Humans are social animals, and over time they form states with a clear division of functions.

On this vast continent, there are hundreds of countries, large and small, with cold winters at the north and south ends, hot at the central equator all year round, and a vast desert in the center of the continent due to lack of water, where many people also live.

In the eastern coastal zone, a country called the Chinese Federation has been established, which is one of the three major powers in the world, and after thousands of years of disputes between various countries, it is now in a stage of tacit peace, local turmoil still occurs from time to time, but large-scale wars have not occurred for decades, and the economy and science and technology are developing rapidly.

There are always similarities between parallel universes, don't look at the fact that this continent is still in a primitive overall state, in fact, the plates are also moving, and the internal forces of the planet itself are trying to tear this continent apart, and plate movements are taking place imperceptibly.

The Xia River, which nurtured the Chinese nation, came from this, and compared with the written record, it has slowly widened several times, and you can't even see the other side of the river at a glance, and many freighters are moving on the river.

The development is strikingly similar, but there are also big differences, such as in the evolution of species.

At this moment, in the territory of the Chinese Federation, an off-road vehicle is driving through a large area of drought-tolerant trees, surrounded by desert, the road is also covered with sand, and the trunks of those trees are hung with fruits similar to gourds, which are full of edible water, so they are called life-saving trees.

There is a large area of this plant growing nearby, which shows that the area is not as barren as it seems, and there should be a water source underground, which is true, it can only be regarded as the edge of the desert, and because of the abundant sunlight, there are many grape farmers who can take root deep into the ground to draw water.

The dark green jeep stopped at this moment, and the strange middle-aged man who was still in Dongcheng, 2,000 kilometers away, got out of the car and picked a fruit from a life-saving tree, crushed a small piece and drank it himself, and then took it back to the car and fed it to the little girl with a pale face and a white gauze wrapped around her neck.

She was still conscious, but obviously in pain, her brow was furrowed, she could see a few blackened veins, which spread along the blood vessels to the jaw area, after drinking a little water, she touched the gauze on her neck with her hand, and asked, "Dad, what's wrong with my neck?"

It was a strange remark that on that rainy night the other day, she remembered that she had been bitten by the young man, but now she seemed to have no memory at all.

Her father's behavior was also very strange, as it should be, touched her hair and squeezed out a smile and said, "You broke your neck after you fell, Dad has taken you to the hospital to treat the wound, now it's fine, just take some medicine."

I'm going to drive you to meet an old friend of mine, he has better medicine there, the scenery around is beautiful, right, it's even better more than six hundred years ago, it was originally a green area, and he went out in a hurry and forgot to bring his camera. ”

The little girl was not very old, and she did not expect to ask her father why he knew what the neighborhood was like hundreds of years ago, and looked around, showed a lovely smile, and said, "Well, it is beautiful, it is all sand."

What are we going to do at the school? Aren't you going to work?"

"It's a holiday, it's been a long time, I've asked the teacher for a leave of absence, I've been playing with you for a few days, we're almost there, keep going?" asked the girl's father.

At this time, he saw a police car coming, staring at the car, the other party did not leave directly, but stopped behind the jeep, and then a policeman, from the driver's seat to open the door and get out of the car, wearing only a short sleeve, the sun hung high above his head at noon, and the temperature in the desert was much hotter than other places.

Coming out of the air-conditioned police car, feeling very uncomfortable, the old policeman with a beard walked up to them and asked, "The car broke down?"

"It's okay, just pick a fruit and drink some water, and I'm ready to go." ”

Looking at the girl in the passenger seat, the old policeman stared at the gauze around her neck for a while, and asked in a professional habit: "Your daughter?"

It's not comfortable to come to the desert in this season, it's okay to have a life-saving tree nearby, and it's hard to find water in it, so it's best to look around and pick more fruit to bring.

Last time, a few people went too far inside and disappeared for more than a week before being discovered, you should know what they became in the end, grinding is dust, and not even a drop of blood can be squeezed out of their bodies. ”

There were children present, and the old policeman didn't say it directly, but the middle-aged man could imagine the scene, and when he heard the word "blood", his face instantly stiffened, probably because he thought of those bad things, and said: "It's my daughter, thank you for the reminder, we don't plan to go any further, just take a walk around the neighborhood."

My health is not very good, so I made a small move and took my daughter out for a walk. ”

Indirectly explained the origin of the gauze on his neck, the old policeman saw that the girl was not abnormal, and he didn't think much about it, looked at his driver's license, wrote down the name "bangs", and the driver's license number and returned to his car.

The border is not far from the vicinity, and you can see the towering snow-capped mountains in the distance, and if you go in the opposite direction, you may have to check the items in the car, because many people use this road to bring prohibited items back to China, but no one will smuggle children with them.

Therefore, after the old policeman started the car again and was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something and stopped, pointed to the mountains looming on the horizon to the north, and reminded: "There are often cars passing nearby, and it doesn't matter if something happens, but you must not go to that place."

The evil gate in the valley is very powerful, there is fog all year round, and even mobile phones and compasses cannot be used in it, and there are often people who turn around for several days to find a way out, and if they are lucky, they can come out, and if they are unlucky, it is difficult to say.

We locals never go there, and the experts went to investigate several times but didn't find out the reason, saying that there might be a magnetic field nearby or something, I can't explain it to you, and I don't understand it myself, anyway, it's absolutely right not to go there.

Some people who are not afraid of death will really die in it later, and the Huangyan sheep migrate every year, preferring to walk dozens of kilometers more to bypass it than pass through the valley.

Goodbye, this is my business card, if you have something to call, the front is my work number, and the back is my wife's restaurant, you can get a discount if you take my business card. ”

The middle-aged man with his name bangs written on his driver's license couldn't cry or laugh, his eyes were withdrawn from the mountains, and he walked over to receive the business card of the old policeman and smiled: "Okay, I'll try it when I have time at night."

You are busy first, we are also leaving, don't worry, with the child, I won't look for death now......"

That was true, but as soon as the old policeman drove away, he got into the car and entered the fork in the road, and drove towards the strange mountains......