Chapter 127: On the Mirage
Chapter 127: On the Mirage
The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river.
Looking at this endless desert landscape, it is all golden yellow, just like the gold of a place, under the illumination of the sun, it looks golden, it is so attractive, as if it has really come to a golden country. It is no wonder that the ancients had such pride here, making such famous poems, and daring to be stunned by all these scenes in front of them, so they felt it.
It was noon, and the four of them, each carrying a large bag, moved forward one foot deep and one foot shallow in the desert full of sand. At this time, it is no longer the feeling of yesterday's hurry, but it is obvious that I can feel that walking in it is much hotter, and I can see a few endemic plants in the arid sandy soil after walking a few steps yesterday, but today is different, except for the yellow sand, which is the yellow sand, not to mention any other plants, even the poplar forest that is said to be immortal in the desert has never seen one.
Looking ahead, the sand dunes are like people standing in place, like standing there waiting for something, the air is very dry, there is no trace of water, take a deep breath, you can feel the unique heat of the desert.
Although it was winter, there was still no coolness at all, and the sun was shining high in this sea of sand, which made the sand in between it heat up and the surrounding air became hotter, and the few people didn't walk for long, and everyone was already like being splashed with a basin of cold water from their heads. If you walk here in the summer, if you don't roast people into ** pigs, it's unimaginable.
Dabao was very solemn in front of the road, without saying a word, followed by Tianhao followed closely behind, followed by the two brothers of innocence and talent, now the two brothers look a little uncomfortable, from time to time on their faces show a little painful expression, but the mouth did not say it like yesterday, maybe it was what Dabao said yesterday that made the two feel like a burden, so the two tried their best to keep up with the pace of the two.
In fact, this is not the case, the two people, especially that talent, were born like this, what he said was not all he thought, he was not protesting by doing this, but indirectly saying his feelings, after all, the two of them are not as specially trained as Tianhao Dabao, so it is understandable that they are behind the two in terms of physical fitness and physical fitness.
But looking at the performance of these two people now, they don't speak, they don't make trouble, they are trying their best to keep up with their pace, because Dabao is walking too fast in front, so the two have been in a state of catching up, Tianhao saw this, and he also understood, and he was also thinking in his heart, it seems that these two people are still not as incompetent as they thought in their hearts, and they can still understand the seriousness of the matter.
As he was walking, Tianhao looked at Dabao, who was walking quickly in front of him, and said,
"Brother Dabao, can we just keep going, there is no reference, how can we know where we have been, can we get there like this?" Tianhao couldn't help but be a little puzzled.
Dabaotou didn't reply, he kept a state of moving forward at full speed, and said,
"Are you suspecting that I'm going the wrong way? Don't worry, I know in my heart, the old Taoist priest told us, as long as we enter the outer desert of Lop Nur, and then keep walking to the west, we can reach the inside of Lop Nur, and the place where we are now is in the outer desert, so as long as we go to the west, just go, let's go, the location of the oasis in front should not be far away, let's speed up and get there before dark, we can have a good rest. ”
"Then how can we get to the so-called Dumu Mistake, we still don't know where the Dumu Mistake is."
Dabao paused, then stopped, looked at the two people behind him panting, wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hand, and turned around and said,
"Let's rest for a while, replenish our energy before we go."
The two of them sat down, the clothes on their bodies were already wet with sweat, and at this time, they took off their short-sleeved clothes, revealing new skin. It's just obvious that the place outside that is not covered by clothes is sunburned red by strong ultraviolet rays, and one arm becomes two colors.
The two of them didn't say a word at the moment, opened the backpack, took out the contents of the backpack on their bodies and distributed them to everyone, and then replenished their energy with peace of mind.
I saw that Dabao's arm was also the same as the two of him, and the outside of the arm was red, but Dabao didn't pay attention to it at all, picked up the things on the ground and ate them violently. Among the four people, the most unharmed is still Tianhao, only a little sweat flowed down his forehead, and his arm was not affected by the strong ultraviolet rays at all, of course, this situation is only known to Tianhao himself, the true qi in his body has been circulating in his body when he was just rushing away, and there is no doubt that the current situation is the effect of that true qi protection.
While glad that he had true qi to protect himself, Tianhao also sat down at the moment to replenish his energy with everyone, you know, the ability on his body can only be achieved after the sixth layer without eating for three days can achieve the same effect as ordinary people, but this is still a long way to go, so he must save his strength no matter what, in order to deal with the unimaginable emergencies in the desert.
"After eating and drinking enough, we can move forward faster, although I don't know where the specific location of the single tree is, but the old ghost said that as long as you enter Lop Nur from the outer desert, and then go south after the second oasis, you can reach it, where it should be, there should be signs, don't worry, there should be no problem."
"I hope we don't have any more trouble, it's really not going well." Cai, who was drinking water on the side, recovered from the silence again.
Several people were in a hurry this time, and Tianhao had already replenished the true qi consumed during the rush when he had just rested, so he was very energetic now, just like a lion who had just woken up, and he could subdue his prey with one move.
Although this road is very difficult to walk, but this section of the afternoon walked very smoothly, did not encounter any trouble, about four hours after walking, it is already dusk, the sky is gradually darkening, but the scene in front of you is still as yellow sand as always, and there is no oasis marked on the map, a few people are full of big men, you know, if you do not find the oasis, the water you carry will not last long.
A few people still walked forward, there was only the last trace of afterglow in the sky, Dabao walked in front of his face was not very good-looking, Tianhao took out the map and looked at it again, and then said, "Impossible, according to the map, we should have arrived at the location of the so-called oasis, why didn't we see anything." "Just when a few people were feeling desperate.
Suddenly, I only heard the exclamation of "ah" from the person behind me, and then I heard a cry from his mouth,
"What is that, look, look."
A few people came back to their senses, and looked to the west with the finger of Cai, only to see that there was a dense forest not far away, which was so conspicuous in the whole golden sand sea, the forest was very large, and many trees were arranged in a very regular manner, as if it was planted artificially, and from time to time there were people walking around in the woods, and there were also many animals shuttling in the woods, and several houses looming in the depths of the woods.
"Oh, that's great, it turns out that the oasis is here, and said no, let's go, let's go quickly, it seems that the map didn't lie to me." Tianhao reacted immediately, she said to a few people beside her, and then took the lead to run over there, Dabao paused, didn't say anything, and then several people followed Tianhao to that side.