At the water's edge in the early morning, the Lobu people rowed their canoes, cast their nets, and harvested their day's rations. The girl in the mirage, Inka, who also pushes a canoe down the river. Li Longsheng jumped on the boat and helped her paddle fish.

The cold breeze blew, rippling across the water, and the reeds swayed in the wind and blew across her skirt, and her face turned red.

Li Longsheng said a little shyly: "Thank you for saving my life." ”

But she laughed out loud and said that the Han people would not understand the people in the depths of the desert. There were very few Rob people, but only about a hundred people, and it was lucky for them to see an unfamiliar face once in a while.

"This is a paradise?"

Inka still shook her head, for the Rob people, this was home for generations.

Suddenly, Li Longsheng stood on the canoe and said, "Can I swim here?" ”

"No, you can't." She dragged Li Longsheng back, and then inserted the paddle into the lake water, which seemed unfathomable, and her eyes became mysterious, "Do you want to be eaten by the dragon?" ”

Since ancient times, there have been dragons in Lop Nur Daze. This divine dragon sees the head but does not see the end, the power is endless, moody, and from time to time the flood is monstrous, flooding the fields and cities of Loulan, and coming to devour the people on the shore of the lake. Two thousand years ago, there was the Loulan Divine Dragon Festival. Every winter, a pair of boys and girls are thrown into the lake, praying that the dragon will not harm one side. Later, the dragon gradually subsided and no longer haunted. Some say that the dragon died as Lop Nur dried up, and some say that the dragon migrated to the Tarim River or even Atami outside the Tien Shan......

The legend of the dragon will always remain among the Luobu people and in the hearts of the descendants of the people of the Loulan Kingdom.

"Some people also say that the dragon has always been there, but we can't see it, and I don't know when, the dragon will return to Loulan." Inka stroked her long black hair, like a dragon girl covered in scales, "That person, that's me." ”

"You're so beautiful."

Li Longsheng resisted the urge to kiss her.

It was as if there was a dragon under the water to help them paddle, and soon they reached the other side of Rob Naoer. Coming ashore through poplars and red willows, beyond the bushes, the endless wasteland, like a national border, locked them firmly inside.

The people here only know how to fish and graze, they have never been outside, and they don't know that there is war and tyranny. If there had not been a desert to stop others from entering, the Rob people would have perished long ago.

After living in Luo Bu Naoer for a few days, Li Longsheng was proficient in many languages, and found that the language of the Luo Bu people was low, and many Tocharian elements of the ancient Indo-European race were retained. This is a dead language that has just been deciphered in recent years, and it originates from ancient documents found in Xinjiang, which also has the credit of the great French sinologist Berch. He found that some of the pottery in the village was very similar to the cultural relics in the Milan ruins, and even had the same Chinese Lishu and Lu Wen, indicating that the ancient city of Loulan was not far from here.

That night, Li Longsheng and Yingka walked among the reeds to watch the reed flowers being blown into the starry sky by the wind. The sound is silent, the water waves are quiet, as if going back to the era of Ban Chao, a foreigner, who came to the ancient country of Loulan two thousand years ago.

"Inka, let me ask you a question, why do you speak Chinese?"

"My mom is Rob, but my dad isn't."

She picked up a pebble and threw it at Rob Naoer, bouncing seven or eight times on the surface of the water before sinking.

"He's Han?"

"No, he's a Europa."

The water surface of Lop Nur is full of stars. The brightest stars on the water are Inka's eyes.

Li Longsheng stared at her eyes: "Europa? Which country? ”

"I don't know."

Yingka can't distinguish between Western countries, only "Europa" in Chinese.

"Can you tell what he looks like?"

"I've never met him. He left us before I was even born. Mom said that Dad had a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, and a pale face...... Anyway, it's different from you Han people, and it's also different from the Kashgar people, Hotan people, and Yarkand people. ”

Suddenly, Li Longsheng remembered a person: "Do you know what year you were born?" ”

"You Han people say Gengzi year."

"The beginning of the year, the end of the year?"

"End of the year." Inka immediately sensed something, "You know my dad?" ”

Li Longsheng was silent for a long time, and a name was about to come out - Sven Heding.

