I took a closer look: "Damn! Why did Uncle Hai sleep with his eyes open?"

I glanced at Xiangzi, snorted my mouth, and motioned to Xiangzi to look at Uncle Hai, Xiangzi looked at it, and was also startled, we glanced at each other, and just said that Uncle Hai's behavior during this time was a little weird, but I can't say what is weird, but I just found that Uncle Hai seems to talk less recently than before, and he doesn't like to raise the bar very much, and even when he buys materials and camels, he is not so rich and unkind, I don't know if these are because Uncle Hai suddenly realized his conscience and found out, or the occasional change makes people uncomfortable, and I feel that the behavior has become a little weird, but now I see him sleeping with his eyes open, it is really too weird。 Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiangzi and I stood up at the same time and walked gently to Uncle Hai's side, seeing that Uncle Hai was still open, looking straight at the other side, Uncle Hai's eyes were flashing by the light of the bonfire, and he didn't blink, like a dead man with his eyes open.

Xiangzi squatted down, patted Uncle Hai lightly on the shoulder, and whispered, "Uncle Hai, Uncle Hai." ”

Uncle Hai didn't react, so I squatted down and looked carefully into Uncle Hai's eyes. Just when I was staring at Uncle Hai's eyes, Uncle Hai coldly stretched out an arm from the sleeping bag and pointed to the opposite side with his hand, startling me and Xiangzi.

Xiangzi and I looked in the direction pointed by Uncle Hai, on the other side of the fire, it was Su Ziwu who was lying, I took a closer look, I depended, Su Ziwu was also with his eyes open, staring straight ahead, his eyes didn't blink, I said in my heart: "What's wrong with these old men, they don't sleep, what kind of skills are they practicing." ”

And Su Ziwu behaved even more strangely, only to see the elbow of one of his arms on the ground. Leaning half-out of his sleeping bag, motionless, not knowing what he was doing.

I walked over gently, came to Su Ziwu's side, squatted down, and whispered, "Mr. Su." What are you doing here?"

Su Ziwu made a silent movement: "Shhh, listen carefully, there's movement over there." ”

Hearing Su Ziwu say this, I also pricked up my ears and listened carefully, and sure enough, there was a sound from the sandstone not far away, as if it was the sound of locusts gnawing on the grain leaves, and it was also like the rustling sound of something crawling over the ground, but the sound was very subtle. If you don't listen carefully, you really can't hear it.

The place where the sound came from was where we had stored our unloaded panniers and the resting camels, and it was impossible to see what was going on there, because the light of the fire did not shine on that side.

"I'll go take a look. I whispered, and just as I wanted to stand up and walk over, Su Ziwu grabbed me: "Young man, I'm not scaring you, there are often strange things in this Devil's Valley, and I don't know what dangers I will encounter." It is best not to walk around at night if you are not in an unknown situation, just pay more attention. We'll see tomorrow during the day. ”

As soon as I heard it, what Su Ziwu said made sense, and when I saw Xiaopang and Zhang Meng again, they were sleeping like thunder, and it was not easy to wake them up, so I nodded. returned to Xiangzi and Uncle Hai, and said to Xiangzi: "It's okay, Mr. Su is afraid that there will be danger at night and he won't be able to sleep." After that, he said to Uncle Hai: "Uncle Hai, you don't have to worry, sleep at ease." ”

After settling Uncle Hai. Shoko and I went back to the fire, and I listened carefully, as if there was nothing wrong with it again.

After that, I chatted with Xiangzi for a while, and after a while, it was the turn of Xiaopang and Zhang Meng to keep vigil, and Xiangzi and I went to sleep, and the night passed quickly.

At dawn the next day, everyone climbed out of their sleeping bags, saw that nothing dangerous happened overnight, and felt that this Devil Valley was not as terrible as Su Ziwu said, it seemed that this thing was passed from person to person, and some things were not as evil as the legend said.

After everyone tidied up a little, there was not so much to pay attention to in the field, so they wiped their faces indiscriminately, took out dry food and had breakfast, and then prepared to pack up their things and go on the road.

When we came to the place where the panniers had been unloaded and the camels were resting, I felt that something was not right, and as I was wondering what was wrong, Ame suddenly whispered, "I...... My camel is gone. ”

Listening to Amei's words, everyone counted carefully, and sure enough, there was one less camel, only eight camels left, and the camel that Amei was riding didn't know where to go.

"Could it be that the camel ran away?" Zhang Meng wondered.

"No way, camels are very loyal to their owners, and they will never leave their owners by themselves, and besides, before the rest last night, I tethered them all together, and it can't go if it wants to. Su Ziwu said.

Chubby walked to the side of the camel team and looked at it: "The rope is broken." ”

"Did you get taken away?"

"No, it looks like something has bitten off this rope," Chubby said as he looked at it carefully.

"Maybe this camel thinks our treatment here is too low, so he bit the rope and jumped ship, right?" Zhang Meng joked.

At this moment, Lao Zhang shouted over there: "Everyone come and see, what is this?"

We hurried to Lao Zhang's side, Lao Zhang pointed out to us on the ground, only to see that there were some shallow pits on the ground, each pit was the size of a large bowl, and there were some traces of stripes like a broom sweeping.

The pits were arranged in a circle, and we counted them, and there were eight pits in a circle, each pit was two or three centimeters deep, and the distance between the pits was about two or three meters.

"Damn, I know!" Zhang Meng exclaimed.

"Know what?" I asked.

