On that day, Guo Yixin and his party drove three off-road vehicles from Hami City to the southwest into the desert, and their first stop was Lop Nur Town. The car bumped around the rough Provincial Highway 235 for almost the whole day, and the car window was uninterrupted and endless Gobi Desert and salt crust. Will there be a small town ahead? No one dared to imagine.

The salt crust becomes more and more flat, and the view is boundless. At this time, the car is like a small boat, drifting on the sea of brown salt and alkali. You can see the "sea level" slowly receding, but the horizon is still so far ahead.

If you go back 50 years, you can see the real "sea" here. Lop Nur used to be the second largest inland lake in China! After drying up in the seventies of the last century, the bottom of Lop Nur Lake turned to the sky, and saline-alkali deposits were placed. The surface of the earth has become the salt crust that is now seen, which is also unique to Lop Nur. Acquaintances say that they are now driving on the sedimentary plains at the bottom of the lake, so the terrain is flat.

Several off-road vehicles continued on their way. Guo Yixin raised her wrist and looked at her watch, and based on the time estimate, Lop Nur Town should not be far away. As far as the eye can see, blue is the sky, and brown is the earth. At this time, the sky didn't even bother to appear a single white cloud, and the whole world seemed to have only two hues, blue and brown.

Finally, at the junction of blue and brown in the distance, a faint black dot emerged. "That's Lop Nur Town!" Someone shouted excitedly.

It's a peculiar town. Two side-by-side buildings, backed by the Lop Nur Potash Company's plant, make up the entire town of Lop Nur. The town is still surrounded by vast expanses of brown salt crust. Guo Yingxin feels that the town of Lop Nur is a lonely platform in the brown sea, like an oil drilling platform standing abruptly in the depths of the blue sea.

The difference is that the blue ocean is home to thousands of creatures; This brown ocean, on the other hand, devours all life due to extreme drought. The town of Lop Nur is located in the middle of it, as if it were on a huge and lifeless gray-brown canvas, and if a drop of ink of other colors was accidentally splashed, it looked extremely incongruous.

Of the two buildings, the gray building is the town administration. The government office building, the yellow building on its left is the Lop Nur Commercial Building. The travelers who settled in Lop Nur Town, eating, drinking, and Lazar were all solved in this three-story commercial building.

Before coming, Guo Yixin had already learned that Lop Nur Town is the largest town in China, and it is also the smallest town. "Large" refers to the area, and the area under the jurisdiction of Lop Nur Town is half the size of Zhejiang Province; When I say "small", I mean the population, and the resident population of the town is only a few dozen.

The tiring journey of more than 7 hours did not affect everyone's mood, and the clear blue sky here made people feel happy. Even the desolate land under your feet is a different scenery in the eyes of tourists. The group was full of interest and smiled. They each ordered a bowl of ramen at what appeared to be the largest restaurant in town.

Guo Yixin's boyfriend Ma Jin has long wanted to come to Loulan Ruins to see. This time, taking advantage of the "Eleventh" National Day holiday, Guo Yixin came over with her boyfriend without hesitation. She loves photography, especially the unique desolation of the desert. Lop Nur is a great place to take this kind of photo.

Ma Jin carried a bowl of noodles and gently placed it in front of Guo Yixin. Among their group, Ma Jin and Guo Yixin are a couple who attract everyone's attention. Ma Jin is a talent. Guo Yixin is even more eye-catching, 1.68 meters tall, with bright eyes and bright teeth, she is the kind of "beauty at first sight" that people often say.

Guo Yixin and Ma Jin have been in love for three years, and every time they go out to eat, Ma Jin takes the food in front of her. At this time, Guo Yixin would never have thought that this would be the last time.

Under the ceiling of the restaurant, an old-fashioned Black Panda television is playing, and news programs are playing. The picture shows an electric car running a red light at an intersection and being hit by a car, and the scene is tragic. The news caught Guo Yingxin's attention.

It's ordinary news, but it's not ordinary for Guo Yixin. She frowned and put down her chopsticks, a pained expression on her face.

Ma Jin looked at her a little nervously, Guo Yixin's illness may have happened again.

"Are you feeling sick again?"

Guo Yixin nodded, stood up and said, "I'll go outside and be quiet, you can eat......"

Ma Jin also put down his chopsticks and followed her out, and there were five or six SUVs parked sporadically in the flat open space in front of the commercial building, and a few large trucks on the outside.

Guo Yixin walked up to their Haval, gently rubbed her temples with both hands, and raised her head to look at the sky.

"Are you hallucinating again?" Makin glanced back at the restaurant's TV, where the news had already aired.

Guo Yixin nodded, and said with some irritability: "This kind of non-compliance with the rules makes me feel like I am back in that dream, and it is very uncomfortable......"

Guo Yixin's dissociative disorder is only known to a few relatives and friends such as Ma Jin.

Two or three meters away from them was a red SUV. The car was not with them. The dark brown window glass in the driver's seat looks tightly closed, but it actually has a small slit.

Ma Jin stuffed a pair of white earphones into Guo Yixin's ears and said with a smile: "Listen to music, cure all diseases!" As he spoke, he turned on the music player on his phone. Guo Yixin reluctantly smiled: "I hate it, it's this sentence again!" ”

A few minutes later, Guo felt better, and the two returned to the restaurant.

The window glass of the red SUV slowly lowered, and a man in the car muttered softly, "What a weird!" ”

Guo and the others stayed in the town of Lop Nur for one night. Early the next morning, a group of three cars drove away from the square in front of the commercial building one after another, heading to their destination--- the Loulan Ruins. Under the soft morning sun, the sand and dust on the flat ground were raised, and each car was like dragging a big golden tail dancing in the wind, meandering forward in the laughter of everyone.

No one knows that this is a point of no return.

The three cars drove on the gravel road for more than five hours, and there were still more than two hours to reach the Loulan ruins, when the car in front suddenly stopped. They became interested in a warning sign on the side of the road.

The warning sign in red letters on a white background reads: Wild camel activity area, no entry!

All three cars stopped.

Wild camels are rarer animals than giant pandas, and several companions didn't want to give up this opportunity and wanted to go in and have a look.

"I have a telephoto lens, and I will never disturb a wild camel!" Someone was excited. If you photograph a wild camel, you can show it off when you go back.

Photography is not allowed in Lop Porri, and the checkpoint management made it very clear. However, there are policies and countermeasures, and everyone does not take this provision seriously, including Guo Yixin.