Chapter 238: Midnight Dunes
84_84070Dusk finally came, and our group left the car where we were and started to set off on foot.
Along the way, under the orders of Lu Haikong and Lao Pan, everyone was very silent, silent, and walked forward with their heads stuffy, I carried a backpack and walked in the middle of the team, but my heart became more and more confused, just Zhang Ye walked by my side, I quietly grabbed him and asked: "Brother Ye, why don't you drive over?" That's how slow it is. ”
Zhang Ye glanced at me and said in a low voice: "The front is the border, drive over, do you want to find death?" Do you know the purpose of those troops here? ”
"Didn't you say escort us, but they don't know where they went?"
Zhang Ye shook his head and said: "Stupid, there are troops assembled at the border to attract the attention of the other party, so that we can take the opportunity to sneak across the border, this is not like Heilongjiang, separated by a water, and the two sides often run around, in this place, if we drive over and are discovered by the other party's radar, a direct artillery shell may hit us, do you believe it?" ”
My eyes widened: "You mean that the real purpose of those troops is to distract the attention of the other side of the border, so that we can take the opportunity to slip through?" But if this is the case, how did those people from the Green Snake Organization cross the border, and if the golden head was also transported by them, wouldn't the goal be even greater? ”
Lu Haikong listened to my words, smiled and looked back: "I can't see it, you have learned to analyze the situation, that's right, in fact, this is our biggest doubt, I have been suspecting that this Green Snake organization has the support of foreign forces, so this operation, we must be careful, and we must succeed." ”
Although his face was full of confidence, I could hear that there should be a sentence behind his sentence that he must succeed, and if he didn't succeed, he would probably have to die here.
This time, I'm afraid it will be a hundred times more dangerous than the operation of the Black Water Demon Cave.
I took a deep breath and stopped talking, at this time our team, Lao Pan, there are eight of us, Lu Haikong and the guide, and there are three people in camouflage uniforms, it is estimated that they are masters of Lu Haikong, so there are a total of thirteen people, which can be described as unprecedentedly powerful, but I still have a question in my heart, where is Ansari going?
I remember that at that time, he walked with Lu Haikong.
As I pondered, I looked up and saw that it was getting darker and darker, and we were already in the middle of a desert.
It's also true to be walking in the desert at night, because the scorching sun during the day bakes the sand into a steamer, and the nights are cooler enough to walk.
But this endless desert was almost overwhelming to walk on, and the sand under my feet soon grinded into pain on the soles of my feet, and slowly, I fell behind the group.
After climbing over a small sand dune again, my body became more and more unable to keep up, and after calculating that we had been walking in this desert for almost three hours, I was already tired, and I stumbled under my feet, and actually fell into a sand pit.
I was caught off guard, and my body fell to the ground, and I hurriedly supported myself with my hands, trying to get up, but I felt that something seemed to bite my foot under the dune!
I was startled, screamed, and pulled out violently, but this time I didn't pull it out, and the person in front of me found that I had fallen, and also went over to pull me, I hugged my legs, pointed to the bottom and said, "There seems to be something down there, biting my foot." ”
Zhang Ye ran over, grabbed my leg and pulled it out, but the thing bit my foot and didn't move, and at the same time, something seemed to arch under the dune.
"That thing looks like it's coming out." I screamed, Zhang Ye was silent, and led a few people to quickly dig up the sand dune, and we found that under the sand dune, a pair of human bones were exposed.
My foot was sinking into the skull of the skeleton, which looked like it had been buried in the dunes for years.
I hurriedly pulled my foot out, and secretly muttered in my heart: This old man, I didn't step on your head on purpose, just passing by, don't be weird, don't be angry, don't be angry
Stopping in front, Lu Haikong looked back at me and asked, "Are you okay?" ”
I shook my head, I'm fine, but the man who died in the dunes was more miserable.
Zhang Ye checked the skeleton and turned around: "This seems to be a local resident, I am afraid that it will be decades after death, and the bones will rot when touched." ”
The guide Tug also came over, but he screamed and pounced, grabbed a scimitar more than a foot long from the pile of rotten clothes next to the bones, and said with an extremely excited expression, "Abba, this is my Abba." ”
His hands trembled, and we were all very strange, Lu Haikong stepped forward and said, "You mean, this is your father?" ”
Tug knelt on the ground and nodded repeatedly, and said in slightly stiff Mandarin: "My Abba left when I was very young, more than 20 years, more than 20 years, that time he also helped people lead the way, gave a lot of money, and never came back."
Tug said sadly, holding the scimitar for a long time, but my heart moved, his words clearly revealed a message, more than twenty years ago, his father once led people to the Wolf Juxu Mountain.
We didn't speak, we were silent for a long time, Lu Haikong stepped forward and patted Tuge's shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "Since we found it, this is God's arrangement, don't worry, when we go back, we will bring the old man's bones back together and bury them in the ground." ”
His voice was like a special magnetism, deep and infectious, and Tug wiped his eyes, got up, but buried the skeleton back in the sand, placed a few stones on it as a marker, and bowed to the bulging mound before turning and standing next to us.
The episode passed quickly, and we continued on our way, but along the way we found several bodies half-buried under the dunes, roughly three or four people.
In comparison, Tug's father's bones were buried deep enough, if it weren't for my kick, I am afraid I wouldn't have found them, and those bones were all scattered, and in the night, I could vaguely see a few sandworms crawling in and out of the skeletons of the skull.
This scene is a little weird, but it's actually nothing, dead people are often found in the desert, some people have said, if every desert is hollowed out, it is a huge corpse pit, and countless souls die in the desert every year.
However, at this point, we all looked at the bones carefully, and we quickly discovered a feature, judging from the tattered clothes and some belongings of the bones, they should belong to a team.
In other words, they were most likely on an expedition with Tug's father.
However, more than 20 years ago, what happened that several people died here at the same time, and who was the person who came here that time?
However, there are very few clues we can find, too much time has passed, and the merciless quicksand has already taken away too much, and only these few scattered corpses are left with bones that can't even be put together.
We quickly crossed the sand dunes, and further on, we saw a faint black shadow in the darkness ahead.
Tug walked ahead, stopped, turned back and said, "There is Mount Kent, that is, the Wolf Juxu Mountain where you are going, but this seems to be close, and there is still a long way to go, and over the sand dunes in front of us, there is a buffer zone, where we can rest, and wait for the day to be a little lighter, and then continue on our way." ”
I raised my hands in approval, I walked for so long, it was late at night, my feet were hot, it is estimated that it has been blistered, if I don't take a break, it is estimated that by dawn, I will have to be carried away.
I never thought the desert would be so terrifying.
Not only was I tired, but everyone else was tired, so we walked through the dunes and finally came to another flat sandy area, surrounded by some low bushes, scattered weeds, and other than that, the ground was full of stones.
We camped and rested here, and I was finally able to relax my feet, and after a few mouthfuls of water, I looked up at the stars, and suddenly I felt that the sky here was very clear and clean, not at all like the oppressive, low, foggy sky in the city.
I sighed, ignored the whispered conversation of the person next to me, and closed my eyes, I just wanted to get some rest now, I knew that it was only before the curtain began, and that our adventure would really begin at dawn.
The surrounding was quiet, the sound of Lu Haikong and Lao Pan and others talking, low into my ears, I was lying on a stone, in a daze, suddenly faintly heard, in the surrounding weeds, there seemed to be the sound of something crawling.