Chapter 10: The Mysterious Video Recorder

It was past two o'clock in the afternoon.

The juice is already in good spirits.

I got out of the car with her and stood on the Gobi Desert.

Boundless sand, mighty winds.

Pulp opened her arms, faced the wind, and closed her eyes.

The soles of my shoes felt the hardness of the grit, and my skin felt the hardness of the wind.

Pulp said: "Hey, Zhou Dedong, if you are tired, I will replace you." ”

I said, "I hope this is the last time you call me Zhou Dedong." ”

She said: "Actually, I also like the name Boss Zhou, why do you use Zhou Dedong to write your book?" ”

I said, "Flying oranges are also good, why did you change to syrup?" ”

She said: "Fei Cheng is actually my sister's name. She died, and my mother was stimulated and became insane, sometimes good and sometimes bad, and when she was sick, she called me Flying Orange. ”

I said, "I'm sorry. ”

She said: "It's okay, it's been almost a year, and I've come out of the shadows." ”

I said, "You know how to drive?" ”

She said, "I have a driver's license!" ”

I said, "There are no police officers in this place, it doesn't matter if you have a driver's license or not, the question is will you drive?" ”

She said disdainfully: "A horse is flat, and pigs will drive!" ”

I said, "Okay, when I'm tired, you come." Say it to you again, call me Boss Zhou from now on. ”

She said: "That's it, I'll call you Boss Zhou when there are people, and I'll call you Zhou Dedong when no one is around." ”

I smiled helplessly: "Why are you making things so complicated!" ”

"I just like to make trouble," she said. If you don't like me, I'll change the car. ”

Zhang Hui walked back from afar.

I whispered, "I warn you, don't spread — be wary of this one." ”

Her eyes widened and she asked, "Why?" ”

I said, "He doesn't have an ID card, so maybe he's a murderer on the run." ”

She said: "If there is something really wrong with him, you kill him, and Lop Nur has one more skeleton and no one notices." I'll hand you a knife. ”

I turned to look at her.

The car in front has gone far.

The walkie-talkie rang.

I got in the car and picked it up, it was Wei Zao, and he said, "Boss Zhou, what's the situation?" ”

I said, "It's okay, just follow up." ”

Pulp juice and Zhang Hui also got into the car.

Zhang Hui continued to sit in the passenger seat.

Zhang Hui said: "Boss Zhou, aren't you going?" ”

I said, "Solved." ”

Actuate.

Soon, we caught up with the car in front.

In fact, you can't see the car at all, it's just the dust that rushes into the sky.

There is no scenery in the Gobi Desert, and everyone is in a hurry, as if they have a view when they arrive at Lop Nur. In fact, if you think about it, that land of salt crust is more monotonous than the Gobi Desert.

However, everyone still rushed forward in high spirits.

It's like life.

I looked back and said, "Juice, why don't you try it?" ”

She said, "Wow. ”

I stopped the car and swapped seats with Juice.

She got her driver's license last year and never moved the car again, but she just mastered the operation steps and was extremely unproficient. When she started in gear, she put out the fire at once.

I said, "You take off your satchel and put it in the back seat." ”

She said, "No. ”

After the ignition, she put the gear again, increased the throttle, and the car sprang out.

In the vast Gobi Desert, she can't find anyone if she wants to, so let her go.

I said, "Pulp, you follow the car in front of you, it's fast, it's slow, you can't drive in the opposite direction." ”

She said: "Don't be verbose, I scored 100 points in the exam!" ”

I said, "That's humorous." ”

Then, I lay down in the back seat, intending to sleep for a while.

My car was very well sealed, but when I arrived at the Gobi Desert, it didn't work, the wind was pervasive, there was already a layer of sand on the back seat, and my nostrils were very uncomfortable.

The car jolted, and I entered a story in a daze. I often encounter this situation, in a half-dreaming state, as if dreaming, as if contemplating-

The car in front encountered a vast body of water, blocking the road, and the convoy all stopped.

Our car caught up, and everyone only saw Zhang coming down.

One person asked, "Aren't there three people in your car?" What about them? ”

Zhang Hui said: "They went back." ”

One person asked, "Go back?" Why don't you let us know! ”

Zhang Hui said: "How do I know! An hour earlier, they had gotten out of the car and headed back. ”

Everyone stopped caring about me and Juice, and continued to discuss how the water was going to happen.

