Chapter 1 Arriving in Xinjiang for the First Time
As soon as I stepped out of the hatch of the cabin, a wind with a unique smell of Xinjiang mixed with a chill rushed towards me. Zhang Siyuan, www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, hugged his arms, looked up at the blue sky above his head, and sighed: "Why is it so cold on a sunny day, the sun here doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic." Look at the big sun in Yunnan, that hot feeling ......"
Wang Zhen glanced at him, motioned him to shut up, looked at the people around him who were dressed and looked like Xinjiang or Mongolian, and said, "No matter how you say it, you have to do things on other people's territory, so it's better for you to talk a few words." ”
Wang Linshuo asked while looking at his phone, "Did you bring thick clothes?" The weather forecast says that today's maximum temperature will only be 16 degrees Celsius, and it will be very cold in the desert at night. ”
I was very apprehensive, biting my lip and passing past the taxi driver soliciting customers and a group of Uyghur-speaking men, and in a blink of an eye, I saw Hu San with a serious face in the crowd. He kept looking around, his eyes were a little dazed, and his short stature was almost buried in a group of big men. Zhang Siyuan waved his hand and shouted, "Look here!" ”
His expression relaxed suddenly, and he walked over quickly and said with a smile: "Your efficiency is not low, and it has only been five hours since you received my call." ”
I sighed, "Don't talk about that, let me relax for a while." Why didn't Uncle Lu come with you, he's fine, right? ”
Hu San smiled bitterly: "His body is okay, but his brain is like a broken watermelon, and it is rotten into water." I don't know what he suffered in the Ghost Barrier Forest, he forgot a lot of things that happened before, and I talked to him for a long night to finally get him to figure out his current situation. ”
I finally relaxed a little, and Wang Linshuo asked again: "What about the man in black, what is going on with his eyes?" ”
An unbearable expression flashed on Hu San's face as he walked, and he turned his head: "He is still in the hospital in Yunnan, and Zhang Lu asked Chen Ni to accompany him." I don't know what his condition really is, I hope he's okay. ”
I nodded silently and followed him into a van. Zhang Siyuan looked at the driver with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and said to himself: "Why do we have to sit on bread every time we travel?" ”
Hu San ignored his words and said to the driver: "Go to the address I told you." Before his words could land, he suddenly turned his head, twisted his neck and asked, "Which of you has seen Li Qingling and Li Xiguan later?" ”
We looked at each other, Zhang Siyuan shook his head a little uneasily, rubbed his hands and said, "We came back before we completed the task assigned to us by Uncle Lu, he won't do anything to us, right?" ”
Hu San snorted coldly and said, "He wants to do something to you, but he can't do it." ”
I leaned against the car window, looking at the speeding shops and streets, and couldn't help but secretly sigh at the rapid development of Urumqi. It's the golden October, it's the harvest season, and the melons and fruits on the fruit stalls are surprisingly big, and the prices are even more eyeball-eyed. The leaves of the camphor swirled and floated down, and the sun was slanting like a broken balance, hiding behind the distant mountains with their heads bowed and their faces red. I looked at this natural picture full of the atmosphere of the market and sighed: "It turns out that Xinjiang is so beautiful. ”
The driver stopped the car, leaned against the side of the road, and smiled in half-baked Mandarin: "It's always beautiful here - the destination has arrived." ”
I looked up and saw a small gray six-story building in front of me. Hu San settled the car money, pushed the car door and got out of the car neatly, and motioned for us to come with him.
As soon as you walk into the entrance of this unit building, a smell of old things hits you. The narrow corridor can only accommodate two people to pass side by side, and the corridor and the door of the residents are plastered with all kinds of small advertisements. Hu San staggered up to the third floor, knocked on the door and shouted to the confused us: "Come up!" ”
The door creaked open, and a white face poked out. He looked Hu Sanhe up and down and said, "You were the ones who called Lao Liu?" ”
Hu San squeezed out a smile and nodded. He hummed, motioned for us to enter, and asked aloud, "Ten cartons of milk, right?" ”
Wang Zhen and I looked at each other suspiciously, looked at the chaotic indoor environment, and followed them to the inner room in confusion. The white man picked up the beer cans on the soles of his feet and threw them in the trash, paused the movie on the computer, opened the large closet in the corner, took out a black mountaineering bag and said: "Lao Liu went out to run errands, and he helped you pack the things in the bag in advance." You order, tell me if you are missing. ”
He threw himself in front of the computer after speaking, staring at the figure on the screen with his eyes firmly focused, and I was embarrassed to bother. Hu San took a closer look and said with a smile: "What's the name of this woman?" It looks good to my taste. ”
Before his words landed, Wang Zhen and Zhang Siyuan, who lowered their heads and turned over their mountaineering bags, let out an exclamation in unison. When I heard the sound, I turned around and saw Wang Linshuo's small eyes, pointing to the mountaineering bag, and his face was full of surprise.
