Chapter Twenty-Three: A Distress Signal More Than 60 Years Ago

I got up as fast as I could, and rushed out.

The lights of the RV are on.

Meng Xiaoshuai was wearing a fluffy pink pajama and ran to Bubu's tent, Bai Xinxin pulled her arm, trying her best to explain something.

I asked out loud, "What's wrong!" ”

Bai Xinxin let go of Meng Xiaoshuai at once.

Yiwu put on her clothes and came to the door of the RV and watched quietly. She looked at me for a while, and Meng Xiaoshuai for a while.

Meng Xiaoshuai's eyes were filled with tears, she walked up to me and whispered, "Boss Zhou, go back to sleep, don't alarm everyone, I can solve it myself." ”

Juice came out and stood next to me.

Wei Zao and Pawan walked out of the tent.

Xu Erge, Haowai, and Zhang Hui all walked out of the tent.

In the darkness of Lop Nur, in the gale, 11 people stood silently like statues.

I said calmly: "Bai Xinxin, tell me, what happened?" ”

Bai Xinxin said confidently: "I didn't do anything!" ”

Bubu also walked out of the tent, and she brought a very thick shawl and wrapped it around Meng Xiaoshuai's body.

I looked at Meng Xiaoshuai and asked, "Is that so?" ”

Meng Xiaoshuai's tears welled up again, and he said, "Don't worry about it, I'm fine." ”

Then, she turned her face to Boo and said, "Bubu, I'll go sleep in your tent, is that okay?" ”

Bubu said, "Come! ”

I shot my gaze at Yiwu: "Yiwu, tell me, what happened to them just now?" ”

Yi Wu hesitated for a moment and said, "It's black and slimy, I'm asleep, so I despised them and quarreled, and then Meng Xiaoshuai ran out......" She said that she heard.

I looked at Bai Xinxin again: "Let me ask you again, you really didn't do anything?" ”

Bai Xinxin said: "It was quite cold in the RV, I just got up and covered her with a quilt, and she screamed like she was electrocuted." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai shouted: "You touch me!" ”

Bai Xinxin said arrogantly: "I touch you? Is there a fingerprint? ”

Meng Xiaoshuai cried out: "You bastard! ”

At this time, a silent black shadow had approached Bai Xinxin, smashed it with a punch, and hit Bai Xinxin in the face. It's Xurgo.

Bai Xin was furious, grabbed Xu Erge, and the two fought together.

Bubu said in a panic, "It's all out to play!" What is this for? Don't fight, okay! ”

I said coldly, "You don't care. ”

Xu Erge obviously couldn't beat Bai Xinxin, Bai Xinxin threw him to the sand, and the two rolled together.

Another person rushed over and held Bai Xinxin down. It's Wei Zao.

Xu Ergo had obviously never fought, his face was pale, his eyes were bloodshot, his whole body was trembling, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding.

I walked over, squatted down, and said to Bai Xinxin: "Alas, there are 100 ways to pick up girls, and you choose the 101st one." ”

He said, "It's your business! ”

I said, "I'm talking to you about pickling girls." ”

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

I said, "Let him go." ”

Wei had already let go of his hand.

I leaned into Bai Xinxin's ear and whispered, "When I entered Lop Nur, I saw a corpse, he was leaning on the sand dune, his head tilted, his right hand was very awkwardly resting on his left neck, and one left leg was bent outward. If, if you do it again, I'll let you lean against the dunes with your head tilted, your right hand awkwardly resting on your left neck, and one left leg bent outward. Do you believe it? ”

My words really scared Bai Xinxin, and he didn't say anything more.

I said to everyone, "Let's sleep." ”

Then, I walked up to Meng Xiaoshuai and said, "Everyone is here, there will be no more trouble." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai nodded and said, "Thank you......"

I was about to walk back to the tent when a question suddenly came to mind - if Meng Xiaoshuai slept in Bubu's tent, then only Bai Xinxin and Yiwu would be left in the RV.

I turned my face to look at Yi Wu, who was still standing at the door of the RV, against the light, unable to see her expression.

