With that, Keli motioned for everyone to look nearby, it was already approaching dusk, and after the temperature dropped, many desert wild creatures hiding from the heat began to appear near Lop Nur.

Argali, sand foxes, bison, and wild camels came to the water's edge, bowing their heads and sipping the water of the lake near Lop Nur, and some smaller sand rabbits, gerbils, and sand eagles, although they did not dare to approach the river, gathered at the edge of the small pond to clean up the sand on their bodies.

At this time, in order to relieve the heat on their bodies, bison and wild camels go directly into the lake after drinking water, and plant themselves into the tidal flats with a plop, using the cooling lake water to clean up their bodies, and at the same time cool down their body organs.

Lop Nur is about to dry up, the water level is not too deep, and animals like them are so large that even if they bury their whole bodies in the lake, they are only up to the neck, and most of their heads are exposed, using their legs, feet and hooves to walk leisurely in the water, rippling countless water ripples, eating the aquatic plants at the water's edge and mooing and mooing.

In a few moments, the situation on the lake had changed, and the bison and camels seemed to sense the danger and swam swiftly towards the shore, some of the fastest ones had already gone ashore to walk, and the rest were not so lucky, and before they could reach the shore, they were dragged backwards by something.

The underwater power is so great that these huge beasts are like fish meat on the board, and they are dragged around by the mysterious things in the water.

Eventually, it began to ripple along their heads, forming a whirlpool that swirled downward, and even their heads were pulled underwater, bubbling and disappearing into the lake completely, and the surface of the lake returned to calm, as if everything was an illusion.

Everyone stood on the shore and watched this scene, and without Keli explaining, they already understood why he stopped Yue Er Pao from entering the water.

Bison, wild camels in the absence of sand tigers and leopards, basically belong to a class of animals with infinite strength, almost not threatened by any desert animals, such a strong animal, dragged by the mysterious force in the water, but there is no way to fight back, I have to say, under the water surface of Lop Nur, there are a lot of strange things hidden.

Yue Guanchao was curious about the current front: "The height of the water surface is only one meter, what is there under the water, can pull these big men down, where can such shallow water be pulled?" ”

Keli's eyes were empty, and his brows furrowed slightly: "The Peacock River was diverted again at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, probably seven or eight hundred years from today, and the evaporation of Lop Nur is so large for such a long time, but it still retains such a large area now, aren't you curious?" ”

Speaking of this, his face became mysterious: "Song Qianjin is right about one thing, in the absence of fresh water injection, a large amount of salt will accumulate in the water, just like salt water, and because of this, these animals are willing to come to Lop Nur to drink water in order to replenish water and salt." ”

He paused for a breath and continued to explain: "I also mentioned earlier that this kind of Daze, which can persist for thousands of years without water injection, often has dark rivers or dark caves underground, and after the river water evaporates every year, these underground holes will also replenish a part of the water source in, which makes Lop Nur persist until now, and the danger also comes from these underground dark rivers!" ”

These underground rivers come from karst caves, grottoes, fissures, craters, and nests dug by some animals tens of millions of years ago, which should have appeared in the dry desert, but it was the diversion of the Peacock River that gradually flooded Lop Nur, and these holes were filled with water as the lake grew, forming a dark river hidden under the lake area.

No one knows how many of these rivers there are, and no one knows where they lead, only that they are like plant roots, implicated in each other to form mysterious waterways under the lake basin.

When the water rises in Lop Nur, the river also flows downward, and when the water is not enough, they gush out of the basin in the replenishment of groundwater, and as the water level drops and the channel is emptied, the river forms a whirlpool that is enough to swallow up any living thing.

Most of those bison just now were sucked into some underground rivers, maybe they are still alive, but in most cases, as long as they enter the underground rivers and are washed into some karst caves, it is difficult to come out again, and even more unlucky, they are eaten by something in the dark river.

The many drifting beaches in Mirlandze used to be such underground rivers, and if even these rivers dried up after a thousand years, the sand in these rivers would gradually loosen, forming quicksand pits, and animals would still be swallowed up by the quicksand when they walked into them.

It can be said that the dark river grottoes in the desert, whether they are dry sand, muddy mud or pond rivers, are not good places, and they can stay away from them.

Keli looked at Yue Erpao, he almost went to the lake to die, and he hadn't recovered from the tiger's mouth, he said: "Just now, I didn't let you go down to the river, on the one hand, the salty water here will quench your thirst, and on the other hand, I am afraid that the vortex will also roll you in, and we won't be able to save it when the time comes." ”

"If you want to set up camp, you can go to the nearby plateau, which is high and high, and most of the dangers can be eliminated."

What Keli said was a matter of life, and they could only camp on a wind-eroded plateau far from Lop Nur.

Knowing the danger near Lop Nur, everyone lived in peace, and after lighting a bonfire at night and filling the temple, they each returned to their tents to rest.

Sleeping until midnight, Yue Guanchao felt that something was fluttering around him, and after waking up, the moonlight shone through the tent, illuminating the tent gray, but after he opened his eyes, it disappeared in an instant, behind the silence, it seemed very special, as if something was watching their tent in the dark.

He rolled his eyes, deliberately lay down, steadied his breath to create the rhythm of the breath that was still sleeping, and after a moment of crisis, he had already seen a bat with a big human face, flapping its wings and lying on the tent, opening its teeth, trying to bite through the tent.

Could it be a black cloth bag?

Yue Guanchao remembered the black cloth bag that Xu Xiake said, if this thing really made its head lie down and not die and be crippled, it would be impossible for it to appear here, and it would often be impossible for only one to appear.

Thinking about this, he quickly turned on the flashlight, and the violent light suddenly lit up, and the bat was stimulated by the bright light, fluttering its wings and flying away.

He picked up his shotgun and came out of the tent, and at the same time, Keli and the others had already woken up, picked up the shotgun and opened fire, scaring all the bats away.

"Fortunately, my marksmanship is not bad, and I have injured several of them."

Yue Guanchao and Keli searched all the way in the direction where the bat had fled, and when they came back, they were carrying two bats with injured wings in their hands.

Everyone was awakened by a few gunshots, and they were completely sleepless, and they just took this opportunity to observe the details of the bat.

The body of these bats is similar to that of a two-month-old pup, two hands can just hold it, the body can grow into half an arm length after the wings are extended, and the whole body is covered with a layer of fine black fluff, it can be seen that the coat color of the belly is slightly grayish, the wings are black when they are contracted, and they are constantly pulled and stretched when they are stretched, and the wing membranes will gradually become thinner when stretched, forming a translucent state.

On top of this body is a thin body similar to that of a dog cub, and these bats fly in search of food when they are as hungry as possible in order to lose weight.