Chapter 1: The Sea of Death
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Year 1972.
Dark night, Taklamakan desert.
The bitter cold wind howled and the tents were blown and whirred. The man in a tattered military coat sat curled up, his face sallow, his hair disheveled, and his eyes staring blankly at the fire in front of him. The fat man on the opposite side was already asleep, snoring like thunder, racing through the wind outside. Da Lei came back to his senses, wanted to take out a pot of wine to warm up, pulled his backpack, just opened it, and saw that it was almost exhausted, and suddenly lost his mood and fell into deep despair.
There's only one dry steamed bun left... If this continues, they won't be able to hold out for even ten days. The saddest thing is that I am still lost at this moment! The compass lost its magnetic field induction in this boundless desert and became a worthless scrap metal.
The Taklamakan Desert is known locally as the "Sea of Death." ”
When they were asking for directions, an old man stared wide-eyed and waved his hand to persuade them not to go any further.
"That place is very evil! No one came out alive..."The old man's deep voice rang out.
.......
Da Lei shuddered.
He looked at his feet, and under the thin tent cloth was an endless desert, and under the endless desert were tens of thousands of white bones.
Could it be that you are going to die here?
Da Lei grabbed his hair frantically, wishing that this was a dream and woke up quickly.
In 1900, there was a Swede named Sven. Heding, in Lop Nur, discovered the ancient city of Loulan, which has disappeared for thousands of years! This news shocked the world, and countless adventure enthusiasts came to visit. Helplessly, at that time, the war was chaotic, the world was chaotic, and Loulan's exploration came to an abrupt end and became an eternal mystery.
Last month, Da Lei was in the trash can in the black alley at the intersection and accidentally picked up a report about "Loulan, the Disappearing Country". The paper has been yellowed, and the handwriting is blurred, although it is old, he can see that his heart is itchy, like countless small insects crawling, and he is uncomfortable, and he forgets to sleep and eat. As soon as he closed his eyes, the ancient city looming in the yellow sand-shrouded desert appeared in his mind, and the vicissitudes of life seemed to have countless words waiting to be said to him, and countless secrets waiting for him to answer. After a few nights of torture, Da Lei couldn't stay up, and he took Xiao Hai to embark on this desperate journey together.
Xiao Hai's snoring came one after another, making him breathless and upset. A fat man is a fat man, with a wide heart and a fat body, and he is about to see the king of Hades and sleeps very fragrantly! It seems that the excess fat before is used to store life-saving agents when there is no food. The more Da Lei thinks about it, the more angry he becomes, these days he sleeps day and night, Xiao Hai is heartless and chic and free! Da Lei raised his foot and kicked him hard, wanting to wake him up and discuss countermeasures. But Xiaohai just turned over, muttered two words in his sleep, and fell asleep.
It didn't matter if he turned over, but the long strip-like object looming in his trouser pocket made Da Lei's eyes stunned, he stretched out his hand, pinched the long strip-like corner exposed in the small sea pocket, and gently pulled it out, it turned out to be a piece of chocolate! Isn't this what Uncle Xiang gave me during the Spring Festival! There are a total of five, but the two of them have been keeping it and are not willing to eat, and they are ...... "swoop", Da Lei only feels that the blood all over his body is rushing to the top of his head, and he can't bear to rush out and breathe fire!
This bastard actually hid dry food privately?! No wonder with the same amount of food, he can only barely maintain his physical strength after eating it, and Xiaohai, the fat man, is still alive and well. It turns out that I have already left a way back for myself!!
Da Lei grabbed Xiao Hai's collar and lifted him up with enough strength to feed, Xiao Hai was still asleep, and he woke up in a daze and didn't know what was going on, only to see a fist waving at him, hitting his eyes with gold stars, and the bridge of his nose was hot and painful!
"Are you crazy?!" Xiao Hai covered his nose and yelled at Da Lei. This punch was not light, and he grinned in pain.
Da Lei stretched out the chocolate in his hand and said coldly to him: "What is this?" ”
Sure enough, after Xiao Hai saw what he was holding clearly, his fat body stiffened, and he was silent for a long time. Da Lei was even more angry, although both of them were orphans, they were like brothers since they were children, but they didn't expect to play with themselves at this time!
It's really hidden! I was slammed into a fight! The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, the more angry I became, the more strength I had, Da Lei raised his leg to shine on Xiaohai's belly is a hard kick! This time it seemed that the strength was too great, and Xiao Hai fell straight back and sat on the tent pole!
Just listen to the "click", and the pole is broken in half without a fight!
Now the two of them were dumbfounded, the tent is now "crippled", and the wind outside is dancing wildly, and it is estimated that it will not last long. It's good that you didn't starve to death before you froze to death!
