I don't want to be the captain, others are still not satisfied with me being the captain, Diao Ye, Amy , Yun Feiyang, Yu Chengshu and others are all disappointed, I didn't expect the captain to be so young. Yun Feiyang asked directly: "Xiao Zhang, have you ever been to the desert?" Where have you been before? ”

Before I could speak, Lu Qingwen hurriedly said: "Being a captain is not necessarily proficient in everything, but more importantly, it is more important to unite everyone, make full use of everyone's abilities, and make the right decisions at critical moments." ”

Yun Feiyang shook his head again and again: "Such a little doll......"

The corners of Amy's mouth twitched slightly: "Hehe......"

Diao Ye looked at his nose, his nose looked at his heart and did not speak, Yu Chengshu helped his glasses: "Life experience is very important. ”

I don't care about their contempt, who told me to dye my hair black and look so young? I said indifferently: "I have no opinion on whoever is the captain, who wants to be the captain?" ”

Lu Qingwen was a little angry: "Who do you mean, who is the oldest and who is the captain?" Then just ask a hundred-year-old grandfather to lead the team! ”

Everyone immediately shut up, probably everyone knew that her identity was different - I only knew that her parents had high positions, and they might have some relationship with the military, not Lu Chengshan's power.

Lu Qingwen was still a little angry: "There is a saying that everyone must have heard, if you are ambitious, you are not old, and you have no plan to live a hundred years old, I believe in Brother Zhang!" ”

Gao Feng also spoke: "I have known Zhang Xuanming for a while, and I admire his ability very much. ”

Liu Ping said expressionlessly: "There will be no mistakes in the leader's arrangement. ”

Everyone looked at each other, although they still disagreed in their hearts, but they had already acquiesced.

I didn't want to be the captain, but now I can't do it, and it's better for me to decide than to let someone else do it. This time, our real difficulty is not the harsh natural environment, but the mysterious liliang and the terrible drought, I am afraid that these experts do not know the real purpose of our trip.

I glanced at everyone: "Since everyone has no opinion, let's start making preparations before the launch." How's the supply prepared? ”

Liu Ping said: "I am in charge of supply, and the means of transportation are two very high-performance desert vehicles, four barrels of gasoline and drinking water, and 20 boxes of mineral water. The food is mainly instant food, such as eight-treasure porridge, fast noodles, meat fillings, compressed biscuits, dehydrated vegetables, etc., as well as a small amount of rice and easy-to-preserve fruits and vegetables, which can be used for 15 days. Tents, blankets, sleeping bags, marching pots, emergency medicines, climbing tools, digging tools, etc. were all prepared. ”

I asked, "Will anyone fix the car?" ”

The two drivers said at the same time: "I will." ”

I nodded and looked at Master Diao: "Master Diao, is it difficult to enter Lop Nur this season?" ”

"October is the best time to go, it's not too hot and it's less windy." Diao Ye's Chinese is not very standard, his speech speed is slow, and he seems to be thinking about how to use words.

"How many times have you been to Robber, and where have you been the farthest?"

Diao Ye said that he had entered Lop Nur several times when he was young, and last year he brought a group of tourists in and came out safely, and said the route of the trip and the location of the camp.

Lu Qingwen took out two large maps and spread them out, one was a detailed map of the Tarim Basin, which belonged to a military map, with detailed coordinates of the corps station, abandoned farms and barracks; The other is a map taken by satellite, and the shape of Lop Nur is a clear big ear. Lu Qingwen moved her finger on it and pointed out that our marching route was basically based on abandoned farms and barracks.

Diao Ye can only take us to the central area of Lop Nur, we encounter difficulties near Lop Nur, and we can get helicopter support from the nearby corps relatively quickly, and no one will know the way if we go further, because the helicopter is too far away to have enough fuel to go back and forth, and there is no way to support us.

Although Yun Feiyang questioned my ability, he was a cheerful person, and when he saw us gathered to study, he also came over and talked about his professional knowledge. Through the latest remote sensing jishu and professional analysis, the ancient Lop Nur is actually approximately circular, with an area of 10,000 square kilometers, and after drying up, the new lake was formed on the basis of the old lake, and then gradually dried up to form the current ear-like appearance. Now there is not a drop of water within a radius of several hundred kilometers, and the ground is full of salt crusts and salt blocks, because it is impossible to survive without water, and the former farms and corps have been evacuated.

I was secretly frightened, if it weren't for the drought, how could the drought be like this? The drought can cause such a terrifying impact, you can imagine how strong its strength is!

Yu Chengshu also began to talk about the history of the vicinity of Lop Nur, and gave a general explanation of the location, history, and interrelationship of various ancient countries. Zuihou Amy also introduced her work, we have satellite phones, satellite navigation GPS, signal flares, flares and other high-tech things, if nothing else, we can know our coordinates at any time, plus there are detailed maps, we should not get lost.

