Before 330 AD, there was a lot of water in Lop Nur Lake. Loulan City on the northwest side was the throat of the famous "Silk Road". Later, due to climate change and the impact of human water conservancy projects, the upstream water flow decreased until it dried up, and now it is only a large salt crust.
During the Han Dynasty, there used to be a large and populous ancient Loulan Kingdom in Lop Nur. It was founded before 176 BC and died in 630 AD, with a history of more than 800 years. It started near Guyangguan in the east and ended at Niya in the west.
The ancient city stretches from the Altyn Mountains in the south to Hami in the north. In 126 BC, Zhang Qian returned from his mission to the Western Regions and wrote to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that "Loulan, the division has a city wall and is close to the salt lake." Since then, it has become a well-known southern Silk Road destination both at home and abroad.
The throat portal of the branch, but now, he has disappeared.
There has been considerable controversy in history as to whether Loulan really existed. However, compared to the mystery thousands of years ago, the one that attracted the most widespread attention was the incident of Peng Jiamu who disappeared in Lop Nur in the 20th century. According to Baidu Encyclopedia, compared to
Peng Jiamu is an expert in the field of geological exploration and biochemistry, but the reason why he went to Lop Nur has been kept secret, and he went there three times. Is there any hidden secret in it?
On May 8, 1980, a scientific expedition team of ten people led by Peng Jiamu officially set off. In May of the same year, the scientific expedition team officially entered the desert. Before entering, they actually greeted the local garrison. After all, in the desert
Food and drinking water are in short supply. If you encounter special circumstances, you can ask the troops to airdrop supplies. After more than a month of hard work, in mid-June 1980, a group of people who went deep into the center finally set up camp nearby. During this period, they
We encountered a big trouble, which was lack of water.
It is difficult for a person to survive for three days without water, let alone in a sparsely populated desert. At this time, Peng Jiamu believed that letting the troops deliver water and airdrop supplies would consume too much manpower and material resources, and he must solve this problem himself.
However, his teammates believed that there was no water source around and hoped to contact the outside world quickly to request support. Who knew that this problem had not been solved yet, and that afternoon, Peng Jiamu left a letter and disappeared.
The content of the letter is "I am looking for a well to the east."
The question is, how can there be wells in a place that is sparsely populated, where there have been no people for dozens or hundreds of years?
Why did the dignified Vice President C of the Chinese Academy of Sciences search alone in the vast desert?
Subsequently, from June to December 1980, for more than half a year, a total of four large-scale search and rescue operations ended in failure. The only gain was that he was found sitting down in a few hundred acres near the original camp.
Traces of rest and a toffee.
This discovery is actually very funny to those who know about it. In the desert, the visibility is extremely high at a distance of a few hundred meters. Couldn't his colleagues see it? Resting a few hundred meters away definitely means leaving behind
The letter hasn't gone far yet, but why don't his colleagues go out and take a look?
Now look at that letter again. Is there any hidden meaning in the letter?
It is said that Lop Nur is a very evil place, and some people have discovered many humanoid creatures here. Of course, this has not been verified, but it is an indisputable fact that Lop Nur was originally a nuclear weapons shooting range!
On October 16, 1964, Country C successfully tested the first atomic bomb in the Lop Nur area.
On June 17, 1967, China’s first hydrogen bomb successfully exploded in Lop Nur.
From 1964 to 1996, Lop Nur conducted a total of 45 nuclear tests, 23 of which were atmospheric nuclear tests.
If it is just a simple geological exploration, will it require a vice president of the Academy of Sciences, who is capable of researching biochemistry?
In fact, there is an indisputable fact that before this operation started, Dean Peng Jiamu had already suffered from cancer, but he was cured of the cancer within two years. Some people once boldly speculated that this anti-cancer drug happened to be in a certain hospital in Lop Nur.
It is extracted from plants, which is why he always goes to Lop Nur again and again.
