Chapter 31: The Dispute

My worst fears finally happened – we were going around in circles.

Death approached suddenly, like some beast of unknown kind, clinging to my face, so close that I could not see the whole face, I could only feel its hair, its nostrils spewing a faint fragrance, and its eyes seemed to be sleepy, blinking very slowly......

I've experienced multiple death threats.

For example, when I was 17 years old, I was taking a long-distance bus in Heilongjiang, and the bus suddenly lost control in the wilderness, breaking two or three poplar trees in a row and rushing down a deep trench. In our impression, the space of the house or carriage is always on the top of the ceiling and the floor is below, and in the blink of an eye, it becomes a ceiling on the bottom floor, and it is pitch black in front of us, and countless people are pressed on the body...... No pain was felt anymore, only panic remained.

For example, when I was about 20 years old, it was raining raining, I was dating a girl in Inner Mongolia, there was a train stopped in front, waiting for the train, not moving, I wanted to pass through it, when I just got under the train, I heard a "clang", and then, countless wheels on the railroad tracks slowly rolled towards me......

For example, when I was 23 years old, in Datong, Shanxi, my key was locked in my room, and I tried to get out of the house next to me, stepping on the narrow window edge to climb in front of my window. It was the 6th floor. When I was trembling halfway through, suddenly the mountains shook and an earthquake struck......

Now, I am facing death again in Lop Nur, it is not as noisy as the previous times, it quietly lays a net of heaven and earth, waiting for me to get in, and then, it looks at me quietly, like a fish on the beach......

After a long time, I finally came to my senses.

Everyone got out of the car one after another.

Bubu faced the sapper shovel and turned it into a sculpture.

Meng Xiaoshuai took Xu Erge's arm and leaned on Xu Erge's body tightly. Xu Ergo gently hugged her.

Bai Xinxin suddenly kicked the RV hard, with a loud "bang", and he scolded madly: "Fuck your mother!" ”

Wei Zao and Pawan walked over, Wei Zao's face was extremely ugly, he stopped gesturing, and yelled at Pavan: "Don't you stop wow!" Without this diamond, what kind of porcelain work do you have! ……”

Pavan walked up to me with his head down, screaming and gesturing, as if to explain something.

I gently patted him on the shoulder, and he actually cried. At this time, I was sure that he must only be 20 years old.

Wei Zao hung his head and said, "It's over......"

I said, "What's wrong?" ”

Wei Zao said: "He said that we may have entered the ...... of the Ecstasy"

I said, "Ecstasy? ”

Wei Zao said: "He heard from his ancestors that there is a place of ecstasy in Lop Nur, just like we say that ghosts hit the wall, as long as you walk in, you can't get out." For so many years, only one person escaped from the ecstasy, but he became insane, sometimes good and sometimes bad......"

Ecstasy.

Yi Wu's performance was the calmest, she stood at the door of the RV, silently watching. Naoer should have fallen asleep.

Zhang Hui stood next to me, not saying a word.

Although he always had Four Eyes, Four Eyes did not trust him, lying alone on the sand, sticking out his tongue and panting for breath.

Pulp glared at me: "It's all your fault!" ”

I said, "Don't mess around, everybody. We're not leaving, we're going to camp here, calm down and figure it out together. ”

Bai Xinxin roared: "What's the way? ”

I said, "Try the radio station outside the number and see if it can send out a distress signal." ”

Bai Xinxin sneered: "Childish! ”

Bubu spoke, revealing an irrefutable majesty: "Listen to Boss Zhou!" ”

Bai Xinxin stopped talking.

I said, "Otherwise, tomorrow we'll walk back along the rut and see if we can get out." ”

Bai Xinxin jumped out again: "We should be stationed and wait, don't run around anymore!" ”

I said, "Isn't that sitting still!" In any case, we have to break through, no matter which direction we go out, as long as we leave Lop Nur, we will win. ”

Bai Xinxin said: "You're not afraid of completely losing your way? ”

I said, "Mr. Bai, we have completely lost our way!" ”

Bai Xinxin said: "At least you can save gasoline by stationing, and maybe, the helicopter will come in a few days." ”

I said, "If the helicopter comes, what's the use of asking for so much gas?" ”

Bai Xinxin finally stopped talking.

Actually, at this time, I am most afraid that everyone will respond to it, and if I make a wrong decision, it will hurt everyone. I need Bai Xinxin's rebuttal, and the argument will make the decision more correct.

I looked at everyone and asked, "Do you all agree?" ”

No one took a stand.

I said, "Set up a tent." ”

Like in the past few days, we parked our cars in a row and pitched our tents in the southwest direction.

The atmosphere of the day was the most oppressive, and no one spoke.

Wei Zao still lives in the same tent with Pawan, but with more Bubu.

Xu Erge and Meng Xiaoshuai live in a tent.

I live in a tent with Pulp.

Bai Xinxin houses the car alone.

Yiwu set up a tent by herself, and she lived with Nao'er.

Zhang Hui proposed that he and Yiwu take care of Nao'er together.

So, as a few days ago, it was still 4 tents.

