It was almost noon when we arrived at Natenremu, the last long-lived village to enter the Taklamakan Desert from the east, and the word "Natenremu" is said to translate to "looking at the sea of death" in the local language. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

We arrived here can be said to be a painstaking, Uncle Hai and Lao Zhang they first took a direct flight from Beijing to Urumqi, and because Xiaopang has the same kind of fear of flying as the actor Ge You, afraid of taking a plane, resolutely chose to take the train, Zhang Meng and I had to sacrifice our lives to accompany the gentleman, and took the train for more than 30 hours.

Uncle Hai has a strange temperament, usually scathing and mean, unkind to the rich, he has always looked at people with his nose, although his family is very rich, if he is a person he doesn't look down on, even if he dies poor, don't want to get a copper plate from him, but Uncle Hai has one of the biggest weaknesses, that is, he likes others to flatter him the most, if he is coaxed well, he will immediately become a heroic and dry cloud, and he doesn't care how much money he spends.

Xiaopang knows him well, and he can't find the north of Uncle Hai in a few words, plus Zhang Meng is not a fuel-efficient lamp, the two of them sing and harmonize, what Uncle Hai was so handsome and mighty when he was young, he has won the Golden Rong, not lost to Du Yuesheng, how many vigorous things have been done, how many legendary deeds that young people are familiar with, and coaxed Uncle Hai to the point of fart, and took out a lot of silver and didn't care, took us to walk around the city of Urumqi first, and tasted the local food, stayed in the best Universal International Hotel in Urumqi, and rested in Urumqi for three days。

I said to Xiaopang in private, this Uncle Hai is really easy to coax, and he is flattered by you and Zhang Mengyi. It doesn't matter how much blood comes out. Little Fat "snorted" and said, that's an old fox, his purpose is to go down to the tomb with us to find some bullshit way to live forever, if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have looked at us starving to death on the side of the road, this kind of person is like this. Don't look at the enthusiasm for us now, when it is really profitable, for the sake of profit, I can stab you in the back for the sake of profit, and only such a person can make a fortune. I nodded.

Uncle Hai still took the two young people he saw at Xiaopang's house last time, one was a little girl, no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, very shy, always keeping her head down, and not talking to people much. According to Xiaopang, this little girl is called "Amei", she is Uncle Hai's goddaughter, Uncle Hai's wife died very early, and he did not leave children, although Uncle Hai's human nature is not very good, but this is the only thing that is very dedicated to women. After his wife died, he didn't marry again, and he didn't have any fancy intestines. It may be that no matter what kind of person will feel lonely when he is old, and the huge family property can not be brought to the grave, Uncle Hai ran to the orphanage to adopt a little girl, although Uncle Hai has no conditions for adoption, but money can be channeled, Uncle Hai went to the orphanage to pick and choose. fell in love with Amei, who was only five or six years old at the time.

Uncle Hai adopted her on the one hand because Amei has been different since she was a child, she is very quiet and down-to-earth, and there is also a very important aspect, that is, it is said that this Amei is born with a special ability. has a pair of "heavenly eyes", the so-called heavenly eyes, is to be able to see things that ordinary people can't see, such as some unclean things, etc., Uncle Hai is a very superstitious person, I believe that with Amei can prevent some accidents from happening, so no matter where you go, you have to take him, a goddaughter, this time to find the ancient city of the sun is difficult and abnormal, so it is even more so.

I was skeptical of Amei's claim that she could see things that ordinary people couldn't, but for some reason, I found that Ame always avoided me when she saw me, as if she was afraid of me, and she saw something in me? But she didn't say anything to the others, and they didn't notice it. I believe that all she can see is my handsomeness, who told me to think that I am a male god, hehe.

The other young man that Uncle Hai brought with him was the young man who seemed to be shrewd and capable. According to Xiaopang, this young man is not an ordinary person, I heard that he used to be the top student of Songshan Shaolin Martial Arts School, that is, the martial arts school that a well-known martial arts actor once attended, and also won the national junior martial arts championship, and later joined the army to the Beijing garrison, once served as the bodyguard of an important leader, and was originally assigned to work in a certain organ after demobilization, but this young man naturally likes to break through and take risks, and can't stand the constraints of 9 to 5, so he was hired by Uncle Hai with a lot of money as Uncle Hai's personal bodyguard. This young man's name is Li Yuxiang, Uncle Hai calls him "Xiangzi", and it is said that he also has a special ability, that is, he has a super memory.

I like this young man very much, I can see from my eyes that he is very decent and unpretentious, although he is young, but he is very serious.

Although Lao Zhang is not too young, he is still a small character in front of Uncle Hai, especially Lao Zhang, as a businessman, is even more envious of a rich man like Uncle Hai, and he is very flattering, seeing Uncle Hai always smiling and nodding his head, I don't know how to flatter him, but Uncle Hai always looks disdainful and contemptuous of Lao Zhang.

