Before 330 A.D., there was more water in Lop Nur Lake, and Loulan City on the northwest side was the throat of the famous "Silk Road", and then due to climate change and the impact of human water conservancy projects, the upstream water was reduced until it dried up, and now it is only a large salt crust.

During the Han Dynasty, there was a large and large-scale ancient Loulan kingdom in Lop Nur. It was founded before 176 B.C. and died out in 630 A.D., with a history of more than 800 years. It stretches from the vicinity of Guyangguan in the east, to the ancient city of Niya in the west, to the Altun Mountain in the south, and to Hami in the north. In 126 B.C., Zhang Qian returned from an envoy to the Western Regions and wrote to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "Loulan, Shiyi has a city, and it is near Yanze". Since then, it has become the throat gateway of the southern branch of the Silk Road, but now, it has disappeared.

There is a lot of controversy in history about whether Loulan really existed, but compared with the mystery of a thousand years ago, the most widely concerned is the Pengamu incident that disappeared in Lop Nur in the 20th century. According to Baidu Encyclopedia, compared with geological exploration, Peng Jiamu is an expert in the field of biochemistry, but the reason why he went to Lop Nur has been secretive, and he has been there three times, is there a hidden secret?

On May 8, 1980, the scientific expedition team led by Peng Jiamu, a group of ten people, officially set off, in May of the same year, the scientific expedition team officially entered the desert, before entering, in fact, and the local garrison has been good greetings, after all, food and drinking water in the desert are very scarce, if you encounter special circumstances, you can ask the troops to drop materials down. After a hard journey of more than a month, in mid-June 1980, a group of people who went deep into the center finally set up camp nearby. During this period, they encountered a big problem, and that was the lack of water.

When there is no water, it is difficult for people to survive for three days, let alone in the desert where people are sparsely populated, at this time, Peng Jiamu thinks that it takes too much manpower and material resources to let the troops send water and airdrop materials, and he must solve this problem by himself. However, his teammates thought that there was no water source around them and wanted to contact the outside world quickly to ask for support. Who knew that the issue had not yet been resolved, and that afternoon, Pengamu left a letter and disappeared.

The letter reads: "I will go east to find a well. ”

The question is, how can there be a well in a place that is sparsely populated and has no one for tens or hundreds of years?

Why did the vice president of the National Academy of Sciences go alone in the vast desert to find it?

Subsequently, from June to December 1980, for more than half a year, a total of four large-scale search and rescue attempts, all of which ended in failure. The only harvest was the discovery of traces of him sitting down to rest and a piece of toffee in a few hundred acres near the original camp.

This discovery is actually very comical compared to those in the know, in the desert, at a distance of several hundred meters, the visibility is extremely high, can't his colleagues see it? Resting a few hundred meters away must mean that he has not gone far to leave a letter, but why didn't his colleagues go out to take a look?

Now if we look at the letter, is there a hidden meaning in it?

It is rumored that the place of Lop Nur is very evil, and some people have found many sub-humanoids here. Of course, this has not been verified, but it is an indisputable fact that Lop Nur turned out to be a shooting range for nuclear weapons!

On October 16, 1964, country C successfully tested the first atomic bomb in the Lop Nur area.

On 17 June 1967, country C's first hydrogen bomb was successfully exploded in Lop Nur.

From 1964 to 1996, Lop Nur conducted a total of 45 nuclear tests, of which 23 were atmospheric nuclear tests.

If it is just a simple geological exploration, will there be a need for a vice president of the Academy of Sciences, and will he be a great researcher in biochemistry?

In fact, there is an indisputable fact that before the departure of this operation, Dean Peng Jiamu had already suffered from cancer, but the cancer was cured within two years, and some people once boldly speculated that this anti-cancer drug happened to be extracted from a certain plant in Lop Nur, which is why he always went to Lop Nur repeatedly.

The most amazing thing needs to be emphasized that Peng Jiamu was born in 1925 and was 65 years old when he was in Lop Nur, which was considered an advanced age under the social conditions at that time, but Mr. Peng was not afraid of such a high temperature and harsh environment in Lop Nur, including before his final disappearance, he walked more than ten miles, and he was completely fine, his teammates were tired, but he had nothing to do, and he had to go out to find water!

Does this mean that those drugs have a significant effect on improving body functions, and the old man Pengamu went there after several twists and turns, in addition to looking for those miraculous drugs, but also recorded the condition of his body under harsh conditions! In the end, the experiment succeeded, and the secret was taken away?

There are also speculations that there must be someone in the expedition team who is with him, recording various physical characteristics, this person may be the driver, may be his assistant, of course, the notes left may not be some geomorphological features or the like, but a data about his own body.

