Chapter 16: Living with a White-Haired Woman

We stared at each other in amazement.

Then the woman began to look at the lake and everything around her.

Her face was a little flat, and her eyebrows were very light, almost as if they were nothing. I don't feel that she is very healthy, there seems to be something missing on her face, and if you look closely, her facial features are all there. There was a sickly pessimism in her eyes.

Monsoon muttered, "Why do I think she's familiar......"

Pulp nodded vigorously next to Monsoon: "I feel this way too!" ”

I spoke first: "Who are you?" ”

The white-haired woman said, "My name is An Chunhong. ”

An Chunhong. Hearing this name, my heart "chuckled". Why, I'll talk about it later.

I said, "What do you do?" ”

She said, "We are here for you." Oh, I'm a volunteer. ”

I said, "Who are they?" ”

She said: "The captain's name is Ainijan, and he is a Uyghur. There is also Lancheng TV, there is a person in charge called Doudou, the reporter is called Xiao A, and there is a cameraman, called Bamboo. ”

I said, "So, you know what we're doing?" ”

She said, "I know about your numbers and names. ”

I said, "What do you do?" ”

"I said, I'm a volunteer," she said. ”

I said, "I ask you, what did you do in the past?" ”

"I do charity," she said. ”

I said, "How did you come up with the idea of joining the rescue?" ”

"I'm not alone, more than a dozen volunteers have come to Lop Nur," she said. ”

I remember this woman in my life at one time - 6 years ago, I went out for a drink, and after I went downstairs, I met her. Perhaps, I can't remember her face exactly, but I remember her gray hair. She said that she was in a hurry and wanted to borrow my phone to use, and I found that I had left my phone in the office, and then I hurried upstairs to pick it up, only to see a message from a female reader, who was Monsoon......

Not long ago, I saw her again on video, and she has appeared in the lives of each of us!

In my eyes, she is the demon, and it is she who made the wooden sign with the ancient Lu Wen written on it, the ecstasy land, the mad slope, the phantom Wu City, the moving lake and the babies in the lake...... Now, she's a rescuer!

Moreover, she said that her name was An Chunhong!

I'm a mystery writer and I often buy special books like global mysteries, unsolved mysteries, and so on.

I remember someone summing up an amazing coincidence-

In 1937, a train on the Southern Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway derailed, and almost all of the more than 400 passengers were killed, and there was only one survivor, her name was An Chunhong; In 1985, a ship was sunk on the Songhua River, almost all of the 211 passengers on board drowned, and there was one survivor, her name is An Chunhong; In 2011, a South Korean Asiana Airlines Boeing 747 freighter left Incheon International Airport at 3 a.m. that day and flew to Pudong, China......

I use this name in a lot of novels, like "Heaven Panics", like "Blue Robe", like "Disorder".

A reader once posted a post on my post bar and asked: Why does Zhou Dedong always use the name "An Chunhong" in his works? Only I know the answer - because I'm afraid of the name.

To be honest, I was a little hesitant, and I said to myself: could it be a coincidence? They just had gray hair. Moreover, the name An Chunhong is too ordinary, and it is likely to be the same name......

I've been trapped for too long, and I really hope she's come to our rescue, without any secrets.

I said, "Can you tell me about the situation?" ”

She said, "Just now? ”

I said, "Before you came to us." ”

She said: "Three days ago, Bamboo saw you in the camera, and the teaser also saw it, and everyone was scared enough, and then you disappeared, and we sat down together and discussed, thinking that you might be in this place, but not in the same space as us, so we stayed down and waited for you to appear again." Everyone was sleeping in the tent just now, and I came out to look for it alone with my mobile phone, but I didn't expect to see you guys......"

Pulp said, "Boss Zhou, how did you come up with the idea of asking her to adjust the time?" ”

I said, "Blind." We are all in the same place as them, and the reason why we can't see each other may be because of different times. ”

"If we get their time right, we might be out!" ”

I said, "It's possible." It's just that I suspect I'll never see them again. ”

"I'll try again." ”

Then she held up her phone and searched around. Yonhoko went with her.

By An Chunhong's side, only me and Monsoon were left.

An Chunhong asked me, "What have you all been through?" ”

I said, "Ecstasy, you know what? ”

She asked, "What is a place of ecstasy?" ”

I said, "All communication and navigation equipment was down at the same time. We also went through the Horror Slope, and when we got to that hellish place, it was like a nightmare, and we started killing each other, and a lot of people died......"

She said, "And then? ”

I said, "Then, it was as if we had gone out to a place called Wu Cheng, and we stayed for many days, and it turned out that it was an apparition, and it didn't exist at all. We had no choice but to retreat to this lake. ”

She looked at the lake not far away and said, "By the way, how can a lake come out of this place?" ”

I said, "I don't know." ”

She said, "Saltwater lakes? ”

I said, "Light." ”

She shook her head: "Impossible, I've never heard of water on Lop Nur!" ”

I said, "A lot of things are impossible, but they happen one by one." You couldn't see the lake before? ”

"I can't see it, it's just a low-lying desert," she said. ”

I said, "Then why did you stop?" ”

"First, someone saw a triangular stone, and then we saw a parchment drawing......

