The Kanas River is the main tributary of the Burzin River, and its upper source is the mysterious Kanas Lake.

The sound of running water I heard was the river flowing down from Lake Kanas.

"Amazing, Brother Zhang, the industry leader really deserves its reputation!"

The scorpion, like me, admired the fat man after hearing the sound of the river, and gave him a thumbs up.

The fat man waved his hand in a modest gesture, leaned halfway to my position, and leaned back. The backrest took on a distinct suffix shape under his movement, and he didn't care at all. He asked Yiyi and me, "Xiao Su, Yiyi, how about we go camping?" ”

"Here?"

I asked.

"Of course, you look at the mountain, and you look at the water. Smell the air, hey! In this environment, it's hard to find! ”

The fat man poked his head out as he spoke, gulping in for air, and screaming incessantly. Fortunately, it is sparsely populated, otherwise I would have thought that the mentally ill had escaped from the hospital.

I understood what he meant, and after discovering that there was a "flat dragon" here, he must have wanted to explore it. This is probably caused by an occupational disease, if we don't take a move, it is estimated that we will stay in a five-star hotel tonight, and he will not sleep peacefully.

"Senior brother, why are you still doing this. If it's itchy, just say it, turn such a big turn. ”

Yiyi beside me directly debunked the fat man's intentions and said sarcastically.

"Yiyi, your problem of not giving your senior brother face hasn't changed."

The fat man rubbed his big head and replied without looking back.

"Master Zhang, it's a coincidence, I have prepared a tent in the car, which is enough for us to sleep."

The scorpion spoke at this point.

"I said, Brother Scorpion, you have the ability to be a prophet of the unknown, and you know that we will use these equipment."

The fat man put his arm around the scorpion's sturdy shoulders and said kindly.

I originally thought that all this was arranged by Aunt Ming, and the dragon vein of this road appeared in our sight, and after being discovered by the fat man, with his character, he would definitely make a suggestion for camping.

But when the scorpion spoke again, I realized that it was really just a coincidence.

"Where is my prophet of the unknown, thanks to the proposal of my brother Akin."

The scorpion glanced at Ah Jin, who was driving, and said.

Ah Jin heard the scorpion mention himself, but he didn't respond, and still drove without saying a word.

"It doesn't matter if your Ajin brother or your scorpion brother's proposal, you are all unpredictable prophets anyway."

The fat man said coolly, and then said to Ah Jin, who was driving.

"Brother Ajin, pull over, this is the area, it is estimated that you will get out of the dragon vein in a while."

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The hands of the watch point at 9:53 p.m. More than twenty minutes have passed since we got off the highway to the place where we parked at the camping site. Ah Jin's car was not very fast, as if he deliberately did not want to get out of the dragon vein.

Our car was parked on the outskirts of a forest, a spot chosen by the fat man.

It's sparsely populated, and we haven't seen a single family for more than 20 minutes. The scorpion, who has been here for a few days, explains that the reason for this is that Altay belongs to the steppe region, where nomadic herders are common. Turning over the mountains we saw, which is what the fat man called the "Flat Dragon" mountain range, there is an endless savannah. It is covered with Kazakh yurts, white like a white river in the steppe.

The yurt is a unique way of living for the steppe nomads, which is somewhat similar to the yurt inhabited by the Mongols, but there are essential differences.

The most intuitive difference between them is the top of the building, if the spherical roof shape is a yurt, and the conical shape is a Kazakh yurt. The door of the yurt generally opens to the east, while the door of the yurt generally opens to the south.

This difference is the observation of the scorpion in the past few days, and the fat man agrees, because the shape of the yurt described by the scorpion is the same as the yurt where he once lived.

The two of them resonated again, and walked in front of us with their shoulders hooked, and the posture almost knelt and bowed.

The forest we entered looked a little far from it horizontally, but it was close to the mountains longitudinally, about two miles from where we parked.

After stepping out of the forest, we saw a small flowing river, and on the other side of the river was the continuous mountains we saw along the way.

The vastness of Xinjiang is not only reflected in the intuitive feeling of the surrounding environment, but also the feeling of the sky. At this time, although the night fell on the whole land, I don't know whether it was my subjective consciousness or real feelings, I felt that the full moon and brightness in Xinjiang were better than the moon in all the places I have been.

The moonlight shone through the swaying leaves of the trees behind me to the river in front of me, reflecting the mountains on the other side of the river.

The mountains that rise and fall, back and forth, are really like a dragon soaring above the river in front of me.

"What's the matter, Master Zhang, pick a place."

The scorpion squatted down and washed his hands with a handful of water, and said to the fat man.

The river in front of us is not very wide, in fact it is more appropriate to call it a creek. The direction of the water flow is from my left to the right. Maybe upstream, or downstream, there's going to be a lot of space.

"Senior brother, give me an idea, this camping is a search idea you came up with."

