Chapter 398: Quicksand in the Night
There is no desert that you can't get out of, as long as you have the determination to persevere. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Master Puji and I, along with the Black Qilin, destroyed the soul of the golden body and rushed to our companions, and now we can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Zarile suggested that everyone continue on their journey while it was dark and hot, but I was too tired to lift my feet, and without transportation, we would be tired of hiking in the desert.
Zheng Xiumin decided to let us rest for an hour first, and then continue on our way after I regained my strength. Zhu Jianfang asked me: "What about the connector you are talking about?" ”
I closed my eyes and looked around, and there was no trace of He Maogong except for lonely souls and wild ghosts. I opened my eyes and said, "They may not have arrived yet, but I'm sure they'll come to meet us!" ”
Zarile was a little unconvinced, but everyone here agreed to let me rest for an hour, except for the Tibetan soldiers he brought to support him.
Zheng Xiumin took the opportunity to count our numbers, Xiao Shao and Zhu Jianfang were still there, but my comrades-in-arms Yu Kang, Xiao Su, veteran He Sheng and Shen Mingdao sacrificed, Zharile gave me some compressed biscuits and water bottles, and gave me a Magnum pistol for self-defense.
During our break, he and Zheng Xiumin discussed how to return to the country after leaving the desert.
Zarile insisted on returning the same way, while Zheng Xiumin suggested a detour to Yunnan, but he quickly persuaded the latter.
A detour to Yunnan would mean that we would have to cross India and enter Vietnam, which would not only be a long way away, but also a much more dangerous one.
Master Puji said, "Actually, we can go all the way north and return to the border from the Tanggula Pass, so that we don't have to cross the Himalayas." ”
After all, the Himalayas are not easy to climb.
I hurriedly opened my eyes and said, "We must not go back the way we came, otherwise our result will be the same as Alimishe, and in the end only one madman and a wounded Tibetan mastiff can go back alive!" ”
Zarile immediately glared at me and asked, "How can you be so sure?" ”
I confessed: "Death will not allow us to leave this desert alive, and the heavenly general Nayong will only allow one man and one dog to leave alive from the Broken Dragon Canyon!" ”
Ge was stunned and said: "As long as we can cross the Danlingeri Snow Peak, I can ask the military region to send a helicopter to take us back, so that we don't have to go through the Broken Dragon Canyon!" ”
After hearing this, Hu Banxian hurriedly said: "If you can still contact the military region, then let them send a helicopter to take us back quickly, otherwise I'm afraid we won't be able to get out of this desert!" ”
Zharile shook his head, stood up, shook off the yellow sand on his body, and said: "Don't talk nonsense, let's continue to hurry, hurry up and leave this desert, we will not be out of danger for a day if we don't get out of this desert!" ”
Xiao Shao asked again: "Then which direction are we going?" ”
Zharile said categorically: "I am the captain of the rescue team, you all have to obey my orders, let's go back the same way!" Xiao Yuan, you should have rested enough, right? ”
I raised my wrist and looked at my watch, and it was now 4:15 a.m., and I had recovered a lot of strength, so I stood up, and everyone got up, and Zarile determined his position again, and called two mastiffs to explore the way.
Zheng Xiumin ordered Xiao Shao and Zhu Jianfang to be on guard with guns, and Zharile said indifferently: "What are you afraid of, if we encounter hyenas and vultures, we will beat them down as dry food to satisfy our hunger!" ”
I walked behind me as I pondered Midorihime's whereabouts.
At 5:17 a.m., I saw a morning star appear in the eastern night sky, and it was almost dawn.
However, the morning star disappeared in a flash, and the black unicorn and the other Tibetan mastiff stopped moving forward and barked at the front.
Zharile also felt the danger, and immediately shouted: "Everyone with guns on alert, no, hurry up and get down!" ”
I was also accustomed to lying down quickly on the ground, and I felt the desert trembling violently below me, and then we were all drawn to the bottom of the desert by a great attraction.