"The camel was abducted by aliens, and these pits on the ground are traces left by the flying saucer landing gear. Zhang Meng said as if he had an understanding.

"Fart, old Meng, you've seen too much of the X-files, what aliens, why are they robbing camels? Do you want to open the meat and taste the camel meat? Besides, if you look ahead, it's not just these pits, there are also over there. Chubby said.

We looked over to the side that Chubby said, and sure enough, there were many similar pits in front of us, extending all the way forward.

"I look like some kind of animal footprint. Lao Zhang said.

Xiaopang nodded: "What Lao Zhang said is reasonable, it looks like some kind of animal going over there." ”

"But what animal can leave such footprints? And judging by the size and distance of these pits, if it is really an animal, then this animal should be at least the size of a house!" Zhang Meng said puzzled.

"Let's go, go over and have a look!" Chubby's curiosity was aroused again.

We also wanted to know where the camel had gone, so we let Zhang Meng, Lao Zhang, Uncle Hai, and Amei stay where they were, and I went to check with Xiaopang, Xiangzi, and Su Ziwu.

We followed the pits. After going around a few sandstones, about seven or eight hundred meters, a cliff appeared in front of it, and those pits disappeared at the bottom of the cliff.

"If it was an animal, it would have either climbed up the cliff from here or burrowed into it. Chubby said.

"No way. How could something of this magnitude burrow into a cliff without a trace at all. But it's unlikely that it climbed to the top of the cliff, right?" I said, looking up at the cliff, which was twenty or thirty meters high.

"Look, over there. Shoko's eyes were sharp, and he pointed to the left.

We looked to the place where Xiangzi pointed out, and saw that on the top of the cliff, about ten meters away from where we were standing, there were four legs hanging there, and there was something dark red on the cliff. It seems to be bloodstains.

We hurriedly walked over there to take a look, and sure enough, it seemed that some animal was lying dead on the cliff, bleeding a lot, Su Ziwu raised his head and looked at the four legs carefully, and nodded: "It's the camel, it can be seen from the camel's paw." ”

My scalp tingled when I heard this, what could carry a huge camel to such a distance. And then he climbed up the cliff with his camel and bit it to death? Could it be that this thing made the sound we heard last night? If this thing had attacked us at that time when it came to our resting place, the consequences would have been terrible.

"What could have brought such a big camel to this place? and how did you get there? Did you carry it on your back?"

"I remembered something. Shoko, who had been thinking about it next to her, said suddenly.

"What's that?"

"Camel spiders. When I was in the army, I heard that there is a kind of spider in the desert, which can grow to twenty or thirty centimeters in size, and it is said that the US troops stationed in the Middle East have been tortured by this giant spider for many years, and they can paralyze people with just one bite, but they usually do not actively attack humans, and camels are their main targets. Camels are most afraid of this thing. ”

After Xiangzi reminded him of this, Su Ziwu also remembered: "There is indeed such a spider in the desert, they are the sworn enemies of camels, and a dozen camel spiders can bite an adult camel to death, and it is strange." When the camel spider attacks the camel, the camel will not resist, nor will it make a sound, even the king of camels, the Snow Peak camel, so far I have not figured out what the reason is, there is a superstitious saying, the camel spider is the black and white impermanence of the camel, it is to hook the soul of the camel, the business travelers who walked in the desert in the past are most afraid of encountering this kind of thing, but this place has not seen a camel spider appear for decades, is it really the camel spider did it?"

"Judging from the eight pits, it does look a bit like spider footprints, but even if the camel spider is big and likes to bite camels, judging from these footprints, it must be a big spider, and it is impossible for a camel to get to such a high cliff. "Even Chubby, who has always liked to be imaginative, doesn't believe that there are such big spiders.

I suddenly remembered something: "Mr. Su, how far is this place from 'Ma Lan'?"

"Ma Lan? Why do you think to ask that? That is a military restricted area, and speaking of which, this Devil's Valley is the closest place to that area, and Ma Lan is about one hundred and twenty miles north of this place. Su Ziwu said.

I nodded: "Nothing, just ask." ”

In fact, I asked this because I had an idea in my heart, when I was in Beijing before, I don't know who put a documentary on the investigation of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the former Soviet Union in my bag, and from that documentary, I learned a lot about the inside story of the nuclear accident, and even later thought about whether the explosion that occurred on the Jinsong construction site in 63 was a nuclear explosion of a very small yield, and whether the ancient warlocks used radioactive materials to achieve or enhance the effects of so-called Taoism and witchcraft.

Maybe it's because my previous job was a software engineer, and my divergent thinking is relatively rich, and there will always be all kinds of associations, at this time, seeing these strange footprints, I think again, it is said that China's first nuclear test in 64 years was carried out in a place called Malan on the Lop Nur Gobi, and in the documentary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, various creatures mutated due to the impact of nuclear radiation were described, such as guinea pigs as big as pigs, rabbits with sharp teeth, etc., so close to the nuclear test site, is it possible to produce huge camel spiders that have also mutated due to the impact of nuclear radiation? ！

Maybe I was too bold to believe it, so I didn't share my thoughts with everyone.

"Forget it, what's the fuck, I didn't see it with my own eyes, and it was in vain to guess, at least now I know the whereabouts of the camel. It's a pity that another camel was lost, and the road ahead is long, so we can't be careless. Chubby said.

Everyone listened to what Xiaopang said reasonably, and no longer investigated whether the camel was brought to this place by something to kill him, and returned to our previous camp. (To be continued.) )