At 8 o'clock in the morning, the sun rises slightly.

The temperature difference between day and night is large, and when I wake up in the morning, Bayi is constantly yawning, and my body is shivering with cold.

July was silent, staring out the window, not knowing what he was thinking.

Ning Yun looked back at the car behind her, Zhang Chen and Zhang Xi were sitting in the front row, neatly dressed, and greeted her with a smile.

They seemed to have stayed up all night, and it was hard to imagine what the two of them had been doing all night.

Bayi lifted the blanket and stepped out of the car.

High and low salt crust ground, endless Gobi desert.

Zhang Chen and Zhang Xi walked and jumped out of the car at the same time, and July and Ning Yun combed the hair that had been disturbed by the next night's sleep, opened the car door and walked down.

Bayi pointed in one direction and said, "You can go out that way, and when you get out, you can ask for help and have people come to find your missing team members." ”

Zhang Xi's mood was a little low, and she looked at July pitifully, she understood that this woman was the leader of their team.

Zhang Chen said: "We have been walking here for so many days, and we have not been able to get out, as if we have been spinning in the same place. ”

"We have friends here, and I have to find them and take them out," Zhang said. ”

Her inquiring gaze was fixed on July.

July said, "Okay, you follow us, we're also coming in to find someone." ”

The two off-road vehicles drove together on the salt-shell ground, with Bayi's car in front and Zhang Chen and Zhang Xi's car behind.

Bayi opened his lips and hesitated, but finally spoke, "A month ago, a large army came here. Later, there was a lot of commotion, and later the rescue team pulled back 8 skeletons from here. ”

The atmosphere in the car is instantly solemn!

The speed of the vehicle was slow, and there were no clear signs around it.

The unchanging background picture, like a still painting, is despairing.

July took the telescope handed by Bayi and kept observing the scenery along the way.

Occasionally, a few animal skeletons appeared on the ground, revealing a desolation that disregarded life, and the ground was dead.

July exclaimed, "Uncle Bayi, hurry up and stop the car first." ”

She found something in the vast salt crust ground, and her expression became solemn and nervous.

The car behind slowly stopped, and Zhang Chen opened the left door and walked down.

Zhang Chen said: "What's wrong, why did you suddenly stop." ”

Salt crust is a unique landform in Lop Nur, which is due to the deposition of salt and alkali in the water after the lake dries up, which condenses into a hard salt crust.

The high temperature of Lop Nur caused these salt crusts to expand and contract, and the salt crusts suddenly bulged. The high salt crust is more than a meter, and the low one is 30 centimeters, and the texture is hard.

The salt crust landform of Lop Nur has a history of more than 100 years and covers an area of hundreds of square kilometers.

July handed over the telescope and said, "Look, there are strange marks on the landscape in that direction. ”

It was extremely difficult to leave marks on the hard salt crust, and rows of marks appeared a few hundred meters from the position where several people were facing.

July is good at witchcraft and is proficient in pharmacology, and as a great witch of the clan, it is more important to be proficient in biological habits.

These are the footprints left by the creature's walking, and the footprints penetrate deep into the salt crust ground, so that the weight of this living form can be calculated, which must be a behemoth.

Zhang Chen took the binoculars, looked at them twice, and his face twitched slightly.

He put down his binoculars and said, "There are basically no living creatures in Lop Nur. ”

July said in a deep voice, "Let's go and have a look." ”

Bayi opened the trunk, took out the knives, and followed after July.

He was very well prepared, because knives were not necessarily meant to be used against unknown lives, even if the people who accompanied him were extremely dangerous threats in some situation.

Zhang Chen and Zhang Xi stayed where they were, not intending to make direct contact with the unknown biome on Lop Nur.

Only July and Bayi walked over on the uneven sand and salt ground, and Ning Yun stood in front of the off-road vehicle, paying attention to the movements of the two strange visitors.

Now there are only two cars, and the car that loses its ability to climb is almost fatal here, and Ning Yun is extremely vigilant.

July and Bayi walked slowly to the road where footprints were left.

She crouched down and traced the marks with her palm.

July's hands are smaller, and the footprints on the ground are more than ten times larger than the palm of his hand.

The creatures that leave footprints have four limbs, five fingers on each of the front and rear limbs, and claws on the fingers and ends of the toes.

Judging by the distance between the front and rear limbs and the depth of the imprints, this creature can weigh about a ton and is good at crawling.

July cast a questioning glance at Bayi.

Bayi was also stunned: "I have never heard of any living creatures in Lop Nur since I was a child. ”

Life must depend on water, and these are things that are scarce in this area.

Moreover, the continuation of a species must be organized into a complete biological chain, otherwise it will gradually become extinct due to lack of food sources.

July is accustomed to studying biological habits, and in the face of unknown species, he can judge whether they are dangerous through physical signs, and observe footprints to determine whether they live in groups or alone.

The perimeter is neatly imprinted, and the walking is orderly, and there are only one pair of such creatures.

July gradually formed a biological image in his mind, and although their habits were still different from them, their external characteristics were mostly the same, and it was most likely a variant.

But the change is positive, and only reinforces the organism's physical signs to adapt to the extremely harsh living conditions of this salt crust.

Zhang Xi couldn't hold it back, walked over anxiously, squatted down to look at these footprints, and her face changed.

Subsequently, Zhang Chen also walked over.

His expression was brilliantly disguised, and he returned to normal as soon as he was shocked.

He said, "It's just a mess of footprints, what's there to see, let's go quickly." ”

July said, "Don't you think it's a miracle that life exists here? ”

What Zhang Chen said was: This is a mess of footprints.

July noticed the change in his expression, and he didn't look closely at the marks, but came to conclusions subjectively.

Zhang Chen said impatiently: "We are not zoologists, you see these footprints, they are all so big, if they are really animals, I am afraid they are also carnivorous, don't cause unwarranted trouble." ”

July frowned, thinking: This person still knows a lot about zoology. But not every large animal is carnivorous and aggressive, so why is he so sure?

Bayi was a kind old man, and for fear of provoking the smell of gunpowder, he whispered: "Girl, let's go quickly, don't be troublesome in this kind of place." ”

Also for one reason, he did not believe that there would be life in Lop Nur.

It's full of strange beings, and any curiosity can be fatal.