Chen Ziyang didn't expect Instructor Liu to decide to move forward so quickly, after all, in his opinion, now is not the best time to move forward, because there are two problems that have not been solved.

The first problem is who is the person who drained all the water tanks in the convoy, and it has not yet been clarified. Before, Chen Ziyang thought that this person was Umbrella Shi Shuai or someone who was found by Umbrella Shi Shuai to deliberately make trouble for the team, so as to take advantage of the chaos to rescue him, but later he found out that this should not be the case.

This person's approach obviously wanted to bury Instructor Liu's entire team in the yellow sand, and even he and Yang Lei didn't even think about letting it go. If this person is still hiding in the convoy, it is likely that this person will continue his sabotage in future operations.

The incident of releasing water before almost killed everyone, and if you go further, it is likely to be the ruins of the real ancient kingdom of Sumi, which may be much more dangerous than the desert outside.

Therefore, Chen Ziyang felt that if there was really such a spy who wanted to kill everyone hiding in the convoy, he would undoubtedly be equivalent to a powerful time bomb, and maybe one of these people's actions would wipe out all the twenty-three people.

The second issue that Chen Ziyang thinks is very important is the hydration convoy led by Yoshioka Yu. After the convoy set off, it was as if it had sunk into the sea, and there was no news at all. Previously, Instructor Liu judged that the convoy may have encountered two situations, the first was that when the convoy finished replenishing water and was about to return, it was blocked by the huge sandstorm outside the desert.

Another possibility is that the convoy was hit by a sudden sandstorm on the way back, which caused the entire convoy to be wiped out. The reason why Instructor Liu had to wait here for a few days was also to see if his idea was correct, if the convoy had not been destroyed by the sandstorm, but was only blocked out, then Yoshioka's convoy should have returned by now. Looks like they've probably had something to do with it.

Chen Ziyang, who is alive or dead, does not care, what he is most worried about is that there is a third situation, that is, Yoshioka Xiong's convoy did not suffer a natural disaster, but suffered a man-made disaster, and was destroyed by someone. If there is not only one person who released water for the convoy, but also other accomplices, this is very likely.

After the release man had released the water from the convoy, he must have expected that some of the people would go out into the desert to find water. And it is very likely that the number of people who are divided will not be very large, and this is exactly the case. If a small group of people were sent to ambush them on the way of the convoy, then it was very likely that Yoshioka and the others would have fallen for someone else's trick and been plotted by others.

Through the water release incident, Chen Ziyang found that the person who released the water was very ruthless, if his accomplice was able to kill no one in Yoshioka's team, Chen Ziyang felt that it was very possible.

Although Chen Ziyang thought of so many things only a few seconds after Instructor Liu announced that the team was ready to leave, he couldn't discuss this issue with Instructor Liu in front of so many people. However, Chen Ziyang found that not only did he seem to be a little worried after listening to Instructor Liu's words, but the other people in the team also showed different expressions after hearing Instructor Liu's words.

Some people's faces showed worry, some people showed surprise, and even Chen Ziyang found that even Instructor Liu's most hardcore subordinates, Da Kui and Er Kui, after listening to Instructor Liu's words, their faces were not very good-looking.

Chen Ziyang understood these people's worries very well, after all, they did not have the same reason as Instructor Liu to move on. After the water release incident, these people watched their colleagues die of thirst, or were killed by others, drank all the blood in their bodies, or died in other rather miserable situations. No matter what kind of death it is, the impact on these people is relatively large.

In just one week, more than sixty people were dead or missing in the convoy, which was enough to be seen by any one person. It is understandable that they do not want to move forward with Instructor Liu. After all, everyone has finally picked up a life, and no one is stupid enough to continue to risk their lives.

It was precisely because of Instructor Liu's words that the atmosphere of the whole banquet was a lot duller. Before, everyone was still filled with the happiness of regaining a new life, but after listening to Instructor Liu's words, these people were no longer so happy and no longer so active. But on the surface, they all seemed to be okay, and these people didn't refute it to their faces, saying that they didn't want to continue to move forward.

After all, Instructor Liu can be regarded as ruthless, Chen Ziyang estimates that even if these people have such thoughts, they will not dare to say it, if they really disobey Instructor Liu's intentions, it is very likely that their fate will be the same as the two people who were shot by Instructor Liu before.

Although it is not the center of the desert, it is not easy to get out of here, and even if they run away by car, they may get lost in the desert because they have no navigation equipment. At that time, it was still a dead end, so these people under Instructor Liu didn't even have a choice.

The banquet ended in this awkward atmosphere.

In the middle of the night, Chen Ziyang, who was lying in the carriage, listened to Yang Lei's snoring but couldn't sleep. There are too many things that have happened these days, plus he needs to worry about tomorrow's things, so it is difficult for him to fall asleep, and after tossing and turning for a long time, Chen Ziyang sat up all of a sudden, and since he couldn't sleep, he didn't sleep.

He came to the sand outside the carriage, where he sat and looked up at the stars. Since coming to the desert, Chen Ziyang has found that he likes to look up at the starry sky very much. However, the reason why he likes to look up is not because the starry sky here is unusually beautiful, but because he thinks that looking at the starry sky like this can make his heart feel very calm.

Before Chen Ziyang could find the location of the Orion constellation, he suddenly heard the sound of the vehicle starting up. After turning his head, Chen Ziyang saw a multi-purpose off-road vehicle parked beside him, and Instructor Liu, who was sitting in the driver's seat, waved his hand to himself, signaling him to be in the co-pilot's seat.

