It's easy to find a safe haven in the desert, but the hard part is to find a comfortable safe haven. Several people struggled around but couldn't find a decent place. In the end, they only lit a fire on the back of a small sand dune.
Wogua had already wrapped himself in a blanket and got into his sleeping bag. Even the dinner was handed over by Li Lvyan. He wrapped his hands in the blanket and took the food in, just like a hibernating brown bear. Li Lvyan shook his head and said, "Arrange the vigil, and the girl will do it." No need, Jin Yuanbao and I will stay together at midnight. I will go first and he will go to bed first. We will be there by walking for half a day tomorrow. To prevent it from being too hot, we will set off early in the morning and arrive before noon. "
This idea sounded very feasible and was unanimously agreed upon. However, when Jing Qiongshuang learned that Li Luyi really wanted to throw herself at the scenic spot, her eyes hidden in the goggles flashed and she said nothing.
Everything was completely silent. The entire desert looked like a calm beach at night. Only a smokeless stove beside Li Green Ant was making a slight sound. The smokeless stove was still burning. There was fuel, but If there is no heat source during night vigil, it will be difficult to survive for several hours. You have to stand up and move from time to time, otherwise your hands and feet will freeze.
One hour, two hours, three hours, three and a half hours...
Li Lvyan looked at the time displayed on the walkie-talkie: He got up to keep vigil in half an hour, then waited until 4:30 in the morning, got up and hurried on, and then quickly looked for the black glasses. Since the time he received the belt, Ten days have passed, not counting the time when the courier arrived, I don’t know about the black glasses...
Li Lvyan subconsciously touched his bag and took out the walkie-talkie: It has been a long time, and the voice of the black glasses in the walkie-talkie did not appear again. He...
"Hey -" Li Lvyan sighed.
"What are you thinking about?" A female voice suddenly came from Li Lvyan's spine. He was so frightened that his hands shook and he threw the walkie-talkie away. Zai Jinhe stepped forward and picked up the walkie-talkie and handed it to him with a look on his face. Apologize, "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."
"It's okay, it's okay." Li Lvyan shook the sand from the walkie-talkie and put it in his bag. Zai Jinhe's bright eyes shone in the dark night.
"I lost control of my emotions during the day. I didn't mean to do it. I'm sorry."
Li Lvyan smiled bitterly, "It's okay, it's not your fault."
Zai Jinhe looked at the distant sky. Thick black clouds covered everything. His words were a bit desolate, "I really don't want anyone to go there to die. Maybe you don't know that before this, Several groups of people have asked me the same question, but none of them have come back from there, which itself is a place of death."
!!
Li Lvyan couldn't believe it, "Several groups of people?!"
Is it him? Did Black Glasses really go away?! Zai Jinhe, who met by chance, actually had contact with Black Glasses before??
Zai Jinhe looked at him steadily. "Except for you, the latest group was brought into this desert by me as a tour guide two weeks ago. Their formations are different from those of you who are just here for sightseeing." The guests are different. There are five military jeeps. Any tour guide who receives such guests will be unforgettable."
From Zai Jinhe's narration, Li Lvyan also learned what happened two weeks ago.
It turns out that the map that Li Lvyan was holding finally pointed to a place called "Burial Wo Bay". Once anyone who steps in there is fascinated by the wind and sand there, no one can get out.
No matter how confident the local people are, once they are contaminated, they will be cursed by the God of Death. They will never be able to escape the shackles of the God of Death for eternity. They will become the nutrients of Burial Wowan, that is, turn into bones.
At first, this legend originated from an incident reported by the government decades ago, and Li Lvyan had also heard about it.
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?
Lop Nur was a very barren place at that time. The news of the plane crash was heard by the locals on the radio. At that time, someone came up with the idea of this plane, not directly towards the plane itself, but the cans inside the plane.
Food, clothes, utensils... these things that are likely to solve the urgent needs of many families are now lost in this desert. How can it not be exciting?
Just think about what kind of era that was?
E-country writer Dickens said something like this in his "A Tale of Two Cities": "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was an age of wisdom, it was an age of stupidity; it was an age of stupidity;
It’s a time of trust, it’s a time of doubt. It’s a season of light, it’s a season of darkness; it’s the spring of hope, it’s the winter of despair; people have everything before them, people have nothing before them; people are on their way to heaven
The road, people are heading towards the gates of hell.”
