At five o'clock the next morning, the four of us waited under the sign of 'Wild Camel Nature Reserve'.

The morning is very cold, and the bottom of this brand is all saline-alkali land, and there is no wind and sand, which is a lot better.

Then a flock of camels came not far away, not very fast, and there was a man sitting on the top, and the camels behind were tied together with a rope, and we hurried to meet them.

"Uncle Maimaiti. ”

"Huh!" said Maimaiti, and the camels all knelt down.

Several camels had a lot of supplies on their backs, and Maimaiti said: "One of you gets on a camel, and after you go up, you just need to hold on to the reins and the hump, and don't fall down." ”

"Okay. ”

The four of us got on a camel one by one, each of us carried a bag, and then at the moment we were fully armed, I dare not say that we were armed to the teeth, but the whole person was tightly wrapped, wearing windproof glasses on our eyes, wearing masks on our mouths, military leather boots under our feet, and leather gloves on our hands, all of which were military accessories.

We also prepared a set for Maimaiti, after all, it is a long journey to fight against the desert, and it is prepared.

The feeling of riding a camel is more stable than riding a horse, and the feeling on the butt is not the same, maybe when I rode an old horse, I didn't even have a saddle or something to pad the buttocks, and the buttocks were worn out of the skin, so I left a very bad impression.

But in addition to the thick fur pads themselves, these camels also have a leather blanket cushion, which is soft and comfortable.

After putting on windproof sand glasses and masks, Maimaiti gave us a thumbs up: "This thing is easy to use, in the past, when we went into the desert, there would be sand in our eyes, mouth and nose, and it was not easy to wrap it in a scarf, this feels good." ”

"Troop stuff, of course, let's go now. I smiled and said to Maimaiti.

"And where are you going?" Maimaiti asked me suddenly.

I was stunned, turned my head to look at Wang Chuan, Wang Chuan picked up the mobile phone, and then drove the camel to Maimaiti's side, took the mobile phone to Maimaiti, and said: "Uncle, look at this map, the location of this point, you take us here." ”

The old man took the phone, looked at it carefully for a while, and then held the phone horizontally, and then said: "I remember this place, I have been there before, but it has been for decades, and the impression is not so deep. ”

"That's good. "A few of us were excited, and we were afraid of getting lost, but now Maimaiti said that there is an impression, so there should be a score.

Walking in, about dozens of kilometers, there are continuous Yadan style, the vast Gobi, and the endless desert.

In such an environment, people's minds and horizons will be incomparably broad, no wonder there will be many people like to come here to relax, if you have been under the pressure of high-pressure work for a long time, come here to see the empty desert or grassland at the moment, then the body and mind can be greatly relaxed and soothed.

However, this freshness only lasted for four or five hours, and by ten o'clock, the sun was up, and the temperature soared from about zero in the morning to more than 30 degrees, and I felt that this was just the beginning.

And it has already passed the Gobi Desert, which is full of desert, which has caused aesthetic fatigue, except for sand or sand.

There is also an inexplicable panic in my heart, a panic that I have never had, I can't tell the difference between southeast and northwest at this moment, and there are sand dunes on the front and back, left and right, and the key is very similar.

And at the beginning, there was a sense of novelty and freshness, or a sense of anticipation, that I had never been in the desert before, and after encountering a high sand dune, I thought about what was behind the sand dunes, and I had an urge to climb up and see.

But after a lot of hard work, behind the dunes are more sand dunes, higher sand dunes, and endless desert.

Looking at the scene of the wind sweeping and the yellow sand from afar, it is the first time you see it, you will feel very beautiful, but if you watch it so many times, or even experience it once under the attack of flying sand, then your mentality will definitely be different.

We've been through it no less than ten times along the way, when the wind blows the sand at us, and then the camels all lie down with their eyes closed and their ears closed.

A gust of wind and sand blew for a few minutes, and after the wind and sand passed, the head was covered with heavy sand and dust, as if it had just been dug out of the soil, and it was dirty.

By noon, Uncle Maimaiti had found a place in the shadow of a huge wind-eroded mushroom for us to rest and rehydrate.

It was only one morning, and the four of us called special forces were all lying on our stomachs, our mouths were dry, and then we were gurgling and hydrating.

Yuelan and I had our own saline and glucose water in our backpacks to replenish the salt and sugar in our bodies, and we couldn't eat anything else.

Yuelan didn't need to eat, but if I didn't eat, I would be hungry, and my thought at the time was that maybe I could catch some game in the desert and put some blood to drink.

But now there is nothing but sand and poplar trees dotted in the desert, and this poplar tree is legendary, the legend is that it lives without dying for a thousand years, dies without falling for a thousand years, and does not rot for a thousand years.

It may be exaggerated, but the fact that it can survive in such a harsh desert shows the strength of its vitality.

We sat on the floor, lying on our stomachs, and after taking a sip of water, we looked at each other, and then we laughed at the same time, and I said, "We shouldn't be that bad, right?"

"That's what happens when you first start in the desert. Uncle Maimaiti said: "This is a process of adaptation, after two days, you will get used to it, you will know how to save your physical strength, you will not do more actions that waste physical strength, drink more water, keep hydrated, don't suffer from heat stroke." ”

Wang Chuan held his mobile phone and continued to look at the red dot, he said: "We are still more than 80 kilometers away from this place, if nothing else, we can walk for half a day in the afternoon, and we can walk for half a day tomorrow morning." ”

Maimaiti waved his hand with a smile and said: "It's not so easy, now the temperature of the sand outside is at least forty degrees, people must not step on it, although the camel can, but it is also very uncomfortable, I feel sorry for the camel, after all, the next few days will depend on them, so I have to cherish a little." ”

"Then when will we be able to arrive?" Wang Chuan looked at Maimaiti in surprise.

"It's past one o'clock, and we have to rest until four o'clock in the afternoon, and we have to go until seven o'clock in the evening, when the sun goes down, and we have to find a place to set up camp, find a place to spend the night, and continue the next day. Maimaiti took a sip of water and said, "According to my previous estimates, I won't be able to get to this place until the afternoon of the day after tomorrow at the earliest." ”