Chapter Forty-Seven: Is This Thing a Weapon?

The reason why the airship hovered over this pit was because the metal detector on An Feng's hand showed that there was a large amount of metal material in this place.

An Feng turned on the searchlight on the airship, and under the bright beam of light, the obvious explosion marks around the Gobi crater were clearly visible -- the diameter of the round crater was more than 10 meters, and the depth was 5 or 6 meters. The propeller of the airship blew away the light yellow sand covered by the edge of the deep pit, and the exposed Gobi soil had obvious radial black-brown stripes, and the dark parts of the stripes were shining under the lampposts.

"This is here", An Feng checked the metal detector in his hand again, and double-checked the GPS locator again, and finally confirmed: This is the end of the trip.

The error of the civilian GPS positioning device is about 6 meters, and there is no other deep pit within six meters, plus the confirmation of the metal detector, this is undoubtedly the golden car position on the mouth of the old mercenary.

Argyle is a porter, and now he can't do a slightly complicated job, An Feng took matters into his own hands and began to release the nitrogen in the hot air balloon, and as the gas in the airbag gradually emptied, the airship slowly descended. At the same time, An Feng was running around in the pod, busy unloading the materials hanging outside the pod.

The airbag deflated, and finally landed at the bottom of the pit, leaving only the pod part. And the airbag is deflated and covered on the surface of the pit.

Crawling out of the pod, An Feng waved his hand, and Argyle immediately climbed out of the pod flexibly with his hands and feet, and crawled out of the big pit along the edge of the deep pit. At this time, the huge airbag was already tightly covered by the top of the pit, and Argyle could only lift the airbag and grope to the side, and when he saw the light of day again, he immediately began to fold the airship's airbag body. At the same time, An Feng began to search the deep pit.

Unscrew the blue fluorescent light and take a closer look at the terrain. An Feng, who is proficient in photographic memory methods, swept his eyes, and the surrounding environment came into mind one by one: the pit wall of the deep pit also had obvious radial lines. If you rub your hands together, you will find that the shiny sunburst patterns you see in the air are actually a glass object, smooth and hard, but the texture is very brittle, and with a little exertion on your hand, the glass body quickly shatters and decomposes into fine glass slag.

The bottom of the pit was covered with a layer of yellowish-brown gravel, which was fine and uniform, but the sand layer was very thick, and after several shovels went down, it was found that there was still sand underneath.

After checking the metal detector again, An Feng crawled out of the pit satisfied, and by this time Argyle had lifted a corner of the capsule, and the infinite sky above him reappeared - it was a moonless night, cloudy, thick clouds, and no stars in the sky.

An Feng jumped out and took out a bundle of tarpaulins from the No. 7 drop box...... It's a pity that this young body is really weak, and the bundle of tarpaulin is only fifty kilograms, but An Feng can't wait to bite it with his teeth.

With great effort to move the tarpaulin out of the drop box, Argyle walked over with a smirk, he grabbed it lightly, carried the tarpaulin like straw, and threw it to the position designated by An Feng...... Woo woo, hurt self-esteem.

There is no way, An Feng is only one meter three tall at this time, weighs only thirty kilograms, and is nine years old. And the weight of the bundle of tarpaulins exceeded its weight 1. 5 times.

In the dark night, An Feng looked at his little chubby paw infinitely depressed. Countless times he talked in front of adults, not caring about the age difference, but at this moment he had to admit: he is still a child.

In the dark night, he couldn't see his fingers clearly, An Feng waved his hand depressedly, and said, "You are busy with your go, I will be sad for a while." ”

Argyle could never tell which were polite, which were the truth. An Feng asked him to keep himself busy, and Argyle walked aside and continued to fold the airship airbag. An Feng squatted in place and was sad for two seconds, he only had two seconds to be sad before he had to start working.