I moved the radio station to my tent, hoping to learn how to operate it and receive the signal.

No one knew that when I was serving in the Beijing Air Force, I was a telegraph operator and studied how to send and receive newspapers for several months. The instructor at the time was very strict, and when I practiced sending reports, he held a pointed pencil under my wrist, and if my wrist shook too much, it would be pricked. I remember that when I took the exam, I took the first place. Later, I was transferred to the Publicity Section and changed careers.

I tinkered until dark, and there was no signal from the radio except for the "squeak, squeak, squeak".

After dinner, everyone had a bowl of instant noodles each, scattered to all corners of the camp, and ate silently. The clothes dance is feeding Naoer. Nao'er stuffed his head and ate deliciously, it seemed that he was hungry.

Zhang Hui spoke: "Boss Zhou, we are in a special situation now, and there should be some measures." ”

I said, "What do you think?" Say. ”

"The most important thing is safety. I'm a police officer, I should do something. ”

I said, "Wow, what do you want to do?" ”

"I know that we have two knives on our team and that I should keep them," he said. ”

Wei Zao was eating noodles with his back to us, and he immediately turned around and said loudly, "I don't agree!" Who can prove that you are a police officer? ”

Zhang Hui said: "If you are willing to listen, I can recite the curriculum of the one-year secondary school of the judicial school fluently. ”

Wei Zao said: "I'll teach you the first lesson first-if you want to prove a person's identity, you must show your ID card, do you have it?" ”

Zhang Hui looked at Wei Zao coldly, and said for a long time, "Can I talk to you alone later?" ”

Wei Zao said: "There is nothing to talk about. Then he continued to eat noodles.

Pawan was depressed, lay in the tent, and did not eat dinner.

Knives are a tricky question.

At the moment, it is not easy for us to bump into a gangster, except for us, there is no one in the desert at all. Therefore, if there is any danger, it is not from the outside, but from the inside. What should be done at the moment is to confiscate the knives.

I said, "Zhang Hui, those two knives are in Bubu's hands, so let her keep them for the time being." ”

Zhang thought about it for a while and said, "It's okay." Then, he turned his face to Bubu: "If anything is unusual, you come to me immediately." You...... Trust me? ”

Bubu nodded: "Hmm." ”

Bai Xinxin finished eating, threw the carton on the ground casually, and began to provoke me again: "Boss Zhou, should we change your name?" ”

I said, "No problem, what do you want to call?" ”

Bai Xinxin said: "Call you Writer Zhou." ”

I was stunned for a moment.

Bai Xinxin said: "Meng Xiaoshuai talked to me, and she thinks you are very much like a writer - Zhou Enlai's Zhou, Zhu De's De, and Mao's Dong." ”

I looked at Meng Xiaoshuai, who was looking at me, waiting for an answer.

I said, "Okay, I'm a writer, my name is Zhou Dedong." ”

Bai Xinxin's face changed suddenly: "I have already seen it, everyone is hiding secrets!" I propose that no one hide it, and shake out all the secrets! ”

I said, "It's not a secret, Zhou Dedong is my pen name, I don't need to tell you." ”

Bai Xinxin said: "I understand, you called everyone here, in fact, to accompany you to experience life!" Writer Zhou, I just want to ask you, now that we have come to this point, is it considered your decision-making error? ”

I said, "Which decision?" ”

Bai Xinxin said: "Which decision? In the first place, you shouldn't have chosen this wizard who couldn't speak! ”

Wei Zao jumped up again: "What do you mean?" At that time, everyone agreed! ”

Bai Xinxin sneered: "Who agreed?" You're all making the decisions! ”

Wei Zao said: "I'm worried about it, isn't it for everyone? From now on, you can communicate with the guide, I will pick a child, so I don't have to complain! ”

Bai Xinxin said: "Your sister! I'm going to have my life gone, and I can't complain? ”

Wei Zao said: "You deserve it!" ”

Bai Xinxin said: "Do you say it again? ”

Wei Zao said: "You deserve it." ”

Bai Xinxin rushed towards Wei Zao, and Zhang Hui stopped him and hugged him: "What are you doing!" ”

Bai Xinxin glanced at Zhang Hui teasingly: "You think you are really a policeman?" ”

Zhang Hui said: "I am the policeman of this team. ”

Bai Xinxin said: "You let go of me!" ”

Zhang Hui said: "Impossible. ”

I said, "Zhang Hui, you let go of him." ”

Zhang Hui let it go.

Bai Xinxin cursed a dirty word and sat on the ground angrily.

Wei Zao glared at him and went back to the tent.

I said, "Bai Xinxin, in fact, you can't blame the guide completely, the instrument failure was an accident, and the ghost knows what is going on in this place." ”

He said hatefully, "So who brought us here?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at Pavan's tent, the door curtain was open, and it was dark inside.

