Chapter Twenty-Four: These two shoe prints do not belong to any of us

I looked down, and sure enough, there were a pair of clear footprints, the pattern was somewhat similar to a square-hole copper coin.

I said, "Which of us should it be?" ”

Zhang Hui shook his head: "Absolutely not." ”

I said, "Have you seen everyone's soles?" ”

Zhang Hui said: "This person should be around 50 years old. ”

I said, "How do you know?" ”

Zhang Hui said: "I am a police officer, and I have studied footprints. ”

My heart came up again: "Tell me about it." ”

Zhang Hui squatted down and said, "Older people, step deeper on their heels, you can see these footprints." He is not tall, about 1.70 meters, which is seen by the length of the feet and the length of the steps. In addition, I judged that this man was a cripple, and the shoe prints were one deep and one shallow. ”

Then he stood up and said, "This man somehow appeared in our camp, he wandered around for a while, and then the shoe prints disappeared again. ”

At this point, I became skeptical of this Zhang Hui.

He and I looked forward in the direction of the heel of the shoe, looking for its origin, and left the camp, and after walking a few dozen meters, the salt crust ground became hard, and the shoe prints were gone......

When we got back to camp, I ran to Boo's sleeping bag, and she was awake, and I said, "Give me the binoculars." ”

Bubu took out the binoculars from his backpack, handed them to me, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

I said, "I'll talk about it later." You wake everyone up. ”

I ran out, climbed up the ladder of the RV to the top, raised the binoculars, and slowly turned around to see that the desert was boundless and empty.

Everyone got up.

Bai Xinxin walked out of the RV, tilted her head and shouted at me, "Upstairs, what are you doing?" ”

I got out of the car and asked, "Did anyone not sleep at noon?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, but no one spoke. It seems that everyone is asleep.

I asked, "Which of you has a pattern of a copper coin with a square hole on the sole?" ”

Wei Zao said, "I don't even know what the soles of my shoes look like......," he said, turning over the footboard to see.

Pulp asked vigilantly, "What's going on?" ”

I didn't want to hide it anymore and said, "Look, there's a suspicious pair of shoe prints on the ground." ”

Everyone immediately looked down, and in the blink of an eye, their expressions became serious. Then, several people began to look at the soles of their shoes. Actually, I don't know what pattern my soles are.

I said, "Don't look, sit on the ground, I'll come and see." ”

Then, there was a strange scene in the desert - everyone sat on the ground in a row, the soles of their shoes were shown, and I lay on the ground, looking at them one by one.

None of the soles of the shoes are patterned with copper coins with square holes.

Finally, I took off my shoes and turned the soles over to show myself and everyone as well.

Certainly not mine.

It's so weird, it's no man's land, who will patronize our camp!

I asked everyone, "Who changed their shoes at noon?" ”

Raise your hand outside the number.

I said, "Did you change it before you went to bed, or did you change it when you woke up?" ”

He said, "Sleep — change before you go to bed." ”

I said, "Take it and see." ”

I ran back and brought another pair of hiking boots, and I looked at the soles, and the patterns were very different.

I said, "These shoes only have footprints that have walked over, not footprints that have left......

Bai Xinxin said: "What do you mean? ”

I lowered my voice, "Stand farther away." Wei Zao, you search every car with me! ”

The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Wei Zao quickly grabbed the knife from his pocket.

I said to the juice, "Lend me it." ”

Knowing what I was going to borrow, she looked at me a little unnaturally, then took her knife from her satchel and handed it to me.

First, Wei Zao and I approached the Cherokee and opened the doors from both sides at the same time.

No one.

We checked each of the seats, and then we got down and checked the chassis, and there were no Tibetans.

Next, in the same way, we checked the Mitsubishi Pajero, Hummer, Land Rover Defender.

Finally, we approached the motorhome.

Bai Xinxin said: "I slept in it with Yiwu just now!" ”

I ignored him and climbed up with Wei Zao, carefully inspecting every corner. There are no Tibetans.

When I came down, I muttered, "What a weird......"

Wei Zao said, "What now? ”

I said, "All get in the car and get out of this place!" ”

So, everyone urgently put away their sleeping bags, got into the car separately, and drove away one by one.

In the car, Zhang Hui and Pulp Juice never spoke.

I looked through the mirror at Pulp and she was looking out the window, blinking her dark eyes like a schoolboy stumped by some arithmetic problem. I know, she's thinking about those shoes.

Finally, she spoke: "Can it be such a ......?"

I looked at her again through the mirror: "You say." ”

"Those shoe prints have been there for a long time," she said. At noon, we happened to be stationed at that place, but we didn't notice the shoe prints. ”

I said, "Dear, such a big no-man's land, it can't be so coincidental." ”

If it's really like what Pulp said, it's like a person floating on the endless sea, and you happen to meet another person who is also floating on the sea......

"It's a low-lying place, and it's gentle, and we choose it as a place to rest, and others may too." ”

I said, "The wind in the desert is so strong, even if he left shoe prints, they were quickly smoothed out by the sand, how could it be so clear!" ”

"Perhaps," said Pulp, "he just passed by this morning." ”

I said, "Who would dare to cross Lop Nur alone?" ”

"Perhaps, his team continued to move forward, and he was the only one who stopped, rested for a while, and soon caught up again. ”

I don't speak anymore.

These shoe prints are too weird to be able to find a reasonable explanation, so I can only succumb to this explanation.