After getting in the car, Chen Ziyang found that there was still a person sitting in the back seat of the car, who was the short woman who had treated both himself and Yang Lei. Chen Ziyang, who didn't understand Instructor Liu's purpose, looked at the other two people in the car with puzzled eyes.

"Let's be a vanguard tonight, first go to the front to explore the way, know ourselves and know the enemy, and we will not be defeated in a hundred battles, since we have decided to set off tomorrow, so we should first look at the situation ahead and prepare for tomorrow's operation." After seeing what Chen Ziyang meant, Instructor Liu explained.

"Let's act tomorrow, will it be a little rushed? The condition of the team is not very good now, there is no news about Yoshioka's team, there is not enough manpower, and the excavator has not been made yet, what if we get to the place where we need an excavator in front? Don't you have to wait a few more days? Chen Ziyang asked tentatively.

"I can't wait any longer, I don't have to sleep a lot. If Yoshioka and the others had been able to come back, they would have come back a long time ago, and now that they can't come back, it's already very revealing. Never put the treasure on someone else's body, everything has to rely on yourself. Since you say that, do you think I'm a little anxious? ”

"Listen to what you mean, someone has already told you this."

"It's just one person, they come up with all sorts of reasons to convince me, and they are more convincing than you say. I didn't know that almost no one wanted to move forward except me, after all, no one wanted to move forward after such a thing.

They are different from you, it can be said that you had to choose to act with me under my coercion, so their desire to leave is much stronger than yours, but this is something I will never allow, for the sake of this ancient treasure, I have paid too much, and there must be a satisfactory result. ”

Chen Ziyang knew that it would be useless to say more, so he kept silent. In fact, the excuse he said about the excavator was also temporarily remembered, and now that he calmed down, Chen Ziyang realized how ridiculous his excuse was. It is impossible for these two dozen people to get the excavator out, and just as Instructor Liu said, when he didn't understand the situation ahead, it was superfluous to think about it now.

Because the vision was not good at night, and after a few days, the canal that had been washed out before had been covered with a layer of sand, which was not so obvious, so Instructor Liu's speed was not fast. He drove the utility off-road vehicle slowly along the edge of the canal, all the way down the straight canal.

When he was in the convoy camp before, Chen Ziyang had looked at the canal several times, but he couldn't see what the end of the canal looked like, and he didn't know how long the canal was and where it extended.

At this time, sitting in the car, he stared intently at this canal, and then Chen Ziyang found a very strange place, although this canal is washed by the water flowing out of the diamonds, but the whole canal is not only very straight, but also the depth of each section of the canal is the same.

If it is in normal land, there is nothing strange about digging such a canal, but this is a desert, the sand is very loose, and the surface of this desert is not flat, so it is somewhat intriguing that the whole canal is in this state.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang hurriedly asked Instructor Liu to stop the car, and then the three of them got out of the car and carefully inspected the canal. Tentatively touching the side wall and bottom of the water area with his fingers, Chen Ziyang was surprised to find that the sand on the two sides and bottom of the canal had hardened, as if the sand grains had been glued together. All three were amazed by this discovery.

Pressing his fingers the side of the canal, Chen Ziyang found that he couldn't press the sticky sand with his fingers alone, so he stood up and kicked the side wall of the canal with his toes.

The human leg is much more powerful than the arm, this foot down, Chen Ziyang kicked down the side wall of the canal a large piece of condensed sand, the fall of the sand is the size of a palm, about two centimeters thick, when the sand is about to fall, there is a large amount of yellow sand behind the clod of soil along the position of the kicked down clod into the canal.

It seems that the water that had previously flowed through here had not only washed out the canal, but also solidified the side walls of the canal. The three of them looked at each other a few times, but no one could figure out what was going on. After Instructor Liu, who was standing on the side, inspected all the canals within a few meters of the surrounding area, he found that the entire canal should be in this state.

It's no wonder that after such a long time, the canal looks exactly the same as when it was first formed, except for some yellow sand entering the canal, the canal has not changed at all, it turns out that this is the reason.

The entire convoy of people had no intention of continuing to study the strange hints of the diamond after the water break, so no one studied the canal, and everyone thought that the canal was formed only because of the flow of water.

"It shouldn't be the sand, the sand in this desert is all the same, and the yellow sand is flowing under the wind, so it's still a matter of the water that flowed before. But we've drunk all of this water, and we haven't had any abnormal physical reactions, and this water should be water, which is really weird. Instructor Liu said in confusion.

Listening to Instructor Liu's words and looking at the strange sand in front of him, Chen Ziyang remembered the scene described by Lao Lu before. When the diamond fell to the ground in the tomb, all the surrounding sand moved aside, causing a deep well to appear in the ground.

When he heard these words, Chen Ziyang was just surprised by the magic of this diamond, but now that he thinks about it, there is a problem that he has overlooked.

A very deep well can appear out of thin air on the ground, so where is all the soil that was previously located in this deep well? What Lao Lu described at the time was that the sand and soil were automatically avoided in all directions, and at this time, Chen Ziyang felt that it was very likely that the soil was not automatically avoided, but was squeezed by this diamond, as if it were the side wall of this canal.

If this diamond has some kind of magic on the soil or sand, which can make the sand or soil bear huge pressure, then the things described by Lao Lu and this strange canal can be explained, it is precisely because of this special magic of the diamond that the sand on the side wall of the canal is subjected to great pressure, so these sand and soil are tightly fitted together.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang hurriedly beckoned Instructor Liu and the woman to get into the car together, and drove quickly along the canal. He vaguely felt that he had guessed what the end of the canal was.

(End of chapter)