Chapter 7 The Qur'anic Trade Road
For the next two or three hours, the rain continued, and a small river had formed where the car had sunk in the exact direction we had predicted.
Zhang Yang took out his mobile phone and took a selfie with himself, and handed the mobile phone to the grasshopper when it was over, and handed it to me after the grasshopper photo was done, I saw that they were both looking at me, and the expression was very serious, I knew it was not a joke, and I took a picture with 6S, and then the phone continued to pass on, until the phone returned to Zhang Yang's hand again, the rain suddenly became smaller, and the clouds began to disperse, I looked at the watch, seven o'clock in the morning.
Before I knew it, the night had passed, and it was strange to say that I was not sleepy at all, according to what I knew about myself, I was a person with an absolutely accurate biological clock, and it was impossible for me to be sleepy all night.
His eyes skimmed over the gnats who were standing outside the camp looking at the sky, and suddenly remembered the dark thing that night last night, the smell, damn, was fooled by this kid.
The weather in the desert is like this, it rained heavily all night, and as soon as the sun came out, it still felt dry and cracked, and the sand under his feet was usually sunburned without any moisture, and it looked lifeless at a glance.
I took a hot shower temporarily, changed into a special camouflage uniform that had just been delivered, and the fabric and production process were exactly the same as the one Jiang Yuan gave me when I went to Yunnan last time.
On the edge of the sand pit, Zhang Yang wore a pair of sunglasses, his face was full of confident smiles, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, are you ready?" ”
A group of people responded loudly: "Ready." ”
Zhang Yang nodded in satisfaction, and then jumped out of the bunker, he was very good at it, and landed firmly on the roof of the car, followed by the gnats and me.
After the three of us jumped, we quickly jumped off the roof of the car, and when I got to the bottom, I realized that this was an underground passage, and if it hadn't been for the heavy rain that washed away the sand piled up here, this underground passage would have been difficult to spot.
We turned on the flashlight and cautiously began to walk deeper under the leadership of Zhang Yang, because it was underground, the temperature was nearly 8 degrees Celsius lower than the surface, so we couldn't adapt to it for a while, and a few young people whispered in the back, and I pretended not to hear.
There was still a thick layer of sand under our feet, and we walked for more than ten minutes, and there was nothing else to be found in this underground passage except sand, at this time, an advisor next to Zhang Yang began to question, he said a bunch of English, although I couldn't understand it, but his tone was not very friendly.
Zhang Yang listened with a smile on his face, and when the consultant finished speaking, Zhang Yang took off his sunglasses with one hand, and then looked at him very arrogantly, and responded in fluent English, at the same time, the consultant began to get agitated, and I even smelled a strong smell of gunpowder.
The team stopped, and the gnats had been silently leaning to the side, sometimes looking at Zhang Yang, sometimes bowing their heads as if they were thinking about something, and I was curious about the content of the conversation between Zhang Yang and the consultant, and I was embarrassed to ask others, so I shifted my target to the grasshopper's side.
"Well, what are they talking about?" As he spoke, he took out a bottle of mineral water from his backpack and handed it to him, in fact, I knew that he was not thirsty, just looking for a step.
The Grasshopper looked at the advisor with disdain, and whispered to me, "His name is Qiao, and he is an advisor hired by Zhang Yang at a high price, and they were arguing about this underground passage just now. ”
I nodded, "This Joe, what nationality is he?" I think he looks like us. ”
The grasshopper suddenly smiled and said, "You said it yourself, he looks similar to us, where do you say he is from?" ”
I let out an "oh", twisted away the mineral water and took a few sips, then put the rest back in my backpack.
The argument continued, and I suddenly felt very strange, this Zhang Yang looked very arrogant, how could he be so patient with this Joe, looking at this Joe, no matter how he looked at it, it was a bit like an agent in a TV series.
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard Zhang Yang call me, and then the guy named Qiao also waved at me, and at the same time he was still talking a lot of English, and I just smiled at him as I walked in response.
Zhang Yang took out a drawing from a bamboo tube he carried, this drawing was very precise, and on this drawing, I saw a few very familiar words, which were Jiang Yuan's pen style.
"The Gulan Trade Road crosses the ancient country of the West Night, and then meets at the source of the Yudai River and joins the South Road, this ancient trade road is at the source of the Yudai River, and there is actually an underground passage, where we are located, is the entrance to this underground passage." I pointed to the map and said to Joe.
That Joe really didn't seem to understand Chinese, he looked at me blankly, Zhang Yang translated my words next to him, that Joe looked extremely shocked after listening to it, he was very emotional, and at the same time pointed to the place marked with a red circle on the map, said a bunch of words to me that I didn't understand, and then shouted "go" to everyone.
Joe jumped on top of the car with a few men, made a goodbye gesture to us, and left.
I was confused by him, blinking my eyes, looking at the gnats and Zhang Yang, "What's going on?" Did I say something wrong? ”
Zhang Yang was obviously a little angry, but he was an extremely face-loving person, and in the face of my question, he chose to smile and not make any verbal response.
Joe's matter made me a little worried, and during the time we delayed, no one noticed the change in the entrance, and with a boom, one of the men immediately ran over and reported that the entrance was covered with quicksand.
At this time, everyone was shocked, at that time, someone proposed to use tools to dig up the quicksand blocking the entrance, and many people responded in panic, and when they were about to act, a guy suddenly covered his throat and fell in front of everyone, and in less than half a minute, he did not move.
In this case, there will inevitably be fluctuations in people's hearts, and there will be commotion in the team, I put down my backpack and walked to the guy who fell to the ground, and when I turned over his body, I was also startled, and the whole person sat on the ground, and my heart was pounding.
"His face" I sat on the ground and pointed to the man's corpse, turned to the gnats and said, "Inform everyone, don't go near the wall." ”
Before he could finish speaking, another guy standing against the wall fell to the ground in great pain with his throat clutched, and I almost crawled over, he was still conscious at the moment.
"Brother, brother, hold on."
The grasshopper pulled away the hand that the guy was holding around his neck with one hand, and then cut the wound horizontally with the dagger, and with a hook of his fingers, a black bug was actually hooked, and the worm was still alive, at this moment, the black body was twisting between the two fingers of the grasshopper.
"Desert Spirits." Zhang Yang said as he walked this way, with a confident smile on his face, "My judgment will not be wrong, Joe, you lost." ”
Under the emergency treatment of the grasshopper, the guy slowed down, and actually came to his senses, I carried the medicine box with me, and bandaged him like Mu Zhuo.
As soon as this side stopped, I suddenly heard the other side start screaming again, the body of the guy just now was actually moving slowly, and I and the grasshopper saw it in our eyes but didn't dare to rush forward, watching this corpse slowly pass in front of us, going deeper and deeper.