The old man and the fat man complemented each other and talked all the way, it seemed that they were indeed tired, and when I saw that they all fell down and leaned on the back of the chair, I stopped harassing them.

Along the highway to Dunhuang, we got off the highway on the national highway, this road is even more desolate, in fact, after Lanzhou, both sides of the road is like this.

On one side, you can see the Great Wall of Earth, which has been standing here for thousands of years, and the soil under the root of the wall has probably not been touched since the day it fell, and no one will remember to grab it until the wall collapses.

From the infrastructure construction in the 60s to the present, the national highway has spread all over any province and municipality, and the roads are wide asphalt roads, and there are not many small roads we have to walk.

There were still four or five hours to go to my destination, Horsehair Mountain, and I estimated that it would probably be dark at night. I was very uncomfortable with the sunlight reflecting off the rearview mirror, when I saw a man standing on the side of the road in front of me.

The man was carrying a travel bag that was almost above his head, and was outstretching his arm and fist and making a great gesture for you, this is for a ride.

I looked in the other rearview mirror, and there was not a single car coming from the desolate Gobi Desert behind the car, but the road was scorching and steaming, and the air was already distorted.

I didn't want to stop at all, but I didn't expect this person to take a step forward and stand directly in the middle of the road, I was angry in my heart, and I wanted to kill this bastard directly, anyway, there was a dead person in this place, and no one would find out for three or five years, but after all, reason still made me stop with a kick.

The car stopped five or six meters away from him, the fat man and the old generation were awakened by this action, the old generation was fortunately not much of a deal, the fat man was miserable, he was not wearing a seat belt at all, and the whole person rushed under the chair with huge inertia.

I knew he was going to scold my mother right away, so I didn't wait for him to speak. He pointed to the man in front of him who was walking towards us: "Don't blame me for looking for him." ”

As soon as the words fell, the man had already walked to the side of our car, in front of the passenger window, he knocked on the window, I looked at him for a while, and then rolled the glass down.

"What's the matter, you're tired of living, aren't you?" The fat man scolded viciously. The loss is also educated, otherwise I feel that his posture can fight with this person.

Dressed in an khaki outdoor sweatshirt, with a full beard and dark skin, the man was a refugee who had just escaped from the Middle East.

"Brothers, I've been gone for a day and haven't had a car, can you give me a ride?"

The fat man glanced at him with disdain, and then looked at the space behind the car, which was already small: "What are you doing, this place is walking alone, you don't look like a serious person." ”

Before the fat man could finish speaking, he pulled out a piece from the side pocket of the bag, and after a few clicks he saw him unfold it, and then he probed in to show us.

It was a map, a map that I don't think was at all navigatory. The map is dotted with colored pen lines, and the trail is densely packed with postmarks.

When I first saw this man, I knew that he was probably a hiker, but now that I look at him, several of us understand it.

I glanced at the fat man and asked him if he would take it with him, and he would leave without us. The people outside the car asked again and again, and seeing that the fat man didn't move, the old man asked politely: "You can show us your ID card, and we'll talk about it after reading it." ”

The man sighed, and after a while, the old generation asked again, and he rummaged through the bag on his body, and took out a small dozen cards for half a day, this person seemed to have returned to the wilderness for too long, and he didn't even know where to put his ID card, and it took him a long time to turn it out for us.

The old generation didn't care about it, I looked at it, and I couldn't see it, for this kind of ID photo, and a few years apart, I couldn't tell the difference, not to mention that there was no beard in the photo.

Lao Dai hummed, I thought he would let him get into the car happily, but unexpectedly, Lao Dai put his hands together and said: "Dude, I'm really sorry, we will stop not far in front, you wait a while, there are a lot of cars on this road." ”

The old generation politely rejected the person in front of him, and I saw some movement on his face, because I saw the beard on his mouth move, and I guessed that it might have been the ancestor who had already greeted the three of us.

After speaking. Who cares if he is happy or not, the fat man screamed, and I started the car directly, and shook off this person who didn't look very friendly.

"Did you find anything?" Suddenly, the fat man asked behind him.

I thought he was asking Lao Dai, but I didn't hear a response for a long time, so I turned my head to look at the two of them, only to find that they were both looking at me too.

"Huh?" I was puzzled, and a look of surprise appeared on my face.

"Did he ask you if you noticed the problem with that person just now?" When the old generation saw me like this, he immediately added an explanation.

