At about 1 p.m. that day, the car left the barracks of the troops, set out on the road as originally planned, and traveled at about 6 o'clock, and in the afternoon of the same day, it set foot on the dry and barren Lop Nur Lake Basin, and the car stopped on the west bank of Lop Nur, where the group set up camp.

In the afternoon, everyone was still sighing because of the virus, glad that he would not die in a catastrophe, and Xiao was even more vigorous, touting Sun Yan to the sky along the way, he looked elated, not like he was rescued, but as if he had saved others.

Sun Yan looked at him as a poor man, and he was also recovering, not only him, but even Qi Dongrui's face returned to normal, and the whole person was much more energetic, although Sun Yan didn't see how the festering wounds on his body recovered, but listening to him say lightly that it was okay, Sun Yan was relieved.

There was nothing to say that night, and I got up early the next morning to collect the camp, load the car, and continue to hurry, and it was very hard to enter the lake basin all the way, the road was full of potassium salt, and the roadbed was very hard, but it was not easy to fall. The car drove on it as if it was surrounded by an endless salt crust, wave after wave of salt crust rolling, like undulating waves that could not be seen, although the car was moving hard, but the speed could only be maintained at ten kilometers per hour.

Running all the way, almost every meter of the road surface for dozens of kilometers is exactly the same, monotonous and boring. The car entered the Yadan landform road conditions began to become more rugged and difficult to walk, the road surface was soft, potholes, whether it was driving or not driving, all experienced a kind of stomach torment, bumpy for several hours, in the evening everyone camped in front of a Yadan, Yadan is ten stories high, like a majestic building in the desolate desert, at night, everyone slept in the Yadan surrounded by a night.

In the afternoon of the next day, the car was about to drive into the center of Lop Nur Lake, everyone decided to get off the car and walk towards the center of Lop Nur Lake. But others are enough to choke, the weather in November, although everyone does not feel much heat and heat, but the hardness can be deeply experienced, the uneven salt crust stepped on one foot, like stepping on a steel plate with a blade, extremely sharp, accompanied by the sound of a knock, its hardness is completely not to be underestimated, the skin is scratched, and the wound can not heal for a few days.

After walking for about half an hour, we saw Yu Chunshun's tombstone, the tombstone is on an earthen platform not far from the exit of the Tiepan River, the trekking hero Yu Chunshun in order to create the myth of crossing Lop Nur in June, lost his way in June 1996 and walked here, died of thirst, he died only two kilometers away from the place where he buried water and food supply with his own hands

Yu Chunshun has been burdened by fame all his life and is an unsober hero, but standing in front of his tombstone at this moment, Sun Yan and others are full of melancholy, and an indescribable sense of ambition and compassion is surging in their chests

Xiao Da lip took two apples and put them in front of Yu Chunshun's tombstone as a memorial, and everyone continued to move forward, continuing to pass Zhao Ziyun's tombstone, and saw a camp in front of them from a distance, nearly ten off-road vehicles lined up on the white saline-alkali land, more than a dozen tents were lined up in front of the car, a large number of materials were piled up on the ground, and a few tents were also planted with small red flags, like a distribution center for self-driving car friends.

It was rare to see a campsite camped in the middle of Lop Nur Lake, not to mention such a large-scale convoy, Hu Tengjiu couldn't help but have doubts. And this campsite feels very wrong, the whole camp is so quiet, there is no sound at all, no people can be seen, and it is lifeless.

The sun hadn't set yet, so was everyone going to sleep in their tents so early? Several people cautiously approached the tent, shouted a few times, found that no one answered, searched around, and sure enough, there was no one in the camp.

The camp was not like a deserted camp, the vehicles and tents were all new, the water and food were well stocked, and even the storage trucks had several barrels of gasoline, but there was no one in such a large camp, and everyone was on their guard in a strange situation.

After a few turns, Hu Tengjiu couldn't figure out what the situation was, so he asked Qi Dongrui and Xiao Da Li to go back and drive the car over, and he himself started around the camp, Sun Yan knew what he was looking for, so he followed him all the way, and after walking for a while, he walked to the center of Lop Nur Lake, where there is a stone tablet, on which is written 'Lop Nur Lake Center', which is the so-called sign of Lop Nur Lake Center, and the location of Lop Nur ear holes is also in this area from satellite photos.

Sun Yan squatted down in front of the stele and said to Hu Tengjiu behind him, "How is it?" We're here, how do you say 'ears and eyes' appear? ”

Hu Tengjiu didn't reply, looked at the camp not far away, and said half-loudly: "When they drive the car over, we will camp here at night." ”

After Qi Dongrui and Xiao Da Li drove the car over, everyone was busy unpacking their bags and setting up camp. After the tent was set up, it was already completely dark, and the camp not far away was already black, and a silhouette could be faintly seen.