What this passage describes is the French Revolution. What kind of poverty-stricken environment Country E was in at that time. At the beginning of the founding of new Country C, only ten thousand times more tragedy would happen to the people of Country C.
In 1949, the new Country C was established, and everything was waiting for improvement. G Kai-shek took away the remaining material foundation of Country C, and fled to Formosa with a lot of talents and technology. The remaining ones could have been sent to the big army.
Because they could not take away the useful things, they destroyed them as much as possible. Everything that existed was beyond the measure of money, and the environment that people lived in at that time was worse than any other country in the world.
The disaster will be terrible.
Everyone said that during the reign of Louis XVI, who liked to dig into locks, his wife, Queen Marie of Vienna, lost all her assets and all the people's trust in the royal court. That sentence was the fuse that led to the French Revolution.
Then let them eat cake." This sentence made these two people very anxious. After running away for more than ten years, they were still sent to the oblique guillotine designed by Louis XVI himself.
The cycle of history is very ironic. From a historical point of view, the French Revolution was a powerless counterattack after the people were oppressed. They overthrew the Bastille just to get bread. How similar is this to Country C in 1949?
Although it is just a few cans and a bit of bread, it is enough to make anyone tempted.
After discussion, the aborigines of Lop Nur rode camels and set off for Lop Nur with the hope of the whole village, hoping to catch fish and return it to the people in this "Sea of Death".
The remaining hope for human beings.
And this little hope is nothing more than a little canned food and bread.
But the so-called human beings of hope are dispensable and have always been in the hands of nature, the creator.
They didn't come back.
There is only one sun during the day and only one moon at night,
There is only one God in the world, and I have only one wish.
Once a group of people has gone, more people will inevitably follow. Instead of waiting passively, it is better to take the initiative, and another pair of more people will set off.
This team still hasn't come back.
The third team, the fourth team...
The olive trees are all white, facing the strong wind,
Like a white-haired man fighting with his back bent.
Their branches are like grapevines,
The unloaded load filled the barrel, and inside—
There - red foam, golden foam with lingering traces of midsummer.
In fact, there is nothing for it to sing,
Even the berries on the hedge have been damaged by frost,
Or be eaten by other birds, but he is high up,
Welcome another hungry day alone.
The desire caused by hunger is undoubtedly huge and terrible, but what is even more terrible is the feeling of hunger that a drowning person feels when he is full, like a drowning person grabbing onto a log.
Before and after, there were less than 200 aborigines in the village, and half of them did not come back because of such longing.
Lop Nur is a remote place in the desert, almost isolated from the world. The villagers living in this place will have to wait even if they wait for Country C's poverty alleviation plan to settle down and land in Lop Nur from thousands of miles away.
A hundred years, but they can't wait a hundred years.
After countless times of despair, the people in the village almost passively waited to starve to death. However, there was one person, the village chief. He was the second to last group to go to Lop Nur. He was the most familiar with the situation in Lop Nur among the aborigines.
The person who knows Lop Nur best, he came out of Lop Nur alive.
He was found on the edge of Lop Nur, thirsty and hungry, and almost dead.
In his pocket, there was also a human palm that had been half eaten away by teeth.
The villagers were eager to know what happened in Lop Nur, so they used the last water source to save the village chief. Unexpectedly, the village chief went crazy. He looked at all the living people in horror and pointed at everyone who came into contact with him.
The living creature turned the words it spat out into curses and coldly faced the villagers.
"You must die. If you dare to set foot on God's burial bay, you must die. You must die!"
"Death, death! Burial Wo Bay is not something you mortals can step into!!"
…………
Fear spreads in the hearts of people. At this time, all doubts can no longer be found from the only living person. Even the broken palm in the pocket cannot be asked, but everyone has a tacit understanding.
One conclusion: I can’t stay here any longer.
The aborigines of Lop Nur used to be possessed and plunged into the depths of the desert, just wanting to get supplies to help themselves. Now they just want to escape from this sea of death that has swallowed more than a hundred people. However, it is already too late.
The village chief's return was just a precursor, like Queen Mary's new shoes, pushing the villagers step by step into the abyss of death, leading to the coming of the catastrophe.
Under the shabby tent,
What settles down is just a painful dream.
Your wandering houses,
Poverty cannot be avoided in the wilderness.
There is suffering everywhere and there is no escape,
There is no barrier from fate.
