Chapter 3: Strange Lightning

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, everyone was ready to go, and five brand-new off-road trams had already parked at the starting point, and Dantu shouted for everyone to get on the bus and get ready to go. and invited Fang Xingchen and Sun Tianxiang to sit in his car, and drove in front to lead the way for everyone.

If we want to talk about the highway on the Gobi, thanks to the dedication of the infrastructure department, without their efforts, the herdsmen on the Gobi Desert would not have the convenient transportation they have today. The most important thing is that the off-road trams produced by these new technologies have completely surpassed the original gasoline locomotives, which can fully meet the various difficult sections on the Gobi Desert.

Gobi City is only a little more than 200 kilometers away from Death Valley, but due to special environmental reasons, the convoy set off in the morning, took three breaks along the way, and did not reach the vicinity of Death Valley until sunset in the afternoon. However, for this more than 200-kilometer drive, if there is no local herdsman Dantu to lead the way, outsiders will definitely get lost.

After everyone got out of the car, they looked curiously at the isolated valley of death, the Lenglas Gorge. Fang Xingchen, who was standing on the edge of the valley, felt the cold wind coming from the deep valley, and his whole body became restless, and a bad premonition rose in his heart.

After a short rest, the group drove into the valley. It seems to be the lush grass in the Kunlun Mountain Death Valley, but it is full of the breath of death. After entering the deep valley, the group found that the valley was covered with animal skins, bones, some bones and even human bones, some dark swamps with many animal corpses that had not completely decomposed, and some wild and lonely graves were everywhere, which exaggerated an eerie and terrifying atmosphere of death.

According to Dantu, the name 'Death Valley' was taken from what local herders had seen and heard, and was not made up by their predecessors. And it has another nickname, which is the prohibitive "Gates of Hell". It is said that generations of herders living in the Kunlun Mountains would rather let their cattle and sheep starve to death on the Gobi Desert without fertile pasture to eat, rather than enter the ancient and silent valley of death where the grass is luxuriant.

Halfway through the drive, it was already completely dark, and although the road built by the river of Death Valley was unhindered, they did not dare to continue in the dark with their headlights on, because that would attract wolves and bears in the deep valley, blind men, and even devils in the mountains.

Under Dantu's organization, improvised tents were erected. It was especially cold in Death Valley at night, and everyone sat around the campfire and began to share the feeling of driving for a day, and the atmosphere seemed to be happy.

The wolves in the distance seemed to notice the presence of the camp and began to howl ~yelling~

However, the erratic light of the fire in the camp made the wolves in the distance fearful, because this is a group of unmutated wolves, they still inherit the primitive wildness, without any intelligence, and the fear of the fire is their indelible memory.

It was late at night, everyone had already fallen asleep, only the solid fuel that burned all night and Fang Xingchen, who was not sleepy, were still awake. Sleeping is dispensable for Fang Xingchen. Because he doesn't feel sleepy when he doesn't sleep, he is always full of energy, so that he keeps his mind clear all the time.

In the darkness of the night, the valley of death became more and more ancient and silent. Through Fang Xingchen's eyes, he could see that the appearance of the entire canyon was clearly displayed in front of him, and a blind bear who was slowly approaching the camp was firmly locked by Fang Xingchen's sight.

The blind bear seemed to have spotted Fang Xingchen staring at it, but it didn't make any sound, but continued to approach the camp, and when it was not far from the camp, it avoided the somewhat strange Fang Xingchen and headed towards the sleeping people in the tent......

The cold wind of the early morning was blowing, and the group had already woken up. After breakfast, everyone was about to continue driving along the Death Valley Highway, when suddenly Dantu shouted~

"It's not good, there's fresh bear blind hair here, hurry up and count the number of people, see if it's all there~"

was shouted by Dantu like this, everyone gathered around, and indeed found a small pile of brown and black hair on the ground, and everyone who was frightened hurriedly named each other, Sun Tianxiang counted the number of people carefully, and after confirming that they were all there, he breathed a sigh of relief. "It's all there?it's okay~It's okay~"

"This is impossible, these hairs are definitely on the bear blind man, if the bear blind man has come, he will not leave empty-handed, unless the devil takes away the bear blind man~" Although it was cold in the valley, he couldn't hide the beads of sweat on Dantu's face, which was caused by night sweats caused by extreme nervousness.