After a while, Pulp Juice suddenly said, "Have you heard about the 'Pisces Jade Pendant' incident circulating on the Internet? ”

Lop Nur, "Pisces Jade Pendant" - I feel like a thunderbolt in my brain! To be honest, I was very scared of that rumor.

I suddenly became annoyed and yelled at the juice, "Don't tell me about those rumors, okay!" ”

Pulp pouted and didn't say anything.

The stone that weighed on my heart suddenly grew larger.

During the long drive, we saw a pile of animal bones, I don't know if it was a wild camel or a wild horse, lying miserably in the desert, as if daydreaming.

A black sleeping bag was also seen half-buried in the sand, with several plastic bottles of mineral water thrown around.

At around half past five in the afternoon, Wei Zao shouted over the walkie-talkie: "Yadan! I see Yadan! ”

I turned the front of the car off, and sure enough, a large group of Yadan Tutai appeared in front of me!

We've been in Lop Nur for a few days, and it's always been an endless land of salt crusts, unchanged. Yadan was the first different landform we encountered, and although I had seen it a few times in the video, I was still deeply shocked when I actually came to it!

The convoy stopped.

Everyone became extremely excited, jumped out of the car, and rushed over. The juice is at the front.

This Yadan group, arranged in the north and south, is very regular, each earthen platform is so majestic, from a distance, thousands of postures, like a huge labyrinth.

Wei Zao, Haowai, Zhang Hui, Bubu, and Meng Xiaoshuai all climbed up.

Bai Xinxin didn't go up.

Xu Ergo did not go up.

Pawan sat on a hard clod of dirt and smoked.

Yi Wu stood alone at a distance, looking up with her head up.

I walked over and stopped next to her to admire these products of nature with her. I've found that just by squinting your eyes, then you can be what you want them to be......

Titanic......

Sure enough, one of the largest ships of the time screamed and pressed towards me.

A general in a Napoleonic hat stands on a cliff......

Sure enough, the general raised his clay face and looked into the distance.

A giant bug......

Sure enough, the giant worm began to shake its head and tail. It seems to have been imprisoned underground for hundreds of millions of years, and finally broke through the ground, and the bones of its whole body clicked and clicked.

I said to Yiwu, "Why don't you go up and have a look?" ”

She smiled and said, "It's better to look up from the bottom." ”

Juice ran back, took my hand, and said, "Let's go, go up and have a look!" ”

I was dragged by her to a dirt platform, I was in front and she was behind, and I started to climb. When it was dangerous, I reached out and dragged her. Finally, we reached the top of the stage, which was almost as high as the seventh or eighth floor, and the wind was so strong that it could almost push people down. I took her hand and she pulled it back.

Looking into the distance, the strangely shaped earthen platforms stretch into the sky, and the vastness is unsettling.

Pulp touched me with her arm and whispered, "If I squeeze you lightly, you'll fall." ”

I said, "Therefore, I will never stand in this place with Zhang Hui." ”

She said, "What would people think if you fell and died?" ”

I said, "I definitely think it was an accident." ”

She said, "What if you don't fall to your death?" ”

I said, "Then you're finished." ”

Yiwu looked at me and Juice.

We stayed at the top of the stage for a few minutes, and then we climbed down.

Others came down one after another, taking pictures of all kinds.

Meng Xiaoshuai stayed halfway up a clay platform, Bai Xinxin took pictures of her from various angles, he shot with his feet crossed, squatted, and lay on the ground to shoot......

Bai Xinxin's camera is a DSLR, and the lens is like a cannon.

The outside of the ship wandered around in the middle of the earthen platform, as if looking for some treasure.

When I called everyone into the car, he shouted, "There's a face!" ”

Many people didn't hear it and were still scrambling to take pictures.

I walked briskly over to the back of an earthen platform, looked up, and was startled—

The back of the earth platform faces northeast, which is the direction of the wind, and sure enough, the shadow shows the outline of the facial features, a bit like a pyramid face.

I have a serious phobia of this huge human face.

I didn't dare to look at it anymore, but I couldn't help it.

The desert winds, blowing day after day and year after year, carve into all sorts of shapes, some like a horse's head, some like a human face, some like a harp......

Is that the eye?

It was nothing but two pits, one of which protruded into a nearly circular clod of earth that looked like an eyeball......

Is that the nose?

It was just a vertical ridge with two holes at the lower end, which looked like nostrils......

Is that a mouth?

It's just two horizontal ridges, some plump, and they look like lips......

Looking at it, I was terrified again - that was a face!

Although it is said that for a long time, the wind may carve various shapes, but why did not two vertical soil ridges be carved?

I am reminded of a Taoist method of divination, "fuji", in which two people hold a T-shaped pen together and shake it on the flattened sand. Various irregular marks may appear on the sand. If two people are dangling and there is a crooked word "death", no more than one stroke, no less stroke, can you think that is a coincidence?

This huge face is like the word "death".

I didn't dare to look any further, so I dragged the number out and left.

"W-is that a face?" ”

I said, "It's just like that." ”

Walking out of the Tutai group, Meng Xiaoshuai was still filming. Bubu asked me, "What do you see?" ”

"I saw one, one, one ......" and the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't speak.

I said, "One of the biggest earthen platforms." ”

Outside the number, he held back.

I said, "Meng Xiaoshuai, let's go!" ”

Meng Xiaoshuai didn't say anything, Bai Xinxin spoke: "It's not over yet!" ”

We got into the car separately and waited for more than ten minutes before Bai Xinxin and Meng Xiaoshuai ran back.

The convoy moved on.

The Yadan group is getting farther and farther away.

It suddenly occurred to me that the face just now looked a bit like Pavan.