Chapter 70: Forward or Backward

"It's even more fucking evil!" Xiao said with a big grin, shaking his head with a strange expression.

However, I heard from Lao Ma that there was a similar incident of inexplicable disappearance of miners here a few years ago, which may have something to do with this underground live cave. It is said that this live cave moves very widely underground and has a long period. It would be a long time before it was in the same place again, so no one on the site had ever encountered it again in the past two years. We may be unlucky and run into it, but this thing can't be prevented, and people may disappear when they walk on the road. And there are a few veteran gold diggers who call this thing 'live saton'. Batur took a few puffs of his flue.

"'Live Sathorn'? It's a apt name, I didn't expect that even sand in the Lop Nur Wasteland could turn into a man-eating beast, what else is so strange. Xiao grinned, with a slight helplessness in his tone. After a while, he seemed to suddenly remember something, looked up at Batur and asked, "Who is the old horse?" ”

"Lao Ma is our captain, called Ma Dali, I mentioned it to you before." Before Batur could say, Wei Xiao replied first.

Xiao nodded with big lips, and then muttered in a low voice after a while: "I didn't say it at all." ”

"After being rescued that night, we told the gold mining captain Lao Ma about the specific situation, and Lao Ma heard that we had lost someone and immediately agreed to help us. So at 5 o'clock the next morning, the eldest young master and I got up, and we drove all the way back, and went upstream along the Peacock River to find Sun Yan and Xiao Wang. The old horse also sent some men to follow us on camels, and they searched for it along the Peacock River in the southeast and northeast directions, and on the first day everyone looked more carefully, but by 7 o'clock in the evening we found nothing. "For the next two days we will expand the search area, and today we have transferred the whole team out, and we have returned to the ancient ruins along the way, and have been searching around there for a whole day, but in the evening the temperature suddenly drops, and the sky in the west immediately turns yellow, and we know that there is going to be a sandstorm and we have to be forced to return." So at the end of the day we still didn't get anything. ”

Hearing the names of Sun Yan and Xiao Wang, Xiao Dayi's heart tightened, and he was suddenly pulled back to reality, just now he had been immersed in the thrilling encounter between Batur and Qi Dongrui, and almost forgot about it.

After being silent for a while, he suddenly realized that he hurriedly said, "Eh, that's right! It's not surprising that you've all been hit by this, and they're probably just like you, and they've fallen into that hole, and you haven't looked underground? ”

As soon as the words fell, Qi Dongrui, who had been leaning lazily against the wall, suddenly laughed, then raised his eyelids and said, "Xiao Qike, is your donkey funny?" What do you mean by looking underground, do you want us to pry up all the turf of the Lop Nur Wasteland to see if they have fallen underneath? ”

"Isn't this scenario very likely! Where else would they go? Could it be true that I flew with the car?! As for how to find it" Speaking of this, Xiao's big lips were stunned for a while, and then he slapped his forehead fiercely with his palm, "Oops" and screamed.

"It's not like we haven't thought about this situation, if we really fall into the ground, then it's no way." Batur said and rubbed his chapped lips with his right index finger and said, "But I don't think it's generally possible, the eldest young master and I have both fallen into that cave, the cave is so narrow that you can't even stretch your legs, and when all the holes are finally moved to the waterhole, the car that is only about a meter small should not fall into it." And we stayed by the waterhole for two or three hours, and the walls around us kept opening and healing, and we didn't see any cars being 'spit out'. So I'm even more convinced that they are lost, but they are too far away to be contacted. ”

Xiao shook his head, exhaled and said, "Hey, that guy Sun Yan is not that stupid, if he is really lost, he will not run around on Lop Nur like a blind cat, and he will definitely contact us as soon as possible." Unless he encountered some emergency, he had to run away. ”

"Anyway, as soon as the wind and sand stop, I will immediately contact Lao Yang and ask him to send a search and rescue team over. Anyway, I had already said hello to him before I came, and in this case, I tried to send a helicopter to carry out an air search and rescue, and there was no other way. Qi Dongrui said in a deep voice, "As for us, we can only return." ”

As he spoke, he glanced up at Xiao's big lips, and saw that his brows suddenly wrinkled, and his face immediately changed.

"Xiao Qike, you don't still want to move forward, do you?"

Xiao took a deep breath and didn't reply.

Seeing him like this, Qi Dongrui suddenly became anxious, and said angrily: "You have a clear mind, we can't continue to move forward in this situation now, the gasoline and supplies are all on the Suzuki car, and now this bit of dry food on the car is only enough for us to last for two days, and you are still injured, how far do you think you can go if you continue to move in?!" ”

"I know." Xiao lowered his head with big lips and said in a low voice.

"Humph!" Qi Dongrui smiled bitterly, shrugged his shoulders, leaned against the wall again, and after a long time, he said in a low voice: "I don't think you know at all." ”

The atmosphere in the room became very awkward for a while, and everyone stopped talking. Batur looked left and right, not knowing what to say.

The meaning of Xiao's big lips was obvious, because all the thoughts in his heart were written on his face. The disappearance of Sun Yan and Xiao Wang suddenly made him lose the courage to move forward, but he was unwilling to retreat, as if he was about to miss a century-old secret treasure, and for a while this anxious mood made him ashamed.

For the rest of the day, no one spoke, and everyone was thinking about their own thoughts.

The sandstorm outside did not stop, it was still raging, and there was no word all night, and five people were crammed into a small nest, staring and falling asleep in a daze.

At six o'clock in the morning, Xiao Da Lip was woken up by the movement outside the door, and pricked up his ears to listen, it was the sound of shovels shoveling sand by the door, and occasionally a few words of speech. At this time, the wind outside was much quieter, and the loud sound of stones hitting the wall had disappeared, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After a while, I heard the door of the nest being opened, and a man stood by the door and whispered "It's all there", and then Wei Xiao and Lao Du next to him stood up and walked out.

The door was gently closed, Xiao Da Lip half opened his eyes and looked at the skylight above his head, and saw that it was still not dawn outside the window, so he turned around with difficulty and fell asleep in a daze.