"South, what do you think?"

"I think there's something strange in it. "Chen Beidou has now changed his name, renamed Nanfang. Now he has become a tool man completely. He knew that he had offended Du Lengqiu, and who was Du Lengqiu?

Du Lengqiu's apprentice was worshipped as a god by all the soldiers of the seventh column.

The Secret Method of Penetrating the Sun and Moon in One Breath reversed the balance of strength between humans and alien beasts in one fell swoop, allowing humans to step out of the city circle and become the masters of the earth again.

What a credit to that.

It is easy for a person with such merit to occupy a high position in the army.

And people with this kind of merit disappeared without even missing a face. What a magnificence it is. In Chen Beidou's view, there are only two reasons why Du Lengqiu chose this way. One, Du Lengqiu is an idiot. Second, Du Lengqiu's strength is unfathomable, and he is only a high-ranking official, which is just a mustard for him.

Which one it is, Chen Beidou has his own judgment. Today, he is dressed very differently than he was at the beginning. With a pair of black-rimmed glasses, the old, earthy kind.

And he claims to be a reporter for Southern Weekly. By chance, I gained a little power of the ability. That's why the name is Chen Nannan.

Du Lengqiu naturally didn't know that he still had his own acquaintances on the Loess Plateau.

He had long forgotten Chen Beidou. Although he occasionally remembered his experience in Haicheng and remembered the dead Meng Ya, Chen Beidou had been erased from his memory.

After getting the Loess Plateau, Du Lengqiu continued to the west.

Soon he came to the western frontier.

Western Xinjiang is the largest province in China, with the sweetest fruits, the largest desert, the largest cotton fields, and the most delicious lamb skewers.

Looking at Western Xinjiang from a map is two different feelings: daring to Western Xinjiang from a high altitude.

On the map, there are dense cities in western Xinjiang, with towering Tianshan Mountains, Altai Mountains, coal mines, gold mines, iron ore and other resources.

However, when viewed from above, Xinjiang is mostly a vast desert and a desolate Gobi Desert.

Du Lengqiu remembers watching a documentary, which is particularly eye-catching when viewed from a high altitude, a "big ear" in Western Xinjiang is particularly eye-catching, it is dozens of kilometers long, the length is uneven, and the semi-circular lines of light and dark are closed to the center one by one, like the "ears of the earth".

People do not know what it is or who made it, but they know that the name of the place where it is located is Lop Nur

It is full of deserts and extremely arid. It is one of the areas with the harshest natural environment in western Xinjiang, and it is also a well-deserved death zone.

But the meaning of the ancient saying of Lop Nur is the confluence of water. In the past, it was also a land of abundant water and grass, and more than 20 ancient countries on the Silk Road, such as Loulan, once established cities here.

As we all know, the Tarim Basin, which is surrounded by large mountain ranges such as the mountains and the Kunlun Mountains, blocks the entry of water vapor, and forms an extremely vast desert and wasteland in the middle of the mountains.

Lop Nur, the easternmost edge of the basin, is also one of them.

It is the lowest part of the Tarim Basin. Rivers that have sprung up from the surrounding mountains, including the Peacock and Cherchen rivers, as well as the Tarim River, China's largest inland river, and even the Shule River, which originates in the Qilian Mountains, flow to Lop Nur and flow on the wilderness of Lop Nur.

These rivers wash out long canyons.

The confluence of waters.

The result was a veritable Rob "Bo", a super lake.

The lake is vast, reaching 10,000 square kilometers at its peak, more than twice the size of Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in China today. It is the same size as the Salar de Uyuni, also born in the wilderness, the famous Bolivian Sky Mirror. Those ancients who were lucky enough to see the "Mirror of the Chinese Sky" must have felt very shocked.

The oldest ethnic group here dates back 5,000 years.

5,000 years ago, the Tocharian people, a branch of the Western Europa, began to migrate to the east where water and grass are abundant, and they saw the Lop Nur oasis flourishing and poplar forests to settle here.

4,000 years ago, the ancestors had mastered irrigation technology, copper making technology, and textile technology. Began to develop their homeland on a large scale. It was for the Bronze Age of Lop Nur.

They brought in millet from the east and wheat from the west, and cultivated large areas of farmland in the oases

They raised cattle and sheep and cut their hides into shoes.

In the years that followed, it gradually became more and more glorious.