Actually, this fugitive poisoned me and Pulp. It was as if I saw a burn on his chest, a blue word for "prisoner". He was fierce.

I was stabbed in the lower abdomen.

Pulp had her neck cut, and she was bleeding as she watched me cry.

We were then dragged under the car and buried in the sand.

None of us are dead, we are only half a mile away from everyone, and we can hear them talking.

The sand is not solid, and we are slowly sinking.

I'm in a hurry, and now we're on top of a sand pile, and as we sink, the sand pile gets smaller and smaller, and it looks flat. After the sand was flattened, the others could not see us.

I struggled to climb out.

I still remember that when I wrote "365 Deadly Dangers Hidden in Your Life", there was a story about quicksand: don't stand, lie on your stomach in a "big" shape, try to expand the contact area between your body and quicksand, and slowly climb to safety.

However, I fell deeper and deeper into the juice......

The whole convoy didn't know what was going on with me and Pulp as they drove over the water, farther and farther away......

I woke up and sat up quickly.

Zhang turned his head to look at me, then turned his head out the window again.

The juice has been opened quite skillfully, and the music has been turned on, and it is Zhu Zheqin again.

I grabbed the walkie-talkie and said to Bai Xinxin in front of me: "Bai Xinxin, slow down, let us walk in front of you." ”

Zhang Hui looked back at me again.

I don't even look at him.

The only person I don't trust is Zhang Hui, I walked with him at the end, and if something really happened, the people in front of me didn't notice.

Zhang Hui claimed that he had lost his backpack, but he still had an army-green schoolbag that he had been carrying crossbody, and he didn't leave it, and the devil knew what it contained.

The knife we bought was on Bai Xinxin's RV.

Bai Xinxin said with some resistance: "You don't need to say hello to me, the throttle is under your feet, super." ”

I put down the walkie-talkie and said to the juice, "Go ahead." ”

Pulp increased the throttle very confidently, and soon rushed to the front of Bai Xinxin's RV.

I looked back, and through the sand, Bai Xinxin was chatting with Yiwu while driving, and she was very interested. Yi Wu looked through the sand towards my car. Bai Xinxin's compartment stretched out a big "forehead" and pressed against the cab, which was the storage space of the compartment, which looked funny.

After driving for about an hour, Wei Zao's car stopped, and the cars behind stopped in turn.

When she parked, she had another problem and almost hit the back of Meng Xiaoshuai's car. Meng Xiaoshuai drove a pink Humvee, and the back of the car was pasted: If you touch my ass, I won't shout indecency, just financial gifts.

I got out of the car and walked towards Wei Zao's car.

Next to it is a dry ancient riverbed with rolling sand dunes on its banks.

Wei Zao also came down.

I said, "Wei Zao, why don't you leave?" ”

He pointed ahead: "Boss Zhou, what do you think is that?" ”

I followed his finger and saw something black on the bare sand. Definitely not stone, not reflective at all.

What is that?

As I walked over, I began to see that it was a black rucksack, half-buried in the sand.

I grabbed it and pulled it so hard that the backpack fell apart and the canvas was bad. Inside, a video camera was revealed, a large area of paint peeling off and the recesses covered in dust.

My heart was pounding, not scared, excited.

Although we have not yet entered Lop Nur, we have been driving on the Gobi Desert for several hours, and this place has long been deserted, who dropped the video recorder in this place?

Except for the VCR, there was nothing in the backpack.

The viewfinder of the video recorder is open, showing a black screen. Hell knows if it's been thrown here for months or years, and it certainly won't work.

Still, I carefully picked it up, blew the sand off it, and closed the frame.

Everyone came over one after another, and Meng Xiaoshuai asked, "What are you taking?" ”

I said, "Scrap." ”

She stepped forward and said in surprise, "VCR? ”

I said, "What is this, maybe you can pick up the wheels of an airplane." ”

I found the video recorder switch, pressed it, and sure enough, it didn't respond. It's long since the power is out.

I said, "Let's go around and see if there's anything else." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "For example? ”

I said, "ID cards and wallets and stuff like that." ”

She said, "I love treasure hunting!" Then he went to search the sand.

