We were full of joy and thought we had found a water source, but in the end we found that there was a salt water lake that people could not drink from. Our joy was in vain, and the water in the lake was uncomfortable to use for washing our faces.
Because the water supply was not replenished, the three of us still had about 20 bottles of water in total. Yesterday, we still had nearly 30 bottles of water. Ma Deming alone used five bottles.
I calculated that it took about four days. If we couldn't find the destination after four days, we had no choice but to go back to Yinchuan. If we didn't go back and continue walking, it would be a dead end if there was no water.
It was on this day that we made our biggest discovery since entering the desert!
One kilometer away from the lagoon, we picked up a discarded tent | blue tent. When we first found it, most of it was buried in the sand. Xiaoxuan thought it was a piece of clothing.
I say major discovery because in addition to the broken tent bag, we also found a backpack. There was no water in the bag, and except for two or three pieces of dry clothes, there were two half-meter-long stainless steel metal sleeves pressed at the bottom of the backpack.
Outsiders can't understand this thing, but I can tell at a glance that this thing is 100% the sleeve used in the segmented Luoyang shovel.
I don’t know why the owner of the backpack left his things here. Maybe the person died, and the others only took away the water and threw the bag here.
The old clothes were useless, we only took away two pieces of casing.
I have been traveling these past few days to find people, so I will omit it because it is not interesting.
In fact, it was not us who found the leader, but that group of people who discovered us first.
I just fast forward to a few days later.
It was night, so we chose a place and lit a fire to set up the tent as usual. The instant noodles had been eaten a few days ago because of the bean sprouts, so we could only eat dry steamed buns soaked in hot water.
While I was eating, a cold voice suddenly came from behind me.
"What do you do?"
This man's footsteps were silent, and no one knew when he came behind me. I was so frightened by the sudden words of this man behind me that I choked.
"Who are you!" Bean Sprouts immediately stood up and took my sheep-killing knife.
The man behind the station was in his thirties, with long hair and cold eyes. He was dressed in black clothes and was holding a red plastic bag in his hand.
"Let me ask you first, what do you do?" The man was not afraid when he saw the sheep-killing knife in Dou Sprouts' hands.
"Are you...coming back to prison?" I asked tentatively, keeping a certain distance from the man.
He was stunned when he heard what he said, then looked at me and said, "Are you the boy next to Wang Xiansheng? What's your name, Feng?"
"Head..."
I quickly asked Dou Sprout to put down the knife, looked at the man and said excitedly: "I guessed it right! How did you find us! Where is the leader! Who are you from the northern faction?"
"Wang Xiansheng mentioned you little kid, and he said he was afraid that you would come looking for him. I didn't expect it." The man shook his head and said, "It's pretty impressive. You actually came looking for me."
"Come with me, I will take you to see him." After saying this, he turned around and left while holding the plastic bag."
Dou Sprout Zai and I looked at each other and could feel the excitement in each other's eyes. Our suffering was not in vain. After more than 20 days, we finally found the leader!
Without even bothering to put the tent bag away, the three of us ran directly to catch up with this person.
"What do you call me, brother? Where is he now?" I asked after catching up with him.
"My surname is Xiao, just call me Lao Xiao. You shouldn't have come..." He shook his head as he spoke.
"The surname is Xiao?" I tried hard to recall in my mind who among the Northern faction had the surname Xiao, and suddenly I thought of a person.
"You...are you Password Xiao??"
"Hey." The man looked at me in surprise and said, "Boy, you know quite a lot. It seems that Wang Xiansheng has trained you a lot."
Seeing him admit it, my heart was pounding. Why are there so many awesome people here this time? Jiu Qingshui from the Northern School, Xiao Ci, and who else...
The Northern School of Xiao Ci is famous. This person’s original name is Xiao Liang, from Jinan, Shandong. It seems that the rumors are wrong. People say that this person wears glasses and has mental illness. I saw him today and found out that he is not short-sighted, and he looks very strange.
It's normal. I don't know if it's true or not that he has mental illness.
