Chapter 1 Crossing
Zilin was carrying a large travel bag, and had already walked around this small oasis anxiously three times, sweat soaking his entire shirt, and the feeling of collapse due to nervousness and exhaustion made him have to sit down to rest and replenish his water. After drinking a few sips of water, I felt that my strength had recovered, and I took out my satellite phone and found that there was no signal, and when I took out my mobile phone, there was still no signal.
Raising his hand and looking at his watch, it showed a quarter past ten in the morning, the date of August 10, he looked into the distance again, the desert was barren, his hand holding the mobile phone became tighter and tighter, and his brows were frowned.
Participating in this "blooming life, breaking through oneself, and re-walking the ancient Silk Road" hiking 50 kilometers activity, not only the organizer is fully prepared, he himself is armed to the teeth, emergency kits, wild survival equipment, small power generation equipment and satellite phones and other materials are readily available, and the route is also selected to be able to replenish the supply in time, but people are not as good as the sky, and the accident still happened.
More than an hour ago, he and more than 30 teammates and security personnel were walking through a Yadan landscape when a sandstorm suddenly broke out. Because Zilin came to this oasis inexplicably before he had time to cover his mouth and nose.
At first, he was really flustered, it was too weird to turn the desert into an oasis in the blink of an eye, and after the panic, he thought about the daylight, and the equipment on his body was very complete, he was bold, so he simply searched in this area to see if he could find his teammates. After all, there is no way that more than 30 of them will disappear all at once.
But when he walked around the oasis three times and didn't find a single figure, and there was no signal from the satellite phone or mobile phone, he panicked again, and his originally strong body also felt a little detached because of nervousness.
He repeatedly admonished himself to be calm, but the tides and tides of various distracting thoughts in his mind could not be calmed down, and those mysterious legends in the desert appeared in his mind from time to time.
took out the compass and found that it could be used normally, and slammed the grass with his left hand and said to himself: "I don't believe in evil, and I can still see ghosts in the daytime." He remembered very well that the supply depot was only thirteen kilometers away from where he had disappeared, and he would find the depot first.
With a goal, he felt much more relaxed, looked in the direction he thought was the supply station, and strode out of the oasis.
The desert trekking was organized by a commercial training institution to allow participants to stimulate their potential and break through themselves in harsh environments, and the activity was set up very safely, divided into four days and three nights, walking more than ten kilometers a day, and four supply stations were set up along the way. The participants of the event are the owners of private enterprises with small assets, and their business is not good or bad, and many of them are stuck in the bottleneck of expanding reproduction.
Although Zilin is a college student, he likes to do business, helping his neighbors sell souvenirs at tourist attractions near his home in the summer of fifth grade; selling cards or games that boys like in junior high school; selling novelty toys at night market stalls in high school; selling contact lenses on WeChat in his freshman year; teaming up with a photographer outside the school in his sophomore year to take job search photos for students to beautify their resumes; working as a credit card agent in his junior year, selling student supplies and food delivery on a platform, and making a job search app with a senior sister before participating in the event.
So he is a junior who can't be idle, likes to toss, can't make a lot of money, but can be self-sufficient. He participated in the event because he was already a junior and was about to graduate next year, and he didn't want to go to graduate school, so he wanted to integrate the business at hand, and he urgently needed to break through and expand his network, so he took advantage of the summer vacation to sign up for this event.
After going to college, he had to participate in one or two business training sessions every year, but it was the first time to participate in an event like this, and the registration fee was very expensive more than 30,000 yuan, so he also sent his father a photo with five fingers together with a rubber band, which meant that he was very tight in hand, so he should sponsor a few dollars.
Having participated in the event under the patronage of the little vault and his father, he was in high spirits and imagined what he would get from the event.
The oath of him and the team members is still in his ears: "This will be our harvest of friendship, harvest wisdom, but also a journey to break through ourselves, stimulate potential, and explore the core of excellence, through the desert we are all brothers and sisters, come on!"
As he walked, he thought, I'm the best! I'm going to overcome my timidity, I'm going to break through myself.
I don't know if it was the support of the power of autosuggestion, or the potential that exploded under the crisis, after an hour of trekking, he still felt very tired, and the travel bag of more than 20 kilograms was not so heavy. The air between his mouth and nose seemed to become fresh, and when he swallowed his saliva, it was sweet, and the yellow sand under his feet was no longer a long yellow sand, and there were scattered green grass, he didn't notice these subtle changes, and he just wanted to find the supply station as soon as possible.
Climbing over a high hill, the scenery that greeted him made his face change sharply, a sea of flowers covered the small valley under the high hill, behind him was the desert, in front of him was a sea of flowers, and in the distance was a grassland that could not be seen at a glance.
