"Squad leader, why is the lake dark red this time? We've been here so many times before and we haven't encountered this situation? What's going on? Zhang Xilai trembled and whispered.

"Don't make a sound, be vigilant, something is wrong with Lop Nur today!" Luo Gang paused and said, "Abramaimaiti, you go to investigate, and don't forget not to go into the water or touch the lake." ”

When Abramaimaiti heard this, he jumped lightly from his camel, crept down on the sandy slope, and crawled towards the water's edge. At this time, the hearts of all the people rose to their throats with Maimaiti.

Tonight, there was neither the croaking of waterfowl nor the animals that came to the lake to drink, only the rustling of reeds and grass in the water, and the silence made people inexplicably nervous. It seems that the dozens of meters from the top of the sand mountain to the water's edge are like a mirage that can never be walked, and the three minutes that Mai Maiti crawled forward seemed to be as long as hours. Several little soldiers unconsciously picked up the submachine guns on their bodies and aimed them at the water, ready to fight at any time.

At this time, Zhang Xilai seemed to hear his heart "poof" beating in his chest, faster and faster, and he couldn't wait to jump out.

By this time, Maimaiti had already climbed to the water's edge, and he carefully said that the submachine gun he was carrying was carried from behind to his chest, holding the strap on the butt in one hand, and the butt in the other hand, and slowly pushing forward from his chest, his movements were like a deminer, and then he was trying inch by inch in the minefield full of mines. Then he stretched out his gun to the reeds, and slowly pulled away a large patch of reeds, and at this moment, he saw Maimaiti's body suddenly like an electric shock, twitched, and did not move.

Luo Gang chuckled in his heart, could it be that Maimaiti had encountered some danger, but he and everyone didn't know what happened in Lop Nur tonight, and they didn't dare to act at a loss, so they could only watch Maimaiti quietly.

At this time, Maimaiti seemed to start moving again, and I saw him quickly return to the strap on the butt of the gun, turn his head back, get up and bend his waist, and trot all the way up the sand mountain with the gun. When Mai Mai mentioned the caravan, everyone noticed Mai Maiti's face, his face did not seem to have a trace of blood, his eyes were erratic, his forehead was full of sweat, and even the chest, neckline, and squeaky socket of the military uniform on his body were soaked with sweat, sticking to his body, as if he was greatly frightened.

Seeing this, Zhang Xilai and a few comrades-in-arms hurriedly rushed to him to support him, slowly sat on the ground, and took a kettle to feed him a few mouthfuls of water, and Maimaiti slowly calmed down.

"Corpse... ...... body, death... Bird...! Many, many, many! Maimaiti stammered, pointing to the water.

"What?" Zhang Xilai asked in surprise.

"Zhang Xilai, you take care of Maimaiti, the others form a battle alert with a V, I'll go to the waterfront to check, no one is allowed to shoot without my order." Luo Gang immediately gave an order.

Luo Gang picked up the submachine gun, took out a flare from the canvas bag on his waist and put it into the flare gun, pinned the flare gun to his belt, and walked towards the waterfront with his waist bent. When he arrived at the shore, Mr. Luo Gang used his submachine gun to reach into the reeds, tiptoed away the reeds, and looked at the water. When he was young, Luo Gang, who had traveled south and north as a camel handle, and experienced the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, was well-informed and courageous, and he thought that the water was nothing more than some birds and animals that encountered sandstorms or would be hunted by desert wolves and sand foxes and eat the remaining birds and animals left at the water's edge.

But what is a corpse? Is it a human corpse? Luo Gang couldn't help but wonder.

At the same time as Luo Gang pushed aside the reeds, a pungent rancid smell came to his nose, and at the same time, through the faint starlight, he could see the scene in the reeds clearly. Nearly 20 square meters of water surface, densely packed with nearly 10 corpses, some of them dressed in the leather jackets of local nomads, some of them were strange clothes like the ancients that he had never seen before. There were several corpses, most of which had been blistered and white, their hair was swollen, and their heads and limbs were already swollen and translucent, as if they were about to break. There were also several corpses, which had even exploded like leather balls, their entrails turned out, and there were floating waterfowl feeding on the corpses from afar. But the waterfowl seemed to have been poisoned, and now they were cool.