The most astonishing thing needs to be emphasized. Peng Jiamu was born in 1925. He was already 65 years old when he lived in Lop Nur. He was already considered an old man under the social conditions at that time. However, Mr. Peng was not afraid of the harsh environment of Lop Nur, including the high temperature at all.
Before he disappeared, he walked for more than ten miles and was completely fine. His teammates were exhausted, but nothing happened to him and he had to go out to find water!
Does this mean that those drugs can significantly improve body functions? Mr. Peng Jiamu went there to investigate after many twists and turns. In addition to looking for those magical drugs, he also recorded the condition of his body under harsh conditions! In the end, the experiment was successful, and the secret was revealed.
Someone picked him up?
Some people also speculate that there must be someone in the scientific expedition team who followed him closely and recorded various physical characteristics. This person may be the driver or his assistant. Of course, the notes left behind may not be one of the landform features.
kind, but a piece of data about one's own body.
In 1949, a plane flying from Chongqing to Dihua Urumqi disappeared over Shanshan County. In 1958, it was found east of Lop Nur. All people on board died. What is puzzling is that the plane was originally flying northwest.
, why did it suddenly change its route and fly due south?
In 1950, a guard of the People's Liberation Army's anti-bandit force disappeared. More than 30 years later, a geological team discovered his body in the Hongliu ditch on the south bank of Lop Nur, more than 100 kilometers away from the accident site.
On June 17, 1980, the famous scientist Peng Jiamu disappeared during an inspection in Lop Nur. The country dispatched aircraft, troops, and police dogs, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to conduct a blanket search, but found nothing. Finally, the suspected case was found a few years later, in 2007.
The mummy is more than 60 kilometers away from the starting point.
In 1990, seven people from Hami took a passenger and cargo car to Lop Nur to look for crystal mines and never returned. Two years later, three mummies were found lying on a steep slope. The car was 30 kilometers away from the deceased, and the whereabouts of the others are unknown.
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In the summer of 1995, three Milan farm workers went missing in a Beijing jeep to search for treasures in Lop Nur. Later explorers found the bodies of two of them 17 kilometers away from Loulan. The cause of death was unknown, and the whereabouts of the other was unknown, which is incredible.
What's more, their cars are in good condition and they have no shortage of water and gasoline.
In June 1996, Country C explorer Yu Chunshun disappeared while hiking alone in Lop Nur. When a helicopter found his body, forensic doctors determined that he had been dead for 5 days. The reason was that he had deviated from the original trajectory by more than 15 kilometers and could not find a water source.
Eventually he died of thirst. After his death, people found his head facing the direction of Shanghai.
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Nightmares like this, which swept through the Master's heart like horrific nightmares, emerged one after another, and Lop Nur simply became a hell of death.
There is a secret rumor among the locals that there is a curse in Lop Nur. The content of this curse is probably that deep in Lop Nur, there is a restricted area that ordinary people cannot enter. In this restricted area, all living creatures must
Death means death if you touch it, and even if you escape from here, you will still die, and before you die, your body must return to this land and become a fertilizer that nourishes this land.
If this curse is true, then all historical mysteries can be solved. Those people clearly had the conditions to get out of Lop Nur, but they still died. And some people, obviously, got out of Lop Nur without incident, but finally came back without hesitation.
Here, the final fate is to die in Lop Nur, just like a fallen leaf returning to its roots.
All these mysteries are just mysteries, and now Li Lvyan and Jin Yuanbao are about to step in and unlock all these shackles.
After a few days of turbulence, amid Wo Gua's complaints, the train "beep beeped" and landed in Xinjiang.
Lop Nur Town is the largest town in the country in terms of area, almost as big as Beijing and Formosa Island combined. But it is also the smallest town in the country. Apart from the potassium salt base, the only obvious buildings in Lop Nur Town are A row of small houses, a town government, a police station, a hotel, two or three car repair shops, a small restaurant, a small supermarket, a small gas station and a road maintenance station. This town is basically supporting the SDIC Xinjiang Lop Nur Potash Salt Co., Ltd. service, because Lop Nur has the largest potassium salt resources in my country.
