After hastily cleaning up at the hotel, Wang Li took a backpack and took a taxi to Ngoling Lake.

casually chatted with the Uygur uncle, Wang Li looked through the car window, watching the scenery flow behind him, thinking of the bizarre experience a few days ago, and couldn't help but lose his mind.

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Wang Li, a third-year student in the Department of History of Jinling University, originally rushed to Lop Nur in Xinjiang to investigate and study geological features at the invitation of the senior senior of geology.

There were a total of eight people who went, and Wang Li planned to return first after playing with the large army for a while, and he just happened to be invited by his senior Zhou Huan to join.

Zhou Huan met Wang Li in the club when he first entered school, because of the same photography hobby, Zhou Huan often asked Wang to leave to climb the stairs to take pictures, and gradually the two became acquainted.

After the group agreed, they set off from Jinling, first took a plane to Dunhuang, rented two cars after a day of visiting Dunhuang, prepared luggage and materials, and rushed to Lop Nur Town. All the way through Yangguan, the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, and finally arrived at the Sanhui Shayadan Geopark.

Originally, according to the plan, Wang Li had to go back with the other four people in the team, and his itinerary was originally intended to travel all the way to Mobei, but after enjoying the beautiful and spectacular Yadan landform and the ancient desert scenery on the way, he decided to go to Lop Nur with Zhou Huan and two other seniors.

Zhou Huan planned to pass through Yadan Park and go directly to Lop Nur Town, but the park refused his request, and they had to bypass Yadan Park and drive forward against the wind and sand.

Zhou Huan told Wang Li that when he contacted the local government before, Lop Nur happened to be not in the military exercise, and they could pass through, which was also considered luck.

The Yadan landform along the way amazed everyone, "Yadan" means "steep wall mound" in Uyghur language, Yadan landform is a typical wind erosion landform, is a unique natural wonder left by thousands of years of wind erosion.

There was a thrilling journey that made Wang Li too addicted, and the impact of the endless desert on people was quite huge.

When Wang Li's body and mind began to be bored and tired after the novelty had passed, Zhou Huan suddenly asked, "Do you want to go to Pengamu's tomb?"

Wang Li stood up and asked suspiciously, "Pengjiamu, the missing scientific research scholar?"

Zhou Huan snorted, seeing that the king was interested, and then said: "I should have gone directly to Lop Nur, but let's go to the Pengjiamu tomb first and worship the ancestors." ”

Wang Li and the other two people thought it was worth the trip, so Zhou Huan drove to the Pengamu tomb first.

Because it was noon, the weather was very hot, and the car was constantly warning of high temperatures, so Zhou Huan had to slow down and drive slowly, and stop and rest for a while after driving for a while.

I don't know how long later, Wang Li saw an isolated stone tablet standing low in the desert from a distance, and he couldn't help asking, "Have you arrived?"

Zhou Huan said: "When you arrive, let's get out of the car and worship in a while." ”

When they arrived at the tomb, after the four people got out of the car and bowed and worshipped, on the bleak Gobi Desert, the atmosphere suddenly became a little sad.

Wang left jokingly: "You should bring a bottle of wine to drink three times." ”

Zhou Huan laughed when he heard this, and said, "It's like you can drink, who refused to drink beer at a dinner last time?"

Everyone also made fun of Wang Li, and the atmosphere gradually became lively.

Zhou Huan looked at the tombstone, and suddenly said slowly: "Those who can dedicate themselves to scientific research and the country are heroes!"

Wang Li nodded and said, "Yes, it's just that Pengamu's experience is so bizarre that many people ignore his contribution and discuss the cause of his death instead." ”

Zhou Huan was silent and sighed: "People like to make up so many stories about the disappearance of the Gobi Desert." ”

Wang Li could not withstand the scorching sun, and wanted to find a place to sit and rest for a while, but the surface of the desert was like a fire, so he could only squat half-squat.

After squatting for a long time, his calves were sore, and when Wang Li looked around helplessly, he found that there was a black triangular thing protruding from the ground in a pile of sand not far from the tombstone.

Wang Li was surprised, Zhou Huan followed Wang Li's gaze, didn't know why, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Wang Li waved his hand, walked over and picked up the black thing, blew away the sand and dust on the surface, wiped it clean, and found that it was a book with a leather cover!

Zhou Huan and the others were also curious when they read it, and they came over to look at the book, and someone said: "This should be unintentionally dropped by other self-driving tourists when they came here, right?"

