CHAPTER XVIII
The trailer brother and Liu Xin agreed on a time and left, and the local people were not surprised by this kind of going to the desert and playing with the sand. I made an appointment at the time, and I just came to pull the car when the time came.
Our convoy started slowly, and the constant speed has achieved the best fuel economy.
Liu Xin's driving skills are good, and the speed along the way is stable at 70 kilometers per hour. We stopped and walked from the afternoon until dawn the next day to choose a sand nest to start resting, Liu Xin took a sip of water, took out a box of toothpaste, and gently applied a layer on his lips. The fourth brother wondered, "Sister Xin, what are you doing here?" ”
Liu Xin said, "This is moisturizing, to prevent chapped lips, no lip balm is as good as toothpaste, there was once a senior, is relying on a box of toothpaste, a pot of water out of the desert prison alone." These are the successful experiences of our predecessors. ”
My fourth brother and I also hurriedly applied some. Set up the tent, put on the anti-ultraviolet tarp, and I started to rest after replenishing some energy. According to the plan, the first three days will sleep during the day and march at night, and on the fourth day, according to the theory, after approaching the target, the base camp will be set up. After the base camp is set up, look for targets during the day and rest at night. The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is too great, and when driving at night, people can't stand the cold, and when they sleep during the day, they are so hot that they go crazy.
I think it's really not easy to get to the target point, saying that the base camp is actually three cars and four tents, and in the middle of the tent is a dozen holes in the ground with our expertise, so that you can use the condensation method to get some water, and it's better than nothing.
We released a drone and fanned out the surrounding area with the base camp as the central point. And for the first time, real-time data was sent to Hua Jianguo.
When the job is complete. As a rule of thumb, the next step is to rest and wait for instructions.
In the afternoon, we received Hua Jianguo's latest instructions through satellite phones. We are close to the ancient channel of the Shule River, in order to reduce the evaporation of water consumption. The base camp is now 70 kilometers to the west. Then start the operation with a Luoyang shovel.
After everything was ready, I started the ground exploration operation alone, because the power was limited and I couldn't use too much equipment, so I could only find it little by little through the Luoyang shovel. Looking for what? Look for underground soil with high salinity or saline sand. The Shule River once flowed into Lop Nur, that is, Yanze, and joined hands with the Tarim River, with a total length of about 1,000 kilometers. As for the reasons for the retreat, although there are natural reasons such as climate fluctuations and geographical changes, but the more important factor is the influence of human beings, starting from the Western Han Dynasty's "four counties, according to the two passes", along with the development of the oases in the Shule River basin and thousands of years of migration and reclamation, a large amount of water was intercepted in the oasis fields in the middle and upper reaches, and the amount of water rushing to the west gradually decreased. And another major factor in the destruction of the Western Night Kingdom that we are looking for is the diversion of the ancient river.
I followed Hua Jianguo's request to make a shovel at 170 meters, and each shovel hit the head. I'm tired of changing the fourth brother, Liu Xingu is the first base camp. Responsible for statistical analysis of data, and communicate with me and my fourth brother every hour.
Finally, on the second day, we made a lot of sand, and saline-alkali soil, which is evidence of the ancient river channel.
"It's too easy," the fourth brother said arrogantly as he looked at Liu Xin, who was analyzing the soil. Not surprisingly, he was beaten by Liu Xin again.
"Easy, do you know how hard it is to do the upfront work? Do you know how much technology was used to get this approximate coordinates? Did you know that even satellite technology is used? We just came up to pick up the leaks after the two armies had blown up the artillery against each other. ”
After being ridiculed by Liu Xin for a while, the fourth brother stopped talking, and he quietly observed Liu Xin with his eyes. I just looked at it like I was enjoying it.
In the evening, we were ready to roughly lock in the direction of the paleochannel, and according to the analysis of historical documents, we are now traveling 300 kilometers west along the paleochannel. Then the vast desert around there is our work area, how deep is the West Night Country buried in the yellow sand, and how many things are left that have been destroyed by nature. No one knows about this. It's up to our luck to find it.
Liu Xin told us in the evening that we only had 2 days left. Whether you find it or not, you have to go back the way you came. Otherwise, we will run out of food and become a grain of sand in the vast desert.
At this moment, suddenly, a gust of wind suddenly rose between heaven and earth. We all have a sense of foreboding. "What do you see over there?" The fourth brother looked into the distance and shouted.
We saw a wall of sand linking the sky, pushing towards us like a tsunami.
"Quick, the front of the car is aimed at the direction of the wind, you did a rocking car when you were a child, the car is five meters away and five meters down, don't stop for a second"
Even the fourth brother of the chatter didn't speak at this time. We sped into the car. Point the front of the car at the sand wall and start moving.
After about a quarter of an hour, after the first strong wind had passed, we got out of the car and began to salvage supplies.
Suddenly, Liu Xin threw a punch backwards! I was scared too.
"What's the matter, isn't it haunted" The fourth brother hugged the front of the car and didn't dare to move.
The whole earth resounded with the rumbling of war drums at this moment, as if the Yin soldiers were borrowing the way, and all around us were shouts of killing and crying.
"What's the situation, is the Yin Soldier borrowing the way?" The fourth brother will not be able to hold back. Suddenly, the wind blew a small rock and hit him in the ass.
