Chapter 328: Into the Desert
After everything was discussed, the old professor left satisfied, and gave us some money when he left, which was a deposit, and said that let's wait for them, there are three more people, everything must be prepared, and they have just arrived, and they need to rest and replenish all kinds of supplies.
The three of us discussed, and the fat man came forward to find the local armed forces, borrowed three pistols and three semi-automatic shotguns, and got a few grenades under his soft grinding and hard foam, and now we were armed to the teeth.
After coming out of the armed forces, the fat man went to the vegetable market in the town to buy five catties of rice and three small roosters, the kind of small roosters that had not been bred.
After we came back, we found a small restaurant and asked the owner to help slaughter the little rooster, of course, the blood should be kept, these chicken blood is a magic weapon to ward off evil spirits, and it cannot be thrown away.
The fat man mixed five catties of rice in a large basin, then put it in a dry place in the kitchen, dried it with the coal fire in the kitchen, and divided it into three parts, and the three of us each brought one each.
Don't underestimate these things, after so many adventures, I still quite understand the power of this chicken blood-infested rice.
For the next three days, the old professor rested and recuperated, and bought enough camels and skins to prepare a large amount of water and dry food, and seemed to be ready for a long battle.
The fat man used the three days to be mysteriously busy in and out, I asked him what he was busy with, he didn't tell me, just smiled mysteriously, and said that I understood when he used it.
I didn't bother to ask him, I went straight back to the hotel room, lay down and watched TV, for three days, I really had a TV addiction, and I just changed the channel every day to watch some TV dramas and variety shows.
In particular, I am very interested in the programs of the Central Ten Sets of Approaching Science and Exploring and Revealing, because many of the Exploration and Revelation are related to ancient tombs. Although the explanation is a bit boring, it is undeniable that the ability to create suspense is still very strong.
On the evening of the third day, I was fascinated by watching TV, and I don't know how long later, Huang Tian knocked on my door and said that it was evening to go out to eat barbecue.
Naturally, I have no opinion, we have a grudge against everything, just three things have no grudge, eat delicious food, and sleep lazy. Count the money. When I agreed, I suddenly saw Huang Tian coming over, still carrying a small package in his hand, throwing it on my bed and saying, "I'm going to leave tomorrow, you take this, don't leave it behind when you leave tomorrow." ”
I grabbed the package and looked at it confidently, and found a few words written on the package: "Jingdong Mall, a set of raincoats." ”
Depend on? What does that mean? Why do you need to bring a raincoat? It's the heart of the desert, and it's rare to encounter a rainy day all year round. Why do you want to bring this thing? Blame the cumbersome.
"When the time comes, you will know, don't think that the desert is all sunny, in case it rains, you can't eat and walk around."
Huang Tian saw my confusion and explained to me with a smile: "Don't think that it doesn't rain in the desert. To tell you the truth, although Lop Nur is a desert, it was also called Youze in ancient times, which means a lake where many waters converge. Since it is a lake of many waters, if you think about it, there are no snow-capped mountains nearby. Where does the water come from? The rain here is still very sufficient, but it is concentrated in a few falls, and because of the serious desertification here, the rainwater can not be stored, this place leaks the bottom, like a sieve, it can't hold water, but it doesn't mean that there is no water! ”
Listening to his explanation, I realized how pale and ridiculous the information I looked up on the Internet was, and I didn't even know that it would rain in the desert.
Think about it, whether it is a desert or a water town, it will definitely rain when it rains, but it will rain frequently in some places and in several places it will fall several times.
Wasn't that the same way we were there a few years ago? During the drought, the dry land cracked, and even the weeds could not hold on, so they could only rely on drought-resistant irrigation to ensure that the crops did not die, and it was difficult to say what kind of harvest could be achieved.
However, in June and July, the rain fell so suddenly that in just a few days, the pits and valleys were full of water, and even a drainage ditch had to be opened in the low-lying areas of the fields to drain the water out of the fields.
I turned off the TV and had a barbecue with Huang Tian and Fat Man, during this time I changed the medicine twice, the wound basically healed, there was no inflammation, and I felt that the recovery was not bad.
The next day we set off before dawn, the first time we rode on the back of a camel, there was always a sense of novelty, and we set off before dawn, basically on the road with stars and moons, and when the sun came out, we were already in the depths of the desert.
"This Yang Zhenjun is not simple, he is not a pure archaeologist, and he is estimated to be a master of washing his hands halfway."
The fat man rode on a camel, with a chicken leg in his left hand and a leather bag in his right hand, and his skin bag was filled with wine, so he ate and drank without a mouthful and whispered to me.
How so?
I turned my head to look at the fat man, and looked at Yang Zhenjun, an archaeological expert walking in front, who didn't look like a tomb robber, right?
"Hehe, it's very simple, one of his subtleties exposes him, the average archaeologist doesn't have his body at his age at all, it must be left over from the original exercise, and the most important thing is that I really see his flaws is the time of our departure today."
