Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a young man named Luo Bu Naoer, who was born into a royal family, and he was handsome and dashing.

Luo Bu Naoer does not want to inherit the throne, he wants to cross the desert and go to Qiuzi to learn singing and dancing.

When he reached the Tarim Basin, he lost his way, and hunger, thirst, and exertion made him faint on the ground.

On the verge of death, she was rescued by Milan, the daughter of the god of wind, this Milanese girl, innocent and lovely, beautiful and kind, the two fell in love at first sight, fell in love and were inseparable.

When the god of wind found out that his daughter was in love with a mortal, he was furious, so he blinded Rob Naoer's eyes, broke Milan's legs, and blew them into the desert to the east and west, and punished them for not seeing each other for the rest of their lives.

The two of them are on each other, unable to see each other, it is the thoughts like knives, the knife urges the old, the beautiful girl Milan, every day misses the lover, overnight, the green silk turns white, the rolling tears gather into a river, converge into a crystal lake, this is the legendary Luo, Bu Nur.

Later, the Milanese girl became sick with thoughts, and her soul returned to the sky, and that night, the world changed color, the lake dried up, and the beautiful Lop Nur disappeared from then on, leaving only the silver sand all over the ground, and the legend said that the silver sand all over the world was transformed by the girl's white hair, and this allusion is called tears such as Milan, white hair and silver sand.

Tears like Milan, white hair and silver sand, a very poignant love story, but this kind of poignancy is only used by people to deceive themselves, in fact, this poignancy is indeed artificial.

At this time, it was already October, and Han Peacock and others stood on the bridge of the Tarim River in Xin, Xinjiang, Bayin, and Guoleng (Mongolian, Gu) Autonomous Prefectures in this golden autumn October.

As far as the eye can see, the poplar forests on both sides of the Tarim River resemble a great green wall.

Populus euphratica, known in Uyghur language as "Tokrak", means "the most beautiful tree".

Poplar forest is a natural shelter and habitat for livestock, horses, deer, wild camels, goose-throated antelope, herons and other more than 100 species of wild animals thrive in the forest, and the forest is also accompanied by licorice, camel thorn and other psammophytes. Together, they form a special ecological system, creating oases and nurturing more than 7.5 million sons and daughters of all ethnic groups in southern and Xinjiang.

And such an important poplar forest has been largely dying due to the drying up of the lower reaches of the Tarim River.

In 1958, there were 7.8 million mu of poplar forests in the Tarim River Basin, which had decreased to 4.2 million mu in 2002. With the sharp decline of poplar forests, the desertification area of the Tarim River basin has increased from 66% to 84%.

"Sand advances and people retreat" has become a reality in the lower reaches of the Tarim River, to Kuruk and Qom in the vicinity of Luo and Buzhuang, and the Taklamakan Desert, the second largest desert in the world, frantically devouring the Great Green Wall in the cracks, and 197 places of National Highway 218 have been buried by the desert.

After they walked 200 kilometers west along the Tarim River, the Great Green Wall suddenly disappeared from their eyes.

The poplar forests on both sides of the Tarim River are one color with the sandy land on both sides, and the lack of water has caused the Great Green Wall, which is hundreds of kilometers long, to collapse in thirst.

It is known as a thousand-year-old poplar forest. After enduring thirst for more than 20 years, it finally became a dry "mummy", the strangely shaped dead branches, the body that did not want to fall down after death, as if to show the struggle and pain of Populus euphratica in the last moments of life, and as if to reach out to someone for help!

Further forward, Han Peacock and they have reached the edge of Luo and Bu Nur.

Zhang Meisu, who came with him, told Han Peacock if he was not prepared enough. You can no longer go forward, if you want to enter Ra or Bu Nur. Food and water must be adequate.

Han Peacock and the others got out of the car and set their eyes on Luo and Bu Nur who were close at hand.

Standing on the edge of Luo and Bu Nur, you will suddenly feel that the desert is the bare chest of the earth, where the earth has shed its coat and exposed its skin and bones.

Standing on the edge of Luo and Bunu, you can see the arrangement of the ribs. When you see the traces of vicissitudes, you will feel the pain and helplessness hidden deep in this chest.

Can Luo and Bunur regain their former vitality?

Han Peacock looked at this former pearl of the desert and couldn't help but ask himself.

This is now a Jedi on earth, the Sea of Death, and this qiē. But it was because of the lack of water, and where he Han Peacock was, the last thing he lacked was water.

At this moment, everyone stopped laughing.

Before coming here, everyone knew that this was once the pearl of the grassland, and there used to be a beautiful fairy lake here, but now, all they saw was desolation.

30 years is just a moment in the long river of history. The dense, clear water lake of poplar 30 years ago disappeared from their eyes in an instant.