"Ah!!! It's really a Yin soldier's excuse, run quickly" The fourth brother ran towards the sand dunes regardless of it.
"Come back!!" No matter how Liu Xin shouted, the fourth brother had no intention of stopping.
Suddenly, a neat roar sounded, "Hey, Tasina!!" "There was a sudden sound all around us, Liu Xin and I didn't care so much and hurried to chase the fourth brother and wait for the fourth brother to climb down the hill, we saw an amazing scene, only to see that under the sand dunes, neatly lined up in rows, skeleton soldiers!
When the fourth brother fell, he was already unconscious, Liu Xin and I couldn't carry him over, so we put him by my side, I was brave and went over to check the rows of skeleton soldiers, each soldier had already only skeleton frames, wearing tattered armor, each of which was incomplete. The leader of the general has a strand of long hair floating behind his skull, like a flag, and a helmet hanging from his waist.
I look like Liu Xin waving his hand excitedly, it seems that we have found it. Liu Xin came over and said, "Look," I found that the general was holding a metal round in his hand, and when he opened it, there was a roll of parchment. Liu Xin took out his mobile phone and barely took pictures against the wind and sand, but within a few minutes, the parchment roll turned into a handful of crumbs and disappeared between heaven and earth. I had just collected a few weapons and items that I could take down, and suddenly I said, "Don't go quickly!" Look at your legs" Liu Xin shouted to me anxiously, I looked down at the yellow sand and didn't know when it had been buried in my calves, and at this time the wind and sand became bigger again. When I looked at the fourth brother again, there was only one nostril left outside. Liu Xin and I used our strength to drag him out and run out desperately. Wait until the wind and sand have stopped, and then look over, there is still the shadow of the skeleton soldier. There are only patches of rolling sand dunes.
Go back and check your gear. The vehicle was already more than half buried, and after digging a little, it was barely possible to open the door.
poured a few mouthfuls of water into the fourth brother and pinched the middle of the people, this guy woke up with a sway, it turned out that when he saw the skeleton soldier, he really thought it was the Yin soldier who borrowed the way, and he was directly stunned.
After saying that, Liu Xin began to contact Hua Jianguo, and made a report on the situation he encountered. And sent the pictures taken to Hua Jianguo by satellite phone MMS.
"Dig hard before the order arrives," Liu Xin looked at us and said helplessly.
We had to start digging little by little with a shovel, and after digging out the car, I sat down on the desert. It's good that the water is in the car, otherwise we might have really died here.
My fourth brother and I had no strength at all, lying under the car to avoid the scorching sun. After a while. The command came. (SMS)
One passage is a translation of the parchment scroll, which reads: We will defend to the death! God is with us! The power of God terrifies the enemy! The army of the undead fights for the king! And we'll be on board!
God bless you forever! The sun god is always great! The moon god is forever great! War!
The second paragraph is Hua Jianguo's analysis. What we experienced was not that the Yin soldiers borrowed the way, but that there was a huge magnet near us, which acted as a tape recorder, recording the sound of the battlefield at that time, and then releasing it when the weather was abnormal.
The skeleton soldiers we saw should be the soldiers of the Western Night Country, which means that the royal tomb is near us, and we want us to speed up the progress.
"Speed up her grandma, there is a kind of letting the old calf try it by himself," the fourth brother said in an atmospheric manner.
"Don't forget, what we're here for!" Liu Xin disdained to ignore him.
After preparing the supplies, I carried the detector, Liu Xin held the tools, and the fourth brother was stationed in the camp. We started construction in earnest.
After repeated detection, the detector did not respond at all, we estimated that there was a magnetic field interference in the nearby underground, which caused the detector to fail, and took out the compass, and sure enough, the compass also failed.
We decided to use the sand dunes of the skeleton soldiers as a baseline and probe around. The range is set within 800 meters, with the dunes being a few meters high for the small ones and a few tens of meters high for the large. We were only able to detect along the lowest of the two dunes.
After just probing for a while, Liu Xin looked at the watch and said, "One more time, the satellite will be over the top, and I will be responsible for reporting the data and receiving the signal." Thank you for your hard work."
I looked at her twisted back, could I have done this by working hard alone?
After searching for a long time, there were no clues. We return to base camp. The fourth brother said, "I'll go back soon, there will be one last day tomorrow." Don't explain it here then. ”
To be honest, in this vast desert, I don't have any confidence. I don't use any feng shui at all. It's just that it can be used, why do the people of the Western Night Kingdom use your Feng Shui technique of Middle-earth to bury the king of their own family. Are the sun gods familiar with the moon gods and the Fuxi snails?
After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly stared at the fourth brother and said, why don't we invite a ghost again?
The fourth brother looked at me and said, "You're crazy, is that thing reliable?" Where do you go to find chicken blood? Where can I find those materials? ”
"Those are auxiliary materials, in fact, I don't think it's the most important thing for you to believe me, anyway, you have nothing to do and just play around"
The fourth brother nodded with difficulty.
I went to find Liu Xin and explained my thoughts, anyway, the next time the satellite goes over the top, it will be a while. Why not give it a try?
Liu Xin didn't want to look at us and said, "You can play as much as you want." ”
I cheekily bought a strand of Liu Xin's hair for 10,000 sticks.