They kept going until dark, Xiao Hai was so tired that he was about to collapse, Da Lei had no strength, and the two of them wanted to be like corpses. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The kid was surprisingly energetic, dancing and singing all the way, so unhappy.

"Brother... I can't. Xiao Hai leaned and fell to the ground with a thud, he had already begun to roll his eyes with his mouth open, and a layer of white foam was attached to his lips, lying there motionless.

Da Lei is the same, the soles of his feet have been pus and bleeding, the shoe boards are torn and cracked, the sand is wantonly mixed in, sticking to the wound, and every step he takes, he hurts as if he is walking on the blade of a knife.

"Hold on, maybe it's almost there." He comforted himself and looked at the child, whose eyes were bent into slits, and he tilted his head and didn't know what he was talking about.

The temperature dropped sharply, and Da Lei shivered.

"Hey ——!" There was a shouting sound in front, from far to near more and more clear, Da Lei raised his head, there were two people in the sand dunes not far away, holding a torch in their hands, and ran over excitedly after seeing them, one of them grabbed the child, stretched out his hand and slapped him on the ass fiercely, this time it was not light, Da Lei looked at it and felt pain, but the child didn't cry at all, he was still smiling.

The two men looked to be in their thirties, with thick beards that took up almost half of their faces, and they were also dressed in nomadic clothes, with high noses and big eyes, and dirty little felt hats.

When the two of them saw the tired Da Lei and Xiao Hai who fell to the ground, they seemed to understand something, looked at each other, and muttered for a while in words that Da Lei didn't understand. When they were done, a man came over, raised up the little sea on the ground, and used his chin to nude in the direction they came, meaning to go this way.

Da Lei said thank you and followed behind him silently, the child suddenly clapped his hands and continued to sing the ballad just now, but as soon as he opened his mouth, another man turned around and yelled at him, with a fierce face, and the child stopped talking and obediently lowered his head.

After using his last strength to turn over the two sand dunes, Da Lei's eyes became bright, and he finally saw hope! Former... Under the sand dunes in front, there is a village!

At the entrance of the village stood a young man and a dog. When he saw them, he whistled and opened the door, saying that it was a door, but it was actually a broken piece of wood, and it felt like it would be blown away by the wind at any moment.

The young man ran over and hugged Xiao Xiao'er tightly, he didn't know what he was talking about, he looked very worried or something, and after he finished speaking, he twisted his face fiercely, he should have blamed him for running out, the child sizzled the corners of his mouth in pain, but his eyes were still crooked.

I don't know why, Da Lei suddenly was a little stunned of this child.

The young man raised his head and saw Da Lei's eyes became vigilant, and the two middle-aged men walked over after seeing this, and said with a whining in their mouths, the young man stared at Da Lei and said in stiff Chinese: "Are you Han?" ”

Da Lei was a little dazed by his sudden question, and after a while, he nodded and replied slowly: "We are lost." ”

The young man walked over, unceremoniously touched Da Lei's clothes, and then turned Xiao Hai up and down, and after making sure that the two of them had no sharp and dangerous objects, he nodded and agreed to let them in.

When Da Lei walked by the dog, it suddenly went crazy and barked, Da Lei looked at it strangely, and couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart, the dog's two eyes were gone, and there was a piece of skin on the front leg, like a burn.

The young man reprimanded loudly, and the dog whined twice, spun around twice, and crouched quietly.

Da Lei followed them to the village, the entrance was very narrow, like a small alley, thin and long, and you could only see the inside when you walked through. The village is small, all of them are houses made of thick sand, slightly round in shape, with some shriveled grain hanging at the door, and a few families with camels on their backs. The group stopped in front of a fairly good-looking house, although this house was also an earthen house, it was not as brown as other houses, it was actually dark red, seven or eight meters high, and square. There was a small stone statue standing next to the door, it looked weird, I don't know what it was, it had a sword in its mouth, and ancient words were engraved on it, and the only thing Da Lei could see clearly was the two sharp fangs.

People came out of the house one after another, and gathered in a circle around Da Lei to discuss with each other. Out of the red clay house came an old man, with a gray beard, dark skin, blue eyes but bright eyes, a blue cloth around his head, and a felt velvet cloth coat, standing in front of them with a calm face.

The old man glanced around the crowd, and those people immediately became quiet, and it seemed that he was a respected person in the village.

The old man shouted, the young man took a step forward with the child's collar, and said something, the old man looked at them and shook his head helplessly, waved his backhand, and the child clapped his hands, jumped and ran away.

The old man looked at Xiao Hai and Da Lei for a long time, and asked the same question as the young man: "Are you Han?" ”

The difference is that his words are more blunt than that of the young man, and Da Lei almost didn't understand.

Xiao Hai nodded, and explained in a little panic: "We have no malice, we have no intention of offending here, we just got lost......" As soon as the words fell, a person walked out of the crowd and said in fluent Chinese: "They don't have malicious intent, but I don't know why you came here." ”

The man who spoke was in his early thirties, with small eyes and a collapsed nose, and a burly man, and although he was dressed in the same way as these people, he was not of the same nationality as he looked.

