Devil's Town
Mengli glanced at the old and a little unbearable Lord Dolma, who was still a person who had seen the world, not like other people who were so frightened that they all curled up together, and she was a local, so she should have some understanding of the laws of this kind of wind and sand.
After I don't know how long it took, it seemed that someone came down the slope again, and at a glance, it was Wu Xie and the fat man.
"Come here." Yumeri beckoned them over and pulled them inside.
"Fatty, you keep bragging about losing weight, see what you've lost now?" Wu Xie complained while pulling the fat man stuck at the door.
It took a lot of effort to pull the fat man in, and the fat man gasped and said embarrassedly: "I'm really sorry, I tried hard, but there was no result at all." ”
"Wu Xie, did the little brother bring you here?" Mengli asked.
"Yes, we saw a huge black shadow in front of us in the wind, and we thought it was a mountain wall. But halfway through, the black shadow was gone, and then we met the little brother and the black blind man, who brought us here. Wu Xie said.
Mengli breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the people who came down one after another, it seemed that everything went well for the little brother and them to find someone. After resting for a while, I don't know how long it was, I heard a sound outside, and then saw the light of a miner's lamp outside.
"What's going on out there?" Wu Xie looked at Tashi, who was guarding at the door, and asked.
"The wind is light, and some people go out to find other people, and by the way, see how the car is." Tashi replied.
Mengli and Wu Xie went out to see the situation, and as soon as they went out, they felt that the wind was really light. Wu Xie felt that they had to hurry up and find a better shelter from the wind, otherwise they would be caught off guard by the sudden wind and sand like they had just done.
But the reality is not optimistic, A-Ning's face doesn't look very good, she said that there are four people who have not been found, and they are still looking for it. And this car turned out of the sand, some of it must have been scrapped, some of it needs to be repaired, so they have to wait a while for the car to be repaired and re-equipped before they can continue to set off.
It's been a day and a night, A-Ning has been holding a walkie-talkie, but the people sent out to search have no news at all, it seems that in this vast desert, even if the four people have GPS, it is useless. Tashi went out to investigate the situation and came back to tell them that they had found a devil's town twenty kilometers ahead and that they could go out there to rest.
Feeling that the wind was about to pick up again, they hurried to set off after finishing the rectification, and after driving for more than twenty minutes, they saw the devil's city in the cross. In fact, the Devil's City is not a city where the devil lives, the Devil's City is also called the Wind City, it is a peculiar terrain carved out by a large area of rocks carved by the wind, a large area is distributed with a large number of strange-shaped rock mountains, which can give people to imagine all kinds of strange things, and when the wind blows through these rocks, because of the distribution, it will make the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling, so it is called the Devil's City.
When I used to study geography, looking at the pictures in the book, I really longed to go to the style. This was really the first time Wu Xie had come to the desert, and when he saw such a spectacular landscape, he was very excited, and he completely forgot the fear that the storm and sand brought him. Nature's wonders are always awe-inspiring.
They chose a rocky hill with a flat bottom and stopped, and set up camp. Two hours later, the wind really rose, and I really heard the sound of the ghost crying wolf, which made Wu Xie feel creepy, but gradually the fatigue hit, and he fell asleep in the devil's cry.
I was woken up in a daze during the day, and when I asked, it turned out that a person was found on the Gobi not far away, one of the four missing people, and the person woke up after being rescued. He said that the other three kept walking forward, and then he fell unconscious, and the rest of him was completely unaware. This person is outside the Devil's City, so the other three people should have entered the city. In it, you can hide from the wind and sand, A-Ning's eyes suddenly brightened, and he breathed a sigh of relief, indicating that those three people were in the Devil's City, and what they had to do now was to find them as soon as possible, so that they could also feel at ease.
Just as they were about to enter the Devil's City to find someone, Tashi walked over, stopped them, and said, "Wait a minute, my grandmother said you can't go in." ”
"Why?" A-Ning was already very worried about the three people who were still missing, but when he saw someone blocking the way, he asked coldly.
"My grandmother said that this piece of devil's city is about eighty-seven square kilometers, very vast, and it is in the most primitive state, there are no road signs, and if you are not familiar with the environment, it is easy to get lost, and it is said that there are many quicksand wells in it, and it will be troublesome if you accidentally fall into it."
"Isn't that easy? We can make a mark along the road, the quickmanhole, we can walk carefully at most. The fat man felt that what he said was a trivial matter, and waved his hand absently.
"That's right, if it's as you said, the terrain here is so complicated, if you wait until dawn to look for it, maybe something has happened to them." A-Ning said in a little anxious, and after speaking, he didn't listen to Tashi's advice, and he was going to bring people in.
In fact, the owner Zhuoma is also for their safety, Wu Xie feels that if he goes in rashly like this, he will not save people, but will be in trouble. Just as Wu Xie was thinking about whether to stop A-Ning from thinking about the long term first, the lord Zhuoma spoke, and she said a few words to Tashi in Tibetan, and Tashi immediately showed a very incomprehensible expression. Finally he said to them with a look of reluctance: "Lucky for you, my grandmother asked me to take you in." After saying that, he walked to his luggage and packed his equipment.
"A-Ning, what did the old lady say?" Wu Xie asked.
A-Ning shook her head and said, "I don't know, but if she is willing to take us in, then we will be much smoother." ”
Mengli understood the words of the Lord Dolma, her eyes were dark, and she couldn't help sneering in her heart, she really thought that none of them knew Tibetan? It's a pity, I miscalculated......
"Since there is news of those people, let the little brother come back and join us." Mengli was thinking about the little brother who was still looking for people in the vast desert, and their physical strength must be unbearable after looking for so long, and said.
A-Ning nodded and said, "I've had people use flares to notify them of their return." Let's go first and find people and make a mark, and they will naturally follow the mark. ”
Tashi led them into the Devil's Town, where he would pile up an Arabic stone pile as a sign whenever he turned a corner. After walking for two or three hours, they had gone deep into the depths of Devil's City, and A-Ning kept calling on the walkie-talkie, and everyone was shouting, but there was no response at all.
Suddenly, I heard A-Ning shouting: "There is a reaction, they are nearby!" "In a terrain like Devil's City, walkie-talkies are almost useless, and only at a very short distance can they receive a signal, which means that the person they are looking for is nearby!
But they spoke into the walkie-talkie, trying to get a response, but they didn't, just a string of voices they didn't understand. There is no way, they can only find out their position according to the strength of the walkie-talkie signal. After walking around, I found that the signal was loudest in the depths of the canyon, and it was obviously in the canyon. They hurriedly ran inside, and a huge half-moon mound appeared in front of them blocking their way, and the signal here was very strong.
"Look, there's footprints here." Tashi noticed that there were very messy footprints on the ground, and quickly shouted, and then everyone went over to look.
Mengli used a flashlight to shine on the big mound in front of her, and found that there seemed to be something on it, but it was too high for the flashlight to shine. She took out a flare from her backpack and flew into the air, and at once it was as bright as day, and the others were startled by the sudden explosion, and they all looked up, only to see that there was a huge object embedded in the half-moon-shaped mound halfway up the mountainside.