"A challenge of spirit and will!"

Almost every day, from August 10th, the largest convoy in history set off from the Yanjing University, with the convoy of 24 reporters from all over the world through the telegraph line, send back their own reports, for any country drivers, the road is bad is they have never experienced, after heavy rain the car into the mud, difficult to move an inch, to rely on the strength of people and animals to advance, into the rugged mountainous area, to rely on people to pull back to move forward, but just across the Yellow River, into the boundary of Henan, In this case, 42 cars had to withdraw from the race due to damage to car parts due to poor road conditions.

When the convoy crossed the Yellow River for the second time in Lanzhou, there were only 107 cars left in the huge convoy of 385 cars, and even the reporters who accompanied the convoy were only four. The harsh road environment and unknown fate are enough to discourage everyone.

"Only the bravest warriors will be able to finish this game! In the past, I used to think I was a warrior, but now I realize that I really am just a coward! ”

So said the British journalist, who withdrew from the game.

In this race, the most attractive star is probably Prince Burgess and his Shijue car, almost from Yanjing, he led all the way, as for the "Mustang" team that was pinned on by the Chinese people, but it maintained a medium result, but in Gansu, the No. 12 car of the Mustang team suddenly collapsed when crossing a small bridge, and the car was stuck in the center of the bridge like a green onion.

In order not to drag the whole team back, the Mustang team dispersed for the first time, and the No. 12 car was left behind, and even after hiring a local man to pull the car out of the bridge, the driver of the No. 12 car was annoyed to find that he had been two days behind the entire team, and the Mustang 12 became the bottom car of the whole race.

After crossing the Xingxing Gorge, entering Turpan, and driving on the hot Gobi in Xinjiang Province, Chen Yuan stood on the saddle of the car, held the binoculars, and reconfirmed the route with the map.

After driving over a sand dune, the road ahead became very flat, so I stopped and walked out of the car.

"Let's drink saliva first!"

Zhao Peng, who was sitting in the passenger seat, handed him the kettle, and after taking the kettle, he poured a few mouthfuls, and the rest was poured on his head, feeling much sober, and then took some beef jerky from the car, and surrounded the car to check the condition of the vehicle while eating.

After driving on the Gobi for a long time, he is really tired now.

"Brother Yuan, do you think we can catch up with them!"

Zhao Peng glanced around, they had been on the road for two days, but they still didn't catch up with the convoy.

Hearing him say this, Chen Yuan added all the beef jerky to his mouth.

"Sure to catch up! Tonight, I'll drive for the first half of the night, and you will drive for the second half of the night! ”

With that, Chen Yuan got into the car, started the car and was about to continue driving, but when he was about to get in the car, he heard a rustling sound, listened carefully again, and there was no more.

Maybe I'm hallucinating from overwork! If you want to drive faster, maybe you will be able to catch up with the convoy tomorrow.

Without thinking much about closing the door and starting the car, he grabbed the steering wheel with his left hand and grabbed the gear lever with his right hand, when something suddenly burst out of the left door and bit his left arm.

"Ahh

The sharp pain in his arm made Chen Yuan tremble, screamed, and looked sideways to see that it was a wolf!

Almost instantly, Chen Yuan picked up his right hand and punched the wolf in the face, the wolf fell from the side of the car with a scream, the wolf just fell out of the car, Chen Yuan shouted loudly while starting the car.

"Get your gun!"

As soon as he pulled out the gun, Zhao Peng pulled the trigger at the wolf's head without thinking about it, the gun rang out, and the moment the wolf's head was blasted away, the car started, and the wolf that had bitten Chen Yuan's arm before ran to the engine cover.

The right hand was put into gear, and as soon as he stepped on the accelerator, the Mustang car rushed out, and the wolf on the engine cover was flashed, hit the windshield, and was thrown off by the car, and the speed of the car instantly increased to dozens of kilometers per hour.

"My mother, let's touch the wolves!"

