The surface soil on the Gobi Desert is harder than the desert, and it is easier to walk, we still keep going east, the Gobi Desert is generally on the edge of the desert, and it will become a complete desert after being eroded by the desert. I think that since we walked from the desert into the Gobi Desert after a day's walk, we should be able to get out of this desert soon.

"I can't stand it! I'm already hungry, so I have to find a way to get something to eat," Wei Shengjin, who was walking behind, shouted.

I comforted him, "Hold on to it!" Maybe we'll be able to get out tomorrow!, and when it gets dark and the ground temperature drops, we'll see if we can catch something to eat."

After walking for more than two hours, the sky was getting darker, and I faintly saw the shadows of several low houses on the vast barren beach in front of me, and there seemed to be a narrow sidewalk in front of the houses.

I was overjoyed, and I guess we had reached the edge of the desert, when it was getting dark, and the sand was blowing again, and I had just gone to the back of the house to take shelter from the wind and order something to eat.

Ye Guangci and Wei Shengjin also saw the room in front of them, and they all accelerated their pace and rushed over there.

We walked for about ten minutes, and before we got to the rooms, I was alert again, don't fucking have anything to do with a mirage!

Ye Guangci seemed to see my doubts, and said, "It's almost dark, there shouldn't be a mirage, it may be like this on the beach next door, look close, in fact, far away, let's continue walking!" There's a light up ahead."

After about half an hour of walking, we finally got there. When I got closer, I realized that there were not just a few houses here, but dozens of them----- this is a village. I finally put my mind at ease, thinking that this is not going to be a mirage, I can finally eat and drink enough tonight!

Soon we were in the village, and the doors and windows of every house were closed. We went around in circles, and we didn't see a single one. The houses in the village look very dilapidated, not brick houses yet, but made of mud. This village is really poor, and no one lives in this kind of house for a long time.

"Why is there no one in this village! The house is closed, didn't we see the lights on again just now" Wei Shengjin muttered to himself while looking at these dilapidated houses.

I didn't speak, I walked to a house on the side of the road and knocked on the door for a long time, but no one came out. Ye Guangci also found a family to knock on the door, but no one answered after knocking for a long time. It was getting dark, and then we knocked on the doors of three or four more families, but there was no answer. I'm starting to feel a little hairy in my heart. Where has this man gone? In such a big village, there is not a single voice at all, and there is not a single person in sight! All that echoed in my ears was the whirring sound of the wind. Looking at this village, it doesn't look like an abandonment, although the houses are simple, they are definitely inhabitable, and there is no trace of rust on the handle on the door. There was even a tractor parked in the yard of one house, and the tractor didn't look like it hadn't been used for a long time. But...... It's just no one!!

Only then did we realize that as night fell, none of these houses had lights.

"What the is this! Could it be a collective relocation? Wei Shengjin called.

I then said: "If you want to say that it is really possible to relocate, the environment here is too bad, but why didn't even the tractor in the yard drive away after the change!" ”

"There's a room up ahead!" Ye Guangci pointed ahead and said.

I looked ahead, and sure enough, I saw a house on the side of the road with lights on at the door, and the three of us took a closer look, and under the faint light, the words "Muslim noodles" were faintly visible. Oh, I really can't imagine that there is a restaurant on this desolate Gobi Desert, and the three of us are hungry and thirsty, and we are really overjoyed to see this small restaurant, and we don't have time to think about it, so we rush in like a hero in Liangshan.

This small shop is actually a private house, but there is a sign hanging at the door, and the store is very dark, only a gray and yellow light bulb is on. Not a single customer.

After we entered, an old Hui man in his fifties greeted us, and when he saw that we were in rags and grizzled, he didn't say anything, and he asked us what we wanted to eat with a smile in a Gansu Hui accent, and I was immediately relieved. We asked for three large plates of noodles with oily meat, and then sat down at the table.

I looked around, and the furnishings of the shop were very simple, with Islamic-style murals on the walls and four or five tables around it. This one of ours is still creaking. On the wall next to me, there is a worn-out calendar with the year 1990 on it. Why is the old yellow calendar more than 30 years ago still hanging, I wonder in my heart.

In less than five minutes, three bowls of noodles came up, and we were so hungry that we buried our heads and ate them. Maybe it's because I'm so hungry, but it tastes really good, especially the lamb is fresh and not fat. The old man sat on the side, smiling at it. I asked the old man where all the people in the village had gone, and the old man smiled unnaturally, and simply said that he had moved to the county seat hundreds of kilometers away.

I asked again why he was still opening a shop here when everyone was gone, and the old man laughed dryly again, saying that he wanted to accompany his wife.

After eating and drinking, we remembered that the wallet and mobile phone on our body had been lost a long time ago, and we couldn't eat an old man's overlord meal! So Ye Guangci took off the ring on his hand and gave it to the old man, the old man resolutely refused, we asked him to prepare dry food and water for us again, and asked him to find a car to take us to the county seat tomorrow, and he accepted the ring.

The three of us were really tired and sleepy. So that night, we put together a few tables in this old man's shop and turned them into beds and fell asleep.

I slept soundly until it was almost dawn and I was woken up hungry, indeed by hunger, because I heard my stomach growling.

It's really strange, I ate such a big pot of noodles and mutton last night, why did I get hungry so quickly!

I wiped my sleepy eyes, looked around, and screamed in fright.

Ye Guangci and Wei Shengjin on the side were also awakened by me.

The three of us were lying in a small col at this time, surrounded by gravel and a few unknown shrubs not far away, and we didn't sleep on the tables in the noodle shop at all, and there were no noodle shops around, let alone rows of houses.

I was so scared that the old man of the noodle shop threw us out while we were asleep, but if you look closely at the surrounding terrain, this is where we came late!

Ye Guangci and Wei Shengjin were also frightened and didn't speak.

After a long time, I saw Wei Shengjin leaning over, picking up a ring from the ground, handing it to Ye Guangci and asking, "Isn't this your ring?" Isn't that the ring you gave the old man last night?"

Ye Guangci took the ring and was stunned for a long time before saying, "What the hell is going on?" What about so many houses last night? And what about the small noodle shop? And what about the old man? What exactly did we encounter last night? ”

"It's wicked! Could it be that what we saw yesterday was all hallucinations? It's all a mirage? But we did go into the noodle shop, ate the noodles, and talked to the old man! Wei Shengjin said as he looked around vigilantly.

"And the old man took the ring I handed him with his own hands, if it's an illusion, can he catch the ring?" Ye Guangci added!

"Are you feeling hungry or thirsty?" I asked them both.

"Yes! Oh, yes! As soon as I opened my eyes, my stomach growled, and I was so thirsty that I didn't have a soak of urine all night! Wei Shengjin said.

Ye Guangci on the side also nodded and said, "I'm the same, I feel hungry and thirsty!"

"It seems that everyone is the same, I thought it was my own delusion! If you look at it this way, maybe we didn't eat or drink anything at all last night! Everything we encountered was an illusion, and as for why it was all real and could be touched, I can't explain it clearly, maybe it's the same as the girl walking into a mirage! Let's get out of this place as soon as possible, if the old man last night is a human or a ghost, if he wants to harm us, what are we going to do now? "I shuddered at the thought of sitting in this empty Gobi Desert last night eating noodles that didn't exist, talking to someone who didn't exist.

Wei Shengjin and Ye Guangci didn't speak when they heard this, they silently packed up their things, fortunately, our backpack and a small half bucket of water were still there, we were really thirsty, we all drank some water at the moment, and seeing that the east was white, the three of us left this small mountain col in a panic.