Chapter 11: No Man's Land in Tibet

The no-man's-land of Tibet is an incomparably desolate and mysterious place. Its scope is extremely vast, including many such as Tanggula Mountain, Purugangri Glacier, Serincuo Lake, Puruogangri Glacier and so on. There are herds of Tibetan antelopes, Tibetan wild yaks, Tibetan wild asses and other wild animals along the way and its surrounding areas. The no-man's land has not been without people since ancient times, and there have been highly developed human civilizations such as the ancient country of Xiangxiong, and the archaeological topic of our visit to the uninhabited area of Tibet this time is to trace the shadow of these civilizations. Of course, I also have my own goal, which is to find the Ice Dome and see if it can lift the curse on us.

Farewell to Zhao Yuer's parents, I feel extremely pressured. Not only do I have to complete my mission, but I also have to take care of a young lady, and if something happens, I really can't afford it. After a day of purchasing, our things were almost ready, and the next day the four of us and the veteran team members led by Professor Liu set off to send us to the college's own bus.

We set off at five o'clock in the morning. There were more than ten people in the group, only four of us were freshmen, and the rest were top students in the senior grades. There are also people from archaeological units, and it seems that the significance of this expedition must be great for them.

"Students, you must be mentally prepared, if we want to go to the no-man's land of Tibet, we must first go to Kama Town at the foot of Tanggula Mountain, we will park our car here, and then go directly to the previous research site with supplies ......." As soon as Professor Liu got in the car, he explained to us the topics and tasks of this archaeology, and I didn't understand it and quickly read the manual .......

Time flies, and before you know it, the car has been driving for days. The further you go, the more sparsely populated you become, and the city gets smaller and smaller. After the big city came the small city, and after the small city came the towns and villages, and the white smoke was billowing from the distance, and the cattle and sheep were grazing everywhere, and our carts had already passed the cattle and ran away in a hurry. In about four or five days, we were almost there.

Kama is a small town in the middle of nowhere, with a population of only a few thousand. We got out of the car and settled into our accommodation, ready to hike into the no-man's land the next day. I got out of the car and looked at this empty and remote town, feeling even more confused.

"Nie Yu, now that you've arrived at Kama, let's go around and see what's fun?" Zhao Yuer walked over, and Wu Shirong also followed, and he also brought a large package.

"Wu Shirong, what are you doing with a bag?" This geek always does tricks that no one else can guess.

"You don't know what I'm going to do? I'm going to buy food, don't we eat on the way, stupid pig. Wu Shirong looked at me contemptuously.

"Oh, I see, that's because my brain is not as smart as yours, you always want to eat, you are a pig that can eat!" I was in a bad mood and replied to him.

"Okay, don't quarrel, just get out of the car and quarrel, let's go, we'll leave tomorrow!" The two of us glared at each other and walked forward behind Zhao Yu'er.

This karma is said to be a city, but in fact it is a small town. In front of it is a street four or five meters wide, surrounded by low bungalows. There are a few six- and seven-story residential buildings that are dotted in the distance. The people here are all ethnic minorities, including Tibetans, Qiang, etc., and their costumes are also very special, all of which are some thick national costumes. Some were also dressed in intact animal skins and had swords around their waists. We managed to find a small shop and bought cheese, mineral water, compressed biscuits and batteries.

After shopping, we continued to walk, looking at the scenery around us.

"Nie Yu, you see there's a small restaurant in front of you, let's go have a meal, we won't be able to eat tomorrow!" Wu Shirong hurriedly ran over.

"Wait, idiot, who are we going to treat?" Zhao Yuer and I hurriedly chased after him.

This small restaurant doesn't even have a signboard, a wooden door, and two big holes in it. I opened the door, and there were all the little tables on the train, and there were a few tables with people eating, most of them empty, and business was deserted.

"What are you going to eat?" A chubby middle-aged woman walked over, probably in her forties, and her accent was unusually stiff.

We ordered some food casually, don't look at the small restaurant, but the dish was delicious, we had a big meal, and my stomach was bulging.

After eating, a few of us walked out of the hawker's shop, but we were stopped by Wu Shirong after a few steps.

"Nie Yu, look at that person, he doesn't look like the old fortune teller at the back of our school!" Wu Shirong's hand pointed to a dark-clad man who was lying on top of a pile of hay, his eyes closed as if he were sleeping.

Zhao Yuer and I followed, and a thin old man was lying in the corner next to the restaurant, smelling of foul odor.

"Wu Shirong, are you crazy? As soon as you see a homeless man, you say what kind of fairy is it? "I saw that this old man was not the same person in the back street of the school at all, but his gourd was quite similar, and the smell of wine came out.

"Old man, old man!" Wu Shirong kicked the homeless old man with his foot.

The homeless man looked up and squinted at a few of us.

"What's the matter? You dolls are so uneducated, don't you see me sleeping here? I just dreamed of eating roast chicken, and the roast chicken you kicked me is gone! After speaking, the old man looked at Wu Shirong viciously.