Zhao Peng, who was holding a copper gas stone lamp, took a look at the car, and almost fell out of the car without being scared, I don't know when, they were surrounded by wolves, the wolves on the Gobi, they couldn't eat for three days, they were all hungry wolves, as long as these hungry wolves saw something to eat, they would definitely not let go.

The car was driving, there was a knock when the wolf was hit from time to time in front of the front of the car, and the speed of the car slowed down, Zhao Peng, who was holding the gun, held the roof rod with his left hand, and held the MJ75 pistol in his right hand and pulled the trigger towards the wolf who jumped up, and the gunfire echoed in the Gobi, ten minutes ago, for Chen Yuan, the biggest hope was to drive the car, catch up with the team as much as possible, and then win the game with the team, and now there may be nothing more important to get rid of the wolves and survive.

The howl of the wild wolf echoed in the Gobi, and finally broke out of the encirclement of the wolves, Chen Yuan stepped on the accelerator to the end, the speed of the car became faster and faster, the wild wolf behind him screamed, the wild horse drove forward, and the back of the car brought out a long trip of yellow sand, and slowly the howl of the wild wolf in the air faded, but Chen Yuan still didn't dare to slow down.

Finally sat down with the empty gun, and Zhao Peng, who was soaked in cold sweat, breathed a sigh of relief.

"I have to have a mother, we must have picked up a life!"

"Dog, wolf cub, Dapeng, you come to drive, my arm let the wolf cub bite, I'll bandage it, don't stop!"

Zhao Peng, who had palpitations, dared to stop there again, and the two even drove the car to change places when they changed positions.

The sun rose from the horizon, and after the sunlight broke the darkness, this sunlight made the car drive all night Chen Yuan and Zhao Peng breathed a sigh of relief, but when they were relieved, they noticed one thing.

The telegraph poles along the way can not only be used to identify the direction, but also the telegraph stations every other section are also the best rest points for the team, and they are also the supply points, in order to hold this race, the Automobile Federation of Paris bought a large amount of gasoline from Russia and Tianjin, and the gasoline has already been delivered to those telegraph stations, if they leave the telegraph station, the gasoline on the car alone is not enough for them to run the whole distance.

"It's over!"

The two people who were lucky enough to pick up two lives looked at the barren Gobi and barren mountains blankly, what is more terrible than losing their way in Xinjiang Province, which means that they are likely to become the ghosts in the Gobi.

"Where's the map!"

A roar suddenly shouted out of Chen Yuan's throat, and the map was gone! Lost, the map was lost, and cold sweat broke out from the foreheads and backs of the two of them again.

The water and dry food on the car were enough for ten days, and there were also four barrels of gasoline, two pistols, ten boxes of ammunition, one rifle, and one hundred rounds of ammunition,...... At the foot of the mountain, two people parked in the car were there to take stock of the materials on the car, although they had just found out that they were disoriented, but they still followed the requirements of the company's training course, after the disorientation, first inventory the materials, and must ensure the safety of the materials, which are directly related to their lives.

Every time the car walked, Zhao Peng and Chen Yuan would take turns climbing to the top of the mountain with their guns and searching the surroundings with binoculars to see if they could find villages or herders.

"Our oil is still enough to drive a thousand kilometers, as long as we drive down, we will definitely find someone!"

Seeing Zhao Peng walking down the mountain dejectedly, when Chen Ran said this, he didn't know whether to comfort him or himself, the two had been driving along the ravine for a long time, not to mention people, and they didn't even see a ghost.

"Let's go! You can always see people! ”

Getting into the car, holding a compass in his hand, Zhao Peng said to himself, lost the map, only this compass remained, only drove forward, and there would always be people, perhaps the last ray of hope in their hearts.

