From the fourth day, the riverbed of the Kashna River completely disappeared under a thick layer of sand.

Without the guidance of the riverbed, Lan Zui and the others looked around and felt the same, but they didn't know how Reyimu found it, they could always find one or two tenacious growth of sand dates and poplars, and find a stone pillar or half a roof that was not completely buried by the wind and sand, so as to find a small oasis and a bend of the sea with a little clear water.

Reyimu said that this road was originally the main section of trade between the barbarians in the north and the southwest, and in ancient times, desertification was not so strict, and there were many small oases on this road. These pillars and tops are the ancient cities that were built on the oases at that time. Wherever the ancient city was built, there must have been a source of underground water flowing through it, but now the water level is getting lower and lower, and it may not be long before it will dry up completely.

A week later, the group entered the hinterland of Badain Jarin. Days of rushing, scorching heat, windy sand, and the never-changing yellow sand exhausted the otherwise elated visitors. Even Rong Jiu, who was the most jumpy, became silent, snuggling listlessly on the hump and swaying with the camel.

Seeing that the morale was low, Reyimu cheered everyone up for a short break, saying that their trip was already very smooth, and the trade wind period had just passed, and they had not encountered a sandstorm all the way. Lan Zui drank water and couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, the trade wind period does not mean that there is really no wind, the wind in the desert seems to be endless, Lan Zui doesn't dare to speak much now, and swallows a mouth full of yellow sand without paying attention, making her feel that her mouth is full of countless sand grains, and she can't spit it out cleanly.

"How long will it take?" Rong Thirteen sat on the sand and asked weakly.

Yesterday Reyim replenished the last oasis he could find with plenty of water, and the camels were so burdened that half of them had to get off the camels and walk to rest.

Even though Reyimu adjusted his schedule and set up camp during the day without having to walk under the scorching sun, walking in the desert was still an extremely severe test, and everyone had enough to suffer in just two days.

"It's almost coming, it's been two days." Reyim replied casually, shaking his head and sighing, and climbed his head camel to the top of the highest sand dune nearby.

Lan Zui paced next to Rong Thirteen, looking up at Reyimu and Sabir standing on the sand dunes on a high place, and kept talking while looking around, as if casually speaking, "Don't you think they are a little strange?" ”

"Strange? Are you saying that Reyimu didn't persuade us to go back today? Anyway, he knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he didn't bother to say it. While Rong Jiu heard Lan Zui's words, he poked his head over to interrupt.

"Silly hat, you came out like this and was sold and paid back to the number." Rong Shisan scolded Rong Jiu with a smile and turned to Lan Zui, "You also feel it?" ”

Bai Suhe and Jun Yihuang were far away, seeing that Rong Shisan and Lan Zui looked wrong, they didn't know what was going on, and just thought about it, they were stopped by Meng Zheng, who was standing next to Rong Jiu and heard the conversation, with a gesture.

"I think it's better for us to pretend we don't know anything." Meng Zheng said without a beginning or an end.

"That's right, it's just speculation now, we still have to rely on them to lead the way, and we will suffer if we fall out." Lan Zui rarely agreed with Meng Zheng once.

"Well, you will give Sister Jun and Sister Bai a breath, I estimate that she can also see it, so be vigilant."

Rong Jiu looked confused throughout the whole process, and he didn't understand what the three people in front of him were saying at all. Fortunately, Rong Jiu was clever, and when he saw Kanji coming over with a bag of jerky, he didn't ask any more questions, and immediately greeted him with a smile on his face, and said what Meng Zheng said - pretending not to know anything - to the fullest.

After another two days, the atmosphere of the whole team was really lifeless. So it only went to three o'clock in the morning that day, and Reyimu announced that he would enter the quicksand area tomorrow and build a sand wall early today, so that everyone could have a good rest for the day.

When they heard this, everyone cheered. According to the plan made by Reyim, although the time for them to hurry and rest was half-open, but it was hot during the day, even if they dug a sand pit and set up a tent, they still couldn't avoid the high heat that could burn people, and sleeping under the tent was almost like roasting a chicken. Lack of sleep and loss of body lì tormented everyone in the team.

After devouring the jerky, everyone couldn't wait to get into the sleeping bag and sleep. Although Lan Drunk also got into his sleeping bag, he tried to keep his eyes open to fight sleepiness. According to Reyimu's arrangement, the first group of vigils were the Xiri Ahong brothers, and the second group was Reyimu and Rong 13. There was nothing wrong with this arrangement, because only Sabir and Reyimu could identify the crisis in the desert in advance, and the others were also white guards, but Lan Zui was faintly uneasy in his heart today.

Jun Yihuang's sleeping bag is next to Lan Zui. Jun Yihuang didn't need to sleep, so he naturally found that Lan Zui didn't sleep either, so he asked in a low voice, "Don't sleep yet?" ”

Lan Zui shook her head, she was indeed sleepy. They watched out for two days and never found a problem. Reyimu is conscientious, identifying the direction, encouraging people's hearts, formulating a plan of progress, and his words and deeds can be called a model among tour guides in any aspect, and several people can't find fault at all.

Jun Yihuang understood Lan Drunken thoughts and rubbed her hair. The corners of Lan Zui's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile, and his head moved closer to Jun Yihuang's side, rubbing it a few times in her palm.