Especially in the Han Dynasty. The Han Empire immediately marched out of the Yumen Pass, and gradually expelled the Xiongnu forces from the Western Regions, and the Silk Road connecting the East and the West also began to heat up, and Loulan, which controlled the water source of Lop Nur, was the key hub of the central government, and set up the Western Regions Governor's Mansion in Loulan, and officially included the Lop Nur area under its jurisdiction. In order to ensure the security of the Western Regions and the smooth flow of the Silk Road, hundreds of thousands of people were also mobilized to build the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, which reached the westernmost Luntai through Lop Nur.

The Loulan Kingdom also expanded its power with the help of the central government, and gradually occupied the countries of Jimo, Xiaowan, and Jingjue (Niya). By the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the southeast of the Tarim Basin had been basically unified.

The heyday of Loulan has arrived, and as a channel for cultural exchanges between the East and the West, Loulan is an "international" urban agglomeration, where East and West are integrated and inclusive.

However, flowers are not good for 100 days, and people are not red for 100 days. The cut off of water makes everything here.

In fact, the reasons for the disappearance of Loulan are diverse, including the invasion of foreign enemies, the diversion of the Silk Road, and even the sudden outbreak of the plague. But the main reason for this should be the deterioration of the natural environment. As the weather begins to dry out and become colder, coupled with increasing human activity, it has damaged an already fragile ecological environment.

Populus euphratica is dying, vegetation is decreasing, water is flowing upstream, rivers are drying up, and lakes are shrinking.

At the same time, the desert area is increasing day by day, and the perennial strong winds rag around Lop Nur. When the wind is strong, the sand and rocks are often flying, and there are no people.

Eventually, the big ears were formed - Lop Nur.

Lop Nur has become a deserted place, a place where birds and beasts are extinct, but as the so-called vicissitudes of life, Lop Nur also has a strong day.

When Du Lengqiu saw Lop Nur again, there was a river on the ground. In the sun, the river flows like a jade belt on the meadow.

It's not accurate to say grass.

Here is wheat cultivation on a large scale. It is completely mechanized, and it is exactly the same as the central grain-producing region of Millican. The reason is also very simple.

The water flows back to Lop Nur, where there are no human buildings and no land disputes. The state easily opened up this area as a grain-producing area to make up for the loss of Huguang.

It's not surprising that it's just mechanized.

However, Du Lengqiu has only been in retreat for a year, and less than one-third of the area of Lop Nur has been cultivated by humans, and the rest of the area is covered with grasslands.

Grass seeds, which had been dried up for thousands of years, were rejuvenated in the soil and water.

The boxwood trees are lush and vibrant.

Today, however, what people need is not grasslands, but food-producing areas. As a result, Lop Nur became the following. Agricultural aircraft blasting this paraquat pesticide.

The grass that had dried up flew into flames and turned black.

And in the sky, the soaring battle integrates mutant birds to fight fiercely. Every now and then, fighter planes fall in smoke. And the terrible neighing of birds also resounded in the sky.

Heaven, earth and people are all fighting for their own survival at this moment.

Du Lengqiu looked at this scene and pressed the hilt of the sword on his waist.

He didn't draw his sword, but silently tapped the scabbard a few times, and the beeping sound didn't go far before he saw a few white-gold sword lights flash in the air.

The sword light was overbearing, and with only a flash in the air, it pierced through the eyes of the mutant bird.

These eighth-order mutant birds, even if they were hit by missiles head-on, they were only seriously injured. But in the face of Du Lengqiu's sword qi that was as thin as a gossamer and extremely sharp, he couldn't hold on for even a second.

The sword aura flashed, and the mutant birds in the air were swept away in an instant.

Those fighters had no opponents in a blink of an eye, and they were stunned for a moment, and then they saw Du Lengqiu, who was like an immortal and independent. The fighters did not make any further movements, and after reporting to the upper echelons, they continued to cruise.

In today's world, they are fully adapted.

Mutant birds have their own range of movement, but there are always a few silly birds that like to fly around. Without the protection of these fighters.

The agricultural machines that are blasting pesticides on the ground, and the machinery that is plowing the fields, are all targets for the mutant birds.

And Lop Nur is already considered the best region.

Before the cataclysm, it was an empty no-man's land.

Not only the military district of no one, but even life. Without beasts, there would be no mutant beasts. And around Lop Nur, wild beasts are also scarce.

Therefore, after a while, this Lop Nur has become the most suitable place for farming.

Therefore, the state has put a lot of effort into politics here, trying to turn it into a new grain-producing area.

Du Lengqiu killed the mutant bird, and then looked into the distance, and the snow on the high mountains in the distance was much thicker than before. Snow rolls through the mountains and crosses the desert, and not only Lop Nur is rejuvenated. Even the largest desert, the Taklamakan Desert, has seen oases emerge. The largest oasis has even turned into a steppe.

