CHAPTER 22 -- THE DESERT WIND
On the desert that travels thousands of miles, there are carriages and horses, camels, or shoulders, goods exchanges, and money delivery. The business in the queue, hundreds of thousands, head to tail do not look at each other, shuttle with guard dogs, camel bell symphony, several miles can be heard, the wheels of the cart, heavy ruts. The dart masters leggings and wrists, breeches, marched forward under the banner fluttering in the wind. This road is very easy to hide, although there are not many people, but everyone is covered with cloth to resist the yellow sand. Except for a pair of eyes, it is almost impossible to tell who is who. The desert was either scorching or cold, and the dart masters were not in the mood to speak.
During this period, although several carrier pigeons flew in, they were all stopped by Yu Ji. Yu Ji intercepted the letter and saw that there was really Zhang Heiwu asking about the three dart masters who entered the Qinglou. In order not to arouse more suspicion, Yu Ji replaced the letter inside, imitated Zhang Heiwu's handwriting, wrote some words of daily inquiry, and tied the letter to the pigeon's leg, and asked the carrier pigeon to turn around and then go to Xiao Zhang.
Soon the carrier pigeon flew back again, Yu Ji opened the reply letter and looked at it, as expected, Xiao Zhang replied that the dart masters are all very good, everything is normal and so on. Yu Ji looked at the letter again, and felt that there was no omission, so he let the carrier pigeon fly away. A few days later, a team of men and horses had penetrated deep into the heart of the desert, and there were no more carrier pigeons.
The car was covered with waterproof tarpaulins with a lot of large buckets, and when Lin He walked by, he pushed a little harder and found that they were all empty buckets. Other cars have some daily necessities, rice, flour and dry food. There are a lot of these things, and they are not the rations of the dart master and the officials who go with the dart. It seems that there are some people living there in these Lop Nur, and it may be a garrison camp of the Turks.
Although it is difficult to walk in the desert, there have been accidents such as camels reversing and overturning, but fortunately there are no desert robbers. Just walked all the way to Lop Nur safely. On the way, Yu Ji met an eagle that was hovering around and foraging. Yu Ji asked the eagle if he could help him, as the king of all birds, it was a great honor to be willing to deign to ask this, and it was simply the eagle's dream to follow the jade chicken all the way. "There's Brother Lao Ying." Yu Ji muttered.
In the heart of this desert there really is a military camp of the Turks. The entourage of the government instructed the dart master to unload the daily supplies from the car, and arranged for the dart master to enter the tent to rest. Lin He and the three of them were naturally assigned to a tent. Wu Zhiheng pricked up his ears and waited for the people from the government to leave, and quietly lifted a corner of the tent. I saw that the camp was full of Turkic soldiers patrolling. They spoke Turkic with a mouthful of Turkic, not only Wu Zhiheng couldn't understand it, but Lin He and Yu Ji also seemed to listen to heavenly books.
"It seems that the language is incomprehensible, and this time there is no way to use the Dafa of stealing beams for pillars." Wu Zhiheng shook his head and put down the tent.
"Brother Eagle." Yu Ji greeted in a low voice, and the eagle leaned over and was about to rush down when he heard Yu Ji's greeting, "Stop, stop, wait a minute." Yu Ji panicked, took out a piece of skin, and wrapped his forearms and hands tightly. The claws of such a predatory bird of prey are not ornaments, Yu Ji is a mortal fetus, and a slightly excited paw of a bird of prey is enough.
After the eagle landed in Yu Ji's hand, one man won and muttered in a language that humans could not understand, and the eagle then wandered in a circle at low altitude and rose out of thin air, looking down at the ground in the sky. Yu Ji listened attentively, and gradually he couldn't hear the heavy voice. The three of them closed their eyes and meditated, and after a while, they only heard a sharp eagle call, Yu Ji immediately responded, as if to make the eagle quieter, and then wrapped it in a skin and beckoned it to come down, Yu Ji listened while translating to Wu Zhiheng and Lin He.
The eagle saw the Turkic soldiers carrying the wagon to the water's edge in Lop Nur, stopping at a tunnel entrance, and then unloading the vats, and someone came out of the tunnel to pick them up, and then successively transported the vats to the tunnel. It seems that the inside of the tunnel is the place where the stone grease water is stored. This tunnel is at the water's edge, which is probably related to the drop in the water level of Lop Nur.
It's just that this terrain is too unfavorable for sneak attacks. There are no flowers and trees in the bare desert, no pavilions and pavilions, unless you know how to escape the ground, how to hide from the ears and eyes of these elite soldiers, and reach the tunnel. There is no need to build any fortifications in this desert, and there is already nowhere to hide.
Yu Ji asked the eagle to look at the structure of the entire barracks. The eagle had good news a moment later, and he had found the granary in the barracks, which was not too far from the tent where Lin and the others were resting. As the saying goes, the time and place are favorable, and it is night, and dark clouds suddenly gather in the desert with very little precipitation, covering the originally bright moonlight. At the same time, there was a gust of wind, and the sound of the wind disturbed people's hearing, and even the most sensitive eagle could not catch a galloping rabbit in such weather.
When the wind rose, Lin He and the three of them jumped out, like sharpened knives and winding arrows. The three of them walked as fast as if they were flying close to the ground, and after a very short touch of the ground, they immediately jumped into the air, and grains of sand flew backwards from the soles of their feet. When you pass by, you can't tell if it's a person passing by, or just a gust of wind passing by.
Some people can hide hidden weapons all over their bodies, and Lin can do the same, but she is more clever. What she picked up casually was a hidden weapon. A single sand and stone, a flower and a tree, and even a stream of air condensed at the snap of a finger can hit the lightest catkins and the thickest armor. Now Lin He was holding twenty-three pebbles in her hand, and every time she met a guard, a small pebble flew out of her hand, and then one of the guards fell limply in the desert.
How Lin attracted Wu Zhiheng, in addition to her beautiful appearance, also has a cute personality. She never seemed to have killed anyone, she didn't want to end someone else's life, and she cherished her own life. Every day with her, Wu Zhiheng feels very happy.
She was born with an upward force, like a tree of life, full of vitality. Over time, the people around her also began to cherish their lives. You start to be picky about yourself, and you no longer want to deal with your time casually. Until one day, you break through the requirements of worldly evaluation, and you begin to be as vibrant as her.
Lin He was guarding the road to the grain depot, she spread her hands and counted, and there were still seventeen stones left. Wu Zhiheng and Yu Ji had already set fire around the grain depot, and now the smoke was billowing out, rising higher and higher in the night. More and more soldiers flocked to the grain depot. It didn't seem to be inland, the grain depot was the lifeline of the soldiers, and the commanders were panicked, forgetting to stop the soldiers from rambling around, and no one wanted to die in this desert with no end in sight.
And Lin He and the three of them took advantage of this stall to save Zhao from Wei and rushed to the waterside of Lop Nur.