Chapter 31: The Devil's Valley (1)
"Devil's Valley? This name is a bit cautious," Zhang Meng said: "It doesn't match such a beautiful place at all, why is it called such a name?" Is there really a devil in it? ā
"I don't know about this, anyway, there are a lot of rumors about this place, it is said that some strange things often happen in it, I just heard about it, whether these things are really or not is not very clear, but the Devil's Valley is a place where ordinary people rarely come here, let alone overnight, we have no choice but to spend the night here, just pay more attention." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Su Ziwu explained.
"If this place is so evil, why don't we spend the night outside the valley? Wait until tomorrow during the day to cross this Devil's Valley. Lao Zhang interjected on the side.
I was also about to ask the question, why do you have to spend the night inside, but find a place outside to endure the night.
Su Ziwu shook his head, and just wanted to answer why, suddenly, the snowy camel I was riding raised its head violently, and a strange sound came out of its throat, this should be the cry of a camel, I had never heard a camel bark before, and I thought that a camel would not bark like a giraffe, but at this time I heard that the snowy camel was indeed barking, more precisely, it was roaring, this sound seemed to be a low snoring sound from inflating the vocal cords from the throat, and then swallowed the vocal cords back along with the sound, It sounds uncomfortable.
With the cry of the snow peaks, the other camels also began to agitate, as if they were a sign of something terrible.
Su Ziwu also seemed to realize something, only to see him frowning, listening with his ears pricked up, his eyes dripping and rolling, his goatee curled up one after another, and his face with a frightened expression.
That's when it happened. The snowy camel let out a high-pitched cry.
"Not good! Everyone, hurry into the valley! Su Ziwu suddenly shouted.
At the same time, there was a roar in the sky, as if a high-speed train was coming from far and near, the sound was deafening, and then a heat wave hit us. The sand and gravel on the ground also rolled with the heat wave, and I looked towards the place where the sound came from, and saw that there was a dusk between heaven and earth, and in the wilderness, a huge red and yellow air mass was rolling towards us, and the air mass was wrapped in flying sand and stones, and there was a faint flash of fiery red in it.
"Damn, what's the situation?" Chubby shouted.
But Su Ziwu didn't have time to answer his words, and desperately urged the camel team to run towards the Devil's Valley.
Camels usually look slow. But if you really want to run, it's not slow, it's much faster than a human run. We couldn't figure out what was going on, so we could only ride on a camel and follow Su Ziwu towards the Devil's Valley.
Seeing that I was getting closer and closer to the Devil's Valley, the roar behind me was getting louder and louder, and my eardrums felt as if they were about to burst, and at the same time, the heat wave was getting hotter and hotter, and even turned into a burning heat. My back was roasted like it was about to catch fire, and it hurt so badly.
Some of the sand and gravel were swept up by the heatwave. When it hit me, I didn't care about the pain in my body, and I fell between the two peaks of the camel, and ran forward as hard as I could, not caring about what the others were like.
Our caravan was at first tied up with all the camels and separated as we left the tenremu. It seems that Su Ziwu is indeed experienced and prescient, if he didn't encounter the current situation, he would have to suffer, and the camels tied together would definitely not be able to run.
I lay on top of the camel with my eyes closed. Feeling that the snow peak had run for a few hundred meters, I gradually felt that the heat wave behind me was no longer so strong, and the surroundings became quieter, I opened my eyes and found that I had entered the Devil's Valley.
The snowy camel I rode was faster than the ordinary camel ridden by others, and I was the first to run into the Devil's Valley, and when I looked back, I saw that there was still yellow sand outside the valley, and everyone was riding camels desperately running to this side, and the red and yellow air mass seemed to be deliberately chasing everyone, following closely behind.
In the blink of an eye, the camels ridden by Xiangzi, Lao Zhang, Su Ziwu, Zhang Meng, Amei, and Uncle Hai also ran into the valley, and the spare camels carrying supplies on the two peaks also ran in, leaving only Xiaopang and the camel he rode outside the valley.
I didn't know how to get the camel that Little Fat was riding, it ran very slowly, and when I looked closely, it was slanted when it ran, as if a camel's paw was injured.
Seeing that the air mass was about to catch up with Chubby and the camel he was riding, my heart rose to my throat and I shouted, "Chubby, hurry up!" ā
Xiao Fat was only a dozen meters away from the valley mouth, and the air mass behind him seemed to be about to swallow him and the camel he was riding, and everyone felt a strong heat wave and retreated towards the valley.
I looked back and saw that the tail of the camel that Chubby was riding seemed to be on fire, and a puff of black smoke was rising, and the camel surged forward, but the air mass was faster, and it engulfed the camel at once.