Seeing that the fat man didn't speak, he just looked at the trend of the mountain on the opposite side, and Yiyi opened his mouth to say to the fat man.

At this time, we were standing in the forefront, and the fat man and the scorpion were relatively strong, so the heavy task of carrying the tent was resisted by the two brothers. Yiyi and I stood side by side a few meters away from them. Ah Jin, on the other hand, was carrying a large backpack with bulging bags. Although I can't tell what it is, judging from their equipment in Zhao Tuo's underground palace, it should be some weapons and equipment.

"Little Nizi, be quiet, don't scare the dragon away."

The fat man turned back to Yiyi and said. I know his purpose is just to make fun of it.

After saying this, the fat man reached out and unloaded the backpack on his back, which he had always attached great importance to, unzipped it, and took out a astrolabe from it.

The shape of the astrolabe is very complex, and a bunch of directions are drawn horizontally and vertically on it.

He took it in his hand and said to the scorpion who got up after washing his hands: "Brother Scorpion, help me take a picture of the compass." ”

"Okay!" The scorpion replied. Then he shone the flashlight on the compass that the fat man was pointing to.

I saw that the fat man would look at the rolling mountains opposite, and at the compass in his hand, and there were words in his mouth. His voice was so weak that none of us could hear it. It was as if he was chanting some kind of incantation.

After a few moments, he suddenly stopped his "spell" and made a gesture to us to follow him.

The width of the river is easy to cross if we jump a little harder.

The place that the fat man chose for us to set up a tent was in a col halfway up the mountain, which was sheltered from the wind and had a good line of sight.

We had a total of three tents, one for ourselves, and the other two for the four of us.

I share a tent with Ah Jin, and the fat man and the scorpion have a tent. I agree with this assignment, I know the fat man, as long as he is by my side, then I don't want to sleep peacefully this night. The strength of the scorpion is not much worse than that of the fat man.

The scorpion and the fat man not only have endless topics, but even the snoring can echo like a chat.

"This dragon vein is a bit complicated, it's not an ordinary "dragon", let's go to bed early, and let you see the "dragon's lair" tomorrow! ”

The fat man held the almonds and steamed buns left over from the car in his hands, and said to us while eating them with relish.

"Senior brother, go to the grassland as soon as possible, and after seeing the stone man, I can rush to Lop Nur to meet Sister Ning and them."

Yiyi was still worried about Master Liu's safety, and said to the fat man sitting outside the tent not far away from the zipper of the tent.

The purpose of our trip is to remember what the steppe stone people look like, and to find out the differences between them as much as possible. This is what Aunt Ming asked us to do before we set off.

I haven't seen the stone people, and I think these stone men may be similar to the ghost cubs on the ghost cub ridge in Yongzhou. If there were no similarities, the second uncle would not have made the trip to Xinjiang our second goal.

I saw that the fat man and the scorpion were sitting outside the tent without sleep, still chatting. Because Yiyi's tent was not far away, the fat man's voice was very low, but he could still hear the two talking, but he couldn't hear the content clearly.

Ah Jin had already laid down in the tent, and as before, he had no communication with me and slept quietly.

I think I'll have to fall asleep before the fat man and the scorpion snort before I think about it, or I'll stop sleeping soundly as soon as the two of them snore one after the other.

Just when I was about to lie down, I heard the fat man cough in a deliberately amplified voice, and at the same time said in a not low decibel tone: "Xiao Su, Yiyi, Brother Ajin, sleep again in a while!" ”

His voice made Ah Jin wake up immediately, and he sat up straight and looked at me inquiringly. I shook my head at him, meaning I didn't know either.

We got out of the tent together, and Yiyi got out of her tent at the same time, yawning and saying to the fat man:

"Senior brother, what are you going to do!"

When the fat man saw that we had all come out of the tent, he got up and carried a black plastic bag in his hand, walked up to us, and said to us:

"There must be a great tomb hidden in the mountains here, and sleeping here will inevitably encounter some evil things. This is glutinous rice, come, put it in your pocket one by one. Just in case. ”

After this tossing and turning of the fat man, I returned to the tent again, and after a while I fell asleep deeply.

When I woke up again, I was awakened by urine. Ah Jin, who was in the same tent with me, didn't know where he went, and I thought it was because of the urgency to go out of the tent to find a convenient place.

After opening the tent, I looked at my watch by the moonlight, and it was 1:10 a.m., and I staggered out of the tent and walked towards the river.

I want to contribute my fertilizer water to the water of the Kanas River. But before I could get to the river, I saw a man standing by the river! It scared me.

But when I saw that the man was Ah Jin, my heart relaxed.

I was about to call him, but I realized that there was something wrong with Ah Jin's state.

I stood there stiff, my hands hanging on the outside of my legs in a very unnatural way.

Suddenly, he bent in the direction of the river and muttered something to the river!