In the endless wasteland, the yellow sand flows slowly along the distant horizon with the whistling wind. Faintly visible, except for a few bare sand dunes, are slowly moving oil wells, not to mention human beings at a glance, and even the breath of living creatures cannot be seen much.

On the road, which was almost covered by yellow sand, two desert-colored military jeeps sped towards the other end of the road, one after the other.

This is the center of the Jungar Basin, where the second largest desert in China, Gurbantunggut, sits along.

At the same time, it is also a forbidden area for life.

Looking at the rolling yellow sand in the distance, Wang Peng squinted his eyes and said in a good mood.

"It's a nice day."

Lu Zhou: "...... What do you call this good? ”

"After all, there are no sandstorms, which is already good." Wang Peng, who was holding the steering wheel, grinned at the corners of his mouth, smiled and said with Lu Zhou, who was sitting in the back seat, "Do you know what Gurbantunggut means?" ”

I didn't know much about humanities, and Lu Zhou knew that he couldn't answer, so he simply asked.

"What do you mean?"

Wang Peng: "In Mongolian, it's a place where wild boars haunt. ”

Glancing out of the car window, Lu Zhou said speechlessly: "...... Why didn't I see the boar? ”

Not to mention wild boars, not even a single pig hair has been seen.

In addition to the woolen camel thorns, there are dead branches that do not know whether they are dead or alive.

Wang Peng: "So, it was a story from a long, long time ago. ”

Lu Zhou: "You know a lot. ”

Wang Peng said with a smile: "I also listened to what others said. ”

Director Li, who was also sitting in the back row with Lu Zhou, and his face was tightly wrapped in a face towel and sunglasses, coughed dryly and asked, "How long will it take?" ”

Glancing at the car navigation, Wang Peng replied: "The navigation shows that there are still ten kilometers left, and it will be there soon." ”

Hearing that there were only ten kilometers left, Director Li finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Along the way, his old bones were almost torn apart.

Taking the train from Shangjing City to Wushi, it took a whole day of land boat on the road, and it took most of the time to get here from Wushi.

To be honest, Lu Zhou has never taken such a place to the west of the motherland, if it weren't for something important, he wouldn't mind playing here for two more days before going back. But now is clearly not the time to play, and there is a very important research result waiting for him to confirm.

The jeep in which the four people were sitting was borrowed from the local army in Wushi, with Wang Peng sitting in the driver's seat, Dr. Yan sitting in the co-pilot's seat, and Lu Zhou and Director Li sitting in the back row, a total of four people.

On the jeep that opened the road in front of them were the soldiers of the 150th Regiment, on the one hand, to lead the way, and on the other hand, to open the way for them sitting in the car behind.

Although this area is located in the hinterland of the Western Regions, it cannot be said to be absolutely safe.

Not only Wang Peng had a 95 rifle next to him, but even Yan Yan was equipped with a pistol.

In fact, Lu Zhou also wanted to borrow a pistol to play, although he was not very interested in weapons, but he couldn't resist his curiosity about new things.

However, Wang Peng refused to say anything, insisting that it was more dangerous for someone who had never used a gun to hold a gun than not to hold a gun, and at most he only promised to lend him a weapon to play with when he was away from the crowd.

……

The ten-kilometer drive quickly came to an end.

After getting off the road, the group drove a section on the Gobi Desert and soon arrived at a makeshift camp.

Following the jeep in front of him to a checkpoint, Wang Peng lowered the window of the jeep, took out the document from his arms and handed it outside.

The heavily armed soldier walked up to check the documents and the people in the car, gave a clean military salute, and then gestured in the direction of the checkpoint. The bars were quickly lifted to let the jeep go.

On the way to the center of the camp, Lu Zhou glanced at the soldiers patrolling outside the car window and said with a little surprise.

"Is the security here so strict?"

"I have to be strict," following behind the jeep in front, Wang Peng drove the car to the parking spot and skillfully turned off the engine, "Jinling's launch attracted the world's attention to us, the thing you threw down from low orbit can hide from the eyes of ordinary people, but it can't escape satellites and radar." Guess how much that thing has been priced on the black market? ”

"How much?"

"Two hundred million."

"Two hundred million?!"

Hearing this number, Lu Zhou couldn't help but secretly speak.

Hold the grass ......

As for this?

If you want to buy it, tell me!

Going to the black market to make money for others is to engage in yarn.

Of course, Wang Peng didn't know what Lu Zhou was thinking, but when he got out of the car, he saw a surprised expression on his face, so he smiled and added: "And it's still dollars." ”

"That's right," looking at the four people standing next to the jeep, a man in military uniform walked over and interjected with a grin, "Probably yesterday, we also caught a group of outlaws disguised as tourists who approached this area. ”

Lu Zhou glanced at him unexpectedly: "Is there really anyone who can touch here?" ”

"Heh, guess what we found out of their van?" The man in military uniform smiled and gestured briefly with his fingers, "Two barrels of RPG-7, the firepower is not small." ”

Out of professional habits, Yan Yan subconsciously asked, "Didn't hurt anyone, right?" ”

"Not really," the man waved his hand, turned his gaze to Wang Peng, opened his arms and said with a smile, "Long time no see, Brother Wang!" After being discharged from the army for so many years, how is it going? ”

hugged his old comrades-in-arms, Wang Peng patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "It's okay, everyone is white!" You've done well in the past four years, and you've become a battalion commander. ”

Not very interested in the greetings between the two people, Lu Zhou looked around for a while, and went straight to the point: "What about that thing?" ”

"It's right in the middle of the camp, I'll take you there." patted Wang Peng's shoulder and let go, Battalion Commander Li turned to look at Lu Zhou, smiled and stretched out his right hand, "Introduce yourself, Li Gaoliang, the 4th Battalion of the 150th Regiment, you can call me Gaoliang or Lao Li." ”

Lu Zhou held Camp Commander Li's outstretched hand and shook it: "Lu Zhou, just call me Professor Lu." ”

"I know, on New Year's Day, the group organized to watch the news broadcast, and I only saw you on TV a few days ago." Battalion Commander Li smiled and said, "How is it, is it fun in space?" ”

"Kind of interesting, isn't it?"

This Battalion Commander Li is also a very interesting person, probably because he has been in the army for a long time, he has no fight, and he is more familiar. Walking and chatting along the way, the group soon arrived in the center of the barracks.

In the center of the entire camp is a circle of sand dunes pulled up by the cordon, and on the slope on the west side of this dune, a four-sided platform "iron coffin" about two and a half meters high stands very conspicuously.

Four parachutes of different sizes could be seen lying quietly next to the iron coffin, although the local troops kept the place as they could and did not move its position. But in order to prevent the sandstorm from blowing it away, some fixed weights were placed on it.

After seeing this strange-shaped thing, Wang Peng was slightly stunned and subconsciously spoke.

"It's ......"

Lu Zhou said with a smile.

"Lightning...... Escape pod. Remember what I told you about skydiving down from a height of 1,000 kilometers? Just put it on. ”