Everyone sat in a circle and began to eat, and at dinner, Hu Tengjiu gave everyone a pot of noodles, which put some canned beef and ham sausages, and a piece of roasted naan per person.

Hu Tengjiu also took out the liquor he brought and drank it for everyone, and after drinking the wine, his stomach warmed up, and his body warmed up.

Under the light, Hu Tengjiu's face was gloomy, he bowed his head and was silent, as if he was preoccupied, just drinking one cup after another, everyone saw that he drank more, and they all came to persuade him, half a ring, he raised his glass and said: "Lop Nur's big ears and eyes have been rumored to be miraculous since my grandfather's time, 5 years ago, Lop Nur was still a herd of cattle and horses, and the common people were very taboo near their ears and eyes, and some people once said that it was no coincidence that the atomic bomb was detonated here in the middle of the lake, just to blow up this bottomless live hole, Until now, no one knows what's in that living hole, so when the time comes, I'll go down by myself, and you won't follow. ”

As soon as everyone heard him say this, they were silent for a while. Sun Yan sighed, looked up at the sky above his head, and said in his heart whether he wanted to go down with you or not was a matter of later, and now the headache is, when will this rain in Lop Nur fall?

After dinner, everyone got into the sleeping bag with their own hearts, the temperature in the tent was about the same as outside, Sun Yan didn't even take off his clothes and went straight in, maybe there was some effect of alcohol, and he fell asleep in a daze after lying down.

But the temperature was too low at night, and the gas coming out of my mouth adhered to the surface of the tent and soon formed a layer of frost. Sun Yan woke up after sleeping for a while, and the urge to urinate came up when he woke up, but it was too cold outside, and he didn't want to move when he shrunk into the down sleeping bag. I thought that it would be good to fall asleep, and if I fell asleep, I didn't need to move. But the more I want to fall asleep, the more uncontrollable my mind is thinking about something, and a series of questions that I don't want to worry about on weekdays all of a sudden come up, tossing and turning for a long time and taking out my mobile phone to see, it should have been half an hour, hey, if I don't go out to the toilet, I guess I don't have to sleep this night.

Gritting his teeth, he put on his hat and walked out of the tent. The moment I got out of the tent, I felt that the pores of my sweat all over my body were tightened, and the cold wind blew on my face like a knife, and I sneezed three or four times in a row. Depend on! It's really not ordinary cold outside, and it won't be cost-effective if the second child is frozen this time.

Trembling, he ran to the back of the car and on it, then ran back. Before he got into the tent, something flashed under his nose, he was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously turned his head to look for it, and saw a white light in the middle of the campsite not far away, which was flickering and shaking!

Sun Yan's scalp tightened, his whole body straightened, and his heart said that it wouldn't be the ghost fire in Lop Nur in the middle of the night, but after thinking about it, how could it be possible, maybe the people from the camp had returned, he stared at the bright light without turning his eyes, and saw the bright light moving around the camp, and finally stopped in one place and didn't move.

For a while, Sun Yan's sleepiness was gone, and he was awake from the cold. He hurriedly climbed into the tent, felt his gun and flashlight, and walked to the camp over there, the distance between the two camps was really not far, at most fifty meters. There was not a single movement in the camp, and there was no human figure in sight, Sun Yan stopped before he could get closer, and shouted: "Hey, is there anyone?!" ”

It was a bit weird to shout twice on this empty Gobi in the middle of the night, but what was even more weird was that no one in the camp opposite responded to him at all, and there seemed to be no one at all, and the bright spot seemed to appear out of thin air.

Sun Yan shouted again, but no one answered, and there was silence in the camp. The cold sweat on Sun Yan's body immediately fell, and his brain began to mess up, thinking about whether to go back. Just as he was hesitating, suddenly there was a hard and cold thing behind him against his back, and he knew that it was a gun, Sun Yan's body stiffened, and his throat immediately cramped, and he didn't know whether he was frozen or frightened.

At that moment, he didn't react, and he didn't speak for a long time.

"With your low alertness, you dare to come out and run around in the middle of the night. Not afraid of being knocked out of your head? ”

Sun Yan was stunned for a moment, turned his head suddenly, and saw a person standing behind him with a snow hat on his head, because this person was still wearing a mask on his face, he really couldn't tell who it was for a while, seeing that Sun Yan was stunned, the other party took off the mask and said, "It's me." ”