him as a friend, which is my advantage. I put my hand on Yige's shoulder: "Yige, what do people call a donkey, he is a wild donkey!" Yige looked at me very gratefully, and I looked at Lomono, and said: "Yige He is a very trustworthy person, since he promised me, he can't promise you again."

Lomono sneered and said, "Yes, as long as you don't want him to take you there, I can make him take me there." I said in a deep voice: "As I said just now, I have not given up my plan to go to the seven sacrificial rooms." Professor Lomono's voice was extremely gloomy: "Then, you will regret it." Before I could say anything, Wang Jun couldn't help but said, "Sir, are you really Professor Lomono?" Lomono glared at him, and asked me again: "I'll give you one last chance. Do you agree?" I was about to stand up, and I had already said the word "no", but I only bent my body, didn't stand up, and sat down on the chair again.As soon as I sat down, I felt that Wang Jun held my hand tightly: "What's going on?"

I smiled wryly and said, "Don't you understand yourself?" Wang Jun's expression changed, and he couldn't make a sound. The situation in front of him couldn't be easier to understand. Lomono had already taken a step back, and in his hand was a huge German-made military pistol. That kind of pistol has extremely strong lethality, it can make the target it shoots into no target at all! Judging from Professor Lomono's gun-holding posture, he is obviously a well-trained firearms expert, and his proficiency is by no means inferior to that of Braque.My face can't help but change color.I quickly looked at the Egyptian official with the round cap.I saw the official with his head held up slightly, drooling from the corners of his mouth, and was sleeping very soundly.Of course he wasn't really fast asleep, it must be that when Lomono left his seat and walked towards us, he knew that he would threaten us with force, so he anesthetized the official first.

And the door of the cab is closed, no one will know what he has done in the cabin, and his status as a mathematical authority will not be exposed! When I think of this, I can't help but feel a chill in my heart, because judging from the current situation, Lomono will definitely kill me and Wang Jun! Wang Jun also saw that something was wrong, his body was trembling slightly, I pointed to the pistol with a huge handle: "This will make a loud noise, aren't you afraid of alarming the pilot?" Lomono laughed sinisterly: "That's right, so I'm going to try not to use it as much as possible, you stand up!"

I don't know what Lomono wants, but with such a powerful weapon in his hands, there is no way for anyone to disobey his orders. So I stood up as I said, and Lomono took another step back and said, "Go and open the door!" I was taken aback and said, "You—" Lomono's voice was firm, and he repeated: "Open the door!" I had no choice but to walk to the door of the plane and opened the door.At this time, the plane was flying at a high altitude. As soon as I opened the door, a whirlwind rushed into the cabin and almost swept me out. I stepped back quickly, grabbed the back of the seat, and then stabilized my body. .

I looked at Wang Jun and Yige, and saw that their faces were pale.Professor Lomono said coldly: "Okay, Wesley, this is the final procedure, you and your friends jump down!" When I opened the door, I already knew that Lomono would definitely do it, so I could remain quite calm, but Wang Jun couldn't help it, and screamed: "Jump off? No!" I shouted: "Wang Jun, shut up." Wang Jun stood up and opened his mouth wide, as if he wanted to say something, but he finally sat down again.I turned my head and said, "Professor Luo, the plane is above the desert. I don't see that we have any chance of survival if we jump off."

Professor Lomono said: "Yes, you are right, I agree with your opinion, and this is exactly what I hope." I said in a deep voice: "Professor, you are wrong, you are dead, I would rather die by your gun." Lomono tightened his fingers on the trigger, and said, "Do you think I dare not fire the gun?" I said, "Of course I dare, but the sound of the gun will definitely alarm the pilot, right? The pilot Come out and see the current situation of world-renowned mathematicians, that is not what you welcome!" Lomono's face was very gloomy, obviously my words hit his mind.

I immediately said again: "I can jump down with my friends." Wang Jun shouted: "Wesley, are you crazy?" I said again: "But you want to allow us to use the parachute!" In the cabin, there are seven parachutes. I have already noticed that. Lomono glanced at the parachutes and said, "That way, you can survive." I pointed to the bottom of the plane door, and said, "It's a desert below. We have no water, no food, and the chance of survival is only 50 percent." Lomono said gloomyly: "But you still have a chance to survive!" I spread my hands and said: "Yes, we can say that we are conducting a transaction now. I will give you a 50% chance of surviving in exchange for you not having to shoot the gun. This is an advantage for you. Even if we survive , you have already got what you want!"