Xiao Hai woke up from a coma and hurriedly said when he saw the person in front of him like a savior: "We are here to find..."

"We went to Turpan to visit relatives, but we got the wrong direction and didn't go to the desert, the car broke down halfway, we lost the compass and we got lost, and we walked in the desert for almost 2 months, and now, the food and water are empty." Da Lei spoke first.

The man actually laughed after hearing this, Da Lei felt a little furious in his heart, but he still pretended to be calm. The man said a lot to the old man, the old man nodded, turned his head and smiled at the two of them kindly, and said stiffly, "Welcome." ”

Hearing this, Da Lei let out a long breath, it seemed that they had let down their guard.

The old man didn't know what he said, and the crowd gradually dispersed, but when they left, they still looked back from time to time, pointing and pointing, which made Da Lei and Xiao Hai very uncomfortable.

"Brother, what are they doing here? Look at us as if we were monsters. Xiao Hai lowered his voice and said in Dahai's ear.

Who knew that Da Lei pinched him hard, Xiao Hai didn't know why, and just wanted to ask, he heard a burst of hahaha hearty laughter.

This fat man thinks he speaks quietly, but everyone can hear his hoarse voice!

"Don't worry, they just haven't seen strangers in a long time." It was the man who spoke, and he smiled: "My name is Cheng Liu, you can call me Lao Liu, it's not early, you two can sleep with me tonight." ”

Da Lei nodded gratefully, and then asked curiously, "Where is this?" ”

"Lop Nur, Taal Village."

Lop? The village of Taal? Da Lei is still confused. He hadn't heard of the village of Thar, but knew about Lop Nur! A more mysterious place than the Taklamakan Desert!

Lop Nur is on the border of the Taklamakan Desert, oh my! He actually came out of the sea of death!

Lao Liu continued: "Taer Village is in the northwest of the Loulan site, and the distance is only more than 60 kilometers. Speaking of Loulan, Da Lei obviously felt that the sixth child deliberately paused, and he pretended not to care and continued to listen.

"There are a total of 221 people here, and it is rumored that the older generation says that they are descendants of the Yue clan, but their living habits and speech are basically the same as those of the Kazakhs. They are all very simple, but they haven't seen outsiders for a long time, so they are a little wary. ”

Lao Liu's house is on the far left of the village, a simple small mud house, which is a bit similar to the Northeast Kang, but it is quite spacious.

The two of them were already thirsty, and the sixth scooped a bowl of water from the bucket in the corner of the house, handed it to Da Lei, and smiled embarrassedly: "Let's go down, just a bowl." ”

Da Lei took the light and thanked him, but found that there was a layer of floating objects like sawdust on it, he raised his head suspiciously, the sixth sat on the edge of the kang, took off a shoe and said: "That's deliberately sprinkled, so that you can drink slowly, otherwise you will be thirsty for a while and drink water violently, and your stomach will not be able to drink through!" ”

Da Lei was immediately moved, but he didn't say more, the two of them were almost drunk, they were already tired and exhausted, and they fell asleep on the kang.

This sleep is really peaceful and comfortable!

It was already the evening of the next day when he opened his eyes again, Da Lei stretched his waist, refreshed, Xiao Hai continued to sleep, his injured hand was wrapped in a layer of white debris, Da Lei estimated that it should be the medicine that Lao Liu gave him.

I couldn't help but be a little hungry when I woke up, there were a few cool nests on the table, and the sixth child didn't know where to go.

Da Lei picked up a nest and gnawed it on it, this nest was hard and hard, and even a little sour, but Da Lei ate very happily, these things were already very satisfying for him.

Da Lei was full and began to think about how to go out, and when he looked up, a head poked into the door, it was the child last night, he looked at Da Lei, and he didn't know what he was talking about with a smile.

Da Lei beckoned to him and motioned for him to come in.

The boy shook his head, giggled and ran away. ran too quickly, and bumped into the sixth behind him, a bag of grains was scattered, the sixth scolded twice, lowered his body to pick it up, and Da Lei helped together.

The sixth looked up and saw that Da Lei's face was much rudder, so he said, "There is still a nest on the table!" ”

"I've already eaten it, thank you." Da Lei sat on the stone bench in the courtyard and asked the sixth child: "How did all this food come from?" ”

"There is a small oasis more than 10 kilometers away from the village, surrounded by Kumutagsha Mountain, don't look poor here, but it is a natural village, the people in the village are very long-lived, centenarians are particularly common."

After thinking about it for a long time, Da Lei asked, "How to get out?" ”

The sixth child was not surprised by his question at all, and said without raising his head: "I can't get out." ”

"Why?"

"There's no why."

"How do you know if you don't try."

"I've been here for more than 20 years, I've been trying for more than 20 years, how could I not know?"