Although my teammates are still suspicious of me, I value them and their expertise will play a key role when needed, and no one is superfluous. I feel that the battle liliang is still insufficient, I once asked Lu Chengshan to arrange a master of the Dao Sect, but I didn't expect him to send it. But think about it again, the real master is not something that Lu Chengshan can move, even if he comes in person, he is not much better than me, and besides, our main purpose this time is reconnaissance, not combat.

After discussing the walking route and what needs to be paid attention to, it was already midnight and we were going to leave early tomorrow morning, so everyone went to rest, and the two drivers took turns keeping vigil.

The place where we stayed was a fairly intact building, divided into many rooms of the same size, which was supposed to be the quarters of the Corps. Lu Qingwen and Aimei are in one room, Gao Feng and Liu Ping are in one room, Diao Ye and I are all in one room, and everyone else is crammed into one room.

My heart is worried, where can I sleep? So I went outside and had a look. There are a large number of neat and spectacular buildings nearby, connected together, but now they are all dilapidated, and they feel particularly cold and desolate under a cold moon.

It's located in the northwest and has no vegetation, so at night the temperature drops so much that it almost freezes. Walking into the open area outside the yard, I suddenly felt a sense of unease, as if someone was watching me, but I couldn't determine the location of the voyeur.

I asked Xiaoxue, "Are there people or beasts watching us nearby?" ”

Xiaoxue flew out of my body, flew into the air and began to search around, and quickly said, "No, there is not a single ghost." ”

I was still not at ease, and asked her to search carefully for a larger area, while I was also concentrating. The feeling just now was very subtle, and when I deliberately tried to sense it, I couldn't sense it, except for this barracks, all around was empty, and there was no living thing to see from afar.

After a while, Xiaoxue came back: "There is no one else except us, this ghost place, even rats are not easy to see, let alone people." ”

Looks like I'm really suspicious.

The next morning we boiled some hot water, ate some quick food and hit the road.

The two desert vehicles are not the same, one is an off-road vehicle and the other is a large truck, and the material is basically on the large truck. On the surface, these two cars only have a higher chassis and wider tires, which are similar to the shape of ordinary cars. For example, the tire does not have an inner tube, and the air pressure of the tire can be directly adjusted in the cab to avoid a tire burst due to the temperature difference. The engine, chassis, driver's cabin, etc. are specially designed and manufactured to adapt to the desert environment.

The buggy is air-conditioned and has a very haode tightness, and the sand and dust will not get in. As the captain of the team, you must enjoy privileges, two beauties have superiority, two experts must also focus on protection, plus a driver for a total of six people, and the others will go to the truck to squeeze. In fact, the truck is not crowded, and there is an empty seat, originally they thought that I would bring Lin Mei with me.

Professional equipment, professional personnel, and a large number of material and communication support have given us great confidence -- except for me, Lu Qingwen and Gao Feng. The others only knew that the last archaeological team was missing, and they didn't know that the Taoist priest Luo Mingzhong had gone crazy and contracted a strange disease, and they didn't know that the real purpose of our trip was to find the legendary Drought Fish.

Amy was curious about me and asked me questions from time to time, where I was from, how old I was, what kind of work I did, and so on. I didn't want to say much about me, so I replied absent-mindedly and vaguely, but she was very dissatisfied and ignored me angrily.

The vast wasteland unfolds in front of us, which makes people open-minded, but because of the lack of plants, there are no birds in the sky, and there are no animals on the ground, but it looks gloomy and sad, and after looking at it for a long time, it begins to get tired of sight. At first, there was still some dead grass along the way, but gradually the dry grass was gone, and as far as the eye could see, there was wilderness and stiff soil, and there was floating sand in a few places.

The sun was rising and the temperature was rising rapidly, so we didn't turn on the air conditioner to save gas, but just opened the windows and took off our coat and sweater, which still felt hot, and it smelled like we were in an oven.

The journey was boring and dreary, and I camped at night at a place called Lao Kaiping. According to Diao Ye, in the sixties there was a regiment stationed here, there was a large hospital, and it was one of the bases of the unit that worked on the first atomic bomb, but now, of course, it is also in ruins.

Around midnight, I woke up from my half-practice state and heard a sound similar to a wolf's howl. I hurriedly jumped up and got out of the tent, and the light snow had already flown out first.

The voice came from far away, getting louder and louder, and at first only I could hear it, but in a minute, it was audible even to ordinary people. Gao Feng and Lu Jingwen also jumped out of the tent and hurriedly asked me, "What is that sound?" ”

I shook my head, staring at Xiaoxue, she was flying out in the direction of the sound, and she had already flown far away, but she didn't see any living things. The voice suddenly disappeared, but after a while it sounded on the other side, this time louder, like crying and laughing, and woke everyone up.

I remembered what happened to the archaeological team last time, I heard similar singing or crying in the middle of the night, and I followed the sound to find the problem, and I couldn't help but let out a cold sweat, and hurriedly called Xiaoxue back with my mind, and told everyone to gather and not to walk around.