In his backpack, there are four books handed to him by Ma Lan, each of which is a manual written by Ma Lan himself, guiding him to survive in the four special terrains of desert, jungle, mountain and snow. Ma Lan used detailed words to tell Lei Zhen how to survive in these terrains, and how to find the food and fresh water necessary to sustain life. But when he walked here, Lei Zhen realized that he still underestimated the desert and this Taklamakan Desert, which is known as the cliff of life!

It's too hot, the ground is too soft, and the sun is too scorching.

On the first day of entering this great desert, when Lei Zhen chose to camp under a poplar forest, the old camel, who may have survived in the desert for more than ten or twenty years, and I don't know how many pedestrians and merchants have conquered this great desert, suddenly stretched out his mouth and bit the corner of Lei Zhen's clothes. No matter how Lei Zhen reached out and stroked its cheek, how Lei Zhen's son grinned at it, it refused to let go, and it didn't quiet down until Lei Zhen chose another camping location.

"You're telling me that I must never spend the night in a poplar forest, where it will be dangerous?"

In the face of Lei Zhen's inquiry, God knows if the old camel can understand, but it is nodding again and again. Ma Lan's instruction manual is still incomplete, but this must not be blamed on Ma Lan, she really didn't expect that Lei Zhen, a stunned boy, would dare to rush into such a life Jedi single-handedly with a camel that was about to die of old age and her son who had never survived in the desert without a guide and without the help of the locals.

Lei Zhen thought about the poplar forest for most of the night, where camping could avoid the infestation of wind and sand, and he really didn't understand why his new partner would go out of his way to prevent him from spending the night there.

In the end, Lei Zhen figured out that the presence of poplar forests meant that there was a water source beneath the surface of this desert. This kind of large area has become a desert oasis that can be inhabited by humans, and this small poplar forest is not enough to support the necessary area for human survival, but it is enough to breed poisonous snakes, scorpions, and parasites with viruses, which are harmful to humans!

Thinking of this, Lei Zhen's heart suddenly moved slightly, he took out the "Desert Survival Chapter" instruction manual written by Ma Lan from his backpack, and quickly rummaged through the bright moon above his head. Sure enough, Lei Zhen found a short paragraph in this thick instruction manual written by Ma Lan himself, and it is likely to ignore the past content in normal times...... When camping in the desert, you must not camp under poplar trees or red willow forests. Because underneath these plants, there are often some poisonous organisms that are parasitic. Especially in the Taklamakan Desert, under the red willow and poplar trees, there is a parasitic "Tarim tick", this "Tarim tick" contains a virus that medical experts have not yet found a therapeutic agent for the surname, once a person or animal is bitten, unless there is a congenital surname antibody, it will cause "Tarim hemorrhagic fever", and it will die within ten hours!

Cold sweat slowly trickled down Lei Zhen's forehead. He is not afraid of death, but he never wants to die in obscurity in the desert with the expectations of Mr. Xie Jinyuan, under the mouth of a parasite called "Tarim tick"! In that case, whether it is for Lei Zhen or Xie Jinyuan, it is too much irony!

Gently exhaling a long breath, Lei Zhen bent down seriously to the old camel lying on the sand, with a serene face, as if he was returning to his own home. He really wanted to say thanks, "Thank you!" ”

The old camel stuck out its tongue and licked Lei Zhen's cheek lightly, and replied to the companion.

Lei Zhen knows that there is an old saying in China that "an old horse knows the way", but now he knows better that the old camel knows how to survive in the desert.

In Ma Lan's instruction book, Lei Zhen knew that when he encountered patches of reeds in the desert, as long as he dug down the reeds and dug more than one meter deep, he could find water; If you come across a stinger, dig down two meters to find water; If you encounter red willows and camel thorns, you need to dig six to eight meters down to find water; If you encounter a poplar forest, then I'm sorry, if you want to live, you have to grit your teeth and dig down eight to ten meters with a shovel, tired is a little tired, but it's much better than dying of thirst in the desert!

According to the teaching manual written by Ma Lan, the reason why fresh water can be found in this way in the desert is because below the surface of the desert, often basins, can store precious water sources. The thick layer of sand keeps out the hot sunlight and temperature, protecting this precious water from evaporating due to the heat. Using these underground basins without preparing enough fresh water in advance is the key to surviving here!

But no matter how detailed the instruction manual written by Ma Lan is, and how close to practicality it is, Lei Zhen is a layman who lives in the desert after all, and there are only a handful of places where reeds, red willows, and poplars grow. In this case, finding water in the bare desert is a compulsory course. And the nose of that old camel...... As long as it suddenly stood still and kept arching Lei Zhen with its nose, Lei Zhen knew that there must be a water source under their feet!