In 1949, a plane flying from Chongqing to Dihua Urumqi disappeared in the sky over Shanshan County. In 1958, it was found in the east of Lop Nur, and all the people on board died.

In 1950, a guard of the People's Liberation Army's anti-bandit unit disappeared, and after more than 30 years, the geological team found his body in Hongliugou, which was more than 100 kilometers away from the accident site.

On June 17, 1980, the famous scientist Peng Jiamu disappeared during an expedition in Lop Nur, and the state dispatched planes, troops, police dogs, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to conduct a carpet search, but found nothing. Finally, a few years later, in 2007, the suspected dried body was found, more than 60 kilometers from the point of origin.

In 1990, seven people from Hami took a passenger and freight car to Lop Nur to look for crystal mines, and never returned. Two years later, three bodies were found lying down a steep slope. The car was 30 kilometers away from the deceased, and the whereabouts of the others are unknown.

In the summer of 1995, three Milan farm workers went missing in a Beijing jeep to explore treasure in Lop Nur. Later explorers found the bodies of two of them 17 kilometers away from Loulan, the cause of death is unknown, and the whereabouts of the other are unknown.

In June 1996, Yu Chunshun, an explorer from country C, disappeared during a solo expedition to Lop Nur. When his body was found by helicopter, the forensic medical examiner determined that he had been dead for five days, because he had deviated more than 15 kilometers from his original trajectory and could not find a water source, and eventually died of thirst. After his death, his head was found in the direction of Shanghai.

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The nightmares that swept through the hearts of people like terrible nightmares emerged one after another, and Lop Nur became a hell of death.

There is a secret rumor among the locals that there is a curse in Lop Nur, and the content of this curse is probably that in the depths of Lop Nur, there is a forbidden area that ordinary people cannot set foot in, in this forbidden area, all living creatures are going to die, and those who touch it die, and even if you escape from here, you still have to die, and before you die, your body must return to this land and become a fertilizer to nourish this land.

If this curse is true, then all historical mysteries can be solved, those people obviously have the conditions to get out of Lop Nur, but they still died, and some people, obviously safe and sound, but in the end they still came back here without hesitation, and the final fate is just to die in Lop Nur, as if falling leaves return to their roots.

All these mysteries are just a mystery, and now Li Green Ant and Jin Yuan Bao are about to step on it and unlock the shackles of all this.

After a few days of bumpy rides, amid the complaints of Wogua, the train "tutu" fell on the territory of Xinjiang.

The town of Lop Nur is the largest in the country in terms of area, almost the size of Beijing and the island of Formosa combined. But it is also the smallest town in the country, and the obvious buildings in Lop Nur are only a row of small houses, the town government, a police station, a hotel, two or three car repair shops, a small restaurant, a small supermarket, a small gas station and a road maintenance station. This town is basically for SDIC Xinjiang Lop Nur Potash Co., Ltd. supporting services, because Lop Nur has the most potash resources in China.

The nearest town to Lop Nur is called Ruoqiang County, the conditions here are a certain distance from the prosperity of the metropolis outside, but because it is close to the desert, it is more desolate, so the folk customs are more simple, although the hotel is a little dilapidated, but finally it is not a hard bed board on the train, Wogua is very satisfied with a few large bowls of rice in the lobby.

Because Li Luant had some other concerns, he decided to stay in this inn for a day first, just to find out the situation in Lop Nur, after all, this place was very strange to him, and it was also a place he had never been to before.

The scale of the hotel is very small, and the rooms add up to only a dozen or so, and only the winter business is the best throughout the year, because the desert is hot at the end of the year, and for the people in the city, they come here to warm up, no wonder it is now high summer, and the closer you get to the desert in Xinjiang, the more you feel the steam. As early as when I just got off the train, the steaming heat that came to my face was enough to make people sweat, and now I am really here, Li Luant is okay, wearing short sleeves, and the nest melon can't wait to expose his cheeks directly outside, running around the street.

In addition to Li Luant and the two, I heard the boss say that there are two groups of people here, and I also saw them when I went to the lobby to eat at night, one of them is only one person, it is a woman who looks very young, the woman wears goggles even when she eats dinner, and she can't see her face clearly, but the skin exposed outside is very fair, and there are about seven or eight people in a group, gathered together, don't talk much, there are men and women, and their behavior is a little suspicious. The two came quietly, not wanting to cause trouble, so they didn't linger on them too much.

