When Essetti talked about "karma", Gao Chao turned his head to look at Aceti, he knew that Essati was a Shiite Mu/Si/Lim, a complete creationist, so it was normal for him to say such things.

But if it is really as Xia Qing said, such a huge Soviet army, what will be the real purpose of their coming to the Pamirs?

I'm afraid that no one can answer such a question for the time being.

Next, they had to put aside some doubts and move on, because according to Aceti, the Tomb of the Western Night King they were looking for was in the hinterland of the Pamirs, that is, the central location, and their current location was still far away from the hinterland of the plateau.

Xia Qing took out the GPS from her backpack, hoping to use it to locate it to determine how far the next journey would be, but she was surprised to find that the new GPS she had just taken out had some strange problems.

GPS seemed to have been interfered with by something, and it has not been able to search for any satellite signals, Xia Qing looked at the clear sky, and finally could only shake his head and give up this idea.

And even worse, the compass also failed, and the masterful attempt to use the compass to calculate the bearing also failed, and the compass here is like a windmill that keeps turning, and the pointer points in any direction indiscriminately, and it is impossible to use at all.

In the end, they had to rely on the most primitive method, using the sun to roughly determine their direction of travel.

After a masterful analysis of the map, combined with Aceti's observation of the sun's position, they finally came to a startling conclusion.

That was the direction they were about to go, and it turned out to be the direction in which the wreckage of the scrapped trucks in front of them was going.

When they came to this conclusion, Gao Chao couldn't help but start worrying, because he thought of a possibility at once.

- where the Soviet troops were going to go. Could it be the Tomb of the Western Night King they are looking for now?

"Maybe it's just a coincidence."

Regarding this possibility, Xia Qing seemed very optimistic, in her opinion, it may just be because it happened that they were traveling in the same direction, but there was no reason for their destination to be the same. Because according to Xia Qing, the Tomb of the Western Night King was only the result of archaeological discoveries obtained in recent years, and no one knew about its existence before, so it is impossible for the Soviets to have been looking for it thirty years ago.

In any case, their course was determined, and although there were still many uncertainties about the future, their time was limited, and they had to set off immediately to follow this convoy with no end in sight. Keep moving.

The wind is always blowing, the sun is still strong, these two elements are like a pair of enemies, the wind is cold, but the sun is hot, and they work together to create an unbearable environment on this Pamir plateau.

The average altitude is already above 5,000 meters, and the air has become unusually thin. There are almost no plants and almost no animals here. At a glance, the end of the line of sight is always the vast snow-capped mountains.

On the flat Gobi, there is only a convoy of truck ruins, like a dead dragon lying between heaven and earth.

The four of them had walked all day, and before the sun was about to set, they seemed to realize that it was time to stop and rest for a while.

They are moving slowly. But at the end of the day, they rarely stopped to rest, just because they seemed to be unable to think in such an environment, their nerves became numb, and it seemed that fatigue was no longer so fatal.

- This is entirely a consequence of the lack of oxygen.

But. It is true that they do not need to use their brains to advance on this Pamir plateau, they just need to keep moving along the Soviet convoy next to them, and as for the rest of the problems, they will only have to wait until they find the legendary canyon "Yu".

At 10 p.m., they had to put a lot of effort into setting up their tents, and it had to be said that in such an environment, whatever they did was much more complicated than at low altitudes, and it was almost impossible to even have a hot dinner or a cup of hot water.

So the four of them just ate some necessary food, replenished some light salt water, and went into the tent early to rest.

There was nothing to say all night, except for the fat man, everyone else didn't sleep very well, Xia Qing didn't know when it started, some coughs, although it was not too serious, but this may indicate that she may have suffered from altitude syndrome.

When the sun shone again on the plateau the next day, everything was back to normal, the wind was still blowing, like a merciless blade, tearing at their tents, and the temperature around them rose slightly, and the fat man was the first to get up from his sleeping bag, and as usual, ready to go outside to put some water.

He walked out of the tent in a daze, his eyes too strong to open in the sunlight, and he could only squint and walk to the other side of the wreckage of the trucks.

When he finished making it convenient, lifted his pants, and was about to go back to the tent to sleep again, he stepped on something in a daze, and he fell forward without standing firmly.

The fall made him grin, got up from the ground and cursed, and looked behind him.

At this glance, he was stunned for a moment, and there was something on the ground, which immediately caught his attention.

He rubbed his eyes and took a good look, but this time, he swallowed a mouthful of spit and didn't dare to move for a long time.

It wasn't until dozens of seconds later that he bounced off the ground like a ghost, ran back to his tent with a roll, and dragged Gao Chao out of his sleeping bag.

The wind, blowing on this Gobi, brings up the dust of the stars, it buries some things, and also brings some things back to this Gobi.

What the fat man saw, it was brought back again.

Four men stood around the thing, and the thing was quietly half-buried in the sand.

It's not special, it's not big, it's like a boxy metal box, but there's a symbol on it that scares everyone who knows it.

“?”

The symbol is round, with a three-leaf shape in the middle, and the bright yellow color is particularly eye-catching, very eye-catching, and it is printed on the metal box, so it looks like a poisonous spider lying there, which makes people shudder.

There is hardly anyone who does not recognize this symbol, it has only one meaning - radioactivity.

Xia Qing moved his steps, wanting to step forward and take a closer look.

Gao Chao immediately grabbed her from behind and said, "Don't go over, don't you know this symbol?" This thing is radioactive. ”

Xia Qing shook his head and said, "Although there are radioactive symbols, I think this thing is a little familiar." ”

The fat man exclaimed, "Professor Xia, do you know this too?" ”

Xia Qing said: "I don't know, but it's a bit like an instrument I used to use - a nuclear radiation detector." ”

(To be continued.) )