The town closest to Lop Nur is called Ruoqiang County. The conditions here are far away from the prosperity of the big cities outside. However, because it is close to the desert, it is even more desolate, so the folk customs are more simple. Although the hotel is a bit shabby, it is not.
The bed on the train was hard, so Wo Gua was very satisfied and ate several large bowls of rice in the lobby.
Because Li Lvyan had some other concerns, he decided to stay in this hotel for a day first, just to check out the situation in Lop Nur. After all, this place was very unfamiliar to him and it was a place he had never been to before.
The hotel is very small, with only a dozen rooms in total. The business is best in winter all year round, because the desert is hot all year round. For city people, they come here to keep warm. No wonder it is booming now.
In summer, the closer you get to the desert in Xinjiang, the more steamy you feel. As early as when you first got off the train, the steaming heat that hit your face was enough to make you sweat. Now that you are really there, Li Green Ant is okay,
Wearing short sleeves, Wo Gua wanted to expose her buttocks and run around in the street.
In addition to Li Lvyan, I heard from the boss that there were two groups of people here. I saw them when I went to the lobby for dinner in the evening. There was only one person in one group, a woman who looked very young. Even though the woman was eating dinner,
Shi was also wearing goggles, so he couldn't see his face clearly, but his exposed skin was very fair. There was also a group of about seven or eight people, who were gathered together and didn't talk much. They were both men and women, and their behavior was a bit suspicious.
.The two came quietly, not wanting to cause trouble, so they did not pay too much attention to them.
Li Green Ant has done some research here during the day. From the map, Lop Nur is bounded by Dunhuang to the east, Hami to the north, Turpan to the northwest, and Ruoqiang to the south. In the past, one could pass into or out of Lop Nur from these four places.
Now due to the existence of the wild camel reserve, the eastern route is blocked, and now the only way to enter and exit is through Turpan, Hami, and Ruoqiang. Considering that these three places are all in Xinjiang, choosing Urumqi as the starting point is a good choice.
Li Lvyi and Jin Yuanbao are also lucky, and they happen to be within this territory.
The crossing route from the west to the north is D1: Urumqi-Turpan-Shanshan; D2: Shanshan-Kumtag Desert-Haidao, and the Haidao cannot be crossed in one day, so you need to camp in it overnight; D3: The sea
Road - Bailongdui - Lop Nur Town; D4: Lop Nur Town - Hami.
This is a regular tourist route, but it is obvious that Li Lvyi and Jin Yuanbao are not here to travel. In extraordinary times, extraordinary means must be used, and naturally extraordinary minds must be used to solve extraordinary things.
"The locals who enter Lop Nur will set off in the early morning. We follow that car, and then when we get to the last stop, we can rent two camels."
Although the terrain that Li Green Ant saw in that area at that time was not necessarily accurate, he also drew a simple map. As long as he found the place and found traces around it, he would definitely be able to find the black glasses.
Jin Yuanbao also knew that this might be his last supper. His cheeks were swollen like toads after eating. He kept drinking water, "Drink more, drink more. If we go to the desert, let alone water, maybe we won't even have water."
I don’t even have to drink the urine.”
Li Lvyan was amused when he saw it: Of course he had thought of this problem, so he had already prepared several large buckets of water. When he finally arrived at the station, he bought another bucket. It doesn't matter if there is no food in the desert. There must be a water source. He didn't know black glasses.
How is it now?
Just when the meal was almost finished, the woman wearing goggles who had been eating at the table next to her came over and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I just heard you say that you want to enter Lop Nur?"
Jin Yuanbao paused and blinked, "Yes."