"Question, what's the problem, there's nothing wrong with it, isn't it just a poor traveler?" I replied casually, I really didn't think there was anything wrong with that person, this kind of person is very common at home and abroad, especially such as this more famous route, such as 318 in July and August, those backpacks, cyclists, can almost crowd the road. People are like this, material life is full, they want to seek some more advanced, these high-level things are nothing more than starving their muscles and bones and straining their body and skin, those people's so-called holy places to purify the soul, but where can the people's hearts be pure if they are not pure?

"Huh! He's not a poor traveler. The fat man snorted coldly.

"It's all the same as a begging for food, not poor?" I looked in the rearview mirror, and it took me a long time to see the person in the distance, and at this time it was far away, he had become a point on the Gobi Highway.

"Do you know what brand of bag that grandson is carrying on his back?" The fat man asked, and I immediately showed a puzzled expression, and the fat man continued to explain: "That's an extreme sports backpack from OMCK, specially customized, and a set starts at least six figures. ”

"Ahh I was really shocked, and I said that no fool would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a bag, and now I feel that my dozens of dollars are not bad there.

After being surprised, I immediately turned back to the topic: "No, it's just a little expensive, so why do you two say that there is something wrong with this person?" Could it be that the bag was robbed? ”

"Heh, you guessed it right, this bag really isn't his."

I was surprised again, I was just talking casually, but I didn't expect the fat man to say that, and at this time my curiosity told me that I had to ask what happened.

"This kind of brand is privately customized, so it is also carefully measured according to the body type of the buyer, not only the style is different, but also the color and fabric are mostly different, so according to a human body design of the bag, another person is unable to carry. And the bag that person was carrying was very awkward, so the backpack was not his. ”

"That's too far-fetched. The bag could be fake, or it could be second-hand. I immediately retorted.

"It's different." The fat man shook his head: "To be able to walk to this kind of place on foot, the planning of equipment will not be so casual, not to mention that the backpack is uncomfortable to carry, he may not even be able to survive the first day." ”

I didn't pay much attention to him just now, but I thought that the backpack was a little too high, because I had seen a precedent for carrying such a backpack that was too tall to carry it, so I didn't feel too disobedient.

"It's not just the backpack, he has a problem with himself, and it's not him in that identity?" The old generation looked out the window, not knowing if he was looking behind the car.

"Not him? I don't look like it makes a difference, huh? "I'm a little suspicious, and I said that your eyes are not scanners, and you can identify whether you are yourself by looking at the ID photo, so awesome, you are quite suitable for working at the security checkpoint."

"It's a race, I see it very clearly here, on the ID card he should be a Jiangnan person, but his face, indeed a Caucasian face, I doubt that he is difficult to say whether he is Chinese, Chinese words are so good, maybe it is still a Chinese expert."

I can't see the race, the Caucasians should be extremely ethnic, and those people are white, and the face of that buddy just now? I immediately dismissed this speculation, after all, people in white have experienced a few months of ultraviolet baptism, so it is basically not credible to distinguish from skin color. And when I think of his beard at this time, it is very likely that it was kept to hide the characteristics of the human race.

"And you have to know what kind of place this is, not far north is the border with Mongolia, and it makes sense that this person will appear here." The fat man added in the back.

As soon as I thought about it, I was terrified, so I immediately whispered, "That grandson can't be robbing at the border, right?" ”

The fat man spread his hands: "Yes, for sure, maybe I have already won it once, I dare to guarantee that there must be something wrong with the guy, maybe he was eyeing us just now." ”

"So, didn't we go through the ghost gate before the ghost gate closed?" I smirked at my face.

After speaking, the fat man sneered a few times one after another: "There is a fat man, are you still afraid of him?" The fat man snapped his fingers and made a series of noises.

The corners of my mouth turned up, and I showed a disdainful smile, so I mocked him: "Since you are not afraid of him, you still don't let him get in the car, don't be hindsight." I laughed a few times.

The fat man snorted coldly again: "It's not a piece of cake to clean him up, it's just that it's too troublesome later, don't forget, what are we here for, this place, it won't be clear when the time comes." There's no place to cry. "As soon as the fat man pointed to the trunk, I immediately understood, the equipment behind it is indeed not something that a few ordinary tourists would bring, and sensitive areas, I'm afraid that no one will believe us if we explain.

The unknown person quickly disappeared from sight, the scorching sun of the Gobi from morning to night, there was no soft side at all, half of my face was hot, and finally the sun set on the peaks, and we also saw the lights under the mountains in the distance.