I said, "Bai Xinxin, you have three beds in your RV, don't waste it, do you want to sleep with someone else?" ”

He said indignantly, "No one wants the anymore." ”

I asked Yi Wu, "Yi Wu, are you still sleeping in the RV?" ”

Yi Wu said, "Why should I change places? ”

I said, "Okay......"

Bai Xinxin went back to the RV first and closed the door.

Meng Xiaoshuai took a band-aid, put it on Xu Erge, and then said, "Thank you, Xu ......"

Xu Ergo said: "Xu Ergo. ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Sorry ......"

Then, Bubu took Meng Xiaoshuai back to the tent.

Wei Zao, Pawan, Xu Erge, Haowai and Zhang Hui also returned to the tent.

After Pulp and I walked into the tent, she said, "Who told her to attract bees and butterflies?" ”

I said, "It's not right for you to say that." ”

She said, "You men can only see a woman's breasts, and only a woman can see the heart behind a woman's chest!" ”

Lying down, I looked at my phone, it was already past two in the morning.

I remembered the 112 police number, which is said to be an emergency number that can be called even if there is no cell phone coverage, or even a card.

I tried, but it didn't work.

The wind was raging all the time, and the tent was shaking like a cradle, very rhythmically.

It may be a psychological effect, as we get closer and closer to the center of Lop Nur Lake, the breath of death becomes stronger and stronger.

I closed my eyes and thought, can we get out of here?

After encountering the wooden sign, Pulp said that she knew Gu Yu Luwen.

I said, "Really? ”

She said, "yes." ”

I said, "Then tell me, what does the word on that wooden sign mean?" ”

She said: "It is written - I wish you all the best on the journey. ”

Good luck on the journey - I find this statement very eerie.

I looked at the juice, she looked at me, and finally she smiled, "Teasing you!" It's real. ”

On the morning of April 24, everyone woke up quite late.

I was woken up, and when I opened my eyes, they had already made breakfast. Bread, mustard, egg soup, and to my surprise, there were fresh chopped green onions and minced coriander in the soup.

Pulp coughed a little, suspecting that it was the cause of the dog's hair, so when it was time to set off, the number outside and the four eyes went to Bubu's car, and Zhang Hui returned to my car.

I vacuumed the inside of the car, and then, as I drove, Zhang Hui sat next to me, and the juice sat in the back seat.

The formation of the team has not changed.

The first, Wei Zao and Pavan.

The second, Bubu, Outside and Four Eyes.

The third, Meng Xiaoshuai and Xu Erge.

The fourth, Bai Xinxin and Yiwu.

The fifth, I, Pulp, Zhang Hui.

During the march, Pulp Juice and Zhang Hui did not speak, and Pulp Juice no longer listened to Zhu Zheqin.

I was a little sleepy, and I tried to concentrate to avoid accidents.

After about two hours of driving, Pulp fell asleep.

Drowsiness is contagious, my eyelids are getting heavier and heavier, in order to dispel the sleepiness, I chatted with Zhang Hui: "Zhang Hui, has the outside world been in contact with the outside world?" ”

He said: "I didn't seem to be able to get in touch for the first few days, but I got in touch yesterday. ”

I said, "That's good." ”

"I'm scared of that sound, especially at night," he said. ”

I turned to look at him: "The sound of the radio? ”

He said, "Yes. ”

I said, "Why?" ”

He replied, "Who knows what you'll hear!" I once read a report about an amateur radio amateur in Chongqing, and one night, he accidentally received a signal from Antarctica......"

I said, "Sometimes, when I'm driving at night, I turn the radio up to the edge and hear some weird language, and it's pretty frightening." ”

He said: "Last night, the outside of the station had been tinkering with his radio station, squeaking, and received a strange signal, as if calling for help......"

I immediately stopped sleepy: "Who called for help?" ”

He said: "It's not very clear, I vaguely heard them say that they are Ma He Fang's subordinates, what the first cavalry division. ”

Ma What's Fang?

I quickly searched in my memory, and only found one person's name - Ma Bufang.