Li Luant is here during the day, has already explored, from the map, Lop Nur east is Dunhuang, north is Hami, northwest is Turpan, south is Ruoqiang. In the past, you could enter or exit Lop Nur from these four places, but now due to the existence of the wild camel reserve, the eastern line is blocked, and now you can only enter and exit from Turpan, Hami, and Ruoqiang. Considering that these three places are all in Xinjiang, it is a good choice to choose Urumqi as the starting point, and Li Green Ant and Gold Ingot are also lucky, and they happen to be in this territory.

The route from west to north is D1: Urumqi - Turpan - Shanshan; D2: Shanshan - Kumutag Desert - Dahaidao, and Haidao can't be worn out for a day, so you need to camp in it overnight; D3: Dahaidao - Bailongdui - Lop Nur Town; D4: Lop Nur Town - Hami.

This is a conventional tourist route, but it is obvious that Li Luant and Jin Yuan are not here to travel, and extraordinary means must be used in extraordinary times, and it is natural to use extraordinary minds to solve extraordinary things.

"The locals have come into Lop Nur and they leave in the early hours of the morning, we follow the car, and then when we get to the last stop, we can rent two camels."

At that time, the terrain that Li Luant saw in that belt, although not all of it was accurate, but he also drew a simple map, as long as he found it and found traces around, he would definitely be able to find black glasses.

Jin Yuan also knew that this might be his last dinner, and his cheeks were swollen into toads, and he drank water vigorously, "Drink more, drink more, go to the desert, let alone water, maybe you won't even have to drink urine." ”

Li Luant was amused when he saw it: of course he thought of this problem, so he had already prepared several large buckets of water, and when he finally arrived at the site, he bought another bucket, it doesn't matter if there is no food in the desert, the water source must be there, and I don't know what happened to the black glasses now.

Just when it was almost time to eat, the woman wearing windshield who had been eating at the table next to me came over, "I'm sorry, I didn't intend to eavesdrop, I just heard you say, you want to enter Lop Nur?" ”

The gold ingot's hand paused, and he blinked his eyes, "Yes." ”

"To be honest, I am a painter of landscape painting, I have been painting all kinds of scenery closest to nature itself all over the country, this time I came to Lop Nur to collect wind, from multiple angles to take pictures and paint back, in order not to be disturbed, I am also a person who slipped out, but came to this desert vast, it is inevitable to be a little lonely, I wonder if we can go together?"

Li Luant frowned on the spot: This woman is so strange, since she slipped out alone so as not to be disturbed, why did she take the initiative to find someone to partner with? Instead of coming in a group at the beginning? And even if you partner up, you and Jin Ingot are also two foreign men, and you shouldn't throw yourself into the net anyway, although you and Jin Ingot themselves are not bad people, but a woman, alone in a foreign land, is not afraid of a case?? Besides, there is a group of people next to the two, there are men and women in them, how do you look at it, that group of people is more secure, why only find themselves?

Jin Yuan didn't expect so many twists and turns, and before Li Luant could say anything, he decisively agreed, and half of the laughing hala flowed out, obviously seeing that the woman's hands were white and thin, although he couldn't see the face clearly, but the standard melon seed face was obviously also a beauty, and he made an idea for Li Green Ant without thinking about it, Li Green Ant exhaled from his nostrils, and said coldly, "Nest melon!" ”

In view of Wogua's recklessness, Li Luant was about to stop him, but who knew that Wogua was already very familiar and called the woman "sister" who had just met for a few minutes.

The woman had already sat down next to the gold ingot, a "big brother", so sweet that the gourd couldn't find the north, and patted her chest, "What are you afraid of, I'm here, see who dares to bully Qiongshuang's sister." ”

After a while, I already knew what people were called.

Li Luant stroked his forehead, "Before you make a decision, you must at least ask my opinion first." ”

Jin Yuan Bao suddenly leaned into Li Luant's ear, "Let me tell you the truth, this is a rich woman, she whispered to me just now, as long as we agree to her to follow, she will cover any expenses along the way, and she will also cover the accommodation fee of the hotel, and we have bought so much insurance that the two of us have gone bankrupt, why are you so inflexible?" ”

Li Luant was suddenly angry, could he be a person who could sell his principles for money in the eyes of Wogua?

"Miss Jing, don't be afraid, the two of us have no money, he will definitely agree to your tiny request."

The gold ingots have already betrayed their own economic situation one step ahead.

"Miss Jing, you may not know, we are not here to travel, we are here to find a friend, we are different from your destination and route, how can we travel together? And Lop Nur is too dangerous, please think twice. ”

Jing Qiongshuang said leisurely, "When I come back, add another 10,000." ”

"Miss Jing, it's not a matter of money, is it possible that with money, you can do whatever you want?"

"Dollars."

"Welcome Miss Jing to join."