I was silent for a moment and said, "That kid." ”

Before going to bed, Meng Xiaoshuai came, and she apologized to me: "Boss Zhou, I felt that you were familiar at first sight, so I told Bai Xinxin." I didn't expect him to attack you with this...... I'm sorry. ”

I smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm glad to have more fans in the desert." ”

She also smiled reluctantly and said, "I like your novels." ”

After Meng Xiaoshuai left, I went to Yiwu's tent to check on the child.

As I approached the tent, I heard her talking to the child: "Nao'er, tomorrow my mother will give you a gift, do you know what the gift is?" ”

Naoer was silent.

Something struck me, and I stopped outside the tent. After thinking about it, it was the word "gift" that reminded me of that sweet ××××.

Yi Wu continued, "I'm going to give you a beautiful stone, do you like it?" ”

Naoer was still silent, as if he was playing a game.

I came to the door of the tent and said to the soft curtain, "Dangdang." ”

Yi Wu said, "Come." ”

I lifted the curtain and saw the child sitting on his sleeping bag, still not crying, laughing, or making a fuss, fiddling with his phone. Cloth Dance opened the "Temple Run" game for him, although he couldn't play it, but the game was very bright, and there was music, and he seemed to like it very much.

I asked, "Still doesn't speak?" ”

Yiwu shook her head.

I sat down next to him and watched him.

After dark, it was cold. Yiwu wrapped him in her own woollen shawl.

Zhang Hui was not there, he went to Wei Zao's tent, and it was estimated that he went to talk.

After a while, I said, "Naoer." ”

He seemed to accept the new name, looked up at me, and then lowered his head to play with his phone, a pair of small hands pressing back and forth on the buttons.

I said, "You can speak, right?" ”

He ignored me.

I then said, "Why did you leave us in this place?" ”

Yi Wu looked at me and was amused by me. She rarely laughs, and I find her to look better when she doesn't smile than when she laughs.

I continued: "Naoer, I want to negotiate, and I hope you can talk to me. We're here, are we offended by something? For those who don't know, right now, we just want to leave this place and won't come back. And, as long as you ask, we will never divulge any secrets with the outside world......"

Asked in a hurry, the child hid behind Yi Wu.

He was reluctant to negotiate.

Disheartened, I stood up and said to Yiwu, "Don't be afraid, I'll just try." Okay, I'm leaving, if he behaves in any way, you call me. ”

The child suddenly laughed at the mobile game.

Yi Wu and I looked at him sharply.

He laughed a few times and began to slap his phone hard.

Yi Wu said, "It's going to be fine." ”

I walked out of the tent and saw a dark figure coming over, it was Zhang Hui.

He stopped in front of me and whispered, "Boss Zhou." ”

I said, "Is there something wrong?" ”

He said, "You went to see the child?" ”

I nodded, thinking he couldn't see clearly, and added, "Hmm." ”

He said, "Do you know why I live in a dressing tent? ”

I said, "A person will be scared." ”

"In my eyes, this kid is a suspect, and as a police officer, I have to come and detain him," he said. ”

I said, "Thank you." Your vigilance is necessary. ”

"It's just that I need weapons," he said. ”

I said, "Do you need a weapon for a child?" ”

He said, "You still think he's a kid?" ”

I said, "What do you mean?" ”

He said, "At least give me a knife." ”

I stared at his face, trying to see his expression, but I couldn't even see his features.

He added, "I'm defending the whole team. ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Wait a minute. ”

Then, I walked to Wei Zao's tent and shouted, "Bubu! ”

Bubu walked out: "Boss Zhou, is there something wrong?" ”

I said, "Where did you put the knife?" ”

"I'm locked in the car," she said. ”

I said, "Give me the knife in the pulp." ”

Bubu said, "Oh, I'll get it." ”

Then, she walked to the front of the car, opened the door with the remote control, took out the knife and handed it to me.

I said, "Thank you." ”

Bubu said sadly: "Boss Zhou, are we really unable to get out?" ”

I said, "Be optimistic. In 2006, two riders disappeared in Lop Nur, and everyone thought they were unlucky, but after more than 50 hours, they stubbornly walked out......

Bubu said, "I can't let go of my daughter. Her dad has left her, if I ...... again"

I said, "I promise, it's going to be fine." ”

Bubu said in a low voice, "Thank you for your comfort." ”

After she returned to the tent, I came up to Zhang Hui and gave him the knife.

Zhang Hui was a little excited, he put the knife in his pocket and whispered, "Who do you think is more dangerous in this team?" ”

I said, "Right now you're the most dangerous." ”

In the middle of the night, the moon moved to the window, and it was bright.

I haven't been asleep.

For some reason, my hearing became so sensitive that I could even hear the soft snoring in the tent next to me, though I wasn't sure who it was.

It was as if someone was walking on the sand, and the speed was fast, "rustle, rustle, rustle!" ......" and stopped suddenly. After a while, the voice rang out again, "Rustle, rustle! ......" and then stopped abruptly again. After a while, the voice rang out again, "Rustle, rustle! ……”

Finally, it came to my tent and seemed to be circling around the tent, "Rustle, rustle!" ……”

I slept near the curtain, stretched out my hand and gently opened a crack, and vaguely saw a pair of small feet, and quickly moved over.