I add: "Or bones." ”

Everybody looking for something, I'm still tinkering with this video recorder.

Pulp asked Xu Erge next to him: "What kind of place is this place in ancient times?" ”

Xu Ergo shook his head. Since we met in the conference room, I've noticed that he rarely speaks.

Bubu said: "The Western Regions Governor's Mansion." I'm talking nonsense. ”

"Then maybe we'll find some artifacts." ”

Ten minutes later, nothing was found.

I remembered something, and suddenly asked Yi Wu, "Did you bring a video recorder?" ”

Yi Wu was stunned for a moment and nodded.

I pulled out the battery of the VCR in my hand and made her look at it: "Are you using this kind of battery?" ”

She shook her head.

I was disappointed, waved my hand and said, "Let's go, let's continue on our way." ”

Everyone went back to the car.

I took the VCR back to the car.

It's still a pulp drive.

I sat by the car window and looked out with a boob telescope.

After walking about a few kilometers, another pile of black things caught my eye.

I said, "Pulp, stop!" ”

She said, "What's wrong?" ”

I said, "I see something." ”

She parked the car: "Where?" ”

I said, "Just wait." ”

Zhang Hui said, "Shall I go with you?" ”

I said, "No." ”

I got out of the car and heard Bai Xinxin honk the horn a few times, and I shouted to him, "Wait for me for a few minutes!" ”

Bai Xinxin poked her head out of the car window: "Sir, what's the matter?" ”

I ignored him.

The black pile was under a sand dune, and at first glance it looked like a children's slide that someone had thrown away.

In hindsight, I couldn't figure it out: how could a dead body be seen as a slide?

Maybe it's an angle problem, maybe it's a light problem.

When I saw that it was a dead body, my whole body froze. He may well be an explorer like us, and why he died here will never be known.

I had a very unlucky thought, if I died, what would my final posture be like?

I thought, it must not be so ugly, when I feel that I am dying, I must lie down quietly, lie down in a stretched appearance, and then, I will say to God in my heart: I'm ready, turn off the lights!

Next, the sun gradually dims like a light bulb with adjustable brightness, and the world finally goes black......

If, years from now, someone passed by my bones, they wouldn't have been so afraid.

The skeleton in front of me was a man leaning against the sand dunes, his head tilted, his right hand resting awkwardly on his left neck, and one of his left legs bent outward. His face was already bone-barred, and his clothes were beginning to rot. Not far away, a tourist shoe was lost, half in the sand, half outside the sand.

It took two years for the fibers to rot, and I guessed when he died.

Well, the VCR I picked up was most likely his belongings.

I stepped back and finally got back into the car.

Juice asked, "What's that?" ”

I said, "A piece of rotten wood." ”

Pulp looked at me with those sparkling eyes and said, "I'm going to see it too." ”

I said, "Don't waste any time, let's go." ”

Pulp began to be unreasonable: "Why can't I just go and see it?" ”

I whispered, "It's a dead body." ”

Pulp blinked her eyes and finally stopped talking.

The car continued to drive.

After entering the Gobi Desert, it wasn't until I saw the nameless corpse that I really felt the oppressive breath of death. Originally, I didn't want to tell everyone, but if it weren't for the fact that Pulp was too willful, I wouldn't tell her.

If the VCR belonged to the man, what did he record before he died?

"Blair the Witch" is a well-choreographed pseudo-documentary, and the content in this video recorder is the real documentary!

I was curious and scared.

Suddenly, I thought about the Cloth Dance again.

I stopped the car, and then stopped Bai Xinxin's RV.

I walked over with the VCR and said to Yi Wu, "You bring me your charger to try." ”

Yi Wu stood up and went to the carriage.

Bai Xinxin said: "If there is a restricted shot, don't forget to share it with us." ”

I said, "I guess it's a horror movie." ”

Yi Wu took the charger from her luggage and handed it to me.

I tried to plug it into the VCR and it did!

I said, "I'll use it, okay?" ”

Yi Wu said: "You can use it, I'm not afraid." ”

I looked at her and realized what she was saying was – I don't shoot. I found that she couldn't pronounce her words clearly.

I quickly got back into my car, connected to the car power, and the VCR started charging.

Soon, I'll be opening this black box......