The desert is cold at night, and almost two worlds during the day. However, sleeping bags and sand walls block out most of the cold wind, which is much more comfortable than the ubiquitous heat of the day. Even if Lan Drunk didn't want to sleep, he couldn't match the body's own needs, and he didn't know when to fall asleep in a daze.

It seemed that not long after closing his eyes, Lan Zui heard a shout. Lan was drunk with a spirit, and woke up from his dream in an instant, and saw that the sleeping bag next to him was empty, and there was no trace of Jun Yihuang.

"Ripple!" Lan drunk just in case the zipper of the sleeping bag was not pulled, and climbed out of the sleeping bag as soon as he turned over.

"Get up!" Jun Yihuang kept an eye on Reyimu's movements all night. At first, it was normal for the two brothers to be on duty at night, but two hours later, Sabir called Reyim up, which was also normal. Hearing the footsteps of Reyimu coming, Jun Yihuang closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, and listened to him call Rong Thirteen twice. Rong Shisan has been walking most of the time in order to let a few girls ride more camels these days, and he is really tired, so he didn't respond to Reyimu. After that, Jun Yihuang heard the footsteps of Reyimu going back alone.

There was nothing unusual about this qiē from beginning to end, and this happened the other day. There is no vegetation in the desert, and there are very few animals, unless the weather changes suddenly, it is relatively safe compared to other areas. Therefore, for the person on duty at night, he generally can't wake up, so he goes to sleep with him. Jun Yihuang didn't care about it before, but after a while, she heard the sound of the rope continuously, she vaguely felt bad, and when she got up, she saw that Reyimu and they had actually taken a camel up to the waist of the sand dune.

Jun Yihuang knew that it was impossible to stop a few people by herself, so she immediately shouted, Lan Zui was the most sensitive to her voice, and immediately rushed over.

Lan Zui scolded as soon as he saw the camels carrying people on the sand dunes, and put his fingers on his lips and whistled, which immediately woke up the other people who were still confused.

Reyimu also heard Lan Zui's whistle, and they were all shocked, and they no longer let the camel walk slowly and leisurely in order to hide the sound, and a series of shouts of "oh yo yo yo" in their mouths urged the camel to stride up.

Lan Zui saw that Reyimu was about to run, and he didn't wait for anyone else, so he casually pulled over a camel that stayed next to him, kicked his legs and flipped up, and then urged the camel to chase after him.

Jun Yihuang reacted in a timely manner, Reyimu was tiptoeing before, and he didn't go far, and Lan Zui rushed over for at most half a minute. Reyimu had seen Lan Zui's kung fu, so he panicked immediately, and said a few words in Mok, and Kanji got up from the camel by twisting his waist and took out an iron skewer from his waist.

Kanji's iron skewers Lan Zui had seen, they were black, thin and long, and they looked exactly like the kebab skewers, and Lan Zui always thought that he was carrying them to eat barbecue on the road. But at this moment, when he said goodbye to the iron skewer, Lan Zui knew that it was not good, and curled up after. I don't want Kanji's target is not to be drunk, but to □□ camel blue drunk. I saw that Kanji's wrist was raised, and an iron skewer flew towards the crook of the camel's knee, one after another, piercing one by one. The □□ camel was frightened and rushed across with an iron skewer, when he suddenly fell to his knees and fell to the foot of the dune.

Lan Zui slapped Kanji's heart to death, and he unfolded his body and wanted to slide down from the camel's back to chase people, but he suddenly heard Rong Thirteen behind him exclaiming: "Don't come down, girl!" ”

Lan drunk was stunned for a moment, paused, looked down carefully, and cold sweat suddenly gushed out of his vest. She □□ that the camel's slip just now was not only because the knee was stabbed by Kanji's iron stick, but that the camel fell to its knees in the sand for such a short time, and the entire knee and upper part were submerged in the sand, so that the camel could no longer stand.

There was a buzz in Lan Zui's head, and three words came to mind: quicksand pit.

The people who were originally going to chase the camel to chase Reyimu and the four people saw that Lan was drunk□□ the camel was down, and the action of leading the camel was a meal.

The camel caught in the quicksand seemed to know that it was impossible to escape, and shook its body and began to struggle desperately. But the quicksand struggled and fell, the faster it fell, and its last blow nearly threw Lan Drunk off his back. Bai Suhe and Jun Yihuang were so frightened that they couldn't care about chasing Reyimu anymore, and they went back to the camp to find the rope.

Meng Zheng took out a shotgun from their personal bag and threw it to Rong Thirteen. Rong 13 took it without hesitation, and shot at Reyimu and the others who had not yet run away.

By the time Bai Suhe and Jun Yihuang carried the rope and threw it to Lan Zui, the quicksand had already reached the camel's belly. The camel, which had been struggling, seemed to have resigned itself to its fate, bent its neck and no longer moved. The opportunity was rare, Lan Zui quickly tied the rope to his waist, and threw the whole person back to lie on the quicksand, flattened his hands and feet so that the surface of his body touched the sand as much as possible, and the rope was dragged out by the person.

After this delay, Reyimu and the others had already urged the camels to go far away, leaving only wide and messy camel footprints on the sand dunes in the night. A gust of wind passed, the yellow sand drifted, and the originally deep footprints were smoothed out a lot, and then connected to a few gusts of wind, even the faint traces were completely erased, as if nothing had happened.