Volume 2 The Stone People of the Western Regions The Stone People of the Western Regions Chapter 53: The Hinterland of the Gobi
At first glance, this point of view sounds a bit nonsense, but we have all experienced the Altay "ghost cloud" rainstorm forest, so all of us can quickly accept the fat man's point of view.
Yiyi was the first of us to agree with his brother's point of view, because the fat man mentioned the Lop Nur expedition of the "Europa" company, mentioned Master Liu, and deduced from the distress signal on the walkie-talkie that they were still alive, but trapped in a relatively hidden place.
I became more and more interested and curious about the purpose of Europa. Ever since the fat man and I returned from Yongzhou, this multinational company has been with us.
During our trip to the frontier, we have crossed paths with this multinational company many times. Moreover, there was more than one wave of expeditions encountered. And our older generation has a close relationship with them, my second uncle, the fat man's father, Master Liu, and even the fat man who just stepped into their tomb robbery after a little fame has been employed by this multinational company.
It is no longer possible to conclude these connections by coincidence, there must be some kind of big secret in them. Maybe our older generation already knew about this secret, but we just don't want our generation to know it.
In this way, the formation of the trio of me and the fat man, as well as Yiyi, is not accidental, but inevitable.
I think that my second uncle, Master Liu, includes the current patriarch of the Zhang family, the father of the fat man. They took great pains to bring the three of us together, and they certainly didn't just want their next generation to exchange feelings. As for their purpose, I have never been able to figure it out.
I mentioned these thoughts to Fat Man and Yiyi before, and they are all the same as me, and they are all at the same level as me for the final thoughts of our previous generation.
We stood on top of the Gobi covered with yellow sand, listening to the fat man analyze the situation in front of us. When the yellow sand receded, the sun in the sky became unusually hot.
It's the hottest we've felt all the way. In the early autumn of the frontier, the temperature is suddenly several degrees lower than that of other provinces. But as soon as our car drove into this Gobi area, the temperature suddenly rose.
The fat man said as he wiped the sweat from his face, he himself is prone to sweating, and after coming out of the strange forest of Altay, his clothes have become rags. At the local store, the only thing he could wear was a thicker material. Therefore, he was very uncomfortable when he encountered such abnormal climate and temperature in the Gobi.
While the fat man was talking, Sister Ning finished answering the satellite phone and walked over from a distance.
Quietly listening to the fat man's analysis, when the fat man saw that Sister Ning was coming, he immediately analyzed the problem as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and even more talked about it.
After the fat man finished speaking, Sister Ning spoke.
The wind and sand that we have just experienced also happened in the depths of the Gobi, far away from us.
Moreover! Their situation was somewhat similar to ours, and after the wind and sand stopped, a pile of bones and some corpses appeared.
If there is a difference, it is that the yellow sand is much stronger than ours, and the wind is several times stronger than ours. Even after the wind and sand have dispersed, the scale of the bones and corpses that appear is much larger than what we see in front of us.
After listening to Sister Ning's narration, Yiyi looked a little anxious and asked Sister Ning if there were any expedition members who entered here with his father among those corpses.
I don't know if Sister Ning is trying to appease Yiyi's emotions, or if it's true. Sister Ning told Yiyi that those corpses were the advance team sent to Lop Nur by the "Europa" company, and most of them were the same as the corpses under our feet, and they came here a year or two.
I gently patted Yiyi on the shoulder, comforting her and reassuring her that we would find Master Liu. The fat man also said that he and his master have experienced countless dangerous things over the years, big and small, and his master will be fine with this little fight. After my and the fat man's rounds of comfort, Yiyi's mood finally got better.
Sister Ning left a few people behind to deal with the bones and corpses here. After all, the location is still on the outskirts of Lop Nur, even after crossing the rutted areas. However, no one can guarantee that this place will not be discovered and reported by good people. In order to avoid trouble, it does need to be dealt with.
We had a total of five cars, Sister Ning left two cars behind, and the remaining three cars were still heading towards the depths of Lop Nur.
The deeper you go into the Gobi, the clearer the surrounding Yadan landform becomes.
As Yiyi said, when I see these scenes, I will definitely be amazed by the wonders of nature.
Outside the car window, there is an endless stretch of saline land, and the dirt road is all white patches. In the distance, the Yadan landscape turns reddish-brown against the backdrop of the sun. The sky overhead was cloudless, the clear sky and the vast Gobi reflected each other, not a single bird or greenery, which gave birth to a sense of desolation in the hearts of those who saw it. In addition to desolation, there is an indescribable depression and a desire for greenery, as well as an emotion for cherishing life.
