The donkey cart plunged headlong into the Lop Nur desert, driving on a lifeless wasteland, empty everywhere.

An hour after leaving "Getaya", the distant sand mountain, beacon and collapsed city wall ruins rushed into Sun Yan's eyes. On the way here, due to excessive sleepiness, he didn't enjoy these scenery well, and now under the lonely starry sky of Lop Nur, and Sun Yan's mood has been heavy when he left "Geta", these scenery has added a bit of desolation and loneliness in his heart.

Speaking of desolation, it makes people feel that Sun Yan is a little too pretentious. However, what touched him the most now was not the change in his mood, but the pain caused by the temperature difference in the Lop Nur Wasteland - cold!

The four of them huddled on the donkey cart to keep each other warm, and it was difficult to move almost evenly, but fortunately, Batur had a lot of experience and brought out two blankets from home to wrap around his body to keep out the cold.

At about 7 o'clock, the sky slowly brightened, the horizon on the wasteland was open, and the fiery red round sun slowly rose against the horizon, like a dazzling agate coiled out of the ground, pacing the Lop Nur wasteland with a layer of brilliant gold, several people witnessed the desert sunrise for the first time, but they didn't expect it to be so magnificent, so that they didn't come back from the beautiful scenery in front of them for a long time.

It was only when the sun rose that I felt free from the bone-chilling pre-dawn cold. Chaos Chaos drove on the donkey cart for about five hours, and I don't know where it was going, the wasteland was uninhabited for a hundred miles, and it was only at about 9:40 that Batur stopped the donkey cart and told him that it had arrived.

After getting out of the car, there was no one around, and the car had not arrived, so Batur made a phone call, and the other party said that it was on the road and there was still an hour to go.

Several people gathered around the car to open a few cans of canned beef, and Batur took out some dried apricots and batan wood, and hurriedly ate breakfast. After ten o'clock, the temperature around him rose rapidly, and immediately the ground under his feet was like a stove, and several people squatted on the side of the road, wilting their heads and bowing their heads.

Everyone was still wearing jackets, it was hot and uncomfortable, and they couldn't sweat, but in order to avoid strong light exposure, they hurt their skin, so they could only endure it.

After about an hour or so, two off-road vehicles slowly drove in the distance, a Land Cruiser and a Suzuki, followed by a Nissan. Xiao's big lips ran towards the car like seeing a savior. As soon as the car guy stopped the car, several people couldn't wait to get into the car.

No one expected that the Batur brother would be able to get another SUV in such a short period of time last night, and the Suzuki car was fully stocked with supplies, gasoline, water and food, and a maritime satellite phone. However, this is also within Batur's calculations, and the five people broke into Lop Nur without supplies and rescue equipment, and they were simply declared dead.

The two guys in the car were simple Xinjiang men, and after getting out of the car, they gave Batur a friendly hug, and without saying much, one got into the donkey cart, and the other got into the Nissan car and returned the same way.

Batur, Sun Yan, and Xiao Dali got on the cruiser, Xiao Wang and Qi Dongrui got on Suzuki, and after checking everything was in order, the two cars set off for the Lop Nur no-man's land one after the other.

Finally on the road, several people were a little excited, looking at the endless wasteland in the distance, Xiao Da Li, who was sitting in the passenger seat, took the lead in singing, singing loudly, although he was out of tune, but it also brought a little vitality to the vast desert.

The cruiser was speeding over the endless Gobi, the climate was dry, the outdoor temperature was as high as 40 degrees, the wheels wantonly rolled up the sand and dust on the ground, and the yellow sand behind the car was filled. Suzuki followed the cruiser 50 meters away to avoid the mud and sand rolled up by the cruiser to blur his vision.

Sun Yan, Xiao Da Lip and Ba Tuer took turns driving, Sun Yan drove the shortest, and when he was free, he read the information left by Sun Qijun. On the way, Batur asked about Xiao Dali's occupation, because he had heard that he was an archaeologist at Getaya. Xiao Dayian told him about his professional unit, and he laughed and said that the archaeological team he led two months ago was from Shandong, and he knew Xiao Dayi's boss Xue Jiao.