I said, "Ma Bufang? ”

He said, "It seems to be." ”

Cavalry?

Ma Bufang?

Since 1985, when motorcycles and machinery replaced mules and horses, the cavalry has disappeared, and where has the first cavalry division appeared?

Ma Bufang, a Kuomintang officer, died in Saudi Arabia when he was about seven years old.

I said, "And then?" ”

Zhang Hui said: "Then the radio station was turned off outside the number. ”

I stopped talking.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, we stopped for dinner as usual.

Bubu held up the binoculars and looked into the distance again.

I walked up to her and asked her about the Kuomintang garrison in Xinjiang before liberation.

She said something about it, and the more I listened, the more surprised I became.

In 1949, the Kuomintang was defeated.

With the victory of the Lanzhou Campaign, the People's Liberation Army marched westward, quickly liberated Qinghai, the Hexi Corridor, and then marched into Xinjiang with all its might.

Under the strong deterrence of our army, Ma Bufang's troops broke up one after another. With a small group of stragglers, he fled into Lop Nur, only to lose his way. They wandered blindly in the Gobi Desert and later found a peculiar cave where they stayed. They cut off all contact with the outside world, lived a savage life, and began to reproduce......

After speaking, Bubu asked me, "Are you interested in this history?" ”

I dodged and said, "When I got to this place, I suddenly remembered. ”

Actually, I was very worried.

Could it be that the radio station outside the number really received the distress signal from those stragglers?

Now, let's talk about radio.

The Earth is arc-shaped, and radio waves cannot reach it directly, so they are emitted into the atmosphere. There is an ionosphere in the atmosphere, like a huge umbrella, that envelops the Earth, so the radio waves are refracted back to the surface and received.

So, will the radio station outside the number receive the distress signal sent by those deserters more than 60 years ago?

Theoretically, as the seasons and weather change, certain frequencies could pass through the ionosphere and be emitted into the vast universe, and the signal will be lost.

There are countless planets in the universe, and many planets have atmospheres, will those signals encounter the ionosphere again, and after many, many years, be refracted back to the earth?

The more I thought about it, the more terrified I became.

Today's weather was fine, no wind and not particularly hot.

Before eating, Bai Xinxin walked next to Meng Xiaoshuai and apologized in public: "Meng Xiaoshuai, I'm sorry last night." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai is very accessible, she said: "I'm sorry, it's over? Go, go, wash me an apple. ”

Bai Xinxin immediately went to wash the apples.

It's good, in a unit or a team, if there are so many people who don't talk to each other and don't get along with each other, it's too awkward.

Today, Bai Xinxin actually changed into a pink shirt. 90% of women don't like men in pink shirts, and 90% of men in pink shirts don't like women either.

After eating lunch, Pulp said, "I'm tired from riding in the car!" Please, please, take a break at noon, right? ”

Everyone agreed.

I'm tired too.

I need to lie down and think about it.

We didn't have a tent, so we took off our sleeping bags from the car, spread them in the shade under the car, and got in.

I called the trumpeter over, and Four-Eyes followed him loyally.

I asked him, "Did you get a distress signal last night?" ”

"How do you know—you know?" ”

I said, "Do you hear me?" ”

He said: "That person seems to be saying that they are the people who reorganized the first cavalry division, how many brigades, how many regiments, how many companies, and said that they were horses-Ma Bufang. ”

I said, "That's all?" ”

"Then I listened—I couldn't hear clearly." ”

I said, "What do you think?" ”

The other said: "I guess it's another one who plays radio, talking nonsense - looking for fun." ”

After he left with four eyes, I climbed into the car, closed the door, and lay down.

Outside the number, last night's signal was a prank, I don't think so.

The world is deep.

Lop Nur is deeper.

I don't take a nap for more than half an hour every time.

At noon that day, however, I slept very deeply, and slept for more than an hour. When I woke up, I saw only Zhang Hui, crouched in the middle of several cars, as if observing something.

I got out of the car and walked behind him.

He looked back at me and suddenly said, "Boss Zhou, look at you, there is a line of suspicious footprints here!" ”