Da Lei was shocked: "You have been here for more than 20 years?!" Although he knew that Lao Liu was different from the people here, he didn't expect him to stay for so long.

The sixth smiled bitterly and said: "I am from Luoyang, I have no father and no mother since I was a child, at that time, the world was chaotic, there were wars everywhere, and I didn't have to ask for food, plus I was young and ignorant, so I followed others as little bandits, and I didn't have a meal." Later, I heard that robbing tombs made money, but although there were many tombs in Luoyang, there were gangs and land control. For small characters like us, we don't dare to go to the big tomb, and there is nothing to fish for the small tomb, so we follow the head to Xinjiang. I heard that there is a place called Loulan, almost no one has ever picked it, and at that time, I was bent on making a fortune, and I didn't care about the consequences at all, and it was a big deal. As a result, life is better than death along the way, a group of seven people, only one of me lived, and then I have been in this village since then, and I have never walked out again. ”

"How did the others die?"

"How else can you die, except starvation or thirst."

After listening to Da Lei fell silent, no wonder the sixth child laughed after he finished speaking last night, because he knew that he was lying when he heard it.

"What the hell did you find?"

The sixth knew what he was referring to, and shook his head: "There is nothing there except for some ruins and remains." Even the wreckage is pitiful. ”

Da Lei subconsciously touched the bracelet on his chest, the cold and clear bracelet was not hot after covering his chest for so long.

"You've got a lot of trouble along the way, right?" The sixth asked.

Da Lei nodded, thought for a while and asked, "Do you believe that there are ghosts?" ”

"As long as there is a word in this world, I believe it. Otherwise, why is 'life' and 'death' just one pronunciation? Because there is only one 'life' and only one 'death'. ”

Da Lei shivered, although it was a hot sun, he was cold, like an ice cellar.

Xiao Hai didn't know when he woke up, standing behind the two of them, he held half of the nest head in his hand, and said vaguely: "Yes, yes, Aunt Xiang always says the same." But ......" he said; "The son of Uncle Qi's family at the end of the alley, holding a broken book every day, always says that the ancient sound is different...... What homonyms are not shaped, the same words do not agree with gibberish things! If you want me to say, this Qi Fei is self-inflicted, thinking that he is full of poetry and books, and he doesn't take Chairman Mao in his eyes at all! You deserve to die! "Alas, forget it, people have been driven to death... It's a pity that Uncle Qi, who has worked hard for most of his life, and the white-haired person sends the black-haired person. ”

"What does this man's death have to do with learning this?" The sixth asked.

"Stinky old nine, I can't stand the criticism and commit suicide."

"Outside ****! The world is really different! ”

The sixth took the bag of grain, walked to the door of the room and hung it up, last night it was dark and overworked Da Lei didn't pay much attention, only to find out that the sixth was a little lame.

The night came again, three big men were lying on the earthen kang, Da Lei was in the middle, the sixth man was on the left, and Xiao Hai who had fallen asleep on the right. At this time, Da Lei had no intention of sleeping, and he had new troubles. Life, for the time being, is saved, the road, how to get out?

In the wilderness and desert, in a broken village, with a group of people who don't understand the language. When he thought that the sixth child had been trapped here for twelve years, he panicked. Da Lei couldn't help but sigh, tossing and turning and couldn't sleep.

The sixth man suddenly spoke: "I have a few dry buns and two pots of water on the table, you can leave at dawn, turn left out of the courtyard and walk towards the end of the village, there is a small gate there, go out is the desert, if you can pass through Lop Nur, you can reach Ruoqiang County in Mongolia." If you don't go out for a walk, you won't be willing. At last he paused and said, "May God bless you." ”

"Bless our brothers with a smooth exit?"

"Bless you both to come back alive."

The night had not yet completely faded, only a corner of the blue had been lifted on the eastern horizon, and the whole desert was still asleep, like an old lion remembering in its majestic dreams.

Da Lei rode a camel, and Xiao Hai walked in front with a rope. Da Lei's back was wrapped in dry food and clothes given by the sixth child. There was also a dagger on his waist, Da Lei took it out, and looked at it through the misty sky: this knife is a little short, the shape is strange, the tip of the knife is slightly curved inward like a hawk's beak, the blade has countless fine teeth, and the handle of the knife is engraved with strange words, leaving some blood stains that cannot be erased.

The sixth said that this knife followed him for more than 20 years, and he was by his side when he was a bandit. Although the tip of the knife is a little curved, it is sharper than ordinary knives, and it will be sharpened when it is okay, so that one day it can go out. Over the years, after countless failures, although he is no longer full of confidence and gives too many expectations, he also hopes that the two of them can return safely.

Da Lei put away the dagger and recalled what the sixth child told him at night: "You have to carry your head and sprinkle blood on the road ahead, don't be careless, otherwise you won't even be able to complete the bones in the end!" ”

The fog on the horizon gradually turned white to reveal its true face, and there were only two ant-like figures on the vast desert......

What exactly is in this Lop Nur? Can he be trapped for twelve years to make him so scrupled?