Since Pengamu was born 25 years after this incident, it can be speculated that the discovery of the ancient kingdom of Loulan by foreigners may have been an important reason for Pengamu to pay attention to Lop Nur.

Whether this scientific expedition is related to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' attempt to explore Loulan culture also has a certain relationship, and you can temporarily reserve your opinion and silently put a question mark in your heart.

Fourth, this is not the first time someone has gone missing.

Lop Nur is difficult to get in and out of, and it is full of mystical elements, so it is not only Pengamu and Hewen who have dared to explore, but countless people throughout the ages who have come to try to unravel its secrets.

Dunhuang is also a part of Lop Nur, Tang Seng once wrote in his "Tang Dynasty Western Regions" that "there are many evil ghosts and hot winds in the Sand River, and if they meet, they will die, and there is no one who is perfect", and some people even died of thirst only a few steps away from the spring, which is incomprehensible.

There is an incomplete record of missing and dead people near Lop Nur in modern times:

In 1949, a plane flying from Chongqing to Dihua (Urumqi) disappeared in the sky over Shanshan County, but in 1958 it was found in the east of Lop Nur, and all the people on board died.

In 1950, a police officer of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) anti-bandit unit disappeared, and after more than 30 years, the geological team found his body in Hongliugou, which was more than 100 kilometers away from the accident site.

In 1990, seven people from Hami took a passenger and freight car to Lop Nur to look for crystal mines, and never returned.

Two years later, three bodies were found lying on a steep slope in a car 30 kilometres from the deceased, and the whereabouts of the others were unknown.

In the summer of 1995, three Milan farm workers went missing in a Beijing jeep to explore treasure in Lop Nur, and later explorers found the bodies of two of them 17 kilometers away from Loulan, the cause of death is unknown, and the whereabouts of the other are unknown.

In June 1996, Chinese explorer Yu Chunshun disappeared during a solo trekking expedition to Lop Nur. When his body was found by helicopter, the forensic medical examiner determined that he had been dead for five days, because he had deviated more than 15 kilometers from his original trajectory and could not find a water source, and eventually died of thirst.

After his death, it was found that his head was facing in the direction of Shanghai (Yu Chunshun was a Shanghainese).

In 1997, a family of three in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, under the leadership of their father, went to Loulan to hunt for treasures, but never returned, and finally the bodies of the three were found by gold diggers.

In the same year, four people in Changji drove a large truck to Hongliugou on the south bank of Lop Nur to look for gold mines, but there was no news, and in 1998, four bodies and a rotten car were found near Hongliugou.

In late 2005, the body of an unnamed man was found in Lop Nur in Dunhuang, and at that time it was presumed that the man was a "travel friend", and the forensic doctor determined that he had not been killed.

After the body was discovered, it also attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands of "travel friends" in China, and some people even issued an initiative on the Internet to find his identity, and finally with the efforts of everyone, the identity of the man was finally determined, and his remains were finally returned to his hometown.

It was found that the man went on his own expedition to Lop Nur in 2005, but why he died has always been a mystery......

In 2007, a dried corpse was found, which was once suspected to be Pengamu, but DNA testing debunked this hypothesis.

Therefore, the disappearance of Pengamu during his investigation in Lop Nur is not accidental, even though the state dispatched planes, troops, police dogs, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to conduct a carpet search, but still found nothing.

The treasure hunters entered Lop Nur one after another, obviously dangerous, but still did not hesitate, there must be enough attractive things in it, Kowloon even wondered that the Tibetan friend met here, he said that the family had encountered a change, so he had to transfer the dzi, this story is suspicious, perhaps, this Tibetan is very likely to have found treasure somewhere in Lop Nur, including the dzi.

Kowloon and Ho Gang are trying their best to find this treacherous place, and they also want to be like the Swede Sven Hedin to discover the hidden treasures.

The weather was so hot, Jiulong really couldn't stand it, he felt that such an aimless search was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, so he gave up.

At this time, a Tibetan came from a distance, he wore a short shirt with white cocoon silk and brocade waist-length on his upper body, with a large left placket and a small right placket, and then wore a round-necked wide-sleeved robe sewn from cotton, and tied the chuba around the waist with a garcha (a seven-colored large-flowered belt, decorated with red, green, blue, purple and other seven-colored stripes, about 2 meters long and 20 cm wide), and the two sleeves were tied behind the waist through the front and abdomen, and the edge of the drooping part of the robe was at the knee, forming a capsule belt at the waist to hold the items that were carried around.

The waist, opening, and hems of the trousers are wide, and the feet are worn in short hidden shoes and a felt top hat.

Jiulong was excited, he looked carefully at the other party's neck, but he didn't see the dzi, could it be that the other party hid the dzi somewhere?

He tentatively asked the other party if there was a transfer of dzi, and the other party fortunately knew how to listen to Mandarin, and said with a smile: "Dzi is still a Buddha, and I am still looking for it." ”

Kowloon hurriedly asked the other party where there might be, and the other party pointed into the distance: "Far away in the sky, close in front of you." After saying that, he left without looking back.

The second monk of Jiulong is confused, what does this mean?

He Gang said with a smile: "I understand what he means, when he says far, it should refer to Tibet, and when he says near, it is here, yes, it is very likely to be in the ancient country of Loulan, let's go quickly." ”

He Gang packed up and urged Kowloon to leave quickly.

"Why can the desert ancient dzi be unearthed in the ancient country of Loulan?"

Kowloon asked as he walked.

"Because the ancient country of Loulan in the ancient Western Regions was a fortress of exchanges between the East and the West, it brought together various cultures and religions, such as shamanism, Zoroastrianism (Zoroastrianism), Buddhism, Manichaeism, Nestorianism, Christianity, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and the most important thing is to believe in Buddhism.

"Loulan is the name of an ancient country in the Western Regions. It is a small ancient country in western China, with the capital of Loulan City (the ruins are on the northwest coast of present-day Lop Nur, Xinjiang, China). Loulan is located at 89°55'22" east longitude, 40°29'55" north latitude, southwest and end, Jingjue, Kumi, Khotan, north through the car division, northwest through Yanqi, east when Bailongdui, through Dunhuang, choking the Silk Road.

"The Chinese belong to the Indo-European race, the language is the Indo-European Tocharian language, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty first passed through the Western Regions, and the envoys passed through Loulan.

"According to the records of the "Historical Records of Dawan Lie" and the "Biography of the Western Regions of the Han Book", as early as the second century, Loulan was a famous 'city of the city' in the Western Regions.

It leads to Dunhuang in the east, Yanqi and Yuli in the northwest, and Ruoqiang and Mo in the southwest. ”