I said, "Paint? ”

She said, "Well, like a child's drawing." ”

I sensitively asked, "What did you draw?" ”

She hesitated for a moment before saying, "A lake, surrounded by grass ......."

My heart skipped a beat and I looked at Monsoon.

There is no doubt that this lake is fake.

I said to Monsoon, "Don't say it to anyone else. ”

She was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood what I meant and nodded.

Then, I said to An Chunhong: "By the way, after the disappearance of Wu Cheng, we found many passages under the Sun Tomb, and it is said that only one is right. There was a guy named Bibi, and he got out and went to Easter Island in the South Pacific......"

An Chunhong said: "South Pacific? Easter Island? ”

Speaking of this, she suddenly laughed, like someone secretly stabbed her armpit in the back, she kept holding back, she couldn't hold it back, and burst out laughing......

I stared at her and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

She said, "How could he possibly get out of Easter Island? It's amazing......"

With that, she put the rucksack down, opened it, and took out a delicate globe from it. She pointed to the globe and said, "Look, Lop Nur is here." Then she turned the globe around: "Easter Island is here, just on the other side of the world." ”

I looked at the globe and asked her, "Why do you have the globe with you?" ”

"I like to travel everywhere, and every time I go to a country or a region, I draw a mark on the globe to make it more intuitive," she said. You see, it's covered with my footprints. ”

On the globe, sure enough, there are a lot of red checkmarks.

They're back.

I looked at her, and she shook her head.

I said to An Chunhong: "You can't go back for the time being, so you can only stay with us." ”

An Chunhong looked around, smiled bitterly and said, "I came to the rescue, and I became rescued in a blink of an eye." It's okay, just let it be. ”

When they got back to the tent, the three girls got some food, and everyone ate it.

In the middle of this, An Chunhong asked some questions slowly, many of which were relatively rudimentary, such as, why don't we drive to find a way and try to leave Lop Nur? For example, are there people buried under the grave-like sandbags by the lake? Like, can those vehicles still drive away? For example, Is Yonhoko the first team or the second team? Like, how much more do we have to eat and how much gasoline do we have? Like, whose guitar is that? Wait a minute.

Monsoon answered her one by one.

After eating, I said to An Chunhong: "Tonight, you and I sleep in a tent, is it okay?" ”

"No problem," she said. ”

I let the three girls sleep together, and I supervise the suspicious woman who came out of nowhere.

At least the monsoon will understand what I mean.

I took An Chunhong into the tent in Baisha, then returned to the tent in the monsoon and took the electric shocker.

Juice whispered to me, "Why did you leave us?" ”

I said, "I'm going to have a good talk with her." ”

"You're not going to like people, are you?" ”

I looked at her in a daze, and it took me a long time to say, "This joke is too cold." ”

Monsoon said, "Her hair reminds me of killing Matt." ”

I laughed, "Have you ever seen that old Kill Matt?" ”

Pulp said, "What is Kill Matt?" ”

I said: "A very closed circle, alternative and grotesque, with hair dyed red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, blowing all kinds of 'hedgehog heads' that break through the laws of gravity, drawing eyeliner, wearing heavy makeup, hanging iron chains, wearing body rings, always appearing in groups." In their eyes, all normal people are rustic. ”

"If I meet a man like this on the street, I'm going to beat him up." ”

Ji Feng smiled: "Pulp, have you ever seen a killer Matt go out alone?" ”

I laughed too.

By this time, it was already dark, and it was a little cold.

I turned on Bibi's headlights, and if Bai Sha came back, I was afraid that he would not find the camp.

Then, I went back to An Chunhong's tent, where she was digging into her backpack in the dark, as if looking for clothes. I said, "Put on your clothes and go to sleep." ”

"I'm looking for a dental kit," she said. ”

She found it, got up and walked out of the tent, and went to the lake to wash.

I got into Shinobu Miyamoto's sleeping bag and left Shirasa's sleeping bag for her.

After a while, she came back and got into the sleeping bag of the white sand.

There was a bit of wind, and the tent "snapped" sound.

As she spoke, she felt something odoo getting closer and closerβ€”yes, she had appeared, lying next to me, less than 3 meters away from me.

I suddenly said, "Are you sleepy?" ”

She said in the dark: "I'm not sleepy, I usually sleep late." ”

I said, "Let's talk." ”

She said, "Let's talk." ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Now it's just the two of us, and I want to break the skylight and say something." ”

She said, "You...... What do you mean? ”

I said, "I know, it's going to be hard for us to get out of Lop Nur." ”

"Rescuers are looking for you," she said. ”

I didn't answer her and continued, "I know, I'm going to die here." ”

She said, "You're the only male, and if you're so pessimistic, what are we going to do?" ”

I still didn't answer her, and continued, "Normally we can't see death, so we're never sure if he exists. However, when a person is dying, the god of death is no longer hidden, and he will appear. Now I'm dying, so I'm not afraid of anything, and I want you to lift your mask. ”

She seemed stunned, and after a while she asked carefully, "Mr. Zhou, are you dehydrated...... Hallucinations? ”

I turned my head to look in the direction of her voice and said, "I'm sober." ”

She said, "So what exactly do you want to say?" ”

I continued to stare in her direction and suddenly asked, "Have you ever been present in each of our lives?" ”

She stopped speaking in the darkness.