The sky turned out to be white, and the stars shone one in such a white sky. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe air in the desert is dry and cold. Yu Yue woke up from a cracked headache, looking at the desolate loess, dotted with clumps of sea buckthorn on the ground, quite angry.

Where is this?

Almost immediately sober, looking around, it was the same view. I slept in the bed of the Moonlight Village Hotel last night, how could it be?! She tried hard to remember the last moment she remembered, but she couldn't remember anything.

Yu Yue didn't have any experience in surviving in the wild, and the only theoretical knowledge he had was heard from Dr. Shen. She looked at her watch, it was five o'clock in the morning, and thought to herself, it would be dawn in two hours, and after dawn, the temperature would rise rapidly. Even though it is autumn now, the temperature in the desert will still reach a maximum of 30 degrees. And there is a shortage of food and water around me, and I don't know where to go...... The more she thought about it, the more desperate she felt.

Suddenly, she remembered that before she set off, she had read on the Internet that although the climate in Turpan was hot and dry, the underground water system extended in all directions, and as long as she found the qanats, she could find water. According to Ni Ming's letter, he had seen qanats near Ayding Lake at that time.

Thinking of this, Yu Yue had some hope in her heart. She climbed up to the nearest mound, and looked at the past, a flat yellow earth, dotted with sparse sea buckthorn. Only in the distance, there is a taller dirt mountain.

If you can't find the qanats, you can climb the dirt hill and maybe you can see farther. Now she has no choice. After clarifying her direction, she slid down from the earth hill and walked towards the place where the earth mountain was.

The day in the desert came quickly, and in less than an hour, the sky was completely white, and Yu Yue walked all the way, hungry, thirsty, and tired, but the earth mountain seemed to be in place and did not move. She gritted her teeth and continued walking.

Time passed minute by minute, the sun was getting higher, she had been walking for half a day, and her physical strength was passing from her body little by little. Her steps grew heavier and heavier as if they had been filled with lead. The sun hung high above her, the sweltering heat, the rising temperatures made her sweat. Exhausted but unable to stop, she began to notice that her eyes were blurry, and the endless loess and sea buckthorn were staggering and indistinguishable. Suddenly, I saw a depression in the ground not far away.

What is that? She picked up her speed and ran over panting. She has been walking for so long, her feet have long since lost sensation, and she has been able to hold on to it until now. Walking fast, her body unconsciously leaned forward, and she fell down all at once. The Gobi was scorched hot by the sun, and through her clothes, she felt a wave of heat rushing up from the ground. I don't know how long it took, but she got back to her feet and staggered over to the hollow.

"That woman is your good look?" Ah Shen asked the poker face sitting opposite, his hair was a little messy from the wind, and the wind in the desert was really different, dry and powerful, blowing on his face and hurting. Poker Face didn't know where to get a small truck, the driver was a strong Uyghur, who went out to other provinces to do business all year round, and spoke Chinese well. Poker Face sat in the truck, ignoring Ah Shen, who kept asking him questions, all the way, and only looked into the distance, as if he was searching for something.

The truck driver sang a loud Uighur folk song, and his voice became more powerful in the empty desert.

About half an hour later, the truck creaked to a halt, "Two little brothers, there is Lake Ayding not far ahead, and I will send you here."

Without the slightest hesitation, Poker Face jumped out of the car and handed the money to the driver. The driver nodded again and again and drove away. The driver's singing faded away.

"It turns out that this is Lake Aydin. It's not very special! With that, he walked to the lake.

As Ah Shen said, the lake looks white, like a piece of white jade embedded in the yellow sand, and there is nothing special about it. In recent years, due to the opening of highways, although Ayding Lake is remote and has a single scenery, the number of tourists visiting Ayding Lake has increased unabated.

After walking more than 1,000 meters, Ah Shen was stopped by Poker Face, "Don't go any further." ”

"Why?" The salt crust under Shen's feet creaked.

"Further down is the salt marsh." Poker face squatted, pinched a piece of crushed salt shell, looked up and looked around, the sun was getting higher, and there was no one here.

"Let's go back."

"What's the matter, just go back?!" Ah Shen couldn't believe his ears, "I followed you here, just to let you pinch a piece of salt and go back?" ”

Poker Face didn't listen to Ah Shen's complaints, turned around and left.

Ah Shen caught up in three or two steps, and couldn't help but hold Poker Face's shoulder tightly, and the moment Poker Face stretched out his hand, Ah Shen had already crossed Poker Face's shoulder and was thrown to the ground.

"Ouch!" Ah Shen knew that he couldn't beat the poker face, so he had to play tricks, and simply lay on the ground, "I walked all the way, and I didn't even drink saliva, but you let me take a break and drink saliva before leaving." ”

Poker looked at Ah Shen, untied the water bag from his waist, and threw him. Begin to look around and see the terrain.