"Old gentleman, will you tell a hexagram and give us a hexagram?" Wu Shirong squatted down and looked at the old man modestly.

"No, no, I'm a homeless bum, what will it be, you have found the wrong person, hurry up and go away and don't delay me to eat roast chicken!"

I looked closely at the gourd on his waist again, and the more I looked at it, the more it looked like the one at the school gate, but how could the person's appearance change? Did I become insane after being demon-possessed? Thinking of this, I reached for his gourd to see what was going on.

"What for, what for? And rob me of my wine gourd? To tell you the truth, my gourd is a treasure gourd, don't touch it, my wine here can cure all diseases, if you give me money, I will sell you! The old man sat up suddenly, picked up the wine gourd, and bragged to me.

"Can it really cure all diseases? It's ten dollars, for you! "I took out ten dollars and gave it to him.

"Okay, ten yuan is ten yuan, give you the gourd, I don't want this gourd, give it to you!" As I spoke, I took the gourd.

"Nie Yu, Wu Shirong, are you two crazy, you can also buy a homeless man's wine gourd, if he has any infectious diseases, won't you be finished?" Zhao Yuer pulled my arm and said.

"It's okay, I don't drink again, I just look at his wine gourd, it's too similar to the one I saw last time!" I lifted the wine gourd above my head and looked at the jade gourd around my neck, the two gourds were not the same shape at all.

"Let's go, don't let Professor Liu and them wait, this wine may be a little useful, if we get cold, we can drive away the cold!" Wu Shirong glanced at Zhao Yu'er, opened the lid of the gourd, opened his mouth, and drank the wine gourd.

"Well, it's delicious, it's delicious, here you go!" Wu Shirong handed it to me after drinking, and I also took two sips, which was really fragrant and sweet.

"You two madmen, die!" Zhao Yu'er was angry when she saw the two of us drinking, she shook off my arm and walked forward by herself, Wu Shirong and I put away the wine gourd and hurriedly followed.

Back on Professor Liu's bus, they were already waiting for us there, and Professor Liu, more than a dozen of us found a cheap hotel to live in. After a week on the bus, I was already tired, and I fell asleep in bed.

"Nie Yu, wake up quickly, look at the many people coming next door!" Wu Shirong woke me up and whispered to me in my ear.

"What? What do you tell me to do in the middle of the night? Ghosts? I quickly picked up the charm under the pillow.

"No, there are people, there are a lot of people next door, and they are all wearing uniform black clothes, it seems that they came from somewhere to rob the tomb!"

This kind of cheap inn is not a high-end hotel, and the brick-walled house has a lot of cracks due to its age. The lights were turned off in our house, and the people in their house didn't seem to notice us. I looked through the gap, and there were a dozen guys in black with a lot of tools, large and small, long and short.

"Nie Yu, do you see if that is a Luoyang shovel? Do you look at the thin one in the lower right corner? I hurriedly put my glasses on the wall to look, and sure enough, there was a thin iron-like thing on a very long wooden stick, which was really a Luoyang shovel. Luoyang shovel is a special tool for tomb robbery, our experimental course deliberately learned how to use it, that is, according to the color of the soil it brought out to identify whether there is a rammed earth layer, if there is a tamped earth layer, it means that there are traces of artificial construction, and now Professor Liu has brought one.

"Someone looks like it? Who? "It seems that one of the people next door heard the small sound of our room and quickly turned off the light. Wu Shirong and I hurriedly squatted down, pretending to turn over and snore.

The next morning, Professor Liu woke up a few of us very early.

"Get up, wake up, all up!" Professor Liu had already dressed and bought breakfast, and we ate breakfast and were about to leave, but the person next door knocked on the door.

"Hello, what kind of business do you guys do?" The man was 1.7 meters tall, with thin eyes and pointed eyes like a little mouse.

"We are from the scientific research team of Haicheng University, and we are going to investigate in no man's land, what are you doing?" Professor Liu didn't say that it was archaeological, because the archaeological team was often robbed by those bandits.

"Oh, we're workers who go to work in the mines, and we smell the wine in your house, so let's ask!" The man grinned, staring at the wine gourd on the floor of my house.

"I'm sorry if this wine doesn't sell, it's a medicinal wine to cure diseases, I'm sorry!" I hurriedly closed them, and the man left.

"Okay, we're all packed up and let's go now, today's trip to no man's land is just the beginning." After Professor Liu finished speaking, he pushed open the door, and we lined up behind him in turn.

Out of the small town of Kama, we followed a path to the northwest. In front of me was the endless Gobi Desert, and the sun was shining brightly on the earth, and my eyes could barely be opened. In the distance, there seemed to be something like an antelope jumping around on the rolling hills, as if it were a Tibetan antelope. The air is unusually fresh, the sky is blue like transparent jelly, and it exudes a faint aroma.