They were a group of eleven people, twenty-four camels, carrying all kinds of supplies, set off on a journey to find the legendary ancient country, the camel bell hanging around the camel's neck, jingling all the way, for a moment, Wu Ze seemed to have been on the Silk Road in the heyday of the Han and Tang dynasties.

Of the 24 camels, 11 were used to carry people, and the other 13 were specially used to carry supplies.

These thirteen camels carried more than 2,000 kilograms of supplies, most of which were drinking water and food, and Wu Ze estimated that the drinking water and food contained by these camels should be enough for eleven of them to live in this desert for nearly a month.

In this great desert, drinking water must be carried with them, because in the depths of the desert, they do not know if they can find edible water sources, camels can drink brackish water from some of the seas passing by in the use, but people cannot.

According to the plan, it will take about seven days for them to walk from the starting point to the pre-demarcated inspection range, and after arriving at the destination, they are expected to stay there for three or five days, plus the schedule of return, so that they will need to stay in this big desert for about 20 days, so the water and food they carry should be enough.

At the beginning, Professor Zhang's assistant and his two students, the three of them came to this big desert for the first time, and it was the first time to ride a camel, so it all felt very fresh.

Luo Fatzi and Liu Rumei also rode a camel for the first time, they saw these three young people playing there, and they were also moved, they looked at Wu Ze, and saw that Wu Ze did not mean to stop them, so Luo Fatzi and Liu Rumei also joined the ranks of the three young people.

Fortunately, these camels brought by Lao Tie are very docile and obedient by him, even if they have never ridden a camel, they can ride on the camel's back steadily.

It's just that after half a day, these guys have begun to languish a little.

Walking in this kind of big desert, in addition to the yellow sand, there is only yellow sand, except for the occasional few poplar trees or sand willow and other plants, there is no good scenery, and these plants grow in long-term drought places, even the leaves seem a little listless, this way, they have long felt visual fatigue, plus the freshness when they just started to ride a camel has passed, so they can't help but settle down.

According to the plan, they started from this small town on the edge of the desert, first walked more than 20 kilometers west, and then headed south along an ancient channel of a tributary of the Tarim River.

In this morning, they had only walked more than 20 kilometers, and by the time they reached the ancient channel of the Tarim River, a tributary, it was already noon.

This tributary of the Tarim River has long been diverted, and now there is only a dry riverbed left in this place, and there are many dried reeds on the edge of this dry riverbed, which also proves that there was a glorious period of lush water and grass here.

In this dry ancient river, their group stopped to rest for a while.

"Lao Tie, when did this river divert, do you know?" Wu Ze stuffed dry food into his mouth while chatting with Lao Tie.

"I don't know this, a long time ago, there was no river in this place, I remember when I was young, there seemed to be some small seas here, but when I grew up, those seas slowly disappeared, and now there are only a few low-lying areas and some seas remain." Lao Tie looked around, and then said lightly.

They didn't stay here for long, and after filling their stomachs with dry food, they began their afternoon journey again.

All afternoon, they were heading south along this dry ancient river, and on both sides of this ancient river, there were many poplar trees that had long since dried up, and these dry poplar trees were like vigorous dragons, holding their heads unyielding in this long yellow sand.

In the evening, they found a sheltered location and set up camp, and under the command of Lao Tie, several of their young men built a sand wall more than half a meter high at the upwind mouth to resist the wind and sand that might blow at any time.

The first day's journey was a bit dull, but after a journey of dozens of kilometers in the desert, most of the people looked a little tired, and after dinner, they went to the tents they had just set up to rest.

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, they got up one after another, and after a night's rest, everyone's physical strength had almost recovered.

After a brief breakfast, they continued their camel ride into the desert.

As they continued south, the ancient river channel was long gone, and all they saw was yellow sand, the second largest mobile desert in the world, and the strong winds of the desert pushed these sand dunes into the landscape, making it difficult for those who were not familiar with the place to distinguish the topography of the place.

It's just that Lao Tie is still more familiar with this place, and he often takes some desert backpackers to visit an ancient ruins called Tukuo Mound not far in front, so with him as a guide, everyone is not afraid of getting lost here.

When it was close to noon, Wu Ze's group of eleven people arrived at this place called Tukuodun.

This mound is actually a small logistics supply point on the ancient Silk Road, and its function is similar to that of the beacon tower and the post station, which is not a large logistics supply point, after thousands of years of wind and sand, it has long been dilapidated.

They walked to this earthen mound and looked at the dilapidated ancient ruins in front of them, and they were very emotional, the ancient Silk Road, which was once full of merchants and customers, now only some remnants of the earthen walls remain.

Professor Zhang Qichen walked to the remnants of the earthen wall of this ancient ruin, looked around, and felt sorry in his heart, now these remnants of the earthen wall, it is estimated that it will not be long before they disappear into this vast desert.

They only stayed in this mound for more than half an hour, ate some dry food casually, and continued to move forward.

This mound is not far from the edge of the desert, and some backpackers often come to visit here, Luo Fatzi just took a turn there, but unfortunately, he didn't even find a copper coin, and in the end, he only found a few worthless broken pottery shards in this ancient ruin.

"This place is so poor, not even a copper plate is left." After Luo Fatzi got on the camel, he was still muttering there.

"Haha, fatty, are you still trying to find anything valuable in a place like this? In a place like this, even if there are more valuable things, they have long been picked up, and it is possible to leave them until now. Jiang Yan said with a smile.

"Ancient ruins like this, which are relatively close to the edge of the desert, have been discovered early, and most of the valuable cultural relics in them have long been looted. Li Jiahao also explained.