"It's here! It's here! This is Artemisibrak! "I suddenly heard Azmat screaming, and I hurriedly opened my eyes, and found that the car had stopped, and Azmat walked under the car and yelled ahead.

So, I hurriedly called Shangtan and Xu Yunshu to get off the car. As soon as we got under the car, we saw several large and small blisters in front of us. The blisters contained only shallow water, and the deepest part was less than 10 centimeters. The sides of the blisters were covered with white stains, and there were clumps of cotton floating on the water. If you want to put it on a normal basis, let alone drink this kind of water, I don't think it's dirty even if it's used to wash your hands. But at this moment and then, when a few of us saw these puddles, we could no longer suppress the excitement in our hearts, and rushed straight up, scooping them up with our hands without saying a word and sending them to our mouths.

"Hey~ can't drink ......" Azmat saw the three of us rushing over, and wanted to stop us, but we people were thirsty and unbearable, where could we stop? For thirsty people like us, when they see water, it is equivalent to seeing the hope of living, and how many people can stop it?

"Wow~" "Puff~" "Puff~"

As a result, as soon as the water entered our mouths, we immediately squirted out, and the jar was choked by the water, and we coughed incessantly. The water was salty, astringent, and unusually bitter, worse than the water in the stinking ditch.

"What's going on, Azmat? Aren't there sixty springs here? I asked Azmat as I spit out the water in my mouth. Although there is water in the mouth, the salty feeling is not better than the feeling of thirst, and it only takes a sip of water in the mouth, and the feeling of thirst is still very strong. Now it's a thirsty throat and a salty mouth, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.

Azmat looked left and right again, and after confirming it again, he said, "That's right, this is Artemis Sibulak!" ”

"Here are sixty springs? So why is this water so salty? The jar didn't believe it, "It's good now, we originally wanted to quench our thirst, but now it's making us even thirstier...... I said, "We are not camels, we can live by drinking the salt water and bitter water of the desert......"

Azmat was a little embarrassed and said, "I wanted to stop you just now, but I didn't...... Don't you see the white salt beside the puddles? This water is not drinkable! ”

"But you said there was fresh water in sixty springs?" The jar is in a hurry.

"It is true that there is fresh water in Artemisibrak, but there is also salt water......

"That'...... Which is salt water and which is fresh water? Xu Yunshu asked.

Pointing to the salt stains on the side of the blisters, Azmat said: "Anything with salt on the edge of a puddle is salt water!" ”

The altar and I immediately looked around. After a while, Xu Yunshu saw us coming back and asked, "How is it?" ”

The altar and I drooped our heads and said dejectedly, "There are more than a dozen blisters in the vicinity all in the same way!" The jar immediately jumped up and shouted at Azmat: "There is no fresh water here!" I said, are you mistaken, can you be reliable? ”

Azmat said with an apologetic face: "Actually, I know that Artemisibrak has more salt water and less fresh water at this time, and I only brought you here with the attitude of giving it a try. It's winter now, and it's the dry season, and when the time comes to the wet season, a lot of snow water flows down from the snow-capped mountains, and a lot of fresh water pours in, and the water here will be diluted and turn into fresh water again......"

"But what do we do now?" I asked Azmat.

Azmat shook his head: "It's too late for us to turn around, we can only go north, to Dikaner, if we're lucky, maybe we'll still be able to get there alive......"

Hearing what Azmat said, we knew that there was little hope of finding fresh water again, but now that we were waiting for death, we would have to follow Azmat's suggestion to go north to Dikanr. At this time, all we can do is pray except to hurry.

According to Azmat, in the past, wild asses, argali, hares and even wild camels could always be seen in Lop Nur. We also want to get one, at least to be able to drink blood and eat meat, so that we don't die of thirst and starvation. However, it is very strange that we did not see a single animal for five days before and after we came here.

We continued north, in the direction of DeCanar. The blazing sun shines on the car, and even if the air conditioning in the car is used, it does not make much difference. The strong sunlight shining on my face made me dizzy and drowsy, so I slowly fell asleep before I knew it. In my sleep, I vaguely felt the car stop. I didn't know what was going on, so I tried to open my eyes, only to find that the car was parked. Azmat and the altar sitting in front of me disappeared, I turned my head to look at the side, and Xu Yunshu, who was originally sitting next to me, was also gone.

I felt very strange, so I opened the door and walked down.

I don't know what happened while I was asleep, why did the three of them leave quietly without even saying hello?

"Jar! Xu Yunshu! Where are you? "Azmat?" No matter how much I shouted, there was no sound to answer in this vast and empty Gobi. I felt a little flustered, and a feeling of nervousness, loneliness, and helplessness immediately came over me.

Just as I was panicking, a group of centaurs stepped out from behind a huge sandstone in the distance.

When I saw these people, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and my heart was a little settled, so I hurriedly waved my arms and shouted at them, and rushed towards them. Maybe it was because I was so excited to see so many people all of a sudden, and I didn't even notice the unbearable thirst, and I didn't feel it anymore......

It was a caravan of local camels, more than twenty camels, more than twenty people. Everyone in the team wrapped themselves in sackcloth to protect them from the scorching sun. They also had an interpreter in the team who told the captain everything about me.

The captain said, "Since that's the case, let's go with you to find your friends first, if we really can't find it, we can't do anything ......."

I thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you......"

So, I followed the people in the caravan and began to search for it.