Taking out a nail gun from the box just now, An Feng carried a nail gun that was relatively heavy for him, walked around the pit on foot, walked a few steps to hit a nail, and when the edge of the pit was densely covered with long round nails, An Feng began to clumsily unfold the bundle of tarpaulin.

This bundle of tarpaulin is a tactical camouflage gauze, and the mesh is so fine that the presence of the mesh is barely visible when standing a little farther away. The surface of the tarpaulin is brushed with a layer of earthy yellow gum that absorbs electromagnetic waves, and if you look at it in the sky, it is almost the same color as the earth, like the gray Gobi and desert.

Covering this bundle of tactical camouflage tarps on the top of the pit was a hard work, and An Feng's tired thief died, and in the end, it was with the help of Argyll, who had completed the work at hand, that the tarpaulin was covered, and by this time, Argyle had already put the airship airbag into the box.

As the two hurriedly re-entered the pit, Anfeng helped Argyle launch a powerful vacuum cleaner - a diesel-powered, plumbing vacuum cleaner that is usually used to drain stagnant water from the pipes. The long exhaust duct can be used to drain the wind-blown sand and muddy water from the bottom of the pit.

Throw this exhaust pipe to the top of the pit - at this time, the large pit has been covered with a camouflage tarpaulin, and the exhaust pipe is thrown right to the edge of the tarpaulin. When Argyle operated the powerful vacuum cleaner and the suction port was aimed at the gravel at the bottom of the pit, the exhaust pipe mouth immediately flew up with yellow and heavy sand fog, and the fine sand and gravel were originally blown here by the desert storm......

Two minutes later, the sand fog grew bigger and bigger, and the edge of the tarpaulin lifted a corner slightly, and a small person like a mouse flew out - this was An Feng.

At this time, An Feng had already changed into a desert camouflage suit, wearing windproof goggles and a mask, he ran around the edge of the pit with his little short legs, piling up the boxes thrown from the airship on the edge of the pit one by one, while some of the boxes retreated directly into the pit, regardless of whether they hit Argyll inside.

This work is very tiring, and it is very difficult for the young An Feng to do. But sorting out materials has never been Argyle's forte, and An Feng can only take on this responsibility with his young shoulders. After the material is piled up, the exhaust pipe mouth is aligned with the boxes, and after a while, all the boxes are buried in the sand.

On the nearby Gobi Desert, there are many deep pits like this. Just now, the two of them looked down from a high altitude, and the ground within a radius of more than 10 miles was full of deep craters of similar size, which was caused by intensive bombing, but perhaps it was a firing effect created by the "Phalanx" fire control radar -- a covering shot carried out by hundreds of combat units distributed over more than 10 miles in the surrounding area under the guidance of the radar.

Like most normal Gobi craters on the edge of the desert, it won't be long before the crater will be filled with sediment carried by the desert wind, and eventually become an ordinary Gobi ground. Or. Eventually, the Gobi will be covered by moving sand dunes and become part of the desert.

Here, in fact, is in Saudi Arabia.

At the beginning, when the Iraqi army retreated, the Iraqi soldiers threw away everything they could discard, and only retained a sense of direction. "All the way north" was the only consciousness they had when they dispersed. It just so happens that at the junction of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, there is a vast expanse of Gobi, thousands of miles of uninhabited, so this Gobi has formed tens of thousands of roads for escape.

Unfortunately, however, their opponents were precisely the least conserved armies in the world, and they did not hesitate to rain thousands of bullets in order to blockade a pig; The target of three or five people can make a whole helicopter team excitedly rush from more than 100 miles around to surround and fight, and pour all the artillery fire carried by more than 10 planes into the area where the three or five people are located......