"Huh~ The roots of these hairs are blood-colored, and they seem to have been plucked directly from the blind bear, could it really be that the devil took away the blind bear~" A young man in his early thirties said in disbelief after carefully studying the hairs.

When such a strange thing happened, everyone began to talk about it, only Fang Xingchen sat in the car and was silent, as if these people's arguments had nothing to do with him~

"It's all messy things, you are all high-end intellectuals, how can you believe that such a thing as ghosts and gods can be believed, someone must be deliberately playing tricks on us~ Okay~ Since everyone is fine, then continue to set off, otherwise we will have to move forward on foot to catch up with the snowstorm~" Seeing everyone's chattering nonsense, Sun Tianxiang finally couldn't help but criticize, and everyone was so scared that they didn't dare to speak out.

Nervous to nervous, under Sun Tianxiang's comfort, Dantu woke up from fear and led everyone to move forward. But the good times didn't last long, as Sun Tianxiang said, abnormal weather suddenly appeared, but it was not a snowstorm, but a thunderbolt in the clear sky.

The originally clear sky was inexplicably thundered with lightning and thunder, and the moving off-road tram seemed to be disturbed by lightning and thunder and could not continue to drive. After everyone's inspection of the vehicle, it was found that the high-energy battery on the car was surprisingly not a trace of power, you must know that this is the world's most advanced high-energy storage, and there will be absolutely no power loss.

"It's strange, there is no trace of power in the spare battery, it must be related to these sudden lightning bolts. As a well-known professor in the field of archaeology, Sun Tianxiang still has some understanding of some natural phenomena. After all, archaeological work often has to go to some places with harsh environments, and he has seen all kinds of strange weather.

"The electrical energy was sucked away by the lightning just now~ There should be a huge natural magnetic field around, and the air is full of electric ions~ Professor Sun, we have to leave quickly~" In fact, what Fang Xingchen saw was not a magnetic field and electric ions, but in order to convince everyone, he could only follow the scientific and rigorous description to let everyone understand the current situation.

As soon as Fang Xingchen finished speaking, a lightning bolt that appeared out of thin air hit one of the off-road trams, and the entire vehicle instantly burned, and everyone who was frightened hurriedly packed up their things and left the place. Under Dantu's leadership, everyone quickly left the place. After walking for a while, when I looked back, I almost fainted with fright.

"Devil lightning, it must be devil lightning~ It turns out that what the elders said is true~ I didn't think that I really encountered it today~" Dantu looked at the scene of dense thunder and lightning in the distance hitting the off-road tram with a shocked face, and kept talking.

Sun Tianxiang naturally didn't believe that there was any devil lightning, in his opinion, it must have been those high-energy batteries that guided the thunder and lightning, causing the off-road tram to be hit. But there was one thing he didn't quite understand as to why the dense lightning bolts were so continuously and concentrated to hit the off-road trams in turns. Even natural phenomena are not so weird, and perhaps there are many unsolved mysteries in the canyon in front of you.

"There may really be a devil, maybe it's not for sure~" Looking at the dense lightning not far away, Fang Xingchen muttered, his voice so small that others could barely hear it.

Seeing such a terrifying electric shock scene, the group's faces were already blue with fright, and they followed Dantu closely and kept moving towards the depths of Death Valley, for fear of being struck by the cluster of lightning just now.

After a long time, the weather has changed again. Fortunately, it was just a snowstorm, and everyone hurriedly put on the warm clothes they carried in their backpacks and continued to walk, not daring to make any stops in the same place.