Lomono convinced me, indeed, when we struggled out in the desert, could he not get what he wanted?A sinister grin appeared on his face: "Okay, you two, use the parachute to jump down!" Wang Jun said: "No, Wesley, we have no chance of surviving." I said in a deep voice, "If we don't jump, he will shoot?" Wang Jun said: "If he fires the gun, the pilot will be alarmed." I said: "He will kill the pilot and then fly the plane by himself. Do you think he cares about killing a few more people?" Wang Jundao: "How do you know he can fly a plane?" I sighed and said, "You don't understand what kind of person he is, but I understand that a person like him can fly a plane, just like ordinary people fly." Like a car, I might even say, he can drive a submarine!" Wang Jun looked down, there was a piece of yellow sand below, his face was pitifully pale, and I had already taken the parachute, threw one to him, and said, "Get on your back quickly, and try your luck!" Then, while putting on the parachute, I said to Yige: "Yige, good friend, I will remember you. Your noble character proves that you are indeed worthy of being the leader of a nation. I hope we can meet again in the future!" The muscles on Ig's face were twitching, and there were tears in his eyes. This is my last move, I hope Yige will not take Lomono to the secret sacrificial room of the Great Temple!And Wang Jun has been to the seven secret sacrificial rooms. If he and I get out in the desert, we can still discover what I want to discover before Lomono arrives at the secret sacrificial room. thing! Judging by Yige's excitement, my words have already played a considerable role.But whether Yige will succumb to the threat of Lomono, only God knows! At this time, Wang Jun had already fixed the parachute, and Lomono said loudly, "Jump off!" Wang Jun's face turned pale, and he turned his head to look at me.I said to him in a stern tone: "Don't look at me, look at the trigger of your parachute, whether it is flexible, after jumping out, see me open the umbrella, then you can pull the trigger!" Wang Jun smiled wryly and nodded. Behind me, I felt the pistol in Lomono's hand against it. When I reached out, I almost pushed Wang Jun out, and then I jumped out of the machine myself. I seem to still hear the "bang" of the plane door closing, and I am secretly amused in my heart. I was kicked out of the plane, and my life and death are unpredictable. It seems that there is nothing ridiculous, but because Professor Lomono also went I was fooled, my smile can be said to be Ah Q style. Wang Jun and I jumped out of the cabin, unless the pilot and the co-pilot in the cab were all blind, otherwise, there was no reason why we couldn't see us. As soon as the pilot in the cockpit saw someone jumping out of the cabin, of course he would come out to see what happened. Then, the pilot can also see the Egyptian officials who have passed out, and Professor Lomono, who is holding a military pistol and looks fierce! Of course, under the pressure of the pistol, the pilot continued to work, but after landing, how did Lomono deal with the aftermath?This can be said to be the first "trump card" in my hand. And the second "trump card" in my hand is that Yige may not be willing to lead the way for people who call him a "donkey" at all! I have two "trump cards" in my hand, but it is only useful if I can survive, so I immediately put away my cranky thoughts and looked down. I don't have much experience in skydiving. Every time I skydive, I have this feeling: In fact, my body was descending rapidly, but it was as if the whole earth was turning and bending, and it was coming up to me! I estimated my altitude from the desert, at six hundred feet, five hundred feet, four hundred feet, I pulled the catch of the parachute, and thankfully, the parachute opened. I looked forward immediately, and Wang Jun's parachute opened smoothly. I looked up into the air again, and saw that the plane was tilting very dangerously, but it immediately recovered its stability and continued to move forward. fly away.This proves my guess is correct, the pilot has discovered Lomono's true colors, but he has succumbed to that German-made military pistol! As soon as the parachute was opened, the spinning feeling just now disappeared immediately. There was no wind that day, and it was the best weather for landing from a high altitude, which made people feel like flying through the clouds. After floating in the air for a few minutes, Wang Jun and I landed in the desert one after another. We rolled a few times on the sand, stood up, and pulled off the straps of the parachute. Jun ran towards me with a sad face: "Look, we are probably hundreds of miles away from the edge of the desert!" I shook my head and said, "No, don't be discouraged. As long as we don't get bitten to death by poisonous scorpions, we can have ample opportunity to leave the desert and reach your workplace." Wang Jun shouted: "I want to go back to Cairo first!" I looked at him coldly, and said: "In a big hotel, lying on a soft bed, holding a glass of frozen whiskey, listening to sharp music, a comfortable hot bath, etc., isn't it? " Wang Jun nodded endlessly: "Yes, yes." I put my hands heavily on his shoulders: "Listen, Wang Jun, in the desert, you'd better not think