As a result, this war has entered the later stage, and it can no longer be called a war, it is an outright torture. In order to prevent the Iraqi soldiers from fleeing, on this Gobi desert, the bastards who didn't know what to save ammunition poured 3.94 million depleted uranium shells, ordinary ammunition plus depleted uranium shells, a total of more than 3 million tons of steel left on this land, and the results of the battle were also obvious, 1.2 million troops collapsed, thousands of tanks, hundreds of aircraft, a total of 540,000 soldiers were surrounded and annihilated, and the number of prisoners was as high as 17. 50,000 people, the combat death toll of the coalition forces is 2 (146 non-combat deaths), as for the casualties of the Iraqi army...... Go ask about the Gobi desert.

The consequence of the war was that similar explosion craters could be found everywhere in the area close to the Kuwaiti border. Some of the craters were caused by depleted uranium shells, while others were blown up by ordinary munitions. The former has slight radiation, while the latter is safe for the time being.

The gold convoy was stopped by a helicopter team 440 kilometres away, and at night, they fled in panic, and after the transporter ran out of fuel, the escort deliberately drove the vehicle into the crater and then detonated the surrounding earth to fill the vehicle. Subsequently, under the action of sandstorms, the Gobi pit was gradually filled with gravel...... If it had been a few years later, it would have ended up as a normal bunker.

As the day dawned, Argyle's powerful vacuum cleaner was getting hot, and they had to stop what they were doing. An Feng re-entered the tarpaulin, finished breakfast with Argyle in the morning light, and when the vacuum cleaner could be used again, Argyle resumed his work progress, An Feng walked around, checked the condition of the pit wall, and began to erect shade nets in the pit.

The shading net erected by An Feng, who was small and frail, was very uneven, and five gray cloths of the same size were erected according to the pit wall, leaving some open space in the middle to let in the light, and by the time he finished this simple work panting like an ox, the sun had already risen overhead--it was eight o'clock in the morning.

Before the bottom of the pit had yet to reach the bottom, An Feng made a gesture, and Argyle immediately stopped work - the pit was blown up by depleted uranium shells, and even after a year, there was still a slight radiation at the bottom of the pit. Both An Feng and Argyle wore thick radiation and dust suits, and they worked in the desert sun, which consumed too much water, so it was time to rest after eight o'clock.

Sleep, of course, not in a radiation pit.

The two villains cleaned up shallowly, camouflaged the bottom of the pit, threw the tools in place, and after climbing out of the deep pit, An Feng found the No. 11 box from the dust, which contained two watermelons, five kilograms of water, plus two sets of desert trekking clothes, as well as two pistols and two backpacks.

Take off the radiation protection suit, bury the clothes shallowly in the sand, change into desert trekking clothes, carry a travel backpack, carry two watermelons, An Feng and Argyle each pistol, An Feng took out a compass, set a direction at random, the two of them are like ordinary desert explorers, trekking in the desert, the only regret is that these two desert explorers are too young and too young.

In fact, at this moment, no one was staring at An Feng in the air on the ground, but ...... It's all in the details. Most of the secrets are revealed, stemming from negligence in detail. So at this moment, although no one paid attention to it, the two villains still seriously did all the desert explorers do it. In this way, even if they happen to be bumped, they are easily confused and misled by this complete set of expedition moves.

In the desert, how far a person can walk in a day - eight kilometers, only eight kilometers.

The sand is soft, and when a person walks on the sand, he can't bear the strength under his feet, and he falls into it when he walks. Moreover, the air in the desert is very dry, and travelers are extremely prone to dehydration, so they need to rest before walking a kilometer, and if they can walk eight kilometers a day, they are already physically strong.

On the Gobi, people walk a little farther, after all, the soil of the Gobi is very hard, a lot of soil is covered with saline-alkali crust, and even tanks can walk on it...... But it was still very hot, and people had to gasp for air even if they stood still to dissipate body heat. In such an environment, people are easily fainted by heat, but this "hot faint" is actually a coma caused by excessive dehydration. If no one is there to rescue such a comatose person, three hours later, he will be a desert corpse.