My heart trembled, and my heart said, "It's over." ā
Unexpectedly, at the moment when the air mass engulfed the camel, I saw Xiaopang stand up from the camel, a fish jumped out, followed by a spot eighteen rolls on the ground, rolled into the valley, Xiaopang's clothes are also smoking with fire, Xiangzi is neat, jumped down from the camel's back and ran to Xiaopang's side, helping Xiaopang extinguish the fire.
Strange to say, the reddish-yellow air mass stopped at the mouth of the valley, circled for a while, and the wind gradually weakened, and finally disappeared completely.
Everyone was frightened, and they all lay on the camel and gasped for breath.
Chubby and Shoko also sat on the ground panting.
I looked out of the valley, and saw the camel that the little fat was riding had fallen to the ground, and although there was no fire on it, it was already charred black, motionless, as if it had lost its breath, and the things it was carrying were scattered all over the ground, and some of them were still emitting black smoke and fire.
"Mother, mother, what the hell is this, what the hell is this, if it weren't for the fat man's agility, he would have become a baked sweet potato." Chubby sat on the ground, panting and scolding.
"IāI think it's a roast suckling pig." Zhang Meng gasped and laughed, at this time, he didn't forget to fart and stink.
Everyone rested for a while and gradually came to their senses.
Just as Su Ziwu said, although the sky in the Gobi Desert was dark late, it was dark very quickly, and the sun was setting just now, and at this point when we were being chased by the air mass, the sky was completely dark.
Chubby and Xiangzi got up from the ground, Xiangzi took a flashlight, walked with Chubby to the blackened camel outside the valley, looked at it, and picked up some unburned supplies from the ground and came back.
"The camel is finished, and there is no help." Xiaopang said: "Damn, I haven't seen this kind of strange wind when I'm so big, this ghost thing is really powerful." ā
"That's the Foehn." Su Ziwu said on the side.
"'Foehn'? I really haven't heard of it, how can this wind catch fire? ā
"I don't know the specifics, but as I said before, most people don't choose this route to enter Lop Nur, and there is a very important reason, and that is that this place will encounter 'foehn winds'. It is said that this wind is an evil dragon that comes out to harm the world, and this evil dragon is a fire dragon, and everything in its passage is incinerated, so it is called 'foehn wind'. But strangely, the Foehn never enters the Devil's Valley, so I said that we should spend the night in the valley, because I was afraid of encountering the Foehn outside the valley at night. Su Ziwu explained.
"This foehn drove people into the Devil's Valley and disappeared, is it to honor people to the devil?" Zhang Meng joked.
Although I knew that Zhang Meng was joking, but vaguely felt that his words were not unreasonable, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart, I looked at this devil's valley, only to see all kinds of sandstone in the valley strange shapes, before looking at these sandstones under the sunset outside the valley is so beautiful, but at night, deep into it, black holes, really like demons standing there, plus the night wind blows, making a "woo, woo" sound, which makes people look at the hairiness in their hearts.
Su Ziwu took everyone to the valley, found an open place, and prepared to spend the night here. According to Su Ziwu, this Devil's Valley is hundreds of miles in circumference, and it takes more than half a day's foot to pass it if you walk fast, and you can really enter the desert after passing the Devil's Valley.
In the Gobi and the desert, we are not afraid of heavy rain, so camping is not necessary to set up tents, we light a fire, put sleeping bags next to the fire, as the proverb says, in the desert is "around the fire to eat watermelon", although the day is unbearable hot, but at night it is very cold, so we burn the fire very strong.
Everyone ate, and since they had to travel tomorrow, they rested early. Su Ziwu said that this Devil's Valley is not like other places, and it needs to be extra cautious, so two people are arranged for each shift to keep vigil to prevent one person from being negligent. Shoko and I are in the first shift.
Xiangzi is a very simple and honest young man, not very talkative, I asked him to talk about his previous martial arts and in the army as a soldier and later as a guard, these things are not experienced for me, so although Xiangzi is not eloquent, but I also listen to it with relish, especially when he told me some things he encountered in the army, he was a border guard on the border between Tibet and India, that place was very high altitude, sparsely populated, he also encountered a lot of strange things at that time, For example, the mysterious snowman footprints, the inexplicable disappearance of the warrior, etc., I believe that Shoko will not lie, maybe these mysterious things did happen in that mysterious place. I could hear it.
Xiangzi talked to me about some things about Uncle Hai again, he said that although Uncle Hai has a strange temperament and is a little mean, he is actually not a bad person, and he takes good care of him and Amei, but I don't know why, he found that Uncle Hai is not the same as usual during this time.
When Xiangzi said this, I also seemed to feel that Uncle Hai's behavior during this time was a little weird, but I can't say what was weird.
I chatted with Xiangzi about Uncle Hai, and I subconsciously glanced at the side where Uncle Hai was lying, and found that there seemed to be some movement on Uncle Hai's side. (To be continued.) )