Li Luant smiled brightly, Wogua glanced at him with disdain, Li Luant slandered: Renting two camels costs a lot of money, Wogua doesn't know, but he knows it clearly.

On a rusty truck, carrying Jing Qiongshuang, Li Green Ant, and Jin Ingot, the three hitchhiker guests, to the last stop of Lop Nur, Jing Qiongshuang paid off the room fee for the three of them, and his eyes didn't blink.

The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is very large, the temperature is acceptable in the early morning, the gold ingots are wrapped in his big cotton jacket and shivering, reluctant to lose it, but when you enter the desert, heavy and stupid things such as cotton jackets must be chicken ribs, and if you come out to mix, you will have to return it sooner or later.

Jing Qiongshuang took out two walkie-talkies, one for each person, and took out one for herself, seeing the walkie-talkie, the gold ingots quietly arched Li Luant, meaning that this walkie-talkie looks so similar to the walkie-talkie sent to her?

Li Green Ant took a closer look and found that it was indeed a brand, but although it was a military walkie-talkie, it was not really that ordinary people could not buy it, but the process was more tortuous, and the walkie-talkie was not a precious material, and there were many walkie-talkies of this brand in the world, and it could not be determined at a glance that this was the same batch as the black glasses.

As for the walkie-talkie sent to him, Li Luant has been keeping it in his backpack, and the walkie-talkie has not made a sound recently, I don't know why.

This large area of land in the early hours of the morning, it looks as if it is on the sea, boundless, there is nothing to cover, in addition to the outline of the curve, it is an excessively soft mound, Jing Qiongshuang has been taking pictures with the camera, and I don't know what to shoot, Wogua got the walkie-talkie a little excited, and fiddled with it excitedly for a long time, and suddenly "I said, since there is a walkie-talkie, then when we call each other, how about giving each other a code name?" ”

Li Luant laughed awkwardly, "This-directly called the name-"

"Hey - life needs a sense of ritual, and if there is no code name, how can you carry out secret activities? If you look at the poisonous snakes and scorpions in the TV series, let's think of one by one, doesn't this seem more exciting. ”

"Okay, okay, then you say."

Jing Qiongshuang obviously has no opinion on this, Li Luant feels that her personality is a relatively gentle type, although she doesn't talk much, but whether she behaves or talks, she is full of quiet atmosphere, looking like a girl who comes out of a scholarly family, I don't know why she is so decent, what is she doing when she comes to Lop Nur, I hope it is really to paint and collect style.

"My name is a mountain carving, and your name is the rolling dragon."

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A series of question marks on Li Luant's head issued "Why are you called a mountain eagle and I am called a rolling dragon?" ”

"Then you don't want to be called a rolling dragon, you want to be called a rolling worm?"

"No, why is your name more majestic than mine?"

"The long-haired dog and the rolling worm, you choose one yourself, which one do you want to make?"

"Can't I be a human being?"

In the end, under the pressure of the big landlord of the gold ingot, Li Luant reluctantly chose the code name of "Rolling Worm", because if he didn't choose this, Wogua threatened to call himself "Shell Lang" in front of the woman as the code name, although he has been doing this, but in front of the woman, Li Green Ant can only sign the treaty of "Rolling Worm" that loses human rights.

But Wogua did not keep his promise.

The truck "Dudu" smoked exhaust fumes, turned on the headlights and rushed into the darkness, the headlights split two roads in the dark, the driver was to send supplies to various stations, and usually did some private work part-time, only caring about smoking along the way, not talking much, and because Li Luant and the three were sitting in the truck cargo compartment, they couldn't say anything far away.

Not long after Li Luant and the others left, a military jeep sneaked out of the darkness and quietly followed the truck in front of them, and there were seven people sitting in the car, which Li Luant met in the hotel.

The sunrise in each place is different, like the sunrise on Long Island, it is always gorgeous, because it is close to the sea, it reflects the scenery of Crescent Bay as much as possible, which is naturally beautiful, and the sunrise in the desert of Lop Nur is very tragic and desolate, and it has the majestic feeling of "the desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, and the sun sets on the long river".

The people of the north and the south are not the same, one side of the water and soil raises one side of the people, the folk customs here are simple and mixed with a little rough, and it is also related to the local climate and ecology, now the tourism industry of Lop Nur is not so developed, the area of the no-man's land is very large, and the scenery of the tourist area is just a projectile land, often circled by layers, warning tourists not to go beyond the rules, because the life that can not be returned can not be seen beyond the guardrail, it is too much, since it is a no-man's land, some places even satellites may not be able to perceive, Once you really get caught in all kinds of unspeakable dangers, even if the state intervenes, it will not help, and Pengamu is the best example.