The camp chosen by Sister Ning's people was under a row of yellow hills. The afterglow of the setting sun reflects on the hills, dyeing them orange and red, accentuating their solemnity.

I roughly counted the big men who were drinking and eating meat across from us, and there must have been a hundred or ten of them.

Seeing that I was attracted by the scene opposite, Xiaodou whispered to me that they were the people of the legendary "Europa" company.

The fat man shook his head and said, "With their style, no wonder several waves of expeditions have folded!" ”

"It's not their company, it's hired for money."

After Sister Ning handed over to the people who stayed here, she walked up to us and said.

"No wonder, it's normal to do things with money." The fat man nodded his head and said.

Sister Ning didn't say anything about the fat man, she just turned around and walked in the direction of the hill. After she had walked a few steps, her voice could be heard in the air:

"Let's go, go see the scene left by the wind and sand!"

I looked at the fat man, he nodded at me and quickly followed Sister Ning, like a bodyguard.

I just wanted to leave, but I found Yiyi beside me looking at the surrounding hills in a daze, I asked her what was wrong, Yiyi said, "Su Mo, don't you think this place is a little familiar?" ”

I followed her example and looked around, and it was familiar, as she said, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it.

"In the enclosed space, another thermal image of the "Ear of the Earth" is exactly the same as here! ”

After being reminded by Yiyi, it dawned on me that this is another picture on the mural we saw in the closed stone room!

Except for us uninvited guests, the hills here, the Gobi Desert, including the color of the hills and the light of the sun, are exactly the same.

It took me a while to get out of my surprise and find that Yiyi had caught up with Sister Ning and asked her where Master Liu was missing.

Xiaoqian was left beside me, standing obediently behind me and staring at the Gobi under my feet.

I pulled up Xiaoqian and followed Sister Ning and them.

Yiyi's question is also what the fat man wants to know. Sister Ning replied to them that the specific location of Master Liu's disappearance was behind the hill in front of us.

Only one of the people in Sister Ning's team who stayed here who was connected with Sister Ning followed, and the rest of the people were still on standby, plus me, Fat Man and Yiyi, as well as Xiaoqian followed Sister Ning towards the location in the satellite phone.

After bypassing the hill, there is still an endless desert Gobi in front of you, and the sunset is slanting in the west, and the color of the Gobi is the same as that of the hill, orange and orange.

About a kilometer ahead of us, there was a group of people, with devices in their hands, all bent over and sticking the devices to the ground, not knowing what they were doing.

The position diagonally opposite them, judging from the dress, should be Sister Ning's person. There was yellow sand on the ground, just as it had been when we came.

Soon, our group was there.

The fat man's eyes were sharp, and when he saw that there was a foreigner in Sister Ning's team, he turned his head to me and said, "Xiao Su, your second uncle is okay, the team has developed abroad!" ”

At first, I also thought that as the fat man said, the foreigner who wrote blonde hair and blue eyes was Sister Ning's person.

But when he spoke, I realized that this foreigner was from that multinational company.

"Miss Ning, you're late, the wind and sand have dispersed!"

When the foreigner saw Sister Ning coming, he said to Sister Ning in a mouthful of Chinese.

Before Sister Ning could reply to him, the fat man said:

"Hey, I said this international friend, we are not late, the sleeves of the yellow-robed immortal are relatively long, and they have already blown us!"

I said in my heart, you won't fucking pick a monster that this foreigner can understand, you say that, he still has to be confused.

As a result, this foreigner is still a China expert, and he actually knows that this yellow-robed immortal is a character in Journey to the West.

And ask the identity of the fat man.

The fat man licked his face and introduced himself with oil and vinegar, and the bluffing foreigner was stunned.

The foreigner's name is Peter, and he is the head of the China region of the "Europa" multinational company, and he is about the same age as my second uncle.

I heard that the fat man was Master Liu's apprentice, so he politely said a few words to the fat man, praised China's touching gold lineage, and the fat man also pretended to praise the strength of their company.

Seeing that Sister Ning was a little impatient, she hurriedly shut up, pulled Peter to Sister Ning, and asked them to take a look at the current situation. ，

In the interval between Sister Ning and Peter's conversation, the fat man whispered to me, don't look at this old foreigner who looks like a person in his forties and fifties, in fact, he is not much different in age from us. They eat steak and drink milk, and they age fast.

I asked the fat man: "When you traveled to the snow-capped mountains in Shigatse more than ten years ago, was it you and Master Liu that he was looking for?" ”

The fat man shook his head and said, "Definitely." ”

Then he told me about the composition of the multinational company, and the Peter in front of us is the youngest son of the owner of the company "Europa", and he also has two older brothers.