Ah Shen took the water bag and just took two sips before the water was drunk. He was embarrassed for a while, such a big bag of water was originally enough for the two of them to drink for a day, but he couldn't get angry that the poker face didn't match him on the way, so he drank it vigorously, and now the water has bottomed out. He shook the water bladder, closed the lid, and handed it back to Poker Face as if nothing had happened. "No, I'm going to drink it again."

Poker Face was not angry, and said lightly, "There should be a qanats near here, and if you find it, there will be water." ”

Ah Shen's eyes lit up, "I'll look for it!" "Fei also ran away.

Seeing Shen run away, Poker Face fell into deep thought.

Ah Shen didn't run very far, standing on an empty platform in the distance and shouting, waving straight at the poker face.

Poker Face looked closer and nodded, "This well is dry." ”

Ah Shen squatted by the well, "It's black and rumbling here, how do you know it's done?" ”

"If there's water, plants will grow on the edges. But you see, there's nothing here. Instead, it's over there......" Poker Face pointed to the lush poplar forest not far away, and if it were me, I would go there to find it. ”

Ah Shen ran to the poplar forest thousands of kilometers away, and the poker face could not see his expression, only noticed that he ran back at a faster speed, gasped, and said triumphantly, "You are wrong, there is no well there." ”

Poker Face was not surprised in the slightest. "It's normal for groundwater to flow in a lot of ways. A large part of the reason for the disappearance of the ancient kingdom of Loulan is due to the change in the flow direction of Lop Nur. ”

"Alas, then you say, are there many treasures in the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Loulan? Loulan was not a necessary place for the ancient Silk Road, it must have been very rich at that time, even if it disappeared, the ruins are still there, and there may be countless treasures underground. The book also says, what...... Sun Tomb, where there is a tomb, there are burial goods, and they must be very valuable. As he spoke, he lay down and put his head into the karez, and Ashen's voice came from the well, "Why don't we go to the Loulan Ruins?" ”

"Let's go back." Pokerface's voice was a little hoarse, and now that the sun was high, the temperature near Lake Aydin had risen suddenly, and the sun was scorching the land.

After the poker face finished speaking, he turned around to leave, but saw that Ah Shen did not react. After waiting for a while, Ah Shen raised his head from the qanats with a solemn face, "There is a sound of water down here." ”

Poker Face thinks this is normal, there are dense poplar trees a thousand meters away, which means that there is groundwater not far away, and it is not impossible to hear the sound of water here. However, when he turned around, Ah Shen, who was lying on the edge of the karez, was gone.

"Hey! Ay! Poker face! ”

Soon, Ah Shen's voice came from the karez, and the poker face poked into the well, and the bottom of the well was still pitch black, not to mention three meters, and he dared to jump down. Thinking so, he didn't hesitate at all, and jumped down with him.

"Why don't you think about whether I will cheat you, you are so easy to be deceived." Ah Shen didn't expect Pokerface to jump down so unhesitatingly, and before he could dodge, he was knocked to the ground by Pokerface. "Hurry up."

"If there's something wrong down here, you won't have it that easy."

Ah Shen pouted, "Just now I was moved by you because you calmly jumped down to accompany me, it seems that I was moved in vain." ”

The poker face did not answer, and held the wall of the well with his hand, "This well is about three meters, what are you telling me to come down for?" ”

Shen shrugged in the darkness, "I want to tell you, as you said, there's no water down here. ”

"That's it?"

"yes, before I could finish speaking, your body smashed down." Ah Shen said casually, as if everything had nothing to do with him.

Poker Face knew that he was being teased by Ah Shen, so he didn't say much, and made a gesture to climb out.

"So tall, can you?" Ah Shen squatted down on the side, his hands crossed and hung down to support his poker face. Poker Face shook his head in the dark, "It's too high." As he spoke, he began to grope along the wall of the well.

Ah Shen was surprised, "What are you looking for?" ”

"Find a place with soft soil, if I guess correctly, the waterway here has just changed not long ago, although the soil of the well wall is hard, but the hardness is different, find a softer place, get a few feet, you can go up." Poker's face was not a little nervous, very calm, but there was a hint of tiredness in his voice.

Ah Shen sensed this and patted Poker Face on the shoulder, "You can take a break." I drank all the water, I called the people down, and I was asked to do the physical work. As he spoke, he lifted his cuffs and groped with his hands on the wall of the well.

The poker face has not been hydrated for a long time, and coupled with the scorching sun, it has already been a little dehydrated. Hearing Ah Shen say this, he sat down along the wall of the well to rest.

Ah Shen groped back and forth along the wall of the well, and finally touched a soft layer of soil, and he exclaimed, "Here! ”

The bottom of the narrow well was filled with his voice, it seemed so empty, Ah Shen used his feet to dig two small pits in the wall of the well, enough to step on, he climbed up along the wall of the well, and shouted to the poker face at the bottom of the well as he climbed, "Poker face, wait for me to go up and pull you up." ”

The poker face that was originally at the bottom of the well did not respond at all. "This kid, you won't fall asleep, will you?" Ah Shen jumped down from the bottom of the well again, groping back and forth in the darkness twice, but there was no one else at the bottom of the well except him.