Zhou Huan nodded, but still a little curious.

Wang Li slowly opened the cover, and the three handwritten characters of "Pengjiamu" on the title page made Wang Li and the others breathe a little heavily.

Zhou Huan said incredulously: "This, this is Mr. Pengamu's notes?"

Just when everyone was amazed, a dark light in the book rushed straight into Wang Li's eyebrows, Wang Li let out a frightened sigh, covering his forehead with one hand, Zhou Huan asked with concern: "Brother Li, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay......"

Wang Li stroked his unharmed forehead, and when he saw Zhou Huan, they didn't seem to see the black light, and he was secretly surprised. He continued to scroll down a few pages, and said to Zhou Huan, "It should be Mr. Pengamu's notes." ”

Zhou Huan said: "Well, let's take it first, and then hand it over to the local government when Lop Nur has the opportunity, if not, see if we can contact Mr. Pengamu's relatives in the future, and hand it over to them." ”

Saying that, he frowned and looked up at the scorching sun, then looked at his watch, and said, "It's not too early, let's continue on our way." ”

Everyone got into the car and continued to hurry, and on the way, Wang Li was a little distracted. Thinking of the black light, he touched his forehead and thought, "Maybe it's a hallucination......"

Thinking about it, he turned out the black notebook from his bag, and Zhou Huan saw it and asked, "What are you doing?"

Wang Li looked at it and quipped: "Study, study." ”

Suddenly, Wang Li asked, "Brother Huan, when did Peng Jiamu disappear?"

Without waiting for Zhou Huan to answer, a senior in the back seat said, "I know this, it's 1980!"

Wang Li turned sideways in the passenger seat and continued to ask, "Xiaofeng, do you know what month it is?" ”

The senior named Xiaofeng scratched his head and said, "Who knows ...... this?"

"Brother Li, why are you asking this?" Zhou Huan became more and more confused, but before Wang Li could answer, another person in the back seat said: "I know this, Xiaofeng also listened to me." ”

Xiao Feng laughed and scolded: "Yes, Liu Fei, your kid is still dragging it up, just look at those hearsay things." ”

Xiaofeng's original name was Zhao Xiaofeng, and Liu Fei were both classmates in the same class as Zhou Huan, and they also went to Lop Nur together for a field trip.

Liu Fei ignored Zhao Xiaofeng, pushed his glasses, and said to Wang Li: "Brother Li, Peng Jiamu probably went out alone to look for a water source on the morning of June 17, 1980, and disappeared. ”

Wang Li looked at Liu Fei in surprise, he originally just asked casually, and didn't expect to ask the answer, who knew that Liu Fei not only knew, but also said it in such detail.

"Yes, Da Fei, I know so much!"

Zhou Huanwei screamed and teased: "Brother Li, you asked the right person, Da Fei is interested in these strange things, if you have anything you want to ask, just ask Da Fei, he will definitely not let you down." ”

Liu Fei couldn't help but hear it, and said with a smile: "Brother Huan teases me, I also know a little bit of strange things, don't believe it." ”

Wang Li didn't talk, just silently flipped through his notes.

At this time, it is late in the evening, the sun has not completely set, and the afterglow is rendered in the sky as a long golden line, sandwiched by pale pink clouds, quiet and spectacular, very beautiful.

Wang Li was looking through the black leather notes through the light of the car, and Zhou Huan saw that he didn't talk, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Feng said: "Maybe it's a secret." ”

Wang Li glanced up at them, then lowered his head and looked at them, and said slowly: "I'm looking for if he wrote anything after he disappeared......

When Liu Fei heard this, he couldn't help but be a little excited, and hurriedly got up and leaned on Wang Li's seat, looked at the book and said: "Yes, the country was ready to refute the rumors and went to Peng Jiamu many times, but there was no result, if there are some clues on it......"

When Xiao Feng and Zhou Huan heard this, they couldn't help but look solemn, and at this time, Wang Li raised the notes in his hand and said, "Found it!"

"Where, where?"

Liu Fei asked excitedly, he had a different attachment to the truth than ordinary people, and Xiao Feng and Zhou Huan were also very curious.

Wang Li turned up the brightness and said, "Wait, wait, you see-" said and pointed to Liu Fei and Xiaofeng, but Zhou Huan didn't show him because he was driving.

Wang Li then read: "This ...... It was written on June 17, 1980, and it read: 'I went east to look for a well, and it was hot today, at 10:30 a.m. on June 17. ’”

Liu Fei heard this and shouted: "Yes, that's right, he went to look for water resources alone at that time, and disappeared in the morning!"

