When the first rays of the morning sun shone on the earth, Wang Xiaotie had already woken up. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, he stood at the entrance of the canyon, watching the large salt rock that he and Shoko had walked through yesterday fall into a stupor.

Although I don't know how big the area of the big salt rock was, Wang Xiaotie can be very sure that the area of the current big salt rock has been reduced by at least more than half, and the reduced places have been covered by golden sand.

The bad news is that Wang Xiaotie will never be able to return to that oasis, the traces of his arrival have long been buried by the sandstorm, and even that oasis may now disappear into the sand dunes.

The good news is that Wang Xiaotie has left the sand dune area at this moment and arrived in the typical Gobi region. This is very different from the small piece of Gobi he saw before, this is the real big Gobi.

Desert refers to a sandy desert where the entire ground is covered with a large area of quicksand and various sand dunes are widely distributed. The Gobi, on the other hand, is a desert terrain covered with coarse sand and gravel on a layer of hard soil.

That means that the resources for survival that exist here are slightly more abundant than in the desert.

Since there is no turning back, then we can only walk forward and find a place to settle in the barren Gobi.

Wang Xiaotie feels that the biggest difference between this place and the desert is the hardness of his feet. Walking in the desert, one foot deep and one foot shallow, is very difficult. Walking on the land of the Gobi, your feet are full of hard rubble, and you will feel very hiccuped.

Due to the very complicated terrain, it is impossible for Wang Xiaotie to sit on Xiangzi leisurely this time, so he can only lead Xiangzi and travel this gravel road similar to the Grand Canyon.

Unlike sandstorms in the desert, flash floods are frequent. Wang Xiaotie could see that there were obvious traces of the water level at the low end on both sides of the canyon.

This proves that all the rainwater around it flows through this canyon, so setting up camp in this place is definitely a death hunt.

Perhaps in the summer, this canyon crevice will become a rushing flood beast, howling and roaring towards the great salt rock outside the canyon.

Wang Xiaotie didn't know if it was right to go along this canyon gap, but if he didn't go inside, then he and Xiangzi would have to turn around and return to the big salt rock area, which was the real place of death.

Now Wang Xiaotie can only pray that this road can smoothly get out of this canyon and reach an ideal place to rest.

The four jars of water were quickly exhausted, and in fact, there was not much left when they crossed the Great Salt Rock. Even if Wang Xiaotie took in water from his mouth and leaned on his skin, he couldn't resist the scorching sun.

Here, water is everything, and where there is water, there is the capital to live.

Along the way, Wang Xiaotie saw a lot of tall and large cacti, which looked green and full of moisture. But Wang Xiaotie didn't dare to touch them at all.

There are many plants in the Euphorbiaceae family that look like the cacti we know well, but they are the most terrifying plant killers in the desert.

The white milk of many xerophytes of the Euphorbiaceae family is poisonous, such as the single tree, the overlord whip, the tiger thorn plum, the emperor brocade, etc. There is a law in the desert that must be kept in mind, all plants that contain milky white sap should be kept away.

Some plants, even if they are accidentally touched, will kill the survivors.

Wang Xiaotie's impression of edible desert plants is not many. Cacti, he remembers a species called the "Giant's Pillar" that grows on the edge of the Sonora Desert.

The reason for being able to remember it is nothing more than its recognizability, the most recognizable of all cacti.

This cactus is one of the highest cactus varieties in the world. The plant is tall and columnar, with branches in the shape of a candlestick, with sharp edges, the thorn seat has brown wool hairs, there are radiant thorns, the thorn is trumpet-shaped, it opens on the thorn seat near the top of the stem, the berries are red, the flesh is edible, it is known as "fairy peach".

If you stand at the foot of a giant pillar cactus that has lived for 200 years, you can realize how small you are. They can grow up to 15 meters or more, and most importantly, they have a large amount of gelatinous tissue in their body, which can store up to 750 liters of fluid when fully expanded.

750 liters! That's a huge number for a survivor who is desperately short of water in the desert. The premise is that you have a mountain knife as sharp as Wang Xiaotie's hand to cut through their rough thorny skin.

It's a pity that Wang Xiaotie didn't find this special cactus that resembles a natural reservoir.

"Water! It's fresh water! ”

Wang Xiaotie took Xiangzi and walked up a slope, and was pleasantly surprised to find that near the rock wall behind the slope, there was a depression puddle with a large area, and there was a lot of fresh water left in it.

The sparkling water seems to exude endless temptations.

Stopping the ecstasy in his heart, Wang Xiaotie pulled Xiangzi down the slope quickly and walked towards the water source. Along the way, Wang Xiaotie's mouth was already dry, looking at the puddle close at hand, Wang Xiaotie couldn't wait to grow a pair of wings and fly over to drink it.

Wait a minute!

The more Wang Xiaotie walked forward, the more uneasy he felt. Before he could reach the puddle, Wang Xiaotie stopped in pain.

The reason that forced Wang Xiaotie to stop was not that the water was not clean, but that it was too clean, and there was no trace of animals around such an obvious water source, which was very abnormal.

The importance of water in the desert or the Gobi region is needless to say. Often, near an obvious water source, there will be a large and small concentration of biological species. The animals that live in this barren land know how precious a drop of water is.

However, there are no animals, not even water flies, near this bright puddle, which is absolutely abnormal.

Tethering Xiangzi to a protruding stone pillar, Wang Xiaotie planned to go to the puddle to observe.

When he got closer, Wang Xiaotie found the culprit hiding behind a rock, and then broke out in a cold sweat.

Behind the rocks grows a large shrub. Shrubs are common in the Gobi region, but this one is unique in that they have very showy flowers at the tops.

Five bright red oval leaves, surrounded by tender yellow stamens, look so charming.

And these beautiful flowers are the real reason why Wang Xiaotie feels afraid.

This plant is oleander, which has an unusually gorgeous appearance, but is a very deadly and highly poisonous plant. In China, this highly poisonous plant is widely used in potted plants or flower beds, and has become a veritable ornamental flower.

Ingestion of any part of it is fatal, and even inhaling the smell of smoke while burning oleander is dangerous. According to statistics, there were 847 oleander poisoning cases in the United States in 2002, and the death toll reached hundreds of people. This is enough to prove that they are terrible.

What is the saying? Femme fatale, oleander is a veritable femme fatale.