"Are these corpses poisonous?" Luo Gang said to himself questioningly.

The desert Gobi Desert at night is like time has stopped, the silence is terrifying, and the people with loaded guns on the sand slope seem to hear their heartbeats. At this time, Luo Gang took out the flare gun pinned to the trouser belt with his right hand and raised his hand above his head.

"Bang!" With a bang, the flare gun fired a dazzling flare, and the snow-white dazzling light pierced the night sky and flew towards the water surface of Lop Nur. For a moment, the vast expanse of water was illuminated by flares as if it were daylight. It doesn't matter if this photo is taken seriously, the scene on the lake completely shocked everyone present, even Luo Gang, the old squad leader.

Facing the white light, Luo Gang and everyone saw clearly the situation on the surface of the lake within 100 meters of the distance. There were nearly 100 corpses floating on the lake, all of them all wearing the same style of uniform, and even the same red armbands, all carrying guns, shovels, and bedding on their backs, some facing the sky and some facing the water.

At the moment when the flare gradually dimmed and was about to go out, several successive muffled sounds of "Boom, Boom, Boom" came from the middle of the lake, and the sound was like a kettle boiling water covered with a quilt. As the interval between "Tick-Tick" became shorter and shorter, the sound became more and more sharp, and finally the sound of "Tick-Tick-Tick!" The loud whistle. With the sound of a loud whistle, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the people and the camel caravan were shaken to a foothold, and even the camels were so frightened that they lay down under the sand slope and did not move.

At this time, bubbles with a diameter of nearly one meter began to pour up in the center of the lake, and a puff of yellow-green white smoke was emitted at the moment when the bubbles burst. The bubbling waters continued to tumble and expand, and within 1 minute, the entire Lop Nur Lake was like a hot pot of mutton soup, and the corpses in the water rolled up and down in the lake with the bursting of bubbles, like dumplings in a pot of boiling water.

"Bang!" A loud bang broke the night sky, and I saw a huge column of water gushing out from the center of the lake. The water column was one hundred and twenty or thirty meters high, as wide as a liberation bus, and the water column was black and green, mixed with bubbles, like a giant dragon ascending to the sky.

Seeing this, Luo Gang turned around in an instant, pulled his legs and ran to the sand slope, at this time he couldn't care so much, he climbed up with both hands and feet, and shouted at the little soldiers who were ready to attack on the sand mountain: "Run, go to the back of the sand mountain and hide!" The water is poisonous and untouchable! ”

Even when he saw this, he seemed to run away, and a high jump crossed the sand mountain and slid down the hillside, and he couldn't care about the frightened camel caravan. At the same time, Luo Gang also slid down the hillside. The reeds and dead bodies in the lake, the corpses to be exact, fell from the sky and smashed on the sandy slopes.

After about 5 minutes, no more things fell from the sky, Luo Gang signaled everyone to gather, he said, "It seems that this place is not suitable for a long time, everyone tidy up and pretend to be no, hurry immediately, this matter must not be publicized to the outside world, we will go back to report this matter to the leader, and see how the central government handles it." ”

Everyone climbed the sand mountain, and Liu Xilai was at the front, followed by Luo Gang and Maimaiti and others 3-5 meters behind. Just seven or eight meters away from the camel caravan, Liu Xilai suddenly stopped.

Luo Gang saw that Liu Xilai's body was slightly stunned, turned his head and made a silent gesture with everyone, and quietly brought the submachine gun to his chest and opened the safe. Seeing this, Luo Gang made a martial law gesture to the people behind him, and walked in the direction of Liu Xilai. Luo Gang, who was walking far behind Liu Xilai, saw through the gap on Liu Xilai's right shoulder that a man in a gray-brown one-piece uniform and a sheepskin motorcycle hat had his back to them, leaning on a camel and sitting on the sand slope, motionless.