Chapter 330: The Great Sandburst
I had just taken off my pants, and when I looked up, I suddenly saw that not far away, several desert wolves were waiting for their little green eyes to look at me.
For the sake of convenience, I didn't have a gun with me, so now I came face to face with this group of brutes, less than twenty meters in a straight line.
This distance is nothing for a pack of wolves that have lived in the desert for a long time, and in the blink of an eye they can leap up in front of me and tear me to shreds with their razor-sharp teeth.
What to do? At this moment, my brain is running rapidly, and I don't feel any more urgency, so I need to hold it for a while.
I don't dare to make a big move, for these wild wolves, any big move will be considered an unfriendly sign and be attacked.
But even if I don't move much, I can't do it! Because of the human exploration of Lop Nur, these wolves have greatly reduced their living space, and there are fewer and fewer creatures in the desert, so their food is becoming less and less enough to eat.
Although people are dangerous to them, they are also a kind of food, they don't think that human meat is sour, as long as they can keep their stomachs alive, they dare to eat even carrion, not to mention my fresh.
Little by little, I stood up, lifted my pants, tied up my belt, and stepped back step by step, my movements were very cautious.
At this time, no one can help me, I can only save myself, and the most important thing to save myself is not to provoke this group of beasts, otherwise, I dare not guarantee that these beasts will not suddenly attack me.
As time passed, I retreated to the sand beam, a place where fat people were able to see me.
"Help......"
As soon as I turned around, I ran desperately towards the fat man, and at this moment, there was a terrible wolf howl behind me, and a large group of wild wolves chased after me at a very fast speed in the desert.
I had just run three or four steps before I felt my scalp explode. My legs hurt terribly, and it felt like I was going to have a spasm at this time.
"Get down!"
The fat man shouted, raised his hand and shot at me, I almost reflexively fell to the ground, and by the way, I rolled to the side to resolve the force of the forward rush, and at this time, I also saw that at the place where I fell, a wild wolf was shot through the brain, and blood and brains flowed out. A pungent fishy smell came.
It's so hanging! If I had slowed down, I would have estimated that the bullet would have landed on me, this fat man really dared to shoot, I knew that this guy's marksmanship was good, but he had only seen him once in the tomb of King Qin Zhaoxiang, and this was the second time I saw him playing with a gun.
Bang bang......
A dense burst of gunfire came, and all those who fell asleep were awakened, the fat man and Huang Tian both had shotguns, and their marksmanship was not bad, relying on the firepower of the two to cross. It actually stopped the wolves.
The wolves, seeing that we were outnumbered and armed with guns, fled quickly after discarding the carcasses of several wolves.
The fat man didn't chase them, they just carried these wolf corpses back. These, it is impossible to eat wolf meat in the desert, not to mention rough and unpalatable, how to cook it is a problem. They want wolf teeth, which are very evil and can ward off evil spirits.
After this trouble. There should be nothing around, not only wolves afraid of gunshots, but also those desert rats. Scorpions, snakes and the like are also afraid of gunshots.
After convenience, the three of us went back to the tent to sleep, Lao Yang Tou arranged another vigil, at this time I knew why the fat man called me at the beginning of the vigil, I couldn't sleep at all in the first half of the night, I was called up just after falling asleep, the taste was too uncomfortable.
But we don't have this problem in the middle of the night, and when the changing of the guard dies, we are also sleepy, so how good is it to sleep until we get up?
Lying in the sleeping bag for less than two minutes, I fell asleep, this day tossed me, from childhood to adulthood, even if I was tired and half dead every day on the construction site, it was not like today, but I didn't do any work, but I was also punished.
The next day, I got up early in the morning, although it was said that there were countless souls in the desert, but after all, there were many of us, so it was so easy to run into it?
Taking a step back, even if we do, we are quite well prepared, and we still don't believe it, even the difficult things that we have no desire to control have let us settle down, is there anything more difficult than this?
The scenery in the desert is almost static, and if it weren't for a guide, we'd probably get lost.
This walk lasted another five or six hours, and during this time, I also saw some other creatures in the desert, like sand scorpions. Rattlesnakes and the like, but they generally don't actively attack humans, for the simple reason that they also know that humans are not easy to mess with.
Except for an unsuccessful attack by wolves, we had gone well on the road, and by the evening of the third day we could already see some remnants of the wall half-hidden in the desert.
These are the ruins outside the ancient Loulan, which look lonely and have a desolate feeling.
At this moment, our camels suddenly seemed to go mad, and ran towards the broken walls, and almost knocked us down.
At this time, I suddenly saw a strange scene in the distance, tens of thousands of rats, snakes, scorpions and other things quickly formed a round ball-shaped thing, black, and it looked particularly scary.