Sleeping in the desert is also dangerous, and some people fall asleep and never wake up, also because of excessive dehydration. Because the air in the desert is drier than in the dryer, at noon, two or three hours can dry people. For people who often travel in the desert, watermelon is an essential weapon, eat the watermelon before going to bed, and buckle half of the watermelon skin on the face to prevent "falling unconscious".

Argyle and An Feng had advanced four kilometers, and after only walking for nearly two hours, they felt that the sun was too strong, and they immediately found a low-lying area, dug a shallow hole with the sapper shovel they carried, laid a shade net, and retracted into the crypt...... Eat watermelon.

One person ate half of the watermelon, Argyle's face was big, and half of the watermelon skin could only buckle his nose and mouth, but he didn't care about it anymore, and fell asleep when he lay on the ground. An Feng couldn't sleep yet, so he put the watermelon peel on his face and turned on the Walkman...... Poor little man, he didn't have time to listen to music, he listened to a famous lecture in Arabic - this recording was still the material he had collected from the British Museum.

In this era, most of the domestic walkmans use audio tapes, and VCD technology will be born next year. However, the world's first laser disc player was put on sale in 1978, and in 1980, the Japanese pioneer company acquired the copyright of Discovision, and launched the "pioneer" disc player with LD technology.

One disc was played exactly one hour later, and after the disc was finished, An Feng got up to remind Argyle to drink water, and after the second disc was played, he reminded the latter to drink water again. Then it was his turn to sleep, and again, after Argyle reminded him twice to drink water, it was the latter's turn to go back to sleep.

The hot day passed slowly, and the whole day was dead dead in the desert, with no people, no animals, not even flies and birds in the sky, and airplanes. After sunset, the temperature of the desert began to drop, and taking advantage of the afterglow after sunset, An Feng and Argyle packed their bags and returned to the edge of the pit.

The work progressed very quickly this night, and in the desert, even if the sun set, there were two or three hours of afterglow. Argyle already had experience and the light was bright, so by the time the ground was hard to see in the twilight, an iron plate had appeared under the suction of the vacuum cleaner - this was the roof of the container truck.

Seeing the target, everyone's movements became faster, An Feng climbed up and down like a little mouse, moving the drop box by the pit into the pit, and Argyle struggled to move the vacuum cleaner to speed up the cleaning of the mud and sand on the roof of the car. Near midnight, the bottom of the pit was filled with more than a dozen fluorescent lights, and under the blue and faint light, a container truck with the front tilted downward was completely exposed.

No, it wasn't completely exposed, because the car was still at the bottom of the pit, Argyle had only cleared out a half-sloping roof, the sides of the car were still buried in the mud, and the container door at the rear of the car was still half-hidden in the dirt...... That's enough.

In the airdropped ammunition box was a U.S. military-standard eight-pounder shell, which was a ship-borne rapid machine gun shell, which was fired by the warship in order to form a barrage wall and stop and detonate the missile in advance. This shell is a private collection of a military enthusiast, absolutely military, absolutely genuine.

An Feng cut off the warhead and poured out the gunpowder in the ammunition shell, piled the gunpowder loosely on the roof of the car, and ignited the gunpowder pile with a simple timer. By this time, a large hole had been burned in the roof of the compartment -- even the most sophisticated instruments would confirm that it was a bullet hole caused by American ammunition.

Of course, if the ballistics are to be further analyzed, this camouflage will eventually come to light. However, such a detailed analysis requires the entire roof of the car to be lifted into the laboratory...... Regarding the emergence of the latter situation, An Feng decisively did not comment.

At this time, in addition to the smell of gunpowder, there was a strange rancid smell, but for the two villains with breathing masks, the smell became very light and bearable. So, An Feng jumped into the car through the powder hole first, and Argyle gestured the size of the hole and decided to stay outside the car.

