"Brother Fan, we have received the latest notification from the event team. Affected by a sandstorm today, the road book landmark has become invalid. As a result, today's stage will be cancelled and the results will not be counted in the overall standings. We have now set up an emergency assembly camp at 60 kilometers from the start of the special stage, and the GPS location has been transmitted to you, please return to the target location. ”

Before the satellite phone hung up, Li Fanyu heard Wang Rui inform the latest instructions of the competition team.

"Damn! What is the race team doing? Why didn't you give advance notice of the sandstorm? We are now more than 200 kilometers away from the starting point of the special section. Now it's better to turn back and follow the GPS directions to get closer to the next assembly point, the town of Meldam!"

Hearing this news, even the good-tempered Han Yu was furious. He really couldn't understand how such a funny thing could happen in a top-level long-distance cross-country event like the Dakar.

The order of the race team is to let the T5 support group running at the back of the team set up a temporary camp, so naturally it is easier for those cars that are lagging behind to turn back.

The racing team also thought very simply: since it was a car with a higher ranking, it must be that the off-road experience was more abundant, and the performance of the car was more stable. Under the change of the landform caused by the sandstorm, it is natural to take care of those who are not strong enough and there will be more chaos in the province.

For the current situation, of course, the event team can't take care of all aspects, so it is natural to seek stability. After all, the top teams are all formed by some large car companies, and these teams themselves have strong supply capabilities. For example, the Zhengxin K2 team had only two trucks in the support group, but in view of the difficulty of refueling and the distance between the cars and the support team, they had a supply helicopter at the start of the stage.

This kind of strength is not available to private fleets and smaller fleets.

Although the command to turn back the way he came for most of the way was enough to make Li Fan foolish, his mind was really not here at the moment.

After hearing Wang Rui's relayed instructions, Li Fanyu copied the satellite phone: "Ruizi, has the competition team activated the search and rescue measures for celluloid?"

Li Fanyu can't define the relationship between himself and celluloid, although there has been intimate contact between the two, it is also an oolong incident. Strictly speaking, I have a good impression of the guy who doesn't look like a woman at all, and between men and women.

But after such a long period of contact, he feels that celluloid is still a good friend. At least it's easier to get along with her, and you don't have to think about so many twists and turns.

Now that I know that celluloid has an accident, I naturally feel uncomfortable.

"Well," Wang Rui hesitated for a moment before he said, "Just now, Yin Changhai, the head of the CHTP support group, has already submitted a search and rescue request to the event team. The event team is preparing a search and rescue team and urgently deploying helicopters. But I just heard them say that Lulu's situation is special, and that several other convoys that had problems were stuck in the desert because of the accident and could not move, but at least the GPS was still working, and the satellite phone could still be connected. Through these, the event team can use helicopters to search and rescue. However, the CHTP is still out of touch, and the specific search and rescue plan has not yet come out. ”

Li Fanyu took a breath and

Damn, did the joke come true? I'm afraid that guy was really caught by the natives in the desert and made soup?

No way

Even if the master is a crow's mouth, it is impossible to fulfill it so quickly.

He shook his head, "Ruizi, you immediately transfer our helicopter over, communicate with the CHTP team, what to do with the search and rescue of the event team, and we will also mobilize to find people on our own side!"

"Okay!" Wang Rui agreed very simply, "I'll arrange it now." But don't be careless, according to the team's exploration vehicles and several teams that are turning back, the quicksand and sand changes caused by the sandstorm are quite serious, and there are already many cars in trouble ahead. You are the furthest from the camp, be careful. ”

"Got it. Li Fanyu nodded slightly, "Don't worry about us, I will definitely return to the camp safely." Ruizi, feel free to report to me if there is any situation on the CHTP side, and we will turn around and return to the camp now. ”

"Roger!"

After receiving Wang Rui's reply, Li Fanyu terminated the communication.

"Li Dong, GPS has been updated. When Li Fanyu and Wang Rui were on the phone, Han Yu had already reformulated the route and coordinates of the satellite positioning system, and formulated a return route according to the temporary camp location uploaded by Wang Rui.

"Okay, let's go back!" Li Fanyu glanced at the GPS, slowly turned the car around,

……

"Thank you so much!" In the makeshift camp, helicopters painted with Zhengxin K2 hovered overhead, and Yin Changhai and several CHTP team staff were thanking Wang Rui.

"Brother Yin, let's not say such things to our own people, it's important to hurry up and board the plane to find someone. ”

The huge fan blades of the helicopter blew gusts of sand, and Wang Rui shouted loudly to Yin Changhai.

"Okay, then we'll go!" Yin Changhai patted Wang Rui's arm heavily to express his gratitude, then waved behind him and boarded the helicopter with the other three.

The helicopter crew, which had received Wang Rui's order to "fully cooperate with the CHTP convoy to find the missing person", quickly took off and flew quickly according to the last GPS location provided by Yin Changhai before the disappearance of celluloid.

……

The sandstorm has subsided though. But the ups and downs of the eighth-level wind still lingered in the sky. Looking down from the helicopter, it was still a blank yellow.

The search and rescue efforts did not go well.

Quite not smooth.

Visibility is low due to the floating dust, so the helicopter can only fly at an altitude of about 70 meters, so that Yin Changhai and others can see the situation on the ground clearly.

The low altitude means that the search and rescue area is small, which means that the chances of finding celluloid are not high.

On the other hand, even a small positioning point on the GPS, in the vast desert, represents a large range of several kilometers - not to mention that celluloid's GPS has been completely lost, and no one knows how far she is from the last positioning point at this moment.

Inside the helicopter, Yin Changhai looked at the vast earth color under him, and the rescue helicopter of the event team in the distance, which was also spinning like flies, anxious like ants on a hot pot.

"Please help contact the event team and ask them how the ground search and rescue progress is?" After looking underground again and finding nothing, Yin Changhai begged the pilot through the in-flight radio.

After a short while, the driver gave him feedback: "Mr. Yin, the event team replied to the message that the ground search and rescue operation has been interrupted due to the impact of quicksand! At present, the only search and rescue measures for the missing people are the two helicopters of the event team and us!"

Hearing this news, Yin Changhai's heart was half cold.

He covered his face, "What can I do!"