The fat man exclaimed, "Look at this desolate scene today, can you imagine that thousands of years ago, this was a fertile oasis? ”
Xiaodou said that not far from Ruoqiang County, where we entered here, there is a town called Lop Nur Town. There is the oldest ethnic group of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, who call the salt lake here in Lop Nur Haizi.
In ancient times, this ethnic group lived on the banks of the Tarim River.
I asked Yiyi if you have heard of this ethnic group, and Yiyi said: "Of course, I have also read records about this place, not only are they very mysterious in ancient times, but the language used by this ethnic group is still one of the three major dialects of Xinjiang, and their folk customs, folk songs, and stories all have unique artistic value."
When Lop Nur was still a salt lake oasis, they lived around the salt lake, living on the small sea all year round, "not growing grains, not grazing livestock, and only fishing in small boats for food." ”
It is a single fish-eating people, drinking Luobu hemp tea, wearing Luobu linen clothes, and the rich nutrition makes many people live a long life. ”
When the fat man heard Yiyi say that the people here live a long life, he finally had a topic that he could interject, and he said: "I heard that there are many long-lived old people here, even eighty or ninety years old, who are good laborers, and it is a famous longevity village in the world. Moreover, in ancient times, the marriage companion of the Luobu people was sometimes a small Haizi. ”
"Xiao Su, let's retire here when we get old in the future, and it won't be a problem to live to be one hundred and eighty years old when the time comes! We've also lived the addiction of long-lived old people! ”
The fat man's words silenced me, I don't know what my fate will be in the future, whether I am bound by some helpless inheritance like my second uncle and father.
The music playing in the car is still "Loulan Girl", and I made the fat man's single loop. In this wild Gobi desert, perhaps the boundary we are in is the area under the jurisdiction of Guloulan.
I don't know if there is really such an evil thing in this world, perhaps, thousands of years ago, there would have been such a person, standing on a high place looking at the area we walked. So is it possible that she can hear the song "Loulan Girl" that we are putting now?
As soon as this idea came to me, something strange happened. The interface of the song, which was still playing well, suddenly switched to the interface of the radio station.
And there are constantly sizzling frequency bands, coming out of the radio.
I thought to myself, isn't my idea really coming true? Thousands of years ago, Princess Loulan sent me radio waves? Are you going to talk to me?
And Xiaodou's words cut off my unrealistic reverie in time. Xiaodou said: "This is a normal phenomenon, Lop Nur here should be the same as many legendary areas in the world, with a magnetic field. If we go a little deeper, the entire station will be disturbed by the magnetic field and will not be able to find any frequencies. ”
After listening to Xiaodou's words, the fat man immediately turned off the radio. He turned back to me and said, "Xiao Su, don't listen to it, my brother will sing it to you...... Let Na Gobi be your dowry, let Na Haizi be your bride price, and let Loulan be your dowry..."
I kicked the fat man on the seat and told him to shut up!
At first, several of us were constantly lamenting the vast scenery around us, but the longer we looked at it, the deeper the desolate feeling became.
On both sides, there are some yellow, small hills unique to the Yadan landform, and the yellow rock formations are dotted on the hills, which can make people's eyes dizzy in an instant when they look at it from a distance. If you look at it for a long time, it will also make your heart feel palpitations.
From the time we left the outer entrance of Lop Nur, where the wind and sand appeared, until now, we have not experienced anything strange. Of course, I didn't count the radio switch because in my mind, that kind of thing has become very commonplace!
The fat man said, this is the fucking "ear of the earth" is giving us the next horse. I thought to myself, maybe it's really like the fat man said, this place is spiritual, and our intrusion may make it feel disrespectful, so give us a wind and sand, Liwei!
In the time when the sun became less dazzling, we reached the hinterland of Lop Nur.
As soon as I rounded a small hill, I was amazed by the scale that appeared in front of my eyes! Behind the hills, on an open field, dozens of off-road vehicles were crowded and interspersed.
Tents are everywhere, and beer crates and barbecue grills are all over the area.
Crowds of people, shirtless and showing strong muscles, were drinking and laughing loudly around the barbecue grill.
Opposite these people, there is also a row of off-road neatly arranged, and the tents next to the off-road vehicles are also neatly next to each other.
Obviously, it's two teams.
Seeing our convoy coming, those who were drinking just raised their eyes and continued to drink their wine with their heads down, not even bothering to take a second look.
Sister Ning's car stopped when it came to the neat convoy, and we immediately stopped.
Almost at the same time, more than a dozen people came over from the tent, and looking at their faces, they were all people I was familiar with, who were the people in Sister Ning's team who had picked us up in Zhao Tuo's underground palace before.