Eternal Sand Sea Chapter 36: Eternal Sand Sea

"You call me Xiao Tong again to see if I don't clean you up!"

"What's wrong with you, Xiao Tong, Xiao Tong!"

I was woken up by a commotion outside the yurt, and when I looked around, I was the only one lying asleep on a woolen blanket, and I sensed that there was a conflict between our team again.

I wrapped my coat and hurriedly went out, and after some understanding, I learned that it was Li Gouyu and Lao Tong who were fighting, for no other reason, Li Gouyu had a broken mouth, and Xiao Tong called Lao Tong all day long, and instructed him to do trivial things, Lao Tong naturally couldn't bear it anymore and pinched it.

"If my mother hadn't left early, I wouldn't care where you go, and I wouldn't have even looked at the dog!" Everyone stopped Lao Tong, and he scolded and scolded.

"I'm your uncle, I've been your uncle all my life, see if you can endure it, you're still reversed!" Li Gou is still thin and small, but he is also jumping there, and it is not enough for Lao Tong to greet two punches when he sees that his body is really moving.

"Comrades, we must maintain the purity of the ranks and beware of black sheep from sabotaging our plans." I said a word, and then looked at Zhao Xudong, he didn't avoid my eyes, his eyes looked at me fiercely, it is estimated that he was so angry that he didn't close his eyes all night because he ruined his good deeds last night.

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of persuasion, you will not succeed, you will not be able to fight, you will not dare to fight without persuasion, I walked in front of two groups of people and asked them to let go of Lao Tong and Li Gouyu, if you want to fight, you can have a good time now, don't go out and let people see jokes.

This is good, seeing that no one persuaded the two of them, the noise became smaller and smaller, and finally they turned their heads and left.

"Huazi, aren't you afraid that they will really fight?" Hadron walked up to him and asked.

I said, "Hit what?" One is as thin as a bamboo pole, the other is educated and has status, and he can't fight for three days and three nights. ”

At this time, a herdsman's uncle was riding on a horse, holding a long horse whip and shouting at the horses, and the water bottle in my hand almost fell to the ground.

The tall horses are fat and strong, and their smooth backs seem to have been rubbed with oil, and the herdsman uncle got down from the horse and introduced himself, he is the guide of our trip, Huercha, and we will ride the horse to the eternal sand sea to find the forbidden hole.

When I asked Uncle Huercha why he didn't drive us in yesterday's liberation car, he said that the road was half grassland and half mountainous and hilly, and the car could not pass through it at all.

Since only me and Qiangzi, Chen Laogou, and Li Gouyu have no experience in horseback riding, so they were arranged to be led by others to sit on a horse, just when I was hesitating whether to be Professor Yang or Lao Tong's horse, Tong Xiaowan walked up to me and said lightly: "Sit on me, I have something to ask you." ”

I swallowed and whispered to Hadron, "It's over." ”

Although I had ridden on horseback in Jilian Village, the horses were a lot shorter than those on the grassland, and it took me a long time to pedal up from the saddle and sit down.

Tong Xiaowan didn't ask me anything else along the way, just asked me more than ten times about what happened after she got drunk last night, and I assured Mao Zhuxi that I definitely didn't take advantage of her, she still didn't believe it, and she had to wait until the matter was over and settle accounts with me.

I also thought about shaking Zhao Xudong out, but Xiaowan has a good impression of him, this person usually looks unsmiling and upright, once I say it, I will definitely think that I am slandering.

Walking from the grassland to the hills, I staggered all the way and almost fainted, so let Xiao Wanqi hurry up and say hello to Professor Yang, stop and rest before leaving.

"Damn, I'm going to break it!" Qiangzi got off the horse, twisted his waist and screamed bitterly, and Chen Laogou also hummed and chirped with a painful expression.

"You guys, don't be reckless, if you can't do it, go back, don't delay us to complete the task" Zhao Xudong rode to our side, and the yin and yang strange qi said.

"I said that you, a little comrade, don't you know how to respect the old and love the young? You guys didn't squeak, what kind of fart did you put out? Twenty years earlier, believe it or not, you will be obedient and deceitful. Chen Laogou just drank the water he drank and spit on the ground, and scolded Zhao Xudong.

"The temper is not small, and kindness is regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs ......" Zhao Xudong was a little stunned by this scolding, and rode away again.

"Uncle Huercha, how long will it take to arrive?" I walked up to the guide and asked for directions.

"To? It depends on God's face, if you are lucky, you will be able to cross the sea of sand tomorrow daytime. He took off his hat and hung it on his face, and lay down to rest.

I looked at my watch and said it was just past three o'clock, so I was too late to speed up and get through?

Uncle Huercha took his hat from his face and sat up: "Say what?" You don't know what the sea of sand is? ”

I shook my head, isn't it just the desert Gobi or something, a road to the forbidden cave.

"In the next life, don't talk nonsense, the immortal sand sea belongs to the god at this end, and if you are not sincere, the child will not be able to see or say it, and your life will have to be sacrificed to God."

