Volume 1 Chapter 155: Quicksand
Li Xun saw the scene outside and let out a sigh of admiration, this is the place I have been here before.
"Which direction should we go now? You kid won't forget all about three years ago, will you? Dawu wondered.
Li Xun shook his head and said, "Oops! I'm not too sure, after all, it was a few years ago. I can only take you with me by feeling, but the main direction should be fine. ”
We passed through the wind-blown sand area, and then continued in the direction that Li Xun pointed out to us, this time the atmosphere in the team became much quieter.
Yangjiapu's people have never come out to fight or go to these strange places, and they can't accept the blow of natural disasters to people for a while.
The scorching sun was scorching, and we were almost dried up when we walked on the desert, Boss Yang drank water vigorously, and I was happy again when I saw this scene, like him who did not drink water in moderation, and the little water they had left would soon bottom out.
I can predict that when they run out of water, Boss Yang will immediately attack us and ask us to hand over the water source in our hands.
So thinking of this, I asked Dawu to put the water in the bag in advance, and hid it very hidden, as long as they didn't open the bag to find it, they would never find that we still had water.
Soon, we climbed over a few sand dunes in the heat of thirty or forty degrees, and I thought to myself, why didn't I see a single thing after all the had gone so far?
I looked at Li Xun and found that his face was also ugly, so I said, "What's wrong?" It stands to reason that after all this time, we can always see something, right? ”
"I remember there should have been a rocky area here, but now there is nothing. I'm pretty sure this was the place I came a few years ago, but it's a completely different place now than it was when I came before. ”
"A few years is enough time to change the appearance of the desert, and the rocky area may be covered with sand. Do you have any other references? "I looked around, and a few years was enough time to turn a small part of the desert upside down.
Li Xun walked forward with us for a while, frowning and pondering, and finally shook his head at us: "There is almost nothing in this desert, and it is not easy to find a reference, and I don't know what the situation is now." ”
Boss Yang scolded: "Then what is the use of bringing your kid here?" ”
Li Xun was silent and didn't speak, he didn't dare to say something tough in front of Boss Yang.
I sighed, and then, with my instincts, I chose a direction.
After walking a short distance, we saw the remains of a dried up lake behind a sand dune, and Boss Yang was surprised: "There is actually a lake in this desert?" ”
"Big brother, Lop Nur was a big lake a long time ago, otherwise why is there a word in the name?" Yang Lao Er explained to Yang Lao Jie unhurriedly.
Boss Yang looked embarrassed, scratched his head, and scolded: "Of course I know this, I'm just curious why there is no sign of a lake in the previous section, but here." ”
Boss Yang's words suddenly woke me up, Lop Nur has been dry for many years, but there are still traces of drying up in this area, indicating that it is the latest to dry up.
When people choose a place to live, they should take into account any aspect such as convenient transportation and convenient water sources, and since this Ruyi city is to prosper in Lop Nur for a long time, it is necessary to choose the city site in a place close to the water source.
When I thought about it, I immediately became excited, and I felt that we had chosen the right direction at random; I told my guess, and everyone agreed with me, but Li Xun frowned and said, "I didn't see any amber traces last time I came here, could it be a coincidence?" ”
"Whether it's a coincidence or not, we can only choose to believe this statement, anyway, you can't find a specific location now, so you can only try your luck in this way."
We made our way down the ruins of the dry lake, which was a very steep slope, and it was very difficult for us to go down, and once we slipped our feet, we would roll down as a ball.
I always felt that the sand here was very soft when I stepped on it, softer than the sand on the road we had walked before.
After walking a short distance, I realized that something was wrong, and the further I went, the more I stepped into the sand, my whole foot sank in, and I had to force myself to pull it out.
Without waiting for me to speak, Li Xun, who was walking beside me, suddenly shouted: "Don't go down, go up quickly, hurry up, this uncle is quicksand!" ”
The moment I heard these two words, I felt goosebumps all over my body, and the person walking behind me was startled, and he stepped into the sand without pulling it out, and he fell down towards me.
I said in my heart that if he hit me, I would wait to die.
I turned to the side with the quickest reflexes, and then the man fell with his face to the ground, and he let out a scream, apparently scalded by the sun-scorched sand.
Then, I watched his body slowly sink, and it was clear that this was what quicksand looked like!
I hurriedly pulled out my legs and ran back, but the people who walked in front of me were unlucky, and by the time they reacted, the quicksand had already reached their knees, and the huge force made them pull their legs out instead of doing so.
Among them, Boss Yang was the most serious, he kept struggling in the quicksand, causing him to fall into it even faster, and a guy on the side saw this and quickly took out a rope from his bag and let Boss Yang grab it.
Boss Yang scolded and grabbed the rope, trying to pull his body out of the sand, but he fell deeper and deeper.
Fortunately, Dawu and I walked relatively slowly, and not long after entering the quicksand area, Li Xun discovered this problem, and we escaped from it.
Fleeing to a safe area, more than half of the people were stuck in the quicksand, and some calm people were trying to save themselves in the way that Li Xun taught them.
And several other people are struggling to save Boss Yang.
Boss Yang fell into the quicksand, of course I would like to see that he can't come up, the Yang family brothers just died like this, and it will be much easier to deal with Yang Boss Er after that.
But after all, there were many people, and they quickly pulled Boss Yang up from the sand, but the other few people who had been struggling had already reached their chests, and there was basically no hope of coming up from below at this time.
Boss Yang didn't care whether they lived or died, and after coming up from the quicksand, he ran desperately towards a safe place.
Ten minutes later, there were only four people who came up and were rescued by others with ropes, and counting me, Dawu and Li Xun, there were only thirteen of us left.
When I came, I didn't count exactly how many, but at least there were more than twenty.
This result can't help but make me sigh, we haven't found Ruyi City yet, so many people have died on the way!