At dawn the next day, our group hurriedly ate some food. At this moment, the sun has just risen above the horizon and the sky is covered with brilliant morning glow, and we are sitting on the desert, eating and discussing the next part of the trip.

The surname Zhang said: "The owner of this diary is the team that his mentor participated in, through the records of the diary, they walked for a total of six days before they met the Gada Oasis, but, according to their physical strength at that time, the speed of travel should be very slow, our food and water sources, there are about four days left, let's hurry up, we should be able to find the ruins of Yabuda within four days." ”

Yes, we hurried and were sure to arrive in four days, but what about when we arrived? We don't have to eat or drink? What about our equipment for the return trip? Yabuda and his entourage, like the surname Zhang, are imperative, but what is in front of us is a very real problem.

Now our equipment, if we return immediately, there is no problem at all, but if we continue to move forward, our follow-up supplies will be completely cut off, and the seven of us will face a situation of running out of water and rice.

I raised this situation, surnamed Zhang shook his head and said: "Our real big head equipment is in the hands of another team of people, and they will not give up going to the Yabuda ruins, so as long as we go to Yabuda, we will definitely be able to meet them, and the equipment is not a problem." ”

The fat man said: "Dr. Zhang, some time ago, it was a sinking sand and a black storm, in case that team released your pigeons, wouldn't you take us to a desperate situation?" After that, the fat man put his arm around my shoulders and said, "Naive, you yourself said that after walking three times and then dying, we can't give up your grandfather's business, but we must also think clearly and make all plans." ”

I didn't have a relationship with the fat man for a day or two, what he said, in fact, I also thought, I looked at the surname Zhang, and found that she looked a little strange, and then picked up the equipment bag and said: "I won't say much else, but I just say one thing, that team of people will not listen to my command in a sense, they will definitely go there." After the surname Zhang finished speaking, I was shocked, I didn't listen to her command, could it be its person again?

It seems unlikely, after passerby A took away the Zansheng Sutra, the fat man and I were almost non-stop chasing the team surnamed Zhang, it had the Zansheng Sutra in its hands, at best, it just needed to find a translator surnamed Zhang, according to the consistent style of passerby A, it was definitely knocked out by the surname Zhang and brought it back, how could he go on the road with the surname Zhang?

Moreover, they would not have known about the existence of Yabuda without knowing the actual contents of the Zansheng Sutra.

Could it be that I am thinking too much about all this?

After the surname Zhang finished speaking, he shook his head, and beckoned the team to go on the road, and the fat man and I glanced at each other, and then started the desert hike with a gun on his shoulder. The desert is an unimaginable boredom, you are in it, after walking for a long time, you will feel that your hearing and vision have become numb, your eyes will always be endless yellow sand, and in your ears, there will always be a big or small wind.

Next, we didn't say anything all the way, only occasionally saw some snakes and scorpions in the distance, we quickly bypassed, and those who could survive in the desert were the best of nature, and we could not provoke, or try not to provoke.

Dr. Zhang's team is full of strict people, perhaps because of Lu Zhou's blow, even the German beauties seem lifeless, in order to catch up with the progress, we have not stopped, only when eating, rest for twenty minutes, during which the muscles in both legs are twitching when we sit on the sand.

The four eyes probably have never suffered like this, the brows have been wrinkled, I look at him, almost like crying, I thought I was enough to be a nest, but I didn't expect that there was a more nest than me, and suddenly a kind of pride to take care of the weak, so I patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Don't be discouraged, the desert is just a desert, you can't conquer the footsteps of humans." ”

When the fat man heard this, he was immediately happy, danced the beef strips in his hand, and said to me: "Hey, naïve, I am also scared of the fat man, why don't you come to comfort and comfort me." When the fat man saw it, he quickly protected his rations and scolded me for having no conscience, and I was actually playing yin, and I didn't even let him eat a full meal.

Over the years, the fat man and I have experienced life and death, and the hardships we have endured, I can't count them, and this special skill of making fun in the midst of suffering is something that ordinary people can't learn. Seeing that this was the case, the fat man and I could still make a fuss, and suddenly shook our heads in disbelief and said, "These two guys are not people." "The fat man and I were hungry and jubilant, and Dr. Zhang's team was like sun-dried eggplants.

