Chapter 22: Silent Love



Then, relying on this miraculous physical function, I took Peter east for two days in a row, which was really an unimaginable thing, two people for six days and six nights without water and food, and continued to hike the desert intensity exercise, and actually survived until now, even I thought it was incredible.

But after the third day, this breakthrough genetic protection could no longer be supported, my muscles gradually began to twitch, I looked down at my arms, and found that I was already skinny, dark and dry, and I thought, I must look a lot like the mummies I had seen in Egypt.

In this way, I walked another way, holding on to my trembling muscles, and finally I could not bear it anymore, and threw myself into the desert, and before I fell, I saw what seemed to be an oasis ahead.

Oasis...... Oasis, is it my fantasy?

Or is it real?

We fell in the sand, no one could move, even our eyes were half-open, and my eyes were staring at the oasis fiercely, and for a long time, it did not disappear.

Is that true?

I struggled to get up, but I had no strength at all, and at last I began to climb in the desert, like a paralyzed patient, and Peter saw my movements, and was afraid that I would disappear, so he also crawled after me, and I don't know how long, and finally rolled down with a sand dune, and sand was digging into my nostrils everywhere, and finally I fainted completely.

I thought I would never wake up again, because breakthrough genetic protection could no longer help me, six days and six nights, fortunately, fortunately, I didn't die in that place.

I thought I was going to die, but I didn't think I would wake up one day.

When I woke up, it was on a bed, called a kang by the Chinese, made of sand and river mud, and then, a woman came up to me and fed me water, she spoke to me, but unfortunately, I was not good at Chinese, and I vaguely felt that she did not speak like Chinese, and looking at her dress, she should be an ethnic minority located in Xinjiang, China.

Peter was in the other bed, and he was so much worse that he still hadn't woken up.

I lay in bed for two whole days, during which time the woman was feeding me water and food, and I was grateful to her, and although I couldn't do anything, I prayed and asked God to bless this kind Chinese girl.

The next day, Peter woke up, skinny like me, but he seemed even more wrong, if before he was nervous like a mummy, now he was a mummy, lying upright on the bed, neither speaking nor moving, only occasionally wide-eyed, and speaking nonsense that even I did not understand.

During this time, many people came to see us, probably they had never seen a foreigner, so they seemed very curious, but they were all kind, and brought a lot of food to the girl who took care of me, and some children, with bare buttocks, looked at me shyly with dark eyes.

I suddenly felt that the world was so good.

By the fourth day of my recuperation, I could barely get out of bed and walk around, and I was shaking at almost every step due to the severe muscle damage, and the kind girl would come and help me when she was free.

I suddenly wanted to know her name, so I pointed to myself and repeated my name several times. She understood, and a shy smile appeared on her sun-soaked black face, and she immediately pointed to herself and pronounced a repeated.

The sound seems to be: Kara.

Let's just Kara. I found that the oasis I saw before was real, not only existed, but there were also a group of kind Chinese living on the oasis, but there were not many people on this oasis, there were many vacant earthen wall houses, and about many people had moved out of this oasis, so there were less than dozens of people left in the oasis, and there were fewer people and loneliness, so the arrival of Peter and I was warmly welcomed.

When my body was back enough to walk slowly on my own, the people on the oasis held a bonfire, and although we didn't understand the language, we had a good night, and after the feast, I looked at the unfinished bonfire and thought of my dead companions and missing mentors there, and all the good moods were gone, only deep grief.

At this point, Carla put my hand in her little hand and wrapped it in both hands. At that moment, I felt a power called tolerance, which made me surrender to her at once, this shy, kind-hearted, hard-working Chinese girl, at that moment, I suddenly felt that her yellow and black skin was so cute. I shook her hand so hard that she was shy again, and kept her head down and didn't look at me for a long time.

Although my body was gradually recovering, the side effects of the breakthrough gene protection activation were too great, I stayed in the oasis for a week and did not fully recover, not to mention Peter, who was in worse condition than me, I almost doubted that he had become vegetative, but occasionally, he would suddenly say a few meaningless words, and he would suddenly stand up.

