Twenty minutes later, Xiao Dali, Batur, Ma Dali, Lao Du and Wei Xiao rode camels and chased along the route of Xue Jiao.

In addition to one camel per person, there were two empty camels to carry equipment, and before leaving, the miners tied equipment and water to the camels' backs, each with a maximum weight of 150 kilograms, no matter how big it was.

When leaving, Qi Dongrui was still asleep, not disturbed by the movement outside at all, Xiao Da Lip and Batur did not wake him up, took the equipment and went directly on the road.

The camel bell is melodious, after more than five hours of night walking, at dawn there are already patches of undulating sand dunes, strange rocks and mounds in front of you, looking back, the miners' area has disappeared somewhere, the yellow sand is long, stretching infinitely in front of you.

The road has begun to be difficult to walk, and Batur said that going further is the ultimate of the road.

Although the camel is steady, it also shakes violently when walking on such a road, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of floating soil, and the camel steps on it, and the whole hoof is buried. Slowly moving forward with such a deep foot and a shallow foot, it is like a flat boat sailing on the rough sea, which makes people feel dizzy for a while.

The sun was scorching overhead, and the hot desert air was as if it were steaming. Xiao's big lip's head began to buzz, and he clutched the reins with both hands, lying on the back of the camel and falling asleep.

Seeing that he was languishing, and fearing that he would accidentally fall off his camel, Batur cried out, "You can't do this before you reach the Yadan landform?" There's still a long way to go, don't sleep! ”

Xiao lay on the camel's back and snorted twice, but his eyelids were heavy but he couldn't open them.

The young man Wei Xiao has much more perseverance than Xiao Da Li, and his back is still straight on the hunchback despite the big round sun on his head and the unusually high temperature around him. At this moment, he shouted: "Captain, in order to refresh our brother Xiao, you can sing a song!" ”

The old horse walked in front, looking ahead, he didn't make a sound all the way, and when he heard Wei Xiao calling him, he couldn't help scolding: "You little cub, what song are you singing now, don't you know how to save your strength?" ”

"Then tell us a story, tell us about your lover, you hid a woman in Lop Nur without telling your wife!" Wei Xiao smiled evilly.

As soon as Xiao's big lips and ears were erected, he immediately came to his senses, and hurriedly raised his head and said, "Okay, old horse!" Feelings: You have a woman in Lop Nur! It's strange that I have to want to go home, it turns out that you still have a delicate hidden in your broken 'nest'! The stinking jingle of all the you told us before, you almost cheated you! Fuck you! ”

"Listen to this little bunny fart! You still believe what he says! Lao Ma hurriedly said in front, "Although I don't go home many times a year, but I am single-minded to my wife, although the mother-in-law is not good-looking, but I will guard her for the rest of my life!" ”

Hearing the word "single-mindedly", Xiao laughed with a big lip, and his head fell heavily on the hump again.

"Less, Captain!" Wei Xiao didn't give up, and said, "Haven't you seen the beauty of Lop Nur, at that time you also told us that you can't forget that face in your life, and you dream of it every night!" ”

"Then those are two different things, and they have nothing to do with my wife." Lao Ma said, "Although it looked beautiful at the time, I still feel a little scary when I think about it now!" ”

Xiao raised his head again: "I said old horse, what is going on?" Tell me about it! ”

The old horse pressed down the cloak on his head, trying to cover the sun above his head, and said: "That was ten years ago, in March 1998 I just entered Lop Nur to pan for gold, the first night I followed the team of more than 30 people for the first time to live in the nest, in the middle of the night I woke up and went out to spread the New Year, I heard someone singing outside, the night was very quiet, for a while I thought I was hallucinating, scared to dare not go out, but the song lasted for more than ten minutes, I couldn't help but be curious and decided to go out to see, I thought that maybe the people of the expedition were lost in the desert. You know, it's very dangerous to have women around the mining area, the gold diggers live in the desert all the year round, there are no women around, that kind of thing can't be solved, but it's okay for me, I just got married for two years at that time, I have a lovely wife at home, and she just conceived a child for me when I came to the desert."

When Lao Ma said this, he must be clarifying something, and Batur couldn't help but ask, "Then what did you see when you went out?" Is there really a woman? ”

"Of course, as soon as I went out, I saw a woman crouching fifty meters in front of me, and she sang the song. At that time, I couldn't help but be curious, so I dared to walk to her, and the visual distance was only fifty meters at the time, but it took a lot of time to get to her. The woman was squatting on the ground at that time, dressed in red, and her face was very good-looking, I was stunned when I saw it, and I felt that even the four beauties of ancient China could not compare to her. When I approached her, she stopped singing and stared straight at me. I didn't know what to say for a while, so I said hello to her, and she smiled at me, but when she stood up, she startled me, my mother, guess what? ”

Lao Ma deliberately paused when he said this, and Batur and Xiao Dayan were fascinated by it, and hurriedly shook their heads.

Lao Ma continued: "This woman is as tall as me, and it seems to be a little taller than me, I didn't feel it at all when she was squatting, and when I looked down, it turned out that there was a big pit under her feet, and she was squatting in the pit!" ”

Xiao asked with big lips: "Old Ma, how tall are you?" ”

"How can I also have 1.84 meters, you think about how scary a woman is so tall, she must play center when she enters the basketball team."

"And then?"

"Later? Because her face was parallel to mine, I kept staring at her, and she wasn't disgusted. At some point, someone called me from behind, and as soon as I turned around, the woman was gone, but the pit on the ground was still there. ”

Lao Ma almost understated when he said this, and Lao Du, who had never spoken, said: "It's a ghost, I have always thought so, you must know that many lonely souls and wild ghosts have wandered here on the ancient Silk Road, and dry bones are everywhere." ”

Xiao Big Lip and Batur glanced at each other, and their faces were full of suspicion. They remembered that Sun Yan and Qi Dongrui had also mentioned similar things to them before, that is, on the night when they went out to find wood and encountered a sandstorm, Sun Yan saw a woman squatting on the saline-alkali ground, and she disappeared in the blink of an eye, but there were footprints on the ground.

"I don't know if it's a ghost or not. But she is really good-looking, and when she was idle at that time, she just thought about this face, and then forgot about it after a long time. But now that I think about it, I feel terrible, not because of the impression that this woman gave me at that time, she was a human or a ghost, it was ten years ago. But in the past two years, there seems to be a person in the past expedition who reminds me of this face from time to time, and for a while I am asked to point out who this person is, I really can't tell, but when I see him, I can remember something in a trance. ”

Wei Xiao smiled: "Captain, you are mentally weak." ”