Xiaohai got up from the ground and dusted off his clothes. Although he was angry in his heart, he knew that he was wrong, so he opened his mouth and swallowed it back, paused and asked, "Brother, what should I do now?" ”
Da Lei also looked confused, and the two of them were silent like this. Outside, the wind and sand were blowing, and the tent that had been folded in a corner seemed to be scattered at any moment in this raging environment. Da Lei looked at the faint fire in front of him and was ready to die.
It's just that being starved to death is always a little unwilling. After living for more than 20 years, he even turned over the garbage heap in order to fill his stomach, and in the end, this is the end! Unwilling....
"Brother!" Xiao Hai's sudden scream startled him. Da Lei came back to his senses and just wanted to scold him, but found that Xiao Hai's face was not quite right, as if he was frightened by something.
"How are you..."Before Da Lei could finish asking, Xiao Hai interrupted him: "Shhhh Have you heard, what did you hear? ”
Xiao Hai's solemn look made him feel ridiculous, this desert without people, except for the roar of the wind, was the sorrow in his heart. What's the sound?! It is estimated that this fat man was beaten stupid by himself.
After a while, Da Lei shook his head: "No." ”
"No, no!" Xiao Hai lowered his voice and became excited, approached him and said, "Brother, listen carefully... Come... Here it comes... Here it comes! ”
Da Lei saw that he was so persistent, and he seemed to have really discovered something. He held his breath and listened carefully. Suddenly, Da Lei's hairs stood on end! He could even feel the blood stop flowing and goosebumps under his woolen pants!
In the roaring wind and sand, there is a faint and mournful singing!
The voice was small, but I could vaguely distinguish that it was a woman singing, the voice was sharp and intermittent, mixed with whining and crying, like sharp nails rubbing repeatedly on the blackboard, and the stinging and stabbing were carved into the eardrum to make people creepy.
The voice grew louder and clearer, and he sobbed and moaned around: "It's over! ...... May Lan, no flowers returned, and the golden night thought was beheaded. What is the drought? The moon is high, Huloulan, the princes of the East Ye are pampered, and the wives and concubines are good at the women. Hengbei wilderness, barbarian river, flowers under the wine and songs, thousands of miles of terracotta warriors and horses. The sin of red face, thin affection, long hair cut off Leng Xiaohan, who is the white bone Sensen for? The king, the city is in chaos, the torture platform is rainy and the devil is crying, and the birds and beasts are dripping blood! Lack of righteousness is a dream, the throat is choked like a poison, and there is no prophecy and no prophecy will not be returned!! ”
The last sentence was particularly poignant, the sharp cry pierced the sky and was weird, countless fears poured out in response, listening to Da Lei's scalp was numb, and soon this paralysis surged all over his body, he raised his head, and his feet were crawling with small insects at some point, and they were drilling into his trouser legs!
He hurriedly stood up and shook his pants, but the insect was like glue under his feet, and he couldn't shake it off. He could even feel these dense insects crawling unscrupulously on his thighs, and the itching was very uncomfortable. Da Lei turned his head to look at Xiao Hai on the side, the fat man was worse than him, his face was crawling with insects, and he even got into his mouth!
What the hell is this? How could you suddenly crawl out so much?! Da Lei pinched one and squinted his eyes to look at it, the insect was black and oblate. Six tiny legs, although I haven't seen them, there is nothing special. When he turned the bug over, the scalp exploded with a "boom"! There are dense small holes under the stomach of this worm, and there are countless tiny meat maggots wriggling in each hole! In an instant, Da Lei's whole body was like an electric shock, and his hairs stood up. Damn it! What the hell is such a disgusting play?! It's still crawling in his trouser legs!
In the past few days since he came to the Taklamakan Desert, he hadn't even seen an ant, how could so many strange insects suddenly gush out?!
"Brother... Save... Help me..."Xiao Hai's weak voice came, Da Lei looked up, and couldn't help but cover his mouth and resist the vomiting. Xiao Hai's face was crawling with insects, and the meat maggots under the stomachs of those insects turned into slender nematodes, and they actually drilled into the skin along his pores, and even traces of walking down the skin could be vaguely seen!
It seems that the meat maggots in this bug can parasitize human flesh bodies! Isn't that on his leg...
A chill filled Da Lei's heart, although he was ready to die, but he didn't want to die so miserable and disgusting! He suddenly took off his pants, ignoring the cold, and took off himself to only one pair of pants, and sure enough, as he expected, countless nematodes drilled in the pores of his thighs! Da Lei pulled these nematodes like crazy, trying to pull them out of his body, but he just pulled hard, and the pain in his heart involved every nerve, and the pain made him break out in a cold sweat and his legs were shivering!