Finally, the fat man put his arm around my shoulders and whispered, "Naive, what do you think, what's going on with the other team?" I saw that everyone else was closing their eyes and resting against time, so I also whispered my thoughts, "I think...... There must be a reason why they are separated. ”

The fat man grinned and said, "I thought of going with the fat man, I wondered, you said, in this vast desert, there were only three of us at the time, and we didn't get lost in the same environment, how could they be separated in a group of eleven people?" I estimate that either the surname Zhang was deliberately dumped by that team, or she dumped others. ”

I very much agree with the fat man's analysis, and was about to say a few words to him, the surname Zhang had opened his eyes, and saw me and the fat man hooking shoulders in the distance, and suddenly squinted, I was shocked, but on the surface I was silent, and then stabbed the fat man, and said: "What a bad joke, it's not funny at all." ”

The fat man covered his chest cooperatively and said, "Then you come here, the fat man will tell you another one." ”

Hearing this, Siyan came to some energy and asked, "Fat brother, what kind of joke?" ”

The fat man immediately told a meat joke, which one is particularly obscene, the four eyes and ears were red when he listened, and the surname Zhang shook his head, probably didn't suspect anything, and said that he set off on the road. We walked from dawn to about 6 p.m., and in another hour or two it was getting dark, so we had to stop and camp in a slightly leeward dune, and the next day it was the same, until the next afternoon, when suddenly something like a building protruded from the desert beneath our feet.

The four-eyed said: "Taklamakan is the second largest mobile desert in the world, and its characteristic is that it is the same day and night, because the wind and sand do not stop day and night, today it is a small sand dune, and tomorrow it may become a flat land." Now these things on the ground should be some ancient architectural remains, they can occasionally be exposed, but most of the time they are buried under the yellow sand. ”

Then, Dr. Zhang said, "You are right, it is estimated that the black storm last time changed the landscape, so this ruins are exposed, we can camp in it again tonight, it will be much safer." Sure enough, not long ago, those buildings that were originally like stones were gradually exposed to the yellow sand, and the remnants of the walls were lying in the desert, and the former glory had been corroded by the yellow sand, and all we can see now are buildings that may collapse at any time, some of them are only one wall left, and some have completely collapsed, and they are piled up on the desert like irregular stones.

When we walked into this unknown group of ruins, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had fallen for more than half of the day, only half of the red face was exposed in the sky, and the yellow sand was plated with a layer of orange.

We found a slightly sturdy corner, set up two tents in the corner, and then ate some food, the desert was very boring, Dr. Zhang and his party did not talk much, the tent was relatively stuffy, while it was not dark, the group sat down against the wall, and each did their own thing.

The middle-aged man had a notebook spread out on his lap, burying his head in the head and not knowing what he was writing, and the four eyes were very weird and took out a brick book, I really didn't expect that under such difficult conditions, he actually carried the book with him, and glanced at it, the name of the book was "Documentary Record of the Tibet Expedition in 1978", Dr. Zhang was still studying the diary, constantly looking at the rotten parts, as if hoping to find something useful.

I leaned against the wall with the fat man, chatting with each other, and finally, I suddenly found that the German beauty was very anxious and pulled Dr. Zhang's sleeve, and then whispered something in Dr. Zhang's ear, Dr. Zhang frowned, looked a little worried and a little helpless, and then shook his head at the German beauty.

What do they say again?

After a while, Dr. Zhang and the German beauty got up one after another, and at this moment it was already dark, and they walked out with flashlights, and soon there was no one.

The fat man whispered in my ear: "These two people, what are you doing mysteriously? ”

I said, "Maybe people are going to the bathroom." ”

The fat man said: "Come on, going to the toilet is like acting in a spy movie." While we were whispering to a discussion, they came back with flashlights, looking calm, not like they had anything to do.

Maybe I went to the bathroom.

At night, I have been sleeping unsteadily, always thinking that something will happen, I woke up in the middle of the night, at this time, I suddenly heard a very small sound nearby, if the sound is not awake, I am afraid no one can find it, I opened my eyes, listened attentively, the sound is a bit like the sound of a large number of crabs crawling.

I looked at the fat people, they were all sleeping soundly, so I pulled the chain of the tent, turned on the flashlight, and looked out.

The scorpion had already made a hole in the tent at some point, and he didn't know how much he had gotten into, and there was no sound at all in the tent surnamed Zhang. It is said that most of the things in the desert are poisonous, especially snakes and scorpions, which are the most violent, so these two women must have already caught the Tao, right?

I quickly woke up the fat man and the other two people, pointed at them outside the tent, and then went to rummage through the equipment bag to find something to deal with the scorpion, but for a long time, I only found something similar to the Luoyang shovel, which was probably used for desert excavation.

I can only shoot it with a shovel. At this time, the fat man and several people also found out about this situation, and I was about to ask them to find a shovel to shoot the scorpion, the middle-aged man who had always had an opinion about us suddenly grabbed my shoulder, his eyes were gloomy, and said: "This is the desert red-headed scorpion, see it, the head is red, and it is full of venom, and when you shoot it, the venom splashes out, and it is very corrosive." ”

As soon as I heard this, since this man could explain the source, he must know how to deal with it, so I said, "What now?" ”