Wang Li continued: "June 17 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The terrain here is a bit strange, there is no saline crust on the surface, and it is cloudy, so I can't tell the direction. Today's temperature is too high. ”

"He must have gotten lost at this time. ”

Zhou Huan said: "Oh yes, I won't camp tonight, I'll continue driving." ”

Wang Li and Xiaofeng Liu Fei responded and continued to study the notes.

"June 18 at 9:10 a.m. Today's temperature is higher than yesterday. I was lost in the desert. There is no food and water. ”

"Three o'clock in the afternoon. I chose to go in the direction of the sun. It's so hot, like there are two suns. ”

Xiao Feng said at this time: "Peng Jiamu should have suffered a serious loss of water and physical exhaustion at that time. I just don't know why he has to go so far, it stands to reason that when he has walked so far and hasn't found the well, he should turn back......"

Liu Fei listened and said: "Didn't he say it, the terrain is special, cloudy, and I can't find the direction when I came." Xiaofeng, don't interject, okay? Brother Li, turn the next page. ”

Wang Li turned the next page, but found that there was only one line on it, and the time was not indicated.

"This is Zhaling Lake"

A bare line of words, not even punctuation, the handwriting is quite sloppy, it is difficult to read, Wang Li and Xiaofeng are a little inexplicable.

Zhou Huan was interested when he heard this, and asked, "What lake? Hasn't Lop Nur dried up a long time ago?"

Wang Li explained: "Zhaling Lake, his handwriting is a little sloppy, it should be the code of the codex, the tomb of the mountain tomb. ”

"Zaling...... It's the one next to the handle. I remember that there was a Zhaling Lake in Qinghai, which seemed to be something, the source of the Yellow River. ”

Wang Li took a closer look at the line of words and said, "Well, it should be what Brother Huan said, but it's ......."

Before Wang Li finished speaking, the impatient Xiao Feng grabbed the conversation and said, "But Brother Huan, you said that Zhaling Lake is the source of the Yellow River, and it is still in Qinghai...... But this, this Lop Nur should be quite far from there, right?"

Zhou Huan was also a little confused, Liu Fei said seriously: "Maybe he was rescued and took there, and then the state hid him and did some scientific research or something." ”

Wang Li couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, and he said, "There are a lot of doubts in this, and you think, if Pengjiamu really arrived at Zhaling Lake, why did this note appear in his tomb again......?

As he spoke, he pointed out the line to Zhou Huan, and continued: "This line is different from before, there is no time to write, and the handwriting is more sloppy, it seems to have been written in a hurry, and it seems unlikely that it is confusing. ”

Zhou Huan looked back and saw Xiao Feng and Liu Fei nodding thoughtfully, and couldn't help but say, "Don't be like this, brother, you're all stunned, maybe someone faked it and bluffed people." Don't be elusive, Da Fei, don't make a fool of you, wait until you go to town tomorrow, search for Peng Jiamu's words on the Internet, and you will know the truth and falsehood by comparison. I think it's fake, the whole person. In this way, don't contact the government first, don't get an oolong when the time comes, just put it out of my brother's bag first. ”

Xiao Feng was amazed and said, "I think it's like it's real." ”

Liu Fei also nodded, Wang Li couldn't help laughing when he saw it, he had just reasoned that he was the first to be the way, but now he was on Zhou Huan's side, he teased: "Xiaofeng, when will we go to Zhaling to explore and explore, maybe we can meet something." ”

Xiao Feng's face darkened when he heard this, and he said, "Anyway, I'm also a senior, why are you like this, brother." ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

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After that, Wang Li and his entourage forgot about the notes, and went back directly after the inspection of Lop Nur.

After returning to school, when Wang Li was packing his luggage, he suddenly took out the notebook, and he was curious, so he looked up some information on the Internet, and accidentally found that the handwriting in the notebook was completely consistent with Peng Jiamu's real handwriting!

Soon after the end of the semester, I didn't go home first, and after finding out that the location of Zhaling Lake was Maduo County, I bought a ticket.

I took a plane to Xining first, followed a bus in the morning, set off on Qingkang Highway, got off the national highway and turned to an unknown asphalt road, and arrived at Maduo County in the evening.

After Wang Li, who was exhausted, found a hotel to cope with for the night, he went out to take a taxi and hurried to Zhaling Lake.