Before the sandstorm hit, Ren Pingsheng happened to be traveling under a wall-like Yadan landform.

When the wind hit, he naturally chose to take refuge under the rock wall, due to the extremely low visibility, Ren Pingsheng did not know where his teammates were, and when the sandstorm was over, he stood up from the hiding place and did not see his teammates.

Looking at the sand dunes rising high in front of him, it took Ren Pingsheng a long time to remember that there should have been a gentle Gobi, but except for the Yadan in front of him, all the landforms had been changed, which was the most terrifying phenomenon in the desert, the moving sand dunes.

Faced with this group of newly generated mobile sand dunes, Ren Pingsheng found that he had broken away from the main army.

Ren Pingsheng first called out the names of his teammates, but the fierce wind drowned out his voice; he took out his mobile phone and wanted to call the team leader, but China Mobile's GSM signal did not cover this desert; he wanted to set off to find his teammates, but he didn't know which direction they were in, except for the Yadan, there were high and low hills, where should he look?

Moreover, at this time, the sun has already passed more than halfway, and it will soon enter dusk.

If it is night, the temperature in the desert drops very quickly, and there is nothing on me except a down jacket, in the desert of a few degrees below zero, how can I spend the night?

Ren Pingsheng suddenly thought of something.

He took out his mobile phone from his pocket again, and after lighting the unlock button, the 3.5-inch LCD screen lit up. ALTHOUGH REN PINGSHENG IS NOT A CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PLAYER WHO CATCHES UP WITH THE TREND, HE WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THE IPHONE IN HIS PREVIOUS LIFE, SO HE BROUGHT BACK AN IPHONE FROM THE UNITED STATES LAST TIME.

ALTHOUGH THE ORIGINAL IPHONE WAS NOT PERFECT IN MANY PLACES, APPLE'S INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND IOS SYSTEM WERE FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN MANY FEATURE PHONES OF THE SAME PERIOD, ESPECIALLY THE BUILT-IN APP DEVELOPED BY APPLE FOR THE IPHONE, WHICH WAS SIMPLE TO OPERATE BUT POWERFUL AND VERY PRACTICAL.

So, Ren Pingsheng quickly found the icon that simulated the compass image.

The operation interface with white characters on a black background maintains Apple's usual simple design,Although it is only a mobile phone APP,But the functions of this electronic compass are readily available,There is more detailed information about the current location below,Including bearing、Longitude、Latitude and altitude。

THIS IS WHERE THE IPHONE IS POWERFUL, IT IS EQUIPPED WITH A GRAVITY SENSOR AND MAGNETORESISTIVE MATERIAL, AND IN PLACES WHERE THERE IS A LACK OF GSM SIGNAL, IT CAN DETERMINE THE DIRECTION BY MEASURING THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO THE FUNCTION OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPASS.

Ren Pingsheng calculated quickly in his mind.

They set off from the location of about 50 kilometers southwest of Yumen Pass in Alkali Spring, before encountering the sandstorm has walked about half of the distance, from the map can be measured, they are only about 20 kilometers away from the end of the road, according to the average walking speed of 5 kilometers per hour, as long as they find the right direction, about 4 hours can get out of the desert.

AFTER THINKING ABOUT ALL THIS, REN PINGSHENG PICKED UP THE IPHONE IN HIS HAND AND WALKED TOWARDS THE HILLS ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION GIVEN BY THE ELECTRONIC COMPASS.

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The logistics support team of the "Silk Road Journey EMBA Gobi Challenge" finally contacted the team leader by satellite phone after the sandstorm, and they quickly sent more than ten vehicles to pick up the EMBA president class students who were trapped in the middle of the journey.

Since this is the second year that the competition has been held, the organizers still have deficiencies and omissions in many aspects, so it was not until the rescue vehicles returned to the logistics camp, in the chaos, that everyone found that there was one person missing from the team, and Ren Pingsheng was gone.

The organizer panicked at the time, whether the "Silk Road Journey EMBA Gobi Challenge" can be successfully held, for the promotion of this project in the future is of great significance, if there is a disappearance of students in the second year of the project, those entrepreneurs who usually have fine clothes and food where dare to sign up, which is a major blow to the relevant persons in charge of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and China Television.

The co-organizer of the project, the person in charge of the local government of Dunhuang also panicked, although the "Silk Road Tour EMBA Gobi Challenge" is a course of the business school, but also responsible for the effect of showing the tourism style of Dunhuang, if there is an accident or even casualties in the course of the activity, not only the desert trekking tourism project in Dunhuang will be yellow, the person in charge will not be able to eat and go around.