These water sources, explored by the old camel and dug up by Lei Zhen, are not necessarily fresh water that can be drunk directly, sometimes they are just a water vein that does not know where it originated and disappeared from! No matter how hard Lei Zhen tried, how he swung his shovel and dug hard, all he found was a handful of slightly damp sand.

At this time, the old camel, with a calm face, will bite a large handful of sand with moist moisture, suck and suck it in his mouth, until he sucks all the water in the sand into his body, and then slowly spits out the sand grains. Faced with this scene, Lei Zhen and his son really looked at each other, seeing this partner who knew the survival of the desert, and cast a blaming look, Lei Zhen woke up like a dream, and if he waited, a little bit of moisture in the sand would also be dried by the sun!

"Son, at this time, life matters, don't be afraid that the sand is unpalatable."

Speaking comforting words, Lei Zhen dug out a large handful of wet sand from the sand pit and stuffed it into his mouth, the feeling of his teeth made Lei Zhen roll his eyes directly, and Lei Zhen, the son who was bold and reckless and really called the king of wolves, looked at Lei Zhen's miserable appearance, and dared to let out a low whimper that showed weakness. In the end, Lei Zhen pulled its mouth and directly stuffed a handful of sand into its mouth, and then this person, a wolf, two fathers and sons, ...... "Hmm...... Hang on! ”

"Huh...... Not! ”

They squatted on the ground together, their mouths full of sand, and while trying to suck the little water in them, they sighed and rolled their eyes, and the old camel, at this time, would look at these two poor little ones who could suck so cool with sand in an almost fatherly manner.

It is also in the company of this new partner, Lei Zhen, who has always encountered mountains and roads, built bridges when encountering water, and likes to charge head-on in the face of problems, only then did he know that people must learn to take a long detour in the desert. In the Taklamakan Desert, it looks like a flat river, but in fact it is full of pyramid-shaped sand dunes formed by millions of years of strong winds, and some of these dunes are more than 200 meters vertical from the ground, and the slopes are so steep and straight that if you have to go through them in a straight line, the time and physical effort will be far beyond the detour.

But sometimes, this old camel will take Lei Zhen to climb the slope of the sand dune, after several attempts, Lei Zhen found that the old camel took him to climb the slope directly against the strong wind, or walk on the ridge of the sand dune, and the reason is very simple, but it is enough to make people think deeply. These positions are directly exposed to the wind, and after years of wind blowing, the sand surface has been squeezed quite firmly, and there is almost no difference between walking up and ordinary land, which is very energy-saving. And on the back of those ridges that can't be blown by the wind, all that accumulates are some sand particles that will still flow, and Lei Zhen will sink a few inches when he steps on it, and the physical exertion will of course multiply geometrically.

It is under the leadership of this old camel that Lei Zhen and his son, two laymen who live in the desert, grow up day by day. Lei Zhen held the desert survival guide handed over to him by Ma Lan, and it was in practice again and again that Lei Zhen learned how to find food in the desert, how to find water, and how to use the sun to judge the direction. Lei Zhen has long used his watch and the shadow left by the sun on objects to judge the direction, but only in the desert can he have the opportunity to learn to judge the direction by the direction of the sand dunes, and only in the desert can he learn to judge the direction by the growth form of plants such as red willow and camel thorn.

On a scorching noon, Lei Zhen even saw the mirage that Ma Lan mentioned in the instruction manual, but he had never had the chance to see. Lei Zhen also learned to use the dead trees that can be found everywhere in the desert to make the most convenient and practical ondol for winter desert travel. Just cut down the dead trees, dig a pit and set fire to the dead branches, and spread the sand on the fire that has not yet burned out, so that the sand under you will keep the temperature for hours on end, helping the thunderstorm survive the cold winter nights.

A month later, nearly ten to fifteen kilometers a day, with amazing perseverance and non-stop learning, Lei Zhen almost crossed the Taklamakan Desert with a width of more than 400 kilometers, and could already see patches of poplar forests, just when he showed a smile, he suddenly heard a dull sound of "poof" a heavy object falling to the ground behind him, when Lei Zhen Huo Ran turned his head, he was really stunned.

The mentor and friend who had been with him day and night, helped him again and again, and taught him, the old camel, finally fell to the ground, facing Lei Zhen's sad gaze, no matter how desperately it struggled, it could no longer move its body, let alone stand up again.

Feeling the rapid flow of vitality from his body, the old camel looked at Lei Zhen stupidly, a big tear slowly flowed out of its big eyes, fell on the hot sand under it, made a small splash, and disappeared in the blink of an eye between this too hot sky, leaving only a small white mark.