"To be honest, I am a landscape painter. I have been painting various landscapes across the country that are closest to nature. This time I came to Lop Nur specifically to collect the scenery. I took photos from multiple angles and then painted them. In order not to be distracted by
No one bothers me, I slipped out by myself, but here in this vast desert, I can’t help but feel a bit lonely, I wonder if we can go together?”
Li Lvyan frowned on the spot: This woman is so strange. Since she sneaked out alone so as not to be disturbed, why did she take the initiative to find someone to join her? Instead of forming a group from the beginning? And even if she joins a team, she and Jin Yuanbao
They are also two men in a foreign land. They should not throw themselves into a trap in any case. Although they and Jin Yuanbao are not bad people in themselves, a woman who is alone in a foreign land is not afraid of what may happen... Besides, there is a group of people beside the two of them.
, there are both men and women in there, and it seems that that group of people feels more secure, so why are they only looking for you?
Jin Yuanbao didn't expect so many twists and turns. Before Li Lvyan could say anything, he decisively agreed. He laughed half-heartedly. He obviously saw that the woman's hands were white and thin, although he couldn't see it clearly.
Qing's face, but that standard oval face is obviously a beauty. She made an idea for Li Lvyan without thinking. Li Lvyan breathed out from his nostrils and said coldly, "Wogua!"
In view of Wogua's recklessness, Li Lvyan was ready to stop him, but who knew
Wo Gua was already very familiar with calling the woman he had just met for a few minutes "sister".
The woman had already sat down next to Jin Yuanbao, calling her "big brother", which was so sweet that Wo Gua couldn't find him. She patted her chest and said, "What are you afraid of? With me here, let's see who dares to bully sister Qiong Shuang."
After a while, I already knew what his name was.
Li Luyi stroked his forehead, "Before you make a decision, you should at least ask for my opinion."
Jin Yuanbao suddenly leaned into Li Lvyan's ear and said, "To tell you the truth, this is a rich woman. Just now she quietly told me that as long as we agree for her to follow, she will cover all the expenses along the way, and she will also pay for hotel accommodation."
Sure, we have gone bankrupt after buying so much insurance, why are you so inflexible?"
Li Lvyan suddenly became angry. Could it be that in Wo Gua's eyes, he was a person who could betray his principles for money?
"Don't be afraid, Miss Jing. We both have no money. He will definitely agree to your small request."
Jin Yuanbao has betrayed his own economic situation before anyone else.
"Miss Jing, you may not know that we are not here for tourism in Lop Nur. We are here to find a friend. Our destinations and routes are different from yours on this trip. How can we travel together? Moreover, Lop Nur is too
It’s dangerous, please think twice.”
Jing Qiongshuang said leisurely, "When I come back, I will add another ten thousand."
"Miss Jing, this is not a question of money. With money, can you do whatever you want?"
"US dollars."
"Welcome Miss Jing to join us."
Li Lvyan smiled brightly, and Wogua looked at him with contempt. Li Lvyan slandered: It costs a lot of money to rent two camels. Wogua didn't know that, but he knew it clearly.
A rusty truck carried three hitchhikers, Jing Qiongshuang, Li Lvyan, and Jin Yuanbao, to the last stop in Lop Nur. Jing Qiongshuang paid off the room rates for the three of them, and her eyes
Without even blinking, Jin Yuanbao and Li Luyi became more and more comfortable eating this soft rice, and their faces were no longer red and out of breath.
The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is huge. In the early morning, the temperature is not bad. Jin Yuanbao shivered while wrapped in his big cotton-padded jacket, and he was reluctant to throw it away. But in the desert, heavy and bulky things like cotton-padded jackets must be useless, just for fun.
, you will have to pay it back sooner or later.
Jing Qiongshuang took out two walkie-talkies, one for each person, and one for herself. When she saw the walkie-talkies, Jin Yuanbao gave Li Lvyan a sneaky kiss, meaning that this walkie-talkie looked different from the one that was sent to her.
