Of course, I know this, the second most mobile desert in the world, and as soon as we encounter the black wind sand, we will immediately lose our way. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info electronic devices are the most unreliable things, and I still prefer to trust the compass in my hand.

The first half of the journey is to walk on the main road, the place where you pass can continue to replenish water, the ancient channel of the Peacock River separates the desert Gobi and the oasis, there is no place to replenish water after the Peacock River, it is said that there are some ancient river underpasses in the desert, whether you can find it depends on luck.

Our team of eleven people plus more than 20 camels, walking in the desert is also a landscape, just like the caravan on the ancient Silk Road, the old port farmers prepared enough materials for us to maintain in the desert for more than a month, plus the water replenished along the way, into the desert can also be used for more than a month, into the desert if you can find oases and dark rivers, you can also replenish fresh water. With some of our equipment, the camels carry a very heavy load and travel very slowly.

The first oasis on the way, Bosten Lake in Bohu County, the meaning of "oasis" by the Uygur people, is the largest freshwater lake in China, belongs to the mountain depression lake, and was the source of the Peacock River in ancient times.

Along the way, except for me and the fat man Emma, the interest of the others was very high, I thought that Li Guohua, a rich man, had never seen anything, how would he be interested in these, who knew that he took Emma's assistant and a few geologists to ride a camel for a while, and sing loudly for a while, which was no less fresh than me and the fat man on the train.

The fat man's performance seems to have really entered the desert, all the way are frowning, a serious look, my heart is just eager to try the small flame, suddenly extinguished, first, as the leader of this archaeological team, naturally can not be as crazy as them, there must be a leader, second, the fat man's attitude has never made me feel faintly uneasy, and I don't have the heart to go crazy.

The ancient channel of the Peacock River is very long, and its source is in Bosten Lake all the way southeast to Lop Nur. If according to what the old gang farmer said, our original route should be to Luntai County to find the ruins of the Western Regions Protectorate, after we showed the map to Dachun, he shook his head while punishing the cigarette bag and pot: "Oh, I'll just say, you don't even know where you're going, how to go, where is this place Luntai County." ”

According to his meaning, this place should be in the Taklamakan Desert, surrounded by Loulan, Jimo, Yuli, Jingjue, and Shache. These ancient small countries in the Western Regions sounded familiar to me, Da Chun explained to us why he walked this way according to the map, and Emma explained to me and the fat man what kind of landform he said the route in ancient times, and the surrounding cultural environment.

I don't have a hobby, I just like to listen to stories, and Emma went out of her way to tell us stories. In the past, the desert gave me the impression of only the yellow sand in the sky, I never thought that there would be so many national civilizations buried under the desert, riding on the back of a camel and walking on the long yellow sand, the poplar trees that have completely died, and the piles of camel bones that have not been dead for a long time, can not help but make people sigh, no matter how brilliant human civilization is, after all, it is no match for the forces of nature.

The temperature difference between day and night in the desert can reach 40 degrees, and we may still be wearing a thin pair during the day, and at night we have to wrap ourselves like rice dumplings. In the early morning, the sun rises from the eastern horizon, the morning glow is reflected on the slow yellow sand, and the sand dunes in the desert are as Da Chun said, which is the beauty and grandeur of the Western Elysium.

In order to escape the scorching sun at noon, we had to travel all night, and the accompanying photographer saw such a scene, quickly flipped out his camera, and pressed the shutter, hoping to preserve this beautiful scenery.

Originally, I was aimless, with an old map that no one could understand, to find something in the desert, it was simply a fantasy, if the goal was not clear, to find something in this desert, all the preparations in the early stage were at most to allow us to survive here for a while longer.

While we were intoxicated by this beautiful scenery, the fat man still had a serious expression, and I walked over to him and asked, "Fatty, what's wrong?" You've been like this since you entered the desert, aren't you sick? ”

I've never talked about the fat man's expression, and it's been the sixth day since we entered the desert, and it's been the fourth day since we crossed the next door into the desert, and we're about to arrive at Qucheng as we move forward, and legend says that this is the capital of Yanqi, one of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, and we are expected to arrive tonight. But the fat man suddenly said to me seriously, "Lao Zou, you haven't been into the desert, you don't know how powerful this desert is, as the old saying goes, the morning glow doesn't go out, the sunset travels thousands of miles, this red morning glow is not a good thing, look at the old thing in Dachun." ”

I turned my head to look at Da Chun, who was praying with his hands folded, bowing and bowing to the west before he said, it is not appropriate to leave today, the wind and sand are coming. The fat man smoked a cigarette and his little eyes blinked, as if he was showing off something to me.

