Chapter 20: Into the Desert

Walking on the snow and seaside, the flat sand is reckless and yellow into the sky

The lonely desert, majestic and solemn, the rolling sand dunes meander and extend to the sky, the long yellow sand dances with the wind, the hot air wants to roast people, in this endless sea of sand, Shaoshan and his party walk slowly, the camel bells are crisp and pleasant, and the irritability of people's hearts is brushed away.

At the beginning of the Kunlun Glacier, not long after the investigation of Professor Chen and others began, the sound of Gawa's gunfire was heard in the distance, Shao Shan knew that a snowstorm was coming, and under his strong request, everyone quickly evacuated.

Everyone just returned to the ground, the blizzard came as scheduled, the howling cold wind, the crisp snowflakes, nature unreservedly exposed its minions, so that the members of the archaeological team turned pale, extremely unwell, everyone could only rest temporarily in the local garrison barracks, after a day and a night, the wind stopped and the snow stopped, but the wide ice crevasses were completely buried, which made Professor Chen and others regretful.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shao Shan and Shirley Yang had an in-depth conversation with Professor Chen, explaining in detail the dangers of going on this trip to find the Exquisite Ancient City, but Professor Chen's obsession with the Western Regions was beyond the imagination of the two, and they didn't want to miss this opportunity anyway.

In the end, after repeated consultations, Professor Chen and Professor Hao accompanied them, and Chu Jian, Ye Yixin, and Sa Dipeng, the three young team members withdrew from the mission, which was really too different from their imagination, originally thought it was just an ordinary expedition archaeological mission, but I didn't expect so many strange things to happen, almost even Shao Shan and Shirley Yang got in, and under Shao Shan's persuasion, the three young team members ended the mission naturally.

After sending off the three young team members, Shao Shan, Hu Bayi, Fat Man, Shirley Yang, Professor Chen and Professor Hao embarked on a desert journey again.

Hu Bayi had entered the desert with the army for training, knew the danger of the desert, and proposed to find a local guide who was familiar with the desert, which was unanimously agreed by everyone.

An Liman was detained by the police station because he could not explain the whereabouts of the last wave of foreign tourists, and thanks to Professor Chen's identity, he was given a chance to make meritorious contributions.

Under a series of coercion and temptation from Hu Bayi and the fat man, An Liman finally agreed to take everyone into the desert.

Entering the desert, it is natural to be fully prepared, now there are only seven people left in this team, the trip should be much faster, the amount of food on the camel can last about a month, the water is enough to use for more than ten days, but it can be replenished again in several oases and dark rivers on the way, in addition, An Liman also prepared several large bags of yogurt soup.

Everything was ready, and the group officially set off, according to the predetermined route, the group was to set off from Bosten Lake to the southwest, along the Peacock River for a while, until they found the ancient channel to the south.

In the first two days of entering the desert, everyone's interest was quite high, after all, for everyone living in the inland city, everything here was new, even Shao Shan was no exception, after all, this was also his first time entering the desert.

After walking through the bend of the Peacock River and entering the edge of the desert, the environment gradually became worse, and the excitement of everyone gradually subsided.

After passing the Holy Sepulchre Mountain, you will reach the edge of the Black Desert, which is a large mobile desert, where the wind blows the sand dunes, the landscape changes day by day, without any features, and the ancient river channel has long since disappeared.

An Li is full of living maps in the desert, and has led many people into the desert, but he is not sure to lead everyone to find the Zidu Dark River in the black desert, he persuaded everyone to turn back several times, but where are the people willing to give up, which makes him quite helpless.

In the desert, the scorching sun during the day hangs overhead like a big stove, making it difficult to walk, and in order to avoid the scorching sun at noon, everyone can only travel overnight and set up tents to rest during the day.

In the early morning of this day, the first rays of sunlight rose from the eastern horizon, reflecting the clouds on the horizon, and the sand dunes in the desert were shrouded in a layer of glow, and the dry poplars and rippled yellow sand were reflected in golden yellow, thick colors, and built a magnificent picture scroll between heaven and earth.

Everyone ran all night, it was the time of sleepiness, seeing this kind of scenery, they couldn't help but be refreshed, only An Liman stared at the morning sun in the east, and there was a faint trace of uneasiness on his face, Hu Bayi also noticed a trace of wrong, the old saying has clouds and sunshine do not go out, and if the sunset travels thousands of miles, the fiery clouds in the morning are not a good sign.

Shao Shan looked at such a scene, but his heart was extremely solemn: the black sandstorm is coming!

Hu Bayi hurriedly asked An Liman about the situation, and the reply he got surprised him, the desert is about to wind, and it is a very strong wind, even if a sand wall is built, it can't be stopped, if you can't feel the ruins of the ancient city of the West Night in one breath, everyone is likely to be buried alive in this desert!

However, just as everyone was about to get on the camel and hurry away, they saw An Liman unhurriedly taking out the blanket, kneeling on it, and reverently starting the morning class.

Seeing An Liman's calm and relaxed appearance, everyone couldn't help but relax.

"Leave him alone, everyone get on the camel first!" Shao Shan knew that this was not a joke, and hurriedly ordered everyone to get ready.

"Hey, Brother Shao, do you look at that old man, it looks like there is a sand ......?" Before the fat man's words fell, he saw An Liman seem to have changed into a different person, rolled up the blanket in three or two times, jumped on the camel like a spring, and ran first, and his agile skills made the fat man stunned.

Everyone couldn't help but curse secretly: "This fucking dead old man." In such an urgent situation, he was in the mood to pray slowly, and now he is running faster than a rabbit.

The camel seemed to feel the danger signal from the sky, like crazy, shook off the four big hooves and ran wildly in the desert, everyone sat on it, the bump was so bad, I couldn't help lying on the back of the camel, Shao Shan rode the camel and followed the last broken back, so as to avoid someone falling off the camel and getting lost in this desert.

Not long after, a breeze blew across the sand dunes, rolling up wisps of fine sand, the sky gradually darkened in the distance, the storm came very quickly, rolling yellow sand covered the sky and the sun, like a raging yellow dragon, about to swallow everything up, everywhere was overwhelming yellow sand, everyone could not distinguish the direction at all.

In the chaos, Professor Chen's body lying on the camel was shaky, and he almost fell down several times, Shao Shan had been guarding against this early in the morning, and had been following him closely, and at this time he hurriedly jumped off the camel and strode away.

He was astonishingly fast, three points faster than a camel, and soon walked in parallel with Professor Chen, taking out the rope he had prepared and bypassing Professor Chen, and fixing Professor Chen to the camel.

"Thank you, thank you, Xiao Shao...... Comrade! Professor Chen thanked him inarticulately, his consciousness was still awake at this time, and he naturally knew that Shao Shan was saving him.

"You're welcome!" Shao Shan hurriedly returned to his camel.

Without the intermediate rest and delay, everyone's journey was undoubtedly much faster, and Shirley Yang at the front vaguely saw a section of the ruined city wall in front of him, which was the remains of an ancient city.

The people are saved!