The fat man looked at me and said, "If you think about it, ordinary archaeologists don't know the rules of the desert, they will choose to walk after dawn, so that it is easy to identify the path, but he let us go at four o'clock in the morning, which shows that he is very familiar with the desert." ”
I retorted, "Not necessarily, maybe he found a local tour guide, and the tour guide told him?" This kind of thing is not uncommon! And why did I leave at four o'clock in the morning, I don't know? ”
The fat man told me that this is very simple, in the desert, the temperature difference between day and night is very large, and during the day, the sand is hot under the sun, and the eggs can be scalded.
And once it is night, the temperature plummets, and people can freeze to death if they don't cover themselves with a quilt when they sleep at night, so the best time to travel in the desert is before sunrise to ten o'clock, and after five o'clock in the afternoon until the moon rises, this time is the most ideal, the weather is neither hot nor cold, just in a hurry.
These are all valuable experiences of surviving in the desert, and I really don't know if the fat man didn't tell me.
Huang Tian once followed his master to run from south to north. Surveying the feng shui in various places, maybe having experienced survival in the desert, I looked at him, and Huang Tian nodded lightly, indicating that the fat man was right.
At this time, I simply admired the fat man's five-body throw, this guy is simply a big encyclopedia of survival and magic in the wild, there is nothing he doesn't know.
Sure enough, after nine o'clock, the sun became scorching. I rode on a camel, although there is a saddle sheath, but the ass is full of sweat, and I have never ridden this thing before, even a motorcycle is rarely ridden, the tender flesh between the two spans is worn by the saddle sheath as if the skin is broken, sweat soaked, this hot and spicy pain!
After ten o'clock, I couldn't hold on a little anymore. In fact, it's not just me, but the students of Lao Yangtou can't stand it anymore.
At first, they were chattering and discussing, fantasizing about making amazing discoveries this time. Preferably an epoch-making discovery.
But now, like defeated roosters, they don't say a word, but hang their heads and dangle on the camel's back. Constantly drinking water.
This desert safari is really not something that ordinary people can enjoy, at least I can't, at eight or nine o'clock. I couldn't help but drink water, and under the scorching sun, all the water in my body turned into sweat and flowed out.
Gradually, circles of gold began to appear in front of my eyes, and although I did not have Venus in my eyes, I was very tired, and I could fall off the camel at any moment, and the yellow sand was full of yellow sand, and these yellow sand was still wavy, and looked like fish scales.
It wasn't until more than eleven o'clock that Lao Yang Tou gave the order to take a break, set up a tent, and go inside to escape the heat.
When I heard this, it was like hearing about amnesty, this sin, I knew that I would not follow them, how good would it be to drive directly to Guloulan?
When I got off the camel, I almost rolled off the camel's back and sat down on the sand.
After only five seconds, I jumped up with a snort, feeling that the sand was really fucking like a soldering iron, and it was hot, and I didn't feel it when I first sat down, and in three seconds, the heat penetrated directly through my pants, and the hot person couldn't sit still.
Those students were no better than me, and they also designed Fat Man and Huang Tian to help erce up the tent, and then shoveled out the hot sand in the tent with a sapper shovel, and dug a deep pit half a meter deep, which was immediately much cooler inside.
Although the sun is very poisonous, it is also very good to be exposed to ten centimeters at most, and the sand below half a meter is cold.
Falling in the sand pit in the tent, I really didn't want to move at all, my legs hurt and numb, fortunately there were no women among us, I took off my pants directly and checked between the two spans, sure enough, it was ground red, and the serious place was still oozing blood, soaked in sweat, I shivered in pain.
We rested for a few hours, and it wasn't until five o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was about to set and the temperature was about to drop, that we set off.
At this time, I was stunned when I saw the camel, and I only felt a pain in my legs, and at this time, the fat man gave me the idea to put the change of clothes on the saddle sheath, and then use toilet paper to pad the worn area.
This is really relieved a lot, those old Yang Tou's students saw me doing this, and they also followed suit, it seems that they are also tortured by the saddle, only the old Yang Tou is the same as no one, and his skills are still very vigorous.
This walk, one to ten o'clock in the evening, we finally arrived at the original Peacock River ancient road near the road, here is no longer an endless yellow sand, of course, yellow sand is still the main color, but between these yellow sand are also dotted with some artemisia grass, cacti and other plants, in addition to red willow and other tall shrubs and trees.
These were the only food sources for the camels in the desert, and when we got off the camels, a small guide came and drove them to the plants and let them eat something.
People need to be refueled, and camels are the same, so we rested for a while before we started to pitch our tents. The fat man is right, the temperature difference between day and night in this desert is really fucking big, ice and fire! It was almost baked during the day, and now it's so cold that its teeth rattle. (To be continued......)