about these things, if you just think about them, it will make you lose the strength to step out of the desert, and you will Died in the desert, turned into a pile of bones!" Because of my words, Wang Jun's eyes widened in surprise. I let go of my hand: "Look, it's about 900 kilometers from Cairo to the construction site. The plane takes a direct flight. We flew about 600 kilometers. If we go back to Cairo, we have to go a lot more." I said While talking, he drew a simple map on the sand: "If we go forward to the construction site, we only need to walk 300 kilometers!" Wang Jun groaned, "Three hundred kilometers!" I encouraged him and said, "Maybe less than three hundred miles." Wang Jun smiled wryly and said: "Jiangling went to Yangzhou, three thousand three hundred and three, has traveled thirty miles, and there are still three thousand!" After he finished reading this ancient poem, he looked at me blankly. I made him laugh and cry, Wang Jun recited these four lines of ancient poems, of course he was mocking me, he thought that more miles and less miles would be the same, and of course it was his mistake. In the desert, two hundred miles is two hundred miles, which is different from one hundred and ninety-nine and a half miles. You can support one hundred and ninety-nine and a half miles, but in the last half a mile, you will think that you are still in the center of the desert, and you will lose your ability to continue. The will to persevere and die on the edge of the desert.Anyone who has ever traveled and experienced adventure in the Great Desert can attest to this. At this time, of course, I didn't have time to explain this to Wang Jun, because I didn't want to talk more.In the next two or three days, we may not get a drop of water, so what is the use of talking more? We started walking, towards the direction of the construction site, which is the direction of the big temple I was going to. At the beginning, Wang Jun was still very talkative, he kept complaining, and kept asking what kind of person Professor Lomono was, but I didn't answer Chi at all, just told him to shut up. It was dark, and I couldn't calculate how far I had walked. The only thing I knew was that the direction was good. As long as we walked forward, we could arrive at the construction site the day after tomorrow.And in these two, we have other hopes, the hope of being spotted by planes, the hope of encountering transport convoys, the hope of being spotted by Arabs on camels. At least we can still hope to discover a small oasis, and that will make a big difference. Wang Jun was going to rest a long time ago. I dragged him and walked until midnight before stopping.At night, the night in the desert was shiveringly cold, and we couldn't find anything to light a fire. Wang Jun's face was so pale that he was almost dead. I sat, also helpless.Surrounded by dead silence, Wang Jun and I waited helplessly for dawn. The next morning, the sun rose from the east again, like a warm quilt, covering our whole body, making people regain some vitality after losing their vitality. Wang Jun moved and sat down. stand up. I looked at the rising sun and knew that in a few hours, the sun that gave us some vitality would turn into a stove for roasting us. Lips said: "Let's go!" Wang Jun and I haven't spoken for a night or half a day, and our mouths have been closed. At this moment, I spoke suddenly, and my upper lip was split open. Blood flowed into my mouth. I stuck out my tongue and licked it. A lick made the split upper lip feel a sharp pain. Wang Jun pointed at me and said, "Look at you!" He only said two words, and immediately, like me, his lips were covered with bloodstains. I quickly shook my hand at him, held his arm, and walked forward together. On this day, at the very beginning, Wang Jun stumbled and seemed unable to support him. When the sun rose higher and higher, I was dragging him every step of the way. Regardless of the pain in my lips, I yelled loudly: "Wang Jun, you must muster your strength. Look, there is smoke ahead, and there may be cars..." Whenever I said this, Wang Jun always looked up at me, and I could see the dead air in his eyes, and I couldn't help but secretly sighed, he struggled in the desert for less than a day One night, it was difficult to support it any longer.This is a human tragedy. The more advanced science is, the more prosperous material civilization is, and the weaker human beings become. On the one hand, human beings are pursuing material inventions, thinking that this is enjoyment, but they are destroying themselves.Look at Wang Jun, he is an urbanite, an expert, and a senior intellectual.Usually even a small half-mile journey, but also to rely on a variety of comfortable and convenient means of transportation.Now, when it came time for him to fight for his life, he was as fragile as a piece of glass! I kept encouraging Wang Jun with various words, but Wang Jun's reaction became more and more indifferent. I felt extremely anxious in my heart. I absolutely could not let Wang Jun die in the desert. It was definitely not because if Wang Jun died, no one would take me to the seven secret rooms of the temple, but if Wang Jun died. When Jun died, I would feel extremely guilty in my heart. All of this, it can be said, was