Jiuqingshui has been passed down from generation to generation and has the support of the tomb robber family, but Xiao Liang can get involved all by his own ability. Legend has it that this man's eyes are like an
Master Yao also dug up the outline structure of the tomb and wanted to ask Xiao Liang to be the leader, but he refused.
This man has always fought alone. I am surprised why he would accept to return to Yinchuan.
There is a saying in the industry that if any gang can steal the password and hire a leader, then wait and see.
"Brother Xiao, I've been gone for so long, and you still haven't told me where your head is, and why you even came to Blackwater City."
He kept walking, shook his head and said, "We will be there soon. Then you can ask Wang Xiansheng yourself and see if he is willing to tell you."
After hearing what he said, I shut up and stopped asking. I just called Dou Yazai and Xiaoxuan to follow closely.
While walking with this man in the desert at night, I noticed something.
This man's footsteps were almost inaudible when he walked on the sand. I couldn't hear them even if I was so close to him. Moreover, he walked very fast, almost as fast as a normal person jogging.
When he said he'd be there soon, he didn't mean right away.
But I walked for more than two hours...
"We're here, that's our camp." I saw a dozen tents in an open area in the distance, and two fires were lit.
He looked at me and suddenly smiled mischievously: "I want to see what Wang Xiansheng's expression will be like when he sees you kids."
"Who do you think you are? Why are you so awesome? You call us kids," Dou Sprouts said, getting angry and squinting.
Seeing that the latter's face turned cold, I grabbed Douya and laughed and said, "Brother Xiao, don't mind. This brother of mine has always been used to speaking freely."
"Oh," Xiao Ci's expression changed quickly. He suddenly smiled and said to Dou Sprout, "What's your name?"
"Lu Ziming." Dou Sprout raised his eyebrows.
Then he looked at Dou Sprout and nodded, walking directly to the campsite.
"Xiao Xiao, who are these? Where did you get them from?" When they arrived at the fire, there was an old man warming himself and smoking. The old man asked doubtfully.
Xiao Ci said with a smile: "What a coincidence, Mr. Song, I happened to meet these people in the past, and they said they were Wang Xiansheng's people."
The old man was very thin, with a long pointed head and a white beard on his chin. When he was smoking, I noticed that his right hand was missing a little finger and only had four fingers.
This old man is also a well-known boss of the Northern Sect. His name in the industry is Song Xiaoxiao, and he is active in the Henan area.
Five minutes later I saw the man and the leader we had been looking for for nearly a month in Alxa.
Boss was drinking water at the time, and he was stunned when he saw the three of us.
"Haha! Head! I found you!" Dou Sprout laughed to tears.
Compared with the scenery in Yinchuan, the faces of the three of us are too haggard now, especially Xiaoxuan, who is tanned, and I don’t know if we can come back in vain in the future.
I was stunned for several minutes before I came back to my senses.
He let out a long sigh, looked at me and said, "Yunfeng, I told you not to come to me. Why are you so disobedient? Look at the photos you all posted."
I smiled and said how could I not come looking for him?
I sat down cross-legged and asked: "Botou, why did you drive the three of us here? This is the return pass. What did you promise those people? Here," I pointed to the ground and said, "What is here?
"
Close your head and eyes, shake your head and say, "I will regret it if I don't come."
"I will tell you what is here in the fifth place. Yunfeng, have you seen anyone named Xiao? Who else have you seen?"
I said: "The one who was warming up by the fire was Song Shushu, right? The leader in Henan, and Jiu Qingshui? We met a man named Ma Deming before, and he said that Jiu Qingshui is also here, really or not."
"Ma Deming..." He lowered his head and asked where this person was.
I then told the story of how I met Ma Deming, and that Ma Deming was dead and Dou Sprout and I buried him.
"It's already dead. It's better to be dead."
After finishing speaking, he suddenly stood up and said, "You three are all mine, come with me, and I will help you get to know each other."
"After you have identified the person, the three of you can go back."
"Go back? Where should we go back?" I asked in confusion.
When he reached the door of the tent, he suddenly turned his head and said with a serious face: "Go back to where you came from."