It may take a long time for outsiders to think of Lop Nur, but because the indigenous people are familiar with the terrain nearby, as long as they keep facing the rising sun, they will be able to get out of the middle of the desert, so the remaining dozens of families began to make plans.
The strange thing is that every time someone makes up their mind to leave here, everyone in this family will fall into a pool of blood as if their hearts have been ripped out by the devil, either being hacked to death with sharp objects or being hit by heavy objects.
He was beaten to death, and people were panicked for a while. The people who were planning to escape actually became the devil's burial objects first, while the shocked people did not dare to act rashly.
Because the village chief went crazy, the villagers separated a room alone and gave him a little hay and cactus every day just to let him breathe. Originally, he could have given up on him and died, but someone suggested that in case the village chief
In the long run, I can think of something about the situation of the supplies in the desert. Maybe the truth will be revealed by then. This sentence played a key role, otherwise in such a situation, anyone's life can be abandoned.
However, paper cannot contain fire. In the end, what was first discovered by a child was that the village chief would quietly leave the closed room in the middle of the night, sneak into the house of someone who was about to escape, and knock the person unconscious first, making him unable to escape.
If they struggle to make a sound, they will be killed with extremely cruel methods.
This testimony was astonished by everyone. A group of people rushed towards the closed room aggressively. At this time, the people in the village were all old, weak, women and children. Including the newborn children, there were only a dozen or so left. Almost
It didn't pose any threat, but there were so many people. When I opened the house, I found that the village chief who had been in confinement was missing.
An even weirder thing happened. The body of the village chief, who had been searched all over the village but could not be found, appeared not far away in the desert the day after the village chief disappeared. His feet were cut off, and his skin was peeled off. He was bloody.
The man was thrown into the desert. The reason why he could identify him as the village chief was because the village chief’s woman discovered that the man’s little finger was different from ordinary people, with a section missing. This was because the village chief himself was killed by a lawnmower when he was young.
The piece that was cut off was only the size of a fingernail, neither long nor short. This person is the village chief!
The woman went crazy and threw herself on the body of the village chief. Suddenly, a child in the village wearing crotchless pants said innocently, "But when we found the village chief, the village chief's hands were very good, not even this small part was missing."
"
One word awakens the dreamer.
The pitfalls of the Emperor's New Clothes are often exposed by the smallest innocent eyes.
If the crazy village chief was not the village chief when we got along with everyone before, then who is he?
The man was exactly the same as the village chief. They were almost similar in body shape, appearance, voice, and behavior. There was no flaw. However, because he was crazy, anyone who came near him would curse the man with vicious words. Therefore, the village chief
The woman couldn't get close, and for a while everyone was helpless.
No one got close to him, which was why he kept it secret.
And now, the body of the village chief appears.
A cold feeling crawled up the spine of everyone present: If the fake village chief had left because his deeds were exposed, then why was the real village chief dead and not a threat to that person, and why did he have his feet cut off?
Peel off his skin and throw it in front of everyone, waiting for others to discover it? This clearly tells everyone that the previous village chief was a fake. Now that the real village chief is back, won't everyone be more vigilant?
?
However, the matter was far from over. As a result of people's panic, everyone became more determined to escape from here. Under organized and planned arrangements, the remaining people finally left the edge of Lop Nur and saw Xinjiang.
Now that we have seen the town, we are saved. The fear of silence that we have been waiting for for so long is finally relieved and released.
It doesn't matter whether the water source is available or not. A group of people drank all the remaining water they brought, but at this moment, a sweet smell came out of their throats. After swallowing the water, those who escaped fell into a trap.
It fell into the sand and became withered bones in the desert.
Li Luyi looked at Zai Jinhe, "Is the water poisonous? The fake village chief poisoned all the water sources he could find before leaving."
Zai Jinhe looked at the night, unsure, "These are what my grandma told me. The authenticity of the things cannot be guaranteed. Moreover, I have been living in Lop Nur for so long. Who can tell who is the origin of Lop Nur?"
Residents, who came here later?"
What he said was a bit philosophical. Li Lvyan smiled slightly. There were so many intriguing things in this story that for a while, he didn’t know where to start.
Because the head of the fake village deliberately drew a map for people when he came back, and said out loud that this was Burial Wo Bay, and anyone who came close would turn into a corpse, so this picture was firmly remembered by people.
