Before the atmosphere could catch a breath, Sun Yan climbed up the sand mountain again, and as soon as he went up, he saw Xiao Wang hurriedly running down. Sun Yan grabbed him and asked breathlessly, "What are you doing here?" ”

Xiao Wang looked at him, excitedly pointed to a sand mountain in the distance and said, "Look what that is!" ”

Sun Yan looked in the direction of his finger and saw a round sand ridge with soft lines in the distance. And under the sand ridge there was an oval-shaped lake, although the lake was only a little bigger, but it was extremely dazzling in the yellow sea of sand, and if you looked to the side, you would find that there was a camel kneeling by the lake.

This was simply beyond Sun Yan's imagination, and a surprise came to his heart. He even suspected that he had seen a mirage, but when he and Xiao Wang ran over to take a look, they found that the lake was real, and the camel was also real.

The waterfront is densely packed with camel thorns, saxons, spp. grass, caragana, shrubs and other plants, most of which are very luxuriant, some can grow up to a meter high, exuding charming colors in the scorching sun, adding a few traces of life to the desert.

The water of the lake is sky blue, and the surface of the water is calm like a piece of glass, reflecting the shadows of the clouds in the sky. Xiao Wang squatted at the water's edge, couldn't wait to pick up a handful of water with his hand, just put it to his mouth and drank it, he spit it all out, and turned his head to Sun Yan with a strange look and said, "Fuck! Salty! ”

The surface of the water was muddy, and muddy sand poured under the water. Sun Yan filled a bottle in an empty plastic bottle, put it to his mouth and tasted it, the taste was even more bitter than tears.

"Fill a few more bottles, go back and distill it with plastic film, and you're ready to drink. Something is better than nothing. After Sun Yan finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the camel kneeling by the water, it was not big, with a camel bell hanging around its neck, and a red camel saddle on the hump.

"Was there anyone here before?" Sun Yan turned his head to look at Xiao Wang, and saw that he took out the leftover mineral water bottle from his bag and was filling it with water, he was very busy, and replied without raising his head at the moment: "No one." ”

"And what's the matter with this camel?"

"Who knows, it's been here all along, but I haven't seen anyone, maybe it's a lost camel!"

Sun Yan nodded, and seeing his absent-minded appearance, he didn't ask much. He sat down, looked at the rolling sand dunes in the distance, sighed, and said, "Next, what are we going to do?" ”

This is the last question Sun Yan wants to ask, but it is also the most practical question. As soon as you calm down, thousands of question marks pop up in your mind.

Xiao Wang stopped what he was doing, turned his head to stare at Sun Yan and said, "This is the question I want to ask you, what should I do?" ”

Seeing that Sun Yan was silent, he continued: "The most tricky thing now is our current position, if we really run 90 kilometers, it will take two days to return the same way. But if the GPS is broken, it will be even more troublesome, we can't even find a way out, we will definitely get lost, and it will be a matter of time before we die! ”

Sun Yan took a heavy breath, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it and took a hard puff, the long-lost aroma of tobacco lingered in his mouth, but he felt bitter.

Xiao Wang had already filled three bottles of water, and Sun Yan gave him his remaining two empty bottles, saying: "Wait for two more days, no matter whether they can find Batur or not in two days, we will leave here immediately, and then we can only go out to find the way, if we can find the previous way, there is still a little more hope of survival, as for the three of them, it can only depend on their own creation." ”

Xiao Wang nodded and said, "I'll use the maritime satellite to find a signal when I go back in a while and see if I can contact them." ”

After filling the water, the two of them washed their faces happily. After sitting by the lake for a while, Xiao Wang yelled that his neck was uncomfortable, and the two got up to go back, Sun Yan went over to lead the camel, but he didn't expect to get up as soon as he pulled it, and obediently followed the two.

Back in the car, Sun Yan untied the gauze on Xiao Wang's neck, and found that the wound inside had suppurated again, and it was even worse than before, and the small holes were rotten.

Sun Yan could only take precious mineral water to clean his wounds, and after applying the medicine, he let him rest, Xiao Wang curled up in the driver's seat, covered the dazzling sunlight with a peaked cap, and fell asleep groggy.

At four o'clock, Sun Yan set up a maritime satellite phone on the hood, but the signal at the bottom of the valley was very poor, and he couldn't connect to the Internet at all. After fiddling for a long time, there was no progress, and Sun Yan had no choice but to give up.

After a few hours of boredom, after surviving the daylight like a furnace, finally ushered in the evening, the temperature began to drop a little bit, the red sun on the distant horizon was like a huge red agate, the earth was lined with darkness, and the desert waves supporting the setting sun were solidified, like a sleeping sea.

For dinner, the two of them ate a roasted naan with mustard and ate less and more often, which is a good way to save water in the desert.

The cold wind blew, making Sun Yan shiver from the cold, he curled up in the car wrapped in a blanket, and fell asleep after I don't know how long. In the second half of the night, hearing the camel neighing, Sun Yan opened his eyes in a daze, leaned on the window and looked out, and found the camel cowering in a small corner, staring at the Suzuki car in horror.

Sun Yan was puzzled and was about to get out of the car to take a look. Suddenly, a black shadow flashed on the car window, and when I turned my head to look, I saw another hideous strange face clinging to it.

Sun Yan exclaimed, this is the sand hermitage before, I didn't expect it to be gone, scratching the car window glass with sharp claws at the moment, desperately trying to come in.

Sun Yan immediately took out a flashlight from his bag and slapped it in the face, the thing was so frightened that it immediately shrank its head, screamed and climbed back to the roof of the car, and climbed on it twice before it moved.

Just in case, Sun Yan turned on the lights in the car, and as soon as there was light, Xiao Wang woke up, turned his head sleepily and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"! That sand hermitage hasn't left yet, and just now I scratched the window glass and wanted to come in! ”

When Xiao Wang heard this, he immediately sobered up, pulled out the gun from under the seat and was about to get out of the car, and said angrily: "This is worth it!" I'm going to have to go down and kill it! ”

"No way!" Sun Yan immediately grabbed him and said, "This thing is on it, as soon as you go out, it will pounce on it, and before you can make a move, it will succeed, how dangerous!" ”

"What then?! Just let this squat on our car all the time? ”

"It can't be helped!" Sun Yan said coldly, "You can only stay in the car now." Anyway, it didn't dare to come in, and if it found its weakness, there was nothing to fear, so there was no need to fight him. ”

Xiao Wang sighed after hearing this, leaned lazily back on the back of the chair, and after a while, he muttered quietly: "Where do you say we are now?" ”

"I don't know." Sun Yan wrapped the blanket tightly on his body and continued to sleep, thinking: It is estimated that the camel outside will break its neck when he gets up tomorrow morning.