The students who have been rescued are also very worried, after more than half a year of study and training, the students of the president class have established a deep friendship, thinking of what accident he may have, some female students are about to cry, and the male students are organized, asking the organizers and local governments to take immediate action to search and rescue as soon as possible.

With the joint efforts of many parties, the local government quickly took emergency measures and formed three search and rescue teams from the west, south, and southwest directions of the Gobi Desert.

Objectively speaking, the local government's response was very fast, and the search and rescue plan was very thoughtful, and if Ren Pingsheng had stayed where he had remained after the sandstorm, the search and rescue team would have been able to find him and take him out of the Gobi Desert within two hours at most.

IT'S A PITY THAT REN PINGSHENG DIDN'T CHOOSE TO STAY WHERE HE WAS, HE HAD ALREADY WALKED IN THE DIRECTION OF YUMEN PASS FOR MORE THAN 2 HOURS WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE IPHONE ELECTRONIC COMPASS.

And the actions of these three search and rescue teams are doomed to be fruitless.

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After walking about 10 kilometers, Ren Pingsheng realized that he had made a mistake.

ALTHOUGH THE IPHONE ELECTRONIC COMPASS WORKED AND KEPT THE RIGHT DIRECTION ALONG THE WAY, HE OVERESTIMATED HIS PHYSICAL FITNESS.

When I followed the large army before, with the guidance of the team leader and the assistance of the team members, Ren Pingsheng did not have to worry about the route, and could walk according to the optimal route provided by the team leader.

But after breaking away from the large army, Ren Pingsheng walked on his own, and only then did he really feel what it was like to be difficult to walk.

First of all, there is not enough water to drink, in the previous journey, due to the supply of a large army, Ren Pingsheng did not deliberately control the drinking water, so there was only less than half a pot of water left in the kettle on his body. Ren Pingsheng decided that from now on, only when he can't stand the thirst, take a small sip of water in his mouth, and let the water slowly penetrate into the mouth, so as to avoid dehydration, and not drink water too quickly and cut off the water early.

But even with such a conservative plan, the pot of water still didn't last long, feeling that the kettle was getting lighter and lighter, and there was no sign of a water source ahead, Ren Pingsheng even began to think about whether the kettle was used to hold his own urine after the water in the kettle was dry, and he really couldn't find a water source, so he could only rely on drinking urine to maintain his water.

The second is that the temperature is decreasing, as the sun gradually sets westward, the temperature in the air drops extremely fast, Ren Pingsheng has buttoned his clothes tightly, put down his sleeves, and protected his head and neck with a scarf, but he still feels that dry and cold wind pouring into his neck. The best thing to talk about is that after the temperature drops, the volatilization of human body water will be less, and it can also make the pot of water support for a while.

However, the most urgent thing at the moment is the threat of gravel, Ren Pingsheng feels that the sand dunes under his feet are as soft and tender as a lake of stagnant water, and every time he steps on it, he will sink into a lot, and it will take a lot of physical strength just to pull out his feet, coupled with the sand that is constantly poured into the gaps in his shoes, Ren Pingsheng feels panicked under his feet, but after he poured his shoes a few times, he gave up this senseless behavior, because the shoes that have just been cleaned will soon be squeezed in again.

So Ren Pingsheng had to move forward with his feet full of sand, he felt that the calluses that had healed in his socks were about to be squeezed again, which made every foot he stepped out with a stinging pain of gravel, which not only slowed down his walking speed, but also made his legs hurt even more.

On this vast Gobi, except for the yellow sand, it is the yellow sand, and the hills are the hills. There were no camel thorns, no red willows, no poplar trees, and there was no sign of life except for the occasional scorpion or two crawling in and out of the cave.

Everything around him is dragging down Ren Pingsheng's pace, even with the assistance of the electronic compass, Ren Pingsheng always feels that he is walking slower and slower, and the sand dunes in front of him seem to look the same, monotonous, boring, and unattainable, Ren Pingsheng even wonders if he is lost in the desert, whether he is going around in circles.

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The sun finally set, and the moon rose again. This was the first time Ren Pingsheng had seen the moon in the desert, it looked much bigger and brighter than what he saw in the city, and it was so close to the desert that it seemed to be able to pick it up as soon as he stretched out his hand.

