We hired a car to keep going, or the desert wouldn't have killed us with thirst. We prepared water and food in nearby villages and towns, and my uncle bought some new cotton clothes and tents. I heard that this desert is hot to death during the day, but it can freeze people to death at night, and I don't know if it's true.

We asked the driver to push us inside as much as possible until the car couldn't go any further. We carried the parcels on our backs, and planned to follow the little plum into the densest place of the qanats. We were just about to leave, but my uncle stopped Xiao Lizi and seemed to have something to ask him.

"Little Lizi, why didn't you tell me that there was no one living near the qanats. As far as I know, this qanats should be an oasis near them, but they have all turned into deserts. Tell me what's going on. Xiao Lizi also scratched his head, could it be that he also brought us here by hearsay.

"I don't know much about this, but I used to know that this place is quite prosperous, and it is also a place with a lot of business travel. But one day, the water in the qanats dried up overnight. These local residents had no choice but to move eastward. It was also because of the migration of these residents to our town that I knew about the situation here. "Looking at Xiao Lizi's appearance, he shouldn't be lying.

"This qanats are meant to preserve the water source, so how could it have dried up overnight. Alas, I can't figure it out, let's go and see. Little plum, lead the way. We continued to follow Xiao Lizi, who seemed to take us to the abandoned village first.

It's really hot in this desert, but fortunately, we have prepared hats, sunglasses, and scarves, so that we can wrap our faces tightly, otherwise we will become a man when we go out. We walked alone in the desert, and there were absolutely no human figures within a radius of ten miles, and occasionally we could see lizards in the desert leaving small footprints on the ground. Other than that, there's just sand.

We walked for a while, and a small village appeared in front of us, which seemed to be the abandoned place that Xiao Lizi said. There was really no one in the village, most of these houses were still adobe houses, and there were very few modern buildings, and we opened the door of a house, and a thick layer of floating ash fell with the opening and closing of the door, and it seemed that no one had come for a long time.

We found a few stools to rest for a while, but as soon as we sat down, the stools had already fallen apart, and if I hadn't reacted quickly, I would have broken them. My uncle went out to look for clues by himself at this time, and I didn't know what he was looking for. Half an hour later, my uncle and Song Bald came back with a gray face.

"Uncle, what's the situation?" My uncle lit a cigarette and smoked again.

"Hey, I wanted to find water, but I got a gray face, Song Bald, you say, I'll rest for a while." Song Bald just wanted to smoke a cigarette, but my uncle asked him to work again.

"It's me again." Song Bald just muttered in a low voice, and my uncle kicked his ass.

"As far as you have a lot to do, hurry up and don't talk nonsense." Song Bald had no choice but to tell us with a look of grievance.

"This, I just went to the village with Brother Yu and walked around, and there was really no one in the village. However, we found a well, and the qanats here are generally together with the residents' wells, and we want to know if there is wood and water in it, so it is most straightforward to go down and see. When we got to the well, we saw that there was no water, not even water vapor. This qanats should have internal problems, and we have to enter the qanats to know what the problem is. ”

"We didn't find anything, don't you think we came back with a dirty face?" Song Bald patted the ashes on his body and wanted to sit on the stool, but my uncle snatched the stool again. I was just about to remind my uncle, but my uncle had already sat on his ass. As expected, the stool fell apart all at once, and my uncle screamed when he fell. Could it be because my uncle always bullied Song Bald, is this retribution?

"Song Bald, you dare to plot against Lao Tzu, see if Lao Tzu will get up for a while and not kill you." My uncle was about to beat Song Bald again, so I immediately stopped him and told him that this stool was not strong in the first place. In this way, my uncle temporarily let Song Bald go for the time being, but his eyes are not right when he looks at Song Bald now, I feel that Song Bald is going to be unlucky this time.

My uncle was in no mood to continue to rest here, but wanted to take us directly into the qanats to have a look. I've listened to my uncle for a long time, and I'll be able to see what this thing looks like right away. We walked for a while, and it seemed to be a piece of farmland, but it had been abandoned for a long time. Although it is barren here, there are no weeds growing, and it seems that there has been no water source for a long time, and there is no grass growing at all.

My uncle rummaged around the farmland and knocked down a few stone slabs, which seemed to be a sink for storing water. However, the sink was also dried up and almost weathered, and there was no sign of running water at all. Where the hell is this water, doesn't it mean that there is an underground river, where is it?

"Let's go, go up the mountain, there should be a qanats on the mountain to store the melting snow water on the top of the mountain, and we should be able to go through the culvert below." We immediately started to climb up the gentle slope of running, not to mention, there is really a shaft here, the mouth of this shaft is a little small, people seem to be unable to go down, I don't know if the shaft in front of it will be a little better.

Finally, we walked farther away, where there was not only a shaft, but also a trickle of ice and snow meltwater flowing down the mountain, slowly converging into a stream, flowing into the shaft. It seems that this is not the abandonment of the qanats caused by the disappearance of the ice and snow meltwater, it seems that there must be something else wrong here.

"Let's go, since this water can enter this shaft, it seems that this shaft should be unimpeded, let's go down and have a look." We prepared the rope, fixed it, and then we were ready to go down.

"Hey, Song Bald, you go down first." I said that my uncle would not let go of Song Bald easily, this is not an immediate success. Song Bald had a rope wrapped around his waist, and we lowered him down the shaft.

How deep is this well, we have put a rope about dozens of meters long, why hasn't we bottomed out yet?

We were continuing to put the rope down, but Song Bald still didn't tell us if the well was there. At this time, I suddenly felt that the rope was light, not good, Song Bald must have had an accident. We quickly pulled the rope up, but unfortunately there was only the rope that came up, but there was no Song Bald.