"Don't move." Lei Zhen walked over, he gently picked up the head of the old camel, and put its big head into his arms. "I have eyes, I can see very clearly, with your physical state, being able to walk here and only fall down is already a miracle created after surpassing the limit."

Lei Zhen's son also walked to their side, and he stretched out his tongue and gently licked the old camel's cheek, as if to comfort it, and even more so to say goodbye to this companion who suddenly broke into its life. The wolf and the camel, two creatures that are completely different from each other in nature, and even mortal enemies, snuggled up to Lei Zhen's side at this time, and there was an indescribable harmony.

"I don't want you to repay any kindness, what really touched me was the big, big tears you shed when you faced the butcher's knife. You have been struggling in the desert all your life, you have used your body, you don't know how many people you have helped, you don't know how many goods have been transported for them, you have been serving your master all your life, when your strength is exhausted, when your fur is no longer smooth, when you can no longer cross the desert in the posture of a desert ship, your master betrays you, even if he knows that you will be slaughtered and will become food on someone else's table, he still sells you. ”

Speaking of this, Lei Zhen hugged the old camel in his arms tightly, and he hissed: "In my life, Lei Zhen, what I hate the most are those bastards who make heroes bleed and cry!" Why do you dedicate without regrets, when you lose your use value, you will be betrayed, and you will exchange your life for the last trace of residual value?! My master has given everything for this country, he is regarded as a hero, but he is still regarded as an outcast, struggling desperately in the whirlpool of death every day! I am weak and have no way to save Master, so I can only escape from that place like a lost dog, but at least, I can still use the money in my pocket to rescue you! I can at least make you die like a warrior returning to the battlefield, and you will be worthy of this life! ”

Lei Zhen could clearly feel that the body of the old camel in his arms suddenly relaxed, and it actually understood what Lei Zhen said. In other words, in the powerful embrace of Lei Zhen, it listened to Lei Zhen's powerful heartbeat, felt Lei Zhen's sincerity, and understood Lei Zhen's heartfelt understanding and compassion for it!

"You are a warrior, the greatest warrior who can conquer the desert again and again, conquer the cliff of life!" Lei Zhen attached himself to the ear of this old camel and whispered: "A warrior like you, the final destination is by no means someone else's table, they don't understand you, they will only complain loudly there that your meat is too old and too hard." The death of a soldier on the battlefield on which he once fought is definitely not a tragedy, but the greatest glory! And I brought you back into this great desert only to see with my own eyes that a warrior has embarked on his most glorious path! ”

"But you held on for so long, until we had almost crossed the entire desert, and you did not fall until you thought we could complete this journey without you. Here, I really admire and pity you, although you are just a camel, but you have affection and righteousness, this kind of heart, this love, than those who wear a human skin, but do not do personnel, only know that by betraying their ancestors to 'glorify their ancestors', it is hundreds of times, a thousand times stronger! ”

The old camel finally closed its eyes stupidly, it walked without regrets, although this kind of acquaintance and encounter, this kind of respect and understanding, came too late, but how happy it was, it actually met such a person as Lei Zhen? How happy is it to get such respect and understanding?!

Lei Zhen held the head of the old camel like this, until its body slowly cooled in his arms, until the darkness covered the entire sky and earth again, and Lei Zhen's son had been lying quietly and obediently beside Lei Zhen. I don't know how long it took, Lei Zhen finally let out a long sulking breath and stood up again.

It took Lei Zhen a whole night to finally dig a grave large enough for his companion on the sandy slope that had become too hard in the wind, and bury it little by little.

"You taught me how to survive in the desert; It was you who made me truly love this vast and rugged world. If you want to repay me for saving you from the butcher's knife, you've done enough, you've done enough. ”

Facing this tomb that was piled up with his own hands, Lei Zhen said in a low voice: "Thank you, please, go all the way!" ”

Three days later, Lei Zhen finally took his son, and under seemingly impossible circumstances, traveled 427 kilometers, successfully crossed the Taklamakan Desert, which is known as the cliff of life, and appeared in another small village and town that lived on the desert with wind and sand.

Three days later, after a short rest, replenished with food, fresh water and salt, and bought himself a new pair of shoes more suitable for walking in the desert, under the eyes of everyone like idiots, Lei Zhen took his son and turned back into the Taklamakan Desert again.

The first time they conquered the Taklamakan Desert, it was the old camel who helped them and taught them, and this time Lei Zhen wanted to use his own strength to conquer this Jedi of life again.