The cargo inside the car was very messy, carrying cargo, including cardboard boxes and wooden boxes, as well as military plastic ammunition boxes, and four sealed pressure cookers. The sudden overturning of the vehicle caused the cargo to squeeze into the front of the vehicle, the wooden box was cracked and the carton was flattened, but only the military ammunition box and pressure cooker remained intact. Two military ammunition boxes even smashed through the compartment and rushed into the cab. One of the boxes smashed into the driver's seat, squeezing the driver's body into two sections...... That's where the rancid smell came from.

The other ammunition box at the front of the car has broken out of the window, half inside the car and half outside the car.

In addition to the driver, there were eight bodies in the carriage that had been crushed to death by the cargo box, but these bodies were all mummified without exception. The passenger seat of the car was open, and the door was ajar - the only survivor of the car probably escaped from here.

The eight dead in the trunk were carrying a total of eight fully automatic rifles, four rocket launchers, two machine guns, numerous short guns, and countless grenades - but they were all dressed in civilian clothing, so these people were what a certain station likes to call "(armed) civilians...... It seems that the crimes of the US military attacking "civilian vehicles" are really too numerous to mention.

Putting the guns in the car to the side, An Feng began to clean up the cargo boxes, moving the cardboard boxes he could move first. These cartons are basically filled with paintings, while most of them have been squeezed and deformed, and a few of them are intact, and because of the absolute dryness, the paintings inside have become very brittle, and they turn into powder when you take them lightly.

All the cardboard boxes were cleared, and only two paintings could be found intact. The two paintings were placed next to the corpses, and the canvases were stained with a strong stench, but they were still intact...... These broken cartons were wrapped into small bags by An Feng and hoisted out of the carriage.

The wooden crates contained a variety of utensils, including Arabic-style bronze, tin, gold, and silver, as well as ancient Chinese porcelain. However, most of the porcelain has been broken, and what remains is not of much value.

An Feng spent the whole night cleaning the wooden boxes, and Argyle went back and forth, carrying the debris from the shredded cardboard boxes, throwing the packages into another ammunition pit three hundred meters away, and then igniting the fragments with gunpowder, burning them and burying them.

The next day, the two went out to avoid the radiation, and returned the same night to continue the cleanup. This time they began to clean out the ammunition boxes.

There were a total of 24 ammunition boxes in the car, most of which were filled with bullets and rockets, and two were filled with food. The plastic ammunition boxes remained largely intact, and in some cases were even fully locked, and are still sealed to this day - as were the case with 10 of them.

How big is a bank brick - in order to prevent bank robbers from making precise calculations, all banks do not publish this figure. But a bank standard reserve brick weighs 27. 4 pounds, about 12 and a half kilograms. A normal LV cash box can hold 140 kg of gold, while a normal ammo box ...... Approximately 640 kilograms of gold. Five tons of gold would fill eight boxes of ammunition - so the gold was in those sealed boxes of ten.

An Feng lightly lifted the ammunition box, and sure enough, the box was deadly heavy. This reminded him of the anti-theft measures of the ancient Chinese people: the silver was cast into hundreds of kilograms of large silver ingots, and the silver ingots were called "Mo Naihe", because the thieves couldn't move them when they came, so they could only say "Mo Naihe" to the silver ingots.

However, An Feng was very leisurely, even if his airship could not carry five tons of cargo, he was still unhurried, and turned his gaze to the ...... Four pressure cookers. What's in the pot?

Today's work is relatively leisurely, Argyle freed his hands and began to clean up the mud and sand accumulated in the door of the carriage, the powerful vacuum cleaner was buzzing, An Feng pressed on the lid of the pressure cooker with one hand, and held the handle of the pot with the other, struggling violently in his heart - can you open this pot? How do I open it?

Who would have thought that armed civilians in the Iraqi army would carry a few pressure cookers into battle, and this thing is also considered a weapon?

An Feng, who was completely unexpected, did not carry relevant tools this time, and he did not have a microhole camera at hand, so he could not peek into the structure of the pot from the exhaust hole of the pressure cooker. He didn't even dare to knock on the wall of the pot, for fear that it was filled with bombs......