The convoy drove for nearly two hours in the endless desert before it stopped, and I looked around and felt that there was nothing special around it, and I didn't know why I had to stop here.

Wen Qingshan thought that the convoy had encountered something, and asked, "Why did it stop?" ”

After Long Yi exchanged a few words with Chen Biao on the walkie-talkie, he turned his head and said to everyone: "According to the positioning of the satellite positioning system, the second team should have called the headquarters for the last time before losing contact, so we will take this place as the center and search around. ”

Everyone got out of the car, and Long Yi determined two search directions according to the trajectory of the second team before losing contact, and he and Chen Biao each led a team to search separately, and left several members of the Red Dragon Special Team to camp on the spot.

Wen Qingshan and I were divided into the team led by Long Yiyi, the guide of our team is Ai Shan, in addition to a few of us, there are also six members of the Red Dragon Secret Team, the leader is the deputy captain of the Red Dragon Secret Team, named Li Guo, and what we didn't expect is that Li Guo and Seabeard were once comrades-in-arms of the same army! When he learned that we were good friends with Seabeard, he became much warmer to us.

Under the leadership of Aishan, our group walked in the established direction.

Walking in the desert during the day, it is really not an easy task, if I just felt the heat of the desert when I was in the car just now, then I really realized what is called scorching, the strong sunlight almost makes people's eyes almost unable to open, coupled with the extremely hot yellow sand, people feel uncomfortable, I have never felt that my legs are so heavy as they are now.

A group of people searched in the desert for almost an hour, and found nothing, and everyone was already tired, in fact, the most important thing is not tired, but dehydration is really strict, in order to prevent accidents, Long Yi led us back to the camp, far away, I saw that next to the seven or eight vehicles, six military tents have been erected, I really didn't expect that the members of the Red Dragon Secret Service Team moved so quickly, and a camp had been set up in such a short time.

The moment I walked into the tent, I felt like I had returned to the world from purgatory, and it was a wonderful feeling.

We rested in the tent for a while, and the team led by Chen Biao also came back, again to nothing.

According to Wen Qingshan's analysis, they may have entered an underground cave, and the entrance to the cave may have been sealed by moving sand dunes, so if we want to find them, we must first find the entrance to the cave, but if you think about it carefully, it is not easy to find this entrance buried under the sand, and from the outside, it is almost completely invisible. You can only grope slowly.

Of course, we are not completely blind searching, but we also bring some search equipment, such as a detector that can detect caves several meters underground, and a receiver that can search for satellite signals more than ten meters underground. It's just that it's hard to say whether these instruments will come in handy.

Because the temperature in the desert was too high at this time, not only people couldn't stand it, but even those instruments were interfered with, everyone discussed it and decided to wait for the sun to set before acting, two hours before and after the sun set, according to the experienced Batur and Aishan, the temperature is not too high and not too low, it is the golden time for search and rescue.

At this time, the sun was still about two hours away, so everyone took advantage of this time to eat something and hide in the tent to rest for a while.

Although the inside of the tent is not as hot as the outside, you will find that after staying for a long time, it is actually very stuffy inside, and the tent is in the sand after all, and the ground is still very hot, so in fact, there is no way to rest at all, it can only be said that staying in it can reduce the speed at which the water in the body is evaporated.

After nearly two hours in the tent, the sun was finally about to set, and everyone did not dare to delay and immediately began a second round of searching.

At this time, it feels much better than before, not only is it not as hot as before, but the sunlight has become much softer, the sand no longer reflects the sun, and it looks less dazzling.

We searched the desert for more than an hour in the afterglow of the setting sun, but found nothing, and seeing that the sky was getting darker, Aishan said that we could not continue the search, and that we must hurry back to the camp as soon as possible. Because the desert at night is full of dangers, on the one hand, the weather can become very abnormal, and on the other hand, people can easily get lost. And Aishan also said that in Lop Nur, there will be a terrifying monster at night, this monster is an ancient legend, known by the locals as the sand devil, the sand devil will attack all kinds of creatures, and can turn a large living animal into a white skeleton in a short time. It's just that Ai Shan can't say what this monster looks like, but he is very sure of the existence of the sand devil.

Hearing his words, everyone suddenly felt a chill, and they didn't dare to continue the search, so they had to obey Aishan's Jian yì and return to the camp.