The most important thing is that in a certain corner of this desert, there is also a supply base left behind by the special service battalion directly under the teaching corps of the Central Military Academy. Adapting to the environment of the desert is only the first step in training, and in the desert instruction manual that Ma Lan handed over to Lei Zhen, it is more about teaching him how to use various terrains and climates in the desert to conduct special operations!

Nine days after leaving, Lei Zhen took his son and returned to the old camel's grave again. Looking at the grave of this partner, a cold feeling was like a bucket of ice water fished out of the Arctic Ocean, which splashed on Lei Zhen's head, making him suddenly feel cold all over.

Lei Zhen's body trembled uncontrollably, and even his son widened his eyes, and suddenly raised his head to the white sun above his head, and let out a long roar of rage and madness. I don't know when, their friend, who did everything he could to help them, created a miracle of life, and finally collapsed in this desert, and his grave had been dug up!

As far as the eye can see, there is a mess within a radius of 100 meters, and the most striking thing is the pile of ashes left behind after the campfire was lit in the center. The pieces of bones that were littered with scraps, still stained with minced meat, and were still completely covered by the quicksand, the fur that was dissected and thrown to the ground at will, and the big, familiar head that was kicked like a ball, isn't it the head of the old camel that once arched in Lei Zhen's arms, and even shed two big tears?!

Lei Zhen's body suddenly froze again, because when his eyes looked around the audience, Lei Zhen, who had been strictly trained by Ma Lan and whose concentration was far beyond ordinary people, suddenly saw that a few strands of black hair were sticking out of the sand layer and were shaking in the breeze.

Lei Zhen flew over, and when he used his hands and feet to peel open the sand layer that was not solid, he dug out a female corpse from the sand that could only be described as miserable. This is a girl who looks to be only about seventeen or eighteen years old, and should be a little beautiful if it weren't for too much pain and horror on her face. And the scars on her body, the bruises pinched out with her fingers, and the scars that were scratched with scimitar skills, which were not fatal, were silently telling Lei Zhen the most tragic fate that her master had ever experienced.

Even if Lei Zhen is just a big boy who doesn't understand the affairs of men and women, he also understands that this girl was wiped out to death by a live wheel! The group of turtle sons who didn't know where they came from, bastards, dug up the corpse of their partner buried by Lei Zhen's own hands, and after having a spring fire carnival to eat and drink, they took turns to "taste" the poor girl, and squeezed out the last trace of the girl's life in the perverted abuse again and again. In the end, they hastily buried the poor girl in a shallow pit, which was considered to have exhausted their last trace of "humanity".

"Sand bandits?!"

Lei Zhen whispered the noun that little Balang had told him, he looked at the two new graves that had been reburied in the sand, and whispered, "Give me half a year, and I will let the bastards who once stood here indulge in carnival pay a price they can't afford!" I will tell them with practical actions that in this world, debts must be repaid! ”

Three months later, in the Taklamakan Desert, there was an incredible, more legendary story than a legend...... A man with a wolf single-handedly chased down the sand bandits who had been roaming Taklamakan for many years in the desert. In the words of those bandits, he is like an out-and-out mad dog!

If it's not a mad dog, how can it be possible to bite someone when it catches it, as long as you see a sand bandit, it doesn't matter which faction the other party is, as long as you see it, you will kill it?!

The devil only knew that this mad dog ran around in the Taklamakan Desert every day, consuming a lot of physical strength and calories, why didn't he die of thirst and starvation! No one even knows where he got so many munitions, what submachine guns, what squad light machine guns, what Hanyang-made rifles, what self-defense pistols that only company-level officers are equipped with, what grenades, grenades, mines, and even mortars were all carried by him to the Taklamakan Desert, a large battlefield where he had never seen any advanced weapons.

No one has ever seen such a terrible sharpshooter, as long as the gunshots sound over there, nine out of nine people here will fall headlong, which is even more accurate than the urging of Lord Yama! Some people even swore that they had seen the kid carrying a Czech light machine gun, running wildly on the desert, running faster than a horse!

At the beginning, this mad dog was just a guerrilla war with one shot in the east and one shot in the west, and was chased by a large number of sand bandits, but later, he soon found that the so-called sand bandits, the weapons in their hands are at most the old sleeves made twenty years ago and the hunters on the grassland can only use them, in order to prevent the often surnamed people from being unable to shoot bullets, a horse fork is also installed on the gun, and it can also be used as a melee weapon in an emergency. The vast majority of people were still carrying weapons such as scimitars and machetes, and the firepower of a group of people could not withstand a Czech-style light machine gun in his hand.

A month later, a group of sand bandits with more than 70 people and strength that could already rank in the top three was completely wiped out on the map by such a mad dog.