The moonlit hills are endless, looking like the undulating sea.

In fact, tens of thousands of years ago, it was a blue sea, as connected as the oceans are now, and it also gave birth to the most primitive life on earth, and those low-level algae plants used to thrive here, they grew year after year, and they died year after year.

Until one day, a sudden movement of the earth's crust revealed a hill from below the ocean, and the sea desperately tried to break it down, overwhelm it, and the waves again and again not only did not knock it down and break it, but it grew bigger and bigger, and finally surrounded the sea to death, turning the unruly sea into a docile lake.

As a result, the original marine life climbed onto the shore of the lake and grew into primitive animals such as dinosaurs that ruled the earth at that time. Some marine plants grow into towering trees due to natural selection. Some animals slowly grow wings in order to adapt to their new environment and fly into the sky.

The surrounding mountains grew bigger and bigger, growing higher and higher, becoming the tall and majestic Tianshan and Kunlun Mountains that they are today, while the lake became less and less water, so that it dried up completely. The dinosaurs that ruled the earth fell and died, those who could fly away, those who could run ran away, and others survived in another way of life.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest, this is a painful choice.

As the Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains grew day by day, even the sea air of the Atlantic Ocean could not enter, and those big trees were also in danger, and they had to fall down one after another.

Life is quiet again, and everything is a matter of fate.

When Ren Pingsheng trekked through this desolate and dry body, looking back on the past and vicissitudes of thousands of years, he was full of emotion.

The world is reincarnated, the vicissitudes of life, the past thousand years, but now a moment.

No matter how powerful a creature is, how glorious an empire is, how great a person, and how beautiful a country and a city are, they will eventually turn into a handful of loess and gravel under their feet.

The value of life is not in how long you exist, but in what you create.

Your body may dry up, but the history you have made can live on forever, and live on from generation to generation.

As long as you have created and pursued, no matter success or failure, no matter glory or loneliness, it is the best choice.

Rebirth is a continuation of life, fate chose Ren Pingsheng, he has to prove the value of his life.

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The search and rescue team sent by the local government has already met at the missing place, but they have come all the way to nothing, because Ren Pingsheng is almost on the edge of the desert.

All in all, Ren Pingsheng has been walking in the desert for 6 hours, and the kettle on his body has been dry for a long time, but it is not filled with the planned urine, not that Ren Pingsheng is afraid of dirty, but that he has not been able to drain it at all.

The moisture on his body seemed to be drained, not only his lips were chapped and blistered, but even the skin on his face was wrinkled, and his hands were as dry as old roots. His shoes were full of gravel, and the skin on the soles of his feet was torn and solidified, and then ripped again, and finally coagulated with the gravel, but he felt no pain, and only dragged forward with a heavy step like a jack.

Thankfully, the soft sand beneath your feet has been replaced by a hard but rough gravel path, and instead of the monotonous repetitive sand dunes in the field of vision, you can see poplar forests, weeds, mounds of earth, and even the outlines of houses.

Although he was exhausted, Ren Pingsheng still held on and staggered in the direction of those shadows.

Ren Pingsheng felt that there was a strange voice echoing in his ears, it sounded as if his wife in his previous life was reprimanding his son again, he wanted to shout to stop her, but found that he couldn't make any sound from his open mouth; he felt that there were many figures vaguely in front of him, including his father, mother, aunt, cousin in Hanzhou, and friends such as Lin Lisong and Zhang Wenwu who he hadn't seen for several days, but their figures were like paper people, floating above the Gobi.

He even saw An Qi, she didn't change at all, just like the first time she saw her, her eyes were gentle and firm, but when he reached out to pull An Qi, she disappeared into the air, and he saw Gao Yuanyuan, this girl who made him admire and admire, her clear eyes were full of sweetness, but Ren Pingsheng couldn't catch her, she was as ethereal as smoke......

Ren Pingsheng was in a hurry, he couldn't give up everything since he was reborn, and he couldn't lose these beloved women, he ran towards them with all his strength, but found that his legs were like falling into the mud and couldn't extricate himself, he grabbed the air a few times, but those figures were like melting ice and snow, gradually penetrating into the ground.

No, don't go, don't leave me!

Ren Pingsheng only felt that the world was spinning for a while, and the last blurry scene he saw was a pair of long legs wearing embroidered leather boots running towards him.

It looks like a girl's foot, who is she?

Ren Pingsheng didn't know the answer, he had already fainted.

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