The place where water is provided, there is one every three miles, and it is replaced by flat land, and the road of three miles can be completed in less than a quarter of an hour, and in this desert, it may be faster at first, and two quarters of an hour is enough, and when it comes to the back, there is not half an hour, and it is not necessary to think about it.

The children who ran first had already arrived at the place, and the latter were still walking slowly, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan did not hurry, but still slightly opened up some distance from the people behind, a shoe, a stick, and a plank, after a few climbs and downhills, the advantage came out.

When the two of them arrived at the first water station, only a dozen of the children who arrived first had already hurried away, and the others were playing in the water here, and it was not too hot at this time, and those children were holding the water to beat the water, and laughter came from time to time.

"It's all children." Zhang Xiaobao shook his head and said with emotion.

"It's a child, have you ever seen a child of this age who can be sensible? Oh, forget, the place you used to stay in doesn't count, do it, water, wet the towel and wrap it in oiled paper, it's time for us to cover our faces, warm it up for a while, and minimize the loss of moisture. ”

Wang Juan just refuted Zhang Xiaobao, and suddenly remembered Zhang Xiaobao's previous life, and could only feel that this was an environmental influence.

As the two men talked, they took a few water bags, first wet the few large handkerchiefs they had brought, and then took out a few small paper bags from their backpacks, opened them, and poured the contents into the two water bags.

"What are you pouring?" Li Xun rushed over at this time, seeing that the two of them were busy there, he didn't dare not care at all, and came to the front to look and ask.

"It turned out to be Li Gongzi, this is sugar, this is salt, and this is a powder made of oranges and apples, just four things, gone." Zhang Xiaobao put things in front of Li Xun and asked him to see, the powder didn't bring much, and it wasn't food, so it wasn't taken away, mainly because those who checked it didn't know what it was.

Li Xun became very modest at this time, listened carefully, and dipped a little of his hand into his mouth to taste it, and nodded, "Yes, these are the four things, what are you doing with these four things?" ”

"Flush and drink, reduce the consumption of the body, supplement some things that the body needs, we don't know what it is, listen to what others say, this salt must be put less, about 100 parts of water plus 1 part of salt, don't put too much, and sugar too, this is rock sugar foam."

Zhang Xiaobao explained the dosage to Li Xun in detail, the salt here is not pure, and one hundred parts is almost the proportion of normal saline compared to one part.

Li Xun remembered, he saw how many things the two people put in, and he didn't think that the two people would lie to him at this time, there was no need, so he put his eyes on the apple and orange powder again, and pointed and asked, "What about these two, can you put more?" ”

"No, especially the orange, it will be uncomfortable to put too much on your stomach, especially if you don't have anything to eat at noon, put a little bit."

After Zhang Xiaobao answered this question, he was ready to go on the road, the towel was already wet, folded and wrapped in oiled paper, carefully stuffed into the backpack, took out two more pockets, put them on his head, put on the hat, and everything was ready.

"Wait a minute, what are you doing with this thing on your head?" Li Xun looked at the pockets on the heads of the two people, leaving only holes in the eyes and mouth and nose, and asked curiously.

"Wait for a while when the sun rises and shines on the body, it will make people sweat, even on the face, moisture, forget it, you don't understand it, just remember that this is a way to keep the water in the body reduced, of course, you don't have to worry about carrying enough hydration bags, we are used to it."

After Zhang Xiaobao said this, he finally stopped wasting time with Li Xun, and rushed to the front with Wang Juan one after another.

Looking at the figures of the two people leaving, Li Xun also learned to start preparing, there was nothing else, but he brought salt, put a few water bags on his body, and said to Li Xing next to him: "Remember the head covering, this is the most important thing, you can not care when there is water, and when there is no water, you have to use it." ”

"Yes, don't worry, the little one understands." Li Xing responded seriously, he came here today to remember all the things that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan took out, and no one was allowed to miss anything, it may be nothing in this kind of thing that is almost fun, but one day when it needs to be used on soldiers, then you can know the benefits.

When the children arrived, the children in front of them ran again in order to maintain that advantage, and behind all the children, the adults were also thirsty and hot, and it was a sunny day, and they also replenished some water.