"When I was studying geology in the self-improvement school, I went to the mountains with the German teacher, and I got lost in the mountains, and walked for three days before I met someone, you don't know, then I even wanted to die, but Hamke, that is, my teacher, he smiled all day long, saying that let us take that experience as an expedition, he told me that the most afraid is not to get lost, but to lose courage, according to his meaning, we are here than in the Columbus when he was looking for the New World The environment is much better, At least we don't have to worry about the storm, and we still have something to eat, don't you see any wild sheep along the way? Even if we drive until the car runs out of gas, we haven't found any people, and we don't have to worry about not having to eat after getting out of the car and eating the dry food on the car, more than 200 pistol bullets and 100 rifle bullets, saving some use, enough for a few years, and it is not a desert here, so we can definitely touch people. ”

Driving the car, Chen Yuan used his own experience to cheer for Zhao Peng, and what he was most afraid of at this time was to be discouraged.

"What if you run into wolves?"

Zhao Peng's rhetorical question only made Chen Yuan speechless.

"You are looking for death, go on like this......" Only halfway through the words, Chen Yuan saw Zhao Peng laughing there, this kid must have done it on purpose!

"I've touched the wolves, I'll throw you down first, I'll run!"

The two of them laughed and drove the car forward, although they didn't know where the car would go, but as long as they drove forward, there was always hope. The car was driven like this, when the sun was about to go down, suddenly, Zhao Peng's eyes lit up, and he stood up suddenly, and on the withered yellow grass in front of him, a large white sheep were grazing on the grass, and occasionally horses could be seen running back and forth.

"Quick! Fast! Drive north! There are people there! ”

Zhao Peng, who was standing in the car seat, shouted loudly, and Chen Yuan, who was also excited in his heart, stepped on the oil and took a closer look, haha! No, there are a few smoking yurts there!

The horse-drawn carts caused a stir in the pastoral area, and the herdsmen on horseback looked at the four-wheeled cart with the smoke tip, and they all shouted and whipped their horses towards the cart, and they looked at the cart and the people on it in amazement.

"They must be saying, this cart is running so fast, what is this animal eating!"

Zhao Peng, who was in a good mood in the car, said a word, the car stopped in front of the yurt, the car just stopped, and there were more than a dozen herdsmen surrounding the car, although they were curious, but they didn't dare to approach and seemed to put a monster out of the cart without horses.

"Uncle, what kind of place is this?"

Looking at the wrapping back of the cloth hat wrapped around the head of the car, Chen Yuan asked with a smile an old man who was at least sixty years old near the car.

"They're Han!"

Although not everyone knew what they were talking about, it made these people breathe a sigh of relief.

"Lake Shahr...... Well...... ...... Shanshan County"

The old man smiled and spoke stiff Chinese, and he was the only one who could speak Chinese, and even knew that this newly established Shanshan County, when Shanshan County was established four months ago, he happened to press leather goods in the city sales department for a winter.

"Shanshan County?"

"Guest officer, where did this come from......"

Just a month ago, the county sent a patrol officer to ride a horse to inform the ministries that "the foreigner car race passes through Xinjiang Province, and all the cars pass through the localities, and the departments should take proper care of the convoy to avoid being in danger and causing trouble......

"Guest officer, this car is a gas car!"

Chen Yuan's eyes were almost incredulous and looked at this old man, this person knows cars?

"Old man, you know the car!"

Chen Yuan, who had already gotten out of the car, saluted first, and then asked. When bowing, Chen Yuan bowed down, he really couldn't get up, the stone pressing the tent on the side of the tent attracted his attention, his eyes blinked a few times, although he only glanced at it from a distance, but vaguely still felt that the thing seemed to have been seen somewhere.

"County ...... The prefecture has been informed! ”

Naturally, Amuneti would not say that when the inspector told them what a car was, he deliberately told them that if the cars in the convoy were beheaded after the accident occurred on the pasture land in the ministry, all the old and young would be beheaded, but with the advice of the government, even if they knew that these people were Han Chinese. Amuneti didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stretched out his hand.

"Two distinguished guests from afar, please rest in the ministry tonight, please come here!"

"This ......"

