Zhang Chu looked at the endless Gobi Desert with a depressed face, full of loneliness.

The Land Rover was still driving bumpy, and he reluctantly honked his horn a few times: "I'm afraid we're really lost in Lop Nur." ”

Until now, he had to admit this fact, and Mr. W was also confused, and he had been talking less and less for a few days.

Zhu Beichen was surprisingly calm, and said jokingly: "I think you should be the natives of Lop Nur, but I didn't expect the two of you to get lost in your own home." ”

"Bang!"

The Land Rover's tires seemed to have been crushed by something, and a crisp crushing sound came from the left front wheel.

Zhang Chu hurriedly stepped on the brakes and walked down to check.

His face instantly brightened, and Zhu Beichen stayed in the back seat peacefully, not knowing what this man was happy about.

Zhang Chu said to Mr. W in the passenger seat: "It's a dried corpse!" ”

Zhu Beichen pondered: Is there something wrong with this person, is he so excited to see the corpse?

At the beginning of the last century, the team that entered Lop Nur began to be active, breaking into this Gobi with various purposes, and since then, many unidentified bones have been left on Lop Nur.

In 1990, Sven Hedin, a Swede, discovered the ruins of Guloulan.

In 1906 and 1914, the British archaeologist Stein went to Loulan to conduct large-scale archaeology.

He numbered the ruins of Loulan one by one, revealing the whole picture of the ancient civilization of Loulan for the first time.

In addition to acquiring a large number of artifacts, Stein's most important thing is that he excavated two Loulan male skulls, which were confirmed by the British anthropologist Keane to be European Caucasians.

In 1908, the Japanese Otani Mitsurui expedition team Tachibana Ruichao arrived in Loulan and found the "Li Bai Document".

Li Bai's document is a letter written by Shi Li Bai, the former mayor of Liangxi City, to the king of Yanqi. It provides first-hand information for the study of the Central Plains government's operation of the Western Regions

In 1927, Sven Hedin organized a Sino-Swiss expedition to the northwest of Loulan again. Bergman, a member of the expedition, found a large number of Loulan antiquities in a tributary of the Peacock River and unearthed a female mummy.

Because of her luxurious clothing, she is known as the "Queen of Loulan".

The ruins, which Bergman called the "Little River", have since mysteriously disappeared into the sea of sand, and in the decades since, Chinese and foreign archaeologists have tried to find the "Little River" many times without success.

From March 1964 to October 1964, Pengamu entered Lop Nur for the first time.

In 1980, Pengamu led an expedition of geographical, chemical, meteorological, soil, desert and archaeological personnel in the direction of running from north to south across Lop Nur

Mr. W's eyes lit up, and his fatigue was swept away.

Zhu Beichen watched the strange behavior of the two in puzzlement, and they wrapped the corpse in canvas and carried it to the trunk for placement.

He didn't see the corpse, and he didn't ask why he did it.

Zhu Beichen noticed that after a few days of travel, Zhang Chu and Mr. W had not eaten for many days, and only drank a small bottle of mineral water every day.

The Land Rover started slowly and continued to move on the bumpy salt crust.

Winter has just passed, and the temperature count in the car has been on an upward trend, with a low of 28 degrees Celsius during the day and a maximum of 35 degrees Celsius.

The scorching sun was overhead, always looking down on the ground.

Around 1 p.m., Land Rover was aimlessly consuming precious gasoline.

Zhu Beichen shouted: "Stop, there is a car behind." ”

At a time when the physical and mental exhaustion of the trio was underestimated, the encounter with a moving object on the Gobi was a joy for anyone.

A convoy of four off-road vehicles appeared in the rearview mirror, and according to the distance of the mirror reflection in the sight, they were slowly moving from the right rear end to the left rear end 2 miles behind, and they were moving away from their own team.

Zhang Chu looked forward, silent, and seemed to be struggling.

Zhu Beichen was anxious: "Didn't you hear or see?" There's a team behind us, and if you run around like a fly like this, you'll run out of gas one day and bring us all to a desperate situation. ”

Mr. W pulled out an electric baton, I really don't know how many of these offensive weapons they still have in their hands, and the electric sparks kept flickering and threatening with a "pop" sound.

Mr. W said, "Calm down, you're hallucinating now, and if you continue like this, you're going to have problems with your nervous system, and you're going to die." ”

The Land Rover slowed down, gliding over the salt crust for some distance before finally listening.

Mr. W looked at him in surprise: "Zhang Chu, what do you want to do?" ”

Zhang Chu said: "It's none of my business, the tire burst." ”

Zhu Beichen reached out to break the car door: "I saw a car behind me." ”

He got out of the car, and Zhang Chu said, "I didn't see the shadow of the car in the rearview mirror at all." ”

Zhu Beichen stepped out of the car, his vision was still the barren salt crust ground, there were no vehicles, and his mind was stunned for a moment.

He clearly saw a four-car convoy in the rearview mirror, and even saw the figure of July in the front car, but it was as if the train fleet had never appeared, and there was nothing on the Gobi.

Mr. W's voice came from behind: "As I said, there is nothing behind us. ”

Zhu Beichen said to himself: "How can this be, how can this be, I obviously saw them." ”

Zhang Chu also walked down, looked at Zhu Beichen, and then said: "Lop Nur is like this, sometimes human beings have inexplicable hallucinations, and no one can explain what's going on. ”

He was sure that he was not hallucinating, and he could not hide the horror in his heart.

Zhu Beichen recalled Zhang Chu's words: Sometimes human beings have inexplicable hallucinations, why is it this kind of word formation, aren't you human?

Mr. W patted Zhu Beichen on the shoulder and motioned to him: We are going to continue on the road.

Zhu Beichen grabbed the other party's hand, his eyes flashed: "Wait, look, there is a car, a car has appeared." ”

A black Lexus appeared on the uneven salt crust ground, like a lonely boat in the sea, fluttering and sailing, carrying strange visitors.

Lexus stopped in front of the three of them, poked a head out of the driver's seat, and happily waved to Zhu Beichen and them.

Two unfamiliar faces appear in front of the trio!

A tall girl saw these three people at a glance, ran over stupidly, threw herself into Zhu Beichen's arms, and hugged her tightly.

Stepping out of the passenger seat was a woman, almost identical in face and costume.

Zhang Chu and Mr. W looked at each other, their eyes full of surprise, and conveyed a message to each other: These two women are twins?

Zhu Beichen was stunned for a moment and said, "I said little girl, do we know each other?" ”

The woman was too enthusiastic for him to accept, and she said, "It's been too long since I've seen anything alive, I can't help it, handsome man." ”