The white man whispered a little impatiently, "Be quiet." Have you never seen a gun or a detonator? ”
I was so shocked that Hu San walked over quickly and took out a black flannel bag from his bag. He glanced inside, a smile appeared on his face, rubbed through the bag, and said with a smile: "Yes, very good, Lao Liu is really in place." Three guns, two detonators, and two daggers, and with these, I'm sure I'll get out alive. ”
The white man said without raising his head: "He bought the best goggles, GPS, etc., we don't dare to joke with your life." Before leaving, a word of caution, if these are discovered, you must not cross the river and tear down the bridge. ”
Hu San picked up his bag and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have already thought of a way not to be discovered." ”
He walked out briskly, and the white man said goodbye absentmindedly, his ass continued to stick to the stool, and he didn't have the slightest intention of getting up to see us off. I shook my head and said to myself, this is a weirdo, but I closed the door with me as I left.
Before he left the building, Wang Zhen asked with a surprised face, "How did he get these things?" ”
Hu San closed his mouth tightly and walked forward quickly, until Xiaolou was left behind, and then sighed: "You are too impatient, you asked me such a sensitive question in the building, what if the residents in the building heard some clues?" Their boss has a lot of ways and is good at getting what you want from various sources and buying it for you at the most suitable price. Wouldn't it be appropriate for you to save time and not be afraid to spend more? ”
Wang Zhen nodded, and Zhang Siyuan said with a sigh: "It turned out to be a black market purchase." There must be some grave robbers or criminals who come to him to buy something, right? Also, how much does he cost for this set? ”
Hu San replied: "Ten thousand." He doesn't sell everything, and people like terrorists or people who do despicable things will be blacklisted. ”
He led us around left and right to the street in front of the passenger terminal. He pushed away the driver of the black car who was greeting customers, glanced at his watch, and said, "In about seven or eight minutes, the bus to Korla will leave here." We waited on the side of the road, and when we saw the bus, we just waved desperately. ”
Zhang Siyuan nodded: "If it weren't for the security check in the passenger station, we would have walked in with a swagger." He suddenly sighed strangely and exclaimed, "Didn't you say that time was pressing, so why did you take a bus instead of taking a taxi?" ”
Hu San frowned, the expression on his face was very distorted. He rubbed his foot against the ground, paused and said, "Actually, the time between the bus and the taxi is not much different...... Zhang Lu didn't know what to do, so he had to ask me to bring you back after ten o'clock in the evening. He said he was going to do things that would determine whether or not the trip to the desert would go smoothly. ”
Wang Linshuo and I looked at each other and asked, "You didn't ask him in detail what the hell was going on?" ”
Hu San shook his head: "I asked more than once, but he was tight-lipped, and even threatened that as long as I followed him, he would find an opportunity to kill me in the desert." He raised his head and snorted, "Am I going to be afraid of him?" I'm just willing to give him some privacy. ”
I was suspicious in my heart, and I was about to ask him what herbs he was looking for in the desert, but Wang Zhen suddenly raised his hands and shouted. I looked up and saw a blue bus slowly approaching us.
The driver had a tattered cap and didn't even look at us, closed the door and started the car. A middle-aged woman leaning on the seat jumped up and said to us, "Buy a ticket, eighty for one person, a total of 400." ”
I paid the money and walked back in my chair, catching a glimpse of seven or eight empty seats in the last row on the left. Just as I was about to walk over happily, three people sitting on the right side who had only two eyes wrapped in black gauze suddenly jumped into my eyes.
The other man's eyes paused in my face and turned out the window. I thought I might just be an Islamic woman, and I walked to my seat and did it myself. Just as I was about to talk to Wang Linshuo, I saw the man in black gauze sitting next to me and began to tremble violently.