More than ten years ago, they traveled to the snow-capped mountains in Tibet, and it was their father, Old Peter, who found them. Judging from the mental state of old Peter at that time, he was probably in his seventies at that time, and now he is probably in his nineties.

The fat man was about to inquire about the state of old Peter, but I stopped him, and I told him how rude you would be if this old Peter hung up. The fat man thought about it too, so he didn't ask.

Instead, he turned his attention to the surrounding Huangsha Gobi.

The yellow sand around us is much thicker than the yellow sand at the entrance to Lop Nur, and it is clear that they have experienced more wind and sand than we have experienced.

Strangely, the area covered by the wind and sand is not too large, only a radius of a few miles, and the rest of the place is a patch of cracked saline-alkali land.

The white bones in the yellow sand have been cleaned up, and the corpses of the "Europa" company's expedition that appeared with the white bones are neatly placed aside. I counted twelve corpses, and there was a small pile of walkie-talkies next to them.

Yiyi stood more than ten meters away from me, looking down for something, and I curiously asked her if she had lost something. She sighed and said, "Sister Ning told me that this is where my father disappeared. ”

I looked down at where she was pointing, and I didn't see anything unusual there, like the other places covered in yellow sand.

Yiyi wanted to continue looking for a while, but I stopped her because it was already dark.

On the way we came, Xiaodou once said. On this strange Gobi, you must not stand in a place without the shelter of hills at night, otherwise unimaginable things will happen.

I heard that before they came here, the people of the "Europa" company went to urinate outside the hill in the middle of the night, only to be found the next day, long dead. Moreover! It is to present yourself in a posture of pinching yourself.

After that, there were a few unbelievers who went out of the hill late at night, but none of them were spared.

From then on, every night, everyone retreated into the hills, and no one dared to step out of that range again.

As soon as Sister Ning arrived here, she ordered to strictly follow this rule, looking for people during the day and returning at night.

As we walked back, Yiyi still looked back at the place where Master Liu disappeared in three steps. I reached out and pulled her, reassuring her that Master Liu would be fine.

Not far from us, the people of the "Europa" company also withdrew to the hills one after another, and the Gobi Desert, which had just been full of people, became quiet in an instant, waiting for the night to come.

The corpses in the wind and sand were also transported back by Europa's people, leaving only those white bones of unknown era, still scattered alone on the Gobi Desert.

As night falls, the hills become more lively. Those expatriates who were drinking had set up a bonfire in the open space at this moment, and the sound of fist-slashing came from time to time.

I saw that the fat man licked his lips a little and asked him if he wanted to eat something. The fat man didn't say a word when he heard this, and pulled me to go over there.

This time, I didn't let Yiyi and Xiaoqian come with me, my purpose was to find out more about the disappearance. As soon as these two daughters go, it will make these drunken people coveted, and they will inevitably cause trouble.

Yiyi told the two of us a few words, and then went back to the tent that Sister Ning had prepared for it to rest. After days of running, her mental state has not recovered to the best.

Sister Ning hated me and the fat man's intentions, so she didn't mean to stop us.

These subordinates of my second uncle are in stark contrast to the scene of the "Europa" company opposite. There was a lot of noise over there, and it was deserted here.

At first, when the fat man and I first walked by, not many people paid attention to us. The fat man picked up two bottles of wine at random and no one cared, the fat man bit the wine open with his teeth, took a sip of it himself, and then bit open the second bottle and handed it to me. I wiped the saliva from the bottle with my sleeve and drank a bottle as well. A spicy taste hit my throat and I burped.

The fat man was born with a good sense of familiarity, and his speech was very infectious, and he soon began to talk happily with others.

I didn't have the fat man's talent for language, so I could only laugh dryly and cooperate with him, and then clink glasses with a bunch of rough guys.

After a few drinks, the fat man began to ask us what we wanted to know.

These people who are employed by the "Europa" company are actually divided into several groups. The men who drank with us were responsible for some rough work, such as digging grave soil, resisting things, carrying coffins, etc.

These people were all working under a man nicknamed Ah San, who was said to have just been released from prison. I used to work for the "Europa" company, but later I was arrested for robbing the tomb and ate prison food for several years.

Not far from us, those people looked regular, and the fat man had good eyesight, and he could see that these people were the same people who searched the ground with equipment in the saline-alkali land of the Gobi Desert. The man who drank with us said that these people had a nickname in the rivers and lakes, "Explorers". The people in their team all have good ears, and through those devices, they can hear movements hundreds of meters or even deeper on the ground.

Now, it has been hired by the "Europa" company for a lot of money.