"Xue Jiao?" Sun Yan was taken aback when he heard this, but he didn't expect it to be a coincidence, it turned out that the Shandong archaeological team that Batur said before was really Xue Jiao and them.

Xiao Da's lips lit up even more when he heard this, and he immediately asked Xue Jia about the situation of their last entry into Lop Nur.

Batur generally said that Xue Jiao's archaeological team was able to have 25 people last time and invited two guides, but the route was completely planned by themselves, taking the Sixty Springs and Loulan Line, which is said to be an investigation line more than 20 years ago, and the end point is Loulan. However, in the end, he was forced to return due to a shortage of water resources before arriving in Loulan, and on the way back, he encountered a huge storm, got lost, and wandered in the desert for half a day. But in the end, he was brought out by a young man.

Batur said that this young man was a special god, he had never seen him before, he was a fresh face, and when he got lost, he suddenly came out to lead the way, and quickly brought everyone out, and took a shortcut. Batur and the other guide thought the young man strange, as if a strong wind had blown out of nowhere, but no one on the archaeological team noticed anything, and they knew the young man well.

Batur laughed and said, "After leaving Lop Nur, I asked this young man half-jokingly, where were you before you got lost?" Why haven't I seen you. Guess what he said, he made a serious joke with me about me walking in the desert. ”

Xiao Dayian and Sun Yan glanced at each other, and listened to the cold sweat on their bodies, Xiao Dayan asked, "What's that young man's name?" ”

Batur shook his head and smiled: "I really can't remember this, I just remember that his surname is Cha, he doesn't like to talk much, and then he followed Xue Jiao back to Shandong directly." ”

The two almost choked on their own saliva when they heard it, surnamed Cha? Cha Muque?! This is simply the funniest thing in the world, could it be that he is the soul of Lop Nur and brought back to the real world by the archaeological team? Although he gives the impression that he is quite capable, he is not so legendary!

Sun Yan felt that this matter was really outrageous, so he shook his head, purely as a joke. Later, Xiao Da Lip kept breaking the casserole and asked to the end, Batur was helpless to be forced by him, so he said something about the monster, the people in the archaeological team called the monster Sha'an, which suddenly appeared near the Peacock River in the second half of the return trip, the number is very amazing, and you can come and go freely in the sand. And specifically attacking men. The fire was lit at night, and the thing did not dare to approach, but two members of the archaeological team were still bitten.

This news is really not very good, Xiao Dayian and Sun Yan listened to it and had a strong cold war in their hearts, a sand nunnery is enough to kill, why are there still a bunch in the desert? However, hearing the news as soon as possible has prepared everyone in their hearts, so as not to be caught off guard when the time comes.

The deeper we went into Lop Nur, the more difficult the road became, and the car jolted violently in the desert for seven or eight hours, and when it was almost dark, several people stopped and camped in a saline area in Kuruktag.

Now it can be regarded as really entering Lop Nur, on the boundless desert beach, two cars and five people have become orphans abandoned by the world.

It was only when I set up camp that I realized that there was a critical problem to be solved. In order to defend against the sand hermitage, there must be fire, but it is surrounded by saline land with no grass, and there is nothing to use.

After discussion, they decided to send two people out to find some withered poplars and red willow branches to light the fire, and the remaining three stayed to set up a tent to cook.

Sun Yan strongly opposed it at first, it was really inappropriate to separate as soon as he entered Lop Nur, and it was easy for two people to get lost when they went out alone after dark.

However, if the fire is not lit, the next ten hours of slow and long nights will be very difficult for the five people. The lesser of two evils, Sun Yan had no choice but to compromise, and finally negotiated that Batur and Xiao Dayian would go out to find firewood, and they would have to come back after an hour regardless of whether they found it or not.

After deciding down, Batur drove south with Xiao Dalip, and the remaining three stayed in the camp to set up tents.