The moment gradually pointed to zero o'clock, and not far behind the grove, a figure silhouette slowly approached.

The beautiful white dress dances in the evening breeze, faintly revealing the scenery of her white calves.

Zhu Beichen was stunned for a moment, and a sense of familiarity welled up in his heart, is it Ouyang Ying?

The silhouette in the distance was slightly similar, and I almost exclaimed.

The terrifying scene did not appear, and it was not until Lin Chen's face clearly appeared in the light of the street lamp that his impetuous heart sank.

He asked tentatively, "Is it Lin Chen?" He was no longer sure, but he felt that his face had a vague impression, and his memory was fading very quickly.

Lin Chen nodded, his face haggard, and it was difficult to think of the companion who was talking and laughing with Xia Xue in front of the No. 4 canteen a few months ago.

Now her eye sockets are deep, and her two eyeballs are bulging.

"You've been looking for me for a week, is there anything wrong?" Zhu Beichen asked, thinking of something again, "What about Xia Xue?" I haven't seen her for more than half a year, are you okay now? ”

He rummaged through his jacket pocket, took out the thousand yuan that Qiqi stuffed to himself, and was about to hand it over, and Lin Chen would return it to Xia Xue.

Now that I'm no longer single, I'm also a family person, and I don't want to have too much intersection with this girl who has had a few faces.

"There are six hundred yuan here, and the extra one hundred is counted as interest, please help me transfer it to Xia Xue."

However, as soon as Lin Chen opened his mouth, he confided an astonishing truth: "You treat Xia Xue like this?" Aren't you going to give it to her personally to express your gratitude? She's been talking about you. ”

Zhu Beichen sneered embarrassedly, and Lin Chen said faintly: "It's okay, you don't have to pay back this money, Xia Xue is already dead." ”

"What?" He kept muttering Lin Chen's words in his heart: You don't have to pay it back, Xia Xue is dead.

Xinyue Lake inexplicably burst into a cold voice, which seemed to be setting off Lin Chen's cold words.

Lin Chen's indifferent eyes looked at Zhu Beichen with a hint of hatred.

Xia Xue's figure had already been indifferent in her mind for half a year, and now she couldn't remember what she looked like.

The only memory is the senior sister who welcomed the new school, and the memories of leading her to explore the morgue at night.

But Xia Xue's appearance gradually blurred, and he began to wonder if there was such a person in his life.

A young life passed away, and Zhu Beichen's eyes were soaked with tears.

"How did she die?" He asked.

"Lop Nur!"

Lin Chen's reply was only three short words, and then the two fell into a brief silence.

Zhu Beichen knew that she must have a lot of things to explain to herself when she asked her to come tonight.

This is the second time he has heard of this unfamiliar place name today, and his impression is only in high school geography books.

In that land of death full of salt crust landforms, almost all the people who went there died, and the ancient kingdom of Loulan thousands of years ago was buried under the stratum.

"She participated in the scientific expedition team in Lop Nur, how did she end up there?"

Zhu Beichen was a little emotional, and he was afraid that he would never be able to repay the favors he owed.

The truth is far from being as simple as he thought, Xia Xue's mysterious death is a great mystery.

On January 1, 2006, the scientific expedition team organized by the coal city began its journey into the hinterland of Lop Nur, the land of salt crust.

At the beginning of February, only six of the remaining members of the expedition team survived and returned to the coal city.

The purpose of entering Lop Nur is unknown, and it appears to have been formed improvised overnight.

Unfortunately, Xia Xue coincidentally participated in the expedition, and the body remained there forever.

"In fact, there was an accident in mid-January, six people escaped, urgently requested local police support for help, and finally dispatched several planes to search and recover several corpses." Lin Chen said.

The search team entered the hinterland of Lop Nur and found some members of the expedition team in the mound, but unfortunately only their remains remained.

The thick cotton clothes were wrapped in the skeleton of the corpse, and the flesh and blood had long since decayed.

The six people who escaped were a little insane, and they couldn't understand what they had gone through, with expressions of fear on their faces.

What kind of mysterious power can turn the corpses of the team members into rotten white bones in just half a month, or even a few days?

"There are eight bones recovered." Lin Chen said.

"Xia Xue is one of them?" Zhu Beichen asked rhetorically.

Because Lin Chen's previous words had already indicated that Xia Xue was dead.

"Yes." Lin Chen replied lightly, his mood extremely calm.

Tuyuan is a Han Dynasty logistics station site discovered and named by Chinese archaeologists, with very few remains, but it was a military important place on the Silk Road in ancient times.

After the age calculation of the skeleton and DNA testing, the identities of these eight people have been confirmed, and one of the skeletons in it is indeed Xia Xue's.

Lin Chen's mood began to fluctuate, and Zhu Beichen realized that the next words were the key.

"It's not that matters, I'm scared, I'm really scared," she said. I had a premonition that I would die in a few days, inexplicably. ”

She didn't have much time left, so she became more and more anxious to find the man in front of her.

Zhu Beichen was puzzled, what all this had to do with him.

Why did Lin Chen keep looking for himself, and he went to his bedroom once a day to ask.

"On January 10, I received a package, which I didn't care about, knowing that I got the news that something happened to Xia Xue. This thing was especially important, and it scared me even more. ”

Lin Chen's eyes were a little scattered, and he glanced around suspiciously.

There seemed to be something lurking in the dark shadows that made her extremely afraid, and her mood became more and more solemn.

After a long time, her frightened heart calmed down a little, and she swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.

The eye sockets sunk a little deeper: "The package was sent from Ruoqiang County, and the sender's signature was Xia Xue, and my contact with her was not interrupted at that time." ”

On January 9, Xia Xue and Lin Chen spoke on the phone, Xia Xue said: We are now in the Han Dynasty beacon tower 60 kilometers away from Korla, and we have begun to get lost in the past few days, and we have been shaking in the desert for a week......

The "squeak" radio wave interference cut off the connection between the two worlds, and after that, Xia Xue was silent.

Zhu Beichen asked: "What is Ruoqiang County and where is it?" ”

This is an unfamiliar place name, he searched for the geographical and historical place names of his memory, and he was stunned that there was no corresponding relevant place, and he did not understand how far away Ruoqiang County and Korla were.

Lin Chen's face became more and more pale, and he said, "I checked the Internet information and found out. On January 10, Xia Xue could not have appeared in Ruoqiang County at all. The distance between the two places is about 500 kilometers. ”

On the desert terrain, it is almost impossible to drive 500 kilometers overnight.