"Look, what's that?"
I took out my phone while greeting the fat man and prepared to take a photo, and when I went back, I posted it on Weibo, and there must have been a lot of likes.
"Not good! Everyone get off their camels and put them in a circle, quick! ”
The guide also saw it, and shouted loudly, and at the same time he rolled down the camel first, and pulled all the camels, and we all came down, and the guide said with a gloomy face: "Big sandburst, I hope God blesses, we can survive!" ”
As he spoke, he instructed us to string together the luggage tents and the like we were carrying.
The fat man did not follow his command and began to get busy, gathering the necessary food and water bags, and then tying himself and everyone together with the Holy Son.
But the time was too short, and before we could get ready, the sandstorm came, and the sound sounded like a lot of unjust souls were howling, directly stimulating people's souls, even if they wanted to plug their ears and keep it useless.
The fat man barely had time to connect the three of us together before he shouted, "Lie down and hold on to everything you can around you." ”
I didn't care about anything anymore and just threw myself on the ground. I saved a camel leg, and I didn't dislike the smell at this time.
The Great Sandburst is the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life, it's almost like the end of the world.
Before this, I had never known that the wind could sometimes be so powerful, estimated to be more destructive than a Category 12 typhoon at sea, but there were no buildings in the desert, and it would not be so stimulating to the senses.
However, when the sandstorm came, I felt like a lonely boat in the middle of the ocean. With the waves drifting, you may be drowned by the sea at any moment, and you can't hear anything in your ears, all the harsh wind sounds.
I don't know how long it took, I felt that the world was quiet, quiet and scary, could it be that I was already dead? But shouldn't the world of the dead be so silent?
I shook my head vigorously, and then I realized that my whole body had been buried in the sand, no wonder I couldn't breathe very well. Fortunately, the burial is not deep, only a shallow layer, and because of yesterday's spitting sand, we deliberately wore masks when we set off today. This is the ability to filter out the sand.
But Rao is like this, when I got up, I also found that my mouth was full of sand, and the mask did not work at all under this strength of wind and sand. His ears were full of sand, and he shook his head from side to side and threw the sand out. That's when I looked around.
At first glance, I was dumbfounded, there was nothing around, it was all sand after the strong wind blew, not even a trace of it, but fortunately the rope around my waist was not broken, and the camel I was holding was still there.
"Ahem......"
"Slep, smack......"
Soon, someone has already crawled out of the sand, the first one is a fat man, the second one is Huang Tian, these two guys are absolutely first-class in their ability to survive in the desert.
Immediately after, the little man of the guide also came out of the sand, and for a while he was in a daze, and he didn't know what to think when he sat on the sand.
Looking at the others, Lao Yang Tou was also there, but there were only two of his seven or eight students left, and only four camels left, and the rest didn't know where they were swept away by the big sandburst.
Thinking that this big sandstorm can even sweep away camels, I can't help but be afraid for a while, this thing is much more dangerous than wolves, and there is no warning, before this, no one realized that the big sandstorm is coming, otherwise we can hurry a few steps, and we can block or avoid this big sandstorm under the wreckage wall in the distance!
At this point, regret was useless, I looked at the fat man and asked him with my eyes what should we do next?
The fat man spit out the sand in his mouth, and said in a dumb voice: "Damn, a little back, I actually encountered a big sandburst that has not been encountered in a hundred years, and now we are completely lost, Huang Tianmi counted our food and water, to see how many days we can last, in addition, we can't sit still, we must find a way to survive, the most important thing now is to find a water source, we can still last a few days without food, but without water, we can't even last a week." ”
Lao Yang Tou also nodded, don't look at his age, but at this time he was very calm, listening to the fat man's arrangement, he also began to count.
Luckily, although there was a lot of loss of personnel and equipment, but the fat man's previous labor was not in vain, there was still a lot of water, and the food was enough for us to last for a week, now it depends on whether we can find a water source or an oasis within a week, replenish supplies, if not, I am afraid that we will have a hard time in a week.
"Hey, come here, you are a person who often lives in the desert, why did you not even have any warning when the sandstorm came, and besides, what kind of place is this? In what direction should we go to get to Guloulan? ”
The fat man turned the June Fourth style in his hand, and the threat was self-evident, although it was an inquiry, but with a commanding tone.
The guide was also very stubborn, and walked directly over and said: "There was no warning of the big sandstorm, if it wasn't for the camel's early warning, I'm afraid we would have died by now, as for where to go, sorry, I don't know, now I can only wait for noon to find out the direction before making plans." (To be continued......)