If you want to use the most typical name to describe the Taklamakan Desert today, you only need three words - the sea of stars!

The Sea of Stars is a name from a book, but it is a real region. On the Qinghai Plateau, there are countless water dianzi.

On the plateau, those small pools of water are densely spread throughout the plateau like stars. In the daytime, they are as blue as the sky.

And at night, the stars in the sky are blinking.

The water on the ground was covered with stars, and they were also blinking their eyes.

This is the origin of the name Nakshatra Sea.

But now, the Takaramakan Desert has become a sea of stars, and it is a sea of stars on the grassland.

The Taklamakan Desert, a cursed city submerged beneath the desert in Uyghur legend.

The word "Taklamakan" is divided into two parts, "Taklama" and "Makan", where "Taklam" means "underground", "below"; "Magan" means "realm", "home", "place to live", and hence "Takaramagan" means "city underground" or "there is a city underground".

There are many legends about Western Xinjiang, and legends are by no means groundless.

Later, the ruins of Niya were discovered in the desert.

The ruins of Niya, that is, the exquisite ancient country.

In addition to the more than 90 houses found there, there are many ruins, such as pagodas, old bridges, cemeteries, orchards, temples, handicraft workshops, livestock houses, fields, boulevards, and a large number of dead forests and riverbeds.

The building of the stupa is a square base under it, and a cylindrical stupa body on the top. The shape of this pagoda is very similar to that of the surrounding Subashi pagodas such as Loulan, Milan, Andir, Kashgar and Kucha.

It's like the ancient city of Xixia in the desert. The movie Dragon Gate Flying Armor is based on this theme, which is full of fantasy. Later, there were people who wrote about how the ancient kingdom was beautiful, and it was very popular for a while.

Once upon a time, this desert was like this.

It is located in the center of the Eurasian continent and is surrounded by high mountains. This makes the Taklamakan Desert full of fantasy and mystery.

The area of mobile sand dunes in the Taklamakan Desert is very large, and the height of the dunes is generally 100~200 meters, and the highest is about 300 meters. The types of sand dunes are complex and diverse, with complex sand hills and ridges, like dragons resting on the earth, and tower-shaped sand dunes with various honeycomb, feather, and fish scale dunes, which are unpredictable.

The desert has two tall red and white sand dunes called the "Holy Sepulchre Mountain", which are made up of red sandstone and white gypsum respectively, and the sedimentary rock is formed when the ground is exposed. The wind-eroded mushrooms on the "Holy Sepulchre Mountain" are peculiar and magnificent, about 5 meters high, and can accommodate more than 10 people under the huge cover.

The Taklamakan Desert is flanked by majestic mountain ranges: the Tien Shan Mountains to the north, the Kunlun Mountains to the south, and the Pamirs to the west. To the east it gradually transitions to the Lop Nur swamp basin, and to the south and west, between the desert and the mountains, is a sloping desert lowland made up of pebbly detrital sediments.

The Taklamakan Desert is not devoid of water, and the melting snow from the high mountains converges into streams, which converge into rivers and flow down the slopes into the desert.

The Yarkand, Tarim, Hotan and Cherchen rivers run through the desert, and since the Tarim Basin is an inland water basin, all the runoff from the surrounding mountains is concentrated in the basin itself, which supplies water to the rivers and aquifers.

Most of the groundwater below the desert has a continuous channel that flows from the west to Lop Nur in the east. Due to the low rainfall and high evaporation rate, rainfall is insignificant for moistening the desert and supplying groundwater to the groundwater.

The rivers of the Kunlun mountain system penetrate into the desert for 100~200 kilometers, and gradually dry up in the desert, forming inland rivers one after another.

Rivers determine the vegetation in the desert.

In other words, because of the scarcity of natural rainfall, rivers determine the vegetation. How much precipitation does it have?

A collection of a year, about a hundred millimeters.

And 400 millimeters per year is the dividing line between agricultural civilization and herding civilization. Places below 400 mm can only be grazed as grasslands.

There is only one consequence of growing food in that kind of place - desertification.

And below a hundred millimeters, again, there is only one result, complete desertification.

The river is difficult to penetrate, and this situation makes it possible for people to settle in the desert, but it is difficult to penetrate.

At one time, some people from western Xinjiang settled in the desert along the banks of the river, raising camels and receiving tourists as a source of income.

However, all settlements will definitely not go more than a hundred miles deep.

Compared to the vast desert, this settlement is insignificant.