The author of this tragedy is man!

The tragedy did not stop, and the same tragedy is still playing out in some other places.

In the past 50 years, the water of the world-famous inland lakes has dropped by 8.8 meters, with an average of 1 meter per 6 years, and the land has extended more than 10 kilometers to the lake.

In recent years, due to the over-extraction of groundwater in the local area, the water area has shrunk from 11,652 square meters in the 50s to 5,397 square meters, and the water depth is only more than a foot left, and there is a tendency to dry up......

This qiē is also artificial!

Qing, Haihu should be saved, Crescent Spring should also be saved, and all places that are about to become deserts due to human intervention should be rescued, but those places are not something that Han Peacock can meddle in if he wants to, because it has not yet become a Jedi in the world, and there are still people who want to occupy it.

And this place is different, this is already the Sea of Death, this kind of place, it is already a Jedi on earth, and as long as he is careful, he can occupy this place before everyone reacts.

So the purpose of Han Peacock coming here is not only to simply hunt for treasure, but also to see if there is water here, and if there is water, maybe he can make this place become a fairy lake again.

If it does, it will be a great achievement, after all, there is a lake covering an area of 200,000 square kilometers.

"Boss, boss" Just when Han Peacock was looking at the desert in the distance in a daze, Huang Shan pushed him.

"How?" Han Peacock asked.

Huang Shan said: "Boss Zhang asked you if you really want to enter Luo and Bu Nur. ”

Han Peacock looked at Zhang Mei beside Huangshan, and he smiled a little embarrassedly: "I was shocked by the scenery here, so I was distracted just now." ”

"It's okay, if this place was originally a desert, no one would care, I think you already knew about the situation here before coming here, so there will be this kind of shock, right?" Zhang Mei said disappreliantly.

Han Peacock nodded, he had indeed done a lot of homework, and he also knew that this was indeed a treasure land, there were not only jade here, but also crystal mines, and the ruins of an ancient city buried by the long river of history.

The most important thing is this ancient city, through some previous records, Han Peacock knows that it is still an ancient city that has not been excavated, and his interest in jade is definitely not as high as archaeology.

"Our destination is not far from the ruins of the ancient city, I think you should know the ruins of the ancient city, right?" Zhang Mei smiled and directly said their destination.

Han Peacock was stunned for a moment, but his reaction was also very fast, and he also said directly: "Of course I know this, and I have made very adequate preparations, if you are just worried about logistics and supplies, then you can rest assured, I will not joke with everyone's lives." ”

Zhang Mei took a deep look at Han Peacock and said, "As long as you are prepared." ”

"Don't worry, since we dare to come here, we have naturally made enough preparations, not only materials, but also psychological preparations." Han Peacock said.

"Oh well! Let's move on, you just have to keep up with our convoy. Zhang Mei didn't say more, and turned around and returned to her car.

Soon the convoy started again, sitting in the car, Huang Shan said a little puzzled: "Boss, there won't be unknown dangers here, right?" ”

"You're smart! That's all for you to guess. Han Peacock smiled.

Huang Shan glared and looked at Qian Mingyuan, who smiled bitterly: "Most of the dangers here are legends, although there have never been groundless claims, but those legends are too exaggerated to be believed. ”

Han Peacock waved his hand and said: "I came here unexpectedly this time, I have already planned the exploration of some places, even if we can't meet Qianlao, our route back to the inland will definitely pass through here, if that's the case, I will enter here to explore by myself, and now that there are more of you, safety is naturally more guaranteed." ”

Knowing that Han Peacock had a plan, Huang Shan didn't say much, but he still wanted to know where the danger came from in this desert.

Han Peacock naturally knew Huangshan's thoughts, so he said: "The danger here is not the harsh natural conditions, but the danger from the unknown realm, it may be poisonous gases, it may be poisonous plants, it may also be unknown Jedi, but the biggest possibility is still unknown creatures." ”

"It's all unknown?" Huang Shan said with a question.

Qian Mingyuan smiled bitterly: "Lop Nur is a place full of mysteries, Chinese scientist Peng Jiamu and explorer Yu Chunshun have disappeared and died there, this is a forbidden area of life, and it is also a mysterious and terrifying endless Gobi Desert.

Here, there is not a single grass, not a stream, the temperature is as high as 70 degrees in summer, there is not a single bird in the sky, no bird dares to cross, and the people who have come here, out of here, never mention what they encountered, so the danger we face is unknown. ”

"We don't know a lot of places, why is there danger here? If we investigate more, we should be able to gather a lot of information here, right? Huangshan is still puzzled.

Han Peacock smiled and said: "Things are not as simple as you think, have you heard of the nine strange events of Luo and Bu Nu?" (To be continued......)