When Zhao Peng, who was thinking about the game, was about to open his mouth to refuse, Chen Yuan hugged his fists and bowed.

"So I bother Mr."

After that, Chen Yuan glanced at Zhao Peng again, Zhao Peng, who didn't understand what he wanted to do, took off the car key and got out of the car, they just got out of the car, and the herdsmen around the car crowded to the front of the car, and occasionally a few bold children stepped forward to touch it, and the scared women screamed loudly, for fear of provoking this car and swallowing the child, but the car was still lying there, without any movement.

Milk wine, roast mutton, pilaf, sitting around the campfire with these herdsmen Chen Yuan but not as cheerful as Zhao Peng's drum, he just stared at the small crystal dug out of the gypsum in his hand is rhombohedral, a light brown crystal similar to calcite, buttoned with a fingernail, put it in his mouth, slightly bitter, this thing is no different from what he saw in school.

Buckled a little bit and put it on the fire, and a little thick yellow flame made him believe that this was the "white gold" thing!

Sodium pin! It is most easily dissolved and lost by water, so the hot and dry desert area is a good condition for the enrichment of sodium saltpeter. The geology here is clearly suitable for the enrichment of saltpeter.

Sodium saltpeter is mainly produced in Chile, mainly used for explosives and fertilizers, and Chilean saltpeter is a sought-after commodity in Europe and the United States industry and agriculture...... Countries around the world rely on Chilean saltpeter to make nitric acid and fertilizers.

In his mind, he recalled the Chilean saltpeter materials he had learned in the Ziqiang School, but Chen Yuan didn't show much joy, but pointed to the gypsum salt stone at his feet and asked Amuneti beside him.

"Mr. Amu, where did you get this white stone?"

"Oh? You mean this thing, bitter salt stones, it's useless, it's all over the place in Sha'er Lake, and it's more than ten miles east under the edge of the desert, and if the wind blows, it blows the sand, and the ground is full of this thing! ”

Amunait, who was already a little drunk, said with a big tongue, these Han people are like this, seeing the skin is rare, seeing the horses are rare, and now seeing the bitter salt stones everywhere is also rare.

Thinking about it, this meal is also boring to eat, and now he only has this sodium pin stone in his heart, what does the sodium pin stone mean? Wealth!

Under the rising sun, Chen Yuan and Zhao Peng, who left the pastoral department early in the morning, did not drive in the direction of the county they pointed to, but drove the car to the edge of the Sha'er Lake desert, the car stopped at the edge of the desert, looking at Chen Yuan, who jumped out of the car and was looking for something on the ground, Zhao Peng couldn't help but be a little confused.

Just like Amuneti said, the ground by the desert is full of this kind of soft stone, Chen Yuan suppressed the excitement in his heart, dug in the gypsum salt with a dagger, and easily picked up a few pieces of walnut-sized sodium saltpeter.

"White gold! White gold! ”

Staring at the albite mine emerging from the surface, Chen Yuan said that he was excited but did not dare to show it, he knew too well what this mine meant, when he was studying in the Ziqiang School, Mr. Hamke said that the "saltpeter war", if the news of the discovery of the sodium saltpeter mine in Xinjiang Province spread, there is no need to think that he also knows, how can the Russians who are close at hand let go of this precious sodium saltpeter mine, the Russians still occupy things now, if they know what is in the desert of Xinjiang Province...... Thinking of this, cold sweat came out of Chen Yuan's back, and for a moment he almost wanted to throw away the saltpeter in his hand that seemed to be burning, but he was reluctant.

"Brother Yuan, what did you do at that time!"

The voice from behind only made Chen Yuan's heart even tighter.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing! Let's go, hurry up and chase them! ”

As he stammered, he glanced around again, so that he could remember the terrain in his mind, and maybe there would be a chance to open this mine in the future! Why don't you go back and wait for the race to finish and write a report to the company?

"Shanshan County, Sha'er Lake...... White gold! ”

(To be continued)