I said, "Uncle, just talk well, what are you talking nonsense about?" ”

Lao Tong walked over with a smile: "This is the Jin language, the local dialect of Inner Mongolia, and the child he said means shoes." ”

These customs and dialects are all different, and sometimes it is easy to make jokes.

Since Lao Tong is here, it will be easy to do, I will ask him directly.

I reported to Lao Tong that Uncle Huercha said that he couldn't get there today, Lao Tong was not surprised, he said that he had made this mental preparation, I asked him why the sand sea was called a divine land by them, and Lao Tong told me clearly.

This sea of eternal sand is not an ordinary Gobi desert, but a place of prayer and sacrifice for the locals, who believe that after death, people need to destroy their bodies and sacrifice them to nature in order to purify their souls and be reborn in the beautiful kingdom of heaven for eternal life. The sand sea is home to huge insects that are known locally as the gods of the sand sea, and the corpses that are sacrificed are eaten by these insects, and passers-by who do not respect the insects often become their prey. It is only when the first rays of the sun shine on the sand sea every morning and the insects fall asleep that the hurriers can quietly pass through the desert.

"Is there really such a creature?" I think it's just a legend.

"Steady, steady, I saw it with my own eyes a few years ago, and even people and horses were eaten by big insects that came out of the ground." Uncle Huercha interjected, gesturing with his hands.

Since it is said so decently, I still have to respect the local customs and folklore, anyway, it can be delayed for a day, and I am also afraid that Tong Xiaowan will settle accounts after the autumn.

After resting for a while, the team marched forward for a while, and came to the junction of the hills and the Gobi.

The high altitude of Inner Mongolia causes a huge temperature difference between night and day, and at noon it is still scorching as if it is being roasted by fire, and at night it is like living in an ice cellar, and white mist is emitted when you gasp for breath.

Fortunately, the National Day escaped from Qingshi Menzi and brought a few bottles of red grain Daqu, this wine is much stronger than mare's milk wine, and we drank two or two stomachs, and the whole body was relieved.

"You say that Zhao Xudong is not a spy in the team, specializing in doing something to destroy unity." Qiangzi and I were idle and bored and discussed.

"What's wrong? Did he sow discord and maliciously slander me? Hadron asked.

I said that you are not so important, you have no money and no power, and you are not a threat to him.

Chen Laogou said: "I look at people very accurately, don't look at his good facial features, this eyebrow is about to connect the city with a line, the photo book says that the eyebrows are short-minded, and he must be a master who loves to make small reports." ”

Just as they were chatting, suddenly a horse neighed and ran towards the Gobi in front, and when I heard the sound, it was the one that Tong Xiaowan was riding, and the red bell on the horse's head was ringing on the bell.

Without a moment's thought, I ran in the direction I had run, hoping to get the frightened horse back.

"Woo...... ......"I'm whistling after me, and there are no lights in front of the camp, but the bright moon can give me some light tonight."

At this time, my teammates in the camp were also alarmed and walked out of the tent and called out to me from a distance.

"Come back, boy, danger!" Lao Tong shouted at the top of his voice.

"Your daughter's horse has run away, I'll look for it." I replied to him and continued walking towards the Gobi.

The sand and gravel of the Gobi Desert are not very hard to step on, soft as if they have been loosened over the soil, and the flying dust and smoke can be faintly seen when a gust of wind blows.

"Where did this brute go?" I cursed in my heart, and at the same time I could feel a slight tremor under my feet, as if the earth was trembling, and my first reaction was probably an earthquake!

As the movement grew louder and louder, it was as if a crack was coming straight at me, and I quickly turned around to see huge lines of dust and smoke rising into the sky, and there was a roar like a cow barking from the ground.

"Run! Come on! Lao Tong shouted again, and then I reacted that the situation was not right, and immediately took steps and rushed towards the camp.

Less than five meters behind me, there was a loud and deafening bang, and a huge long monster burst out of the ground and stabbed itself towards me.

Although I hadn't seen this monster, I didn't care about being scared at this time, and still ran towards the camp in an S-shape to affect its judgment.

As I ran, I looked behind me to determine where the thing was from me, but the afterglow swept away and there was no monster at all, like a vapor fever vanishing away.

"Run, run......" The crowd in the distance was still shouting, and I was gradually only a hundred meters away from the hills, and I had already seen the dawn of victory.

"Bang" The ground directly in front of me was shattered and scattered by the huge impact, and my entire body was flipped to the ground at the same time.

When I lowered my arm to cover my eyes, a three- or four-meter-tall croaking monster stood in front of me, its head a hollow, dark ring, surrounded by sharp teeth.

"Don't make a sound!" Someone shouted in the distance, and then a series of gunshots rang out from the front, and the monster immediately turned its head and plunged into the ground and rumbled towards the vicinity of the camp.

I knew it was a delaying tactic, so I got up and ran to a big rock......