After resting in Urumqi for three days, after recuperating and recuperating, we went through a lot of twists and turns according to the original plan, trains to cars, cars to three-wheeled motorcycles, three-wheeled motorcycles to horse-drawn carriages, almost all means of transportation were sitting, and only then did we arrive at the Tatenremu recorded on the Loulan handscroll and entered the eastern end of the Taklamakan Desert Lop Nur, the others are fine, Uncle Hai is pampered on weekdays, how can he suffer this kind of crime, and he can't get up after arriving at the Tengremu, and he shouted vigorously to let Xiangzi hurry up to find a masseuse in the village, and then get some chilled juice, I don't care how much it costs, Xiangzi grinned, where to get these in this desert and remote area, I can't buy it with more money, I said in my heart, I still want to go into the desert to find the ancient city of the sun, it's really cumbersome, but for the sake of funds, I can only endure it.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Swedish explorer Sven Heding broke into Lop Nur and discovered the ancient country of Loulan, many scientists and expeditions at home and abroad have visited Lop Nur, although some people have experienced a lot of unpredictable dangers during the period, and some strange things have happened, but Lop Nur and the ancient country of Loulan have actually been unveiled the veil of mystery, and are not unfamiliar to people, and even recently in Lop Nur near the edge of Ruoqiang County, there is also a wave of adventure tourism fever, every year there are many trekking explorers and travelers to visit this place. Of course, from time to time, there will be news that some travelers or explorers are missing or killed, but these are mainly caused by insufficient preparation or lack of experience, and if you are well prepared, safety is still guaranteed. In short, the Lop Nur region is no longer as mysterious and difficult to get to the bottom of as it has been for decades.

But. Our purpose is not to find the legendary ancient kingdom of the sun located in the deeper part of the Taklamakan Desert through Lop Nur, so the route we take is not to follow the Tarim River to the north of Ruoqiang County and then enter Lop Nur like explorers or travelers now, but according to the records of the Loulan handscroll, from Retennamu on the east side of Lop Nur along the ancient channel of the Peacock River into Lop Nur, and then through Lop Nur into the depths of the Taklamakan Desert, to a place called Sun Hill, and then turn northwest from Sun Hill to finally reach the location of the ancient country of the Sun recorded in the scroll。 A place called Three Thousand Driftwood, as for why these two places are called "Sun Hill" and "Three Thousand Driftwood", it is not very clear, Zhang Meng's father only translated it literally according to the original text in the handscroll.

I have checked some information before, although the purpose of Pengjiamu's expedition is also to find the ancient city of the sun, and Pengjiamu has the original copy of the Loulan handscroll, but I don't know why they did not follow the route on the Loulan handscroll from Natenremu to Lop Nur, but chose to detour to other routes, which makes me puzzled.

Apparently few outsiders visit this unknown village. The locals were curious about our arrival, but after all, the place was very isolated. Therefore, the villagers are very simple, and although they are curious, no one dares to approach us. Seeing Uncle Hai's exhausted appearance, we planned to find someone to spend the night at home, and then enter the Taklamakan Desert after being fully prepared and finding a suitable guide.

Entering the Taklamakan Desert is no joke, the Taklamakan Desert is the largest desert in our country and the second largest mobile desert in the world. The so-called mobile desert means that the scenery in it is constantly changing due to the influence of the wind, and you may sleep under a sand dune at night and wake up the next morning. This sand dune has long been lost without a trace, and it is easy to get lost in it, so this desert is also known as the "Sea of Death".

I don't know how many explorers have been in ancient and modern times, Caravans and travelers are killed in it, although there are now advanced equipment such as GPS, but it is still not an easy thing to enter this sea of sand, as Cheng Jiao once said, advanced equipment can not play a role in some places, once it fails is a fatal blow, many times it is not as reliable as using traditional methods, and traditional methods are often only mastered by locals, because only after thousands of years of continuous experience can these methods be refined, which is why we did not make too many material preparations before coming here, if you can't find something suitable for entering the desert in the local area and guides, then you can only know the difficulty and retreat, why send to death。

Although we had made sufficient planning and analyzed various possibilities and countermeasures before leaving, we still ignored a crucial problem, and this problem was so obvious that the angry little fat slapped his head and scolded: "Damn, we are really pigs." ”

The most important problem is that we don't speak the same language as the locals.

The language barrier will lose the bridge of communication, and we have planned in advance to purchase tools in the local desert, The items and the plan to find the local guide are all in vain, the locals don't know what we're going to do, it seems that we can only look at the sea of death from afar and go home, not only that, we even knocked on the doors of several families, because we don't know who we are, what do we want to do, the locals see strangers are closed doors, there is no place to sleep, it seems that we only have a miserable street tonight, Uncle Hai heard the news and stomped his feet again and again, counting down us are all waste rice buckets, even the tired of him Honghai and other characters have to sleep on the streets like flowers, shouting that if we don't want to find a way, he won't even pay for the way back, and he wants us to repay all the previous expenses, and no one can tell him if we feel that we are in the wrong.

When he was at a loss, Zhang Meng ran back from the east end of the village in a hurry, saying that he found a deserted house outside the east end of the village, the courtyard was very large, it looked very decent, I don't know why no one lived, we can spend the night there tonight, at least we don't have to sleep on the streets, and after this night, tomorrow we will find a way to communicate with the locals about buying supplies and looking for guides.

We listened to what Zhang Meng said and re-raised the spirit, followed Zhang Meng to the deserted house he found, and looked, sure enough, as Zhang Meng said, this is a big house, much more generous than other houses in the village, it is very simple Islamic style, it is estimated that it used to be the house where the local big family lived, but now the gate is gone, the inside is deserted, some doors and windows have been dilapidated, it seems that it has been abandoned for a long time.

We were just about to enter the house, but we found that Amei on the side was staring at the inside of the door, as if she was trembling, as if she was very scared, Uncle Hai asked, "Amei, come in with us, what's wrong?"

I only heard Ah Mei whisper and said a little tremblingly: "I see something unclean inside." (To be continued.) )