I stood up and circled around the camp a few times to keep myself warm, and before I knew it, I was walking away from the camp a few dozen paces. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Suddenly, the feeling of being targeted during the day reappeared. The sensation was so palpable that it was like a maggot attached to the bone, and I couldn't stop my back from stiffening and feeling helpless.

I reluctantly pulled out the thorns, faced the barren Gobi, and retreated to the camp with all my might. In the corner of his eye, a bush of artemisia sparkled not far away, as if a black shadow flashed and disappeared.

Seeing that I was not right, Krina ran over and said, "You ok?" ”

I took a breath and said, "Over there, there's something in the grass over there." ”

Krishna stared at the piece of artemisia on my finger, leaned over slowly, and when he was close to 5 meters, he stopped, looked down and picked up a stone and threw it.

There was silence in the artemisia bushes, and there was no movement.

Krishner walked up a little further, raising his gun to dispel the plants. Under the starlight, I saw that there was indeed nothing but artemisia.

Krishna said in Chinese: "Qin, you are a little nervous, too tired, just take a rest." ”

I nodded, also thinking that maybe there was something wrong with my emotions, affecting my perception, and I was too nervous. It's all because my peaceful life has changed drastically since last year, which makes me nervous from time to time.

I stayed until midnight, and the second dog came to replace me, and nothing happened. Not to mention the wolf that everyone is worried about, I haven't even seen a wolf hair.

The next morning, the weather was fine, cloudless, the sun hung over the clear blue sky, and the icebergs in the distance were brilliant and shining.

Through my efforts, Han Lisha adjusted our mounts and arranged for the fat man to ride a camel with a black buddy, so that he would not affect the speed of the team.

At lunchtime, the fat man staggered over, couldn't swallow the canned biscuits, looked at me with a blank eye, and said, "Dude, that big black brother seems to have not taken a bath for a month, and I have been smoked and fainted several times, so I can't do this job!" ”

I grinned and almost squirted him in the face. I said, "Fatty, you just treat him as a dead man, or a zongzi, you are an upside-down fighter, and you are afraid of the smell of the living?" ”

The fat man looked pitiful and cowardly, and said, "That's different, dead people don't fart." Saying that, this guy set his eyes on Ergou: "Brother, why don't I change with you?" Anyway, you've been with the dead man for a long time, and you're used to it. ”

Damn, what does it mean to stay for a long time? I was about to embarrass Ergou for him, but I saw Ergou nodding and agreed.

The fat man cheered, and immediately his appetite was great, and he finished his food like a whirlwind, and hurried to take his place on the camel's side.

I took out the military thorn that Han Lisha gave me, handed it to Ergou, and said, "You came here by plane, didn't you bring a knife?" If you take it, I won't use this. ”

Ergou nodded, took the military thorn in his waist, and sure enough, he went to ride a camel with his black buddies.

In the evening, we finally saw the destination of the trip, the Nalengrad River.

Under the light of the stars and the moon, the vast mountain plains can not be seen at a glance, and in front of you is a winding river, leading straight to the sky, like a silver-white silk, lying quietly between the ice and snow mountains and the majestic heaven and earth, which is shocking.

On the plain at his feet are large flat, neat and withered golden pastures, and the roots of the grass are covered with ochre-red moss, which is full of color. The pace of spring has not yet arrived, it can be imagined that in summer, the green grass here, the water and grass are abundant, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, which is better than a fairyland on earth.

After dinner, everyone seized the time to rest. Tomorrow we will officially enter the Devil's Valley, which everyone has heard of, and we don't know what kind of danger awaits us, so we must recuperate our spirits and adjust our physical strength to the best state.

Since they had not been scrubbed with water for two days, many people went down to the river valley to dig ice for water.

In March, when the water is still dry, the banks of the Nalengrad River are covered with thick ice, and the sound of bubbling water can be heard underneath the ice.

The fat man walked far across the mudflats and walked far on the ice, and there were fears that he would accidentally fall into the river, but fortunately he was okay and successfully made a hole in the ice with a stone.

The three of us took care of our personal hygiene in the bone-chilling river water, and although we shivered from the cold, we finally felt that the uncomfortable stickiness on our bodies was gone.

After entering the tent, Ergou gave me the sleeping bag, and the fat man and I squeezed him in the middle so that he would not be frozen. It didn't take long for us to fall asleep.

In the middle of the night, we were suddenly awakened by a loud noise. When I climbed out of the tent, Han Lisha and several others were standing next to the livestock gathering place, their faces so gloomy that they could drip water.

The guide had not stayed in a tent the previous night, he had brought his own earthen sleeping bag, and slept in the cattle pile on his camel. At this time, this guy's face was pale, his body was trembling, and he looked like he had seen a ghost.

I leaned in and said, "What's going on?" ”

Han Lisha stared at me and said, "The horse is gone, one is missing." ”

I said, "Doesn't the guide sleep here?" With such a big horse, how can you say that if you don't see it, you're gone? It can't be that you ran away, right? ”

Han Lisha didn't make a sound, and pointed to the ground, meaning to let me see for myself.

I looked down, and there was a pool of blood on the withered grass that stretched out for a long time. The blood has not yet congealed, and it seems that the accident has not been long.

Han Lisha said: "The horse was bitten by something and dragged out all the time, and when it was 3 meters away, there was no trace. ”

I took a breath of cool air, even if I was dragged away by a tiger and snow leopard or something, it would leave some traces. Even if it is eaten, there is always a little left of the bones and internal organs, how can there be no trace of it? Could it be that the thing had such a great appetite that it swallowed the whole horse in one gulp?

I said, "Did the guide see anything?" ”

Han Lisha looked at the darkness in the distance and said, "He said that the thing that attacks the animal is called Ader, and Ade means demon in Mongolian. ”

"Demons? I'm so scared, you're scaring children? The fat man still remembered the feud with Han Lisha, and said coldly on the side.

Han Lisha ignored him. I was afraid that the two of them would pinch each other again, and it would say, "Ader, is a demon, so what is a mole?" The fat man said, "Mole? Isn't it an ant? Either it's mole crickets, it's all bugs. By the way, there may be a large swarm of man-eating ants here, and the man-eating ants eat and nothing will be left. ”