In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, in 1900 AD, the year of Gengzi of the Chinese, the eight-nation alliance army entered the city of Beijing, but Sven Heding came to Lop Nur and discovered the ancient city of Loulan.

In the spring of that year, the only Europa who came to Lop Nur was this great Swedish explorer.

Twenty years ago, Sven Hedin was thirty-five years old, the most attractive age for men. As an explorer who came to find Loulan, he would naturally attract Loulan girls two thousand years later.

"I don't know."

Li Longsheng lied, the life and death of the archaeological expedition team is uncertain, who knows if he can see it again in this life?

The mixed-race girl Yingka, who turned out to be the daughter of Sven Heding, shed half Loulan and half Nordic blood.

The Tocharian ancestry of the Loulan people, the Germanic ancestry of the Norsemen, and the Turkic, Qiang, Mongol and even Han Chinese ancestry of the Luobu people together sculpt the almost perfect facial features of the Inka. But overall, her Aryan ancestry predominates.

A few days ago, a mirage appeared in the desert, and her appearance floated in the sky, which caused Li Longsheng to be haunted by his dreams, it turned out that God had eyes, in order to let Sven Hedin see his daughter.

Inka said that his father had come from the other side of the desert and had only stayed in Lop Nur for a few months. It wasn't until he said goodbye that his mother found out that she was pregnant.

In the winter of Gengzi's year, Yingka was born. When she was seven years old, she followed her mother out of the desert and came to the county seat of Wuqiang.

The county magistrate's wife had no children, so she kindly took in their mother and daughter and taught this beautiful little girl to read and write. Yingka is very smart, she has learned the "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Text", "Hundred Family Names", "Disciple Rules", and even writes a handful of beautiful italic characters......

Five years ago, my mother died of illness, and the county lord was replaced. The lonely Yingka buried her mother and followed the camel caravan back to her hometown in Lop Nur.

"Twenty years ago, my mom saved my dad in the desert. Twenty years later, I also saved a man in the desert......" Inka's eyes sparkled, "Fortunately, this man is not ugly, fat, old, or bad, but a young, kind and intelligent man." ”

For the Rob people, such an expression is subtle enough. Li Longsheng naturally understood, but looked up at the starry sky: "Have you seen the big triangle in winter?" ”

"What?"

"O stars, winter looks very clear, you see the four stars of Betelgeuse in Orion, Sirius in Canis Major, and the three stars of Nanhe in Canis Minor."

Following Li Longsheng's fingers, Yingka smiled: "Oh, I often see these stars, they all have names." ”

He grabbed the half-breed girl's arm, formed a straight line with her eyes, and pointed to Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion, and in a clockwise direction, he connected Sirius, the three stars of the South River, the three stars of the North River in Gemini, the five cars and two stars in the constellation Auriga, the star of Biga in Taurus, and finally returned to Betelgeuse, and drew a huge hexagon.

Li Longsheng seemed to return to the Cambridge Observatory: "There are three stars in the middle, which is the belt of Orion. Behold, from the second belt is connected to the head of Orion, and extends outwards about eight or nine times the distance......"

"I saw it! There is a very bright star! ”

"That's the North Star."

Li Longsheng remembered the Arctic Ice Sea, an isolated island located on the magnetic point of the Arctic. He stood behind Inka, clinging to the girl's back and grabbing her arm. The smell of black hair resembles a seductive ambergris. The other hand was around her waist. Her waist was thin, but it was tough and even hot.

She looked back, her gaze sultry. Lop Nur in winter is very cold, and the bodies are close to each other, passing body temperature to each other.

Li Longsheng closed his eyes, recalled his past life, bit her ear and said softly, "Yingka...... Inka ...... Inka ......"

"If only it could be like this forever."

She called out to him in the dark, with the wildness of the wilderness, like a lone she-wolf who wanted to devour a man in one gulp. Li Longsheng didn't think about anything else, and fell into the pile of reeds and grass by the water's edge, and the night was long. The soul is dominated by the flesh, the intellect is destroyed by desire, and only the most primitive part remains, tightly bonded......