caused by me. I stopped and put Wang Jun's body on mine, and he hung down limply. I put more weight on my back, of course I was more tired, but I gritted my teeth and moved forward step by step, hoping for a miracle to happen, I kept cursing in my heart, cursing Hope is the biggest liar, he makes you His heart was full of beautiful longings, but he found nothing. I thought it had been a lot of time, but the scorching sun still stayed on top of my head. I looked at Wang Jun on my shoulders. His eyes seemed to be open and closed, and the expression on his face , is also very strange, very indescribable. I took a breath of dry air, and my throat felt like I was sucking a fire. I stopped, although I kept cursing hope, but at this moment, I looked up to the sky, but I hoped that it would rain heavily! However, when I looked up, I saw a flying black figure, which was not a vulture, because it had the sound of a "chugging" engine. That's a helicopter! Wow, that's a helicopter! I patted Wang Jun's head and asked him to look up to the sky. At that time, the helicopter had already arrived above our heads. Wang Jun's quarrel actually revealed a smile. "Helicopter!" He called weakly, his body suddenly struggled, and I also fell on the sand because of his struggle. The helicopter circled and gradually descended. The first thing I saw was that the helicopter was specially designed for landing in the desert.I wanted to jump up and cheer, but then I saw that there were no signs painted on the helicopter. Although at this time, a helicopter that descended from the sky was very cute to me, but my vigilance did not diminish a little because of it! A plane without any markings is a very suspicious thing. I quickly stopped and told Wang Jun, "Don't make a sound, the helicopter may not be here to rescue us." In fact, it was superfluous for me to tell Wang Jun, he had no strength to speak out. I continued to move, and after a few minutes, the helicopter stopped fifteen meters away. The whirlwind generated by the rotation of the wings rolled up the yellow sand, turning the bodies of Wang Jun and me into pure yellow. Although Wang Jun didn't make a sound, he wanted to jump up. My hand pressed his back so that he couldn't move around.If the helicopter had come to save us, of course we would have been saved now that we had been spotted, but if it wasn't, we would have benefited enormously by standing still. After the helicopter stopped, I took a peek and saw that there were only two people in the plane, one was the pilot, and the other was a slender Arab with a triangular face.The Arab stepped out of the plane, pistol in hand. I secretly rejoiced that I didn't move too recklessly just now! At this time, Wang Jun obviously saw that something was wrong, and he also stopped, not wanting to jump up again. The Arab walked forward step by step, and when he was three or four steps away from us, he stopped for a while, and I heard a "click" when the safety catch of the pistol was released. At that moment, the blood in my body seemed to congeal. If the Arabs shoot at us regardless of whether we are dead or alive, do we have any chance of surviving?I was ready to lunge forward desperately. However, the Arab continued to walk forward, walked up to me, kicked me, turned around, and shouted: "I'm dead, the boss can rest assured—" He had just finished talking here, and I had already grabbed his calf and pulled it back violently!That guy, halfway through his speech, couldn't speak anymore. When he fell backwards, I straightened up and stretched out my hand, and I had already snatched his pistol. I pressed the man's back with my knees, so that his whole face was buried in the yellow sand, and then I raised my gun and fired at the pilot in the helicopter.One shot, one click of metal, and I knew I was done. The pilot held up his hands, and his right hand was filled with blood. The shot I just shot hit his right hand, causing the pistol he was already holding to fall into the cabin. I stood up, pulled Wang Jun up, waved the gun, and shouted: "Come down, come down!" The pilot was a Caucasian man. He hesitated for a while, and finally stepped out of the helicopter. The Arab also stood up and looked at me fiercely. We are alive now, and our thirst doesn't seem to be as bad as before.I sneered at the two of them and said, "Your boss must be Lomono?" The Arab, who spoke English fluently, said harshly, "I don't understand what you're saying?" I sneered and said, "You don't have to understand what I said, as long as you understand that you will fight against the desert, that's fine." The white man screamed, "You can't leave us in the desert, I'm hurt." I sneered, "You can ask your boss for help." The guy shouted, "How can we ask for help? Do you want me to call out loud?" I said, "Tell me, who sent you here. Maybe I can ask for help on your behalf." The white man opened his mouth, as if he wanted to tell who the Lord had brought them here, but the Arab turned around unexpectedly and punched him on the chin! When I saw that on the middle finger of the Arab man was wearing a ruby ​​ring that was as red as blood, and that ruby ​​ring had drawn a bloodstain on the left cheek of the Caucasian man. He pulled the gun without thinking, and the bullet hit the Arab's right leg.