Is it quicksand? But quicksand doesn't have such a big suction?
In the exclamation, we were buried in the desert with our human belts, and this yellow sand carried us like a rolling Yellow River and flowed forward.
I hurriedly closed my eyes and saw that we were really flowing rapidly in a muddy river. But a turbid wave hit me on my head and face, and I didn't change it in one breath, my eyes went black, and I passed out.
The black unicorn carried me along the sand stream, Zheng Xiumin and Zharile both took out their gas masks and put them on, and we still followed a Tibetan mastiff down the river.
At the end of the sandflow was still a desert, and when I opened my eyes, a fiery red sun was behind us.
The skin on Zheng Xiumin's face was already chapped, and my mouth felt dry, but all the compressed biscuits and kettles on our bodies were gone.
Zarile unbuttoned his winter suit, revealing a lead bucket, and a smile bloomed on his swarthy face that looked like cracked black bark.
"Xiao Yuan, your physical strength is not good? I'm going to have to work out in the future! Zarile said to me, then fastened his clothes, stood up, and ordered the crowd: "Let's continue to walk forward, and see that the Danlingeri Snow Peak is right in front of us!" ”
This snow-capped peak is covered with a golden sunset by the setting sun, but it is very far away to walk.
"Something happened to us last night, I feel like I've been carried away by a river!" I asked Master Puji.
Master Puji replied slowly: "We encountered a quicksand, but this is also a good thing, saving us a lot of time and effort!" ”
When we were exhausted from walking, Zarile rested on a sandy ridge.
Zheng Xiumin called a mastiff to find a convenient place, and as soon as she left, Xiao Shao and Zhu Jianfang couldn't help but take off their boots immediately, and I also took off my boots, and saw that my feet were already soaked and swollen. Others had blisters on their feet.
The air was filled with a strong smell of feet, which made us forget about thirst and hunger.
Zarile dug a pit on the spot, put urine in it, and buried it with his hands.
We did so, and as soon as Zheng Xiumin returned, he immediately took out his gas mask and put it on.
Xiao Shao laughed at himself: "This smell is stinky enough, if only there was a wind!" ”
In Chinese, which he is not fluent in, Ge said: "The smell of our feet can stun hyenas and vultures!" ”
Master Puji quickly pinched his fingers and said in his mouth: "Wind and water!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the wind rose, but the rain did not fall. In the desert, rain is more expensive than oil.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and we were busy crawling on the ground, clinging to the sand.
When the wind stopped, it was dark.
Zarile exclaimed: "Look, how can there be a plane here? ”
Ge was surprised and said, "It can't be a special plane sent by the superiors to pick us up, right?" ”
I opened my eyes and looked up, only to see a Boeing 717 airliner on the dunes, as if it had just landed, the fuselage intact, but the cabin door was closed, and the tires on the landing gear had sunk into the yellow sand.
Zarile took us around the plane three times, and it was certain that the plane was normal when it landed, there were no accidents, and there was no other logo on the fuselage except for a phoenix pattern.
Xiao Shao and Zhu Jianfang took a human ladder and let Zharile climb to the cabin door and pry the door with a dagger.
Master Puji took me and Zheng Xiumin to the nose of the plane and said, "Officer Zheng, you are responsible for guarding us, and Xiao Yuan and I will enter the cabin to investigate!" ”
Zheng Xiumin responded, and I, Master Puji, and the black unicorn quickly lay down on the desert and fell asleep, and after the soul was separated from the body, I used the vajra cymbal in front of me and floated into the cabin.
The first to enter was the cockpit, which was empty, and the lights on the control panel were all off, as if it were a freshly manufactured aircraft, with no personal belongings in the cockpit, but a nameplate on the bulkhead engraved with the factory date: December 21, 1979.
"If I'm not mistaken, it's a ghost airliner!" Master Puji said slowly.
I asked, "Ghost airliners?" "It's not hard to understand, since there are ghost taxis, there are ghost planes and ghost ships, but this one is so new that it doesn't seem to have flown yet.