In the evening, the temperature really drops rapidly, and the cold wind hits, as if it is winter all of a sudden, no wonder there is a proverb in the desert area of Xinjiang: "Wear a leather jacket in the morning and a yarn in the afternoon, and eat watermelon around the stove." "It's really worthy of its name. Fortunately, I prepared a big padded jacket in the car, and I found one to wear on my body, but I didn't feel cold.

Lying in the tent, I couldn't sleep anyway, I always thought about Dong Xiaodan's entrustment in my heart, until midnight, when I suddenly heard a shout in the haze.

I got up and rushed outside the tent, and everyone else was sleeping in their clothes, and soon they all rushed out of the tent.

Chen Biao asked from the two soldiers who were on guard, "What's the matter?" ”

One of the soldiers stared at the front and whispered, "I seem to have seen a man just now!" ”

"What! Alone!? Everyone was taken aback, and by the moonlight, they looked in the direction of the soldier's eyes, and saw nothing but the uneven dunes.

"Who? You're dazzled! I spoke.

"Nope! I was sure I saw a man, and judging by his size, it looked like a child. The soldier replied firmly.

Chen Biao didn't listen to his words, but turned his head and asked another soldier who was on guard: "Do you see anything?" ”

"I saw a dark shadow, but I didn't see what it was."

Long Yi on the side frowned and said, "Captain Chen, why don't we go over and have a look?" Chen Biao nodded, turned his head and said to the few team members standing behind him, "You guys, bring weapons and come with me to have a look!" ”

Long Yi and Chen Biao led the four team members to walk in the direction pointed by the soldiers on guard.

Wen Qingshan and Ai Shan and I also hurried to follow.

The group cautiously walked forward twenty or thirty meters away, but did not find anything, Long Yi said to Chen Biao: "It seems that they are indeed dazzled, the terrain in the desert is complex, and people are prone to ......."

Before he could finish his sentence, there was a rustling sound from the side. Everyone immediately turned their heads to look in the direction where the sound came from, and found that just seven or eight meters away from us, something seemed to be moving slowly towards us under the sand.

Long Yi said in surprise, "What is this?" Could it be a sand snake? ”

Ai Shan's face changed slightly, and he said nervously: "This is not a sand snake, the sand snake does not move like this, could it be ...... It's a sand devil. ”

When I heard the sand devil, I couldn't help but be shocked, and I didn't dare to slack off, so I hurriedly pulled the dragon tooth out of my waist.

Seeing that the thing was getting closer and closer to us, Chen Biao didn't say a word, raised the automatic rifle in his hand, and fired a shuttle of bullets towards the moving sand dune.

The silence of the desert was broken by the sound of gunshots, but what was under the sand did not stop advancing, but seemed to speed up.

Everyone was surprised when suddenly a black thing poured out of the sand and spread out in all directions, as if a liquid such as oil or sewage was coming out of the ground. Because the light was dim, I couldn't see what it was.

I hurriedly took out a flashlight to shine it, and then fixed my eyes to take a look, I couldn't help but be surprised, swarming out from under the sand turned out to be an insect, this insect is black all over, about the thickness of an adult's fingers, densely packed with a large piece, I didn't have time to see the appearance of this insect clearly, I heard Wen Qingshan next to me shout loudly: "This seems to be a desert marching ant!" Come on! ”

When I heard about the desert marching ant, I couldn't help but be shocked, although I had never seen it before, but I had heard of the prestige of the desert marching ant for a long time, it is said that the desert marching ant is a fierce super predator, living in no fixed place, wandering around, will use a qiē encounter animal as food, can turn a large animal into a pile of white bones in a very short time. I suddenly understood what the sand devil Aishan was talking about, I am afraid it was this desert marching ant!

Everyone didn't dare to slack off, and immediately evacuated quickly, but what we didn't expect was that the black-pressed ant colony seemed to smell the breath we were exuding, and actually chased after us.

Although the speed of the ant colony is not too fast, it is difficult to catch up with us, but the key problem is that they are getting closer and closer to our camp, Chen Biao shouted at the team members who stayed in the camp as he ran: "Pull out the camp!" Hurry up and pull out the camp! ”

A few of us rushed back to the camp quickly, and we hurriedly packed up our things without thinking so much, but in this moment and a half, where was the time to leave the camp, and it seemed that we had to abandon this camp.