I kept it in my mind that no one dared to approach him, but strangely speaking, Zai Jinhe was a little unsure about Li Lvyan. "It was indeed calm for a long time after that, but in recent years, especially in the past 20 years,
Before, there were several groups of people who were determined to go to Mianhewan, but they couldn't be stopped, and these people never came out of Mianhewan again."
Li Lvyan asked strangely, "Since you know it's dangerous there, why do you still lead the way and tell them?"
"I will not lead the way, I will only tell them the direction. It is their choice whether they go or not."
There seemed to be some sadness in Zai Jinhe's suddenly cold words, "Brother Green Ant, you may not have experienced the pain of only drinking water and not eating for a week. I was too hungry at that time and had no food, so I even had to save water."
Drink and drink, and if you lead them, just once, you can feed me for a year-" He raised his head and looked at Li Lvyan with wet eyes, "If this is the case, if this is the case - you want to
What should I do?”
Li Lvyan was silent for a long time: Indeed, since he has not been there personally, he is not qualified to empathize with him. Under such circumstances, being able to eat well is already a luxury. The lives of those who must die are compared with his own life.
What does it matter?
Zai Jinhe's voice sounded extremely sad in the night. What she told was not her tragic past, but just some things that she had to do despite knowing that they would push people into the abyss.
All truths originate from this, from Zianhe Bay, and from this map.
Zai Jinhe smiled bitterly, "So, Brother Green Ant, I don't want your money. Now I can eat enough and drink as much water as I want, but you promise me not to go, okay? I went."
No one has ever come back alive, just like those people, the same as the aboriginal people of Lop Nur, you--" covering his face and crying, whispering "Don't go, don't go, please--"
In the past, there was no rouge, and a girl's face would only be red for her sweetheart.
There are not many truths in the world. A girl's blush is worth more than a long dialogue. There are also many lies in the world, but what is contained in crying is often the most tragic truth.
Li Lvyan gently brushed away Zai Jinhe's tears with his hand, "I really want to promise you, but you may not know that the reason why I entered this desert was not for sightseeing. I put aside everything about myself,
It's not for adventure. I'm looking for a friend of mine. He has a close and inseparable connection with me as life and death. If he dies, time will be meaningless to me. I'm looking for traces that he may still be alive.
Came here."
"Then he is in Burial Hewan?" Zai Jinhe looked at Li Lvyan with tears in his eyes. He hoped that Li Lvyan's response would not be what he thought. However, it backfired. Li Lvyan nodded gently, "If this
The land is exactly as you described, it is in Burial Wo Bay."
"No -" Zai Jinhe's tears were like broken pearls, falling one by one in the desert, moistening every grain of sand. She put her hands on the ground, looking a little helpless, "You are, you are my first
The friends you have made outside the world, if you must go there to find your friends, I have no reason to stop you."
In my life, I have personally ruined the lives of too many people. Although I did not kill those people directly, I did not kill Boren, but Boren died because of me. This is no different from me directly killing them, but
Now that he has to become the executioner who directly sends his friends to death, how can he be so cruel?
"I understand." Zai Jinhe wiped away his tears, "If you must go, I will do everything I can to help you. I want to go to Bury Hewan with you!"
Li Luyi quickly shook his head, "To be honest, you just need to tell me how to get there, because I have a more important task for you." He looked at Jing Qiongshuang, who was sleeping soundly, and told him about his encounter with Jing Qiongshuang.
The purpose of the explanation was to hope that Zai Jinhe could bring her to the viewing area safely and then take her away safely. After all, no matter how rational a woman is, once she gets involved with emotions, she will eventually become troublesome.
Although Jing Qiongshuang seems to be a sensible woman so far, there are unforeseen circumstances.
"I see."
Zai Jinhe took a deep breath, and the two of them talked a lot more. The dark clouds in the sky began to recede quietly, and the heat of the sun began to envelope them.
It's four o'clock now.
It's going to be daybreak.
"Wogua, wogua!"
Li Lvyan shook Wo Gua's sleeping bag, and Wo Gua got out of the sleeping bag sleepily, with a hazy look on his face, "What's wrong? Is dinner ready?"
Li Green Ant laughed and scolded, "Let's go, it's almost 4:30, we have to set off in the early morning when the sun is not bright, otherwise we will become roast duck on the chopping board again like yesterday."