At the current speed, there should be about a day to go before we reach Qucheng, and now that they both have said so, we have to speed up our pace, and so many people have been walking for a day and a night, and those few weak scholars are already exhausted, if they encounter some accidents, it is really difficult to say.

I jumped on the camel and beckoned everyone to go quickly, but I saw Da Chun take down a string of Buddhist beads around his neck, and kept chanting the scriptures in his mouth, and the Buddhist beads in his hand rolled faster and faster, and suddenly opened his eyes and made a long whistle: "Oh yo yo.... Run, you'll be buried in the sand if it's too late. After saying that, he urged the camel under his feet and ran first.

I yelled, "The old immortal thing." "It's really a great calamity to fly separately, and when he is simply harming ourselves, now that the prayer is over, where does it matter if we live or die, run faster than anyone else, and call everyone to hurry up and follow.

The camel has always been known as the ship of the desert, not only its sense of direction in the desert, but also its ability to survive in the desert and the ability to predict dangers, which is stronger than all other animals, and people can cross the desert as long as they ride on the camel, which is not false. The twenty-two camels we had brought with us were now like crazy, and they threw off their hooves and ran wild in the desert. This thing is the same as riding a horse, it feels fresh and fun slowly, once it runs wildly, one will accidentally become a ghost under the hooves of the camel behind, but the camel is a little better than the horse in that it has two large humps, and it is at least much safer than the horse to lie down and hug it tightly.

The camels in front of them galloped wildly, and everyone put on their goggles and covered their mouths and noses with turbans. I lowered my head and looked left and right, all the camels seemed to be crazy, and everyone who listened to the call was staring at Dachun's head camel desperately chasing after it, and it seemed that he didn't feel tired at all, and it seemed that the coming wind and sand were much more serious than I thought.

The yellow sand under his feet has already flown all over the sky, and at this time the most feared thing is that someone will be thrown off by a camel, if he goes far, it is basically impossible to find people in this ghost place. I want the camel under my feet to slow down, but unfortunately the camel doesn't listen to the call at all, I want to tell Dachun to slow down, and I can't open my mouth, and the camel in front of a mouth raises yellow sand and pours it into my mouth.

I had no choice but to watch while running, for fear that one person would be left behind, and ran until noon, when the sun made the yellow sand on the ground like a stove, and I estimated that it must be at least about 60 degrees.

Da Chun got off the camel and beckoned everyone to stop and rest, eat a few mouthfuls of dry food, drink more water, don't worry about no water, at most there is still half a day's work to get to Qucheng, where you can find underground water sources, and you can replenish water when you get there. After eating and drinking, the camels are almost rested, fortunately, they are running wildly, and it is not far from Qucheng, but the weather in this desert is like a child's face, and it will change when it is said, but it is not accurate, we still have to step up our journey, and it will be too late if there is something to do.

Everyone took out the dried meat and dried fruits, and ate a few bites indiscriminately, but the dried fruits were still sold to Li Guohua by Dachun, saying that they needed to replenish enough sugar in the desert, and these dried fruits happened to be eaten on the road. I was worried about these intellectuals and Mr. Li, so I went to ask them about their situation one by one.

Although they usually lack exercise, fortunately, they are all very young, one by one tired and out of breath, their faces are still not bad, only the youngest girl, Li Mei, began to vomit after getting off the camel's back, covering her stomach with a pale face, just drinking a little water, and couldn't eat anything. Emma said that she was not feeling well these days, and I knew what was going on as soon as I heard it, and I thought that this intellectual is too good at playing, and he will not be able to have children in the future, and this capital is also big enough.

The fat man said stupidly: "What's so strange, isn't it just a stomachache, it must be that you can't get used to eating this old man's dried fruits, spit it out and drink some water, and it's fine." You turned her head and asked Dachun: "Hey.. Old man, are all your fruits full of worms and hard to sell, so you made them dry? ”

Da Chun was also stunned by the fat man's question: "Fat brother, this, you are wrong, the little girl has a stomachache, she didn't eat my dried fruits, but after eating my dried fruits, her stomach will definitely not hurt." ”