We followed a seemingly non-existent road, aiming for the town of LZ, nearly 800 miles to the south. Another name for LZ town is LBP town, which is named because of its close proximity to LBP.

"We are taking a road from M city to R county that is under construction, and it will be safer to enter and exit LBP after it is completed," Chen said. It's a semi-finished product now, and I don't know when I'll finish it. ”

I nodded, looking at both sides of the car, which was full of yellow, gray, and black. A small sandbag occasionally appears on the vast wasteland, and you can occasionally see one or two Yadan landforms, which is the best visual adjustment on this road.

After running for a few days and nights, we finally arrived at a small town in the desert that has just appeared in recent years, and it is said that it is the largest town, but most of it is no man's land.

I also admired Team Chen very much, except for eating something along the way, I didn't stop, and even after driving for so long, I didn't see how tired I was, but I yawned a lot in the car.

He parked the car in front of an inn, and as soon as I got out of the car, I felt the hot air rushing towards me. Maybe it's blowing in the car, and it doesn't feel so hot on the road.

"It's past the hottest time, but it's at least 35 degrees outside during the day, and the surface temperature is definitely more than that," Chen said. In winter, it can be minus 35 degrees, and it is almost impossible to excavate gold and stone. So we can only come in time for this season. ”

I asked him, "Is it possible to work under the sun under such conditions?" Don't get rid of the sun? ”

He laughed: "Don't worry, we can be cooler when we get over there, we have all considered this."

We checked in and went out for dinner. Although the actual area of this town is not large, although the sparrows are small, they can always find a corresponding place for eating, drinking and playing, and most of the people in this town are Han Chinese, all of whom work in this generation.

But I followed Team Chen into a restaurant opened by ethnic compatriots, and he said that he often ate this restaurant when he passed by, and the taste of this special dish in Province X was even more authentic than that of M City.

After sitting down, he skillfully ordered a few dishes, including a large plate of chicken, pulled noodles, hand-grasped mutton, and oil tart. As soon as I heard him say it casually, I knew that these were his favorite dishes.

He told me about the customs and customs of some ethnic compatriots in Province X, and after a while, the dishes came up one by one. Well, the two of us are completely ruining the food with these four dishes, and I think our family can eat a large plate of chicken, because the plate is as big as a basin, and a whole chicken is chopped into it, and lasanine is added. When the four dishes are ready, I know that I can't finish them.

Sure enough, despite our best efforts, after a hearty meal, the stuff called the oil tower barely moved, and we had to pack it up and take it away, and it would be absolutely enough to have breakfast tomorrow morning.

When I woke up the next morning, the sun was like six o'clock, but when Team Chen looked at his watch, it was already eight o'clock, and I remembered that there was a two-hour time difference between here and my home, and I didn't remember it for a day yesterday.

Team Chen took me to a nearby post station to change the means of transportation, most of the places in front of me were desert with no roads, it was difficult for horses to move forward, and water was the most expensive thing, and it was impossible to give much to horses, so I changed to camels.

The workers at the post station are also Han Chinese, and they have met Team Chen many times, and they know that we are from the Jinshi team, so they quickly completed the formalities and chatted with us for a while, and there are not many people who can usually talk to him in this place.

Chen's team bought some daily necessities at the shop in the town, and he also took me around on a camel to see the nearby potash lake. Just as the sun has just climbed up, the quiet lake watermark dyes the morning glow, colorful, and it is really beautiful.

As we left LBP Town, we approached the west, and it was as if we were forming a small caravan.

There are almost no roads here, or I haven't been here enough times to see that there is still a road on the ground, but Team Chen skillfully leads the way in front.

Not long after, he asked me, "Would you like to see LBP Lake Center?"

I thought to myself, I've counted the number of people who have been to LBP for adventure, and if I can go, of course I can't ask for it, but will it be dangerous?

I asked him, "Is it safe for the two of us to go?"

He was full of confidence and said, "It's okay, wrap it around me, you just sit down."

I was very excited, I didn't expect that the first time I came to Province X, I would have the opportunity to break into the legendary forbidden area of life, the Sea of Death.

After a long time, when I was looking at the unchanging ground on both sides in a daze, Team Chen suddenly said, "I have arrived, and there is the middle of the lake in front of me."

My excitement was almost gone, but I was a little disappointed. Is it that easy? I think that in 400 A.D., the high monk Fa Xian traveled west to learn scriptures, passing through this place, he said in the "Buddha's Country Record" that this place has been "no birds on the top, no beasts on the bottom, all over the eyes, only to the dead dry bones as the mark of the ear", and so on to me, on... That's it?

But it's no wonder that today's transportation levels do make expeditions cheaper. If you had walked here on your feet, it would have been different.

I looked at the small pool of water, and the surrounding saline crusts, gravel and sand, and I felt even more disappointed. So it wasn't long before we got on the camel again.

Team Chen told me that LBP Lake Center is not really the so-called "Lake Center", but the place where LBP has not been killed in the end. The lack of water in LBP is due to the decline in the lower reaches of the Tarim River, and it is estimated that it will dry up completely in a few years.

Although I was a little disappointed, for a moment, I felt that no one who went to this kind of place did not have the spirit of adventure. Why should we pursue the puzzles of history in the wild? I don't remember the teacher saying in class that making gold and stone requires feelings, maybe the spirit of adventure is also a kind of feelings.

We lingered for a while, but felt that it was too hot, so we got on the camel and continued on our way.

In the barren land, you can occasionally see clusters of plants, but they look like a clump of dead branches, and the green color may be only the size of a fingernail. Team Chen said it was a "camel thorn", and only a camel's mouth could eat it.

At this time, I couldn't make out the direction, but I knew that after walking for a few more days, I saw a very high watchtower appear in front of me, and a little closer, a low bungalow came into our sight, and seven words were written on it: LL Jinshi Workstation, we have finally arrived. Outside the dirty window, there were several clothes hanging and a mop. Such a place of work and environment may not be much different from those amazing soldiers who defend the border X province for the country.

Team Chen smiled and said, "Our trip was very smooth, there was no wind all the way." It's either not windy, or it's a sandstorm. ”

We parked the camel at the door, the wolf dog at the door had barked wildly, the people inside heard the dog barking, opened the door and came out, and saw the Chen team getting off the camel, the two of them greeted each other, and the Chen team introduced us to each other, and threw half a piece of meat to the wolf dog, and gagged it.

This worker's name is Zhou Bin, I didn't expect that I and I are still in our own family, and I don't look young, my dark face has some vicissitudes, and I only wear a white vest like an old man.

Seeing that it was getting late, we hurriedly moved the supplies from the camels and put them in the storeroom, sweating profusely when we were done.

Team Chen showed me around, and the conditions here were unimaginably worse, far worse than our rural areas. Because the surrounding area had been leveled when the station was built, he took me for a distance, stood on a small earthen bag, pointed to the side and said, "Look, there is the ancient city of LL."

I thought that the ancient city of LL was a city, however, looking at it, there were indeed a lot of broken wooden planks in that area, as well as neat but leaky rows of earthen walls, which must have been the previous houses. There is also a stone pillar that looks like the Yadan landform, and Team Chen said that it was a pagoda of LL, and to be honest, I really can't see it at a glance. In the setting sun, this dilapidated ruins can always give people loss and melancholy. The gap between reality and dreams is indeed a bit big.