He found himself climbing up like a long dragon that meandered, separating the desert from the grassland.
The first thought in his mind - hallucination, this must be an illusion, a butterfly flew in front of his eyes, diverting his gaze, and at the same time he pinched himself hard, inhaling and grinning, and there was still a sea of flowers and grasslands full of life in front of him.
He still didn't give up, thinking that it must be an illusion. Continue to walk forward in a daze, startled the countless flying insects around him, just like this, wading through the sea of flowers, came to the green grassland, surrounded by half-human high grass, the grass leaves are green and shiny like a layer of grease, looking from afar, the eyes are full of green, refreshing, occasionally there are gorgeous wildflowers exuding a strange floral fragrance across the nose, this is the most beautiful grassland he has ever seen in his life, as if it only exists in the imagination, so he does not believe that all this is true.
Wandering forward in this way, before he knew it, the sky was getting dark, the sunset stained the sky red, not far away were sparse bushes, and even farther away was a large sparkling lake, the sun was setting, the lonely birds flew together, the forest was dark and green, the lake was beautiful, he muttered to himself: "This, where is this?"
What about the supply station, what about the breakthrough journey of the desert realm, why do you seem to have come to another world in front of you.
Walking forward with more confusion, the same inaccessible, the same alone, the sunset pulled his figure for a very long time before he came to the shore of the lake, the residual sun was shining, the sky was black and red, the lake was wide and quiet, and there were many small animals on the shore of the lake that had never been seen drinking water and playing.
He seemed to be lost in this beautiful picture of nature, staring straight into the distance but without focus.
The unknown little beast that returned from drinking water by the lake crashed into his leg in a daze, bringing him back to reality.
He collapsed in the grass, untied his travel bag and lay on his back to look at the sky, carefully recalling what he had seen along the way, although he did not want to admit it in his heart, but facts speak louder than words, he must have come to another world.
Except that the desert was as barren as the earth, the flowers and trees here were different from the plants of the earth, as if the plants here were born with a harmonious beauty, and he could feel the obvious difference between the two anyway, but he did not have the right words to express them, and some of the animals here were the same as the earth, and some of them he had never seen or heard of.
In reality, there is only one father who is young and strong and is a professor of Chinese medicine, so he usually doesn't need to take care of him, maybe his father will be very sad; his mother also divorced his father when he was eight years old, and took his twin brother Ziqi to live in another city, he himself has learned to take care of himself independently since he was eight years old, and he doesn't have a girlfriend, so he doesn't have too much to worry about after thinking about it.
At this time, a huge moon quietly rose in the sky, more than ten times larger than the moon on the earth, like a huge mirror hanging in the eastern sky, and the woods and meadows were gilded with silver glow.
Listening to the insects in the grass and the occasional birdsong in the woods, his heart fluctuated, and he didn't know how to deal with the unknown life, he had never seen a single figure here, was there any human or higher life here?
So he desperately wanted to test his cranky thoughts one by one, but the present life must go on, drive away the fear and powerlessness in his heart, get up and look around, ready to find a suitable place for himself to live.
There was a huge and flat rock about four or five meters above the ground by the lake, which was the right camping place in his mind, so he easily climbed the boulder with his travel bag on his back, and used a handful of weeds he brought with him as a broom to clean the flattest place.
He took out the tent and sleeping bag, fixed the corners of the tent in the cracks of the stones, and took the emergency light, and when he took the emergency light, he habitually glanced at the sky, startled him, and cried out in his heart: "What is it, the moon?
Stroking his pounding heart, he continued to pack up his tent, then took out the self-heating rice, thought about it and put it back in, thinking that if this was a deserted planet, I didn't know when I would be able to live a self-sufficient life like Robinson, so I might as well save some. So I wiped my hands with a wet towel, then took out a compressed biscuit and nibbled on it.
The light of the emergency light attracted six or seven small flying insects like fireflies, and the insects flew slowly and flashed to arouse the childlike innocence of this twenty-one-year-old young man, he opened his hands and aimed at the insects and closed them violently, carefully opening a finger to find that two small insects were actually caught in the palm of his hand.
Let go of the insects, the palms of the hands are plated with dots of fluorescence, very magical, at this time a large group of fireflies flew in the distance, like a band of light slowly flying in the sky, seeing this wonder, he couldn't help but whisper: "Could it be that I came to the hometown of Avatar." ”
When these glowing insects arrived, the boulder platform suddenly became a dream space, and the stars surrounded him like little stars, so he took out his mobile phone and began to record the scene, he wanted to keep this beautiful and curious scene.
Just as he turned his mobile phone to record the video, an object suddenly appeared in the lens, which made him stunned.