Time passed quietly in the children's march, and the position of the sun also changed, and when it came to the fourth water station, it was almost noon, and the children in front of them finally did not have so much energy and strength to continue running, and they moved little by little with bitter faces.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan found a place to stop at this time, and when they sighed that Li Xun sent someone to clean it up, they glanced at each other, smiled, and scattered and looked down to find something, and they didn't know if there were no poisonous insects in this small desert in the first place, or Li Xun's hands cleaned it up, and the two of them were stunned that they didn't find one.

Since there are no insects, I can only look for another thing that is not easy to clean up, and after looking for a full quarter of an hour, Wang Juan finally heard a cheer, Zhang Xiaobao hurriedly ran over, looked at the place in front of Wang Juan, and said:

"Sure enough, there are still ants, yes, this kind of is not poisonous, take out the sugar, let's eat ants at noon today."

As they spoke, the two men took out the sugar from their backpacks and put them in a small sand pit that had been dug out, and placed a flat wooden box diagonally there, with some sugar water in it, waiting for the ants to come.

After doing all this, the two of them found a sand dune slope with the sun on their backs, squatted here, and waited slowly.

Li Xun hurriedly caught up with Zhang Xiaobao and the others, just saw them squatting there motionless, and also approached to squat, feeling that it was indeed a little cooler than just now.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan looked up at him, lowered their heads again, and slowly adjusted their breathing, as if they were asleep, which made Li Xun even more curious.

"What are you doing?"

"Don't talk, strenuous." Zhang Xiaobao whispered and stopped talking.

"Okay." Li Xun nodded seriously, and also learned the appearance of the two people, adjusting his breathing there, as for the hurry, he didn't care, as long as he could learn more knowledge, it didn't matter if he was the first to arrive at the place.

After waiting for about two quarters of an hour, when Li Xun was about to fall asleep, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan stood up and walked to the next place. ”

"Looking for food, don't eat at noon, how can you chase others?" Zhang Xiaobao didn't stop at his feet and threw down a sentence.

"Oh, looking for food, I'm hungry, what? Looking for something to eat? And food? Li Xun, who was in a daze, followed and said, suddenly reacted, and became a lot more energetic, and when he looked at Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan again, his eyes were full of surprise, even if he was looking for food on the grassland, after all, there were wild vegetables there, but could they still find things in this desert?

It's impossible, absolutely impossible, what else is there to eat here? It can't be sand, right?

With a stomach full of shock and doubt, Li Xun quickened his pace to catch up with the two people, turned a small corner, and when the two people stopped there to take things from the backpack, Li Xun was frightened by the scene in front of him, dense, and there were countless ants on the sand in front of him, layer by layer.

Some were carrying sand grains there, and some were crawling in and out of the box, and when they looked closely, they found that a lot of ants were stuck in the box.

Now Li Xun finally knew what Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were looking for food, it turned out to be ants, but the size of this ant was a little too big, and it ran fast, I don't know how the two of them are going to catch it, is it not enough to eat only the box.

Turning his head again, he saw Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan take out a paper bag, opened it and found that it was a powdery thing, and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Flour alkali, after the dough is bigger, get it out." Zhang Xiaobao opened the water bag, replied to Li Xun, poured some powder into his mouth, drank it again, rinsed it twice, dissolved the powder into the water, and poured other powders into the water bag, shaking it vigorously.

After doing this, Zhang Xiaobao glanced at Wang Juan, who nodded with water in his mouth, indicating that he was ready.

Then Li Xun saw a scene that he couldn't forget, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan began to spray water on the periphery of the running ants, squirted and moved two steps forward, and then continued to spray, spray and spray, and the two of them walked to the place where the box was.

Li Xun followed behind, watching in surprise as the water-stained ant's body rolled into a ball, and struggled there a few times before it moved, waiting for Wang Juan and Zhang Xiaobao to come to the front of the box, picked up the box, threw it elsewhere, and sprayed a few mouthfuls of water on the spot before stopping.

He took out a small broom from his backpack and gently swept it on the ground, waiting for the dead ants to be swept into a pile and packed in a separate box.

Li Xun was stupid, four boxes full of ants were there, and now he could finally have something to eat, he felt that since Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan could eat it, he could also eat it.

Glancing at the box that was thrown away, he asked in wonder, "Why did you throw that box away?" There are a lot of ants in there, too. ”

"The ants in the desert run fast, in case they are targeted, there is no need to rest, there are live ants in the box, they will continue to greet other ants when they go to other places, we will be a lot easier, if we can reduce a little danger, we will reduce a little danger."

Zhang Xiaobao explained.