Does it look like a walkie-talkie?
Li Lvyan took a closer look and found that it was indeed the same brand. However, although it was a military walkie-talkie, it was not impossible for ordinary people to buy it. It was just that the process was more tortuous, and walkie-talkies were not a precious commodity in the world.
There are many walkie-talkies of this brand, and you cannot tell at a glance that these are the same batch as the black glasses ones.
As for the walkie-talkie sent to him, Li Lvyan has always kept it in his backpack. Recently, the walkie-talkie has not made any sound. I don’t know why.
In the early morning, this large piece of land looked like it was on the sea. It was boundless and unobstructed. All that could be seen were curved outlines and overly soft mounds. Jing Qiongshuang had been taking pictures with her camera, but she didn't know.
Is there anything good to shoot? Wo Gua was a little excited when he got the walkie-talkie. He played with it excitedly for a long time. Suddenly, "I said, since we have a walkie-talkie, how about we give each other a code name when we call each other?"
Li Lvyan laughed awkwardly, "This - just call me by your name -"
"Hey - life requires a sense of ritual. How can we carry out secret activities without code names? Have you seen some poisonous snakes or scorpions in TV dramas? Let's each think of one. Wouldn't it make it more exciting?"
"Okay, okay, then you say."
Jing Qiongshuang obviously has no objection to this. Li Lvyan feels that she has a relatively gentle personality. Although she doesn't speak much, her behavior and speech are full of quietness, and she looks like a scholar.
The girl who came out of this family, for some reason, came to Lop Nur for some reason. I hope she really came here to draw pictures.
"My name is Mountain Eagle, and your name is Ground Dragon."
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A series of question marks on Li Lvyan's head said, "Why do you call me a mountain eagle and I call you a ground dragon?"
"Then you don't want to be called a ground dragon, but a ground bug?"
"That's not it. Why is your name more prestigious than mine?"
"You choose between the shaggy dog and the ground bug, which one do you want to do?"
"Can't I just be a human being?"
Finally, under the pressure of the big landowner Jin Yuanbao, Li Lvyan reluctantly chose the code name "Groundworm" because if he didn't choose this, Wo Gua threatened to call him "Shit Beetle" in front of women.
, although he has always done this, in front of women, Li Lvyan can only sign a "ground bug" treaty that loses his human rights.
But Wogua did not fulfill his promise.
The truck beeped, emitting thick smoke and exhaust, and rushed into the darkness with its headlights on. The headlights cut two roads in the darkness. The driver delivered supplies to various sites, and he also did some private work part-time.
On the way, they only smoked and didn't talk much. And because Li Lvyan and the other three were sitting in the cargo compartment of the truck, they couldn't talk much because they were far away.
Not long after Li Lvyan and others left, a military jeep sneaked out of the darkness and quietly followed the truck in front. There were seven people sitting in the car, the same people Li Lvyan and the others met in the hotel.
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The sunrise in every place is different. For example, the sunrise on Chang Island is always brilliant. Because it is close to the sea, it reflects the scenery of Crescent Bay as much as possible. It is naturally beautiful, and the sunrise in Lop Nur
The sunrise in the desert is very tragic and desolate. It has the feeling of "the solitary smoke is straight in the desert, and the sun is setting in the long river".
The people in the north and the south are also different. The soil and water on one side support the people on the other. The simple folk customs here are mixed with a little roughness, which is also related to the local climate and ecology. The tourism industry in Lop Nur is not that developed now, and there is no man's land.
The area is very large, but the scenery in the tourist area is just a small area. It is often circled layer by layer, warning tourists not to cross the rules, because there are too many lives that have disappeared beyond the guardrail and cannot come back.
, since it is an uninhabited area, and some places may not even be sensed by satellites. Once we are really caught in various unspeakable dangers, even if the country takes action, it will be of no avail. Peng Jiamu is the best example.