I decided that after a week of rest, I had to take Peter back to Germany, in fact, I knew that I had fallen in love with this Chinese girl, and at the same time, I also made up my mind that when I returned to China and settled down, I would come to China, take her out of the dry desert, I would learn her language, she would be happy to learn German, and we would be happy in the future, I swore to God, I would settle down, and I would never go to a dangerous place again for the sake of investigation, and I would take Carla and live a happy life.

I learned the basic language, such as water, food, or I was going out, but normal communication was still difficult, and that night, I didn't know how to express my thoughts to Kara, and I was a little scared, if I didn't make it clear to her, what if I went back to Germany and she married someone else?

I took Kara's hand, and I didn't know what to do, and I repeatedly said to her in German: When I come back, I want to be your bridegroom. Kara looked dazed, and finally showed a helpless smile, I was in a hurry, put my arms around her and kissed her.

In the end, I regretted it, Chinese girls are very shy, will I scare her?

After letting go of Kara, she was really frightened by me, with a dumbfounded expression, but she didn't refuse me, and after a while, she blushed and peeked at me with wet eyes, but she didn't let go of my hand.

My heart was almost trembling, I lowered my head and kissed her again, and slowly, she began to respond to me, our relationship was speechless, but it burned like a fire. That night, I repeatedly told me about my love for her in German, and she snuggled up to me and sat for a long time.

I kept swearing to myself, to God, in my heart: I would give Kara happiness.

The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow I was about to set off, that day, I was in a bad mood, Carla was going to work, I took her hand, gestured to her, and finally she understood, after knowing that I was leaving, I cried very much, I didn't know how to be good, I suddenly found that the Chinese girl cried, more helpless than the women of any country, and finally I sat with her for more than two hours, she finally calmed down, I put my wrist that had stopped walking with a compass on her slender wrist, on it, Like the pocket watch on my chest, it has some of my most precious photographs.

That night, we lingered for a long time, and when I was about to leave, I suddenly realized that Peter was gone.

I thought he had suddenly gone crazy again, and had gone somewhere else, so I searched around with Kara, but there was no trace of them all around, and I was in a hurry, so Kara found other people in the oasis, and everyone helped to find it, until dawn found that it was dark, and almost all the places in the oasis were searched, and when they gathered at night with torches, suddenly someone shouted a few words.

I don't know what he shouted, but I vaguely understood a few words, as if to say that there were fewer people.

Although I have not been here for a long time, there are not many people here, and they are very enthusiastic, so they are all memorized, hearing these words, I hurriedly went to count the number of people, and then I found that originally there were thirty-seven of us to look for it, and now there are only twenty-nine people who have come back to gather.

Where are the other eight people?

Obviously, I didn't just notice this, but everyone else also found out, they were holding torches, standing together and talking, with anxious looks on their faces, they were so familiar with this oasis, how could someone disappear for no reason?

I couldn't understand what they were saying, but I could see from the tone and expressions of the crowd that everyone was anxious, and I was just as anxious, because I had already regarded these Chinese friends as relatives, and if we brought disaster here because of our arrival, then I really don't know what to do.

Finally, an elder in the oasis came forward to say a few words, and then, he gathered more people, this time, even the old people were dispatched, out of the children and a few women left behind, the whole oasis of seventy-two people, including me, we lit torches, divided into eight paths, and extended the search in different directions.

This oasis looks beautiful in the daytime, with a milky white liquid that can save lives, like a mother's milk, tall and strong cacti, yellow or red flowers at the top, bringing the beauty of flowers to the desolate desert, and a shallow river in the oasis, which is the source of underground water from the Tarim River, and it is this water source that nourishes the lush oasis.

But at night, these things that seem beautiful during the day hide great dangers, and on the traveler's bananas, there are probably poisonous snakes, and in the cactus bushes, perhaps scorpions, and our group of men and horses have been carrying torches all the way to the edge of the oasis, and there is no sign of any man, neither Peter nor any other missing man.

They may have lost their way, or they may have joined up with the other teams now. So far, that's all I can look forward to.

But when we walked for more than an hour and returned to the gathering place, none of the teams reacted to encountering the missing people, and at the same time, an even greater panic arose because we were again outnumbered.