Da Lei panted, picked up the pants he had just taken off from the ground, stuffed them into his mouth, bit them hard, paused, closed his eyes and pulled those nematodes hard! Finally, I endured the pain and pulled out a few!
In an instant, the strong smell of blood permeated. Da Lei opened his eyes near collapse, and after seeing the situation in front of him, he was stunned, and sat on the ground with a face that couldn't tell whether to cry or laugh. On his legs, where he had just dragged out the nematode, blood could not stop coming out of his pores, dripping on the ground, seeping into the desert.
Before he could finish dragging it, his blood would have to drain......
"Ahh Heart-rending screams. Xiao Hai was the same, pulling the nematodes on his face like dragging outward, his whole face was blue and purple, and blood beads oozed out of his face, looking very terrifying.
The wind outside made the tent tremble, Da Lei was already numb, it seems that he is destined to be despaired, I just hope that he can have a good baby in the next life, not without father and mother, and die in a foreign land. It's just that he thinks it's strange, tonight's wind is more violent than usual, and it's so strange that it makes people feel weird.
The wind became more and more poignant, as if the woman was choking and crying just now. Suddenly, "Wow! "The tent was overturned!
Suddenly, the biting cold swept through his body, and the wind roared so loudly that Da Lei couldn't open his eyes. His legs were numb, and the sand raised by the wind hurt his body, but he couldn't take care of it anymore, curled up like a dead stray dog, tightly wrapped in a torn cotton army coat, and shrunk in it waiting for death to come.
Once one accepts the fact of death, one becomes extraordinarily calm. Closing his eyes and thinking about his short life, the bits and pieces of the past are playing in his head like a marquee, and the happiest thing for him is that he can occasionally rub two movie tickets from Uncle Xiang and sneak in with Xiaohai to watch them. Every time Aunt Xiang laughs at him, he should take a girl for this kind of thing, how can two big men be together! Da Lei just smiled and didn't speak. The key is who can take a fancy to him!
Although he has no father or mother, he can meet such a good person as Uncle Xiang's family, and he is accompanied by Xiaohai. In this life, he is not alone.
It's a pity that he can't give his second elder filial piety. Alas......
Just thinking about it, a sudden gust of cold wind blew and made Da Lei's heart sink, and even his breathing slowed down by a beat. This kind of wind is different from the raging wind in the desert, even if the raging wind roars around, he can feel a small wisp of wind, very different mixed in it, it is a yin wind.
More precisely, it was like someone standing behind him and blowing a cool breath, and the cold was about to numb his neck. Da Lei shuddered, didn't squat and sat on the sand, that kind of fear came again, as if he had pierced his heart, and his flesh and blood were blurred and stiffened.
I don't know if it's the psychological effect or the insect crawling, the exposed calves, obviously frozen to the point of being unconscious, but now it's itchy and indescribable. He quietly raised his head and squinted his eyes, but unfortunately the wind was too strong and the night was too dark, Da Lei couldn't see anything clearly. The itch on the leg is getting stronger and stronger, Da Lei plucked up the courage to poke out the head and look, it was still pitch black, the leg was really itchy He stretched out his hand to scratch it, but as soon as the hand touched the leg, it stopped, and he didn't even have the strength to retract it......
Hair! It turned out to be dense hair! The unbearable itch was actually the hair! What scares Da Lei the most is that the hair is swimming back and forth! It's not because it's blown by the wind, it's because the hair itself is moving!
Da Lei bit his tongue and confirmed that this was not a dream, and it was really hair crawling on his legs! If the bug is a species that has not yet been discovered by the world in a nest in the insect world, it is normal that he has not seen it. But what about this hair? How could this happen in the desert?!
Da Lei wanted to pull his legs back little by little, but as soon as he moved, the hair was tightly wrapped around his calves, and he couldn't move at all!
Damn it! Da Lei began to get angry, he had endured too much this night, since he was both a dead person, he simply fought with it! Thinking like this, he was fearless, Da Lei stretched out his hand and pulled his hair hard, but the hair became tighter and tighter, like a hemp rope, almost strangled his legs!
Lao Tzu will carry you to the end! It's a big deal, and he will also become a ghost and settle accounts with you!
Da Lei gritted his teeth, the green tendons were about to burst out, and he finally tore off the hair with all his strength! Suddenly, the howling wind died down, and there was silence all around.
The hair on his legs was also gone, Da Lei was a little physically exhausted, and he lay on the ground and couldn't even breathe.
He had experienced too much this night, a wave of tiredness hit, his eyelids couldn't be opened, Da Lei yawned and fell asleep.
I guess I'll never wake up again.
At his feet, a small flower bloomed silently, its white petals were flawless and light, and the red stamens exuded a faint imperceptible fragrance, which looked particularly beautiful in the vast desert in the dark night.
It's almost dawn.