"Mad dog, he's a mad dog who bites people when he sees them, through and through! We didn't kill his father, annihilated his mother, why did he keep chasing after us and killing anyone he saw?! "Those sand bandits who escaped from the desert, when they mentioned this legendary figure who became famous in the desert, these remnants of the sand bandits who licked blood on their heads and thought they were also good men, their whole bodies trembled, and the expressions on their faces were even more wonderful. Some of them even screamed desperately: "We will kill desperately, we will kill if we throw away the guy and surrender, and we will kill the wife who has not been able to accumulate, even if it is a guy who is injured and has not lost his breath, he will still kill if he is lying on the ground honestly!" Aren't we afraid of him, and when we see him, we immediately scream and be a bunch of soft eggs? What's so awesome about him, isn't he just a good guy in his hand, he chased after us for four days and four nights, and as soon as he saw us, he kept shouting 'Kill!' Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill'?! I don't think he is a man at all, but a devil who has come out of hell, if he is not a devil, can he hunt us down for four days and four nights almost unsightly, until he kills all the big bosses, the second masters, and the third masters? If he weren't a devil, would he be able to take such a wolf that jumps up and bites when he sees people, and bites a dozen of our brothers one after another?! ”

In the end, all the indigenous people around the desert knew that Allah was finally angry, and finally sent his righteous messenger, with a king of wolves, in the Taklamakan desert, to hunt down those sand bandits who had lost all their conscience and bad deeds. Those sand bandits who used to be glorious and thought that they were the boss and he was the second are finally going to be punished.

Only the little Balang who led the little donkey every day and guarded the entrance of the village knew that the killing god who saw the sand bandits like crazy in the desert and beat them, resisted and killed, surrendered and killed, and spent money to buy their lives and still kill, was definitely not a messenger of justice sent by Allah. Because he clearly knew that the man who had gone completely mad and mad and beat the entire desert sand bandits to the point of terrification had a resounding name, called Lei Zhen!

If these sand bandits knew that they were in such a big trouble, it was only because one of them unconsciously dug up a camel that had just been buried in the desert, and after the carnival, they went to the brain, and tortured and killed a girl who was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and left a few strands of hair that exposed their incriminating evidence, I wonder if they, who take pleasure in playing with other people's lives and have already lost their surnames, will be a little more restrained?!

Now they can't even restrain if they want to!

half-lung close-range shooting; full-lung long-range sniping; three-quarters lung motor assault; bury yourself in the sand and wait for the rabbit to wait for the target to enter the firing range before making a surprise attack, knocking the opponent on his back and then laughing and jumping away; In addition, he planted mines under the cactus, set up mortars behind the dunes, planted a grenade every five steps on the sand slope, hid on the sand dunes a few hundred meters away, held a sniper rifle with a scope, and waited for the sand bandits to step on the area where the grenades were buried, and then fired a slow sniper grenade, until the opponent turned on his back, and his whole body trembled when he heard the gunshot...... Lei Zhen really had a good time, people who have not had this kind of experience will never understand the kind of pleasure that holds the power of life and death, and is justifiably free from any moral constraints, let alone condemned by any conscience, as long as he hooks his fingers lightly, he can make an obscene life completely disappear from this world, and it brings pleasure!

Half a year later, the sand bandits who had been crisscrossing the Taklamakan Desert for hundreds of years, these local bandits that even the national political axe could not solve, could really be called a tree falling and scattered, dying to death, and running away. In a simple sentence, in the face of the bloody pursuit of a dog that is more mad than a mad dog, they are more seriously injured, more seriously injured than lightly injured, more lightly injured than fine, scared that the guy who will cry wolf in the middle of the night, and more people who can sleep peacefully at night than at night!

When the last sand bandit also completely disappeared into this desert, and he could no longer find an enemy, and he could no longer find a target to attack, Lei Zhen's heart suddenly swelled with a loneliness that could not be concealed...... There's no one to play with him anymore! No, it should be said that there is no one to accompany him in desert training!

And at this time, even Ma Lan saw it, and he had to admit that Lei Zhen had already mastered it in the field of desert warfare. You must know that no matter how hard they train, it is absolutely impossible for them to train a soldier with hundreds of lives, right?!

Coming to the old camel's grave again, Lei Zhen buried the desert guide manual written by Ma Lan himself in the sand in front of the old camel's grave.

He doesn't need the manual anymore.

When he walked out of this desert and left this heaven and earth where he had lived for seven or eight months, Lei Zhen looked back at the golden and endless sea of sand again, and he said softly: "Farewell, my desert!" ”

(To be continued)